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The Klingon Dictionary

The Klingon Dictionary (TKD) is a book by Marc Okrand describing the Klingon language. First published in 1985 and then again with an addendum in 1992, it includes pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. It has sold more than three hundred thousand copies and has been translated into five languages.

The book is a description of the grammar with a few examples for every rule. It is not suitable for active learning and practice of the language, because it does not contain any exercises. It has never been intended as a learning book. Its source was intended as a guide for scriptwriters and actors. It was only later sold for merchandising for Star Trek fans.

Summary
The dictionary is written from an in-universe perspective. After a brief introduction about the Klingon culture and also how the book has been written, the pronunciation of the Klingon letters is described. Instead of using phonetic symbols, the letters of the Latin alphabet are used, some of them written in upper case to distinguish special pronunciations. For instance, q and Q represent different voiceless uvular consonants, the voiceless uvular affricate and the voiceless uvular plosive, respectively. The largest part of the book is a description of the grammar, including briefly described rules sorted by type of words, accompanied by a few examples for each grammatical topic. The last part of the book contains a list of vocabulary with roughly 1,500 words, followed by a list of useful phrases. The addendum of 1992 contains some new grammatical details and a list of about 200 new words that appeared in or were created for later movies and in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Digital editions
Since 2008, the book is available for E-book readers.

In 2009, publisher Simon & Schuster introduced an iPhone application version of The Klingon Dictionary as part of three applications rolled into a Klingon Language Suite. The new digital format features a precise pronunciation guide, rules for proper use of affixes and suffixes, and a search menu.

Translations
The dictionary was first translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil in 1995. Its title was simply Dicionário da língua klingon.

The following translation was German in 1996 bearing the title Das offizielle Wörterbuch Klingonisch/Deutsch ("The Official Klingon-German Dictionary"). That book contains many typos and incorrect translations, which can be misleading when learning the language. A revised version, corrected by Klingon teacher Lieven Litaer, was released in 2013.

The Italian translation was published in 1998 by the Roman publisher Fanucci Editore and named Il dizionario Klingon-Italiano ("The Klingon-Italian Dictionary").

In 2008, the dictionary was translated into Czech with the title Klingonský slovník (Klingon Dictionary).

There is an online 1998–2009 Swedish translation, Klingonsk ordbok, (with Swedish examples and with additional material from later canonical works ) to be found at the Klingonska Akademien website.

Trivia

 * In the season 2 episode "The Panty Piñata Polarization" of The Big Bang Theory, the dictionary is being used during a game of Klingon Boggle.
 * In the season 10 episode 7 of The Big Bang Theory, while Sheldon and Amy are having supper with Leonard and Penny, Sheldon speaks Klingon with Leonard to hide what they are speaking about in front of the girls.

Follow up
New vocabulary and grammar rules, published after 1992, can be found in two audio-courses and two more books by Marc Okrand, and in the scholarly journal HolQeD published by the Klingon Language Institute (1992-2004):
 * Conversational Klingon (1992) - audiocourse
 * Power Klingon (1993) - audiocourse
 * The Klingon Way (1996)
 * Klingon for the Galactic Traveler (1997).

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William Davies (Virginia)

Colonel William Davies was an officer in the Continental Army who served in the Virginia Line for the duration of the American Revolutionary War.

William Davies' service in the American Revolution began when he was commissioned a captain in the 1st Virginia Regiment on September 30, 1775. He was captured at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776 and was later paroled.

He was promoted to major in the 7th Virginia Regiment on March 22, 1777 and to lieutenant colonel of the 22nd Virginia on February 21, 1778. He was appointed lieutenant colonel commandant of the 14th Virginia on April 6, 1778 and was promoted to colonel retroactive to March 20, 1778. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Monmouth on June 28 of the same year.

The 14th Virginia was redesignated the 10th Virginia on September 14, 1778. Davies was reassigned to the 1st Virginia on February 12, 1781. He served until the close of the war in 1783.

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 * I'm taking that line out. It might be true but there doesn't appear to be any justification. My experience is the editorials swing one way or the other depending on the issue. Also, it's incorrect to say the editorials are unsigned. They are written and signed by a member of the editorial board representing the board's position. ttu103, 17:38 10 Jan. 2006 CST (U.S.)

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Inés Ayala

Inés Ayala Sender (born 28 March 1957 in Zaragoza) is a Spanish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019 for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, which is affiliated to the Party of European Socialists. She was first elected to the European Parliament in 2004, and was re-elected in 2009 and 2014.

Early career
Ayala Sender served as national expert in the Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission from 1995 to 1997. Between 1997 and 2004, she worked as policy adviser to the PES Group for various committees and delegations of the European Parliament, including the Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Member of the European Parliament, 2004–2019
Ayala Sender first became a Member of the European Parliament in the 2004 European elections. Throughout her time in parliament, she served on the Committee on Budgetary Control and on the Committee on Transport and Tourism. On the Committee on Budgetary Control, she was the coordinator of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. In 2007, she joined the parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of Central America. Between 2005 and 2009, she was a member of the Committee on Petitions. On the Committee on Budgetary Control, Ayala Sender served as her parliamentary group's coordinator from 2014 until 2019. She was also a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions.

In addition to her committee assignments, Ayala Sender was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime).

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Joan Calabuig

Joan Calabuig Rull (born 24 May 1960, Valencia) is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Calabuig began his political career as a deputy in the local parliament, the Corts Valencianes in 1983 serving until 1987. He also served as President of the Union of Young Socialists from 1985–89. In 2004 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament but stepped down in 2008 when elected to the Spanish national parliament as a deputy for Valencia province. He was the PSOE's mayoral challenger vis-à-vis the 2015 Valencia municipal election.

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Alejandro Cercas

Alejandro Cercas Alonso (born 25 May 1949 in Cáceres, Spain) is a Spanish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 until 2014. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Cercas began his political career in 1982 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Caceres and was re-elected at the subsequent elections in 1986, 1989, 1993 and 1996. In 2010 he signed the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group positioning itself in favour of a federal Europe. Trivial: he is a cousin of the author Javier Cercas

Early career
Cercas graduated in law in 1974 from University Complutense of Madrid. After leaving University he was a Legal advisor for an insurance company (1974) and a Legal advisor to the Agricultural Development Agency (1975). After his time as a legal advisor Alejandro moved into the Civil service becoming a Civil servant in the higher technical section of the Social Security Department (1977-1982) and he remains a Civil servant on secondment (since 1982).

Career in national politics
From 1974 to 1977 Cercas was a member of the Young Socialists Executive Committee (1974-1977). Thereafter, he became a member of the PSOE Federal Committee (1979-2000). He also held the position of Area secretary, PSOE Executive Committee between 1984 and 1996. Cercas was elected as a member of the Congress of Deputies for Madrid in 1982. Following this, in 1989, he became a member of the Congress of Deputies for Cáceres where he remained until he was elected as Member of the European Parliament in 1999.

During his time in the Congress of Deputies Cercas held the position of Chairman of the Committee on Social Policy and Employment of the Congress of Deputies (1982-1986) and afterwards the position of spokesperson on Social Affairs (1986-1999).

Member of the European Parliament, 1999–2014
From 1999, Cercas was a Member of the European Parliament since 1999, where he served as the S&D Coordinator of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs from 2009.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Great Books, Santa Fe

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. It was apparently merged. dbenbenn | talk 19:40, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

List of Great Books, Santa Fe
I don't see how this is useful/notable...it's just a curriculum for a class at some college. Adam Bishop 02:52, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Evil Monkey∴Hello 02:53, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. If you'd followed the links, you'd know that this is not merely part of a class curriculum, but is part of St. John's College, Santa Fe's Great Books Program. Certainly as notable as say, a TV show episode list. --Calton 04:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. Are we going to list every college's curricula?  This is not encyclopedic.  Delete.  RickK 06:19, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, more than just some college's curriculum. Click on either St. John's College, Santa Fe or Great Books and see. Maybe you'll decide it's still not noteworthy, but at least don't mischaracterize it. --Calton 10:55, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I vote delete too --nixie 07:09, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. ComCat.
 * Delete Non-notable. JimmyShelter 09:29, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not really much more notable than the summer reading lists given out at every middle and high school in the universe. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 14:09, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It is more notable than the summer reading lists given out at every middle and high school in the country, because it is the entire curriculum of a well-known four-year baccalaureate program at more than one university.  -- Dominus 20:05, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Andrew Starblind Lenahan. --Neigel von Teighen 14:12, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP not a reading or webguide, this is not an article. Wyss 20:12, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge (and then delete, with proper history notes in Talk for GFDL Dpbsmith 10:45, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)) Significant educational philosophy and the list of books actually used is a valuable datum. Assuming the list is the same as that used at St. John's College, Annapolis, merge there, as it is the original campus. The use of direct source texts of the "great books" is a fairly interesting educational philosophy. Notice that this is not just a recommended reading list, these are (supposedly) the books used as the textbooks. I don't think there are many colleges other than St. Johns that do this, so it is a notable curriculum, not just any old typical liberal arts curriculum. It might be worthwhile to try to coordinate and refactor the articles on the Harvard Classics, Great Books, Great Books of the Western World, the two St. John's College articles, the St. John's book list, and, I dunno, maybe Stringfellow Barr, Mortimer Snerd (sorry, couldn't resist), Charles W. Eliot, Robert Hutchins, etc. since these all bear on the same idea. I've always wondered how the teaching at St. John's is actually done; I'll bet the professors have developed elaborate methods of subtle cheating to insure that students don't end up believing that combustion is caused by phlogiston and that light waves are caused by vibrations in the aether. Maybe the Great Books are the only official texts but the students smuggle in current textbooks and hide them inside copies of Playboy so they won't get caught? Maybe the upperclassmen trade lists of the books you really need to read in order to ace the tests? Just wondering... Seriously, this list is a keeper, but not as a separate article. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:16, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * P. S. I just learned something new from Wikipedia. This educational philosophy is known as Educational perennialism in general, and secular perennialism in particular. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:35, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * P. P. S. Sufferin' succotash! Four whole years of nothing but dead white European males... no, if you stick it out for three years you do get W. E. B. Dubois and Virginia Woolf in your senior year. By the time you graduate, you probably think Allan Bloom is a radical. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:56, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No, wait, you get Jane Austen in your junior year. Sheesh.  RickK 23:28, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * ^{Above comment aimed at the curriculum, not Dpbsmith). RickK 23:28, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * I am sorry to say that I still don't "get" Jane Austen. Maybe when I grow up... Dpbsmith (talk) 11:50, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. For once, it is a coherent list that illustrates the notable and unusual curriculum of a college. I'd comment, by the way, that at a lot of the more demanding colleges the humanities undergraduates will read a substantial percentage of these books in their entirety and even more of them in part.   Plus, they will read a great deal more besides.   Depending on how much depth they go into, if this is the entire 4 year reading list, it seems a bit light.  --BM 23:54, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, there have been far less notable, trivial lists that have been kept on Wikipedia. Perhaps the article could de with a bit more explaining on why those books are chosen. Megan1967 00:50, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - a book list is totally useless and does not convey anything. If this curriculum is important or unique than it should be written and expalined in the article. Otherwise it would open the floodgates for people putting down curriculum lists in wikipedia for the thousands of courses. kaal 01:25, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * So, what would you think about "merge into St. John's College, Annapolis and delete?" The article(s) on St. John's do "explain the curriculum." BTW, I've done a bit of Googling on "perennialism" in various combinations, and so far St. John's is frequently mentioned as an example of a college using that philosophy, and I have yet to see a mention of any other college using such a philosophy or curriculum, so St. John's curriculum is notable as one of the few actual examples of such a curriculum in actual use. Dpbsmith (talk) 10:45, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If there's agreement (which there currently isn't), I'm prepared to do the kind of merge-and-delete that merges histories, keeping things GFDL-kosher. I was thinking of just doing the merge right away, but the history shows contributions by too many editors to just put a simple note on the Talk page. Dpbsmith (talk) 11:34, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Copyvio? The article was contributed in almost its present form by User:Desert Pyrate on 28 October. Three edits to this article are his only contributions. The article is essentially the same text as this list from the St. John's website. Since then, there have been scores of edits by several editors, but virtually all of the edits consist of linking or fixing links in the names of the works and their authors. Since I want to keep the list, I'd like to think that there isn't a copyvio, but I dunno. An anthology of public domain work certainly can have a compilation copyright, but is its table of contents copyrightable? Is this just a list of names like a telephone directory, or does the creative act of selecting them make it copyrightable? Could St. John's sue me successfully if I were to start my own college and use their booklist as the curriculum? I'm probably losing the argument to keep this information anyway so it probably doesn't matter, but... whom to ask? Dpbsmith (talk) 13:32, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, the folks at St. Johns would almost certainly ne more happy than not if others copied their curriculum. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:54, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep .. although I think it should be merged with the Annapolis campus book list. St.Johns is a very unique school, and this list is very helpful for those wishing to study the Great Books. If you have never heard of St.Johns or the great books program I could understand why it might seem non noteworthy. In any case if this does get deleted, please let me know first so I can copy this down somewhere for my own personal reference! --Stbalbach 22:52, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The list is available on the St. John's website at http://www.sjcsf.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302 . Dpbsmith (talk) 23:47, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I concur with Stbalbach, though I wouldn't object to a merge. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:54, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The list is more notable than it may appear. I'm not sure about the "Santa Fe" in the name: it seems "Annapolis" or "St. John's" would be more appropriate.  So maybe move. LizardWizard 08:00, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP:It's well written enough, intresting, St. John's seems notable, unusual, --The_stuart 16:34, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable in any possible way.  What this boils down to is a list of books that in the opinion of this college are the most important in western literature.  In that sense, one could even argue that the article is inherently POV, though I admit that could be stretching it. Indrian 20:24, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it's not inherently POV to report that "X said Q" or that "Group Y believes J" or "Institution Z holds core principles K," and such statements are encyclopedic if X, Y, or Z are important and notable. The issue is really whether St. Johns and/or its curriculum is a) notable, and b) notable enough to be worth including this level of specific detail. I think they are, since this is all part of the Great Books movement, and which books are considered "great" is important in understanding the movement. The article on the Harvard Classics lists the actual contents of the volumes, and that makes it a better article than it would be without the list. Great Books and Educational perennialism are significant, and St. John's is notable as a reasonably well-known, successful, well-regarded institution that actually puts these ideas into practice. I don't think the detailed curriculum of any old "good small liberal-arts school" like Haverford College or Reed College would be notable, and I don't think St. John's would be notable if there were a hundred schools that followed the same curriculum—but there aren't. (I've recently learned of two more: Thomas Aquinas College, http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/, in Santa Paula, California, and Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon, which are respectively Catholic and Protestant Christian schools with a Great Books curriculum). By the way, I think it's clear from my flippant remarks above that I am not personally thrilled by the Great Books idea; it's not my POV. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:27, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. or merge. St John's and the Great Books movement are a significant, although non-mainstrean, educational philosophy. Probably this should be merged into the main article on the origianl St John's, or else one on the Great Books movement as a whole.
 * Unsigned comment is by User:DESiegel Dpbsmith (talk)
 * Sorry forgot to sign it. DES 17:34, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep unless the list is available on a web site to which Great Books could link. It's clearly neither just a college curriculum nor restrricted to one college (as a glance at the Great Books article confirms). The fact that some users disagree with what's on the list (as in certain respects do I) is irrelevant to the VfD debate. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:33, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Annapolis campus article and redirect. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:02, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't understand; why do you think that this should be done? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:28, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Notable list developed at University of Chicago many years ago. Unique curriculum that is well-known as well-respected. A list of the books is a useful reference (one I have actually looked for). -- Decumanus 19:53, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC)

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Lang Ping

"Jenny" Lang Ping (born 10 December 1960) is a Chinese former volleyball player and coach. She is the former head coach of the Chinese women's national volleyball team and U.S. women's national volleyball team. As a player, Lang won the most valuable player award in women's volleyball at the 1984 Olympics.

In 2002, Lang became an inductee of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She coached the U.S. women's national team to a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in her home country. Lang later coached the gold medal-winning Chinese women's national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, becoming the first person in volleyball history, male or female, to have won Olympic gold both as a player and as a coach.

Lang is the main character in the 2020 biographical film Leap, in which she is played by actress Gong Li.

Personal life
Lang Ping was born in Tianjin. She was married to Chinese former handball player "Frank" Bai Fan from 1987 to 1995. In 1992, they had a daughter named Lydia Lang Bai, who played volleyball for Stanford University and played the young version of Lang Ping in the film Leap. Lang is currently married to Wang Yucheng, a professor at the China Academy of Social Science.

In 1987, Lang moved to Los Angeles with Bai to study and serve as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico. When asked about the reasons for her move, she said she wanted "to taste a normal life." She maintains Chinese citizenship despite having lived in the U.S. for more than 15 years.

Career
Nicknamed the "Iron Hammer", Lang was a member of the Chinese national team that won the Gold Medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She was also a member of the team that won the World Championship crown in 1982 in Peru and won World Cup titles in 1981 and 1985. The Chinese women's volleyball team won multiple world championships during Lang's career. Lang was the star outside hitter on the team. She was named one of China's Top Ten Athletes of the year from 1981 to 1986.

Legacy in China
Owing to her central role in the success of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 1980s, Lang was seen as a cultural icon and is one of the most respected people in modern Chinese sports history. Lang is remembered as one of the first world champions for China.

Coaching
Lang was an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico from 1987–89 and 1992–93.

In 1995, Lang became the head coach of the Chinese national team and eventually guided the squad to the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and second place at the 1998 World Championships in Japan. Lang Ping resigned from the Chinese national team in 1998 for health reasons. In the following year, she took a head coaching position in the Italian professional volleyball league and enjoyed great success there, winning various honours and the coach of the year award multiple times. She was selected 1996 FIVB Coach of the Year.

She became the coach of the US National Team in 2005. Lang guided the team to the 2008 Olympics, where the US team faced off with China in her home country. The US team defeated China 3–2. Then Chinese and US presidents, Hu Jintao and George W. Bush, attended the match. The match drew 250 million television viewers in China alone. The team went on to win the silver medal, losing to Brazil in the finals 3–1. Lang allowed her contract to run out later that year, citing that she wanted to coach a club so as to spend more time with her family. She became the head coach of the China women's national volleyball team for the second time in 2013 and won the World Cup in Japan in 2015. In 2014, she was the only female head coach among the 24 teams in the FIVB World Championship.

On August 21, 2016, Lang Ping guided the Chinese national team to the gold medal at 2016 Rio Olympics. With this victory, Lang Ping became the first person in volleyball history, male or female, to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games as a player with the Chinese national team in Los Angeles 1984 and as the Chinese national team head coach in Rio 2016. On September 29, 2019, after China swept all eleven matches to defend the World Cup title, Lang Ping also became the first person to win the back-to-back World Cup champions both as a player (1981, 1985) and as a coach (2015, 2019).

Individuals

 * 1996 FIVB Coach of the Year

National team

 * As a player
 * 1981 World Cup - 🥇 Gold Medal
 * 1982 World Championship - Gold Medal
 * 1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles - Gold Medal
 * 1985 World Cup - 🥇 Gold Medal
 * 1990 World Championship - Silver Medal
 * As a coach
 * 1995 World Cup - 🥉 Bronze Medal
 * 1996 Olympic Games Atlanta - Silver Medal
 * 1998 World Championship - Silver Medal
 * 2007 World Cup - 🥉 Bronze Medal
 * 2008 Olympic Games Beijing - Silver Medal
 * 2014 World Championship - Silver Medal
 * 2015 World Cup - 🥇 Gold Medal
 * 2016 Olympic Games Rio - Gold Medal
 * 2018 World Championship - Bronze Medal
 * 2019 World Cup - 🥇 Gold Medal
 * 2019 World Cup - 🥇 Gold Medal

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Talk:Districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

Undefined Acronym
What does SELC stand for? --StanZegel 02:52, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

historically it was sloviak evang lutheran church, than synod of evan lutheran churches but since it joined the lcms in 71 it is offically just SELC
 * I'd suggest that its geographical extent be given in the article, then, or if it is without geography an appropriate note or explaination be added to the article.--StanZegel 06:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Eastern District (LCMS)
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Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop

Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (born 27 July 1945, in Hanover) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She was until 2009 a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a vice-chair of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, as well as being a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Budgetary Control.

Her husband Enrique Casas was assassinated by the Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas (CAA) in 1984.

Education

 * 1971: Graduate in humanities of the University of Uppsala (Sweden)
 * 1973: Language teacher in Hamburg

Career

 * 1974-1978: Lecturer at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
 * 1978-1987: Language teacher at the Usandizaga Institute and the German School (San Sebastián)
 * 1995: Chair of the Board of the German School in San Sebastian
 * 1999: Member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of Euskadi - Euskadiko Ezkerra
 * since 1987: Member of the European Parliament
 * 1989-1994: Socialist coordinator on the Committee on Culture and Education
 * 1994-1999: Vice-chairwoman of the Committee on Budgets
 * 1995: Awarded the Mujer Progresista prize

Decorations

 * Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Austria

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User:Jarom~enwiki

Since I am new to Wikipedia, I will start by creating my own user page first. Hopefully in the near future, I will be able to make worthwhile contributions.

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Rose-Marie Ur

Rose-Marie Margaret Ur (born July 28, 1946) is a Canadian politician. She was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 until 2005 and, in her final term in office, represented the riding of Middlesex—Kent—Lambton for the Liberal Party.

Biography
Ur was educated at the Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, receiving certification as a registered nurse assistant in 1964. She practised in this field from 1963 to 1966, then left to work as a farmer until 1990. She also worked as a constituency assistant to provincial Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Doug Reycraft from 1986 to 1988, and federal Member of Parliament (MP) Ralph Ferguson from 1988 to 1993. Ur is a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.

She was first elected to parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating her nearest opponent by almost 11,000 votes in the old riding of Lambton—Middlesex. She was re-elected by similarly large pluralities in Lambton—Kent—Middlesex in the elections of 1997 and 2000.

Ur faced a difficult re-election in the federal election of 2004, defeating Bev Shipley of the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada by only 164 votes. Shipley could have requested a recount, but declined.

Ur was one of the most socially conservative members of the Liberal caucus, strongly opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage. She was also an opponent of the federal gun registry, and sought to eliminate the program in late 2004. Ur was never appointed as a parliamentary secretary.

In the spring of 2005, Ur announced that she would not seek re-election in the 2006 federal election.

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Talk:Practice of law

Like the prose (2005)
I like the prose in this article. Ground 02:54, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Needs rewriting
Do we really need the full text of the Texas statute? I have no problem understanding it because I'm an attorney; but I remember my first in-class statutory interpretation exercise in law school (we were analyzing the Americans with Disabilities Act) and it was quite a terrifying experience. The point I'm getting at is that most laypersons are not very good at statutory interpretation. Even most treatises and practice guides don't include the full text of statutes except in the appendix. It might be less intimidating to just summarize the elements with citations to various parts of the Texas statute (and other jurisdictions' statutes). --Coolcaesar 03:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Dear Coolcaesar. I had inserted the text of the Texas statute. I have deleted that and replaced it with a brief summary. Yours, Famspear 04:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I went back into the history in this page to find that text of the Texas statute and it was very informative. I'd actually vote for keeping and recommend finding the appropriate statutes for the other states. Information like that is very difficult for a layman to locate. Jeff Carr 22:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The actual text of laws is more appropriate for Wikisource. Superm401 - Talk 01:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Concur with Superm401. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:40, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Arizona
The article states that UPL in Arizona is not prohibited by any statute or court rule. This is incorrect. The Supreme Court of Arizona has adopted a court rule which prohibits UPL. See http://www.supreme.state.az.us/media/pdf/uplrule.pdf. If I do not hear a respone in a few days, I will remove the Arizona reference. Sawagner201 00:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

 * As written it's wrong, but Arizona is unique for how it decriminalized the unlicensed practice of law. It was off the books so long that the Supreme Court decided to fill the gap with rules from their own constitutional authority. The court's control over its rules in turn angered some legislators who went so far as proposing constitutional amendments to make them the last word in court rules. It's probable that it's still the only state that lacks criminal penalties for practicing without a license, and Arizona's history is worth at least a terse statement. Cool Hand Luke 07:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Paragraph needs rewriting, factual beefing-up, sourcing

 * Most unauthorized practice of law may be unintentional. Probably the most common violators are accountants, paralegals, notaries public, and people who formerly worked for an attorney. Many times what seems to them to be "common knowledge" or "just helping out a friend" in fact crosses the line into practice of law. For instance, many accountants who represent small businesses (This would be more accurate to say corporations.) will "fill out some forms" to create a corporation. Depending on the complexity of the documents and whether they advise the small business, this could be drafting legal documents, which would require a law license. A notary public who reads instructions, asks questions, and tells a person which forms to use and how to fill them out may be giving legal advice. Buying a legal form in a store and helping a friend fill it out involves giving legal advice and drafting legal documents.

Ironically, this whole paragraph in itself sounds like an unauthorized practice of law inasmuch as it more offers advice than summarizes or synthesizes verifiably sourced content. Robert K S (talk) 17:22, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Removing uncited material
"Information" cannot carry the "citation needed" label indefinitely. A reference must be provided or the "info" has to come out. Some of these tags were over 2 1/2 years old. If you want something restored, restore the info with a proper cite. Some of the info I removed was manifestly incorrect. A lot of non-lawyers look to Wikipedia for information about the law, tragically. Someone needs to make an attempt to purge the worst of the worst of the mis/disinformation that abounds here.Green-Esq (talk) 10:05, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

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Tennessee bankruptcy example
The article states:
 * The United States bankruptcy court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has held that "providing clients with explanations or definitions of such legal terms of art ... is, by itself, giving legal advice."

with no further qualification. However, that Tenn case begins the sentence as "In connection with preparing legal documents". Our article cites a different case (North Carolina State Bar v. Lienguard, Inc.), which contains just our article's quote, but the Lienguard case makes explicit that the Lienguard opinion is solely in a case where that sort of relationship exists (and explicitly not stating any opinion on the more general idea). And other cases that cite it do include in their quotes or discussion of it the detail about specific client relationship. Should our article include this detail? DMacks (talk) 03:58, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

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Manuel Medina (politician)

Manuel Medina Ortega (born 1935 in Arrecife de Lanzarote (Las Palmas)) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Medina also served in the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Las Palmas from 1982 to 1987 when he resigned upon election to the European Parliament.

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Hello
Hello, I'm making article about Azerbaijani version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. How is it called? Dövletli olmaq isterdinmi milyonçu? Milyonçu dövletli olmaq isterdinmi? Or how? Kubek15 T C  S 09:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for belated responce. It was only on TV until we had old currency and one million equalled approximately 250 USD. Since we switched to new currency, one million Azeri manats is more than one million USD. So the program stopped. It was called "Milyonçu" teleşousu.

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Emilio Menéndez

Emilio Menéndez del Valle (born 20 June 1945 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. He has served as Spanish ambassador to Jordan and to Italy.

Author of:

''Angola. Imperialismo y Guerra Civil'', Madrid, Akal Editor, 1976.

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User talk:Chad1m

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Nice to see you again
Hi Chad. Remember me? I used to be User:Bentvfan54321 (chose that username when I was 12 and have since changed it to something a bit more sophisticated) and we got into a bit of an argument a couple of years ago regarding The Chase (read the escapades here if you're interested...). Anyway, it seems you've really grasped the ropes here on what these articles should look like, and I'm serious when I say Double Dare has a shot at GAN. I know you're not the most active user around here but I'd love to see you keep up the good work with these game show articles. I never saw any of your game show appearances live but I must say, you are quite the champion in that department as well.

Also, speaking of The Chase, it's now a Featured Article Candidate while The American Bible Challenge just passed FAC last month. Wikipedia's game show coverage is improving greatly! --Bcschneider53 (talk) 02:30, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Ahhhh, I forgot about that. I really go in and out in my Wikipedia involvement. I was a lot more involved years ago. Being such a Double Dare fan and appreciating what it's done for the genre and my own interest in it, one day I just got sick of how poorly the show was represented by its article here and decided to tear it apart. I've spent much of my free time in the last week and a half (and a free trial to a newspaper database!) to get it up to par and I appreciate the compliments on it. Also, I'm glad to see an article I worked on (even be it eons ago) doing well here. Congratulations! — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont. 02:39, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Thanks! And good luck with Double Dare; I'd review it myself but A) as a member of the Game Show WikiProject it may be seen as a conflict of interest and B) I don't have time to take on something like that at the moment. Best wishes, --Bcschneider53 (talk) 02:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Apologies for reviving this thread, but these kinds of edits are impressive and show how much of a commitment you have to improving this article. I don't know how familiar you are with FAC, but if/when this passes GA, I think it may have a shot there as well. Keep up the good work! :) --Bcschneider53 (talk) 17:07, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

 * No apologies necessary, I'm grateful for the compliment! I'm aiming for that once I get through the GA process, so your nod of support is appreciated. I'm almost glad that the GA process has taken a longer time, because I think the work I've done between nominating and now has been more valuable in upping the overall quality. — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont. 23:35, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, GAN can be a long process...but the silver lining is that it gives us even more time to perfect the article! --Bcschneider53 (talk) 11:04, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * You've got mail (Highbeam) Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 08:47, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
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Your GA nomination of Double Dare (Nickelodeon game show)
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for the kind words and the award! I do plan on starting processes and getting it ready for FAC! I'm very proud of the work on this article and want to try to take it as far as it can go! — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont. 18:25, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Also, dang you autocorrect for changing "barnstar" to "barrister" in my original message... --Bcschneider53 (talk) 19:01, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

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Double Dare (Nickelodeon game show)
Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Double Dare (Nickelodeon game show) has been completed.

I have never come across a situation I found in this article before. In the body of the article, the date format used consistently throughout is M/D/Y; this makes sense since it is an American series. However, the citation dates are all (I think) in the British D/M/Y format - perhaps because the original author set it up this way. Generally dates used within an article should be in the same format. However, in this case, I think it makes sense to leave them as they are. You might want to check that the format of each citation is correct. I fixed one where I noticed "date" was in the wrong order within the citation. You should also consider archiving any URLs - although I don't believe this is mandatory for FA.

Good luck going forward.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:56, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

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Don't give up!
I had to take this article through FAC FOUR TIMES, mostly due to a lack of reviews. It's just the nature of how the process works. I know, it's incredibly frustrating (for some reason, my two areas of work, game shows and motorsport, seem to get less attention), but patience is a virtue. Once August 30 comes around, it's take two. --Bcschneider53 (talk) 23:37, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Here we go again! — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont. 17:01, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

HQ: Congratulations!
I was scrolling through the winners at the end of the game and then said, "wait, THAT'S CHAD!" Congratulations on the big prize. I only lasted eight questions lol. --Bcschneider53 (talk) 20:41, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * So sorry I'm late responding to this, but that's awesome. I thank you very much! — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont. 22:57, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Double Dare
I linked the wrong link, and unfortunately, cannot edit summaries. Amaury has been persistent that they are all presenters, as seen here. Magitroopa (talk) 00:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm glad that Amaury has an opinion, but he is wrong; they are not presenters. By its very definition, a presenter is a host. Some of them (Harvey, Marc) have more involvement than a typical game show announcer, but there is no way Tiffany from Double Dare 2000 is a presenter. Please don't take one person's view on the article as gospel when a lot of work has went into this article, through many processes of review and analysis, to make it a good article. — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont. 00:38, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I did try to explain that already, but he said completely disagreed with me. I was trying to make both articles line up since one has to be wrong since the presenters/narrators were formatted differently. Thank you for helping. Magitroopa (talk) 01:34, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Double Dare Shirt
Hi there, I was just wondering about your Double Dare shirt. More specifically, what it was from. I see you responded to someone saying it was for employees, so this was a shirt for employees/crew of Double Dare? I'm wanting to know since I was able to snag one on eBay recently. It's a size small, but still fits me! Thanks in advance. Magitroopa (talk) 17:19, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Double Dare
Note that making a serious accusation like WP:SOCKPUPPETRY without any definite proof constitutes a personal attack. Please don't do that. Amaury ( talk | contribs ) 03:51, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Where can I lodge this complaint, then? I have proof of my claims. — 'Chad1m EmailTalk  Cont. 18:55, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * If you're serious, see WP:SPI. Good luck with that. Amaury ( talk | contribs ) 19:07, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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Double Dare had 136 Nickelodeon episodes on weekdays?
Have you seen these episodes with the original slates? Why 136? Were there taped but never shown episodes? Also, did early 1987 actually have 66 episodes taped?

Should this information be mentioned on the Double Dare page? What would you suggest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dypcBJV81ro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b_zSqmRbVA--2600:6C50:23F:406E:5D70:97FC:952C:F596 (talk) 06:13, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

 * Everything is a bit murky with the Double Dare episode numbers. For example, the second and third taped episodes have codes of DD 3B and DD 4B. The 65th taped episode has a code that says DD 69S. So while I don't know the exact explanation for the mislabeling, the episode codes alone can't be reliable information for episode count. — 'Chad1m EmailTalk Cont.

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Rosa Miguélez

Rosa Miguélez Ramos (born August 27, 1953 in Ferrol) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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Raimon Obiols

Josep Maria "Raimon" Obiols i Germà (born 5 August 1940, in Barcelona) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), part of the Party of European Socialists. He is a high-ranking-member of the PSOE Catalonia wing, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). Obiols began his political career in 1977 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Barcelona Province serving until 1984, when he resigned after being elected to the Parliament of Catalunya.

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Francisca Pleguezuelos

Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar (born 28 June 1950 in Granada) was a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

She began her political career in 1989 when she was elected to the Spanish parliament representing Seville serving until 1993 and then from 2000 to 2004.

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Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and, as Blandings Castle, in the United States on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran, New York. All the stories had previously appeared in Strand Magazine (UK) and all except the last in various US magazines.

Overview
The first six stories all take place at the book's namesake Blandings Castle; they are set some time between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and those of Summer Lightning (1929). Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle is depicted as a gentleman farmer, growing prize pumpkins and especially concerned with his prize pig, Empress of Blandings; he is also concerned with his nieces and nephews as well as the love life of his younger son Freddie Threepwood. The seventh story concerns Bobbie Wickham, an acquaintance and sometime fiancée of Bertie Wooster, who also appears in three of the stories in Mr Mulliner Speaking. The last five are narrated by Mr Mulliner and are set in Hollywood among the movie studios that Wodehouse knew from his time as a screenwriter in 1930–31.

"The Custody of the Pumpkin"

 * US: Saturday Evening Post, 29 November 1924
 * UK: Strand, December 1924

See "The Custody of the Pumpkin". (Blandings Castle story.)

"Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best"

 * UK: Strand, June 1926
 * US: Liberty, 5 June 1926

See "Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best". (Blandings Castle story.)

"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey"

 * US: Liberty, 9 July 1927
 * UK: Strand, August 1927

See "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey". (Blandings Castle story.)

"Company for Gertrude"

 * UK: Strand, September 1928
 * US: Cosmopolitan, October 1928

See "Company for Gertrude". (Blandings Castle story.)

"The Go-Getter"

 * US: Cosmopolitan, March 1931 (as ""Sales Resistance")
 * UK: Strand, August 1931

See "The Go-Getter". (Blandings Castle story.)

"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"

 * US: Liberty, 6 October 1928
 * UK: Strand , November 1928

See "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend". (Blandings Castle story.)

"Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure"

 * US: Liberty, 23 January 1926 (as "The Rest Cure")
 * UK: Strand, February 1926

J. H. Potter, a New York publisher, is, on the advice of his doctor, taking a restful vacation in London. He accepts an invitation to stay at Skeldings Hall, which is owned by Lady Wickham, a best-selling novelist who wants him to publish her novels in America.
 * Plot

Lady Wickham's daughter, Roberta ("Bobbie") is in residence, and is actively trying to sabotage an impending marriage proposal by Clifford Gandle, a member of Parliament and Lady Wickham's choice to be Bobbie's husband, much to Bobbie's distress. Readers of the other Bobbie Wickham stories will know that Bobbie is an expert at using psychological tricks to create chaos that swirls around her. Some accidental events, increased by Bobbie's machinations, cause Gandle to believe that Potter is suicidal, and Potter to believe that Gandle is homicidal. Bobbie hints to her mother that Gandle is probably violent, which Lady Wickham refuses to believe. Like many Wodehouse matrons, she has strong opinions about which suitors are suitable for their children.

Gandle, urged on by Bobbie, decides that it would be wise to deprive Potter of his shaving razor. Potter, meanwhile, has barricaded himself in his room as a precaution against the presumed blood lust of Gandle. After midnight, Gandle sneaks into Potter's room by climbing through the window. Discovered by Potter, he nevertheless manages to secure the razor and exit via the window.

At breakfast the next day, Bobbie cleverly manipulates Potter into believing that it would be wise for him to leave Skeldings Hall as soon as possible, with no notice or explanation. When Gandle enters for breakfast, he sees Potter about to pop a pill into his mouth. In order to save him from suicide, Gandle rushes at Potter, who decides that he should delay his departure no more.

Potter runs off with Gandle in hot pursuit. Bobbie, meanwhile, has given her own spin on these events to her mother, who, as a result, forbids Bobbie ever to marry Gandle. A side effect is that Lady Wickham loses the opportunity to pursue a publishing contract with Potter. Once again, a female novelist trying to manipulate a publisher finds, in Wodehouse's universe, that this is easier said than done.

"Monkey Business"

 * UK: Strand, December 1932 (featuring Mervyn Mulliner in magazine versions, Montrose in book)
 * US: American Magazine, December 1932 (as "A Cagey Gorilla")

The story is one of those narrated by pub raconteur Mr Mulliner, and concerns his distant cousin Montrose Mulliner, who is in love with Rosalie Beamish. (In the earlier magazine appearances, the cousin's name is given as Mervyn Mulliner.) Indirectly as a result of the advice of Captain Jack Fosdyke (a self-important and possibly lying explorer), Rosalie proposes that she and Montrose be married inside the cage of a star gorilla on the movie set where the two of them work. This would, she explains, generate much publicity for the film, promote her career, and give him an excuse to ask their boss for a raise. Montrose declines, and Rosalind ends their engagement. For dinner that night, she chooses not to dine with Montrose, but with the supposedly more courageous Captain Fosdyke. Montrose goes to the gorilla's cage and tries to befriend it with a banana, despairing when he recalls that it is an elephant that never forgets, not a gorilla.
 * Plot

A few days later, just before dinner, Montrose encounters a staff member from the Press department, who warns him that, to stoke publicity about the film, the gorilla will be "accidentally" released from its cage, causing panic and generating press attention. This indeed happens just moments later, and Montrose finds himself stranded in a distant part of the movie lot. For safety, and to reconnoiter, he climbs the steps attached to the back of one of the large sets, whereupon he sees that the gorilla has snatched a baby from its mother and lumbered off with the infant, to the consternation of a large crowd of onlookers. A moment later, he trips and falls, and then discovers that the gorilla is towering over him, staring at him with its "hideous face," having just climbed the steps behind the set as well. Now it is revealed that the gorilla is actually an amiable, educated actor named Cecil Waddesley-Davenport, who took the baby because he is a dedicated performer and that was how he saw the scene, but now regrets this and wants the baby returned. Montrose agrees to return the baby. Having apparently rescued the baby, he defeats Captain Fosdyke and wins Rosalie's admiration.

"The Nodder"

 * UK: Strand, January 1933
 * US: American Magazine, January 1933 (as "Love Birds")

While discussing child characters in films portrayed by midgets, Mr Mulliner remarks that one such actor, Johnny Bingley, played a role in the affairs of his distant relative Wilmot. He tells the following story about Wilmot.
 * Plot

Wilmot Mulliner is a Nodder. A Nodder is similar to a Yes-Man except lower in the social scale. He is expected to nod in agreement to what the chief executive says after all the Yes-Men have said yes. Wilmot works for Mr Schnellenhamer, the head of the Perfecto-Zizzbaum Corporation, a film studio. Mabel Potter, Schnellenhamer's secretary, was formerly a bird-imitator in vaudeville. Wilmot overhears her arguing with a director about how cuckoos sound. Having grown up on a farm, Wilmot is familiar with birds and agrees with her. They grow closer together in the weeks that follow. He proposes to her, but she says she will not marry a mere nodder. Disappointed, Wilmot goes to drink at a speakeasy. Another person sits at his table, apparently a child in a Lord Fauntleroy costume. Wilmot recognizes him as the child actor Little Johnny Bingley and is surprised to see him there. Bingley asks Wilmot not to tell Schnellenhamer he was in a speakeasy, since there is a morality clause in his contract. Wilmot agrees. They become friends and visit other speakeasies together.

The next day, Mr Schnellenhamer tells his fellow executive, Mr Levitsky, that he is concerned. Bingley told him that he may have revealed to Wilmot that he is actually a midget. If this becomes known, Bingley will be worthless to them, and he has a contract for two more films. Levitsky suggests they watch Wilmot closely. If he acts unlike his usual deferential self, they will know he knows and have to pay him off. In reality, Wilmot barely remembers his night out and does not know the truth about Bingley. At a story-conference, Wilmot seems listless, which Schnellenhamer and Levitsky think means he knows, though Wilmot actually just has a hangover. Wilmot winces when he nods, which looks like a scowl to the anxious executives. Schnellenhamer talks about adding birds that go "cuckoo" to the story, but Mabel says he is wrong, to the astonishment of the many obsequious men in the room. She insists that cuckoos go "wuckoo". She says that Wilmot agreed with her, and for her sake, Wilmot risks his job by firmly agreeing with her in front of the executives. Mabel is delighted and embraces him. Schnellenhamer and Levitsky tell the others to leave. They remark that Wilmot is loyal to the firm and would never betray its secrets. They ask if he will consent to become an executive. Wilmot does not entirely understand what is going on, but he is glad he will get to marry Mabel and nods.

"The Juice of an Orange"

 * UK: Strand, February 1933
 * US: American Magazine, February 1933 (as "Love on a Diet")

The topic of dieting comes up at the Angler's Rest, leading Mr Mulliner to tell the following story about Wilmot (from "The Nodder").
 * Plot

Wilmot is now an executive at the Perfecto-Zizzbaum Corporation, a film studio. He is engaged to Mabel, the secretary of the head of the company, Mr Schnellehamer. Schnellehamer convinces Wilmot to take a large salary cut by claiming it will help the company. This upsets Mabel, who believes that Wilmot is still a Nodder at heart. She refuses to marry him unless he proves he can assert himself. Wilmot thinks there is nothing he can do, and his disappointment makes him eat more than usual. Before long, Wilmot gets indigestion. He consults a physician, who advises him to take orange juice, which the physician insists on calling "the juice of an orange", in place of meals. Wilmot goes from being very genial to very irritable as a result of being on this diet for four days. There is a plate of sandwiches at the next story-conference. The sight of Schnellenhamer enthusiastically eating a sandwich pushes Wilmot too far. He shouts at Mr Schnellenhamer to stop eating. Schnellenhamer is about to fire Wilmot when a siren goes off.

This siren warns all workers on the lot to take cover because Hortensia Burwash, the temperamental female star actress, has lost her temper. She is armed with a sword she borrowed off an actor playing a Roman soldier. Everyone flees except Wilmot, who is too busy brooding on his diet to notice, Mabel, who crouches on top of the filing cabinet, and Schnellenhamer, who hides in a cupboard. Hortensia appears and breaks an ink-pot with her sword, and some of the ink gets on Wilmot's trousers. Wilmot grabs the sword and demands that she stop. Surprised by his reaction, she apologizes and explains that she is in a bad mood because she has been on an orange juice diet for fifteen days. She is on the diet because of a strict weight clause in her contract. Wilmot sympathizes with her and borrows her sword. He makes Schnellenhamer write Hortensia a new contract without a weight clause, and tells him to restore his former salary. However, Hortensia wants Wilmot to be her new business manager, at double his old salary. Mabel is pleased and writes out the contract for Wilmot's new job.

"The Rise of Minna Nordstrom"

 * UK: Strand, April 1933
 * US: American Magazine, March 1933 (as "A Star is Born", omitting Anglers' Rest introduction)

The story is the fourth of five stories set in Hollywood that are narrated by pub raconteur Mr Mulliner, who tells this one while sipping his usual hot Scotch and lemon at a pub called the Angler's Rest. The barmaid has just seen a movie starring Minna Nordstrom, and was much impressed. Mr. Mulliner claims to know the story of how Nordstrom became a star–by "sheer enterprise and determination", not personal connections.
 * Plot

He begins by describing Vera Prebble, a parlormaid working at the home of the head of a large movie studio. She (and, according to Mulliner, nearly every other non-acting resident of Hollywood) starts demonstrating her acting prowess whenever she encounters a studio executive, who in this case is Jacob Z. Schnellenhamer. Annoyed, he fires her, and she retaliates by informing the police (accurately) that he has a stash of liquor in his cellar. Because the story takes place during Prohibition, the police raid the house and confiscate the alcohol.

But he and his wife are planning a party that evening for 150 people, and they must have liquor to serve, Prohibition or no Prohibition. So Schnellenhamer contacts several suppliers (bootleggers), but they are all busy filming movies. Then he tries contacting another studio head, who had the misfortune of having recently hired the same Vera Prebble, firing her, and suffering the same fate. The two of them move on to a third studio head, who had fired Prebble even more recently, with the same result of confiscation of his liquor.

The three studio executives band together and, in one last desperate attempt, visit the home of a fourth studio head, who happens to be away on vacation. Alas, Prebble had just been hired by him, too, and she threatens another police raid if she is not awarded a contract as a movie star. The three studio heads begin to bargain with her, each outbidding the others, until they decide to merge their firms and thus become a sole negotiator to deal with Prebble. This is the crisis that precipitates the creation of the Perfecto-Zizzbaum Corporation—by virtue of the merger of the Colossal-Exquisite, the Perfecto-Fishbein, and the Zizzbaum-Celluloid. The vacationing executive, head of the Medulla-Oblongata studio, is not present to add his company to the mix.

As the negotiations escalate and the executives near an agreement to offer Prebble a 5-year contract, the police arrive. Soon the studio heads try to bribe the police, too, by offering them movie contracts. Recalling previous rejections by the same men, the police decline the offers and head for the cellar. Prebble misleads them and locks them in the coal cellar instead of taking them to the wine cellar. Terms are agreed to. Prebble selects the stage name of Minna Nordstrom, and cannily requires the executives to sign a letter summarizing the main points of their deal before she hands over the key to the liquor.

"The Castaways"

 * UK: Strand, June 1933

At the Angler's Rest, the barmaid mentions a book she is reading in which a couple of castaways are deposited on a desert island, then fall in love with each other even though each is engaged to a different person back home. Mr Mulliner steps in with a story about his nephew, Bulstrode Mulliner, and a woman named Genevieve Bootle; he claims that their situation was very similar to that story.
 * Plot

Mr Mulliner's nephew Bulstrode Mulliner is an Englishman who moves to Los Angeles planning to make money by striking oil. His fiancée, Mabelle Ridgway, stays in New York. A hat mixup on a train leads him to the office of Jacob Z. Schnellenhamer, the president of the Perfecto-Zizzbaum movie studio. (Both Schnellenhamer and the studio are featured in Mr Mulliner's other Hollywood stories.) Schnellenhamer proposes that Bulstrode sign a document which turns out to be a dialogue-writing contract, not a hat receipt. Schnellenhamer sends Bulstrode to a room in the "Leper Colony", a building in which writers write when working for Perfecto-Zizzbaum. The project Bulstrode has inadvertently joined is a movie adaptation of "Scented Sinners", a failed Broadway musical. 10 other writers are already working on dialogue for it.

One day another writer, Genevieve Bootle, shows up in Bulstrode's room. Although both immediately disclose that they are engaged to others (Genevieve to Ed Murgatroyd, a Chicago bootlegger), a chaste romance develops as a result of solitude and propinquity. The pressure of writing triggers a declaration of love by Bulstrode, and when he embraces Genevieve, Mabelle and Ed burst through the door, the latter carrying a sawed-off shotgun. The two had met on a train to Los Angeles. The two couples argue and break up. Mabelle and Ed meet Schnellenhamer, who tricks them, too, into signing writing contracts for "Scented Sinners". Assigned to the building called the "Ohio State Penitentiary", Ed and Mabelle soon become engaged. Bulstrode meets Ed and Mabelle in the commissary. Everyone confesses: they are all repelled by their current fiancés, and would prefer to return to their original partners. The three of them agree to confront Schnellenhamer and resign.

Schnellenhamer refuses to release them from their contracts. However, sensing unrest among the "Scented Sinners" writers, he calls a meeting to deliver a pep talk to them. This inspirational speech is interrupted by another executive, who informs Schnellenhamer that their company does not own the rights to "Scented Sinners"; a different company outbid them for the rights 11 years previously. All the contracts are thus null and void. The released writers all celebrate their freedom. Bulstrode and Mabelle are happy but have no financial resources to fall back on. Ed offers them a position in his Chicago bootlegging operation, and Bulstrode enthusiastically accepts.

Style
Robert Hall used "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" as an example of a Wodehouse short story where the romantic element is only a minor part of the story and treated farcically, as in Gandle's interrupted proposal of marriage to Bobbie Wickham, in contrast to stories in which romance plays a larger role or is not involved at all. The other example Hall gave of a short story similar to "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" in this respect was "Uncle Fred Flits By".

In "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure", the pompous politician Clifford Gandle exaggerates the neutral vowel which has replaced r at the end of words such as "desire", "here", and "there" in south-east British English. It is made into a separate syllable, which Wodehouse represents with the spellings "desi-ah", "hee-yah", and "they-ah" respectively. Gandle's exaggerated pronunciation of the final vowel in the words "Nature" and "razor" is shown by the spellings "Na-chah" and "ra-zah". Some of these changes also occur in the speech of other Wodehouse characters, such as Lavender Briggs in Service with a Smile. Percy Gorringe similarly refers to his mother as "Moth-aw" in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.

In "The Castaways", which concerns Mr Mulliner's nephew Bulstrode Mulliner, a writer in Hollywood, writing dialogue for sound films is compared to being castaways on a desert island.

Background
"The Castaways" was influenced by Wodehouse's experience writing dialogue for films. In a letter to fellow author William "Bill" Townend (dated 26 June 1930, as published in Author! Author! and Performing Flea), Wodehouse wrote: "When the Talkies came in and they had to have dialogue, the studios started handing out contracts right and left to everyone who had ever written a line of it. Only an author of exceptional ability and determination could avoid getting signed up. ... With the result that the migration to Hollywood has been like one of those great race movement of the Middle Ages. So though there is a touch of desert island about the place and one feels millions of miles from anywhere, one can always count on meeting half a dozen kindred spirits when one is asked out to dinner."

Publication history
In The Strand Magazine, "Monkey Business", "The Nodder", "The Juice of an Orange", "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom", and "The Castaways" were illustrated by Gilbert Wilkinson. "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" was illustrated by Charles Crombie.

In American Magazine, "Monkey Business", "The Nodder", "The Juice of an Orange", and "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom" were illustrated by Roy F. Spreter. "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" was published with illustrations by Wallace Morgan in Liberty.

"Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure", under the title "The Rest Cure", was published in the Family Herald and Weekly Star magazine (Montreal, Canada) on 8 May 1935. It was published in the Toronto Star Weekly on 11 May 1935. The story was translated into Swedish by Birgitta Hammar and published in the Stockholm magazine Böckernas värld in 1971, with illustrations by Gunnar Brusewitz.

The five Mulliner stories in the collection were collected in the Mulliner Omnibus (1935), The World of Mr. Mulliner (1972), and the Wodehouse collection The Hollywood Omnibus (1985).

"Monkey Business" and "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom" were included in the 1939 collection The Week-End Wodehouse (US edition), published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. "Monkey Business" was also included in the 1960 book The Most of P. G. Wodehouse, published in October 1960 by Simon and Schuster, New York, and A Wodehouse Bestiary, edited by D. R. Bensen and published in October 1985 by Ticknor & Fields, New York. "The Nodder" was featured in the 1985 Wodehouse collection Short Stories.

Adaptations
Several of the Blandings shorts from this collection were adapted for the first series of The World of Wodehouse, broadcast in February and March 1967 in six half-hour episodes. They starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth, Derek Nimmo as Freddie Threepwood, Meriel Forbes as Lady Constance, and Stanley Holloway as Beach. Unfortunately the master tapes of all but the first part ("Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"), were wiped, and no known copies exist.

Some of the stories featured in the collection, "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure", "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom" and "The Nodder" (combined with "Monkey Business") were produced as part of the BBC's Wodehouse Playhouse series, starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins, airing in 1975 and 1976 respectively.

In 2013 and 2014, BBC television aired a series titled Blandings starring Timothy Spall as Clarence, Jennifer Saunders as Connie, and Jack Farthing as Freddie. Beach was played by Mark Williams (2013) and Tim Vine (2014).

References and sources

 * References

 * Sources
 * – Alphabetical list of Wodehouse's short stories, with publication and collections.
 * – Lists of characters and publication dates for each story.
 * – Alphabetical list of Wodehouse's short stories, with publication and collections.
 * – Lists of characters and publication dates for each story.

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Teresa Riera

Teresa Riera Madurell (born 13 October 1950 in Barcelona) is a Spanish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Riera was elected to the parliament of the Balearic Islands in 1989 and then to the national parliament in 1996 as deputy for The Balearic Islands serving until 2004.

During her time in the European Parliament, Riera served as rapporteur on the EU's research programme Horizon 2020.

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María Isabel Salinas

María Isabel Salinas García (born 23 June 1966) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Salinas was born in Níjar. In addition to her present role, she also sat in the Spanish parliament from 1996 to 2000, representing Almería Province.

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Antolín Sánchez

Antolín Sánchez Presedo (born 5 April 1955) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Early life
Sánchez was born in Betanzos, Galicia (Spain). He obtained an MA in EU from Derecho de la Universidad Carlos III de la Madrid (1994–96), and was a Collaborator Professor MBA at the University of A Coruña from 2001 to 2004.

Political achievements

 * Member of the first corporation's democratic Ayuntamiento de Betanzos from 1979 to 1983, the year in which he is elected mayor of this city.
 * Member of the PSOE Federal Committee between the years 1982–1994.
 * Secretary General of the PSOE-PSdeG between the years 1985–1994.
 * Consejero of Planning and Public Works of the Junta of Galicia (1987-1990).
 * President of the Galician Institute of Housing and Land (1988-1990).
 * Spokesman of the Socialist Parliamentary Group en el Parlamento Galicia (1990-1994)
 * Candidate for her presidency of the Junta of Galicia in 1993.
 * Socialist MEP en el European Parliament since 2004. Member and spokesman of the Socialist Economic Affairs Committee and monetary. Member of Parliament Delegation for relations with Japan and alternate member of the delegation for relations with U.S.

title: Antolín Sánchez


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Talk:Carbon nanofoam

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but with 1% of the density of previously produced carbon aerogels - only a few times the density of air at sea level.

 * which one is only a few times? - Omegatron 03:00, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:Carbon nanofoam