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Acanthostega

Acanthostega (meaning "spiny roof") is an extinct genus of stem-tetrapod, among the first vertebrate animals to have recognizable limbs. It appeared in the late Devonian period (Famennian age) about 365 million years ago, and was anatomically intermediate between lobe-finned fishes and those that were fully capable of coming onto land.

Discovery
The fossilized remains are generally well preserved, with the famous fossil by which the significance of this species was discovered being found by Jennifer A. Clack in East Greenland in 1987, though fragments of the skull had been discovered in 1933 by Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh and Erik Jarvik.

Description
The 60 cm Acanthostega had eight digits on each hand (the number of digits on the feet is unclear) linked by webbing, it lacked wrists, and was generally poorly adapted for walking on land. It also had a remarkably fish-like shoulder and forelimb. The front limbs of Acanthostega could not bend forward at the elbow, and therefore could not be brought into a weight bearing position, appearing to be more suitable for paddling or for holding on to aquatic plants. Acanthostega is the earliest stem-tetrapod to show the shift in locomotory dominance from the pectoral girdle to the pelvic girdle.

There are many morphological changes that allowed the pelvic girdle of Acanthostega to become a weight-bearing structure. In more ancestral states the two sides of the girdle were not attached. In Acanthostega there is contact between the two sides and fusion of the girdle with the sacral rib of the vertebral column. These fusions would have made the pelvic region more powerful and equipped to counter the force of gravity when not supported by the buoyancy of an aquatic environment. It had internal gills that were covered like those of fish. It also had lungs, but its ribs were too short to support its chest cavity out of water.

Classification
Acanthostega is seen as part of widespread evolutionary radiation in the late Devonian period, starting with purely aquatic finned tetrapodomorphs, with their successors showing increased air-breathing capability and related adaptions to the jaws and gills, as well as more muscular neck allowing freer movement of the head than fish have, and use of the fins to raise the body of the fish. These features are displayed by the earlier Tiktaalik, which like Ichthyostega showed signs of greater abilities to move around on land, but is thought to have been primarily aquatic.

In Late Devonian vertebrate speciation, descendants of pelagic lobe-finned fish –like Eusthenopteron– exhibited a sequence of adaptations: Panderichthys, suited to muddy shallows; Tiktaalik with limb-like fins that could take it onto land; stem-tetrapods in weed-filled swamps, such as Acanthostega, which had eight-digited feet; and Ichthyostega, with full limbs. Their descendants also included pelagic lobe-finned fish such as coelacanth species.

Hunting strategy
It has been inferred that Acanthostega probably lived in shallow, weed-choked swamps, its legs apparently being adapted for these specific ecosystems. Apart from the presence of limbs, it was not adapted in any way for walking on land. Jennifer A. Clack interprets this as showing that Acanthostega was primarily an aquatic animal descended from fish that never left the sea, and that the specializations of the tetrapod lineage were exaptations: features which would later be useful for terrestrial life, even if they originated for a different purpose. At that period, deciduous plants were flourishing and annually shedding leaves into the water, attracting small prey into warm oxygen-poor shallows that were difficult for larger fish to swim in; Clack remarks on how the lower jaw of Acanthostega shows a change from those of fish that have two rows of teeth, with a large number of small teeth in the outer row, and two large fangs and some smaller teeth in the inner row. This difference likely corresponds to a shift in stem-tetrapods from feeding exclusively in the water to feeding with the head above water or on land.

Research based on analysis of the suture morphology in the skull of Acanthostega indicates that the species was able to bite prey at or near the water's edge. Markey and Marshall compared the skull with the skulls of fish, which use suction feeding as the primary method of prey capture, and creatures known to have used the direct biting on prey typical of terrestrial animals. Their results indicate that Acanthostega was adapted for what they call terrestrial-style feeding, strongly supporting the hypothesis that the terrestrial mode of feeding first emerged in aquatic animals. If correct, this shows an animal specialized for hunting and living in shallow waters in the line between land and water.

Lifestyle
While normally considered more basal than Ichthyostega, it is possible that Acanthostega was actually more derived. Since Acanthostega resembles juvenile Ichthyostega and shows a lot less differences from juveniles to adults than the latter, it has been suggested that Acanthostega might be descended from a neotenic lineage. Although it appears to have spent its whole life in water, its humerus also exhibits traits that resemble those of later, fully terrestrial stem-tetrapods (the humerus in Ichthyostega being somewhat derived from, and homologous with the pectoral and pelvic fin bones of earlier fishes). This could indicate that vertebrates evolved terrestrial traits earlier than previously assumed, and numerous times independently from another. Muscle scars on the forelimbs of Acanthostega were similar to those of crown-tetrapods, suggesting that it evolved from an ancestor that had more terrestrial adaptations than itself.

Development
A histological study of Acanthostega humeri, assisted by synchrotron scans, indicates that the animal matured slowly. Some individuals reached sexual maturity (based on a fully ossified humerus) at more than six years of age, and adult fossils are much rarer than juveniles. Late ossification of the humerus supports a fully aquatic lifestyle for Acanthostega. There is barely any correlation between humerus size and maturity, suggesting that there was significant size variation among individuals of the same age. This may be due to competitive pressures, differing adaptive strategies, or even sexual dimorphism. However, the small sample size prevents recognition of a bimodal distribution which could confirm the latter hypothesis.

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Haiku Valley

Haikū Valley is an amphitheater-shaped valley on the windward side of the Koolau Range behind Kāneohe, Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. The valley was the site of a United States Navy radio transmitting station (later taken over by the Coast Guard as an OMEGA Navigation System station) and is part of the route of Hawaii's Interstate H-3.

The Haikū Stairs (also known as "Stairway to Heaven") is a foot trail of over 3,000 metal stairs ascends to Puu Keahiakahoe, a 2800 ft peak above the east valley wall. The stairs were originally constructed as a means of reaching the radio antenna attachment points high on the surrounding ridge line. The trail starts at an elevation of 480 ft and covers an approximate horizontal distance of 4500 ft for an average slope of about 30 degrees (however, some sections are nearly vertical). The Haikū Stairs are closed to the public, although people still illegally trespass to experience the nearly two-hour climb.

The facility initially was built following the attack on Pearl Harbor as a means of communicating with U.S. Navy ships as far away as Tokyo Bay. The facility had a massive antenna system consisting of five massive cable antennas draped from atop one mountain ridge, and across the mountain valley to the top of the other ridge. The ridges formed a horseshoe shape around the valley. The natural height of the mountain ridges made for an excellent means of having an elevated antenna system. The construction and use of the facility was initially a classified military secret.

The walls of the main building were over 5 ft thick and made of concrete. The building was designed to withstand a 500 lb. bomb being dropped on the top of the building, allowing people inside to survive.

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Talk:The Mirage

Title of article
I thought it made more sense to have this article at its original title, Mirage (hotel and casino), in keeping with the style used for other casinos with ambiguous names. (Sometimes it's phrased a little differently, as with Excalibur Hotel and Casino, but that's the general approach.) Whoever moved it didn't change the links to the original title. Does anyone see a reason to keep this article here? If not, I'll see to moving it back. JamesMLane 09:21, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Done, all links fixed. JamesMLane 21:21, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Might have been me, history lost in the move and re-move. "The Mirage" seems like the official name, they use it in their text, and their mailing address is "The Mirage / 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd. / Las Vegas, NV 89109". In general we want to prefer an official name, if it's unambiguous, over a disambiguated form (thus President of the United States not President (US)). Stan 03:57, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I moved this to "Mirage Las Vegas" because that seems to be an official name, at least according to their web site. As Stan said, we prefer an official name over a disambiguated form. Nohat 07:35, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know if I believe "Mirage Las Vegas" is an official name. From previous poking around I've noticed that the websites are often very confused about terminology, not surprising since they're cobbled together by successive generations of marketroids and website admins. Mailing addresses and court papers are better sources for names sans marketingspeak. One of these days someone should get energetic and just call them on the phone... Stan 14:04, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree with preferring the official name, but if, as Stan points out, the subject of the article has left some uncertainty about what the official name is, then there's an advantage to putting the article where people will look for it, and where other editors are likely to link to it.  We use the "(hotel and casino)" form on several of our similar articles.  Phoning the place wouldn't be at all definitive -- I'd imagine you could get one answer in the morning and then a different one a few hours later when the first person is out to lunch. JamesMLane 15:44, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Heh heh... If one were to actually do this, one would have to locate the right person, most likely in public relations, because they're the ones in charge of "I don't care what you say about me, just as long as you spell my name right", and deal with journalists and proofreaders and such all the time. Practically speaking, I should think a casino's PR person would be ecstatic to find out that a) WP has an article on them, and b) we want to be accurate. Stan 01:52, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The PR people would want to see whatever they judged would sound best, not what was actually true, even if they knew what was true, which they probably wouldn't. Your suggestion, though, got me to thinking: Whom would I trust to be right on a nitpicky detail like this?  As a lawyer, I concluded that the answer was: lawyers, particularly those going over the company's SEC filings.  I should've thought of this before.  I checked the EDGAR database and found the most recent Form 10-K from MGM Mirage (view it here).  In "ITEM 1. BUSINESS" it includes a list of the company's properties.  (Search for "Bellagio" and it's the first hit.)  Based on that listing, I'm reversing my previous position and agreeing that the official name for the volcano joint is "The Mirage".  Therefore, our article should go there.  The official name for the one with the lake is simply "Bellagio".  We can't put our article at that title, though, because of ambiguity, so we should disambiguate using the conventions established for other such articles, by moving it back to Bellagio (hotel and casino).  That's also where all the links point now, anyway.  The Mirage links, however, are all to Mirage (hotel and casino); I reluctantly conclude that we should change them, after moving the article to The Mirage.  Is this resolution acceptable to everyone? JamesMLane 13:42, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Good thinking! That should be mentioned somewhere on the naming conventions pages, as a way to sort dubious names. Stan 16:19, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, give that the name on the building is The Mirage in the picture on the page that seems reasonable. Vegaswikian 06:38, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * No one has objected to my suggestion, so I'm moving the article to The Mirage. I'll start the project of changing the links but I may not finish them all today, and everyone else is welcome to join the fun. JamesMLane 04:19, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)  Well, I thought I could move it, since The Mirage is just a redirect, but it wouldn't let me, presumably because of the history.  I'll do a formal request for page move. JamesMLane 04:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. There may well be a book or movie named "The Mirage" (though none spring to mind). In that case this should be moved elsewhere but for now I agree that The Mirage is the best place for this casino. violet/riga (t) 17:43, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Fixed most redirects. Did not do the page with a VfD. Vegaswikian 20:42, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Major blow"
I don't think anybody knowledgeable could think that losing Siegfried & Roy was not a major blow to the Mirage, that's working just a little too hard to excise opinion. Making summarized assessments is a part of history writing - we have thousands of history articles that do this, they in turn get their assessments from respected books and journal articles. If the assessment is controversial (the cause of the American Civil War), we attribute the opinions, but if they're not controversial, we just state them and don't worry about it. Stan 3 July 2005 12:38 (UTC)

notable attractions?
is "Aquarium" really an attraction here? Sure, it's nice and all behind the front desk, but it's no "Shark Reef". I don't see people lining up to look at it as they do the Volcano or the White Tiger exhibit. Do you? SpikeJones 11:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Marquee
The article ways that The Mirage is home to the largest free standing marquee in the world. From my understanding, that bit of trivia belongs to The Hilton Las Vegas. Anyone else agree? Guy M 11:15, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Is it true can anyone find article/facts that The Mirage was named such because the way the hotel is shaped that from any room in the hotel you can not see part of the hotel besides the marque and volcano? This would also make sense from the definition of a mirage and being in the middle of the desert? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.45.13 (talk) 19:13, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Trivia
"The Mirage does not have a wedding chapel."

How is that interesting at all? That's like saying there isn't an airport in the mirage

 * Nearly all of the LV megacasinos incorporate a wedding chapel - the Mirage is therefore unusual in not having one. (The article should make it clearer that this is not the norm for casinos of its type.) Stan 02:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Glass Pool Inn
The Mirage was originally a motel on the south part of the strip until the Mirage casino was built. May be an interesting fact. http://www.roadsidepeek.com/preserv/2004/glasspool/ 4613 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89119
 * thanks -- already covered elsewhere in WP. (I believe the Las Vegas Strip article has this included. SpikeJones 11:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Connection to the Jackie Collins novel Chances?
Jackie Collin's entertaining 1981 sex-and-violence novel Chances includes, as a salient plot element, the building of a luxurious Las Vegas hotel and casino called the Mirage. E.g., p. 399 of the paperback, "It'll be the biggest an' the best!" Jake enthused. "I want to call it the Mirage. Every star in Hollywood'll come to the opening. It'll be the best hotel in the whole friggin' world!" Was Wynn inspired by the novel? Pure coincidence ? Precognition on Collin's part? Dpbsmith (talk) 18:26, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Junk bonds
I put a reference request on first resort built with junk bonds request. That should probably be quantified to "in Las Vegas" Michael Milliken had a partnership with Wynn on the Golden Nugget Atlantic City which preceded the Mirage. I have a reference on the Atlantic City article.Americasroof (talk) 12:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in The Mirage
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of The Mirage's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "lat": From Casino Royale Hotel & Casino: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/09/news/la-trb-las-vegas-casino-royale-20130108 From Aria Resort and Casino:

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 22:47, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Capitalization
Should references to "The Mirage" after the initial word of the sentence have "The" capitalized? MOS:THECAPS seems to indicate lowercase, unless this is more like an exception like "The Open Championship".

Example: "Prior to The Mirage's opening" vs. "Prior to the Mirage's opening" Kaltenmeyer (talk) 17:25, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is inconsistent about to handle this. We write the Spice Girls and the White House, but we write The Coca-Cola Company and The New York Times. I would say to use lowercase the in all situations except titles of works, so "the Mirage", not "The Mirage". See my essay for more thoughts on this. Popcornfud (talk) 18:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree; don't cap it except at start of sentence. Dicklyon (talk) 03:17, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Right, this is a typical MOS:THECAPS case. And, no, we don't write "The Coca-Cola Company". If anyone's doing that, they're making a mistake. Nor do we write "The New York Times"; we write The New York Times, because titles of publications have an entirely separate guideline about capitalization, italics/quotation marks, etc.; see MOS:TITLES.  For all the guidelines dealing with "the" vs. "The", see the internal disambiguation page MOS:THE.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:07, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Considering adding a Super Bowl event in here... "Paramount Expedition Vegas"?
It happened a week prior to super bowl 58, aka "super bowl week" within the volanco/lagoon area. Does it demonstrate enough coverage to add it here? I feel like it's missing some details about it... lmk on my talk page or by replying here. thanks! Ｍｏｄ ｃｒｅａｔｏｒ 🏡 🗨 📝 05:23, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have added a mention of this, as seen here. AJFU  (talk), 14:58, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

New page for Hard Rock?
Even though The Mirage is not being demolished, the property will certainly be completely different when it turns into the Hard Rock. I’m wondering if a new page for The Hard Rock should be created. Does anyone see this as being a good idea?

Or could we just make a separate page called “History of The Mirage”? That could be a reasonable compromise for those who don’t want a new page for the Hard Rock. There is a lot of history to The Mirage and it has had an important legacy on Las Vegas.

Anyway, these are some of my ideas. I’m just wondering how everyone else may feel. --LasVegasGirl93 (talk) 23:35, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * There will certainly be a separate page for Hard Rock Las Vegas, but that's probably a couple years down the road, when there are more details available. For now, the project is adequately covered here. The current Mirage article already covers its history and isn't large enough to justify splitting off into a new article. AJFU  (talk) 16:24, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This sounds like that would be the most logical course of action at this point. LasVegasGirl93 (talk) 15:23, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

New page for Volcano?
Since the Mirage is closed, do we need a separate page on the Volcano attraction or do we just need to keep it a section in the Mirage article? 50,000 people visited it a day and it ran for over 30 years. The Bellagio Fountains have a separate article so that's why I was wondering if the Volcano needed one too. MiamiMogul (talk) 22:47, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

 * I would have no objection to that. In fact I would favor it because like the Bellagio Fountains, the Mirage Volcano has historic significance and has been a notable landmark. LasVegasGirl93 (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree, this attraction is significant in Las Vegas as well as in popular culture. The volcano is a great show and needs its own article especially now that it's gone. MiamiMogul (talk) 14:05, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

 * The difference between the two is that there's far more info about the Bellagio fountains. I don't think the volcano warrants a page of its own, as it's easily covered in this article. The Mirage being closed makes no difference. AJFU  (talk) 14:16, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Not even if that section was moved to a separate article? MiamiMogul (talk) 14:19, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Can you please clarify? Because I don't see how it being closed suddenly changes anything. That section is no bigger now than it was before, and I'm not sure a few paragraphs is enough to justify a separate article. I could understand if there was more noteworthy information out there, but I think the Mirage article currently covers pretty much all there is to say about it. AJFU  (talk) 16:45, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I was just wondering that since it has been receiving more attention lately and some would argue that it is equally as popular as the Bellagio Fountains, that it needs its own article. Being closed has nothing to do with it, just the fact that it has been increasingly popular over the past year. MiamiMogul (talk) 16:50, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

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Ford Pier

Ford Pier (born 1970) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father is a professor of music. In addition to his solo albums, he has been a member of Jr. Gone Wild, Showbusiness Giants, Rheostatics and D.O.A. as well as Roots Roundup. He has appeared as a guest musician on albums by Carolyn Mark, Martin Tielli, Veda Hille, Tom Holliston, John Mann and Neko Case, and written orchestral and chamber arrangements for New Pornographers, Christine Fellows, Cris Derksen, and The Queer Songbook Orchestra.

Personal life
He resides in Vancouver.

Discography
Source:

 * Meconium (1995)
 * 12-Step Plan, 11-Step Pier (1999)
 * Besides (2000)
 * Pier-ic Victory (2004)
 * Organ Farming (2007)
 * Adventurism (2009)
 * Huzzah! (2012)
 * Expensive Tissue (2018)
 * Gormful In Maya (2020)
 * The Twelfth Letter (2021)

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Jeff Foster (basketball)

Jeffrey Douglas Foster (born January 16, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player who spent the entirety of his 13-year career with the Indiana Pacers of the NBA.

Early life and college
Foster was born in San Antonio, Texas and graduated from James Madison High School in San Antonio in 1995. In senior year, he joined the varsity basketball team in high school. He attended Southwest Texas State University and finished college nine credits short of a degree in finance. With the Southwest Texas State Bobcats, Foster averaged 12.8 points and 10.2 rebounds in his junior season and was part of the All-Southland Conference Second-Team in 1998.

NBA career
He was selected 21st overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 1999 NBA draft out of Southwest Texas State University, but his draft rights were immediately traded to the Pacers in exchange for Vonteego Cummings and a future first-round draft pick.

Foster was part of the Pacers' 1999–2000 Eastern Conference championship team, though he played only 19 games that year as he was fourth on the Pacers' depth chart at center behind Rik Smits, Sam Perkins and Zan Tabak. In his second season, he played in 71 games, gaining a spot in the rotation as the Pacers rebuilt for the future. He averaged 3.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game while averaging only 16.2 minutes per contest.

Foster began the 2001–02 season as the starter, and started 48 games that year before Brad Miller was acquired in a trade with the Chicago Bulls. Nevertheless, Foster played in all 82 games for the first time in his career, averaging 5.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game.

Miller remained the Pacers' starting center throughout the 2002–03 season, and as such Foster was relegated back to the bench, and he produced his lowest point total yet of his career (2.1 ppg) and grabbed only 3.6 rebounds per game.

Before the 2003–04 season, Brad Miller was traded to the Sacramento Kings, and newly acquired Scot Pollard began as the starting center. But Foster distinguished himself in the Pacers' season opener against the Detroit Pistons and his play, combined with Pollard's poor play, meant a return to the starting line-up for Foster. The energetic, hard-working center became an important rebounding presence for the Pacers, and his offensive rebounds, in particular, combined with well-timed tip-ins, finally endeared himself to Indiana fans.

Foster sustained a back injury in December 2009 and underwent surgery on February 16, 2010.

Foster announced his retirement on March 21, 2012. He cited chronic back issues as the reason for his departure from the game. At the time of his retirement, Foster ranked 8th all-time in total rebound rate and 4th all-time in offensive rebound rate.

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Suzhou numerals

The Suzhou numerals, also known as Sūzhōu mǎzi (蘇州碼子), is a numeral system used in China before the introduction of Hindu numerals. The Suzhou numerals are also known as huāmǎ (花碼), cǎomǎ (草碼), jīngzǐmǎ (菁仔碼), fānzǐmǎ (番仔碼) and shāngmǎ (商碼).

History
The Suzhou numeral system is the only surviving variation of the rod numeral system. The rod numeral system is a positional numeral system used by the Chinese in mathematics. Suzhou numerals are a variation of the Southern Song rod numerals.

Suzhou numerals were used as shorthand in number-intensive areas of commerce such as accounting and bookkeeping. At the same time, standard Chinese numerals were used in formal writing, akin to spelling out the numbers in English. Suzhou numerals were once popular in Chinese marketplaces, such as those in Hong Kong and Chinese restaurants in Malaysia before the 1990s, but they have gradually been supplanted by Hindu numerals. This is similar to what had happened in Europe with Roman numerals used in ancient and medieval Europe for mathematics and commerce. Nowadays, the Suzhou numeral system is only used for displaying prices in Chinese markets or on traditional handwritten invoices.

Symbols
In the Suzhou numeral system, special symbols are used for digits instead of the Chinese characters. The digits of the Suzhou numerals are defined between U+3021 and U+3029 in Unicode. An additional three code points starting from U+3038 were added later.

The symbols for 5 to 9 are derived from those for 0 to 4 by adding a vertical bar on top, which is similar to adding an upper bead which represents a value of 5 in an abacus. The resemblance makes the Suzhou numerals intuitive to use together with the abacus as the traditional calculation tool.

The numbers one, two, and three are all represented by vertical bars. This can cause confusion when they appear next to each other. Standard Chinese ideographs are often used in this situation to avoid ambiguity. For example, "21" is written as "〢一" instead of "〢〡" which can be confused with "3" (〣). The first character of such sequences is usually represented by the Suzhou numeral, while the second character is represented by the Chinese ideograph.

Notations
The digits are positional. The full numerical notations are written in two lines to indicate numerical value, order of magnitude, and unit of measurement. Following the rod numeral system, the digits of the Suzhou numerals are always written horizontally from left to right, just like how numbers are represented in an abacus, even when used within vertically written documents.

For example: The first line contains the numerical values, in this example, "〤〇〢二" stands for "4022". The second line consists of Chinese characters that represents the order of magnitude and unit of measurement of the first digit in the numerical representation. In this case "十元" which stands for "ten yuan". When put together, it is then read as "40.22 yuan".

Possible characters denoting order of magnitude include:
 * wàn for myriads (As a variant of the traditional character, it is used for speed of writing in Suzhou numerals even before simplification of Chinese characters.)
 * qiān for thousands
 * bǎi for hundreds
 * shí for tens
 * blank for ones

Other possible characters denoting unit of measurement include:
 * yuán for dollar
 * máo ( or  ) for 10 cents
 * lǐ for the Chinese mile
 * any other Chinese measurement unit

Notice that the decimal point is implicit when the first digit is set at the ten position. Zero is represented by the character for zero (〇). Leading and trailing zeros are unnecessary in this system.

This is very similar to the modern scientific notation for floating point numbers where the significant digits are represented in the mantissa and the order of magnitude is specified in the exponent. Also, the unit of measurement, with the first digit indicator, is usually aligned to the middle of the "numbers" row.

Hangzhou misnomer
In the Unicode standard version 3.0, these characters are incorrectly named Hangzhou style numerals. In the Unicode standard 4.0, an erratum was added which stated:

All references to "Hangzhou" in the Unicode standard have been corrected to "Suzhou" except for the character names themselves, which cannot be changed once assigned, in accordance with the Unicode Stability Policy. (This policy allows software to use the names as unique identifiers.)

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Piscine

Piscine: pertaining to fish.

 * It is also a French noun meaning "swimming pool"; see La Piscine (disambiguation).
 * The Latin word piscina (or sacrarium) denotes a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church.
 * Localities
 * Piscina (TO), municipality in the Italian province of Turin
 * Piscinas, municipality in Sardinia

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Canton of Wiltz

Wiltz (Wolz) is a canton in northwestern Luxembourg. It covers an area of 264.55 km2, and it has a population of 19,209. It borders Belgium.

Administrative divisions
Wiltz Canton consists of the following seven communes:

 * Boulaide
 * Esch-sur-Sûre
 * Goesdorf
 * Kiischpelt
 * Lac de la Haute-Sûre
 * Wiltz
 * Winseler

Mergers

 * On 1 January 1979 the former communes of Harlange and Mecher (both from Wiltz Canton) were merged to create the commune of Lac de la Haute-Sûre. The law creating Lac de la Haute-Sûre was passed on 23 December 1978.
 * On 1 January 2006 the former communes of Kautenbach and Wilwerwiltz (both from Wiltz Canton) were merged to create the commune of Kiischpelt. The law creating Kiischpelt was passed on 14 July 2005.
 * On 1 January 2012 the former communes of Heiderscheid and Neunhausen (both from Wiltz Canton) were absorbed into the commune of Esch-sur-Sûre. The law expanding Esch-sur-Sûre was passed on 31 May 2011.
 * On 1 January 2015 the former commune of Eschweiler (from Wiltz Canton) was absorbed into the commune of Wiltz. The law expanding Wiltz was passed on 19 December 2014.

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Feist (singer)

Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.

Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch. Her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die, released in 2004, and The Reminder, released in 2007, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year awards. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process.

Feist has released six studio albums as of 2023. Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Metals, and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now. Additionally, she was nominated for four Grammy Awards including the Best Pop Vocal Album for The Reminder and Best New Artist.

Early life
Leslie Feist was born on February 13, 1976, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Her father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville.

Feist is also the niece of guitarist Dan Achen, who played in the 1990s rock band Junkhouse and had also produced for numerous artists (Achen died in 2010 due to a heart attack).

Feist's parents divorced soon after she was born and Ben, Feist and their mother moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they lived with her grandparents. They later moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she attended Bishop Carroll High School as well as Alternative High School. She aspired to be a writer, and spent much of her youth singing in choirs. At the age of 12, Feist performed as one of 1,000 dancers in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration for the video "1234."

As her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, joking later that she was given U.S. citizenship as part of a deal with Apple.

Music career
In 1991, at age 15, Feist got her start in music when she founded and was the lead vocalist for a Calgary punk band called Placebo (not to be confused with the English band Placebo). She and her bandmates won a local Battle of the Bands competition and were awarded the opening slot at the festival Infest 1993, featuring the Ramones. At this concert she met Brendan Canning, whose band hHead performed immediately before hers, and with whom she joined in Broken Social Scene ten years later.

In 1995, Feist was forced to take time off from music to recover from vocal cord damage. She moved from Calgary to Toronto in 1996. That year she was asked by Noah Mintz of hHead to play bass in his solo project Noah's Arkweld. She played the bass guitar in Noah's Arkweld for a year despite never having played bass before. In 1998, she became the rhythm guitarist for the band By Divine Right and toured with them throughout 1998, 1999, and 2000. She also played guitar for some live performances by Bodega, but was never an official member of the band.

In 1999, Feist moved into a Queen West apartment above Come As You Are with a friend of a friend, Merrill Nisker, who then began to perform as electro-punk musician Peaches. Feist worked the back of the stage at Peaches' shows, using a sock puppet and calling herself "Bitch Lap Lap". The two also toured together in England from 2000 to 2001, staying with Justine Frischmann of Elastica and MIA. Feist appeared as a guest vocalist on The Teaches of Peaches. Feist appears in Peaches' video for the song "Lovertits", suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Later, Feist covered this song with Gonzales (whom she met while touring with Peaches) on her album Open Season. In 2006, Feist contributed backup vocals on a track entitled "Give 'Er", which appeared on Peaches' album Impeach My Bush.

Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999–2001)
Feist's solo debut album, Monarch, was released in 1999. It is composed of ten songs, including "Monarch" and "That's What I Say, It's Not What I Mean". The album was produced by Dan Kurtz, who would later form Dragonette.

Let It Die (2001–2006)
In the summer of 2001, Feist self-produced seven songs at home which she called The Red Demos, which have never been released commercially. She spent more than two years touring throughout Europe with Gonzales. In that same year she joined a group of old friends in forming a new version of Toronto indie rock group Broken Social Scene, adding vocals to many tracks after being forbidden to play guitar by de facto bandleader Kevin Drew. She subsequently recorded You Forgot It in People with the band. While on tour in Europe with Gonzales, they began recording new versions of her home-recorded Red Demos, which would later become her major label debut Let It Die. Let It Die featured both original compositions and covers, and Feist has been noted both as a songwriter and as an innovative interpreter of other artists' songs.

After the recording of Let It Die, Feist moved to Paris. While in Europe, she collaborated with Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience as co-writer and guest vocalist on their album Riot on an Empty Street, singing on "Know How" and "The Build Up". She also co-wrote and sang "The Simple Story" as a duet with Jane Birkin on her album Rendezvous. Feist toured during 2004, 2005 and 2006 through North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia supporting Let It Die. She won two Canadian Juno Awards for "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Rock Album" in 2004. Sales of Let It Die totaled 500,000 internationally, and she was awarded a platinum record in Canada, as well as a gold album in France. Fellow Canadian Buck 65 appeared in the Feist-directed music video for "One Evening", which was also nominated for Video of the Year at the 2004 Juno Awards.

In 2005, Feist contributed to the UNICEF benefit song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" The track "Mushaboom" was used in an advert for a Lacoste men's fragrance, as well as in the film 500 Days of Summer. An album of remixes and collaborations, Open Season, was released on April 18, 2006. She lent her voice to the two tracks "La Même Histoire" and "We're All in the Dance" for the soundtrack to the 2006 film Paris, je t'aime

The Reminder (2006–2007)
In early 2006, Feist moved to Paris, where she recorded a followup to Let It Die at LaFrette Studios with Gonzales, Mocky, Jamie Lidell, and Renaud Letang, as well as her touring band Bryden Baird, Jesse Baird, Julian Brown of Apostle of Hustle, and Afie Jurvanen of Paso Mino.

Feist's third solo album, The Reminder, was released on April 23, 2007, in Europe, and on May 1, 2007, in Canada, the USA, and the rest of the world. She toured worldwide to promote the album. The album features "1234", a song co-written by New Buffalo's Sally Seltmann, that became a surprise hit after being featured in a commercial for the iPod nano, hitting No. 8 in the US, a rare feat for indie rock musicians and even more notable since it hit the Top Ten on the strength of downloads alone. She has been lauded in the press and was featured on the cover of the New York Times arts section in June 2007. The Reminder had sold worldwide over 1,000,000 copies and is certified gold in the U.S. The album also won a 2008 Juno Award for "Album of the Year" on April 6, 2008, in Calgary, Alberta.

Videos for many of the singles were directed by Patrick Daughters, who previously directed the video for "Mushaboom" and went on to direct "1234," "My Moon, My Man", and "I Feel It All". "1234" and "My Moon, My Man" were choreographed by the acclaimed choreographer & dancer Noemie Lafrance. The video for Honey, Honey features the work of avant-garde puppet troupe, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop.

"I Feel It All" was featured in the UK teen comedy The Inbetweeners and was used in the film The Accidental Husband. "Honey Honey" was featured in The L Word (episode 5.06, "Lights! Camera! Action!"). "I Feel It All" was featured in the 2008 film The Women. Popular German DJ Boys Noize remixed "My Moon, My Man", which appears on his 2007 debut album Oi Oi Oi. The DJ has also been known to close sets with the remix. In January 2009, Bon Iver played a cover of Feist's "The Park" from The Reminder on Australian radio's Triple J. The song "Limit to Your Love" was featured in season 2, episode 1 of British teen drama Skins, and was used in the film The Accidental Husband. A cover version of the song was released by UK singer-producer James Blake as a single from his 2011 self-titled album.

Prior to the airing of an Apple iPod nano commercial featuring this song, The Reminder was selling at approximately 6,000 copies per week, and "1234" at 2,000 downloads per week. Following the commercial, the song passed 73,000 total downloads and reached No. 7 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100; The Reminder jumped from No. 36 to No. 28 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 19,000.

Following the television advertisement for the iPod nano in the UK, the single beat its original chart position of 102 to become number 8 in the UK charts. Time magazine named "1234" one of The 10 Best Songs of 2007, ranking it at No. 2. Writer Josh Tyrangiel called the song a "masterpiece", praising Feist for singing it "with a mixture of wisdom and exuberance that's all her own". On April 6, 2008, Feist won a Juno Award for the single as "Single of the Year".

Feist performed an alternate version of "1234" on Sesame Street during its 39th season (2008), teaching children to count to the number four. She said working with the Muppets was a career highlight.

In 2009, Feist appeared in a short film directed by Broken Social Scene bandmate Kevin Drew that focused on her song "The Water". Feist appears alongside Cillian Murphy and David Fox in the silent role of "Mother". This film was streamed from Pitchfork.com for a week starting on March 2, 2009. In an interview with the site, Feist described the experience of being in this movie as "watching a movie while being in a movie."

Metals (2007–2013)
In 2007, Feist was placed No. 9 on Spinner.com's 2007 Women Who Rock Right Now. and named both Spin's and Blender's Breakout Artist of the Year. After taking Bob Wiseman on the road as her opening act in Europe she acted in his video Who Am I and joined him on drums for You Don't Love Me.

Feist was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair as part of a photo essay on folk music. On November 3 that year, she performed "1234" and "I Feel It All" on Saturday Night Live. Feist was on the cover of the Spring 2008 edition of Naked Eye. On April 28, Feist was interviewed by Stephen Colbert. At the end of the show she performed "I Feel It All", while Colbert donned Feist's blue, sequined, strapless jumpsuit from the "1234" video. Feist joined Colbert again on his first-ever Christmas special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, which first aired on November 23, 2008. She played an angel working for Heaven's overloaded phone (prayer) service. She also accompanied the Disko Bay Expedition of Cape Farewell. On October 20, 2008, she told The Canadian Press that, following the success of her last album, The Reminder, she felt she needed to step away from the pressures of the music industry to consider her next career move and "rest for a minute".

In March 2009, it was announced that she would make a guest appearance on the track "You and I" on Wilco's seventh album.

In 2009, Feist was featured in the CTV television film "My Musical Brain" with neuroscientist and writer Daniel Levitin, based on Levitin's bestselling book This Is Your Brain on Music.

Feist collaborated with Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear on the song "Service Bell" for the AIDS charity the Red Hot Organization. This song appears on Red Hot's album Dark Was the Night, and she joined the band in June 2009 during their Toronto show to sing this song and contribute backing vocals to the song "Two Weeks". She also collaborated with Ben Gibbard on a cover of Vashti Bunyan's "Train Song" for the same Dark Was the Night album.

In June 2009, she re-joined Broken Social Scene at a North by Northeast performance celebrating the launch of the band's biography entitled This Book Is Broken, in which she is prominently featured. This contradicted various rumors saying that it was unlikely Feist would ever play with the band again; this was the first of several appearances with BSS. She performed with Broken Social Scene during their concert of July 11, 2009, at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, singing and playing guitar through most of the concert, as well as performing a medley of her solo songs with Kevin Drew and his solo songs. The concert was filmed by director Bruce Macdonald and released as This Movie Is Broken. She sings on Broken Social Scene's fourth studio album Forgiveness Rock Record. She performed with the band again in June 2010 on Olympic Island, and at the Sound Academy in Toronto on December 9 and 10, 2010.

Feist joined Beck, Wilco, Jamie Lidell and James Gadson in a Los Angeles studio covering Skip Spence's Oar as part of Beck's Record Club series, with videos appearing on Beck's website beginning November 2009.

She also contributed vocals on Constant Companion the second album from Canadian songwriter Doug Paisley. Feist sings on the tracks "What I Saw" and the duet "Don't Make Me Wait". The album was released October 12, 2010.

Her song "Limit to Your Love" was covered by British post-dubstep artist James Blake and later remixed as a dubstep track by Benny Benassi and played to high acclaim at the 2011 Ultra Music Festival. I

On July 7, 2011, Feist with Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, Air's Nicolas Godin, The Hotrats and Soap&Skin performed The Velvet Underground and Nico's "Femme Fatale" at an all-star gig "The Velvet Underground Revisited" which took place in Cité de la Musique, Paris.

In 2011 Leslie Feist contributed two songs to Sarah Polley's film Take This Waltz: "Secret Heart" by Ron Sexsmith, and "Closing Time" by Leonard Cohen. Feist hada cameo in the 2011 movie The Muppets.

Her album Metals was released on September 30, 2011. Collaborators include Valgeir Sigurðsson, Chilly Gonzales, and Mocky. The album received widespread acclaim from music critics and appeared on the !earshot Campus and Community National Top 50 Albums chart in January 2012. Feist recorded Metals in a custom-built studio on a cliff in Big Sur, California.

In 2012, Feist covered a song by the progressive metal band Mastodon, and they in turn covered one of hers, with both songs released on a split 7-inch on Record Store Day. They also released a crossfading interactive video for the track "A Commotion".

In 2012, she wrote the song "Fire in the Water" exclusively for the film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Her song "The Water" was covered on American jazz violinist Zach Brock's 2012 album Almost Never Was. In January 2013, it was announced Feist would headline, along with labelmate Broken Social Scene, the Arts & Crafts Field Trip Music Festival to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Arts & Crafts.

Look at What the Light Did Now and Pleasure (2013–2021)
In September 2010, Feist announced through her website the release of a documentary film about the creative process of making of The Reminder, called Look at What the Light Did Now. It was directed by Canadian film director Anthony Seck and was shot on Super 8 mm film. The film was released on DVD in December 2010, and a limited series of screenings were conducted including a Toronto screening at the Royal Ontario Museum, which featured a post-film interview of Feist by George Stroumboulopoulos. The film focuses on the recording of The Reminder as well as the development of the tour through puppetry and projection. The film includes interviews with band member Afie Jurvanen; producer Chilly Gonzales; Broken Social Scene bandmates Kevin Drew and Andrew Whiteman; and video director Patrick Daughters.

Bonus materials on the DVD include "This One Jam", an early performance of Feist with Gonzales at Trash Club; live performances from the Reminder tour; and two short films: "The Water" starring Feist and "Departures" starring Kevin Drew and based on an idea by Feist. A CD is also included that contains the documentary soundtrack (tracks from The Reminder re-interpreted and performed by Gonzales), live performances by Feist, as well as two versions of the title track, "Look at What the Light Did Now", one of which was recorded as a duet with the song's writer, American musician Kyle Field.

In April 2017, Feist released Pleasure, preceding it with the release of the title track "Pleasure" as a single in March 2017. On April 27, 2017, she introduced the album (a day ahead of its release) at Trinity St. Paul, Toronto. She performed the entire content of the album (in reverse order) as well as some of her earlier work including, "I Feel It All".

At the Juno Awards of 2021, Feist performed with the surviving members of The Tragically Hip on their 2002 single "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken", which marked the band's first televised performance since Gord Downie's death. In a promotional interview on CBC Radio's Q before the ceremony, the band stated that they agreed to perform specifically because Feist had been proposed as the vocalist, with Langlois stating that "OK, so that's not going to be some guy trying to sing like Gord or some guy trying not to sing like Gord. It was a 'no' until Feist came up."

Multitudes (2021–present)
In June 2021, Feist announced that her live Multitudes residency would begin in Europe in summer 2021. It included performances in Hamburg, Ottawa and Toronto, and featured new songs without the release of a new album. Initially intended to accompany the release of Pleasure, the style of Multitudes as a traditional, intimate and communal experience for smaller audiences was a concept that Feist and designer Rob Sinclair co-designed.

On September 1, 2022, Feist announced that she would withdraw from opening for Arcade Fire on their tour after their frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct.

On February 14, 2023, Feist released three new songs, "Hiding Out In The Open", "In Lightning" and "Love Who We Are Meant To", from her sixth studio album, Multitudes, announcing its scheduled release on April 14, 2023. In the same year, she appeared on Hayden's album Are We Good, as a duet vocalist on the single "On a Beach". Feist also announced a North American and European tour to promote Multitudes.

Personal life
Feist has one adopted daughter, who was born at the end of 2019.

Discography

 * Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999)
 * Let It Die (2004)

 * The Reminder (2007)
 * Metals (2011)
 * Pleasure (2017)
 * Multitudes (2023)

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Canton of Grevenmacher

Grevenmacher (Gréiwemaacher) is a canton in the east of Luxembourg. The canton's name derives from Grevenmacher, a commune with town status. Neither the canton, town, or commune of Grevenmacher should be confused with the former district of Grevenmacher, one of three administrative units in Luxembourg abolished in October 2015. It borders Germany.

Administrative divisions
Grevenmacher Canton consists of the following eight communes:

 * Betzdorf
 * Biwer
 * Flaxweiler
 * Grevenmacher
 * Junglinster
 * Manternach
 * Mertert
 * Wormeldange

Mergers

 * On 1 January 1979 the former commune of Rodenbourg (from Grevenmacher Canton) was absorbed into the commune of Junglinster. The law expanding Junglinster was passed on 23 December 1978.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lang Ping

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Lang Ping
Hardly seems notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:45, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Um. Keep Gold-medal winning Olympic athletes, and head coaches of national teams. Kappa 10:06, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Infinitely more notable than a lot of things that get kept on here. Thousands of google hits in both English and Chinese. Xezbeth  10:35, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. notable as both volleyball player and coach for China and now the US. Capitalistroadster 11:41, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. A notable person. Even non-fictional!. --Bucephalus 14:47, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, keep. Grounds stated by Kappa, Xezbath, Capitalistroadster and Bucephalus. Note that I originally wrote this and was the only one to have edited it up to this VfD. JuntungWu 03:50, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User:Neuringer

Hi, I am Neuringer. I am a new user. I have a broad interest so I hope to be able to help at several places.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devonport High School for boys

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Devonport High School for boys
This was tagged as a speedy with no reason given, perhaps because it was a substub, a secondary school, and/or had an external link. I've expanded it a bit, and brought it here to give it a chance. Kappa 09:56, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. School.--Centauri 10:38, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, there's nothing in the article that establishes its notability. Radiant! 11:40, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. No reason to delete - David Gerard 12:37, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It seems to be a decent enough stub. - SimonP 15:32, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per the "Secondary schools are not notable in and of themselves" train of thought. HyperZonktalk 17:07, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This and all school articles.Wincoote 17:32, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this and all other educational institutions of all grade levels as they are inherently noteworthy.  GRider\talk 18:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep. This secondary school seems to be involved in some special advanced programs, and has a long history.  BEEFSTEW score of only 4 (A, B, D, H).  Could really use some notable alumni and a picture. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 23:13, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Carrp | Talk 23:15, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, while I would agree that universities and other tertiary institutions should be included in Wikipedia, this is essentially a secondary school. Just under the bar of notability. Megan1967 23:34, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. I usually vote to delete high school articles, but this one seems somewhat notable. It's one of the first four Specialist Engineering Colleges in the U.K. just above the bar of notability. DaveTheRed 23:49, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * What 'bar'?!Dan100 18:01, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * EXTREME BEEFY KEEP. —RaD Man (talk) 02:27, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Are people still voting to delete school articles? Keep.--Gene_poole 04:23, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. No reason to delete it too. Not under deletion policy. --Andylkl 13:32, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, which is a good reason to delete. Jayjg (talk) 17:32, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. At least it tries to establish notability, but it doesn't really succeed. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 22:20, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Perfectly fine stub. --Zero 12:55, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not quite notable. Jonathunder 21:52, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
 * Keep. I still maintain that high schools are not inherently notable, but this article establishes notability.   — Gwalla | Talk 03:10, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) PS: removing vote tally template as this discussion isn't nearly long enough to warrant it.
 * keep The Recycling Troll 09:38, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Yuckfoo 20:25, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Are people still voting to keep school articles? Gamaliel 05:28, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Notice to reviewing administrator: There was an attempt to vote stack on this article. See GRider's contributions.  Votes beyond this point need to be reviewed carefully and considered carefully. -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Users must consider all policies and former consensus before commenting for consensus: Please note, Deletion policy, is not the only policy to consider.
 * Votes for deletion/Precedents
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * What's in, what's out

Considerations should also be made to the following as well:
 * Google test
 * Importance

Users should remember that the Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep but expand.--BaronLarf 19:23, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, high schools and beyond are inherently encyclopedic (and I shan't get started on all the video game nano-cruft that lurks around here). Wyss 21:07, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as stated by many before, and I'm sure will be stated by many to come, secondary schools are notable. In addition, I don't see why school articles shouldn't develop into more  time, as current and past pupils will have the motivation and knowledge to do so. Drw25 21:33, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly notable.  --L33tminion | (talk) 22:42, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting school stub, wikipedia is not paper. --ShaunMacPherson 01:44, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Definitely notable. -CunningLinguist 02:54, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Returns appox. 1,000 results on Google. Notable enough, keep. - Mailer Diablo 12:20, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. JuntungWu 12:53, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. high schools are notable RustyCale 13:30, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think schools are inherently notable. Further, "notability" is not listed in Deletion policy (even though I wish it were, and have tried to include it), so isn't grounds for deletion anyway. Dan100 17:51, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. School. LukeSurl 23:38, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 *  KEEP  all REAL places -RickK^h^h^h^h^h. Schools are inherantly notable and this belongs on Wiki.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 03:49, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: In regards to claims of vote-stacking, their are large amounts of people who beleive well-written articles for schools are inherently notable. Merely bringing an article to someones attention is no more votestacking than providing a link for someone is. If you'll notice, GRider's contributions were far and wide and not concentrated on any bloc or mailing list group. Speaking for myself, I evaluated the article and voted to keep it out of sincere belief that it deserved to be kept and not out of any votestacking motivation. I have faith that the majority of the other voters did as well. Thank you for your time. -CunningLinguist 03:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable --Carnildo 05:01, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a real place, Mark Richards 21:01, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. DHSB is one of the most famous schools in Plymouth. it would be stupid to get rid of it. Tim Morris 15:42, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, schools are notable (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 22:18, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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John Edwards (basketball)

John Edwards (born July 31, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player. He played the center position.

Edwards played collegiately for Kent State University. While at Kent State, Edwards was part of two of the Golden Flashes trips to the NCAA tournament which included their appearance in the 2002 Elite Eight. He was named Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team all-conference pick in his final season and holds the Kent State record for season and career blocked shots.

He was invited to the Indiana Pacers training camp in 2004. Mainly due to his size, and some unexpected injuries to the Pacers big men early in the season, he was the only free agent training camp invitee to earn a spot on the main roster. Even so, he was expected to be released as soon as the Pacers got healthy, but the rash of suspensions resulting from the November 19, 2004 brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills enabled him to remain on the team. As a result of this and other injuries to the bench, the Pacers were only able to dress six players and Edwards constituted the team's entire bench.

During the summer of 2005, Edwards signed with the Atlanta Hawks, and, during the 2005–06 NBA season, he averaged 8.6 minutes per game.

On August 22, 2006, Edwards was traded back to the Pacers, along with Al Harrington, in exchange for a 2007 first-round draft pick. He was waived in preseason, and split time with two NBDL teams in 2006–07. Edwards signed with the Albuquerque Thunderbirds in December 2006 then with the Tulsa 66ers the following month. The following season, also during preseason, Edwards was waived by the Minnesota Timberwolves, signing in November 2007 with Cherkassy.

Edwards returned to the D-League when he signed with the Iowa Energy in March 2009. The Energy traded Edwards to the Bakersfield Jam in January 2010.

He played in the 2010–2011 season with the Greek League team Colossus Rhodes. He then played in Puerto Rico, before moving to Poland to play for Turów Zgorzelec. In 2012, he signed with BC Tsmoki-Minsk in Belarus. He retired from basketball in 2013 and is pursuing a career in Information Technology.

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Small dusty wave

The small dusty wave (Idaea seriata) is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1802. It is found throughout Western, Central and Northern Europe. In the north, its range extends as far as Denmark and southern Scandinavia. In the east its range extends as far as Russia (Moscow or Veliky Novgorod). Idaea seriata is replaced by the subspecies Idaea seriata canteneraria, from the north-east of Spain and the central and eastern Mediterranean (including the islands, except Crete) to the Crimean peninsula, while the western Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands are inhabited by the sister species Idaea minuscularia. Outside Europe it is found in eastern Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Cyprus, the Caucasus and the northwest of Transcaucasia. In Morocco and western Algeria, it is replaced by the sister species Idaea minuscularia. In the British Isles it is common in England and Wales but is only found in the eastern half of Scotland and it is rare in Ireland.

The species is very small (wingspan 19–21 mm) and is probably one of the least striking members of the whole family, being basically grey with all markings indistinct apart from the black discal spot typical of the genus. Either one or two broods are produced each year and the species can be seen on the wing any time from June to September, flying at night and sometimes coming to light.

The larva feeds on ivy and the species overwinters in this form.

 * 1) The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.

Subspecies

 * I. s. canteneraria
 * I. s. seriata

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Apropos of : >99% of people born in a location are native speakers of the local language; normally we don't state this because self-evident. Why do we have to make it explicit in this case? -- Viajero 10:00, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Because in this case it is not clear what the "local language" is. There is a Hungarian speaking minority in Slovakia; the fact that Gruberova's mother is a member of that minority suggests that Gruberova's mother tongue is Hungarian. Aleph4 11:08, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Exactly. Juro 22:23, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Ref Kesting
Strange! The reference Kesting does not work. I've added the wayback archives for all references. Grimes2 (talk) 13:38, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Cause of death
Brug (Die Welt): "angeblich ein dummer Unfall im häuslichen Bereich" (allegedly a stupid accident at home). Sad. Grimes2 (talk) 14:33, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

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Ramot, East Jerusalem

Ramot (רָמוֹת, lit. Heights), also known as Ramot Alon (רמות אלון), is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Ramot was founded in 1974 as one of Jerusalem's so-called "Ring settlements", considered illegal under international law. In 2020, Ramot had a population of 50,400 of which 75% consists of Haredi Jews.

History

Ramot is named after the biblical city of Rama(h), where the Prophet Samuel lived and was brought for burial: ''Now Samuel had died, and all Israel lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, and (each one lamented him) in his own city. '' . One tradition associates biblical Rama with one of the highest peaks of the Judean Hills, reaching 885 meters above sea level. The Tomb of Samuel is located 1.3 kilometers north of Ramot, on the lands of the Arab village Nabi Samwil, which has been moved further down the hill but whose mosque is still active in the structure above the tomb.

Between the 1949 Armistice Agreements and the Six-Day War in 1967, most of the area that is today Ramot was under Jordanian control. Ramot was established in 1974. After the death of Yigal Allon, Israeli military and political figure, the neighborhood was officially renamed Ramot Alon, "Alon Heights".

Geography
Ramot is north and west of the center of Jerusalem. The neighborhood is built upon two elongated ridges about 100–200 meters above the surrounding landscape (heights of 693–850 meters above sea level). Between the ridges is the Golda Meir highway, leading to Tel Aviv. Travel time to the center of Jerusalem is about 15 minutes, and to Har Hotzvim industrial park about 7 minutes. The Jerusalem light rail system will be expanded to include Ramot.

Demography
In 2020, Ramot had a population of 50,400. Ramot Alon exemplifies the demographic change in Jerusalem. When it was established in 1974, the population was 70% secular. Since 2000, Ramot Alef, Gimel and Daled have become partially Haredi (also spelled Chareidi), and the percentage of Orthodox Jews in all of Ramot Alon has risen to 75%.

One side of Ramot Gimel is mostly Haredi, and the other side is more Modern Orthodox. Ramot Vav also contains a Haredi population. In all of Ramot there is a mix of other types of residents including Dati Leumi, Modern Orthodox, and Chardal. There are a few Chabad synagogues as well.

Legal status
Ramot was built on land expropriated from Palestinian landowners in 1970. According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two nearby Palestinian villages:

 * 1,530 dunams from Beit Iksa,
 * 134 dunams from Beit Hanina.

Ramot is administered by Israel as part of the Jerusalem municipality. However, since part of the neighborhood has been built across the Green Line in East Jerusalem, the international community considers Ramot to be an Israeli settlement. Israel unilaterally annexed East Jerusalem and maintains that developments in East Jerusalem are not settlements, but the move was condemned by the UN Security Council as "null and void" and was not recognized by the international community. The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal under international law, violating the Fourth Geneva Convention's prohibition on the transfer of a civilian population into territory held under military occupation, but Israel considers East Jerusalem its sovereign territory. The U.S. government, as the rest of the international community, refers to Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem as "settlements" and Israeli Jews living in East Jerusalem, including in Ramot, as "settlers".

The United States Department of State, European Union and the Palestinians described the plans to build 800 new homes in West Bank settlements and 600 in East Jerusalem, including 294 in Ramot, as harmful to the peace process. Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, Jen Psaki, said "We consider now and have always considered the settlements to be illegitimate". Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said "the settlements are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make the two-state solution impossible". Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the PLO, said the announcement "shows Israel's clear commitment to the destruction of peace efforts" and that international community should "sever all ties with the Israeli occupation ... [to] ... protect and help to realize the two-state solution".

In the context of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, the Clinton Parameters and Geneva accords proposed keeping Ramot (and other Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem beyond the green line) under Israeli sovereignty, possibly in exchange for other land.

Architecture

Buildings clustered around courtyards was a predominant architectural style in Ramot in the 1980s. Large, well-kept private homes were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s under the Build Your Own Home project, reflecting the rising standards of living in Israel and a change in consumer habits. Ramot Polin Apartments, designed by Zvi Hecker, have been named as one of the "World's Strangest Buildings" and has been described as a "housing project for honeybees". The entire neighborhood is organized upon a hill in central Ramot in a shape resembling a five-fingered hand or three-branched leaf.

Education

 * Lakewood East, officially Beth Medrash Govoha of America in Eretz Yisroel is located in Ramot.
 * Ateret Yerushalayim, An English speaking post-high school Yeshiva.
 * Ohr Torah Stone - Jacob Sapirstein Junior High and High School for Boys.
 * Yeshiva Ohr HaTzafon, An English speaking post-high school Yeshiva.
 * Ahavat Yisrael - Rappaport for boys, a Chardal primary and Jr. High School.
 * Noam Ramot (boys and girls), a primary School.

Parks and nature trails

 * Ramot Forest is located in Ramot. At the edge of the forest is the Gan Kipod children's park featuring a porcupine-shaped slide.
 * Ramot Forest Gazelle Trail, a natural Gazelle habitat is located there as well.
 * Ramot has a community swimming pool, called Ramot Community Pool.
 * Arazim Valley Park, a section of Jerusalem Metropolitan Park, has an entrance in Ramot.

Landmarks
In November 2009, 30-foot high bronze sculpture depicting a waving American flag turning into a flame was unveiled in Ramot, part of a five-acre memorial plaza for the September 11 terrorist attacks. The sculpture, located in Arazim Valley, was the first memorial outside New York to list the names of the 2,974 people killed in the attack. Part of the gray granite base, taken from the original Twin Towers, was donated by the New York municipality. Israeli sculptor Eliezer Weishoff said the memorial had to be moved 200 yards from the planned site to accommodate gazelle migration pathways. U.S. Ambassador James B. Cunningham and a number of congressmen attended the event.

Ramot Mall, which is Jerusalem's 2nd largest mall, opened in September 2011.

The Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil is located close to Ramot.

First Temple period
A man walking his dog fell into a pit while running in the Ramot Forest. This led to the discovery of a grape-pressing area from the First Temple period.

Second Temple period
Khirbet Tililiya is the site of an ancient ruined fortress on a high hill in the center of Ramot Alon. The ruins are dated to the Second Temple period (namely the Hasmonean and Herodian eras).

In May 2005, a salvage excavation conducted in the Ramot neighborhood on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) found a rock-hewn burial cave surmounted by a massive rectangular building and a columbarium cave. Potsherds dating to the Ottoman period were discovered on the floor of the building. Fragments of jars and cooking pots dating to the Early Roman period were discovered in the columbarium, which is characteristic of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods.

Crusader period
There are Crusader-period remains in Ramot 2 and Ramot 6.

Neighborhoods
Ramot has seven neighborhoods; Aleph (A), Bet (B), Gimmel (G), Daled (D), and Vav (V) (also known as Ramot 06) and Ramot Polin.

There is a "County" area of Ramot being built with 294 apartments.

In November 2015 plans for the Ramot Slopes neighborhood was approved. A total of 1,638 housing units will be built, of which 203 will be designated for assisted living, and about 400 of which will be small apartments.

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CafePress

CafePress, Inc. is an American online retailer of stock and user-customized on-demand products. The company was founded in San Mateo, California, but is now headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, where its production facility is also located. In 2001, CafePress.com won the People's Voice Webby Award in the Commerce category.

Business model

CafePress.com sells T-shirts, bags, mugs, wall clocks, calendars, and a myriad of other products. Customers can upload their own graphics design, logo, or text, which will be added to the product by the company. CafePress.com also offers print-on-demand services for wall art and stationery. The site also allows users to have a virtual CafePress "shop", including an online storefront and website hosting, order management, fulfillment, payment processing, and customer service.

History
CafePress, Inc. was founded as a privately owned company in 1999 by Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain.

In July 2008, CafePress acquired the specialist photographic art printing business Imagekind, and in September 2010 further acquired photo-to-canvas company Canvas On Demand to add to their platform of brands.

In June 2011, CafePress filed with the SEC to raise up to $80 million in an initial public offering.

On March 29, 2012, CafePress debuted at $19/share on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PRSS. The stock hit an intraday high of $22.69/share.

On April 30, 2012, CafePress announced that it would move its corporate headquarters from San Mateo, California, to its production facilities in Louisville, Kentucky, at a cost of $16.5 million. Louisville and the state of Kentucky had offered incentives as high as $10 million for the move, up to $1 million per year for ten years.

On September 28, 2018, Snapfish agreed to acquire CafePress for approximately $25 million, purchasing all outstanding CafePress stock for $1.48 per share in cash. The buyout was completed in November of that year. Company founder Fred Durham left the company when the buyout was complete.

In February 2019, CafePress suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 23 million unique email addresses, with some records also containing names, physical addresses, phone numbers, and security question/answer pairs. Over 180,000 records contained social security numbers. A 2022 FTC complaint alleged that CafePress was negligent in its security practices and failed to promptly notify customers after it became aware of this breach, and instead waited until security researchers disclosed it publicly. CafePress was ordered to pay US$500,000 after the 2019 data breach. The Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement and along with payment to those affected, must report its security measures to a third party.

On September 1, 2020, PlanetArt acquired CafePress from Shutterfly's business unit, Snapfish, a San Francisco-based company. Part of this transaction included Cafepress changing its name to Residual Pumpkin Entity but still operates CafePress branded websites as such.

Brands
CafePress, Inc. has its flagship brand, CafePress.com. CafePress, Inc. also partners with other businesses to provide licensed content on their site, and power online custom shops for large companies, such as ABC, Urban Outfitters and Peanuts Worldwide.

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Robert Ochsenfeld

Robert Ochsenfeld (18 May 1901 – 5 December 1993) was a German physicist. In 1933 he discovered together with Walther Meissner the Meisner-Ochsenfeld effect.

Born in Helberhausen, Germany, Ochsenfeld studied physics at the Philipps University of Marburg. The subject of his PhD was the study of ferromagnetism. In 1932-1933 he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin in the low temperature group headed by Meissner. Leaving the PTR, he taught at the National Political Institutes of Education in Potsdam until 1940, followed by research for new weapons in World War II.

After the war, he worked until retirement in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the successor of the PTR with focus on magnetic materials.

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User talk:Ampersand a la Carte-le-Fort

Trolling
Stop trolling (attempting to resurrect Cabbage hit), or you'll be banned. And then perhaps you'll create a new username and troll some more. Try doing something more interesting with your life. -- Hoary 10:07, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)

Hey
You wrote: '''I am quite insulted that you post racist comments about black people. Please stop it or I will block you, and please get a grip.'''

I am very offended that you even suggest that I would. You quite clearly have the wrong person. What exactly are you referring to? Grutness|hello? 10:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked for vandalism. Lupo 10:37, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Emes

thanks
Martin, I really look forward to seeing the stamp. I'm very happy you do not feel like to leave en.wikipedia, and I mean this very sincerely. Anyway, from all this I'm just more interested to learn more about Ladin and see how it relates with Nones, Romansch, etc. Apologies from me if we've had disagreements. I hope you could see some of points of view though on things. talk to you later, Taalo 16:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The point is, that the minor languages and dialects in Italy (except not italic languages) don't have the importance seen from outside, many people don't speak them anymore. And in Val di Non are many who declared to be Ladin for political reasons. And if it's not a version of Trentin dialect than it is a dialect of Ladin (with officially has 4 dialects: Gardeina, badiot, fassan and ampezzan). I understand a bit of the Gardeina-dialect (my grnadfathers dialect, when he was a child) and fassan, who has many Italian words Romansch is related to Ladin but not the same--Martin Se 16:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You know what, I'm not an expert on the languages, so I really don't know the sceince of how they classify things. I just know that Nones and the similar languages sound very nice to me and are quite fun. :}  I did not know that some in Val di Non declared to be "Ladin", and it seems quite silly actually.  That is why I was saying previously that everyone here is just "from the region" in my opinion.  The language-based divisions don't make that much sense. talk to you more about all this later. my regards, Taalo 07:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

South Tyrol
Grüezi, thank you for warning me, I voted for South Tyrol. Now I am going to see the other issue. Please keep into account that I do not visit English wikipedia so often, so, in case of urgence, please drop me a line at my Lombard page. I hope I did right, since the vote page is a bit complex. Uuf Wiederluege! --Clamengh 20:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

motion to close mediation
hello there,

there was a mediation offer quite a while ago concerning the issue of Trentino-South Tyrol. I am happy to announce that the issue has been discussed, voted upon and settled. However the mediation offer still needs to be officially closed. Please take a minute to visit the page Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-20 Trentino-South Tyrol and put your signature at the bottom if you agree with the decision, thank you. sincerely Gryffindor  20:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

 * A very important note. This mediation offer concerned the greater overall naming convention to use in this region, not just the name of the region itself.  We came up with a very good compromise for the regional name itself.  I for one am still looking forward for Lar to help us out. Taalo 21:33, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Trento
Hey Emes, I have added German Trient and Latin Tridentium. Yeah, does look more interesting this way. I assume Trento in Ladin is Trent? regards, Taalo 07:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

South Tyrol location
Now that South Tyrol has been moved to Province of Bolzano-Bozen, if you care, please add your opinion on the future of South Tyrol here: Talk:Province_of_Bolzano-Bozen. —  AjaxSmack     00:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

South Tyrol
hello there Emes, you once voted and showed interest on the topic of South Tyrol. Certain Italian users just can't seem to give the topic a rest and had the article moved with a sham vote to the Italian name. I am calling for that vote to be annulled or at least extended so that more can vote and the result be representative. Drop by the talk page or drop me a message if you would like to share your thoughts, I am interested in hearing from you. sincerely Gryffindor  04:15, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I didn't login for more then 7 months, being bored with the behaviour, as long as both names are cited in the article and the other name is a redirect it’s OK for me --Martin Se (talk) 12:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Audience Figure
OK, you can restore it if it turns out not to be. 74.78.162.229 (talk) 22:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think that the Audience Figure existed, and won't restore de:Audienzfigur --Martin Se (talk) 09:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Well you don't have to, I will (restore, as you say, the "lemma") if the german article is restored. The preponderance of the evidence at this point is that neither were the images doctored nor was Thyra perpetrating a hoax but as I am not a native speaker of Hochdeutsch, am not in Vienna, and do not have access to her print source, she will have to defend her article. I ain't History Detectives though so until somebody does the basic verification it will have to stand as is. Should be relatively easy to do though, Phillip isn't exactly an historical nobody. Unless Thyra, who obviously is an exemplary contributor to the de wiki, can be shown to have a habit of fraud/hoaxing, I think the operative principle here is called "best faith" (that and of course, as I said in my talk page, whatever powers of discernment one brings to the given facts). 74.78.162.229 (talk) 18:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Somone else did--Martin Se (talk) 06:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Tyrol
Hello. I was informed that you actively worked in the past on articles related to South Tyrol. You are invited to share your thoughts on a Wikiproject Tyrol. Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism of user pages
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Johnny from Bronx (talk) 13:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have blocked Your account on de.wikipedia, this isn't Vandalismus. And I hope someone will do the same in en--Martin Se (talk) 16:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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 * no Problem was only a service for user on de wikipedia, I didn't check the content to much!--Martin Se (talk) 20:02, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

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Skudai

Skudai (also spelled Sekudai) is a town in Johor, Malaysia. It is about 13 km northwest from Johor Bahru's central business district.

Location
Skudai is located just outside the northwestern border of Johor Bahru, along national highway 1. The eponymous Skudai River separates Skudai from Tampoi ward of Johor Bahru.

Adjacent towns include Kulai (north), Iskandar Puteri (southwest), Pekan Nanas (west) and the Johor Bahru suburbs of Kempas (east) and Tampoi (southeast).

Parliament
Skudai falls within the Iskandar Puteri constituency in the Malaysian Parliament, currently represented by Liew Chin Tong from Democratic Action Party (DAP).

In the Johor State Legislative Assembly, Skudai is represented by Marina Ibrahim, also from the DAP. She is the first ethnically Malay assemblyperson from the DAP representing the constituency.

Local
Skudai is located outside Johor Bahru's city limits, thus placing it within the jurisdiction of the Iskandar Puteri City Council (Majlis Bandaraya Iskandar Puteri, MBIP). Skudai however is still well within Johor Bahru's metropolitan area and by extension, part of the Iskandar Malaysia development region.

Universities

 * Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
 * Southern University College

Secondary schools in Skudai

 * SMK Taman Tun Aminah
 * SMK Taman Skudai Baru
 * SMK Taman Impian Emas
 * SMK Taman Damai Jaya
 * SMK Taman Selesa Jaya 1
 * Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Selesa Jaya 2
 * Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Universiti
 * Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Universiti 2
 * Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Skudai
 * Sekolah Menengah Taman Desa Skudai
 * SMK Taman Mutiara Rini 1
 * SMK Taman Mutiara Rini 2
 * Sekolah Menengah Islam Hidayah
 * SMK Sri Pulai Perdana
 * SMK Taman Sutera

Primary schools

 * SJK(C) Pu Sze
 * SJK(C) Kuo Kuang
 * SJK(C) Kuo Kuang 2
 * SJK(C) Thai Hong
 * SJK(C) Thorburn
 * SJK(T) Taman Tun Aminah
 * SJK(T) Ladang Mutiara Rini
 * SK Skudai Batu 10
 * SK Sri Skudai
 * SK Sri Pulai Perdana
 * SK Taman Damai Jaya
 * SK Taman Desa Skudai
 * SK Taman Impian Emas
 * SK Taman Mutiara Rini
 * SK Taman Mutiara Rini 2
 * SK Taman Selesa Jaya
 * SK Taman Skudai Baru
 * SK Taman Skudai Baru 2
 * SK Taman Universiti 1
 * SK Taman Universiti 2
 * SK Taman Universiti 3
 * SK Taman Universiti 4
 * SK Taman Ungku Tun Aminah

Economy and tourism
Several shopping centres operate in Skudai, including Skudai Parade, AEON Mall Taman Universiti, Tasek Sentral, The Store in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, Sutera Mall in Taman Sutera Utama, and U Mall in Taman Pulai Utama and Giant Hypermarket.

Public transportation
KTM Intercity does not stop here. The nearest station is Kempas Baru. Muafakat Johor bus route P-403 and Causeway Link routes T30, T31 and T32 connect Skudai to Johor Bahru Sentral railway station.

Car
The Kuala Lumpur-Johor Bahru trunk road (Federal Route 1) is the main route serving Skudai. Skudai is also the southern end of Federal Route 5 which begins in Ipoh, Perak and runs through the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

Air
Senai International Airport is 14 km north of Skudai via Federal Route 1.

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Talk:Cancer (constellation)

Is this a scientific or an astrological article?
I don't understand why in an astrinomical article there should be this bullshit about its astrological meaning! Since when did astrology become a science? - signed by anon IP

 * It haws precedent. This article is covering what people believe, not necessarily what is true. Perhaps you should go complain about the articles on every major religion too, while you're at it. - signed by anon IP

In modern English, Cancer is always associated with the crab, but I'm not sure that this is true of the ancients. Many European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, and probably others) use a picture of a lobster or crayfish for the astrological sign Cancer, and Linnaeus, when first naming crabs, lobsters, crayfish and so on, called them all Cancer, with crabs being "short-tailed Cancer" and lobsters being "long-tailed Cancer". Can anyone comment on the true meaning of the Greek or Latin word cancer - whether it was really exclusively crabs? The constellation doesn't look like a crab anyway, so mightn't it be a lobster? Stemonitis 10:15, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I've just had another look at the constellation picture, and it is much more like a lobster than a crab. Picture it this way: the line from ι Cancri, through γ Cancri, to δ Cancri is the main body of the lobster, with ι Cancri being the tail end. The lines from δ Cancri to α Cancri and β Cancri are then the two claws. They're a bit asymmetrical, but so what (also, lobsters often have asymmetrical claws, albeit not by so much). Stemonitis 10:27, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Named Stars
Why is Zeta Cancri not included in Notable Features? It has a proper name (Tegmeni). - signed by anon IP

Cancer also depicted as a dog (Canis Minor original?)
Some astronomers and astrologers, and due to sensitivity of the word "Cancer" (reminded of the disease) by some people, they believe the constellation was also named Canis (Minor?) or connected with Procyon of the Canis Minor constellation we're more familiar with. 71.102.3.122 (talk) 06:43, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

 * Nope, Cancer originated as an unspecified "water animal" in pre-Babylonian times (see Babylonian star catalogues). I prefer the doctors change the name of their disease to something like "degenerative cell chaos", the AL.LUL of the MUL.APIN star catalogue take precedence. Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 09:16, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Symbology
HI... Why are the symbols the ones from Stargate-SG1? I think it's not wise to mix history and fiction... (But dont' know how to edit)
 * I've removed it. Thanks. --BorgQueen 08:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

History and mythology
We don't need both a History and a Mythology section. They should be merged. Skeptic2 (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes I think so. Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 09:18, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

more info and pics
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 * Sign your posts with ~ . Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 09:18, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Contradictory information
"Cancer is relatively big among the constellations with an area of 1009 square degrees and its stars are rather bright."

This is simply incorrect and contradicts information later in the article. Cancer is the dimmest of the Zodiacal constellations and is much smaller than that.Syd Henderson (talk) 04:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Problem section
The section notable features has a chunk of text added last year which is unformatted and contains what look like footnotes. It needs to be overhauled but is there enough suspicion to remove it as a copyvio? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:45, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Nevermind - chopped up and integrated....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:51, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Cancer.jpg to appear as POTD soon
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σ4 Cancri?
In the cover picture in the infobox, the star 66 Cancri is labelled as σ4 Cancri. Is that a real designation? It is not listed in most catalogues. Astronomical Editor (talk) 02:45, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I can't find it in SIMBAD, so I think you're right that it is not a recognized designation. However the chart is from Sky & Telescope so I don't think there's much we can do about it.Skeptic2 (talk) 21:03, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I can't find it either.@ 50.106.91.66 (talk) 22:39, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Hooray for Cancer
Some people who are born in late June are classified as Cancer. 50.106.91.66 (talk) 22:37, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

title: Talk:Cancer (constellation)