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A Scanner Darkly
I am in something of a discpute with users User:Viriditas and User:Jayjg over the use of the terms 'drug use' and 'drug abuse'. I maintain that 'drug use' is a statement of fact that someone used a drug, and that 'drug abuse' is the opinion of someone that that use was 'abusive' (whatever they define that to be). Can anyone weigh in on this please? Thank you - Guttlekraw 00:17, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Why is this on peer review? As a content dispute, it should be moved to Requests for comment. --Viriditas | Talk 09:16, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Francis Ford Coppola
I am in something of a discpute with users User:Viriditas and User:Jayjg over the use of the terms 'drug use' and 'drug abuse'. I maintain that 'drug use' is a statement of fact that someone used a drug, and that 'drug abuse' is the opinion of someone that that use was 'abusive' (whatever they define that to be). Can anyone weigh in on this please? Thank you - Guttlekraw 00:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This is somewhat of a political issue, and even when confining the terms of this discussion to the Wiki "universe" there is not a consensus as we currently have a debate circulating around the Recreational drug use article. Perhaps the context of these articles should be a determining factor:  A Scanner Darkly specifically deals with "drug use / drug abuse" while the other two only treat the subject as a lower-tier issue.  Therefore, this should be expressed as "drug use / drug abuse" in the latter two articles, and the POV expressed in "Darkly" should be the deciding factor there.  Interestingly, when I looked up Apocalypse Now and The Vietnam War I noticed there were no real references to drug use or abuse in either article, even though the topic is relevant to both.
 * All that being said, I agree with the stated position regarding the meaning of the two terms.--Lordkinbote 05:55, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Why is this on peer review? As a content dispute, it should be moved to Requests for comment. --Viriditas  | Talk 09:11, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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=My Editing= I've done small edits (punctuation, spelling, links) on various articles in the past. This was before I created a user in 05, after which I stopped logging in. Occasionally when reading an article I'll find small errors and fix them but unfortunately I'm never logged in. (Hoping to fix that)

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You are doing wonderful stuff monitoring recent contribtions. Sadly linkspam/vanity/not notable are not enough for speedy deletion and need to go through votes for deletion. --Henrygb 00:19, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Moved to VfD on your advice. Geldart 08:15, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

speedy deletion tags
Greetings! I've noticed that you have put speedy deletion tags on One Piece, Tit for tat, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, and Heath Springs, South Carolina because they appeared to contain nonsense. However, they are legit articles, and they were only vandalized, not created by the vandal. Therefore, I have reverted them back to their proper versions. It is possible to avoid the confusion by checking the article's history! --Ixfd64 19:54, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * ooooooops... sorry, dumb error. Thx. Geldart 19:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Nah, don't sweat about it. :) --Ixfd64 19:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi. notice your work on rv the vandalism to the M.J article. Sorry to get there so late. The user has been blocked from editing for 48 hours for excessive vandalism, personal attack and using profanity. Next time, if they give you too much trouble, come to my talk page and tell me, or go to Vandalism in Progress and list them (but only after warning them). Ok, see you around. Or an  e    (t)   (c)   (@)  00:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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educational
Ok, I'm not even going to bother to ask... but anyway, the Judeo-Latin article is rather educational. Gringo300 09:19, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Crypto-Jews now?
Are you sure that there are "many" Crypto-Jewish communities in Spain? Do you have some reference? --Error 00:19, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * yes. yes.
 * Balearic Islands (and São Tomé)
 * Crypto-Jews article page at kulanu.org
 * Spain articles page at kulanu.org
 * Shavei.org's homepage
 * Jews in Places You Never Thought Of
 * Tomer TALK 00:38, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

This article is absolute non-sense:

1.- There are indeed many descendants of Crypto-Jews in Spain and Portugal. But since the abolition of the Santa Inquisicion in 1821, there are no longer reasons to be a Crypto-Jew in Spain (i.e. to practice Judaism in private while in public you practice another religion, usually Catholicism), so you can call these people who live in the 21st Century Jews or descendants of Crypto-Jews, but no longer "Crypto-Jews".

[A note is needed here. "Crypto-Jew" can have many meanings today. In the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, the Catholic community is comprised entirely of Crypto-Jews, Sephardic origin. These people have had their traditions robbed. Often even the community's collective memory is imbalanced, because of the Inquisition. Many people are considered "Crypto-Jew", perhaps wrongly, if they fit the category of having been robbed of identity....

Such Jews are also known in Hebrew as ANUSIM, the singular being ANUSI, "those who were forced". Being a Crypto-Jew does not only mean knowing and fully practicing in secret. Not anymore.]

2.- I suppose that the descendants of Jews expelled from the "Corona de Aragon" in 1492 did keep their version of the Catalan language for a few generations. However, as far as I know, there are no written testimonies of this "Jewish Diaspora Catalan", and it must have died out long ago. Or it may have died out-- there are still pockets of Catalonian Jews in Mexico.

3.- Catalonian Jews use Catalan or Spanish, but never Catalanic: They speak exactly the same language as their gentile neighbours. Of course, Sephardi immigrants may be able to speak Sephardi (or Ladino). --Yerrux 20:16, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

 * re;1: There are indeed.  Your presumption, however, regarding the social status of Jews in Spain, is staggering.  With crypto-Jews, we're talking about people who for five centuries have had, as a core part of their identity, hiding the fact that they are Jews.  A decree made in 1821 did not remove the social stigma, and, in fact, the last of the anti-Jewish laws were not removed until the reign of Francisco Franco.  Just because you cannot imagine a world in which Jews, crypto- or otherwise, don't feel free to live openly as Jews does not mean that such conditions do not exist.  Many bnei anusim continue to live as "hidden Jews", preferring to keep their neighbors from knowing that they are actually Jews.  Your presumption with respect to the sentiments of crypto-Jews is breathtaking.

 * re;2: Just because you're unaware of the existence of Judæo-Catalan (קאטאלאנית), or as you say "Jewish Diaspora Catalan" does not negate its existence.  Your statement "It must have died out long ago", which is apparently based on your poorly-researched personal opinion, is hardly noteworthy in the annals of scholarly research.

 * re;3: Your assertion that Catalonian Jews use Catalán or Spanish, but never Catalanic is pretty much a non-sequitur.  As an argument against the article, it holds no weight, since no claim is made, anywhere, by anyone, that anyone speaks Qatalanith.  As for your assumption that "Sephardi immigrants may be able to speak Sephardi (or Ladino)", I'm flabergast.  That statement makes no sense whatsoever, and, in fact, has absolutely no relevance whatsoever, to anything with which this article deals.  Tomer TALK  06:15, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Tomer, crypto-Jew is a Jew who publicly practices a non-Jewish religion, while privately believing in Judaism. The best example of this are the jews of Belmonte in Portugal, who till the 20th Century went to Roman Catholic mass, while denying Christ's divinity in private. A Jew who prefers his neighbours not to know about it, is not necessarily a crypto-Jew. I've sent an email to the Jewish Community of Barcelona asking them for information regarding this "Catalanic" language. I haven't found any proof of this language, and you haven't provided any evidence, either. Tell me, according to you is there also a Jewish version of the Basque and Galician languages?--62.6.139.12 15:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Dear anonymous editor. First, crypto-Jews often not only do not practice Judaism nor believe in it, but they often don't even know they're Jews.  For more, go read at .  Second, I didn't make up Catalanic as you seem to believe.  Most of my information came from .  According to me, as you so insidiously word it, no, there have never been Jewish versions of Basque or Gallego...although, according to  and other sources, there was a Judæo-Portuguese, into which any Judæo-Gallego may have subsumed.  Let me know what you hear from the Jewish community of Barcelona, including how much of the community has been in Barce for more than 100 years.  Tomer TALK  17:25, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Definition of Crypto-Judaism
According to Wikipedia, Crypto-Judaism "is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith." --62.6.139.12 08:17, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting you should rely on a circular argument for support. When I have time, I'll go fix it. Tomer TALK  22:56, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Addendum: I think there's room to differentiate between Crypto-Jew and Crypto-Judaism, just as there is to differentiate between Jew and Judaism. Tomer TALK 23:50, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * Are you sure that "crypto-Jew" is commonly used for descendants of Jews who don't even know it? I thought it was only used for practitioners of (limited) Judaism. --Error 01:29, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, the difference between Jew and Judaism is that a Jew could not follow Judaism. By that rule, the descendant of force-converted Jews who does not practice the religion would be an ethnic Jew. There would be no need to call them "crypto-Jews". --Error 01:29, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

<<...people who practice crypto-Judaism are referred to as "crypto-Jews">> (copied and pasted from Crypto-Judaism). Tomer, did you know that the links you offer in this discussion (namely [2], [3] and [4]) are dead? .--195.93.21.99 17:45, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Catalan Anusim today?
Today, except for the use of a number of Hebrew loanwords, there is little to distinguish the speech of the Catalonian Bnei Anusim and their fellow Jews, from the Catalan or Spanish spoken by their non-Jewish neighbors.

 * Are there hidden Jews in Catalonia now? Fear and shadows talks about descendants of Jews who kept some traditions and have returned to Judaism, but while they reside in Barcelona, their ancestors recently immigrated from the Balearics, and from what I know the Majorcan Xuetas, because of the great pressure, left Judaism even in its hidden forms. Shouldn't it be Balearic Bnei Anusim, supposing they really exist? --Error 01:29, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

"Today, except for the use of a number of Hebrew loanwords, there is little to distinguish the speech of the Catalonian Bnei Anusim and their fellow Jews, from the Catalan or Spanish spoken by their non-Jewish neighbors." Does anyone know if this alleged "Judeo-Catalanic" language so different from Catalan as to be considered an independent language? Are there any testimonies of this language, apart from the dodgy links offered by Tomer? There do exist 18th Century testimonies of Judeo-Portuguese in Leghorn/Livorno and Amsterdam, but I've never heard of Judeo-Catalan. --195.93.21.42 11:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge there is no evidence that a distinct Jewish variety of Catalan has ever existed. Judeo-Catalan is not mentioned in any of the works on Catalan that I have read nor is any evidence of it cited in any scholarly work on Jewish languages with which I am familiar. The Catalan linguists I know are not aware of any such distinct variety. I once asked the great Jewish linguist Joshua Fishman about this, and he responded that he knew of no evidence for Judeo-Catalan. If there was such a language, it appears to be unattested. That is not to say that there are no records of Catalan written by Jews. I myself have read a bit of Catalan written by Jews around Girona, but there was nothing to distinguish it from the Catalan of gentiles. I should add that this isn't due to any lack of scholarly interest in the history of Jews in Catalonia. I own a two-volume collection of papers on the history of the Jews of Girona. There is no mention of a distinct Jewish variety of Catalan. In sum, Judeo-Catalan is a phantom. If anyone can provide evidence of the existence of Judeo-Catalan I would be most interest. By "evidence" I mean citation of characteristics distinguishing it from the Catalan of gentiles with quotation of supporting examples from actual texts.Bill 00:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You´re absolutely right. This whole idea of "Catalanic" is a fabrication. The only reference is a web page that hardly even mentions this imaginary language. Until any reference is given the whole article should be put undee a big question mark Kurt Dec 2006

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from http://www.grec.net/cgibin/heccl2.pgm?NDCHEC=0118319
 * judeocatalà
 * Antic dialecte del català propi dels jueus catalans. Cal distingir-hi el que corresponia a la llengua parlada i el literari de les traduccions calcades de l'hebreu. Després del 1492 es perd tot rastre del català parlat i escrit pels jueus catalans, i els escassos documents i notícies anteriors no permeten d'establir-ne cap tipologia segura, si no és l'abundor de mots i d'expressions hebreus. Sembla que a la Catalunya Vella es caracteritzava també per un cert deix d'arcaismes. A Mallorca, i potser al País Valencià, fins a la fi del s XV es mantingué vigent, entre els jueus, al costat del català, l'àrab vulgar, amb probables interferències. Les característiques sintàctiques, morfològiques i lèxiques del català resultant de traduccions calcades de l'hebreu fetes per jueus i conversos catalans (dos siddurim, un saltiri, llibres d'astrologia, etc) són les mateixes que es troben a tot el domini dels parlars romànics.

from http://la_cantina_dels_encants.lamevaweb.info/post/61/36132
 * Parles catalànic?
 * — Publicat per pia almoina @ 17:26
 * Els jueus ens van deixar moltes coses; fins i tot una llengua, ara sembla que perduda...

 * Es tracta del judeocatalà, també anomenat "catalànic" o "qatalanit" (קאטאלנית, en hebreu); és una llengua romànica jueva que es parlava principalment a les comunitats del nord-est de la Península Ibèrica, sobretotal al que avui són Catalunya i les illes Balears.

 * Els sefardites eren els descendents dels jueus que van viure a la Península Ibèrica fins el 1492, quan van ser expulsats pels reis Catòlics espanyols, Isabel i Ferran. Els sefardites van conviure pacíficament amb les comunitats musulmanes i cristianes existents durant molt temps i la seva cultura va prosperar més que a cap altre lloc. D'aquí en sorgí una llengua pròpia, coneguda com "espanyol sefardita", "judezmo", "haquitia", "judeoespanyol" o "ladí [es]".

 * El catalànic, va ser la llengua del rabí Mossé ben Nahmàn, Ramban o Nahmànides que va ser metge, místic i cabalista i, en resum, un dels grans pensadors jueus medievals. Conegut pels gentils com Bonatruç ça Porta va nèixer a Girona a les darreríes del segle XII i va morir a Palestina a la segona meitat del segle XIII (convé visitar el call jueu de Girona, el Patronat "Call de Girona", el seu Museu d'Història dels jueus i l'Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides). El catalànic també era la llengua dels mallorquins Abraham i Jafudà Cresques, pare i fill, que a més de ser rellotgers i bruixollers van esdevenir un dels geògrafs i dibuixants de cartes nàutiques medievals més importants creant el conegut mundialment com l'Atles Català al segle XIV. Se sap que el catalànic es va continuar parlant en comunitats molts reduides sobretot a Grècia i a Veneçuela també.

 * Gairebé sempre es parla dels jueus de territori català com jueus espanyols, quan aquests no ho eren ni s'hi sentien. No oblidem que els jueus parlaven de Sefarad referint-se la península sencera, des dels Països Catalans fins Portugal, passant per Castella i els regnes musulmans com el de Granada. La malaurada i gran desconeixença que tenim del catalànic davant el ladí o judeoespanyol és molt accentuada. Sembla que encara resten comunitats de parlants de ladí a Turquía, Grècia o Israel, pero mai es sent res dels parlants del judeocatalà ni de la cultura catalanojueva.

 * Al fòrum de racocatalà hi ha un interessant fil sobre el catalànic. Allà es fa menció que el catalànic també es va parlar a Atenes en el sí de la comunitat judeocatalana grega durant molts i molts anys; però per desgràcia, sobretot amb l'holocaust nazi, hi va haver l'extermini de molts jueus, cosa que va reduir el nombre de judeocatalans fins que van acabar desapareixen. Aquí també indiquen que el catalànic es va extingir farà cosa de cinquanta anys (o una mica més) amb la mort de la seva última parlant, una dona d'ascendència judeo-catalana que vivia a Veneçuela.

 * També en aquest fòrum s'indica que el catalànic es va acabar probablement a finals del SXV. quan es va fusionar amb el judeocastellà i el judeoaragonès, fins a formar el ladino. El ladí, en essència és castellà antic, amb moltes paraules hebrees, turques i gregues, però també catalanes, sembla procedents del catalànic.

 * Un tema, doncs, interessant, poc estudiat i poc explicat, amb molts interrogants i incògnites que, malgrat tot, va deixar una forta emprempta a la cultura hebrea i catalana i en la que caldria profundir més.

The 2nd article contains a nice pic as well... Tom e rtalk 23:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The first article is encyclopedic, but it says it is not a language, but a dialect; just Catalan with a few hebrew words or constructions. The second one is just an anonymous post in a forum, whose only source is a post in another forum talking about THIS ARTICLE in wikipedia!!!!! How can you give a reference in an article that references the very same article! --81.39.168.230 15:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Article for deletion?
Although this article is five years old, it has been unverifiable since the first day: there's no evidence that Catalan Jews spoke a language that was different from their gentile neighbours', and there's no evidence that they kept the language in the Diaspora. After five years waiting for some evidence, why not delete it until someone finally comes up with some evidence (which might still never come, simply because the separate Catalanic language most probably never existed)?

--81.135.81.85 (talk) 14:51, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:John Heinz

More Info?
Don't we have more about his religious or ethnic background, especially considering that he was a U.S. Senator and very wealthy and influential person? --172.164.81.126 08:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Rank
Why would he only be a Staff Sargeant if he enlisted already possessing an MBA? Something is wrong. AnteaterZot (talk) 00:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Sons
Are we sure his two sons are famous enough to warrant their own Wiki pages?? --M. Frederick (talk) 11:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Correct linking
John Heinz III is linked to Teresa Heinz as her former husband. However, in the section regarding his death it states that his wife Lucia died on the plane with him, and also that they had one son. There must be a mistake here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.9.42 (talk) 04:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

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– WP:COMMONNAME, WP:NATURALDIS, as well as "keeping things simple." Doesn't make sense to use generational suffixes for people who didn't use the same name.
 * H. John Heinz III → John Heinz
 * H. J. Heinz II → Jack Heinz

"Jack Heinz" is the more common name for the second Henry Heinz, as written in the 2001 book International Directory of Company Histories, 2006 book H.J. Heinz Company, and 2009 book Luck of O'Reilly: A Biography of Tony O'Reilly. As for Google search results: "Jack Heinz" has 8000+ results, to only 6500+ for "H. J. Heinz II".

Also, the US senator was known as simply John during his political career and after his death, as shown in these sources:
 * Obituaries in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
 * The naming of the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.
 * "Senator John Heinz" has 100k+ google results, and "Sen. John Heinz" 17k+ more, compared to mere hundreds or thousands for when subbing in "H. John" or "Henry John". Arbor to SJ (talk) 21:44, 20 December 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. bd2412  T 01:50, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

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Sexual content in video games

Video games featuring sexual content have existed since the early days of the industry. They can be found on most platforms and can be of any video game genre.

The inclusion of sex in games has been subject to varying levels of controversy over the decades, sometimes resulting in calls for increased regulation and legislation dealing directly with adult content.

In Western gaming, the promise of sexual content in games is commonly used as a marketing tool, but many highly sexualized games do not feature any explicitly adult content. Though some games do use sex acts or nudity as a narrative device, in-game reward, or a gameplay element, purely pornographic games are uncommon.

However, the Japanese pornographic eroge subgenre is popular worldwide. First appearing in the 1980s, these games vary significantly in narrative complexity as well as the level of interactivity, taking forms ranging from the visual novel to virtual reality experiences.

1980s
One of the earliest video games to feature sexual themes was the 1981 text-based Softporn Adventure, published by On-Line Systems for the Apple II. Despite heavy piracy, the game still sold 25,000 copies, roughly equivalent to 25% of the number of Apple II computers sold at the time. In a 1981 article in Time, On-Line reported that they were making a version of the game for straight women, though this never materialized.

Several pornographic games, such as X-Man, were created for the Atari 2600 in the early 1980s. The video game company, American Multiple Industries, released three unlicensed games for the Atari 2600; Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em, Custer's Revenge, and Bachelor Party. The games were poorly received (particularly Custer's Revenge, which is considered to be one of the worst games ever made), and AMI went out of business in 1983. Company PlayAround purchased the rights to these games and began distributing them under new titles in 2-in-1 cartridges.

In 1983, Entertainment Enterprises, Ltd. released an arcade game called Swinging Singles, which was mostly meant for bars, adult stores, and sex clubs. The game requires the player to drive through the city maze, gathering dots like Pac-Man before reaching a brothel where the player is required to fight off venereal disease and collect keys to unlock sex scenes.

Also released in 1983 was Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance for the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit platforms, which Artworx Software created.

In 1986, Martech released a strip poker game featuring digitized pictures of Samantha Fox on the C64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad. The same company would later release the controversial Vixen, featuring another page 3 model Corinne Russell.

Also, in 1986 On-line Systems (now called Sierra On-Line) asked game designer Al Lowe to create an adult game in the graphical adventure style made popular by their King's Quest series. Lowe took the basic elements of Softporn Adventure, greatly expanded it, and released it as the 1987 game Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Sierra did not advertise the game, and retailers were loath to carry it, so initial sales were low. However, word-of-mouth spread, and soon the Leisure Suit Larry series was a success, spawning two sequels before the end of the decade, 1988's Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places), and 1989's Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals.

1990s
With CD-ROM and multimedia-based games in the 1990s, most adult games featured video clips with limited interactivity. Both pre-rendered and real-time 3D graphics were also used. While most games could be considered nothing more than pornography, some attempted to include actual stories and plots. This can be seen in some games with less explicit content, equal to an R-rated or PG-13-rated movie.

1990 saw the release of the first game in the Gals Panic series. The game derived gameplay elements from an older title called Qix, which did not have sexual images. The object of the games is to slowly remove pieces of the playing field while avoiding an enemy or groups of enemies. Removing the playing field slowly reveals pictures of models in escalating states of undress. The game had nine sequels throughout the 1990s (with a final game in 2002).

Voyeur by Philips came out in 1993 for their CD-i console. While the game does not show any explicit nudity, it allows the player to spy on several characters in lingerie, and foreplay and explores taboos such as BDSM and incest.

In the 1990s, NEC (on the PC Engine series and PC-FX) and Sega (on Sega Saturn) were the only companies who officially allowed sexual content on their consoles in Japan, but eroge was more prevalent on the NEC PC-98 and FM Towns computer platforms.

2000s
Modern console publishers often have policies against depictions of nudity and explicit sexuality, particularly Sony Computer Entertainment with its PlayStation brand of consoles. BMX XXX for the PlayStation 2 was censored in the American release, while versions on the Xbox and GameCube were not and featured nudity. However, Sony allowed nudity in the title God of War (2005), and also developed by Sony, a game based on Greek mythology set in Ancient Greece, where nudity was perceived differently. Nudity was subsequently featured in the game's sequels, God of War II (2007), God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008), God of War III (2010), God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2010), and God of War: Ascension (2013), which were also based on Greek mythology. The full-motion video quiz game The Guy Game (2004) gained notoriety for its use of an underage model. The scenes in question led to a lawsuit by a woman who explained that she was only seventeen years old when the footage was taken, thus classifying it as child pornography, which is illegal to own or sell in some countries.

Sex scenes and nudity have also appeared in Quantic Dream's Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, released for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 respectively.

Sexuality and sexual frustration is also a theme prevalent in the Silent Hill series of survival-horror games.

A new generation of adult social games has emerged that bring multiple users together in sexual environments. Examples include Red Light Center, Singles: Flirt Up Your Life and Playboy: The Mansion. While it is not explicitly intended for purely adult-oriented entertainment, the virtual world of Second Life, which is made up almost entirely of player-made content, has an array of very exotic adult entertainment including nudity and full-on sexual activities.

Adult games may take the form of bootlegs, circumventing mainstream publishers who may have policies against such games. Patches or hacks to mainstream non-adult games may add sexual and pornographic themes, mostly for humor, especially when sexuality was never intended in the original game. Examples include the Tomb Raider video games, the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee mod, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Half-Life 2 FakeFactory Cinematic mod and ROM hacks for console emulators.

The Internet has allowed adult games to receive wider availability and recognition, including amateur games in Adobe Flash or Java. It has also allowed amateurs to create and distribute adult text adventure games, known as "Adult Interactive Fiction" or AIF.

Modern consumer virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, allow users to engage in virtual sex through simulated environments. An example is VR Kanojo.

2010s
Blizzard Entertainment's 2016 game Overwatch has inspired a notable amount of fan-made porn. Short porn videos featuring official characters have been animated via Source Filmmaker and are popular on porn sites such as Pornhub. Despite its popularity, Blizzard has issued cease-and-desist orders to some of the creators.

Indie games have expanded the reach of adult games, and Steam now allows adult games onto its storefront. Patreon provides direct funding to adult developers, allowing games like Hardcoded to appeal to niche markets that previously would not have been created.

The continuing rise of open-source software development practices has also influenced adult video games, allowing communities of amateurs to collaboratively create and distribute adult games via the Internet.

Eroge
In 1982, Japan's Koei, founded by husband-and-wife team Yoichi and Keiko Erikawa (and later known for strategy video games), released the first erotic computer game with sexually explicit graphics, Night Life, an early graphic adventure game for the NEC PC-8801. That same year, Koei released another erotic title, Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku (Seduction of the Condominium Wife), which was an early role-playing adventure game with colour graphics, owing to the eight-color palette of the NEC PC-8001 computer. It became a hit, helping Koei become a major software company.

In another opinion, Yuji Horii recalled in 1986 that he saw a demonstration of a Yakyūken-like game running on the FM-8 in the end of 1981, and he considered Yakyūken was the origin of adult games. Some writers say that Yakyūken (1981) produced for Sharp MZ computers by Hudson Soft is the first Japanese adult game.

Like with Koei, several other now-famous Japanese companies such as Enix, Square and Nihon Falcom also released erotic adult games for the PC-8801 computer in the early 1980s before they became mainstream. Early eroge usually had simplistic stories and extreme sexual content, such as rape and lolicon. In some of the early erotic games, the erotic content is meaningfully integrated into a thoughtful and mature storyline, though others often used it as simply an excuse for pornography.

In 1999, Key released Kanon. It contains about 7 brief erotic scenes in a sentimental story the size of a long novel (an all-ages version was also released afterward). Kanon sold over 300,000 copies.

In response to increasing pressure from Japanese lobby groups, in mid-1996 Sega of Japan announced that they would no longer permit Sega Saturn games to include nudity.

Many fanservice video games with sexual content have some brief nudity. The "M" rated series Senran Kagura has some nudity in both gameplay and cutscenes but genitals are not displayed. Fanservice games rated "T" such as Hyperdimension Neptunia offer similar content but less than what Senran Kagura has. However, since 2018, Sony has now issued new regulations for PlayStation 4 games with both fanservice and sexual content. For the localized release of Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal, "Intimacy Mode", a mode where the player can play with the characters' bodies was removed, but by comparison, this mode is still available in the series' previous titles Senran Kagura: Estival Versus and Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. The PC release of Burst Re:Newal was not changed. Many other recent PS4 games with sexual content are facing the same problem from Sony, including Neptunia, Date a Live: Rio Reincarnation, Death end re;Quest and the Nekopara series, although Sony did allow nudity and a sex scene in The Last of Us Part II. This controversy had become a problem for the development of Senran Kagura 7even, in which publishers Marvelous are now reconsidering the game and series producer Kenichiro Takaki is now leaving Marvelous.

Lists of related games

 * List of erotic video games
 * List of regionally censored video games
 * List of Japanese erotic video games
 * List of AO-rated video games (the ESRB's "Adults Only" rating)
 * List of controversial video games
 * List of banned video games

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Hague Conference on Private International Law

The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is an intergovernmental organisation in the area of private international law (also known as conflict of laws), that administers several international conventions, protocols and soft law instruments.

The Hague Conference was first convened by Tobias Asser in 1893 in The Hague. In 1911, Asser received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work in the field of private international law, and in particular for his achievements with respect to the HCCH. After World War II, the Hague Conference was established as an international organisation.

A permanent diplomatic conference
On the initiative of Tobias Asser, the First Diplomatic Session of the HCCH was convoked in 1893. Its aim was, and remains, to "work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law", including by creating, and assisting in the implementation of, multilateral conventions that promote the harmonisation of the rules and principles of private international law (or conflict of laws).

The First to Fourth Diplomatic Session of the HCCH took place in 1893, 1894, 1900 and 1904 respectively. They resulted in a number of multilateral treaties, the Hague Conventions, that unified the rules of private international law in the areas of Marriage (1902), Divorce (1902), Guardianship (1902), Civil procedure (1905), Effects of Marriage (1905), and Deprivation of Civil Rights (1905).

After World War I, the Fifth and Sixth Diplomatic Sessions took place in 1925 and 1928 respectively. The result of those Diplomatic Sessions was the Protocol to recognise the competence of the Permanent Court of International Justice to interpret the Hague Conventions on Private International Law.

Intergovernmental organisation
After World War II, steps were taken to establish the HCCH as an intergovernmental organisation, governed by its member states and administered by a secretariat, the Permanent Bureau. The treaty establishing the HCCH, the "Statute of the Hague Conference on Private International Law", was adopted during the Seventh Diplomatic Session of the HCCH in 1951, and entered into force on 15 July 1955.

The organisation used French as its only official language until 1964, when English was added as its second official language. The acronym HCCH is derived from the name of the organisation in these two languages (Hague Conference – Conférence de La Haye). In 2024, Spanish was added as the third official language.

Members
As of 2024, the HCCH has 91 members: 90 member states and one Regional Economic Integration Organisation (REIO), the European Union.

The member states contribute to the expenses of the HCCH through their assessed contributions, which are due annually. The EU also contributes on the basis of contributions that are agreed. The Regulations on Financial Matters and Budgetary Practices of the Hague Conference on Private International Law provide the details in this regard.

Connected parties
Membership in the HCCH is not a precondition for signing, ratifying, or acceding to one or more Hague Conventions, and a total of 66 non-member states are parties to one or more conventions. The HCCH identifies them as "connected parties".

Governing bodies
The HCCH acts through several governing bodies, which are established under the Statute.

The Council on General Affairs and Policy is composed of all members. It is in charge of the operation of the HCCH and its meetings are currently held annually. Through the HCCH's secretariat, the Permanent Bureau, the Council on General Affairs and Policy ensures such operation, including by establishing the HCCH's work programme.

The Council of Diplomatic Representatives, composed of all member states, is the supreme financial and budgetary authority of the Conference and exercises oversight of the financial administration of the Conference.

Other bodies include the Netherlands Standing Government Committee (instituted by decree on 20 February 1897 to promote the codification of private international law), the Special Commissions, and the Diplomatic Sessions.

Permanent Bureau
The secretariat of the HCCH, the Permanent Bureau, is established by the Statute of the HCCH. Under the direction of the HCCH's highest governing body, the Council on General Affairs and Policy, the Permanent Bureau is charged with the preparation and organisation of the Sessions of the Hague Conference and the meetings of the Council and any Special Commissions; the work of the Secretariat of the Sessions and meetings; as well as all the tasks which are included in the activity of a secretariat.

The Permanent Bureau operates three offices, including the organisation's headquarters in The Hague, as well as its regional offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Hong Kong SAR.

Hague Conventions and other instruments
Since 1955, the HCCH developed 40 international conventions and protocols that establish rules on jurisdiction, applicable law, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, and on legal and judicial cooperation. They are open for adoption, accession or ratification by any State, including States that are not members of HCCH.

In 2015, the HCCH adopted its first soft-law instrument, the Hague Principles on the Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts.

Conventions
The HCCH's instruments cover subject matters in the area of family law and child protection, international civil procedure and legal cooperation, as well as cross-border commercial and finance law. These areas are often referred to as the "three pillars" of the HCCH. The following HCCH conventions are the most ratified:
 * The abolition of legalisation (Apostille)
 * Service of process
 * Taking of evidence abroad
 * International child abduction
 * Intercountry adoption
 * Maintenance obligations
 * Choice of Court Agreements
 * Hague Child Protection Convention
 * The law applicable to trusts

The most recently concluded Hague convention is the Hague Judgments Convention, adopted on 2 July 2019.

Tools
The HCCH has developed several tools in order to aid in the application of its Conventions.

INCADAT is a legal database on international child abduction law containing case summaries and legal analysis of the application of the 1980 Child Abduction Convention. The website also provides additional material relevant to this area of law.

iSupport is an electronic case management and secure communication system for the cross-border recovery of maintenance obligations under the EU 2009 Maintenance regulation and the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention. In 2016 a second EU-funded project, iSupport 2.0, started. The two main aspects of this project, which will last until 2018, are the extension of iSupport to other countries and its consolidation with new functionalities.

e-App was created in support of the 1961 Apostille Convention. Its aim is to promote and assist in the implementation of low-cost, operational and secure software technology for the issuance of electronic Apostilles and for the operation of electronic registers of Apostilles that can be accessed online by recipients to verify the origin of paper Apostilles or e-Apostilles they have received.


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Lamborghini LM002

The Lamborghini LM002 is an off-road vehicle manufactured by Lamborghini between 1986 and 1993. The LM002 was an unusual departure for Lamborghini which, at the time, was primarily known for high-performance, hand-built, super/sports cars. The LM002 was not the first of its kind to be built by Lamborghini. Two prototype vehicles, the Cheetah and the LM001, paved the way for LM002. Both vehicles used rear-mounted American power plants and were intended for military use, but were not well received. With the idea of using a front mounted Countach V12 to power the LM001 came the next model, the "LM002", which was the first of the three to see actual production by Lamborghini. The LM002 is part of the Lamborghini Militaria series of vehicles.

History

Lamborghini built its first military vehicle, a prototype vehicle codenamed "Cheetah", in 1977. Lamborghini had designed the vehicle with hopes of selling it to companies in the oil exploration and production industry. The original Cheetah prototype had a rear-mounted Chrysler V8 engine. The only finished prototype was never tested by the U.S. military, only demonstrated to them by its designer, Rodney Pharis. It was later sold to Teledyne Continental Motors by MTI and is apparently still in the U.S. This led Lamborghini to develop the LM001, which was very similar to the Cheetah, but had an AMC V8 engine.

It was finally determined that the engine being mounted in the rear caused too many unfavourable handling characteristics in an offroad vehicle, and the LMA002 was built with an entirely new chassis, moving the engine (now the V12 out of the Lamborghini Countach) to the front. After much testing and altering of the prototype, it was finally given a serial number and became the first LM002. The production model was unveiled at the Brussels Auto Show in 1986. It was dubbed the "Rambo-Lambo". Civilian models were outfitted with a full luxury package, including full leather trim, tinted power windows, air conditioning, and a premium stereo mounted in a roof console. In order to meet the vehicle's tire needs, Lamborghini commissioned Pirelli to create the Pirelli Scorpion tires with custom, run-flat tread designs. These were made specifically for the LM and were offered in two different tread designs, one for mixed use and the other for sand use only. These tires could be run virtually flat without risk and could handle the desert heat, the loading, and the speeds of the LM. The LM002 was fitted with a 169 L fuel tank.

In the market
A total of 301 examples were built. The last sixty were a special edition called LM/American, only sold in the United States. First shown at the 1992 Detroit Auto Show, these have OZ alloy wheels, chromed bumpers, a special interior, and various badging and trim additions. For those requiring even more power, the Lamborghini L804 type 7.2 litre marine V12, more commonly found in class 1 offshore powerboats, could be ordered. The end of production was announced in 1991; while Lamborghini claimed to have received orders for around 800 cars, the complicated manufacturing process made them discontinue the car in order to focus on more profitable models.

Near the end of the LM002's production, Turin-based autoshop owner Salvatore Diomante created a one-off "estate" version for the Sultan of Brunei by enclosing the back area and raising the roof. This added significant interior capacity.

Uday Hussein owned a LM002; it was blown up in 2004 by US military for an ostensible car bomb test.

An LM002 was featured in the films No Holds Barred (1989), Toys (1992) and Fast & Furious (2009), as well as the 1990 video game Stunts.

Motorsport
LM002 Evoluzione (alias: LM002 Paris Dakar, 1988)

Two special LM002 cars were built with the intention of making them capable of participating in the Paris Dakar Rally; one is painted white and the other is painted orange. The white one was built in 1988. Lamborghini stripped it of all unnecessary weight and gave it an upgraded suspension, engine modifications which brought it to 600 PS, full roll cage, plexiglas windows, and GPS equipment. Funding ran out before it could officially be entered in competition, although one of them did participate in the Rallye des Pharaons in Egypt and another in Greece, both times driven by Sandro Munari. The orange car was developed by Swiss based World LM Racing Team.

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User talk:Chinasaur/Archive1

Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions. Drop us a note at New user log to introduce yourself.

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 07:20, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi,

I'm a grad student in neuroscience at Stanford, and was wondering if you'd be interested in working together to overhaul the neuro pages on the wikipedia.

Cyberied 22:58, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Dominant wavelength is an excellent article! I congratulate you. -- Cyan 20:52, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

HSV Color model
Thank you for fixing the formulas. Excellent.

But then you even went and looked at my code too. Well, all I can say is thank you very much indeed! :-)

I implemented (most of) your suggestions, though perhaps in a slightly different way than you might have been thinking. Take a look:

 * colorspace.py
 * > example run

Comments on colorspace.py
Here's some comments on your original comments at

 * 1) --> Using negatives for this generally not a good idea.

Using the value of None or a string value means more checks, since it's illegal to do arithmatic on a None value. If the previous formula had been correct, then no valid input would have given me a negative value on output. If it had been negative I could assume the output was really undefined. :-) Dirty? Kinda. And I should have checked input to be honest.

Now we've noted that h can take on negative values, so I can't use that dirty trick anymore. (not that I should have done that in the first place).

# --> And anyway, using the else statement is a better way to arrange # --> the logic; easier to read, and one less comparison so probably # --> more efficient. There's an interesting argument. There's actually 2 schools of thought on that.

Listing 1:

if foo: x=a else: x=b assert x==a or x==b, "whoops!"

Listing 2:

if foo : x=a if bar : x=b assert x==a or x==b, "whoops!"

Just 1 more instruction (and compares can be cheap).
 * Listing 1 does : Compare, Branch1, Branch2
 * Listing 2 does : Compare, Branch, Compare, Branch

''So where's the beef? ''

Well, listing 1 assumes that if foo doesn't hold, then bar must hold (and vice versa), but you don't ever mention bar.

In fact, if *neither* foo *nor* bar hold true, then it will assume that bar holds true. The assertion is never raised

In Listing 2, both foo and bar are mentioned. Should your assumptions be wrong, and neither foo nor bar happened, then the programme will be able to raise an assertion to warn you.

I like Listing 2 better than listing 1 for that reason. :-)

There's a slight variant on listing 2 which I use in the programme:

Listing 3

x="undefined" if foo: x=a if bar: x=b

return x

Listing 3 will explicitly test both assumptions, and return the string "undefined" if neither holds true.

Listing 4

if (foo or bar): if foo: x=a else: x=b else x="undefined"

return x

listing 4 should do the same thing, now using if ... else. I'm not sure if that's really clearer though! :-)

Let's see how that does branching
 * Listing 3 does set, compare, branch, set, compare, branch, set, return
 * Listing 4 does compare or compare, c1branch 1: {compare2, c2branch 1 : set, c2branch 2 : set}, c1branch2 : set, return

Don't be mad at me if I made a typo on listing4, it's tricky. :-)

Hopefully that tells you something about views on if...else that you hadn't seen before. I'm sure it's a holy war somewhere. :-)

Thanks again for looking at my horrible python code! :-)

Have a nice day! Kim Bruning 10:30, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks to your exceptional help, I managed to update all of THIS:

I've credited you on Talk:Color Thanks for your time! Kim Bruning 14:36, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

In regard to your inline (‽) question about shibboleths on the Prescription (linguistics) page, I presume the person who used the term was referring to the fact that many prescriptionist rules function as shibboleths, in that only certain groups are capable of using them correctly. I've fiddled with the "shibboleth" entry a bit; tell me if you think it makes sense in the context of the prescription article. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 06:42, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

hello
Hi Chinasaur! I'm glad to see someone else is familiar with Bluebeard. Actually it would make a great double-bill with Salome (which I would like to see the SF Opera do--did you catch the Electra a few years back?) Be well, Antandrus 05:40, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

'':By the way, have you seen the Teldec video movie version? Pretty good watching, although the traditional staging gets thrown out the window. --Chinasaur 05:53, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)''

No I haven't--is it available on DVD? (presuming you mean Bluebeard's Castle) Sounds great though! Since the drama is internal it probably doesn't need elaborate staging, in fact it might help not to have too much distraction. I like your edits to the article, btw. I was trying to decide whether or not to put any of my personal interpretation of the piece into the article when I first wrote it, and decided not to--you did a good job though. Incredible psychological study of a relationship and places you cannot ever go. --I also saw that Elektra (Nov 1997). Did you catch the Busoni Doktor Faustus this weekend? Best, Antandrus 06:11, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Nice job on the rewrite. Gives me chills just thinking about "door six." Be seeing you! Antandrus 06:24, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Seikilos
OK, now I'm truly impressed! I had no idea anyone else knew about Seikilos. (And you read my mind, because I was just thinking about writing a little bit about it!) Are you interested in ancient Greek music, and if so do you have an idea where it can fit in the Wikipedia scheme of things? Right now "history of western art music" begins with Pope Gregory and "Medieval music." I think Ancient Greek music needs its own article with numerous other subarticles, none of which even have stubs yet. Antandrus 20:50, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bobtail squid
Awwww! Look at the cute little guy! *grins* - UtherSRG 11:33, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Nobel Prize winners
Hey Chinasaur! Thanks for your great work on all the biology articles. I noticed you have Georg von Bekesy on your "To work on" list. With your interest in vision and the retina, I thought you might want to take a look at Allvar Gullstrand, Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, and George Wald. Some of these are okay, but may need some fact-checking; the Granit article is little more than a stub. Please post any replies on my talk page. Keep up the good work! Sayeth 15:41, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

Hydrofoil vs. Hydroplane
See this link for an example of hydroplanes: -Joseph 18:11, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

 * Wow, those things look like some crazy good times. I was basing my hydroplane==hydrofoil on the dictionary though, so it may still be a valid point.  --Chinasaur

 * Yeah, I'm just saying that "hydroplane," in a purely nautical sense, means something else. -Joseph 18:31, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

Monoecious
Hi Chinasaur - Your editing at Monoecious is good in some aspects, but it has become very Angiosperm-centric in its terminology (flower, stamen, carpel, etc); it should be re-worded to include Pinophyta etc as well (many of which are also monoecious) - MPF 20:16, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm hardly an expert in botany/horticulture subjects; I just tried to make sense of what I've seen in books and on the web. Thanks for the warning about the pinophyta; I'm not too familiar with their sexual organs but I'll try to be more general.  Let me read up a little and then I'll think about fixing it; in the meantime if you have suggestions for more general terminology that would be great.  --Chinasaur 00:15, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks; will do if I get the time - MPF 14:06, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Binaural

 * HRTFs are for recreating monaural cues, not relevant to binaural. also deleted stuff that's in the binaural recording article

I'm not an expert on HRTFs, but I would think that it is precisely the differences between the HRTFs for the right and left ears that allow for binaural auralization from monophonic recordings/synthesized sounds 1. More here 2. -- Tlotoxl 09:44, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * See the soon to be published article at sound localization. You're right, HRTFs are relevant to binaural processing, but they aren't primary; inter-aural time differences are much more significant.  --Chinasaur 09:51, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Surely interaural time difference is captured as part of the HRTF (though may be more efficiently implemented separately from the otherwise huge HRTF FIR filter, from what I guess/gather). In any case, it sounds like you know what you're doing so I like forward to seeing the new sound localization article. Certainly binaural and the related articles deserved some attention.  Oh, I see sound localization is ready now.  Will check out.  -- Tlotoxl 10:05, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * My understanding is that HRTFs focus on frequency filtering as a function of source location. Time information is not something that HRTF people worry about I don't think (at least not in biology).  The time scale of inter-aural time differences is probably too long relative to the frequencies to be resolved in the low end of the frequency transform.  Not sure if this argument makes sense mathematically, or if it is answering your question.  My understanding is all from the biology side; my signal processing understanding is not so great.  --Chinasaur 10:39, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * It is true that HRTFs filter frequency as a function of source location, but it is important to realize that they have both an amplitude and phase component. Group delay, the total delay of a signal at a given frequency, is equal to the slope of the phase response of the HRTF (or filter in general) at a given frequency.  The difference in group delays between left and right ears will therefore be the interaural time difference.  Of course the length of interaural time delay reproduced by an HRTF is limited by the length of its impulse response (and the resulting FIR filter), but I think most HRTFS are at least several thousand samples long (so 10s of milliseconds long) -- this should be enough to capture the interaural time delay.  Since not everyone has a computer capable of convolving such long impulse responses with an input signal in real-time, though, I would imagine that many real-time solutions use delay-lines to introduce interaural time differences and then use much lower order filters.  Don't know, though.  Egads, sorry for the ramble.  Anyway, I think your article is an improvement, regardless. -- Tlotoxl 10:50, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't really get it; I don't see ITD as being a frequency dependent thing; shouldn't the time delay between two ears be the same for all frequencies? In terms of the phase offset results, I don't think this is on a time scale a human observer is going to notice, even for a very coherent, low frequency signal.  Trying to use the terminology you have just introduced to me: if the group delay necessary to capture the ITD is much more than a single phase of the signal, then how could you use it?  Is what I'm saying making any sense?  Time for bed.  --Chinasaur 11:15, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Complementary colors
I agree that the article is inadequate. I don't know the topic, so I can't fix it. But I have these two comments:

 * You wrote complimentary color, with an i. I hope that's just a typo and you know that complement with an e and compliment with an i are two different words that mean quite different things.

 * Is there really such a thing as "imaginary colors"? Can you explain?

Michael Hardy 01:15, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for you lengthy discussion of imaginary colors. Maybe your comments could evolve into a new article? Michael Hardy 23:20, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Phase perception
Regarding your comments on phase perception: (in Talk:Color) But actually I'm fairly certain that this is true of all biological color vision systems. I just can't think of a good way for any biological system to use phase information constructively (except in very special cases), so I would assume none do it. Thoughts?

-Not only is phase information not terribly useful.. I can't think of any way a biological system could retrieve phase information. For visual color, the time from wave trough to crest is on the timescale of femtoseconds, 1E-15. There is nothing in biology, or chemistry even, which can react that fast. Its pretty much accepted in physics that 'the only thing fast enough to measure light, is light.'.. That is, the only way to get phase data is through interference.

One practical example of that would be femtochemistry (see Zewail, nobel prize winner), which (in simplified terms) uses interference to measure chemical reactions (which are slower than the femtosecond timescale).

/End of lesson ;-)

 * Good point; I hadn't thought about the time scale issue. Still I'm not completely convinced that the time argument rules out light phase processing by a biological system.  This is mostly just to play Devil's advocate, but if you look at thin-film optics in biological structures like butterfly scales, or the tapetum lucidum you can see that there is the possibility of structured biology at the scale of light wavelengths.  So definitely I would say there are interference possibilities, although making the structure sensitive to more than a few wavelengths and phases through interference is hard to imagine.

 * On the other hand, wavelength scale structures may provide a way to get phase information without interference or femtosecond processing. I don't know enough about the optical activity of chemical absorbers like retinol to be able to say how this would work, but you can imagine that if light absorbing pigments were arranged in structured microlayers and had absorptional preference for the wave at a particular phase (this is the part I'm sketchy on) then it wouldn't be necessary to process extremely quickly, only to have a prolonged response and calculate a difference between responses based on the distance separation of the pigments.  What do you think?  Could we get light phase info by matching the wavelength of light, rather than trying to match the timescale?  --Chinasaur 19:17, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Funny how these issues keep coming up with me. Check out the discussion of binaural above; you might find that interesting and might have some input.  --Chinasaur 19:20, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Did you know
Hello, I'd like to inform you that "Did you know" is not for stubs. If you'd still like to see your submitted articles featured, please try to get them expanded to over 1000 bytes. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:46, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, I should have remembered. Good thing I was (uncharacteristically) unbold about adding them to the main page myself...  --Chinasaur 08:49, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mapquest template and Mapit-US-streetscale template
One of two things:
 * 1) Since yours is based on solely latitude and longitude, "US" may not be entirely approprate for the title, seeing as Mapquest can map worldwide.
 * 2) Just wanted to let you know there is an existing Mapquest template.  Template:Mapquest

-- AllyUnion (talk) 08:16, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks; it's good to get responses about this. I think everything you've brought up is consistent with my scheme: there are separate MQ only templates that can be used for mapping through lat/long (  and ) or address name  throughout the world.  But my new templates also include some other resources that only work in the U.S., and generally I want these templates to be dynamic and updatable with the latest resources, so it seemed to make sense to limit it.  For other countries, I would recommend using the existing MQ templates as that's about the best that can be done.  If there are other non-U.S. specific resources then new templates can be made to use those, but for now I think mapquest and british grid system (not compatible with lat/long) is about all we have outside the U.S. (as far as I'm aware).  Let me know if you have other concerns!  --Chinasaur 11:58, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

RSS
On main page talk, (1), you said: " I also worked up a My Watchlist RSS script, but ultimately I decided this wasn't all that useful. --Chinasaur 06:48, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)"

Is this true? This has been much asked for, but the developers have argumented that I'd take a lot of cpu from servers and be hard to protect - the watchlist is private. Does you solution, practically, work? That would be great!

The relevant meta page is Syndication_feeds, where I now see that Watchlists as RSS are on the roadmap. ✏ Sverdrup 21:17, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I wrote a simple cookiejar screen scraper client in perl that allowed you to login to your account based on the password cookies that WP stores on your machine. So it would login for you and then parse your watchlist HTML page to make an RSS update.  I just don't think this is the kind of application where RSS shines.  It makes more sense for the Did You Know and News templates.  For watchlist I really think a better solution is just to check it on the web.  In cases like mine, the watchlist is so long that getting it over RSS is impractical.
 * The only advantage I can see is that you could use the script as a middleman to do some additional processing on your watchlist, so for example don't bother to include edits from "trusted" usernames. Greater control over what appears in the watchlist is something that should be incorporated into MW.
 * Anyway, I have the source if you want to see the client I cooked up. But one other user had trouble even getting it to run.  --Chinasaur 18:13, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Millenium Actress
I looked over the page for Millenium Actress, and it looks good to me. It might be useful to add a list of voice actors. BTW - thanks for your work on the lotuses. Sorry for the late reply, I wandered off for November and most of December. Munkymu 17:59, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Onegin stanza
Doesn't it make sense to have information on the Onegin stanza in the article on Onegin, because it's directly releventant to it? Number 0 11:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I thought it was worth splitting since it was getting into some technical details that I doubt were very relevant to most readers of the Onegin article. And I think it has more room now to expand if people want to talk about other works written in that form or other nuances such as comparing it to Italian sonnet form, etc..  Finally, it's nice to have a separate page so that it can be linked to directly from poetry and sonnet articles; I really don't like linking to headings within articles.  --Chinasaur 18:57, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thought about it over the weekend and I think you're probably right, but I'll put some more information on the Onegin page too. Number 0 12:48, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for starting Errata. This could develop into a really useful resource. --DavidCary 19:10, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Lemonsoda

Lemonsoda is a brand of Italian carbonated soft drinks created in the 1940s by Milan-based company Saga and currently owned by Royal Unibrew.

History
The original Lemonsoda flavor was lemon. Oransoda and Pelmosoda, orange and grapefruit-flavored sodas, were introduced in the following years. In 1980 the brand was sold to Crodo, which became part of the Campari Group in 1999. During the 2003/2004 season Lemonsoda was the official sponsor of Lecce football club. In 2005, a tonic water titled Tonicsoda was the first Lemonsoda product born under the Campari brand. In 2010, two new versions of traditional Lemonsoda were created: sugarless Lemonsoda Zero and the Mojitosoda, a non-alcoholic cocktail made with lemon juice and mint flavor, flavored like a mojito cocktail. In October 2017, the Lemonsoda brand was sold to Royal Unibrew for 80 million Euro.

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Bowyangs

Bowyangs are pieces of cord, rope, or leather that are tied around the wearer's lower legs. A "bowyang" is a single piece of the tie.

Australia and New Zealand
Bowyangs come in several varieties:

 * A thong or string is used to hold trousers legs up, so that the wearer can squat or bend often without dragging the waist-belt down to the point where the trousers fall off. The thong or string is tied above the calf muscle of the lower leg, just below the knees, and in such a way as to hold a suitable amount of the upper leg of the trouser above the knee. A second purpose is to stop dust, grass seeds, insects, and snakes from going up the legs of farm workers. There is also the thought that in days gone by when farm workers only bathed once a week the bowyangs kept the dust and dirt from going up the legs and so helped keep the wearer clean.
 * These devices are commonly used in Australia and New Zealand by agricultural workers and those who frequently work in a stooped position. They are a particular feature of the dress of a shearer and are used, nowadays, worldwide by them. The statue of a ploughman and his plough on the war memorial on North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia has a man wearing bowyangs.

England and Scotland
In England, bowyangs (but not by that name - in Norfolk, they were called Elijahs) were an integral feature of “gorblimey trousers”, baggy corduroy trousers worn by e.g. coalmen and dustmen as featured in the song “My Old Man’s a Dustman” by Lonnie Donegan. In some parts of Scotland, they were known as “Nicky-tams”, and are the subject of a traditional Bothy Ballad of the same name.

Associated types

 * Cloth cones that are tied or held by elastic over the pants leg just above the ankle, and extend down to cover the top of the shoe or boot. This is to stop dirt, cement, brick powder, or any other matter from getting inside the sock or footwear via the top or shoelace holes. They are commonly employed on Australian building sites and are sold commercially for this purpose.

 * Straps that pilots, and other flight-crew, wear just below the knee that connect to their ejection-seat mechanism in such a way that the seat's ejection stroke hauls both legs back against the seat (to clear the instrument panel above) and restrains them from flailing about in the slipstream before the seat is slowed and steadied. The attachment is released as the pilot is released from the seat during its automatic sequencing. This colloquial use of "bowyangs" was started in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and spread, via the seat manufacturer, to other air forces.

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P-O-X

P-O-X is a handheld electronic game released by Hasbro in 2001. The game focuses on creating and customizing creatures called "POX Infectors" and using them to battle against other POX Infectors. The game includes both single-player and multi-player modes and a 30-foot (9 m) wireless connection range.

P-O-X was introduced through a viral marketing scheme. Hasbro asked kids in Chicago schools, "playgrounds, skate parks and video arcades" who they thought the "coolest kid" was, until they found kids who felt they were "the coolest" themselves, and distributed free copies of the game to them.

P-O-X performed strongly enough in the Chicago market to convince executives of the major toy retailer Toys R' Us to come on board for a national launch, slated for September 23, 2001, planned to coincide with the start of the Christmas shopping season. Originally, a second phase of the launch had been planned for 9 additional cities in the United States beyond Chicago, but the launch schedule was pushed forward due to the strong support from Hasbro and Toys R' Us executives.

In a case of unfortunate timing, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks raised considerable doubts in the Toys R' Us executive team about the viability of launching a game that prominently featured Earth being attacked by malicious forces that took the form of bug-like viruses that 'infected' their targets. After some focus groups with parents indicated that they [the parents] were uncomfortable with their children playing a game that featured viruses and 'infection', the game was pulled from the market.

There are three different versions of the game, each released as a differently colored console: the red Spino, green Cycro, and blue Plasmo.

Gameplay
Playing the game would require players to either use the wireless function to battle those around them, or use the single-player Arena. Arena gameplay consists of traveling around a sort of maze and fighting different P-O-X along the way. At the end of every mazelike level was a container with a new body part in it, and guarding that is the boss, called an Overspore. Upon victory against the Overspore, the player gains possession of the body part. However, the Overspore has as much HP for each body part as the player's infector has in its "healthiest" body part, making the battle difficult. Each level was named for the body part it contained at its end.

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Parboiling

Parboiling (or leaching) is the partial or semi boiling of food as the first step in cooking. The word is from the Old French parbouillir, 'to boil thoroughly' but by mistaken association with "part", it has acquired its current meaning.

The word is often used when referring to parboiled rice. Parboiling can also be used for removing poisonous or foul-tasting substances from foods, and to soften vegetables before roasting them.

Basic technique
The food items are added to boiling water and cooked until they start to soften, then removed before they are fully cooked. Parboiling is usually used to partially cook an item which will then be cooked another way such as braising, grilling, or stir-frying. Parboiling differs from blanching in that one does not cool the items using cold water or ice after removing them from the boiling water.

Parboiled rice
Sometimes raw rice or paddy is dehusked by using steam. This steam also partially boils the rice while dehusking. This process generally changes the colour of rice from white to a bit reddish. This type of rice is eaten in the districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka state, in the state of Kerala, and in most parts of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, and West Bengal in India. West Africa and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora are also accustomed to parboiling rice.

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Wonder Showzen

Wonder Showzen is an American adult puppet black comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee of PFFR.

Described as a children's television series for adults, the show's format is a parody of educational PBS Kids shows such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company (e.g. use of stock footage, puppetry, and clips of children being interviewed). In addition to general controversial comedy, it satirizes politics, religion, war, sex and culture with black comedy.

Production
Wonder Showzen was created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee, who originally made an early concept of it back in 1999, and pitched to the USA Network in 2000, but after a few minutes of viewing, executives there quickly concluded it did not fit the network's programming style. However, Viacom was re-branding MTV2 and made Wonder Showzen part of its new programming lineup. It aired as part of Sic 'Em Fridays, along with Dirty Sanchez and Wildboyz. The pilot and early concept were named simply "Kids Show". The Wonder Showzen theme song was also called 'Kids Show'. Reruns of the show also aired on MTV and Comedy Central. The first episode had animated segments provided by Raw Power, while the rest of the series had animated segments done by Augenblick Studios.

Ben Q. Jones, who was a member of the art collective Paper Rad, did some animations for the series, before continuing to work with PFFR again on his failed Adult Swim pilot Neon Knome, which was rejected, yet turned a show on Cartoon Network called The Problem Solverz, which Jones himself created. Another notable crew member who worked on Wonder Showzen was Mark Marek, who also worked on Cartoon Network's Mad and Nickelodeon's KaBlam!; he created Yuck, Yuck, Goose, and his sidekick, his Butt for Wonder Showzen.

MTV released the first season of Wonder Showzen on DVD March 28, 2006. The second season of Wonder Showzen premiered on March 31, 2006, and had its season-two finale starring Clarence on May 19, 2006, on MTV2. This season was released on DVD October 10, 2006, with an easter egg that featured an animation contest. The grand prize was announced as the winner's animation appearing on "the next DVD", but the creators later said a third season was unlikely, and MTV afterward canceled the show.

Adults

 * Vernon Chatman (Chauncey/Clarence/Various Voices)
 * John Lee (Wordsworth/Him/Various Voices)
 * Alyson Levy (Sthugar/Various Voices)
 * Jim Tozzi (Various Voices)

Kids

 * Benjamin Krueger
 * Evan Seligman
 * Taylor Bedlivy
 * P.J. Connaire
 * Jacob Kogan
 * Michael Samms
 * Trevor Heins
 * Kyle Bogert
 * Miles Kath
 * Jasmina Lee
 * Dominic Payer
 * Mike Gibbons
 * Alexandra Rose
 * Frankie Scapoli
 * Ryan Soos
 * Brianna Simpkins
 * Miles Williams
 * Pierce Gidez
 * Madison Rose
 * Ameerah Moore
 * Ryan Simpkins
 * Juliet DePaula
 * Sam Kaufman

Season one

 * Jon Glaser as Mr. Story in episode 101.
 * Flavor Flav as himself in episode 101, The full "Storytime with Flavor Flav" was cut from the broadcast version of the episode. It still appears however on the Season One DVD.
 * Dick Gregory as Mr. Sun in episode 103.
 * Amy Sedaris as Miss Amy in episode 106.
 * Christopher Meloni as the Chewties Spokesman in episode 107.
 * Chris Anderson as Koby Teeth in episode 104.
 * Madison Rose as herself in episodes 106 and 108.

Season two

 * David Cross as T-Totaled Timbo in episode 203, Hostage in episode 206, and Junkyard Jessip in episode 207.
 * Judah Friedlander as Crickey in episodes 203 and 207.
 * Jon Glaser as Dr. Rawstein in episodes 203 and 207.
 * Darlene Violette as Bettsy Beth Bethanie in episodes 203 and 207.
 * Amy Poehler as Miss Mary in episodes 203 and 206.
 * John Oates as himself, singing in the song, "War never solves anything" in episode 206.
 * Devendra Banhart as himself, singing in the song, "War never solves anything" in episode 206.
 * Rick Springfield as himself, singing in the song, "War never solves anything" in episode 206.
 * Corin Tucker as herself, singing in the song, "War never solves anything" in episode 206.
 * Todd Barry as Barold Q. Mosley in episode 207.
 * Zach Galifianakis as Uncle Daddy in episode 207.
 * Will Oldham as Pastor Pigmeat in episode 207.
 * Heather Lawless as Permanently Pregnant Peggy in episode 203 and 207.
 * Barbara Ann Davison as Cousin Grandma Pervis in episode 203 and 207.
 * Chris Anderson as Mr. Corn in episode 203

Recurring segments

 * Beat Kids – One of the children, most often Trevor, leads a journalistic segment with mostly offensive, humorous questions, ridiculing interviewees at a given venue. The segment appears in almost every episode.
 * What's Jim Drawing? – Appeared in episode 202 and 206.
 * Horse Apples – A segment in episode 203, which later expanded into an entire episode in 207, that parodies Hee Haw and redneck comedy. The latter episode featured several guest actors.
 * Funny/Not Funny – A series of clips, often depicting violent or macabre images, airs with a chorus of children saying either "funny" or "not funny".
 * So Now You Know – A parody of "The More You Know", Where kids say questions and a computer shows their answers. It appeared twice on season one and once on season two in episode 205.
 * Q&A – A series of children each answer a single question.
 * Breaking News – Features the news reporter.
 * We Went To... – Children narrate an ostensibly educational trip while old stock film airs.
 * Clarence's Movies – Clarence the puppet interviews people on the street on a common theme, usually antagonistically or obnoxiously, which is often reciprocated by violence or threats.
 * Story Time – A special guest reads a story to the children. Guests have included Flavor Flav (as himself although it was unaired), Jon Glaser (as Mr. Story), David Cross (as a hostage), and Amy Sedaris (as Ms. Amy).
 * Mr. Body – A cartoon segment that parodies the Slim Goodbody character from the Captain Kangaroo television series.
 * D.O.G.O.B.G.Y.N – A cartoon chronicling a dog with the ability to aid in child birth; part of the title derives from a short form for "obstetrics and gynaecology", and part of it comes from the common domesticated dog.

Broadcast
It aired in Canada on MTV2, the United Kingdom and Ireland on MTV Two, MTV and TMF, Australia on MTV, Germany and Italy on MTV Entertainment, Latin America on MTV Latin America and in the Baltics on MTV Networks Baltic. In Turkey, it aired on Euro D with graphic scenes cut.

Reception
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama said "Wonder Showzen is so weirdly funny the top of your head will burst and your skull will fly out."

Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, who PFFR would later make shows for, said "It's a show about kids, for freaks, and we love it."

The first season holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Home releases
A gift set containing both seasons was scheduled for release on December 12, 2006, but it was cancelled. A similar set eventually released on March 16, 2021. The show is also streaming on Paramount+, although episodes "History" and "Time" are missing.

Other sources

 * Wonder Showzen's page on MTV2.com
 * Interview with The A.V. Club
 * Wonder Showzen's Animators
 * Rotten Library

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1997 Pulitzer Prize

A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1997:

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
 * Fiction:
 * Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
 * History:
 * Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * General Non-Fiction:
 * Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * Poetry:
 * Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
 * Drama:
 * No award given.
 * Music;
 * Blood on the Fields by Wynton Marsalis (Boosey & Hawkes), premiered on January 28, 1997, at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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List of French Open women's doubles champions

French Championships
The French Championships tennis tournament began in 1891 but women's doubles didn't make an appearance until 1907. The tournament was open only to French citizens and permanent residents through 1924, but beginning in 1925, the French Championships became an international event open to all nationalities.

Champions by country
If the doubles partners are from the same country then that country gets two titles instead of one, while if they are from different countries then each country will get one title apiece.


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User talk:Chinasaur/Tkorrovi vs. Psb777

Psb777
Hi. You may not be aware of the ArbCom case brought against me by Tkorrovi. He alleges personal attack and one of the examples he quotes has me calling him a troll. I wonder, considering this, if you would care to comment. Paul Beardsell 21:54, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Chinasaur, I was unaware of your comment to me on Tkorrovi's talk page. Please see User_talk:Tkorrovi. Paul Beardsell 07:12, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tkorrovi
No Chinasaur, you act in bad faith, you have moved the comments selectively, leaving your comment there and moving my comments. If you want to have consensus, then the page stays how it was -- this was consensus.Tkorrovi 02:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I simply don't see any reason for moving that part of the page. All your arguments are questionable, I say that the information you moved was not tangential to the case, to the contrary, I think it contained the most important information, some people may want to read with interest. Second, I'm against any summaries, this is arbitration case, and a primary information is necessary there, not an information replaced by a summary written by somebody. I am a participant of this case, and naturally interested in that. But may I ask, what is the reason why you are so interested in that particular case, and why is it necessary for you to do these almost unnecessary edits of moving parts of the page?Tkorrovi 03:22, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I want to change it back, and having your agreement, I did it. You may write your summaries there if you like, if these are only your comments, and not a replacement of any original information. Please understand that it's difficult for me too. I was attacked by several people before, and I have not always an idea what exactly is going on. If we did talk the first time, I did expect the best from you, but now... Your moving caused Paul to act against me again, he always does, whenever he finds a slightest possibility, it is very difficult with him. This time he started to revert.Tkorrovi 04:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Rmsberger

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Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. ''As here. Please avoid adding OR. Also, please don't use "claimed" in situations such as this -- though it is appropriate, for example, in a court case at times. '' Epeefleche (talk) 23:30, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The same with your subsequent uncited OR assertions here. Epeefleche (talk) 23:34, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I do not understand the implied rules. I was as much part of the debate as Rabbi Yaakov Menken. (The discussion group I run has more subscribers than cross-currents gets unique visitors per week.) I don't know how to say this while avoiding sounding egotistical, but as a rabbi who has an Engineer's Degree (an "all but doctorate") in Electrical Engineering, teaching for 2 years college and graduate level courses in digital logic and computer design, and a 23 year career in programming, mostly in Java, I am not sure I'm a less reliable source than those already quoted. And in fact, it was my pointing out the impossibility of some of their claims (eg the battery charging thing) that got YidTech to change the text of their page -- my OR was material to the events in the story, this is not post-facto theorizing. Had Rabbi Menken edited the "Possible hoax" section to include his own position, would it be OR because he is presenting his own findings? Or is the difference that I originally wrote my opinion on an email list which is not publicly accessible (aside from shortened versions in comments to Rabbi Menken's post as well as a few other blogs)?

As for "claims", since there is reason to believe they don't exist, writing the existence of a semi-developed app and a team of developers as though they were fact is inaccurate. The real topic here is not the alleged but impossible app, it's the consequent discussion of halakhah and proper public policy if it were to exist. micha (talk) 00:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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User:Shaond

Hi. I'm Shaon.

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Zhanna Prokhorenko

Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko (Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко, Жаннета "Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier.

Life and career
Prokhorenko was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and grew up in central Ukraine inside the Prokofiev house, before she and her family moved to Leningrad. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1964. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour". Her granddaughter is actress Maryana Spivak.

Personal life and death
Prokhorenko married twice, first to film director Yevgeny Vasilyev with whom she had one daughter. Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was murdered in her apartment in 1995. The killer was never found. Sixteen years after that tragedy, in 2011, Prokhorenko died at age 71 from undisclosed causes.

Selected filmography

 * Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
 * But What If This Is Love (1961)
 * Going Inside a Storm (1964)
 * Attack and Retreat (1964)
 * Balzaminov's Marriage (1964)
 * Uninvented Story (1964)
 * An Incident that no one noticed (1967)
 * The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
 * From Dawn Till Sunset (1975)
 * Newcomer (1977)
 * TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (1984)
 * The Witches Cave (1989)
 * Entrance to the Labyrinth (1989)

title: Zhanna Prokhorenko


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1998 Pulitzer Prize

A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:

Letters
Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
 * Biography or Autobiography
 * Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * Fiction
 * American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
 * History
 * Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson (BasicBooks)
 * General Non-Fiction
 * Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
 * Poetry
 * Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)
 * Drama
 * How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel (TCG)
 * Music
 * String Quartet No. 2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis (Associated Music Publishers)

Special Awards and Citations

 * Special Citation
 * George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.

title: 1998 Pulitzer Prize