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Shanxi Loongs

The Shanxi Loongs, also known as Shanxi SDIC Raptors Club or Shanxi Fenjiu Shares are a Chinese professional basketball team based in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which plays in the Northern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The Shanxi Fenjiu Company is the club's corporate sponsor, while its mascot is a dragon.

The team was known in English as the Shanxi Brave Dragons from the Summer of 2007 until September 2018, when a rebranding ceremony was held, unveiling a new logo and nickname. Loong is the Chinese word for dragon, in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

History
Originally known as the Henan Renhe Dragons (河南仁和) due to corporate sponsorship by the Henan Renhe Group (河南仁和集团), the team rebranded as a result of an agreement signed with the Henan Jiyuan Iron & Steel Group (河南济源钢铁集团) in early November, just before the CBA's 2004–05 regular season began (jigang is an abbreviation for jiyuan gangtie or Jiyuan Iron & Steel).

In conjunction with this change—the club moved from its original home city of Zhengzhou to Jiyuan—in the middle of its first season. From 2004 to 2006 they were known as the Henan Jigang Dragons (河南济钢猛龙) or Henan Jigang or Henan Dragons, and were based in both Jiyuan and Luoyang, Henan.

During the 2004–05 CBA season, the team's first in the league, the Henan Dragons finished in seventh and last place in the CBA's North Division and out of the playoffs. In the 2005–06 CBA season they suffered the same fate yet again.

Before the 2006–07 CBA season, the team headed to Taiyuan, and changed its name to the Shanxi Yujun Dragons or Shanxi Yujun or Shanxi Dragons. They signed with a new sponsor the following year, and became known as the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons, but the club has fared little better on the court since its relocation.

In January 2010, the Brave Dragons signed former NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury. He only stayed with Shanxi through the end of the 2009–10 CBA season, before leaving for Foshan, and eventually Beijing.

In August 2011, the Brave Dragons played an exhibition game against the Georgetown University Hoyas during the Washington, D.C. squad's two-week summer trip to China, but lost by a final score of 98–81.

Playing in the IBL
The Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons participated in the 2008 season of the International Basketball League (IBL). The IBL is a spring/summer league based in Portland, Oregon. They were housed at the United States Basketball Academy.

Notable players
Current International players
 * 🇺🇸 Jamaal Franklin (2019–present)
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Moreland (2019–present)

Former Chinese players
 * 🇨🇳 Shan Tao (2007–08)
 * 🇨🇳 Shang Ping (2010–12)
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Lei (2005–07)
 * Wu Tai-hao (2015–2018)

Former International players

 * 🇯🇴 Zaid Abbas (2014–15)
 * 🇺🇸 Yancy Gates (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Alexander Johnson (2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Dominique Jones (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Stephon Marbury (2010)
 * 🇳🇬 Olumide Oyedeji (2008–09)
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Pickett (2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Leon Rodgers (2010–11)
 * 🇺🇸🇻🇪 Donta Smith (2008–10)
 * 🇺🇸 Shawn Taggart (2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Maurice Taylor (2009–10)
 * 🇺🇸 Jeremy Tyler (2014–15)
 * 🇺🇸 Von Wafer (2014–15)
 * 🇺🇸 Bonzi Wells (2008–09)
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Williams (2011–14)
 * 🇨🇦 Samuel Dalembert (2015–17)
 * 🇺🇸 Jamaal Franklin (2015–17)
 * 🇺🇸 Henry Sims (2016–17)
 * 🇺🇸 Brandon Jennings (2017–18)
 * 🇦🇷 Luis Scola (2017–18)

Trivia
The team and their former coach Bob Weiss are subject of the book Brave Dragons, A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach and Two Cultures Clashing which is about the experience of Weiss while he was coaching the team during the 2008–2009 season.

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Sambirano mouse lemur

The Sambirano mouse lemur (Microcebus sambiranensis) is a small, recently discovered primate and like the other mouse lemurs can only be found on the island of Madagascar. The dorsal side is both cinnamon and rufous-cinnamon and is grey ventrally. It has vibrissae that are dark in color.

The species was discovered in northwestern Madagascar, in the Ankarana Special Reserve, where vegetation remains dense, after a survey was completed of the area. It was named as a separate species at the same time as the Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) and northern rufous mouse lemur (Microcebus tavaratra).

Foliage tree sleeping sites prevent predatorial species interaction with Sambirano Mouse Lemurs.

Sambirano mouse lemurs are endemic to Madagascar and are currently prone to extinction. Long term reforestation in northwestern Madagascar may facilitate the conservation of this species.

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Jiangsu Dragons

Jiangsu Dragons Kentier, also known as Jiangsu Dragons or Jiangsu Kentier, are a Chinese professional basketball team in the Southern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Nanjing, Jiangsu.

History
In the 2004–05 season, the Jiangsu Dragons finished in last place in the South Division. Tristan Wells lead the team in points and defeated the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the quarter-finals and the Yunnan Bulls in the semi-finals, but lost to the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Finals.

Notable players

 * 🇨🇳 Hu Weidong (1985–2005)
 * 🇨🇳 Hu Xuefeng (1999–2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Andersen (1999–2000)
 * 🇺🇸 Alex Scales (2001–2002)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Herren (2003–2004)
 * 🇨🇳 Yi Li (2004–present)
 * 🇺🇸 Jelani McCoy (2004–2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Butch (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Donnell Harvey (2008–2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Jameel Watkins (2008–2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Ricky Davis (2010)
 * 🇫🇷 Jérôme Moïso (2010–2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Antoine Wright (2010–2011)
 * Dan Gadzuric (2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Mardy Collins (2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Williams (2011–2012)
 * 🇺🇸/ Jackson Vroman (2011–2012)
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Harris (2012–2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Garret Siler (2012–2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Haislip (2013–2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Toney Douglas (2014–2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Singleton (2014–2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Arnett Moultrie (2014–2015)
 * 🇺🇸 MarShon Brooks (2015–2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Greg Oden (2015–2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Will McDonald (2015, 2016–present)
 * 🇯🇲 Samardo Samuels (2016–2017)
 * 🇷🇸 Miroslav Raduljica (2017–present)
 * 🇺🇸 Antonio Blakeney

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210th Coastal Defense Division

The 210th Coastal Defence Division was created from a Division zbV staff (an ad hoc headquarters that could be used to form a division around) in July 1942, and shipped north to defend the port Petsamo in Arctic Finland. In late 1944 it moved westward to take up the defense of Vardø in the Norwegian Finnmark.

The division had a non-standard organization, consisting of several battalions of fortress infantry and coastal artillery.

Organization
The division had the following structure during its existence:

 * Headquarters at Trondheim
 * 661st Fortress Battalion
 * 662nd Fortress Battalion
 * 663rd Fortress Battalion
 * 664th Fortress Battalion
 * 665th Fortress Battalion
 * 37th Army Coastal Defense Artillery Regiment
 * 448th Army Coastal Defense Artillery Battalion
 * 478th Army Coastal Defense Artillery Battalion
 * 480th Army Coastal Defense Artillery Battalion
 * 773rd Army Coastal Defense Artillery Battalion
 * 3rd Battalion, 67th Mountain Signal Battalion (Later became 210th Signal Company)
 * 210th Divisional Supply Group
 * (Later Added - 9th Motorcycle Battalion)

Commanders
The division only had 2 commanders during its time :

 * Generalleutnant Karl Wintergerst (15.07.1942 – 01.02.1944)
 * Generalleutnant Kurt Ebeling (01.02.1944 – 08.05.1945)

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Guangdong Southern Tigers

Guangdong Hongyuan Southern Tigers or Guangdong Southern Tigers, also known as Guangdong Dongguan Bank  for sponsorship reasons, are a Chinese professional basketball team owned by the Guangdong Winnerway (Hongyuan) Group. The team is one of the best-performing teams in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The Tigers have won eleven CBA titles, more than any other team in the league. They are also the only team to have qualified for the CBA playoffs in every season since the league launched in 1995. The team plays its home games in Dongguan, Guangdong. Occasionally, for marketing purposes, the team plays some of its home games in Zhongshan, Zhuhai, and other cities in the Pearl River Delta.

Their arch-rivals in the CBA have traditionally been the Beijing Ducks.

History
Established in 1993, the Tigers are the main team (Team 1) of the Guangdong Southern Tigers Basketball Club which is the first privately (non-government) owned professional basketball club in China. Besides Team 1, the club has three reserve teams (youth teams): Team 2 (Guangzhou based), Team 3A (Guangzhou based), and Team 3B (Dongguan based). These reserve teams are jointly administered by the club and by the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau.

The Southern Tigers have been CBA members since its inception and are the most successful team in the league. In the 1995–96 season, the Tigers qualified for the finals but lost to Bayi Rockets. After a seven-year wait, they made it to the finals again in 2002–03, and in 2003–04, the team claimed its first ever CBA title. Between 2002–03 and 2012–13, the team played in the finals eleven times in a row, winning eight CBA championships and losing three times.

The team has also participated in the National Games of China, on behalf of the Guangdong Province. In 2009, they won the first National Games gold medal in basketball for their province. They defended the title in 2013.

Honours

 * Chinese Basketball Association
 * Playoffs champions (11): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
 * Playoffs runners-up (5): 1995–96, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2011–12, 2016–17
 * Regular season champions (14): 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06 (South Division), 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
 * Regular season runners-up (6): 1995–96, 1999–2000, 2004–05 (South Division), 2010–11, 2016–17, 2022–23

 * FIBA Asia Champions Cup
 * Third place: 1996

 * National Club Championship
 * Winners: 1998

 * Asian Club Championship
 * Winners: 2012

 * National Men's Basketball Group B League
 * Winners: 1995

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Guangdong Winnerway

Guangdong Hongyuan may refer to:
 * Guangdong Winnerway Group
 * Guangdong Southern Tigers, the basketball club owned by Guangdong Winnerway Group
 * Guangdong Winnerway F.C., the defunct football club owned by Guangdong Winnerway Group.

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Sanger sequencing

Sanger sequencing is a method of DNA sequencing that involves electrophoresis and is based on the random incorporation of chain-terminating dideoxynucleotides by DNA polymerase during in vitro DNA replication. After first being developed by Frederick Sanger and colleagues in 1977, it became the most widely used sequencing method for approximately 40 years. It was first commercialized by Applied Biosystems in 1986. More recently, higher volume Sanger sequencing has been replaced by next generation sequencing methods, especially for large-scale, automated genome analyses. However, the Sanger method remains in wide use for smaller-scale projects and for validation of deep sequencing results. It still has the advantage over short-read sequencing technologies (like Illumina) in that it can produce DNA sequence reads of > 500 nucleotides and maintains a very low error rate with accuracies around 99.99%. Sanger sequencing is still actively being used in efforts for public health initiatives such as sequencing the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 as well as for the surveillance of norovirus outbreaks through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) CaliciNet surveillance network.

Method
The classical chain-termination method requires a single-stranded DNA template, a DNA primer, a DNA polymerase, normal deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs), and modified di-deoxynucleotide triphosphates (ddNTPs), the latter of which terminate DNA strand elongation. These chain-terminating nucleotides lack a 3'-OH group required for the formation of a phosphodiester bond between two nucleotides, causing DNA polymerase to cease extension of DNA when a modified ddNTP is incorporated. The ddNTPs may be radioactively or fluorescently labelled for detection in automated sequencing machines.

The DNA sample is divided into four separate sequencing reactions, containing all four of the standard deoxynucleotides (dATP, dGTP, dCTP and dTTP) and the DNA polymerase. To each reaction is added only one of the four dideoxynucleotides (ddATP, ddGTP, ddCTP, or ddTTP), while the other added nucleotides are ordinary ones. The deoxynucleotide concentration should be approximately 100-fold higher than that of the corresponding dideoxynucleotide (e.g. 0.5mM dTTP : 0.005mM ddTTP) to allow enough fragments to be produced while still transcribing the complete sequence (but the concentration of ddNTP also depends on the desired length of sequence). Putting it in a more sensible order, four separate reactions are needed in this process to test all four ddNTPs. Following rounds of template DNA extension from the bound primer, the resulting DNA fragments are heat denatured and separated by size using gel electrophoresis. In the original publication of 1977, the formation of base-paired loops of ssDNA was a cause of serious difficulty in resolving bands at some locations. This is frequently performed using a denaturing polyacrylamide-urea gel with each of the four reactions run in one of four individual lanes (lanes A, T, G, C). The DNA bands may then be visualized by autoradiography or UV light, and the DNA sequence can be directly read off the X-ray film or gel image. In the image on the right, X-ray film was exposed to the gel, and the dark bands correspond to DNA fragments of different lengths. A dark band in a lane indicates a DNA fragment that is the result of chain termination after incorporation of a dideoxynucleotide (ddATP, ddGTP, ddCTP, or ddTTP). The relative positions of the different bands among the four lanes, from bottom to top, are then used to read the DNA sequence.

Technical variations of chain-termination sequencing include tagging with nucleotides containing radioactive phosphorus for radiolabelling, or using a primer labeled at the 5' end with a fluorescent dye. Dye-primer sequencing facilitates reading in an optical system for faster and more economical analysis and automation. The later development by Leroy Hood and coworkers of fluorescently labeled ddNTPs and primers set the stage for automated, high-throughput DNA sequencing.

Chain-termination methods have greatly simplified DNA sequencing. For example, chain-termination-based kits are commercially available that contain the reagents needed for sequencing, pre-aliquoted and ready to use. Limitations include non-specific binding of the primer to the DNA, affecting accurate read-out of the DNA sequence, and DNA secondary structures affecting the fidelity of the sequence.

Dye-terminator sequencing

Dye-terminator sequencing utilizes labelling of the chain terminator ddNTPs, which permits sequencing in a single reaction rather than four reactions as in the labelled-primer method. In dye-terminator sequencing, each of the four dideoxynucleotide chain terminators is labelled with fluorescent dyes, each of which emits light at different wavelengths.

Owing to its greater expediency and speed, dye-terminator sequencing is now the mainstay in automated sequencing. Its limitations include dye effects due to differences in the incorporation of the dye-labelled chain terminators into the DNA fragment, resulting in unequal peak heights and shapes in the electronic DNA sequence trace electropherogram (a type of chromatogram) after capillary electrophoresis (see figure to the left).

This problem has been addressed with the use of modified DNA polymerase enzyme systems and dyes that minimize incorporation variability, as well as methods for eliminating "dye blobs". The dye-terminator sequencing method, along with automated high-throughput DNA sequence analyzers, was used for the vast majority of sequencing projects until the introduction of next generation sequencing.

Automation and sample preparation
Automated DNA-sequencing instruments (DNA sequencers) can sequence up to 384 DNA samples in a single batch. Batch runs may occur up to 24 times a day. DNA sequencers separate strands by size (or length) using capillary electrophoresis, they detect and record dye fluorescence, and output data as fluorescent peak trace chromatograms. Sequencing reactions (thermocycling and labelling), cleanup and re-suspension of samples in a buffer solution are performed separately, before loading samples onto the sequencer. A number of commercial and non-commercial software packages can trim low-quality DNA traces automatically. These programs score the quality of each peak and remove low-quality base peaks (which are generally located at the ends of the sequence). The accuracy of such algorithms is inferior to visual examination by a human operator, but is adequate for automated processing of large sequence data sets.

Applications of dye-terminating sequencing
The field of public health plays many roles to support patient diagnostics as well as environmental surveillance of potential toxic substances and circulating biological pathogens. Public health laboratories (PHL) and other laboratories around the world have played a pivotal role in providing rapid sequencing data for the surveillance of the virus SARS-CoV-2, causative agent for COVID-19, during the pandemic that was declared a public health emergency on January 30, 2020. Laboratories were tasked with the rapid implementation of sequencing methods and asked to provide accurate data to assist in the decision-making models for the development of policies to mitigate spread of the virus. Many laboratories resorted to next generation sequencing methodologies while others supported efforts with Sanger sequencing. The sequencing efforts of SARS-CoV-2 are many, while most laboratories implemented whole genome sequencing of the virus, others have opted to sequence very specific genes of the virus such as the S-gene, encoding the information needed to produce the spike protein. The high mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 leads to genetic differences within the S-gene and these differences have played a role in the infectivity of the virus. Sanger sequencing of the S-gene provides a quick, accurate, and more affordable method to retrieving the genetic code. Laboratories in lower income countries may not have the capabilities to implement expensive applications such as next generation sequencing, so Sanger methods may prevail in supporting the generation of sequencing data for surveillance of variants.

Sanger sequencing is also the "gold standard" for norovirus surveillance methods for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) CaliciNet network. CalciNet is an outbreak surveillance network that was established in March 2009. The goal of the network is to collect sequencing data of circulating noroviruses in the United States and activate downstream action to determine the source of infection to mitigate the spread of the virus. The CalciNet network has identified many infections as foodborne illnesses. This data can then be published and used to develop recommendations for future action to prevent tainting food. The methods employed for detection of norovirus involve targeted amplification of specific areas of the genome. The amplicons are then sequenced using dye-terminating Sanger sequencing and the chromatograms and sequences generated are analyzed with a software package developed in BioNumerics. Sequences are tracked and strain relatedness is studied to infer epidemiological relevance.

Challenges
Common challenges of DNA sequencing with the Sanger method include poor quality in the first 15-40 bases of the sequence due to primer binding and deteriorating quality of sequencing traces after 700-900 bases. Base calling software such as Phred typically provides an estimate of quality to aid in trimming of low-quality regions of sequences.

In cases where DNA fragments are cloned before sequencing, the resulting sequence may contain parts of the cloning vector. In contrast, PCR-based cloning and next-generation sequencing technologies based on pyrosequencing often avoid using cloning vectors. Recently, one-step Sanger sequencing (combined amplification and sequencing) methods such as Ampliseq and SeqSharp have been developed that allow rapid sequencing of target genes without cloning or prior amplification.

Current methods can directly sequence only relatively short (300-1000 nucleotides long) DNA fragments in a single reaction. The main obstacle to sequencing DNA fragments above this size limit is insufficient power of separation for resolving large DNA fragments that differ in length by only one nucleotide.

Microfluidic Sanger sequencing
Microfluidic Sanger sequencing is a lab-on-a-chip application for DNA sequencing, in which the Sanger sequencing steps (thermal cycling, sample purification, and capillary electrophoresis) are integrated on a wafer-scale chip using nanoliter-scale sample volumes. This technology generates long and accurate sequence reads, while obviating many of the significant shortcomings of the conventional Sanger method (e.g. high consumption of expensive reagents, reliance on expensive equipment, personnel-intensive manipulations, etc.) by integrating and automating the Sanger sequencing steps.

In its modern inception, high-throughput genome sequencing involves fragmenting the genome into small single-stranded pieces, followed by amplification of the fragments by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Adopting the Sanger method, each DNA fragment is irreversibly terminated with the incorporation of a fluorescently labeled dideoxy chain-terminating nucleotide, thereby producing a DNA “ladder” of fragments that each differ in length by one base and bear a base-specific fluorescent label at the terminal base. Amplified base ladders are then separated by capillary array electrophoresis (CAE) with automated, in situ “finish-line” detection of the fluorescently labeled ssDNA fragments, which provides an ordered sequence of the fragments. These sequence reads are then computer assembled into overlapping or contiguous sequences (termed "contigs") which resemble the full genomic sequence once fully assembled.

Sanger methods achieve maximum read lengths of approximately 800 bp (typically 500–600 bp with non-enriched DNA). The longer read lengths in Sanger methods display significant advantages over other sequencing methods especially in terms of sequencing repetitive regions of the genome. A challenge of short-read sequence data is particularly an issue in sequencing new genomes (de novo) and in sequencing highly rearranged genome segments, typically those seen of cancer genomes or in regions of chromosomes that exhibit structural variation.

Applications of microfluidic sequencing technologies
Other useful applications of DNA sequencing include single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection, single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) heteroduplex analysis, and short tandem repeat (STR) analysis. Resolving DNA fragments according to differences in size and/or conformation is the most critical step in studying these features of the genome.

Device design
The sequencing chip has a four-layer construction, consisting of three 100-mm-diameter glass wafers (on which device elements are microfabricated) and a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane. Reaction chambers and capillary electrophoresis channels are etched between the top two glass wafers, which are thermally bonded. Three-dimensional channel interconnections and microvalves are formed by the PDMS and bottom manifold glass wafer.

The device consists of three functional units, each corresponding to the Sanger sequencing steps. The thermal cycling (TC) unit is a 250-nanoliter reaction chamber with integrated resistive temperature detector, microvalves, and a surface heater. Movement of reagent between the top all-glass layer and the lower glass-PDMS layer occurs through 500-μm-diameter via-holes. After thermal-cycling, the reaction mixture undergoes purification in the capture/purification chamber, and then is injected into the capillary electrophoresis (CE) chamber. The CE unit consists of a 30-cm capillary which is folded into a compact switchback pattern via 65-μm-wide turns.

Sequencing chemistry

 * Thermal cycling
 * In the TC reaction chamber, dye-terminator sequencing reagent, template DNA, and primers are loaded into the TC chamber and thermal-cycled for 35 cycles ( at 95 °C for 12 seconds and at 60 °C for 55 seconds).

 * Purification
 * The charged reaction mixture (containing extension fragments, template DNA, and excess sequencing reagent) is conducted through a capture/purification chamber at 30 °C via a 33-Volts/cm electric field applied between capture outlet and inlet ports. The capture gel through which the sample is driven, consists of 40 μM of oligonucleotide (complementary to the primers) covalently bound to a polyacrylamide matrix. Extension fragments are immobilized by the gel matrix, and excess primer, template, free nucleotides, and salts are eluted through the capture waste port. The capture gel is heated to 67-75 °C to release extension fragments.

 * Capillary electrophoresis
 * Extension fragments are injected into the CE chamber where they are electrophoresed through a 125-167-V/cm field.

Platforms
The Apollo 100 platform (Microchip Biotechnologies Inc., Dublin, CA) integrates the first two Sanger sequencing steps (thermal cycling and purification) in a fully automated system. The manufacturer claims that samples are ready for capillary electrophoresis within three hours of the sample and reagents being loaded into the system. The Apollo 100 platform requires sub-microliter volumes of reagents.

Comparisons to other sequencing techniques
The ultimate goal of high-throughput sequencing is to develop systems that are low-cost, and extremely efficient at obtaining extended (longer) read lengths. Longer read lengths of each single electrophoretic separation, substantially reduces the cost associated with de novo DNA sequencing and the number of templates needed to sequence DNA contigs at a given redundancy. Microfluidics may allow for faster, cheaper and easier sequence assembly.

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Interventricular foramina (neuroanatomy)

In the brain, the interventricular foramina (foramina of Monro) are channels that connect the paired lateral ventricles with the third ventricle at the midline of the brain. As channels, they allow cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) produced in the lateral ventricles to reach the third ventricle and then the rest of the brain's ventricular system. The walls of the interventricular foramina also contain choroid plexus, a specialized CSF-producing structure, that is continuous with that of the lateral and third ventricles above and below it.

Structure
The interventricular foramina are two holes (foramen, pl. foramina) that connect the left and the right lateral ventricles to the third ventricle. They are located on the underside near the midline of the lateral ventricles, and join the third ventricle where its roof meets its anterior surface. In front of the foramen is the fornix and behind is the thalamus. The foramen is normally crescent-shaped, but rounds and increases in size depending on the size of the lateral ventricles.

Development
The development and shape of the ventricular system relates to the differential development of different parts of the brain, with the ventricular system ultimately arising from the neural tube. The lateral ventricles remain connected to the third ventricle throughout development, themselves developing as outpouchings from the third ventricle. The foramina develop slowly in a forward and outward direction as the fornix grows in size.

Function
The interventricular foramina connect the lateral ventricles to the third ventricle. This allows cerebrospinal fluid produced in the lateral ventricles to reach the third ventricle and then the rest of the brain's ventricular system.

The walls of the interventricular foramina contain choroid plexus, a specialized structure that produces cerebrospinal fluid. The choroid plexus of the third ventricles continues through the foramina into the lateral ventricles.

End branches of the medial posterior choroidal arteries, superior thalamostriate, superior choroid veins and septal veins also pass through the foramina.

Clinical significance
The interventricular foramina give rise to disease when they are narrowed or blocked. Narrowing of the foramen is more common in children and linked to: inflammation and scarring from congenital infections, particularly TORCH infections; developmental abnormalities, including of the basilar artery and choroid plexus; and abnormal surrounding tissue growths, such as colloid cysts, subependymal giant-cell tumours, nodules and harmatomas.

The most common symptom of blockage is headache; other symptoms include fainting, dementia, and coma, all of which are associated with obstructive hydrocephalus of the affected side or sides. Hydrocephalus can be identified by a CT scan or MRI scan of the brain, and treatment involves a neurosurgical operation in which an endoscope (i.e., a tiny camera and tools) is used to widen the foramen or create a new opening through the septum pellucidum between the lateral ventricles. If an obstructing mass is too large or too difficult to remove endoscopically, an open operation or the insertion of an artificial path between the ventricles and peritoneum may be required. Because of the intimate nature of pathways within the brain, such operations may result in damage to nearby structures, with complications including anterograde amnesia, inability to move half the body, akinetic mutism and disconnection syndromes.

History
The foramina were named after the Scottish physician and University of Edinburgh graduate Alexander Monro, who first described an enlarged foramen in the context of hydrocephalus in a presentation to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh in 1764, and subsequently in his 1783 publication, Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System.

In this publication, Monro notes that the ventricular system has been noted to be connected, implying the presence of the foramen, since the time of the physician anatomist Galen. Monro described it as: "... an oval hole, large enough to admit a goose quill, under forepart of the fornix. From this hole, a probe can be readily passed into the other lateral ventricle, shewing [sic], in the first place that the two lateral ventricles communicate with each other" Monro's original description, of two lateral ventricles joined by a foramen that then joined the third ventricle, is in fact incorrect. As noted by Monro himself, previous authors have also described the ventricles as having connections; consequently, the eponym of "Monro" has been disputed.


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David Hong's website

Man, your http://davidhong.newsvine.com/ — hacked! Lots of dead links 'n' stuff. I am watching. I see you. Welcome to the pantopticon. Yyou will not hold it against me, will you! (talk)

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Henri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais

Henri-Godefroi-Bernard-Alphonse, 1st Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne, 2nd Marquis de Saint-Paulet (21 October 1823 – 5 May 1871) was a French politician of the Second Empire who twice served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Emperor Napoleon III.

De La Tour d'Auvergne was Ambassador of France to London (1863–69), in which capacity he was a signatory to the Treaty of London in 1867.

Personal life
He was the son of Melchior de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1794–1849), 1st Marquess of Saint-Paulet and 2nd Baron of the Empire, and Laurence de Chauvigny de Blot.

He was married to Emilie Céleste Montault des Illes (1822–1857), daughter of Charles Montault des Illes and Emilie Adélaïde Bertrand. His only son was:
 * Charles-Laurent-Bernard-Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1852–1903), 2nd Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, 3rd Marquess of Saint-Paulet and 4th Baron of the Empire. Married in 1875 to Marie Léontine Ysoré d'Hervault de Pleumartin, daughter of Anne Antoine Ysoré d'Hervault, 7th Marquis de Pleumartin, and Césarine de Gars de Courcelles. He had three children:
 * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1876–1914), 3rd Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, 4th Marquess of Saint-Paulet and 5th Baron of the Empire. Married in 1904 to Elisabeth Berthier de Wagram (1885–1960), daughter of Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (grandson of Louis-Alexandre Berthier) and Bertha Clara von Rothschild (daughter of Mayer Carl, Baron von Rothschild).
 * Charles de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1877–1940)
 * Césarine de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1879–1947)

Honours and titles

 * Crown of a Marquis of France (variant).svg Marquis de France (succeeded his father in the marquisate of Saint-Paulet, 1849)
 * Legion Honneur GC ribbon.svg Grand-croix, Légion d'honneur
 * SMOM-gc.svg Knight, Order of Malta
 * VA Ordine Piano BAR.svg Knight, Order of Pius IX
 * D-SAX Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden BAR.svg Knight, Saxe-Ernestine House Order
 * PRU Roter Adlerorden BAR.svg Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Red Eagle
 * Ordine delle Due Sicilie ribbon bar.png Knight Commander, Order of the Two Sicilies
 * Order of St. Gregory the Great.png Knight Commander, Order of St. Gregory the Great
 * Ordre du Lion d'Or de la Maison de Nassau ribbon.svg Knight of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau


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Yunnan Running Bulls

Yunnan Honghe Running Bulls or Yunnan Honghe or Yunnan Running Bulls were a basketball team in the Southern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), based in Mengzi, Honghe, Yunnan.

They won the 2004 Chinese Basketball League (CBL) championship and were promoted to the CBA for the 2004–2005 season, replacing the disqualified Beijing Olympians.

In the 2004–2005 season, the Yunnan Running Bulls finished in fourth place in the Southern Division and upset the Northern Division's Liaoning Hunters in the quarter-finals, but lost in the semi-finals to the Jiangsu Dragons. In 2005–2006 they again finished in fourth place in the Southern Division, but were eliminated by the Northern Division's Beijing Ducks in the quarter-finals.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti Emo Armada

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 23:24, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Anti Emo Armada
Delete. Not encyclopediac. No Google hits at all. Appears to be a personal campaign against something or other. --Wtshymanski 05:52, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete not notable POV rant. They should all listen to Altan anyway. Dsmdgold 09:54, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * This nomination seems to have gone missing from the vfd page. Relisted. Oh, and delete. Thue | talk 21:05, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Huldah

Huldah (חֻלְדָּה Ḥuldā) is a prophetess mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion.

She was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath (also called Tikvah), son of Harhas (also called Hasrah), keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District or Second Quarter. The King James Version of the Bible calls this quarter "the college", and the New International Version calls it "the new quarter".

According to Rabbinic interpretation, Huldah and Deborah were the principal professed woman prophets in the Nevi'im (Prophets) portion of the Hebrew Bible, although Miriam is referred to as such in the Torah and an unnamed prophetess is mentioned in Isaiah. "Huldah" derives from the Hebrew lemma חלד, meaning to abide or to continue.

The Huldah Gates in the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount are named for her.

In the Bible
The account in 2 Kings 22 recounts the consulting of Huldah as follows: "He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Akbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's attendant: "Go and inquire of the Lord for me and the people and all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord's anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted by all that is written there concerning us."

Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

She said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, 'This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read.'""

After authenticating the book and prophesying a future of destruction for failure to follow it, Huldah concludes by reassuring King Josiah that due to his piety, God has heard his prayer and "thou shalt be gathered unto thy grave in peace, neither shall thy eyes see all the evil which I shall bring upon this place".

Huldah's prophetic oracle identifies the words the King of Judah heard (2 Kings 22:18) with what Yahweh had spoken (2 Kings 22:19). According to William E. Phipps, Huldah is the first person to declare certain writings to be Holy Scripture.

Huldah appears in the Hebrew Bible only in nine verses,,. This short narrative is sufficient to make clear that Huldah was regarded as a prophet accustomed to speaking the word of God directly to high priests and royal officials, to whom high officials came in supplication, who told kings and nations of their fates, who had the authority to determine what was and was not the genuine Law, and who spoke in a manner of stern command when acting as a prophet. Nonetheless, the Bible does not offer the sort of background information it typically does with other pivotal prophets. Indeed, we are left knowing more about her husband's background than we know of hers, and the little information we know of her personality is largely about her husband.

In rabbinic literature
According to Rabbinic interpretation, Huldah said to the messengers of King Josiah, "Tell the man that sent you to me ..." , indicating by her unceremonious language that as far as she was concerned, Josiah was like any other man. The king addressed her, and not Jeremiah because he believed that women are more easily stirred to pity than men and that therefore she would be more likely than would Jeremiah to intercede with God on his behalf (Meg. 14a, b; comp. Seder 'Olam R. xxi.). Huldah was a relative of Jeremiah, both being descendants of Rahab by her marriage with Joshua (Sifre, Num. 78; Meg. 14a, b). While Jeremiah admonished and preached repentance to the men, Huldah did the same to the women (Pesiḳ. R. 26 [ed. Friedmann, p. 129]). Huldah was not only a prophet but taught publicly in the school (Targum to ), according to some teaching, especially the oral doctrine.

Burial site
Two conflicting traditions exist regarding the final resting place of Huldah. The Tosefta records Huldah's burial site as between the walls of Jerusalem. During the Middle Ages, a second tradition developed identifying Huldah's burial site with a cave carved out of the rock beneath a mosque on the Mount of Olives (see Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem). In Christianity and Islam, the burial is associated with two different holy women from those respective religions.

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Agénor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont

Agénor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont (Antoine Alfred Agénor; 14 August 1819 – 17 January 1880) was a French diplomat and statesman who also had the title Prince of Bidache.

Early life
He was born in Paris to one of the most illustrious families of the old noblesse, a cadet branch of the viscounts of Aure, which took its name from the Seignory of Gramont in Navarre. His grandfather, Antoine VIII de Gramont, duc de Gramont (1755–1836), had emigrated during the French Revolution, and his father, Antoine Héraclius Genevieve Agénor (1789–1855), duc de Gramont and de Guiche, fought under the British flag in the Peninsular War, became a lieutenant-general in the French army in 1823, and in 1830 accompanied Charles X of France to Scotland.

The younger generation, however, were Bonapartist in sympathy; Gramont's cousin Antoine Louis Raymond, comte de Gramont (1787–1825), though also the son of an émigré, served with distinction in Napoléon's armies, while Antoine Agénor owed his career to his early friendship for Louis Napoleon.

Gramont was educated at the École Polytechnique.

Career
Gramont early gave up the army for diplomacy. It was not, however, until after the coup d'état of 2 December 1851, which made Louis Napoleon supreme in France, that he became conspicuous as a diplomat. He was successively minister plenipotentiary at Cassel and Stuttgart (1852), at Turin (1853), ambassador at Washington DC (1854), Rome (1857) and at Vienna (1861).

In 1854, he was one of the few survivors of the disastrous sinking of the SS Arctic, while en route to Washington DC. De Gramont was observed leaping from the ship into the last lifeboat; he was one of the 85 survivors (61 crewmembers and 24 male passengers). More than 300 people died, including all the women and children on board.

Franco-Prussian War
On 15 May 1870, he was appointed minister of foreign affairs in the Ollivier cabinet, and was thus largely, though not entirely, responsible for the bungling of the negotiations between France and Prussia arising out of the candidature of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen for the throne of Spain, which led to the disastrous war of 1870-71.

The exact share of Gramont in this responsibility has been the subject of much controversy. The last word may be said to have been uttered by Émile Ollivier himself in his L'Empire libéral (tome xii, 1909, passim). The famous declaration read by Gramont in the Chamber on 6 July, the "threat with the hand on the sword-hilt," as Bismarck called it, was the joint draft of the whole cabinet; the original draft presented by Gramont was judged to be too "elliptical" in its conclusion and not sufficiently vigorous; the reference to a revival of the empire of Charles V was suggested by Ollivier; the paragraph asserting that France would not allow a foreign power to disturb to her own detriment the actual equilibrium of Europe was inserted by the emperor. So far, then, as this declaration is concerned, it is clear that Gramont's responsibility must be shared with his sovereign and his colleagues (Ollivier op. cit. xii. 107; see also the two projets de déclaration given on p. 570).

It is clear, however, that he did not share the "passion" of his colleagues for "peace with honour", clear also that he wholly misread the intentions of the European powers in the event of war. That he reckoned upon the active alliance of Austria was due, according to Ollivier, to the fact that for nine years he had been a persona grata in the aristocratic society of Vienna, where the necessity for revenging the humiliation of 1866 was an article of faith. This confidence made him less disposed than many of his colleagues to make the best of the renunciation of the candidature made, on behalf of his son, by the prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

It was Gramont who pointed out to the emperor, on the evening of the 12th, the dubious circumstances of the act of renunciation, and on the same night, without informing Ollivier, despatched to Benedetti at Ems the fatal telegram demanding the king of Prussia's guarantee that the candidature would not be revived. The supreme responsibility for this act must rest with the emperor, "who imposed it by an exercise of personal power on the only one of his ministers who could have lent himself to such a forgetfulness of the safeguards of a parliamentary regime." As for Gramont, he had "no conception of the exigencies of this regime; he remained an ambassador accustomed to obey the orders of his sovereign; in all good faith he had no idea that this was not correct, and that, himself a parliamentary minister, he had associated himself with an act destructive of the authority of parliament." "On his part," adds Ollivier, "it was the result only of obedience, not of warlike premeditation" (op. cit. p. 262). The apology may be taken for what it is worth. To France and to the world Gramont was responsible for the policy which put his country definitely into the wrong in the eyes of Europe, and enabled Bismarck to administer to her the "slap in the face" (soufflet) as Gramont called it in the Chamber by means of the Bismarck-edited "Ems telegram," which was the immediate cause of the French declaration of war on the 15th.

Later life
After the defeat of Wissembourg (4 August) Gramont resigned his office with the rest of the Ollivier ministry (9 August), and after the revolution of September he went to England, returning after the war to Paris, where he died on 18 January 1880. During his retirement he published various apologies for his policy in 1870, notably La France et la Prusse avant la guerre (Paris, 1872).

Personal life

His marriage on 27 December 1848 to Emma Mary Mackinnon (1811–1891), daughter of William Alexander Mackinnon, 33rd Chief of the Scottish Clan Mackinnon, produced four children, including:

 * Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont, 11th Duke of Gramont (1851–1925), who married Marguerite de Rothschild. After her death, he married Maria Ruspoli.
 * Armand de Gramont, Duke of Lesparre (1854–1931), who married Hélène Louise Eugénie Duchesne de Gillevoisin.
 * Antoine Albert de Gramont (1856–1915), who married Jeanne Marie Sabatier.

He died in Paris on 18 January 1880. His widow died, also in Paris, on 15 November 1891.

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Øystein Sunde

Øystein Olaf Sunde (born 24 January 1947) is a Norwegian folk singer and guitarist. He is known for his high-speed guitar and banjo style and his satirical lyrics. Although often regarded as a comedian, Sunde is a versatile guitarist who has played with several Dixieland bands and jazz combos over the years.

Early years
He was born 24 January 1947 in Oslo, but his family moved to Skarnes in 1954 where Sunde went to school. In 1955, the family moved back to Lambertseter in Oslo and Sunde continued school there. The same year he started playing piano, but he did not like this because he was forced to rehearse scales and partially because his teacher could play boogiewoogie and Sunde was not allowed to do so by his teacher. Despite protests from his parents he ended his piano playing career at the age of 7.

The next instrument Sunde played was a recorder but he started to cry after one hour, so he got a big grapefruit to comfort him, but after eating it he started to cry again. It was at this point his mother realized that he was not fit for playing this kind of instrument and later he started to play a B-Cornet. Even though Sunde did not quite find this instrument comfortable he played it for a few years mainly because he had failed so many times earlier.

When Sunde attended 6th grade his woodwork teacher made him make a mandolinlaika without any drawings. When finished, the instrument was too big but sounded magnificent. This was what caused Sunde to find music fun mainly because he was not forced to practice this instrument. Later Sunde bought a used guitar, and the mandolin was never used again.

In 1960 Sunde heard the song "Apache" played by The Shadows and he was "hooked". Later, at his confirmation, he got his first electric guitar. He dreamed of a Fender but it would take Sunde 11 years to get one. He also met one of his 'heroes' Chet Atkins in late 1971 who taught him some valuable lessons for 45 minutes.

Sunde attended the obligatory military service in the Norwegian Air Force base at Kolsås after basic training at Gardermoen. During his military training he wrote one of his hits "Fire melk og dagbla' for i går" on a boring night shift. After a while Sunde was allowed to postpone his military training to attend to "Schous Tekniske Institutt" for education. In 1969 he had to serve the remainder of his military training at Kolsås.

At the end of the sixties Sunde was working on an education as engineer. However, during a Norwegian class Sunde was bored and instead of paying attention he wrote one of his greatest hits, named "Jaktprat." "Jaktprat" is one of Øystein Sunde's most famous songs ever. Due to many positive responses to this song it was at this point in his life that Sunde realized that he was "on track" of something that he should continue doing.

After a successful cooperation with Mikkel Aas in late 1970 after releasing the LP "1001 Fnatt", who sold over 25000 copies, Sunde decided to drop education and work full-time as an entertainer.

The start of a career
In 1976, Øystein Sunde moved back to Skarnes with his wife Gudrun, where he could pursue his hobbies, like model airplanes and garden golf.

Øystein Sunde became a part of the musician social environment in the capital, and he could often be found at the singer's club Dolphins with talented people like Kari Svendsen, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Ole Paus, Finn Kalvik and Hege Tunaal. He has played in bands like Hitch-Hikers, Hi-Five, Christiania Fusel & Blaagress and Gitarkameratene (with fellow guitarists Lillebjørn Nilsen, Halvdan Sivertsen and Jan Eggum), and he has participated in matinées, but he gained most fame as a solo artist. His lyrics are often about everyday situations from his own life, like nappy changing and model airplanes. He has said that he cannot write a song that contains no comic element. Expressions like "kjekt å ha" ("nice to have") have entered the Norwegian everyday language.

His recordings also include several instrumentals, like the folk tune Fanitullen or the high-speed, technical Ned Vøringsfossen (Down the Vøringsfossen Waterfall) and Lynavleder'n and the challenging Kulingbarsel.

Andreas Diesen once described Sunde as "a master with words and a great musical talent". "When describing Øystein Sunde, I can quote André Bjerke, who once said about himself that he 'was into words'. Sunde sings about the German caravan on Norwegian roads or about artisans at their worst - all with a lot of irony."

Recognition
Øystein Sunde was the first Scandinavian to receive a signature model series from C. F. Martin & Company.

Sunde is by many considered one of Norway's finest guitarists, which has led to several myths about his skill. The most common is that Eric Clapton and/or Mark Knopfler is supposed to have said that Sunde is the world's best guitar player. Evidence of this myth is non-existent and it is similar to another myth involving Phil Keaggy and Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix is supposed to have said that Terry Kath is better than himself.

Covers
A handful of Øystein's songs are covers of other artists.

Albums

 * 1001 Fnatt (1970)
 * Det året det var så bratt (1971)
 * Ikke bare tyll (1974)
 * Klå (1974)
 * På sangens vinger (1976)
 * Hærtata hørt (1979)
 * Barkebille Boogie (1981)
 * I husbukkens tegn (1984)
 * Overbuljongterningpakkmesterassistent (1986)
 * Kjekt å ha (featuring Béla Fleck, recorded in Nashville) (1989)
 * Du må'kke komme her og komme her (1994)
 * Nå er begeret nådd (1999)
 * Sånn er'e bare (2005)
 * Meget i sløyd (2008)
 * Bestefar (2016)

Compilation Albums

 * Øystein Sundes beste (1977)
 * Øystein Sunde i boks (1985)
 * Øystein Sundes 40 beste (1990)
 * Sundes Verden (2006)
 * Sundes 5 første (2012)

Special albums for the Swedish market

 * Sunderfundigheter (1973)
 * Hurtbuller i hvit saus (1975)

With Christiania Fusel & Blaagress

 * Som varmt hvetebrød i tørt gress (1972)

Books with lyrics and sheet music for his own songs

 * Viser uten slips (1972)
 * Kjekt å ha–1 (1990)
 * Kjekkere å ha–2 (1992)
 * Du må'kke komme her og komme her (1997)
 * Sånn Er'e Bare (2005)

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There is no evidence supporting the claim that Sunde has received public praise from either Knopfler, Clapton or any other top, international guitar player for that matter. It is a myth and most likely untrue. The myth should perhaps be presented in the article, but certainly not in the introduction. This information should either be moved or deleted 129.241.169.50 (talk) 12:10, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I completely agree, and it looks like this has been sorted. ~  Fenrisulfr  ( talk  ·  work  ) 09:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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Zhejiang Golden Bulls

The Zhejiang Golden Bulls, or Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent are a Chinese professional basketball team based in Yiwu in Zhejiang, China. It competes in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), in the Southern Division. Its corporate sponsor is Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank.

The team continued to be informally referred to as the Horses for quite some time, even after changing its nickname to Cyclones in 2001, largely because of the corporate sponsor during that era, Wanma (万马), whose name literally translates into English as ten thousand horses. The club plays most of its home games at the Yiwu Gymnasium but occasionally hosts contests at other locations in Zhejiang Province.

During the 2020–21 Chinese Basketball Association season, under head coach Liu Weiwei the Golden Bulls reached the semifinals for the first time in history. Two years later, in 2022–23, the Golden Bulls reached the CBA Finals for the first time and lost to the Liaoning Flying Leopards.

The Golden Bulls competed in the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup Singapore as the representative team from Asia, as they were selected by the CBA. They finished in third place, becoming the first Chinese team to finish on the podium in the tournament.

Honours
Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)

 * Runners-up: 2022–23

FIBA Intercontinental Cup

 * Bronze medal: 2023

Name progression

 * Zhejiang Zhongxin Hangshou Squirrels: (1995–99)
 * Zhejiang Whirlwinds: (1999–00)
 * Zhejiang Horses: (2000–01)
 * Zhejiang Wanma Cyclones: (2001–2009)
 * Zhejiang Golden Bulls: (since 2009)

Notable players
This is a list of the team's leading current Chinese and International players as well as notable former Chinese and International players.

Current Chinese national team players

 * 🇨🇳 Lu Wenbo (2017–present)
 * 🇨🇳 Wu Qian (2012–present)

Current Hong Kong players

 * 🇭🇰 Duncan Reid (2017–present)

Current International players

 * 🇺🇸 Justin Tillman (2022–present)

Former Chinese players

 * 🇨🇳 Ding Jinhui (2006–2016)

Former international players

 * 🇦🇺 Liz Cambage
 * 🇸🇳 Maurice Ndour
 * 🇺🇸 God Shammgod (2001–2002, 2007–2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Cornell (2003–2004)
 * 🇺🇸 Isaac Fontaine (2004–2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Soumaila Samake (2004–2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Curtis Millage (2005–2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Freeman (2006–2007)
 * 🇺🇸 Kirk Snyder (2008–2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Williams (2009–2010)
 * 🇺🇸 Andre Brown (2009–2010)
 * 🇺🇸 Josh Boone (2010–2012)
 * 🇺🇸 Denzel Bowles (2012–2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Mike James (2010)
 * 🇺🇸 J.R. Smith (2011–2012)
 * 🇺🇸 Eddy Curry (2012–2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Quincy Douby (2012–2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Jerel McNeal (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Dewarick Spencer (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Ivan Johnson (2013–2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Harris (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Brittney Griner (2013–2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Errick McCollum (2014–2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Johnson (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Willie Warren (2015–2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Gaines (2016)
 * 🇮🇷 Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (2015–2016)
 * Cady Lalanne (2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Lorenzo Brown (2016–2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Jarnell Stokes (2017–2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Sonny Weems (2017–2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Arinze Onuaku (2018–2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Erick Green (2021–2022)

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Solitaire (cipher)

The Solitaire cryptographic algorithm was designed by Bruce Schneier at the request of Neal Stephenson for use in his novel Cryptonomicon, in which field agents use it to communicate securely without having to rely on electronics or having to carry incriminating tools. It was designed to be a manual cryptosystem calculated with an ordinary deck of playing cards. In Cryptonomicon, this algorithm was originally called Pontifex to hide the fact that it involved playing cards.

One of the motivations behind Solitaire's creation is that in totalitarian environments, a deck of cards is far more affordable (and less incriminating) than a personal computer with an array of cryptological utilities. However, as Schneier warns in the appendix of Cryptonomicon, just about everyone with an interest in cryptanalysis will now know about this algorithm, so carrying a deck of cards may also be considered incriminating. Furthermore, analysis has revealed flaws in the cipher such that it is now considered insecure.

Encryption and decryption
This algorithm uses a standard deck of cards with 52 suited cards and two jokers which are distinguishable from each other, called the A joker and the B joker. For simplicity's sake, only two suits will be used in this example, clubs and diamonds. Each card is assigned a numerical value: the clubs will be numbered from 1 to 13 (Ace through King) and the diamonds will be numbered 14 through 26 in the same manner. The jokers will be assigned the values of 27 and 28. Thus, the jack of clubs would have the value 11, and the two of diamonds would have the value 15. (In a full deck of cards, the suits are valued in bridge order: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, with the suited cards numbered 1 through 52, and the jokers numbered 53 and 54.)

To begin encryption or decryption, arrange the deck of cards face-up in an order previously agreed upon. The person decrypting a message must have a deck arranged in the same order as the deck used by the person who encrypted the message. How the order is initially decided upon is up to the recipients; shuffling the deck perfectly randomly is preferable, although there are many other methods.

The algorithm generates a keystream, a sequence of values which are combined with the message to encrypt and decrypt it. Each value of the keystream is used to encrypt one character of the message, so the keystream must be at least as long as the message. If the keystream is longer than the message, the message may be padded with an additional repeated character, thus denying the attacker knowledge of the exact length of the message.

To encrypt a message:
 * 1) Remove all punctuation and spaces, leaving only the 26 letters A–Z.
 * 2) Convert each letter to its natural numerical value, A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26.
 * 3) Generate one keystream value for each letter in the message using the keystream algorithm below.
 * 4) Add each keystream value to the corresponding plaintext number, subtracting 26 if the resulting value is greater than 26.  (In mathematics this is called modular arithmetic.)
 * 5) Convert the resulting numbers back to letters. This sequence of letters is the ciphertext.

To decrypt a ciphertext:
 * 1) Convert each letter in the ciphertext to its natural numerical value.
 * 2) Generate one keystream value for each letter in the ciphertext.
 * 3) Subtract each keystream value from the corresponding ciphertext value, adding 26 if the resulting value is less than 1.
 * 4) Convert the resulting numbers back to letters.

Keystream algorithm
This algorithm generates keystream values by moving cards within the deck. The keystream algorithm is deterministic, so the keystream values depend only on the initial order of the deck. The deck is assumed to be a circular array, meaning that should a card ever need to advance below the bottom card in the deck, it will simply rotate back to the top (in other words, the first card follows the last card). For example, take this starting deck: Perform these steps to generate one character of the keystream.
 * 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 B 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 A 2 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26
 * 1) Locate the A joker and move it down the deck by one place. If it is the last card, it becomes the second card. There is no way for it to become the first card. The deck now looks like this:
 * 2) * 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 B 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 A 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26
 * 3) Locate the B joker and move it down the deck by two places. Notice that if it is the second to last card, it becomes the second card by wrapping around. If it is the last card, it becomes the third card. There is no way for it to become the first card.
 * 4) * 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 6 B 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 A 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26
 * 5) Perform a "triple cut": split the deck into three sections delimited by the jokers, and exchange the top and bottom section. The jokers themselves, and the cards between them, are left untouched.
 * 6) * 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26 B 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 A 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 6
 * 7) Perform a "count cut": observe the value of the card at the bottom of the deck. If the card is either joker take its value to be 27 (53 when using a full deck). Remove that number of cards from the top of the deck and insert them just above the last card in the deck.
 * 8) * 23 26 B 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 A 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 5 8 11 14 17 20 6
 * 9) Now, look at the value of the top card. Again, either joker counts as 27 (53 when using a full deck). Count this many places below that card and take the value of that card as the next value in the keystream. If the card counted to is either joker, ignore it and repeat the keystream algorithm. In this example the top card is 23, so the 24th card, which is 11, determines the keystream value. (Note that no cards change places in this step; this step simply determines the keystream value).

Cryptanalysis
In 1999 Paul Crowley discovered that there is a bias towards repeating characters in the keystream, which occur about every 1/22.5 characters rather than the expected 1/26. As a result, Solitaire leaks information at a rate of about 0.0005 bits per character. While its security may perhaps be adequate for very short messages, in general Solitaire is considered insecure.

Crowley also noticed that in some cases, there are two different deck configurations which result in the same configuration after executing the keystream algorithm. For instance, when the A joker is either on the bottom of the deck or on the top of the deck it will become the second card after step 1. This means the algorithm is not always reversible as Schneier had originally claimed.

In 2019 Daniel Shiu proposed modifications to the algorithm which would increase its security, at the cost of making it more difficult for the user to implement manually.

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Talk:RealClimate

Semi-protected edit request on 28 December 2013
I propose, in the interests of fairness that the phrase: "The forum is moderated, and is restricted to scientific topics to avoid discussion of political or economic implications of the science." be changed to

"The forum is moderated by proponents of the global warming by anthropogenic greenhouse gas theory, and is claimed by its authors to be restricted to scientific topics to avoid discussion of political or economic implications of the science."

My propsoed changes make this partisan statement a neutral statement and will undoubtably upset the partisan authors, but will make this wikopedia topic far more accurate.

The phrase as originally presented is identical to the position of the authors of there own website and is identical to their own; it's as if history makers were writing their own histories. I had been a contributor to this forum and found my comments often deleted as "unscientific" while cheerleaders for extremely partisan and often scurrilous attacks on scientists who generally are unsupportive of the authors goals were able to withstand any further scrutiny whatsover. In my opinion, as well as that of many others who have given up on this site, the claim is unsubtantiated that this is, first and foremost, a scientific forum.

Bruce Frykman (talk) 15:48, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template.— Carnivorous Bunny (talk) 03:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Realclimate.org goes dark – is it permanent?
According to this post Realclimate.org goes dark – is it permanent? archived, Realclimate is down. Should this go into the article? Nsaa (talk) 13:25, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * "This post" is not reliable, and full of speculation. I'd wait for a day or three, per WP:NOTNEWS. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 14:24, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why you call WUWT unreliable (as far as I know they always correct errors if that surfaces). Per WP:CONTEXTMATTERS and the type of information it supports it should be ok. The statements done can easily be checked by opening http://www.realclimate.org/ or looking at some of the archived versions of the page at http://www.webcitation.org/6dEX2HeZI or archive.org at 2015-11-17. I assume no big MSM will cover a possible downtime of a blog with very little traffic?  Nsaa (talk) 16:36, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

 * "I'm not sure why you call WUWT unreliable..." "as far as I know they always correct errors..." This is not the place for jokes. — TPX 18:20, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Jokes? Nsaa (talk) 22:38, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * WUWT is drivel, as any fule kno. For the present, see https://twitter.com/ericsteig/status/668450513252253696?lang=en-gb William M. Connolley (talk) 18:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link! Nsaa (talk) 22:38, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Nsaa, as I'm sure you've noticed, RC came back up, but it has little activity, these days.
 * As I'm sure you've also noticed, WUWT is not "drivel." It is unrivaled as the world's top climate science blog site, and it is essential reading for anyone who wishes to stay informed about climate science and climate politics. Although climate alarmists, climate skeptics, and everyone in-between ("lukewarmers"), are welcomed to the conversations on WUWT, William Connolley dislikes the site because of its balance. Mr. Connolley is a Green Party activist who thinks there is a "scientific consensus" for climate alarmism, and who thinks that those who do not share his opinions about about it are unscientific "deniers." NCdave (talk) 14:20, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the notification. I'm not so regular on the Wiki for the moment so I first read it now. I could not locate the RC (maybe it's archived already?) Nsaa (talk) 21:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Link option
If the site has been taken down, a lot of articles need to be updated with archived versions (iff available) 771 links to articles and discussion treads. Nsaa (talk) 16:42, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Wot rot! Eric Steig helpfully advises; "RealClimate is down! Will be fixed. But meanwhile, please refer to http://realclimate-backup.org " . . dave souza, talk 18:57, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

 * No! don't refer to http://realclimate-backup.org - that site still has .js and CSS references to realclimate.org and it appears that making any access to a page beyond the topmost page triggers JavaScript that takes you to some random page in the web. Folks on WUWT are reporting that many of them include malware.  I think realclimate-backup.org should be shutdown until people purge it of references to realclimate.org, which ought to be done anyway if it's supposed to be a good backup.  -Ric Werme  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.219.4.25 (talk) 05:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

 * I was refereing to the available third parties like Archive.org, Webcitation.org, archive.is etc. This should be done either way in all inline citations either way, I suppose, by using archiveurl, archivedate in the cite web template. Nsaa (talk) 06:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

http://realclimate-backup.org/index.php/archives/2015/11/reports-of-our-demise/ William M. Connolley (talk) 10:50, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

 * Progress already: https://realclimate.org is live, links go to realclimate-backup.org for the mo. . . . dave souza, talk 16:39, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

RealClimate.org (dead?)
RealClimate.org is now a dead link. RealClimate would appear to have gone out of business.--Damorbel (talk) 10:24, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Reports of our demise… … have of course been greatly exaggerated ...... Update: The account details have been restored and the domains renewed. We should be back to normal in a couple of days. . . . dave souza, talk 10:48, 24 November 2015 (UTC
 * Progress to date: https://realclimate.org is live, links currently go to realclimate-backup.org pages. . . . dave souza, talk 16:39, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Daniel Ducruet

Daniel Ducruet (born 27 November 1964) is a former husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, to whom he was married in 1995 and divorced from a year later in 1996.

Two of his children, Louis and Pauline, are 15th and 16th in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne.

Early life
Ducruet was born in Beausoleil, Alpes-Maritimes to Henri Ducruet, a manual laborer and his wife Maguy (née Barbero), a homemaker.

Ducruet attended the University of Nice but dropped out after a year. He worked as a bodybuilder, pet shop clerk and a fishmonger before being accepted into Monaco's police force as a trainee officer in 1986.

Within two years he had been appointed a Palace bodyguard with responsibility for Prince Albert. In 1991, he was appointed by Prince Rainier to accompany his daughter Princess Stéphanie as bodyguard on her ill-fated tour to promote her record album.

Personal life
Ducruet's first marriage to Sandra Naccache ended in divorce in the mid-1980s.

Ducruet's girlfriend Martine Malbouvier was six months pregnant with his first child when he went public with his relationship with Princess Stéphanie. His first son, Michaël Ducruet, was born in February 1992. On 26 November 1992, ten months after the birth of his first child, Ducruet had a second son Louis Robert Paul with Princess Stéphanie.

Stéphanie campaigned long and hard for her father to approve a marriage between her and Ducruet, since he was reluctant to sanction a marriage between the two. Only after the birth of their second child, a daughter Pauline Grace Maguy Ducruet, born on 4 May 1994, and his own double-bypass surgery did Prince Rainier give his blessing. Louis and Pauline Ducruet were legitimated by their parents' marriage and are currently 15th and 16th in line of succession to the Monégasque throne.

On 1 July 1995 Ducruet and Princess Stéphanie were married in a civil ceremony at the Monaco town hall.

Ducruet and Princess Stéphanie jointly invested in the Replay Store and Replay Cafe in Monaco.

In September 1996, Ducruet's infidelity with Muriel "Fili" Mol-Houteman, Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium 1995, was photographed by the paparazzi and the images were published in the Italian tabloids Evatremila and Gente. Ducruet said that he was set up. At the height of the scandal, a 90-minute video of the Ducruet's encounter with Houteman sold in Italy. When the story made headlines, Ducruet fled to Morocco. Upon his return he met with his wife who then submitted, to her father, a written request for a divorce, dated 16 September 1996. Princess Stéphanie divorced Ducruet on 4 October 1996.

After the divorce, Stéphanie bought his share of their joint business interest in Replay Restaurant on Rue Grimaldi.

Currently, he is married to Kelly Marie Carla Lancien. They have a daughter, Linoué.

Life after Princess Stéphanie
Ducruet has since launched a career as a singer releasing two albums, Pourquoi Pas and Jamais personne, with little success. He also wrote a book about his life with the Grimaldi family.

In 2004 he has taken part in the Italian reality TV show La Fattoria and the similar French reality TV show La Ferme Célébrités, where he finished second. Also in 2004 he hosted Real TV, the Italian version of Real TV, on Italia 1.

Ducruet owns a nightclub in Cannes called Le Caliente. He came under fire in 2008 when a photo resurfaced, apparently taken the previous year, showing a nude woman in the nightclub. He and his business partner, Jean-Pierre Roméo, were charged by the court in Grasse with "undermining the privacy of private life," even though the woman was in public, so "privacy" does not apply. Ducruet and Roméo were accused of having broadcast the photo on 31 August 2008 without the woman's consent. The woman was a minor at the time (17 years old) but in 2010 the case was dismissed.

Ducruet and his son, Louis Ducruet, are, since 2016, the co-managers of the Monaco-based company Monadeco.

Breach of privacy lawsuit
After the publication of the compromising photographs and video footage of Ducruet and Muriel "Fili" Mol-Houteman, Ducruet took legal action.

He claimed that Mol-Houteman had conspired with photographer Stephane de Lisiecki and his assistant Yves Hoogewys to breach his privacy for financial gain. He also claimed that Mol-Houteman drugged his champagne.

Mol-Houteman received a six-month suspended sentence, while Lisiecki and Hoogewys were given one-year suspended sentences. Ducruet was awarded $27,930 in damages by the court for breaches of privacy.

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Talk:Joseph-Aldric Ouimet

Correct name
Note that his middle name is actually Aldric, not "Aldéric". See:

 * Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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Talk:Miami Marlins

New Colors & Rebranding
How do you change the colors associated with Miami Marlins pages? We may wanna change the color scheme used, and the new stuff is being unveiled in a few days.-DANO- (talk) 23:30, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

 * There are people who know how to do it, and they'll change it once the official announcement is made, but not before. - BilCat (talk) 23:55, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * They already dropped orange, and replaced it with red. And changed to another blue. Can we at least update that?-DANO- (talk) 03:51, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

 * No, as it's not official yet. We can be be patient, as they'll announce it when they're ready. I've seen enough premature announcements that turned out to be wrong or partially incorrect to prove that Wikipedia is not a Crystal Ball is good policy. - BilCat (talk) 05:10, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

 * I'm looking at the Miami Marlins' website right now. It does not look like they have changed their logo or color scheme just yet. Either myself, Corkythehornetfan, Y2kcrazyjoker4, DaveTheBrave, or another editor who knows how to change the color codes at Module:Sports color/baseball will change the color codes once the team officially unveils its new logo and color scheme. I don't know when that will be. We will all need to be patient and wait for that happen. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 19:11, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

 * Actually, it looks like the Miami Marlins will publicly unveil their new team logo and color scheme on Thursday, November 15, per the team's Twitter account. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 19:36, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

 * Concur. Right now they are just teasing to build up anticipation until the official release, according to this. The official announcement will be on Thursday, Nov 15. - BilCat (talk) 19:40, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Please wait until November 15th to change anything, or at least continue to discuss it before changing the information in the infobox. I believe everyone here is in agreement, except you?, to wait until an official announcement. Corky  22:55, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

New Colors & Rebranding 2
Can we change the template?-DANO- (talk) 03:19, 16 November 2018 (UTC) Need to update colors of this template to caliente red, Miami blue, midnight black, slate grey.-DANO- (talk) 00:06, 16 November 2018 (UTC)-DANO- (talk) 03:19, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

 * This is now ✅. I have now updated the HTML color codes at Module:Sports color/baseball and at the main Miami Marlins article. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 07:32, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Is there a reason the pants for the blue alternate jersey are blue? Haven't seen any indication of blue pants in their new uniforms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:43A3:B500:A548:5383:9657:13F1 (talk) 03:14, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Jose Fernandez
If the #16 of Jose Fernandez has yet to be officially retired, as per the text in the body of the article, should his #16 be included in the retired numbers section of the infobox? Echoedmyron (talk) 14:40, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * It is not officially retired, per this. I will edit the article as needed to reflect. Striker force Talk 15:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. But what about the infobox, where the retired numbers parameter has been showing both 16 for Fernandez and 42 for Jackie Robinson? I suspect that well-meaning editors will no doubt reinstate the 16, mind you, even if a hidden note instruction gets added. Echoedmyron (talk) 15:13, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the info box and added a hidden note. I think that you're probably right about well-meaning editors that will attempt to reinstate it, but we'll see. Striker force Talk 15:46, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 August 2023
histor = history 2603:8000:D300:3650:38:CB92:6F1E:BE1F (talk) 01:04, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I am not seeing that typo. Please provide more context where it is.  RudolfRed (talk) 01:18, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ assuming you mean this.  JTP (talk • contribs) 01:59, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

I can understand the confusion as it seams the means of locating text may be easier than what may have been encountered in the past. I have always found that the best way to indicate where the viewer needs to be in an article is to do a "" search its appearance can be only there. Mind you i address typos only and not matters of grammar. That way much more than what needs to be found needs to be provided and a "" search limits the hits. Also, when searching for typos all of WP and its parts of an article are subject to review and not only what is commonly viewed or read. I hope that may help in future for locating what is in question. The major reason for "" searching of typos is that what is readible may not be what is in the text as coding may be incorrectly inserted that divides characters of words. I hope that is helpful. Maybe WP can include in its technical abilities making typo corrections to protected articles for those of us IP editors that are not out to vandalized?2603:8000:D300:3650:38:CB92:6F1E:BE1F (talk) 03:05, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

 * Well, you could create an account. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:35, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Not to be confrontational but why be so compelled to register a username. And as the punctuation implies it is more a statement than question so no need to answer. Remember everyone here is not for the same desire.2603:8000:D300:3650:38:CB92:6F1E:BE1F (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:41, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Broadcasters
Rod Allen is also a Marlins color analyst. 98.180.65.243 (talk) 20:30, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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Hilkiah

Hilkiah (חִלְקִיָּה Ḥīlqīyyā, "my portion is Yah") was a Hebrew priest ("Kohen") at the time of King Josiah (reigned c. 641–609 BCE).

Biblical account
His name is mentioned in II Kings. He was the High Priest and is known for finding a lost copy of the Book of the Law at the Temple in Jerusalem at the time that King Josiah commanded that Solomon's Temple be refurbished. His preaching may have helped spur Josiah to return Judah to the worship of Yahweh, God of Israel.

Hilkiah may have been the same Hilkiah who was the father of Jeremiah of Libnah. As such he would have lived in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, and was the father of an influential family in the Kingdom of Judah. However, it is possible that Jeremiah was the son of a different man named Hilkiah, because this is not mentioned in genealogies recorded in the Book of Chronicles.

Hilkiah is attested in extra-biblical sources by the clay bulla naming a Hilkiah as the father of an Azariah, and by the seal reading "Hanan son of Hilkiah the priest".

The Book of the Law
According to an account in 2 Kings (chapter 22) and 2 Chronicles (chapter 34), Hilkiah was a kohen gadol (High Priest) of the Temple of Jerusalem during the reign of King Josiah of Judah (639–609 BC) and the discoverer of "the Book of the Law" in the Temple, in the 18th year of Josiah's reign (622 BC).

Scholars almost universally agree that the book Hilkiah found was the Biblical Book of Deuteronomy.

Extra-biblical sources
Hilkiah's name is mentioned on a seal ring and on a bulla. The first object where his name is mentioned is a seal ring found in 1980. On the seal is a three-line inscription, in reverse letters, as is usual, so that the letters will read properly when impressed in a lump of clay. The script incised in the seal is what scholars call paleo-Hebrew, used by the Israelites before the Babylonian captivity, prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. The inscription reads: "(Belonging) to Hanan, son (of) Hilkiah the priest". It begins with the Hebrew letter lamed, meaning "belonging to", indicating the seal's ownership. Then the name of the seal's owner, the name of his father and the function of the seal's owner.

The second object is a bulla found in Jerusalem in 1982. A bulla was used to seal a document. The owner of the document took a lump of soft clay; he affixed the clay to the string binding the document and then stamped it with his seal. This bulla was one of the fifty-one bullae discovered during excavations in the eastern slope of Jerusalem, in a clearly dated archaeological context. This collection of bullae was found in level 10, dated between Josiah's rule and the destruction of the city by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC, and more precisely from the highest ground of the building (level 10B). This level was destroyed by the final burning which baked the bullae and so provided a better conservation. On one bulla is a two-line inscription, in paleo-Hebrew script as on the seal. The inscription reads: "(Belonging) to Azaryah, son (of) Hilkiah". The inscription indicates the name of the seal's owner and the name of his father, but not his function.

Azariah and Hanan, sons of Hilkiah
Azaryah and Hanan, sons of Hilkiah, both held a sacerdotal function in the Temple of Jerusalem. In the late roster of high priests referred to in 1 Chronicles (6:13, 9:11), Azaryah IV was the successor of Hilkiah in this function and probably his eldest son, while his other son, Hanan, served by his side as a priest. The seals of the two brothers Hanan and Azaryah, engraved by the same master engraver, belong to what has been called the "generation of sons" and date, not from Josiah's reign but from one of his successors' (before 586). The seal of Azaryah was made before he became high priest because his function is not mentioned on it. The seal of Hanan and the bulla of Azaryah, two sons of the high priest Hilkiah, represent testimonies of the last years of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple of Jerusalem, before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586.

Patrilineal Ancestry
As per 1 Chronicles chapter 6

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Fujian Sturgeons

Fujian SBS Xunxing Sturgeons (Simplified Chinese: 福建SBS浔兴鲟) or Fujian Xunxing or Fujian SBS are a Chinese professional men's basketball team in the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian. The "SBS" reflects corporate sponsorship from the Jinjiang-based Fujian SBS Zipper Science and Technology Corporation. Unlike all the other teams in the CBA, the team originally had no English–friendly animal–type nickname.

The Fujian Sturgeons made their debut in the 2004–2005 season, and finished in seventh and last place in the South Division, out of the playoffs. In 2005–2006, they tied for fifth, just one win away from making the playoffs.

Notable players

 * 🇺🇸 Chris Porter (2005, 2006–2010)
 * 🇨🇳 Liu Yudong (2007–2010)
 * 🇨🇳 Zhao Tailong (2007–2010)
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Freije (2008–2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Jelani McCoy (2009–2010)
 * 🇺🇸 Dwayne Jones (2010–2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Andre Emmett (2010–2011)
 * 🇺🇸 Sundiata Gaines (2012–2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Will McDonald (2012–2014)
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Zhelin (2012–) (Was drafted by the Memphis Grizzlies in 2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Delonte West (2013–2014)
 * 🇮🇷 Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (2013–2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Al Harrington (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 John Lucas III (2014–2015)
 * 🇺🇸 D. J. White (2014–2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Jarrid Famous (2015)
 * Fadi El Khatib (2015–2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Dwight Buycks (2015–2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Jeremy Tyler (2015–2016)
 * 🇺🇸 J.J. Hickson (2016–2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Dwight Buycks (2016–2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Sebastian Telfair (2016–2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Russ Smith (2017–2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Harris (2017–2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Xavier Munford (2018)
 * 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Amar'e Stoudemire (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Erick Green (2019-20)
 * 🇺🇸 Ty Lawson (2020)

Head coaches

 * Aaron McCarthy (2004–2010)
 * Zhang Degui (2010)
 * J. C. Owens (2010–2011)
 * Ma Lianbao (2011)
 * Casey Owens (2011–2012)
 * Tab Baldwin & Nenad Vučinić (as a technical consultant) (2012–2013)
 * Zhu Shilong (2013)
 * Zhang Degui (2013–2014)
 * Judas Prada (2014)
 * Zhu Shilong (2014)
 * Aleksandar Kesar (2014–2015)
 * Cui Wangjun (2015–2016)
 * Xu Guijun (2016–2017)
 * Fan Bin (2017–2018)
 * Zhu Shilong (2018–)

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Nasi kandar

Nasi kandar is a popular northern Malaysian dish from Penang, originally introduced by Tamil Muslim traders from India. The meal consists of steamed rice combined with an array of distinct curries, sides dishes, and gravies. The selection of curries consists of various blends of vegetables, seafood or meat.

Other closely related regional variations of Nasi Kandar include nasi ganja (Ipoh), nasi dalca (Penang), nasi lemak royale (Alor Setar), nasi maduri (Perlis), nasi kalut (Kedah) and nasi tomato (Penang and Kedah).

Etymology
The dish name is potentially a portmanteau, nasi derives from Malay, meaning rice; while kandha' is an Urdu name means shoulder; another possible theory is that the name originated from the Malay verb mengandar - "rest on shoulders". However, both theories are aligned on its common origin - the use of a shoulder pole for transporting the food.

History
Nasi kandar originates from the early 1900s, when itinerant Indian Muslim vendors would sell curry and rice to the dock employees of Weld Quay, located in George Town, Penang.

The earliest form of nasi kandar initially contained fish curry with brinjals or okra, fried curry beef, fried fish and boiled eggs; it cost about 5 cents each. The rice hawkers would commonly set up stools at a jetty to sell breakfast to dock workers. By the 1930s, the rice peddlers would also commonly travel from home-to-home. It was also common for the seller to operate on the roadside or beneath a shady tree. They would carry brass pots by a bamboo or a wooden shoulder pole; on one end of the pole there were containers holding curry meals, with plain rice on the other end.

However by the mid 20th century, the traditional approach of transporting the rice and dishes on the shoulder began to wane off, as many sellers moved towards selling nasi kandar in stalls and alleyways. In the 1970s more vendors invested in the restaurant industry, further departing from the mobile eatery origins of nasi kandar. The menu options have also progressed; a common present-day nasi kandar restaurant will sell up to dozens of distinct curries, gravy and side dishes.

Hameediyah is recognized as Penang's oldest nasi kandar restaurant, having originally started under a tree at a field in Lebuh Campbell, Penang in 1907.

Description
The rice for a nasi kandar dish is often placed in a wooden container about three feet high, giving it a distinctive aroma. The rice is accompanied by lauk-pauk (side dishes) such as ayam goreng, assortment of kari (curry) like kari daging (beef), kari limpa (beef spleen) and kari kambing (mutton); telur ikan, udang goreng or sotong goreng. The vegetable dish would usually be terung (brinjals), bendi (okra) or peria (bitter gourd). A mixture of curry sauces is poured on the rice. This is called banjir ("flooded") and imparts a diverse taste to the rice.

Traditionally, nasi kandar is always served with its side dishes on a single plate. Nowadays, small melamine bowls are used for the side dishes. Nevertheless, the curry sauce mix is always poured directly onto the rice.

In recent years, several chain restaurants have appeared such as Nasi Kandar Shaaz, Nasi Kandar Subaidah, Nasi Kandar Nasmir, Pelita Nasi Kandar, Nasi Kandar Astana, Q-Bistro Nasi Kandar and Kayu Nasi Kandar. Purists have disputed its taste compared to the original Penang versions.

Variations
There are a few related forms of the meal with some divergent on the type of rice, side dishes and recipes; albeit all commonly shared a curry-based condiments to complete the meal:

 * Nasi dalca - Plain white rice or the ghee-based nasi minyak, commonly paired with kuah dalca (Dalcha-style gravy) and an assortment of curries. Sprinkles of bawang goreng is usually added on top of the meal.
 * Nasi ganja - Yellow coloured rice with herbs, though in fact no "ganja" (cannabis) is actually used in its preparation. Commonly associated with Ipoh, and to some extent, Perlis.
 * Nasi lemak Alor Setar/Nasi lemak Royale - Slightly different from white basmati-based rice commonly seen in nasi kandar, the nasi lemak Royale is yellow in colour, some vendors may even added glutinous rice on the recipe. The curry mixture is sometimes being slightly sweet compared to the traditional nasi kandar. Popular in Alor Setar, Kedah.
 * Nasi maduri - Yellow in colour, and commonly eaten with dalca, meat and chicken curry. Usually found in the state of Perlis.
 * Nasi tomato - Tomato-flavored rice, typically prepared with a mix of spices and tomato puree. In contrast to the Malay version, which is often accompanied by ayam masak merah or ayam sambal; the Indian-Muslim variant of nasi tomato is commonly paired with a variety of curries. This version is popular in Penang and to some extent, Kedah.

title: Nasi kandar