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Spanish Mustang

The Spanish Mustang is an American horse breed descended from horses brought from Spain during the early conquest of the Americas. They are classified within the larger grouping of the Colonial Spanish horse, a type that today is rare in Spain. By the early 20th century, most of the once-vast herds of mustangs that had descended from the Spanish horses had been greatly reduced in size. Seeing that these horses were on the brink of extinction, some horseman began making efforts to find and preserve the remaining "Spanish Mustangs" drawing stock from feral and Native American herds, as well as ranch stock. The breed was one of the first to be part of a concerted preservation effort for horses of Spanish phenotype, and a breed registry was founded in 1957.

The Spanish Mustang as a modern domesticated breed differs from the feral free-roaming mustang. The latter animals are descended from both Spanish horses and other domesticated horses escaped or released from various sources; many run wild in Herd Management Areas (HMAs) of the western United States, currently managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Some feral herds also exist in Canada. DNA studies indicate that Spanish breeding and type does still exist in some feral Mustang herds, including those on the Cerbat HMA (near Kingman, Arizona), Pryor Mountain HMA (Montana), Sulphur HMA (Utah), and Kiger HMA (Oregon).

History
The Colonial Spanish Horse developed from animals first brought from the Iberian peninsula to the Americas during the conquest and establishment of the Spanish colony of New Spain in what today is Mexico. As the conquest of Mexico progressed during the 16th century, horse herds spread north and crossed the Rio Grande. Over the next one hundred years, horses in the Americas were stolen and traded by the Apache, Comanche, and later the Utes and Shoshone to various tribes across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.

On the brink of extinction in the early part of this century, the Spanish Mustang is one of the first breeds developed from a planned conservation program to save the descendants of these Spanish horses. This effort is mostly attributed to Robert E. Brislawn of Oshoto, Wyoming, and his brother Ferdinand L. Brislawn of Gusher, Utah. Credit for the preservation effort also goes to Gilbert Jones and Ilo Belsky. They gathered horses from feral Mustang herds, Native American herds and ranch stock from throughout the west, chosen because they had a phenotype that indicates Spanish ancestry. Two full brothers, Buckshot and Ute, were among the first foundation stallions, sired by a buckskin stallion named Monty and out of Ute Reservation blood on the dam's side. Monty, captured in 1927 in Utah, escaped back to the wild in 1944, taking his mares with him. He was never recaptured. Ultimately, the Brislawns and Lawrence P. Richards formed a registry, the Spanish Mustang Registry, incorporated in 1957. Due to assorted differences of opinion on what horses to accept into the registry, Jones formed the Southwest Spanish Mustang Association in 1977, and other offshoot registries formed later. A 2006 study found that the Spanish Mustang, as well as horses from the Sulphur Springs and Kiger HMAs have DNA haplotypes that indicate origin from horses of the Iberian peninsula.

Characteristics
Spanish Mustang stands from in height, with horses over 15 hands not favored. They weigh between 650 and 1100 lb. They are smooth muscled with short backs, rounded rumps and low-set tails. The coupling is strong and horses are to be well balanced and smoothly built with an "uphill" build. The girth is deep, with a well laid back shoulder and fairly pronounced withers. They possess a straight or concave facial profile and wide foreheads. Necks are fairly well crested in mares and geldings and heavily crested in mature stallions. Chests are moderately narrow but well-defined. Chestnuts are small or missing altogether, particularly on the rear legs. Ergots are small or absent. Feet are round and hard and legs are to be of correct conformation, though hind legs may be set under a bit. Cannons are short and bone is rounded. Some individuals are gaited, with a range of different footfalls accepted. Paddling or winging out are not a fault unless there is interference or it is caused by a lack of straightness in the leg.

Spanish Mustangs exist in many colors, due to the wide range of colors in their Spanish ancestors. They are commonly found in bay, chestnut, black and gray. Other colors seen less commonly include the Appaloosa and paint patterns and solid colors such as grulla, buckskin, palomino, cremello, isabella, roan and perlino.

Spanish Mustangs are known for their stamina and hardiness. The breed is known for its long-distance ability, and is ridden by some endurance riders. The Spanish Mustang is also used to compete in a variety of English and Western riding events.

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Potential energy surface

A potential energy surface (PES) or energy landscape describes the energy of a system, especially a collection of atoms, in terms of certain parameters, normally the positions of the atoms. The surface might define the energy as a function of one or more coordinates; if there is only one coordinate, the surface is called a potential energy curve or energy profile. An example is the Morse/Long-range potential.

It is helpful to use the analogy of a landscape: for a system with two degrees of freedom (e.g. two bond lengths), the value of the energy (analogy: the height of the land) is a function of two bond lengths (analogy: the coordinates of the position on the ground).

The PES concept finds application in fields such as physics, chemistry and biochemistry, especially in the theoretical sub-branches of these subjects. It can be used to theoretically explore properties of structures composed of atoms, for example, finding the minimum energy shape of a molecule or computing the rates of a chemical reaction. It can be used to describe all possible conformations of a molecular entity, or the spatial positions of interacting molecules in a system, or parameters and their corresponding energy levels, typically Gibbs free energy. Geometrically, the energy landscape is the graph of the energy function across the configuration space of the system. The term is also used more generally in geometric perspectives to mathematical optimization, when the domain of the loss function is the parameter space of some system.

Mathematical definition and computation
The geometry of a set of atoms can be described by a vector, $r$, whose elements represent the atom positions. The vector $r$ could be the set of the Cartesian coordinates of the atoms, or could also be a set of inter-atomic distances and angles.

Given $r$, the energy as a function of the positions, $E(r)$, is the value of $E(r)$ for all $r$ of interest. Using the landscape analogy from the introduction, E gives the height on the "energy landscape" so that the concept of a potential energy surface arises.

To study a chemical reaction using the PES as a function of atomic positions, it is necessary to calculate the energy for every atomic arrangement of interest. Methods of calculating the energy of a particular atomic arrangement of atoms are well described in the computational chemistry article, and the emphasis here will be on finding approximations of $E(r)$ to yield fine-grained energy-position information.

For very simple chemical systems or when simplifying approximations are made about inter-atomic interactions, it is sometimes possible to use an analytically derived expression for the energy as a function of the atomic positions. An example is the London-Eyring-Polanyi-Sato potential  for the system H + H2 as a function of the three H-H distances.

For more complicated systems, calculation of the energy of a particular arrangement of atoms is often too computationally expensive for large scale representations of the surface to be feasible. For these systems a possible approach is to calculate only a reduced set of points on the PES and then use a computationally cheaper interpolation method, for example Shepard interpolation, to fill in the gaps.

Application
A PES is a conceptual tool for aiding the analysis of molecular geometry and chemical reaction dynamics. Once the necessary points are evaluated on a PES, the points can be classified according to the first and second derivatives of the energy with respect to position, which respectively are the gradient and the curvature. Stationary points (or points with a zero gradient) have physical meaning: energy minima correspond to physically stable chemical species and saddle points correspond to transition states, the highest energy point on the reaction coordinate (which is the lowest energy pathway connecting a chemical reactant to a chemical product).

The term is useful when examining protein folding; while a protein can theoretically exist in a nearly infinite number of conformations along its energy landscape, in reality proteins fold (or "relax") into secondary and tertiary structures that possess the lowest possible free energy. The key concept in the energy landscape approach to protein folding is the folding funnel hypothesis.

In catalysis, when designing new catalysts or refining existing ones, energy landscapes are considered to avoid low-energy or high-energy intermediates that could halt the reaction or demand excessive energy to reach the final products.

In glassing models, the local minima of an energy landscape correspond to metastable low temperature states of a thermodynamic system.

In machine learning, artificial neural networks may be analyzed using analogous approaches. For example, a neural network may be able to perfectly fit the training set, corresponding to a global minimum of zero loss, but overfitting the model ("learning the noise" or "memorizing the training set"). Understanding when this happens can be studied using the geometry of the corresponding energy landscape.

Attractive and repulsive surfaces
Potential energy surfaces for chemical reactions can be classified as attractive or repulsive by comparing the extensions of the bond lengths in the activated complex relative to those of the reactants and products. For a reaction of type A + B—C → A—B + C, the bond length extension for the newly formed A—B bond is defined as R*AB = RAB − R0AB, where RAB is the A—B bond length in the transition state and R0AB in the product molecule. Similarly for the bond which is broken in the reaction, R*BC = RBC − R0BC, where R0BC refers to the reactant molecule.

For exothermic reactions, a PES is classified as attractive (or early-downhill) if R*AB > R*BC, so that the transition state is reached while the reactants are approaching each other. After the transition state, the A—B bond length continues to decrease, so that much of the liberated reaction energy is converted into vibrational energy of the A—B bond. An example is the harpoon reaction K + Br2 → K—Br + Br, in which the initial long-range attraction of the reactants leads to an activated complex resembling K+•••Br−•••Br. The vibrationally excited populations of product molecules can be detected by infrared chemiluminescence.

In contrast the PES for the reaction H + Cl2 → HCl + Cl is repulsive (or late-downhill) because R*HCl < R*ClCl and the transition state is reached when the products are separating. For this reaction in which the atom A (here H) is lighter than B and C, the reaction energy is released primarily as translational kinetic energy of the products. For a reaction such as F + H2 → HF + H in which atom A is heavier than B and C, there is mixed energy release, both vibrational and translational, even though the PES is repulsive.

For endothermic reactions, the type of surface determines the type of energy which is most effective in bringing about reaction. Translational energy of the reactants is most effective at inducing reactions with an attractive surface, while vibrational excitation (to higher vibrational quantum number v) is more effective for reactions with a repulsive surface. As an example of the latter case, the reaction F + HCl(v=1) → Cl + HF is about five times faster than F + HCl(v=0) → Cl + HF for the same total energy of HCl.

History
The concept of a potential energy surface for chemical reactions was first suggested by the French physicist René Marcelin in 1913. The first semi-empirical calculation of a potential energy surface was proposed for the H + H2 reaction by Henry Eyring and Michael Polanyi in 1931. Eyring used potential energy surfaces to calculate reaction rate constants in the transition state theory in 1935.

H + H2 two-dimensional PES
Potential energy surfaces are commonly shown as three-dimensional graphs, but they can also be represented by two-dimensional graphs, in which the advancement of the reaction is plotted by the use of isoenergetic lines. The collinear system H + H2 is a simple reaction that allows a two-dimension PES to be plotted in an easy and understandable way. In this reaction, a hydrogen atom (H) reacts with a dihydrogen molecule (H2) by forming a new bond with one atom from the molecule, which in turn breaks the bond of the original molecule. This is symbolized as Ha + Hb–Hc → Ha–Hb + Hc. The progression of the reaction from reactants (H+H₂) to products (H-H-H), as well as the energy of the species that take part in the reaction, are well defined in the corresponding potential energy surface. Energy profiles describe potential energy as a function of geometrical variables (PES in any dimension are independent of time and temperature).

We have different relevant elements in the 2-D PES:
 * The 2-D plot shows the minima points where we find reactants, the products and the saddle point or transition state.
 * The transition state is a maximum in the reaction coordinate and a minimum in the coordinate perpendicular to the reaction path.
 * The advance of time describes a trajectory in every reaction. Depending on the conditions of the reaction the process will show different ways to get to the product formation plotted between the 2 axes.

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Talk:Michaelmas

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Alphabetical list It would be an improvement if the institutions were listed alphathebetically, the order at the moment seems pretty random.

I'm still none the wiser
So, Michaelmas is a Christian festival celebrated on Sep 29. But what is it celebrating? The article doesn't tell me.... Does it have any significance beyong being a quarter day? I presume so, but the article doesn't tell me what... Roy Badami 01:19, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * It is the Feast Day / Saint's Day for St Michael the Archangel (Michael's Mass) CDV 11:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Feast days do not necessarily celebrate an occurence; every day of the year is a feast day for at least one of the Saints. Thus, September 29th just happens to be the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel.  Since St. Michael is pretty important, his feast day used to be a holy day of obligation, which means it is a day when one is supposed to attend mass. Phil Bastian 18:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Removal of copyrighted section
I've taken out the three paragraphs that quite openly claim to be taken from a copyrighted source, the Encyclopedia Britannica, in line with WP:CP. I've also removed the reference to beige trousers in relation to Michaelmas, it being both unsubstantiated (please include a source if you revert this) and trivia. QuantumGroupie 16:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Angels and Saints
To be a saint, one has to have lived on earth as a human being!!! "Saint" Michael and his "heavenly host" friends never did so. So, how can they be saints? (It is also normally required that the candidate be Roman Catholic (forget the daft ideas of the Mormons). Michael and his chums were presumably Jewish as they appear in the Jewish Bible (Old Testament). All very confusing!!!--PeadarMaguidhir 12:23, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps confusing, but the fact is that in some Christian belief-systems (e.g. Catholicism), to have lived on earth as a human being is not in fact a requirement; Michael and the archangels are recognized as saints. Your point about them being Jewish is interesting, but as they aren't human it's difficult to declare them adherents of any religion; but in ancient Judaism it could be presumed, perhaps, that God and His human and angelic followers were all Jewish in this cosmic sense. Even so, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc. have been "brought into the fold" as Christian patriarchs, as have the angels. To Christians, there is only one Bible (i.e. the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament are not exclusively Jewish). --198.59.190.201 16:38, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel (as well as other angels) are celebrated on the calenders of saints and recognized as saints in the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches. One does not have to live on earth to be a saint, nor are angels part of a religion. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 00:11, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Ireland
Michaelmas has also delineated time and seasons for secular purposes as well, particularly in the ''United Kingdom and Ireland. '' Can someone change this to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland? There is no such political entity as 'Ireland'. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.69.66.170 (talk) 23:04, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Exactly backwards. There is no country which calls itself "Republic of Ireland", but there is one which calls itself "Ireland".  Tb (talk) 00:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

 * We're talking about traditions dating back centuries before the existence of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom as political entities. I would suggest the phrase Britain and Ireland be used.TheMathemagician (talk) 09:54, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Need for an article on Old Michaelmas Day
Did readers know that October 11 is Old Michaelmas Day? There is an interesting story about why you should not pick blackberries after that day, which is to do with the fall of Satan from Heaven after losing his battle with St. Michael. Should we start a Wikipedia article on this date, or else incorporate this information here? ACEOREVIVED 21:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC) I first learnt about this from a paperback entitled "Festivals and Customs", by Patricia Morrell, published, I believe, by Piccolo Books, about 1977. If any one has this book, or other sources that could be a good citation, the "Old Michaelmas" would receive some book citation. ACEOREVIVED 19:50, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I have now added the reference to the Morrell book, having found the paperback myself. This book gives the date of Old Michaelmas Day as October 11, but according to Cooper and Sullivan (1994), and also some websites, the date is ACEOREVIVED 19:37, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Reference:

Cooper, Q. & Sullivan, P. (1994). "Maypoles, Martyrs and Mayhem". London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 0 7475 18070

 * Not sure about the difference between the devil spitting and urinating on blackberries. I imagine the spitting is just a euphemism. I'm from the Midlands and was told in no uncertain terms that Satan pisses on blackberries late in the season. In my experience, it's usually dogs!Sjwells53 (talk) 13:54, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

It should be October 10. Michaelmas is 29 September and in 1752 Britain skipped 11 days to adopt the Gregorian calendar so Old Michaelmas Day was calculated as 10 October (29 September plus eleven days).TheMathemagician (talk) 09:51, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't understand the reference to the Julian calendar here if old citations were correct that it was the 11th or 10th of October, because the proper movement calculation is in the OPPOSITE direction. For example, in 1621, the time of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving, the 29th of September of our Gregorian calendar would have been the 19th of September in their Julian Calendar, which the Pilgrims were still using (see ) (see also this Google answer: "The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 by the Pilgrims (21-Nov-1620 on the modern Gregorian Calendar.") The days move FORWARD if you "skip" the 10 (originally 15, I believe, when the calendar was devised), not BACK. So my guess is the Christians simply ALTERED the day completely, since it's "just" a feast day and not a Saint's day, I'm guessing to make it coordinate more to the first full moon following the autumnal equinox--which in 1621 happened to be on THURSDAY the 30th of September, following the equinox of Sep 22nd (12th on their Julian calendar as you can see at )... OR the previously cited sources from 1987 and later are simply incorrect. Can't we find some Vatian source or something from that time period? Prosandcons (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Differences in number of archangels
I've added a news section, with text and cites. I'll add the exact page of the LFF citation later. Bearian (talk) 19:39, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Photograph of students
What significance is that photo of students in England, besides being on Michaelmas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.116.68.36 (talk) 12:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * None. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 01:16, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * actually, there is. historically, the autumn term in british schools has been referred to as the michaelmas term.Toyokuni3 (talk) 13:11, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

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NO Connexion between Michaelmas and the US Supreme Court
There is NO connexion between the US Supreme Court and the Feast of Michaelmas. It is purely an accident of history that the Court begins its annual term on the first Monday in October.

The first U.S. Congress and first President of the United States under the second American constitution took office on 4 March 1789.

President Washington appointed and the Senate confirmed the first Chief Justice of the United States, and the first associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, on 28 September 1789. *THAT* is why the Congress legislated that the court's term should begin in October. It had absolutely NOTHING to do with Michaelmas - a holiday that most of the founding fathers, including the first Supreme Court justices, did NOT observe.

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Is Lancaster really one of the older universities?
This article says that some universities call their Autumn term Michaelmas, and then says these tend to be older universities. It then goes on to list articles, and includes the University of Lancaster, but since Lancaster's university was not founded until 1964, I hardly think it qualifies as one of the older universities. Vorbee (talk) 17:21, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The 1960s 'plate glass' universities like Lancaster certainly used to be considered new, but this is no longer the case. Most people now use the term 'new universities' to refer to the many polyversities created in the 1990s such as Oxford Brookes University. The 60s universities mostly based their academic structures and terminology on Oxbridge and the redbricks and have 3 ten week terms including Michaelmas, while most of the polyversities use an American style semester system. --Ef80 (talk) 10:39, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Mentioned in the Bible
The text currently states that only three archangels are mentioned in the Bible. However, Uriel is mentioned in the King James Bible (in 2 Esdras), and he's also mentioned in the Latin Vulgate (in 4 Esdras, the same book as above, but Vulgate numbering is different from KJV numbering.) I purpose to change this text. Rwflammang (talk) 23:26, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Nobody calls it "Michaelmas" anymore
Well, when I say "nobody" I mean that Roman Catholics don't call it that. The Catholic Church calls this day "Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, archangels" and "Michaelmas" has been reformed out of the liturgical lexicon. Traditionalists will continue to refer to Michaelmas but this pertains to minority use of the 1960 Calendar.

This point is germane today because the link to "Michaelmas" will soon be placed on WP:Main Page and I would prefer that we call it by the WP:COMMONNAME at that point, since it is so public and our reputation for accuracy is at stake. Elizium23 (talk) 02:21, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

 * I have no subject knowledge but would like to point out that the COMMONNAME and the article name should be the same. Hence, the article needs moving or Michaelmas is still the COMMONNAME.  Schwede 66  08:40, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Amenadiel
I stumbled over the sentence "In the Christian angelology of some traditions, the Archangel Michael is a Seraphim and is third in power behind Amenadiel and Lucifer." When you enter the name Amenadiel in a search engine, what you get are tons of references to the tv series Lucifer, and not anything regarding actual mythology. I have a strong feeling that somebody tries to sell us the series as mythology. I tried to check the reference given for the whole paragraph (Saint Michael the Archangel in medieval English legend), but that one is a book one can't access freely. Don't wanted to edit the actual article given that I am not certain. 2001:1A81:7441:C600:A5E3:701:5253:8963 (talk) 21:25, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

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David Smith was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He attended school at Saint Peter In Chains Catholic school from 1st grade through 8th grade, after which he graduated to Stephen T. Badin Catholic Highschool. Graduating in the class of 2000, he went on to the University of Cincinnati to persue interests in Computer Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. Later, realizing that there was more to life than spending 120 hours a week studying, he transfered to the Hamilton branch of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and is currently persuing a degree in Computer Science.

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Ruy Lopez, Mortimer Trap

The Mortimer Trap is a chess opening trap in the Ruy Lopez named after James Mortimer. The Mortimer Trap is a true trap in the sense that Black deliberately plays an inferior move to tempt White into making a mistake.

Analysis
'''1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6'''
 * The trap begins with Black playing the Berlin Defense to the Ruy Lopez. Although the Berlin was much more popular in the 19th century than in the 20th, it "became the height of theory when Vladimir Kramnik used it as his main defense to defeat Garry Kasparov in their 2000 World Championship match."

4. d3
 * White plays a quiet alternative to the more common 4.0-0, 4.d4, or 4.Nc3 (the last would transpose to the Four Knights Game). I. A. Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld wrote that 4.d3 is "Steinitz's move, with which he scored many spectacular successes during his long reign as World Champion."

4... Ne7
 * The Mortimer Defense, intending to reroute the knight to g6. This rare move loses and thus is inferior to other moves, but it sets a trap. White has several acceptable replies, for example 5.Bc4 c6 6.Nc3 Ng6 7.h4 with the upper hand and an attack (Keres, Olafsson), but the tempting capture of the black pawn on e5 is a mistake.

5. Nxe5 c6! (see diagram)
 * Attacking the white bishop and threatening 6...Qa5+. If the bishop moves (6.Ba4 or 6.Bc4), Black wins a piece with 6...Qa5+, forking the white king and knight.

6. Nc4
 * Covering a5 and thus preventing 6...Qa5+, and threatening smothered mate with 7.Nd6#.

6... Ng6!
 * After 6...d6 7.Ba4, Black forks the white bishop and knight with 7...b5, winning a piece for two pawns. Likewise after 6...Ng6, Black will win.

Discussion
Mortimer played his defense at the 1883 London tournament against Berthold Englisch, Samuel Rosenthal, and Josef Noa, losing all three games. Johannes Zukertort, the tournament winner, also played it against Englisch, the game resulting in a draw. Zukertort wrote of 4...Ne7, "Mr. Mortimer claims to be the inventor of this move. I adopted it on account of its novelty." The first edition of the treatise Chess Openings, Ancient and Modern analyzed 5.Nc3 Ng6 6.0-0 c6 7.Ba4 d6 8.Bb3 and now the authors gave either 8...Be6 or 8...Be7 as giving Black an equal game. A bit more recently, Horowitz and Reinfeld observed of 4...Ne7, "This time-wasting retreat of the Knight to an inferior square blocks the development of the King Bishop ... . Yet it is a matter of record that this pitfall had a vogue for many years."

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Talk:Harvest Moon 64

Second person
This article has 81 usages of the word "you". --Wirbelwind 21:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

 * There are no "you"s in the article anymore, safe to take down the tag? Iansmcl 00:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Girls
Certain descriptions contain bias, i.e. Karen is "the most beautiful" of the girls. --Imaginationac (Talk | Edits | [mailto:imaginationac@gmail.com Email]) 18:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Have removed "most beautiful" POV statement and POV tag. -- Johnfos 22:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Australian release?
I have never, ever seen this game in Australia. I have never seen it for sale on trading forums or ebay. With such a specific date I assume someone has a link proving this.

 * I agree with this. After visiting a plethora of gaming websites including IGN, GameFAQs, GameSpot, MobyGames, and others, I have only seen Japanese and United States releases where releases were shown. Therefore, I have removed all instances of an Australian release, and recommend it remain this way until a reference, if one exists, is cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sesamehoneytart (talk • contribs) 14:50, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

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Merrick Road

Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties in New York, United States. It is known as Merrick Boulevard or Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in Queens, within New York City.

Merrick Road runs east from the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica through Merrick past the county line between Nassau and Suffolk into Amityville, where it becomes Montauk Highway at the Amityville–Copiague village/hamlet line. The easternmost portion of Merrick Road, from Carman Mill Road to its eastern terminus, signed as part of New York State Route 27A (NY 27A). At one time, the entire length of Merrick Road was signed as NY 27A; currently, the entire portion within Nassau County is currently designated as the unsigned County Route 27 (CR 27). Merrick Road travels along an old right-of-way that was one of the original paths across southern Long Island, stretching from Queens to Montauk Point.

Merrick Road's name comes from the Algonquin word "Meroke", meaning "oyster bed". The section of Merrick Boulevard in Queens was renamed Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in October 2020, in honor of Floyd Flake, senior pastor of the Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica.

Route description
Merrick Boulevard, also known as Floyd H. Flake Boulevard, begins at NY 25 (Hillside Avenue) as a two-lane, one-way street heading eastbound (compass south at this point), which continues north of Hillside Avenue as 166th Street. Two blocks to the south of Hillside Avenue, Merric Boulevard passes by the Central Branch of the Queens Library and the 165th Street Bus Terminal. A block to its east, 168th Street provides for westbound traffic. Just south of Liberty Avenue, the two directions join together to form a four-lane, divided Merrick Boulevard. Among the parks that the road passes are Proctor-Hopson Circle, St. Albans Park, and Roy Wilkins Park. Merrick Boulevard gradually turns southeast and east, passing through Springfield Gardens, Laurelton and crossing the Belt Parkway before leaving Queens into Nassau County, where it becomes Merrick Road. The section of Merrick Boulevard in Queens was renamed Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in October 2020, in honor of Floyd Flake, senior pastor of the Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica.

Merrick Road is one of the old roads along the southern side of Long Island; it has since been replaced by Sunrise Highway (NY 27) for most through traffic. At Rockville Centre, bridges take it over NY 27, with four directional ramps forming a partial interchange. Farther east, it serves as the southern end for state roads such as NY 107, NY 110, and the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway (NY 135).

NY 27A begins as a split from NY 27 in East Massapequa, where NY 27 leaves the original Sunrise Gold Circle, which is now Old Sunrise Highway (unsigned NY 900D) east of the split. NY 27A quickly turns south off Old Sunrise Highway onto Carman Mill Road, which ends at Merrick Road. Merrick Road from that point east continues through Massapequa over the Nassau/Suffolk border into Amityville, Suffolk County, where it becomes Montauk Highway at the Amityville/Copiague village/hamlet line. Amityville is the only town in Suffolk County where southernmost major road is known as Merrick Road (it is known as Montauk Highway in every other settlement along the South Shore of Suffolk County.

Both the Meadowbrook State Parkway and the Wantagh State Parkway have interchanges with Merrick Road. A truck needing to make a delivery to the barrier beaches along Ocean Parkway may enter the Meadowbrook southbound at this road and at no point farther north.

Transportation
The Q5 is the main option for public transportation in Queens, running on Merrick Boulevard between Archer Avenue and Hook Creek Boulevard. The Q84 and the Q85 both serve Merrick Boulevard between Archer Avenue and Baisley Boulevard. The Q4 serves it between Archer Avenue and Linden Boulevard.

The n4/n4x is the main mode of public transportation on Merrick Road in Nassau County, serving it between Jamaica Center Bus Terminal and Freeport LIRR, running closed door service in Queens, with the n19 serving Merrick Road between Freeport LIRR and Unqua Road.

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User talk:Ceejayoz/Archive 1

Thanks for helping with spam
Thanks for helping with spam, it is getting worse and worse problem on Wikipedia. Pavel Vozenilek 20:17, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, and thanks for my first talk entry! :-D — ceejayoz ★ 21:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Aerial Top Dressing c.f. Crop Dusting
Regarding the entires about aerial topdressing and crop dusting, I think there has been some confusion about the meaning of these terms, which I have helped perpetuate by putting a rather badly worded link in the crop dusting stub.

My understanding is crop dusting pre-dates top dresing, but the two are not the same thing. This is certainly true in NZ usage.

Topdressing concerns the delivery of fertilisers, (usually superphosphate and lime), where as crop dusting initially referred to the use of insecticides and fungicides. I thought it had since come to include the spread of fertilisers, and added the link thinking top dressing was a subset of crop dusting - though certainly I should have made this clearer. In fact, having read your comments I did some rapid research into crop dusting, and note many still seem use the phrase only in relation to spreading posions. I am afraid although I made a number of searches relating to top dressing I did not include crop dusting in my initial searches, otherwise I would certainly have modified the way I attached the link to your page.

Although the material, including the two texts, encylopedia entry cited state topdressing - meaning the spreading of fertiliser - was a New Zealand invention (and indeed the Museum of New Zealand displays a Tiger Moth to commemorate the fact), it is quite possible the parochial pride allowed previous researchers to overlook prior foreign invention, which for some reason did not widely catch on.

I would welcome any research about this that comes to light.

I had meant to add an invitation to others to add details of other nations to the top dressing page, and had been intending to add notes about the development in Australia and the UK when further information arrived. I note that as Eric said, the page is still heavily dependant on New Zealand history and your renaming is probably appropriate in the interim. Winstonwolfe

Anneliese Michel
I know you reported an earlier case of copyvio regarding this article, and while doing some research on it, I came across a potential second case in the article. With some minor changes, it reads very much like this article, and I wanted to get the opinion of someone familiar with the article already before I declare this second version a copyvio as well. Thanks for your time.--Mitsukai 17:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * — ceejayoz ★ 18:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: Relic forums
My name on the forums is stealth and I've been around since November 2000, but I only post every so often nowadays. Don't even use that username anywhere else anymore. ;) -- tomf688 {talk} 19:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Neanderthal
In your summary to changes in the Gibraltar article, you say "History - just as chimps today, neanderthals weren't humans - they're hominids)". If we take Homo as human, neanderthals are human. They are also hominids, so the current version is also right.

Note also that there those that include chimpanzees as Homo paniscus and Homo troglodytes. --Error 01:06, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Human says that biologically "human" refers to Homo sapiens, so I'd prefer to stick to hominids to be entirely without chance of confusion. I don't think you'd find many, scientist or non-scientist, who'd include chimpanzees as "humans". — ceejayoz ★ 01:13, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Unexplained deletion
You should refer to the ongoing discussion in the Gibraltar article page before deleting somebody else's work. We are trying to reach consensus here. So, please, read before delete!

Also, there you go, your first Exodus of Gibraltar quote in English (and from a Gibraltarian source): http://www.chronicle.gi/Opinion/29.1.2003b.htm Asterion 01:27, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Nowhere in that article is the phrase "Exodus of Gibraltar" mentioned (it says "forced to exodus", but the debate here is over it being known in historical terms as the "Exodus of Gibraltar"), and even if it did, a) the extrememly low number of Google results and b) the fact that this particular source is an opinion piece makes it irrelevant. The term is not in common usage, that much appears evident. — ceejayoz ★  01:29, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

cfug
we are in the process of merging it with CF Undergound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CF_Underground —Preceding unsigned comment added by Getcrunk (talk • contribs) 22:08, 8 October 2005

he's adding the CFUG bit to CF Underground and then redirecting CFUG to that getcrunk 02:12, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Question
Ceejayoz, I noticed your name on the WP:AFD page and i recognized your name obviously because of our discussion about the featured diagram and corn issues :-). I was thinking of re-listing the David Mertz article for deletion but wanted to get someone elses opinion first and i figured "hey, i'll ask ceejayoz, his name looks familiar."  Check that article out and tell me what you think, it just drives me crazy and seems to be totally a vanity type article. over half the edits on the page were done by the guy himself.  i mean...i've published a book and have half the credentials of this guy.  just wanted to see what your opinion was. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞  06:30, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the opinion. I went ahead and listed it and let's just say the guy does not seem very happy about it. Kinda proves to me he's using it as self promotion. --ScottyBoy900Q 18:29, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:Airport traffic pattern.jpg
Congratulations and thanks for nominating it. Raven4x4x 05:44, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for making me feel so welcome
I'm sure User:Dunc appreciates you helping gang up on me, nothing quite like the feeling of being liked--WwJd 04:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Stop posting trolling questions and falsehoods on Reference desk based on fundamental misunderstandings of the way science works and you'll probably feel better. — ceejayoz ★ 01:47, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

AfD meatpuppetry box
Was the box you added to Articles for deletion/Sopme a subst'd template? I've added something like that to AfD subpages before but your text was a great deal less awkward than mine, so if it's a template I'd like to know which, and if it isn't I'd like to make one! — mendel ☎ 06:21, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I figured it might be useful that way, so I did some minor rewording and now we have AfdAnons! I've used it on the Sopme AfD to try it out. — mendel ☎ 16:38, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Street Fighter II V
why did you redirect the article to Street Fighter main article?
 * i would have listed the episode list at Street Fighter II V. but i put it here to make the article less crowded and more neater><ino 01:40, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Trevor, John, Kyle, Michael
Please don't leave rude comments suggesting that 4 different people from 4 different states couldn't be using the same computer since we all go to the same university. I really am glad you thought you could question our intelligence when you neglected to even consider how on earth 4 people could have the same IP. Wikipedia needs to know of the rudeness and the inconsiderate motives of some of their people.

I hope I have broken down enough small words for you to figure out how we are all from different states on a single computer if not I will do it like this "We room together for college DUH"
 * Feel free to report my "rudeness". — ceejayoz talk [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|24px]] 20:58, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

multiple people from 1 IP
You see in College people are likely to not be from the same place. Sometimes at college kids come from other states just to go to a certain school. Now when 4 kids happen to come to the same school there is a chance they will not be all from the same state. Then there is a good chance they will be using the same computer, much like many fraternities. Please don't be obnoxious and try to sound like you are so quick and smart to think you got us. Thank You with repeated harassment I will notify wikipedia about the abuse you are using.
 * Feel free to report me as "abusive". — ceejayoz talk [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|24px]] 20:58, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Help with my Steve Stiles entry
Thanks for the quick help. Do you know Steve?

Sure. He did a great article, complete with illustration, for issue #2 of my fanzine, Vojo de Vivo! Orange Mike 00:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Lord Russell of Kilowen
Hey there: I saw the redirect that you put in on this page. Strong work. Just wanted to check that everything is covered in the article that you are redirecting to, otherwise a merge may be more appropriate. That way, people that know something about this guy could have time to review the content of both articles, then delete whatever may be redundant. Just a thought... — Gaff ταλκ 02:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for your support! If you should ever have any concerns about my actions as an administrator, please be sure to tell me! Kirill Lokshin 13:31, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

RC patrol

 * ) I'm about done for the night.  User:Zoe|(talk) 05:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I did not vandalize anything
I am quite offended that this warning popped up on my screen. I use wikipedia for study purposes and nothing more. I am not and have never been a vandal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.199.217 (talk • contribs)
 * Sure. — ceejayoz talk [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|24px]] 02:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Bc radio history
Hi Ceejayoz. Could I get you to take a quick look back at Bc radio history? You listed it AfD, but I think it was just someone putting things up bit by bit. No doubt the page needs work, but I think it's an honest article. Cheers.--Bookandcoffee 17:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: blanks
Done; I was using it to track new additions (which are still coming in), since the vandal's ISP is AOL, and his/her IP keeps cycling. Let's hope a range block isn't necessary. -- Hadal 03:12, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Omnislashing
I apologize for my redirect. I didn't read the article over thoroughly because a few unencyclopedic articles were recently created from the Limit Break article, including Climhazzard, which had a link to Omnislash, which in turn was a redirect to Omnislashing. You may want to wikify and include categories in the article to make it look a bit more cozy though. Sorry again. ~ Hibana 02:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Anti-vandal tool on Safari?
Hi, you left a note on User_talk:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool a few weeks ago to say that the script didn't work in Safari. Thanks for letting me know. I've made some changes, and it now works in IE, firefox, opera and konqueror. Please could you see if it works in Safari now? Thanks. Lupin|talk|popups 17:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for leaving a comment about the photo. It was taken from the balcony of our neighbours house. Our village is on the top of a hill and their house faces east towards Hemel. We were all woken up by the explosion. Their children came round to tell us what it was and I just grabbed my camera and went to see. A case of being in the right place and the right time.

It's now two days since the explosion and we can still see the smoke during the day and the flickering orange of the flame during the night. The wind has been blowing the smoke away from us and so there's no real pollution here, just a faint oily smell in the air sometimes.

Cheers,

Pete

Image Tagging Image:Alex garden.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Alex garden.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use GFDL-self to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. SteinbDJ 16:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

External links in signatures
Please remove the external link from your signature and link to your site from your user page. See Sign your posts on talk pages for more details. Zocky | picture popups 10:13, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * "This page is considered a guideline on Wikipedia. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. Although it may be advisable to follow it, it is not however policy." — ceejayoz talk [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|24px]] 16:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Please don't try and lawyer your way out of this. Having an external lnk in your signature is totally innapropriate and disruptive, as common sense should tell you. Please remove it immediately. Thanks.--Sean Black (talk) 23:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Please remove it. Wikipedia is not a place to increase your site traffic or google rating. bogdan 23:45, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Can I add my voice to this, too? Please remove this link from your sig. As innocuous as it may be if one user does it, this is the sort of thing that gets abused by spammers and various others out more for their own benefit than Wikipedia's if it is allowed for one user. You're welcome to link to your site on your user and user talk pages. Thanks, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Just letting you know that the external links will be removed from your signatures by a bot. Zocky | picture popups 05:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I noticed that as of March 2 you still hadn't removed the external link from your signature. I assume you just forgot to do so, and perhaps you've since removed it--there's no way to know since you haven't made any talk page edits since then.  I wanted to stop by and remind you, though, just in case.  Thanks.  Chick Bowen 22:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Pending rel="nofollow" being permitted for signature links (IIRC there's a proposal going on to add it to all talk page links, too), I've removed it to avoid accusations of Googlebombing. — ceejayoz talk 03:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Australian flag in your signature
You use the Australian flag in your signature, right? If you do, you're going to start having to use Image:Flag of Australia.svg, as the one you use right now (which is a png) is considered redundant and is facing deletion. Don't worry about replacing the uses with the png image, because my bot is sorting through that. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 22:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

See User_talk:Deskana, the user will probably be re-blocked if the vandalism continues, if it doesn't there isn't really a point. The main reason I unblocked is that IPs should not be blocked for over a month. It is likely the user will be re-blocked, but I want to discuss it with Deskana first. Thanks, Prodego  talk  18:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I blocked the user for 1 week, happy editing! Prodego  talk  19:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

San Roque, Cádiz
Thanks for the reverts. The person behind that IP address is User:Gibraltarian, permanently banned by the Arbitration Committee. If the vandalism does not stop, I will ask for semi-protection. He has also been targetting other articles (Falklands Islands, Algeciras, ...). I also striken out your RfC as this is clearly just a case of long term vandalism. Regards, E    Asterion  u talking to me? 20:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'd locked horns with User:Gibraltarian a while back (plus another partisan he was having a revert war with) way back when and had forgotten about it. I'll add those articles to my watchlist and see if I can't keep him out. — ceejayoz talk  03:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * That's great. I appreciate that. E    Asterion  u talking to me? 08:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Rimshot

Early discussion
Am I correct in thinking that not all rimshots (that is, that cheesy "da boom ching!" after a joke) actually involve a proper rimshot (that is, hitting the rim of the drum)? - furrykef (Talk at me) 04:54, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The ones I've heard are actually tom-bassdrum-choked cymbal (ba-doom-tshh), and therefore don't involve the snare at all. -CamTarn

 * I know it as snare-snare-(bassdrum+cymbal). That's also what you hear when you follow the link in the article: --217.162.139.244 9 July 2005 12:27 (UTC)

I honestly just hate giw Furrykef spelled it out as "da boom ching" instead of "ba dum tss" 6DollarSuit (talk) 02:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Rim and head
Currently, the article says that a rimshot is "the sound produced by hitting the rim of a snare drum." Actually, for a rimshot the drummer hits rim and drum head at the same time. --217.162.139.244 9 July 2005 12:27 (UTC)

 * Exactly. Andrewa (talk) 15:25, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Fixed link to sting
The link to "sting" in the article 1) had the same text as the article name and 2) linked to an article with a title that did not conform to Wikipedia naming policy. Therefore, I renamed the previously named "sting(percussion)" page to "sting (percussion)", fixed the link to the article in question, and made the link text simply "sting". OneofThem

Differentation between rimshots and cross stick
I've found that many percussionists seem unaware of the differences in terminology between rimshots and cross sticks. I've added a short statement that makes note about this. Feel free to edit it at will Aaron (19:30, 2 December 2005)
 * Yes it is sad. And there are many more not mentioned here, but It's been a while for me, and I forget their proper names. Just listen to Buddy Rich, or other similar drummer to hear all the different tones you can get. There's also something in between a cross stick and rim shot, and then there's the fun "pop" you can get from doing a cross stick and hitting your crossed stick upwards (often to spin in the air for you to catch - a showman's trick). Khirad 01:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Orchestral rimshot
I'm not a professional percussionist, and it's been a long time since high school orchestra, but I've never performed a rimshot like the one described as an orchestral rimshot. We always placed the bead of one stick on the head and then struck the the shoulder with the other stick. Perhaps there's another name for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apesma (talk • contribs) 16:07, 20 June 2007

WHAT INSTRUMENTS FOR RIM SHOT?
I find this article excellent. I would like to list instruments to play with rim shots : bass drum, boobam, cuica, drum, paila (Cuban percussion), snare, surdo, timpani (see Carter : 8 pieces for timpani, I think),... all instruments with a tensioning... rim. But rim shot is impossible to play with a bongo, like Bruno Giner asks for in his score Instants de peaux, Editions François Dhalmann. I would like to know who has invented rim shot ? When ? I think that the first classical work with rim shots is La création du monde by Darius Milhaud (1923). Michel Faligand, [perc_infos], 10.01.06, France.
 * It is also impossible (or at least not recommended) with a Pipe Drum (side drum used in bagpipe bands), which has a snare underneath the batter head in addition to the bottom head. You can possibly get a pop with bongos, as with congos, but it has nothing to do with the rim, but with the heel of your hand (or possibly using a stick to depress the head before striking with the other). It would be interesting to see who invented the rim shot. But then again, anyone who has sat alone tinkering with their drum has figured out how to do weirder things than a rim shot! Khirad 01:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Text-based representations of the cheesy "rimshot" punch-line.
It would be useful to add a list of text-based versions of the 'rimshot' to clarify how it should be used in email. For instance the person at the top of this talk article used "da boom CHING". digimark

Confused...
It says in the article, "The term is erroneously used to refer to the sting played by the drummer in cabaret shows to accentuate the punchline of a joke. As a result, a particularly obvious laugh line is sometimes called a rimshot.".

Then, two paragraphs later, "The rimshot is often used in American comedy to indicate the punchline of a bad joke."

Are these two statements not contradictory? –Dvandersluis 19:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * They are. Attempting to fix it, removed It's also frequently used after a Stand-up_comedian|stand-up comedian's joke, augmenting the joke/pun itself. See http://soundandthefoley.com/2013/04/10/of-stings-and-rimshots/ for a good expose of the terminological mess. Andrewa (talk) 03:07, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

 * They are not necessarily contadictory. The first paragraf talks about the erroneous use of the term, while the second paragrah may be using the term in its strict meaning.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.42.205.158 (talk) 14:46, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Glaring Omission
Seriously, wikipedia doesn't even have a paragraph on the rimshot as a comedic device? That's absurd and fails to meet the needs of the majority of people searching for a rimshot.

This should be fixed post-haste. 97.113.67.217 (talk) 05:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

 * The article notes that the term "rimshot" is often mistakenly used to refer to a sting, which is what you are talking about. --RaygunShaun (talk) 22:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

 * except that the term is only incorrect if drummers get to decide what the public calls a comedic device. which they don't. it may not be the technical term drummers use, but it's still what this is called to most people. --dan (talk) 22:37, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Hence the disambiguation tags. 70.172.215.165 (talk) 12:38, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Cross stick
Why does Cross stick redirect to Rimshot? Cross stick technique doesn't involve hitting the head of the drum; the tip of the stick is placed on the head and snapped down with a fulcrum grip to hit the shaft on the rim. ❤ Yutsi Talk/  Contributions  ( 偉特 ) 13:35, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Yes, we should have a separate article on the cross stick technique. Andrewa (talk) 03:08, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Some useful links

 * http://www.tomscott.com/cliff/ Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff hilarious video
 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/4791411.stm Glossary of common media terms: Sting (Television and audio): A bit of music or sound (with pictures if on TV) used to punctuate the programme. Stings are often used at the beginning or the end of a report or to highlight the headlines. ( OK its prepared by school students see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/7600511.stm )
 * http://www.creativeskillset.org/tv/article_3485_1.asp#S STINGS - A short sequence or "bumper" acting as visual or sound punctuation between two sections of a programme or introducing a regular feature or strand within a multi-item show. An example would be a short graphics clip with theme music.
 * http://www.thenewsmanual.net/Resources/glossary.html#S sting: A short piece of music (from 5 to 30 seconds) played in program breaks or to add drama. Stings are either dramatic music or based on station identification melodies. A musical form of a stab.

More to follow. Andrewa (talk) 15:25, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Rimshot, rim shot, or rim-shot?

 * Rimshot
 * 1) Miller, Michael (2003). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Drums, p.206. Penguin. ISBN 9781592571628.
 * 2) Pickering, John (2012). Drummer's Cookbook, p.51. Mel Bay. ISBN 9781619113374.
 * Rim shot
 * 1) Shepherd, John (ed.) (2003). Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: VolumeII: Performance and Production, Volume 11, p.158. ISBN 9780826463227.
 * 2) Schroedl, Scott (2002). Drum Tuning: The Ultimate Guide, p.41. Hal Leonard. ISBN 9780634039256.
 * 3) Brechtlein, Tom; Finkelstein, Mike; & Testa, Joe (1996). Rock Drum Basics: Steps One and Two Combined, p.24. Alfred Music. ISBN 9781576235614.
 * 4) Schroedl, Scott (2001). Play Drums Today! - Level 1, p.40. Hal Leonard. ISBN 9780634033001.
 * Rim-shot
 * 1) Strong, Jeff (2011). Drums For Dummies, p.39-40. ISBN 9781118068618.
 * 2) Mauleon, Rebeca (2011). The Salsa Guidebook, not paginated. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781457101410.

Doing a Google books search "Rim shot" wins, doing a google search "rimshot" wins. Hyacinth (talk) 00:11, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Orchestral doesn't matter
See, many composers are also not that acquaintaned with the different techniques, just like drummers have no idea about different violin markings, and most musicians confuse ritenuto, ritardando, spicatto and staccatto...

In the article for General MIDI, under Percussion, it is stated that note 37 represents "Side Stick/Rimshot" which are two very different things, albeit complementary. A sidestick is basically a "reversed" rimshot, in that you keep the butt-end on the drumhead, and hit the rim with the bead.

Rimshot is definitely where you hit the rim and the head simultaneosly, that's why it usually is "less precise", since it's hard to control two hit points at the same time. How far in the stick is in, depends on the sound you after.

On account of the membranophones which have the skin tightened over the rim itself, you can also do rimshots - you simply hit the rim. (It's all about getting a musially useful sound).

In orchestra - you can call anything anything else, because there's much more freedom in the choice of sounds. More often than not, professional percussionist are stunned by the part markings, and even just improvise. Music is a univeral language, but you will often find different english language terms for same things.

Metal, wood, skin
You can essentially get three type of sounds on the snaredrum, a "chuck/kshing" (metal rim), a "thump" (skin), and "click" (stick on stick). You also have snares on/off, which make very tight, slightly inprecise, very brief metallic rattle. THe drum shell also produces a ring, depending on where you hit it (center being the obvious exception), and you also have dampers. Now you can combine all these. Now you also have two ends of the stick (let's call them tip and butt) and there's the bead. Just do the combinatorics, and it's easy to name the sounds. THat's about how it's actually done, bar some ignorant composers that simply put an actual description of what to do.

Another meaning
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rimshot Might be worthwhile to mention that, though I don't know how to do that in an non-offensive manner.

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Randhurst
Hi Tim, I noticed you reverted my edits about old navy moving. It actually did move, to North Point shopping center in Arlington Heights. The space is currently vacant. thanks... bobsmith319.
 * Hi Bobsmith - sorry about that. For some reason I went a little nuts with the Old Navy move thing. I hope you don't mind, though, that I made a couple edits to what you put in (some spacing and capitalization, and I think that previous edits had placed Steve & Barry's at what used to be Old Navy). Let me know if I'm wrong in any of it. --Tim D 00:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hello, Tim, that is perfectly fine that you went nuts. Steve and Barry's is located in the former Applebee's space. The old Navy location still sits empty, as far as I know... I havn't been in Mount Prospect since August.
 * Thanks,
 * bobsmith319.

Learn the Signs. Act Early.
Hi Tim, The "Learn the Signs. Act Early." campaign informs people about autism and many other developmental disabilities such as hearing loss, vision loss, cerebral palsy, and general childhood development. That is why these links are on other pages that are not concerning autism. Please let me know if you have more questions. Thanks!...learnthesigns Discussion is at Learnthesigns

Muschihausen
I added the protect tag just until these vandals calm down and finish with their fun. Mind help reporting a few of these to WP:AIV with me? Wildthing61476 19:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's pretty out of control...and the tag didn't seem to be working from what I could tell. I need to step away, but I'll see what I can do later if needed. -- Tim D 19:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Just a note
To let you know that your gentle snarkiness made me chuckle here. Dina 18:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Glad you appreciated it...it seemed to be kind of a snarky-worthy situation -- Tim D 21:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I say good sir!
Sorry! I didn't know you were from Illinois! All insults taken back. I hope you enjoyed my humor! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.196.164 (talk) 17:30, 11 November 2006
 * No worries, friend! -- Tim D 23:48, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * But of course life long friend and companion! (no real insult meant, I just enjoy this game)

Pregnancy Revert
G'day Tim, normally I never revert any talk page stuff but I'm glad you did with regard to virgin impregnations. Sometimes I can't help myself when replying to daft (and misspelt) questions. I didn't feel I could then go and revert my own rubbish when I am hassling Bobsmith about his 'censorship', so thanks again! Maustrauser 21:38, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ha, no problem. Nothing against your responses, really...the original question just didn't belong there and I figured there was a good chance that it was just a troll or something. -- Tim D 04:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert
On my computer the dialog boxes overlap, the Daily Show Correspondents box and the various Wiki boxes. It doesn't matter though someone else rearranged the sub-sections. Na uf ana :  talk  19:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh okay - I had a feeling that was it. Still looked misaligned from my browser, though...it was just a bad place for the boxes I guess. -- Tim D 02:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Anything else you'd like to discuss?
Please see current version of Day of the Dead, and I'd be interested in your global comments. LAVisitor1 09:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll take a look at it a little later today when I'm done shoveling myself out of snow and I have the time to reflect :) -- Tim D 18:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Pregnancy Diet
Hi Tim, I spent almost one hour yesterday evening to write facts on what pregnant women should eat (or not), and you remove the whole thing because "unencyclopedic"

Would you be so kind to explain what it means:

- do you think this topic does not belong to this page, or

- is the style too relaxed (I can easily change that)

Thank you for your answer, Denis Corpet 22:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi Denis - I see that the discussion is going on in the talk page, so I guess we can keep it there. I figured that you spent some time on what you wrote, but at least it doesn't disappar into a void. I just wanted to err on the conservative side of things until the wording and such can be adjusted. -- Tim D 23:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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autism epidemic
Just a question for you, if you don't mind, about how you would compare the direction your revision of the autism article is compared to the featured article version, or perhaps to the version up for AfD? Do you feel eerie gusts from paper shuffling, what with the closing of ranks signaling a possible consolidation of hegemony? What does Jonathan's Law mean to you in the context of the cloaking rituals taking place across the vast breadth of the Wiki's medical articles? Ombudsman 02:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

 * If you're talking about the restoring of what had been removed a couple days ago, I mainly did that because the previous edit was anonymous and unexplained. Looking at it again now, I see the content as being kind of iffy overall and would at the very least need some references to go along with it. It's a bit preachy. Now, I haven't been keeping up with what's been going on in the circle of autism articles, so I'll need some catching up with the politics of everything. Concerning that, what exactly are you hinting? Also, I'm not quite catching where Jonathan's Law would come into play since by my understanding, that is focused on specific records of specific children. Correct me if I'm wrong, though. -- Tim D 10:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Maps outlining Chicago suburbs
Thanks for the compliment. The work is tedious without a bot to help me but at the same time I find it enjoyable. To answer your first question, yes I did upload a layered image at wikimedia commons for anyone to edit. You can find it here. Unfortunately, I didn't make one for photoshop. A small explanation is on the image's talk page. I'm going to upload an updated version very soon.

I don't mind adding the mt. prospect image so I'll do that very soon. Take care! — oo64eva (Alex) (U @ 23:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Alex! I appreciate the response. A nice image will really add to the Mt. Prospect entry. -- Tim D 04:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Tim, I still have not gotten to those images. I apologize for not being more timely but I've been extraordinarily busy.  I should have those up within the next few weeks.  — oo64eva (Alex) (U @ 18:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey, that's okay. There's no schedule here...things get done when they get done! -- Tim D 04:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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AfD for Controversies about functioning labels in the autism spectrum.
In view of your contributions to the Autism article, would you please comment at this AfD (if you have not already done so). I'm looking to close that AfD, but it seems to need more comment. Thanks. -- Jreferee   T / C  17:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Caught this request a little late; sorry I couldn't contribute! -- Tim D 16:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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Adderall
Thanks for fixing up the ADHD section. This page is vandalised so frequently, it's a relief to see a real and useful edit.  twirligig Leave one! ⋄ Check me out! 02:49, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Glad to help! I may do a couple more edits if I find some time; some spots sound like they were taken from student research papers or something... Tim D (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Tim, do you have access to the Swanson paper that describes effects of Adderall on students? The reference I found (Greenhill) says that teachers' perceptions of students behavior improved; the article currently says that students' perceptions of their teachers improved. The Greenhill paper just summarizes the Swanson paper, though, so the Swanson paper would be the better reference. --Ben Kovitz (talk) 17:22, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I found the abstract. :) The Greenhill summary is right. I'll fix Adderall right now. --Ben Kovitz (talk) 17:30, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing that, Ben. The section has a much more crisp feel to it now. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I thought I saw that students rated their teachers more highly with Adderall. It clearly is the other way around! One of my many brain farts, I guess. Tim D (talk) 03:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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I have converted your request to rename the article from "technical" to "potentially controversial", as it is not completely clear that we are dealing with a proper noun. The discussion may be found at Talk:Response to intervention. Favonian (talk) 17:42, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. Response to Intervention is a major educational term/concept that is indeed a proper noun. (see, for example, http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/,root,dynamic,QaCorner,8, and http://rti4success.org). I'll note this at the discussion as well. -- Tim D (talk) 18:47, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

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Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium

The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, named for astronaut Roger B. Chaffee, was constructed in the early 1960s as part of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids. The facility initially featured a 30 ft plaster dome and a Goto Optics mechanical star projector. Among the planetarium's first shows was "Star of Wonder", an astronomical attempt at an explanation of the Star of Bethlehem. The show received positive reviews in the Grand Rapids area and remained in the Chaffee's catalogue for several years.

The Chaffee, then known as the Planetarium of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, came under the curatorship of David L. DeBruyn in 1964. A young man fresh out of college at the University of Michigan, DeBruyn helped found the Great Lakes Planetarium Association in 1965, hosting the first meeting in Grand Rapids. In 1967 the theater was dedicated as the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, following the death of the astronaut in the Apollo 1 mission.

During the late 1960s the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association began a project to construct a new dark sky observatory in the Grand Rapids area. A site was leased to them on Kissing Rock Hill and the James C. Veen Observatory was constructed by the Association members, with some support from the Public Museum and Chaffee Planetarium. Today the Veen remains tied to the museum and the Chaffee.

In 1994 the planetarium was relocated to a new facility, along with the entire museum, where it would feature a new 50 ft aluminum dome and the state-of the art projection system: a prototype of the Evans and Sutherland Digistar II digital star projector, running on Digistar software. Within a few years this was upgraded to software for Digistar II. The system also features three Sony video projectors, a Barco video projector, scores of Kodak ektagraphic slide projectors and even more special effect projectors and devices. The planetarium is well known for its many educational programs, as well as its unique library of laser light shows, many programmed at the Chaffee itself, making use of the unique effects of the Chaffee and innovative and original Digistar programming.

Visiting the Planetarium is a popular activity for students of all ages in Grand Rapids and across Michigan, from preschoolers who learn about the cycles of day and night, to elementary students studying the Solar System and stars, up to high schoolers and even college students focused on the more mysterious wonders of the universe. The Chaffee also draws in visitors to its educational public shows, especially its informal "Under Starlit Skies" descriptive astronomy lectures and spectacular laser light shows.

The Chaffee remains a member of the Great Lakes Planetarium Association, and as of 1995 began hosting conferences on the decennial anniversaries. David L. DeBruyn officially retired after forty years of curatorship in 2003, and still serves in an advisory capacity as a volunteer.

In 2014 the planetarium received a 1.2 million dollar upgrade.

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