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Howard Simon Bernstein (born 18 April 1963, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish musician, producer and DJ who has worked with artists including Björk, U2, Tricky, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soul II Soul, Robbie Robertson, Elisa, Mukul Deora, Marlene Kuntz and the Gift.

Early life and career
Born into a Jewish family amidst the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow, Bernstein attended socialist Jewish youth clubs in the city while finding a musical education in John Peel's radio shows, recording tracks from the show on a two-track tape recorder and making rudimentary mixes from them.

Later, he spent a year in Israel working on a kibbutz as part of Jewish cultural youth movement Habonim before living for a period in the United States.

Once back in the UK, he moved to a squat in Limehouse, London. When asked in 2018 "What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?", he mentioned "Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1978". In the 1980s, he was "heavily influenced" by the London Skating scene and its DIY attitude. He saved to buy an album a week and then listened to it all day long. The bands he liked the most at the time were "Siouxsie and the Banshees - of which I was a big fan - but also Santana, John McLaughlin, Sly & Robbie, a lot of reggae, and Brian Eno".

He had a desire to work in the music industry, and after establishing himself as a DJ, he found a job working as a teaboy at Lillie Yard studios – owned by film composer Hans Zimmer. He worked his way up there between 1984 and 1986, from teaboy to tape operator to assistant engineer to engineer. He learnt there all the technical details and procedures.

Artist production, engineering and collaboration
He started working; mixing and engineering with Siouxsie and the Banshees, on their 1988 singles "Peek-a-Boo" and "The Killing Jar". "I could not believe I was doing it. Four years earlier I'd been jumping up on the stage trying to touch her, and then I'm in the studio with her. That was a big moment". He then engineered and mixed on Soul II Soul's debut album Club Classics Vol. One in 1989, after he befriended the group during regular visits to their parties at London's Africa Centre. By the early 1990s, he was hired by Massive Attack and Goldie. Following the success of these collaborations, he left Lillie Yard to go freelance. In 1993, he set up his own label Pussyfoot.

He worked as a programmer for Björk on several albums, engineering on 1995's Post and co-writing "I Miss You". His mix of "All is Full of Love" was included in the final cut of her following album, 1997's Homogenic.

At the same time, he collaborated with U2 on different projects. He supervised their side-project Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 alongside producer Brian Eno. He also heavily involved in the U2's electronically focused Pop in 1997, co-producing it with Flood. "At the beginning they were trying to find a role for me" he said of the beginning of the project. "My original title was 'DJ and Vibes'. It was a bit of a difficult title to be given, because some of the tunes didn't need that kind of input – it's not as though there's scratching and loops all over the record. And vibes... that's a really difficult word to describe, and to put your finger on. So it was a bit ad hoc at first. As we got further and further into the project, the role I was playing came out – I was co-producer, engineer, and mixer. I gave the band a direct line into club culture and freestyle DJing." He then embarked on their PopMart tour, for a DJ set.

Other notable credits include producing Tricky's 'Ponderosa', performing 'noises' on Marlene Kuntz's Ricoveri Virtuali E Sexy Solitudini, producing two albums (Reale and collaborative album Not in the Face) for Italian funk rock group Casino Royale., producing and co-writing Take Your Partner by the Hand with Robbie Robertson for his own album Turn the Dark Off, producing Sly and Robbie's album Drum & Bass Strip to the Bone, producing a solo project for U2's The Edge and producing for Hal Willner.

In 2021, Italian duo Pinhdar released the album Parallel, produced by Howie B and including his significant musical contributions. He told ondarock that “this is one of the records I’m most proud of.”

Solo career
He has been releasing music under his own name since the early 1990s, as well as under other various monikers and as part of groups including ambient/electronica Skylab. His productions appeared on seminal electronic labels including Mo'Wax and Eye Q, while he signed with major label Polydor (sister label Island in the US) for a deal that spanned four full-length albums and several singles.

As a DJ, he mostly notably compiled and mixed FabricLive.05 for London nightclub Fabric's nascent label in 2002.

A new album, Down with the Dawn, was announced in late 2013 and released on 9 April 2014.

Film scores, TV, advertising music and theatre
He produced a remix of the cover version of Theme from Mission: Impossible for the 1996 feature-film remake, called Mission: Impossible Theme (Mission Accomplished) performed by U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr., which peaked at No. 7 in both the UK and US charts and sold over 500,000 copies.

He has produced, co-produced, composed and written a number of scores and soundtracks for full-length feature and short films alike, including The End of Violence with Ry Cooder, Dollhouse, How To Sell A Banksy, Double Xposure, Lost in Thailand, Made in China and Rabbit. He frequently collaborated with director Run Wrake, who would animate short films and music videos set to accompany Howie B's music. He also soundtracked a pornographic film directed by Jacob Pander.

His TV work includes creating music for BBC One's Imagine documentary on The Royal Ballet's principal guest artist Carlos Acosta, for a Dazed & Confused short film project Stop for a Minute and for a Dazed series on Channel 4.

His work for advertising campaigns includes creating music for Maserati, Hyundai, Range Rover, Hugo Boss and BUPA.

He also collaborated with Argentine theatre group De La Guarda on an album produced by one of their members, Gaby Kerpel, who he also mentored.

His remix of "Cherry Lips" by Garbage is used after every home run hit by the Milwaukee Brewers.

Pussyfoot Records and HB records
His label, Pussyfoot Records, ran from 1994 to 2002 and released over 20 albums and compilations and around 50 singles.

He set up HB Records in 2013 to release a new album Down with the Dawn.

Albums

 * Music for Babies (1996)
 * Turn the Dark Off (1997) – UK No. 58
 * Snatch (1999)
 * Sly and Robbie drum & bass Strip to the Bone by Howie B (1999)
 * Folk (2001)
 * Another Late Night: Howie B (DJ mix album, 2001)
 * FabricLive.05 (DJ mix album, 2002)
 * Last Bingo in Paris (2004)
 * Mayonnaise (2004) with Crispin Hunt and Will O'Donovan
 * Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts (2007)
 * Howie B vs Casino Royale: Not in the Face - Reale Dub Version (2008)
 * Good Morning Scalene (2010)
 * Down with the Dawn (2014)

Chart singles

 * "Angels Go Bald: Too" (1997) – UK No. 36
 * "Switch" (1997) – UK No. 62
 * "Take Your Partner By the Hand" (1998) – UK No. 74 †

† Howie B featuring Robbie Robertson from Contact from the Underworld of Redboy

Remixes

 * Angélique Kidjo"Agolo (How's Tricks mix)"
 * Garbage"Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" (Howie B remix)
 * Unkle"The Time Has Come" (Howie B vs U.N.K.L.E. remix)
 * Björk"Hyperballad" (Robin Hood Riding Through The Glen mix)
 * Annie Lennox"Waiting in Vain" (Howie B Sub Aqua remix)
 * Simply Red"You Make Me Believe" (Howie B remix)
 * New Order"Age of Consent" (Howie B remix)
 * Model 500"The Flow" (Howie B mix)
 * U2"Discothèque" (Howie B Hairy B mix)
 * Placebo"Pure Morning" (Howie B remix)
 * The Creatures (Siouxsie Sioux's second band) "Prettiest Thing" (Howie B Hormonal mix)
 * Steve Reich"Eight Lines" (Howie B remix)
 * Leftfield"Dusted" (Howie B vocal remix)
 * Jeff Beck"What Mama Said" (remix)
 * Serge Gainsbourg"Ballade De Melody Nelson" (Howie B remix)
 * Ofeliadorme"Paranoid Park" (Howie B remix)
 * Metric "The Police and the Private" (Howie B Remix)

Production

 * East 17 – "All I Want"
 * Tricky – "Aftermath"
 * Tricky – "Ponderosa"
 * Björk – Post
 * Tricky – Maxinquaye
 * Everything but the Girl – "Flipside"
 * Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen, Jr. – "Theme from Mission: Impossible"
 * U2 – Pop
 * Björk – Homogenic
 * Elisa - Asile's World
 * The Gift – Film
 * Overunit Machine – Ungod EP
 * Casino Royale – Reale
 * Les Négresses Vertes - Trabendo
 * Robbie Robertson – Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998)
 * Ofeliadorme
 * Nylo – Soft Escape (2011)
 * Pinhdar - Parallel (2021)

Participations

 * Emmaus Mouvement – Emmaus Mouvement 50th anniversary record (1999)

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Talk:Norinco

Concealing information
All information about arms trafficking by Norinco has been systematically and repeatedly removed by anonymous users. This information is well cited and relatively common knowledge in the industry. Does anyone know why its being removed on a regular basis? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.9.224.44 (talk) 04:08, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The "controversies" section cannot be 90% of the article as that is grossly NPOV. I have condensed it to just under 50% of the article - even that is too much (only one or two lines less than the combined total article sections above it). Just as the article of Colt or Bushmaster isn't mostly about mass shootings, neither can Norinco article be almost entirely about the life and times of US government agencies and agents in disguise as gun runners. Wikipedia is not a (local) news repository. Loginnigol (talk) 06:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Neutrality Disputed

 * "According to an affidavit signed by two of the undercover agents involved in the investigation, representatives from Norinco offered to sell urban gangs shoulder-held missile launchers capable of downing a large commercial airliner." --Where is this alleged affidavit?

 * RE: Contraversies with Pakistan, the Pakistani news articles cited is clearly commentary and not factual reporting of the news. The paragraph itself seems biased.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carbonmotion (talk • contribs) 19:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Questionable Information
Moved from main article to here until reliable and current sources are provided:

 * Norinco has numerous U.S.-based subsidiaries, including Beta Chemical, Beta Toys, Larin, and Forte Lighting. Although disclosure requirements and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) differ in China compared to American and Western publicly held corporations, Norinco's earnings in 1994 were an estimated $31 billion.

 * has nothing to do with 500 tons of VX precursors; the subject is accounting transperancy, disclousre, and estimated revenue. nobs
 * No one said anything about precursors. The above paragraph was moved here because it lacks a reliable source citation.  What is the source for the $31 billion figure?  FYI - When Forte Lighting is contacted directly, they confirm they are not a subsidiary, never have been, and are privately owned. 165.247.221.163 08:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The following information, and linked source, does not specifically implicate Norinco. In fact, the source cited at the link given doesn't present any connection between Norinco and China's SinoChem Corporation - the actual source of the chemicals. See

 * In 1998 a Norinco subsidiary in Hong Kong sold Iran 500 tons of phosphorus pentasulfide, a component in pesticides and high-performance lubricants. This material, while not an illegal or controlled substance under the CWC, is also considered a precursor in the production of some V-Series nerve gasses such as VX.  China has since voluntarily added phosphorus pentasulfide to its list of controlled chemical exports.

 * cia.gov conference reports says "Norinco front company in Hong Kong". Is this the source in question? --nobs
 * That is not a source. That is a report.  That report cites Con Coughlin, "China Helps Iran to Make Nerve Gas," The Sunday Telegraph (Internet Version), May 24, 1998, transcribed by FBIS, FTS 19980525000796. as its source.  As stated above, the source cited at the link given doesn't present any connection between Norinco and China's SinoChem Corporation - the actual source of the chemicals.  See  165.247.221.163 08:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dubious text, not backed up
I've made the "Work, Import or Export, and Corporate Progress" sound a lot less like some Sinophobic rant (Chinese war machine, gargantuan [yet not a patch on other arms companies across the world]). I've also removed some unreferenced text (Chinese workers, apparently, love their job producing arms - I doubt anyone has actually asked a single worker, since they no doubt have NDA and other censorship pledges due to the nature of their job).

To be honest, much of the text in that section has no reference, and is clearly written by some enthusiast/paranoid idiot (spelling mistakes aplenty, superfluous words that portray a cynical tone to the whole article) - might as well remove it completely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.111.120.73 (talk) 16:19, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I'm inclined to delete the entire "Work, ... Corporate Progress" section. It doesn't really have any information and is terribly written.  I'm going to delete it and if someone finds issue with that they can reconstruct that section with actual data. Zhyla (talk) 16:45, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Firearms Prefix
A lot (if not all) of there civilian market firearms are designated JW-XX. Does anyone know what that stands for? I came to the article to learn this but it's not mentioned. Falcon5nz (talk) 03:29, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Construction in Iran
Norinco is also involved in domestic civil construction projects.

this sentence in the article does not reflect, that

Tehran Metro has been "constructed by" Norinco and

in Ahvaz, Iran a metro urban railway system is being built by "Norinco of China" as "partner" regarding to http://www.kayson-ir.com/divisions.aspx?topic=rtrans --Helium4 (talk) 05:35, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: moved. Data and editors agree that Norinco is the WP:COMMONNAME. (non-admin closure) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 14:37, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

China North Industries Corporation → Norinco – Common name. Defense news sites seem to exclusively refer to this company as "Norinco." Most non-English, non-Chinese Wikipedias (Wikidata) also call it "Norinco." Schierbecker (talk) 02:06, 13 May 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. 何をしましたか？  那晚安啦.  08:09, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 11:02, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support, the Norinco shorthand far outweighs uses of the full name. Pika voom  Talk 07:11, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Support per nom DownTownRich (talk) 08:47, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Split proposal
As indicated by these two different sources, Norinco and Norinco Group are two different companies that operate in different fields and have slightly different histories (Norinco is an export company with no manufacturing capabilities, while Norinco Group is a Chinese manufacturing conglomerate). Though they are definitely related, I feel like they should be split to reduce the possibility of readers confusing the two. Wuzh (talk) 20:40, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Critical info missing
What this company makes is missing. Also, that info is extremely critical. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 10:02, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

I've restored the old list of Norinco products. Why it was deleted in the first place is beyond me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.165.171.185 (talk) 19:01, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

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Copterline

Copterline Oy was Finland's largest helicopter airline established on 15 October 1990 as Copter Action and renamed to Copterline in 2000. In 2004 the company ferried over 75,000 passengers. On December 19, 2008, Copterline confirmed that it had ceased its scheduled service between Helsinki and Tallinn. On 15 February 2010, Copterline filed for bankruptcy, citing inability to keep the company profitable. Its head office was located on the grounds of Helsinki-Malmi Airport in Helsinki. In 2011, Line Support Oy, founded by mostly the same group as Copterline Oy, announced a resumption of service from September, operated by its Estonian subsidiary Copterline OÜ. On 9 September 2011, the first commercial flights were undertaken.

History
Copterline acquired Helikopteripalvelu in 1999, the oldest Finnish company in the business, and began offering services in 2000.

Copterline used to maintain hourly passenger flights across the Gulf of Finland between Helsinki, Finland (Helsinki Hernesaari Heliport) and Tallinn, Estonia (Tallinn Linnahall Heliport) between 07:00–20:00 (14 round trips), 9:00–17:00 on Saturdays (9 round trips) and 10:00–16:00 on Sundays (7 round trips). The trip took 18 minutes, and the helicopters could carry 12 passengers on each flight.

On 10 August 2005, Copterline Flight 103 crashed while flying between Tallinn and Helsinki, three kilometers south of Aegna island. All 14 people on board died. After that tragic accident, the company closed the route.

In August 2006, Copterline sold its last remaining S-76 and focused on charter flights resuming the route between Helsinki and Tallinn on April 9, 2008, with a new AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter. The company was planning a new terminal in Helsinki.

In August 2008, a second AW139 entered into the fleet, and started operating in the same route. Kaj Takolander became CEO of the company.

On 19 December 2008, Copterline confirmed that it had ceased its scheduled service between Helsinki and Tallinn and was now looking at the possibility of alternative uses for its helicopters, otherwise, it will sell or lease its aircraft.

As of September 2011 the Copterline website was back in service with a flight schedule advertising flights up until the Christmas period. The new service was operated by the Estonian company Copterline OÜ with an AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter owned and operated by the Finnish company FirstClass Oy. The 2011 service offered 5 round trips on weekdays with no scheduled weekend service.

Copterline has not been operating on the Helsinki-Tallinn route recently. The airline was planning to open the route again in August 2013, but these plans were postponed and later cancelled. The company currently provides helicopter services to the oil and energy sector on the North Sea.

In March 2016, Copterline OÜ filed for bankruptcy for the second time.

Incidents and accidents

 * In spring 2004, the company had been restricted from commercial flights in bad weather conditions, due to concerns about pilot qualifications, but the restriction had since been lifted.

 * On 10 August 2005 Flight 103, a Sikorsky S-76, crashed into the sea near Tallinn, Estonia, three to four minutes after taking off. The craft was carrying 14 people, all of whom were killed: six Finnish, four Estonian and two American passengers, and two Finnish crew members. The disaster was caused by the failure of the flight control system of the American-built helicopter. According to Estonian authorities, no distress signals of any kind were received. However, after examining the helicopter's black box it has been reported that the pilots had attempted sending one, but wasn't received because an air traffic controller in Tallinn Airport was reading back a landing permit. The black box also revealed that the pilots had remained calm and attempted a safe landing in a "by the book" fashion.

The cause of the accident was failure of the power flight control system. Plasma coating on the pistons of the power flight control system had flaked off and blocked the return valve, causing the aircraft to lose its maneuverability. It was revealed in 2007 that the failed component was inside a system that Copterline did not have the authority to service or even open. A periodic leak test that could have revealed the problem was omitted. Furthermore, the emergency floats failed to operate. The manufacturer, Sikorsky, confirmed that damages have been paid to the families of the casualties, but a court case between Copterline and Sikorsky is still pending.

Fleet
The Copterline fleet consisted of nine helicopters and several rescue craft.

Copterline used four Eurocopter EC 135 helicopters for emergency and medical service operations from three different bases: Oulu, Tampere (formerly Vaasa), and Varkaus.

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Pennsylvania State Police

The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, responsible for statewide law enforcement. The Pennsylvania State Police is a full service law enforcement agency which handles both traffic and criminal law enforcement. The Pennsylvania State Police was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, by signing Senate Bill 278 on May 2, 1905. The bill was signed in response to the Great Anthracite Strike of 1902. Leading up to the Anthracite Strike, private police forces (the coal and iron police) were used by mine and mill owners to stop worker strikes. The inability or refusal of local police or sheriffs' offices to enforce the law directly influenced the signing of Bill 278. The Anthracite Strike lasted from May 15 to October 23, 1902, and was ended with the help of Theodore Roosevelt, the sitting president at the time.

PSP enlisted members are referred to as "Troopers". Up until 1963, married men were not allowed to apply to the state police, and active troopers had to seek permission from their superior officer to get married. As of 2021, the state police has approximately 4,547 State Troopers and more than 1,850 civilian support staff.

Pennsylvania State Police Academy
In 1924, a State Police training academy was built in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Cocoa Avenue. The site was located at the Hershey Inn and it remained at this location until 1960 when it was moved to 175 Hersheypark Drive, Hershey, Pennsylvania. The current location is fitted with kennels, stables and a range, among other facilities, and is located only a few miles from the original site. Once accepted into the Pennsylvania State Police Academy cadets endure a rigorous 28-week training period. Cadets live at the academy in barracks style quarters and are only permitted to go home on designated weekends. Cadets who fail to complete physical training in required times or who show any other type of deficiencies may be restricted from going home. While attending training, cadets are put on an 18-month probationary period and can be dismissed at any point in their training by the commissioner under any form of incompetence, inefficiency, or general violation of rules and regulations. The current drop-out rate for new recruits in the academy is approximately 20 percent per class.

Facilities
The PSP owns and operates a myriad of facilities to conduct law enforcement operations across the Commonwealth.

At least one municipality uses the PSP specifically as their local law enforcement.

The following is the breakdown:

Bureaus and offices
The PSP also has many bureaus and subdivisions within the organization. This is by no means a complete list, merely a sampling of the breakdown.
 * Bureau of Criminal Investigation
 * Bureau of Emergency and Special Operations
 * Bureau of Forensic Services
 * Bureau of Human Resources
 * Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement
 * Bureau of Records and Identification
 * Bureau of Patrol
 * Bureau of Integrity and Professional Standards
 * Bureau of Communications and Information Services
 * Bureau of Staff Services
 * Bureau of Research & Development
 * Bureau of Training & Education
 * Bureau of Gaming Enforcement
 * Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network – C.L.E.A.N.
 * Equal Employment Opportunity Office
 * Public Information Office
 * Recruitment and Special Services Office
 * Member Assistance Office
 * Department Discipline Office
 * Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission (MPOETC)
 * Domestic Security Office
 * Bureau of Pregnancies & Domestic Affairs

Units

 * Uniform Patrol Units
 * Criminal Investigation Units
 * Vice/Narcotics
 * Organized Crime
 * Intelligence Units
 * Unsolved Crimes
 * Fugitive Units
 * Marine Unit
 * Aviation
 * Motorcycle Units
 * K-9 Units
 * Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Specialists
 * Vehicle Fraud Investigation
 * Mounted Units
 * Commercial Vehicle Enforcement
 * Auto Theft Units
 * Firearms Instructors
 * Public Information Officers
 * Recruiting Unit
 * Community Service Officer
 * Forensic Services Unit
 * Gaming Enforcement
 * Computer Crimes
 * PA Crime Stoppers
 * PA Criminal Intelligence Center
 * Fire Marshals
 * Polygraph Unit
 * Megan's Law Unit
 * Ceremonial Unit
 * PA Instant Check System
 * Interdiction Units
 * Ballistics Section
 * Clandestine Lab Units
 * State Police Crime Laboratories
 * Explosives/Bomb Section
 * Academy Instructors
 * Drug Recognition Experts
 * Criminal Interdiction (S.H.I.E.L.D)
 * Special Emergency Response Teams (SERT), which is the PA State Police's version of S.W.A.T
 * Negotiators

Uniform and rank structure
The uniform worn by PSP troopers is unique within Pennsylvania. In January 1988, the State Police changed the color of its uniforms. PSP troopers wore dark grey uniforms that confused them with some municipal police departments and Pennsylvania State Constables. By state law, no municipal (city, borough, or township) police department can wear the same exact uniform or color configuration as that of the PSP.

Uniform – troopers to sergeants
The current PSP uniform for troopers, corporals, and sergeants consists of a light gray uniform shirt with black shoulder epaulets. The PSP shoulder patch is worn on both sleeves of all uniform items. The PSP members are issued long sleeve shirts for the winter and short sleeve shirts for summer. However, PSP requires the black necktie to be worn year round. The uniform shirt consist of the trooper's nameplate over the right pocket and any awards the trooper has earned over the left pocket. The PSP is one of only five state police forces that do not wear a badge on their uniform shirts. The original PSP uniform was modeled after the Constabulary forces in Europe and they did not have badges. It is history and tradition for troopers today to carry their badges in a wallet along with their photo ID card. The uniform trousers are a darker gray color with a one-inch-wide black stripe on the leg. PSP shoes and/or boots are also black in color.

The PSP duty belt is plain black leather. The duty holster is the level-2 model. The ammo pouch and handcuff case have hidden snap closure. The OC pepper spray and ASP baton holders are open top. The duty belt is held together with the trousers belt using four silver snap belt keepers.

The PSP trademark item is the campaign-style hat with the chin strap worn in the front under the chin on the winter campaign hat (as opposed to most agencies that wear the strap of the campaign hat behind the head). The hat contains a blackened commonwealth coat of arms. It is required to be worn whenever the trooper is outdoors. It is made of dark gray felt (for wintertime wear) or light gray straw (for summertime wear). The strap of the summer hat is worn behind the head.

The Class "A" Ceremonial Unit troopers wear a "full dress" uniform which is a charcoal gray military-style dress coat with black buttons. It is worn with matching charcoal gray military-style riding breeches and black high-rider leather boots. The duty belt is worn with the shoulder strap. This uniform is modeled after the original PSP history uniform.

Uniform – lieutenants to colonels
The uniforms for PSP Lieutenants, Captains, Majors, Lieutenant Colonels, and the Colonel are identical to that of the lower ranks, except for the following:
 * A gold-colored commonwealth coat of arms on the left collar and the officer's rank on the right collar.
 * Black stripes on trousers has a gold stripe within it of increasing width with higher rank.
 * The campaign hat is replaced with a military officer's style service cap with a gold-colored commonwealth seal. Captains and above have the distinctive "scrambled eggs" on the visor. Alternatively, officers may wear the campaign hat with a gold coat of arms with the duty uniform.

In addition to the minor detail changes, senior officers wear the four-button military coat for "Class A" functions. The coat has four gold-colored buttons, breast and hip pockets, and shoulder epaulets for the placement of the officer's current rank. A white shirt is worn with a black tie underneath. A system of "rank rings" are worn on each sleeve, similar to the rank-ring system used by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and by land units of the Canadian Forces. Currently, the insignia worn by PSP senior officers are as follows:
 * Lieutenant: no service stripes
 * Captain: one service stripe
 * Major: two service stripes
 * Lieutenant Colonel: three service stripes
 * Colonel: four service stripes

Vehicles
The department currently operates a mixed fleet of vehicles including the new law enforcement specific Ford Taurus, Ford Explorer, Dodge Durango and Dodge Charger. The PSP also owns and operates numerous helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. PSP operates watercraft mainly on the Delaware River and Lake Erie.

Aviation
The PSP Aviation Section consists of thirty-five trooper pilots and three full-time mechanics, using six law enforcement specific Bell 407GX helicopters and six airplanes statewide. These aircraft are stationed in six aviation patrol units (APU).

Weapons
The Pennsylvania State Police utilizes the Walther PDP (Service Pistol) is a 9×19mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol designed in 2021 by Walther Arms as a replacement for the Walther PPQ. Additionally, the Sig Sauer P227 .45 ACP is still being utilized until it is completely transitioned out. Other firearms include the Colt AR-15 (including the LE6920 and LE6940), 12-gauge shotguns (including the Remington 870 pump), and gas grenade launcher.

The current less-lethal weapons the PSP is utilizing consist of Electroshock weapon technology, pepper spray (OC), and expandable ASP straight batons.

Accreditation
The Pennsylvania State Police is the largest internationally accredited law enforcement agency in the world. This distinction was awarded to the Pennsylvania State Police on July 31, 1993, by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), an independent, non-profit organization based in Fairfax, Virginia.

Accreditation is a process used by professional law enforcement agencies to facilitate the creation, verification and maintenance of high-quality policies and procedures, via voluntary compliance with performance standards. CALEA's 446 standards address nine major law enforcement topics: role, responsibilities, and relationships with other agencies; organization, management, and administration; personnel structure; personnel process; operations; operational support; traffic operations; prisoner and court-related services; and auxiliary and technical services.

Members killed in the line of duty
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Superintendents and commissioners since 1905
The following is a chronological listings of commissioners of the Pennsylvania State Police:

Traditions

 * PSP Troopers are widely recognized for wearing the strap of their winter campaign hats under their chins, a tradition that goes back to the early 1900s, which was based on British and Irish Bobbies.
 * The PSP is one of only a handful of state police agencies that do not wear badges on their uniforms.
 * The PSP was nationally recognized as the premiere state police agency in the early years of the 20th century. State troopers from North Carolina and Kentucky attended the training academy so they could start PSP-style state agencies in their respective states. NC trooper cadets at the academy in Raleigh and KY trooper cadets in Frankfort are frequently reminded they have a familial connection to the PSP through their training process history.
 * The PSP was patterned after a military organization and PSP troopers have sometimes been referred to as "Soldiers of the Law and Order". Divisions of the force are called "troops", and officers are known as "troopers", a title usually reserved for members of the United States Cavalry, and reminiscent of the early beginnings of the department when officers patrolled on horseback. Regional headquarters, at which single troopers were once required to live, are referred to as "barracks". The original concept was that the troopers did not apply to join the PSP but "enlisted" for two-year periods, after which they could be honorably discharged or apply for reenlistment. The longstanding two-year enlistment periods were phased out in 1961.
 * Married men were initially barred from becoming state troopers. After 1927, troopers were allowed to marry after they had completed their first two-year enlistment if they had approval from the police superintendent. The PSP allowed married men to enlist in 1963.
 * PSP does not allow ride-alongs. Even state police cadets cannot "ride along" prior to graduating the academy. This is done for numerous safety and liability reasons.

Misconduct and controversy
Trooper Michael Evans pleaded guilty in October 2000 to sexual crimes committed against six women and teenage girls while on duty. He was sentenced to between five and ten years in custody.
 * 2000

In September, 2007, Trooper Kevin Foley was arrested for the murder of a dentist, Dr. John Yelenic, in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
 * 2007

In July, 2008, Trooper Kevin Coleman was charged with protecting a prostitution ring based out of the Gables Truck Stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
 * 2008

In May 2009, Trooper Shawn Dillard was found guilty by a federal court of using his position to protect an interstate prostitution ring based out of the Gables Truck Stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This was the same investigation that led to the arrest of Trooper Coleman.
 * 2009

In early 2011, as a result of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the state police agreed to stop issuing tickets to people who swear. Press reports indicated the state police had issued as many as 700 such citations a year.
 * 2011

In January 2012, Lieutenant Barry Eugene Staub, the commander of the state police barracks in York was arrested for driving while drunk. He retired when charges were brought against him.
 * 2012

In March, 2014 Trooper Barry M Seafoss Jr. pleaded guilty to killing a woman while driving drunk in 2012. He was sentenced to between six and 23 months' confinement.
 * 2014

Trooper Ryan Luckenbaugh was sentenced by Judge Scott A. Evans to 9 to 22 months in county prison on his official oppression, simple assault and harassment convictions. Luckenbaugh kicked a handcuffed man in the face while the man sat on the sidewalk and lied about it on official reports.
 * 2017

Trooper Robert E. Covington Jr., of Olyphant, PA, for his alleged involvement in illegal activity occurring at Sinners Swing Gentlemen's Club in Mayfield Borough, Lackawanna County. Covington, 48, is a 13-year veteran of PSP and was assigned to the Bureau of Gaming Enforcement, Pocono Downs Wilkes-Barre Office. He had been on restricted duty during the investigation and is currently suspended without pay pending resolution of the charges against him.
 * 2021

 * Multiple Troopers Facing Charges

Trooper Joshua Ravel from the York barracks was charged with DUI while on duty after he showed up for his shift and drove from York to Lancaster and back for a special assignment. He was taken to the supervisors office where he appeared under the influence, and a chemical breath test revealed his blood alcohol content to be .144. A review of the dash camera footage from his cruiser showed he was unable to maintain his lane of travel several times during the drive.
 * 2022

Trooper Joshua Burney from the Lewis Run barracks in McKean county was charged with DUI while on duty after a colleague noticed he smelled of alcohol and had red, glossed over eyes. Trooper Burney was taken back to the barracks where preliminary field sobriety tests and a breath test showed signs of impairment. A blood draw test showed his blood alcohol content to be .086. A review of the dash camera footage from his cruiser showed he was unable to maintain his lane of travel several times during his response to an emergency call in Mount Jewett Borough.

Both troopers were suspended without pay pending to outcome of their cases. Trooper Burney was the second trooper to be charged with DUI on duty within 4 months along with Trooper Ravel. Both were on the job for the PA State Police for less than 2 years. Trooper Ravel graduated from the academy in June 2020, and Trooper Burney graduated August 2021.

2023

Trooper Michael J. Brown stationed at the Mansfield barracks was charged with vehicular homicide. An investigation into a crash indicated he attempted to pass a vehicle illegally across the double yellow lines on U.S. Route 6 in Sullivan Township in February. As a result, Brown's vehicle, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, struck an oncoming GMC Acadia, killing the driver, 47-year-old Christine Woodward.

Pa. trooper involved in crash that killed Troy teacher charged with vehicular homicide

In popular culture

 * H. Beam Piper's 1965 science fiction novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen's eponymous character begins the story as a PSP Trooper.
 * An undercover PSP Trooper played by Sarah Jessica Parker co-stars with Bruce Willis playing a Pittsburgh Police River Rescue Squad officer in the 1993 movie Striking Distance.
 * A PSP Trooper is played by Harland Williams in the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber.
 * The PSP were featured in the sixth-season CSI: NY episode "Redemptio" as well as the ninth-season Law & Order episode titled "Hate".
 * The PSP is featured in the 2004 TV film Boa vs. Python.
 * Featured in the 1997 movie For Richer or Poorer.
 * Stephen King's novel From a Buick 8 features Troop D in a fictional town named Statler.
 * The PSP were featured in the 2010 movie Unstoppable, in which a runaway train passes through numerous townships within the state of Pennsylvania.
 * Multiple PSP troopers and the department were featured in the Netflix series Evil Genius, which covered the murder of Brian Wells and the bank heist surrounding it.
 * PSP Criminal Investigators were featured in the first-season episode of TV series Cold Case Files, titled "Little Girl Lost".
 * PSP featured extensively, including fairly accurate depictions of uniforms and vehicles, in the film Angel Has Fallen.

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Pyrophosphoric acid

Pyrophosphoric acid, also known as diphosphoric acid, is the inorganic compound with the formula H4P2O7 or, more descriptively, [(HO)2P(O)]2O. Colorless and odorless, it is soluble in water, diethyl ether, and ethyl alcohol. The anhydrous acid crystallizes in two polymorphs, which melt at 54.3 and 71.5 °C. The compound is a component of polyphosphoric acid, an important source of phosphoric acid. Anions, salts, and esters of pyrophosphoric acid are called pyrophosphates.

Preparation
It can be prepared by reaction of phosphoric acid with phosphoryl chloride:
 * 5 H3PO4 + POCl3  →  3 H4P2O7 +  3 HCl

It can also be prepared by ion exchange from sodium pyrophosphate or by treating lead pyrophosphate with hydrogen sulfide.

Boiling the water from orthophosphoric acid will not dehydrate it to pure pyrophosphoric acid, instead a mixture of ortho, pyro, and polyphosphoric acids are produced, the maximum pyrophosphoric acid concentration remains below 50% and occurs slightly before what would otherwise be pure pyrophosphoric acid.

Reactions
Pyrophosphoric acid is a tetraprotic acid, with four distinct pKa's:
 * H4P2O7 <-> [H3P2O7]-  + H+, pKa = 0.85
 * [H3P2O7]- <-> [H2P2O7](2-)  + H+, pKa = 1.96
 * [H2P2O7](2-) <-> [HP2O7](3-)  + H+, pKa = 6.60
 * [HP2O7](3-) <-> [P2O7](4-)  + H+, pKa = 9.41

The pKa's occur in two distinct ranges because deprotonations occur on separate phosphate groups. For comparison with the pKa's for phosphoric acid are 2.14, 7.20, and 12.37.

At physiological pH's, pyrophosphate exists as a mixture of doubly and singly protonated forms.

When molten, pyrophosphoric acid rapidly converts to an equilibrium mixture of phosphoric acid, pyrophosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acids. The percentage by weight of pyrophosphoric acid is around 40% and it is difficult to recrystallise from the melt.

Even in cold water, pyrophosphoric acid hydrolyses to phosphoric acid. All polyphosphoric acids behave similarly.
 * H4P2O7 + H2O  ->  2 H3PO4

Safety
While pyrophosphoric acid is corrosive, it is not known to be otherwise toxic.

History
The name pyrophosphoric acid was given by a "Mr. Clarke of Glasgow" in 1827 who is credited with its discovery following the heating to red heat of a sodium phosphate salt. It was found that phosphoric acid when heated to red heat formed pyrophosphoric acid that was readily converted to phosphoric acid by hot water.

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Bruce White

Brigadier Sir Bruce Gordon White, KBE, FCGI, FICE, FIEE (1885-1983) was one of the leading British consulting engineers of his generation. Son of the engineer Robert White (1842-1925), Bruce White joined his father's practice in 1919 together with his brother Colin White in 1923. On his father's death Bruce White became senior partner. After World War II Bruce White was knighted, and the practice became known as Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners. On Sir Bruce's retirement Allan Beckett became senior partner. The family firm continues today as marine consulting engineers Beckett Rankine where Sir Bruce's grandson Gordon Rankine and Allan Beckett's son Tim Beckett are directors.

Born on 5 February 1885, White saw military service in Europe during World War I as a Major in the Royal Engineers; he was involved in the design and construction of Richborough military port near Sandwich in Kent; the port was notable for being equipped with the UK's first electric gantry cranes for cargo handling. White was appointed MBE in 1919.

During World War II White returned to military service with the rank of brigadier. He held the posts of Director of Ports and IWT at the War Office and Deputy Director, Department of Transportation Tn(5). He was part of the team involved in planning and designing of the "artificial" Mulberry harbours, having been responsible for the development of the four-legged floating pontoons and the floating roadways that became the Spud pier heads and the Whale piers of these two harbours. These were used to supply Allied forces in France after the D-day landings in Normandy. In this capacity he was chairman of the Harbours committee, which was principally made up of civilian consultant civil engineers who undertook the design of Mulberry.

He was appointed a CBE in 1943 and a KBE in 1944. After the war his company was responsible for the design of the Chiswick flyover, Bhavnagar Port, Bombay Marine Oil Terminal, Damman Port, Muara Port, the UK's first container terminal at Tilbury's Berth 30 and Singapore's first container berth. White worked into his nineties.

He died on 29 September 1983.

Publications
The artificial invasion harbours called Mulberry, a personal story by Sir Bruce White KBE, 1980. Published privately and downloadable from here

Beckett Rankine have published Sir Bruce White's archive of papers from the 2nd World War at http://www.mulberryharbour.com

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Order form

 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 23:32, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Order form

 * Foodmarket created this discussion page on 2005-04-15 and properly transcluded it onto the VFD per-day page, but forgot to write xyr reason for nomination. This is not a vote. Uncle G 03:01, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC)

 * Haha I have no idea what I'm doing... anyway, Delete because wikipedia isnt a dictionary and the definition is poor anyway — FoodMarket   talk!  06:09, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Just to make sure, Delete. --Sn0wflake 04:13, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP not a dict. -- Mwanner 14:06, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Hydroplane (boat)

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This needs a disambiguity page for Hydroplane - the 'diving planes' as used on submarines

1920's?
In "The Great Gatsby," Gatsby owns a hydroplane, which is mentioned several times in the book, which was published in 1925. This article first mentions the 1950s. What was a "hydroplane" in the 1920's? Obviously the term must have been fairly popular at that time.

I found a few uses of the term "hydroplane" on the web to mean "seaplane" and several to refer to much earlier speedboats from the 1920s.

Also -- isn't there a relationship between "hydroplane" and "hydrofoil," which has its own Wikipedia page?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Respaldo (talk • contribs) 22:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

 * "isn't there a relationship between 'hydroplane' and 'hydrofoil,'"? No. Except they both run on water, hence 'hydro'. And seaplanes were sometimes called "hydroaeroplanes" in the 1910-30 period. Trekphiler (talk) 02:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Allison/Rolls Royce
Allison is not and was never a division of Rolls Royce. Allison made airplane engines during WWII and was part of General Motors Corporation. Other divisions (automotive divisions) of GM made Rolls Royce "Merlin" engines under contract from Rolls Royce for production of airplanes during WWII.
 * I've fixed that. (Why didn't you...? Also, I'm unaware of GM building Merlns; they were licened by Packard...)

 * On a separate issue, the article could use some coverage of racing, which was the point of developing the boats, N? Started with WSRs & spread? And is now gov by the Unltd Hydroplane Racing Assn (UHRA). Trekphiler 12:52, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

There are many other types of hydroplanes other than the ABRA sanctioned types
The Unlimited Light Hydroplane Racing Association is a professional hydroplane racing series that can be found at http://www.ulhra.org. It is the fastest growing professional hydroplane racing organization in the USA with 13 new teams this year alone!

Huh?
The article says" vertical tail (similar to the ones on most modern airplanes) was gradually replaced by a horizontal stabilizer supported by vertical tails on either side of the boat and as of 2006 the horizontal stabilizer was mostly abandoned." It means the vertical stabilizer, I presume, but I'm insufficiently familiar with the boats. Fix? Trekphiler (talk) 18:47, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Summary isn't very accurate - doesn't mention lift.
"A key aspect of Hydroplanes is that they only use the water they're on for propulsion and steering (not for flotation)—when going at full speed they are primarily held aloft by a principle of fluid dynamics known as 'planing', with only a tiny fraction of their hull actually touching the water."

They don't use the water for flotation, but they do use it for lift, based on Newton's third law of motion. Water is forced downwards by the bottom of the boat as it skims the surface. The water exerts an equal force upwards, providing the lift which counteracts the boat's weight. Planing is just a term for lift which is happening at the surface of a fluid (rather than in it). So I propose it is changed to:

"A key aspect of Hydroplanes is that they use the water they're on for lift rather than bouyancy, as well as for propulsion and steering: when travelling at high speed water is forced downwards by the bottom of the boat's hull. The water therefore exerts an equal and opposite force upwards, lifting the vast majority of the hull out of the water until a point is reached where the weight of the boat equals the upwards force of the water at that speed. This process, happening at the surface of the water, is known as ‘planing’." 91.125.2.205 (talk) 07:01, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

No one's responded to this yet so I'm going ahead and replacing the summary of the article with this, missing out the bit I wrote about weight. 91.125.2.205 (talk) 17:28, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Info
I noticed that most of the information about the designs of the boats is based mainly on the history of the design. As an interested reader, it would be nice to see some more information about how the design affects the speed and amount of lift to the boat. The information given about this is very minimal. Ryanvanderway (talk) 22:09, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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Spanish Armada
Just read your alterations. Thanks for your Dutch information. The English expedition to the Netherlands in 1585 was led by the Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth's ageing favourite; she could appear to disown the practice of English buccaneering, but not a military campaign under his command and paid for by her own treasury - I think your point needs revision. Thanks also for banishing some American spellings (I'm not opposed to all of them); the W'pedia policy, I understand, is for Americans to refrain from butting in when the article deals with an historical subject outside the American 'sphere of influence' - but what heed do they pay, charging all over the place (like feckin' Spaniards)?--shtove 23:08, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Amber
So if turnpikes are not your period perhaps the following is. Step out of Lincs for a moment and look at Amber in British place names originally posted as Burnham Market. Is it sound? I know about Dunwich but have any Burnhams disappeared under the sea? The massive PDF, by the same author, to which it links has the feel of pseudo-science to me especially when I see Madame Blavatsky mentioned. -- RHaworth 14:43, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

 * In such matters it is wise to be cautious but I try to keep my mind just a little open, for reasons I may come back to. I have not had time to read it and the all website quoted, still less to think much about it. However, I become suspicious when I see that he calls amber Brandstein and goes on to interpret its meaning. My German dictionary, which is fairly bulky, comes up with only the one basic word, Bernstein. This sort of distortion seems to imply wishful thinking. However, the writer may be German and have an insight into one of the dialects. More later. (RJP 16:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC))

 * Don't criticise the article because of brandstein (there is plenty else for which criticise it). In fact it was I who added brandstein in German - a Google search for amber+brandstein led me to this page or Google's cached version which appeared to offer the alternative spelling. I used that spelling to help justify his associating Brancaster with amber. We are talking "germanic" here rather than modern German. The "bran" stem still exists in modern German as in verbrannt and in English as in branding cattle. I will leave it to Johannes.Richter who is almost certainly German to sort it out. -- RHaworth 17:37, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

See Talk:Amber in British place names concerning the Burnham, Brancaster and Bremenium parts of the argument. (RJP 09:08, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC))

Boston, England
Thank you for your hard work on improving the Boston, England article! Zerbey 15:25, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Who are you, anyway? A local historian? I've been going through my local Boston books trying to figure out which one... Zerbey July 2, 2005 07:37 (UTC)

What dogs breakfast? :) If you mean my removal of the link at the top, see the peer review. Cheers, Zerbey July 3, 2005 21:01 (UTC)

It's the only nitpick the guy had, I say reinstate it. Zerbey July 3, 2005 21:59 (UTC)
 * There.. that follows the Wikipedia manual of style. Zerbey July 3, 2005 22:07 (UTC)

Apart from the one silly nitpick, no one seems to have any suggestions one way or the other about Boston. I'll give it another week, then put it on the FAC page and see how it goes. Since about 90% of the article is now your work, do you have any objections? Zerbey July 6, 2005 00:18 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, we'll see what else happens on the peer review (from experience, usually it brings a few knowlegeable people out of the woodwork to help out with the article!). You're right that it's mostly historical content, I haven't lived in Boston for 7 years now so beyond what my family tells (eg, the occasional Boston Standard) me I don't know much about the more recent history. I'll do some research and see what I can come up with. We also need references, I'll get mine coallated and added. Zerbey July 6, 2005 16:13 (UTC)

English Civil War
You got taken in by one or more vandals who have consistently and regularly vandalised the ECW page. The best thing to do is look at the history and if the last person to contribute was an IP address, check the diffrences and revert if necessary. I hope that the reinstalled first paragraph meets with your approval -- Philip Baird Shearer 7 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)

Machine Gun Corps
I am sorry if I upset you with the edit I made to the MGC page. Your contribution struck me as somewhat convoluted with too many sub-clauses, and I much prefer "potential" over "potentiality". According to my copy of Collins English Dictionary, both are nouns with identical meanings. Therefore I chose the word with three syllables over the one with six. I do agree, though, that "tactical potential(ity) ... was not appreciated" adds something to "tactical use ... was not appreciated", so thanks for the suggestion. I'm sorry it took two goes for it to register. -- GJeffery 17:51, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

how does this all work im confused

Woodworking wikiproject
Hello, I have noticed that you have recently been making a number of valuable edits on woodworking-related pages. I would like to start a Wikiproject on woodworking if there is enough interest. Please reply on my user talk page if you think this is a good idea (oer even if you don't. I have taken a stab at a starting a wikiproject page in a sandbox page at User:Luigizanasi/sandbox. Feel free to edit it and to add your ideas. As soon as we have enough participants, I will start the project page at Wikiproject Woodworking. This message has also been sent to User:Carders User:SilentC User:Boinger.Luigizanasi 20:48, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I have started the WikiProject Woodworking page. Please feel free to edit it in any way. There is also a discussion page where we can have general discussions (I think discussions about individual articles are OK in their respective talk pages).Luigizanasi 04:57, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Creek Photos
Hi, I've just had a look on the creek (stream) page and I noticed you named my creeks as coming from North America. They were actually taken in Australia. I've updated the captions, but you may want to look over them. --Fir0002 06:36, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

English Racing Automobiles
Thanks for the useful edits on the ERA article. I'll admit that I was winging it a bit at times there; I'd just got fed up with the previous stub, which made out that ERA was an F1 team and nothing else! (And Raymond Mays is still a redlink I see... hmmm...) Loganberry (Talk) 11:30, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Postcodes
Hi, Re: the entries you made for postal codes on disambig pages. These were fair enough, but too long; the purpose of a disambig page is to clarify what someone's looking for. There shouldn't be much more than that in there; it's not the place for mini-articles.

I didn't remove all the text (I swithered about removing the reference to the list of UK postal codes, but left it in anyway)

Fourohfour 10:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Taj Mahal
I'm curious why you feel the Taj Mahal is important from an historical perspective? --Brunnock 13:53, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Edge Hill
Ok, I see your point. You might want to review my addition to the Battle of Edgehill article too. --Concrete Cowboy 20:33, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

affect
Thank you for the addition to my talk page, but I know the difference betweem affect and effect. In this case I do not think it is at all clear in the sentence if it is an internal or external change which is being referred to. But as I made the original change from "impact" to "negatively effected", I contend that it is an external force making the change not an internal adjustment hence effect not affect. Having said that I am not going to revert it again as I think we both have better things to do than argue over the number of angels on a pinhead --Philip Baird Shearer 17:25, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Battle of Hulluch
I see you restored information to the Battle of Hulluch on the Western Front (World War I) article. This info was removed because during a fact-check for its FAC, I could find no evidence that this battle ever happened. My sources at home are drawing blanks, the relevant article has no references, Google only gets Wikipedia articles/mirrors and Google Scholar gets nothing. Please provide a reference for this battle so that others can verify it. --maclean 25 07:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I fear I was a little too trusting of a Wikipedia article. I reinstated it as I thought you had taken it out because the dates were nearly the same but a year apart. I therefore re-worded it to cover the year's passage of time.
 * However, the event does seem to have happened, though not one of the great battles readily recorded by history. The local example of that had occurred in the preceding autumn. It appears to have been part of the war of attrition going on all the time.
 * Look at the following:
 * The first mentions for the 16 07 1916, a Gasangriffe, a gas attack. This is in the July following the relevant date so is not wholly convincing evidence.
 * The 8th and 9th Dublins, who had arrived in France in December 1915 as part of 48th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division, were also subject to a German gas attack at Hulluch, near Loos, on 27 April 1916, suffering heavy casualties. This is from a Wikipedia article so is like the evidence you found, not 100% convincing. However, it was written by User:SoLando, who seems to be very interested in military subjects and who started to contribute in December 2003. The Battle of Hulluch contribution was made by a numbered user, User:198.143.64.82, on October 2005. He has contributed only to this, the date 1916 and to British 16th (Irish) Division on military subjects. Thus, the information seems to have come from two sources.
 * In the spring of 1916, the 15th Division suffered a German gas attack near Hulluch, 27-29 April. This comes from The Western Front Association.
 * See day three
 * 9th Service Battalion was part of 16th Irish division
 * This one backs up the gas attack claim but puts a rather less up-beat slant on it.
 * See 27 April
 * I suggest the best course is to ask User:SoLando where the information came from. (RJP 21:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC))

Lugger
Dear RJP,

I've made some changes to the page on luggers. I hope the material I've added to the discussion area on that page explains the reasons.

The Fifie did take the dipping lug to the extreme. Maybe for this reason it isn't the best example to use to describe the different types of lug sail? However the Fifie did have both a standing and a dipping lugsail.

I've also removed the reference to the yard always being on the starboard side, because on many fishing luggers (herring difters) the yard was on the port side? I believe this was due to the men working their nets from the starboard side, I'll have to find a reference.

I've maybe made a dogs breakfast of the article, which I hope you'll tidy up. Thanks for adding the picture of St. Abbs to the article. I may have a better image we could use to illustrate a lugger, do you think any of the images on this page would be useful? http://www.stabbs.org/history/gallery2.htm

Yours Sincerely,

Peter Nisbet St. Abbs

Thanks for your kind compliments regarding the St. Abbs site, I am glad that you found it interesting. It should be even better when I have the time to finish it.

I am think about creating two seperate graphics which illustrate the details of both the standing and dipping lug. I hope you keep me right as I am not very well versed with the details and names of sailing rigs. I most certainly hope you'll not "keep out of the way". Thanks Again, Peter.

"Rebe"
Thanks for fixing "Rebellion" at English Civil War. I was wondering what the heck "Rebe" was. Uh duh. :) --F a ng Aili 20:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Whoops
I not sure why the contents of my user page got added to your talk page. With this edit I removed it. I do not update my user page often so there is some pretty dated stuff on there. By the way, congratulations on getting Western Front (World War I) to featured status, you did great work there. --maclean 25 15:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thames A Class Rater (scow)
Please come and help with the article. You are in a unique position having worked on the boats as an apprentice. Fiddle Faddle 09:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Is there any chance a little digging might verify the burgoine's fire and rater destruction? That sounds both deeply unpleasant and precisley the type of item that would fit in well.  Does it seem odd to you that the sail numbers are a continuous series with no gaps if the destruction really happened?

 * I'm pretty sure that two of them were "owned" by Raven's Ait people. MLD was certainly rebuilt and sailed by the boatswain there, and I'm pretty sure that Nigel Cresswell, Sea Cadet officer, was very involved with Scamp.  Regrettably RA people were flung far and wide when the Navy League moved on.
 * Fiddle Faddle 20:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

HMS Lutine
Point about the article being about the gold wreck rather than the ship herself noted; however, this is the only point of interest about the vessel (and her association with Lloyd's). I am slowly adding to the article; if there is anything of more general interest that you would like to add, please feel free. --Major Bonkers 18:23, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Belton House and MGC
Hi, I agree with your comments here Talk:Belton House. The MGC should not be in the trivia section. I am currently in the middle of trying to re-write this page to FA standard, and want to retain that MGC information in a section called The 20th century, where I feel it belongs in the context of Belton's history. The problem is that the information needs to be sourced and referenced and cited for the page to be an FA - do you know where I (or you) can find a source for that. Regards Giano | talk 14:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks I'll reference the information to one or two of thos links. Giano | talk 09:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Your Chesshyre cite at Belton House
Hi RJP, thanks for you contributions at Belton House. I've posted some questions on Talk:Belton House about your Chesshyre cite. Could you comment there. Thanks. Paul August ☎ 16:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

(Willoughby link)
Did the younger sister then marry her dead sister's fiancee - as Willoughby became Duke of Ancaster? Giano | talk 19:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No, not clever of me, I just thought perhaps you knew the answer. I just like you had found the two Willoughbys a few days ago too - it probably was the Ancaster one, having arranged a Ducal marriage, the mother probably dodn't want to let it go to waste - problem is proving it - my source justr says Lord Willoughby, but irritatinglt not Lord W d'E, as the marriage never took place it is doubtful it will be recorded anywhere. Have to have a think about it. Regards Giano | talk 21:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Aden
The Aden article originated as a philatelic item and you can check this via redirects. The philatelic content had been buried in a British history section and needs a higher profile in keeping with philately project strategy. Since you object to it having its own section, although this is normal in numerous other articles, I have moved the material into an independent article under the philately project. --BlackJack | talk page 11:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Didn't realise it would cause you a problem so I'm sorry about that. Aden is a good article. Well done. --BlackJack | talk page 19:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: inline citations
Inline citations means using Footnotes to cite sources. Thanks, Joe D (t) 19:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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Beeching & Bourne
Firstly, apologies for my over-vigorous comments re the Abbey picture caption. I took the picture from up a step-ladder in front and to the left of the war memorial. My understanding is that the disputed former castle site is much further back than that. Regarding the Bourne railways. The passenger closure was in early 1959. The occasional through passenger trains and the goods service ceased not long afterwards. The report for which Richard Beeching was famous came out in 1963. Railway closures were already under way by then, and those closures are tarred with a back-dated Beeching brush. I believe that the lines were closed and pulled up around Bourne before Beeching (it was happening elsewhere too) and it is misleading to apply the Beeching name to them. That is why I edited out the comment a couple of months ago which was reinserted when the article was reordered. Incidentally, at Baldock's Mill, among many interesting railway pictures, there is a photo of the demolition of the bridge over Abbey/Spalding Road, which was a real bottleneck. Guy 21:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Archaeological horizon
good re-write of my edits there. I am currently doing a lot of work in Category:Methods and principles in archaeology and would appreciate your input following up behind as my writing style sucks. thanks Boris 13:58, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

have a look at these if you have the time
saw your work on relationships. other articles (amongst others) cheers Boris 07:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Archaeological context
 * 2) Archaeological phase
 * 3) Archaeological section
 * 4) Excavation
 * 5) Feature (archaeology)
 * 6) Archaeological association

site formation
going to use this "Archaeological material would, to a very large extent, have been called rubbish when it was left on the site. It tends to accumulate in events. A gardener swept a pile of soil into a corner, laid a gravel path or planted a bush in a hole. A builder built a wall and back-filled the trench. Years later, someone built a pig sty onto it and drained the pig sty into the nettle patch. Later still, the original wall blew over and so on. Each event, which may have taken a short or long time to accomplish, leaves a context, a deposit of material, on the site." cut and pasted into excavation as a basis for new section "site formation". the use of side of trench and the inference relationships are only viewable in section is slightly too informal? have removed that as being a bit misleading given the degree of rigor i am trying ti inject. the trick is balancing the jargonese techie terms with laymans understanding thoughts as I am new to wiki but notice most science topics are pretty tight?

sequence (archaeological)
good again. its my fault that i didn't make clear that sequence can refer to any discrete part of the archaeological record and not just a site. a sequence could be a half dozen contexts within a single feature for instance. mia culpa. still getting there. cheers Boris 16:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Edenham
Are you able to write a proper article about Edenham, especially the Earl of Ancaster's railway? The Bythams too? I have made a start with what little I know off the top of my head. I have it down to take pictures of the church and vicarage, possibly also a trudge along the old track bed to the bridge where the Earl's railway used to cross the M&GNJR. Guy 20:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Earl of Scarbrough
Very sorry about my spelling-correction-too-far there (late-night word blindness). I do still think that it should be "the Earl..." though (no capital T). -- Picapica 11:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * As to the T: be my guest. :-) As to the Scarbrough: it is temting to think that he couldn't spell but if he liked it that way, who are we? ;-) As to the red link: even before it's working properly, the full name will come up when it's clicked on and the article title is not the man's practical name so it would obstruct the readers' flow of thought.(RJP 13:26, 24 November 2006 (UTC))

The Fens
Ah, someone who seems to know something about The Fens! :-) Please advise me: where does Woodwalton Fen fit into the scheme of things? Thanks!--GRM 12:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your detailed feedback on my user page--GRM 21:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Côte d'Or (escarpment) question
Hello RJP- I ran across your above article in the course of doing some maintenance to the various pages referring to "Côte d'Or". I found the FR article before I found yours--it is a short one that calls the area an 'elevation that overlooks the Saône valley to the west'. Are you very sure that it is considered an escarpment? Not challenging you--just asking because in a quick search, I couldn't find a French source that uses that term for that area. I've always had only a vague idea of what the word meant until I followed the term's link from the article and then looked it up elsewhere. I was thinking that a more general, more immediatley recognizable title for the EN article might be 'Côte d'Or (geographic feature)' or something like that, for people who aren't familiar with the term 'escarpment'. Then they can read the article to learn that the area's name refers to the that geographical feature. What do you think? -Eric (talk) 21:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi RJP- re: escarpment, that sounds good to me--I just wanted to double-check. For ligne de hauteur, I can't find the term as such in any dictionary, but I did some poking around and it's apparently used for several concepts. It's very commonly used for elevation line, as in a contour line on a topo map. The colloquial English equivalent of the FR article's use might be ridge or heights. Sounds like "escarpement" would be a better word for the FR article as well.

 * Anyway, what do you think of the article re-naming idea? -Eric (talk) 03:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi RJP- Sorry, I guess I was rambling a bit last night. As I mentioned, I realize the reader can learn what escarpment means from following the link in the article. My main point, once I was sure what the term meant, was to suggest that we use more general language in the disambiguation part of the title, for example, change it to: "Côte d'Or (geographic feature)" to distinguish it from the department article (and--who knows why it's there--the chocolate article). -Eric (talk) 13:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The Stump
Having been in contact with a person knowledgeable on the history of The Stump, and he was in turn in contact with the Stump Librarian, I have added a section "Significance of the tower". Please have a look at it and feel free to copy edit, etc. Thanks SMeeds 17:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

The Spanish Armada
Hey, i added a comment on the talk page about the ship and sailor numbers. Can you please check this as I am writing a History Project to be handed in on Saturday and I haven't a clue about the Armada ! --Celticfan383

British anti-invasion preparations of World War II
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Brackenholme Priory
I'm a bit puzzled about the listing of Brackenholme Priory in Lincolnshire. (see my additional remarks at Talk:Brackenholme Priory) I'm wondering if this ever existed outside Wikipedia.

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Stereognosis

Stereognosis (also known as haptic perception or tactile gnosis) is the ability to perceive and recognize the form of an object in the absence of visual and auditory information, by using tactile information to provide cues from texture, size, spatial properties, and temperature, etc. In humans, this sense, along with tactile spatial acuity, vibration perception, texture discrimination and proprioception, is mediated by the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway of the central nervous system. Stereognosis tests determine whether or not the parietal lobe of the brain is intact. Typically, these tests involved having the patient identify common objects (e.g. keys, comb, safety pins) placed in their hand without any visual cues. Stereognosis is a higher cerebral associative cortical function.

Astereognosis is the failure to identify or recognize objects by palpation in the absence of visual or auditory information, even though tactile, proprioceptive, and thermal sensations may be unaffected. It may be caused by disease of the sensory cortex or posterior columns. People suffering from Alzheimer's disease show a reduction in stereognosis. Astereognosis can be caused by damage to the posterior association areas of the parietal, temporal, or occipital lobes, or the postcentral gyrus of either hemisphere. For other types of dementia, stereognosis does not appear to decline.

Mechanism of neural pathway
The dorsal column medial lemniscus pathway is responsible for relaying sensory information regarding proprioception, vibration, and fine touch. First order neurons carry sensory information from proprioceptive and tactile receptors to the medulla oblongata where they synapse in either the medullary gracilus or cuneate nuclei. Information carried from regions above spinal level T6 synapse at the cuneate nuclei, while information carried from T6 and below synapse at the gracilus nuclei. At this point, second order neurons decussate and relay information through the contralateral medial lemniscus to the thalamus. At the thalamus, second order neurons synapse with third order neurons, which continue through the internal capsule to the primary sensory cortex of the post central gyrus where the tract terminates. Stereognosis determines whether or not this tract is properly functioning.

An individual who cannot properly identify an object using stereognosis, could suffer from lesions in nerve roots, peripheral nerves, the spinal cord, thalamus, or primary sensory cortex. Because the dorsal column medial lemniscus pathway travels through and relays information to these areas, a lack of proper sensation indicates a problem with this neural sensory tract. Administered tests and recognition of pattern sensory loss can identify lesions in particular nerves or areas.

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Talk:Optical mark recognition

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Sir, What it would be if i forgot to bubbling the question paper serial no. in OMR answer sheet? Please find me a solution for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajkebi (talk • contribs) 09:50 1 September 2014

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External Links to Open Source Software removed? [25 May '19]
Hi all, I'm new to editing on wikipedia and especially this Talk section, so forgive me if I'm asking at the wrong place.

I'm wondering why the links to Open Source OMR Checking software were removed? Many people come to the page in hope to find such free to use software. I've created one too and want to share with other people. When I started working on this project, I had already seen the list(in older version) and wished to feature my software on this wikipedia page, only to find now that the section is removed :(

Can anyone tell if there is any way to mention opensource software on the page? It'd be helpful for everyone. Here's a github link to the software which I want to add to the wiki page : https://github.com/Udayraj123/OMRChecker

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Udayraj123 (talk • contribs) 10:15, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

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