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Ovation Hollywood

Ovation Hollywood (formerly Hollywood & Highland) is a shopping center and entertainment complex at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

The 387000 sqft shopping center also includes the TCL Chinese Theatre, a historic movie palace, and the Dolby Theatre, an auditorium that has been home to the Academy Awards since 2002. The historic site was once the home of the famed Hollywood Hotel. Located in the heart of Hollywood, along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it is among the most visited tourist destinations and shopping complexes in Los Angeles.

The complex sits just across Hollywood Blvd. from the El Capitan Theatre and offers views of the Hollywood Hills and Hollywood Sign to the north, Santa Monica Mountains to the west and downtown Los Angeles to the southeast. The centerpiece of the complex is a massive three-story courtyard inspired by the Babylon scene from the D.W. Griffith film Intolerance. The developer of the shopping center built parts of the archway and two pillars with elephant sculptures on the capitals, just as seen in the film, to the same full scale. It gives visitors an idea of how large the original set must have been.

The center has more than 70 shops and 25 restaurants. Major retail tenants that face Hollywood Boulevard include American Eagle Outfitters, Forever 21, and Sephora. The complex also houses a Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley, and a nightclub. The complex also houses 65000 sqft of gathering spaces including the Grand Ballroom, used for the Oscars Governors Ball. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck operates his regional headquarters out of the complex. The center also includes television broadcast facilities that in 2004 included the studios for the daily talk show On Air With Ryan Seacrest. Currently, the studio is home to Revolt TV.

The 637-room Loews Hollywood Hotel is also part of the site. The Metro B Line's Hollywood/Highland station is beneath the structure. Also, Metro Local lines 212, 217, 222, 237, 656 and Metro Rapid 780 serve the complex.

Site history
The site was the location of the 1902 Hollywood Hotel, in which many celebrities stayed in the early days of Hollywood. The hotel was demolished in August 1956 and, despite initial plans for a high-rise hotel and a department store on the site, it was replaced by the twelve-story First Federal Building of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Hollywood; a shopping center; and parking lots. These stood until 1998.

Redevelopment
Developed by TrizecHahn and with funds from the Community Redevelopment Agency, the complex opened as Hollywood & Highland after three years of construction in November 2001 and is part of an overall effort to revitalize Hollywood Boulevard.

The project was an example of joint development, in which a public agency leases the right to develop a parcel in exchange for improvements to the property, in this case, an enhanced portal to the Hollywood/Highland Metro B Line station and a 3,000 space underground parking lot. TrizecHahn leased 1.35 acre of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority land for 55 years at a rate of $492,000 per year (with additional increases added every five years based on the Consumer Price Index) and four 11-year optional extensions.

Leading up to the construction of the development the City of Los Angeles was persuaded, through its Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), to contribute at least $90 million in 1998 toward the site's initial construction. This was in addition to the costs of constructing the Red Line subway station below the mall.

Trizec Properties sold its interest in the development for over $200 million in 2004 to CIM Group. CIM rebranded Hollywood & Highland and repositioned the center with higher-end tenants. In 2005, the center underwent renovations to add additional features such as escalators leading visitors from Hollywood Boulevard directly to the third floor of the central courtyard, new signage, and new stores.

Several stores in this shopping complex such as GAP, Chili Beans, Guess, Louis Vuitton, Fossil, Gateway Newsstands, KIKO Milano, Disney Store, Barnes & Noble, Tiffany & Co., LA Comics, Under Armour, Blockbuster, The Blue Company, Microsoft Store, Oakley, Sanuk, Movie-Tech, and American Eagle have closed their stores. Later, stores such as Foot Locker, Pandora, Nickelodeon, Apple Store, and Walgreens opened.

In 2019, real estate investment firms DJM Capital Partners, Inc. and Gaw Capital partnered and purchase the mall for $325 Million. They announced plans for a major renovation to include rebranding and upgrading the retail levels and courtyard, adding office space in the upper floors, and removal of the Babylon themed decor. The renovations on this complex began work in 2020. The renovated complex was then renamed & rebranded to Ovation Hollywood in 2022 by Los Angeles branding agency Ludlow Kingsley.

Controversy and criticism
The complex opened in 2001 with a conditional use permit that enabled, among other things, for the center to have special exemptions of Los Angeles billboard ordinances. Despite objections of some residents and neighbors, in 2002 this agreement was amended and extended for an additional 20 years. L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti, who then represented the Hollywood-area district and was elected mayor in 2013, supported extending this special permit.

The design of the center has been criticized by multiple reporters and journalists. In 2007, Curbed L.A., an online magazine, named Hollywood & Highland the "winner" of their Ugliest Building in Los Angeles contest. In selecting Hollywood & Highland, they cited its aesthetics, pedestrian unfriendliness (including the lack of storefronts on the side facing Highland Ave.), confusing circulation, and "mish-mash of architectural styles".

Impact
The center played a significant role in attracting development to other parts of Hollywood Boulevard. The TV Guide Hollywood Center (formerly owned by CIM Group) across the street reconstructed the ground floor and has attracted new tenants such as American Apparel, Baja Fresh, Hooters, and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Other notable retail stores that have a presence on the Boulevard include clothier H&M, which was later closed and the Spanish retail chain Zara. In addition, several blocks further east on Vine Street, a W Hotel opened incorporating the existing Hollywood/Vine Metro Red Line station.

The sidewalk in front of Ovation Hollywood is considered a coveted location for recent additions to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As such it is one of the few locations where the star memorials are "doubled up" rather than being placed linearly, in order for more stars to be accommodated in front of the center.

In February 2005, the Academy Awards statuettes were put on display for public viewing at Hollywood & Highland before the ceremony on March 5. Visitors could have a picture taken outside with a giant prop Oscar that was to be used on the red carpet and in the exhibit could learn about the history of the Academy Awards, see the statuettes that were to be presented, and even get their picture taken holding an actual Oscar statuette. It became extremely popular, so the Academy decided to continue it. The exhibit opened on February 9, 2006, and closed February 24, when the Oscars were removed and paraded down the red carpet into the Dolby Theatre.

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Seismic analysis

Seismic analysis is a subset of structural analysis and is the calculation of the response of a building (or nonbuilding) structure to earthquakes. It is part of the process of structural design, earthquake engineering or structural assessment and retrofit (see structural engineering) in regions where earthquakes are prevalent.

As seen in the figure, a building has the potential to 'wave' back and forth during an earthquake (or even a severe wind storm). This is called the 'fundamental mode', and is the lowest frequency of building response. Most buildings, however, have higher modes of response, which are uniquely activated during earthquakes. The figure just shows the second mode, but there are higher 'shimmy' (abnormal vibration) modes. Nevertheless, the first and second modes tend to cause the most damage in most cases.

The earliest provisions for seismic resistance were the requirement to design for a lateral force equal to a proportion of the building weight (applied at each floor level). This approach was adopted in the appendix of the 1927 Uniform Building Code (UBC), which was used on the west coast of the United States. It later became clear that the dynamic properties of the structure affected the loads generated during an earthquake. In the Los Angeles County Building Code of 1943 a provision to vary the load based on the number of floor levels was adopted (based on research carried out at Caltech in collaboration with Stanford University and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which started in 1937). The concept of "response spectra" was developed in the 1930s, but it wasn't until 1952 that a joint committee of the San Francisco Section of the ASCE and the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) proposed using the building period (the inverse of the frequency) to determine lateral forces.

The University of California, Berkeley was an early base for computer-based seismic analysis of structures, led by Professor Ray Clough (who coined the term finite element. Students included Ed Wilson, who went on to write the program SAP in 1970, an early "finite element analysis" program.

Earthquake engineering has developed a lot since the early days, and some of the more complex designs now use special earthquake protective elements either just in the foundation (base isolation) or distributed throughout the structure. Analyzing these types of structures requires specialized explicit finite element computer code, which divides time into very small slices and models the actual physics, much like common video games often have "physics engines". Very large and complex buildings can be modeled in this way (such as the Osaka International Convention Center).

Structural analysis methods can be divided into the following five categories.

Equivalent static analysis
This approach defines a series of forces acting on a building to represent the effect of earthquake ground motion, typically defined by a seismic design response spectrum. It assumes that the building responds in its fundamental mode. For this to be true, the building must be low-rise and must not twist significantly when the ground moves. The response is read from a design response spectrum, given the natural frequency of the building (either calculated or defined by the building code). The applicability of this method is extended in many building codes by applying factors to account for higher buildings with some higher modes, and for low levels of twisting. To account for effects due to "yielding" of the structure, many codes apply modification factors that reduce the design forces (e.g. force reduction factors).

Response spectrum analysis
This approach permits the multiple modes of response of a building to be taken into account (in the frequency domain). This is required in many building codes for all except very simple or very complex structures. The response of a structure can be defined as a combination of many special shapes (modes) that in a vibrating string correspond to the "harmonics". Computer analysis can be used to determine these modes for a structure. For each mode, a response is read from the design spectrum, based on the modal frequency and the modal mass, and they are then combined to provide an estimate of the total response of the structure. In this we have to calculate the magnitude of forces in all directions i.e. X, Y & Z and then see the effects on the building. Combination methods include the following:
 * absolute – peak values are added together
 * square root of the sum of the squares (SRSS)
 * complete quadratic combination (CQC) – a method that is an improvement on SRSS for closely spaced modes

The result of a response spectrum analysis using the response spectrum from a ground motion is typically different from that which would be calculated directly from a linear dynamic analysis using that ground motion directly, since phase information is lost in the process of generating the response spectrum.

In cases where structures are either too irregular, too tall or of significance to a community in disaster response, the response spectrum approach is no longer appropriate, and more complex analysis is often required, such as non-linear static analysis or dynamic analysis.

Linear dynamic analysis
Static procedures are appropriate when higher mode effects are not significant. This is generally true for short, regular buildings. Therefore, for tall buildings, buildings with torsional irregularities, or non-orthogonal systems, a dynamic procedure is required. In the linear dynamic procedure, the building is modelled as a multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) system with a linear elastic stiffness matrix and an equivalent viscous damping matrix.

The seismic input is modelled using either modal spectral analysis or time history analysis but in both cases, the corresponding internal forces and displacements are determined using linear elastic analysis. The advantage of these linear dynamic procedures with respect to linear static procedures is that higher modes can be considered. However, they are based on linear elastic response and hence the applicability decreases with increasing nonlinear behaviour, which is approximated by global force reduction factors.

In linear dynamic analysis, the response of the structure to ground motion is calculated in the time domain, and all phase information is therefore maintained. Only linear properties are assumed. The analytical method can use modal decomposition as a means of reducing the degrees of freedom in the analysis.

Nonlinear static analysis
In general, linear procedures are applicable when the structure is expected to remain nearly elastic for the level of ground motion or when the design results in nearly uniform distribution of nonlinear response throughout the structure. As the performance objective of the structure implies greater inelastic demands, the uncertainty with linear procedures increases to a point that requires a high level of conservatism in demand assumptions and acceptability criteria to avoid unintended performance. Therefore, procedures incorporating inelastic analysis can reduce the uncertainty and conservatism.

This approach is also known as "pushover" analysis. A pattern of forces is applied to a structural model that includes non-linear properties (such as steel yield), and the total force is plotted against a reference displacement to define a capacity curve. This can then be combined with a demand curve (typically in the form of an acceleration-displacement response spectrum (ADRS)). This essentially reduces the problem to a single degree of freedom (SDOF) system.

Nonlinear static procedures use equivalent SDOF structural models and represent seismic ground motion with response spectra. Story drifts and component actions are related subsequently to the global demand parameter by the pushover or capacity curves that are the basis of the non-linear static procedures.

Nonlinear dynamic analysis
Nonlinear dynamic analysis utilizes the combination of ground motion records with a detailed structural model, therefore is capable of producing results with relatively low uncertainty. In nonlinear dynamic analyses, the detailed structural model subjected to a ground-motion record produces estimates of component deformations for each degree of freedom in the model and the modal responses are combined using schemes such as the square-root-sum-of-squares.

In non-linear dynamic analysis, the non-linear properties of the structure are considered as part of a time domain analysis. This approach is the most rigorous, and is required by some building codes for buildings of unusual configuration or of special importance. However, the calculated response can be very sensitive to the characteristics of the individual ground motion used as seismic input; therefore, several analyses are required using different ground motion records to achieve a reliable estimation of the probabilistic distribution of structural response. Since the properties of the seismic response depend on the intensity, or severity, of the seismic shaking, a comprehensive assessment calls for numerous nonlinear dynamic analyses at various levels of intensity to represent different possible earthquake scenarios. This has led to the emergence of methods like the incremental dynamic analysis.

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Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index

The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies. The ATU Index is the product of a series of revisions and expansions by an international group of scholars: originally composed in German by Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne (1910), the index was translated into English, revised, and expanded by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1928, 1961), and later further revised and expanded by German folklorist Hans-Jörg Uther (2004). The ATU Index, along with Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (1932)with which it is used in tandemis an essential tool for folklorists.

Predecessors
Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn devised a preliminary analysis of some 40 tale "formulae" as introduction to his book of Greek and Albanian folktales, published in 1864.

Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, in 1866, translated von Hahn's list and expanded to 52 tale types, which he called "Story Radicals". Folklorist Joseph Jacobs expanded the list to seventy tale types and published it as Appendix C in Charlotte Sophia Burne and Laurence Gomme's Handbook of Folk-Lore.

Before the edition of Antti Aarne's first folktale classification, Astrid Lunding translated Svend Grundtvig's system of folktale classification. This catalogue consisted of 134 types, mostly based on Danish folktale compilations in comparison to international collections available at the time by other folklorists, such as the Brothers Grimm's and Emmanuel Cosquin's.

History
Antti Aarne was a student of Julius Krohn and his son Kaarle Krohn. Aarne developed the historic-geographic method of comparative folkloristics, and developed the initial version of what became the Aarne–Thompson tale type index for classifying folktales, first published in 1910 as Verzeichnis der Märchentypen ("List of Fairy Tale Types"). The system was based on identifying motifs and the repeated narrative ideas that can be seen as the building-blocks of traditional narrative; its scope was European.

The American folklorist Stith Thompson revised Aarne's classification system in 1928, enlarging its scope, while also translating it from German into English. In doing so, he created the "AT number system" (also referred to as "AaTh system") which remained in use through the second half of the century. Another edition with further revisions by Thompson followed in 1961. According to American folklorist D. L. Ashliman, "The Aarne–Thompson system catalogues some 2500 basic plots from which, for countless generations, European and Near Eastern storytellers have built their tales".

The AT-number system was updated and expanded in 2004 with the publication of The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography by German folklorist Hans-Jörg Uther. Uther noted that many of the earlier descriptions were cursory and often imprecise, that many "irregular types" are in fact old and widespread, and that "emphasis on oral tradition" often obscured "older, written versions of the tale types". To remedy these shortcomings Uther developed the Aarne–Thompson–Uther classification (ATU) system and included more tales from eastern and southern Europe as well as "smaller narrative forms" in this expanded listing. He also put the emphasis of the collection more explicitly on international folktales, removing examples whose attestation was limited to one ethnic group.

Definition of tale type
In The Folktale, Thompson defines a tale type as follows: "A type is a traditional tale that has an independent existence. It may be told as a complete narrative and does not depend for its meaning on any other tale. It may indeed happen to be told with another tale, but the fact that it may be told alone attests its independence. It may consist of only one motif or of many."

System
The Aarne–Thompson Tale Type Index divides tales into sections with an AT number for each entry. The names given are typical, but usage varies; the same tale type number may be referred to by its central motif or by one of the variant folktales of that type, which can also vary, especially when used in different countries and cultures. The name does not have to be strictly literal for every folktale. For example, The Cat as Helper (545B) also includes tales where a fox helps the hero. Closely related folktales are often grouped within a type. For example, tale types 400–424 all feature brides or wives as the primary protagonist, for instance The Quest for a Lost Bride (400) or the Animal Bride (402). Subtypes within a tale type are designated by the addition of a letter to the AT number, for instance: tale 510, Persecuted Heroine (renamed in Uther's revision as Cinderella and Peau d'Âne ["Cinderella and Donkey Skin"]), has subtypes 510A, Cinderella, and 510B, Catskin (renamed in Uther's revision as Peau d'Asne [also "Donkey Skin"]).

As an example, the entry for 510A in the ATU index (with cross-references to motifs in Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature in square brackets, and variants in parentheses) reads: "510A Cinderella. (Cenerentola, Cendrillon, Aschenputtel.) A young woman is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters [S31, L55] and has to live in the ashes as a servant. When the sisters and the stepmother go to a ball (church), they give Cinderella an impossible task (e.g. sorting peas from ashes), which she accomplishes with the help of birds [B450]. She obtains beautiful clothing from a supernatural being [D1050.1, N815] or a tree that grows on the grave of her deceased mother [D815.1, D842.1, E323.2] and goes unknown to the ball. A prince falls in love with her [N711.6, N711.4], but she has to leave the ball early [C761.3]. The same thing happens on the next evening, but on the third evening, she loses one of her shoes [R221, F823.2].

The prince will marry only the woman whom the shoe fits [H36.1]. The stepsisters cut pieces off their feet in order to make them fit into the shoe [K1911.3.3.1], but a bird calls attention to this deceit. Cinderella, who had first been hidden from the prince, tries on the shoe and it fits her. The prince marries her.

Combinations: This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 327A, 403, 480, 510B, and also 408, 409, 431, 450, 511, 511A, 707, and 923. Remarks: Documented by Basile, Pentamerone (I,6) in the 17th century." The entry concludes, like others in the catalogue, with a long list of references to secondary literature on the tale, and variants of it.

Critical response
In his essay "The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index: A Critique", American folklorist Alan Dundes explains that the Aarne–Thompson indexes are some of the "most valuable tools in the professional folklorist's arsenal of aids for analysis".

The tale type index was criticized by Vladimir Propp of the Russian Formalist school of the 1920s for ignoring the of the motifs by which they are classified. Furthermore, Propp contended that using a "macro-level" analysis means that the stories that share motifs might not be classified together, while stories with wide divergences may be grouped under one tale type because the index must select some features as salient. He also observed that while the distinction between animal tales and tales of the fantastic was basically correct—no one would classify "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf" as an animal tale just because of the wolf—it did raise questions because animal tales often contained fantastic elements, and tales of the fantastic often contained animals; indeed a tale could shift categories if a peasant deceived a bear rather than a devil.

In describing the motivation for his work, Uther presents several criticisms of the original index. He points out that Thompson's focus on oral tradition sometimes neglects older versions of stories, even when written records exist, that the distribution of stories is uneven (with Eastern and Southern European as well as many other regions' folktale types being under-represented), and that some included folktale types have dubious importance. Similarly, Thompson had noted that the tale type index might well be called The Types of the Folk-Tales of Europe, West Asia, and the Lands Settled by these Peoples. However, Alan Dundes notes that in spite of the flaws of tale type indexes (e.g., typos, redundancies, censorship, etc.; p. 198), "they represent the keystones for the comparative method in folkloristics, a method which despite postmodern naysayers ... continues to be the hallmark of international folkloristics" (p. 200).

Author Pete Jordi Wood claims that topics related to homosexuality have been excluded intentionally from the type index. Similarly, folklorist Joseph P. Goodwin states that Thompson omitted "much of the extensive body of sexual and 'obscene' material", and that—as of 1995—"topics like homosexuality are still largely excluded from the type and motif indexes." In an essay, Alan Dundes also criticized Thompson's handling of the folkloric subject material, which he considered to be "excessive prudery" and a form of censorship.

The ATU folktype index has been criticized for its apparent geographic concentration on Europe and North Africa, or overrepresentation of Eurasia and North America. The catalogue appears to ignore or underrepresent other regions. Central Asian examples include: Yuri Berezkin's The Captive Khan and the Clever Daughter-in-Law (and variants); The travelling girl and her helpful siblings; and Woman's Magical Horse, as named by researcher Veronica Muskheli of the University of Washington.

In regards to the typological classification, some folklorists and tale comparativists have acknowledged singular tale types that, due to their own characteristics, would merit their own type. However, such tales have not been listed in the international folktale system, yet they exist in regional or national classifications.

Use in folkloristics
A quantitative study, published by folklorist Sara Graça da Silva and anthropologist Jamshid J. Tehrani in 2016, tried to evaluate the time of emergence for the "Tales of Magic" (ATU 300–ATU 749), based on a phylogenetic model. They found four of them to belong to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stratum of magic tales:

 * ATU 328 The Boy Steals Ogre's Treasure (= Jack and the Beanstalk and Thirteen)
 * ATU 330 The Smith and the Devil (KHM 81a)
 * ATU 402 The Animal Bride (= The Three Feathers, KHM 63 and The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat, KHM 106)
 * ATU 554 The Grateful Animals (= The White Snake, KHM 17 and The Queen Bee, KHM 62)

Ten more magic tales were found to be current throughout the Western branch of the Indo-European languages, comprising the main European language families derived from PIE (i.e. Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Italic and Celtic):

 * ATU 311 Rescue by Sister (= Fitcher's Bird, KHM 46)
 * ATU 332 Godfather Death (= KHM 44)
 * ATU 425C Beauty and the Beast
 * ATU 470 Friends in Life and Death
 * ATU 500 The Name of the Supernatural Helper (= Rumpelstiltskin, KHM 55)
 * ATU 505 The Grateful Dead
 * ATU 531 The Clever Horse (= Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful, KHM 126)
 * ATU 592 The Dance Among Thorns
 * ATU 650A Strong John (= Strong Hans, KHM 166)
 * ATU 675 The Lazy Boy (= Peruonto and Emelian the Fool)

List

 * Bear's Son Tale and Jean de l'Ours, analyses of tale-types 301 and 650A
 * Animal as Bridegroom, analysis of ATU 425 and related types
 * The Bird Lover, analysis of tale-type 432
 * The Spinning-Woman by the Spring, overview of type 480
 * Grateful dead (folklore), analysis of types 505–508
 * Calumniated Wife, an overview of ATU types 705–712
 * The Three Golden Children, analysis of type ATU 707
 * Riddle-tales (ancient and medieval), an analysis of types 851, 851A and 927

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John Erskine, Earl of Mar (died 1572)

John Erskine, 1st Earl of Mar (died 28 October 1572) was a Scottish aristocrat and politician. He was the custodian of the infant James VI of Scotland and Regent of Scotland.

Erskine was a son of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine and Lady Margaret Campbell, a daughter of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll. His father was a guardian of King James V and afterwards of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Career

John was Commendator of Dryburgh Abbey from 1547, He succeeded his father as 6th Lord Erskine in 1552. Erskine joined the religious reformers in 1559 but was never very ardent in the cause. He did subscribe to the letter asking the Calvinist reformer John Knox to return to Scotland in 1557. The custody of Edinburgh Castle was in his hands during the struggle between the regent, Mary of Guise, and the Lords of the Congregation, during which he appears to have acted consistently in the interests of peace.

When Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to Scotland in 1561 Lord Erskine was a member of her council and was in favor of her marriage with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. His wife was Annabella Murray, daughter of William Murray of Tullibardine and sister of William Murray of Tullibardine, Comptroller of Scotland in 1563. She was a frequent companion of Queen Mary; John Knox called Annabella a "verray Jesabell".

In 1565 Erskine was granted the earldom of Mar when the queen restored the charter to him and his heirs "all and hail the said earldom of Mar". Prior to this the title of Earl of Mar was held by Mary's half-brother James Stewart. John Erskine is regarded as both the 18th earl (in the 1st creation) and the 1st earl (in the 7th). Some sources deem him the 17th Earl, still others as the 6th Earl.

Mar was made Sheriff of Stirlingshire and Keeper of Stirling Castle and the parks of Raploch and Gallowhill on 18 July 1566. He became the keeper of Queen Mary's son, James, at Stirling Castle on 19 March 1567. He prevented the young prince from falling into the hands of Lord Bothwell, and when the Scottish nobles rose against Mary and Bothwell, Mar was one of their leaders. He took part in the government of Scotland when Mary was imprisoned at Lochleven Castle and abdicated. Regent Moray asked him to repair the fore-entry of Stirling Castle in December 1568. When Mary escaped from Lochleven, on 5 May 1568 Regent Moray ordered Mar to increase security at Stirling by reducing the number of retainers in the castle.

Regent of Scotland
On 5 September 1571, he was chosen Regent of Scotland, but he was overshadowed and perhaps slighted by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton. One of Mar's first actions was to execute two prisoners, George Bell and George Calder, by having them broken on the wheel. This method of execution was said to be after the manner of France. Bell had guided the Queen's men in the raid on Stirling and Calder was thought to have shot Regent Lennox. Bell confessed, after torture, that he had shouted "Shoot the Regent!".

As the Marian Civil War continued, Mar came to Leith and made preparations to besiege Edinburgh and its castle, which was held for Queen Mary by William Kirkcaldy of Grange. He placed artillery at the Pleasance to the east of the city. The guns were brought from Dumbarton Castle, Stirling, Dundee, and Dunbar. Mar's guns were directed at first at Adam Fullerton's house, and then at the town wall. The walls were damaged but Mar gave up and returned to Leith. He sent to Queen Elizabeth I for armed support from England, following Morton's advice.

The King's cause suffered a number of reverses. At Aberdeen, the forces of Forbes family were defeated at the battle of Craibstone and Corgarff by the Marian Adam Gordon of Auchindoun. Broughty Castle near Dundee fell to the Marian Laird of Parbroath. Lord Maxwell planned to marry Elizabeth Douglas at Dalkeith but Marian forces ambushed those carrying food, silver ware, and wine to the banquet at the handfasting. Queen Elizabeth sent two ambassadors to Scotland, Thomas Randolph to speak with Regent Mar, and Henry Carey, Marshall of Berwick to the Laird of Grange in Edinburgh Castle.

Mar was in touch with William Cecil and William Drury in England, particularly by letters and messages carried by Nicolas Elphinstone. On 1 August 1572, he declared a two-month truce with the Queen's party, known as an Abstinence. He wrote in September to Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox about the progress of the Abstinence and the mint operated in Edinburgh Castle by his enemies. Mar assured her that her grandson, the six-year-old James VI, would soon be able to speak to her for himself. At this time he was disturbed by news that one of the jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots had been marketed in France and sold to Charles IX. Mar's last surviving letter to Cecil expressed his hopes to settle border disputes during the continued abstinence. Queen Elizabeth wrote to congratulate him on becoming Regent on 2 October and discuss the "pernicious practices" of Mary, Queen of Scots, to regain power to the prejudice of her son James VI. She urged him to punish and execute anyone implicated in the murder of Regent Lennox.

Death
He died at Stirling on 29 October 1572 after a short illness, widely agreed to have been natural causes. However, some sources indicate that he may have been poisoned at the behest of the Earl of Morton. Mar's illness, according to James Melville, followed a banquet at Dalkeith Palace given by Morton. James VI continued to regard Annabella Murray with affection and wrote to her as "Minnie". She was the governess of his son Prince Henry at Stirling.

Architecture and material culture
John Erskine began building the house at Stirling called "Mar's Wark", now a ruin under the care of Historic Scotland. The other seat of the family was Alloa Tower. An inventory mentions his silver plate, table linen, and a bed with curtains of red and yellow chequered silk. The posts of the bed were made of walnut and turned (probably carved).

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Vakhtang III

Vakhtang III (ვახტანგ III; 1276–1308), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king (mepe) of Georgia from 1302 to 1308. He ruled during the Mongol dominance of Georgia.

A son of Demetrius II of Georgia by his Trapezuntine wife, Vakhtang was appointed, in 1302, by the Ilkhan Ghazan as a rival king to his brother David VIII, who had revolted against the Mongol rule. Vakhtang, however, controlled only the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and parts of the southern and eastern provinces of the kingdom. After an unsuccessful offensive against David's guerrillas, the brothers agreed to rule the kingdom jointly. However, Vakhtang was destined to spend most of his reign as a commander of the Georgian and Armenian auxiliaries in endless Mongol campaigns, particularly against Damascus (1303) and Gilan (1304).

Family
Vakhtang III married Ripsime. The 18th-century Georgian Chronicle mentions her as a niece of Shabur. They had two known sons:

 * Demetrius, ruler of Dmanisi.
 * George, ruler of Samshvilde.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of postal codes in China

 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 KEEP. Postdlf 10:24, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

List of postal codes in China
Delete, looks like a random address

Keep, I rewrote it to a stub article. Should be expanded using information from the official external link. -- Curps 19:50, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as rewritten, thank you Curps. Kappa 21:09, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As with all other postal code articles and lists.--Gene_poole 02:25, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wikisource. Radiant_* 08:56, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
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Soophie Nun Squad

Soophie Nun Squad (often shortened by fans to simply Soophie or abbreviated SNS) is a DIY punk rock band from North Little Rock, Arkansas known for their jubilant stage performances which typically include costumes, puppet shows, and a large amount of crowd participation. The number of members varies from 6 to 11, but always includes a bass guitar player, a drummer, a guitarist and at least three lead singers. They are also known for bizarre song structures and topics, such as "Donkey Call" in which the singers proclaim they are giving up automobiles in favor of riding donkeys and encourage audience members to do the same and give their "Donkey Call" (or "Esel Schrei"), or loudly make the sound of a donkey.

Biography
Soophie Nun Squad formed in the fall of 1992 as a four-piece called The Schwa Sound, but renamed themselves by February 1993 at news that friends Chip King (later of The Body) and Mark Lowe (later of Il Libretina) had started a band entitled "Schwa". Soophie Nun Squad's first show was April 24, 1993 on the back lawn of the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, at the request of Governor Jim Guy Tucker's daughter Anna. Initially, Soophie Nun Squad drew from such diverse musical influences as Moss Icon, Primus, Chino Horde, Anthrax, The Four Tops, Beastie Boys, and Heavenly. As new members joined the fray through the years, Soophie Nun Squad became a sonic melting pot, primarily influenced by Big Boys, Salt N Pepa, R. Kelly, Public Enemy, Laurie Anderson, Rites of Spring, David Bowie, and 69 Boyz, and became increasingly more focused on the relationship between their songs and performative narratives tying disparate movements into a larger body of music (reaching its zenith in "The Scab Fairy", a seven-part rock opera on 2003's "Passion Slays the Dragon").

Soophie Nun Squad has been inactive since performing on June 21, 2006, in Braunschweig, Germany. Some material and concepts for newer SNS songs found outlets in WAIT (consisting of Nate Powell, with contributions by Mark, Maralie, and Eli), Divorce Chord (Nate Powell, Mike Lierly, and Patrice Poor), Humanola (Eli Monster), and HoneyBeast (Maralie Armstrong). The band was scheduled to play their final concerts at a show for Towncraft (film) on May 18, 2007, and the following night in North Little Rock, AR, until Mark Lierly broke his wrists and the shows were cancelled.

Soophie Nun Squad's tours are as follows:
 * July 1997 – eastern U.S. tour
 * June/July 1998 – eastern/southern U.S. tour
 * June 1999 – midwestern U.S. mini-tour (with Bread and Circuits)
 * July 1999 – western U.S. tour
 * June/July 2000 – eastern U.S. tour (with The Body)
 * July/August 2001 – U.S. tour
 * April 2002 – European tour
 * May 2003 – Midwestern U.S. tour (with Tom Sweet in lieu of Tem Eyos Ki)
 * September/October 2003 – European tour (with Ghost Mice)
 * August 2004 – eastern U.S. tour (with Defiance, Ohio)
 * July 2005 – southern U.S. tour (on Plan-It-X tour with Ghost Mice, Defiance, Ohio, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Erin Tobey, The Max Levine Ensemble, Madeline, The Door-Keys, One Reason, and Rosa)
 * May 2006 – midwestern U.S. mini-tour (with Mt. Gigantic)
 * May/June 2006 – European tour

Soophie Nun Squad's members were scattered across the United States but remain tied to the Little Rock punk scene. In 2015, four members reside in California; one lives in Bloomington, Indiana; two live in Providence, Rhode Island; one lives in New York City; while four remain in Little Rock, Arkansas. Band members have also lived in and participated in the scenes of Kansas City MO, Philadelphia PA, New York NY, and Savannah GA.

Due to the intimacy of Soophie Nun Squad performances, critics and historians generally agree that the band could never be as successful in a large venue. Despite this, the band has gained a huge international cult following, due in part to extensive touring.

Soophie (1993–2010), a Lhasa Apso owned by the drummer and one singer's family, is named after the band.

Soophie Nun Squad's chronological lineup

 * Mike Lierly (Universe, Divorce Chord, Tem Eyos Ki, Boomfancy, Gioteens, Hug) — voice, puppets (1993–2007), guitar (1992–93)
 * Mark Lierly (Sugar and the Raw, The Evelyns, Pallbearer (band), Winter Furs, Serenity Scheme) — drums (1992–2007)
 * Eli Monster (Tem Eyos Ki, Gioteens, Humanbeast, Global Credit Squeeze, K, Truckenstein-9, Humanola, Hug, Paper, Scissors, Rock!) — bass (1992–2007)
 * Nate Powell (Universe, Divorce Chord, WAIT, Boomfancy, Gioteens, Featherweight) — voice, puppets (1992–2007)
 * Dustin Clark (The Insides, Shake Ray Turbine, William Martyr 17, Lazy Fair, The Earthworms, Train Accompaniment, Revolver Red) — guitar, voice (1993–2007)
 * Mikael Wood (Rainy Day Regatta, K) — voice, keyboard, guitar, puppets (1994–2007)
 * Tim Scott (Orange Core, Gioteens, Lil' Sluggers, Lord Papula, Alphaprobe, Paper, Scissors, Rock!) — turntables, electronics, voice, keyboard, trombone, puppets (1996–2007)
 * Maralie Armstrong (Tem Eyos Ki, Humanbeast, Truckenstein-9, honeybeast, Paper,Scissors,Rock!) — voice, keyboard, accordion, whistles, puppets, costumes, props (1998–2007)
 * Asa Newell (Boomfancy, Train Accompaniment, Rat Fink a-Bu-Bu, Uptown Prophets) — guitar, puppets (2000–2007)
 * Alan Short (Deadbird, Zucura, Seahag, Vulturebait, Them of Delphi, Entrance, Hug) — buckets, puppets (2000–2003)
 * Michael Motley (Sugar and the Raw, Jalopy Kinfolk, Big Boots) — percussion, keyboard (2001–2007)
 * Kristine Barrett (Lily Maude Horseman) — voice, keyboard, puppets (2004–2007)
 * Electric Dukes — voice, beats, electricity (2004–forever)

Auxiliary members

 * Nathan Wilson — interpretive martial arts performance, skit writer, roadie (1993–2007)
 * Emil Heiple — skit writer, roadie (1998–2001)
 * Lee Buford (The Body, Lorna Doom, Everyone Asked About You, Class of Eighty Four, Divine Hook-Up) — tour drums (2000)
 * Justin Collins (Honky, Go Fast, Sugar and the Raw) — percussion (2001–2002)
 * Mary Chamberlin (Tree of Knowledge Book Distro) — roadie (2002–2005)

Discography

 * May 1994 — "We Ate Slayer" demo (Food Chain)
 * August 1994 — "We Rule the World" demo (Food Chain)
 * March 1995 — "vs. the USA" 7" (Food Chain)
 * May 1995 — 5 songs, "The Dogtown Chronicles" comp tape (Food Chain)
 * May 1995 — live song, Anna Newell's VHS compilation
 * August 1995 — "Takes Manhattan" demo (Food Chain)
 * June 1996 — 1 song, "We've Lost Beauty" comp LP (File 13)
 * April 1997 — "Dino" 7" (Harlan Records—formerly Food Chain)
 * March 1998 — "Don't Let Them Take You Alive" CD (Harlan)
 * August 1998 — 1 song, "Heartbreakers and Rumpshakers" comp 7" (Harlan)
 * January 2000 — "The Devil, The Metal, The Big Booty Beats" LP/CD (Phyte/Harlan/Plan-it-X)
 * January 2000 — 1 song, "A Compilation For Heroes" comp CD (Streetcar Music)
 * April 2000 — 1 song, "Defeated Food Not Bombs Benefit" comp CD (Defeated)
 * July 2001 — 1 song, "Listen To What I'm Made Of" comp 2xCD (File 13)
 * July 2001 — 1 song, Phyte/Magic Bullet Records sampler CD (Phyte/Magic Bullet)
 * October 2001 — 1 song on "Ride" BMX VHS zine (Ride)
 * April 2003 — split LP/CD with Abe Froman (Harlan/Plan It X Records)
 * September 2003 — "Passion Slays the Dragon" LP/CD (Harlan/Plan-it-X/Narshardaa)
 * November 2004 — 3 songs, "Rootbeer and Molotovs" comp CD (Ten Fingers Collective)
 * June 2005 — 1 live song, "Plan-it-X Fest 2004" comp DVD (Plan-it-X)
 * August 2005 — 1 song, Localist Magazine comp CD (Localist)
 * December 2005 — 1 song, "If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk" comp CD (Plan-it-X)
 * March 2006 — 1 song, "All The Days Are Numbered So" comp CD/zine (Harlan)
 * May 2007 — "Towncraft" DVD/2xCD documentary (Matson Films)

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Move from Capital FM to Capital Radio

 * As their website, capitalfm.com shows, they now refer to themselves as "Capital Radio" and of course, also use capitalradio.com --Lox (t,c) 20:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Capital Radio .com is their URL to encompass national stations each called Capital with different frequencies can you message me pleaseJasonBournes1 (talk) 15:48, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Moved. Nightstallion 09:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Isn't this the title of a Clash song? Maybe the reference should be explained... AnonMoos 00:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

They refer to themselves as 95.8 Capital FM - Hugh did you or do you work for Global Radio? I added producers and station voice to the creative area but they have been removed. Did I do something incorrect? Am I supposed to ask first?JasonBournes1 (talk) 15:46, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

95.8
Should this page be moved to Capital 95.8? Jt spratt 14:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

DJs section
I've now split this into current and previous DJs so that it looks clearer. However, i stil think both sections need organisising either alphabetically or chronologically. Also, the list seems too long...maybe we should restrict the listed ones to just current and notable past ones and make a new page that definatively lists all the presenters ever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.137.203.168 (talk) 08:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed the lists are too long. They include non notables WP:BLP violations. Sources for inclusion are needed.SovalValtos (talk) 17:45, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Move from Capital 95.8 to 95.8 Capital FM
Not really sure how to do this. Any Admin know how? Michael Wincott (talk) 10:21, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Is the page move to 95.8 FM Capital deliberate or a mistake? Surely it should be 95.8 Capital FM? Chillysnow (talk) 11:06, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Got to be a mistake, surely? - Michael Wincott (talk) 22:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Schedule
WikiProject Radio Stations <--- no schedule allowed

Balls
Is the nothing going to be said about there Jingle bell and summer time balls? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.7.242.82 (talk) 16:08, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

1972-1996 History
1973-1996 history moved here from Gold (radio) as it is relevant on this page but not its former location. GrouseyGrouse (talk) 15:50, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Music Policy
The music played on Capital is limited to around 20 club songs which are looped throughout the day. For example - Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon is played around 4 times between 8am and 4pm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noise Polluted (talk • contribs) 08:13, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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What happened to this simple lightning article edit?

 * from the pump

I edited the page on Lightning to remove a line about unsubstantiated speculation on the shuttle columbia crash being caused by lightning (a single sentance removal) and it made all these [] other changes I didn't make!!? Did I do something wrong? Is this a bug?? Deglr6328 03:23, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * Look at this comparison: -- it's the difference between  07:40, 27 May 2004 80.43.180.179 (positive and upper atmosphere lightning expanded) and your initial change.  Somehow you ended up editing a version from 12 revisions ago (this one). --Yath 06:09, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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I just noticed a new (to me) user adding a picture to the Chandra X-ray Observatory and wondered how hideous the caption might be when I looked. What a pleasant surprise - thanks for the good caption! Would you be interested in joining WikiProject Writing Captions? It'd be great to have you along to help caption pictures. -- ke4roh 12:47, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

Welcome to the 'fate, 'fide, 'fur debate
Hi - and welcome to the phray, or is it a phight? I see you have met Mr. Connolley, he is a bit stubborn :) He also doesn't think that atmospheric chemistry is important in his phavorite phield, global warming. Had quite a discussion on his talk page recently. Good luck there. Also thanks for the mineral edit, I was going to do it when making some other changes I have planned. There has been quite a bit of ph nonsense there, too. Thanks - Vsmith 16:01, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I submitted the article talk page, where I copied the conversation from his userpage, to requests for comment. I really hate that he's brought it to this point, so trivial. I mean it's ONE "sulphur" in the whole article, he's making such a mountain out of a molehill. Sigh... I guess after the empire went, all those silly Brits have left now is their "sulphur". (just kidding Will!!) :o) --Deglr6328 22:09, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The IUPAC has no jurisdiction over the English language. Both spellings are acceptable. Please respect the choice of spellings of original contributors. This is the wiki-way. Mintguy (T) 08:12, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You might want to note that a Google search for "sulphur site:.gov" (which is restricting itself to sites belonging to the United States Government) gives 40,000 hits. Both spellings are perfectly acceptable. Mintguy (T) 08:18, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The IUPAC does have "jurisdiction" over scientific nomenclature and shoud be respected as a form of standardization in articles of a scientific nature. Also, what part of "Each article should have uniform spelling and not a haphazard mix of different spellings (it can be jarring to the reader). In particular, for individual words and word-endings. For example, don't use center (American) in one place and fibre (British) in another." is unclear to you? --Deglr6328 14:53, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * The more important part is whether Latin pronounces ph as a p or an f. It's best to use truth in fonetics [and punctuation!], next best to preserve etymological spellings such that some Commonwealth variants, closer to Latin and Greek but not befouled (corrupted) by French, are kept.  Though these compete with the best to keep dialectal variants in so as to learn the backgrounds of whomever contributed.  (I speak out the p in pseudo-, BTW.) lysdexia 23:26, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Laser guide star
Hi,

I hope you know something about this topic (you only inserted a picture but there's only a not-very-active anonymous user who contributed significantly to the text) - my question is already on the discussion page of the article: Why does the laser ray not get distorted on its way to the upper atmosphere? Thanks in advance for any answers. 193.171.121.30 20:44, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * It does! IANAAstrophysicist but I'm certain the beam is affected by atmospheric effects on the way up just as the light on the way back down is. Thing is, who cares! All that's being done with the laser is to form a small area of fluorescing sodium atoms (ionized? dunno..) in the upper atmosphere. The area at high altitude emitting light then, is probably no bigger than a beach-ball or so in diameter (it's likely many meters in length though, I'm not intimately familliar with the thickness of the "sodium layer" in the mesosphere) since the divergence of a good quality laser beam is not sufficient to expand it appreciably over a small distance of ~50 miles. So you've got this relatively small glowing area of gas which is above much of the atmosphere, the light it emits then travels back down to the telescope and is "imprinted" with the aberrations intrinsic to the column of atmosphere it went through at that instant. It dosen't matter if the phase or shape or whatever of the laser going UP is distorted because the process of fluorescence destroys that information, and even if it weren't I doubt (I don't really want to do the calculations right now) that the telescope could achieve the resolution to resolve the glowing sodium as anything more than a spot even if it were diffraction limited. Again IANAP, but I'm confident of the accuracy of what I've said here. --Deglr6328 21:25, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I still don't understand it completely - let's say you've got a seeing disc with a diameter of x = 0.5 arcseconds, then, if the divergence of the laser beam is low enough, in height h you should get a spot with the size h*x, which is about 0.2 meters in 90 km height. Now the real spot size is smaller (diffraction limited by laser optics) but it moves around in the 0.2 m region due to atmospheric convection.

Now I'm a bit confused. The timescale of fluorescence (the time the excited atoms need to fall back to ground state) could be much larger than the timescale of atmospheric fluctuations, so the laser excites the whole seeing disc up there (I know it's not really a disc but more like a cylinder) and the telescope mirror is adjusted to see this well-defined disc undisturbed. But according to this webpage, the lifetime is about 10-8 seconds, while the twinkling of the stars can be seen with the naked eye. So this is not the case. Now the timescale of the fluctuations seems to be longer than the time the light needs to go up there, get re-emitted and come back down (0.6 milliseconds). So the light should come back to the laser along the same path - interesting, but I just realize this is not relevant for the telescope, which is not at exactly the same position as the laser, and the spatial variability scale is about the size of a human pupil or a bit larger. Now the spot stays small but moves around there in the 0.2 m seeing disc up there? So we can adjust the mirror in a way that a dot appears but this dot moves around a bit? 193.171.121.30 01:20, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bhangmeter
Hi, I have been adding to your article on Bhangmeter but I am not sure that its etymology is obvious.

If I had to guess why it was called a Bhangmeter, then I would have said that it was a reference to the apparent pause early on in the nuclear explosion from the perspective of the sensor as the first peak dies and before the second, much larger one arises. e.g. as in B-ang. But who knows? But cannabis had such a poor press from the late 1930s right through to the end of the 1960s that I would not have expected a scientist working in the cold war military-industrial complex in the late 1950s or early 1960s to draw attention to his use of it. --Jll 23:48, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi thanks for your input. First, I noticed you put the tag "dubious" next to the 'never known to fail' claim. I got that information from here (I included the word "the" in the search because google's highlight color for the second word in a search makes it almost invisible against the background of that site). As for the bhang controversy; immediately upon seeing the word and learning of its definition I couldn't help but think (and especially so, just having finished reading Leslie Iverson's fascinating "The Science of Marijuana") that this must be a pun (a not uncommon practise among scientists: see ). So I searched for it....and found this . I must admit I find the "B-ang" hypothesis to be a bit of a stretch. The possibility of "bang" being spelled "bhang" for some other reason and merely by chance having the same spelling as a psychedelic drug very popular at the time must be extraordinarily low. Further, these were highly educated people, the scientist wouldn't be drawing attention to his use of it, in fact by naming it this, a bit derisively, he would be in fact mocking the use of marijuana. No?--Deglr6328 03:44, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi. I had intended the "dubious" tag against the marijuana claim rather than the "never known to fail" one. My suggestion of an alternative derivation was really only to highlight that (IMHO) without some corroboration then speculation can never be certain, only suggest something that is possible or likely.  However, with the reference to the National Atomic Museum your explanation now seems perfectly fine to me. --Jll 11:23, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

IPL/Laser Epilation
Just wanted to drop a note that I read your comments about my IPL notes, and I appreciate your kind words. We apparently share the same skepticism and distaste for pseudoscience and the obfuscation of real science that it causes.

Keep up the great contributions.

 * Thanks! Though I'm not sure what comments I made that you are referring to...  :o)--Deglr6328 19:38, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Scepticism is okay as long as one doesn't pose pseudoscepticism, or cynicism, as it. I've a history of destroying the latter kind. lysdexia 23:26, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Hey that's super, though no one here really cares what you think. --Deglr6328 03:36, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

LLE
Are you sure it was a good idea to move LLE to LLE (disambiguation) and make LLE into a redirect? I think it worked better at LLE, as there now is an unrelated redirect at the top of Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Thue | talk 20:57, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I dunno. I just figured it was the predominant use of the acronym "LLE" so why bother with a disambig page to start at....wouldn't bother me any if you want to change it back, just be sure to get the redirects sorted....--Deglr6328 21:01, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

South Park Republicans
Let's keep an eye on this page and not let that Jucifer guy run rampant with it. googuse 08:43, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * Eh, I'm not too eager to get into an edit war over such a trivial article. I mostly edit science pages. There seem to be a lot of eyes on it now and there are PLENTY of other articles far far worse than that one. --Deglr6328 04:32, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Werner Heisenberg.jpg
Image:Werner Heisenberg.jpg. Hello, this image has been uploaded on the Frech wikipedia and I would be grateful if you cold provide me with more information as to its tag as it's being questionned there. Thanx a bunch notafish }<';> 13:22, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What happened to this simple lightning article edit?

 * from the pump

I edited the page on Lightning to remove a line about unsubstantiated speculation on the shuttle columbia crash being caused by lightning (a single sentance removal) and it made all these [] other changes I didn't make!!? Did I do something wrong? Is this a bug?? Deglr6328 03:23, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * Look at this comparison: -- it's the difference between  07:40, 27 May 2004 80.43.180.179 (positive and upper atmosphere lightning expanded) and your initial change.  Somehow you ended up editing a version from 12 revisions ago (this one). --Yath 06:09, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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I just noticed a new (to me) user adding a picture to the Chandra X-ray Observatory and wondered how hideous the caption might be when I looked. What a pleasant surprise - thanks for the good caption! Would you be interested in joining WikiProject Writing Captions? It'd be great to have you along to help caption pictures. -- ke4roh 12:47, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

Welcome to the 'fate, 'fide, 'fur debate
Hi - and welcome to the phray, or is it a phight? I see you have met Mr. Connolley, he is a bit stubborn :) He also doesn't think that atmospheric chemistry is important in his phavorite phield, global warming. Had quite a discussion on his talk page recently. Good luck there. Also thanks for the mineral edit, I was going to do it when making some other changes I have planned. There has been quite a bit of ph nonsense there, too. Thanks - Vsmith 16:01, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I submitted the article talk page, where I copied the conversation from his userpage, to requests for comment. I really hate that he's brought it to this point, so trivial. I mean it's ONE "sulphur" in the whole article, he's making such a mountain out of a molehill. Sigh... I guess after the empire went, all those silly Brits have left now is their "sulphur". (just kidding Will!!) :o) --Deglr6328 22:09, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The IUPAC has no jurisdiction over the English language. Both spellings are acceptable. Please respect the choice of spellings of original contributors. This is the wiki-way. Mintguy (T) 08:12, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You might want to note that a Google search for "sulphur site:.gov" (which is restricting itself to sites belonging to the United States Government) gives 40,000 hits. Both spellings are perfectly acceptable. Mintguy (T) 08:18, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The IUPAC does have "jurisdiction" over scientific nomenclature and shoud be respected as a form of standardization in articles of a scientific nature. Also, what part of "Each article should have uniform spelling and not a haphazard mix of different spellings (it can be jarring to the reader). In particular, for individual words and word-endings. For example, don't use center (American) in one place and fibre (British) in another." is unclear to you? --Deglr6328 14:53, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * The more important part is whether Latin pronounces ph as a p or an f. It's best to use truth in fonetics [and punctuation!], next best to preserve etymological spellings such that some Commonwealth variants, closer to Latin and Greek but not befouled (corrupted) by French, are kept.  Though these compete with the best to keep dialectal variants in so as to learn the backgrounds of whomever contributed.  (I speak out the p in pseudo-, BTW.) lysdexia 23:26, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Laser guide star
Hi,

I hope you know something about this topic (you only inserted a picture but there's only a not-very-active anonymous user who contributed significantly to the text) - my question is already on the discussion page of the article: Why does the laser ray not get distorted on its way to the upper atmosphere? Thanks in advance for any answers. 193.171.121.30 20:44, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * It does! IANAAstrophysicist but I'm certain the beam is affected by atmospheric effects on the way up just as the light on the way back down is. Thing is, who cares! All that's being done with the laser is to form a small area of fluorescing sodium atoms (ionized? dunno..) in the upper atmosphere. The area at high altitude emitting light then, is probably no bigger than a beach-ball or so in diameter (it's likely many meters in length though, I'm not intimately familliar with the thickness of the "sodium layer" in the mesosphere) since the divergence of a good quality laser beam is not sufficient to expand it appreciably over a small distance of ~50 miles. So you've got this relatively small glowing area of gas which is above much of the atmosphere, the light it emits then travels back down to the telescope and is "imprinted" with the aberrations intrinsic to the column of atmosphere it went through at that instant. It dosen't matter if the phase or shape or whatever of the laser going UP is distorted because the process of fluorescence destroys that information, and even if it weren't I doubt (I don't really want to do the calculations right now) that the telescope could achieve the resolution to resolve the glowing sodium as anything more than a spot even if it were diffraction limited. Again IANAP, but I'm confident of the accuracy of what I've said here. --Deglr6328 21:25, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I still don't understand it completely - let's say you've got a seeing disc with a diameter of x = 0.5 arcseconds, then, if the divergence of the laser beam is low enough, in height h you should get a spot with the size h*x, which is about 0.2 meters in 90 km height. Now the real spot size is smaller (diffraction limited by laser optics) but it moves around in the 0.2 m region due to atmospheric convection.

Now I'm a bit confused. The timescale of fluorescence (the time the excited atoms need to fall back to ground state) could be much larger than the timescale of atmospheric fluctuations, so the laser excites the whole seeing disc up there (I know it's not really a disc but more like a cylinder) and the telescope mirror is adjusted to see this well-defined disc undisturbed. But according to this webpage, the lifetime is about 10-8 seconds, while the twinkling of the stars can be seen with the naked eye. So this is not the case. Now the timescale of the fluctuations seems to be longer than the time the light needs to go up there, get re-emitted and come back down (0.6 milliseconds). So the light should come back to the laser along the same path - interesting, but I just realize this is not relevant for the telescope, which is not at exactly the same position as the laser, and the spatial variability scale is about the size of a human pupil or a bit larger. Now the spot stays small but moves around there in the 0.2 m seeing disc up there? So we can adjust the mirror in a way that a dot appears but this dot moves around a bit? 193.171.121.30 01:20, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bhangmeter
Hi, I have been adding to your article on Bhangmeter but I am not sure that its etymology is obvious.

If I had to guess why it was called a Bhangmeter, then I would have said that it was a reference to the apparent pause early on in the nuclear explosion from the perspective of the sensor as the first peak dies and before the second, much larger one arises. e.g. as in B-ang. But who knows? But cannabis had such a poor press from the late 1930s right through to the end of the 1960s that I would not have expected a scientist working in the cold war military-industrial complex in the late 1950s or early 1960s to draw attention to his use of it. --Jll 23:48, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi thanks for your input. First, I noticed you put the tag "dubious" next to the 'never known to fail' claim. I got that information from here (I included the word "the" in the search because google's highlight color for the second word in a search makes it almost invisible against the background of that site). As for the bhang controversy; immediately upon seeing the word and learning of its definition I couldn't help but think (and especially so, just having finished reading Leslie Iverson's fascinating "The Science of Marijuana") that this must be a pun (a not uncommon practise among scientists: see ). So I searched for it....and found this . I must admit I find the "B-ang" hypothesis to be a bit of a stretch. The possibility of "bang" being spelled "bhang" for some other reason and merely by chance having the same spelling as a psychedelic drug very popular at the time must be extraordinarily low. Further, these were highly educated people, the scientist wouldn't be drawing attention to his use of it, in fact by naming it this, a bit derisively, he would be in fact mocking the use of marijuana. No?--Deglr6328 03:44, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi. I had intended the "dubious" tag against the marijuana claim rather than the "never known to fail" one. My suggestion of an alternative derivation was really only to highlight that (IMHO) without some corroboration then speculation can never be certain, only suggest something that is possible or likely.  However, with the reference to the National Atomic Museum your explanation now seems perfectly fine to me. --Jll 11:23, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

IPL/Laser Epilation
Just wanted to drop a note that I read your comments about my IPL notes, and I appreciate your kind words. We apparently share the same skepticism and distaste for pseudoscience and the obfuscation of real science that it causes.

Keep up the great contributions.

 * Thanks! Though I'm not sure what comments I made that you are referring to...  :o)--Deglr6328 19:38, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Scepticism is okay as long as one doesn't pose pseudoscepticism, or cynicism, as it. I've a history of destroying the latter kind. lysdexia 23:26, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Hey that's super, though no one here really cares what you think. --Deglr6328 03:36, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

LLE
Are you sure it was a good idea to move LLE to LLE (disambiguation) and make LLE into a redirect? I think it worked better at LLE, as there now is an unrelated redirect at the top of Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Thue | talk 20:57, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I dunno. I just figured it was the predominant use of the acronym "LLE" so why bother with a disambig page to start at....wouldn't bother me any if you want to change it back, just be sure to get the redirects sorted....--Deglr6328 21:01, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

South Park Republicans
Let's keep an eye on this page and not let that Jucifer guy run rampant with it. googuse 08:43, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * Eh, I'm not too eager to get into an edit war over such a trivial article. I mostly edit science pages. There seem to be a lot of eyes on it now and there are PLENTY of other articles far far worse than that one. --Deglr6328 04:32, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[[:Image:Werner Heisenberg.jpg]
Image:Werner Heisenberg.jpg. Hello, this image has been uploaded on the Frech wikipedia and I would be grateful if you cold provide me with more information as to its tag as it's being questionned there. Thanx a bunch notafish }<';> 13:26, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm afraid I can't provide anymore information on who took it or when exactly it was taken. Really, I don't even remember where I got it! Werner is clearly in his 20's in the picture (certainly no more than 30) and that makes the image over 70-some years old, if any copyrights ever existed on it (doubtful) they are all expired now.--Deglr6328 00:29, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * That doesn't follow at all. Lots of things are more than 70 years old and remain covered by current copyrights. -- Reuben 09:11, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I couldn't  even begin to count  the  thousands  of  places this image is  used  completely  without mention  of source. In fact, I can't ever recall seeng a note of who actually took it. All I've ever seen is "Heisenberg in Gottingen c1927". I mean, he died almost 30 years ago people!--Deglr6328 22:52, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * The fact that a lot of people use this image on their web pages doesn't mean anything. Heisenberg's date of death is equally irrelevant.  You can't call it public domain unless you have a good reason to do so. By marking something as public domain, you are telling others that they may freely use that image without restriction.    Please understand that it's important not to make this claim if you don't know it's true.  -- Reuben 04:56, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * This proving public domain thing is striking me as being more and more like proving there are no dragons in one's garage! If no one knows where an image came from, and it has been floating around for the past 70-odd years with everyone using it then what CAN be proved to be in the public domain? How is it even possible? How do we know this picture of James Clerk Maxwell isn't under some sort of copyright? Who knows who took that? I guess it's irrelevant that he's been dead for over a century! Irritating!--Deglr6328 05:08, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, it's irritating, and has the effect of creating whole classes of works in statutory limbo - if it's impossible where something came from, then you can't know if it's public domain and you can't contact the copyright holder for permission. Complain to your representatives in Congress.  In the meantime, you have to be careful, and you must assume everything is copyrighted, with all rights reserved, until and unless you find out otherwise. -- Reuben 05:28, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

RTGs
Hi. I see you reverted my contribution to the Radioisotope thermoelectric generator article. Please see the talk page. Andrewa 10:38, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi. I hope I didn't sound nasty rv-ing that. I had to leave and didn't have time to leave a comment. I think Pu238 is fissile. Like you said, see talk page. :)--Deglr6328 23:52, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

CDMS image copyright
You have added the image Image:CDMS_parameter_space_2004.jpg with the claim that it's public domain. However, this image is taken directly from a talk by Richard Schnee on the CDMS home page. The image still has his name at the bottom, from the presentation slide! It does not appear likely to be public domain. Please explain or correct this. -- Reuben 09:11, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know if that automatically makes it copyrighted, does it? There are no copyright restrictions anywhere on the CDMS site, so far as I can see. Also, I've seen this very image used in several other presentations and news stories on CDMS2. The plot was made with this generator. I'll change it to fairuse and give a link showing where it came from though. --Deglr6328 21:56, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Practically everything is automatically copyrighted in Berne convention countries (such as the U.S.). You can't just assume anything is in the public domain, ever.  Fair use is probably OK in this case, but you should note this and credit the source.  You might want to read Copyright and Image_copyright_tags for information on how to tell if something is public domain.. -- Reuben 04:32, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Holocaust Picture
Thanks, I thought it was very interesting too. I got it from the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum. In one of the articles it described it has a picture of a couple who were sent to concentration camps never to be seen again. It's a good illustration of the human toll suffered by many groups during the time period. -- Apollomelos 15:29, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Aha! found it! . I'm just going to add some info to the image about where it's from.--Deglr6328 05:43, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Why so anonymous?
Hi Deglr6328 ! A really catchy Nom de Wiki - You're very shy on the bio stuff: so what you do? --Brookie 16:37, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * :o) Hello, I am an optics technician on the Omega laser (current worlds biggest/highest energy laser) at the Lab for Laser Energetics LLE. I'll add pictures...someday.--Deglr6328 01:04, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Great Brookie 09:14, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"List of vandals"
Please note that disagreeable content doesn't make an edit vandalism, or is contributor a vandal. Such disagreements should be handled by discussion, not by threats to revert on sight. Gazpacho 03:57, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * He has added factually incorrect material to several articles and constantly reverts users who correct him and who remove his inappropriate religious material from otherwise good writeups. If he can't even be bothered to take the time to get a username why should those of us with serious intentions on wikipedia waste our time with him. If he does it again I'm listing him.--Deglr6328 04:03, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'll add what I please, when I please, and no bigot who doesn't even understand the subject is going to stop me. The links I added were perfectly scientific, and the one I removed simply said "a recent study" with no documenation. 220.244.224.8 05:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * No actually they were what we call pseudoscientific. And you are very close to being listed as a vandal. good day.--Deglr6328 05:40, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

requests for comment/138.130.194.229
please see requests for comment/138.130.194.229

Scintillometer
I just fixed "scintillometer" and you added that the usage for radiation detector is now rare. I was planning to say that, but when I looked on the Web, I found a lot of them for sale or in use. e.g.

       Maybe you will fix it back?

Thanks

Peter

 * Hi. I don't know, I really do think its use is quite rare these days in comparison to the proper unambiguous use of "scintillation counter", see here . The former has less than ~2% of the usage of the latter. I've tweaked it a bit and I think its ok now. (as a sidenote, please sign your posts with the signature/timestamp tool) --Deglr6328 20:08, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Teller-Ulam device
I purposefully simplified the diagram in many respects as generally encyclopedia diagrams are supposed to convey basic concepts, rather than pretend to convey "secret" information. So I only included things that I thought were either necessary for the explanation of the concept (as Morland describes it, which is not without disputation among people who spend their spare time speculating about such things), or which would illustrate concepts previously mentioned (levitation and boosting). I'm also suspicious towards anybody who claims they really know what these things are like, as most of the details about even the more primitive nuclear weapons are still officially classified. So the answer is: probably, maybe, I don't know, is it vital? I figure that if people want more speculative knowledge and nitty-gritty details, they can look it up elsewhere, and that Wikipedia should just be giving people really basic information about such things (which even then is pretty speculative, in the case of H-bombs). My goal was that people would just understand that the Teller-Ulam device is a complicated way to squeeze fusion fuel, just as the Fat Man device was a complicated way to squeeze plutonium, and to make it clear via the visual tropes that this wasn't supposed to be anything close to a blueprint. --Fastfission 23:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, alright then.--Deglr6328 16:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

email
email me please. Dunc|☺ 15:10, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Nope, that didn't work. Try emailing my username at hotmail.com with an _ between the c and the h.  Dunc|☺ 18:14, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Featured pix - Honolulu
By "focus" do you mean the photographic focus is blurry or that the subject matter is not specific enough?

 * The composition is fine really, it's just too blurry.--Deglr6328 02:01, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Feature pic candidate: Fushimi Inari shrine
The photographer Neep (Paul Vlaar) left a positive message on the discussion for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kyoto Fushimi Inari shrine. He has a higher density pic available. Since I am not familiar at all with this technology, perhaps you can explain what he could do with it to change your reluctant oppose into a vote for support? Many thanks! —Sandover 11:13, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Melanin
Hey. Returning the visit. I'm not sure which edit you're speaking of, but I'll watch the melanin talk page for any questions or comments. Before I wrote the business about melanin and potential technological applications, I did some research on the web. Lots of interesting stuff. (I don't know if that's what you're referring to?) Anyway, I'll check back later. Peace. deeceevoice 02:42, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes this is the section I'm referring to. Like I say on your talk, my concerns are all on the "black supremacy" talk page. --Deglr6328 02:45, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

WP:FPC
Hi, the Treasury of Athens photograph has been re-done; can I ask if you would consider changing your vote? Cheers, Smoddy (tgec) 13:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

parkinson's disease
hello, I saw your edit on black supremacy and noticed that you have re-added the quote by Steve Jones about the relationship bewteen melanin and parkinson's disease. I believe that deeceevoice (I can't stand the person btw) added this information originally because I mentioned the quote in the talk page a while back. But the quote I got was from a one sentence mention from Stephen Howe's book on Afrocentrism, so we don't really know if Steve Jones is disapproving this notion, supporting it, repeating a quote by others or talking about his own research. That's why I deleted it after deeceevoice inserted it apparently without reading my concern on the talk page. I did a major purge of pseudoscience crap on the article and then you re-added it in the last edit. I know you're into skeptical inquiry (kinda like me, btw my first substantial exposure is reading Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World) and wouldn't add bullshit, so I wanna know if you have actually read Steve Jones's book and tell me under what context is he talking about the relationship. Thanx a lot. Wareware 05:21, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi, I have not read the book and I re-inserted that just to corroborate the likelyhood that the parkinson's melanin thing is not real and merely a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the supremacists. If it needs to go for other reasons/or whatever that's fine. By the way, nice to meet you, "The Demon Haunted World" is probably my second favorite book of all time! (first is Cosmos :o)) I remember reading TDHW for the first time around 11th grade in high school, as it was also my first exposure to rigorous skeptical thinking and rationalism in general. It was wonderful, like sticking my head above the clouds and seeing a clear blue sky for the first time....Cheers. --Deglr6328 05:49, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanx a lot for clarifying it. Good to know you too, we need more skeptics in the world :)   Wareware 06:34, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

sonoluminescence
"removing entire nonsensical pseudoscience theory section since no one has improved it."

Nonsense? Pseudoscience? Huh. I obviously don't think so. I don't like it when people delete large chunks of articles... See Talk:Sonoluminescence. - Omegatron 14:34, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, see talk page.--Deglr6328 17:42, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Blue marble
Hi Deglr6328. Could you please go to Image:Earth-apollo17.jpg and indicate everything you know about the version of the image you uploaded? In particular, where did you get it, and how did you modify it? I'm trying to sort out the conflict between that image and Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 22:02, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * yep--Deglr6328 22:16, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wareware RFC
Hi, editors are not allowed to add comments to other editors' evidence sections during RfCs. You're welcome to add a comment in the comments section if you want to. Many thanks, SlimVirgin 15:07, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Rope tricks
If you can scan the image at a higher resolution and upload it as a low-compression jpg or no-compression png, I can probably remove the moire patterns. -- brian0918 ™  15:28, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Does your scanner have a "descreening" setting? Try that. If not, you might want to try these tricks for preventing moire: http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/Tips/moire.html -- brian0918  ™  15:36, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/First Photograph
I just got a high-res version, and the image is public domain. Please support the high-res version. -- brian0918 ™  17:01, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image sources
Hi,

When you upoad a picture that comes from an online source (such as Image:Godiva device.jpg), could you please include a URL? It would often be nice to be able to look for other similar pictures, verify the copyright, and so on; usually it also makes it easier to contact the author if necessary. Thanks! --Andrew 04:28, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * This image is a compilation I made from two separate images from the government report I refrenced on the image description page.--Deglr6328 05:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Actinide phases.gif
I am totally mystified by the "Actinide phases" diagram. What is it supposed to mean? The horizontal axis seems to be continuous, but is labelled according to a discrete variable...

Could you indicate where it comes from? It would be good to be able to go read the description of the original, and to know where the data comes from. --Andrew 02:57, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/nmt/nmtdo/AQarchive/00fall/00fall.pdf it just indicates the crystal phase of the pure element Vs. temperature. as temp. goes too high they all melt (obviously) as shown by the "liquid" parameter space at the top. I would guess that the space bwtween elements is interpolated to make the plot continuous but I'm not certian and maybe the X axis is not Z but rather Daltons with the specific masses for the most common isotope of each element marked...?--Deglr6328 03:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moved to Image talk:Actinide phases.gif.

Brookhaven owns copyright on its images.
Hi,

A work of the United States government is only a work by a direct federal employee - a contractor or a commercial laboratory that gets federal funding can keep copyright. So Image:Technetium Generator.jpg is not in the public domain. (Yes, it's a scam. But we should be thankful the US Government releases anything at all - most other governments, including US state governments, don't.)

More generally, if someone claims copyright on an image, be really certain (and willing to hire a lawyer) before just taking it and claiming it's in the public domain - someone who believes your tag could get very badly burned. --Andrew 07:26, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * ??But.....they're a national lab...funded entirely by DOE/DOD! Eh. --Deglr6328 02:59, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I actually emailed them to ask about a couple of pictures, and got back a not-very-permissive permission. I think it's terrible that the US Government can so easily dodge its responsibilities, but without a pretty convincing proof that those things are really in the public domain I'd be reluctant to claim they are. There was a big debate about this for the Z-machine picture, and the conclusion was that it sucks, but we have to live with it. --Andrew 03:04, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Rope tricks
Hi, I was going to promote Image:Tumbler Snapper rope tricks.jpg, except I notice there is no source information on the image page. Without a source, I can't tell who to credit for the photograph and we can't verify that it is a {PD-USGov} license. -- Solipsist 06:45, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * ok, I put some info. there--Deglr6328 16:55, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The HCN Gas Discharge Laser
Would (historical) information about the HCN (337 μm) laser be acceptable? I only looked at Wikipedia to see if there had been any developments in the last 25 years, but could not find even an historical mention. As a complete newbie I do not wish to offer details that would be off topic.

You mentioned lasers discovered in the 70s and 80s. Dr Gebbie discovered the HCN laser round about 1966. I worked on it 1968-1976 so may be able to find some old publications. It was certainly used as part of a chain of lasers for the determination of the speed of light. I wonder what method they use today. I could not find anything on that topic.

If I read it correctly the diagram showing laser types versus wavelength indicates that no lasers operate in the sub-millimetre region so that could be improved. Silver Physicist 20:45, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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Some of the things you have written about in the article Nuanced may not be enough content to merit articles of their own. The Wikipedia community welcomes newcomers and we encourage you to write or improve articles on notable subjects. But please read What Wikipedia is not so you too can effectively create new encyclopedic articles. Thanks. Zzyzx11 | Talk 16:58, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Architecture of Integrated Information Systems

The ARIS concept (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) by August-Wilhelm Scheer aims to ensure that an enterprise information system can completely meet its requirements.

This framework is based on a division of the model into description views and levels, which allows a description of the individual elements through specially designed methods, without having to include the entire model. The methodology serves as a systems development life cycle for mapping and optimizing business processes. These processes are mapped for each description view, starting with the business management question up to the implementation on data processing level.

ARIS house (description views)
ARIS relies mainly on its own five-view architecture (ARIS house). These five views are based on organization, data, service, functional and process views of a process. The classification is made to break down the complexity of the model into five facets and thus make business process modeling simpler.

Each view of the ARIS concept represents the model of a business process under a specific aspect:

 * Function view: The activities, groupings and hierarchical relationships that exist between them are described in the function view, for example in a function tree. Since functions support goals and are controlled by them, goals are also assigned to the function view
 * Organization view: This provides an overview of the organizational structure of a company, including human resources, machines, hardware and their relationships, see also Organizational chart
 * Data view: This includes all events (that generate data) and environmental data, such as correspondence, documents, etc., i.e. all company-relevant information objects, see also Entity Relationship Model
 * Product/Service view: Provides an overview of the entire product/service portfolio (incl. services, products, financial)
 * Process view: The process view connects all other views into a time-logical schedule, for example in an event-driven process chain or BPMN

Description levels
Each description view of the ARIS house is divided into three description levels:

Concept

Structured representation of the business processes by means of description models that are understandable for the business side (depending on the view, e.g.: ERM, EPC,      organization chart, function tree)

Data Concept (= data processing concept, IT concept)

Implementation of the technical concept in IT-related description models (depending on the view e.g. relations, structure charts, topologies)

Implementation

IT-technical realization of the described process parts (depending on the view, e.g. by creating program code, database systems, use of protocols)

Dissemination and related work
The ARIS concept forms the basis of various software products, including the ARIS Toolset from Software AG, which has been the owner of ARIS trademarks since IDS Scheer AG was acquired. At the end of 2004, part of the concept was reflected in the graphical process integration of SAP Exchange Infrastructure.

Although ARIS is a well-known approach for the description of information system architectures, especially in German-speaking countries, it is not as well known on a larger scale. With in the Management Frameworks group it is one of over fifty existing frameworks for information management on the market. The architecture of interoperable information systems (AIOS) was also published in 2010 at the Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (Institute for Information Systems) in Saarbrücken, which was founded by Scheer. While ARIS describes company-internal information systems and business processes, AIOS describes how cross-company business processes can be realized by adapting and loosely coupling information systems.

With the "Model-to-Execute" approach, business processes can be modelled in ARIS and automatically transferred to webMethods BPM for technical execution.

Applications
As one of the Enterprise Modeling methods, ARIS provides four different aspects of applications:
 * The ARIS concept:
 * is the architecture for describing business processes.
 * provides modelling methods, the meta structures of which are comprised in information models.
 * is the foundation for the ARIS Toolset software system for the support of modelling.
 * The ARIS house of Business Engineering (HOBE) represents a concept for comprehensive computer-aided Business Process Management.