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 * Okay, sorry! I was under the (simple) impression that anything which was obviously crap should be marked like that. Thanks for explaining. May I ask why you wrote this on the bottom of User:Feco's page? Mikecron 22:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Mikecron- Tony S's edits inadvertently went to my talk page through a coding mistake I made on your talk page a while back. If you want a technical explanation, leave a note on my talk and I'll add an explanation here. The important thing is that the problem is resolved, so the EDIT links on your talk page no longer point to me. Sorry for the confusion. Feco 04:39, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Whoops - I really didn't recognise that as a kernel panic. Well spotted :) I'm now going to hang my head in shame for not noticing that earlier.. -- 9cds(talk) 13:18, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

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I'm glad to see you have an interest in Amparanoia. However, I was disappointed that your edit was solely to change "are" - the British English standard - into "is" -the US English one. Per Manual_of_Style: "If an article is predominantly written in one type of English, aim to conform to that type rather than provoking conflict by changing to another. (Sometimes, this can happen quite innocently, so please do not be too quick to make accusations!)" Given that I started the article and used British English ("Their first album, El Poder de Machín, has been described as being "bright, exuberant... with a heavy Latin influence" is, I believe, not permissable in the US) I would like to change it back. Would you be happy with that?--Estrellador* 19:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi there... firstly, I want you to know that I'm a Brit, and all of my edits use British English to the best of my knowledge. (Except of course if the article's already written in another style.) I know it's common to use the plural conjugation of verbs with singular nouns in BrE, but it's just something I've never been happy with! (To me, a band is singular, so the verb should be conjugated as such.) Also, just because I do this does not mean I'm using AmE; from American_and_British_English_differences: "Use of the singular verb is not wrong in such instances in BrE. At least one authority (E. Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, 1986) indicates that either is acceptable (provided that usage is not mixed or inconsistent within the same document), and that (as implied above) the choice of verb form may be chosen according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members (e.g. 'A committee was appointed' ...; but 'the committee were unable to agree ...')." The second example explains why I think it's okay to say "Their first album"; because we are now referring to the band members. Either way, I'm happy to change it back if it bothers you that much. I'm a big fan of Amparanoia, and it's just embarrassing that the only thing I can contribute to the article is a questionable grammatical change! :-/ Mikecron 09:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

 * No problem. We, as you may have seen (Talk:Color etc.) have a big problem on Wikipedia with conflicting spelling and grammar. I just wanted to head this off to avoid a bigger problem later. I was surprised that you speak British English - I can understand the logic of the US approach, but would usually use "are" myself. If you don't mind, I think I will change it back, to avoid what could be construed as (but apparently isn't) conflicting style.--Estrellador* 11:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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Could this possibly be Clive Anderson? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.156.161 (talk) 22:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, I know for a fact this is Clive Anderson's IP address. But but but, what kind of a sad, celebrity-stalking freak are you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.149.129 (talk) 20:51, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Dribydalskoob (talk) 17:20, 29 December 2007 (UTC)Don't get too excited. It's only the computer from which Clive Anderson made the edit that featured in the Radio 4 documentary.

Sorry to disappoint you, folks, but this isn't Clive Anderson's IP address. Dribydalskoob is right; Clive Anderson edited from our (mine and David Gerard) home address for the Radio 4 documentary. Oh noes, now everyone knows our IP address! :-) Arkady Rose (talk) 01:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Don't tell them, they'll all want one. COME FORTH AND HAXX0R OUR B0XX0RS!11!!"! - David Gerard (talk) 21:14, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * Was that Clive, David or Rose? :P  --Jubilee♫ clipman  18:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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Puerto Rico at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Puerto Rico competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 51 competitors, 43 men and 8 women, took part in 45 events in 13 sports.

Archery
In the third time the nation competed in archery at the Olympics, Puerto Rico entered one man.

Men's Individual Competition
 * Ismael Rivera — 2089 points (→ 58th place)

Athletics
Men's 200 metres
 * Luis Morales
 * Nelson Erazo

Men's Marathon
 * Jorge Gonzáles
 * Final — 2:14:00 (→ 13th place)

 * César Mercado
 * Final — 2:19:09 (→ 31st place)

 * Claudio Cabán
 * Final — 2:27:16 (→ 53rd place)

Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase
 * Carmelo Ríos

Men's Pole Vault
 * Edgardo Rivera
 * Qualifying Round — 5.10m (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 metres
 * Marie Mathieu

Women's 800 metres
 * Angelita Lind

Women's 4×400 metres Relay
 * Margaret de Jesús
 * Evelyn Mathieu
 * Marie Mathieu
 * Angelita Lind

Women's Marathon
 * Naydi Nazario
 * Final — 2:45:49 (→ 33rd place)

Women's High Jump
 * Laura Agront
 * Qualification — 1.80m (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's Long Jump
 * Madeline de Jesús
 * Qualification — 5.63 m (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
 * Rafael Ramos
 * First Round — Defeated Carlos Salazar (Argentina), walk-over
 * Second Round — Defeated Jesús Beltre (Dominican Republic), on points (4:1)
 * Quarterfinals — Lost to Salvatore Todisco (Italy), on points (1:4)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
 * José Rivera

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
 * Juan Molina
 * First Round — Bye
 * Second Round — Defeated Jarmo Eskelinen (Finland), 5-0
 * Third Round — Lost to Pedro Nolasco (Dominican Republic), 2-3

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
 * Orlando Fernández

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
 * Luis Ortíz - Won the silver medal

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)
 * Jorge Maysonet

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)
 * Carlos Reyes

Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)
 * Víctor Claudio

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
 * Arístides González → Bronze Medal
 * First Round — Defeated Otosico Havili (Tonga), 4:1
 * Second Round — Defeated Paulo Tuvale (Samoa), 5:0
 * Quarterfinals — Defeated Pedro van Raamsdonk (Netherlands), 4:1
 * Semifinals — Lost to Shin Joon-Sup (South Korea), 1:4

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
 * Arcadio Fuentes

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)
 * Isaac Barrientos
 * First Round — Lost to Tyrell Biggs (USA), 0:5

Cycling
One cyclist represented Puerto Rico in 1984.

 * Individual road race
 * Ramón Rivera — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Fencing
Two male fencers represented Puerto Rico in 1984

 * Men's foil
 * Edgardo Díaz

 * Men's épée
 * Gilberto Peña

Judo
Men's Half-Middleweight
 * Jorge Bonnet

Men's Middleweight
 * José Fuentes

Swimming
Men's 100m Freestyle
 * Fernando Cañales
 * Heat — 51.75 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

 * Antonio Portela
 * Heat — 52.47 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle
 * Fernando Cañales
 * Heat — 1:56.60 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly
 * Filiberto Colon
 * Heat — 56.66 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly
 * Filiberto Colon
 * Heat — 2:01.80
 * B-Final — 2:01.27 (→ 12th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
 * Fernando Cañales, Miguel Figueroa, Antonio Portela, and Rafael Gandarillas
 * Heat — 3:30.66 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Wrestling
Men's Bantamweight Freestyle
 * Orlando Caceres

Men's Featherweight Freestyle
 * Carmelo Flores

Men's Lightweight Freestyle
 * José Betancourt

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Talk:Wind power

Should non-electricity be in History section?
@Ita140188 You tagged because “The article seems to be exclusively about producing electricity from wind power, but then history section talks about windmills and sails” so you think that should be removed from history? Or if not what do you suggest? Chidgk1 (talk) 14:11, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

 * Perhaps it should be removed from history and the page on history of wind power would explain it only. More can be included on the development of the electricity producing wind turbine over time and what companies were involved on the Wind Power page history section. Also, should the definition be revised to Wind Power is the process of generating energy from the wind as apposed to useful work? (the short description of the article is about producing electricity) Just my thoughts. Knowledgegatherer23 (talk) 00:10, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * (or people involved) Knowledgegatherer23 (talk) 00:28, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

 * I think we can keep the information about historical use of wind power, but we need to be explicit from the lead that this article only deals with electricity production. The history section should then reflect this, briefly talking about pre-electricity uses but then focusing on the history of wind power for electricity production (which is mostly what it already does actually) --Ita140188 (talk) 09:39, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I have excerpted - feel free to revert and solve the problem your way if you prefer Chidgk1 (talk) 15:31, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

No legitimate source for the claim that Hammurabi had a plan to use wind power
I was interested in the information that Hammurabi might have used wind power and tried to find more details only to discover that every reference I found about this (on Wikipedia or otherwise) ultimately cites the 1976 book The Generation of electricity by wind power by E. Golding which has a single throwaway line about it and which itself only cites The Story of the Rotor by Anton Flettner from 1926, which has a single throwaway line with no source whatsoever.

the Golding book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Generation_of_Electricity_by_Wind_Po/lRojAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Hammurabi

the Flettner book: https://books.google.com/books?id=W99NAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&vq=hammurabi&dq=flettner%20the%20story%20of%20the%20rotor&pg=PA95#v=snippet&q=hammurabi&f=false

I have only just created an account to post this and can't edit the page myself since it's protected, but it seems to me that this information has no real source and should be removed? If so can someone with access remove it? Minovi (talk) 15:13, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Economics and policy sections seem incomplete
In the current version, the 'Economics' section is very limited. It mentions costs but fails to mention the value of the electricity generated by wind power plant. I suggest adding a few sentences and linking to the 'Merit Order' page, which describes the value problem of variable renewable energy in detail.

Likewise, the content of the 'Central Government' subsection under 'Politics' is very limited and I also found it misleading. The references are almost exclusively referring to offshore wind. The first sentence seem to indicate that new installations are "generally subsidy free", but I believe this refer to offshore wind power only. I suggest rewriting this section completely, shift focus to both onshore and offshore wind power, and broaden the geographical scope. Tove-88 (talk) 11:21, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 July 2024
Economcis = Economics 2603:8000:D300:3650:B089:CD81:58FB:92D (talk) 07:39, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. 💜 melecie   talk  - 07:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

 * Done... - Adolphus79 (talk) 08:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Microcredit

Using microcredit in Christian ministry
I know this isn't completely related, but here is a guide for using microcredit in Christian ministry.

Kingdom Business The Ministry of Promoting Economic Activity

Documentation of permission
Christina, I would like to request permission to publish the "Year of Microcredit" logo in the contents of an encyclopedia article available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit While I believe I can use the logo by the terms of "fair use" as outlined in U.S. copyright law, I am seeking permission in respect, and to make sure that it is available to be viewed legally in any country it may be viewed from. Because of the nature of wikipedia, I cannot sign the waiver of liability, but Im not sure that it applies anyways. Wikipedia is an online, free and open encyclopedia edited by its online community volunteers. More information about Wikipedia can be found at www.wikipedia.org. Thank you, Andrew Somerville

christina.barrineau to me Oct 28 .... Finally - I do not see where you would put the logo for the Year and a question - would you also include a paragraph on the Year?

Andy Somerville to christina.barr. Oct 28 Christine, .... As far as the logo is concerned, I would most likely place the logo near the top of the article, as well as in the article stub specifically about the Year(2). I would be willing to write a paragraph about the year to integrate into the article and place the logo nearby. Alternatively if you would like more control over the matter you or I could integrate a paragraph prepared by UNDP. Understand however that future editors may rearrange the article and so the position in the article cannot be guaranteed except in that you or I may again change it at any point. Many Thanks, Andrew Somerville ...	 christina.barrineau to me Oct 28 Dear Andy - Thanks - that would be great - please go ahead - also the Economist will be coming out with a survey next week (November 4 issue) on microfinance that you might like to link to as well). Please go ahead and write a para on the year - or you can cut and paste the opening para on our website - www.yearofmicrocredit.org ... Best Christina

Please remove the logo
I saw the thread on the Year of Microcredit logo, but I don't think the logo should be on this page. The UN Year is now over, but more importantly, having the logo of one organization for a definition is not neutral, especially since so many organizations are and have been involved in microcredit for a very long time.

Reference needed
References are needed for the following paragraph which has been removed from the criticism section. It should be noted that information contained in this paragraph should also be scrutinized and edited for content (in addition to referenced) given that it was added by an anonymous user whose only other edit seems to be vandalism:

"There is also debate surrounding the sustainability and viability of enterprises funded through micro credit. Critics say that a paradox exists in that the poorest people can do little with the credit outside of sustenance activity yet they are the ones who receive the most loans. They suggest that much of the lauded entrepreneurial activity which they are ascribed is usually based on thin margin industries which face high diminishing market returns. Thereby in many cases microcredit does little more than smooth consumption over periods of cyclical or unexpected crises. Critics of microcredit cite the fact that U.S. consumer debt levels topped $2 trillion dollars for the first time in 2004, up 33% from four years before as evidence that easy credit does not necessarily guarantee freedom from poverty."

Removing the YOM Logo
Hello, can an Administrator please remove the international year of microcredit logo? The YOM happened in 2005 and has ceased to exist. Furthermore it's just one organization of many that have been working in the field of microcredit/microfinance and shouldn't be the only one listed here as reference. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.220.48.171 (talk • contribs) 19:39, 20 June 2006.

Both BRAC and FH Abed should be recognised in this article
BRAC started providing microfinance in 1974, and have helped lift millions of Bangladeshis out of poveryt as a result. Therefore both BRAC and it's founder FH Abed should be mentioned on this page.

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Lady Juliana (1777 ship)

Lady Juliana (also known as the Lady Julian), was launched at Whitby in 1777. She transported convicts in 1789 from England to Australia.

Career
The British government chartered Lady Juliana to transport female convicts. The government agent on board the ship was Lieutenant Thomas Edgar, who had sailed with James Cook on his last voyage. The surgeon was Richard Alley, who was apparently competent by the standards of the day, but made little attempt to maintain discipline. After a delay of six months Lady Juliana left Plymouth on 29 July 1789, and arrived at Port Jackson on 6 June 1790. She took 309 days to reach Port Jackson, one of the slowest journeys made by a convict ship. One reason was that she called at Tenerife and St Jago, and spent forty-five days at Rio de Janeiro, and nineteen days at the Cape of Good Hope. She carried 226 female convicts, five of whom died during the journey.

Her steward, John Nicol, wrote a fascinating account of the voyage and the convicts. Most of these were London prostitutes, but there were some hardened criminals – thieves, receivers of stolen goods, shoplifters – among them.

Lady Juliana gained the reputation for being a floating brothel. Nicol recalled that "when we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath." At the ports of call seamen from other ships were freely entertained, and the officers made no attempt to suppress this licentious activity. No provision had been made to set the convicts to any productive work during the voyage, and they were reported to be noisy and unruly, with a fondness for liquor and for fighting amongst themselves.

The low death rate during the voyage was due to Edgar and Alley's care. Rations were properly issued, the vessel kept clean and fumigated, the women were given free access to the deck, and supplies of fresh food were obtained at the ports of call. This treatment was in sharp contrast to that meted out on the infamous Second Fleet.

When Lady Juliana arrived at Port Jackson she was the first vessel to arrive at Port Jackson since the First Fleet's arrival almost two and a half years before. With the colony in the grip of starvation, and with HMS Sirius (1786) having been wrecked at Norfolk Island, Judge Advocate David Collins was mortified at the arrival of "a cargo so unnecessary and so unprofitable as 222 females, instead of a cargo of provisions". Lieutenant Ralph Clark was more blunt, lamenting the arrival of still more "damned whores". The ship carried letters bringing the first news of events in Europe to the settlement since the First Fleet had sailed in May 1787. Two weeks later the storeship Justinian arrived, followed a week later by the three ships of the Second Fleet with their shameful cargo of starved and maltreated convicts. Because Lady Juliana was the first ship to arrive after the First Fleet, some consider her part of the Second Fleet, but some do not. A transportation register can be seen at the UK National Archives.

After repairs to her strained timbers, Lady Juliana sailed for China on 25 July 1790 to take on a cargo of tea for the East India Company. She arrived in England on 26 October 1791.

Fate
Lady Juliana was last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1829 trading with the Baltic. She was last listed in the Register of Shipping in 1832 with Smith, master, J. Henly, owner, and trade Belfast—Quebec.

Notable convicts aboard Lady Juliana

 * Mary Wade - Mary was transported at 13 years of age, and at the time of her death at age 84, had about 150 living descendants.
 * Elizabeth Steel - Elizabeth is historically recorded as the first deaf Australian. Her headstone was discovered in 1991.
 * Mary Pardoe - Mary gave birth to Ann (fathered by Edward Scott, sailor aboard Lady Juliana) in March 1790 while making the journey to Australia. This child was the youngest person on board Lady Juliana when she arrived at Port Jackson.
 * Elizabeth Parry - Elizabeth was the first female convict emancipated. She married first fleet convict, and farmer James Ruse. Together they grew the first successful crop.
 * Sarah Dorset - gave birth to a son named Edward Powell on the voyage to Australia. The father, also Edward Powell, was a crew member. Upon arrival in Sydney, Sarah was sent to Norfolk Island where she had two children with Robert Watson. In 1801 Watson was granted a lease at South Head in the area that was named Watsons Bay.

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The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester, which was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953. An inverted detective story, it was first serialized in three parts, beginning with the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, followed by publication of the novel in 1953. The novel is dedicated to Galaxy's editor, H. L. Gold, who made suggestions during its writing. Bester's title was Demolition!, but Gold talked him out of it.

Plot introduction
The Demolished Man is a science fiction police procedural set in a future where telepathy is common, although much of its effectiveness is derived from one individual having greater telepathic skill than another.

In the 24th century, telepaths—called Espers or "peepers"—are integrated into all levels of society. They are classed according to their abilities.

All Espers can telepathically communicate amongst themselves and the more powerful Espers can overwhelm their juniors. Telepathic ability is innate and inheritable but can remain latent and undetected in untrained persons. Once recognized, natural aptitude can be developed through instruction and exercise. There is a guild to improve Espers' telepathic skills, to set and enforce ethical conduct guidelines, and to increase the Esper population through intermarriage.

Some latent telepaths are undiscovered, or are aware of their abilities but refuse to submit to Guild rule. Some are ostracized as punishment for breaking the rules. One character in the story has suffered this fate for ten years, leaving him desperate for even vicarious contact with other telepaths.

Plot summary
Ben Reich is the paranoid, impetuous owner of Monarch Utilities & Resources, a commercial cartel that the Reich family has possessed for generations. Monarch Utilities & Resources is in danger of bankruptcy because of its chief rival, the D'Courtney Cartel, headed by the older Craye D'Courtney. Reich suffers recurring nightmares in which a "Man with No Face" persecutes him.

Desperate to end his suffering, Reich contacts D'Courtney and proposes a merger of their concerns but Reich's damaged psychological state causes him to misread D'Courtney's positive response as a refusal. Frustrated and desperate, Reich determines to kill D'Courtney. The presence of "peepers" has prevented the commission of murder for more than seventy years so Reich devises an elaborate plan to ensure his freedom. If caught Reich will certainly face "Demolition", a terrible punishment described only at the end of the story.

Reich hires an Esper to "run interference" for him—hiding his murderous thoughts from any peepers present at the scene of the planned crime. Reich bribes Dr. Augustus ("Gus") Tate, a prominent peeper psychiatrist, and uses him to mentally steal information about D'Courtney's planned attendance at a party. To further conceal his intentions from telepaths, Reich visits a songwriter, Duffy Wygand, to teach him a jingle that makes his real thoughts hard to read.

From Monarch's research facility, Reich secures a small flash grenade which can disrupt a victim's perception of time by temporarily destroying the eyes' rhodopsin. He acquires an antique (20th-century) handgun from a pawn shop, making sure to have the bullets removed from the cartridges when he buys it. He knows how to replace the bullet in the handgun's ammunition with a gelatin capsule filled with water in order to eliminate ballistics evidence.

At the party, he influences the host to play a game of Sardines in total darkness. Reich executes his plan during the game but there is an unforeseen hitch: at the moment he shoots D'Courtney, D'Courtney's daughter Barbara witnesses the murder, struggles with Reich, grabs the gun, and runs away. She is later found suffering severe psychological shock that renders her catatonic and mute. Nobody but the party's hostess Maria knew Barbara was with her father. Reich recovers his composure, returns to the party and pretends to be lost. Just as he is about to leave, completing his getaway, a drop of blood from D'Courtney's body in the room above lands on him, and the party ends in chaos as the police are called.

A telepathic police detective, Lincoln Powell, is assigned to the case. As telepathically gathered evidence is legally inadmissible in court, but can be used to guide an investigation, the detective is obliged to assemble the murder case with traditional police procedures and to establish motive, opportunity, and method. The detective manages to read Reich's thoughts, sees that he is the murderer, and asks him to surrender. Reich refuses, relishing the thrill of the hunt to come.

Both sides center on finding and questioning (or, in Reich's case, silencing) Barbara D'Courtney. Although Reich finds her first, he is unable to kill her before Powell rescues her. The pursuit traverses the Solar System as Reich escapes the police and a series of mysterious assassination attempts. Others are attacked also: during Powell's attempt to interrogate the pawnbroker from whom Reich bought the gun, an unknown person attacks the pawnshop with a "harmonic gun" which kills by resonant sonic vibration. Reich tries but fails to murder Hassop, his own chief of communications (to try to prevent him from assisting the police with his knowledge of the corporate codes), and Powell succeeds in abducting Hassop.

Powell has already established opportunity and, eventually, method through discovery of a tiny fragment of gelatin in the body. Just as Powell believes that he has wrapped the case up entirely, the interrogation of Hassop yields disturbing results: D'Courtney had accepted the merger proposal. That dashes Powell's case; as he remarks, no court in the Solar System would believe Reich murdered D'Courtney when D'Courtney was needed alive for the merger (which would save Reich and give him all the power and wealth he dreamed of) to succeed.

Reich's tortured mental state is unknown to Reich himself, so Powell does not suspect that the motive for the murder was something other than financial. After more attempts on his life, and more dreams of the "Man with No Face", Reich attempts to kill Powell. Powell easily disarms him and then reads his mind. Suddenly Powell recognizes that the forces behind Reich's crime are greater than anticipated. He asks the help of every Esper in attempting to arrest Reich, channeling their collective mental energy through Powell in the dangerous telepathic procedure called the "Mass Cathexis Measure". He justifies this by claiming that Reich is an embryonic megalomaniac who will remake society in his own twisted image if not stopped.

Powell uses the power to construct a solipsistic fantasy for Reich to experience. One by one, he removes elements of reality, beginning with the stars in the sky, until Reich is left believing that he is the only real being in a world constructed around him, as a game. Finally Reich is left facing the "Man with No Face", who is both himself and Craye D'Courtney.

Reich is revealed to be the natural son of Craye D'Courtney, from an affair with Reich's mother — Reich's hatred of him was probably due to a latent, telepathic knowledge of that fact. Reich's knowledge is not explicitly stated but Barbara D'Courtney, whom Powell discovers to be Reich's half-sister, is herself revealed to be a peeper. The assassination attempts on Reich were carried out by Reich himself as a result of his disturbed state. Once arrested and convicted, Reich is sentenced to the dreaded Demolition— the stripping away of his memories and the upper layers of his personality, emptying his mind for re-education. This 24th-century society uses psychological demolition because it recognizes the social value of strong personalities able to successfully defy the law, seeking the salvaging of positive traits while ridding the person of the evil consciousness of the criminal.

Reception
Reviewer Groff Conklin characterized The Demolished Man as "a magnificent novel... as fascinating a study of character as I have ever read". Boucher and McComas praised the novel as "a taut, surrealistic melodrama [and] a masterful compounding of science and detective fiction", singling out Bester's depiction of a "ruthless and money-mad [society] that is dominated and being subtly reshaped by telepaths" as particularly accomplished. Imagination reviewer Mark Reinsberg received the novel favorably, citing its "brilliant depictions of future civilization and 24th century social life".

After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed The Demolished Man as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical". For a 1996 reprint, author Harry Harrison wrote an introduction in which he called it "a first novel that was, and still is, one of the classics". Richard Beard described the book as "full of vigorous action", saying, "the ripping pace of the book becomes part of what it's about".

In an SF Site Featured Review, Todd Richmond wrote that the book is "a complicated game of manoeuvering, evasion, and deception, as Reich and Polwell [sic] square off against one another", adding:

"The game is a very interesting one, because while Reich is a very rich man and has considerable resources, Polwell [sic] has an entire network of peepers to help him gather information and obtain evidence... The best part of Bester's story is its timelessness... There are few references to outlandish or dated technology (with the exception of a punch card computer!) or outrageous social practices or fashions. While Bester's future isn't utopia, neither is it a post-apocalyptic nightmare... Bester extrapolates his view of the 50s forward in time, recognizing that while things like technology will change, basic human nature will not. The Demolished Man is a welcome change for those tired of modern trilogies and series."

In his "Books" column for F&SF, Damon Knight selected Bester's novel as one of the 10 best sf books of the 1950s.

The Demolished Man won the 1953 Hugo Award for Best Novel and placed second for the year's International Fantasy Award for fiction. The Orion Publishing Group chose the novel as its fourteenth selection for its series SF Masterworks in 1999.

Major characters

 * Ben Reich, lacks moral integrity and is willing to take considerable risks in order to see his wishes carried out. However, he is a very charming man to many around him, especially at the story's beginning when his desperation is still in check. His personal mantra is: "Make your enemies by choice, not by accident". He is about forty, and in his own words "wouldn't trade places with God, or looks with the Devil".  His ancestors have left him, in book form, advice about how to pursue his ambitions.  One chapter, "Murder", lays out some ideas, including using the Sardine game.  At the same time, he is tormented by dreams of "The Man With No Face", which he initially believes is the face of Murder itself.
 * Lincoln Powell is a Class 1 Esper in his thirties. He is Prefect of Police, which in this case means chief detective.  He is handsome, intelligent, charming, and well-liked.  As the story opens, he is being considered for the Presidency of the Esper Guild, but since he is single and not married to another Esper, as Guild policy requires, he is disqualified.  He lives alone in a house, since highly-skilled Espers cannot live in crowded apartment blocks where they are bombarded by the thoughts of others.  He is said to have a dual personality; behind the correct role of model Esper and perfect cop hides Dishonest Abe, a compulsive liar. Often, Dishonest Abe takes the lead in conversation, with Powell finding himself lying in earnest to anybody, just for the sake of amusing himself.  He invents absurd tales of heroic cops who do not exist, or accounts of how the stress of his job causes him to become left-handed temporarily.  His most notorious lie gave rise to the question "Who stole the weather, Powell?" which other peepers use to embarrass him, even though few actually know the details of the incident.
 * Barbara D'Courtney, a very pretty young blonde woman, daughter of Craye D'Courtney, whom Reich pursues to kill and with whom Powell falls in love despite the fact that, according to the Guild rules, he must marry an Esper. However she is revealed to be a latent Esper herself.  Having witnessed her father's murder, she becomes catatonic.  She is given a treatment that regresses her to childhood mentally, expecting that she will come to terms with the tragedy as she returns to her adult self over a period of weeks.  During this time, Powell attempts to extract information from her subconscious, but is blocked by strange images including one of her and Reich as conjoined twins.  This is a clue on the trail to discovering Reich's real motive for murder.
 * Mary Noyes, an Esper 2 who is a close friend of Lincoln Powell. She is in fact in love with Powell, but he does not return the affection.  Since Guild members are required to marry other Espers as part of the Guild's "Eugenic Plan", she hopes he will eventually marry her anyway.  When it becomes obvious to her that Powell, in the process of peeping Barbara D'Courtney, has fallen in love with her instead, she becomes angry and distant.
 * Dr. Augustus "Gus" Tate, psychiatrist and Esper 1, who becomes Reich's ally in murdering Craye D'Courtney. Although he makes millions in fees from his practice, Tate has to pay 95% in taxes to the Esper Guild to further its education, outreach, and eugenics programs.  He is a member of the ultra-right-wing "League of Esper Patriots".  Reich offers him riches beyond his dreams, a promise that Tate verifies by peeping Reich.  In return, Tate warns Reich of Espers that threaten him, peeps the details for D'Courtney's visit to New York from D'Courtney's own physician, Sam @kins, and then after the murder participates in the cover up, peeping the investigators.  Tate also finds from his peeping that Reich's motives are not what he believes, and that the dreams of the "Man with No Face" will not stop when D'Courtney is dead.  He refuses to tell Reich the truth about the dreams, believing this gives him a hold over his partner in crime.  He dies when Keno Quizzard's men attack Jerry Church's pawn shop in an attempt to kill Lincoln Powell.

Minor characters

 * Keno Quizzard, a blind albino (a characterization also in The Stars My Destination) leader of an underworld organization employing "gimpsters" (gangsters), hired by Reich to help find Barbara D'Courtney. Eventually Quizzard is lured into space where he has an "accident" while traveling with Reich.
 * Chooka Frood is a corrupt brothel keeper. She keeps a bodyguard (a possible friend-companion-lover) named Magda who has red eyes, laughs continuously, dresses in leather and studs, and is apt to attack at the slightest provocation. Chooka is also a latent telepath, a fact that she uses in her fortune-telling act in the bizarre basement of the brothel.  The building is part of Bastion West Side, the site of the last great battle of a war.  The fires and explosions caused melted glass and pigments from a ceramics factory to flow into the basement, resulting in a multicolored luminescent floor.  The rest of the building consists of boudoirs, voyeur chamber, and "The Coop", a network of rooms that can be used to hide fugitives.  It is in one of these rooms that Barbara D'Courtney is found, apparently having been scooped off the street by Chooka's pimps after wandering away from the Beaumont house in a catatonic state.  Chooka had been using her in the fortune-telling act, though this is not described.
 * Duffy Wyg& (read "Wygand"), the composer of the "'Tenser', said the Tensor" jingle. "To Reich she was the epitome of the modern career girl—the virgin seductress", who seems to crave either humiliation or conquest by men.
 * Sam @kins (read "Atkins"), Esper 1 MD, is a top psychiatrist like Gus Tate. Unlike Tate he does not resent his Guild taxes and throws himself into charity work.  His home on Venus is full of charity cases and hangers-on.  He is a member of the Environmental Clique, who believe that Esper ability exists in all people and can be brought out by training.  He was also treating Craye D'Courtney, whose personality was disintegrating under, in his belief, unfounded guilt over child abandonment (the child being Reich).  Powell consults Atkins to determine if D'Courtney committed suicide, and in the process learns that Tate had asked him about D'Courtney, apparently on Reich's behalf.
 * Jerry Church, Esper 2 (the "2" is struck through with a "/" in the original text) is an ostracized Esper who once helped Reich profit by reading the minds of business rivals. He runs a pawn shop, from which Reich obtains the gun he uses to kill D'Courtney. Reich made millions from Church, but Church has lost everything.  No Esper will even talk to him, let alone communicate with him telepathically.  At one point in the book, he stands outside Powell's house, eavesdropping on the Esper party inside, so great is his need for that kind of contact.  Powell notices him and offers him a drink, but Jerry resents his pity, throws it back at him, and runs off.  After the murder, Jerry passes on information about Barbara D'Courtney's whereabouts to Keno Quizzard, leading Reich to find her at Chooka Frood's just as Powell, alerted by his own investigation, arrives.  Later, Keno's men attack his shop with him, Powell, and Tate inside.  Tate, foreseeing that his criminal involvement will be his undoing, commits suicide by allowing himself to be destroyed by the effects of the harmonic gun.  Powell persuades Jerry to turn against Reich, blaming him for the attack.  Jerry's testimony about the gun purchase is a vital piece of evidence.
 * Maria Beaumont, a Manhattan socialite known as the "Gilt Corpse". Her body has been surgically enhanced to render it, in the novel's terminology, "pneumatic", a term used in similar context in Brave New World.  She flaunts her body at every opportunity.  Craye D'Courtney stays at her house when in New York, and it is this that gives Reich his opportunity.  He sends Maria an ancient book of party games in which he has made sure that only the game of "Sardines" is legible, knowing that she will insist on playing it at the party, making the entire house pitch-dark in the process.  Maria adds her own flourish by insisting that everyone be naked while playing.

Other characters
The novel has several other characters who only marginally participate in the plot:
 * "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" - three telepaths with eidetic memories who act as Lincoln Powell's personal secretaries, walking encyclopedias, and recorders of his conversations with officials such as Police Commissioner Crabbe. For instance, when Powell is seeking clearance from Crabbe to pursue Reich, they remind him of a previous conversation where Crabbe admitted that Reich had supported him when he ran for Solar Senator.  They also are privy to his personal secrets, mostly embarrassing episodes of his "Dishonest Abe" persona.
 * Snim Asj - a stereotypical punk and street hustler who is one of Chooka Frood's tenants. Threatened with eviction for non-payment of rent, he protests that Chooka is making a fortune from the "yellow-head girl" (Barbara D'Courtney).  While attempting to raise cash, he spreads the story around on the street, resulting in both Reich and Powell hearing of where Barbara can be found.
 * T'Sung is the current President of the Esper Guild. Powell enters his office while he is dictating an angry letter to the League of Esper Patriots. T'Sung is pugnacious and blustering, yelling at his secretaries while exchanging telepathic jibes with Powell. The secretaries are accustomed to this, knowing that it is his way of dealing with the stress of the job. T'Sung wants Powell to marry a peeper as soon as possible so that he can take on the job himself.
 * De Santis is the head of the crime lab who investigates the murder scene, and later is in charge of constructing the model simulation of the crime for presentation to the District Attorney. He is irritable at the best of times.  Powell is "peppery" with him because De Santis is "comfortable in no other relationship".  The lack of evidence at the crime scene drives him to distraction.  The only recoverable evidence is a piece of gelatin, which he interprets to mean that D'Courtney was eating candy, an impossibility given that he had throat cancer.
 * Crabbe is the Police Commissioner, and is reluctant to support Powell's pursuit of Reich. When Powell and his staff are preparing their presentation for the District Attorney, Crabbe bursts in to insist that they end the persecution of his "good friend, Ben Reich".  Powell "accidentally" sets off one of Reich's tiny rhodopsin-ionizing capsules under his nose, rendering him unconscious.  Later, after Powell's case collapses, Reich goes to see the Commissioner.  Crabbe offers profuse apologies, trying to divert Reich into supporting his political ambitions while assuring him that Powell will suffer.  Only at the end, as Powell explains the real reasons behind Reich's crime, and how he exposed it, does Crabbe appear sympathetic.  Even then, after the interview Powell admits to having manipulated Crabbe to ensure his future support.
 * Monarch's Chief of Personnel Recruitment (never actually named) is an Esper 2 with a passion for workplace efficiency. In his own words, telepathy is just another skill subject to work-time requirements.  As Reich arrives at Monarch, ready to offer merger to D'Courtney, the Chief is lambasting his staff for sending him unsuitable candidates for final review.  He aims to vet at least 6 of them per hour for his 8-hour day, with no more than 35% rejections.  He then insists on Reich hiring Blonn, a Class 1 Esper, to vet Esper candidates.  He justifies this by quoting the time that it would take him to thoroughly vet Esper 3 and Esper 2 candidates, finishing by saying that he could not vet an Esper 1 at all.  In doing so, he sets out some of the basic story information: that in the Guild there are about 100,000 Class 3 Espers, 10,000 Class 2 Espers and 1,000 Class 1 Espers.  At the same time, Reich's own Esper secretary is making jibes telepathically, which is typical of the irreverent culture of Espers as it is depicted in the novel.
 * "Old Man Mose" is the "Mosaic Multiplex Prosecution Computor" of the District Attorney's office. It appears briefly after Powell believes he has completed the case against Reich.  The machine is, in the words of one character, "kittenish", humorously printing out apparently nonsensical legal language when first switched on.  Its hardware and actions are described as if it were a person.  All major cases have to be reviewed by Mose.  Initially the machine rejects the case for "insufficient documentation of passion motive".  This is another indication that Reich's motivations were not what even he thought.  Mose is persuaded to focus on the profit motive, and produces a favorable prediction.  At that point, the actual reply D'Courtney sent to Reich's merger offer appears, showing that there was no profit motive.  The case against Reich collapses.

Typography
Bester played with typographic symbols when constructing various characters' names. This gave "Wyg&" for "Wygand", "@kins" for "Atkins", and "¼Maine" for "Quartermaine". He also used overtyping to strike out the "2" in Jerry Church's label of "Esper 2 ", to show that he has been expelled from the Esper community.

Major themes
Jo Walton has said that The Demolished Man is shaped by Freudian psychology, comparing it to The Last Battle's relation to Christianity, and emphasizing that the resolution of the plot only makes sense in a Freudian context: Reich's hatred of D'Courtney is motivated by oedipal feelings. Writer Richard Beard thought the Freudian aspects dubious: "Not all his future projections have worn so well. Reich's motives are stiffly dependent on Freudian theory, but most glaringly Bester fails to predict any type of feminism. The words girl and pretty always come as a pair."

Adaptations
In 1959, novelist Thomas Pynchon applied for a Ford Foundation Fellowship to work with an opera company, proposing to write, among other possibilities, an adaptation of The Demolished Man. The application was turned down.

Since reading the novel as a young man, director Brian De Palma has considered adapting it for film. Lack of financing has long since kept the film unproduced.

The Demolished Man was adapted for German radio by RIAS Berlin in 1973 under the title Demolition. It was the first radio drama recorded with the dummy head recording method.

The Demolished Man was adapted for Norwegian NRK Radio in 1981 under the title Demolisjon.

In popular culture
Donald Fagen of the band Steely Dan said of their hit song "Deacon Blues": The concept of the "expanding man" that opens the song may have been inspired by Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. Walter and I were major sci-fi fans. The guy in the song imagines himself ascending to the levels of evolution, "expanding" his mind, his spiritual possibilities, and his options in life.

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Although it may seem intricate and confusing, I'm Hayden's second cousin, we have the same great uncle. I was just looking to see if myself (Alex Arlotta) and my great uncle (Lou Christenson) could be added to the page, thanks!

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It should be included that his earliest appearance was in RL Stein’s Goosebumps, Night of the Living Dummy III, Part I and II (1998). 166.198.21.15 (talk) 03:47, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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Best fight nomination
This page says Hayden and Ewan were nominated for best fight, and that Hayden won best villain at the 2005 MTV Movie Award, however, it is actually the 2006 MTV Movie awards wikipedia page that reflects this, not 2005. I don't know which one is actually right but both can.t be. Sageharly10 (talk) 15:07, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden

The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden is a Japanese garden encompassing 1.3 acre on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, in Long Beach, California, United States. It was dedicated in 1981. Ed Lovell, landscape master plan architect for the university, traveled to Japan and took inspiration from the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo before designing the garden. Among the annual events held at the Japanese garden is a Koi auction and a chrysanthemum show.

It is adjacent to the village site of Puvunga. In the trenching for the garden, evidence of the ancient Tongva village was uncovered in the early 1970s.

The garden is closed on Saturdays (when it is often rented out for weddings and receptions) and Mondays.

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Saudi Arabia at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Saudi Arabia competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. 37 competitors, all men, took part in 11 events in 5 sports.

Archery
In the first time the nation competed in archery at the Olympics, Saudi Arabia entered three men. They only narrowly avoided being the three lowest placing competitors as Mansour Hamaid was able to score one point higher than Lhendup Tshering of Bhutan.

Men's Individual Competition:
 * Mansour Hamaid – 1998 points (→ 59th place)
 * Faisal al Basam – 1993 points (→ 61st place)
 * Yousef Jawdat – 1716 points (→ 62nd place)

Cycling
Six cyclists represented Saudi Arabia in 1984.

 * Individual road race
 * Abdullah Al-Shaye — did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Hassan Al-Absi — did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Ali Al-Ghazawi — did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Mohammed Al-Shanqiti — did not finish (→ no ranking)

 * Team time trial
 * Hassan Al-Absi
 * Ahmed Al-Saleh
 * Mohammed Al-Shanqiti
 * Rajab Moqbil

Fencing
Seven fencers represented Saudi Arabia in 1984.

 * Men's foil
 * Majed Abdul Rahim Habib Ullah
 * Khaled Fahd Al-Rasheed
 * Abdullah Al-Zawayed

 * Men's épée
 * Jamil Mohamed Bubashit
 * Mohamed Ahmed Abu Ali
 * Rashid Fahd Al-Rasheed

 * Men's team épée
 * Mohamed Ahmed Abu Ali, Rashid Fahd Al-Rasheed, Jamil Mohamed Bubashit, Nassar Al-Dosari

Football

 * Men's Team Competition
 * Preliminary Round (Group C)
 * Saudi Arabia – Brazil 1 – 3
 * Saudi Arabia – Morocco 0 – 1
 * Saudi Arabia – West Germany 0 – 6

 * Quarter Finals
 * → Did not advance

 * Team Roster:
 * ( 1.) Mohamed Al-Husain
 * ( 2.) Sameija Al-Dawasare
 * ( 3.) Hassen Bishy
 * ( 4.) Sameer Abdulshakor
 * ( 5.) Abdullah Masod
 * ( 6.) Ahmad Al-Bishi
 * ( 7.) Shayemsh Al-Nasisah
 * ( 8.) Ahamed Bayazid
 * (10.) Fahed Mosaibeeh
 * (11.) Mehaisen Al-Dosari
 * (12.) Salman Al-Dosari
 * (13.) Mohammed Abduljawad
 * (14.) Saleh Al-Dossary
 * (15.) Nawaf Al-Khamees
 * (16.) Omar Bakhshwein
 * (21.) Abdullah Al-Deayee
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Charles (Garry) Betty
There is nothing wrong with my edits to this page. You keep deleting salient information, categories, etc. in your blind rvs. Please read the page before vandalising - there is no POV or anything remotely resembling a paid obituary. According to Wikipedia rules, in any event, you are only supposed to correct specific things with which you may have issue, not do wholesale rvs deleting everything (categories, etc.) 70.19.27.186 15:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

There is something wrong. You're overwriting an encyclopedic article with an obituary. Feel free to integrate the information you want to add into the article, but keep it encyclopedic. As for deleting external links, the external links you're adding are repeats of links that are already there. Please review Wikipedia's guidelines for writing good articles. Rjhatl 16:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I've reverted your changes again- if you want to discuss this it might be better handled on the article's discussion page. I did incorporate your mention of his awards from GT and the hall of fame. I've never said anything about POV issues, the problem is the tone of the article (especially the last line about "survived by"). Rjhatl 16:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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Noticed that Australia wasn't in quite the right place, so I fixed it on my end. Looks like I can't update the wikimedia file though. Can you? Sorry, I don't do a lot of wikipedia editing and don't know the etiquette. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashre (talk • contribs) 17:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

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Re:New photo, ID help please
I would have answered on Leon-bojarczuk's talk page, but he says he doesn't speak English. About the images (Hopefully they haven't already been identified), File:Beetles.jpg & File:Moult.jpg, the exact species would be difficult because these are nymphs of a species of Hemiptera or True bugs, not beetles. The closest conclusion would be Lampromicra senator or the Green Jewel Bug. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 16:09, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
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