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Simon the Sorcerer (series)

Simon the Sorcerer is a series of point-and-click adventure games created by British developer Adventure Soft. The series follows the adventures of an unwilling hero of the same name and has a strong fantasy setting similar to Sierra's King's Quest and Westwood's The Legend of Kyrandia series. The game varies in style, however, as it is more poised to be a parody of the fantasy genre than a member of the genre itself, with many renowned folklore characters appearing differently from what they are generally presumed to be.

The first two games are often compared with the Monkey Island series in terms of style and humour, and the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels and derivative games. Unlike many older adventure games, several of the titles in the series are still available for purchase. The first and second games in the series are also playable using ScummVM.

Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer was released by Adventure Soft on 2 January 1993 in DOS and Amiga formats. The story begins with the protagonist, Simon, as an ordinary teenager. His dog Chippy discovers a chest in the loft of his house containing a spellbook titled "Ye Olde Spellbooke". Simon throws the book onto the floor in contempt, but a portal opens above it. Chippy goes through the portal and Simon follows.

After entering the portal, Simon finds himself in another world. After escaping from some goblins who intended to eat him, he discovers that he has been brought on a quest to rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil sorcerer Sordid.

The game includes parodies of various popular books and fairy tales, including Rapunzel, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Jack and the Beanstalk and the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Simon is voiced by Chris Barrie. This game marks the first appearance of two somewhat inept demons, who are recurring characters throughout the remainder of the series.

Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe was released by Adventure Soft in 1995. The title is a parody of the Chronicles of Narnia book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Brian Bowles voices Simon, making him sound older, presumably in his late-teens.

In the game, the father of a peasant boy, Runt, burns his book of magic and throws it into the centre of a pentagram on the floor, inadvertently bringing Sordid back to life as a spirit. He transfers his spirit to a robotic body, and sends a magical wardrobe to retrieve Simon from his own dimension. The wardrobe mistakenly brings Simon to the doorstep of Calypso's Magic Shop. Upon returning to consciousness Simon learns that, in order to return home, he must find the wardrobe's power source, called mucusade (a pun on Lucozade).

Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball
A pinball video game released in 1998 by Adventure Soft for Microsoft Windows.

Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack
A puzzle game released in 1998 by Adventure Soft for Microsoft Windows. It contains three games:

 * Swampy Adventures – The player must help the Swampling through 50 levels of puzzles as he attempts to rescue his children from the evil Sordid.
 * NoPatience – A set of four solitaire card games, featuring a unique Simon the Sorcerer themed deck.
 * Jumble – A twist on a sliding puzzle featuring a constantly changing animation.

The game also features a desktop virtual pet known as "Demon in My Pocket" as well as three Simon the Sorcerer desktop themes.

Simon the Sorcerer 3D
The third adventure game in the series, Simon the Sorcerer 3D was initially designed fully in 2D and was intended to be released as a high quality 2D adventure. Due to publisher hesitation in picking up a 2D title, the developers later decided to switch it to a 3D adventure game.

The game follows on directly after Simon the Sorcerer II's open ending, with a cutscene at the beginning telling the player a connecting story of how Simon's body was rejoined to his soul by a new character, Melissa.

Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens
The fourth adventure game marks a return to the heralded point-and-click interface and features high quality pre-rendered backgrounds. The characters are in 3D.

The German version of this game was released 23 February 2007, and was developed by Silver Style Entertainment.

The English version of this game was released on 17 October 2008, and was published by Playlogic.

Simon the Sorcerer 5: Who'd Even Want Contact?!
In the fifth adventure game, aliens threaten the fantasy world. The German version was released for PC on 26 March 2009. It was released for digital download in English on 17 February 2010.

Simon the Sorcerer 6: Between Worlds
StoryBeasts, an Irish company based in Dublin undertook the sixth release of the series, announcing in 2014 that the original voice actor Chris Barrie was enrolled for Simon's voice.

In Between Worlds Simon returns to his British slacker roots and is forced to deal with a convergence of two worlds. As portals to another dimension begin to open up, he is forced to come face-to-face with his more hard-working, respectful and competent counterpart Simone with whom he must work to bring balance back to their universes.

The game harkens back to the original two Simon the Sorcerer games and was to feature fully hand-drawn 2D animated worlds and characters.

On 10 February 2016 StoryBeasts announced via their website that after two years of work in the game, both the planned Kickstarter campaign and the game development had been halted indefinitely due to unforeseen events.

The game was intended to be episodic. The game didn't get made due to funding and publisher difficulties.

Simon the Sorcerer: Origins
In the May 2022 the prequel game Simon the Sorcerer: Origins was announced as being in development by Smallthing Studios. The game is supposed to be set shortly before the events of the first installment and is scheduled for the release in 2024.

About Simon
Simon the Sorcerer is a teenager transported into a fantasy world as a sorcerer dressed in a cloak and pointy hat; his cloak and hat are purple in the first game, but change to red for the rest of the series (aside from possible magical colour changes in the third game). He must use his logic and magical skills to solve puzzles as he progresses through the games.

Simon is rude and insulting to many of the characters he meets. This tends to interfere with the success of his quests, forcing him to go to ridiculous lengths in order to complete puzzles. Simon also breaks the fourth wall with his comments about adventure games.

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Talk:The Lady Tennant

I have emailed to ask for permission to use the image at Christie's site, here: http://www.christies.co.uk/promos/apr05/1417/promo_gallery.asp?page=12

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Talk:Kayak (band)

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Unsure of the claim Their first album (See see the sun) is still considered one of the best examples of Dutch symphonic prog.

Agreed. I removed that line, but I'd love to find something else that describes their music. -dvs- 22:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Huh. The Kayak's main page claims Ruthless Queen reached #4 on their web site their (see history, click on 1978-1981). However, the Dutch Wikipedia entry claims it only reached #6. Any ideas how to reconcile these? -dvs- 22:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

All the links to their albums lead to pages that have little or nothing to do with said albums but to their literal meanings.... Just thought I'd mention it.

Fixed. -dvs- 14:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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Sam Messer

Sam Messer (born 1955), is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.

He has painted numerous paintings of the author Paul Auster's typewriter (The Story of My Typewriter).

Messer's animation titled Denis the Pirate was featured in a Matrix Gallery exhibit in the Fall of 2017 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2019, Messer will show work in Strange Loops at Artspace, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.

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I removed the "music-importance" tag after contextualizing the entry and linking it up. I'm cleaning up a couple Prince-album entries that've been made recently. Mcsweet

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Grand Tour program

The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System. It called for four spacecraft, two of which would visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other two would visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. The enormous cost of the project, around $1billion, led to its cancellation and replacement with Mariner Jupiter-Saturn, which became the Voyager program.

Background
The concept of the Grand Tour began in 1964, when Gary Flandro of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noted that an alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune that would occur in the late 1970s would enable a single spacecraft to visit all of the outer planets by using gravity assists. The particular alignment occurs once every 175 years. By 1966, JPL was promoting the project, noting it would allow a complete survey of the outer planets in less time and for less money than sending individual probes to each planet.

Grand Tour
In 1969, NASA created the Outer Planets Working Group, which favored the concept of two missions that would visit three planets each (including Pluto, which was considered a planet at the time). These missions were referred to as the Grand Tour. One would launch in 1977 and visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other would launch in 1979 and visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. This would reduce total mission time compared to a single Grand Tour from over thirteen years to seven and a half years. The Working Group also called for the development of a new spacecraft to carry out the flyby missions. These probes, called Thermoelectric Outer Planets Spacecraft (TOPS), were being designed at JPL and featured an operational life of over ten years.

The plan was set out in a report by 23 scientists, released on August 3, 1969. The study panel was co-chaired by James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa and Gordon J. F. MacDonald of the University of California, Santa Barbara. President Nixon gave White House support to the concept in a statement released on March 7, 1970.

By 1971, the estimated cost of Grand Tour was $750 to $900million, plus over $100million to launch the spacecraft. Congressional pressure, combined with internal competition from the recently approved Space Shuttle program, led to the decision to cancel the project in December 1971. The Grand Tour and TOPS were replaced with a proposal to visit only two planets using a pair of Mariner-derived probes.

Mariner Jupiter-Saturn
The Mariner Jupiter-Saturn project was approved in early 1972, with an estimated cost of less than $360million for each of two probes. The probes would be built by JPL, with the intention that they would last long enough to complete the original Grand Tour of the four giant planets, but be advertised as missions to only Jupiter and Saturn to reduce estimated total project costs.

The probes were to visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's moon Titan. Titan was a valuable target, as it was the only moon known to have an atmosphere, and a flyby would gather information that would not otherwise be obtainable, including the density, composition, and temperature of the atmosphere.

Two trajectories were selected. One was designated JST: its mission would take it to Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan, with the probe's trajectory designed to optimize the Titan flyby. The second was designated JSX: it would be launched on a trajectory that would preserve the option of a Grand Tour, while serving as backup for the first probe. It would arrive after JST, and if JST were successful, it could continue with the Grand Tour. If JST was unsuccessful, JSX could be diverted to perform the Titan flyby itself, which would eliminate the possibility of a Grand Tour.

In March 1977, just a few months before launch, NASA held a competition to rename the project.

Voyager

The two spacecraft that launched retained the same mission concept. Voyager 1 's course was optimized for the Titan flyby and Voyager 2 for the Grand Tour. Voyager 2 would reach Saturn nine months after Voyager 1, giving plenty of time to decide if it should proceed with the Grand Tour. Additionally, by launching Voyager 2 first, Voyager 1 's launch could be re-targeted to perform the Grand Tour if Voyager 2 were lost in a launch failure. An option to skip Voyager 1 ' s Titan flyby and proceed from Saturn to Pluto was identified, though Titan was still considered the more interesting target, especially after images from Pioneer 11 indicated a very substantial atmosphere.

Though atmospheric haze obscured any images of Titan's surface, Voyager 1 ' s flyby obtained valuable information about the moon, including data that offered compelling evidence for the existence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Titan's surface. With Voyager 1 ' s mission complete, Voyager 2 was cleared for an extended mission to Uranus and Neptune, fulfilling the goal of a Grand Tour as proposed in 1964.

The planets originally to be visited in the Grand Tour
Note: Pluto was still classified as a planet when the Grand Tour was proposed and at the time New Horizons was launched.

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Iodine value

In chemistry, the iodine value (IV; also iodine absorption value, iodine number or iodine index) is the mass of iodine in grams that is consumed by 100 grams of a chemical substance. Iodine numbers are often used to determine the degree of unsaturation in fats, oils and waxes. In fatty acids, unsaturation occurs mainly as double bonds which are very reactive towards halogens, the iodine in this case. Thus, the higher the iodine value, the more unsaturations are present in the fat. It can be seen from the table that coconut oil is very saturated, which means it is good for making soap. On the other hand, linseed oil is highly unsaturated, which makes it a drying oil, well suited for making oil paints.

Principle

The determination of iodine value is a particular example of iodometry. A solution of iodine I2 is yellow/brown in color. When this is added to a solution to be tested, however, any chemical group (usually in this test \sC\dC\s double bonds) that react with iodine effectively reduce the strength, or magnitude of the color (by taking I2 out of solution). Thus the amount of iodine required to make a solution retain the characteristic yellow/brown color can effectively be used to determine the amount of iodine sensitive groups present in the solution.

The chemical reaction associated with this method of analysis involves formation of the diiodo alkane (R and R' symbolize alkyl or other organic groups):

The precursor alkene (RCH\dCHR’) is colorless and so is the organoiodine product (RCHI\sCHIR’).

In a typical procedure, the fatty acid is treated with an excess of the Hanuš or Wijs solution, which are, respectively, solutions of iodine monobromide (IBr) and iodine monochloride (ICl) in glacial acetic acid. Unreacted iodine monobromide (or monochloride) is then allowed to react with potassium iodide, converting it to iodine I2, whose concentration can be determined by back-titration with sodium thiosulfate (Na2S2O3) standard solution.

Hübl method
The basic principle of iodine value was originally introduced in 1884 by A. V. Hübl as “Jodzahl”. He used iodine alcoholic solution in presence of mercuric chloride (HgCl2) and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) as fat solubilizer. The residual iodine is titrated against sodium thiosulfate solution with starch used as endpoint indicator. This method is now considered as obsolete.

Wijs/Hanuš method
J. J. A. Wijs modified the Hübl method by using iodine monochloride (ICl) in glacial acetic acid, which became known as Wijs's solution, dropping the HgCl2 reagent. Alternatively, J. Hanuš used iodine monobromide (IBr), which is more stable than ICl when protected from light. Typically, fat is dissolved in chloroform and treated with excess ICl/IBr. Some of the halogen reacts with the double bonds in the unsaturated fat while the rest remains.

Then, saturated solution of potassium iodide (KI) is added to this mixture, which reacts with remaining free ICl/IBr to form potassium chloride (KCl) and diiodide (I2).

Afterward, the liberated I2 is titrated against sodium thiosulfate, in presence of starch, to indirectly determine the concentration of the reacted iodine.

IV (g I/ 100 g) is calculated from the formula :

 * $$\textrm{IV} = \frac{(\textrm{B} - \textrm{S}) \times \textrm{N} \times 12.69}{\textrm{W}}$$
 * Where:
 * $(B – S)$ is the difference between the volumes, in mL, of sodium thiosulfate required for the blank and for the sample, respectively;
 * $N$ is the normality of sodium thiosulfate solution in Eq/ L;
 * 12.69 is the conversion factor from mEq sodium thiosulfate to grams of iodine (the molecular weight of iodine is $126.9 g/mol$);
 * $W$ is the weight of the sample in grams.

The determination of IV according to Wijs is the official method currently accepted by international standards such as DIN 53241-1:1995-05, AOCS Method Cd 1-25, EN 14111 and ISO 3961:2018. One of the major limitations of is that halogens does not react stoichiometrically with conjugated double bonds (particularly abundant in some drying oils). Therefore, Rosenmund-Kuhnhenn method makes more accurate measurement in this situation.

Kaufmann method
Proposed by H. P. Kaufmann in 1935, it consists in the bromination of the double bonds using an excess of bromine and anhydrous sodium bromide dissolved in methanol. The reaction involves the formation of a bromonium intermediate as follows: Then the unused bromine is reduced to bromide with iodide (I-).

Now, the amount of iodine formed is determined by back-titration with sodium thiosulfate solution.

The reactions must be carried out in the dark, since the formation of bromine radicals is stimulated by light. This would lead to undesirable side reactions, and thus falsifying a result consumption of bromine.

For educational purposes, Simurdiak et al. (2016) suggested the use of pyridinium tribromide as bromination reagent which is more safer in chemistry class and reduces drastically the reaction time.

Rosenmund-Kuhnhenn method
This method is suitable for the determination of iodine value in conjugated systems (ASTM D1541). It has been observed that Wijs/ Hanuš method gives erratic values of IV for some sterols (i.e. cholesterol) and other unsaturated components of insaponifible fraction. The original method uses pyridine dibromide sulfate solution as halogenating agent and an incubation time of 5 min.

Other methods
Measurement of iodine value with the official method is time-consuming (incubation time of 30 min with Wijs solution) and uses hazardous reagents and solvents. Several non-wet methods have been proposed for determining the iodine value. For example, IV of pure fatty acids and acylglycerols can be theoretically calculated as follows:

 * $$\text{IV} =\frac{2 \times 126.92 \times \text{no. of double bonds} \times 100}{\text{molecular weight}}$$

Accordingly, the IVs of oleic, linoleic, and linolenic acids are respectively 90, 181, and 273. Therefore, the IV of the mixture can be approximated by the following equation :

 * $$\textrm{IV}_{\textrm{mixture}}= \sum A_f \times \textrm{IV}_f$$
 * in which $A_f$ and $\text{IV}_f$ are, respectively, the amount (%) and the iodine value of each individual fatty acid $f$ in the mixture.

For fats and oils, the IV of the mixture can be calculated from the fatty acid composition profile as determined by gas chromatography (AOAC Cd 1c-85; ISO 3961:2018). However this formula does not take into consideration the olefinic substances in the unsaponifiable fraction. Therefore, this method is not applicable for fish oils as they may contain appreciable amounts of squalene.

IV can be also predicted from near-infrared, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy data using the ratio between the intensities of ν(C\dC) and ν(CH2) bands. High resolution proton-NMR provides also fast and reasonably accurate estimation of this parameter.

Significance and limitations
Although modern analytical methods (such as GC) provides more detailed molecular information including unsaturation degree, the iodine value still widely considered as an important quality parameter for oils and fats. Moreover, IV generally indicates oxidative stability of the fats which directly depend on unsaturation amount. Such a parameter have a direct impact on the processing, the shelf-life and the suitable applications for fat-based products. It is also of a crucial interest for lubricants and fuel industries. In biodiesel specifications, the required limit for IV is 120 g I2/100 g, according to standard EN 14214.

IV is extensively used to monitor the industrial processes of hydrogenation and frying. However it must be completed by additional analyses as it does not differentiate cis/trans isomers.

G. Knothe (2002) criticized the use of IV as oxidative stability specification for fats esterification products. He noticed that not only the number but the position of double bonds is involved in oxidation susceptibility. For instance, linolenic acid with two bis-allylic positions (at the carbons no. 11 and 14 between the double bonds Δ9, Δ12 and Δ15) is more prone to autoxidation than linoleic acid exhibiting one bis-allylic position (at C-11 between Δ9 and Δ12). Therefore, Knothe introduced alternative indices termed allylic position and bis-allylic position equivalents (APE and BAPE), which can be calculated directly from the integration resultas of chromatographic analysis.

Iodine values of various oils and fats
Iodine value helps to classify oils according to the degree of unsaturation into drying oils, having IV > 150 (i.e. linseed, tung), semi-drying oils IV : 125 – 150 ( soybean, sunflower) and non-drying oils with IV < 125 (canola, olive, coconut). The IV ranges of several common oils and fats is provided by the table below.

Related methods of analysis

 * Acid number
 * Amine value
 * Argentation chromatography
 * Bromine number
 * Epoxy value
 * Hydroxyl value
 * Peroxide value
 * Saponification value

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Simnel cake

Simnel cake is a fruitcake associated with Lent and Easter and widely eaten in England, Ireland and countries with patterns of migration from them. It is distinguished by layers of almond paste or marzipan, typically one in the middle and one on top, and a set of eleven balls made of the same paste. It was originally made for the fourth Sunday in Lent, also known as Laetare Sunday, the Refreshment Sunday of Lent (when the 40-day fast would be relaxed), Mothering Sunday, the Sunday of the Five Loaves, or Simnel Sunday; named after the cake. In the United Kingdom, it is now commonly associated with Mothering Sunday and Easter Sunday.

Decoration
Conventionally, 11 marzipan balls are used to decorate the cake, symbolising the 12 apostles minus Judas Iscariot. Occasionally, 12 are used, representing Jesus and the 11 apostles. However, an early reference to decorating with marzipan balls appears in May Byron's Pot-Luck Cookery, but with no mention of this symbolism, and her version may well be derived from earlier styles, which were sometimes crenelated.

Ingredients
Simnel cake is a light fruitcake, generally made from the following ingredients: white flour, sugar, butter, eggs, fragrant spices, dried fruits, zest and candied peel. Sometimes orange flower water or brandy is used, either in the cake batter or to flavour the almond paste. In most modern versions, marzipan or almond paste is used as a filling, with a layer laid in the middle of the mix before the cake is cooked, and as decoration on top. Most recipes require at least 90 minutes of cooking, and advise using several layers of baking parchment to line the tin, and sometimes brown paper wrapped around the outside to stop the marzipan burning.

History
Simnel cakes have been known since at least medieval times. Bread regulations of the time suggest they were boiled and then baked, a technique which led to an invention myth, in circulation from at least 1745 until the 1930s, whereby a mythical couple, Simon and Nelly, fall out over making a Simnel. One wishes to boil it, one to bake it and, after beating each other with various household implements, they compromise on a recipe which uses both techniques.

Simnel cakes are often associated with Mothering Sunday, also known as Simnel Sunday. According to historian Ronald Hutton, the custom of live-in apprentices and domestic servants going home (their only day off in the year) to visit their "Mother Church" where they had been Christened, and visit their mothers (and family) on Mothering Sunday, checking that their families were well and taking food or money if needed, started in 17th Century Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. This was a time of year when food stocks were low, and the high-calorie simnel cake was useful nutrition. The cake later became simply an Easter cake.

The meaning of the word "simnel" is unclear: there is a 1226 reference to "bread made into a simnel", which is understood to mean the finest white bread, from the Latin simila, "fine flour" (from which 'semolina' also derives). John de Garlande felt that the word was equivalent to placenta cake, a cake that was intended to please.

Variations
Different towns had their own recipes and shapes of the Simnel cake. Both Bury and Shrewsbury produced large numbers to their own recipes. Chambers Book of Days (1869) contains an illustration of the Shrewsbury Simnel cake, of which says:

"It is an old custom in Shropshire and Herefordshire, and especially at Shrewsbury, to make during Lent and Easter, and also at Christmas, a sort of rich and expensive cakes, which are called Simnel Cakes. They are raised cakes, the crust of which is made of fine flour and water, with sufficient saffron to give it a deep yellow colour, and the interior is filled with the materials of a very rich plum-cake, with plenty of candied lemon peel, and other good things. They are made up very stiff; tied up in a cloth, and boiled for several hours, after which they are brushed over with egg, and then baked. When ready for sale the crust is as hard as if made of wood ... the accompanying engraving, representing large and small cakes as now on sale in Shrewsbury. The usage of these cakes is evidently one of great antiquity."

Today, in Shrewsbury, as elsewhere in England, the Simnel cake is usually made with the Bury recipe.

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Talk:Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

POV Deletions
"However, overall, these contributions make a minor impact on the album. Ultimately, with its slick, plastic production and relatively unremarkable song-writing, the sound of the album is quite similar to 1998's poorly-received Newpower Soul."--Kilojake (talk) 02:53, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

O'Henry Sound Studios in New York?
The article refers to O'Henry Sound Studios in New York, but the article on O'Henry Sound Studios says that it's it Burbank, California. Is some clarification needed on this point? bd2412 T 01:35, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't get that either. The liner notes state that O'Henry is based in Burbank. How did New York end up there is beyond me.Shallowharold (talk) 17:38, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
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Talk:Sleep debt

Merge when Fixed
If this article is fixed up, I believe it should be merged with Sleep deprivation (but certainly not in its current state.) If not, the title should perhaps be changed to "Sleep deficit."
 * I think this is a sufficiently different topic to warrant a separate article. Both sleep debt and sleep deficit are commonly used to describe it from my experience. --Sydius (talk) 15:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Source Questionable
This article seems to be mostly lifted from a single other source - in addition, I believe the scientific validity of the content can be disputed.
 * I'd say to, some people certainly can go for as long as they like without sleeping. Mathmo 13:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * "There is debate among researchers as to whether the concept of sleep debt exists."
 * This is an absolutely horrible sentence. The concept itself clearly exists, even if the subject of the concept does not.  If the concept did not exist, nobody could discuss it.  I fixed it in the article. --75.173.75.86 (talk) 03:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Short term sleep debt
Can you need more sleep if you've been awake longer? For example, a normal adult needs 8 hours of sleep for every 16 they've been awake (assuming normal casual activity, and not hard labor, etc), but what if the adult had been awake, 30 or 40 hours straight, would they need more than 8? The snare (talk) 00:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Scientific Studies?
I've searched for "Sleep Debt" and found many online articles that mention it, but I haven't been able to find any scientific studies. I think the validity of this article is in doubt without scientific references. I have also heard that sleep debt doesn't exist, so if anyone has any information on studies and experiments I believe they would be of great use to this article. Mixx 19:19, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

A quick search on scholar.google.com brought up dozens of refrences. --69.160.28.71 23:15, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * See my comment in the Neutrality section. William C. Dement is a research at Stanford Med School who has spent his career studying sleep.  He's done a good deal of research on sleep debt which would be a good resource for this article if someone were willing to do the legwork and dig into it.  It's a theory that definitely has scientific backing, though there is naturally disagreement on certain aspects of it, like if sleep debt persists indefinitely or can accumulate beyond a certain point.  Here's his bio: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Dement/  Mmurdock 23:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Scientific Acceptance of Sleep Debt
There is debate among researchers as to whether there is such a thing as sleep debt. The Sept 2004 issue of the journal Sleep (not available on-line) contained dueling editorials from two of the world's leading sleep researchers: David F Dinges and Jim Horne. The popular understanding that sleep debt can be accumulated indefinitely (over 20 hours) is clearly wrong and not accepted by the scientists. However, some feel that there is a sleep debt that can amount to under 20 hours. I think it is worth keeping this article in Wikipedia, but it should be apparent that sleep debt is not fully acknowledged by the medical establishment. Carax June 25, 2005

 * The article doesn't present this debate; it only gives one point of view, and presents as facts this set of ideas which as a whole do not seem to be very widely accepted. --Mysidia (talk) 03:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Found a copy of Jim Horne's portion of the Sleep article, present here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/pubsumsb.htm#number12

Why should scientific evidence be the only acceptable evidence? If we are going to talk about Neutrality, then in a world where the majority of it's population believes in some form of faith, should we accept more than scientific evidence as proof? Or less? Perhaps "scientific evidence" is but one type of evidence, or not evidence at all?
 * Certainly this is a joke. Evidence IS scientific or it isn't evidence at all. The article can sputter all day about what the widely-held belief is, but it shouldn't make the claim that anything it says is factual or proven, only that it is a widely-held belief. A scant few hundred years ago, most people believed the Sun went around the Earth, but that didn't make it true. NPOV doesn't mean you give up all your intellectual standards.

The link above to "a copy of Jim Horne's portion of the Sleep article" now gives a 404. It would be valuable if someone could find the whole debate online! Thanks --Hordaland (talk) 21:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Scientific Backing
A quick Google Scholar search for "sleep debt" reveals a number of relevant scientific studies. Perhaps some of these could be referenced.

"Typically, for every two hours awake, the average person accumulates a little more than one hour of sleep debt."
Isn't that just a more confusing way to say the average person needs 8 hours of sleep per 24-hour day?
 * Generally in life, and especially scientific research you use the smallest common denominator. You don't say 12/24ths you say 1/2.
 * Well, actually I'd say that this is a better way of saying that approaches such as biphasic and polyphasic sleep are legitimate in some respects. That is, you don't necessarily need 8 hours of sleeping in a single block, which is implied when most people say such. Usurper 05:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it isnt a more confusing way. It says something else entirely. A little more than one hour- not one hour exactly. This tiny difference might mean 9 or 10 hours of sleep, but definitely more than 8.

Neutrality and Contradiction
I just read the article, looking specifically for NPOV and contradicting arguments, and found neither. Furthermore, both tags tell me to check the talk page, and there is NOTHING about it. Can someone remove these tags? Obviously nobody has cared enough to lodge their complaint about POV or Contradictory statements, so the tags should be removed.

 * I don't think it needs the NPOV tag in its current state. --Sydius (talk) 15:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

 * They keep popping up between versions, depending on who edits the page. I think it's safer to keep up the neutrality warning in case more pseudoscience makes its way back into the article. However, I just spent a few minutes weeding out the most obvious contradictions and pseudoscience so have taken down the POV warning and added a stub marker. If the article reverts back to its earlier state, I think the POV warning should go back up.

 * It seems to me that the POV issues of this article lie in the presentation of a clearly debatable topic as scientific fact. The article appears almost as an ongoing debate between a proponent and a critic of the theory. In short, this is just a poorlly written article. If someone want to undertake the task, I suggest a dramatic rewrite of the article as a whole, stressing citation of primary literature. Don't look at me though, I'm too lazy to even sign in right now. On that note, please sign your comments with " ~ " - User:Shaggorama 09:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

 * If someone's willing to do the legwork (I don't have time right now), Dr. William C. Dement (yep, that's his real name) at Stanford Medical School has done a vast amount of pioneering research on sleep during his career. He taught an extremely popular undergraduate course when I was there called Sleep and Dreams, and I know that he's done research on sleep debt, though I haven't read any of it in depth, and given his clear authority on the subject, I'm sure his publications would be an excellent resource for this article for anyone willing to dig around a little.  Here's his bio: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Dement/ " ~ " - User:mmurdock 18 July, 2007

Sentence removed
"Some also suggest that the quality of sleep can have an effect on the level of one's sleep debt." was removed from the article today. It is probably true, and a source should be found. (The worse your apnea, the longer you sleep and the sleepier you are in the daytime.) --Hordaland (talk) 23:40, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Remove or Modify Section?
''In one study, subjects were tested using the psychomotor vigilance task (Von Dongen et al., 2003, as cited in Walker, 2009). Different groups of people were tested with variable sleep times for two weeks: 8 hours, 6 hours, 4 hours, and total sleep deprivation. Each day they were tested for the number of lapses on the PVT. The results showed that as time went by, each group's performance worsened, with no sign of any stopping point. Another observation was that even just 6 hours of sleep a night was detrimental; people who slept 6 hours a night for 10 days had similar results to those who were completely sleep deprived for 1 day. This study gives further evidence of sleep debt, where the negative effects are shown to accumulate over time with less sleep.''

I think this section needs to be removed or have one or more additional citations added. The only citation on this entire paragraph is currently a lecture given to an undergraduate class at a university. However, there's no real way to actually verify the content. I think it would be much better if the actual study could be cited, rather than a lecture that purportedly included this information. Bobman52 (talk) 22:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Might it be this one? http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1446-9235.2003.00006.x/full  --Hordaland (talk) 01:40, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

What's more, it's not even clear what the section means: do all three groups (8/6/4 hours of sleep) decline in performance as time goes by? If so, why is this notable? If not, what's the difference between the three groups? Piojo (talk) 03:33, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Grand Tour program

Comments
I labelled my own work "controversial" because I know some people will dissent from my characterization of the Voyager program. Some of my sources describe the program as a scaled-back version of the Grand Tour. Others describe it as an extension of the older Mariner program that incorporated some Grand Tour features. I don't have the background to have a strong opinion on the issue -- I just wanted a Planetary Grand Tour stub so I could write a proper Grand Tour disambiguation page. I'll leave it to people who know the history of space exploration to thrash it out.---Isaac R 20:46, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looks like there is no controversy. I removed the Controversial tag. --Xyzzyplugh 06:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Category?
How and where can we categorize this thing? Hbdragon88 05:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Map?
Could we get a map of how the planets were set up at the time of the beginning of the Voyager missions. That would help a lot. 71.102.144.27 08:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Solar Grand Tour?
hi, does anyone know about a solar grand tour for all planets in the solar system? I know, that thisis reeeeally difficult and will take long time, but this question is rather a hypothetical one and whether or not this has been reflected about. greets, --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 22:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I know nothing specific, but the guy who figured out gravity assist had sequences "a hundred planets long" and said "there was no limit" (BBC's "Voyager - To the final Frontier"). --91.10.62.197 (talk) 11:29, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

 * Check out Interplanetary Transport Network. Essentially, it is possible to get from Sun-Earth's point to almost any place in the solar system with very low energy cost (but very long transfer times). --92.76.197.111 (talk) 15:31, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

What differences between Voyagers and original GT probes
Apart from possible lack of redundancy, how did the Voyager craft (or missions) differ from the proposed GT probes ? - Rod57 (talk) 01:06, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * They didn't. Not one whit. Except for Pluto, Voyager 2 did he whole schmeerEricl (talk) 22:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

scope of this article
I'm confused. Is this article supposed to be about a specific NASA program, proposed in the '60s and cancelled in December 1971? Or is this article about the concept of a Grand Tour of the planets, fulfilled by Voyager? The text of the article suggests the former, but the image (i.e. diagram of the trajectories of Voyager 1 and 2) suggests the latter. I would suggest that NASA's 2016 "grand tour" poster would be more appropriate for the lead image:            Mathew5000 (talk) 11:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

images used in this article
Instead of using File:Voyager Path.svg I would suggest using the image from JPL's 1969 Annual Report (at page 34 of the electronic version, page 32 of the paper version), captioned "Possible trajectory for multiple-planet Grand Tour mission during 1976–82". A similar diagram appears here:. The point is that this article should be illustrated by a diagram showing Pluto, which originally was to be included in the Grand Tour. Mathew5000 (talk) 12:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:The New Yankee Workshop

Untitled
I created this article so that there would be a wiki-link for the Norm Abram article as there was for the This Old House article also cited in the Norm article.

I am regarded in woodworking circles as somewhat of a Norm authority, having taped all of the (New Yankee Workshop) shows, chronicled all the tools used, and posted them on a website.

The second link is my Norm site, but I did not create this article for the purposes of promoting the site. It is simply the most thorough compilation of episode information and tool use available. My site is non-commercial and I gain nothing by having it listed here. LRod 216.76.216.78 20:46, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't think it's bad if someone links to their site as long as the article is kosher.--Gbleem 02:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I the use of the terms "neanderthals" and "galoots" common among all woodworkers or just those using a particular Internet mailing list? --Gbleem 02:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I had the honor of meeting Norm at a show in Chicago a few years ago. According to him, the show is usually filmed in one 9 hour take (unless more time is necessary for drying or other reasons, of course). He usually works alone, and he makes the example piece the day before the shoot. He also claims that the show's biggest demographic is young children. --66.134.227.18 07:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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Episode List
I went ahead and put together the start of an episode list.

Since I don't have a Wikipedia account I can't create new pages. It may make sense to split this list out into a new page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.104.251 (talk) 01:37, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

The links have changed : http://www.newyankee.com/index.php?id=53#!/~/category/id=1855063&offset=0&sort=normal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.200.44 (talk) 04:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Additional Criticism?
I recall hearing stories about how Norm Abram used to use Japanese power tools, only to be ripped on about it considering it was called the New YANKEE Workshop. Anyone know anything about it? Can it be added into the criticism section? - 66.92.0.62 (talk) 23:43, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

 * The whole "criticism" section is unsourced and dodgy at best. It needs to be sourced or removed. Proxy User (talk) 09:55, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

The links to each of the projects are now 404. Some other outfit has purchased the rights to newyankeeworkshop.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.71.1.1 (talk) 00:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Project page links no longer appear to work...
...based on sample of some (Season 18, Router 101, etc.).
 * 2012-09-29: same experience, sampled several seasons. The website seems to have been reorganised. 99.120.130.167 (talk) 23:09, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

I clicked on the link for the New Yankee web site and the drawings/episodes for the projects can be found there. 63.87.61.54 (talk) 02:50, 15 February 2013 (UTC)chefantwon

A recommendation on the project links.
I got curious and looked at the site. The project links could be updated, but they would be rather unappealing for such a long list. Not to mention that there are 250+ URLs one would have to collect/crawl. An example of the link to Project 101 before and after the site was changed.
 * http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct.php?101
 * http://www.newyankee.com/index.php?id=53#!/~/product/id=7916460

Search still works, so I recommend the removal of all "Project Page" columns from all those tables. Just don't know how to, and I consider that a major edit. Xannon (talk) 13:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

 * They should probably be removed since their primary purpose is to hawk recordings of the show. We could use them as sources for episode summaries, however, in which case they'd be preferably stuck in footnotes. It just makes me uncomfortable to be using these links at all, though, given their commercial nature. —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 05:49, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Split ep list
I'm proposing that we split the Episodes section off into a new article called List of The New Yankee Workshop episodes. This is a fairly common practice among Wikipedia articles on TV series, especially ones lasting more than a dozen episodes. Relevant guidelines include MOS:TV and WP:SAL. While I'm not certain that the content of the section is enough to merit a list at this point, it is extensive enough to make this article rather excessively long. Plus it should be easy enough to flesh out, given the project links we have included. —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 05:46, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The article is not so long that a split is required at this time. Generally, articles work better if they are not split. Given the length of time the tag has been up, I am removing it. Op47 (talk) 00:21, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Episode listing error corrected
I found this page while trying to find out in which episode Norm described his original router table (the one whose revised version was shown later in S15E01). After more research I found that it belonged as episode 813 (season 8, ep 13), which the article had listed as "Tap Table" which is actually a 20th season episode 0813 (2008, episode 13). The official production numbering schemes changed several times over the run of the show so I guess the confusion was understandable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.80.214.118 (talk) 11:38, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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Stomachic

Stomachic is a historic term for a medicine that serves to tone the stomach, improving its function and increase appetite. While many herbal remedies claim stomachic effects, modern pharmacology does not have an equivalent term for this type of action.

Herbs with putative stomachic effects include:
 * Agrimony
 * Aloe
 * Anise
 * Avens (Geum urbanum)
 * Barberry
 * Bitterwood (Picrasmaa excelsa)
 * Cannabis
 * Cayenne
 * Centaurium
 * Cleome
 * Colombo (herb) (Frasera carolinensis)
 * Dandelion
 * Elecampane
 * Ginseng
 * Goldenseal
 * Grewia asiatica (Phalsa or Falsa)
 * Hops
 * Holy thistle
 * Juniper berry
 * Mint
 * Mugwort
 * Oregano
 * Peach bark
 * Rhubarb
 * White mustard seeds
 * Rose hips
 * Rue
 * Sweet flag (Acorus calamus)
 * Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

The purported stomachic mechanism of action of these substances is to stimulate the appetite by increasing the gastric secretions of the stomach; however, the actual therapeutic value of some of these compounds is dubious. Some other important agents used are:
 * Bitters: used to stimulate the taste buds, thus producing reflex secretion of gastric juices. Quassia, Aristolochia, gentian, and chirata are commonly used.
 * Alcohol: increases gastric secretion by direct action and also by the reflex stimulation of taste buds.
 * Miscellaneous compounds: including insulin which increases the gastric secretion by producing hypoglycemia, and histamine, which produces direct stimulation of gastric glands.

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Portuguese Socialist Party

The Portuguese Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Português) was a Portuguese political party.

The party was founded in 1875. During its initial phase, it was heavily influenced by Proudhonism and rejected revolutionary Marxism. In 1919 the leftwing of the party broke away (that group would merge with anarcho-syndicalists to form the Portuguese Maximalist Federation, which became the Portuguese Communist Party). The Socialist Party lacked mass support. The trade union movement was led by anarchists and was not affiliated with the socialist International Federation of Trade Unions.

The party claimed a membership of 2,500 as of 1925. It published the biweekly Heraldo. It had an educational and workers' sport organization, with a membership of 3,000. The headquarters of the party were located in Lisbon.

The party won two seats in the parliamentary elections of 1911, 1912, 1915 and 1925.

The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between March 1925 and 1933.

After the military coup of May 1926, the Socialist Party was the only tolerated political party. Initially the party adopted a passive tactic towards the military dictatorship. The party sharply distanced itself from the republic uprising in February 1927. The national conference of 1930 decided that the party should openly cooperate with the government. One of the main leaders of the party at the time, Ramado Curto, was commissioned by the government to formulate a labour code. From 1930 he worked with the reformist trade unions in the corporativist National Economic Committee. After the establishment of Estado Novo by António de Oliveira Salazar in March 1933 the party was banned. The party responded by dissolving itself.

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Acid value

In chemistry, acid value (AV, acid number, neutralization number or acidity) is a number used to quantify the acidity of a given chemical substance. It is the quantity of base (usually potassium hydroxide (KOH)), expressed as milligrams of KOH required to neutralize the acidic constituents in 1 gram of a sample. The acid value measures the acidity of water-insoluble substances like oils, fats, waxes and resins, which do not have a pH value.

The acid number is a measure of the number of carboxylic acid groups (\sC(\dO)OH) in a chemical compound, such as a fatty acid, or in a mixture of compounds. In other words, it is a measure of free fatty acids (FFAs) present in a substance. In a typical procedure, a known amount of sample dissolved in an organic solvent (often isopropanol) and titrated with a solution of alcoholic potassium hydroxide (KOH) of known concentration using phenolphthalein as a colour indicator. The acid number for an oil sample is indicative of the age of the oil and can be used to determine when the oil must be changed.

A liquid fat sample combined with neutralized 95% ethanol is titrated with standardized sodium hydroxide of 0.1 eq/L normality to a phenolphthalein endpoint. The volume and normality of the sodium hydroxide are used, along with the weight of the sample, to calculate the free fatty acid value.

Acid value is usually measured as milligrams of KOH per gram of sample (mg KOH/g fat/oil), or grams of KOH per gram of sample (g KOH/g fat/oil).

Calculations
For example, for analysis of crude oil:

 * $$AV=(V_{eq}-b_{eq})N\frac{\text{56.1 g/mol}}{W_\text{oil}}$$

 * Where KOH is the titrant, wherease crude oil is the titrand.
 * $Veq$ is the volume of titrant (ml) consumed by the crude oil sample and 1 ml of spiking solution at the equivalent point,
 * $beq$ is the volume of titrant (ml) consumed by 1 ml of spiking solution at the equivalent point,
 * 56.1 g/mol is the molecular weight of KOH,
 * $Woil$ is the mass of the sample in grams.

The normality (N) of titrant is calculated as:

 * $$N = \frac{1000 \times W_\text{KHP}}{\text{204.23 g/mol } \times V_{eq}}$$

 * Where $WKHP$ is the mass (g) of potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP) in 50 ml of KHP standard solution,
 * $Veq$ is the volume of titrant (ml) consumed by 50 ml KHP standard solution at the equivalent point,
 * 204.23 g/mol is the molecular weight of KHP.

Applications
An increment in the amount of FFAs in a fat or oil sample indicates hydrolysis of triglycerides. Such reaction occurs by the action of lipase enzyme and it is an indicator of inadequate processing and storage conditions. The source of the enzyme can be the tissue from which the oil or fat was extracted or it can be a contaminant from other cells including microorganisms.

For determining the acid value of mineral oils and biodiesel, there are standard methods such as ASTM D 974 and DIN 51558, and especially for biodiesel the European Standard EN 14104 and ASTM D664 are both widely used worldwide. Acid value of biodiesel should be lower than 0.50 mg KOH/g in both EN 14214 and ASTM D6751 standard fuels. This is because the FFAs produced can corrode automotive parts, hence these limits protect vehicle engines and fuel tanks.

Low acid value indicates good cleansing by soap.

When oils and fats become rancid, triglycerides are converted into fatty acids and glycerol, causing an increase in acid value. A similar situation is observed during aging of biodiesel through analogous oxidation and when subjected to prolonged high temperatures (ester thermolysis) or through exposure to acids or bases (acid/base ester hydrolysis).

Transesterification of waste cooking oil, having high acid value and high water content, can be performed using heteropolyacids such as dodecatungstophosphoric acid (PW12) as a catalyst.

In 2007, Sahoo et al. made biodiesel consisting of mono-esters of polanga oil extract of the plant Calophyllum inophyllum produced by triple stage transesterification and blended with high speed diesel, which was then tested for its use as a diesel substitute in a single cylinder diesel engine.

Testing
Total acidity, fatty acid profiles, and free fatty acids (FFAs) can be determined for oils such as sunflower and soybean oils obtained by green processes involving supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) and pressurized liquid extraction (PLE). The identification and separation of the primary fatty acids responsible for acidity can ensure higher quality of fat and oil products.

In 2020, Dallas Group of America (DGA) and American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) devised a standard method (5a-40) for testing free fatty acid in cooking oils. The DGA has produced a simplified test kit based on the 5a-40 test method.

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User talk:Andrewspencer

Have re-edited the article and placed sources of information regarding each of the claims made in the article. Edit some of the bias towards Dzogchen out.

cluetrain
Would you like to help me clean up The Cluetrain Manifesto? I merged the website page the cluetrain manifesto with the concept page cluetrain into a new book page The Cluetrain Manifesto. I've read the website (a couple of years ago), but not the book. Uncle Ed 14:36, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Cluetrain Help
Yes would be good to get some help here. I have been involved in other pages and have not noticed what has been happening here. Thanks. --andyman 09:20, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

NetSuite
Hi, can you please comment on the NetSuite talk page. User:Sleepnoremore is stating incorrectly that I have added the section about 24SevenOffice. --Sleepyhead81 15:08, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppets
Sleepyhead, please do not enlist the help of sockpuppets on this issue. This only shows that you did in fact enlist other's help to market your product on Wikipedia in the first place. - Sleepnomore 16:17, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

NetSuite
This article still has NPOV issues. "The very way in which NetSuite pulls everything together for your business into the one platform could be seen to be a high risk -- what if the platform goes down, is attacked, or the company running the services is bankrupted?" is one of the most blatant examples. It needs a bunch of work. Reading the article more closely, it seems to be attacking NetSuite more than advertising for them. I know that you have battled over this article in the past and removed an NPOV tag before, but I am putting one back in. NPOV doesn't mean including strong opinions for and strong opinions against, it means providing neutral information. —WAvegetarian• CONTRIBUTIONS TALK • EMAIL • 10:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

VisionGateway, Inc.
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I possibly didn't flesh this out enough before entering this on the site. andyman 02:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

oppose
Hi, If you really meant to vote"oppose" in the poll Attribution/Poll, you put your vote in the wrong column! Mention this to anyone else whose vote looks displaced. linas 05:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

NetSuite
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Sechura Desert

The Sechura Desert is a coastal desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru along the Pacific coast and inland to the foothills of the Andes Mountains. Its extreme aridity is caused by the upwelling of cold coastal waters and subtropical atmospheric subsidence, but it is also subject to occasional flooding during El Niño years. In 1728, the town of Sechura was destroyed by a tsunami and was later rebuilt in its present location. In 1998, runoff from flooding rivers caused the formation of a temporary lake some 145 km long filling the Bayóvar Depression. Short rivers flowing across the desert from the Andes support intensive irrigation-based agriculture.

Location and extent
Within Peru, the desert is described as the strip along the northern Pacific coast of Peru in the southern Piura and western Lambayeque regions, and extending from the coast 20. – inland to the secondary ridges of the Andes Mountains. At its northern end near the city of Piura, the Sechura Desert transitions to the Tumbes–Piura dry forests ecoregion. Including much of eastern Lambayeque Region, this habitat is composed of equatorial dry forests. The total area of the Sechura Desert is 5000. sqkm.

History
While a desert, the Sechura has been subject to flooding from rivers and to storms driven in from the Pacific Ocean. In 1728, a tsunami generated from an earthquake swept inland, destroying the town of Sechura, then located closer to the water. Survivors moved inland and re-established the town in its current location.

During El Niño years, flooding in the desert regularly occurs. In 1998, the runoff from the flooding rivers poured into the coastal Sechura Desert. Where there had been nothing but arid, hardscrabble waste for 15 years, suddenly, the second-largest lake in Peru had developed: 90. mi long, 20. mi wide, and 10. ft deep, with occasional parched domes of sand and clay poking up from the surface.

Climate
The Peruvian Desert has a low range of temperature changes due to the moderating effect of the nearby Pacific Ocean. Because of the upwelling of cold coastal waters and subtropical atmospheric subsidence, the desert is one of the most arid on Earth.

Summer (December through March) is warm and sunny with temperatures above 35 C during the day, and temperatures that average over 24 C. In the winter (June through September) the weather is cool and cloudy with temperatures that vary from 16 C at night to 30 C during the day.

Geography
The Bayóvar Depression, which is the lowest point in Peru and all of the Southern Tropics, is located in this desert.

The numerous short rivers that cross the Sechura supported prehistoric indigenous human settlements for millennia. A number of urban cultures flourished here, including the Moche. The Moche survived on a diet of fish, guinea pigs, camelids, squash, and peanuts. The Sican Culture (circa 800–1300 CE) succeeded the Moche, and developed refined techniques of lost wax goldsmithing.

Today, the rivers support intensive irrigated agriculture on the fertile bottomlands. Two of Peru's five largest cities, including Piura and Chiclayo, lie within the agricultural region in the north.

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City and County of St. John

City and County of St. John was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917.

History
Originally, Saint John had a special setup for representation in Parliament. The City of Saint John itself returned one member, and the entire County of Saint John (including the city) returned one as well, and two between 1872 and 1896. In effect, the city itself had two or even three Members of Parliament. This practice continued until 1914.

After 1914, the counties of Saint John and Albert were joined, and the riding was known as St. John—Albert. It returned two Members of Parliament until 1935. In 1966, Albert County was moved to the Fundy—Royal riding and the district became known as Saint John—Lancaster. Saint John—Lancaster riding was abolished in the redistribution of ridings of 1976, and Saint John riding was created.

Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

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Talk:Kerio

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I don't think anyone in their right mind would would type in "Kerio River" if they're looking for Kerio Technologies. This just looks like an advertisement.

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Wikipedia talk:Cleanup Taskforce/closed

 * The procedure for closing a task is listed on Cleanup Taskforce/closed.

Closing tasks
Er...I'm quite pleased with how Phosphorus cycle was improved. What is the protocol for closing a task—should I, as the nominator, close it? Or is it closed by the one whose desk it is on? And what does it mean to move it to "/closed"? — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:22, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess it's closed once you've done the thing the nominator asked you to do, or once no other taskforce member can help anymore. If you, as the nominator are pleased with it's improvement, I think it can be closed safely. Mgm|(talk) 08:32, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup Taskforce/Phosphorus cycle accuracy to Cleanup Taskforce/Closed/Phosphorus cycle accuracy, write on that page that it's closed (with a signature), and remove it from every desk it's on by checking Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Closed/Phosphorus cycle accuracy. r3m0t talk 10:06, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Correction: move the link from Cleanup Taskforce to Cleanup Taskforce/closed, and remove it from every desk it's on by checking Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Phosphorus cycle accuracy. r3m0t talk 13:47, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Closed tasks procedure
I've created a page at Cleanup Taskforce/closed to list items we've finished with.

Closed tasks procedure (as I understand it):
 * 1) You've cleaned up an article that was placed on your desk. Hurrah!  Edit the page at Cleanup Taskforce/Thing you were working on to say what you've done and that you've completed it.
 * 2) Then move Cleanup Taskforce/Thing you were working on to Cleanup Taskforce /closed/ Thing you were working on (with its talk page if it has one).
 * 3) Remove the item from the list of open issues on the Taskforce page.
 * 4) Add the item to the list of closed items at Cleanup Taskforce/closed
 * 5) Remove the line from your desk (you can create a 'closed' section on your desk if you want and put a link there to Cleanup Taskforce /closed /Thing you were working on ).

If you've done all you can but there's more to do, leave the item on the open issues list and ask someone else to work on it (add it to their desk).

That seems about right to me. If we agree on this, we should probably move it to the Taskforce page or /closed. Tell me what you think. SteveW | Talk 13:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hang on - have I made this too complicated? Are we moving the page (taskforce/blah -> taskforce/closed/blah) or just the link?  Moving the link makes more sense, doesn't it otherwise we'll end up with loads of pointless redirects.  SteveW | Talk 14:17, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * If you move the link, you need to make it an absolute link - the link "/bad art" on "/closed" leads to "/closed/bad art" - so you would need to make it the full name: "Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/bad art". I would rather do this page moving (particularly remembering that page moves will work faster in 1.5). r3m0t talk 16:55, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm definitely confused now. The 'Bosnian crisis copyedit' and 'Phosphorus cycle accuracy' pages have been moved to '/closed/page title' but this isn't what we want is it?  (C.f. closed VfD votes, e.g. Votes for deletion/Chad Talbot).  I've changed the procedure above to reflect this, but can someone undo the mess I've made already?  (sorry...  My computer has decided to die to punish me, so I won't be around for a while till I get it fixed.)  SteveW | Talk 12:34, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I really don't mind moving the page even though I know that isn't the process of WP:VfD, WP:RfA etc. We need to decide one way or another, fast. r3m0t talk 14:49, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Closing Tasks
OK. I clearly am not sure what else to do here. I have cleaned up Space Interferometry Mission and it's done. I cleaned up the project page, moving it from open tasks to /closed, but I think I'm deficient in my knowledge of how to "move" a page. Some direction appreciated, and I'm afraid on this one you'll have to talk to me like I'm 12. · Katefan0(scribble) 16:58, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Finalised (maybe) closed tasks procedure
I've put the simplified closed tasks procedure on the /closed page. There is no need for page moves, just a link to the item page at Cleanup Taskforce/article needing fixing. SteveW | Talk 20:54, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Heidelberg Materials UK

Heidelberg Materials UK is a British-based building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead. Previously known as Hanson UK, the company has been a subsidiary of the German company HeidelbergCement since August 2007, and was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

History
Originally known as Hanson Trust plc, the company was built up by James Hanson, later Lord Hanson, and Gordon White, later Baron White of Hull, who created Hanson Trust out of the former Wiles Group in 1964. Their principal strategy was the pursuit of shareholder value through acquisition.

Growth through acquisition
Hanson and White were willing to take a wide range of measures to do so, including mass redundancies, and therefore attracted opposition and accusations that they were asset strippers. From 1979, the company was successful from the shareholders' point of view and respected during the early 1980s, with Hanson (who gave millions of pounds to the Conservatives) admired by Margaret Thatcher.

One of the most notable takeovers, at least to the general public, was the acquisition in 1983, of the United Drapery Stores, or UDS Group, which owned many of Britain's most well known high street clothes shops and department stores, including John Collier, Richard Shops and the chain of Allders department stores. To fund this purchase, Hanson broke up UDS and sold John Collier to a management buy out team, and Richard Shops to Habitat, keeping only the core department store business. In January 1986, Hanson bought SCM, an American chemicals to typewriters business. This included the paper division that was formerly the Allied Paper Corporation. Hanson sold most of the SCM business units and the headquarters building in New York City for a significant profit.

Its most significant single purchase, however, was probably its takeover of Imperial Tobacco Group in 1986. Hanson paid £2.5 billion for the group then undertook a major reorganisation; divestitures netted £2.3 billion, leaving Hanson with the hugely profitable tobacco business for "next to nothing." Hanson sold off the food brand, Golden Wonder, to Dalgety plc in 1986.

In November 1988, Hanson went on to buy Consolidated Gold Fields for £3.5bn. The Gold Survey was taken on by a new company, now known as GFMS. An attempt in September 1991, to purchase Imperial Chemical Industries, once seen by many in Britain as the nation's leading company but then in decline, was highly controversial, and ended in failure. Hanson did secure the takeover of Beazer, a major housebuilder, that year.

By the mid-1990s, conglomerates were no longer popular with the investment community. Some of the manufacturing businesses were spun off as US Industries in February 1995. In January 1996, Hanson ended its time as a diversified conglomerate by breaking itself up into four separate listed companies: Hanson plc, Imperial Tobacco, The Energy Group and Millennium Chemicals. This cost the group £95 million in professional fees by August 1996.

Building materials focus
Lord Hanson stepped down as chairman in December 1997. Led by Andrew Dougal, chief executive from 1997 until 2002, Hanson focused on building materials, becoming the world's biggest aggregates supplier and the second largest supplier of ready-mixed concrete. In November 1999, Hanson acquired Australian building materials business Pioneer International.

Dougal quit the group in early 2002 to "rebalance" his life, leaving with a controversially large pay-off (variously reported at between £400,000 and £660,000, plus a pension top-up of £636,700).

Acquisition by HeidelbergCement
In May 2007, HeidelbergCement announced its intent to purchase Hanson PLC for £11 per share, a deal worth approximately £8 billion. This deal made the combined company the second largest cement and building materials company in the world. The transaction was completed through Heidelberg subsidiary Lehigh UK on 22 August 2007. In December 2014, Heidelberg Cement agreed to sell its Hanson Building Products division to the private equity firm Lone Star for £900 million.

As of 2023, Hanson is planning to build a new carbon capture facility which aims to reduce the emissions from their current Padeswood cement works. The UK government chose Hanson, along with other companies, to show progress plans for carbon reducing solutions.

In October 2023, the company announced that it was rebranding as Heidelberg Materials, as part as a branding rationalisation by its parent company.

Operations
The principal markets of Heidelberg Materials UK are the major conurbations in England and Wales and the central belt of Scotland. The company supplies heavy building materials such as ready-mixed concrete, asphalt and cement to the UK construction industry.

In March 2024, residents of Glyncoch, near Pontypridd in South Wales, started a series of protests around the over-riding of the local authority's opposition to extend quarrying, by the Minister of Climate Change, Julie James. This successful appeal will allow a further 15.7 million tonnes of rock to be extracted for road surfacing and runways. The quarry operations will continue until 2047 and will come within 164 meters of schools and housing as well as destroying a community green space and a wildlife sanctuary.

The appeal report claimed that "The dust assessments concluded that the potential impacts associated with both the continuation of existing activities and the proposed extension would be slight adverse at most." and that "From all that I have seen and read there are no objections or concerns relating to landscape, visual impact, ecology, hydrology, cultural heritage, agricultural land quality impacts"

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Tantrum

A tantrum, temper tantrum, lash out, meltdown, fit, or hissy fit is an emotional outburst,  usually associated with those in emotional distress. It is typically characterized by stubbornness, crying, screaming, violence, defiance, angry ranting, a resistance to attempts at pacification, and, in some cases, hitting and other physically violent behavior. Physical control may be lost; the person may be unable to remain still; and even if the "goal" of the person is met, they may not be calmed. Throwing a temper tantrum can lead to a child getting detention or being suspended from school for older school age children, and can result in a timeout or grounding, complete with room or corner time, at home. A tantrum may be expressed in a tirade: a protracted, angry speech.

In early childhood
Tantrums are one of the most common forms of problematic behavior in young children but tend to decrease in frequency and intensity as the child gets older. For a toddler, tantrums can be considered as normal, and even as gauges of developing strength of character.

While tantrums are sometimes seen as a predictor of future anti-social behavior, in another sense they are simply an age-appropriate sign of excessive frustration, and will diminish over time given a calm and consistent handling. Parental containment where a child cannot contain themself—rather than what the child is ostensibly demanding—may be what is really required.

Selma Fraiberg warned against "too much pressure or forceful methods of control from the outside" in child-rearing: "if we turn every instance of pants changing, treasure hunting, napping, puddle wading and garbage distribution into a governmental crisis we can easily bring on fierce defiance, tantrums, and all the fireworks of revolt in the nursery".

Intellectual and developmental disorders
Some people who have developmental disorders such as autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD, and intellectual disability  or even a developmental disability, could be more vulnerable to tantrums than others, although anyone experiencing brain damage (temporary or permanent) can suffer from tantrums. Anyone may be prone to tantrums once in a while, regardless of gender or age. However, a meltdown due to sensory overload (which even neurotypical children can experience) is not the same as a temper tantrum.

Aberrations
Freud considered that the Wolf Man's development of temper tantrums was connected with his seduction by his sister: he became "discontented, irritable and violent, took offence on every possible occasion, and then flew into a rage and screamed like a savage". Freud linked the tantrums to an unconscious need for punishment driven by feelings of guilt —something which he thought could be generalised to many other cases of childhood tantrums.

Heinz Kohut contended that tantrums were rages of anger, caused by the thwarting of the infant's grandiose-exhibitionist core. The blow to the inflated self-image, when a child's wishes are (however justifiably) refused, creates fury because it strikes at the feeling of omnipotence.

Jealousy over the birth of a sibling, and resulting aggression, may also provoke negativistic tantrums, as the effort at controlling the feelings overloads the child's system of self-regulation.

In later life
Writer William Makepeace Thackeray claimed that in later life "you may tell a tantrum as far as you can see one, by the distressed and dissatisfied expression of its countenance—'Tantrumical', if we may term it so".

Heinz Kohut contended that "the baby’s core is likely to contain a self-centered, grandiose-exhibitionist part", and that "tantrums at being frustrated thus represent narcissistic rages" at the blow to the inflated self-image. With "a child confronted with some refusal ... regardless of its justifications, the refusal automatically provokes fury, since it offends his sense of omnipotence".

The willingness of the celebrity to throw tantrums whenever thwarted to the least degree is a kind of acquired situational narcissism or tantrumical behavior.

If older people show tantrums, they might often be signs of immaturity or a mental or developmental disability; and often autistic or ADHD meltdowns are incorrectly labelled tantrums. It can also occur in neurotypical people under extreme stress.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Backpack rape

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 07:13, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Backpack rape
I don't doubt that at some high schools, this interference with another student's possessions for the purpose of harassment is indeed called "backpack rape". But even if the practice itself is widespread, this term for it does not appear to be; it gets 32 unique Google hits, all of which appear to be Wikipedia mirrors or the accidental result of keyword stuffing. Delete. -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:56, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete offensive neologism. LevelCheck 21:13, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Commonly used expression, gaining in currency I'm afraid. Springmourning44 21:50, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * User's fourth edit and he/she deleted another user's vote BrokenSegue 04:45, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dictionary definition. Not wide-spread. Words are supposed to be in wide use before the article is created. Mgm|(talk) 21:51, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless article provides evidence of significant usage. Gamaliel 22:11, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. android↔talk 22:38, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. We should have a word for the violation of Wikipedia that occurs when crap like this is posted.  Postdlf 22:45, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism.  RickK 22:55, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I never heard of the term myself, since usually when people see their stuff being messed around with, the students usually respond with obscentities or "hands off, yo." Plus, rape is (IMHO) a word that should not be used lightly. Zscout370 02:19, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. As for gaining in popularity, I've never heard of it myself. And I was just thinking what the above wrote, that comparing pranksters' backpack vandalism with forceful sexual violation is rather thoughtless. Master Thief Garrett 02:23, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, if it was in widespread use, just the fact of it being a thoughtless and tasteless expression wouldn't be a reason to not report on it. I don't even doubt that it is in use somewhere.  But if it was in any sort of widespread use, you'd think there'd be at least one Google hit for it in actual use... -- Antaeus Feldspar 03:36, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * That is why the VfD is here. We have no clue where it is used (which is probably a small area), when it started or anything along those lines. Someone mentioned on other VfD's that when this or other type articles are picked up, many mirrors of Wikipedia pick it up, so this word appears on their severs. And other than those listings, there is nothing else out there. Though me and a few others agree that this is a tasteless term, we cannot include it here since it is a local term used by a term people (which is denoted by the term neologism). Zscout370 03:51, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that you'll find that Antaeus agrees with you that the article ought to be deleted, since he nominated it. He was expressing a concern that I share: you Master Thief Garrett and LevelCheck objected to this article not only because it is a neologism, but also because it is an offensive neologism. If it weren't a neologism, the fact that it is offensive would not be sufficient reason for its deletion. android↔talk 04:05, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, I just noticed that I confused your vote with Master Thief Garrett's. android↔talk 04:08, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. I also IMO find it offensive that the word "rape" has become trivialised to this extent. Megan1967 04:34, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, this is not a neologism in any real sense. It might be a tasteless term some are uncomfortable with but the truth is we use the word rape in very many contexts, which could be said to trivialize. I've heard the expression many times including on television so I doubt it is restricted to any one area or state. Walkingeagles 04:38, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Really? I've never heard it myself, and it's not on any news articles found via Google... but you could be right, maybe it is an emerging term... Master Thief Garrett 04:40, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * User's second edit BrokenSegue 04:42, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 32 Google hits for a common term among high-schoolers? Right. android↔talk 04:44, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is not a sufficiently notable practice, and even if it were, it likely would be impossible to name the article definitively.  As a recent American high school graduate, I can attest that this phenomenon has many names, most of them probably very localized.  In my high school, this practice was referred to by the verb "to nugget", and I suspect that many Wikipedians currently in high school could provide other terms for it.NatusRoma 05:11, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * By that definition, this could well be merged with "List of slang for backpack vandalism", LOL! Master Thief Garrett 05:41, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * When I was in school, we had no terms for it. Plus, this was never done! The anything that comes close to that is staff bookbag search/petty theft by the students. Zscout370 15:09, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I tried a Google search and all I got was this. And if it were not for this Wikipedia article, that page would not be exisiting. Plus, when I went down the search, all I got were support groups for rape, porn sites and other rape sites. Zscout370 15:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Where I live this is referred to as "flapjacking." Neutralitytalk 00:50, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete — offensive neologism. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:40, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 04:32, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Who cares if it's a neologism??? Just keep this article since it is interesting to know about. --SuperDude 04:46, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * WP:NOR cares. It specifically addresses neologisms as things that are not to be included in Wikipedia. android↔talk 04:50, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable neologism.   — J I P | Talk 05:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not-notable neologism. (It's also offensive, but that it is not a reason to delete) Dsmdgold 15:17, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: non-notable neologism, no real evidence presented of actual use. Jonathunder 09:00, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * delete this right away Yuckfoo 16:28, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. HS neologicruft. -- 8^D gab 19:41, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * Keep: I've heard the term used, although not many times. I think it has potential. YPK 11:54, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC) This unsigned vote is actually by, who has 15 edits. (YPK here, didn't have an account before. How do you sign a vote?)
 * Use four tildes ( ~ ) to sign both your name and date. You can use just three to sign your name alone, but it's preferable to have the date on a Vfd vote to see the chronological flow. Anyway, please enjoy your time with us! Master Thief Garrett 07:31, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems noteworthy and rather informative. i have been a backpack rape victim before. 68.190.40.38 01:50, 1 May 2005 (UTC)  This is the first of 's three edits, all to VFDs.

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


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talent on loan from God

Delete: This phrase should be discussed in the Rush Limbaugh page itself, and in a npov manner at that. --Zantastik 20:57, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this entirely POV, unencylopedic article. - Jersyko 22:33, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Unless anybody can think of anyone else associated with this phrase, redirect (and merge if it's cleaned up from the present version) to Rush Limbaugh. Samaritan 22:35, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:William Davidson (lumberman)

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Additions, corrections or comments much appreciated. Polycarp ( a descendant of William Davidson's brother)

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Kent (New Brunswick federal electoral district)

Kent was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867.

It consisted of the County of Kent. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Northumberland—Miramichi and Westmorland—Kent ridings.

Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following members of Parliament:


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Grand Tour (disambiguation)

The Grand Tour is a tour of European cultural centres that once was a standard feature of the education of the European elite.

Grand Tour may also refer to:

Music

 * Grand Tour (Big Big Train album)
 * The Grand Tour (album), 1974 album by George Jones
 * The Grand Tour, a 1993 album by Aaron Neville
 * "The Grand Tour" (song), title track from Jones' 1974 album
 * The Grand Tour (musical), a 1979 Broadway musical
 * Grand Tour, a 1959 musical with music by David Shire
 * Grand Tour: The Classic, a 2013 Asian live concert tour of South Korean boyband Shinhwa
 * Grand Tour: The Return, a 2012 Asian live concert tour of South Korean boyband Shinhwa

Other entertainment

 * Grand Tour (novel series) (1985–2017), series of science fiction novels by Ben Bova
 * Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, a 1992 science fiction film (a.k.a. Timescape)
 * The Grand Tour, a British motoring television series
 * The Grand Tour Game, a 2019 video game

Other uses

 * Grand Tour (cycling), collective term given to three European cycling races
 * Grand Tour (data visualisation), a technique used to explore multivariate statistical data
 * Grand Tour program, NASA mission that visited the outer planets
 * Corris Railway Grand Tour, tourist service in Wales between 1886 and 1930, connecting the Corris and Talyllyn Railways

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King's (New Brunswick federal electoral district)

King's was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1904.

It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It was abolished in 1903 when it was merged into King's and Albert riding. It consisted of the County of King's.

Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Election results
By-election: On election being declared void

By-election: On Mr. Foster's acceptance of the office of Minister of Marine and Fisheries