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User:Imagist

I'm a relatively new Wikipedian with interests in technology, science, martial arts, and literature. Although my main area of expertise is in computer science, the Wikipedia community seems to be pretty far ahead of me on that, so I plan to add content related to literature and language, particularly on the books I've read.

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Frank Rosenblatt

Frank Rosenblatt (July 11, 1928 – July 11, 1971) was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence. He is sometimes called the father of deep learning for his pioneering work on artificial neural networks.

Life and career
Rosenblatt was born into a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York as the son of Dr. Frank and Katherine Rosenblatt.

After graduating from The Bronx High School of Science in 1946, he attended Cornell University, where he obtained his A.B. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1956.

He then went to Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York, where he was successively a research psychologist, senior psychologist, and head of the cognitive systems section. This is also where he conducted the early work on perceptrons, which culminated in the development and hardware construction of the Mark I Perceptron in 1960. This was essentially the first computer that could learn new skills by trial and error, using a type of neural network that simulates human thought processes.

Rosenblatt's research interests were exceptionally broad. In 1959 he went to Cornell's Ithaca campus as director of the Cognitive Systems Research Program and also as a lecturer in the Psychology Department. In 1966 he joined the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior within the newly formed Division of Biological Sciences, as associate professor. Also in 1966, he became fascinated with the transfer of learned behavior from trained to naive rats by the injection of brain extracts, a subject on which he would publish extensively in later years. In 1970 he became field representative for the Graduate Field of Neurobiology and Behavior, and in 1971 he shared the acting chairmanship of the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior. Frank Rosenblatt died in July 1971 on his 43rd birthday, in a boating accident in Chesapeake Bay.

Perceptron
Rosenblatt was best known for the Perceptron, an electronic device which was constructed in accordance with biological principles and showed an ability to learn. Rosenblatt's perceptrons were initially simulated on an IBM 704 computer at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in 1957. When a triangle was held before the perceptron's eye, it would pick up the image and convey it along a random succession of lines to the response units, where the image was registered.

He developed and extended this approach in numerous papers and a book called Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms, published by Spartan Books in 1962. He received international recognition for the Perceptron. The New York Times billed it as a revolution, with the headline "New Navy Device Learns By Doing", and The New Yorker similarly admired the technological advancement.

Rosenblatt proved four main theorems. The first theorem states that elementary perceptrons can solve any classification problem if there are no discrepancies in the training set (and sufficiently many independent A-elements). The fourth theorem states convergence of learning algorithm if this realisation of elementary perceptron can solve the problem.

Research on comparable devices was also being done in other places such as SRI, and many researchers had big expectations on what they could do. The initial excitement became somewhat reduced, though, when in 1969 Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published the book "Perceptrons". Minsky and Papert considered elementary perceptrons with restrictions on the neural inputs: a bounded number of connections or a relatively small diameter of A-units receptive fields. They proved that under these constraints, an elementary perceptron cannot solve some problems, such as the connectivity of input images or the parity of pixels in them. Thus, Rosenblatt proved omnipotence of the unrestricted elementary perceptrons, whereas Minsky and Papert demonstrated that abilities of perceptrons with restrictions are limited. These results are not in contradictions but the Minsky and Papert book was widely (and wrongly) cited as the proof of strong limitations of perceptrons. (For detailed elementary discussion of the first Rosenblatt's theorem and its relation to Minsky and Papert work we refer to a recent note. )

After research on neural networks returned to the mainstream in the 1980s, new researchers started to study Rosenblatt's work again. This new wave of study on neural networks is interpreted by some researchers as being a contradiction of hypotheses presented in the book Perceptrons, and a confirmation of Rosenblatt's expectations.

The Mark I Perceptron, which is generally recognized as a forerunner to artificial intelligence, currently resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The Mark I was able to learn, recognize letters, and solve quite complex problems.

Principles of Neurodynamics (1962)

Rosenblatt's book Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms, published by Spartan Books in 1962, summarized his work on perceptrons at the time. The book is divided into four parts. The first gives an historical review of alternative approaches to brain modeling, the physiological and psychological considerations, and the basic definitions and concepts of the perceptron approach. The second covers three-layer series-coupled perceptrons: the mathematical underpinnings, performance results in psychological experiments, and a variety of perceptron variations. The third covers multi-layer and cross-coupled perceptrons, and the fourth back-coupled perceptrons and problems for future study.

Rosenblatt used the book to teach an interdisciplinary course entitled "Theory of Brain Mechanisms" that drew students from Cornell's Engineering and Liberal Arts colleges.

Rat brain experiments
Around the late 1960s, Rosenblatt began experiments within the Cornell Department of Entomology on the transfer of learned behavior via rat brain extracts. Rats were taught discrimination tasks such as Y-maze and two-lever Skinner box. Then their brains were extracted, and the extracts and their antibodies were injected into untrained rats that were subsequently tested in the discrimination tasks to determine whether or not there was behavior transfer from the trained to the untrained rats. Rosenblatt spent his last several years on this problem and showed convincingly that the initial reports of larger effects were wrong and that any memory transfer was at most very small.

Astronomy
Rosenblatt also had a serious research interest in astronomy and proposed a new technique to detect the presence of stellar satellites. He built an observatory on a hilltop behind his house in Brooktondale about 6 miles east of Ithaca. When construction on the observatory was completed, Rosenblatt began an intensive study on SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). He also studied photometry and developed a technique for "detecting low-level laser signals against a relatively intense background of non-coherent light".

Politics
Rosenblatt was very active in liberal politics. He worked in the Eugene McCarthy primary campaigns for president in New Hampshire and California in 1968 and in a series of Vietnam protest activities in Washington.

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, presents annually a IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award.

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Initial comments
Should this not be merged with Fair trade? In most of the world, the goals of the trade justice movement are referred to as 'fair trade'. This is in contrast to the UK, where 'fair trade' refers specifically to fairtrade labelling. TreveXtalk 19:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

I just moved everything written on the Fair Trade page that had to do with Trade Justice here. Hope that clarifies the situation a little... there's still a lot of cleaning to do on this page though. Bonner5 20:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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Added a citation/ Need to reword sentences in Issues part
I just added a citation for a paragraph in Issues part. I also added quotation mark for the sentences because I found exactly the same sentences in the article I cited. However, I think that the citation is too long and violate the Wikipedia policy, so the sentences need to be paraphrased and changed. Himawari.babybreath (talk) 06:52, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

criticism of?
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Trio Töykeät

Trio Töykeät (founded in 1988) was a Finnish jazz trio. Their music ranges from humorous ragtimes to sentimental waltzes. Their playing style is often rhythmic, energetic and virtuosic. The group disbanded in 2008.

Members

 * Iiro Rantala – piano
 * Rami Eskelinen – drums
 * Eerik Siikasaari – double bass

Releases

 * Päivää (1990)
 * G'day (1993) (international re-release of Päivää)
 * Jazzlantis (1995)
 * Rappiolla (1997)
 * Sisu (1997)
 * Kudos (2000)
 * Music! (2002)
 * High Standards (2003)
 * Wake (2005)
 * One Night in Tampere (2007)

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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (operas)

 * The name of the opera should be in its original language except:
 * When the opera is commonly known in English-speaking nations by another title (i.e. The Marriage of Figaro).
 * When the opera's full original title is widely known in an abbreviated form (i.e. I Lombardi).
 * Capitalization
 * See Naming conventions (capitalization).
 * Following the style used in the most recent editions of New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera and The Viking Opera Guide is usually unproblematic.
 * Disambiguation
 * In order to avoid ambiguity, the word opera is added to the title in parentheses, so for example Macbeth (opera) refers to the work by Verdi to distinguish it from Macbeth which is the play by Shakespeare.
 * If there are two (or more) operas with the same title, the second (and subsequent) works take the name(s) of the composer(s) in parentheses, so for example Otello (Rossini) is differentiated from the more famous opera of Verdi which is simply Otello.

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Michael J. Garanzini

Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. (born September 24, 1948, in Saint Louis, Missouri) is an American priest in the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as President of both the International Association of Jesuit Universities and the US-based Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. From 2001 until 2015, Garanzini served as the twenty-third President of Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

Biography
Garanzini graduated from Saint Louis University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1971, the same year that he entered the Society of Jesus. After spending years around the country and in Rome during his training and early years as a Jesuit, Garanzini received a doctorate in psychology and religion in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later that year, he returned to Saint Louis University, teaching as an associate professor of psychology and later serving as academic vice president. Garanzini was invited to Fordham University to serve as a visiting professor of counseling in 1998, and went on to work at Georgetown University until his presidency at Loyola. He has also taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and at Regis College (now Regis University) in Denver.

Garanzini is the author of The Attachment Cycle: An Object Relations Approach to the Healing Ministries (1988), Meeting the Needs of Dysfunctional Families (1993), Child-Centered Schools: An Educator's Guide to Family Dysfunction (1995).

Garanzini previously served as a member of the Fairfield University Board of Trustees.

On July 1, 2015, Garanzini accepted appointment to the Chicago Board of Education.

Loyola University Chicago
During Garanzini's tenure as president of Loyola University Chicago, he has brought the university out of debt in a few years. He has also initiated construction projects on both of Loyola's city campuses.

In 2015, Garanzini announced his intention to step down after fourteen years of leading Loyola. He intended to remain as chancellor, an advisory role to the president focused on matters of mission and institutional advancement.

Awards
Garanzini was inducted as a laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the governor of Illinois in 2018.

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Margaret Ringenberg

Margaret Ringenberg (née Ray; June 17, 1921 – July 28, 2008) was an American aviator, who had logged more than 40,000 hours of flying time during her career.

Career and accomplishments
She became interested in flying as an eight-year-old when she saw a barnstormer land in a field near her family's farm. She trained at a flight training school and had her first solo flight in 1941 as a 19-year-old. Ringenberg began her aviation career in 1943 during World War II when she became a ferry pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Although WASP pilots were not allowed to fly combat missions, they served grueling, often dangerous duties, such as ferrying, test flying, and target towing. The WASP corps was disbanded at the end of 1944. Ringenberg went on to become a flight instructor in 1945 and flew as a commercial pilot and instructor for the rest of her life. After the war, she answered phones at an airport.

She began racing airplanes in the 1950s. She raced in every Powder Puff Derby from 1957 to 1977, every Air Race Classic since 1977, the Grand Prix and the Denver Mile High and many others, garnering over 150 trophies for her accomplishments. She completed the Round-the-World Air Race in 1994 at age 72, and in March 2001 at the age of 79 she flew in a race from London to Sydney.

In 1999, she received the NAA Elder Statesman in Aviation Award in a presentation ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Margaret Ringenberg was married to banker Morris Ringenberg in 1946. He preceded her in death in 2003. They had two children and five grandchildren. All of her children have flown with her in races and all have been in the winner's circle with her to receive trophies.

Books
Tom Brokaw devoted a chapter to Margaret Ringenberg in his book The Greatest Generation. During an interview with Brokaw she said, “I started out flying because I wanted to be a stewardess—you call them flight attendants nowadays—and I thought ‘what if the pilot gets sick or needs help? I don’t know the first thing about airplanes’ and that's where I found my challenge. I never intended to solo or be a pilot. I found it was wonderful.” Following her death, Brokaw said, in a telephone interview "Margaret was one of my favorites".

Ringenberg's autobiography Girls Can’t Be Pilots, written with Jane L. Roth was published by Daedalus Press in 1998. (ISBN 0-9661859-0-0). It was illustrated with several photos from her career both as a WASP and as an air racer. In addition to her autobiography, Ringenberg's daughter, Marsha Wright, wrote a biography of her mother in 2007 called Maggie Ray: World War II Air Force Pilot (ISBN 0-9790446-8-5).

Death
Ringenberg died in her sleep of natural causes on July 28, 2008, while attending the Experimental Aircraft Association annual airshow. She was representing the WASPs.

Further Information

 * Paluso, Philip. Wings for Maggie Ray. [Fishers, IN]: Medium Cool Pictures, 2012. ISBN 9781618944443

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User talk:Michael Slone

I joined WP:WPM too
Except, I apparently had grassmania and thought you were stoned, that is Michael Stone interested in group theory, algebra, and representation theory on WikiProject_Mathematics/Participants. Do you have any pros/cons about joining? Too late for me now of course, but I'm curious. I was thinking your refs tasks might be a good task for the project too. JackSchmidt (talk) 03:10, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in my response. I don't have any particular objections to joining and suspect I may do so Real Soon Now.  However, I would rather avoid the stress of trying to export the refs tasks. Michael Slone (talk) 03:54, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Abstract Polytopes
I am new to editing Wikipedia. I have been working on creating an axiomatic abstract polytope definition for 40 years, mostly alone. I have not found it easy to find relevant material or sources. I do however have quite an impressive amount of material that I think will advance the subject - but need help with proving its worth by means of references. Maybe you can help...?

First, I'd be most interested in your reaction to my recent addition to the discussion page.

Steve  SLWoolf (talk) 13:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Determinants: repair of History section
Dear Mr. Slone:

I apologize for having accidentally deleted some of the material on Wikipedia's "Determinants" page. I believe that the deleted material has been restored. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Best regards,

Christopher Kirk, Shrewsbury, Mass., USA —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwkmail (talk • contribs) 02:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

permutation groups
In that the text is clearly in error, I think my idea was better of posting a counter example in the text. The text should either be deleted or corrected.01001 (talk) 23:18, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: stub sorting
Thanks for pointing that out. I was in a rush so I didn't have time to go through all the different stub types to find the one that worked, plus football's not my forte. Wizardman 18:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

St Joesphs primary school bracknell
Many thanks. Now shifted, and I'll sort out the redirect some other time. In case you're wondering why I'm bothering with this arguably non notable article, it's because it is the only vaguely constructive contribution from a vandal who I am trying to encourage into better ways. Grblundell (talk) 09:35, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Samantha555 and the deletion process
Thanks. I tried to explain the deletion process to her, but I don't think she's catching on. This apparently the first time she's had something deleted, and she's become a bit emotional about it. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 02:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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Fixed. The API had changed a few months back. JackSchmidt (talk) 14:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

BIRTH-DEATH-SORT vs Lifetime
Hi. Considering this edit of yours and many others, I would like to make 3 comments: 1. BIRTH-DEATH-SORT is a redirect, the vast majority of users uses Lifetime. 2. If YOB and YOD (or Living people) categories are present, please just add DEFAULTSORT, otherwise we have duplicated categories, 3. Please don't replace DEFAULTSORT+the 2 categories with Lifetime. This is not considered as constructive editing. Thanks and keep editing, Magioladitis (talk) 23:52, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I disagree that it is not constructive to use the Lifetime template. In any case, as you can see from this edit and others, the edit of mine you listed on Template talk:Lifetime as an example of my work is not representative of my contributions.  If you have concerns about my editing habits, I would appreciate it if you would discuss them directly with me on my talk page before using them as a source of examples for your arguments on template talk pages. Michael Slone (talk) 01:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

My point is that Lifetime cause problems because many users are not familiar with it and they keep adding YOB/D categories even if Lifetime is present, many bots need the categories to be written in order to function correctly, etc. Apart from that, since Lifetime does exactly the same work with YOB|YOD|DEFAULSORT, replacing them in order to add Lifetime this is not constructive. It's like removing whitespace from article or just moving stub tags around. Moreover, there is no consensus, yet, pro or against lifetime. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 09:23, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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Lang Algebra reference
Hi. I noticed that you have a user subpage that you keep references on (User:Michael_Slone/refs). On there, you list a 4th edition of Lang's algebra, which as far as I can tell, does not exist. Is this an error? I am particularly interested because I have created a template (Template:Lang Algebra) that allows one to reference any edition of his book very simply, for example, produces

and I would like to know if there is indeed another edition to add. According to this page on Springer's site, it looks like you might be referring to the "Corrected 4th printing of the 3rd revised edition". Thanks. RobHar (talk) 20:08, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks for pointing this out. I agree, I've never heard of a 4th edition of Lang's Algebra, and am not sure why I put that on my refs page.  I've replaced my ref with the template. Michael Slone (talk) 21:58, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Commutativity
Thanks for the clarification here. It makes much more sense now. Cheers! --Thomprod (talk) 12:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

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Henry Aurand
You guessed correctly. General Aurand transferred to the Ordnance Corps. I have corrected the error in the article.

Thank you. Tm3108 (talk) 00:49, 20 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tm3108 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

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Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP) is a public polytechnic higher learning and research engineering institute, located in the city of Porto, Portugal. ISEP is divided in 8 departments, with an emphasis on applied science and technology. ISEP was founded by the minister Fontes Pereira de Melo in 1852 as Escola Industrial do Porto (Porto School of Industry) to support the industrialization of Portugal, and some time later upgraded to Instituto Industrial do Porto (Porto Institute of Industry). Since 1989, was grouped with other schools in the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Its motto is Saber Fazer — "Know-how".

Today, ISEP is one of the biggest and best known engineering schools in Portugal, with well over 6000 students and 500 faculty members. It has research facilities for real-time systems, artificial intelligence, knowledge based systems, and decision support systems, some of them internationally recognized as leading R&D centers (e.g. GECAD, CISTER, LSA) as accredited by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

History
The institution has had several names and different roles since its foundation in 1852:
 * 1852 The Escola Industrial do Porto (School of Industry) is founded by the minister Fontes Pereira de Melo, during the reign of King Pedro V of Portugal.
 * 1864 The school was transformed into an Institute, as Instituto Industrial do Porto (Institute of Industry), and was integrated into the new Industrial sector on the frame of the Instituto Industrial de Lisboa established in Lisbon.
 * 1905 It was allowed to provide higher education (ensino superior).
 * 1918 The institute was reorganized and transformed again into a non-higher education technical institute of intermediate education (ensino médio) by the minister Azevedo Neves reforms. It started conferring the titles of engenheiro auxiliar (auxiliary engineer) by law Lei 1 638 de 23 de Julho de 1924 in 1924, and agente técnico de engenharia (technical agent of engineering) from 1926 onwards.
 * 1975 After the Carnation Revolution of 1974, the institute was upgraded to higher education status and started to award 4-year bacharelato degrees conferring the title of technical engineer (engenheiro técnico). Integrated into the university sector and renamed ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Superior Institute of Engineering), it conferred technical engineering degrees while the universities awarded 5-year engineering degrees.
 * 1989 By force of law Decreto-Lei n.º 389/88, de 25 de Outubro (1988), ISEP was integrated into the newly created polytechnic sector and made part of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. It started to award exclusively 3-year bacharelato degrees conferring the title of technical engineer (engenheiro técnico) and CESE (Curso de Estudos Superiores Especializados) courses conferring the DESE (Diploma de Estudos Superiores Especializados) diploma, a complementary diploma to the bacharelato degree.
 * 1998 ISEP started to award licenciatura bietápica degrees (3-year bacharelato plus 2 extra years conferring the licenciatura, equivalent to the licenciatura (licentiate) degree which until then had been awarded only by the universities).
 * 2004 ISEP seen its first engineering licenciatura courses accredited by the Ordem dos Engenheiros, the Portuguese engineering association. The first accredited courses were in chemical engineering and electronic engineering. Beyond the public universities, only Lisbon (ISEL) and Porto (ISEP) state-run polytechnic engineering institutions had accredited courses in the Ordem dos Engenheiros in 2006.
 * 2007 Like the other Portuguese polytechnic institutions, on the frame of the Bologna process, ISEP was allowed to start awarding independent masters' degrees as a second cycle of study after the initial 3-year first cycle which grant a licenciatura. Previously, since 2002, it only awarded master's degrees in some fields with the support of Instituto Superior Técnico a university engineering institution from Lisbon.
 * 2014 ISEP becomes the Higher Education Institution in Portugal with the most number of study plans certified by EUR-ACE standards, accredited degrees in Engineering in the European Higher Education Area.
 * 2017 ISEP's Msc in Informatics Engineering is the first master's degree program in Portugal accredited by the United States-based ABET, assigned to the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), a trusted accreditation for employers worldwide attesting that graduates are prepared to enter the workforce as licensed professional engineers.

Campus
ISEP's campus spans approximately 50,000 square meters in Pólo Universitário, near São João Hospital. Dormitories and some of student life facilities are located outside the campus, but almost all classes are held on campus. ISEP campus was initially located in the central Porto and moved to current one in the 1960s.

Departments
ISEP is divided into different schools within its campus:
 * DEC - Civil engineering
 * DEG - Geotechnical engineering
 * DEQ - Chemical engineering
 * DEE - Electrical and Computer engineering
 * DEM - Mechanical engineering
 * DEI - Software engineering and Computer science
 * DMA - Mathematics
 * DFI - Physics
 * DOG - Management

Studies
Following the Bologna Process, higher education study plans are divided into 1st cycle BSc (3 years), 2nd cycle MSc (2 years).

BSc
 * Automotive Engineering
 * Chemical Engineering1
 * Civil Engineering
 * Electrical and Computer Engineering1
 * Electrical Engineering – Power Systems1
 * Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering1*
 * Software Engineering1
 * Instrumentation Engineering and Metrology
 * Mechanical Engineering1
 * Medical Computing and Instrumentation Engineering
 * Systems Engineering

MSc
 * Applied Mathematics (Finance and Engineering)
 * Chemical Engineering1
 * Civil Engineering
 * Electrical and Computer Engineering1
 * Electrical Engineering – Power Systems1
 * Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering1*
 * Informatics Engineering1 2
 * Instrumentation Engineering and Metrology
 * Mechanical Engineering1
 * Medical Computing and Instrumentation Engineering
 * Sustainable Energies

(1) EUR-ACE certification completed, (1*) EUR-ACE certification ongoing. (2) US ABET-EAC accredited program

General

 * ISEP
 * Student Portal
 * AEISEP - Student association

Departments

 * DEC Portal
 * DEE Portal
 * DEI Portal
 * DEM Portal
 * DEQ Portal
 * DFI Portal
 * DEA Portal

R&D

 * CISTER - Research Centre in Real-Time Computing Systems
 * GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group
 * Laboratório Sistemas Autónomos (LSA) - Autonomous Systems Laboratory
 * GILT - Graphics, Interaction and Learning Technologies Group
 * LEMA - Laboratório de Engenharia Matemática - Mathematical Engineering Lab
 * GICEC - Grupo de Investigação e Consultoria em Engenharia Civil
 * GRAQ - Grupo de Reação e Análises Químicas
 * CIDEM - Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica
 * CIETI - Centro de Inovação em Engenharia e Tecnologia Industrial Center of Innovation in Engineering and Industrial Technology
 * BioMark, Sensor Research


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Thanks for your interest in my page. I'm a 38 year-old Wikipedia addict living in north-central Massachusetts. Articles on science, food preparation, geography, and biography are of particular interest.

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Sheila Burnford

Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford née Every (11 May 1916 – 20 April 1984) was a Scottish writer. She is best known for her novel The Incredible Journey about two dogs and a cat traveling through the Canadian wilderness.

Life and work
Burnford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived in Ayrshire during her teenage years. She attended St. George's School, Edinburgh, and Harrogate Ladies College. She also attended schools in France and Germany. In 1941 she married Dr. David Burnford, with whom she had three children. During World War II, she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver. In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, settling in Port Arthur, Ontario.

Burnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, published by Hodder & Stoughton with illustrations by Carl Burger in 1960. The story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1963 and the ALA Aurianne Award in 1963 as the best book on animal life written for children ages 8–14. It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was not intended as a children's book. It was a modest success commercially and became a bestseller after release of the 1963 Disney film, The Incredible Journey (which was remade in 1993 as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey). Another book, Bel Ria, about a dog's survival in wartime, was based on her own experiences as an ambulance driver.

Burnford later wrote other books on Canadian topics, including One Woman's Arctic (1973) about her two summers in Pond Inlet, Nunavut on Baffin Island with Susan Ross. She traveled by komatik, a traditional Inuit dog sled, assisted in archaeological excavation, having to thaw the land inch by inch, ate everything offered to her, and saw the migration of the narwhals.

She died of cancer in the village of Bucklers Hard in Hampshire at the age of 67.

Works

 * The Incredible Journey, illustrated by Carl Burger (Toronto and London: Hodder & Stoughton; Boston: Little, Brown, 1961); also published as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey or Homeward Bound
 * The Fields of Noon (1964)
 * Without Reserve: Among the Northern Forest Indians (1969), illus. Susan Ross
 * One Woman's Arctic (Hodder & Stoughton, 1972)
 * Mr. Noah and the Second Flood, illus. Michael Foreman (1973)
 * Bel Ria (1977); also published as Bel Ria: Dog of War

Library of Congress and WorldCat library records do not clearly show any other works published as books (six, as of 2018). WorldCat records show four of Burnford's books published in the US as Atlantic Monthly Press books, then an imprint of Little, Brown.

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A photo would be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.170.131.249 (talk) 02:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

This article contains a lot of errors. Minsky is at MIT, not Carnegie-Mellon University.

(This error checked and Minsky's location corrected to MIT on 5/31/06)

And the descriptions of Minsky's work on perceptrons are highly inaccurate.

(See: "History of the Perceptron" http://www.csulb.edu/~cwallis/artificialn/History.htm which briefly documents the Rosenblatt-Minsky dispute over perceptrons and the effect of Minsky and Papert's 1969 book "Perceptrons". The 1969 first edition of "Perceptrons" made the false claim that the severe computational limitations Minsky found in simple 3-layer perceptrons would also apply to any arbitrary higher-layer-count perceptron (i.e. essentially to any neural net) -- a claim Minsky later retracted in the 1980's, after his 1969 original mistake had killed essentially all research into neural nets for a decade.)

This makes me doubt the accuracy of the rest of the article.

I'm glad that you corrected CMU to MIT. But whoever is writing this article, you should read the Minsky book on Perceptrons, instead of quoting some web page which is ridiculously wrong. What are your sources for the rest of the information in this article? How can I believe any of it now?

This article is an absurd and inappropriate character attack on Minsky, which should in my opinion be removed. I agree with those above - it contains a lot of errors.

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I wold like to dwell a little bit more on this confusing and controversial subject. First of all, I believe that even if what the article ending says is true, the tone is completely inadequate. And second, I believe it is not true.

We can't keep blaming a certain book for something of that magnitude. It is a grave offense to the hearts and minds of all persons involved in the research on AI in the 60s and 70s to say that a single thought in a book could have such an impact. That someone could single-handedly diverge everything for a decade. Anyone must agree that thing are never that simple. I could believe if you tell me for example something like “there was a trend growing, a feeling for concentrating into another direction, and the book was the excuse used”.

I liked very much to hear about all those facts regarding Rosenblatt. Looks like he was a great person. But how can someone believe the idea of the animosity between the researchers when the book Perceptrons is (if I am not very much mistaken) open-heartedly dedicated to Rosenblatt? More then that, I had the opportunity to have a read on his book, and on Perceptrons. I think they are two great books, and I feel that they can like perfectly side-by-side.

And please, someone tell me something: Where are all those marvelous multi-layered networks? To my knowledge, the usual structures, with an "input" layer, a "hidden" layer and an "output"  layer, is still the most usual and useful. More layers then that are frequently an extravagance. Of course there are many justified cases, but the possibility to have many layers was never a breakthrough. And the most important thing: this 3-layers structure shows up in Rosenblatt's and Minsky's book. Some people imply that the middle layer was the 1980s revolution, this is plain wrong...

I intend to make some modifications to this ending of this article later this week, unless anyone vehemently opposes. -- NIC1138 (talk) 07:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree that the article is very badly written, and that the conclusion in particular needs help. But — and this is a very serious "but" — it did seem to me at the time that the book by Minsky & Papert did indeed have a very negative effect on the direction taken by artificial intelligence. I was a student in Rosenblatt's class in 1968-69 at Cornell, though my major was mathematics and my primary interests lay elsewhere. The pattern recognition problems that Minsky & Papert proved the perceptron could not solve were nontrivial topological problems. It was my opinion that they (Minsky & Papert) were correct, but that this in no way detracted from the solid abilities of the basic perceptron. It was asking too much of a simple feedforward network to expect that it should do well on nontrivial topological patterns, and everyone should have realized this. The brain itself is certainly not a feedforward mechanism, though it contains some primitive circuits of that nature. What really happened here, in my opinion, was that Rosenblatt and others expected too much from the simplest perceptrons, and then, when Minsky & Papert proved as much, everyone expected too little. As is so often the case, the truth was somewhere in between. Modern artificial neural network discriminators are the direct descendents of the perceptron, and Rosenblatt's reputation should rest on that solid foundation. — Aetheling (talk) 02:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC).

I worked for Rosenblatt on the Cornell Cognitive Systems Research Program from June 1960 to January 1962, and again from January 1965 to June of 1968. He and I roomed together at 125 College Ave. during the first stint, and I later lived in his house on Middaugh road in Brooktondale. In some ways I probably can claim responsibility for his buying the house.

I was an almost-lifelong astronomy buff, and thought I would eventually make it my profession. As a sixteen-year-old freshman at Cornell, I borrowed some paper from Rosenblatt in the Willard Straight Music room, and became acquainted with him. I must have in some way impressed him, as he stopped by the squalid quarters I was inhabiting in Syracuse shortly after my 18th birthday and offered me a job on his research program at Cornell, programming digital computers. It paid a little more than two bucks an hour, for that time an almost unheard-of wage for one of my tender years. I took it, of course.

Rosenblatt was a confirmed bachelor, and evidenced no visible interest in the opposite sex that I could discern. Whether he had any interest in the same sex is something none of us who worked for him ever speculated on; he was eccentric, and fun-loving, and had a hell of a good sense of humor, and such speculation just didn't seem to matter. At any rate, my enthusiasm for astronomy must have been contagious, and at the same time he was looking for something to spend an accumulation of cash against, and he decided to buy a telescope. He chose a Fecker 12-1/2" Cassegrain, complete with equatorial mount and drive, to the tune of about three grand worth, which was roughly nine months' pay for me; an almost overwhelming amount. The instrument was custom-built, and it took some time to arrive (I think more than six months, but my recollection may be faulty).  Realizing that College Town in Ithaca was a poor and improper place to put a telescope, he started house-hunting, and in just a few weeks had found and purchased a fine old brick house on twenty-five acres on Middaugh Road in Brooktondale, six or so miles east of Ithaca.  Most of us who worked for him also moved in there, since the twenty-five thousand dollar price-tag on the real estate was a bit steep for him to manage without some people helping out by paying rent on rooms.  We broke ground for the observatory in, as I recollect, summer of 1961.  I must admit, I felt a little nervous over my role in this; I felt responsible for coaxing a friend, mentor, and employer into outlaying an overwhelming sum on one of my enthusiasms. But we dug, and poured foundations, and laid block, and built a pier just the same.

Some of the people involved were me, George Nagy, Steve (Steven Jon) King, Chuck Tappert, Dick Venezky, Trevor Barker, Dave Smith, our secretary Eirlys Tynan, her husband Mick, Dave Block, a math professor, and probably some others whose names I've lost in memory. Rosenblatt had the house painted white, and had a fireplace and chimney built, and bought a grand piano (he was an accomplished pianist, even though he could and did improvise endlessly on "Three Blind Mice").

At some point in the construction of the observatory, the matter of telescope size came up in one of the not-infrequent bull sessions we would have after a day's effort. I'm a little unsure of how we got there, but Rosenblatt boasted that he'd have at least a sixteen-inch scope on the premises within five years. The boast almost immediately became the subject of a wager: I bet him five bucks that this would not happen; he countered with an amendment that would give him a dollar an inch for anything over sixteen (I'd collect five dollars if I won, but would pay up to ten if I lost). We were, as I recollect, drinking beer at the time, and by and by I lost track of the details of the bet.

In 1962, I left staff at Cornell to return to university, this time at Syracuse. I endured a semester there, the assasination of a president, a sophomore slump, and in 1964 moved to Rochester and got married. My wife and I visited Rosenblatt in late 1964, and he made me another offer of employment, which I accepted. As 1965 came to a close, Rosenblatt remembered the bet, and, realizing he was about to lose it, got busy.

SETI was at that time something many were interested in. Most of the search at that time was being done at the 21-cm hydrogen wavelength. Townes's ruby laser was, however, a very recent invention, and Rosenblatt reasoned that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence would be better done at visible wavelengths, where the very coherence of an electromagnetic wave would be a reasonable measure of intelligent origin of the signal. To this end, he designed a "Stellar Coherometer" which would ascertain whether emission in the spectra of stars was coherent radiation or not. He had connections with granting agencies, and was something (!) of a wheeler-dealer; he called up somebody he knew at NASA, I think it was, and, as it was near the end of their granting period and they had some unspent money in their vault, got told he could have seventy-five thousand dollars yankee for the project, which, by the way, included a twenty-inch telescope, to be housed on donated land at 119 Middaugh Road, Brooktondale, NY. Cornell would have to administer the grant, of course.

The Cornell administration took a look at it, and, horrified that the name of such a prestigious institution should be associated with such an outre` project, distanced themselves as far as possible from it. Rosenblatt, never one to give up easily (he climbed Mount McKinley once!) went across the valley to Ithaca College, and got himself an appointment as an associate professor there, so that they could administer the grant. They would get a fine research observatory out of the deal, so it was much to their liking. To the entire project's extreme disappointment, however, the appointment took just a little longer than it should have, so that the grant period for that fiscal year had elapsed by the time it came through. The seventy-five thousand, unspent, reverted to the U. S. Treasury and was never seen again.

Rosenblatt paid me the five bucks. It was a bet I wish I hadn't won. 76.200.231.166 (talk) 07:55, 15 April 2009 (UTC)Terrell E. Koken

Recollections of Rosenblatt: The following are anecdotal, some hearsay, some as told by Rosenblatt himself to me, and are my recollections; thus they may be faulty or incomplete.

He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Cornell, which was at that time not a very common practice; but Cornell has one of the most scenic campuses in the world, and I suppose that may have been a factor. He was a practical joker, and maintained that any practical joke must be well-tailored to its recipient. He and some others, whose names I never learned, drove to the town of Gibson one fine night, and stole the town's "Gibson" signs. They trucked them back to the Psychology department in Morrill hall, and mounted them at the door of Professor Gibson's office. When Robby MacLeod, department chairman when I was there, came in and saw them, he remarked to the department secretary, "Don't you think Gibby's getting a little ostentatious?" --The signs, according to Rosenblatt, were eventually cut up for use in various projects around the department.

Rosenblatt built a digital computer for the Psych department, I believe while he was a grad student there (?). It was named EPAC, for Electronic Processing and Analyzing Computer, and it was remarked that the vacuum tubes in it would serve to make about a hundred and fifty record players. When I was there in 1958, only scraps of the machine remained, but I don't think anyone made record players out of it.

Rosenblatt was enthused about digital computing, and spent a lot of time in the Cornell Computing Center. He used the machinery for reducing data in various rat-psychology experiments, and gained vast experience thereby. As I recollect, the first machine he worked on was a "Card-Programmed Calculator", a pretty primitive machine about which I know little more than its name and the fact that its memory and its program were the deck of cards you put into it. The IBM 650 that Cornell later got was a big step up for them. It was a two-address magnetic-drum memory machine, which could add two bi-quinary ten-digit numbers in, as I recollect, two 96-microsecond cycles. General opinion when the 650 arrived was that it was pretty lame, and that such a prestigious institution should have had an IBM 704 instead (This is complaint passed on secondhand; I was not there until the university got their Burroughs 220), but for many years Cornell ran second-best in computing: the CPC when opinion said 650; the 650 when perhaps they should have had a 704; the Burroughs 220; instead of an IBM 7090, a CDC 1604, which was later replaced by an IBM System 360 Mod 67, whose multitasking operating system did not work for the first two years (as I recollect). Rosenblatt's researches involved simulation of neural networks on these machines. His feeling was that a Perceptron needed to have a large associator layer; something above a thousand A-units was necessary to get most of the brain-like characteristics that the beast seemed to promise. Such simulations involved generating instructions to access and sum random cells in the machine's "retina"; you'd write a program that generated as many "ADD" instructions as the unit had excitatory connections, and as many "SUB" instructions as it had inhibitory ones, and the process was repeated for each associator unit, so that for a large Perceptron you got a generated program that pushed the boundaries of available magnetic-core memories. Cycle-time was very important, therefore; at five thousand operations per second (Burroughs 220) you could eat up lots of computer hours before getting anything useful out, but forty-thousand (IBM 704) would make much faster work of it.

Rosenblatt's PhD was inked in, I believe, 1954 or so, so that he was dealing with pretty primitive machinery. Under such circumstances, one had to be very efficient about one's code. Rosenblatt, in order to get time on the various machines, became pretty adept at this, and once told me that out of sheer desperation, he re-wrote and optimized a sociology student's CPC program so that he could then take over the ninety percent of the time she was using that the rewrite saved her.

He was pretty good friends with Bruce W. (Tuck) Knight, Jr., a physicist as I recollect; Tuck had spent some time at Los Alamos and Eniwetok. Tuck was braumeister of the Collegetown Old Undershirt brewery, and usually had a batch in the crock, one aging in the bottle, and the currently drinking batch. The recipe was simple: Six gallons of water, one can of malt (Blue Ribbon Hop-flavored Malt syrup), five pounds of sugar, and a teaspoon of salt; add yeast and let it ferment for a week, skimming off the foam as it boiled up; bottle in quarts with a teaspoonful of bottle sugar to carbonate it. Occasionally you'd get a pretty potable batch, but mostly it was not what you'd call premium beer, its virtue being that you could get drunk on it. It took its name from the fact that you covered the crock with an old undershirt to keep flies and other undesirable elements out of the fermenting brew. Tuck had brewed beer on Eniwetok, and at Los Alamos. He collaborated with Rosenblatt and Dave Block on a seminal paper on four-layer perceptrons, which was the predecessor to Rosenblatt's analysis of the cross-coupled system, and which promised some interesting results as far as pre-processing of stimuli went.

Just before I went to work for Rosenblatt the first time, I brewed a batch in Syracuse. Some time later I brought a quart of it down to Tuck's apartment, and the three of us broached, decanted, and drank it, and Tuck pronounced it acceptable, but insufficient. However, the only brew available at the time had been bottled only two days before. I think we consumed two or three quarts of the green stuff, and I have vague recollection of drawing an enormous abstraction in pencil on Tuck's kitchen wall before staggering home; the following morning's suffering convinced me that consumption of such stuff was not a good idea, and taught me the real meaning of "hangover". Tuck and Frank, however, seemed little affected. I went down to Tuck's to view my artwork some time later, when I was feeling a little better, but Tuck had already sponged it off the paint. Ah, well.

Occasionally when bottling the brew one got distracted, and dumped a second teaspoon of sugar into the quart one was working on. When this happened, an explosion was the sometimes result, delayed enough that usually people were away from the brewery at work or elsewhere when the explosion happened. Tuck told of one instance when they'd come back and found brown glass embedded in a wall some forty feet from the bottles, and a landlady complaining of a "brown sticky fluid" dripping through her ceiling.

At one time shortly before my arrival, one Hong-Yee Chiu, a physicist, camped at Tuck's place for a while. Hong-Yee built his own perceptron, a fairly small system; he had a pretty good sense of humor, and Rosenblatt later showed me some of the A-units from it: Hong-Yee had drawn faces on each of the plaster-potted A-units. He decided at one point that Old Undershirt was not potent enough, and took a couple of quarts up to the Physics department in Rockefeller Hall, and distilled it. I did not see or taste it, but was told that he brought back a Coke bottle full of a noxious substance that tasted like fire and was somewhat dangerous to drink. Many years later, I ran into Hong-Yee's daughter on a Caltech website. I think she was entirely unaware of her dad's stint at Cornell.

Readers should feel free to correct any faulty recollections they may encounter here, with my thanks. --Terrell E. Koken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.200.231.166 (talk) 19:25, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

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 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 do something with this that doesn't involve deletion (no consensus). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:00, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Motorväg
Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Simply a direct Swedish translation of motorway/highway which already has an extensive article at motorväg. It's use is in no way notable outside of Sweden in the way Autobahn or Autostrada is and already has an appropriate article. The Swedish highways do not differ markedly from the average European highways and the term is never used as free-standing concept in Swedish or as an official term for the national highway system; use and meaning is basically identical to that of "motorway/highway". Peter Isotalo 19:20, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Motorway. Thryduulf 23:02, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Uncle G has persuaded me - merge into Transportation in Sweden and redirect there or to Motorway. Thryduulf 16:22, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Carnildo 23:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Title your pages using the English name, if one exists... Only use the native spelling as an article title if it is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form. ...for example Sverige could be a redirect to Sweden. — Naming conventions (use English). The English name of these things appears to be Motorway. Merge to Transportation in Sweden and Redirect to Motorway. Uncle G 02:01, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * Move to Motorways in Scandinavia or the like. This article specifically talks about motorways in that region. --SPUI (talk) 03:07, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * If this article must be deleted, moved or rederected to Motorway, you should do the same with the articles Autobahn, Autostrada, Autoroute and Autoput, because thats the same situation. /E70 04:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't comment on Autoroute and Autoput, but Autobahn and Autostrada are very notable concepts even outside of Germany and Italy. As far as I know, they are also used almost as a proper nouns; they are a concept in of themselves and are used to describe the road network in its entirety (as far as I know). Motorväg remains just a simple translation of "motorway", rendering it encyclopedic. :--Peter Isotalo 14:26, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Just from a glance at Autoput it looks no more notable than Motorväg and IMO should be treated the same way.  Autoroute and Autostrada are more debatable in my view, and Autobahn is a veritable institution.   More generally -- at risk of digressing from the VFD debate -- how much depth is appropriate in Wikipedia documentation of national road systems?   If Sweden's national road system were as aggressively documented as California's state routes, would Motorväg become legitimate?   And if so, then isn't deleting it an example of geographical bias?    I'm just a novice Wikipedian with a bunch of questions -- forgive me if I'm stepping out of line here.  -- PhilipR 20:49, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hence my vote to move, but keep the content. I feel it is very reasonable to cover any numbered highway. --SPUI (talk) 20:57, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, then you've sold me.  In re: Motorways in Scandinavia, how did Sweden get lumped in with Denmark here?    Is Motorväg specifically a Swedish word?   I think it would be preferable to document each country separately, e.g. Motorways in Sweden, Motorways in Denmark. - PhilipR 21:08, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Just a slight nudge; it should be motorways of Sweden if it's to be on a national basis. But I must point out that many Swedish motorways are a part of a much larger European network of motorways that all have the designation EXX. These things run through all of Europe, and I think some of them even go all the way into non-Turkish Asia. See European route E18 for a good example. / Peter Isotalo 06:41, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Again, I point to Transportation in Sweden with its Road Traffic section waiting for something about motorways. Uncle G 13:03, 2005 May 29 (UTC)
 * Autoput is not related to this discussion. Other than the other articles, it's not a type of road, it's a particular motorway which is notorious even outside the former Yugoslavia.Martg76 22:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Move per above; desination to be determined. - PhilipR 21:08, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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Montgomery County Community College

Montgomery County Community College (MCCC or Montco) is a public community college with campuses in Blue Bell and Pottstown in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and online. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Forbes ranked MCCC as one of Pennsylvania's top employers in 2019.

History
The college was founded in 1964 and offered classes from its campus in Conshohocken. In 1972, the school relocated to its current location in Blue Bell, and in 1996, it opened its Pottstown Campus (formerly known as West Campus).

Blue Bell Campus
Located on 186 acres. Construction is underway for a new Hospitality Institute, scheduled to open in fall 2024.

Pottstown Campus
The Pottstown Campus includes the North Hall, a facility with classrooms and an art gallery. The building was formerly a knitting mill, brewery, and shoe polish factory until its renovation in 2006. It is connected to South Hall by an underpass that had been filled in since the early 1920s. In 2022, the College opened a Challenger Learning Center at Montco Pottstown, the first of its kind in Pennsylvania

Municipal Police Academy
Located in Blue Bell, the Municipal Police Academy is a licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Bigos

Bigos, often translated into English as hunter's stew, is a Polish dish of chopped meat of various kinds stewed with sauerkraut, shredded fresh cabbage and spices. It is served hot and can be enriched with additional vegetables and wine. Originally from Poland, the dish also became traditional in the areas of the vast Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Etymology
The Polish word bigos is probably of German origin, but its exact etymology is disputed. According to the Polish loanword dictionary edited by Elżbieta Sobol, it may derive from German begossen, meaning "doused" or "basted". Jerzy Bralczyk similarly derives the word from archaic German Beiguss, "sauce". Aleksander Brückner has proposed the German Bleiguss, "piece of lead", as a possible source, referring to a tradition of divining from strangely shaped flakes of molten lead dropped into water. Maria Dembińska rejects this etymology as "doubtlessly erroneous", suggesting instead either archaic German becken, "to chop", or old German bîbôz (Beifuss in modern German), meaning "mugwort" (Artemisia vulgaris), a herb that was popular in medieval cuisine. Andrzej Bańkowski also points to the Italian bigutta, or "pot for cooking soup", as a possible derivation via German.

Ingredients and preparation
The principal ingredients of bigos are assorted kinds of meat chopped into bite-sized chunks and a mixture of sauerkraut and shredded fresh white cabbage. The meats may include pork (such as ham, shoulder, bacon, ribs, and loin), beef and veal, poultry (chicken, duck, goose, turkey) and game, as well as charcuterie, especially various kinds of kiełbasa. The variety of meats is considered essential for good bigos; its preparation may be a good occasion to clean out one's freezer and use up leftovers from other meat dishes. Some of the meats may be roasted before being diced together with other cuts of meat and braised in lard or vegetable oil.

The sauerkraut is often rinsed and drained before being chopped and mixed with shredded fresh cabbage. The proportion depends on the sauerkraut's maturity; the longer it has cured, the more sour it tastes, calling for more fresh cabbage to balance the flavor. Traditionally, cabbage was pickled in fall, so bigos made at that time could be made with only half-cured sauerkraut, but by early spring, the sauerkraut had to be combined in equal parts with fresh cabbage. The mixture is precooked in a small amount of water before being mixed with the braised meat and left to simmer for several hours. Ideally, the stew should thicken through evaporation alone, but flour, roux, crumbled rye bread or a grated raw potato may be added to it to take up excess moisture.

Other ingredients often added to bigos include onions, diced and browned in lard together with the meat, and dried forest mushrooms that are precooked separately in boiling water. The stew is usually seasoned with salt, black peppercorns, allspice, juniper berries and bay leaves. Some recipes also call for caraway, cloves, garlic, marjoram, mustard seeds, nutmeg, paprika and thyme. The tart flavor of sauerkraut may be enhanced by adding some dry red wine or beet sour (fermented beetroot juice that is also a traditional ingredient of borscht), which may impart a reddish hue to the stew. Bigos is often slightly sweetened with sugar, honey, raisins, prunes or plum butter known in Polish as powidła.

Traditionally, bigos is stewed in a cauldron over an open fire or in a large pot on a stove, but it may also be prepared in an electric slow cooker. The contents should be stirred from time to time, to prevent scorching, which may impart a bitter taste to the entire batch. Bigos is considered best after it has been repeatedly refrigerated and reheated to allow the flavors to fuse.

Varieties
The flexible and forgiving recipe for bigos allows a great number of variants, often simply using what ingredients are at hand. It is often claimed that there are as many recipes as there are cooks in Poland.

In the region of Greater Poland, bigos typically contains tomato paste and is seasoned with garlic and marjoram. Kuyavian bigos is often made from red cabbage as well as white. In Silesia, it is usually mixed with kopytka or kluski, that is, small plain boiled dumplings made from unleavened dough that contains flour and mashed potatoes. A variant which contains julienned apples, preferably with a winey tart taste, such as Antonovka, is known as Lithuanian bigos and is typical for the territory of the erstwhile Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine). In bigos myśliwski, or "hunter's bigos", at least part of the meat comes from game, such as wild boar, venison or hare. It is usually seasoned with juniper berries, which help neutralize off-flavors that may be found in the meat of wild animals.

Serving
As a dish that does not spoil quickly and is thought to improve with each reheating, bigos has been traditionally used as a provision for travellers and campers or consumed at outdoor events, such as a hunt or a carnival sleigh ride known in Polish as kulig. It may be also eaten indoor, for breakfast, supper or as a hot starter served before soup at a dinner party. It is commonly found on the menus of milk bars, pubs and bistros throughout Poland. Bigos is particularly associated with major Catholic holidays, such as Christmas and Easter, as it can be prepared in ample quantities beforehand and only reheated on the holiday itself and the following days.

The stew is typically dished up with rye bread or boiled potatoes. In a fancier setting, it may be served in stoneware bowls, puff pastry shells or bread bowls. Bigos, especially when enjoyed outdoors, is traditionally paired with shots of chilled vodka, either clear or flavored. Varieties of flavored vodka that match well with bigos include żubrówka (bison grass), jałowcówka (juniper), piołunówka (wormwood), Goldwasser (various herbs) and starka (oak-aged). If served at home or in a restaurant, the stew may be paired with beer, red wine or Riesling.

History
According to Polish food historian Maria Dembińska, bigos may derive from a medieval dish known in Latin as compositum, or "mixture". It was made from various vegetables, such as cabbage, chard and onions, that were chopped or shredded, layered inside an earthenware three-legged Dutch oven and braised or baked. A remnant of this old procedure may be found in a bigos recipe, in which bacon and cabbage are arranged in layers, from the 19th-century Russian cookbook A Gift to Young Housewives by Elena Molokhovets. It is believed this dish was introduced in the region by Sephardic Jews coming from the Portuguese region of Alentejo, replacing ingredients with regional produce. Similar layered dishes of medieval origin also exist in other European cuisines; they include the Italian mescolanza (known in 16th-century Poland under the Polonized name miszkulancja) and the Alsatian Baeckeoffe (also known as potée boulangère), made from cabbage, leftover meats and fruits. They are reminiscent of a rustic Polish casserole, known in various regions as pieczonka, prażonki, duszonki, maścipula, and other names. It is traditionally made from sliced or diced potatoes, onions, carrots, sausages and bacon arranged in layers inside a cast-iron cauldron greased with lard and lined with cabbage leaves, which is placed in bonfire embers for baking.

The word "bigos" is not attested before the 17th century. At that time, it referred to any dish of finely chopped components, usually meat or fish – but no cabbage – doused generously with melted butter and heavily seasoned with sour, sweet and spicy ingredients. Stanisław Czerniecki, head chef to Prince Aleksander Michał Lubomirski, who consistently used the diminutive form bigosek, included several recipes for it in his Compendium ferculorum (A Collection of Dishes), the oldest surviving book imprinted and published originally in Polish, in 1682 (however, in ca. 2019, another old cook book has been found which included recipes from the earlier, e.i. the 16th century lost Polish cook book, the oldest one ). They include bigosek prepared with chopped capon, hazel grouse, carp, pike, and crawfish with beef marrow. Seasonings that appear in most of these recipes include onions, wine vinegar, lemon or lime juice, verjuice, sorrel, sugar, raisins, black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and cumin. A manuscript recipe collection from the Radziwiłł family court, dating back to ca. 1686, contains instructions for cooking bigos of roast beef, fried fish and even chopped crêpes (thin pancakes). Kucharz doskonały (The Perfect Cook), a cookbook published by Wojciech Wielądko in 1783, contains recipes for beef, veal, wether mutton, oyster, as well as root vegetable bigos (the latter was a mixture of carrots, parsnip, rutabaga and celeriac).

Bigos made entirely of meat and exotic spices was affordable only to the affluent Polish nobility. The 18th century saw the development of a poor man's version of the dish, known as bigos hultajski, or "rascal's bigos", in which vinegar and lemon juice were replaced with cheaper sauerkraut as the source of tartness. Sauerkraut and cabbage also acted as a filler allowing to reduce the amount of meat in the dish. Rascal's bigos became common during the reign of King Augustus III of Poland (r. 1734–1763). Over the course of the 19th century, its rise in popularity continued as the proportion of meat decreased in favor of sauerkraut, eventually superseding all other kinds of bigos and losing the disparaging epithet in the process.

In culture
Bigos is considered a Polish national dish, which, according to American food historian William Woys Weaver, "has been romanticized in poetry, discussed in its most minute details in all sorts of literary contexts, and never made in small quantities."

The most famous literary monument to bigos can be found in Pan Tadeusz, a mock-heroic poem venerated as the Polish national epic, extolling the country life of Polish noblemen in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, written by Adam Mickiewicz in 1834. It describes a group of men out in the woods, enjoying the stew of "wondrous taste, colour and marvellous smell" after a successful bear hunt.

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Talk:Southwest Florida International Airport

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Someone added Lufthansa to Frankfurt as new service starting Oct 16, 2015. I've tried to confirm this but cannot find anything anywhere. I've looked on Lufthansa's press releases and FLYLCPA's website which ordinarily posts new service and more so, international new service. I just want to know where the info came from, perhaps it is a mistake? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.7.43.62 (talk) 16:34, 20 August 2015 (UTC) Given the flights "may" start in a week or so you could Verify with flight aware or another service of that sort. That said, it appears Lufthansa is booking tickets for flights to the airport; I'd think that would be a good confirmation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.84.108.75 (talk) 08:49, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

There's a discrepancy in the number of gates in the existing terminal. The press releases and local media refer to 17 gates - 7 in Terminal A and 10 in Terminal B. when I counted to 19, I was counting gates A1A and B1A, two ground-level gates used for small jets and prop planes for commuter service to Orlando and Tampa (and possibly other cities). They have their own gate counters in the terminal building. My question is, should we count them even if the airport authority doesn't?
 * With new terminal, above is irrelevant. Airline 01:42, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Logo in infobox
Hi, I added the airport's logo to the infobox and tried a few different ways, but it is still distorted... does anyone know how to fix it? Trevormartin227 13:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I have patched it with some custom table code. The problem is that the Airport infobox wants the logo to be 200px, but that's larger than the native size of this particular image. It looks good now though, I've just got it displaying at it's native size.--Commander Keane 15:47, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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Ansco Panda

The Ansco Panda was a simple child's box camera made by the Ansco camera corporation of Binghamton, New York in the 1940s. Its appearance is quite similar to the Kodak Baby Brownie and was designed to compete directly with it. The camera features a black plastic body with cream accents around the lenses, a cream colored wind knob and a TLR style viewing lens above the taking lens. Images are composed via a waist level viewfinder and taken by means of a traditional Ansco red shutter trigger button depressed by the right index finger. The camera produces 12 square photographs on a single roll of 620 format film (Ansco No. 20 film). Focal length of the camera is 60 mm and it has an f/16 lens. Focus is fixed and objects from about 6' to infinity are in focus.

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Talk:Ferrari Lampredi engine

The I4 was first designed for the 500 F2 IMO. Ericd 19:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You are correct, sir.--SFoskett 18:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Semper Tyrannis

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Semper Tyrannis and Casting Dark in Morning Light (EP)
Non-notable band with one demo and one independently-released EP, "Casting Dark in Morning Light" gets 3 Google hits.

Semper Tyrannis is not a non-notable band and has played with the likes of Symphony X, NWOBHM Allstars, Testament, and Obiturary at the [2004 March Metal Meltdown].

Use the same standard on us as you would to on any other band. I don't think your personal Wikipedia pages are all that impressive either. There's thousands of other articles on bands here (see Distorted Mind) that are not any more or less notable than us. If you're going to work by a single standard, then enforce it fairly. Describing a band's sound is NOT vanity, it gives anyone who might be reading the article an idea of what we sound like. We're not out to get any undue promotion; I dont know anyone who goes on Wikipedia for the specific purpose of finding bands. Congratulations, you have your own pages on here, you treat it like a Myspace. That's not any less vain than what we're doing. Take that into consideration.

 * Fails the guidelines at WP:MUSIC. Delete. Meelar (talk) 19:54, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete band vanity. - Etacar11 21:45, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both, not notable, band vanity. Megan1967 05:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Exe 10:15, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Please explain your keep vote. RickK 19:17, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * 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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I removed. He is on the List of Mughal emperors which I think makes him notable enough. Rl 19:30, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Removal
The following para is moved here because of unreferenced emotional POV:

On one occasion a warrant of appointment, having been signed by the Emperor, a second was brought to him the next day by the Wazir, giving the appointment to someone else. The emperor asked,"Is this the same village or some other village by the same name?" On being told that it was the same, but this new man was more suitable for the post because he offered more money, the Emperor refused to sign it, saying it was foolish to act this way. He was also slighted by the Syed Brothers. Once, Husain Ali Khan sat in his presence without his permission (which was contrary to the royal etiquette). In response, the emperor requested him to take off his (the emperor's) stockings [moza]. Although inwardly boiling, Husain was forced to comply. His younger brother went a step forward, flirting with Inayat Banu, the emperor's wife, saying that he had fallen in love with her "long curling locks." So the former cut her "locks" off, and sent them to her lover.

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Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (operas)

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See also discussion at WikiProject Opera

I have added the New Grove Dictionary of Opera as a basic reference. In fact I think it should be the main reference rather than the larger, more general work covering the whole of music. I don't believe this makes any difference regarding naming conventions, but it would be good to draw everybody's attention to the four volumes on opera.

Kleinzach 20:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

synch with musical compositions
Does it make sense to more-or-less synchronize our efforts with Naming conventions (pieces of music)? Fred 03:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

"If Grove is wrong . . ."
If Grove is wrong, Wikipedia could still use the correct form. French Opera names should be rendered in French language usage, which is detailed at the WikiProject France page. There should be no exception, just because it is opera. It is really absurd to think that every little segment of Wikipedia could establish its own naming conventions disregarding the rules of the original language (if rendered in it) and literary titles use one, opera titles another, geographical names still another naming convention made up just by anybody anyhow....

Besides, the statement on the Opera Project page that "in Italian and French, only proper names are capitalized, e.g. 'Il diluvio universale', 'Ugo, conte di Parigi', 'Le nozze di Figaro', 'Les mamelles de Tirésias', 'Les Indes galantes', 'Les contes d'Hoffmann', 'La vie parisienne'" is WRONG. In French the first word after the definite or indefinite article is capitalized: 'Les Mamelles de Tirésias', 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann', La Vie parisienne', .... Kraxler (talk) 02:46, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

 * First of all Grove is not wrong. We have been through this issue before. Unlike German and English there is no one, single standard form of French capitalization. Grove (edited by Macmillan) - and Oxford incidentally - adopted one system which the opera project have followed. You obviously favour another.

 * The Opera Project which you describe as a "little segment of Wikipedia" has 4,100 articles. About 220+ are on French operas with several hundred references to the names of French operas, so making any change to project guidelines would not be trivial.

 * If you want to raise this, then do so on the Opera Project, but I would ask you to be civil and not write under the assumption that you have a monopoly on the truth. -- Kleinzach (talk) 03:26, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I do not claim a monopoly to the truth, I stated the position of the WkiProject France, which includes a whole bunch of Frenchmen, and usage on French Wikipedia, which includes ALL articles on operas in French language. On the other side, you certainly can not be right, since your own position is incoherent. Stating that the Opera project would render the original titles in their original language and doing it contrary to usage in Wikipedia's own French edition. That the debate was up once already is no reason to correct belatedly something that is wrong. 4100 articles out of 2.7 million is certainly a very little segment.Kraxler (talk) 16:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Grove is definitely wrong. See here the statement of the Académie française concerning titles of artworks:

 * I asked: "Il y a une règle pour écrire des titres des oeuvres d'art concernant l'usage des majuscules? La graphie correcte serait "Le Mariage de Figaro" ou "Le mariage de Figaro"; "Les Pêcheurs de perles" ou "Les pêcheurs de perles" ou "Les Pêcheurs de Perles"?

 * and received the following answer: "Monsieur, La règle est de mettre une majuscule au premier nom et aux éléments (articles ou adjectifs) qui le précèdent, et de ne plus en mettre ensuite. On écrira donc Le Mariage de Figaro et Les Pêcheurs de perles. Cordialement, Patrick Vannier "

 * Translated: "Dear Sir, The rule is to capitalize the first noun and the elements (articles and adjectives) which precede it, and not capitalize the following elements. One writes correctly Le Mariage de Figaro and Les Pêcheurs de perles. Cordially, Patrick Vannier

 * As you see, there is a definite rule about this, the abovementioned rule (a) is correct, whereas the variant usages are mistaken, even if they are used by people who do not know the rule. Mr. Grove has chosen the wrong usage, but since Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia, and not a teenage-blogspot, we should correct it. Kraxler (talk) 04:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Please see the discussion here. You are entitled to your opinion but not to force it on other people. Please no more of these WP:POINT attacks. -- Kleinzach (talk) 04:42, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I do not think that I'm disrupting Wikipedia with this, since many times in the past and probably also in the future, anybody who knows the rule on French capitalization, will be tempted to move or correct the mistaken opera titles (I won't do it, be certain of it....), and you will have to defend your wrong usage like a bull-terrier again.... I'm sorry for you, but I have done my duty. Kraxler (talk) 04:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I doubt Grove's capitalization is the best policy, as elsewhere; I deny it is consensus. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

 * For the Opera Project's latest response to this issue see:.Voceditenore (talk) 22:57, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

See current discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:44, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

RFC – WP title decision practice
Over the past several months there has been contentious debate over aspects of WP:Article Titles policy. That contentiousness has led to efforts to improve the overall effectiveness of the policy and associated processes. An RFC entitled: Wikipedia talk:Article titles/RFC-Article title decision practice has been initiated to assess the communities’ understanding of our title decision making policy. As a project that has created or influenced subject specific naming conventions, participants in this project are encouraged to review and participate in the RFC.--Mike Cline (talk) 17:18, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Capitalisation (French operas)
See current discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/France and French-related articles, which may trigger that current guidance of this naming convention may need to be updated. Please discuss there, not here. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:17, 14 December 2020 (UTC)


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Talk:Night Trap

Incorrect section about UK ban.
There's a line in the article that states that Night Trap was banned in the UK. This was never the case, Night Trap was never banned in the UK. The line in question also has a reference to GamerPro (Jan 1995), I've found the magazine in question and the text is a bit confused, its states "...it will also be re-released in the UK, where it was previously banned with a 15-17 rating.", there are a number of things wrong with this.
 * The UK doesn't have a 15-17 rating. It has a 15 rating.
 * In 1993 Night Trap was rated as 15 by the BBFC, which means it was legally allowed to be sold. i.e. not banned by the body that had the power to ban it.
 * A separate reliable source Mega, lists the official UK software charts in its November 1993 issue, and Night Trap is number 2 in the Mega CD sales chart.

I can't find any other sources to back up the "banned in the UK" claim, all the other sources and evidence point to it being wrong. If we believe that it was banned, somehow, a rated game was banned and this banned game managed to make it to the top of the sales charts and stay there for months.

I'm going to remove the line and its reference as its obviously the journalist getting the wrong end of the stick. - X201 (talk) 11:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

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GA push?
With a 25th anniversary re-release just announced for this game, anyone interested in pushing for GA status? I may put some work towards the page. TarkusAB 20:04, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Did a whole bunch, if someone wants to work on Reception that would be nice. Maybe I'll get to it someday. TarkusAB  19:40, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, I got to it. TarkusAB  16:08, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Screaming Villains in the infobox
An IP user has added Screaming Villains in the developer section of the infobox a number of times. Each time it has been removed by myself or other editors. To explain the situation for the IP user. We have set rules about which developers appear in the infobox, developers of re-releases only appear in the infobox if the game has MAJOR differences from the game when it was originally released. I can't find any source that states that the Screaming Villains version of this game changes the gameplay, adds content or presents the game in a efferent way. Without a reliable source that states this, it can't go in the infobox. - X201 (talk) 07:38, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Correct. Per Template:Infobox video game, ports should not be mentioned in the developer field but in the article text instead. Even in cases of major differences, I think that's more reason to not include it. Given the notability of this game being tied to its original release history, it doesn't make sense to add any developer there other than the original. There is a section of the article dedicated to the port, mentioning the developer there is enough. TarkusAB  09:43, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Edits to summary section (Nov 2017)
Figure it's better to have a conversation here rather than in edit summaries. Just want to explain what's going on with my recent edits: The summary section of the article is quite long and has a lot of technical details in it that are not all that important to understanding the overall notability of this game. And all of the information in the summary is (or can be) properly stated and cited in the appropriate sections below on gameplay, production and reception.

I question whether it's actually all that important to put in the summary that all the filming was done in 1987, for example - how does that establish notability? I agree it's important to discuss how Night Trap grew out of a prototype with a similar premise used specifically to obtain funding from Hasbro - that's core to its notability. But unless the WikiProject's standards have changed significantly in the last couple of years, my understanding was that we should still try to keep the summary as lean as possible and relegate non-essential details to the appropriate article sections.

For disclosure: I am the son of one of the lead developers on this game. I know almost as well as anyone about most of its development history. Not trying to use that as a "one-up" or anything - just mentioning it in case there was any concern that I'm just a random joe who came here to try to vandalize anything. Thanks. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:50, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

 * WP's standards for the lead overall haven't changed, I think we just differ on what we consider to be essential content. I agree that there were some details that were probably not necessary in that paragraph, such as the budget, length of shoot, and Plato's personal issues. However there is some information we seem to hold different opinions on:
 * I think the fact that the filming was done in 1987 is essential. This was a full five years before the game was released, and before the Sega CD was even a thought. Placing this mark in the timeline is important to give the reader this perspective and help illustrate the length of time between production, cancellation, and eventual release.
 * I expanded on the prototype a bit. Your edit mentions the system, the prototype, and the game, but fails to connect them all. The fact that the prototype was made to demonstrate the game to Hasbro and led to striking the deal which led to full Night Trap production is essential. If Hasbro never approved the Nemo, the game would have never entered production. The way you wrote it sounds like it was just any prototype game developed for this random system that Hasbro canned.
 * Your edit does not make it clear that Digital Pictures was founded alongside the acquisition of Night Trap by someone who worked on the game before. The way you wrote it, it sounds like they were just any company that came in and bought it up. I still haven't worked this piece back in.
 * I think the other edits are OK. TarkusAB talk 20:53, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I probably oversimplified that stuff a bit. Thanks for adding back in the details that establish why those elements are notable.  And good point on the filming, though in that context it feels to me more like a random fact.  I think for the 1987 filming bit to be more relevant to the lead, we should specifically point out in the Digital Pictures sentence how the game saw release 5 years later.  (I went ahead and did this.) — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:58, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree the 1987 wording sounds awkward and can be written better. TarkusAB talk 21:02, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Source

 * https://web.archive.org/web/20041010222923/http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/june03/dumbestmoments/index6.shtml
 * Already used in article, the source is titled "VHS: The Future of Gaming" TarkusAB talk 20:19, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Accuracy of Plot summary
the Plot section ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Trap#Plot ) includes: "What the gang does not know is the house is infested with Augers,   vampiric beings that need blood to survive. The Martin family themselves     are in the process of becoming vampires. "

But this doesn't seem to follow the actual plot present in the game. The Martin family members seem to be pretty well depicted as being vampires outright, or something similar, and not making any sort of transformation. There's multiple hints and context clues given to the audience/player that the family is ageless or immortal (or much older than the appear to be).

Kelly (Plato's character) outright tells the control team she thinks the family is literally vampires later in the game.

There's also dialog that explains the Augers aren't vampires, but a different (albeit related) sort of creature altogether. I don't think it was cited in older edits of the article, but it did come up previously in a (now archived) portion of the talk section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Night_Trap/Archive_1#YouTube_link

[quote] Watch the playthrough video. When the game clock reaches 17 minutes Plato's character says, "I think these might be vampires we're up against here." She and the others also call them Augs and Augers. There's also some dialogue in the video at the 22-minute mark, including:

"What is an Auger?"

"A vampire victim who's been half-bled and left there to die."

"The poor creatures have just enough blood to survive, but not enough to become vampires."

"Vampires, you gotta be jivin' me! Let's cuff these freaks and drag 'em downtown!"

--jh51681 23:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC) [/quote] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kool kitty89 (talk • contribs) 12:55, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

 * I've fixed the inaccuracy about the Martin family being "in the process of becoming vampires." I don't follow what your issue is with calling the Augers "vampiric beings", since that phrase is perfectly suited to your description of them: "aren't vampires, but a different (albeit related) sort of creature". Martin IIIa (talk) 13:33, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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Fab numbers
Fabs are often sorted by numbers: Fab 12, Fab 13, Fab 14, and so on. This sounds like every fab founded will get new number, independently from which company founded the fab. Maybe someone can explain the fab numeration system? Thanks, Abdull 85.72.38.12 (talk) 19:31, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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Shouldn't this article be moved to the non-slang Fabrication plant? 66.166.141.94 (talk) 04:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

History of Each Fab
As it seems to be a reoccuring theme, having a history for each fab might be nice. Along with personal comments from those who work[ed] there. 192.55.52.4 23:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Merging
I'm going to merge into Foundry (electronics) and include a mention at the top that fab is an alternate term. RJFJR 23:28, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

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New and stupid user who favours the pooish side.

Lakini's Juice!!!youtube page

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