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Cold Pizza

Cold Pizza was an American television sports morning talk show that aired weekdays on ESPN2 from 2003 to 2007. The show's style was more akin to Good Morning America than SportsCenter's straight news and highlights format. It included daily sports news, interviews with sports journalists, athletes, and personalities, and an assortment of other sports and non-sports topics.

The original co-hosts were Jay Crawford and Kit Hoover, with Thea Andrews serving as correspondent, and Leslie Maxie as the news anchor. The ESPN executive in charge of the program was James Cohen, who helped develop ESPN's popular talk show, Pardon the Interruption. The show was part of ESPN Original Entertainment overseen by ESPN programming chief Mark Shapiro. The executive producer/creator was Brian Donlon and he was assisted by Consulting Producer Steve Friedman, who oversaw NBC's Today Show during some of its most innovative and highly rated periods.

When it launched on October 20, 2003, it started at 7 am ET, but moved to 8 am just short of its first anniversary in an attempt to get male viewers who may be awaking a little later. The show repeated at 10 am for the West Coast and often updated the show for the west coast feed.

Although Cold Pizza was simulcast on ESPN2HD, it was not produced or presented in high definition. On October 2, 2006, DirecTV became the presenting sponsor with the show titled as Cold Pizza presented by DirecTV.

In the fall of 2004, in an attempt to heighten the sports news content of the program, newspaper columnists Woody Paige and Skip Bayless were added in a series of segments called 1st & 10. Moderated by Crawford, the segment aired four times per show covering 10 topics (just like in football where teams have four downs to cover 10 yards for a first down). Paige and Bayless would debate, discuss and cajole each other on the sports headlines of the day. By December 2004, re-edited segments and new wraps were transformed into a new half-hour program using the same name which aired on ESPN at 3 pm ET.

In March 2005, change came in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Kit Hoover and Thea Andrews were replaced by SportsCenter anchor Dana Jacobson. At the same time, Brian Donlon left as executive producer of Cold Pizza and 1st & 10 and was replaced by SportsCenter veteran producer Mike McQuade. More change followed, on November 28, 2006, Paige left the program citing health and personal reasons, leaving New York to return to the Denver Post, where he had been a longtime writer. He was not the last Cold Pizza member to leave the New York City studio location. In May 2007, the entire program shifted production to ESPN's Bristol headquarters. The final edition of Cold Pizza aired on May 4, 2007. The following Monday, May 7, the show was replaced by a very similar program, ESPN First Take, which initially maintained many features of Cold Pizza, but instead produced in high definition at ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. First Take (by this time with ESPN dropped from the show name) would eventually return to New York City in 2018 at the newly reconstructed Pier 17 at South Street Seaport.

Broadcast history
Cold Pizza was notable for having its own version of ESPN's BottomLine, as their ticker not only gave sports scores, but also news headlines and weather forecasts from sports cities and is shown in its own color scheme. It also functioned differently: it constantly scrolled, while other ESPN "BottomLines" usually "flip" through the different scores, scrolling only for long statistical lines. This graphic was discontinued in the summer of 2006, when the "BottomLine" was changed to resemble those of other ESPN programs.

The program has gone on site for games and events quite often. On the road shows have included trips to Super Bowl XXXIX and XL and the Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas. In 2004 the show had a regular series "Cold Pizza on Campus" where it went to colleges across the country big (such as Michigan State) and small (Mount Union College, a Division III football powerhouse. In an effort to save costs Friday's shows eventually originated from the College GameDay site. They went to New Orleans on September 25, 2006 for the re-opening of the Louisiana Superdome when the New Orleans Saints returned home to play the Atlanta Falcons.

The program also visited non-sports venues such as the Golden Globes and 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston and Republican Convention in New York (which was held at Madison Square Garden directly across from Cold Pizza's Manhattan studio). The show's coverage of the intersection of politics generated positive reviews and media attention for the program. Appearing on Capital Report on CNBC on July 21, Cold Pizza Executive Producer Brian Donlon said “We’re a sports network and what we try to do is sit in the middle of the intersection of sports and sports lifestyles. If you look at the list of speakers, the list of delegates, some of the events, some of the parties -– there’s a Yankees-Red Sox game that kicks off the Democratic National Convention. The intersection of sports and politics is rich with stories and we’re going to be there to cover each and every one of them.”

Guests on the show have included Senator John McCain, Senator John Edwards, Rep.Dick Gephardt, Hank Aaron, rock star Bob Seger, who also served as the show's NBA analyst during the 2004 NBA Finals which featured the rocker's hometown Detroit Pistons, Pete Rose, Dennis Rodman, José Canseco, Senator Tom Davis, Mike Krzyzewski, Nick Lachey, X-Play Co-Host Morgan Webb and even the man that caught Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball.

On January 25, 2007 MediaWeek reported that ESPN would announce Cold Pizza's move from New York to the ESPN campus in Bristol, Connecticut. In addition to being able to cut costs and produce the program in high definition, the new locale allowed more live appearances by ESPN analysts (as opposed to satellite or telephone interviews). However, the move reduced the amount of live appearances by celebrities and non-sports figures. The official chronology shows that Cold Pizza ended on May 4, and was replaced by a new show, ESPN First Take, on May 7, though nearly all of the former show's features were incorporated into the new show.

Format
From the show's inception through 2005, its format was similar to traditional network television morning shows such as Good Morning America and The Today Show, featuring discussion among the hosts on entertainment and sports topics. After poor initial ratings, the format was changed to be similar to that of SportsCenter and Pardon the Interruption, including sports headlines, analysis, and debate. Because of the format change, hosts Hoover and Maxie were let go due to lack of a sports journalism background, and Jacobson, Paige, and Bayless joined. Co-host Andrews was transferred by ESPN to Los Angeles to co-host ESPN2's new evening entertainment news show, ESPN Hollywood. That show was cancelled in January 2006, and Andrews remained with ESPN until November 2006, when she left the company to work as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight.

The most recent format of the program featured the introduction graphic introducing the hosts and a show rundown. Following that was "The Top Story" of the sports world and an appropriate guest, followed by the "Morning Headlines," which included about four or five news items from around sports. The headline segment was repeated at the top of the second hour.

At 20 and 40 past the first and second hour, Crawford, Bayless and Paige (or a guest contributor after Paige's departure) were featured in segments entitled "1st and 10," which were edited into a stand-alone show that aired later in the day. The "Morning Slice," a look at offbeat sports video, was also part of the program.

Personalities

 * Skip Bayless: (Contributor, September 9, 2004 – May 4, 2007)
 * Jay Crawford: (Co-host, October 20, 2003 – May 4, 2007)
 * Dana Jacobson: (Co-host, March 2005 – May 4, 2007)
 * Thea Andrews: (Co-host, October 20, 2003 – 2005)
 * Kit Hoover: (Co-host, October 20, 2003 – 2005)
 * Leslie Maxie: (Co-host, October 20, 2003 – 2004)
 * Woody Paige: (Contributor, August 12, 2004 – November 28, 2006)
 * Linda Cohn: (Co-host, 2006)
 * Jay Harris (sportscaster): (Co-host, 2005)
 * Tom Rinaldi: (Co-host, 2006–2007)
 * Ahmad Rashad: (Co-host, 2006)
 * Jeremy Schaap: (Co-host, 2005–2006)
 * Matt Winer: (Co-host, 2006)
 * Josh Elliott: (Co-host, 2006–2007)

Daily

 * Morning Headlines: This was a segment at the very beginning of each hour with Jacobson and Crawford run down the biggest headlines in the sports world.
 * Here's the Latest: This segment was similar to Morning Headlines, but this informs viewers on the latest injury update and the latest on a developing story.
 * The Top Story: This was at the beginning of the show when they go in-depth about a developing story and discuss it with insiders on the situation.
 * 1st and 10: This segment appeared four different times during the program, when Crawford, Bayless, and a guest analyst debate some of the hottest topics in sports. This also airs at 3:00 p.m. ET on ESPN as its own show, and will continue on ESPN First Take.
 * Morning Slice: This was when one of the hosts delivers an off the wall story. Sometimes called "Suzuki Way of Life."
 * Top Plays:This segment appeared at different times throughout the show when they run down the top five plays of the day.
 * Cover Two: This was when they are joined by two NFL columnists from all over the country to discuss different news and notes.
 * MLB Doubleheader: This was when they are joined by two MLB columnists from all over the country to discuss different news and notes.
 * Full Court Press: This was when they are joined by an NBA columnist from all over the country to discuss different news and notes.
 * NBA News & Notes: This was when they are joined by another NBA columnist from all over the country to discuss different news and notes.
 * SportsNation Question of the Day: This was a multiple-choice question for which fans get to vote at ESPN.com. The hosts give the result of the vote at the end of the show.
 * NBA Minute: Highlights from the previous nights best games usually about 10 to 12 seconds per game for a total of 5 or 6 highlights.

Weekly

 * Couch Potato: Every Friday, Howie Schwab, ESPN’s resident trivia guru, ran down the weekend's sports television viewing and Howie rates each of his choices with bags of chips, with five bags being the highest rating.
 * The Gamers: Reviews of video games, also on Fridays. Sundance DiGiovanni, the president of Major League Gaming, had been the contributor to this segment.
 * Gizmo Girl: This segment appeared weekly when they are joined by a guest to discuss a type of product that relates to sports.
 * The Great Throwdini: This appeared every Friday during football season, when The Great Throwdini picks three NFL games by throwing knives blind folded at the teams logo.
 * Plays of the Week: The top plays of the week, set to music.
 * The Must List: Personal picks from Entertainment Weekly editor Peter Bonventre, every Thursday.
 * Sports Doc: This was the weekly segment when Cold Pizza's sports medicine contributor Jonathan Glashow, MD gives analysis on one of the big injuries in the sports world. During the NFL season, it is called "Diagnosis NFL" and he is joined by Newsday columnist Bob Glauber.

Former

 * When the show began, former NBA all-star Darryl Dawkins served as the gadget, fitness and relationship guru in a segment called Planet Lovetron. That was discontinued early in the show's run.
 * Zach Leibowitz also contributed to the show at the halfway point when he mocked sideline reporters by grading Crawford and Hoover's performance in the first half of the show. This was also discontinued early on.
 * After ESPN Hollywood was cancelled, Thea Andrews briefly hosted a segment of the latest news of the convergence between the sports and entertainment worlds called Sports and Hollywood which began in April 2006. The tightened focus on sports news resulted in an end to that segment in November 2006; however, actors and other performers still stopped by the Cold Pizza studios from time to time to pitch their projects and share their love of sports.

Controversy
In February 2006, Texas Tech head basketball coach Bobby Knight was promoting a new reality show for ESPN entitled Knight School. Jacobson asked Knight at the end of the interview if he was interested in returning to his old coaching job at Indiana University. This made Knight angry, which ultimately led to him walking out of the interview. Jacobson was not at work the next day, but not because of the Knight incident; she had a planned vacation day, according to the network.

Pre-emptions and cancellations

 * One day in October 2005, the entire show was not seen. Crawford explained that unspecified technical difficulties made the show impossible to produce that day. ESPNEWS was simulcast on ESPN2 instead.
 * Twice, Cold Pizza's rebroadcast has ended early due to breaking news: on September 27, 2006, due to conflicting reports as to whether Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens had attempted to commit suicide; and on November 17, 2006, when college football coach Bo Schembechler died from a heart attack. In both cases, SportsCenter was simulcast in the remainder of the scheduled time slot.
 * On the other hand, an altered, non-commercial version of the show was simulcast by ESPN on January 22, 2007 during the usual re-air slot, due to the resignation of Dallas Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells that was disclosed just before the end of the live show. This altered program ran from noon to 1:30 p.m. ET.
 * On January 8, 2007 a mysterious gas-like odor was detected throughout New York City. Several buildings, including the Manhattan Center (where the show was produced) were evacuated. Cold Pizza was replaced with a simulcast of ESPNEWS, with the Mike & Mike Bottom Line informing viewers that "Cold Pizza will return Tuesday."

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Valleyview

Valleyview may refer to:

Places

 * Valleyview, Ohio, US
 * Valleyview, Alberta, Canada
 * Valleyview, Kamloops, Canada, BC
 * Valleyview Provincial Park, in the list of provincial parks in Nova Scotia, Canada

Schools

 * Valleyview Elementary School (disambiguation)

 * Valleyview Centennial School (Brandon, Manitoba), Canada

Other uses

 * Valleyview (microarchitecture), used in Intel Atom processors

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Evgen Gvaladze

Evgen (Geno) Gvaladze (ევგენ (გენო) ღვალაძე) (May 13, 1900 – October 15, 1937) was a Georgian lawyer, journalist and politician, and one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet national-liberation movement in Georgia of 1921-1937.

He was born in a small village Sveri near the mining town of Chiatura, Imereti (Western Georgia), into the family of a Georgian retired cavalry officer Artem Gvaladze (1862-1918). Gvaladze was a descendant of David II, King of imereti in 1784-1790.

Having graduated from the Gymnasium at the Tbilisi State University in 1920, he joined the National Army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in July, 1920 and took part in the battles against the invading Red and Turkish armies in Kojory-Tabakhmela (near Tbilisi) and Batumi in February–March, 1921. On February 20, 1921 Gvaladze was decorated with the Military Cross of "Tetri Giorgi" ("White Giorgi").

After the Bolshevik takeover of the Georgian government, he was demobilized. In 1926 Gvaladze graduated from the Department of Law of the Social-Economic Faculty of the Tbilisi State University (TSU). Since April, 1921 he was involved in the underground activities of the Georgian Menshevik Party to which he was a member in 1917-1923.

In 1926-1932 Gvaladze was a member of the Board of the Defending Lawyers of Georgia, and lectured at the Pedagogical Institute in Gori from 1935 to 1937. His articles were systematically published in the Georgian press of 1916-1928. In 1921-1932 Gvaladzes journalistic papers were published in the Georgian emigrant press also ("Tavisupali Sakartvelo", "Tetri Giorgi", etc. Pseudonyms: "G.", "Geno", etc.). In spite of continuing social activity under the Soviet government, he never abandoned his political positions and led, from 1926, the underground conspirative group of the Georgian national political organization Tetri Giorgi. Earlier, on May 26, 1922, on the fourth anniversary of the independence of Georgia, he was one of the organizers of the first mass anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi and was arrested by the GPU. In 1923, he joined an underground anti-Bolshevik bloc of the Georgian political opposition known as the Committee for Independence of Georgia and represented it in the Kakheti district where he was involved in preparation of an armed rebellion in August, 1924. He was arrested on September 5, 1924, but was released due to a declared amnesty in March, 1925. On August 10, 1937, during the Great Purge, he was rearrested along with his associates from the "Tetri Giorgi" conspirative group and shot in Tbilisi on October 15, 1937.

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Justin Miller (American football)

Justin Matthew Miller (born February 14, 1984) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Clemson Tigers, he was selected by the New York Jets in the second round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played for the Jets from 2005 to 2008, the Oakland Raiders from 2008 to 2009, the Jets again in 2009, and the Detroit Lions in 2012. He was selected to the Pro Bowl with the Jets in 2006.

Early life
Miller attended Owensboro High School in Owensboro, Kentucky. While there, he was a two-time All-State, All-Area, All-Conference, and All-Region pick, and as a senior, he won USA Today All-American Honorable Mention honors. Rated as the #1 or #2 player in the state of Kentucky by numerous publications. Was rated as the #9 Athlete in the Country by Super-Prep as a senior and also the #11 CB in the nation by ESPN. He also starred in track, and was the state long jump champion as a junior, along with running a personal best of 10.48 seconds on the 100 meter dash. Miller also played in two state championship games with Owensboro High School. Miller was a standout Tail Back and even seen time at the QB position while in high school.

College career
While attending Clemson University, Miller played for the Clemson Tigers football team (2001-2004). He was a three-year starter before declaring early for the NFL draft. While at Clemson, Miller managed to finish with 13 interceptions and tied a single season record by recording eight interceptions as a true freshman. Miller also set a single season record against Florida State by returning two kickoffs for touchdowns and racking up 282 return yards, an NCAA record.

First stint with Jets
Miller was drafted in the second round of the 2005 NFL draft (25th pick) by the New York Jets. As a rookie, Justin Miller made his impact as kick returner. He compiled 1,577 yards with a 26.3 yard average along with a touchdown. In 2006, Miller averaged 30.1 yards with 2 touchdowns. On October 1, 2006, in a game versus the Indianapolis Colts, Miller scored the longest touchdown in Jets history at the time (it has since been surpassed by a 106-yard return by Brad Smith), on a 103-yard kick return kicked off by Martin Gramatica. For his efforts, Miller earned a Pro Bowl selection as the AFC's kick returner. During the 2007 Pro Bowl festivities, Miller won the Fastest Man Competition.

On September 18, 2007, the Jets placed Miller on injured reserve due to a season-ending knee injury he suffered in the Jets 20-13 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. The Jets waived Miller on November 11, 2008 after cornerback Ty Law was signed.

Oakland Raiders
Miller was claimed off waivers by the Oakland Raiders on November 12, 2008. In a Thursday Night Football game against the San Diego Chargers, Miller had a 92-yard kick return for a touchdown at the end of the first half. The following week, Miller ran another kick back for a touchdown for 91 yards against the New England Patriots. Miller was named NFL Special Teams Player of the Month for the month of December. After visiting the Tennessee Titans in the off-season, Justin Miller signed a two-year contract with the Oakland Raiders. He was released on September 5, 2009 along with several other players. On September 30, 2009, Miller was re-signed by the Raiders. However, he was released on October 7.

Second stint with Jets
On October 27, 2009, the New York Jets re-signed Miller. He was expected to replace Leon Washington, who had a season-ending injury during week 7 against the Oakland Raiders, as the team's kick returner. However, he was waived on November 28, 2009.

Arizona Cardinals
Miller signed with the Arizona Cardinals on May 3, 2010. Miller competed with LaRod Stephens-Howling for the starting kick return spot, but lost out and was released during final cuts on September 3, 2010.

Detroit Lions
After being out of football for two years, Miller signed with the Detroit Lions. On August 31, 2012, he was released. On October 22, 2012, he was re-signed by the Detroit Lions. On October 30, 2012, he was released after the team acquired wide receiver Mike Thomas from the Jacksonville Jaguars.

NFL statistics

 * Key
 * GP: games played
 * COMB: combined tackles
 * TOTAL: total tackles
 * AST: assisted tackles
 * SACK: sacks
 * FF: forced fumbles
 * FR: fumble recoveries
 * FR YDS: fumble return yards
 * INT: interceptions
 * IR YDS: interception return yards
 * AVG IR: average interception return
 * LNG: longest interception return
 * TD: interceptions returned for touchdown
 * PD: passes defensed

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Erik Reinert is a Norwegian economist in the field of evolutionary economics. He is the founder of the famous site the Other Canon and a professor at Tallin University of Technology. He is also one of the leading experts within the research fields of aid and development and was in 2001 employed by the Norwegian Investor Forum.

During the 1990's evolutionary economics has gained acceptance as an alternative to standard (neo-classical) economic theory. Evolutionary, or Schumpeterian economics, studies the economy as a dynamic process in which human learning, technological change and institutions play a key role. The large TEP-Programme (Technology and Economy) of the OECD brought evolutionary economics into the sphere of public policy in the North, whereas standard neo-classical economics continues to dominate the policy of the same OECD nations towards the South. The aim of Reinert's work is to integrate and develop insights from evolutionary economics into the study of uneven development between North and South.

The Other Canon
The Other Canon is 'Reality Economics', the study of the economy as a real object, not defined in terms of the adoption of core assumptions and techniques. A production-based economic theory where economic development is an intrinsically uneven process, The Other Canon provides tools for economic development and industrial policy.

External References

 * University of Oslo reference on Erik Reinert
 * Evoloutionary Economics - The Other Canon
 * University of Oslo - Centre for Development and the Environment
 * Tallinn University of Technology

 * What precisely does "alternative text" mean? It should be intregrated with the article, to the extent that this is possible.  "The Other Canon" should get its own entry, and the remarks on evolutionary economics should go into the respective article.  This is a biographical page, after all.  Finally, I would contest that objectively speaking, Reinert is simply, or even mainly, an "evolutionary economist", although a reference is of course appropriate. Clossius 06:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Ndwandwe–Zulu War

...introduced the assegai... in conflict with the Shaka page which says he introduced a different weapon.

Bad title
This page should be titled Zulu-Nwande War, not Zulu civil war, ass this last almost almost always refers to the wars between different factions within Zululand in the 1880s, arising out the British imposed settlement after the war of 1879 Jdorney 20:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Wizzy… ☎   20:45, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Iklwa not assegai
I believe King Chaka introduced the stabbing spear called the iklwa (named after the sound it made when pulled from the body of a victim) and not the assegai. The light throwing javelin was reportedly detested by Chaka, plus the assegai had been around long before Chaka or even the zulu clan. I won't edit this myself, as I haven't procured any sources at the moment, but I strongly suggest fixing this article. HOLLA Scott Free 22:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

WPMILHIST Assessment
Sources/references would be nice. Also, if you don't have data for troop numbers or casualties, you can leave those elements blank, and the rows won't appear on the infobox at all. It's not a rule, but a generally followed guideline, I think. LordAmeth 21:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

History
Shaka 169.239.209.12 (talk) 14:45, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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AAR Corp

AAR Corp. is an American provider of aircraft maintenance services to commercial and government customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. The company employs 5,000 people worldwide.

, the company operates major maintenance facilities in Indianapolis, Miami, Oklahoma City, Rockford, Illinois, Trois Rivieres, Quebec and Windsor, Ontario.

History
The company was founded by Ira Allen Eichner in 1951, to supply radios and other equipment to the commercial aviation industry. I.A. Allen Industrial was incorporated in 1955, renamed Allen Aircraft Radio (AAR) in 1962, and became AAR CORP. in 1970. Also, in 1969, AAR began its aircraft maintenance business in Oklahoma City. In 1965, AAR expanded to Europe and opened a Singapore office in 1982.

AAR organized its Aircraft Turbine Center, Inc. in 1979 after future CEO David P. Storch, Eichner's son-in-law, joined the company.

David P. Storch was CEO from 1996 to 2018. In 2018, John M. Holmes became CEO.

In 2017, AAR was chosen as the prime contractor for a 15-year, $909 million landing gear award to provide total supply-chain management to support all U.S. Air Force and contractor requisitions received for all C-130, KC-135 & E-3 landing gear parts.

In September 2019, the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command awarded AAR a $118M contract for procuring, modifying, and delivering two C-40 aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps.

During the Trump administration, AAR quadrupled its lobbying expenditures. The company spent large sums at Trump-owned properties with the intent to get Trump to view the company more favorably. From the time Trump took office until October 2020, AAR obtained 10 new federal contracts worth a total of $1.35 billion.

In April 2021, AAR signed a multi-year agreement with United Airlines to provide heavy maintenance services in Rockford, Illinois. AAR plans to add up to 250 more aviation maintenance technician (AMT) jobs at the facility to meet increased demand from United.

Financial Trends
Annual financial highlights (U.S. Dollars in millions except per share data):

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Howard J. Lamade Stadium

Howard J. Lamade Stadium (pronounced "LAM-a-dee") is a baseball stadium in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Each year, along with Little League Volunteer Stadium, it hosts the Little League World Series. The playing field is two-thirds the size of a professional baseball field, with 60 ft basepaths, a 46 ft mound, and after modification in 2006, outfield fences at 225 ft, forming one-fourth of a true circle. Much of the capacity of the stadium is bench seating, while large berms surrounding the stadium provide additional seating allowing over 40,000 spectators.

History
Originally called Howard J. Lamade Memorial Field, the ballpark opened for the tournament. Howard J. Lamade was the son of Grit newspaper founder Dietrick Lamade. The younger Lamade was a vice president at Grit Publishing, and served on the board of directors for Little League Baseball in the 1950s. A donation from Grit Publishing was used to purchase land where the stadium is located. The ballpark received its current name in 1968, when the original wood and steel stands were replaced with a concrete stadium.

Renovations
Lights were added in 1992 to facilitate night game play in conjunction with expansion of the series to round robin play.

In 2006, the fences were moved back 20 ft to 225 ft to all fields. This was done because home runs were becoming too common. Other renovations included the extension of the stadium roofs to the end of the grandstands, and some bleachers replaced with individual seats with backs, increasing seating of that type from approximately 600 to 1500.

On August 19,, Lamade Stadium set an attendance record for the game between La Grange, Kentucky, and Clinton County, Pennsylvania, with 41,848 people in the stands and on the hill. It was later broken on August 29,, when Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, defeated Pearland, Texas, with 45,716 in attendance.

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Diagram showing the 'Loading gold into carbon' part of the Carbon in Pulp process.

Comes with writing on the diagram in English.

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I don't see any reason to sort in this way rather than this way. We are well beyond the stage where by-occupation categories need to be set apart from the others that will be in every "FOOian people" category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:25, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Can someone who understands this template please adjust it on Category:Akan people by occupation so that it no longer appears in Category:Akan people? Timrollpickering (talk) 10:32, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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I found some linty markup at Category:People from the Republic of Genoa by occupation that resulted from an empty Nationality parameter, and I copied and expanded the markup to Category:Sandbox/Lint, where the error behavior and its workaround can be seen. The template should be modified to behave gracefully on an empty Nationality parameter, and I put in the Goose example as well to spotlight that to someone who doesn't already know what's going on, usage is not explained very well. —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:55, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Douglas Darkwater

 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 Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Douglas Darkwater
Sixteen Google hits, and not all of them are him. Definite vanity. Denni ☯ 02:19, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

 * D vanity advertisment. Fawcett5 04:12, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. — Phil Welch 04:13, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Very few painters become notable in under 5 years. Xcali 06:31, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 09:22, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. - Etacar11 23:38, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:E. A. Wallis Budge

Word of praise
I'd like to thank the author for this beautifully-written and very informative article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.139.41 (talk) 23:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Budge's parentage
According to one of my instructors in College, Budge owed his position in the British Museum to the fact he was the illegitimate son of one of the Kings of England (which one has long ago slipped my mind), & many of the works published under his name were ghost-written by BM staffers.

True? False? Persistent academic rumor? Can this be documented? -- llywrch 02:19, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

I believe it is well-documented that he was illegitimate, but I really don't know anything else off-hand. As for the ghost-writing, I have no idea, but frankly would not be at all surprised if that were the case. Other well-known Egyptologits who claim a massive output of texts and hold senior levels of responsibility are rumoured to have done the same... (naming no names...) —Nefertum17 07:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

No one knows who Budge's father was, though he certainly was illegitimate, something he obviously avoided talking about in public. The wilder guesses, such as that his father was King Edward VII or Prime Minister Gladstone, all derive from the fact that no one could accept that a poor, illegitimate, working class boy with no connections could gain the help of a man such as Gladstone without being related to him. It is true that Gladstone helped Budge to take his degree at Cambridge University, and Budge, a life-long Liberal, always talked up his relation to Gladstone. Yet, Gladstone was just one of several prominent men who pitched in to help Budge, and not even the most active of them. John Stainer, W.H Smith and Smith's business partner William Lethbridge were the driving force behind Budge's escape from his clerical position in Smith's business, and none of them were his father, either. As for the notion that Budge had his works ghosted, again, there is absolutely no proof of this. Budge was a workaholic, he was driven by a need to prove himself, he was a professional writer who wrote many fairly similar books for a popular audience, and he was prone to rush books into print without sufficient attention to details. Not only is there no proof for the ghosting, there is proof that he used his publishing know-how to help his departmental juniors and some of his friends to push their works through the press. One must be very careful when listening to rumours concerning Budge. He had many enemies who became very prominent men, and who trained another generation of prominent men, who lost no time in spreading a wealth of crazy stories about him. He could be a hard man to deal with, but his enemies were just as bad. The difference is that they won the war for posterity's ear. (The above was written by 194.170.173.3 07:09, 18 December 2005)

 * Heh. I can make do quite well if these rumors happen to be true (& I'm glad someone stepped forth add some information about them, even just to say that there is no solid evidence for or against them), but I wish he taken more care with his writing. Having read his A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia a couple of times & finding that he too often express one judgement on an issue then a few pages later will contradict himself, I hesitate to rely on any unsubstantiated comment he makes. -- llywrch 01:58, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The claim that Budge was the son of a King of England is not very plausible. He was born in July 1857, when Queen Victoria had been on the throne for 20 years. There was no King. What we know about Prince Albert would not fit with his impregnating a young woman whose father was a waiter at a hotel in Bodmin. It may be that she lived at the hotel and encountered some other wealthy person there. The future King Edward VII was still 14 years old when Budge was conceived in 1856, and was probably still on a tight rein, which included being caned by his father for doing badly in his lessons. We know that Prince Albert left his deathbed to reprimand him for spending three nights with an actress in 1861.NRPanikker (talk) 21:13, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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=Early life= E.A. Wallis Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall to Mary Ann Budge, a young woman whose father was a waiter in a Bodmin hotel. Budge's father has never been identified. Budge left Cornwall as a young man, and eventually came to live with his grandmother and aunt in London.

 * [?? not by the above:''Budge became interested in languages before he was ten years old, but given that he left school at the age of twelve in 1869 to work as a clerk at the firm of W.H. Smith, he mostly studied Hebrew and Syriac with a volunteer tutor. Budge became interested in learning Assyrian in 1872, when he also began to spend time in the British Museum. Budge was introduced to the Keeper of Oriental Antiquities, Samuel Birch, and his assistant, the Assyriologist George Smith, and Smith helped Budge occasionally with his Assyrian, whereas Birch allowed the young man to study cuneiform tablets in his office and obtained books for him to read from the British Library. ]

From 1869 to 1878 Budge spent whatever free time he had from his job at W.H. Smith studying Assyrian, and he often went to St. Paul's Cathedral over his lunch break to study during these years. When the organist of St. Paul's, John Stainer, noticed Budge's hard work, he decided to help the boy to realize his dream of working in a profession that would allow him to study Assyrian, and Stainer contacted Budge's employer, the Conservative Member of Parliament W.H. Smith, as well as the former Liberal Prime Minister W.E. Gladstone, and asked them to help his young friend. Both Smith and Gladstone agreed to help Stainer to raise money for Budge to attend Cambridge University, where Budge studied Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Ethiopic and Arabic from 1878 to 1883, continuing to study Assyrian on his own. Budge worked closely during these years with the famous scholar of Semitic languages William Wright, among others.

=Career at the British Museum= Budge entered the British Museum in the re-named Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in 1883, and though he was initially appointed to the Assyrian section, he soon transferred to the Egyptian section, where he began to study the ancient Egyptian language with Samuel Birch until the latter's death in 1885. Budge continued to study ancient Egyptian with the new Keeper, Peter le Page Renouf, until Renouf's retirement in 1891. Between 1886 and 1891, Budge was deputed by the British Museum to investigate why cuneiform tablets from British Museum sites in Iraq, which were supposedly being guarded by local agents of the museum, were showing up in the collections of London antiquities dealers. These collections of tablets were being purchased by the British Museum at London market rates, and the Principal Librarian of the museum wished Budge to find the source of the leaks and to seal it, as well as establishing ties to Iraqi antiquities dealers to buy whatever was available in the local market at much reduced prices. Budge also travelled to Istanbul to obtain from the Ottoman government a permit to excavate these Iraqi sites in order to obtain whatever tablets remained in them. Over the years, Budge also sought to establish ties with local antiquities dealers in Egypt and Coptic and Greek manuscripts, as well as significant collections of hieroglyphic papyri. Perhaps his most famous acquisitions from this time were the beautiful Papyrus of Ani, a fragment of a lost work by Aristotle, and the Tell al-Amarna tablets. Budge's prolific and well-planned acquisitions gave the British Museum arguably the best Ancient Near East collections in the world, and the Assyriologist Archibald Sayce remarked to Budge in 1900, ". . . What a revolution you have effected in the Oriental Department of the Museum! It is now a veritable history of civilization in a series of object lessons . . ." }}some of last sentences added subsequenly{{

 * Most of 3 paragraphs were added. Look at the history. The accuracy needs to be checked. The reason is that the excerpt about Aristotle has been here for a 1 1-half year time. If it was done on purpose, then the entire additions need to be verified. (after sticking in the dagger, giving some final twitches to it(with the addition)). (from the SonoranDesert(Arizona)- -Mmcannis 17:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The comments about Petrie
Were completely hilarious and if true should prove just how non scientific, fringe based and bias our western society is capable of. I also find it quite odd how Budge's work is always referenced (even by his peers) and yet his work is classified as "outdated"? A serious and concise analysis (and let's throw in a non bias for extra measure) of his work needs to be performed for overall accuracy and literal relativity by comparison to so-called "respected" egyptologists. Nuwaubian Hotep 01:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Budge's work is referenced on the British Museums site. I find it hard to believe that they are urging his work to be avoided all-together, as this page suggested. Some of his works are outdated, that is true, but I find it hard to believe that they would say that the work done in their Museum was trash. Why would I visit the British Museum if past work of curators was considered trash? That doesn't make sense. Budge was an honest man and that burns some people up.

If they were urging his work to be avoided, then why would they list him on the recommended reading list at the British Museum?

http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/departments/ancient_egypt_and_sudan/reading_list.aspx#general

 * The British Museum notes that most of his work has been superseded, but lists him for one title. Given all the changes in archeology, which has become a more scientific practice dependent on excavation in place, and a variety of new technologies, it is not unusual for Budge's work to be replaced by more recent scholarship, nor for the Museum to recommend scholarship conforming to current academic practice. There have also been advances in linguistics and translations, etc.Parkwells (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

The 2008 Encyclopedia Britannica uses Budge's work as a reference under death in Ancient Egypt and refer to him as the renowned Orientalist in the following statement: According to the renowned Orientalist Sir Wallis Budge, the Egyptians saw the heart as the “source of life and being,” and any damage to it would have resulted in a “second death” in which everything (ka, ba, khu, and ren) would be destroyed. In some sarcophagi one can still read the pathetic plea “spare us a second death.”

It hardly seems like his work "should be avoided" as someone had suggested. Lucky (talk) 01:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

 * He can be both recognized as a "renowned Orientalist", which he was in his time, in a general work and cited for a statement that has likely been supported by recent work, AND superseded as a preferred choice for academic work on Egyptology - nearly another century of work has been accomplished.Parkwells (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

NPOV
"...we should remember that he was unusual among scholars ..."

What is this, a lecture? Change the POV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.203.251.157 (talk) 07:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Images
and have been deleted, anyone know why? Replacements would be handy. Fæ (talk) 17:17, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Mau or miu, miit or miut?
Please answer, why according to Sir Budge an Egyptian word for cat was "mau" or it was a word for Ra's personification into a tom-cat? Why other sources give other words? Thank you in advance, -- Zara-arush (talk) 21:43, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know but if User:Harmakheru still looks in you can get an answer from somebody qualified to do so. Failing that you could ask the nice people on Glyphdoctors] forum. I would be interested to know if the spelling used reflects to some degree the characteristic voices of a cat, in this case meow rather than purr. The naming of cats, not just the generic species name, must be of some importance and I'm sure EAWB would not have treated the matter lightly being aware of how sensitive such issues can be. Yt95 (talk) 08:45, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Literary and social career
I have been reading this article and have found that, for the most part, it is quite well-written. However, I wonder about a sentence in the section "Literary and social career" -- in the 4th paragraph. It is: "It is hardly surprising that the low-born Budge was fascinated not only by the company of literary men, but also by that of the aristocracy." This sentence seems to be explaining why he spent so much time cultivating friendships with literary men and aristocrats. I don't think the facts of his birth and childhood would necessarily make him "fascinated by the company of literary men, but also by that of the aristocracy". Perhaps he was fascinated by them because they were educated, interesting, and articulate, not because he was "low-born". (By the way, to Americans, "low-born" is a strange adjective.) I also think "It is hardly surprising" is one writer's opinion, and I thought Wikepedia articles were supposed to be factual, and that expressions of opinion were discouraged. If someone who knows about either Wikepedia editing or E. A. Wallis Budge agrees, perhaps he or she could edit this section.CorinneSD (talk) 00:01, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

 * Agree that such a statement has to be cited to a specific source for that opinion, which should be in quotes if it is one author's opinion from an RS. It is otherwise a dated idea of class assumptions that should not be included if unsourced.Parkwells (talk) 14:53, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

WW2 Pictograph Book by E. A. Wallis Budge
On ebay I saw a book reported to be by E. A. Wallis Budge titled World War II A Complete Pictographic History. It has a synopsis which reports that the work bears witness from "September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945." I was just wondering how is this possible when he died in 1934?! contact me coopaubery@aol.com, thankx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.115.23.31 (talk) 19:17, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

 * The eBay listing is still available online. The text changes one word in the title from "Pictographic" to "Photographic." The ISBN is the same as a book of the same name by Hal Buell. My explanation is that whoever carelessly transcribed the title for the heading of the eBay listing also copied the wrong author's name from whatever handlist he was using. NRPanikker (talk) 16:13, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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Is there a list of books he wrote? It will be good for the article.

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Ferrocerium

Ferrocerium (also known in Europe as Auermetall) is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy of mischmetal (cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, other trace lanthanides and some iron – about 95% lanthanides and 5% iron) hardened by blending in oxides of iron and/or magnesium. When struck with a harder material, friction produces hot fragments that oxidize rapidly when exposed to the oxygen in the air, producing sparks that can reach temperatures of 3315 C. The effect is due to the remarkably low ignition temperature of cerium, between 150 and 180 °C.

Ferrocerium has many commercial applications, such as the ignition source for lighters, strikers for gas welding and cutting torches, deoxidization in metallurgy, and ferrocerium rods. Because of ferrocerium's ability to ignite in adverse conditions, rods of ferrocerium (also called ferro rods, spark rods, and flint-spark-lighters ) are commonly used as an emergency firelighting device in survival kits. The ferrocerium is referred to as a "flint" in this case, as both are used in fire lighting. However, ferrocerium and natural flint have opposite mechanical operation.

Discovery

Ferrocerium alloy was invented in 1903 by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach. It takes its name from its two primary components: iron (from ferrum), and the rare-earth element cerium, which is the most prevalent of the lanthanides in the mixture. Except for the extra iron and magnesium oxides added to harden it, the mixture is approximately the combination found naturally in tailings from thorium mining, which Auer von Welsbach was investigating. The pyrophoric effect is dependent on the brittleness of the alloy and its low autoignition temperature.

Composition
In Auer von Welsbach's first alloy, 30% iron (ferrum) was added to purified cerium, hence the name "ferro-cerium". Two subsequent Auermetalls were developed: the second also included lanthanum to produce brighter sparks, and the third added other heavy metals.

A modern ferrocerium firesteel product is composed of an alloy of rare-earth metals called mischmetal, containing approximately 20.8% iron, 41.8% cerium, about 4.4% each of praseodymium, neodymium, and magnesium, plus 24.2% lanthanum. A variety of other components are added to modify the spark and processing characteristics. Most contemporary flints are hardened with iron oxide and magnesium oxide.

Uses

Ferrocerium is used in fire lighting in conjunction with steel, similarly to natural flint-and-steel, though ferrocerium takes on the opposite role to the traditional system; instead of a natural flint rock striking tiny iron particles from a firesteel, a steel striker (which may be in the form of hardened steel wheel) strikes particles of ferrocerium off of the "flint". This manual rubbing action creates a spark due to cerium's low ignition temperature between 150 –. Carbon steel works better than most other materials, in much the same way natural flint and firesteel are used.

It is most commonly used for Bunsen burners and oxyacetylene welding torches.

About 700 tons were produced in 2000.

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Tom Vaughn (musician)

Father Tom Vaughn (October 13, 1936 – March 4, 2011) was an American jazz pianist and Episcopal priest.

Early life
Born Thomas Wade Vaughn on October 14, 1936, in Benton, Kentucky, he began his music study on the piano around the age of five under the tutelage of his mother, Elizabeth. The piano was the instrument of choice for their family. Robert Wade, an uncle, was employed as a pianist by the New York and San Francisco ballet companies.

When he was 10 years old, his family, which also included four girls, relocated to Pontiac, Michigan, near Detroit. During his adolescence, he studied classical music with Harold Deremier. At the age of 12, Vaughn experienced the genius of Art Tatum, who was visiting Deremier. Vaughn stated: "I hadn't been exposed to music like that before." "That was amazing," and shifted his focus to jazz. In his mid-teens he was jamming in Detroit with other young musicians including Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, and Elvin Jones.

Vaughn graduated from Eureka College in Illinois with a degree in history while playing piano in area clubs. He and his sweetheart Beverle Jean were married, and the couple started a family when Sheila Denise was born in 1961. Two other children followed: Tom Jr. in 1963; and Angela Suzanne in 1965. A strong interest in religion led him to enroll in Yale Divinity School, where he earned a doctorate in theology. He entered the Episcopal priesthood, and in 1964 his first position was assistant to the rector at St. John's Episcopal Church in Midland, Michigan, two hours north of Detroit. Vaughn still played concerts at colleges and clubs sporadically, but the 8am Sunday service limited his travel. That same year Father Tom sat in with Gene Krupa's quartet in Detroit, where he caught the attention of producer George Wein.

Recording and playing
One year later, Wein brought Vaughn to New York City, where he recorded Jazz In Concert At The Village Gate with Art Davis on double bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Vaughn was a featured performer at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, opening for Miles Davis.

Father Vaughn left St. John's Church in Midland in 1967, deciding that Los Angeles would be more conducive to his two passions, music and the ministry. Cornbread (Meat Loaf, Greens & Devilled Eggs) was recorded and released, followed by Motor City Soul in 1968. He played in festivals and concerts during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and appeared on local television and national talk shows, including Johnny Carson, Steve Allen and Merv Griffin. All this was done around his church responsibilities.

Settling down
Vaughn joined St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Winnetka, California in 1968. Three years later, he performed a jazz concert in the parish hall to raise funds for the "Fireside Room", then began serving as assistant rector. When St. Martin's celebrated their 25th anniversary with a big barbecue, music and dancing, Father Tom played during the 1974 festivities. He was installed as rector in 1976, the year he recorded his last album, Joyful Jazz. He stayed busy with the parish and raising his three children until 1984, when he needed hip replacement—both—and retired from active ministry. After that, he served as a supply priest, officiating services at churches when the rector was absent.

Retirement
Father Tom Vaughn reappeared publicly in 1990, conducting the memorial service for singer June Christy at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). As part of the service, he invited a quartet of eminent musicians to play in her honor, but did not join the group himself, instead opting to listen and enjoy the music as a spectator.

By the early 1990s, his children were grown and Vaughn played at local clubs a few times each year; a 1990 performance at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel received positive reviews. He also hosted a public-access television cable show, "All That Jazz", and was considering a return to the recording studio.

Vaughn was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 1991 and asked why he chose to remain a priest rather than accept fame and fortune as a touring musician. Nothing can move me at the deepest spiritual level like music can, (but) music was never completely satisfying. Music was something that came to me as a pure gift. Maybe it came too easily. The clergy came to me through hard work and learning. I felt called to the inquiries of the mind. Tom Vaughn didn't want musical notoriety. I've never made much of a fuss over it myself.

After turning 60, Vaughn further reduced his public performances to perhaps once a year. He remained married to wife, Bev, and practiced for three or four hours most mornings for his own enjoyment.

That feeling, when it's right, there's nothing better – carnality, food, throw it all out the window. When I get in a groove, I'm detached, almost like losing consciousness, like flying some sort of super aircraft. It's close to an out-of-body experience.

At an interview in 1996, he acknowledged splitting piano time between playing the classics (Bach, Beethoven & Chopin) and improvising jazz with touches of blues and bebop.

Vaughn died March 4, 2011, according to comments posted on a YouTube video of Vaughn's recording of "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

Today, Vaughn's version of Battle Hymn of the Republic can be heard every Saturday night at 8:00 pm EST on WABE 90.1 in Atlanta. The song have provided the introduction to H. Johnson's "Jazz Classics" radio show, for 37 of more than 42 years that the show has aired.

All of Vaughn's records have been out of print for many years, but his three children began compiling their father's work into digital form in 2006.

Discography

 * Jazz in Concert at the Village Gate [live] (1966/RCA)
 * Cornbread (1967/RCA)
 * Motor City Soul (1968/RCA)
 * Games People Play  (1969/Capitol Records
 * Tom Vaughn has Piano Power  (1973/Capitol Records
 * Joyful Jazz (1976/Concord Jazz)

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Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Life and career
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles, in Depew, New York) grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. She attended Howard University with a scholarship from 1953 to 1955, leaving to study at the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo).

In 1958, Lucille Sayles married Fred James Clifton, a professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and a sculptor whose carvings depicted African faces. Lucille and her husband had six children together, and she worked as a claims clerk in the New York State Division of Employment, Buffalo (1958–60), and then as literature assistant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C. (1960–71). Writer Ishmael Reed introduced Lucille to Clifton while he was organizing the Buffalo Community Drama Workshop. Fred and Lucille Clifton starred in the group's version of The Glass Menagerie, which was called "poetic and sensitive" by the Buffalo Evening News.

In 1966, Reed took some of Clifton's poems to Langston Hughes, who included them in his anthology The Poetry of the Negro. In 1967, the Cliftons moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Her first poetry collection, Good Times, was published in 1969, and listed by The New York Times as one of the year's ten best books. A selection of sixteen poems from Good Times were featured in the Massachusetts Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, her first publication. From 1971 to 1974, Clifton was poet-in-residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore. From 1979 to 1985, she was Poet Laureate of the state of Maryland. From 1982 to 1983, she was visiting writer at the Columbia University School of the Arts and at George Washington University. In 1984, her husband died of cancer.

From 1985 to 1989, Clifton was a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. From 1995 to 1999, she was a visiting professor at Columbia University. In 2006, she was a fellow at Dartmouth College. She died in Baltimore on February 13, 2010.

In 2019, daughter Sidney Clifton reacquired the family's home near Baltimore, aiming to establish the Clifton House as a place to support young artists and writers through in-person and virtual workshops, classes, seminars, residencies, and a gallery. The Clifton House received preservation funding through the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

Poetic work

Lucille Clifton traced her family's roots to the West African kingdom of Dahomey, now the Republic of Benin. Growing up, she was told by her mother, "Be proud, you're from Dahomey women!" She cites as one of her ancestors the first black woman to be "legally hanged" for manslaughter in the state of Kentucky during the time of Slavery in the United States. Girls in her family are born with an extra finger on each hand, a genetic trait known as polydactyly. Lucille's two extra fingers were amputated surgically when she was a small child, a common practice at that time for reasons of superstition and social stigma. Her "two ghost fingers" and their activities became a theme in her poetry and other writings. Health problems in her later years included painful gout which gave her some difficulty in walking.

Often compared to Emily Dickinson for her short line length and deft rhymes, Clifton wrote poetry that "examine[d] the inner world of her own body", used the body as a "theatre for her poetry". After her uterus was removed, for example, she spoke of her body "as a home without a kitchen". In a Christian Century review of Clifton's work, Peggy Rosenthal wrote, 'The first thing that strikes us about Lucille Clifton's poetry is what is missing: capitalization, punctuation, long and plentiful lines. We see a poetry so pared down that its spaces take on substance, become a shaping presence as much as the words themselves.'

Her series of children's books about a young black boy began with 1970's Some of the Days of Everett Anderson. Everett Anderson, a recurring character in many of her books, spoke in African-American English and dealt with real life social problems. Clifton's work features in anthologies such as My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry (ed. Arnold Adoff), A Poem of Her Own: Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today (ed. Catherine Clinton), Black Stars: African American Women Writers (ed. Brenda Scott Wilkinson), Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby), and Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology (eds Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press). Studies about Clifton's life and writings include Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton (LSU Press, 2004) by Hilary Holladay, and Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters (Praeger, 2006) by Mary Jane Lupton.

Early volumes
In 1969, Clifton published her first volume of poetry, Good Times, which drew inspiration from her six young children at the time. The book would go on to make the New York Times list of the best books of the year. Three years later in 1972, Clifton published her second volume, Good News About the Earth: New Poems. The Poetry Foundation has noted that this work pointed towards the trend Clifton would develop in her career of not shying away from social and political issues in her writing as she paid tribute to Black political leaders. Moving into her third collection, Clifton began investigating her identity as a woman and as a poet with An Ordinary Woman just two years later in 1974.

Two-Headed Woman: "homage to my hips"
In 1980, Clifton published "homage to my hips" in her book of poems, Two-Headed Woman. Two-Headed Woman won the 1980 Juniper Prize and was characterized by its "dramatic tautness, simple language … tributes to blackness, [and] celebrations of women", which are all traits reflected in the poem "homage to my hips". This particular collection of poetry also marks the beginning of Clifton's interest in depicting the "transgressive black body". "homage to my hips" was preceded by the poem "homage to my hair" – and acts as a complementary work that explores the relationship between African-American women and men and aimed to reinvent the negative stereotypes associated with the black female body. "Homage to my hips" and "homage to my hair" both relate the African-American body to mythological powers – a literary technique common among many literary works by African-American women. Jane Campbell poses the idea that "the specific effect of mythmaking upon race relations … constitutes a radical act, inviting the audience to subvert the racist mythology that thwarts and defeats Afro-Americans, and to replace it with a new mythology rooted in the black perspective." Therefore, Clifton utilizes "homage to my hips" to celebrate the African-American female body as a source of power, sexuality, pride, and freedom.

Quilting: Poems 1987–1990
Published in 1991, this collection of Clifton's treated a quilt as an extended metaphor for life, with each poem representing a different story that is "stitched" into the collection The poems are divided into sections getting their names from different quilting techniques.

The Book of Light
In 1993, Clifton's newest collection dived head first into wrestling with bigotry, social justice, and human rights. This collection is marked by a controversial poem addressing U.S. Senator Jesse Helms who had a reputation of "actively opposing civil rights, voting rights, disability rights, women's rights and gay rights".

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 In 2000, Clifton published this book, which compiles four of her previous collections along with new poems. The book delves into Clifton's personal fight against breast cancer as well as involves itself with mythology, religion, and the legacy of slavery. In "dialysis", Clifton writes "after the cancer i was so grateful/ to be alive. i am alive and furious. / Blessed be even this?" Clifton uses this book--and much more of her work--to defy stereotypes and misconceptions of African-American women. She also writes about abortion and death in this book with poems like "the lost baby poem", where she writes "eyes closed when they should have been open/ eyes open when they should have been closed/ will accuse me for unborn babies/and dead trees."

Awards and recognition
Lucille Clifton received a Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1970 and 1973, and a grant from the Academy of American Poets. She received the Charity Randall prize, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review, and an Emmy Award. Her children's book Everett Anderson's Good-bye won the 1984 Coretta Scott King Award. In 1988, Clifton became the first author to have two books of poetry named finalists for one year's Pulitzer Prize. (The award dates from 1918, the announcement of finalists from 1980.) She won the 1991/1992 Shelley Memorial Award, the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and for Blessing the Boats: New and Collected Poems 1988–2000 the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry.

From 1999 to 2005, she served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. In 2007, she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; the $100,000 prize honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition". When awarding Clifton with this prize, judges remarked: One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton's poems—it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don't." This testifies to Clifton's reputation as a poet whose work focuses on overcoming adversity, family, and endurance from the perspective of an African-American woman.

In 2010, Clifton received the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America.

Poetry collections

 * Good Times, New York: Random House, 1969
 * Good News About the Earth, New York: Random House, 1972
 * An Ordinary Woman, New York: Random House, 1974)
 * Two-Headed Woman, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1980
 * Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969–1980, Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987 — finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize
 * Next: New Poems, Brockport: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1987 — finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize
 * Ten Oxherding Pictures, Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 1988
 * Quilting: Poems 1987–1990, Brockport: BOA Editions, 1991, ISBN 978-0-918526-81-6
 * The Book of Light, Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1993
 * The Terrible Stories, Brockport: BOA Editions, 1996
 * Blessing The Boats: New and Collected Poems 1988–2000, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2000, ISBN 978-1-880238-88-2; Paw Prints, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4395-0356-0 —winner of the National Book Award
 * Mercy, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2004, ISBN 978-1-929918-55-3
 * Voices, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934414-12-5
 * The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2012, ISBN 978-1-934414-90-3

Children's books

 * Three Wishes (Doubleday)
 * The Boy Who Didn't Believe In Spring (Penguin)
 * ; Reprint Yearling Books, ISBN 978-0-307-53795-9
 * The Times They Used To Be (Henry Holt & Co)
 * All Us Come Cross the Water (Henry Holt)
 * My Friend Jacob (Dutton)
 * Amifika (Dutton)
 * Sonora the Beautiful (Dutton)
 * The Black B C's (Dutton)
 * The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children. Introduction by Lucille Clifton (San Val)

The Everett Anderson series

 * Everett Anderson's Goodbye (Henry Holt)
 * One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (Henry Holt)
 * Everett Anderson's Friend (Henry Holt)
 * Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming (Henry Holt)
 * Everett Anderson's 1-2-3 (Henry Holt)
 * Everett Anderson's Year (Henry Holt)
 * Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (Henry Holt)
 * Everett Anderson's Nine Month Long (Henry Holt)

Nonfiction

 * Generations: A Memoir, New York: Random House, 1976, ISBN 978-0-394-46155-7

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Ray Willis

Ray Willis (born August 13, 1982) is a former American football offensive tackle who last played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round (105th overall pick) of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Florida State University Seminoles.

He was also a member of the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, and Kansas City Chiefs.

Early life
Willis attended Angleton High School and was a letterman in football. In football, as a senior, he was an All-District honoree, a Class 5A All-State honoree, and after his senior season, he was named an All-Midland Regional honorable mention by Prep Star, and was ranked the Super Prep's 28th best offensive lineman, and the 36th-best football prospect in the state of Texas.

College career
Willis attended Florida State University, where he started 35 games and teamed with Alex Barron to make one of the best offensive lines in college football.

Seattle Seahawks
He started at both right guard and right tackle for Seattle. He is known as a good run blocker. He re-signed with the team on March 6, 2008 and then again on March 9, 2009.

Miami Dolphins
On August 5, 2011, Willis signed with the Miami Dolphins. Willis's contract was terminated by the Dolphins on September 3.

New Orleans Saints
Willis signed with the New Orleans Saints on November 2, 2011.

New York Jets
Willis was signed by the New York Jets on May 29, 2012. He was waived by the team on June 28.

Kansas City Chiefs
Willis was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs on July 31, 2012. He looks to compete for the offensive swing-tackle position.

Personal life
Ray Willis is married to the former Kimberly Pettaway of Tarboro, North Carolina. His wife gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl - on February 23, 2008.

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Brookfield High School

Brookfield High School can refer to:

United States

 * Brookfield High School (Connecticut), Brookfield, Connecticut
 * Brookfield High School (Brookfield, Missouri)
 * Brookfield High School (Ohio), Brookfield, Ohio
 * Brookfield Academy, Brookfield, Wisconsin
 * Brookfield Academy (New Jersey), Cherry Hill, New Jersey
 * Brookfield Area Career Center, Brookfield, Missouri
 * North Brookfield High School, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
 * Riverside Brookfield Township High School, Riverside, Illinois
 * Brookfield East High School, Brookfield, Wisconsin

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 * Brookfield High School (Electronic City), Bangalore
 * Brookfield High School (Ottawa), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Gear Krieg

Gear Krieg is an alternate history game setting published by Dream Pod 9. It contains information suitable for role-playing and wargaming a pulp-fueled World War II, featuring walking tanks and epic tabletop battles.

Setting
Gear Krieg is an alternate history take on World War II, where the technology curve is a little more steep than in our own reality. Technology, such as personal jet packs, rocket fighters, and walking tanks, are developed during the course of the war, sometimes massively changing events and famous battles.

From the game's rulebook: "The world would indeed have been a different place had the Roaring Twenties not delivered the wonders promised by visionaries. Instead, war walkers now stride across the battlefield of Europe, huge supertanks thunder over North Africa, rocket fighters duel high above the Pacific, adventurers and superspies battle the Nazi forces in the shadows and scientists work feverishly in their laboratories to perfect the next doomsday weapon for their masters. Powered by advanced science, will the darkness of fascism spread across the world, or can brave men and women prevent it?"

Rules
Gear Krieg is based on the Silhouette game engine, a streamlined set of rules that is already described in Heavy Gear, Dream Pod 9's other science fiction game. It can be played as either a role-playing game (RPG), a tactical wargame, or an hybrid integration of both.

Both the RPG and miniature games are built on the same basic rule mechanics. Silhouette is a realistic, simulationist system that defines characters in terms of ten base attributes (agility, knowledge, etc.), 5 derived attributes (health, etc.), and a variety of skills. Skill rolls make up the backbone of the system, which focuses on effect-based speed of play over grainy detail. The core mechanic involves rolling a number of 6-sided dice, taking the highest result and comparing it to a set threshold number. If the result is higher than the threshold the test is a success; if it is lower the test is a failure. The margin by which the test succeeded (Margin of Success, MoS) or failed (Margin of Failure, MoF) helps to determine the final outcome. Combat is handled by the same system, with characters taking penalty-inflicting wounds rather than depleting a set number of health points. As a result, the system can be lethal, especially on inexperienced characters. To keep the proper pulp high-action atmosphere, the game includes rules that allow players to twist the odds in their favor, in keeping with the conventions of the adventure genre.

Publication history
Just as its support for the first edition of Tribe 8 was coming to an end, Dream Pod 9 released their fourth role-playing game, Gear Krieg (2001), set during an alternate-history World War II with advanced technology with technological anachronisms such as walking tanks. As with the company's earlier game Heavy Gear, Gear Krieg could be played as a role-playing game or a tactical game. The Silhouette CORE Rulebook (2003), also known as the "SilCORE" book, introduced a standalone version of Silhouette remaking it as a generic system with optional rules to convert d20 to Silhouette; this release immediately preceded the Mecha Companion (2003), which included d20 stats for mecha from Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles and Gear Krieg using the d20 Mecha (2003) rules from Guardians of Order. The SilCORE book gave Dream Pod 9 the chance to republish their older games using dual d20 and Silhouette statistics, and the next year Jovian Chronicles second edition (2003), Gear Krieg second edition (2003), Heavy Gear third edition (2003), Tribe 8 second edition (2004) and the brand new CORE Command (2003) were all released this way.

Reviews

 * Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine #49 (Nov., 2000)
 * Pyramid
 * Pyramid

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Evan Mathis

Evan Bradley Mathis (born November 1, 1981) is an American former football guard who played in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2005 NFL draft. Mathis also played for the Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos and Arizona Cardinals.

Early life
Mathis graduated from Homewood High School in Homewood, Alabama, where he played football and competed in track and wrestling. He was coached by Bob Newton in football. In wrestling, Mathis won the 2000 Alabama 6A heavyweight championship. In track & field, Mathis competed in the shot put event (top-throw of 15.24 meters).

College career
Although he bulked up from 240 lb to 276 lb after signing with Alabama in February 2000, Mathis was redshirted as a true freshman. In April 2001, he was named the Paul Crane Most Improved Offensive Lineman for Alabama along with tight end Theo Sanders. He competed with Alonzo Ephraim for the starting center job during spring practice in 2001, but lost out. Instead, he beat out Dante Ellington for the starting right tackle job, making his first start against South Carolina.

Mathis started four seasons on the offensive line for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. His first three years he played tackle, before shifting to left guard as a senior. He started 47 consecutive games beginning in the 4th game of his redshirt freshman year. He helped anchor an offensive line that paved the way for the Crimson Tide to lead the Southeastern Conference in rushing yards per game in 2004.

Miami Dolphins
Mathis was signed by the Miami Dolphins on September 9, 2008, after Donald Thomas, their rookie starting right guard spot was put on injured reserve. The Dolphins released him November 8 after playing seven games for them.

Cincinnati Bengals
Mathis played for the Cincinnati Bengals from 2008 to 2010. He did not allow a sack during the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles signed Mathis to a one-year contract on July 31, 2011. Immediately after the preseason, Mathis won the starting job at left guard for the 2011 season. He signed a five-year, $25.5 million contract with the Eagles on March 17, 2012.

Pro Football Focus rated Mathis as the best guard in the NFL for the 2011, 2012, and 2013 season. In 2014, he was rated as the second best guard in the league despite missing seven games due to injury.

Mathis was named to the USA Today All-Pro Team after the 2012 season.

Ranked #6 overall in Pro Football Focus' Top 101 of 2012. In 2013, Pro Football Focus chose Mathis for its inaugural Bruce Matthews Award recognizing the NFL's best offensive lineman. He was voted First-team All-Pro in 2013 for his excellent performance with Philadelphia.

Mathis was released by the team on June 11, 2015, after he held out of OTAs in search of a new contract.

Denver Broncos
On August 25, 2015, Mathis agreed to a one-year, $2.5 million contract with the Denver Broncos. On February 7, 2016, Mathis won his first career Super Bowl when the Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24–10 in Super Bowl 50.

Arizona Cardinals
Mathis signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals on March 16, 2016. He was placed on injured reserve on October 8, 2016, after suffering an ankle injury in Week 5 against the San Francisco 49ers. Mathis announced his retirement via Twitter on January 20, 2017.

Personal life
Mathis's uncle is Bob Baumhower, who played defensive tackle for Alabama and the Miami Dolphins. Mathis and previous wife, TikTok star Katie Mathis, coparent 3 daughters. Mathis married Megan Mathis on 11/11/22.

On April 19, 2018, Mathis sold a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card via Heritage Auctions for $2.88 million. At the time, it was the second-highest sale price for a trading card ever, behind only the T206 Honus Wagner.

Mathis finished 35th at the 2019 PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC).

Mathis now runs a technology development company called mathisit (pronounced math is it).

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Talk:Sensor

Sound Sensors
Perhaps a note should be added that sound sensors are pressure change activated. The inclusion here of seismic sensor has me scratching my head. SNR would be an issue for any device I can envision. Does the author mean 'seismic activity detector' -- which I understand is a microphone set atop a volcano, and is of limited quantitative utility? 'Great article overall!!! ' P.S. I'm removing from most wanted list... this is clearly no longer a stub! Fabartus 02:26, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

State of page
Added cleanup notice. Page still needs a lot of organising/tidying.--Light current 23:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

 * explain, please. Kaverin — Preceding undated comment added 09:07, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Proposed merger
Proposed merging in Detector, at least the parts pertaining to the general sense of the word. Please discuss at Talk:Detector. -- The Photon 05:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Two stages
sensor basically consists of two stages: transduction and transformation.the transduction stage may be called as detection or the detector stage — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.41.33.7 (talk) 07:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

 * See comment in definition below. A sensor in not a transducer. Sensor and detector are not the same. The output of a detector is "yes" or "no", in response to a measured property. The output of a sensor is proportional to the magnitude of the measured property. --Rabbiz (talk) 19:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Definition
This article does not have a definition of sensors, just proceeds straight to the Overview. Can someone pop it in there please? Leemorrison 14:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, the article says "A sensor is a type of transducer", but the transducer article has a list of types of transducers and sensor is not in that list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.179.100 (talk) 11:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

 * A sensor is not a transducer. (I worked 20 years in this field). It is the other way around. A sensor produces a raw output which is not yet calibrated or corrected for stray errors. A transducer is a sensor to which electronic circuitry is added to produce a calibrated readable signal. --Rabbiz (talk) 19:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

 * The first sentence is, today, an adequate definition. [Though, by using 'device' and by using 'observer' and 'instrument', it seems to exclude neurons: certainly an important kind of sensor.] Joaquin 21 December '08
 * [I don't agree with Rabbiz' argument, but he is certainly correct: a sensor is not a transducer; not if we accept this article's understanding of 'transducer'.]
 * Some sensors are not, as transducer is defined in this article, transducers. The article gives us an example in its second sentence: a mercury thermometer.
 * The article says "Because sensors are a type of transducer, they change one form of energy into another."
 * But a mercury thermometer does not change one form of energy into another. The thermometer comes to the temperature of its environment by absorbing thermal energy from the environment or releasing thermal energy to the environment. The "form" of that energy does not change.
 * There are only three changes: the environment and the thermometer come to the same temperature; the volume of the mercury changes; as a result of the volume change, the length of the tube that contains mercury changes. None of these is a change in the "form" of the energy present from one "form" to another.
 * But then, the article is also wrong about what a transducer is.
 * A transducer is "any device by which variations in one physical quantity (e.g. pressure, brightness) are quantitatively converted into variations in another (e.g. voltage, position). [OED II]"
 * So, a thermometer is a transducer: it is a device by which variations in one physical quantity (temperature) are quantitatively converted into variations in another (length).
 * [The examples in the first paragraph of the article (thermometer, thermocouple) and the statements about those examples are correct.]
 * This article needs serious contributions: from someone with a solid understanding of the concept and related concepts; from a good copy editor. --Joaquin 21 December '08

 * Anybody want to point out some relevant sources that give definitions of both sensor and transducer, so we can compare? Otherwise, why discuss it?  Dicklyon (talk) 23:06, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

"A sensor is a device which receives and responds to a signal when touched." - I don't believe magnetic sensors are touched, at least not physically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.129.150.234 (talk) 13:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

 * Good Rishi Lin (talk) 14:31, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Proximity sensors
Overall quality of the article is O.K. but it doesn't discuss Proximity sensors. Perhaps these should be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.241.108.122 (talk) 15:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Major Deletions from Chemical Sensors
I removed a lot of content from the chemical sensor section because it didn't name any actual sensors; it just made vague implications that chemical sensors were used in application A and application B.

I think the article is better if it has the same format as the electrical and mechanical sensors. I.e. this article should be a large index of sensors and if readers want details they can go to the specific sensors.

I think general information that applies to most or many sensors is fine but not loads of details about specific sensors. That makes the article unwieldy.

Clan-destine 20:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

May 9th 2008 restoration to 20 April 2008
Massive vandalism deletion was incorrectly edited, causing significant loss of material. Restored and updated the one valid edit edit. Please monitor articles you watch for deletionist vandalism by back-comparing to your last edit. Thanks, Leonard G. (talk) 01:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

biometric
This was in the intro:
 * In biometrics, electrical capacitance sensors from leading manufacturers, such as AuthenTec, scan the minute radio frequency (RF) pattern beneath the live skin of a finger pad. The pattern creates a unique algorithm to identify the user. Many popular laptops and keyboards have the RF strip sensors.

This seems like a very specific example, but I'm not sure of what (I considered putting it under electromagnetic or biometric in types but didn't think it quite fit). Seems like a bit of an advertisement with a company name in it. I just took it out and moved it here, we can move it back if we clean it up and figureout where it goes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJFJR (talk • contribs) 17:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

sensors according to computing
I think a new section should be added to the page of sensor which is the type of sensors. According to context awareness related to computer science there are three types of sensors: edited by use Mohammed —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhd mar85 (talk • contribs) 21:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Physical Sensors: or hardware sensors, nowadays, many hardware sensors are available.
 * Virtual Sensors: it is another way of capturing data through software services or applications. It is possible to determine the location of the student in the university not only through hardware sensor (GPS), but also through his/her logging in/out processes.
 * Logical Sensors: this type of sensors combines the physical and virtual sensors to solve bigger problems.

Bionic sensors
Can the bionic sonsors (IR sensor, stretch sensor) developed by Dedy Wicaksono (TU Delft) be mentioned ? http://dedywicaksono.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/my-phd-research/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.64.190 (talk) 11:13, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

response time
I suggest a brief explanation of response time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.118.94.175 (talk) 22:49, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism on this talk page
Translation of the Japanese comments on this article make it clear that they are spam/ads/vandalism. I can't find a template to put on this page so I'm going to Be Bold and remove them. --Iamjp180 (talk) 20:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I forgot to include this link: Google Translation of this page --Iamjp180 (talk) 20:52, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Integration time
We need to have integration time somewhere and the concept is fairly generic so add the section here or in signal processing? Hcobb (talk) 22:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Clarify
Please clarify the difference between resolution and sensitivity.--عبد المؤمن (talk) 17:20, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Thermocouple rig as example image?
This is a very broad topic, and I don't think that the thermocouple photograph illustrates the subject well (the measurement rig is also quite messy overall). I suggest that we either remove that image, or use a "multiple image" template with a diverse range of examples. How about it? Anonimski (talk) 23:01, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Major editing
Dear sensor editors,

I started reviewing the article and I'll be working on it to add more reference and clean up a bit. Join me if you feel like. The main references will the the VIM: International vocabulary of metrology and the book Sensors and Signal Conditioning.

happy editing let me know if you would suggest a certain table of contents to be filled out! keep sensing,

missperovaz 04:35, 17 August 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Missperovaz (talk • contribs)

 * Good news - the article does need a lot of attention! I've tweaked a few bits in the lead. The IVM phrasing bothered me; I love those beautifully coherent and unambiguous vocabulary standards, where everything interlocks beautifully and translates into many languages - but you need a good grasp of the whole to understand the pieces. So I checked a couple of dictionaries (one general, one science-and-technology) and created another definition that owes a bit to each of them. See what you think. NebY (talk) 20:39, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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