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I don't think there's enough info here to warrant a separate article. History and description of present-day playing cards are discussed plenty at Playing card.-Grick(talk to me!) 01:40, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

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Raudna

Raudna is a village in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. It has a population of 25 (as of 4 January 2010).

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Richmond Barthé

James Richmond Barthé, also known as Richmond Barthé (January 28, 1901 – March 5, 1989) was an African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Barthé is best known for his portrayal of black subjects. The focus of his artistic work was portraying the diversity and spirituality of man. Barthé once said: "All my life I have been interested in trying to capture the spiritual quality I see and feel in people, and I feel that the human figure as God made it, is the best means of expressing this spirit in man."

Early life
James Richmond Barthé was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to Richmond Barthé and Marie Clementine Robateau. Barthé's father died at the age of 22, when he was only a few months old, leaving his mother to raise him alone. She worked as a dressmaker and before Barthé began elementary school she remarried to William Franklin, with whom she eventually had five additional children.

Barthé showed a passion and skill for drawing from an early age. His mother was, in many ways, instrumental in his decision to pursue art as a vocation. Barthé once said: "When I was crawling on the floor, my mother gave me paper and pencil to play with. It kept me quiet while she did her errands. At six years old I started painting. A lady my mother sewed for gave me a set of watercolors. By that time, I could draw very well."

Barthé continued making drawings throughout his childhood and adolescence, under the encouragement of his teachers. His fourth grade teacher, Inez Labat, from the Bay St. Louis Public School, influenced his aesthetic development by encouraging his artistic growth. When he was only twelve years old, Barthé exhibited his work at the Bay St. Louis County Fair.

However, young Barthé was beset with health problems, and after an attack of typhoid fever at the age of 14, he withdrew from school. Following this, he worked as a houseboy and handyman, but still spent his free time drawing. A wealthy family, the Ponds, who spent summers at Bay St. Louis, invited Barthé to work for them as a houseboy in New Orleans, Louisiana. Through his employment with the Ponds, Barthé broadened his cultural horizons and knowledge of art, and was introduced to Lyle Saxon, a local writer for the Times Picayune. Saxon was fighting against the racist system of school segregation, and tried unsuccessfully to get Barthé registered in an art school in New Orleans.

In 1924, Barthé donated his first oil painting to a local Catholic church to be auctioned at a fundraiser. Impressed by his talent, Fr Harry F. Kane, SSJ encouraged Barthé to pursue his artistic career and raised money for him to undertake studies in fine art. At the age of 23, with less than a high-school education and no formal training in art, Barthé applied to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, and was accepted by the latter.

Chicago
During the next four years, Barthé followed a curriculum structured for majors in painting. During this time he boarded with his aunt Rose and made a living working different jobs. His work caught the attention of Dr. Charles Maceo Thompson, a patron of the arts and supporter of many talented young black artists. Barthé was a flattering portrait painter, and Dr. Thompson helped him to secure many lucrative commissions from the city's affluent black citizens.

At the Art Institute of Chicago, Barthé's formal artistic instruction in sculpture took place in anatomy class with professor of anatomy and German artist Charles Schroeder. Students practiced modeling in clay to gain a better understanding of the three-dimensional form. This experience proved to be, according to Barthé, a turning point in his career, shifting his attention away from painting and toward sculpture.

Barthé had his debut as a professional sculptor at The Negro in Art Week exhibition in 1927 while still a student of painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also exhibited in the April 1928 annual exhibition of the Chicago Art League. The critical acclaim allowed Barthé to enjoy numerous important commissions such as the busts of Henry O. Tanner (1928) and Toussaint L'Ouverture (1928). Although he was still in his late 20s, within a short time he won recognition, primarily through his sculptures, for making significant contributions to modern African-American art. By 1929, the essentials of his artistic education complete, Barthé decided to leave Chicago and head for New York City.

New York City

While many young artists found it very difficult to earn a living from their art during the Great Depression, the 1930s were Richmond Barthé's most prolific years. The shift from the Art Institute of Chicago to New York City, where he moved following graduation, exposed Barthé to new experiences as he arrived in the city during the peak of the Harlem Renaissance. He established his studio in Harlem in 1930 after winning the Julius Rosenwald Fund fellowship at his first solo exhibition at the Women's City Club in Chicago. However, in 1931, he moved his studio in Harlem to Greenwich Village. Barthé once said: "I live downtown because it is much more convenient for my contacts from whom it is possible for me to make a living." He understood the importance of public relations and keeping abreast of collectors' interests.

Barthé mingled with the bohemian circles of downtown Manhattan. Initially unable to afford live models, he sought and found inspiration from on-stage performers. Living downtown provided him the opportunity to socialize not only among collectors but also among artists, dance performers, and actors. His remarkable visual memory permitted him to work without models, producing numerous representations of the human body in movement. During this time, he completed works such as Black Narcissus (1929), The Blackberry Woman (1930), Drum Major (1928), The Breakaway (1929), busts of Alain Locke (1928), bust of A’leila Walker (1928), The Deviled Crab-Man (1929), Rose McClendon (1932), Féral Benga (1935), and Sir John Gielgud as Hamlet (1935).

In October 1933, a major body of Barthé's work inaugurated the Caz Delbo Galleries at the Rockefeller Center in New York City. The same year, his works were exhibited at Chicago World's Fair in 1933. In summer 1934, Barthé went on a tour to Paris with Reverend Edward F. Murphy, a friend of Reverend Kane from New Orleans, who exchanged his first class ticket for two third-class tickets to share with Barthé. This trip exposed Barthé to classical art, but also to performers such as Féral Benga and African-American entertainer Josephine Baker, of whom he made portraits in 1935 and 1951, respectively. During the next two decades, he built his reputation as a sculptor. He was awarded several awards and has experienced success after success and was considered by writers and critics as one of the leading "moderns" of his time. Among his African-American friends were Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jimmie Daniels, Countee Cullen, and Harold Jackman. Ralph Ellison was his first student. Supporters who were white included Carl Van Vechten, Noel Sullivan, Charles Cullen, Lincoln Kirstein, Paul Cadmus, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., and Jared French.

In 1945, Barthé became a member of the National Sculpture Society.

Later life

Eventually, the tense environment and violence of the city began to take its toll, and he decided to abandon his life of fame and move to Jamaica in the West Indies in 1947. His career flourished in Jamaica, and he remained there until the mid-1960s when ever-growing violence forced him to move again. For the next five years, he lived in Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, then settled in Pasadena, California in a rental apartment. In this apartment, Barthé worked on his memoirs, and most importantly, editioned many of his works with the financial assistance of actor James Garner until his death in 1989. Garner copyrighted Barthé's artwork, hired a biographer to organize and document his work, and established the Richmond Barthe Trust.

Public works
Barthé's first public commission came from the New York City's Federal Art Project and for the 80-foot bas-relief in cast stone, (1939), for the embellishment of the Harlem River Houses complex, but upon completion, his work was installed at the Kingsborough Houses in Brooklyn. His other most notable public works include a monumental bronze of Toussaint L’Ouverture, (1950), in front of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 40-foot bronze equestrian statue Jean Jacques Dessalines, (1952), at Champs-du-Mars, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; a cast stone relief of American Eagle, (1940), on the façade of Social Security Board Building in Washington, DC; a marble Arthur Brisbane Memorial in New York City, (1939), a later enlarged version of a sculpture of Rose McClendon (1932), for Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, (c.1935); and the design of several Haitian coins, still in use today.

Haitian works
Barthe's Haitian works came in a time after his 1950 move to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and were among his larger and more famous works. The huge 40-foot equestrian bronze of Jean Jacques Dessalines, (1952), was one of four heroic sculptures commissioned in 1948 by Haitian political leaders to mark independence celebrations. The Dessalines monument was part of a larger 1954 restoration of the Champs-du-Mars park in Port-au-Prince, Barthe's 40-foot-high Toussaint L’Ouverture statue (1950), and stone monument was positioned nearer the National Palace, and was unveiled in 1950 with two other commissioned heroic sculptures (in the capital and in the north of the county) by Cuban sculptor Blanco Ramos. At the time, one African-American newspaper called the collection "the Greatest Negro Monuments on earth." L'Overture was a subject Barthe returned to several times, having created a bust (1926) and painted portrait (1929) of the figure early in his career.

Exhibitions
Barthé's debut as a professional sculptor was at The Negro in Art Week exhibition in Chicago in 1927. His first solo exhibition was held at the Women's City Club in Chicago in 1930, exhibiting a selection of 38 works of sculpture, painting, and works on paper. In 1932, the Whitney Museum of American Art decided to purchase a bronze copy of the Blackberry Woman (1930) after exhibiting it at the opening exhibition of Contemporary American Artists in 1932. Barthé's work was paired with drawings by Delacroix, Matisse, Laurencin, Daumier, and Forain at the Caz-Delbo Gallery in 1933 in New York City. In 1942, he had an exhibition of 20 works of art at the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago. The retrospective which included works from private collections shown for the first time, Richmond Barthé: The Seeker was the inaugural exhibition of the African American Galleries at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, curated by Margaret Rose Vendryes, PhD.

Barthé's most recent retrospective, titled Richmond Barthé: His Life in Art, consisted of over 30 sculptures and photographs. The exhibition was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions of Los Angeles, CA, in 2009. The exhibition venues included the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the California African American Museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, and the NCCU Art Museum.

Collections
The Whitney Museum of American Art purchased Barthé's bronze copy of the Blackberry Woman (1930) in 1932, after the inaugural exhibition Whitney Annual in 1932. The African Dancer (1933) was purchased after being displayed in Whitney Annual in 1933 as well as the Comedian in 1935. The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased The Boxer (1942) after Artists for Victory exhibition at the same museum in 1942. Barthé's other pieces are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago, Fallingwater, and others.

Recognition
Richmond Barthé received many honors during his career, including the Rosenwald Fellowship in 1930 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940. Barthé was also the first African-American artist to be represented, together with the painter Jacob Lawrence, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. In 1945, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received awards for interracial justice and honorary degrees from Xavier University and St. Francis University. He was the recipient of the Audubon Artists Gold Medal in 1950. A few years after his arrival in Pasadena, California, the city renamed the street where Barthé lived as Barthé Drive. He also was honored and received an award from U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Sexuality
Once, when interviewed, Barthé indicated that he was homosexual. Throughout his life, he had occasional romantic relationships that were short-lived. In an undated letter to Alain Locke, he indicated that he desired a long-term relationship with a "Negro friend and a lover". The book Barthé: A Life in Sculpture by Margaret Rose Vandryes links Barthé to writer Lyle Saxon, to African-American art critic Alain Locke, young sculptor John Rhoden, and the photographer Carl Van Vechten. According to a letter from Alain Locke to Richard Bruce Nugent, Barthé had a romantic relationship with Nugent, a cast member from the production of Porgy & Bess.

Religious beliefs
Barthé was a devoted Catholic. Many of Barthé's later work depicted religious subjects, including John the Baptist (1942), Come Unto Me (1945), Head of Jesus (1949), Angry Christ (1946), and Resurrection (1969). Works like The Mother (1935), Mary (1945), or his unfinished Crucifixion (c. 1944) are noticeably influenced by the interracial justice for what he was awarded the James J. Hoey Award by the Catholic Interracial Council in 1945.

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Singapore Marathon

The Singapore Marathon is an annual international marathon race which is held on the first Sunday of December in the city of Singapore. It is a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race.

History
The first competitive marathon in Singapore was held on 5 December 1982, with an estimated participation size of 15,000 runners. Only the 2,300 competitive runners would have to register while the non-competitive runners could freely as joggers along the route. It has grown significantly since its inaugural race in 1982 – the 2013 event attracted a total of 60,000 entrants for all categories.

In 2017, Singapore was announced as a candidate city for the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a series of the six largest and most renowned marathons in the world. In 2019, the full- and half-marathons were held in the evening in order to fulfill criteria to be listed in the Abbott World Marathon Majors, instead of the usual flag off timing at dawn. This led to a series of road closures which resulted in 3-hour long traffic jams around the city center on the race day itself as there were other major activities happening at the same time in the vicinity of the race.

Race
There are four separate categories of competition: the full marathon, the half marathon, the 10 kilometres run, and the 10 km wheelchair race. Furthermore, 10 km team competitions as well as a number of short running competitions for children.

Prize money for the full marathon race is divided into three categories: the open prize (for all competitors), the Singapore prize (open to national competitors), and the veteran prize (which acts as a masters competition).

Between 2004 and 2008, it was part of "The Greatest Race on Earth" series of road races, sponsored by Standard Chartered Singapore (the other three legs being the Hong Kong Marathon, Mumbai Marathon and Nairobi Marathon).

The times recorded at the Singapore Marathon tend to be slower than those at other marathons as Singapore's climate is unusually hot and humid. Kenyans Luke Kibet and Salina Kosgei are the men's and women's course record holders, respectively. The 2006 edition also acted as the country's national championships, with Elangovan Ganesan and Vivian Tan Yoke Pin taking the honours.

In 2020, Singapore Marathon moved its race event to a virtual format due to the advisories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual race format, titled "Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) Virtual Racing Series" is part of the SCSM Virtual Club initiative. Two new virtual races are made available each week for participation by runners all over the world.

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Horagalles

In Sami shamanism, Horagalles, also written Hora Galles and Thora Galles and often equated with Tiermes or Aijeke (i.e. "grandfather or great grandfather"), is the thunder god. He is depicted as a wooden figure with a nail in the head and with a hammer, or occasionally on shaman drums, two hammers.

Characteristics and functions
Idols of Horagalles are made of wood and have a nail or spike and a piece of flint in the head. He has a hammer called Wetschera, Aijeke Wetschera, or Ajeke veċċera, "grandfather's hammer."

Horagalles is the god of the sky, thunder and lightning, the rainbow, weather, oceans, and lakes and rules over human life, health and wellbeing. He punishes "hurtful demons" or "evil spirits" (i.e., trolls) who frequent the rocks and mountains; he destroys them with his lightning, shoots them with his bow, or dashes their brains out with his hammer. The rainbow is his bow, "Aijeke dauge".

Horagalles depicted on Sami shaman drums
On Sami shaman drums Horagalles is occasionally depicted with a sledgehammer in one hand and a cross-hammer in the other, or symbolized by two crossed hammers. He made thunder and lightning with one hammer and withdrew them with the other to prevent harm to the Sami or their animals.

Name and relationship to other gods
The name Horagalles does not occur in older dictionaries of Sami languages, for instance in the mid-19th century. He is often equated with Tiermes; in 1673 Johannes Scheffer, who did not use the name Horagalles, wrote that when Aijeke thundered, he was called Tiermes. There is considerable regional variation in the names; Horagalles (with its various spellings, including Thoragalles) is characteristically southern Sami, and the rainbow is referred to by a variety of names referring to thunder.

Early scholars noted the similarities between Horagalles and the Norse thunder-god Thor and that some Sami called him Thoron or simply Thor, and were unsure which had influenced which. But the name Horagalles is now interpreted as a loanword from the Old Norse Þórr Karl, "the Old Man Thor," "Thor, the Elder," or "Thor fellow," "Thor Karl" (possibly from Norwegian Torrekall), or Swedish Torsmannen, "the thunder man."

Horagalles' consort is called Ravdna, and the red berries of the rowan tree are sacred to her. The name Ravdna resembles North Germanic names for the tree, such as Old Norse reynir, and according to the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, the rowan is called "the salvation of Thor" because Thor once saved himself by clinging to it. It has therefore been theorized that the Norse goddess Sif, Thor's wife, was once conceived of in the form of a rowan to which Thor clung.

Tiermes
Tiermes is a Sami god of thunder and rain, also called Aijeke or Ajeke and often identified with Horagalles.

Tiermes is god of the sky and thunder and lightning, the rainbow, weather, oceans, and lakes and rules over human life, health, and well-being. He protects people and their animals from "hurtful demons" and "evil spirits" (i.e., trolls). According to the mid-18th century Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, "Thiermes or Thoron" is the first in a trinity, of whom the other members are Storjunkare and Baivre or Jumala. He is also called Aijeke, "grandfather" or "great-grandfather"; in 1673 Johannes Scheffer wrote that when Aijeke thundered, he was called Tiermes.

The names of the god vary considerably between regions, with Tiermes and variants being commonly used among northern Sami and Horagalles and variants among southern Sami, The word "dierpmis" could be a loanword from a pre-finno-ugric substrate language.

Pajonn
Pajonn is a Sami god of thunder. Other name and spelling variants include Bajann, Pajǟn and Pajanolmai, found in Finnish as Pajainen, all derived from the word pad'd'i, meaning "above". According to Zacharias Plantin, Pajonn is an alias of Doragass, which in turn is a distorted version of Horagalles.

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BBMak

BBMak are a British band consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1996, they sold over three million albums worldwide between 1999 and 2003. The band first achieved success when their single "Back Here" gained popularity in radio stations in Asia and they later signed with Hollywood Records in the U.S. The band reworked their debut album Sooner or Later for an American release in 2000, and the album charted at number 38 on the Billboard 200 chart with "Back Here" becoming a top 20 hit. BBMak's success in the American market helped the band finally break through in their home country.

In 2002, the group released their second album Into Your Head which charted at number 25 on the Billboard albums chart. In 2003, the group dissolved as each member went on to pursue solo careers. BBMak reunited in 2018 after a 15-year absence. They recorded and released a third studio album, Powerstation (2019).

1996–1998: Formation and debut
Christian Burns, who was raised in Wigan, learned to play rhythm guitar when he was fourteen years old. Burns's father had been a guitarist for the band The Signs, which opened for the Beatles in their early years. Stephen McNally, of Liverpool, aspired to be a guitarist and initially had no ambitions to sing. Mark Barry, of Manchester, got his musical start playing the bagpipes as a kid. The trio met each other while playing with different bands on the Northwest England music circuit and began performing as a group in 1997. McNally came up with the group's band name, which is a combination of the first letters of the band's surnames Burns, Barry, and McNally.

After the group recorded a demo, they traveled to London in the hopes of securing a record deal. The trio would sing outside the offices of major record companies. Once they generated enough industry buzz, BBMak put on a five-song, acoustic showcase in Liverpool. The show drew the attention of record label executives and sparked a bidding war for the band. The band secured a record deal with Telstar Records in the UK in 1998.

1999–2001: Breakthrough and Sooner or Later
The group's debut single "Back Here" was initially released in August 1999 in the United Kingdom, reaching only number 37 on the UK singles chart that month. The group did not achieve breakthrough success until their debut in North America. The group performed live at Walt Disney World's Epcot park in February 2000; their performance was recorded for an episode of Disney Channel in Concert which focused on both BBMak and M2M and aired on 29 April on Disney Channel. BBMak's debut album, Sooner or Later, was released in the United States on 16 May 2000, peaking at number 38 on the Billboard 200. "Back Here" reached number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 2000. "Back Here" was subsequently re-released as a single in the UK on 12 February 2001, and the single eventually climbed to No. 5 on the UK singles chart and No. 1 for 11 weeks on the US adult contemporary chart. The album would eventually go on to sell over one million copies.

The band appeared in episodes of the ABC show All My Children in May 2000 and opened for Britney Spears on the North American leg of her Oops!... I Did It Again Tour tour. BBMak closed out the year with a sold out 26-date US concert tour and a live performance on MTV's Times Square New Year's Eve 2001 special. The band's next single, "Still on Your Side", was released in 2001 and reached No. 8 in the UK and No. 54 in the US, respectively. That year, BBMak released a DVD called Sooner or Later: Our First Year in America. The band released their third single, "Ghost of You and Me", on 11 May 2001; it peaked at No. 8 on the US adult contemporary chart. The band also appeared on an episode of Disney Channel series Even Stevens. BBMak continued to tour U.S. stadiums in 2001 as a supporting act for NSYNC on the PopOdyssey tour.

In July 2001, the group's track "Miss You More" was featured on the soundtrack to The Princess Diaries. In October of that year, Christian Burns' vocals were featured along with those of NSYNC's Lance Bass and Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore and True Vibe on the single "On the Line" for the film of the same name; the group's song "Don't Look Down" was also featured on the soundtrack. In 2002, the band covered the song "Always Know Where You Are" by John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls for Disney's Treasure Planet soundtrack. BBMak also covered the song "Do You Believe in Magic" for Disney's Peter Pan sequel, Return to Never Land.

2002–2003: Into Your Head
In August 2002, BBMak released their second album titled Into Your Head. The album reached No. 25 on the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "Out of My Heart (Into Your Head)," peaked at No. 56 on the Hot 100 chart and No. 25 on the adult contemporary chart. In 2003, the single "Staring into Space" was released in select countries. The band split amicably in 2003.

2018–present: Powerstation
On 29 March 2018, Christian Burns confirmed that the band had reunited. On 1 April 2018, the group uploaded a video to Facebook of a performance of their first single, "Back Here". In January 2019, the band confirmed plans for a worldwide tour and a new album. After numerous delays, the first single from their new album, "Bullet Train", was released on 3 May 2019. The album, titled Powerstation, was released on 11 October 2019. In 2021, BBMak released The Lost Tapes, composed of nine B-sides.

In 2023, BBMak joined the Pop 2000 Tour hosted by *NSYNC band member Chris Kirkpatrick, which featured other best-selling acts from the 2000s including LFO, O-Town, and Ryan Cabrera. The band returned for the 2024 Pop 2000 Tour.

Awards and nominations
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" | Award ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Nominee(s) ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Ref. ! scope="row"|ASCAP Pop Music Awards
 * 2000
 * "Back Here"
 * Most Performed Song
 * Won

Members

 * Mark Barry (born on 26 October 1978 in Manchester, England) – vocals
 * Christian Burns (born on 18 January 1974 in Liverpool, England) – vocals, rhythm guitar
 * Stephen McNally (born on 4 July 1978 in Liverpool, England) – vocals, lead guitar

Music videos

 * "Back Here" (UK & US version) – directed by Dani Jacobs
 * "Still on Your Side" (UK version) – directed by Dani Jacobs
 * "Ghost of You and Me" – directed by Nigel Dick
 * "Out of My Heart" – directed by Katie Bell
 * "Staring into Space" – directed by Katie Bell

DVDs/videos

 * 2001 – Music in High Places: Live in Vietnam (DVD/VHS)
 * 2001 – Sooner or Later: Our First Year in America (DVD/VHS)
 * 2002 – Out of My Heart (Into Your Head) (DVD)

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Bedford limestone

The phrase Bedford limestone has two meanings:
 * in the USA it refers to Indiana Limestone
 * in England it refers to Cornbrash

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User:Lynserella

Lynserella is the common nikname of Lynsey O'Donnell, an 18-year-old girl living in southern Ontario, given to her because of her abnormally small feet. She recently graduated high school, and in now waiting for the summer to be over so she can begin attending university in Toronto. She is (or will be) a linguist, though she is also interested in studying math in university. She greatly enjoys challenging people's preconceptions, such as the idea that people who are good at math don't like languages, or vice versa. She has very eclectic taste in music, though she avoids listening to the radio, and instead learns of new songs and bands from friends. Her favourite pastime is reading, thought she enjoys writing almost as much and aspires to write a great novel.

She also doesn't have a lot to say about herself.

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This seems more like a cut-n-paste from the referenced articles than an original writing. Might it be copyvio? --Xcali 01:48, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * this is what is seems to me too. Several of the sentences, if Googled, show up elsewhere.  So . . . . . . ............... ?  Carptrash 04:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I located the author of much of this article - and she was "Not Amused." [my words, her sentiment] - so I am going to cut out as much of the offending material as I can. Carptrash 22:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I just moved this here, from the article
" recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation, and is"
 * it seems to me that this is a bit over stated. He is (in my opinion) a minor sculptor in his or any other generation.  Feel free to convince me otherwise.  Should be pretty easy if the statement is true. eeeek Carptrash (talk) 03:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Lede
The lead section of this article is not clear and it does not summarize the article’s key points. It is unclear what criteria have been taken into consideration when selecting the artist’s most important works. Also, there are citations needed. The quotation at the beginning of the article, for instance, does not cite the source of the quote. The lead section also lacks clarity, for example, the article mentions Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House, which is generally referred to as simply Fallingwater or the Kaufmann’s residency or the House at Bear Run. Furthermore, Fallingwater does not own the 1932 version of Rose McClendon, but rather a later enlarged copy.
 * Great comments. Don't forget to sign your name! Aolivex (talk) 15:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Structure
The structure is also not clear and the article lacks depth. Barthe’s move from Harlem to Greenwich Village in New York, in 1934,for example, was of paramount importance for the development of his career. Moreover, the article does not talk about all of the significant milestones of Barthe’s life. For instance, it does not mention his trip to Paris, and the dates of the awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Completeness
There seem to be aspects of the topic that are missing from the table of contents and the article. For example, Barthe’s personal life, his sexuality, and his religious beliefs.

Out as gay
I can't find the part in the book cited for "Once, when interviewed, Barthé indicated that he was homosexual." The book that was cited specifically says "Barthé was a closeted homosexual" (Page 5) Frogtd129 (talk) 13:22, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Ritual purification

Stubby
This page was a candidate for Stubsensor cleanup project. I think the page as a whole doesn't count as a stub, but individual sections certainly do, so I've decided to leave the stub tag on for now. --RoySmith 01:48, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) -cleanup project? I see what you did there...

WTF
WTF? Does a encyclopedia start in this way?!

"There are strong similarities between the cleansing actions engaged in by obsessive compulsive disorder sufferers and those of religious purification rites."

Is that NPOV? --Striver 03:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Merger
I would oppose merging this article with the one on Ablution. Ablution referrs specifically to washing with water; whereas ritual purification referrs to maintaining a state of ritual cleanness--which may be accomplished as much by abstainig from certain behaviors as by performing certain acts (which may or may not involve the use of water). MishaPan 18:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced claims
Just a reminder that comparative theories about the nature or origin of ritual purification rituals require sources. Best, --Shirahadasha 22:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Content from 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
I would encourage not using the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia as a source on contemporary Judaism. An example of how unreliable it can be is an edit made to the Ritual purification article, which included the claim, based on the Jewish Encyclopedia, that full body immersion by men has largely gone out of practice in contemporary Judaism. Things have changed a lot since 1906. Chabad-Lubavitch, among other Hassidic groups, practices daily full ritual immersion for men. They were a tiny obscure group in 1906 and could reasonably be ignored when the Jewish Encyclopedia was written, but their explosive growth has made their views and practices highly influential today. --Shirahadasha 22:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Why not a "Ritual purity" article?
I think the topic of ritual purity/impurity cannot be properly exhausted in an article called "Ritual purification". Christianity is a case in point: It does have rituals of purification in the liturgy, but it does not have the idea of ritual purity/impurity as such, while this is very strong in Islam, Judaism etc. (see impurity of dogs, swine, certain foods, menstruation etc. which does not exist in Christianity). The Hindu caste system should also be tackled here, as far as it concerns purity/impurity. Lumendelumine (talk) 14:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

section on Catholicism flawed
The whole article reads like a 4th-year paper for a class on sociology of religion. The comment about "bodily fluids" in the lede does not apply to Catholicism. Catholic churches do not have "lavers" but fonts; the holy water in them is not a ritual cleansing but a blessing, reminiscent of baptism but not repeating it. Confession is not a ritual purification as Catholic thinking doesn't have such a concept. In short, the way that ritual purification as defined at the beginning is applied to Catholicism is a sort of original research, which in addition to being wrong for Wikipedia, is wrong in its facts. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 16:57, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
 * And some passages are simply ridiculous. A blog article about bidets in Finland which does not even remotely draw any connection to Christianity is used to support the claim that bidets are somehow connected to "Biblical toilet etiquette". Seriously?
 * This use of sources makes me doubt the other ones. What do the sources #26-28 really say? --91.34.43.26 (talk) 10:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Omissions
The article suffers from a glaring omission - the parts of the New Testament of the Bible referring to ritual purity, such as Mathew 15:17-20 and Acts 10:28, are not mentioned at all. Binuj20 (talk) 11:01, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Mark 7:2-5 also is a nice one.
 * But there are more omissions than that. An article on ritual purity that does not even mention the concept of Kashrut cannot be considered complete. --91.34.43.26 (talk) 10:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Zoroastrian Cleaning
Probably need a newer source than this for such an important topic, but apparently among Zoroastrians cow's urine went from being a preventative/cure against leprosy to being a common daily ablution to avoid disease and evil spirits, with goats' urine and human urine being used as substitutes into the early 20th century. This was apparently most prominently expounded in Avesta's Vendidad and would merit inclusion here if true. — Llywelyn II   09:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Ben Nelson

Factually Accurate? NPOV?
Describing Senator Nelson as only one of two pro-life Democrat in the Senate (along with Harry Reid)) is not factually accurate. Both of North Dakota's senators have ratings from the National Right to Life Committee that are as high as or higher than Senator Reid. Senator Kent Conrad has a rating of 55% and Senator Byron Dorgan has a rating of 64%. This phrase needs to be changed, or should be removed.

Also, the phrase “...whose voting record reflects a lack of support for a woman's right to choose...” seems to be not meeting NPOV and is unnecessarily long. Perhaps it should read, “...whose voting record is pro-life.” This would seem to be more on neutral ground.

Removed the claim that Nelson "opposes most gun control laws". This is simply untrue -- he has had a consistent 'F' rating from the Gun Owners of America throughout his entire tenure. -- User:Spock 29 March, 2006 1222 (UCT)

I suggest deleting the speculative statement "all of which are conservative-leaning groups that would, in all likelihood, support Republicans elsewhere but for Nelson's conservative record" unless someone can rephrase it so that it is something like "all of which support Republicans most of the time" with proper citation. Alienmercy 11:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

The Democrats never held a filibuster proof majority. Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman caucused with the Democrats. Sanders was reliable but Lieberman endorsed John McCain for president in 2008 and was nearly the Republican running mate.````  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.25.147.52 (talk) 08:49, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

His popularity rating
To call him the "most popular senator in the country" based on his popularity among his own constituents is somewhat misleading. Perhaps a different phrasing to the effect is in order, since he would likely not be the most popular senator in the country if a poll were conducted of all Americans. 70.174.143.168 (talk) 03:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)jonesgp1996

Also, is it really accurate to be using a poll that is potentially almost 4 years old? And i also disagree with the use of "Survey USA", wiki should use more reliable surveys/polls like Gallup, CBS News, Rasmussen, or Quinnipiac. Often times smaller survey groups dont have large groups that offer a diverse enough opinion. I would also have to think that his approval numbers have dropped drastically after accepting a sweetheart deal this week. 136.160.191.18 (talk) 15:45, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Political positions and votes
Rather than beginning this section with a series of subsections, each covering a particular issue, we should open with a general introductory paragraph on his position on the liberal-conservative-otherwise chart. That would be a good place to put things like his ACU and ADA ratings. Some of the information currently in the "Other votes" subsection could go up there.

I reverted an edit in the lede that changed "conservative Democrat" to "moderate Democrat": the Conservative Democrat article defines the creature as one who's conservative relative to the party, not conservative in terms of U.S. politics as a whole.

 * --Ammodramus (talk) 00:40, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Hmmm. That's a good point, but unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't appear to be consistent on this point. A bit of research shows that Democrats with moderate (or even leftist) ACU/ADA scores are frequently referred to as "conservative," while Republicans with similar scores seem to be invariably referred to as "moderate." For example:

 * Nelson - "conservative" per Wikipedia - 47.26 career from ACU, 52.8 from ADA (as of 2005)
 * Mary Landrieu - "conservative" (though in context used relative to Dem party) - 23.2 ACU, 81.3 ADA as of 2005
 * Jason Altmire - "conservative" per Wikipedia - 26 ACU, 80 ADA for 2008
 * John Spratt - "moderate to conservative" - 23.96 ACU, 85 ADA for 2008

 * Olympia Snowe - "moderate" per Wikipedia - 47.88 ACU, 44.8 ADA as of 2005
 * Susan Collins - "moderate" per Wikipedia - 49.55 ACU, 39.4 ADA as of 2005
 * Lincoln Chaffee - "moderate" per Wikipedia - 37 ACU, 59.6 ADA as of 2005

 * While this may possibly be reflective of media reporting, it's inaccurate, inconsistent, and certainly smacks of POV. And that's without getting into entries that exclusively use quotes calling (like Evan Bayh's) and/or give positions listing (like Kent Conrad's) the person in question as "moderate" and/or "conservative" when the objective measures show otherwise. Consistency would dictate that if Nelson is a called a conservative because of his position relative to the bulk of his party, someone like Snowe should be spoken of as a liberal; likewise, if Altmire is a "conservative," John McCain (81.43 ACU, 15.6 ADA - trending leftward for the past decade) should be referred to as a "liberal" to be consistent.

 * This looks like a bigger problem than just the Nelson entry. Pending discussion of the broader point, I've removed the offending passage from the overview, since Nelson's relative conservatism is already described in the "Political positions and votes"/"Other votes" area. I'm not sure how to bring the wider discussion before the entire Wikipedia community from here, though.

 * (BTW, the lifetime ratings for ADA I found were only through 2005; looks like they no longer provide them since, and I couldn't find them for any Representatives.) Jdb1972 (talk) 00:31, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

 * I think you've got a point. While I don't generally give a sympathetic ear to conservative complaints about the "liberal media", it seems to be a fact that left-of-the-party R's tend to be described as "moderate"; right-of-the-party D's tend to be described as "conservative".

 * Nelson's position should be described in the lede, since it's one of his more noteworthy aspects. Perhaps we should state explicitly that Nelson's positions tend to be to the right of his party, citing ADA and ACU ratings; or we could cite his incidence of voting against the party's majority (available through the Washington Post:.  In the latter case, we should be sure to note the means and extremes for each party: in the 110th Congress, for example, Nelson disagreed with his party's majority more than any other Democrat, only voting with the party majority 81.2% of the time.  Or we could use the National Journal ratings, which can be found at Project Vote Smart.

 * The lede should not include such unremarkable facts as Nelson's being a Methodist; and I don't think that his popularity in his own state really belongs there, either.

 * Try Project Vote Smart for more recent ADA ratings, and for Representatives.  At the main page, there's a bar on the left with a heading "Basic Categories".  Click on "Interest Group Ratings".  Pick the state, then follow your nose through a couple of other pages until you hit a page where you can click on the name of the congressman you're interested in.  You can then scroll down the page; or you can pick a category off the drop-down menu below "Pick an issue".  ADA ratings are under "Liberal" in that menu.  National Journal ratings are under both "Conservative" and "Liberal".  The NJ ratings also seem useful because they classify liberal/conservative on three issue classes: social, economic, and foreign policy.

 * I also think you've got a good point about WP articles generally. I've outlined a scheme for describing congressmen's positions at Talk:Bill Nelson, which article I'm currently working on; and I think it'd be an excellent thing if editors of WP articles on congressmen came to a consensus on something like that.  Not only would consistency be a good thing generally; but having an agreed-upon skeleton for articles on politicians' positions would provide a pretext for deleting stuff by people who sign on only so that they can insert a misspelt sentence or two about their particular pet issues.  Like you, I'm not sure how to bring it to the attention of WP editors generally.

 * --Ammodramus (talk) 02:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Intro Issues
1. Having the sentence "Nelson is a Methodist." as the second sentence in the intro paragraph is inappropriate for a supposedly religion-neutral US political landscape today. It is also awkward prose.

It could be fit in as a phrase somewhere towards the end of the intro: "A Methodist and [something something], Nelson...", or should go in a personal life section later.

2. For international readers it does need to be explained somehow in the intro that "Earl" is his given name and not an aristocratic title.

Perhaps a footnote on "Earl[1]", or making "Earl" a link to an article about the US given name would work.

3. Citing "Josh Kraushaar" by name as a pundit is promotional for Mr. Kraushaar and gives his personal views an aggrandized appearance of institutional importance.

At a bare minimum, it would have to read "Blogger Josh Kraushaar...", but such name-dropping should really be reserved only for extremely prominent public figures whose very opinions are news themselves. ("President Obama himself has said that...").

Make the sentence: "Commentators have suggested that the reason for this drop is his decision to cast the 60th, deciding vote for cloture on healthcare reform legislation.[2]" It's the footnote that answers the WIkipedia question "who said that", not inappropriate body copy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.201.170.32 (talk) 20:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Would there be any objections to deleting the last paragraph of the lead section (the one with the 2006 popularity-survey results, and the post-health-care-cloture edit)? I question whether the original fact of his popularity is important enough for the article, let alone important enough for the initial section.  Moreover, it seems to draw a lot of edits from people eager to explain that Nelson is no longer at all popular in Nebraska, edits that are often not especially NPOV and that I'd also be inclined to delete on grounds of recentism.  If no article-watchers object over the next week or so, I'll do the be-bold thing and excise the paragraph.

 * --Ammodramus (talk) 22:41, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Blocked Rotating IPs
I'm not sure if this is article-specific or global, but there are a bunch of rotating IP addresses that are blocked even for leaving comments here.

This is utterly pointless for vandals who will just change IP as soon as they get blocked -- and exceedingly annoying for people trying to do something useful.

If it needs to be done for a situation of a presently-ongoing attack, this should be like a 6-hour block that times out automatically. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.201.170.32 (talk) 20:54, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

United States War Bonds Act of 2009
Should there be any reference to the recently introduced 'United States War Bonds Act of 2009' ? Surv1v4l1st (Talk 00:22, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I'd say: let's watch the issue and see if it goes anywhere first. If the measure's not pushed and all it does is generate a few days' worth of chatter in the blogosphere, then we can safely ignore it.

 * --Ammodramus (talk) 02:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Sounds like a plan. If/when it gains more traction, I think it would be noteworthy enough to include a sentence or two about the legislation. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 21:36, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

His legacy
It appears that Nelson's legacy will be the Cornhusker Kickback. He has been a major player on the topic of health care reform and this is not even part of his page. As with much of Wikipedia, Nelson's page appears to be little more than propaganda. Nelson has been out there campaigning to save his job since he clearly is out of touch with the will of Nebraskans. It is probable that he will lose his seat in 2012 over his votes on this issue. So is this information being censored for pure political reasons, or how could any thinking person possibly justify the blackout of Nelson's legacy issue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.193.206.101 (talk) 23:42, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

NPOV issues
This article has a number of NPOV issues that need to be addressed. Nearly every section that describes his political positions or voting record at governor or Senator gushes about the good each vote accomplished. This is a clear violation of WP:Puffery. StraussHeat (talk) 23:26, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm inclined to agree with you on a number of sections. However, I don't see major NPOV problems with the section "Cooperation with Republicans", which you deleted.  It badly needs citations, and I've given it a title more descriptive of the contents ("Judicial nominations").  If you still think it ought to be taken out, could you elaborate on the problems that need to be fixed?  Thanks.  Ammodramus (talk) 23:43, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll look for citations for the piece. In the mean time, I'll go through and pick out NPOV statements and list them here for discussion. StraussHeat (talk) 16:16, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Here are 2:
 * "During his tenure, Nelson cut spending from the previous administration by 64% while it was scheduled to rise by 13%.[7] He introduced legislation to cut crime through the Safe Streets Act and Juvenile Crime Bill, advocated for low-income families through the Kids Connection health care system, and enacted welfare reforms. He also cut taxes for over 400,000 middle income families in Nebraska.[6]"

 * "As governor, Nelson took some conservative stances on issues in right-leaning Nebraska. He pushed welfare reform before it was done at a national level and opposed President Bill Clinton's efforts on health care.[8]"

The article seems to overemphasize his cooperation with conservatives or at least his conservative bent. I don't doubt that it exists, but the overemphasis makes it read like a campaign add instead of a wiki article. There are a number of other examples in the section on his political positions/ votes. StraussHeat (talk) 16:34, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

 * Sorry—I'm afraid I didn't explain myself clearly. I agree with you on these passages, and agree that there are similar problems with many others.  However, you specifically cut the two-paragraph subsection now titled "Judicial nominations" (which, at the time of your edit, was titled "Cooperation with Republicans").  Apart from a lousy title, which I've tried to fix, I don't see NPOV problems with that subsection.

 * The article's also poorly organized: a consequence, I think, of lots of editors sticking in a paragraph or six about their pet issues without regard to the flow of the article as a whole. The "Governor" subsection is particularly bad; it bounces from 1990 to 1994 to 1991 and back to 1990.  I'd personally favor deleting the whole subsection and rewriting it from the ground up, with due attention to both chronological organization and NPOV.  Unfortunately, researching for such a rewrite would take a very large chunk of time, which I don't have in great abundance right now.  We'd need to cover the 1990 election, major issues of the first term, the 1994 election, major issues of the second term, and the 1996 run against Hagel.  Since I don't think that the subsection's really capable of incremental improvement, it'd probably be best to rewrite it in userspace and then paste a complete new version in place of the old one.

 * --Ammodramus (talk) 20:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Cornhusker Kickback
The section on his health care vote contains a discussion of the "corn-husker kickback." Given the magnitude of it, shouldn't it be its own subsection under healthcare? StraussHeat (talk) 00:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm afraid I must disagree; and I've reverted the edit that split off the subsection.

 * Of the six paragraphs in the new subsection, only two had anything to do with the CK. Using it for the subsection title would thus be misleading.

 * The phrase "Cornhusker Kickback" is associated with a particular viewpoint on the health-care bill. A Nelson proponent might argue, with equal justification, that the discussion be titled "Unfunded federal mandates" or the like, since Nelson claimed that he was motivated by opposition thereto.  Using the phrase as a title, even in quote-marks, seems like a departure from NPOV.

 * It seems unlikely that the vast majority of those who derided the CK would have approved of Nelson's vote had the measure not included the Nebraska Medicaid provision. Certainly, it seems improbable that the dive in Nelson's approval rating among Nebraskans would not have taken place had he voted for the health-care measure without the CK.  The CK offered an avenue for opponents of the measure to attack Nelson and the bill; but had there been no CK, they'd have found something else.

 * I think that the article as it stands places the right degree of emphasis on the CK. We use the phrase, and by including Heineman's opposition we show that dislike of the provision wasn't limited to people outside Nebraska.  On the other hand, we include a brief account of Nelson's argument for it.

 * In my edit, I also reverted the addition of a bit about Nelson's TV commercial during a football game. That seems like an unnecessary detail in a section that's already running long.

--Ammodramus (talk) 02:07, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

I think you're probably right. What would you think about removing this section of one of the paragraphs: "'With the victory of Republican Scott Brown in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, the Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority. Since Brown had declared himself opposed to the health-care measure, the party's leadership opted to enact the legislation through the budget reconciliation process.[42]'" This is wordy and I'm not sure that it even belongs here. It should suffice to say that he voted against the final bill. . . and his vote was less controversial. Also, instead of listing the counterpoints of right-to-life organizations, wouldn't something from the CBO about the kickback be more appropriate. We could also include Nelson's response to the CBOs numbers and other criticisms. StraussHeat (talk) 20:41, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I think we need something about Brown and the reconciliation process; had it not been for that, the measure would've had to go through conference, and then the conference bill voted on, which would've offered an opportunity for a second filibuster, which would've forced Nelson to cast a second vote on cloture. If we leave out that business, it might look like Nelson voted for cloture on the bill, then voted against the identical measure, which might seem strange to the reader.  (If you recall, when Brown was elected there was some hope that it spelled curtains for the measure, because the supporters wouldn't have been able to break that second filibuster, and they surely wouldn't fly in the face of the public's clearly-expressed will by using the reconciliation process...)

 * I think we need the pro-life counterpoint, since Nelson claimed that he'd withheld his support until the measure was amended to ensure that no federal funds, mandated premiums, etc., would be used to finance abortions. If we leave out abortion altogether, then we leave out a major point that Nelson used to justify his vote; and if we leave out the NebRL statement, we present Nelson's argument but not the opposition response.

 * Nelson's vote against the final measure wasn't critical, but neither was it uncontroversial. Nelnet's been a major contributor to Nelson, and it's been suggested by Nelson's opponents that he's been very willing to repay them for their contributions.  I was actually sailing a little close to the wind when I included the mention of Nelnet, which is why I hung two citations on it— although Nelson didn't mention Nelnet in declaring his principled support for the free market in the federally-guaranteed-student-loan business, both the World-Herald and the Journal-Star brought it up in their news sections.  I was trying to keep the paragraph short, while bringing in Nelnet in a reasonably NPOV way; I didn't think it would be right to leave it out, and I didn't want to lengthen the paragraph by bringing in the two opposing views: "Nelson once again shows that he's Nelnet's poodle" vs. "Federally guaranteed loans should be made by the free market."

 * I think you may be overestimating the importance of the CK. It made a convenient club for the measure's opponents to beat Nelson with; but I think that very few people who opposed the measure would've supported it had it not been for the CK; and I don't think that most of those who condemned Nelson for his vote were also praising Kennedy and Schumer and Reid and the like for their principled, un-bought votes in favor of the measure.  Certainly that's true in Nebraska; as much as I regret to say it of my fellow Cornhuskerstanis, they're not at all opposed to increasing other people's taxes in order to provide goodies for Nebraska and Nebraskans.  Nelson's plunge in popularity was, I think due to opposition to the basic idea of the health-care bill, and not because they were ashamed of a senator who tried to steer taxpayer cash their way.

 * --Ammodramus (talk) 23:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

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Australian Rail Track Corporation

The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is an Australian Government-owned statutory corporation.

It operates one of the largest rail networks in the nation spanning 8,500km across five states, 39 worksites.

ARTC continues to expand the network through major infrastructure projects including Inland Rail, which is a new 1,700km freight line between Melbourne and Brisbane via regional Victoria, NSW and Queensland that will complete Australia’s national freight network and better connect producers to markets.

History
In November 1996, the Australian Government announced a major rail reform package that included the sale of government-owned train operators Australian National and National Rail, and the establishment of ARTC to manage the sections of the interstate rail network which had been controlled by the two former organisations.

ARTC was incorporated in February 1998, with operations starting in July 1998 when the lines managed by Australian National's Track Australia were transferred to it. These were the lines from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, Tarcoola to Alice Springs, Port Augusta to Whyalla, Adelaide to Broken Hill, Adelaide to Serviceton, and the Outer Harbor line in Adelaide. Its inaugural CEO was David Marchant.

In 2000, the Tarcoola to Alice Springs line was leased to the Asia Pacific Transport Consortium as part of the project to extend the line to Darwin.

Victoria
In 1999, ARTC signed a five-year deal with VicTrack, the rail manager for the Victorian government, to lease the standard gauge North East line from Albury to Melbourne and the Western standard gauge line from Melbourne to Serviceton. This was later extended for another 10 years, and in May 2008 for another 45 years.

As part of the lease extension, the run-down and under-utilised broad-gauge line from Seymour to Albury, that paralleled the standard gauge line, was leased to ARTC and converted to standard gauge. Included was construction of the five-kilometre Wodonga Rail Bypass which eliminated 11 level crossings in that city.

In March 2009, the Portland line from Maroona to Portland would be leased to ARTC for 50 years, with $15 million to be invested in the line.

ARTC also manages the Oaklands railway line between Benalla, Victoria and Oaklands, New South Wales.

Western Australia
In 2001, ARTC was granted rights for fifteen years to sell access between Kalgoorlie and Kwinana, Perth, to interstate rail operators under a wholesale access agreement with the Western Australian track-lessee Arc Infrastructure.

New South Wales
In September 2004, the New South Wales Government-owned RailCorp leased its interstate and Hunter Valley lines to the ARTC for 60 years. The lines covered by the lease are:
 * Main South line between Macarthur and Albury
 * North Coast line between Maitland and Border Loop
 * Main North line between Broadmeadow and Werris Creek
 * Broken Hill line between Parkes and Broken Hill
 * Unanderra to Moss Vale line
 * Sandy Hollow to Gulgong line
 * Cootamundra to Parkes line
 * Parkes to Narromine line
 * Troy Junction to Merrygoen line

As part of this agreement, ARTC agreed to the following investment programmes:
 * $192 million to build the Southern Sydney Freight Line, a new dedicated southern access route for freight trains through the south-western Sydney metropolitan area from Sefton to Macarthur, opened in January 2013.
 * $152 million to upgrade the Hunter Valley network, including track strengthening and $67 million to eliminate bottlenecks, increasing the capacity of the network from 85 million to over 100 million tonnes per year.
 * $186 million to upgrade the Main South line from Macarthur to Albury. The investment improved signalling, extended the length of crossing loops and replaced the Murrumbidgee Bridge at Wagga Wagga to assist in reducing the transit times for freight trains between Sydney and Melbourne by three hours.
 * $119 million for the North Coast line from Maitland to Border Loop including replacement of the 1920s signalling system between Casino and Border Loop assisting in reducing the travel time for freight trains between Sydney and Brisbane by up to 3.5 hours.
 * $21 million for the Broken Hill line between Parkes and Broken Hill, including funds to raise height clearances allowing the passage of double-stacked container trains.

The Rail Infrastructure Corporation also contracted operational responsibility of the remainder of its country branch lines to ARTC from September 2004. From January 2012, this was transferred to the John Holland Group operating as the Country regional Network.

In July 2011, responsibility for the 370 km Mungindi line from The Gap to Boggabilla line was transferred from the Country Rail Infrastructure Authority to the ARTC.

In August 2012, RailCorp leased its Metropolitan Goods line from Port Botany to Sefton to the ARTC for 50 years.

Queensland
In January 2010, the Government of Queensland leased its standard-gauge line from Border Loop on the New South Wales border to Acacia Ridge, Brisbane to ARTC for 60 years.

In February 2014, the Federal and Queensland governments agreed to investigate further incorporating Queensland into the national rail network. This ultimately did not proceed.

Responsibilities
ARTC does not operate any trains, but provides and maintains the infrastructure for train operators to run on. ARTC controls tracks in all mainland states. These were previously run by five separate state railways in an uncoordinated fashion that gave an advantage to road transport. By combining the infrastructure under one corporation it was expected that a more integrated and coordinated one-stop-shop would be created. It provides its own reporting numbers to trains that operate on its network. It also allows Commonwealth officers undercover privileges presenting as staff of ARTC.

ARTC does not control any of the narrow gauge track in Queensland or South Australia, nor broad gauge track in Victoria. However it does control the Albion to Jacana freight line which has been partially converted to dual gauge for use as a passing lane, but is considered a main line on the broad gauge network. It was transferred from VicTrack in May 2009.

Owned corridors

 * Adelaide to Serviceton (Adelaide–Melbourne line)
 * Adelaide to Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie (Adelaide–Port Augusta line & Trans-Australian Railway)
 * Port Augusta to Whyalla (Whyalla line)
 * Crystal Brook to Broken Hill (Crystal Brook–Broken Hill line)
 * Tarcoola to Alice Springs (Tarcoola–Darwin line) — leased to Aurizon until 2047
 * Dry Creek to Pelican Point (Dry Creek–Port Adelaide line)
 * Sefton to Macarthur (Southern Sydney Freight Line)

Leased corridors

 * Melbourne to Albury (North East line)
 * Melbourne to Serviceton (Western line)
 * Maroona to Portland (Portland line)
 * Port Botany to Sefton (Metropolitan Goods line)
 * Macarthur to Albury (Main South line)
 * Unanderra to Moss Vale (Unanderra to Moss Vale line)
 * Cootamundra to Parkes (Cootamundra to Parkes line)
 * Parkes to Broken Hill (Broken Hill line)
 * Parkes to Narromine
 * Troy Junction to Merrygoen line
 * Broadmeadow to Brisbane (North Coast line)
 * Maitland to North Star (Main North line)
 * Muswellbrook to Gulgong

ATMS
ARTC is the client for the Advanced Train Management System (ATMS) being developed by Lockheed Martin. This will replace older signalling and safe-working systems particularly in remote areas, such as deserts, where communications and power infrastructure is poor.

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Dimethyl terephthalate

Dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) is an organic compound with the formula C6H4(COOCH3)2. It is the diester formed from terephthalic acid and methanol. It is a white solid that melts to give a distillable colourless liquid.

Production
Dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) has been produced in a number of ways. Conventionally, and still of commercial value, is the direct esterification of terephthalic acid. Alternatively, it can be prepared by alternating oxidation and methyl-esterification steps from p-xylene via methyl p-toluate (PT).

Dimethyl terephthalate by the Witten process
The method for the production of DMT from p-xylene (PX) and methanol consists of a multistep process involving both oxidation and esterification. A mixture of p-xylene (PX) and methyl p-toluate is oxidized with air in the presence of cobalt and manganese catalysts. The acid mixture resulting from the oxidation is esterified with methanol to produce a mixture of esters. The crude ester mixture is then distilled to remove all the heavy boilers and residue that are produced; lighter esters such as monomethyl terephthalate are recycled to the oxidation section. The raw DMT is then sent to the crystallization section to remove DMT isomers, residual acids and aromatic aldehydes. Oxidation of methyl p-toluate followed by esterification also yields dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) as shown in the below reaction:
 * Esterification of terephthalic acid with methanol.svg

Dimethyl terephthalate by direct esterification
DMT can also be made by a different route, namely direct esterification of terephthalic acid with methanol. The dimethyl terephthalate that is formed is then purified by distillation. Even terephthalic acid of low purity may be used in this method.
 * C8H6O4 + 2CH3OH → C10H10O4 + 2 H2O

in the presence of o-xylene at 250–300 °C.

Uses
DMT is used in the production of polyesters, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT), and polybutylene terephthalate (PBT). Structurally, DMT consists of a benzene ring substituted at the 1 and 4 positions with methyl carboxylate (-CO2CH3) groups. Because DMT is volatile, it is an intermediate in some schemes for the recycling of PET, e.g. from plastic bottles.

Hydrogenation of DMT affords the diol cyclohexanedimethanol, which is a useful monomer.

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ARTC

ARTC may refer to:

 * Army Recruit Training Centre, in Australia
 * ArthroCare (NASDAQ: ARTC) is an American manufacturer of medical devices
 * Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, an American theatre troupe
 * Australian Rail Track Corporation, a government-owned corporation
 * Automotive Research & Testing Center, a Taiwanese non-profit research lab
 * ARTC HD63484, a graphics processor released by Hitachi; see

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chatters Nexus

 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. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:46, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chatters Nexus
Insignificant website. Wikipedia is not a web listing. Also vanity and advertising. Alexa rank: 5,390,421 Google search: 30 results  --  Barfooz   (talk)  01:54, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable user site. Denni ☯ 02:10, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Delete, website vanity. The external link gives me a 403 Forbidden. --bainer (talk) 02:55, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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User:Donwarnersaklad

LithoLInk testing results are used in urology and nephrology for diagnostic evaluation of kidney stones and other kidney conditions.

Tables of the LithoLink testing results... Reference ranges...

Bibliography... Journal articles... Validity of LithoLink...

Manual...

Statistical analysis...

Presentation of tables...

Typefont sizes...

Typefont embolding...

Compatibility of medical records computer systems...

Compatibility of laboratory results computer systems...

Other laboratories, competing laboratories...

Problematical clinical use of the LithoLink testing results format...

LithoLink
A software program that stores information of kidney stones. No indication of notability, not a breakthrough or radical development in any way. It is also an ad. JFW | T@lk  23:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Apparently the laboratory accomplished what no other clinical laboratory had done. They developed the assays and the statistical presentation of diagnostic testing results for specialists in urology and nephrology. dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 07:12, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. JFW | T@lk  23:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I cleaned up the stupidness, but no assertion of notability. Mmmbeer 23:21, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Apparently nobody came along yet to add information. You did delete the content at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LithoLink&oldid=19701514 dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 07:12, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Moved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Donwarnersaklad dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 07:12, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

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LithoLink

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email [mailto:dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu]

if you would, please consider and contribute to a sketch for a draft for an entry about a strategy for reducing std cases.

the phenomenon of partners coming in to clinics or their doctors saying we haven't had sex yet and want to know our std status.

the strategy of let's get tested together before we have sex... for sexually transmitted infections. a draft blogs, links http://NotB4WeKnow.EditThisPage.com http://NotB4WeKnow.blog-city.com

on any given day two people can meet and want to have sex. you can get tested together for a number of stds before you have sex.

A Google search of "Don Saklad" (with quotation marks) pulls up over 10,000 hits, which is intriguing, given that he is not known or believed to be a published author or any type of notable figure in any field. Don Saklad appears to have achieved this level of internet notoriety solely through the unique posts he leaves on an extraordinary number of blogs, forums, and just about any websites that allow users to leave comments.

Boy some people got a lot of time on their hands, don't they?

Mr. Saklad's posts almost all revolve around complaints about the Boston Public Library or complaints that Boston City Hall does not provide sufficient public information to individuals requesting it. He will generally post a particular complaint on several dozen internet forums.

They're quite a bit behind the times.

Somebody needs to be reinformed how badly they're informed.

Mr. Saklad's writing style and posting style are unique. He often writes in a "telegraphic" manner characterized by short sentence fragments set off by periods. He rarely responds directly to questions or comments left by other individuals in response to his posts. Although he will post frequently on a forum and will elicit remarks from other posters regarding the content and peculiarities of his posts, he does not engage in conversation with other posters and does not write on topics other than the Boston Public Library and Boston City Hall/City Council. His style is also very impersonal, in that he will compose a post stating that Boston City Hall is not willing to provide a particular extraneous amount of information requested (such as the entire stenographic output of several council meetings), but will not specify that he in particular requested this information. Mr. Saklad is also known to publish seemingly random lists of information without any additional context. During the spring of 2005, he posted lists of Boston City Council members and their contact information on a number of internet forums. Particularly when he posts lists, he will become obsessive about his posting, for instance, starting separate threads or blog entries each time he comes across the phone number for an additional city council member, rather than adding to his previous threads. A Google search on a line from nearly any posting Mr. Saklad has made will reveal that he has posted the same information on dozens of other sites.

They're attempting to imply something else that he's a stalker looking for assistants.

The don saklad obsessives repeatedly post information about him.

Triangular is a small cotton ball manufactured in a johnson and johnson factory sometime in may 2005. Nobody knows too much about them except that they are obviously a light weight.

Some other don saklad obsessives are the vague sound of a wind chime down the block. A goat shaped lump of rock in northern nevada. Plus many others too numerous to name.

I think that so and so argues that the boil on his ass is inhabited by extraterrestrials.

It's far more interesting to find out who the don saklad obsessives are and why they can't control their writing about him.

We need to find out if they need to be institutionalized or something. We already know this about don saklad,come on!

don saklad's getting all the help he needs.His therapy consists of all the stuff he's posting on the web.

But what therapy do the don saklad obsessives need. Maybe to post more stuff on the web. Great minds don't want to know any more.

*don saklad obsessives

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Please vote on and discuss the matter. See this article's entry on the Votes for Deletion page.

You are welcome to edit this article, but please do not blank, merge, or move this article, or remove this notice, while the discussion is in progress. For more information, read the Guide to Votes for Deletion. /div Category:Pages on votes for deletion Category:Pages on votes for deletion End of VfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point A Google search of "Don Saklad" (with quotation marks) pulls up over 10,000 hits, which is intriguing, given that he is not known or believed to be a published author or any type of notable figure aside from his internet presence. Don Saklad appears to have achieved this level of internet notoriety solely through the unique posts he leaves on an extraordinary number of blogs, forums, Usenet, and just about any websites that allow users to leave comments. Mr. Saklad's posts primarily revolve around complaints about the Boston Public Library or complaints that Boston City Hall does not provide sufficient public information to individuals requesting it. He will generally post a particular complaint on several dozen internet forums. Mr. Saklad's writing style and posting style are unique. He often writes in a "telegraphic" manner characterized by short sentence fragments set off by periods. He rarely responds directly to questions or comments left by other individuals in response to his posts. Although he will post frequently on a forum and will elicit remarks from other posters regarding the content and peculiarities of his posts, he does not engage in conversation with other posters and does not write on topics other than the Boston Public Library and Boston City Hall/City Council. His style is also very impersonal, in that he will compose a post stating that Boston City Hall is not willing to provide a particular extraneous amount of information requested (such as the entire stenographic output of several council meetings), but will not specify that he in particular requested this information. Mr. Saklad is also known to publish seemingly random lists of information without any additional context. During the spring of 2005, he posted lists of Boston City Council members and their contact information on a number of internet forums. Particularly when he posts lists, he will become obsessive about his posting, for instance, starting separate threads or blog entries each time he comes across the phone number for an additional city council member, rather than adding to his previous threads. A Google search on a line from nearly any posting Mr. Saklad has made will reveal that he has posted the same information on dozens of other sites.

*Don Saklad Haiku Categories: Pages on votes for deletion | Usenet people

the world of don saklad mystery and intrigue. clearly there's got to be a film about this. and with censorship and suppression, these are the big things at stake here. and don saklad and his tormenters are at the center of it. it's a precursor to improvements in the constitution so that dastardly things like this can't happen in the future. the forces of evil have been let loose in the land. and good people have to come together to see that they don't succeed. and don saklad again at the hub of that universe. future generations will be appreciative.

wikipedia is not private property. or please disabuse me of that. i didn't destroy anything. i created something. where there wasn't anything before i created something. that's not vandalism. the people who attempted to destroy what i created are guilty of vandalism unless of course they have a definition of vandalism different than what the dictionary says willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property then they would not be guilty. it's not private property. it's public property. i'm part of the public and allowed to create things there which is what i've done. my tormenters on the other hand are guilty of vandalism because they destroyed something. i put some words there. they removed them. isn't that destruction?... sometimes in order to present a neutral point of view don't you have to present all sides of an issue?... wouldn't it be important to put people who are less than not notable in the wikipedia?... isn't a discussion like this exactly part of the lure of don saklad?... how could you have a wikipedia article about don saklad without including any of this because that if anything demonstrates the nature of the whole issue of don saklad?... that's yet another aspect of the don saklad saga. whether he exists at all. a bot. an imaginary person. part of the saga. shouldn't we be including that too?... the don saklad disaster on wikipedia.

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Slam book

A slam book is a notebook (commonly the spiral-bound type) that is passed among children and teenagers. The keeper of the book starts by posting a question (which mayis then passed around for eachother contributor to fill in their own answer to the question.

Slam books were also a source of bullying between students—where students "lived in fear" of the "biting comments" written anonymously under their names, "on the order of what today might be a Tweet or a Facebook comment". A slam book containing cruel comments was featured in episode 3.20 ("Kids Can Be Cruel") of the 1980s TV show Facts of Life.

One early reference to slam books can be found in the November 18, 1928 issue of The Central New Jersey Home News where it was reported as a new fad among New Brunswick high school students. It was defined in The Vocabulary of Jazzdom in 1922 as "a diary in which you 'knock' your friends".

One newspaper article from 1930 argued that slam books could be a great thing for humanity. "Psychology, industry, and the ghastly exposure to the late war have changed [the Victorian era's faux veneer of sentimentality and taboos]. We have learned the price of sentimentality. The youngsters of today are facing life and themselves as is."

In general, however, slam books were seen in a negative light. A slam book was briefly the focus of the murder investigation of Carole Lee Kensinger in 1948.

Slam books crossed racial barriers and were popular among African American high school communities in the 1950s. and were not limited to the US. In 2005, friends created a slam book as a going-away present for 16-year-old Richa Thapa who emigrated from Nepal to the US. In 1999, Claire Morris-Dobbie launched SLAM: A New Way to Tell the Truth, a pre-made "slam book" with online tie-in features in an attempt to combine nostalgia with the growing World Wide Web. It was billed as a "kinder and gentler" slam book for teens and pre-teens with the goal of encouraging them to think and communicate, write and express themselves.

Slam books can also exist in virtual formats. Web-based slam book sites have attracted controversy for hosting virtual slam books in which individuals or organizations are targeted for criticism that constitutes bullying or defamation.

Some point to slam books as the analog precursor to anonymous trolling and negative social interactions on Twitter and Facebook. "Passing handwritten notes or 'slam books' has since been replaced with online tools such as IM, websites, blogs, cell phones, etc."

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Kereks

Kereks (autonym: aӈӄalҕakku, angqalghakku, "seaside people"; Кереки) are an ethnic group of people in Russia. In the 2021 census, only 23 people registered as ethnic Kereks in Russia. According to the 2010 census, there were only 4, and according to the 2002 census, there were 8 people registered as Kereks. According to the 1897 census, there were still 102 Kereks. During the twentieth century, Kereks were almost completely assimilated into the Chukchi people.

Language
Their traditional language is the Kerek language, but it is no longer spoken. Kerek descendants speak Chukchi and Russian. The Kerek language, which belongs to the Chukchi–Kamchatka family (it is included in Paleoasiatic languages), is close to the Koryak language and is often considered a dialect of the latter.

Lifestyle
Historically, the Kerek were a settled people who engaged in fishing and hunting of wild deer and mountain sheep. Southern Kereks also practiced small-scale reindeer herding. They also kept sled dogs and collected fur from marine mammals.

Shamanism and animism was strong among the Kerek, with the Kerek never converting to Christianity.

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Softpress

Softpress Systems is a software publisher with its headquarters in Witney in Oxfordshire, UK. The company was founded in 1993. Originally the developers of a print-publishing application called Uniqorn. Development of Uniqorn ended after Apple discontinued printing support for its QuickDraw GX component.

The company initiated the development of Freeway (currently version 7) in 1996, a DTP (Desktop publishing)-style website creation program. Freeway was an HTML generator, as opposed to an HTML editor, allowing users to design in similar ways to DTP applications rather than work directly with code. There was a Pro – professional – version and Express version – focused towards home and small business users. Softpress also developed Exhibeo, for creating web galleries and showcases.

Softpress Systems was managed by Joe Billings (managing director), Richard Logan (financial director), and Stewart Fellows (technical director).

Closure/resurrection
On 4 July 2016 Softpress announced that it had ceased trading, saying that "current revenue and new product development, are insufficient to sustain the company as a viable entity going forward’.

On 1 February 2017 the Softpress website stated "We missed you! We’ve returned from the netherworld..."

In October 2019, Softpress announced the upcoming release of Xway, "an entirely new 64-bit (Swift/Cocoa) application that has been written using modern development tools.” Softpress also expressed a philosophy behind Xway to be “Like Freeway but better”, and that they would be releasing a beta version of Xway soon thereafter. On 5 November 2019 Softpress released Xway (beta) as a free download to acclimate Freeway Pro users to this new web designing tool for macOS, citing: "Xway will run on Apple’s latest version of macOS and on earlier versions of macOS going back to 10.13 (High Sierra)."

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Context-based access control

Context-based access control (CBAC) is a feature of firewall software, which intelligently filters TCP and UDP packets based on application layer protocol session information. It can be used for intranets, extranets and internets.

CBAC can be configured to permit specified TCP and UDP traffic through a firewall only when the connection is initiated from within the network needing protection. (In other words, CBAC can inspect traffic for sessions that originate from the external network.) However, while this example discusses inspecting traffic for sessions that originate from the external network, CBAC can inspect traffic for sessions that originate from either side of the firewall. This is the basic function of a stateful inspection firewall.

Without CBAC, traffic filtering is limited to access list implementations that examine packets at the network layer, or at most, the transport layer. However, CBAC examines not only network layer and transport layer information but also examines the application-layer protocol information (such as FTP connection information) to learn about the state of the TCP or UDP session. This allows support of protocols that involve multiple channels created as a result of negotiations in the FTP control channel. Most of the multimedia protocols as well as some other protocols (such as FTP, RPC, and SQL*Net) involve multiple control channels.

CBAC inspects traffic that travels through the firewall to discover and manage state information for TCP and UDP sessions. This state information is used to create temporary openings in the firewall's access lists to allow return traffic and additional data connections for permissible sessions (sessions that originated from within the protected internal network).

CBAC works through deep packet inspection and hence Cisco calls it 'IOS firewall' in their Internetwork Operating System (IOS).

CBAC also provides the following benefits:

 * Denial-of-service prevention and detection
 * Real-time alerts and audit trails

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