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User talk:Slowpokeiv

I notice nobody's welcomed you yet, so hello and welcome to Wikipedia! You might be interested in Welcome, newcomers, How to edit a page, and the Manual of Style. If you ever get bored, take a look at the list of open tasks.

Feel free to ask me if you have any questions, or inquire at the help desk or village pump. Add yourself to the list of Wikipedians if you like.

Incidentally, thanks for all your edits to Formula One-related topics. Feel free to make suggestions for the WikiProject, and keep up the good work! Happy editing. — Dan | Talk 20:13, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Count me in
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Area codes
Hey slowpoke. Where'd you get your info for 262,414,&920? Would you be interested in writing 608 and 715 as well? Or have any pointers on where I should go to find info on them? Tomer TALK 17:28, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

RE: Re: Talk:2005 in NASCAR
Thanks for the understanding, I defintely can give a first-hand account of the Brickyard 400, I'm hoping Tony Stewart can pull off the big win. Thanks again, Srcrowl 07:15, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, just got back from the race in Indy. It was pretty sweet watching Stewart pull off the victory, and you predicted right, they brought him a ladder. Too bad for Rusty, seems like after that bad qualification--they couldn't pull it together. Srcrowl 06:18, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

RE: Usertalk:edgester
Thanks for the welcome.

I have tons more Nascar Photos.

I attended the Coca-cola 600 and UAW-GM 500 for the past two years.

I have garage photos from Rousch, Hendrick, and MBV/MB2. I live in Charlotte, NC. The Hendrick, Rousch, and MBV shops are 15 minutes from my house.

Re: /GP updates
''Say, I like what you've been doing with the GP updates effort to standardize the race reports! Since you started this, do you mind if I help out, and edit your page to reflect said progress? (I don't see the point in duplicating efforts, but at the same time, it is your name space, and I would think it rude to edit without permission) lemme know, and keep up the great work! -slowpokeiv 14:59, 4 August 2005 (UTC)''

 * absolutely, go for your life. i started doing it when i was on holidays from uni, but i'm not anymore so progress is obviously a lot slower... i would appreciate any help i could get! Thanks AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 04:16, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Firman
While I try to find something more concerete, I refer you to any end-of-race FIA-placed ranking data on any of the 14 from 16 races he competed in in 2003, which displayed the Irish tricolour and IRL for nationality. During 2003, the FIA's list of drivers also had him down as racing under an Irish licence, and I may be able to find this through archive.org --Kiand 11:37, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/2068891188__ESP_Class_2003.pdf and every other FIA race classification document in the 2003 archive has "IRL". Think thats concerete enough to show that he used an Irish superlicence in those seasons. Although they do have Eddie Irvine down as GBR despite an Irish superlicence - thats for political reasons... --Kiand 11:44, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I think he proved it a bit more two days ago, eh :) --Kiand 08:14, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Template:F1 driver standings
This table, which I gather was your idea, is excellent! Please see my comments on its talk page about whether it should remain a template. — Dan | Talk 17:45, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Note:De-linked title, added link to talk for said template, as template itself has been blanked, and I hate red links! -slowpokeiv 23:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

2005 USA-Race
DNS stands for when a car does not take a a race start. Makes sense. By having Ret listed that mean the driver has actually started in that race and will count a race starts towards the driver race start tally.. The formation lap does not count as a lap at all as it is not added towards the race classification. For when does a driver 'start' a Grand Prix? To my mind he does so only if he is on the grid when the flag drops or light goes green at the final start. Should a driver have failed to compete the formation lap, for instance (as was the case with Prost at Imola in 1991), he cannot truly be said to have started the race. In the case of restarted events such as the British GP in 1986, poor Jacques Laffite certainly did start the race, but this was declared null and void and he was not presented to take the restart, which is the only one that counts. For true official race results is best to get them off www.forix.com as they receive their race results from the officials. Yes I know formula1.com is official but not 100% official in statistics. If you decide to leave it as Ret then you must give all the drivers a race start count!

I have spend hours in researching and asking many F1 statistician who are famous and know more on Grand Prix. All the statisian I have contacted and got back told me it is actually DNS not Ret, they also have mention the formula1.com is not very accurate with their race results. The formula1.com is incorrect as listing as ret instead of DNS for 2005-USA. This were the responses from the following people. Renowned F1 statistians, like David Hayhoe or Autosport's Peter Higham agree that all Michelin drivers were DNS in 2005-USA, but consider a RET if a driver didn't made a re-start, for example. That was the common view in the past - no contemporary source listed Lauda as a DNS in 1976-Germany - and they simply ignore the current "null and void" FIA rule. I totally agree to change it as DNS not Ret as they didn't take part on the first lap.

Here is a intersting fact. Button will start his 100th race start in the 2005-China race. But according to wikipedia when doing the math by adding all Button race starts it would be his 101st race start in China as Button has been listed as Ret instead of DNS for this year 2005-USA race. Does this make sense to you. That means wikipedia will have an extra race start for all the drivers who have no started in the 2005 USA race have an extra race start which wouldn't be official to the drivers stats.

I am trying to help you all to have accurate data on Formula 1 on wikipedia. I DO beleive the formula1.com site doesn't not give out accurate race classifications. As I have been involved with FORIX and autosport.com for many years as my job is to look for incorrect data on their server. Andreas 04 October 09:36

 * I had the same issue with Ralph Firman but I simple check on his previous career before F1 that he was always has and will always race under the Irish Flag as you can see by looking on all the race cars that he raced in had Irish flags on them as his nationality. Now back to the 2005 USA race, it will screw up all the michlelin runners race starts on wikipedia as the guys on wikipedia count the 2005 USA race as a race start. There have been races in the past that less than 12 cars actually have started a race in F1, or even fewer than 12. I have been correcting formula1.com on DNS in the past six months I am up to the year 1989 on their web site and they have accepted all the errors that I have pin pointed out for them. They make the correction and I am happy. I am not too far away when I reach to the 2005 USA GP on their web page, I already have been given the answer by FIA (which I am keepin it to myself until the season is over than we see who is right) and it won't be too long before I will ask the same question to formula1.com. Here are some samples on race starts for drivers --> Jacques Villeneuve is to make is his 150th race start in the 2005 Japan race if he takes the race start, but now according to wikipedia Villeneuve did start the 2005 USA race so that makes Villeneuve has already started his 150th race in the last grand prix at the Brazilian Grand Prix which is incorrect. As Villeneuve did not take part in the race start for the 2005 USA race. Jenson Button is to make is 100th race start in China but according to wikipedia it will be his 101st start in China as they also count him as a race starter. We will see if Villeneuve gets to slice a 150th Grand Prix cake in the nnext year if he does then wikipedia is wrong data on the 2005 USA race results. The reason I know so much on F1 history is because I read about it everyday since the age of 14, so that makes 11 years of F1 research. I hope I can get your support... Andreasu 04 October 2005, 14:25.

copyright on pictures problem
Hi Slowpokiev - You mentioned to me that I need to get the copyrights on my pictures up to snuff and I'm trying to get that accomplished but having problems. I tried to upload over the other pictures but I think I just duplicated them. But onto the more trying part, I can't figure out what I'm suppose to be doing to the pictures. I've read alot of help docs but haven't gotten any closer. So here's what I'm doing, please correct my stupidity:

I'm going to the picture page - for example Image:Fort worth tech 013.jpg I'm selecting the pic from my computer I'm going to the drop down menu and selecting (PD) Self Made donate to public / release all rights Then of course I click on "upload file."

Yet still I'm getting the following: This image has no source information. This means that it has an unknown copyright status. Unless the copyright status is provided and a source is given, the image will be deleted seven days after this template was added. The uploader,, has been notified by on.

Any suggestions? I'm also positive that I did the same when I originally uploaded the pictures. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now... Thanks Rockydallas 23:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

copyright on pictures problem solved by pokie
Thanks a ton Pokie. I got the copyrights all taken care of I'm good to go. I didn't know where to find the code - that's what lost me and I also thought that the 'image source error' was coming from some admin feature elsewhere and not on the page itself, so I was expecting it to magically disappear :)  Learning sucks! Rockydallas 16:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

F1 flags & Eddie Irvine
Hi. You've added a lot of Republic of Ireland flags to represent Eddie Irvine. He is from Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Anyone born in N.I. can claim Irish citizenship but to my knowledge Irvine hasn't. Mark83 12:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. I've already changed a few and will try my best to help change the rest. Mark83 16:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * One other small thing. I noticed in your edit summary you said he's from Great Britain. Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. The UK is GB and Northern Ireland. Its a minor thing, just to let you know as some people get really worked about it. Mark83 16:36, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yup, sorry about that. (and yes, I know how people get worked up about it...) GBR or GB would have been correct, Great Britian would be incorrect. (The full and correct term would be: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This Yank keeps making the mistake of shortening it...) -slowpokeiv 22:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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The F1 portal (in which I assume you have some degree of interest, as your name is listed on WikiProject_Formula_One) is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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Nice to see you've been re-editing on the NASCAR WikiProject. It wasn't the same without you! :-) -- D -Day What up? Am I cool, or what? 23:58, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hello again.

I dropped notes round a while back to those who have listed themselves at WikiProject_Formula_One to ask for suggestions for selected articles on portal:Formula One. There was a pretty good response, both in terms of how it might work and of articles suggested. Damon Hill came out with the most support and was brought up to Good Article standard after a lot of work by Skully Collins and others before going on as the F1 portal selected article a couple of weeks ago. It is now at Featured Article Candidates as a Featured Article candidate (why not drop by and see if you can help polish it further?).

Several people who responded to the original request suggested that a monthly or bi-weekly 'Selected Article' could act as a catalyst for an improvement drive to get more articles up to a higher standard. Although it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I started, this seemed to work pretty well for the Damon Hill article, so I've drafted up a process for doing this more regularly. See Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management_of_selected_articles for details. Essentially the suggestion is that we vote for an article to improve every couple of weeks and at the end of the improvement process the article goes on the portal as the new 'Selected Article'. I'd be grateful for any comments on how this might work - I'm sure some of you are more familiar with things 'Wiki' than me - as well as your votes for the next candidate (by 16 July).

You may also want to help with the article Gilles Villeneuve, which was the next most popular after Damon Hill. The idea is to try and get it up to GA standard by 16 July and then put it on the portal as the 'Selected Article'. I hope you can help! 4u1e 18:25, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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RE: NASCAR Article
When I complained about the NASCAR article, the article was very "Cup centric" with little information about NASCAR itself, and plenty of information about Nextel Cup. That would be like the FIA article having 3 sections just for information about Formula 1 and nothing about WRC. After nothing got done after putting that on the discussion page, I took matters into my own hands, and reorganized most of the article myself. I moved some sections to the other articles, I moved some parts to other parts of the article, and some stuff had to go. I think the article has improved a lot since then. But I am considering moving the point system table from the Nextel Cup page to the NASCAR page, since NASCAR seems to use the same point system for every series. Mustang6172 05:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE
Since September, I have moved the points information to the main NASCAR article, and the article is bloated. I used the Wikiproject:NASCAR discussion page to propose a new article that would split up the current one, but have only gotten one response (which was positive). You can find the details of my proposal here. My overall goal is to create something close to the Formula One Regulations article, but using non-series specific information reguarding NASCAR. Mustang6172 08:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

1997 European Grand Prix
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New NASCAR driver infobox
I like the new infobox you've created; it's nice to have one template we can use for all three major series. I do have a few questions, though.
 * 1. Should we add stats for Busch and Truck to every single Cup driver, even if they only ran a few races in Busch or Truck? I point you to the Mark Martin article, where since he is well-established in Busch and (supposedly) moving to Truck, I've put all three.  The infobox is absolutely huge, and I don't think that we should put every single stat in there.
 * 2. Would it be possible to add IROC stats for NASCAR drivers to this box, or is that something we should save for an (as-yet undeveloped) IROC infobox?
 * 3. How are we going to do the templates for drivers like Juan Pablo Montoya, who are well-established in F1 (or another series) and are moving to Cup? Should we just add the Cup template before/after the F1 template, or should we create some sort of combination template in conjunction with WikiProject Formula One and WikiProject IROC?
 * 4. Should we add stats for the Canadian Tire Series to this infobox?
 * 5. Dumb question: Is there an easier way to do a numbered list than the way I'm doing this? :p

Again, kudos for creating the new infobox! -- DiegoTehMexican 03:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

First off, thanks. Appreciate the comments, and good questions, all of them. In response: -slowpokeiv 00:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think we should add stats for all three. It has been determinied that even one start in any Premeire series is notable, and once a driver retires, the X races in Y years line should speak for itself.
 * 1) I was thinking about the same thing myself, but hadn't decided how to format said stats. (Top ten means nothing, as well as first/last race doesn't mean as much...) Probably a better place to bring it up is in the IROC WP, but my opinion: Yes.
 * 2) That's an even better, albeit rarer question. I'm sure there are more, but I can only think on the one major crossover between NASCAR and F1, and only a few more IROC <-> F1 drivers. I think those should be handled on a case by case basis, with a decent discussion as to which series stats comes first. (I would not want to start anything even remotely saying "my racing series is better than yours" or the like.)
 * 3) Is the Canadian Tire Series on the same professional level as NEXTEL Cup? If so, then we should probably consider it. If not, then probably not.
 * 4) See the source code for my reply. :)

I suppose I should've said something about this before I started making changes - the Previous Year variable needs to be different for each series - many drivers don't run in the same series year after year, and it would makes the previous position variable incorrect. -- DiegoTehMexican 15:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, good point. I was thinking that only if the driver competed in the previous year should it be used, thereby removing the need for multiple variables. However, in the interest of open mindedness, and to not messup the currently used versions, I have made a quick fix. The way it is now (02:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)) setup, prev_SERIES_year will be seperate years if explicitly called. If not, it will default to the "Previous_Year" value. (If both not present, but one of the prev_SERIES_pos is, then we're in trouble.) -slowpokeiv 02:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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Edwards Air Force Base
I've been working on this article with the hopes of it becoming my first FAC. There's a minor todo list on the talk page, but I'd like input on any other aspects of the article that people think could be improved.

-Lommer | talk 20:14, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm curious after reading the article about what life is like for all those people living on the base, is there any more information around about general life on the base, schools, what they do for entertainment etc? --nixie 13:28, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah good call, I'll start a section on civilian or off-duty life at the base. -Lommer | talk 00:26, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I kinda speed-read through the article, but I didn't see anything pertaining to BRAC 2005. The page has an "mili-BRAC" templete link, so I would include an explanation for it. TomStar81 05:33, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Cleanup and expansion
I tried to do some cleanup on the page as per the Wikipedia Manual of Style for disambiguation pages. I also greatly expanded it. I almost always give descriptions for every item on a disambiguation page, but I am ambivalent about the International Space Station expeditions. If you want to add descriptions for them, go for it.

I strongly recommend that additional expeditions not be added to the list of military and exploratory expeditions, unless they are referred to by a name that has "expedition" in it. For the articles without "expedition" in the Wikipedia article name, I have listed the name that does have the term in parentheses. The alternative names I listed come from redirects or the article itself.

Please feel free to remove or correct anything that you feel is improperly listed anywhere on the disambiguation page. It is helpful if you note the reason in the edit summary or on this talk page, though. Also, if you want to contact me for some reason, please use my user talk page. -- Kjkolb (talk) 00:22, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

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Tingo María

Tingo María is the capital of Leoncio Prado Province in the Huánuco Region in central Peru. It has a population of 46,191 inhabitants (2017 census).

Tingo María was considered unreachable until 1936, when the Montaña Road reached the settlement. It was then that the state run Estacion Experimental Agricola was established due to its "comfortable" elevation (2,204 ft). In 1942, the U.S. Government began adding more funding to the station, and by 1960 over 40,000 acres (160 km2) of land were under cultivation, especially along the Huallaga River valley where land was level. Coffee was a particularly valuable crop. The city nickname is "the Door of the Amazonia."

The city is placed where two important rivers meet; the Monzón and the Huallaga river, a main contributor of the Marañón river. The city headquarters the National University of the Forest (UNAS-www.unas.edu.pe); it has 7 faculties, a botanical park, and first level facilities. Near the city there is the Tingo María National Park of 180 km2 (43000 acre) that preserves nature and a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman that sleeps. It is called La Bella Durmiente (Spanish for Sleeping Beauty) or Pumarinri (Quechua for "cougar ear"). A legend explains the form of the range. The main attraction is a cave named Cueva de las Lechuzas (Spanish for "cave of the owls") (named after a colony of the superficially owl-like Oilbird found in it), probably the most attractive and accessible cave of Peru, though it is not the longest and deepest.

Tingo María has an airport served daily by regional jets and turbo-prop airplanes. A well-paved main road, now called "the Federico Basadre" Highway crosses the city halfway from Lima to Pucallpa; 16 km going to the east it meets the Marginal Highway that follows the river to the north and arrives at Tarapoto. A main road that comes from Casma port, on the coast of Ancash department, is being worked now. This road reinforces the position of Tingo María as a regional and national hub.

Tingo María is where actor Eric Fleming, star of American TV show Rawhide with Clint Eastwood, died on September 28, 1966, while shooting a TV movie titled High Jungle. His dugout canoe overturned in the Huallaga River. He was swept away by the current and drowned at age 41.

A relevant industry working on Cacao is the Cooperativa Agroindustrial Naranjillo, that sells its products to foreign markets.

Climate
Tingo María has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen: Af) with abundant rainfall. The period from November to March is particularly rainy.

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Wolvey

Wolvey is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 1,942, which increased to 2,121 at the 2021 census.

The village is located on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border in an outlying part of the borough of Rugby. The village is, however, more than 11 mi north-west from the town of Rugby and closer to Hinckley (five miles to the north), Nuneaton (six miles to the north-west) and Coventry (ten miles south-west). The source of the River Anker is near the highest point in the parish, 130 metres. Originally on the main route between Leicester and Coventry, is now served by the B4065 and B4109 roads. The hamlet of Bramcote forms a western part of the parish, This was the site of a Second World War airfield, RAF Bramcote, subsequently used by the Royal Naval Air Service and renamed HMS Gamecock. Since 1959 it has been used by the army and is known as the Gamecock Barracks. Discoveries of Neolithic flint tools and Bronze Age burial mounds suggest early occupation of the parish while a major Roman road, Watling Street, forms part of the parish boundary. The village certainly existed in Saxon times and the Domesday Survey, compiled in 1086, records 22 households with three further households at Bramcote. By the 12th century there was an additional township, which included a chapel, at the now deserted site of Little Copston (Copston Parva). At this time Wolvey was an important population centre for the area with a weekly market and an annual fair.

The village still retains some older buildings including the church of St John the Baptist with its Norman doorway and monumental tombs of Thomas de Wolvey (died 1311) and his wife Alice; also that of Thomas Astley and his wife, Catherine (died 1603). The South Aisle of the church was rebuilt by Thomas de Wolvey's daughter as a memorial Chantry to her husband Sir Giles de Astley who died following the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The church building has undergone considerable repair and alteration over the years. The chancel was rebuilt in the gothic style by Lord Overstone of Wolvey Grange in the mid-nineteenth century and the present porch to the south door added in 1909. The Millennium Building to the south of the church was built in 2000 to provide important support facilities.

The early village would have clustered around the market place (now The Square) but there is little evidence of it in today's buildings.. A staircase dated 1677 in Wolvey Hall reflects the rebuilding of the original house but this was remodelled in 1889. Other late seventeenth century survivals, although modified, include Hollytree Cottage in Wolds Lane and probably 'The Blue Pig' public house with the village pump which will have served as a coaching inn for the Coventry – Leicester traffic in earlier times. The ‘Old Thatched Cottage’ on the edge of The Square dates to the later eighteenth century as does the Baptist Chapel, built in 1789.

Essentially a farming community for most of its history, industrialization affected the village in the nineteenth century when knitting and weaving became important trades for a time. There is no evidence to support the popular view that it was a milling centre with 27 windmills. The well-known engraving of four windmills in Wolvey, published in 1854 by Thomas Dugdale, has been shown to be a forgery and was based on an earlier print of windmills on Montmartre, Paris. While rural industry continues, modern housing provides for a commuting population benefiting from the village's proximity to major motorway and rail networks and urban centres.

The name Wolvey most probably came from the Anglo-Saxon wulf-hæg or wulf-heg e = "wolf hedge" = "enclosure with a hedge to keep wolves out".

Wolvey Hall
Wolvey Hall is a Grade II listed 17th-century house remodelled in 1889 which stands in Hall Road, Wolvey. It is constructed of brick in two storeys with attics and a 6-bay frontage. A Roman Catholic chapel is attached and in the grounds is the ruined Jacobs Well, bearing a date of 1707.

The current house was rebuilt in 1889 using material from an earlier house built in 1677 and also includes fragments from an even earlier building. In the mid-1700s the house was owned by the Arnold family, who could trace family ownership of the manor of Wolvey back to Sir Thomas de Wolvey (died 1315). It has been owned by the Coape-Arnolds since Georgeana, daughter of George Henry Arnold, married James Coape of Goldhanger, Essex in 1840. In 1891 Henry Fraser James Coape-Arnold, a catholic convert, built the chapel at the Hall which served the Catholic residents of the area until the early 1920s.

The hall is currently in the possession of the Freeman family, with children Arabella and Theo by descent from Mary Freeman née Burbidge.

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Grupo Niche

Grupo Niche is a salsa group founded in 1978 in Cali, Colombia. It enjoyed great popularity throughout Latin America. It was founded by Jairo Varela and Alexis Lozano. Varela remained with the group throughout his life, serving as producer, director, songwriter, vocalist, and guiro player. Alexis Lozano, trombone player and arranger later left to form Orquesta Guayacán. The group also included Nicolas Cristancho "Macabi" on the piano, Francisco Garcia "Porky" on the bass, Luis Pacheco, on the congas, and vocalists Jorge Bazán and Hector Viveros.

Grupo Niche's first album, "Al Pasito", released in 1979, did little to challenge the dominating salsa band of Colombia at the time, Fruko y sus Tesos. Two years later, however, the group found success with their second album, "Querer es Poder", particularly with the single "Buenaventura y Caney".

The group relocated in 1982 to Cali,where they have been based since. After recording two more albums, Grupo Niche released "No Hay Quinto Malo" in 1984, which featured their signature song, "Cali Pachanguero". The tribute hit single to the "world salsa pito" catapulted Niche as one of the top salsa bands of Colombia.

In 1986, the band incorporated Puerto Rican vocalist Tito Gomez, who had previously worked with the famous Puerto Rican salsa group, La Sonora Ponceña, and Ray Barretto, the Godfather of Latin Jazz. Later that year, Grupo Niche released "Me Huele a Matrimonio". Afterward, yet another Puerto Rican joined, the pianist Israel Tanenbaum, who would eventually leave the group to join a Niche spin-off band: Orquesta Guayacán.

Grupo Niche is known for both its vigorous, uptempo dance music as well as slower-paced romantic numbers. Among its best known hits are "Cali Aji", "Del Puente Pa'llá", "Sin Sentimientos", "Una Aventura", "Etnia", "Gotas de Lluvia", "Han Cogido la Cosa", "Mi Pueblo Natal", "Hagamos Lo Que Diga Corazón", "Duele Mas", "Nuestro Sueño", and the famous cumbia "Canoa Rancha". In 2002 they recorded the album Control Absoluto in Miami Florida with the engineers Alex Arias and Jossel Calveiro.

Some other singers from Niche throughout its history include Alvaro del Castillo, Floriza "La Coco" Lozano, Tuto Jiménez, Saulo Sanchez, Tito Gomez, Moncho Santana, Charlie Cardona as well as Willy García and Javier Vasquez, now members of the group 'Son de Cali'. Most recently joined are Puerto Ricans Oswaldo Roman and Julio Lopez and Buenaventura native Elvis Magno. They have been very successful, and some of their songs are considered Classics of Salsa Music. The group still enjoys some of its past successes, and keeps on tour, making worldwide presentations, and singing their most memorable songs.

Musician Tito Gomez, who fronted the group for $7 1/2$ years (1985–1992), died on June 12, 2007, in Cali, the city where Grupo Niche was established.

Jairo Varela
Bandleader and co-founder Jairo de Fátima Varela Martínez was born on 9 December 1949 in Quibdó, Colombia, the son of merchant Pedro Antonio Varela Restrepo and writer and poet, Teresa de Jesús Martínez Arce.

His first contact with music occurred when he was eight years old, in the barrio of Roma de Quibdo where he formed the group "La Timba", essentially composed of musicians playing only the flute, bongos, maracas and güiro.

At the age of 62, Varela was found dead in his Cali home on August 8, 2012, apparently from heart failure. Jairo's daughter, Yanila Varela has been the owner of Grupo Niche since her father's death.

Grupo Niche in Canada
Grupo Niche played in Montreal on July 21, 2001, for a party to celebrate the independence of Colombia (July 20). Grupo Niche was also accompanied that night with another band called Balmore Estrada y su Nueva Sensacion, who was formed in the late 1980s by Balmore Estrada. Grupo Niche also played again in Montreal, on July 15, 2006, in the festival colombiano, October 2008 and on May 8, 2010, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band. According with the Latin site Hola Calgary on October 11, 2008, Grupo Niche played at the Jack Singer Concert Hall EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts in Calgary, Alberta.

Discography

 * Al Pasito (1979)
 * Querer es Poder (1981)
 * Prepárate... (1982)
 * Directo Desde New York! (1983)
 * No Hay Quinto Malo (1984)
 * Triunfo (1985)
 * Me Huele a Matrimonio (1986)
 * Con Cuerdas (1987)
 * Historia Musical (1987)
 * Tapando el Hueco (1988)
 * Sutil y Contundente (1989)
 * Cielo de Tambores (1990)
 * Llegando al 100% (1991)
 * 12 años con su éxito Mexico, Mexico (1992)
 * Un Alto en el Camino (1993)
 * Huellas del Pasado (1995)
 * Etnia (1996)
 * A Prueba de Fuego (1997)
 * Señales de Humo (1998)
 * A Golpe de Folklore (1999)
 * Propuesta (2000)
 * La Danza de la Chancaca (2001)
 * Control Absoluto (2002)
 * Imaginación (2004)
 * Alive (2005)
 * Tocando el Cielo con las Manos (2013)
 * 35 Aniversario (2015)
 * 40 (2020) - Winner, Best Tropical Latin Album, 2021 GRAMMY Award
 * Rupelto Mena(2022)
 * Niche Sinfónico (2023) - Winner, Best Salsa Album, 2023 Latin GRAMMY Award

Compilations

 * Historia Musical, Vol. 1 (1988)
 * Grandes Éxitos (1988)
 * 12 Años (1993)
 * Historia Musical, Vol. 2 (1993)
 * Brillantes (1994)
 * The Best (1994)
 * Brillantes, Vol. 2 (1995)
 * El Único: Best of Grupo Niche, Vol. 3 (1995)
 * Cara A Cara (1997)
 * 20th Anniversary (1999)
 * ''Siempre Una Aventura (2000)
 * Antología (2000)
 * Solamente Tú (2001)
 * 20 Años: La Danza de la Chancaca (2001)
 * 22 Ultimate Hits (2002)
 * 20 Éxitos Originales (2005)
 * 2 Grandes Voces (2007)
 * Una Aventura... La Historia (2007)
 * 10 de Colección (2008)
 * Los Clásicos del Grupo Niche (2009)
 * Mis Favoritas (2010)
 * Frente A Frente (2013)

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Talk:Wilhelm Schickard

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"This makes him the father of the computing era, and one of the most remarkable figures in computing history."

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This statement seems vague and somewhat POV to me, for several reasons:

 * Is there any specific historical delineation of "the computing era"? I doubt that there is, other than perhaps the circular one of saying that it started with Schickard.
 * If there is such a thing as "the computing era", there is almost certainly no one figure who can be called its "father". Unless there is evidence of a clear and direct line of influence from Schickard's machine to present-day computing devices, and unless this line of influence is stronger than that from, say, Pascal, Leibniz, or Babbage, calling Schickard "the father of the computing era" seems unfounded.
 * Calling Schickard "one of the most remarkable figures in computing history" seems subjective and also useless.

I agree. It seems NPOV, especially that he is 'one of the most remarkable'. --Ben davison 13:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why is his device described as the first? What about things like the Antikythera mechanism? Eaglizard 17:37, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Photo request
It would be neat to have a picture of the replica. -- Beland 18:08, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Complementary Numbers
Based on my experience with Wikipedia, I'm surprised the phrase complementary numbers does not have its own Wikipedia article. HankW512 (talk) 09:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

It does; Listed as Method of complements. CWB (talk) 19:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

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Henry Procter (British Army officer)

Major-General Henry Patrick Procter (c. 1763 – 31 October 1822) was a British Army officer who served in the Canadas during the War of 1812. He is best known for being decisively defeated in 1813 by American forces, which left the western portion of Upper Canada under U.S. control. Procter is regarded by numerous commentators as an inept leader who relied heavily on textbook procedure. His "going by the book" is attributed to his lack of any combat experience before coming to Canada.

Early life
Procter was born in Ireland. His father, Richard Procter, was a surgeon in the British Army. Henry Procter began his military career at the age of 18 as an ensign in the 43rd Regiment of Foot in April 1781. He served as a lieutenant in New York in the final months of the American War of Independence. His promotion was slow, probably indicating a lack of means, since commissions were usually obtained by purchase. Procter became a captain in November 1792. He was promoted to major three years later in May 1795, and on 9 October 1800 became a lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st battalion of the 41st Regiment of Foot. Procter joined his new regiment in Lower Canada in 1802. He served in Canada for the next ten years. Inspecting officers, including Major-General Isaac Brock, noted that Procter's regiment was "very sharp", indicating a good standard of drill and discipline, and that this was due to Procter's "indefatigable industry".

War of 1812
When the war began in June 1812, the 41st were stationed in Upper Canada. Procter was sent to Amherstburg near the westernmost part of the province, to relieve the commandant of Fort Malden and defend the fort against a possible American assault. He fought several skirmishes, which helped isolate the American post at Fort Detroit and contributed to its capture by General Brock. When Brock departed, Procter was left in command on the Detroit frontier. He was soon faced with an attack by American General William Henry Harrison, who intended to expel the British from Michigan.

Procter won a resounding victory over an American brigade commanded by Brigadier-General James Winchester at the Battle of Frenchtown, though his tactics did not escape criticism. He had allowed his men to open fire too soon, which alerted the Americans to his attack. He also placed his artillery within American rifle range, which resulted in his gunners becoming casualties unnecessarily. Nevertheless, his surprise attack overwhelmed the Americans and forced Winchester to surrender. Following his victory, he learned that General Harrison's main army was coming to Winchester's support. Procter had only enough carts to transport his own severely wounded, and in his haste to retreat, he left 68 severely wounded American prisoners behind with only a small guard of Canadian militiamen. That night, Procter's Indian allies murdered the wounded prisoners in what became known as the Massacre of the River Raisin. This gave American troops a new battle-cry: "Remember the Raisin!"

On 8 February 1813, Procter was promoted to brigadier general by Sir George Prévost, the Governor General of Canada. A few months later, he was made a major general.

In April and May 1813, Procter besieged Harrison at Fort Meigs, Ohio. His artillery pounded the fort for days but the muddy ground inside the fort absorbed most of the cannonballs. On 5 May 1813, at the Battle of the Miami Rapids, Procter and the Indians inflicted a devastating defeat on Brigadier-General Green Clay's brigade of Kentucky militia, who were trying to reinforce the garrison. A sortie from the fort by Harrison's command was also turned back. Many American prisoners were taken, and 38 wounded men who had been captured were moved to the disused Fort Miami. Once again, some of the wounded prisoners were massacred by Indians who had arrived too late to take part in the battle. The Shawnee chief Tecumseh reviled Procter for his failure to prevent the killings. The siege ultimately ended in failure, as did the subsequent Battle of Fort Stephenson.

On 20 June, Procter's command was recognised as the "Right Division of the Army of Upper Canada". However, he received very few reinforcements and his "division" consisted essentially of the 41st Foot only, with whatever militia could be gathered for any operation and unreliable numbers of Native Americans.

Following an American naval victory in the Battle of Lake Erie, Procter's supply lines were cut, and he was forced to retreat from Detroit and Amherstburg towards Burlington Heights at the western end of Lake Ontario, to obtain supplies. Tecumseh reviled Procter for retreating as "a fat animal which slinks away, its tail between its legs" and demanded that Fort Malden be handed over to the Natives to defend. However, there was no food for them and the fort's artillery had been placed on the British fleet for the naval battle and was consequently lost. Tecumseh and his warriors were forced to accompany Procter as he retreated.

Procter's retreat was slow and poorly organised, and the Americans under Harrison caught up with him near Moraviantown. By now, Procter's troops were exhausted and starving on half-rations. At the Battle of the Thames, the 41st fired a single ineffectual volley before breaking. About 250 fled and the remainder (under 600) surrendered, leaving their Indian allies to fight alone. Tecumseh and Roundhead were killed and their forces soundly defeated.

Procter claimed he had attempted to rally his troops before he galloped off himself, but this was generally disbelieved. He admitted the conduct of the 41st Foot "was not upon this unfortunate occasion, such as I have on every other witnessed with pride and satisfaction ...". Having rallied some men at the Grand River, Procter recommended that there was no need to abandon Burlington Heights. However, his division was disbanded, his remaining men merged into the "Centre Division", and Procter himself was relieved of duty.

Court-martial
In December 1814, Procter was tried by court martial at Quebec for his conduct during the retreat and at the Battle of the Thames. He was found guilty of "deficiency in energy and judgement", and suspended for six months without pay. The Prince Regent insisted that the findings and sentence be read to every regiment in the Army. Procter's sentence was later reduced to a reprimand, but the conviction effectively ended his military service.

Procter returned to England in 1815, but was semi-retired. He died in 1822 at the age of 59 in Bath.

Evaluation
Opinions on Procter are divided. Some scholars dismiss him as incompetent, while others point out that he was denied adequate resources by his superiors and was unfairly held responsible for the conduct of his Indian allies (except where accompanied by Tecumseh himself). Most sources agree that Procter was a good regimental officer, but was out of his depth when in charge of an independent command, especially one which required him to handle unpredictable Native American allies. Procter never achieved the instant rapport with Tecumseh which Brock had gained, and Tecumseh was dismissive or even contemptuous towards Procter on occasions such as the Battle of Miami Rapids and the retreat from Amherstburg. Procter's conduct at the Battle of the Thames bears a strong correlation with signs of (then undiagnosable) battle fatigue, after a long campaign with insufficient supplies.

The Canadian historian Pierre Berton concludes:

"To the Americans he remains a monster, to the Canadians a coward. He is neither--merely a victim of circumstances, a brave officer but weak, capable enough except in moments of stress, a man of modest pretensions....The prisoner of events beyond his control, Procter dallied and equivocated until he was crushed. His career is ended."

Personal life
Procter married Elizabeth Cockburn in Kilkenny in Ireland, in 1792. They had one son (William Bruce Procter 1777-1854 ) and four daughters.

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