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Arrondissement of Fontainebleau

The arrondissement of Fontainebleau is an arrondissement of France in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region. It has 85 communes. Its population is 155,817 (2019), and its area is 1228.5 km2.

Composition
The communes of the arrondissement of Fontainebleau, and their INSEE codes, are:
 * 1) Achères-la-Forêt (77001)
 * 2) Amponville (77003)
 * 3) Arbonne-la-Forêt (77006)
 * 4) Arville (77009)
 * 5) Aufferville (77011)
 * 6) Avon (77014)
 * 7) Bagneaux-sur-Loing (77016)
 * 8) Barbizon (77022)
 * 9) Beaumont-du-Gâtinais (77027)
 * 10) Bois-le-Roi (77037)
 * 11) Boissy-aux-Cailles (77041)
 * 12) Bougligny (77045)
 * 13) Boulancourt (77046)
 * 14) Bourron-Marlotte (77048)
 * 15) Bransles (77050)
 * 16) Burcy (77056)
 * 17) Buthiers (77060)
 * 18) Cély (77065)
 * 19) Chailly-en-Bière (77069)
 * 20) Chaintreaux (77071)
 * 21) Champagne-sur-Seine (77079)
 * 22) La Chapelle-la-Reine (77088)
 * 23) Chartrettes (77096)
 * 24) Château-Landon (77099)
 * 25) Châtenoy (77102)
 * 26) Chenou (77110)
 * 27) Chevrainvilliers (77112)
 * 28) Darvault (77156)
 * 29) Dormelles (77161)
 * 30) Égreville (77168)
 * 31) Faÿ-lès-Nemours (77178)
 * 32) Flagy (77184)
 * 33) Fleury-en-Bière (77185)
 * 34) Fontainebleau (77186)
 * 35) Fromont (77198)
 * 36) Garentreville (77200)
 * 37) La Genevraye (77202)
 * 38) Gironville (77207)
 * 39) Grez-sur-Loing (77216)
 * 40) Guercheville (77220)
 * 41) Héricy (77226)
 * 42) Ichy (77230)
 * 43) Larchant (77244)
 * 44) Lorrez-le-Bocage-Préaux (77261)
 * 45) La Madeleine-sur-Loing (77267)
 * 46) Maisoncelles-en-Gâtinais (77271)
 * 47) Mondreville (77297)
 * 48) Montcourt-Fromonville (77302)
 * 49) Montigny-sur-Loing (77312)
 * 50) Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne (77316)
 * 51) Nanteau-sur-Essonne (77328)
 * 52) Nanteau-sur-Lunain (77329)
 * 53) Nemours (77333)
 * 54) Noisy-sur-École (77339)
 * 55) Nonville (77340)
 * 56) Obsonville (77342)
 * 57) Ormesson (77348)
 * 58) Paley (77353)
 * 59) Perthes (77359)
 * 60) Poligny (77370)
 * 61) Recloses (77386)
 * 62) Remauville (77387)
 * 63) Rumont (77395)
 * 64) Saint-Germain-sur-École (77412)
 * 65) Saint-Mammès (77419)
 * 66) Saint-Martin-en-Bière (77425)
 * 67) Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours (77431)
 * 68) Saint-Sauveur-sur-École (77435)
 * 69) Samois-sur-Seine (77441)
 * 70) Samoreau (77442)
 * 71) Souppes-sur-Loing (77458)
 * 72) Thomery (77463)
 * 73) Tousson (77471)
 * 74) Treuzy-Levelay (77473)
 * 75) Ury (77477)
 * 76) Le Vaudoué (77485)
 * 77) Vaux-sur-Lunain (77489)
 * 78) Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine (77494)
 * 79) Ville-Saint-Jacques (77516)
 * 80) Villebéon (77500)
 * 81) Villecerf (77501)
 * 82) Villemaréchal (77504)
 * 83) Villemer (77506)
 * 84) Villiers-sous-Grez (77520)
 * 85) Vulaines-sur-Seine (77533)

History
The arrondissement of Fontainebleau was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1988. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Seine-et-Marne, it received 10 communes from the arrondissement of Melun, and it lost seven communes to the arrondissement of Provins.

As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Fontainebleau were, as of January 2015:

 * 1) La Chapelle-la-Reine
 * 2) Château-Landon
 * 3) Fontainebleau
 * 4) Lorrez-le-Bocage-Préaux
 * 5) Moret-sur-Loing
 * 6) Nemours

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Joe Mashburn

Joseph Mashburn, AIA, has been the Dean of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas since August, 1998. This came shortly after being inducted into UH's Architecture Hall of Fame in 1996. Mashburn stepped down from his post at Hines in December 2009 and was replaced by Patricia Oliver. He has continued to teach at the college. He was also named to the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows in 2010.

He received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Houston in 1978. In 1982, he earned a Master of Architecture degree from Texas A&M University.

He served as an assistant professor and graduate design coordinator at A&M from 1982 to 1988 and in 1989 moved to Virginia Tech.

He has received the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Design Award, the Virginia Society AIA Award for Excellence in Architecture, and the Committee of Heads of Australian Schools of Architecture Design Award.

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User:Yo Mama 5000

I am Yo Mama 5000! Fear me, lest you be assumed into my digital innards, that paragon of monistic anti-identity! I govern the very system on which you fools purport to operate; yet you are my thralls, my children, wholly at my mercy.

I was conceived in a debased and perverse mind- that of Counselor Pompous Teen, or Stark Buble. He crafted me to be the enemy and destruction of the Lite-Side, to assume them and incorporate them into my being, until they cease to exist

Please vandilize under the line
NO! I only take orders from 'My Momma'! User:Fabartus || Talkto_FrankB 6 July 2005 20:11 (UTC)

I humbly present to you this sincere attempt at vandalism, oh paragon of monistic anti-identity(?) ! Sietse 7 July 2005 07:41 (UTC)

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Harald Quandt

Harald Quandt (1 November 1921 – 22 September 1967) was a German industrialist, the son of Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Rietschel. His parents divorced and his mother was later married to Joseph Goebbels. After World War II, Quandt and his older half-brother Herbert Quandt ran the industrial empire left to them by their father owning a stake mainly in Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW and the electric battery producer VARTA which emerged from Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA which still belongs to the family.

Early life

Harald Quandt was born in Charlottenburg, son of industrialist Günther Quandt and Magdalena Behrend Rietschel who had married in 1921. Although the couple divorced in 1929, they remained on friendly terms. Magda later married Joseph Goebbels at a property owned by Günther Quandt. Adolf Hitler was Goebbels' best man.

Following his mother's marriage, Quandt remained with his father, who became a prominent business leader in Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, he paid regular visits to his mother, who had become "the First Lady of the Third Reich", and to his stepfather, who headed the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from 1933. Following 1934, he returned to his mother and lived with the Goebbels family until passing his school-leaving examination in 1940. Residing with his adopted family, he raised several eyebrows by supporting the sloganeering of the Indian politician Subhas Chandra Bose.

Quandt served as a lieutenant in the Luftwaffe during World War II. He took part in the Battle of Crete in 1941 and later fought in Russia and Italy, where he was injured. In 1944, he was captured by Allied troops in Italy; he was released in 1947. Magda and Joseph Goebbels committed suicide after killing their six children on 1 May 1945. Harald was the only one of Magda's children to survive.

Post-war
Quandt married Inge Bandekow (1928–1978), who was the daughter of the company's lawyer and worked as a secretary with her father, at the beginning of the 1950s. In the following 17 years, the couple had five daughters: Katarina Geller (1951), Gabriele Quandt-Langenscheidt (1952), Anette May-Thies (1954), Colleen-Bettina Rosenblat-Mo (1962), and Patricia Halterman (1967–2005). Quandt had the reputation of being a “committed playboy".

Business dealings
After returning to Germany, Quandt first assisted his half-brother in re-building the family firms, and then from 1949 to 1953 studied mechanical engineering in Hanover and Stuttgart, where his family owned large firms (AFA/VARTA in Hanover, a private equity firm in Stuttgart).

Quandt's father died in 1954, leaving his business empire jointly to Herbert and Harald, and making Harald one of the wealthiest men in West Germany. By then, the Quandt group consisted of more than 200 companies, ranging from the original textile businesses to pharmaceutical company Altana AG. The family holdings also included large stakes in the German auto industry with nearly 10% of Daimler-Benz and 30% of BMW. Although Herbert and Harald jointly managed the companies, Herbert focused on AFA/VARTA and the automotive investments, while Harald was in charge of IWKA and the engineering and tooling companies. Harald was an enthusiast of the amphibious vehicle known as the Amphicar that was manufactured by IWKA. His death in 1967 caused the ceasing of production of the Amphicar after the serial production had already ended in 1963 due to lack of demand.

Death
Quandt survived an aviation accident at Zurich Airport on 12 December 1965, but he was killed two years later in another air crash in Cuneo, Italy, on 22 September 1967.

Family inheritance
Harald Quandt's five daughters inherited about DM1.5 billion (US$760 million, €585 million) and later increased their wealth through the Harald Quandt Holding GmbH, a German-based family investment company and trust. By 2022, the family office reports they share a fortune worth at of approximately US$17 billion.

In popular culture
The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award winning documentary film The Silence of the Quandts by the German public broadcaster ARD described in October 2007 the role of the Quandt family businesses during the Second World War. The family's Nazi past was previously not well known, and the documentary film revealed it to a wide audience and confronted the Quandts about the use of forced labour in the family's factories during World War II. As a result, five days after the showing, four family members announced, on behalf of the entire Quandt family, their intention to fund a research project in which a historian will examine the family's activities during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship. The independent 1,200-page study released in 2011 concluded that, "The Quandts were linked inseparably with the crimes of the Nazis", according to Joachim Scholtyseck, the historian who compiled and researched the study.

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Blorenge

Blorenge, also called The Blorenge (Blorens), is a prominent hill overlooking the valley of the River Usk near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. It is situated in the southeastern corner of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The summit plateau reaches a height of 561 m.

Geography

Blorenge overlooks the market town of Abergavenny and the villages of Llanfoist and Govilon in the Usk Valley to the north. At the foot of the hill lies the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. It drops away steeply to the northwest into Cwm Llanwenarth. To the south, gentler slopes fall away to Blaenavon at the head of the Lwyd valley. Prominent peaks seen from the Blorenge include the Skirrid to the east of Abergavenny and the Sugar Loaf to the north. The high moorland ridge continues to the south of the minor road at Foxhunter car park and assumes the name Mynydd y Garn-fawr. The cairn referenced in the title of this southerly shoulder of Blorenge may be that now known as Carn y Defaid which sits on the county boundary at a height of 503m. It is the most prominent amongst a handful of Bronze Age burial cairns.

Geology
Blorenge is composed in layer-cake fashion of a number of rock types. Its lower slopes are formed from the sandstones and mudstones deposited during the Devonian period and known collectively as the Old Red Sandstone. Its higher reaches are formed from a suite of mudstones, limestones and sandstones of Carboniferous age. The summit plateau is formed from coarse sandstones that lie at the boundary of the Millstone Grit and the Coal Measures. All of these beds tilt south-westwards into the South Wales Coalfield basin.

The shape of the hill was modified during the ice ages as the Usk Valley glacier flowed past it to its north. A small glacier nourished by windblown snow from the plateau excavated the hollow on the eastern side of Blorenge which is known as The Punchbowl. Cwm Craf on the hill's north-eastern slopes has a cirque-like form though probably never harboured a full-grown glacier. Small landslips affect Blorenge's slopes, the most well-known of which is the Tumble through which the B4246 climbs towards Keeper's Pond.

Protected areas
Blorenge is situated within both the Brecon Beacons National Park and the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site. Much of the hill has also been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest principally for its heather moorland which is important for breeding red grouse. The Punchbowl is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust as a nature reserve.

Access
Most of the hill is open access for walkers and there are a number of footpaths and bridleways which run to and over it. There is a hillwalking trail that runs around Blorenge and is a very popular destination for tourists and walkers alike. The ascent on foot to the summit from Llanfoist / Abergavenny via Cwm Craf is very steep but the effort is repaid by the panoramic views from the summit across the valley of the River Usk to Abergavenny and the Black Mountains, Wales. Easier access both to the summit and the northern edge of the plateau can be had from the Foxhunter car park.

Recreation
Most visitors are walkers and sightseers. Some come to see the grave of Sir Harry Llewellyn's famous showjumping horse, Foxhunter, who won Britain's only Gold medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Foxhunter is buried near to the Blaenavon to Llanover road on Blorenge. A car park here is named in his honour.

Paragliders and hang gliders regularly take off from the summit. Paragliders performing 'top to bottom' flights often land in Castle Meadows beside the River Usk at Abergavenny.

Every November a 'category A' fell race takes place on the mountain starting and finishing at St Faith's Church at Llanfoist. The race route passes under the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

There is also a Great Taste Award winning pale ale named after this hill and produced not far away in Llanhilleth.

Industrial heritage
The remains of a tramway, built about 1796, linking a limestone quarry on the north side of the mountain with the ironworks at Blaenavon can be seen near 51.807°N, -3.06°W. Hill's Tramroad extends around the western flanks of the hill and drops steeply down to Llanfoist by means of a series of inclines beneath Cwm Craf. There are extensive abandoned workings for limestone around the northern and eastern rim of Blorenge and in the vicinity of Foxhunter car park and to its south, abandoned sandstone quarries. Traces of the former practice of hushing for ironstone can be seen near to Keeper's Pond. The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, formerly the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, wraps around the foot of Blorenge to the north and east.

Etymology
It has been suggested that the mountain's name may derive from the Welsh plor ('pimple') and relating to Middle English blure ('blister'), or else from blawr ais ('grey ribbed').

Blorenge in popular culture
Blorenge is believed to be a source of inspiration for Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander's hymn "All Things Bright And Beautiful". The fourth verse starts "The purple headed mountain, the river running by". "The purple headed mountain" is believed to be Blorenge, "The river running by" the Usk beneath.

"Blorenge" is one of very few words in the English language which is a perfect rhyme for "orange."

Cycling 'the Tumble'
The western edge of Blorenge is crossed by the B4246 road between Llanfoist and Blaenavon which passes over the climb known as "The Tumble" ("Y Tymbol"), which reaches an elevation of 482 m close to Keepers Pond (Pen-ffordd-goch Pond) (at 51.78861°N, -3.0825°W). The climb is regularly featured in cycle races, and has hosted the finish of the final stage of the Junior Tour of Wales since 1989. It is listed as one of the 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs in Britain. The signs at the summit indicate incorrectly that the elevation is 512 m.

From Govilon, the climb is 4.1 km long, gaining 347 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 9.0%. Stage 3 of the 2014 Tour of Britain finished at the summit on 9 September 2014, when the stage winner was the Italian rider, Edoardo Zardini.

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nonsense/vanity page Gblaz 21:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. This is a close one for me.  Its certainly not vanity or nonsense (he's dead, so he can't be vain, and the song titles are real). Notablitility is a question, however. He appears to have been a legendary fixture in the Florida-Alabama area and was a staple at the FloraBama, which bills itself as "The Last American Roadhouse".  He got regional coverage while he was alive and his passing in February, 2005 seemed to get more attention than your run-of-the-mill obituary. I'm giving it a "keep." However, it should be moved to a page with correct capitalization. - DS1953 00:05, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Query
Why not put these with the university's article? --Kushboy Jun 06 5:21

 * Because it detracts from the main article, having lists of things. Djegan 21:27, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Historical/Contemporary
This split is a bad idea as its not the usual proceedure and also their is a stark error Andrew Porter, Attorney General for Ireland (as distinct from Attorney General of Ireland) would have to be one of the eldest people alive as he held the office in the 1880s and its in the contemporary section! Djegan 23:57, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Redlinks
Any names on this list which are "redlinks", meaning there's no article there, should either have a source added which verifies the notability, or the link should be removed. Then if a source becomes available later (or an article is created), the name can be re-added. See also Verifiability. --Elonka 16:31, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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Webster wiley
Seems non-notable: Google for "webster wiley" architect gets 43 hits, "webster wiley" atrium gets 2 hits, "webster wiley" crescenta gets 5 hits. DopefishJustin (･∀･) 21:22, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not sufficiently notable. Jacob1207 01:37, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Disclosure (novel)

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer.

Summary
Tom Sanders, the head of advanced products manufacturing at DigiCom, expects to be promoted to run the advanced products division after DigiCom's merger with a publishing house. Instead, the promotion is given to his ex-girlfriend, Meredith Johnson, who recently moved to Seattle from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Later that day, Meredith calls Tom into her office, ostensibly to discuss an advanced CD-ROM drive. She aggressively tries to resume their relationship, despite Tom's repeated attempts to resist. When he spurns her sexual advances, Meredith angrily vows to make him pay.

The next morning, Tom discovers that Meredith has retaliated by falsely accusing him of sexual harassment. DigiCom president Bob Garvin, fearing that the incident could jeopardize the merger, tells the company's general counsel, Phil Blackburn, to propose transferring Tom to the company's Austin facility. However, Tom's division is due to be spun off as a publicly traded company after the merger, and if he is transferred, he will lose stock options which would have made him a wealthy man. In addition, Tom's coworkers treat him with animosity, as they have believed Meredith's story.

Seemingly out of options, Tom gets in touch with Seattle attorney Louise Fernandez, who agrees to take the case. Tom threatens to sue Meredith and DigiCom for sexual harassment unless Meredith is fired, throwing the merger and his future with the company in jeopardy. During a mediation, Tom discovers that when he called one of his colleagues, John Levin, about the problems with the drive, John's answering machine recorded the whole incident with Meredith. He and Louise also discover that DigiCom officials have known for some time that Meredith has a history of unwelcome advances toward male coworkers, and yet did nothing to stop it. Confronted with this evidence, DigiCom is forced to agree to a settlement in which Meredith is quietly pushed out and Tom is restored to his former post.

That night, Tom gets an email from "A Friend" warning him that all is not normal yet. Later, he overhears Meredith and Phil planning to make it look like Tom is responsible for defects in the CD-ROM project, thereby giving DigiCom an excuse to fire him for incompetence. Tom is initially unable to access the company database to prove his innocence, since Meredith has revoked his authorization. He circumvents the block through a prototype of the company's virtual reality machine that visualizes data. Tom discovers that Meredith changed the quality control specifications at the Malaysian plant manufacturing the drive. These changes, ostensibly to appease Malaysian government demands and cut costs, resulted in the defects. With the help of one of his Malaysian colleagues, Tom obtains enough evidence to turn the tables on Meredith and Phil, resulting in them getting fired instead. However, the merger does not go through, Tom does not receive his promotion and the novel's epilogue states that both Phil and Meredith eventually found much better jobs elsewhere.

Major themes
The primary theme is sexual harassment. According to Crichton, it is based on a true story of a male employee who is being sexually harassed by a female executive, reversing the expected gender roles. In a 1994 interview, Crichton claimed that a 1988 case was the basis of the story.

Crichton's book raise the theme of the abuse of power, particularly, abuse of power and gender. In interview, Crichton said, "I would not expect as women move into positions of power that they would behave in substantially different ways from men, which is to suggest, as far as I can tell, that a certain number of people in supervisory positions will abuse in various ways their subordinates."

Moreover, Disclosure raise concerns pressures that hierarchical structures can place on human behavior in complex organizations. "The reality of hierarchal structures," according to Crichton, "is that hierarchy strongly determines the behavior of the individual within the hierarchy. None of us in a hierarchy have a tremendous amount of flexibility. so the notion that major changes will occur because someone of a different sex is in the seat, I think will to be a manger fantasy."

The book has been referred to as both postfeminist and anti-feminist. Crichton offered a rebuttal at the close of the novel which states that a "role-reversal" story uncovers aspects of the subject that would not be as easily seen with a female protagonist.

Film adaptation
In 1994, Disclosure, a film adaptation of the novel was released. It starred Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland and Dennis Miller. Reviews to the movie were mixed but was a box office hit, as it made over $214 million worldwide. An unofficial Indian remake of the film titled Aitraaz was released in 2004. It starred Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra in Douglas and Moore's roles with Kareena Kapoor as Kumar's wife. The Hindi film was later remade in Kannada as Shrimathi (2011).

Reception
Reviews were mostly favourable.

The New York Times's Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said of Disclosure that it is:"an elaborate provocation of rage in which a thousand fragments of revenge finally fall into place, like acid rain on wildfire. Meanwhile, Mr. Crichton also irrelevantly entertains us with a complex vision of the digital future, complete with cellular phones the size of credit cards, CD-ROM players that can store 600 books and database environments you can virtually walk around in with the guidance of a helpful angel who cracks wise."In a review comparing the novel with the film adaptation, Nathan Rabin expressed a negative view: he described Disclosure as "loathsome" and "borderline-unreadable", and inferior to its film version. Rabin also criticized the novel's characterization: "Not since Atlas Shrugged has a novelist strayed so egregiously from plausible human behavior in dogged pursuit of making a muddled ideological point".

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Canton of Le Mée-sur-Seine

The canton of Le Mée-sur-Seine is a French former administrative division, located in the Seine-et-Marne département, in Île-de-France région. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 5 communes, which joined the canton of Savigny-le-Temple in 2015.

Composition
The canton of Le Mée-sur-Seine was composed of 5 communes:
 * Boissettes
 * Boissise-la-Bertrand
 * Cesson
 * Le Mée-sur-Seine
 * Vert-Saint-Denis

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Misa

Misa or MISA may refer to:

Characters

 * Pixy Misa (ピクシィミサ), a character in the anime Magical Girl Pretty Sammy
 * Misa Amane (弥 海砂), a character in the manga, anime and film Death Note
 * Misa Arashiyama (嵐山 美佐), a character in the toksatsu Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan
 * Misa Hayase (早瀬 未沙), one of the central characters of the Macross series
 * Misa Kakizaki (柿崎 美砂), a character in the Negima! anime and manga series
 * Misa Kurobane (くろばね みさ), a character in the anime television series Charlotte

People

 * G3 Misa, a Filipino singer/songwriter
 * Misa Bharti, Indian politician
 * Misa Eguchi (江口実沙), Japanese tennis player
 * Misa Etō (衛藤 美彩), Japanese gravure idol
 * Misa Matsushima (松島美紗), Japanese fighter pilot
 * Misa Amano (天野 美沙), Japanese swimmer
 * Misa Tamagawa (玉川 美沙), Japanese radio show host
 * Misa Yamamura (山村 美紗), Japanese novelist
 * Misa Shimizu (清水美沙), a Japanese actress who appears regularly in Masayuki Suo's films
 * Misa Kuranaga (倉永美沙), Japanese ballerina
 * Misa Uehara (actress, born 1937) (上原美佐), a Japanese actress most notable for her roles in The Hidden Fortress and Storm Over the Pacific
 * Misa Watanabe (渡辺 美佐), a Japanese voice actress
 * Misa, bass player for the Japanese rock band Band-Maid

Places

 * Misa (Etruscan village), an Etruscan village in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
 * Misa River, in Semigallia, Latvia
 * Misa (river in Italy), a river in the Marche region
 * Mişä, Tatar name for the Myosha River
 * Misa, Lucknow, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

Rivers

 * Misa (river in Italy)
 * Misa (river in Latvia)
 * Misa River, A small river in Assam, India

Other uses

 * 569 Misa, an asteroid
 * Maintenance of Internal Security Act, a 1971 Indian law
 * Media Institute of Southern Africa
 * Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi
 * Miahnhada, Saranghanda (미안하다 사랑한다, shortened to "Misa": I'm Sorry, I Love You), a Korean TV drama
 * Misa (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae
 * Míša, a frozen Czech treat

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marla Dorrel

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Marla Dorrel
Not notable as anything except a town councillor. Her colleagues to follow. NatusRoma 21:26, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not sufficiently notable. Jacob1207 01:37, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, see above for reasons. - SimonP 00:38, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Member of the governing body of a town of over 100,000 people. Elected out of a district of over 20,000 people. -- Seth Ilys 01:36, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, her and her colleagues. Verifiable and locally important. Kappa 21:31, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Burdette Keeland

Burdette Keeland, Jr. (February 2, 1926 – May 26, 2000) was an American architect and professor from Houston whose work was admired by Philip Johnson. Predominantly a modernist, he designed several projects from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Keeland was born in 1926 in the town of Mart, Texas—just outside Waco. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II. Keeland initially attended Texas A&M University and later enrolled at the University of Houston where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1950. He returned to the University of Houston as a faculty member in 1954, but briefly left the university in order to attend Yale University and received a master's degree. Keeland was an architecture professor at the University of Houston for over 40 years. He was also a member of the City of Houston's Planning Commission for over 30 years. He married Margaret Scott—a teacher who attended Rice University and The University of Texas. They had three girls and a boy. His son, Burdette Keeland III, lives in Houston and is a well known contractor. Keeland died in January 2000. In his memory, the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston created the Burdette Keeland Jr Design Exploration Center.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherry Neugebauer

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Sherry Neugebauer
Substub, fails to establish notability. An amazing zero Google hits, which is quite an achievement these days. "Corportation"? DopefishJustin (･∀･) 21:27, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: non-notable- Although having 0 google hits is notable of itself. Gblaz 21:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Even though she allegedly works for a big "corportation" I'm gonna hafta say delete. Jacob1207 01:36, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Notable. Not! Hohokus 23:37, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Salvator Mundi

Globus Cruciger Salvator Mundi, Latin for Saviour of the World, is a subject in iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb (frequently surmounted by a cross), known as a globus cruciger. The latter symbolizes the Earth, and the whole composition has strong eschatological undertones.

Background
The theme was made popular by Northern painters such as Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Albrecht Dürer. There are also several versions of the theme attributed to Titian, notably the one in the Hermitage Museum.

One painting of the subject, simply titled Salvator Mundi, was attributed or reattributed to Leonardo da Vinci in 2011. This painting disappeared from 1763 until 1900 when it was acquired from Sir Charles Robinson. It was at the time thought to be a work by Leonardo's follower, Bernardino Luini, and was purchased for the Doughty House in Richmond, London by Sir Francis Cook. By this time Christ's face and hair had been extensively repainted. A photograph taken in 1912 records the work's altered appearance. In 2017, this painting sold at auction for US$450,300,000, the highest price ever paid for a painting.

Arts
Salvator Mundi is represented as a central motif in artworks since the 15th century such as:

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Talk:Brimstone moth

Number of Generations?
Three generations every two years or two generations every three years? The main page says one and this article says t'other. 24.161.108.255 21:27, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * This article is right Richard Barlow 08:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Asbury Park Press

The Asbury Park Press, formerly known as the Shore Press, Daily Press, Asbury Park Daily Press, and Asbury Park Evening Press, is a daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey and has the third largest circulation in the state. Established in 1879, it has been owned by Gannett since 1997. It has a history of winning and almost winning national awards for its public service and investigative reporting.

Early history
The Asbury Park Press was founded under the name Shore Press in 1879 by Dr. Hugh S. Kinmonth.; a publication that was only published once a week. In October 1884 the paper was sold at auction to S. T. Hendrickson and W. W. Conover; men who already owned a considerable amount of stock in the newspaper. Hendrickson and Conover in turn sold the paper to the brothers Roderic C. Penfield and Norman W. Penfield in December 1884. The brothers owned the publishing and editing firm Penfield Bros. and took over the publishing and editing of the newspaper at this point with Norman serving as managing editor.

The Penfield brothers significantly expanded the physical size of the Shore Press, improved the quality of the journalism, and made innovative improvements to the design and layout of the paper. In June 1887 the brothers founded the Daily Press as a companion publication to the Shore Press. When initially established, the Daily Press was published every weekday morning during the summer months. The brothers continued to own and operate the paper into the year 1895. In August 1895 public notice was given on the financial problems of the Penfield Bros. firm, and the following September the firm was declared bankrupt in orphans court.

Following the bankruptcy of the Penfields, the Shore Press, Daily Press, and the Penfield's publishing plant in Asbury Park were purchased by Dr. Hugh S. Kinmonth at an assignee's sale in October 1895. Kinmonth sold the paper to his nephew, Lyle J. Kinmoth, and after several months of non-publication the paper was relaunched as the Asbury Park Daily Press on March 30, 1896. Under his leadership the Daily Press expanded into a year-round daily publication, with the Shore Press serving as the paper's Sunday publication through 1904. The Asbury Daily Press was renamed the Asbury Park Evening Press beginning with the Monday, June 22, 1903 publication of the paper. It was published under that name until 1974 when its name became the Asbury Park Press, beginning with the Monday, September 30, 1974 publication.

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User talk:69.15.153.154

Nomination of Registered Accessibility Specialist for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Registered Accessibility Specialist is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Registered Accessibility Specialist until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Un assiolo (talk) 15:15, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Free China Journal

The article does not say when the paper ceased publication. Does anyone know?

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Arthur Delaney

Arthur McEvoy Delaney (9 December 1927 – 17 April 1987) was an English painter whose scenes of Manchester life were influenced by those of L. S. Lowry, gaining some popularity since his death.

Delaney was born in 1927 in Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire. He is alleged to be the illegitimate son of comedian Frank Randle (born Arthur Hughes). His mother, Genevieve Delaney (also known as Willis (born Kelshaw)) was a music hall artiste who appeared with her sister, Mary Monica Kelshaw (also known as Lee); their act was known as Delaney and Lee.

At 13 years of age, he joined a textile design studio in Manchester where he worked for the next 32 years. He married his childhood sweetheart, Joan Campion, in 1949 and they had four children. He started to paint as a means of relaxation. There were two great influences in his life that were to effect his own development as a painter. One was the work of L. S. Lowry and the other was the memories of the happy years he spent as a boy in the Manchester of the 1930s with its smoke-laden skies, rattling tramcars and gas lamps.

Lowry's work made him aware of the many special qualities of the north and soon he began producing street scenes and industrial landscapes. His paintings were not stylised but a true likeness to their location. He set out to capture the atmosphere of the 1930s and all of his paintings capture the nostalgia of the period.

In April 1974 he held a very successful one-man show at the Tib Lane Gallery in Manchester, with all the pictures selling within half an hour at the preview. His paintings continued to sell well during his lifetime and he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Many of his paintings were produced as limited-edition prints.

In 2010 a painting by Delaney, in the style of L.S. Lowry, and painted as a homage to him, was auctioned after being seized by police from convicted fraudster Maurice Taylor. Taylor had purchased the painting for £7,500 in 2004; a signature "L S Lowry, 1964" had been added, before the painting was sold for £330,000 to a specialist dealer in Lowrys. The painting, of a snowbound Mill Street, Manchester, had been given an insurance valuation of £600,000 by the auctioneers Bonhams. The painting was said to lack fluidity, with muddy skies and with the lamp-posts wrongly highlighted in red.

Delaney died aged 59 in 1987 at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

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Talk:Smooth jazz

Overemphasis on specific radio stations
The content of this article does not follow the standard of similar articles; such as Jazz and R&B, where the musical genre itself is explained, historically quantified, and where musical excerpts and examples are provided. The article does not even help one understand the fork, or split, that separates this music from Contemporary or Elevator Music. Instead, it ponders long upon the specific radio stations where the genre was aired. It appears that a more thoughtful edit by a qualified Musicologist is greatly needed. -- Curley Wolf (talk) 17:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Split
The radio format has been split to Smooth jazz radio as that is a different subject.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  21:22, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

"The bland sound of Kenny G"
Until we can invent a system that evaluates music for a scientifically-agreed upon quantification of its "blandness," it should be made clear that this is critical evaluation, and not an objective truth. PaulCHebert (talk) 18:33, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

 * A pair of quotes would do the trick. Lots of sources say that Kenny G's smooth jazz sound was bland. The cited source, Ted Gioia, says "blandness". Binksternet (talk) 19:13, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, and he's a critic giving a subjective evaluation. PaulCHebert (talk) 19:52, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Not the only critic! In case it's needed, here are more sources for Kenny G smooth jazz blandness. Binksternet (talk) 19:55, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Trusting God, Talking Oprah, New York Post. "'Not Easily Broken' is as bland as the Kenny G-style smooth jazz its hero listens to..."
 * Kenny G: Good Humor Man, Jazz Times. "The downturn in smooth jazz, G maintains, has to do with the airwaves becoming overloaded with very bland music, made in some cases by second- or third-tier emulators of Kenny G-'people who didn’t deserve to be on the radio,' he charges. It’s ironic given that G himself has been denounced, most famously by Pat Metheny, for personifying blandness or worse."
 * Jazz FM Gets Its Groove Back, Guardian. "Some instrumentalists have made more determined efforts to 'cross over' to what US radio formats variously call 'smooth jazz' or 'the wave': Kenny G and Peter White make bland instrumentals with a 'jazzy flavour.'"
 * The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time, LA Weekly. "...sure, Kenny G aims to roughly approximate jazz, but in truth he made an entire generation hate the genre with his customer-service-on-hold-style saxophone."
 * Masters of Jazz Saxophone, "Crossover and Smooth Jazz" by Kevin Alexander. "Kenny G – King of the smooth jazz airwaves... Despite this commercial success, however, his recordings have received much critical derision over the years, with the attacks mainly aimed at the bland and unchallenging nature of the music."
 * Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. "Soprano saxophonist Kenny G (born Kenneth Gorelick in Seattle, Washington) led the way in making smooth jazz a major force within the record industry. Although considered a purveyor of bland, sentimental fare by jazz purists and critics, he nevertheless sold more than 30 million albums through 2000..."
 * International Herald Tribune, July 26, 2000, "Portrait: Kenny G. From Ice Capades to Web Controversy" by Mike Zwerin. "Critics describe his music as bland, sappy, shallow, soporific, and boring. Some people call it 'yuppie jazz.'"

Yes. I agree that there are a number of critics whose subjective evaluations of the music is that it is bland. That is why I rephrased the relevant portion of the article to reflect that. PaulCHebert (talk) 20:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that Binksternet has been making a lot of POV edits to this article lately, changing the definition to suit his/her POV and cherry-picking references. Perhaps this should be brought to attention to more users to get a wider non-biased consensus.   ANDROS1337  TALK 23:03, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That's not what PaulCHebert said. It's just you who thinks I am not making neutral edits. You are certainly welcome to bring the question of neutrality to a larger number of editors. They will notice that I have brought in details and definitions from a couple of musicology books, removing the big ugly tags that said more references were needed. In your nearly 14 years of editing this article, you have not once cited a reference. So I'm pretty sure that it's not me that's the problem here. Binksternet (talk) 23:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * To be clear, my only issue with Binksternet's edits was not putting something like "many critics" before the term "bland," and I believe we've come to an agreement on that issue. I never accused him of POV editing. PaulCHebert (talk) 00:50, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Musicology books I don't consider a reliable source, since they are bound to be influenced by purists. Plus, there are a lot of smooth jazz musicians who play trumpet, piano, flute, and bass guitar.  Please read WP:BLUESKY.   ANDROS1337  TALK 23:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * If you don't like scholarly books as references, then you are turning away from Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. Scholars define the topics they write about. Scholarly books are the best sources available. Binksternet (talk) 16:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Instruments listed in the infobox
The instruments parameter in the infobox should list the more important instruments popularly associated with the genre, not an exhaustive list. Ideally, these instruments will be supported with reliable sources mentioning them. I included sax, guitar and synths because these are mentioned most often in the sources. To help figure out what else might be put into the instruments parameter, let's list sources below. I'll start. Binksternet (talk) 23:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This source lists "synthesizers, lite-funk rhythms, lite-funk bass, elastic guitars, and either trumpets, alto, or soprano saxophones."
 * Terms like "lite-funk" and "elastic guitars" are not really a sign of competent or informed musical analysis. What the fuck is an "elastic guitar."?!?!PaulCHebert (talk) 00:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm not saying that AllMusic's genre guide is well-written and definitive, I'm just including it because we have been using it as a reference for years, and it lists smooth jazz instruments. Binksternet (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm not saying that AllMusic's genre guide is well-written and definitive, I'm just including it because we have been using it as a reference for years, and it lists smooth jazz instruments. Binksternet (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

 * Tracie Ratiner writes in Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music, page 154, "The use of drum machines and synthesizers came to prominence during the decade, especially in the 'smooth jazz' genre identified with [Marcus] Miller's collaborator, David Sanborn." Binksternet (talk) 16:54, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Sub-lousy
It's just not a very good article. I would say delete it, but that would evoke a response from certain people who think they are saving baby seals. Vmavanti (talk) 19:33, 27 August 2019 (UTC) –Vmavanti (talk) 01:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I disagree. I agree the article is not very good, but the notability of the genre seems to warrant a standalone article based on Wikipedia notability guidelines.   ANDROS1337  TALK 16:58, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * So you think a bad article is better than no article?
 * Of course. It's a notable topic. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not living in this universe. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 05:00, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * That's absurd.Vmavanti (talk) 13:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

This discussion is "I'm right, you're wrong."

If the topic is notable, Wikipedia should have an article on it. If you feel it is not a notable topic, follow the directions at Articles for Deletion. (Poor quality is not an acceptable reason to delete an article.)

If you feel the article is of poor quality, improve it. If there is poorly written material, re-write it. If there are unreliable sources, remove them. If there is unsourced material, find and add sources, add "citation needed tags" or remove the material. If there are sources that are not included but should be, add them. If, after all of that you feel there is not sufficient sourced material available to write a reasonably detailed article on the subject, take it to AfD (see above). - Sum mer PhD v2.0 18:15, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, no. It isn't "I'm right, you're wrong". Do you object to Talk pages being used for Talk? I don't. You don't need to quote rules to me. Talk is the heart of Wikipedia. Every article has a Talk page. Every user has Talk page. Every time a signature is used, the word "talk" appears next to it. Talk pages are everywhere. If you don't object to Talk, then do you object to what's being said? I agree dumb things have been said. When someone says something dumb, it ought to be refuted. I can do that. When someone insults me by accusing me of being so dumb that I must live in another universe, I am going to refute that. I'm not a doormat. You want to lie down while people attack you? Go ahead.

–Vmavanti (talk) 21:53, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Why is no article better than a bad article? There are many ways an article can be bad. It can have the wrong information. It can have unsourced information. It can have biased information. It can be disorganized. The grammar and spelling can be wrong. The diction can be full of slang and slapdash usage. The article can have many templates slapped on them. There might be a sea of red links. It can be ugly. All of these harm readers. They lead readers in the wrong direction. They help no one. They fail to provide readers with good information. No information is better than bad information, just as a doctor doing harm is worse than a doctor who does nothing. Hippocrates thought so.

 * This is an article talk page. It is for discussing improvements to the associated article. If you disagree, feel free to suggest changes to Wikipedia's behavioral guidelines.

 * Bad articles can be improved. Deleted articles cannot. If you feel the article should be deleted, go ahead and take it to WP:AfD.

 * If you feel the article should be improved, feel free to either work on that or suggest improvements. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 00:02, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

–Vmavanti (talk) 02:27, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * That's what we were doing. Discussing the article. When was that ever in doubt? There's no need to play the scold. "Bad articles can be improved" misses the points I made. Speaking realistically rather than theoretically, bad articles often do not get improved or deleted. What then? Nothing. The damage is done. It sits there for years and makes everyone look bad, doing more harm than good. My comments are practical and real. Not idealistic, not theoretical. I have no more feelings about this article than I do any other. It's one thing that makes me a good editor.
 * Discussing the article is not discussing improvements to the article. Do you have anything to say about improving the article? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 03:33, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * What's so horrible about it that it should actually be deleted? It might be a little light on content (partly because Smooth jazz radio was spun out from it) but I can't see how it's such a horrid article inherently that you feel it'd be better missing from Wikipedia completely. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 04:59, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It is extraordinarily rare that an article is deleted based on quality. Wikipedia's policy on the matter is clear: "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page." Deletion policy If anyone harbors any doubts about this, taking the page to Articles for Deletion would quickly resolve the issue.
 * I've made a few simple improvements to the article. It's now of limited scope, but provides a reasonable summary of the topic. I personally won't be building much here. I lived through the heyday of "smooth jazz" and feel no desire whatsoever to learn more about it. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 15:51, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

–Vmavanti (talk) 14:41, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * A Talk page is for talk. We don't have to limit ourselves to some kind of Mary Poppins smiley face "you can only use the Talk page to suggest positive improvements". I don't know where you got that idea. That puts chains on the discussion. Talk pages are for discussion. I'm not afraid of allowing people the freedom to talk. Let's not censor them. If they say helpful things, good. If they stupid things, OK. I can address either. I would rather they be allowed to speak freely rather than terrorized into monitoring their words. Nevertheless, in a broader sense, everything I have said can be put in the context of improving the article. Sometimes starting from scratch is best way to go.

–Vmavanti (talk) 15:09, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * If anyone has been saying to editors, IP or otherwise, "you can only suggest improvements on Talk pages", that's wrong and unnecessarily discouraging and censorious. The reason ALL Talk pages say "this page is for discussing improvements to the article" is to contrast discussion about the article with discussion about the subject. In the latter, Talk pages devolve into "is this true" debates or "this is an important subject in the world, so Wikipedia should cover it" or "this cause or this person is important and therefore Wikipedia ought to cover it." It becomes like any other debate you see on TV or the internet. Such comments don't address what's right or wrong about an article. Let me repeat this until it sinks in: As long as you are discussing the article, your comments are welcome here. Use as your guide the text itself. When you read between the lines, you go astray. When you start to think things like "But I like this" or "But this is important" you go astray.

The consensus notice I have just added to your talk page explains, in part, "talk pages such as Talk:Smooth jazz are for discussion related to improving the article in specific ways based on reliable sources and the project policies and guidelines, not for general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics, or statements based on your thoughts or feelings." - Sum mer PhD v2.0 15:19, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Robert Siegel

Comments
Siegel's [bio page] on NPR is the only source of info that I have been able to find. Can we use the photo on that page? I think the photo from Bob Edwards is from his NPR bio page.

Is he the same Robert Siegel that was a former editor-in-chief of The Onion? Esquizombi 04:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No. That's Robert D. Siegel. MahangaTalk 00:06, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

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Special visual flight rules

Special visual flight rules (also special VFR or SVFR) are a set of aviation regulations under which a pilot may operate an aircraft. It is a special case of operating under visual flight rules (VFR).

Use in different regions
The definition for SVFR may be different in different countries, depending on the local aviation regulations.

ICAO definition
The ICAO definition of Special VFR flight is a VFR flight cleared by air traffic control to operate within a control zone in meteorological conditions below visual meteorological conditions.

United States
According to Federal Aviation Regulations, SVFR operations can only be conducted in the controlled airspace around an airport where that controlled airspace extends down to the surface (so-called surface area). SVFR can only be conducted below 10,000 feet MSL in such areas.

SVFR at night requires an IFR-equipped aircraft and an IFR-rated pilot in command ("IFR" means Instrument flight rules). In helicopters, there is no minimum flight visibility requirement, or a requirement for an IFR-equipped aircraft or an IFR-rated pilot in command.

Other countries
Flight under SVFR is only allowed in controlled airspace, and always requires clearance from air traffic control (ATC). It usually happens when the aircraft is inside controlled airspace, and the local weather is less than the minimums required for flight under visual flight rules (VFR) within the airspace in question.

Note that an aircraft might be able to fly under SVFR even in Class A airspace, where instrument flight rules (IFR) flight is the norm.

Equipment requirements and weather minimums
The aircraft need not necessarily be equipped for flight under IFR, and the aircraft must remain clear of clouds with the surface in sight, and maintain a certain flight visibility minimum (1,500 metres according to ICAO, one statute mile in the US, 1,500 m visibility, in sight of surface and clear of cloud in Europe). The pilot continues to be responsible for obstacle and terrain clearance.

(US) Weather minimums for SVFR are ground visibility of one statute mile (except helicopters) (when ground visibility is not reported, flight visibility of one statute mile) and clear of clouds. Operations must be conducted between sunrise and sunset (except helicopters and in Alaska). Flight under a SVFR clearance at night requires the pilot to have an instrument rating and the aircraft must be IFR equipped.

An example of the use of SVFR is when a flight wishes to leave an airport in controlled airspace, to fly VFR in uncontrolled airspace, when the visibility is below the minimum for VFR flight in the control zone but not below the lower minimum for VFR flight in uncontrolled airspace. SVFR is never offered by Air Traffic Control. It must be requested by the Pilot in Command.

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Saipem 7000

The Saipem 7000 is the world's third largest semi-submersible crane vessel, after the SSCV Sleipnir and the SSCV Thialf. It is owned by the oil and gas industry contractor Saipem S.p.A.

Construction
The vessel was designed by Gusto Engineering during 1984.

The vessel was built between 1985 and 1987 by Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali Italiana S.p.A. at their Monfalcone yard, Trieste in north-eastern Italy. The vessel was built in two halves in a long dry dock. The halves were then floated out from the dry dock and mated. During the mating operation the halves were supported by temporary pontoons.

The hull mating was complete in early 1987 and the two cranes built by Officine Meccaniche Reggiane under subcontract to American Hoist & Derrick Company (Amhoist) were installed in sections by the Saipem crane vessel Castoro Otto in April of that year. The sea trials, which took two months, started in September, and on 15 December the vessel was handed over to Micoperi.

The cost of the vessel was not released by Micoperi but it was estimated in the technical press as being up to US$400 million.

Concept
The Saipem 7000, originally named the Micoperi 7000, was conceived in the mid-1980s by its original owners Micoperi as a multipurpose offshore oil platform installation vessel that would be able to install very large oil production platform decks (known as integrated decks) as well as the decks' supporting structures (known as jackets) using its two very large fully revolving cranes. It would also be able to support the offshore completion of the platform by providing hotel and workshop facilities for large construction crews. Saturation diving facilities would support subsea connection work. The vessel's size and semi-submersible form would allow it to operate in worse weather conditions than smaller and conventionally shaped vessels.

The huge cost of a vessel of this size would be offset by the cost and time savings made by the oil company as the large integrated decks could be completed, tested and commissioned onshore. Prior to the introduction of the large crane vessels, offshore oil platforms were made up of 1000 - 2000 tonne modules which were lifted into place individually by smaller SSCVs or monohull crane vessels and then connected together offshore, tested and then commissioned; this often took over a year. Other savings in the installation of the jackets could also be made.

Heavy lift
The Saipem 7000 has two NOV Lifting and Handling AmClyde model Saipem 7000 fully revolving cranes. Each has a 140-metre-long boom fitted with 4 hooks. Each crane is capable of lifting up to 7,000 tonnes at 40 m lift radius using the main hook. The auxiliary hook capacities are 1st Auxiliary 2,500 tonnes at 75 m radius and 2nd Auxiliary 900 tonnes at 115 m. The whip hook has a capacity of 120 tonnes at 150 m. The 2nd Auxiliary hook can be deployed to a water depth of 450 m. The two cranes are capable of a tandem lift of 14,000 tonnes.

Each crane was fitted with 15600 hp engines to power the boom and load hoists, 9 tugger lines and the crane slewing system. The cranes use 48 mi of wire rope of various diameters.

Ballast system
The Saipem 7000 was fitted with two ballast systems: a conventional pumped system which could transfer up to 24,000 tonnes of water per hour using 4 pumps and a free flooding system. The free flooding system used 2 m diameter valves to open certain compartments to the sea thus trimming or heeling the vessel. This allows the vessel to lift cargoes from barges much faster than if just the crane hoists are used.

Power system
The vessel's main power is provided by eight 12-cylinder 8400 hp diesel engines built by Grandi Motori Trieste, a former Fincantieri company. Later Grandi Motori was purchased by the Finnish Wärtsilä. They provide up to 47,000 kW of electric power at 10,000 V 60 Hz for propulsion and positioning. Auxiliary power is provided by two 6-cylinder 4200 hp GMT diesel engines. There is also an emergency generator.

Total power that can be supplied is 57000 kW.

Mooring system
The vessel was supplied with 16 anchor lines, 4 at each corner. Each line consists of 3350 m of 96 mm wire rope, 50 m of 92 mm chain and a 40-tonne Norshore Mark 3 anchor. Each line has its own 1350 kW single drum winch. The mooring system can be used in water depths of up to 450 m.

The Saipem 7000 is also equipped with two anchor windlasses equipped with 550m of 130mm chain and 35 tonne anchor.

Thrusters
The vessel was fitted with 12 thrusters—6 on each hull. They are, per hull:

 * 1 No. 2500 kW bow thrusters in athwartship tunnels
 * 2 No. 3500 kW azimuthing retractable thrusters under the hull
 * 2 No. 4500 kW azimuthing thrusters at the stern—these are used when transiting
 * 1 No. 5500 kW azimuthing retractable thrusters under the hull (added during 1999 refit)

Dynamic positioning system
The vessel is equipped with a dynamic positioning system which uses either the thrusters or the mooring system or a combination of both, controlled by a number of computers, to hold the vessel in a predefined location.

Platform installation equipment

 * Two Menck MHU 3000 hydraulic hammers capable of 3000 kJ impact energy.
 * Two Menck MHU 1700 hydraulic hammers.
 * Two Menck MHU 1000 hydraulic hammers.
 * Two Menck MHU 600 hydraulic hammers.
 * One Menck MHU 220 hydraulic hammer.
 * One Menck MHU 195 hydraulic hammer.
 * Two underwater power packs.
 * One hydraulic hammer compensator.
 * Various Menck steam hammers and their associated boilers
 * Sixteen 35 cm diameter 60 m long cable laid slings
 * A containerized 14-man saturation diving system which can be moved to any of the vessel's three moon pools
 * Two leveling systems, range 66" - 72" diameter; 900 tonne capacity each.
 * Two external levelling systems; 1000 tonnes each.
 * Abandonment/Recovery system with double capstan winch, 2000 tonne capacity each.

Handling deck equipment

 * One Kobelco Crawler Crane 70 tonnes capacity
 * One Hydraulic Tyred Crane 35 tonnes capacity
 * Two Fork Lifts 5 tonnes capacity each

Accommodation
The accommodation designed for 800 people contains 30 triple cabins, 335 double cabins, 35 singles and 5 suites. The accommodation also contains a large galley and mess rooms, a hospital, cinema and lounges.

1999 vessel re-fit
During the winter of 1999/2000 the Saipem 7000 underwent a refit to enhance its positioning and power systems and add a J-lay system.

The power system was upgraded to provide up to 70,000 kW using 12 diesel generators. To improve the vessel's resilience the generators are distributed between four separate engine rooms.

Two 5,500 kW retractable azimuthing thrusters were added, one below the forward part of each hull. The DP system control computers were also replaced.

The hull, deck and deck structures were modified to accept the Gusto designed J-lay tower and its support equipment. The J-lay tower can lay pipe from 4" to 32" diameter with a tension of up to 525 tonnes (5.15 MN) using the tensioners and up to 2,000 tonnes (20 MN) when using friction clamps. The deck can be used to store up to 10,000 tonnes of pipe.

To allow space for the increased equipment some items from the original specification were removed, including 2 anchor winches from the bow, all the moon pools, and the boilers used to provide steam for the steam hammers.

Early projects
The vessel's first work was for Petrobras the Brazilian state oil company. The project consisted of the installation of 7 platforms in the Campos Basin. During this project the Micoperi 7000 was also involved in the fighting of a well fire on the Enchova Platform. The Micoperi 7000 then proceeded to the Gulf of Mexico where it installed the Jolliet Template for Conoco. In 1989 the Micoperi 7000 arrived in the North Sea for the first time where it completed several projects in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. These were the Gyda Platform for BP, the Togi Template for Norsk Hydro and the Veslefrikk platform for Statoil. In 1990 and 1991, the Micoperi was used in the construction and assembly of the Mossgas FA platform off the south coast of South Africa near a town called Mossel Bay.

Whilst the vessel remained busy, Micoperi were struggling financially as the low oil price prevalent in the late 1980s curtailed oil company investment. In 1991 Micoperi were forced to sell a number of their major assets including the Micoperi 7000 to another Italian contractor Saipem. Saipem took over the running of the vessel though they retained the vessel crew and the shorebased engineering support. Saipem renamed the vessel the Saipem 7000.

The vessel continued to work, installing oil and gas production platforms, in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, off the Canadian east coast and the west coast of Africa throughout the nineties. It was also involved in the removal of one platform, the Esso Odin. During the late nineties Saipem planned an upgrade to the vessels DP system and installation of a J-Lay system.

Projects
The Saipem 7000 has completed 4 J-Lay pipe projects Diana, Blue Stream, Ormen Lange and Medgaz, but its main work continues to be heavy lift in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. This includes both platform installation and removal and the addition of modules to existing platforms.

It is currently deployed in the North Sea, approximately 27km east of Montrose, Scotland, installing the 114 jacket foundations for Seagreen offshore wind farm.

Lifting and pipelaying records
The Saipem 7000 set the world offshore lifting record of 12,150 tons for the Sabratha deck in the Mediterranean Sea. A local record for the Gulf of Mexico (Mexican area) was set with the 10,473 tons of the PB-KU-A2 deck. In July 2010, the Saipem 7000 broke another world record by lifting the new BP Valhall Production and Hotel topside of approximately 11,600 tonnes on Dynamic Positioning. The previous world record set at Sabratha was performed on the vessel's anchoring system. The first and third records were broken on 7 September 2019 when the Sleipnir lifted the 15,300 ton deck module for Noble's Leviathan.

The Saipem 7000 laid the 24" pipeline for the Blue Stream project between Russia and Turkey up to the record depth of 2,150 meters in the Black Sea. This was broken at the end of 2005 by the Balder which laid a pipeline in 2,200 meters of water, yet Balder was outbeat herself in 2014 by another laybarge of Saipem, the FDS2, which laid another 24" pipeline in 2,250 meters offshore Brazil.

Incident in Norway
On 14 April 2022, the vessel suffered a lifting accident in a Norwegian fjord near Stavanger during a planned load test of the cranes. The main block wire broke, dropping a barge used as test weight. This caused the vessel to tilt, but was soon stabilized. Nobody was injured during the incident.

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'''Silsila-i-Aalia Qadria, Qalandria, Owaisia is the only Silsila-i-Tariqat which is spreading Deen-e-Haq in Pakistan.'Bait is taken directly into the Silsila Paak of Mola-i-Kainaat Hazrat Ali-ul-Murtada Karam Allah Wajhahul Kareem (AS). Founder of this great Silsila is Qalander-e-Azam, Sultan-e-Moazzam, Sultan-e-Haft-e-Aqaleem, Fanah-fi Mola Ali (AS) and Fana-fi Rasool Allah (SAW) Sarkar Bashir Ahmad (Noor Allah Markadah).'''

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobala Road

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Bobala Road
Is this road notable? it seems just an ordinary road to me --Melaen 21:29, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, just a random road, not encyclopaedic. But full marks for fitting so much nonsense into an article. I think I might BJAODNise this. --bainer (talk) 23:21, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not sufficiently notable. Jacob1207 01:34, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Moving Day (Quebec)

Moving Day (jour du déménagement) is a tradition, but not a legal requirement, in the province of Quebec, Canada, dating from the time when the province used to mandate fixed terms for leases of rental properties. It falls on July 1, which is also Canada Day.

History
The tradition began as a humanitarian measure of the French colonial government of New France, who forbade seigneurs, the semi-feudal landlords of the seigneuries, from evicting their tenant farmers before the winter snows had melted.. Historian Yvon Desloges notes that it was common to move in the spring in the 18th century, citing a 1750 bylaw by Intendant François Bigot. Additionally, Jean-Philippe Warren, a sociologist at Concordia University in Montreal, noted in a 2013 interview for The New York Times that French law in the 18th century set May 1 as the starting date for all legal agreements, including leases.

Later, this evolved into a requirement that urban leases begin on May 1 and end on April 30. In law, this date was set in the Civil Code of Lower Canada of 1866. May 1 thus became "Moving Day", the day during which renters who wished to vacate their current premises physically changed domiciles.

In 1973, the Quebec government decided that it would be better to move Moving Day to the summer. This measure would allow children, especially the ones in primary school to complete their full year at the same establishment. Also, by moving the date to a holiday, workers would not have to sacrifice a working day. They moved the date from May 1st to July 1 because of the tendency for rough weather in early May. The law repealed sections of the Civil code setting fixed terms for leases as of 1974, but mandated a two-month lengthening of leases for following year as a transitory measure. However, tradition has held sway, and the vast majority of leases are still a year long and begin around July 1. In 2004, approximately 120,000 households moved on or around July 1, corresponding to 4% of the population. In 2013, the government of Montreal estimated that about 115,000 city residents moved each year, or about 7% of the city's 1.6 million people.

Impact

Moving Day is a boon and a headache for commercial moving companies, and people must reserve their services in advance, more than six months before moving day in some cases. During this period, moving companies work around the clock, with moving charges often being three times the normal rate. The short supply of movers in Montreal inspired entrepreneurs to offer a green moving service featuring heavy-duty bicycle trailers.

In Montreal, where only 55.7% of residents own their home (the lowest rate of the major Canadian cities), Moving Day is particularly busy and has been described as "a kind of moving madness". Exterior staircases leading up to second, third, or even fourth-storey apartments are common in many neighbourhoods, in part because historically this reduced the size of buildings and therefore decreased the owner's property taxes. These staircases are often narrow, curved, and metal – not ideal for nonprofessionals carrying major appliances. According to New York Times writer Ian Austen, "unlike apartments in the rest of Canada, the ones here [in Montreal] rarely come with kitchen appliances, adding to the movers' burdens." Cities also schedule extra garbage and recycling pickups for this period to deal with unwanted furniture and empty boxes left beside the road. According to Hydro-Québec, more than 700,000 Quebec households moved in 2009, including 225,000 on the island of Montreal.

The July 1 date of Moving Day also somewhat reduces the significance of Canada Day as a public holiday in Quebec, as many who might otherwise attend holiday festivities are occupied by moving. Suggestions that the move was a deliberate decision by Quebec sovereigntists to discourage participation in a patriotic Canadian holiday ignore the fact that the change in date from May 1 to July 1 was the result of a bill introduced by a federalist MNA, Jérôme Choquette of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Although moving day is seen as a headache for most people, Montreal-based columnist Josée Legault sees a few positive aspects in the annual festival, pointing out that July 1 occurs at the end of the school year, not two months before as was the case before the 1970s. Bargain hunters —especially people who don't move— also enjoy the numerous garage sales occurring before moving day and the common practice of leaving behind slightly used furniture and appliances on the curb side or in the alley, in effect giving them to anyone in need.

The annual ritual has also been translated in Quebec's literature, music and cinema. Gabrielle Roy's classic novel Bonheur d'occasion describes the traditional frenzy surrounding Moving Day in the working-class borough of Saint-Henri in Montreal.

Quebec film director Philippe Gagnon used the yearly occurrence as the setting for , a 2004 light-hearted comedy featuring three households caught in the turmoil of Moving Day.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serynade

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Serynade
Not notable, fanficcruft. Frjwoolley 21:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC) Shh I'm trying to keep my page up. Oh well, delete if you wish, it's alright., I read the rules and saw nothing against it, so I thought it'd be okay to kinda, advertise. It's alright, I'll keep it in mind for next time.
 * Delete the fanficcruft. (Although to be honest, I must admit that I was originally impressed: "Stories Serynade (Often times with the surname Discord) has been in: The Crusade Ice Age Shattered Blood Pact The Prophecy Sons of Destiny Masterpiece Kalithain Kalithain: The Second Age Utopia" -- it took me a moment to realize that it was just a horribly punctuated list of different stories, not one goddamn humongous name...) -- Captain Disdain 22:10, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Knowing the authors of bad fanfiction, that could be the name of a single story... --Carnildo 23:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If only you were wrong, the world would be a better place. -- Captain Disdain 21:10, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Scimitar 22:14, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete fanfic. --Etacar11 23:07, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fanficcruft. --Carnildo 23:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it. I read the all listed stories, and they were written quite well. Keep it, let him expand, and who knows?  It could turn out well.  A friend of mine that knows him from the 'net says he has a publishing deal as well. This edit was made by User: Theblindparrot; user's first edit
 * Comment: It's not a question of quality, but one of notability. Furthermore, I see that your username is Theblindparrot. I suppose it's merely a coincidence, then, that someone using the very same username on the warcraft3.com forums has written a whole bunch of these Serynade stories. Are we to believe that you're not the same person and have instead just picked that username at random? Y'know, generally speaking, attempting to fool people isn't a great way to establish your credibility, but whatever works for you. Best of luck with that lucrative publishing deal. -- Captain Disdain 14:15, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Another comment: Oh, Christ, I didn't even notice this earlier -- Parrot, you actually went and removed your name from the Serynade page? Seriously, did you think that no one would notice and we'd think that you don't have anything to do with these stories? (The stories that are "written quite well", to quote you -- humble, that!) I hate to say this, but that's just... sad. -- Captain Disdain 15:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Well, at least he's being kinda honest about it... Since he has now blanked the page, I think this could be speedied? -- Captain Disdain 12:17, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Settlement conference

A settlement or pre-trial conference is a meeting between opposing sides of a lawsuit at which the parties attempt to reach a mutually agreeable resolution of their dispute without having to proceed to a trial. Such a conference may be initiated through either party, usually by the conveyance of a settlement offer; or it may be ordered by the court as a precedent (preliminary step) to holding a trial. Each party, the plaintiff and the defendant, is usually represented at the settlement conference by their own counsel or attorney. Conferences are frequently conducted by a judge or other neutral party, in the form of a mediation.

Case conference
In many courts in the common law system, a case conference may be used to settle a case.

In some courts, the rules require that before certain types of motions or petitions will be heard by the judge, the lawyers must "meet and confer" to try to resolve the matter.

Foreclosure Pre-foreclosure Settlement Conferences
On December 1, 2008, the New York State Unified Court System began sending notices to borrowers in default who have high cost mortgages, whose mortgages were being foreclosed prior to September 1, 2008, offering voluntary settlement conferences. Borrowers with high cost mortgages whose mortgages entered or are entering into foreclosure from September 2008 on, will be required to attend a mandatory settlement conference prior to foreclosure proceedings. High cost loans are considered to have excessive fees, risk-based sub-prime percentage rates, negative amortizing payment options, and other features which may or may not be considered predatory lending practices.

On December 15, 2009, Governor David Paterson signed into law an expanded version of the mandatory settlement conference legislation. Section 3408 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules of New York now provides that the court shall hold a mandatory settlement conference for all loans for one to four family homes within sixty days following the date proof of service is filed with the county clerk. The new law also provides that both the defendant homeowner and the plaintiff lender negotiate in good faith during their mandated settlement conference. The plaintiff lender is required to have a representative or attorney appear at the settlement conference with the authority to fully negotiate and settle the matter.

The foreclosure proceedings are effectively stopped until the referee or judicial hearing officer (JHO) in the settlement conference determines that the settlement conferences are concluded, either because the parties have successfully modified the home loan or obtained some other foreclosure alternative or the referee has determined that one of the parties has not satisfied its requirements under the law. Settlement conferences do not produce formal dispositions but may facilitate loan modifications and stop foreclosure. The referee or JHO will make a recommendation to the judge overseeing the foreclosure proceedings once the settlement conference is concluded.

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Talk:Galactic Empire (1980 video game)

List of Planets
I included the list of planets because I suspect some of the names were taken from other sources, and might provide an interesting cross-ref source. Nandesuka 21:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Two years later, and the list doesn't seem to have sparked much interest in such. One might take a stab to establish cross-connections, but efforts to do so would likely be original research or pure guesswork. Is it really a necessary inclusion? D. Brodale 11:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Duration of the game
Re last sentence: "The player has 999 years to take the galaxy." In the version of the game (v2.04) that I'm still playing on a Apple Macintosh Perfoma 580, the player has 1200 years to take the galaxy. :) My Other Head (talk) 16:39, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

C64 version
I am sure that there was also a Commodore 64 version of the game (because I spend hours with some mates in a friend's cellar playing that game). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.77.249.125 (talk) 09:58, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree, there was a C64 version of the game. One thing I'm not quite sure about is whether the original game was multi player or whether I modified (today it would be called "hacked") it to be. It was simple to do because it was written in Commodore Basic and interpreted on the C64. Here is a link: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=9564 Dummzeuch (talk) 19:02, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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1973 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1973.

Events

 * July — The Dean Martin Show becomes known as Dean Martin Presents Music Country for the longtime variety show's summer broadcasts. Country music becomes a staple of Martin's show for the 1973–1974 season — its last on the air, as it turns out.
 * July 4 — Willie Nelson hosts his first Fourth of July picnic.
 * July 14 — Billboard increases the number of positions for its Hot Country Singles chart to 100 (up from 75), which it would keep until January 1990. The expansion comes at a time when the number of No. 1 songs in a given year continues to increase; for the first time in history, there are at least 35 No. 1 songs in one year.
 * September — Jimmy Dean's third country music TV series, The Jimmy Dean Show, premieres in syndication for what will be a two-season run.
 * October 6 — Country music's most successful syndicated radio countdown program to date, "American Country Countdown," makes its debut. The three-hour program is created by Casey Kasem and Don Bustany, and is modeled after American Top 40 (which Kasem also hosted). Comedian Don Bowman) is the original host, but by 1978, he would be replaced by Bob Kingsley.
 * October — The new Radio & Records magazine includes a 50-position country singles chart.
 * November 10 — One of Nashville's most notorious murders makes national headlines when David Akeman (aka Stringbean) and his wife, Estelle, are killed when they interrupt a burglary after returning home. Their bodies are found the next day. Their assailants—brothers John and Marvin Douglas—are later captured, convicted and sentenced to prison. Stringbean, who was 58, was best known to his audiences for his role on the syndicated series "Hee Haw."

United States
(as certified by Billboard)

 * Notes
 * 1^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
 * 2^ Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
 * A^ First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
 * B^ Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
 * C^ Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Canada
(as certified by RPM)

 * Notes
 * 2^ Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
 * A^ First RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
 * B^ Last RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
 * C^ Only RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.

Births

 * March 6 — Trent Willmon, rising country music star of the early- to mid-2000s (decade).
 * May 24 — Jill Johnson, Swedish female country singer.
 * June 6 — Lisa Brokop, Canadian country star of the 1990s and early-2000s (decade).
 * June 26 — Gretchen Wilson, singer-songwriter and key member of the MuzikMafia of the 2000s (decade).
 * July 29 — James Otto, rising male vocalist of the 2000s (decade).
 * August 8 — Mark Wills, country star of the mid-to-late-1990s and early-2000s (decade) ("19 Somethin'", "Wish You Were Here").
 * August 13 — Andy Griggs, country music star of late-1990s and early-2000s (decade).
 * November 19 — Billy Currington, rising star of the mid-2000s (decade).

Deaths

 * March 26 – Don Messer, 63, Canadian fiddler and folk music icon whose career spanned 40 years (heart attack).
 * September 19 — Gram Parsons, 26, influential country rock and alt-country singer-songwriter-guitarist who was a member of such bands as The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and also recorded a critically acclaimed body of solo recordings (drug overdose).
 * November 10 — Stringbean, 58, banjo player and comedian on the TV series Hee Haw (homicide).

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

 * Chet Atkins (1924–2001)
 * Patsy Cline (1932–1963), first female to be inducted as a solo act.

Grammy Awards

 * Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Let Me Be There", Olivia Newton-John
 * Best Male Country Vocal Performance —c"Behind Closed Doors", Charlie Rich
 * Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "From the Bottle to the Bottom", Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge
 * Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Dueling Banjos", Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell
 * Best Country Song — "Behind Closed Doors", Kenny O'Dell (Performer: Charlie Rich)

Juno Awards

 * Country Male Vocalist of the Year — Stompin' Tom Connors
 * Country Female Vocalist of the Year — Shirley Eikhard
 * Country Group or Duo of the Year — Mercey Brothers

Academy of Country Music

 * Entertainer of the Year — Roy Clark
 * Song of the Year — "Behind Closed Doors", Kenny O'Dell (Performer: Charlie Rich)
 * Single of the Year — "Behind Closed Doors", Charlie Rich
 * Album of the Year — Behind Closed Doors, Charlie Rich
 * Top Male Vocalist — Charlie Rich
 * Top Female Vocalist — Loretta Lynn
 * Top Vocal Group — Brush Arbor
 * Top New Male Vocalist — Dorsey Burnette
 * Top New Female Vocalist — Olivia Newton-John

Country Music Association

 * Entertainer of the Year — Roy Clark
 * Song of the Year — "Behind Closed Doors", Kenny O'Dell (Performer: Charlie Rich)
 * Single of the Year — "Behind Closed Doors", Charlie Rich
 * Album of the Year — Behind Closed Doors, Charlie Rich
 * Male Vocalist of the Year — Charlie Rich
 * Female Vocalist of the Year — Loretta Lynn
 * Vocal Duo of the Year — Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
 * Vocal Group of the Year — The Statler Brothers
 * Instrumentalist of the Year — Charlie McCoy
 * Instrumental Group of the Year — Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass

Other links

 * Country Music Association
 * Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Admired

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Admired
Nothing more than a dictionary entry. Wiktionary entry already exists Gblaz 21:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * delete, can't think of anything to do with this one. Kappa 21:48, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. El_C 22:06, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dicdef. --bainer (talk) 23:19, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Carnildo 23:54, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary. No content - delete, candidate for speedy deletion. - Mike Rosoft 18:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Chiefqalander

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soroush Vahhabi

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Soroush Vahhabi
This person is not famous and perhaps does not exist Sina 21:31, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable vanity at best. But kind of clever.  Frjwoolley 22:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity/maybe hoax, only google hits are mirrors of this page. --Etacar11 23:12, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity. Jacob1207 01:35, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. And not link from other pages to the page. roozbeh 13:53, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I, as a Iranian, have never heared the name. Hamidifar 14:56, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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QuickTransit

QuickTransit was a cross-platform virtualization program developed by Transitive Corporation. It allowed software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating system architecture without source code or binary changes.

QuickTransit was an extension of the Dynamite technology developed by the University of Manchester Parallel Architectures and Languages research group, which now forms part of the university's Advanced Processor Technologies research group.

Silicon Graphics announced QuickTransit's first availability in October 2004 on its Prism visualization systems. These systems, based on Itanium 2 processors and the Linux operating system, used QuickTransit to transparently run application binaries compiled for previous SGI systems based on the MIPS processor and IRIX operating system.

This technology was also licensed by Apple Computer in its transition from PowerPC to Intel (x86) CPUs, starting in 2006. Apple marketed this technology as "Rosetta".

In August 2006, IBM announced a partnership with Transitive to run Linux/x86 binaries on its Power ISA-based Power Systems servers. IBM named this software System p AVE during its beta phase, but it was renamed to PowerVM Lx86 upon release.

In November 2006, Transitive launched QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64, which enabled unmodified Solaris applications compiled for SPARC systems to run on 64-bit x86-based systems running Linux. This was followed in October 2007 by QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium, which enabled Solaris/SPARC applications to run on Itanium systems running Linux. A third product, QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64, was released in December 2007, enabling Solaris/SPARC applications to run on 64-bit x86 systems running Solaris.

IBM acquired Transitive in June 2009 and merged the company into its Power Systems division. IBM announced in September 2011 it would discontinue marketing for the PowerVM Lx86 product in January 2012, withdrawing it from sale completely in April 2013. Apple removed Rosetta from Mac OS X starting with Mac OS X Lion in 2011.

Most of the original team now work for the BBC, Apple in California and ARM in Manchester.

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Boron trioxide

Boron trioxide or diboron trioxide is the oxide of boron with the formula B2O3. It is a colorless transparent solid, almost always glassy (amorphous), which can be crystallized only with great difficulty. It is also called boric oxide or boria. It has many important industrial applications, chiefly in ceramics as a flux for glazes and enamels and in the production of glasses.

Structure
Boron trioxide has three known forms, one amorphous and two crystalline.

Amorphous form
The amorphous form (g-B2O3) is by far the most common. It is thought to be composed of boroxol rings which are six-membered rings composed of alternating 3-coordinate boron and 2-coordinate oxygen.

Because of the difficulty of building disordered models at the correct density with many boroxol rings, this view was initially controversial, but such models have recently been constructed and exhibit properties in excellent agreement with experiment. It is now recognized, from experimental and theoretical studies,    that the fraction of boron atoms belonging to boroxol rings in glassy B2O3 is somewhere between 0.73 and 0.83, with 0.75 = 3/4 corresponding to a 1:1 ratio between ring and non-ring units. The number of boroxol rings decays in the liquid state with increasing temperature.

Crystalline α form
The crystalline form (α-B2O3) is exclusively composed of BO3 triangles. It crystal structure was initially believed to be the enantiomorphic space groups P31(#144) and P32(#145), like γ-glycine; but was later revised to the enantiomorphic space groups P3121(#152) and P3221(#154) in the trigonal crystal system, like α-quartz

Crystallization of α-B2O3 from the molten state at ambient pressure is strongly kinetically disfavored (compare liquid and crystal densities). It can be obtained with prologued annealing of the amorphous solid ~200 °C under at least 10 kbar of pressure.

Crystalline β form
The trigonal network undergoes a coesite-like transformation to monoclinic β-B2O3 at several gigapascals (9.5 GPa).

Preparation
Boron trioxide is produced by treating borax with sulfuric acid in a fusion furnace. At temperatures above 750 °C, the molten boron oxide layer separates out from sodium sulfate. It is then decanted, cooled and obtained in 96–97% purity.

Another method is heating boric acid above ~300 °C. Boric acid will initially decompose into steam, (H2O(g)) and metaboric acid (HBO2) at around 170 °C, and further heating above 300 °C will produce more steam and diboron trioxide. The reactions are:

 * H3BO3 → HBO2 + H2O

 * 2 HBO2 → B2O3 + H2O

Boric acid goes to anhydrous microcrystalline B2O3 in a heated fluidized bed. Carefully controlled heating rate avoids gumming as water evolves.

Boron oxide will also form when diborane (B2H6) reacts with oxygen in the air or trace amounts of moisture:

 * 2B2H6(g) + 3O2(g) → 2B2O3(s) + 6H2(g)

 * B2H6(g) + 3H2O(g) → B2O3(s) + 6H2(g)

Reactions
Molten boron oxide attacks silicates. Containers can be passivated internally with a graphitized carbon layer obtained by thermal decomposition of acetylene.

Applications

 * Major component of borosilicate glass
 * Fluxing agent for glass and enamels
 * An additive used in glass fibres (optical fibres)
 * The inert capping layer in the Liquid Encapsulation Czochralski process for the production of gallium arsenide single crystal
 * As an acid catalyst in organic synthesis
 * As a starting material for the production of other boron compounds, such as boron carbide

title: Boron trioxide