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Caibarién

Caibarién is a municipality city in the Villa Clara province of Cuba.

Caibarién is known as "La Villa Blanca" (lit. 'The White Town') for its sands and beaches. They are famous for their "Parrandas" (Carnivals) along with Remedios (the neighboring town located 7 km west) and Camajuani.

History
At the end of 1513, Pánfilo de Narváez las Casas and Grijalba explored the territory. Indigenous settlements were found in the region now occupied by the municipality and in Cayo Conuco.

In 1819, the port of Tesisco was closed and Caibarién was ordered to be opened. From 1822 onwards, neighbors from Remedios began to arrive and there was already a population center in the part of Parrado. Narciso de Justa gave land from his hacienda for the foundation of the town.

On October 26, 1832, the town was founded based on a plan conceived by Estratón Bauza. It had 42 blocks of 10 lots each and 375 of them were sold. The rest were destined to government dependencies.

On August 31, 1873 it was granted the title of Villa and on January 1, 1879 the town council was constituted, with Don Hipólito Escobar Martelo as its first mayor.

Before the war of 1895 the town had obtained a sustained progress, exhibiting such an economic power that it constituted a true astonishment at the time.

The first quarter of the 20th century was the one of greatest urban development. Along with the population increase, public and private buildings of great cultural, educational and industrial importance appeared.

The construction of the central highway, the port of Cienfuegos and the construction of the Tarafa railroad, together with the critical situation in the political order, meant that the period up to 1959 was not a flourishing one for the overall economy of the municipality. From 1959, with the revolutionary triumph, a new era began. Until 1965, the Ciudad Pesquera, the Marcelo Salado neighborhood, multi-family buildings on the beach were built and industry, commerce and the standard of living of the entire population developed.

In the first two decades of the 21st century, the municipality experienced a marked decline, unprecedented since its foundation, due to the economic difficulties that affected the country in general. Among the most outstanding aspects of this period of decline were the destruction of the historical heritage, the deterioration of infrastructure and the loss of population, especially the young majority, due to emigration to other countries, mainly the United States. Unfortunately, this process of deterioration still continues and there is no near horizon that indicates that this trend will be reversed in the next few decades. Unfortunately, this process of deterioration still continues and there is no near horizon indicating a reversal of this trend in the next few decades. As in the country as a whole, there has been a notable deterioration of public services and health and human development indicators in the municipality. However, it is important to mention that there are no official statistics in this regard, or at least they are not published in an accessible manner.

Geography
The city is situated on the north coast of Cuba, bordering the Bay of Buena Vista (Bahía de Buena Vista) of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies at the eastern extremity of the Villa Clara Province, close to the border with Sancti Spíritus Province. The town is served by the Caibarién Airport.

The municipality is divided into the barrios of Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto and Quinto.

Cayo Conuco
Cayo Conuco is a tiny island located 7 km from Caibarién, which is joined to the mainland by a stone causeway. It was recently covered only by thin, dry pasture, however native plant species have resumed their original place. In 1948, the Asociación de Scouts de Cuba held its second national Jamboree in Cayo Conuco.

Economy and tourism
Caibarién once served as a shipping point for agricultural commodities, such as sugarcane, tobacco, and fruit. It also served as a sponge-fishing center. Its hotels are now destroyed by lack of care, and most concrete houses are crumbling onto its streets. The piers that once served as shipping points for agricultural commodities have fallen into the bay. The two sugar mills that used to send their sugar exports through the harbor are now closed and crumbling. The major sugar mill (Reforma) is now a museum for tourists.

The Parrandas carnivals take place twice a year in August–September and mid-December. They last usually for about two weeks at a time.

The main center for tourists in Caibarién is "Los Cayos" (The keys) with such cays as Cayo Santa María, Cayo Fragoso, Cayo Las Brujas, etc. New Cuban reforms now allow Cuban citizens to enter the resorts and beaches that were once exclusive to tourists.

Demographics
In 2022, the municipality of Caibarién had a population of 40,798. With a total area of 212 km2, it has a population density of 179.5 /km2.

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Spit-take

A spit-take is a comedic technique or reaction in which someone spits a drink, or sometimes food, out of their mouth as a reaction to a surprising or funny statement.

An essential part of the spit-take is comedic timing. The person performing the spit-take usually starts drinking or eating right before the punchline is delivered. When the joke hits, the person accentuates the effect by pretending that the alleged humor/shock is so overwhelming and irresistible, that they cannot even control the urge of laughter/scream before swallowing, and therefore has to reflexively spit out the mouthful of content to prevent choking.

In performance, a spit-take represents a reaction of shock, while in real life it is typically one of mirth.

"Spit take" was included in the Oxford Dictionaries (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary) in a 2014 update. It was also added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in an April 2019 update.

Etymology
The spit-take, as a comedic technique, is a noun, but it shows up in media in some different forms. It can be seen used figuratively in a description of a satire work, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: "(it) is a spit-take on the world of contemporary pop music and celebrity..."

It can also be used as a verb: "On the morning of May 12, LinkedIn ... emailed scores of my contacts and told them I'm a professional racist. It was one of those updates that LinkedIn regularly sends its users, algorithmically assembled missives about their connections' appearances in the media.... This surely caused a few of my professional acquaintances to spit-take. — Will Johnson, Slate, 24 May 2016."

The conjugation of spit-take as a verb is not clearly defined. There is evidence of both "spit-taked" and "spit took." Constructions like "made me spit-take" are convenient for avoiding this issue all together. Beyond that, leaving the phrase as a noun, like "do a spit-take," continues to be the most common usage.

Origin
Originally called a spit gag, the word itself most likely dates to the early 20th century, but it mostly existed in showbiz vernacular.

Danny Thomas, commonly associated with the spit-take, is credited as the comedian who made it famous. It is sometimes referred to as the "Danny Thomas spit take." He perfected it during the 11 seasons of The Danny Thomas Show (1953-1964). However, Ricky Ricardo did it a year earlier in an I Love Lucy (1951-1957) episode. Also a year before Thomas, a spit-take was performed by David Bruce in a 1952 episode of Beulah (1950-1953), "The New Arrival." It has been used in several sitcoms since.

The "spit" part of the term is clear, but the "take" part is a little less obvious. In this context, the word "take" is used in the sense of a visible response or reaction (as to something unexpected). It is similar in construction to the phrase "double-take".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese Culture,religion and Education

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Japanese Culture,religion and Education
Del. Don't do redirect even from a corrected title. We already have very decent Culture of Japan, Education in Japan and Religions of Japan. mikka (t) 00:55, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete drini ☎ 00:58, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no redirect, duplication. --bainer (talk) 01:05, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons already stated elsewhere. It might as well be nonsense. -- Captain Disdain 01:32, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep: Please see comments at this vfd for reasoning. Wikibofh 03:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * What is to be kept must be moved into the articles listed above. there is no particular reason to have Oranges and orangs type articles. mikka (t) 17:25, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree that what gets kept should be merged into one that you mention. Wikibofh 20:10, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Copyedit complete. Wikibofh 20:36, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

historical objetive
one objetive of economical commercial sections and ancient dates and other relationed if aid to reconstructed at commercial and some aspects of japanese common life style,how theirs thinked and your ideology and local policy. in comparison at present japanese contemporary and your actual lifestyle and political thinking.this present dates debt to seeing this informations with historical perspective in comparing with state of lifestyle and economical and political in actual country.

other idea if the knowed are the economical resources and your founts for why japanese empire poses monetary resources in your war efforts in pacific conflict.

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User:Jekoko

Jekoko's User Page

Please direct all messages to my talk page.

Please direct all editing or cleanup requests to my desk page.

Below is a list of some of my interests, topics I will be reading, editing and/or writing about here at Wikipedia. No way am I going to link all these, however.

Thanks for stopping by. :)

Jekoko Other interests:
 * history (US, North American colonial life, 17th & 18th century US slavery, medieval Europe, Scotland, Celtic pre-history, feminist history)
 * art (Italian Renaissance, Vermeer, Gentilischi, Impressionists)
 * literature (Victor Hugo, Alexandr Solzhenitzn, Ayn Rand, Robert Frost)
 * music (vocal, psaltery, classic rock, swing, country, John Hartford, Barbra Streisand, B.B. King, Broadway musicals, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Howard Hanson, Claude Debussy)
 * recreation, sports, leisure (baking, classic movies, Star Trek, ballroom dancing, container gardening, herbal cooking, baseball, Detroit Tigers, Ernie Harwell, tae kwon do, tai chi, weight training)
 * textile and needle arts (textile art, textile history and conservation, Armenian needlelace, tatting, needlelace, sashiko, trapunto quilting, finger weaving)
 * civics (US Constitution, civil rights, US Supreme Court, ACLU, Watergate)
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Beau Hunks

Beau Hunks is a 1931 American Pre-Code Laurel and Hardy film, directed by James W. Horne.

Plot
Ollie, deeply infatuated with his absent sweetheart Jeanie-Weenie, serenades her with piano melodies before revealing his plans to marry her to his friend Stan. However, their aspirations are swiftly shattered when Ollie receives a letter of rejection from Jeanie-Weenie, prompting him to seek solace in the distraction offered by the French Foreign Legion. Determined to escape the anguish of lost love, the duo enlists in the Legion and embarks on a journey to French Algeria.

Upon their arrival at the Legion barracks, Stan and Ollie are astonished to discover that their fellow soldiers share the same plight, all nursing broken hearts over Jeanie-Weenie. This collective realization leads Ollie to question the worthiness of his affections for Jeanie-Weenie from the outset.

Their attempt to resign from the Legion is met with stern opposition from the camp commander, compelling the entire platoon to embark on a forced march. However, their plans are disrupted when news arrives of an impending siege on Fort Arid by native Riffian tribesmen. Despite becoming separated from their regiment in a sandstorm, Stan and Ollie manage to reach the fortress ahead of their comrades.

In a surprising turn of events, the duo, armed only with barrels of nails, single-handedly repel the Riffian attackers. The confrontation culminates in the revelation that the leader of the Riffians was also a victim of Jeanie-Weenie's romantic conquests, reinforcing Ollie's newfound perspective on his former love interest.

Production notes
At 37 minutes, Beau Hunks is the longest Laurel and Hardy short. The French Foreign Legion scenario was reused in The Flying Deuces with Charles B. Middleton again playing their commanding officer.

The title Beau Hunks is a reference to the Beau Geste trilogy (Beau Geste (1924), Beau Sabreur (1926), Beau Ideal (1927)) and its associated Hollywood adaptations, as well as a colloquial ethnic slur prevalent in the United States during the era. The term also alludes to a specific line from Beau Sabreur, where Buddy says '"Sure thing, Son Hank — if a gang of Touareg Bohunks couldn't, French troops couldn't. . . . I s'pose it is us he's after?"

Legacy
In January 1992, during an interview on The Tonight Show, Hal Roach identified Beau Hunks as his favorite among the movies he had produced. He cited the cameo appearance of Jean Harlow, a starlet who had transitioned from Roach's studio to MGM. Interestingly, Harlow's presence in the film was confined to archival publicity photographs from her tenure at Roach's studio. Roach's appearance on the show coincided with the celebration of his hundredth birthday.

The film inspired the formation of the Beau Hunks Orchestra, a Dutch musical ensemble established in 1992. Initially assembled to perform soundtrack music at an Oliver Hardy centennial celebration in Amsterdam, the orchestra later expanded its repertoire to include compositions by Leroy Shield and other notable composers, including Raymond Scott. This initiative not only paid homage to the cinematic heritage associated with "Beau Hunks" but also contributed to the preservation and appreciation of film music from the early 20th century.

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State Crown of Mary of Modena

The State Crown of Mary of Modena is the consort crown made in 1685 for Mary of Modena, queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. It was used by future queens consort until the end of the 18th century.

Originally set with hired diamonds, the crown is set with crystals for display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London.

Mary also had a diadem, also in the Jewel House, and a coronation crown, now owned by the Museum of London.

Description
The gold crown originally had 523 small diamonds, 38 large diamonds, and 129 large pearls. These have been replaced with quartz crystals. It is 19 cm tall and weighs 700 g. The crown is decorated with crosses pattée and fleurs-de-lis and has four half-arches, surmounted with a monde and cross pattée.

Origin

Traditionally, when a king is married, his wife is crowned as queen at their coronation ceremony. In 1649, the monarchy was abolished after a long civil war between Charles I and his Parliament, and the Crown Jewels were either sold or turned into coins by the Mint. The coronation of Mary of Modena and her husband, James II and VII, marked the first time a queen was crowned after the restoration of the monarchy, Charles II having been unmarried when he took the throne in 1660.

Three pieces of headgear were made for the queen: a diadem to wear in procession to Westminster Abbey, a coronation crown for the crowning, and a state crown to wear upon leaving the abbey. Made by Richard de Beauvoir, the state crown was covered in diamonds valued at £35,000, and the bill for hiring them was £1,000. She paid for the crowns and diadem out of her own pocket, and also commissioned two new sceptres and a coronation ring for the ceremony.

Mary's diadem was set with 177 diamonds, 78 pearls, 1 sapphire, 1 emerald, and 1 ruby; it now contains artificial gemstones and cultured pearls, and is also on display at the Tower of London. It is 8 cm tall and weighs 300 g.

Her empty coronation crown was acquired from a private dealer by the Museum of London in 1956. It had been sent to the Crown Jewellers, Rundell & Bridge, for maintenance work in the 19th century, but was never returned to the royal family. Originally, the crown weighed 600 g and was set with 419 diamonds, 46 large pearls, 7 rubies, 7 sapphires, and 2 emeralds.

Usage
The crown was subsequently used by queens regnant Mary II and Anne; and by queens consort Caroline of Ansbach and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1831, the crown was judged to be too theatrical and in a poor state of repair, and so another crown was made for the new queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. However, it is possible that Adelaide was crowned using one of Mary of Modena's crowns.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kishor Joshi

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Kishor Joshi
Contents is this: "Kishor Joshi' is a Nepali Engineer, currently with Nepal Telecom. He did his Computer Engineering from Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk Campus". Doesn't pass WP:BIO. Kappa 00:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This guy just isn't shown to be any more notable than any other engineer. -- Captain Disdain 01:36, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NeoJustin 02:38 June 3, 2004
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 09:12, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete also Summit Raj Tuladhar, who i think made both these pages. Nateji77 12:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity bio. --Etacar11 15:19, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. nn vanity, personal bio. 216.158.31.195 17:22, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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USS Chocura

The first USS Chocura was a Unadilla-class gunboat which saw service with the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.

Chocura was launched 5 October 1861 by Curtis and Tilden, Boston, Massachusetts, and commissioned 15 February 1862, Commander T. H. Patterson in command.

Service history
Departing Boston 17 March 1862 Chocura was forced to put into Baltimore, Maryland for repairs and did not arrive at Fort Monroe, Virginia, until 6 April. She was then assigned the blockade of Yorktown and patrol up the York River until 9 November 1862 when she joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron for service off Wilmington, North Carolina. Cruising there until 15 August 1863, she captured two prizes, and assisted USS Maratanza (1861) in taking another.

After repairs at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Chocura sailed to New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving 30 November 1863. Here she joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron for patrols in the Gulf of Mexico, taking six prizes and assisting in capturing two others, and cutting out and destroying a three-masted schooner late in January 1865.

After the war and repairs at Pensacola Navy Yard, Chocura resumed her cruising in the Gulf of Mexico as a part of the newly activated Gulf Squadron 17 October 1866.

She arrived at New York 30 May 1867, was decommissioned there 7 June 1867, and sold 13 July 1867.

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Filet lace

Filet lace is the general word used for all the different techniques of embroidery on knotted net (or in French broderie sur filet noué). It is a hand made needlework created by weaving or embroidery using a long blunt needle and a thread on a ground of knotted net lace or filet work made of square or diagonal meshes of the same sizes or of different sizes. Lacis uses the same technique but is made on a ground of leno (a woven fabric) or small canvas (not a knotted lace).

History
Filet lace is a form of decorative netting and as such can be presumed to have derived at some point from the fishnet that a community would require for fishing, hunting, transporting, etc. and not necessarily because they were living close to the water.

The Latin word filatorium is being used to describe filet lace then Jourdain (1904) quotes a reference to Exeter Cathedral possessing four pieces of filet lace in 1327. Latin word filatorium place for spinning, from filare to spin, from Latin filum a thread. (See filatory.) Ingram (1922) states that there was a "cushion of net-work in St. Paul's Cathedral so [sic] early as 1295." Such work, in the 14th century, was also described as "opus araneum".

Filet-work is the result of knotting a fabric of diagonal or square meshes to create an open fabric called lace. The tool to make a knotted net lace is a shuttle-needle and a gauge stick for measure of the meshes.

The book Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint, an unabridged facsimile of the Singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts of 1587 by Federico de Vinciolo contains approximately 50 beautiful and well designed patterns which are suitable for filet lace-embroidery on knotted net using the linen stitch.

Technique

As mentioned above, filet lace is created by doing embroidery stitches on a knotted net lace. The knotted ground lace can either be made by the lacemaker or as of 2003 purchased commercially in either handmade or machine-made varieties.

Making the net by hand with a shuttle needle and a gauge involves anchoring the piece, using either a heavy cushion (which Carità (1909) recommends be made of lead but should be replaced by sand or a C clip), a chair or a stirrup around the worker's foot. Having a secure anchor against which to maintain tension, a square net is made starting from one corner and adding a new mesh on each row until the desired size is reached, then by decreasing. The individual meshes are formed on a gauge which helps ensure a uniform size and are created by knotting to a loop in the previous round: square mesh, diagonal mesh, circular, free form. By using a very fine thread and different sizes of gauge one can create a beautiful and delicate lace work.

The knotted lace is then stretched on a frame and embroidery stitches are added using a long blunt needle and a thread. Patterns are designed on a grid with a mark for the meshes to be filled with the thread. A path (or direction) is traced on this pattern and then you follow this path with the needle on the ground lace. When a group of certain stitches are used, the technique takes a name: filet Guipure, filet Richelieu, filet Soutache, linen stitch (point de toile), darning stitch (point de reprise); and then, when a region recognizes it, it may become French filet, filet di Bosa, filet Italien, filet de Gruyère, Russian filet Guipure, etc.

Many designs involve weaving the main design in linen stitch, indeed some designs consist entirely of linen stitch. This creates solid and open areas on the piece. A geometrical design or a sampler can use several different stitches, when a figural design will use very few stitches or only the linen stitch.

Filet lace is often seen in a single color of thread, usually white or ecru, but countries all over the world have used colored thread, precious metal threads, wool, feathers, etc.

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Lacis

Lacis may refer to:

 * Lācis, a Latvian last name
 * Filet lace, a needle lace

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User talk:Albrey

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Some comments of Japanese mining and Energy

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Some comments of Japanese mining and Energy
Stimate Deleters:

in first Place,in the present space why having making i sended other interesting information relationed with Japanese mining and Energy aspects.

debt at reason of space,if impossibly to putting these information over realities of of Japanese mining and Energy and others and owhy are more diffrent in these times why present japanese mining and relationed,no poses any space in present articles of japanese ancient economy.

i considered "VERY IMPORTANT" this article for complement with another relationed information of japanese mining and Energy this information isn t redoundant.

additionally i am beliving why if time of take leaving of yours.i have to decided retireing of my contributor activity too in next times, and are my lasts articles...
 * Previous comment added by User:200.46.215.206 (unsigned) ;  drini ☎ 01:19, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Delete. I'm not the original user who tagged this vfd, it seems a clueless newbie that did a lot of wrong vfds, didn't create the subpages, didn't list them.. Anyway, this is just my vote. drini ☎ 01:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons already stated elsewhere. It might as well be nonsense. -- Captain Disdain 01:32, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep: Please see comments at this vfd for reasoning. Wikibofh 03:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

historical objetive
one objetive of economical commercial sections and ancient dates and other relationed if aid to reconstructed at commercial and some aspects of japanese common life style,how theirs thinked and your ideology and local policy. in comparison at present japanese contemporary and your actual lifestyle and political thinking.these dates poses historical pourposes.

other idea if the knowed are the economical resources and your founts for why japanese empire poses monetary resources in your war efforts in pacific conflict.

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Talk:Mystery shopper

I know the Problems with Mystery Shoppers section of the article may sound a bit POV. But based on my experiences it is the truth. The example I gave about the tables being cleaned within three minutes was from a job I had at a restaruant ten years ago. The form only asked if the tables were cleaned within three minutes, with no consideration to any other factors given. It didn't matter if it was Friday at 6:30pm when it was about the busiest, or 3pm on a weekday afternoon when it was the slowest. Either the tables were cleaned within three minutes or they weren't. No room for interpertation at all. And that was how it was with all the questions on the form. No thought was given to the particular circumstances. Plus the manager (who was not a very nice person) used to get so worked up about his score, which made for a very tense and stressful working enviornment. JesseG 01:01, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * While I don't doubt the description of your experiences for a moment, Wikipedia doesn't allow original research, I'm afraid. Can you find a source that makes this sort of claim?  If so, then something similar could be reinserted with a citation. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 10:17, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Guipure

Guipure lace is a type of bobbin lace. It connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.

Guipure is a French word. It used to describe lace which has a gimp or thicker thread to outline the pattern, but this is no longer used.

Genoese lace was a guipure lace. Genoese lacemakers went to Malta to found the style of Maltese lace. This later inspired the style of English lace known as Bedfordshire lace.

Another guipure lace is Cluny lace, which originated in France, but spread elsewhere, such as the English lacemaking areas.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3130 Music

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3130 Music
non-notable commercial vanity. Denni ☯ 01:02, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

 * Delete, advertising/vanity. --bainer (talk) 02:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete If they wanted to advertize, the could have at least included more information than that. OnwardToGolgotha 03:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete advertising. JamesBurns 09:13, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete google query returns two records and I don't think it has anything to do with 3130 Music. As Denni said, non-notable commercial vanity.
 * Delete. Enough said. 216.158.31.195 17:22, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Rona Barrett

Rona Barrett (born Rona Burstein, October 8, 1936) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. She runs the Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization in Santa Ynez, California, dedicated to the aid and support of senior citizens in need.

Early life and career
Barrett was born on October 8, 1936, in New York City. As a teenager, she overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence. She became a gossip columnist for the Bell-McClure Syndicate in 1957, and soon went to work for Bob Marcucci, the manager for teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

In 1966, she began broadcasting Hollywood gossip on the Los Angeles television station KABC-TV. She could be seen on TV regularly, appearing on ABC's five owned and operated stations around the country. WABC-TV in New York put her pre-recorded gossip segment into its nightly local news, but anchor Roger Grimsby generally introduced it by making disparaging comments about her. Barrett made Frank Sinatra's enemies list by criticizing his personal life, particularly his relationships with his children. Barrett also angered actor Ryan O'Neal after she wrote some unflattering things about him. To retaliate, he supposedly sent her a box containing a live tarantula. She developed the first in-depth personal TV specials about film, television, music, sports and political celebrities, and she had a series of magazines on the entertainment industry that were top-rated at newsstands, including Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing but the Truth, published by Laufer Media. She also appeared on Jack Paar Tonite, where she clashed with Clement Freud.

Barrett began appearing on Good Morning America in 1975. In 1980, she moved to NBC's Today Show and was signed to co-host NBC's Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, but a public feud with Snyder, who regarded her as a correspondent rather than a co-host and refused to allow her segment to lead the show even when she had a major interview, resulted in her quitting the program in June 1981. She attempted other projects at NBC that either were rejected by the network as too costly or which, in the case of Television: Inside and Out, were relegated to poor timeslots.

After leaving NBC, Barrett was senior correspondent for Entertainment Tonight from 1983 to 1986. In 1989, she briefly returned to NBC to host 10 episodes of the morning show At Rona's. In 1990, she made a guest appearance as an interviewer at WWF's WrestleMania VI at Skydome (now Rogers Centre) in Toronto.

In 1991, she retired from the media and moved to her ranch in Santa Ynez, California, where she devoted her time running the Rona Barrett Foundation, an advocacy group for underserved senior citizens.

Acting
Barrett also made occasional film appearances, playing cameo roles in The Phynx (1970), Sextette (1978) and Mannix (Season 1, Episode 15; Season 8, Episode 12).

Books
In 1972, her novel titled The Lovo-maniacs was published. Her autobiography Miss Rona was published in 1974. It began: "Just an inch, Miss Rona, just let me put it in an inch!" as an unnamed famous actor pleaded to be allowed to experience a modicum of sexual intercourse with her. In the book, she acknowledged having a nose job and discussed details of her teenage fan club involvements and her work with Frankie Avalon's management. She wrote the book How You Can Look Rich and Achieve Sexual Ecstasy (1978).

Honors
In 2009, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.

Commercial ventures
Barrett founded the Rona Barrett Lavender Company in Santa Ynez, California, as a producer of lavender bath, beauty, food and aromatherapy products. The company follows a model of using celebrity-branded consumer goods to generate funds and raise awareness of a non-profit cause. A portion of all company proceeds were donated to the Rona Barrett Foundation. According to the foundation's website, they have ceased selling lavender products and the company has been sold.

Barrett started The Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the aid and support of senior citizens in need, that was supported by a 2% portion of the profits from her lavender business until it ceased production. The foundation only takes direct donations and is working on building a village named "the Golden Inn and Cottages" for seniors in need of proper housing and care facilities. As of May 2012, it was a pilot program that was still under development.

Personal life
Barrett was married to Bill Trowbridge from September 22, 1973, until their divorce on October 19, 1982. They later reconciled and remained together until his death in 2001.

In 1986, she bought a ranch at Santa Ynez and began commuting to Los Angeles.

On February 14, 2008, she married Daniel Busby.

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Talk:Filet lace

I removed reference to "guipure" as this is a different type of lace, and added "Filet Brode" as another common name for Filet Lace. -- Julie E. 18:56, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Filet-Guipure appears to be another name for Filet Lace, with Guipure being something else entirely! I'll do some more research. -- pcrtalk 23:03, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"Guipure d'Art" was a name given to a kind of late nineteenth century lacis. - Julie E. 02:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Darned net
Is this the same as darned net? --85.197.210.44 (talk) 11:23, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Need to know
what is the 19th/20thc machine-made "filet" net curtain material called, what type of machine is it made on? I presume some adaptation of a knitting machine, as it has sets of two thinner yarns running up the warp, with the heavier thread in the weft. I have to find some for restoration work.184.148.67.117 (talk) 22:25, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

University of Arizona links broken
Does anybody know what happened to the Arizona archive? Pages all over the web point there but the links always return 404s and I have no idea whether the documents are still available, but elsewhere, or gone for good. --86.5.88.131 (talk) 01:34, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comments of Japanese farmings

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 13:45, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Comments of Japanese farmings
(nominated by user:Eagleamn) mikka (t) 01:05, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Delete. I'm not the original user who tagged this vfd, it seems a clueless newbie that did a lot of wrong vfds, didn't create the subpages, didn't list them.. Anyway, this is just my vote. drini ☎ 01:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I say, huge cleanup and renaming Agriculture of Japan, merging into Economy of Japan for now. Also, references are necessary. mikka (t) 01:05, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Change my vote to delete. It seems that the data are obsolete. Anyway, quality is beyond reason, even if forget language. mikka (t) 01:08, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons already stated elsewhere. It might as well be nonsense. -- Captain Disdain 01:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stimate Deleters:

in first Place,in the present space why having making i sended other interesting information relationed with Japanese Farmings and relationed aspects

debt at reason of space,if impossibly to putting these information over realities of the topic mentioned and others and owhy are more diffrent in these times why present japanese Farmings and relationed,no poses any space in present articles of japanese ancient economy.

i considered "VERY IMPORTANT" this article for complement with another relationed information of japanese farmings this information isn t redoundant.

additionally i am beliving why if time of take leaving of yours.i have to decided retireing of my contributor activity too in next times, and are my lasts articles..

for certain the information isn t obsolete.this reflect one ancient reality,for all this are one historic info the present situation are very diffrent at these ancient times!

 * Previous comment added by User:200.46.215.206 (unsigned) ;  drini ☎ 01:18, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Strong keep: Please see comments at this vfd for reasoning. Wikibofh 03:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

historical objetive
one objetive of economical commercial sections and ancient dates and other relationed if aid to reconstructed at commercial and some aspects of japanese common life style,how theirs thinked and your ideology and local policy. in comparison at present japanese contemporary and your actual lifestyle and political thinking.these dates poses historical pourposes.

other idea if the knowed are the economical resources and your founts for why japanese empire poses monetary resources in your war efforts in pacific conflict.

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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The Coles

The Coles is a colloquial term referring to Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole, a husband and wife team (married 1982) who are both video game designers. Working together they designed the Quest for Glory series. They have also each designed games independently.

They formed Far Studio, which was the developer of Shannara and is now used for art and web development. They also formed a studio called Transolar Entertainment, which is the developer of the adventure- RPG hybrid Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption.

Corey Cole
Corey Stuart Cole (born 27 November 1955 in Santa Monica ) is an American game designer, programmer, and writer who co-created various iterations of the SCI engine, co-designed the first four games in the Quest for Glory series with his wife, and designed and directed Castle of Dr. Brain.

Biography
Corey Cole is an avid Dungeons & Dragons fan, playing the game for 10 years before joining Sierra, and ultimately selling one role-playing module to Judges Guild. At that time he and his wife, Lori Cole published The Spell Book, a role-playing game newsletter. They ran fantasy campaigns for years that had a unique rule system that later became the core of their Quest for Glory games.

Career at Sierra
Corey Cole started his programming career at Sierra On-line in 1988, porting the SCI engine to Atari ST. He later co-programmed new iterations the SCI engine for use in many Sierra games during much of his tenure at Sierra.

He began his career as a game developer, alongside his wife Lori Ann Cole, with Hero's Quest (which was later renamed Quest for Glory) in 1989. He wasn't credited as co-developer of the game, but he was acknowledged as such by the games industry. Computer Gaming World recognized both Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole as the game's designers when they awarded Hero's Quest the Adventure Game of the Year award. He and his wife were co-designers of the next three games in the Quest for Glory series as well.

He designed the puzzle adventure game Castle of Dr. Brain, the first game in the Dr. Brain series, in 1991. The series is notable for being Sierra's only property to be licensed for use in television, as the Children's Television Workshop licensed it for use in their programming on December 9, 1993.

After being included in the major 1994 Sierra layoff, Corey returned in 1997 to work on Quest for Glory V, which was released in 1998. Corey did not take a development role on the game, but he did serve as a programmer. That same year, a photograph of his face was used as a head shot for a character in Police Quest: SWAT 2. Corey's final role at Sierra was as a programmer on Hoyle Casino. which was released in 2000.

Games

 * 1989 Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon - Atari ST port (Sierra)
 * 1989 Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero - programmer, Atari ST port (Sierra)
 * 1990 King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1990 Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire - designer, programmer, development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1990 King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1990 Hoyle's Official Book of Games Volume 2 - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1990 Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1991 Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers - development team (Sierra)
 * 1991 Mixed-Up Mother Goose - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1991 Mixed-Up Fairy Tales - lead programmer (Sierra)
 * 1991 Jones in the Fast Lane - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1991 Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood - development system programming (Sierra)
 * 1991 Castle of Dr. Brain - designer, director, programmer (Sierra)
 * 1992 Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero - co-designer
 * 1992 Quest for Glory III: Wages of War - co-designer, voice actor (Sierra)
 * 1993 Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness - co-designer, co-director, co-writer (Sierra)
 * 1993 Hoyle's Classic Card Games - additional bridge programming (Sierra)
 * 1995 Shannara - co-designer, programmer (Far Studio)
 * 1998 Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire - RPG and system software engineer (Sierra)
 * 1998 Police Quest: SWAT 2 - photograph model for a character (Sierra)
 * 2000 Hoyle Casino - programmer (Sierra)
 * 2018 Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption - co-designer (Transolar Games)
 * 2023 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale - producer (Transolar Games)

Lori Ann Cole
Lori Ann Cole (née Armbruster) is an American game designer, director and writer who co-designed the first four Quest for Glory series with her husband, designed Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, and designed and directed Mixed-Up Fairy Tales. She is also a voice actor, voicing Queen Isabella in King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!.

Biography
Cole's varied background includes elementary education, film animation, and writing. She is a fanatic role-playing video game player who became involved in game designing because of her husband's involvement in Sierra On-line.

Career at Sierra
Lori Ann Cole co-designed the Quest for Glory series with her husband Corey Cole. She was the sole designer of the final chapter, Quest for Glory V, although her husband was a programmer for that game.

She was also the designer of the second and final game in Sierra's Mixed-Up children's adventure game series, Mixed-Up Fairy Tales. While at Sierra, she also was a voice actor, voicing Queen Isabella in the CD-ROM version of King's Quest V.

After Sierra downsized in 1994, Lori returned the following year as the sole designer of Quest for Glory V, which was released in 1998. That same year, a photograph of her face was used as a head shot for a character in SWAT 2.

Games

 * 1989 Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero - director, writer (Sierra)
 * 1990 Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire - co-designer, FACS Manual Writer (Sierra)
 * 1990 King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder - voice actor (Queen Isabella) (Sierra)
 * 1991 Mixed-Up Fairy Tales - designer, director (Sierra)
 * 1991 Castle of Dr. Brain - additional material (Sierra)
 * 1992 Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero - director, co-designer
 * 1992 Quest for Glory III: Wages of War - co-designer, director, writer, voice actor (Sierra)
 * 1993 Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness - co-designer, co-director, co-writer (Sierra)
 * 1995 Shannara - co-designer, writer (Far Studio)
 * 1998 Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire - designer, documentation writer (Sierra)
 * 1998 Police Quest: SWAT 2 - photograph model for a character (Sierra)
 * 2018 Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption - co-designer (Transolar Games)
 * 2023 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale - director, writer (Transolar Games)

Far Studio/Transolar Games
Since Sierra didn't give the Quest for Glory V team the budget and time that the Coles felt the game needed, they decided to create games for other publishers. As a result, they formed a mini company called FAR Productions (named for the property they lived on, Flying Aardvark Ranch) and created Shannara for Legend Entertainment in 1995.

In 2003, Corey and Lori decided to make a game based on a book that she was co-writing that was never published called How to Be a Hero. After losing the website named after the book after running it for three years, they decided to rename the idea School of Heroes. They originally planned to make the game a text adventure, which Corey programmed using Inform, but they were not satisfied with the feel of the game and put it aside. At the same time, they decided to create a website to promote the book. Corey programmed the interactive parts of the site, which would automate the original How to Be A Hero website's theme of allowing users to become "students" and complete "assignments". They planned to expand the site into a full interactive game, but those ideas never materialized.

In late 2011, the Coles decided to stop taking assignments at School of Heroes and instead make the idea into a game. On October 19, 2012, after the success from successful projects by fellow Sierra alumni and at the encouragement of fans, Lori Ann and Corey Cole launched a Kickstarter for 2D adventure RPG based on that idea, Hero-U. Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption was published by Transolar Games in 2018.

Recognition
Computer Gaming World awarded Corey and Lori Ann Cole (and producer Guruka Singh Khalsa) the Adventure Game of the Year award for Hero's Quest in 1990.

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Benchmark (surveying)

The term benchmark, bench mark, or survey benchmark originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually indicated with a chiseled arrow – specifically a broad arrow – below the horizontal line. A benchmark is a type of survey marker.

The term is generally applied to any item used to mark a point as an elevation reference. Frequently, bronze or aluminum disks are set in stone or concrete, or on rods driven deeply into the earth to provide a stable elevation point. If an elevation is marked on a map, but there is no physical mark on the ground, it is a spot height.

Purpose
The height of a benchmark is calculated relative to the heights of nearby benchmarks in a network extending from a fundamental benchmark. A fundamental benchmark is a point with a precisely known relationship to the vertical datum of the area, typically mean sea level. The position and height of each benchmark are shown on large-scale maps.

The terms "height" and "elevation" are often used interchangeably, but in many jurisdictions, they have specific meanings; "height" commonly refers to a local or relative difference in the vertical (such as the height of a building), whereas "elevation" refers to the difference from a nominated reference surface (such as sea-level, or a mathematical/geodetic model that approximates the sea level known as the geoid). Elevation may be specified as normal height (above a reference ellipsoid), orthometric height, or dynamic height which have slightly different definitions.

Other types of survey marks

Triangulation points, also known as trig points, are marks with a precisely established horizontal position. These points may be marked by disks similar to benchmark disks, but set horizontally, and are also sometimes used as elevation benchmarks. Prominent features on buildings such as the tip of a church spire or a chimney stack are also used as reference points for triangulation. In the United Kingdom, triangulation points are often set in large concrete markers that, as well as functioning as triangulation points, have a benchmark set into the side. With the increasing use of GPS and electronic distance measuring devices, the same techniques and equipment are used to fix the horizontal and vertical position of a survey marker at the same moment, and therefore the marks are usually regarded as "fixed in three dimensions".

Flush brackets are metal plates placed flush into the faces of buildings or other structures. Although many are attached to triangulation pillars as above, Non-Pillar Flush Brackets were also frequently located in the faces of buildings.

Agencies responsible for benchmarks
Benchmarks are typically placed ("monumented") by a government agency or private survey firm, and many governments maintain a register of these marks so that the records are available to all. These records are usually in the form of a geographically searchable database (computer or map-based), with links to sketches, diagrams, photos of the marks, and any other technical details.

Government agencies that place and maintain records of benchmarks include:

 * Canada
 * Natural Resources Canada (Geodetic Survey Division)
 * Denmark
 * GST (Geodatastyrelsen)
 * France
 * Institut Géographique National (IGN on Wiki FR).
 * India
 * Survey of India
 * Morocco
 * ANCFCC
 * Republic of Ireland
 * Ordnance Survey Ireland
 * Italy
 * Istituto Geografico Militare
 * Japan
 * Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)
 * Netherlands
 * Netherlands Partnership Geodetic Infrastructure (NSGI)
 * Rijkswaterstaat (vertical)
 * Kadaster (horizontal)
 * New Zealand
 * Land Information New Zealand
 * Pakistan
 * Survey of Pakistan
 * South Africa
 * Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
 * Spain
 * Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN)
 * United Kingdom
 * Ordnance Survey
 * Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
 * United States
 * The National Geodetic Survey (NGS; formerly United States Coast and Geodetic Survey)
 * The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
 * The United States Forest Service
 * The United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Notable benchmarks

 * The brass benchmark in the Amsterdam Stopera (combined city hall and opera house) is a tourist attraction, since the benchmark below the Dam square, which has been used for the zero level of Normaal Amsterdams Peil (NAP) in the Netherlands, is concealed by a manhole cover. The latter benchmark has been used also for the national zero level of other countries in northwest Europe as well as for the European Vertical Reference System (EVRS).
 * Benchmark A in Washington, D.C. is miniature replica of the Washington Monument. Installed in the late 1800s, this benchmark was used during the construction of the Monument and in subsequent surveys performed by the NGS. Upon completion of the monument grounds, Benchmark A was buried in a brick-lined pit and concealed by a manhole cover. In 2019, the "mini monument" was unveiled to the public for a brief time before being covered back up again.

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Benchmark (computing)

In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The term benchmark is also commonly utilized for the purposes of elaborately designed benchmarking programs themselves.

Benchmarking is usually associated with assessing performance characteristics of computer hardware, for example, the floating point operation performance of a CPU, but there are circumstances when the technique is also applicable to software. Software benchmarks are, for example, run against compilers or database management systems (DBMS).

Benchmarks provide a method of comparing the performance of various subsystems across different chip/system architectures. Benchmarking as a part of continuous integration is called Continuous Benchmarking.

Purpose
As computer architecture advanced, it became more difficult to compare the performance of various computer systems simply by looking at their specifications. Therefore, tests were developed that allowed comparison of different architectures. For example, Pentium 4 processors generally operated at a higher clock frequency than Athlon XP or PowerPC processors, which did not necessarily translate to more computational power; a processor with a slower clock frequency might perform as well as or even better than a processor operating at a higher frequency. See BogoMips and the megahertz myth.

Benchmarks are designed to mimic a particular type of workload on a component or system. Synthetic benchmarks do this by specially created programs that impose the workload on the component. Application benchmarks run real-world programs on the system. While application benchmarks usually give a much better measure of real-world performance on a given system, synthetic benchmarks are useful for testing individual components, like a hard disk or networking device.

Benchmarks are particularly important in CPU design, giving processor architects the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in microarchitectural decisions. For example, if a benchmark extracts the key algorithms of an application, it will contain the performance-sensitive aspects of that application. Running this much smaller snippet on a cycle-accurate simulator can give clues on how to improve performance.

Prior to 2000, computer and microprocessor architects used SPEC to do this, although SPEC's Unix-based benchmarks were quite lengthy and thus unwieldy to use intact.

Computer manufacturers are known to configure their systems to give unrealistically high performance on benchmark tests that are not replicated in real usage. For instance, during the 1980s some compilers could detect a specific mathematical operation used in a well-known floating-point benchmark and replace the operation with a faster mathematically equivalent operation. However, such a transformation was rarely useful outside the benchmark until the mid-1990s, when RISC and VLIW architectures emphasized the importance of compiler technology as it related to performance. Benchmarks are now regularly used by compiler companies to improve not only their own benchmark scores, but real application performance.

CPUs that have many execution units — such as a superscalar CPU, a VLIW CPU, or a reconfigurable computing CPU — typically have slower clock rates than a sequential CPU with one or two execution units when built from transistors that are just as fast. Nevertheless, CPUs with many execution units often complete real-world and benchmark tasks in less time than the supposedly faster high-clock-rate CPU.

Given the large number of benchmarks available, a manufacturer can usually find at least one benchmark that shows its system will outperform another system; the other systems can be shown to excel with a different benchmark.

Manufacturers commonly report only those benchmarks (or aspects of benchmarks) that show their products in the best light. They also have been known to mis-represent the significance of benchmarks, again to show their products in the best possible light. Taken together, these practices are called bench-marketing.

Ideally benchmarks should only substitute for real applications if the application is unavailable, or too difficult or costly to port to a specific processor or computer system. If performance is critical, the only benchmark that matters is the target environment's application suite.

Functionality
Features of benchmarking software may include recording/exporting the course of performance to a spreadsheet file, visualization such as drawing line graphs or color-coded tiles, and pausing the process to be able to resume without having to start over. Software can have additional features specific to its purpose, for example, disk benchmarking software may be able to optionally start measuring the disk speed within a specified range of the disk rather than the full disk, measure random access reading speed and latency, have a "quick scan" feature which measures the speed through samples of specified intervals and sizes, and allow specifying a data block size, meaning the number of requested bytes per read request.

Challenges
Benchmarking is not easy and often involves several iterative rounds in order to arrive at predictable, useful conclusions. Interpretation of benchmarking data is also extraordinarily difficult. Here is a partial list of common challenges:

 * Vendors tend to tune their products specifically for industry-standard benchmarks. Norton SysInfo (SI) is particularly easy to tune for, since it mainly biased toward the speed of multiple operations. Use extreme caution in interpreting such results.
 * Some vendors have been accused of "cheating" at benchmarks — doing things that give much higher benchmark numbers, but make things worse on the actual likely workload.
 * Many benchmarks focus entirely on the speed of computational performance, neglecting other important features of a computer system, such as:
 * Qualities of service, aside from raw performance. Examples of unmeasured qualities of service include security, availability, reliability, execution integrity, serviceability, scalability (especially the ability to quickly and nondisruptively add or reallocate capacity), etc. There are often real trade-offs between and among these qualities of service, and all are important in business computing. Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark specifications partially address these concerns by specifying ACID property tests, database scalability rules, and service level requirements.
 * In general, benchmarks do not measure Total cost of ownership. Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark specifications partially address this concern by specifying that a price/performance metric must be reported in addition to a raw performance metric, using a simplified TCO formula. However, the costs are necessarily only partial, and vendors have been known to price specifically (and only) for the benchmark, designing a highly specific "benchmark special" configuration with an artificially low price. Even a tiny deviation from the benchmark package results in a much higher price in real world experience.
 * Facilities burden (space, power, and cooling). When more power is used, a portable system will have a shorter battery life and require recharging more often. A server that consumes more power and/or space may not be able to fit within existing data center resource constraints, including cooling limitations. There are real trade-offs as most semiconductors require more power to switch faster. See also performance per watt.
 * In some embedded systems, where memory is a significant cost, better code density can significantly reduce costs.
 * Vendor benchmarks tend to ignore requirements for development, test, and disaster recovery computing capacity. Vendors only like to report what might be narrowly required for production capacity in order to make their initial acquisition price seem as low as possible.
 * Benchmarks are having trouble adapting to widely distributed servers, particularly those with extra sensitivity to network topologies. The emergence of grid computing, in particular, complicates benchmarking since some workloads are "grid friendly", while others are not.
 * Users can have very different perceptions of performance than benchmarks may suggest. In particular, users appreciate predictability — servers that always meet or exceed service level agreements. Benchmarks tend to emphasize mean scores (IT perspective), rather than maximum worst-case response times (real-time computing perspective), or low standard deviations (user perspective).
 * Many server architectures degrade dramatically at high (near 100%) levels of usage — "fall off a cliff" — and benchmarks should (but often do not) take that factor into account. Vendors, in particular, tend to publish server benchmarks at continuous at about 80% usage — an unrealistic situation — and do not document what happens to the overall system when demand spikes beyond that level.
 * Many benchmarks focus on one application, or even one application tier, to the exclusion of other applications. Most data centers are now implementing virtualization extensively for a variety of reasons, and benchmarking is still catching up to that reality where multiple applications and application tiers are concurrently running on consolidated servers.
 * There are few (if any) high quality benchmarks that help measure the performance of batch computing, especially high volume concurrent batch and online computing. Batch computing tends to be much more focused on the predictability of completing long-running tasks correctly before deadlines, such as end of month or end of fiscal year. Many important core business processes are batch-oriented and probably always will be, such as billing.
 * Benchmarking institutions often disregard or do not follow basic scientific method. This includes, but is not limited to: small sample size, lack of variable control, and the limited repeatability of results.

Benchmarking principles
There are seven vital characteristics for benchmarks. These key properties are:
 * 1) Relevance: Benchmarks should measure relatively vital features.
 * 2) Representativeness: Benchmark performance metrics should be broadly accepted by industry and academia.
 * 3) Equity: All systems should be fairly compared.
 * 4) Repeatability: Benchmark results can be verified.
 * 5) Cost-effectiveness: Benchmark tests are economical.
 * 6) Scalability: Benchmark tests should work across systems possessing a range of resources from low to high.
 * 7) Transparency: Benchmark metrics should be easy to understand.

Types of benchmark

 * 1) Real program
 * 2) *word processing software
 * 3) *tool software of CAD
 * 4) *user's application software (i.e.: MIS)
 * 5) *Video games
 * 6) *Compilers building a large project, for example Chromium browser or Linux kernel
 * 7) Component Benchmark / Microbenchmark
 * 8) *core routine consists of a relatively small and specific piece of code.
 * 9) *measure performance of a computer's basic components
 * 10) *may be used for automatic detection of computer's hardware parameters like number of registers, cache size, memory latency, etc.
 * 11) Kernel
 * 12) *contains key codes
 * 13) *normally abstracted from actual program
 * 14) *popular kernel: Livermore loop
 * 15) *linpack benchmark (contains basic linear algebra subroutine written in FORTRAN language)
 * 16) *results are represented in Mflop/s.
 * 17) Synthetic Benchmark
 * 18) *Procedure for programming synthetic benchmark:
 * 19) **take statistics of all types of operations from many application programs
 * 20) **get proportion of each operation
 * 21) **write program based on the proportion above
 * 22) *Types of Synthetic Benchmark are:
 * 23) **Whetstone
 * 24) **Dhrystone
 * 25) *These were the first general purpose industry standard computer benchmarks. They do not necessarily obtain high scores on modern pipelined computers.
 * 26) I/O benchmarks
 * 27) Database benchmarks
 * 28) * measure the throughput and response times of database management systems (DBMS)
 * 29) Parallel benchmarks
 * 30) * used on machines with multiple cores and/or processors, or systems consisting of multiple machines

Industry standard (audited and verifiable)

 * Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo)
 * Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC)
 * Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), in particular their SPECint and SPECfp
 * Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC): DBMS benchmarks

Open source benchmarks

 * AIM Multiuser Benchmark – composed of a list of tests that could be mixed to create a 'load mix' that would simulate a specific computer function on any UNIX-type OS.
 * Bonnie++ – filesystem and hard drive benchmark
 * BRL-CAD – cross-platform architecture-agnostic benchmark suite based on multithreaded ray tracing performance; baselined against a VAX-11/780; and used since 1984 for evaluating relative CPU performance, compiler differences, optimization levels, coherency, architecture differences, and operating system differences.
 * Collective Knowledge – customizable, cross-platform framework to crowdsource benchmarking and optimization of user workloads (such as deep learning) across hardware provided by volunteers
 * Coremark – Embedded computing benchmark
 * DEISA Benchmark Suite – scientific HPC applications benchmark
 * Dhrystone – integer arithmetic performance, often reported in DMIPS (Dhrystone millions of instructions per second)
 * DiskSpd – Command-line tool for storage benchmarking that generates a variety of requests against computer files, partitions or storage devices
 * Fhourstones – an integer benchmark
 * HINT – designed to measure overall CPU and memory performance
 * Iometer – I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems.
 * IOzone – Filesystem benchmark
 * LINPACK benchmarks – traditionally used to measure FLOPS
 * Livermore loops
 * NAS parallel benchmarks
 * NBench – synthetic benchmark suite measuring performance of integer arithmetic, memory operations, and floating-point arithmetic
 * PAL – a benchmark for realtime physics engines
 * PerfKitBenchmarker – A set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings.
 * Phoronix Test Suite – open-source cross-platform benchmarking suite for Linux, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OSX and Windows. It includes a number of other benchmarks included on this page to simplify execution.
 * POV-Ray – 3D render
 * Tak (function) – a simple benchmark used to test recursion performance
 * TATP Benchmark – Telecommunication Application Transaction Processing Benchmark
 * TPoX – An XML transaction processing benchmark for XML databases
 * VUP (VAX unit of performance) – also called VAX MIPS
 * Whetstone – floating-point arithmetic performance, often reported in millions of Whetstone instructions per second (MWIPS)

Microsoft Windows benchmarks

 * BAPCo: MobileMark, SYSmark, WebMark
 * CrystalDiskMark
 * Underwriters Laboratories (UL): 3DMark, PCMark
 * Heaven Benchmark
 * PiFast
 * Superposition Benchmark
 * Super PI
 * SuperPrime
 * Valley Benchmark
 * Whetstone
 * Windows System Assessment Tool, included with Windows Vista and later releases, providing an index for consumers to rate their systems easily
 * Worldbench (discontinued)

Others

 * AnTuTu – commonly used on phones and ARM-based devices.
 * Byte Sieve - originally tested language performance, but widely used as a machine benchmark as well.
 * Creative Computing Benchmark – Compares the BASIC programming language on various platforms. Introduced in 1983.
 * Geekbench – A cross-platform benchmark for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
 * iCOMP – the Intel comparative microprocessor performance, published by Intel
 * Khornerstone
 * Performance Rating – modeling scheme used by AMD and Cyrix to reflect the relative performance usually compared to competing products.
 * Rugg/Feldman benchmarks - one of the earliest microcomputer benchmarks, from 1977.
 * SunSpider – a browser speed test
 * VMmark – a virtualization benchmark suite.

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Fair Haven Heights, New Haven

Fair Haven Heights, or simply the Heights, is a residential and light industrial neighborhood in the eastern part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, located east of the Quinnipiac River. Fair Haven Heights is not to be confused with the adjacent Fair Haven neighborhood west of the river. The area is bordered on the west by the Quinnipiac River, on the north by Route 80, on the east by the town of East Haven, and on the south by Ferry Street and Warwick Avenue. The main through routes are Quinnipiac Avenue, East Grand Avenue, and Eastern Street

History
It was founded in the 18th century as a fishing and oystering village called Dragon. Dragon was initially located at the point where the present day Ferry Street Bridge crosses the Quinnipiac River. Early Native American settlements existed in the same location. According to some, the name Dragon originated with stories told by suitors of seals (sea dragons) that would sun themselves on this sandy point of land. According to others, it was called Dragon by the early white settlers because the Native American word for those harbor seals sounded like "dragon" to their ear.

From the time of the Quinnipiac (in their language, “long-water-land”) Indians, the oyster was not only an available food source but a major industry of the community, which was to influence the prosperity of the neighborhood during the 19th century.

Dragon in time came to include the eastern side of the river that belonged to East Haven, and came to be known as the Heights (because the bulk of that area is set on a huge, heavily wooded hill). Together both the neighborhood across the River (called Neck at the time) and Dragon became Fair Haven in the 19th century (1824). In 1870 the Neck became part of New Haven. It was not until 1881 that the Heights incorporated with New Haven, after an affiliation with the town of East Haven.

In the nineteenth century, a number of brownstone quarries operated along Russell Street in the Heights. Located in the rocky, wooded area behind the New Haven Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, Quarry Park Preserve contains remnants of the commercial quarrying operations that once existed in the area.

Today
Today, it is a demographically mixed neighborhood. There are luxury condominiums along the Quinnipiac, modest small homes along Grand Avenue, and public housing projects at the summit of the hill. Similarly, the ethnic breakdown of residents includes Italian-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and African-Americans.

There are two large, colonial-era churches on Grand Avenue between Lenox and Quinnipiac. One is shared by an Episcopalian Congregation (St. James Episcopal Church) and an Independent Catholic Parish (St. Joseph of Arimathea Independent Catholic Church), and the other is Congregational. In addition, the New Haven Religious Society of Friends relocated their Quaker Meeting House to Grand Avenue in the 1990s.

Thanks to improving water quality, oystering has returned to the Quinnipiac River since the 1990s.

Fair Haven Heights is in State Senate District 11, State Assembly District 97, and Aldermanic Ward 13. It is currently represented by Senator Martin Looney, Representative Al Paolillo, and Alder Rosa Santana, all Democrats.

Architecture
Originally, the Heights was generally fields and woods. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this area saw the construction of many homes in the Victorian Gothic style. Spacious homes were built by successful businessmen high above the river on East Grand Avenue, Clifton Street, Sherland Avenue, Lenox Street and Quinnipiac Avenue.

James F. Babcock, a lawyer and publisher of the New Haven Palladium newspaper, built a large Victorian Gothic home on 30 acre of land between East Grand Avenue and Clifton Street. The present day address is 89 Sherland Avenue. A few years later the house, two barns and a carriage house were sold. The Babcock home was altered and two more homes were built. Arched woodwork decorates the eaves and high gables. On the southern part of what was the Babcock estate at 154 East Grand Avenue can be found the Victorian Gothic home of the Moody family. Lucius Moody was a successful insurance agent. His wife, Dr. Mary Blair Moody, was the first woman physician in the area. Sharp gables, porches and bays, and decorative woodwork complete this example of wooden Victorian Gothic. Two Victorian Gothic cottages remain at 106 and 112 Sherland Avenue.

The Charles Ives home originally was built on Clifton Street on land that is now Fairmont Park. The Ives redstone walls and gates remain. Charles Ives, a lawyer (not to be confused with the composer, Charles Edward Ives), was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly and Speaker of the House in the late 1860s. The Ives’ Victorian Gothic home was designed by Rufus Russell. In the early 1920s the Ives’ property was purchased by the City of New Haven to become Fairmont Park. The Ives’ home was moved across the street, and made into two two-family homes (151-153 and 159-161 Clifton Street). Further down Clifton Street at 80 and 84 stand two Greek Revival homes on high cellars.

The Henry Lancraft house was built on Lenox Street in the Victorian Gothic style. The Lancraft brothers were builders and oystermen in the late 19th century. A redstone wall remains on the property with an entrance at 120 Lexington Avenue.

Coming down the hill to 61 East Grand Avenue one finds the Foote-Chamberlain house. Built in the 1830s in the Italian Villa style it sits above a stone wall topped by an iron fence. In the late 19th century the house was renovated with the addition of a veranda, two ells, a balustraded roof and scalloped shingles.

All along Quinnipiac Avenue one can find homes that were built by families in the oyster business, banking and provisions. The Barnes Victorian Gothic home can be found at 1212 Quinnipiac Avenue. Henry Barnes and his neighbor Horace H. Strong along with Franklin H. Hart were wholesale dealers in meat, seafood and vegetables. At 965 Quinnipiac Avenue stands a home built by Willet Hemingway. Descendants of the family continued to live in the home for years after it was built in the late 1840s. At the turn of the 20th century changes were made in the house that altered it to the Victorian Carpenter Gothic style. In 2002 the now 3 family home was purchased by Doug and Cheri Forbush who continue to occupy and maintain it. The bright pink house, located at the corner of Hemingway Street and Quinnipiac Avenue, serves as a useful landmark while driving or walking through this historic neighborhood.

Notable sites

 * Benjamin Jepson Magnet School
 * Grand Avenue Bridge
 * Quinnipiac Middle School

List of streets

 * 1st Avenue
 * Aner Street
 * Clifton Street
 * East Grand Avenue
 * Eastern Circle
 * Eastern Street
 * Eldridge Street
 * Essex Street
 * Fairmont Avenue
 * Foxon Boulevard/Foxon Road
 * Foxon Street
 * Grand Avenue
 * Hemmingway Street
 * Highview Lane
 * Howard Street
 * Hulse Street
 * Judith Terence
 * Kingswood Drive
 * Leila Street
 * Lenox Street
 * Lexington Avenue/Lexington Terence
 * Marie Street
 * Mountain Top Lane
 * Oxford Street
 * Pequot Street
 * Pine Street
 * Quinnipiac Avenue
 * Revere Court/Revere Street
 * Rock Hill Road
 * Rosewood Avenue
 * Runo Terence
 * Russell Street
 * Russo Avenue
 * Sherland Avenue
 * Skyview Lane
 * Summit Street
 * Welcome Street
 * Woodhill Road

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aditionally information over Population,residents for surface in country and relationed

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Aditionally information over Population,residents for surface in country and relationed
See entries above on Japanese topics; more of the same --Tabor 01:07, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stimate Deleters:

in first Place,in the present space why having making i sended other interesting information relationed with Japanese Population,residents for surface in country and relationed aspects

debt at reason of space,if impossibly to putting these information over realities of the topic mentioned and others and owhy are more diffrent in these times why present japanese population and relationed,no poses any space in present articles of japanese ancient economy.

i considered "VERY IMPORTANT" this article for complement with another relationed information of japanese Population,residents for surface in country this information isn t redoundant.

additionally i am beliving why if time of take leaving of yours.i have to decided retireing of my contributor activity too in next times, and are my lasts articles...

 * delete after salvaging what is salvageable into existing appropriate articles. mikka (t) 01:09, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 01:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons already stated elsewhere. It might as well be nonsense. -- Captain Disdain 01:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep: Please see comments at this vfd for reasoning. Wikibofh 03:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, clean up and merge into other relevant articles. Charles Matthews 15:41, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

historical objetive
one objetive of economical commercial sections and ancient dates and other relationed if aid to reconstructed at commercial and some aspects of japanese common life style,how theirs thinked and your ideology and local policy. in comparison at present japanese contemporary and your actual lifestyle and political thinking.these dates debt to seeing in historical context from these times to compare with actual dates of present country.

other idea if the knowed are the economical resources and your founts for why japanese empire poses monetary resources in your war efforts in pacific conflict.

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User talk:JeffClavier

Based in Palo Alto (CA), Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech Venture Consulting, a firm providing services to the “software ecosystem”, primarily early stage consumer Internet startups. Jeff will typically get involved as an advisor, board member or part-time executive, focusing on business development, fund raising, and strategy matters. His current areas of interests include next generation search, social media (blogging, syndication, aggregation), and open source. These are also the primary topics covered on his blog, Software Only - alongside venture capital, startup and industry news, conferences,...

Jeff has spent over sixteen years in the software market, as an entrepreneur, a senior executive and a venture capitalist. Throughout his career, he got exposed to the global market: leading development teams in Europe and on Wall Street, designing products that were sold internationally and investing in software infrastructure startups across the USA and Europe.

Prior to founding SoftTech VC, Jeff was the President of RVC Capital, the firm managing the Reuters Greenhouse Fund – the Corporate Venture arm of Reuters that has invested $560M in 82 companies since 1994, including Yahoo, Verisign, Phone.com, Infoseek,… As the Partner in charge of US Operations, Jeff’s focus was on investing and managing the US portfolio, as well as supporting all companies in their commercial and business development efforts. Jeff’s Board involvements included UltraDNS (CA), Tacit (CA) and Pathfire (GA). He was also involved in a number of other portfolio companies: Moreover (UK), Bitpipe (MA), PacketVideo (CA), SpiritSoft (UK), Epicentric (CA), Kinecta (CA), GiantBear (NY) and Epoch Partners (CA).

Jeff joined the Venture arm of Reuters from its product development division, where he was leading the development of the Risk Management and Desktop unit. He had direct responsibly for 250+ staff in Paris, London and New-York, developing a number of leading front and middle office products: the ATW suite of Unix applications, the Kondor+ Risk Management offering, and the flagship Reuters Desktop Kobra/3000 Xtra, that he designed back in 1993. Jeff became instrumental in the development of the Reuters Open Systems product line since the early 1990’s, after its acquisition of Effix Systems, the Paris-based early stage startup company he joined in 1989.

A seasoned speaker at events of the VC and technology community in the US, Jeff has also been for 3 years the co-producer of the RVC SoftEdge conference, a yearly gathering of the different “components” of software innovation: entrepreneurs, thought leaders, leading technology columnists, CIOs, senior executives of established technology players and venture capitalists. One of the key features of the conference was also to bring innovation from the US, Europe and Israel, hence the choice of organizing it in New-York.

Born in France, in the great city of Tours (in the Loire Valley), Jeff moved to Paris in 1987 to earn an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Paris V and a Research degree in Distributed Systems from Paris VI. He remained in Paris until 2000, spending a lot of his time between London, New York and the Bay Area. He relocated to Palo Alto in 2000, and has been happily living there with his wife and two children ever since.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bert Van Munster

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Bert Van Munster
Merged with The Amazing Race. Denni ☯ 01:08, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Kappa 01:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. I believe if you've merged the terms of the GFDL require us to either keep the original article edit history or merge histories. The former is probably best. --Tony Sidaway|Talk
 * Keep and Expand. Host Phil Keoghan has his own article, yet his filmography is no bigger than Van Munster.--Madchester 19:06, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand. Bert Van Munster also helped produce the television series COPS, if I'm not mistaken. Mike H 19:33, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. If someone is going to expand with some new information, they can recreate the article. ··gracefool |☺ 01:03, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not inherently notable. JamesBurns 04:41, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand. TV producers are notable enough for mine. Capitalistroadster 05:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Mike H. Maybe we should rename this to Bertram Van Munster since that's his name in the COPS credits. --SuperDude 05:21, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Noor Jahan

Noor Jahan may refer to:

People

 * Nur Jahan (1577–1645), Mughal empress
 * Noor Jehan (1926–2000), Pakistani singer and actress
 * Nurjahan Murshid (1924–2003), Bangladeshi minister
 * Nurjahan Begum (1925–2016), Bangladeshi journalist
 * Noor Jehan Panezai (died 2014), Pakistani politician

Other uses

 * Noor Jehan (film), a 1967 Bollywood film
 * Noorjahan (TV series), an Indian series aired 2000-01
 * Noor Jahaan, a 2018 Indo-Bangla film

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