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User talk:Falcon Kirtaran/Archive01

In Use tag
My apologies to anyone concerned about my prolonged inuse tag on Public_Switched_Telephone_Network circa 22 of 5 of 2004; I was called away on urgent business and neglected it. Falcon 01:27, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

Concern re:Dewey decimal
I'm not sure it's kosher to link from articles to pages in the Wikipedia: namespace. I think it breaks Wikipedia's fourth wall rules. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 00:55, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Its a category link, so it should be fine. Of course, if it is a problem, let me know.  Falcon 00:58, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Doesn't look like a category link to me: "This article is in Dewey Decimal category Template:DDSN100?" is how it represents. Category links are formed using  -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 01:09, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * The template was buggy due to an incorrect title; check again. And if you can find a way to get the usual category system to function with the dewey decimal system, let me know.  I tried.  Falcon 01:14, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, what you would do is create a page called Category:Dewey Decimal 100 or somesuch, and include the information there. I'm not sure that's 100% a good idea, however, because we already have categories for these things, and 'twere it me, I'd just put a note on the Category:Philosophy and Category:Philosopher pages that says "Articles in this section fall under Dewey Decimal heading x" -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 01:29, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Except for the directory structure for the dewey decimal system which was there before. Because there is no way to link to category pages except by categorising the page (a terrible idea: categorising the category page in its category) and creating metacategories.  Therefore, I did what I did.  Falcon 01:32, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Huh? Run that by me one more time. You can link to category pages without categorizing the page ( Category:Buddhism yields Category:Buddhism, though I don't see why you need to...nor am I clear on what your problem with metacategorization is about. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 02:45, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, thanks for the syntax... I wasnt aware that the leading : would do any good. I hope nobody minds deleting the number of pages that need deletion.  Falcon 08:41, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Sure thing. You can list the unwanted pages on Speedy_deletion. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 09:12, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Dewey Decimal
I also began a project of changing the Dewey Decimal System pages to categories (mine is at Category:Dewey Decimal System). I'm sorry for not noticing the amount of work you already did on yours; I looked at Category:Dewey Decimal system and saw only 4 categories and 9 articles, not noticing the other categories you had already created (and that you were also creating an ungodly amount of subpages to contain the hierarchy).

I commented at Wikipedia talk:Dewey Decimal System and nobody said anything; looking at your contributions, I can see you were away from Wikipedia for a while, and looks like nobody else cares much about the DDC.

I think we should both work together in just one of them (either mine or yours) and delete the other.

The differences between what you are doing and what I'm doing are:

 * You are putting the hierarchy on subpages of Dewey Decimal System, I am putting it on dedicated category pages (the idea being to get rid of Dewey Decimal System and its subpages when it's done), and linking them in a tree (each category is in the parent category, up until the top).
 * You are calling the categories "Dewey Decimal xxx", I am calling them "Dewey Decimal System xxx". The official name is "Dewey Decimal Classification".

Since you only created the categories from 100 to 119 (20 categories) and I only created 12 categories (root, 0-9 and 00), neither of us would have lost a lot of time if either of us started from the beginning again with a different name (looks like categories can't be renamed -- at least the "move" function does not work).

So, I propose the following: we both start again with the categories, this time calling them "Dewey Decimal Classification xxx", using my hierarchical scheme (so we'd have Category:Dewey Decimal Classification as the root, Category:Dewey Decimal Classification 5, Category:Dewey Decimal Classification 51, Category:Dewey Decimal Classification 519, Category:Dewey Decimal Classification 519.7 and so on). This would be better because we would then be using the official name.

I will stop touching the categories for the time being; no point wasting work if we decide to go another way.

What do you think?

 * I agree that this is a good course of action. Of course, we will also have to correct the category listings on the categorised pages (totalling about 5).  That is probably why you cant move category pages...  Anyway, Should we really bother with the decimals?  It seems an awful lot of pages, and we should only go that far if there are in fact that many pages under the category (so some would have a tree depth of three digits, like 519, and more full ones would have more digits like 519.2).  Falcon 22:58, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Agreed, I don't think we will ever need the extra digits (but we can add them as needed, if they are needed).

 * I will start copying what I did to the new name later today or tomorrow.

 * cesarb 21:20, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I added the root and the pages for 0, 1, 10 and 100, and added Philosophy and Psychology to 100. I will add more later.

 * Someone removed the categorizations to "Dewey Decimal xxx" you added in all the 9 articles; I only remembered those two were at 100. Since the old categories are now empty, I will go ahead and ask for them to be deleted.

 * cesarb 23:07, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More Dewey Decimal
There is a discussion at Categories for deletion about the categories I created; I think you might be interested. cesarb 21:03, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Otherkin
Hi, Falcon; thanks for your edit to the otherkin page, which was for the most part a breath of fresh air. Just to let you know, though, I've removed the changes you made to the paragraph on transsexuality for the following reasons:

 * I'm trying to remove weasel words like "many otherkin say" and "many transsexuals are offended by" (please forgive paraphrase here) from the article.

 * The current source given only supports one person's opinion, although there are certainly sources out there where complete outsiders draw the parallel for themselves as a way of understanding things. I cannot find a source for any, let alone many, transsexuals throwing a wobbly at the concept of otherkin; could you point me to one, perhaps? Vashti 09:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, not at all - I was simply correcting some bad grammar (excessive paragraphing) I found on the page. Falcon 23:32, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll have to watch that paragraphing. :) Woe, woe.  I'll certainly put the sensitivity information back in if I find a source that supports it. Vashti 07:01, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Bgorden

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  22:52, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Gumbit

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  22:52, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Mysidia/Archive/2

Archives /Archive/1 /Archive/2 /Archive/3

Chet (Sep 25, 2005)
Why do you oppose Chet Shakesbeare? The articles are useful, encyclopedic and refer the user to several very humorous sites. Potatoes345 19:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC) Admittedly, Chet Shakesbeare does inpart refer to a rather minor website. However, Chet's "articles" have been published in several literary arts magazines and while Wikipedia is not a web directory, there is no problem with having articles on various topics. After all, one of Wikipedia's greatest assets is its incredible breadth on a variety of subjects that few other encyclopedias discuss. Potatoes345 23:03, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * This note was responded to on Potatoes345's talk page. --Mysidia (talk) 21:46, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Publications of articles in literary magazines could indicate notability, but the article doesn't cite any of them -- until it does, there is not particularly any verifiable indication of the subject having encyclopedic importance. If the subject is really of importance, someone could always recreate the article later, citing the importance, and satisfying the objects...  Points/reasons against deletion should really be placed on Articles for deletion/"chet shakesbeare", so that they would be heard in the debate. --Mysidia (talk) 23:11, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Allegedly (Oct 1, 2005)
I have read WP:CSD carefully, and it seems pretty clear that CSD:G4 also applies to re-creation of articles previously speedied:
 * 4. A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted according to the deletion policy. Note that:
 * Administrators faced with a recreation of previously speedily deleted content must determine that it did in fact meet a criterion for speedy deletion and had been appropriately deleted before they delete it again;

We can--and should--use the CSD process when appropriate, rather than clog up the AfD backlog. Owen× ☎  23:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * If there's no criteria an article meets other than G4 for previously deleted content, when the deletion was through speedy deletion, and doesn't meet any other CSD on its own, then it's not a good speedy candidate. It seems someone updated the criteria in an attempt to clarify some other issue.  In any event, i've started a discussion here, because this is more important, than any one article.

 * We must be vigilant about keeping the CSD reasonable, so we don't see speedy creep that ultimately starts hitting possibly useful content, as well as the junk. There is a reason that dicdef is not a CSD: many useful stubs are dicdefs  --Mysidia (talk) 00:46, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Fixed vandalism (Oct 1, 2005)
I reverted some lame vandalism of your userpage. Update your vandalcounter! (if you have one) :) --inks 23:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks.. --Mysidia (talk) 17:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Clan of the Dead Goat (Oct 2, 2005)
I checked out the Google hits for Clan of the Dead Goat, and found out that only 85 of them are actually unique hits. The rest are almost certainly individual forum posts. I left a note to that effect on the deletion page, but figured that since you based your keep vote on the number of hits, you might want to reconsider. The other potential keeper for the article, it's Alexa ranking, is actually only the ranking for it's much larger hosting site, and thus not a good criteria to base votes off of. --Icelight 12:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Zuben

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  22:52, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Section links
Sections links are like regular links, except you add "#section name here". So for example, the link Featured article candidates takes you directly to the section called United States Senate. Hope that helps; let me know if you have any other questions. --Spangineer (háblame)  23:10, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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Frank McPherson

Francis Comber McPherson (14 May 1901 – 5 March 1953) was an English footballer who played as a forward. Born in Barrow-in-Furness, he began his professional career with Partick Thistle in the Scottish Football League, before spending almost 20 years in The Football League with Chesterfield Municipal, Barrow, Manchester United, Watford and Reading.

Early career
Born in Barrow-in-Furness to parents from Aberdeen, McPherson worked as a ship plater for Vickers and played football for the works team, Barrow Shipbuilders. In April 1919, towards the end of the 1918–19 season, he signed as an amateur for Scottish club Partick Thistle, helping them to a fourth-place finish in the Scottish First Division.

Chesterfield Municipal
McPherson returned to Barrow Shipbuilders at the end of the season, and played in their 1919–20 FA Cup Preliminary Round defeat to Kells White Star; however, in October 1919, he was signed by Midland League club Chesterfield Municipal, who – either ignoring his cup-tied status or unaware of it entirely – gave him his debut in their FA Cup second qualifying round match against South Normanton Colliery on 25 October; starting at centre-forward, he scored twice as Chesterfield won 5–0. After the match, South Normanton submitted an appeal to The Football Association that McPherson should not have been allowed to play, resulting in Chesterfield being disqualified from the competition and McPherson being banned for a month. Chesterfield manager Tom Callaghan protested that he was unaware that McPherson had already played in the FA Cup that season, but McPherson maintained that he had told his manager he was not available for selection. Callaghan offered McPherson £5 to retract that claim, as well as ordering club captain Peter Irvine to back him up; however, he was found out and sacked from his position, never for the football world to hear from him again.

McPherson returned to action in a league match against Mexborough Town on 29 November, scoring both Chesterfield goals in a 2–1 win. After two games out of the side, when regular half-back Arthur Lacey took over at centre-forward, McPherson returned for a 10-game spell at inside left, scoring five goals from that position. He was left out for the game away to Worksop Town, but returned for the next two games at home to Halifax Town and Worksop Town, before losing his position to Teddy Revill for the games against the Grimsby Town and Barnsley reserve teams. McPherson played out the season with seven consecutive matches at centre-forward, scoring four more goals to finish with 11 league goals in 20 appearances as Chesterfield won the Midland League.

McPherson lost his place in the Chesterfield first team to newly signed centre-forward Tom Smelt at the outset of the 1920–21 season, but Smelt only lasted one match in the position and McPherson was recalled. He played two games at centre-forward then one in each of the inside forward positions, including Chesterfield's 11–0 win over Dronfield Woodhouse in the FA Cup preliminary round on 25 September; however, he failed to score in those four games and did not feature again for another month, making a goalscoring return in a 3–2 defeat to Mexborough Town on 30 October. Despite the goal, he was dropped again for the FA Cup third qualifying round match against Staveley Town, before making his final two appearances for Chesterfield – first at centre-forward at home to Sheffield United Reserves, then at outside left at home to Nottingham Forest Reserves. With just one goal in six league appearances in 1920–21, McPherson finished his Chesterfield career with a total of 12 goals in 26 appearances.

Barrow
Having not played for Chesterfield for more than two months, McPherson returned to Cumbria with Barrow in February 1921, and helped the team to win the Lancashire Combination title that season. At the end of the season, Barrow were elected as one of the founder members of the Football League Third Division North. In that inaugural season, Barrow finished in 15th place out of the 20 teams, and the following year was even worse, finishing 18th.

Manchester United
McPherson joined Manchester United in May 1923 for a fee of £500, making his first-team debut as an outside left in the first game of the 1923–24 season against Bristol City on 25 August. He played in all but eight games in his first season with Manchester United, including two appearances in the FA Cup, his two goals coming in consecutive matches – one against Bradford City in the league on 5 January 1924, and one against Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup on 12 January. All of his games that season were played at outside left, except the final two games of the season against The Wednesday, which he played at centre-forward.

Despite that brief run-out at centre-forward, McPherson played exclusively at outside left in 1924–25, missing just four games. He was also a more prolific goalscorer, his seven goals in 38 league appearances helping the club to a second-place finish at the end of the season and promotion back to the First Division. He began the following season as the starting outside left, playing in the first seven games before the re-emergence of Harry Thomas cost him his place, starting with the game against Burnley on 26 September 1925. McPherson made a goalscoring return to the team as a centre-forward on 24 October, scoring twice in a 2–0 away win over Cardiff City; he retained the number 9 shirt for much of the rest of the season, before a three-game spell without scoring culminated in a 7–0 defeat away to Blackburn Rovers; Charlie Rennox, Jimmy Hanson and Chris Taylor shared centre-forward duties for the remaining six games of the season. Despite being dropped for the final six games, McPherson finished the season with a career-high 16 league goals, and a further four in the FA Cup, in which Manchester United reached the semi-finals before being knocked out by rivals Manchester City. McPherson's new-found scoring form was attributed to his pace, coupled with a change to the offside law, which now only required two defenders between the attacking player and the opposing goal line for the attacker to be onside.

McPherson's form continued into the 1926–27 season, which began with him scoring seven goals in the first four games. To accommodate Joe Spence's move to centre-forward, McPherson moved back to outside left for the game against Burnley on 18 September 1926, before being dropped entirely for the next two games against Cardiff City and Aston Villa. The next few games saw McPherson and Spence alternate as centre-forward, before McPherson reclaimed the position more permanently in mid-November, starting with a 3–2 win over Leicester City on 13 November in which he scored twice. He held onto the role for the next two months until the second replay of Manchester United's FA Cup third round tie against Reading on 17 January 1927, after which he spent four games back at outside left. The second half of the season saw a stark difference from the first half – after scoring 16 times in 26 appearances up to 22 January, McPherson failed to find the net for the rest of the season, and only appeared in nine of a potential 17 matches; he missed the game against Aston Villa on 19 February, before an unsettled run of four games in which he played twice at centre-forward and twice at inside left. He was dropped again for the game against The Wednesday on 26 March, and only appeared twice more in the final seven games of the season, against Leicester City on 2 April and against Derby County on 15 April.

The 1927–28 season began with McPherson back at outside left for four straight games, but despite scoring in the fourth against The Wednesday on 7 September, he was dropped for the next three games. He returned to the side for a 10-game spell starting with a 3–0 win over Tottenham Hotspur on 24 September, scoring four goals in that time. After missing the game against Sheffield United on 10 December, he made a goalscoring return in a 4–1 win over Arsenal on 17 December. He was dropped again for the trip to Middlesbrough three games later on 31 December, before playing six games in a row from 7 January to 4 February, including three appearances at centre-forward in FA Cup games against Brentford and Bury. After missing four games, including cup ties against Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers, he was restored to the outside left position for four games in March 1928; he made one final appearance for Manchester United at outside left – a 4–3 defeat to Bury on 14 April 1928. Finishing the season with six goals in 26 league appearances, that brought McPherson's total for Manchester United to 45 goals in 159 appearances.

Manchester Central, Watford and Reading
After a brief stint with Lancashire Combination side Manchester Central at the start of the 1928–29 season, where he played 7 games, scoring 7 times, McPherson was signed by Watford for £850 in September 1928. He made his Watford debut at home to Fulham on 29 September, scoring both goals in a 6–2 defeat, before scoring a further three goals in the next two games. Despite his prodigious start in a Watford shirt, he missed their next match at home to Luton Town, but then went on an eight-game run in which he scored a further eight goals, including a hat-trick at home to Southend United. The next match – away to Northampton Town on 22 December – was the last one McPherson would miss all season, and after two further hat-tricks – away to Fulham on 9 February and at home to Walsall on 29 March – he finished the season with 33 goals in 33 league appearances, a club record that stood until Cliff Holton scored 42 goals in Watford's 1959–60 season, in which they achieved promotion from the Fourth Division.

McPherson was ever-present for the first 23 games of the 1929–30 season, and by 26 December, he had scored 22 of Watford's 29 total goals up to that point; Arthur Woodward (2) was the only other player to have scored more than once. The match against Torquay United on 28 December was McPherson's first absence of the season. He made eight more appearances after his return, scoring three goals, before he was sold to Reading in February 1930 for a fee of £1,500 and George James in part-exchange.

After five seasons with Reading, McPherson returned to Watford in June 1933. He began the 1933–34 season with a run of six games in the team, scoring twice, but then made just one appearance in the next three months. He then had a short spell back in the team, playing three games towards the end of December, but it did not last and he only made one more appearance before the end of the season, in the penultimate game against Swindon Town on 28 April 1934; Watford won 4–0 with McPherson scoring twice.

McPherson began the 1934–35 season by playing in the first two games away to Bristol City and at home to Brighton & Hove Albion, but could not find the target and was not selected for the next 32 Watford matches. He made his comeback on 28 February, almost six months to the day after his last match, playing in Watford's Third Division South Cup third round replay against Queens Park Rangers. He then missed another month before returning for the Third Division South Cup semi-final against Coventry City on 28 March; although he did not score and the match finished 0–0, McPherson scored both Watford goals in the replay the following week to earn them a place in the final against Bristol Rovers, which Watford lost 3–2. These performances came as part of a seven-game run in the team, including four league games, in which McPherson scored once (in a 5–2 away defeat to Charlton Athletic). The league game against Exeter City on 19 April was his last appearance of the season.

It took McPherson until 12 October to make his first appearance of the 1935–36 season, a 5–2 defeat at home to Newport County, but although he scored, he did not appear again for three months. He made 15 more appearances that season, all consecutively between 15 January and 10 April, scoring nine goals, including three against Leicester City in the FA Cup; Leicester's eventual 4–3 victory meant that McPherson's hat-trick is believed to have made history as the first scored for a losing side in the FA Cup proper. McPherson's final appearance for Watford was a 2–1 home defeat to Notts County on 10 April. He was released by Watford at the end of the season and returned to Barrow-in-Furness, where he worked again in the shipyards. In March 1937, he re-signed for Barrow, where he saw out his career with a final two goals in three appearances.

After his retirement from football, McPherson became the licensee of the Greaves Arms Hotel in Oldham, a position he held until his sudden death in Davyhulme on 5 March 1953.

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Adult Education (song)

"Adult Education" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, released as a single in February 1984. The song was featured on the duo's second compilation album Rock 'n Soul Part 1 and was one of two new tracks that were recorded specifically for the compilation release. The single hit number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Lyrics
The song centers on the plight of a teenage girl in high school. Her girlfriends only "care about what she wears" and the narrator assures her "there's life after high school." The lyrics suggest she is wiser than her years and, in fact, is receiving an education to the behavior of adults in high school.

Music video
The music video to "Adult Education", directed by Tim Pope, takes place in what appears to be a torchlit stone temple or tomb. As Hall & Oates and their band sing, dance and play with modified instruments and ceremonial objects, a middle-aged man in a baseball cap organizes and wields several idols, while chanting. A teenage boy wearing a loincloth and a teenage girl draped in a white sheet cross a platform illuminated with modern lights and ascend a staircase to meet the man, who appears to bless them with an animal idol. The girl removes the sheet from her head and part of her body and the ritual continues. Eventually, both teenagers are placed on stone slabs; the boy acts terrified and appears to be restrained, while the girl lies motionless, her body draped in the white sheet. The video ends with the boy standing behind the idols' altar and the girl sitting on the stone slab in front of it, as Hall & Oates and their band continue to sing, dance and play instruments in the background. The final shots of the video are of hieroglyphs and ceremonial items scattered around the structure.

Hall later criticized the video in the book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. "Videos began to attract wannabe Cecil B. DeMilles, directors who had almost unlimited budgets and did whatever they felt like. 'Adult Education' is a perfect example. We brought in a director I didn't know [Pope], who was newly hot. He didn't have a clue what to do with the song. The plot? I couldn't tell you." On VH1's Behind the Music retrospective of Hall & Oates' career, Oates also derided many of their old videos, describing this clip as "Survivor on acid".

Track listings
7": RCA / PB-13714 (US)
 * 1) "Adult Education" – 3:59
 * 2) "Maneater" – 4:34

7": RCA / RCA 396 (UK)
 * 1) "Adult Education" – 3:59
 * 2) "Say It Isn't So" – 4:47

12": RCA / PW-13715 (US)
 * 1) "Adult Education" (Special Club Mix) – 6:04
 * 2) "Adult Education" (Special Rock Mix) – 4:33
 * 3) "Maneater" – 4:34

12": RCA / RCAT 396 (UK)
 * 1) "Adult Education" (Extended Version) – 7:03
 * 2) "Say It Isn't So" (Special Extended Dance Mix) – 6:45
 * 3) "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" – 6:01

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Joey O'Brien

Joseph Martin O'Brien (born 17 February 1986) is a retired Irish professional footballer who played as a full-back and defensive midfielder for Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United and Shamrock Rovers. He was capped five times by the Republic of Ireland at senior level between 2006 and 2012. In the year 2016, O'Brien was among 13 people to be named as a victim of fraud and he testified in court for the trial. In 2021 he became the assistant manager of Shelbourne.

Bolton Wanderers
O'Brien started his career with Bolton Wanderers in 2004 after starting out his first year scholarships in 2002.

To gain further experience, O'Brien was loaned out to League One team Sheffield Wednesday for the most part of the 2004–05 season, making 15 appearances and scoring two goals, including one on his debut. After extending his loan spell at the club twice times, O'Brien was named as captain for the last game of his loan spell in honour of his contribution.

Upon returning to Bolton Wanderers from a loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday, O'Brien made his Premier League debut on 15 May 2005 against Everton when coming on as a late substitute in place of Fernando Hierro. He was given his first start in Bolton's colours in their away UEFA Cup 1st Round tie with PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in September 2005. In the 2005–06 season, O'Brien was called up by the first team following a defensive crisis of injuries and that moment on, he became a first team regular, making thirty-three appearances in all competition. Initially playing as a centre-midfielder, O'Brien changed to a right-back role and made an impression, leading to Manager Sam Allardyce described him as a "dominant force at right back in the Premiership".

O'Brien missed most of the 2006–07 season due to a knee injury. By October, O'Brien was expected to return from a pitch in a months time, with a help from an American doctor Dr Frank Jarrell, a pioneer in the field of spinal reflex analysis. However, his recovery was delayed for another 3–4 months, causing him to miss the rest of the season. Having regained his fitness, it wasn't until on 23 September 2007 when he made his return for Bolton, making his first start and playing the whole game, in a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur. Since making his return from injury, he played most of the 2007–08 season in his natural midfield role as opposed to the right back position which he had been in two years previous. Despite further injury concerns,  O'Brien went on to make 26 appearances in all competition.

In July 2008 he was given the number 8 shirt previously worn by Iván Campo and started well when he provided two assists against Stoke City and Arsenal. However, injuries restricted his appearances throughout the 2008–09 season. O'Brien finished the season, making eight appearances in all competitions.

In the 2009-10 season, O'Brien appeared as an unused substitute three times to the first ten league matches to the season. However, he suffered a knee injury that required an operation for the second time in twelve months and made no appearances this season. Despite this, he signed a one-year extension to his contract keeping him at Bolton Wanderers until the summer of 2011. After making a recovery, O'Brien made his return in a pre-season friendly match against Charleston Battery and after the match, O'Brien stated when he returned to the first team, he determined to make up the lost time. However, this never happened and it has been reported that O'Brien may need to be loaned out to gain first team football.

On 24 March 2011, O'Brien joined Sheffield Wednesday on loan for a second time until the end of the season, and made his debut two days later in a 1–1 draw at Dagenham & Redbridge. After making four appearances for the club, O'Brien made four appearances for the club on his second return. At the end of the season, he was released by Bolton Wanderers, ending his six years association with the club.

West Ham United

In July 2011, O'Brien was handed a trial by West Ham United. He featured in pre-season friendlies against BSC Young Boys and Basel before being signed on 30 July on a free transfer, after penning a two-year contract.

O'Brien made his competitive debut on 7 August 2011 in 1–0 home defeat to Cardiff City. He scored his first goal for West Ham in a 4–0 away win against Watford on 16 August 2011, his first goal since January 2005. He was sent off for the first time in his career in the away match against Reading on 10 December 2011. Having suffered from injuries during the season, O'Brien went on to make 33 appearances in all competition and the club was promoted back to the Premier League.

O'Brien suffered a hamstring injury on 5 October 2012. He returned to the squad for a match against Wigan Athletic three weeks later. He set up the only goal for Kevin Nolan in the game two weeks after making his return, in a 1–0 win over Newcastle United. This was followed by scoring his first ever Premier League goal on 19 November 2012, which also earned his team a point against Stoke. He then scored the winning goal in the New Year's Day fixture against Norwich City. However, O'Brien suffered a hamstring injury. While on sidelined, O'Brien signed a new contract with West Ham United on 13 January 2013, keeping him until 2013. Soon after signing the contract, he made his first appearance since returning from injury on 19 January 2013, in a 1–1 draw against Queens Park Rangers. O'Brien finished the 2012–13 season with 34 appearances in all competitions.

In the 2013–14 season, O'Brien's was restricted to 17 appearances. After missing out two matches between 11 January 2014 and 18 January 2014 due to injury O'Brien made his return on 29 January 2014, making his first start and playing the whole game, in a 0–0 draw against Chelsea. In the same match he suffered a dislocated shoulder after he "fell awkwardly following an off-the-ball push from Chelsea defender Gary Cahill" and was sidelined for three months. After returning from injury in late April, O'Brien made his return in the last game of the season, playing as a right-back, in a 2–0 loss against Manchester City.

In the 2014–15 season, O'Brien appeared in the first three matches to the start of the season until he suffered a knee injury during an international break. After making his return from injury as an unused substitute against Burnley on 18 October 2014, he struggled to regain his first team place and spent most of the season on the substitute bench, due to good performance from Carl Jenkinson.

Ahead of the 2015–16 season, O'Brien was expected to fight for his first team place under the new management of Slaven Bilić following the departure of Allardyce. After appearing five times in the Europa League matches for West Ham United campaign, he suffered a calf injury at the start of the season. After returning from injury in late-October, O'Brien made his first appearance on 30 January 2016, in the fourth round of the FA Cup, in a 0–0 against Liverpool. He then made another appearance in the fourth round of the FA Cup replay against Liverpool, which saw West Ham United win 2–1. Following a game with a win over Liverpool O'Brien once again suffered a hamstring injury that kept him out for weeks and even after making his return, he never made an appearance throughout the 2015–16 season.

He was released by West Ham at the end of his contract in June 2016.

In August 2017, he was back in Bolton, training with Bolton Wanderers fitness coach Nick Allamby in order to keep fit.

Shamrock Rovers
On 27 January 2018, O'Brien signed for League of Ireland team and boyhood club Shamrock Rovers after spending 18 months without a club.

International career
In 2003, O'Brien was called by Republic of Ireland U17 and was involved in the tournament, resulting being awarded Player of the Tournament, due to his performance. Two years later, O'Brien was called up by Republic of Ireland U21 and appeared in the squad six times. Later in the year, he won FAI Under 19 International Player of the Year.

In February 2006, O'Brien was called up to the Republic of Ireland squad for the first time and made his debut for his country on 1 March 2006, against Sweden during Steve Staunton's first game in charge. Following a new appointment of Giovanni Trapattoni, O'Brien expressed frustration of being omitted by him that he was considered early retirement from international football.

On 3 August 2012, O'Brien was called up to the Republic of Ireland squad for 15 August friendly against Serbia, as a replacement for the injured Sean St Ledger. This was O'Brien's first call up in over four years, after overcoming a succession of long-term injuries.

Coaching career
In November 2021, it was announced that O'Brien had joined Shelbourne as assistant manager under newly appointed manager Damien Duff, a former Republic of Ireland teammate of O'Brien's.

Personal life
In May 2014, O'Brien married Joanne Martin, an Irish model, at St Augustine's Church on Thomas Street, Dublin.

In February 2016, O'Brien was among thirteen people to be named as a victim of fraud, committed by Stephen Ackerman. A month after leaving West Ham United, O'Brien testified in court in Ackerman's trial.

Club
West Ham United
 * Football League Championship play-offs: 2011–12

Shamrock Rovers
 * League of Ireland Premier Division: 2020, 2021
 * FAI Cup: 2019

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Ali Qapu

Ali Qapu (, ‘Ālī Qāpū) is an imperial palace in Isfahan, Iran. It is located on the western side of the Naqsh-e Jahan Square, opposite to the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, and had been originally designed as a vast portal entrance to the grand palace which stretched from the Naqsh-e Jahan Square to the Chahar Baq Boulevard. UNESCO inscribed the Palace and the Square as a World Heritage Site due to its cultural and historical importance. The palace is forty-eight meters high and there are six floors, each accessible by a difficult spiral staircase. In the sixth floor, Music Hall, deep circular niches are found in the walls, having not only aesthetic value, but also acoustic. Ali Qapu is regarded as the best example of Safavid architecture and a symbol of Iran's Islamic heritage.

The name Ali Qapu, from Persian ‘Ālī (meaning "imperial" or "great"), and Azerbaijani Qāpū (meaning "gate"), was given to this place as it was right at the entrance to the Safavid palaces which stretched from the Naqsh-e Jahan Square to the Chahar Baq Boulevard. The building, another wonderful Safavid edifice, was built by decree of Shah Abbas I in the early seventeenth century. It was here that the great monarch used to entertain noble visitors, and foreign ambassadors. Shah Abbas, here for the first time, celebrated the Nowruz (Iranian New Year) of 1006 AH/1597 C.E.

Wall decorations were highly favored in palace decorations and Ali Qapu was no exception. Ali Qapu is rich in naturalistic wall paintings by Reza Abbasi, the court painter of Shah Abbas I, and his pupils. There are floral, animal, and bird motifs in his works. The highly ornamented doors and windows of the palace have almost all been pillaged at times of social anarchy. Only one window on the third floor has escaped the ravages of time. Ali Qapu was repaired and restored substantially during the reign of Shah Sultan Hussein, the last Safavid ruler, but fell into a dreadful state of dilapidation again during the short reign of invading Afghans. Under the reign of Naser ad-Din Shah the Qajar (1848–96), the Safavid cornices and floral tiles above the portal were replaced by tiles bearing inscriptions.

Shah Abbas II was enthusiastic about the embellishment and perfection of Ali Qapu. His chief contribution was given to the magnificent hall, the constructors on the third floor. The 18 columns of the hall are covered with mirrors and its ceiling is decorated with great paintings.

The chancellery was stationed on the first floor. On the sixth, the royal reception and banquets were held. The largest rooms are found on this floor. The stucco decoration of the banquet hall abounds in motif of various vessels and cups. The sixth floor was popularly called the Music Hall. Here various ensembles performed music and sang songs.

From the upper galleries, the Safavid ruler watched Chowgan (polo), army maneuvers and horse-racing in the Naqsh-e Jahan square.

The palace is depicted on the reverse of the Iranian 20,000 rials banknote. The palace is also depicted on the reverse of the Iranian 20 rials 1953 banknote series.

Name and etymology
The name of the structure is composed of two words. "Ālī" (عالٍ) means "superior", borrowed from Arabic, while "Qāpū" (𐰴𐰯𐰍) means "door", and was adopted from Old Turkic.

Construction stages
Ali Qapu's building was founded in several stages, beginning from a building with a single gate, with entrance to the government building complex, and gradually developed, ending in the existing shape. The period of the development, with intervals, lasted approximately seventy years.

First Stage: The initial building acting as entrance to the complex was in cubical shape and in two stories, with dimensions measuring 20 x 19 meter and 13 meter high.

Second Stage: Foundation of the upper hall, built on the entrance vestibule, with cubical shape, over the initial cubic shape structure with the same height in two visible stories.

Third Stage: Foundation of the fifth story, the Music Amphitheater or the Music Hall, built on the lower hall, using the central room for sky light, and thus the vertical extension being emphasized.

Fourth Stage: Foundation of the eastern verandah or pavilion advancing towards the square, supported by the tower-shaped building. By foundation of this verandah, the entrance vestibule was extended along the main gate and passage to the market, perpendicular to the eastern flank of the building.

Fifth Stage: Foundation of the wooden ceiling of the balcony, supported by 18 wooden columns, and contemporaneous with erection of the ceiling, an additional stairway of the southern flank was founded and was called the Kingly Stairway. This staircase became revered in the architectural world as its style was unique to the region and became a distinctive Persian style.

Sixth Stage: During this stage, a water tower was built in the northern flank for provision of water for the copper pool of the columned balcony. Plaster decorations in reception story and the Music Hall. The Music Hall contains large paintings of rulers, courtisans, singers, and dancers at a feast.

The room on the sixth floor is also decorated with plaster-work, representing pots and vessels and one is famous as the music and sound room. It has cut out decorations around the room, which represent a considerable artistic feat. These cut out shapes were not placed there to act as cupboards; the stucco-work is most delicate and falls to pieces at the highest touch. So we conclude that it was placed in position in these rooms for ornament and decoration. The rooms were used for private parties and for the king's musicians, and these hollow places in the walls retained the echoes and produced the sounds of the singing and musical instruments clearly in all parts.

Decorations
The interior decorations of a mansion are considered its most interesting architectural features. From the entrance of Ali Qapu mansion to the highest part of the music hall, the building has been decorated with the art of Iranian artists.

It is mentioned in the inscriptions and writings left in the Ali Qapu mansion that parts of the building were restored during the reign of Shah Sultan Hossein. As a result of many damages, only words and stanzas of the poems can be read on the walls of the palace.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Levi Savage Jr.

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Levi Savage Jr.
Although this gentleman seems to have had an eventful life, it doesn't appear to have been particularly notable. RickK 22:56, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment The article is very comprehensive but as it stands it doesn't establish why he might be notable. It appears to be taken from his diaries . Given that I found a number of references to him when google searching, it might be the case that the diaries are of historical interest. I'm abstaining for the moment. Leithp 23:26, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep:Intersesting, I find western historial people like Levi Savage Jr. intriguing and appropriate. - AOL wikiepedia user
 * Anonymous vote by User:207.200.116.137. - Mike Rosoft 07:49, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, verifiable, encyclopedic information of historical interest. Kappa 03:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Go West, Young Pepys. Needs cleanup. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 04:03, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity article likely created by Mr. Savage's descendant. I believe it was speedied twice before it got to its current form.  I don't see how a guy who moved west in the 19th century is encyclopedic.  Thousands of people did that.  If this could be presented as a typical case study, maybe I could see it.  As it stands, it's just a biography of some average settler.  Wikipedia is not a memorial.  --Xcali 05:34, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Article does not establish notability - one of thousands of immigrants. Delete unless rewritten. - Mike Rosoft 07:49, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Early Mormon missionary in Asia, especially Burma, which seems somewhat notable and hardly typical of the "average settler". A JSTOR search finds a few references to the diaries of Levi Savage, but none of the journals included in the search seems to be specialized in Mormon history. JSTOR also finds one reference to the diary of his son, Levi Mathers Savage. Keep, but cleanup and references to secondary sources are needed. Uppland 09:28, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - relevant encyclopedic entry of a key player in the westward move of the early Mormon Church to Utah. Article needs to note this fact to establish the significance of Mr. Savage. Epolk 17:01, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base.  It should not have entries on random dead people that may have done a few interesting things but have not left their mark on history. Indrian 08:13, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Lithuanian province

What was the original, German name of that entity? Also, this article lacks some basic facts and figures. Halibutt 22:56, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

I know that Lithuanian name is "Lietuvos sritis", not sure about German one. You can add "stub" to the article, others who knows more than I do could expand it DeirYassin 09:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * And can you try to find some more specific data rather than a map? Maps show different things, yet they can't be treated as a sole source. Just take a look at the map of Belarusian National Republic or a map of Canals on Mars... Halibutt 11:18, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

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Royal Tweed Bridge

The Royal Tweed Bridge, also known as the New Bridge locally, is a road bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England crossing the River Tweed. It was intended to divert traffic from the 17th century Berwick Bridge, and until the 1980s it formed part of the A1 road, the main route from London to Edinburgh. However, the construction of the A1 River Tweed Bridge to the west of Berwick has since reduced the Royal Tweed Bridge's importance.

History
It was designed by L.G. Mouchel & Partners, with consulting engineers Charles Bressey and J. H. Bean, and the contractors for construction were Holloway Brothers of London.

Construction took place between 1925 and 1928. The total cost of the bridge was £180,000, and up to 170 workers were employed during its construction. It was opened by the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, on 16 May 1928.

It was built to supplement the older Berwick Bridge a short distance downstream, which still carries road traffic. A bridge had first been proposed in 1896, and a scheme was produced in 1914, but the outbreak of the First World War meant that plans were put on hold until 1924. A seven-arched stone bridge was proposed at this time, but eventually the concrete design was decided upon.

The bridge was repaired in 1980, as it had been damaged by de-icing salt and its proximity to the sea. The A1 River Tweed Bridge, which opened in 1984, now carries the A1 road about a mile to the west of the Royal Tweed Bridge, reducing its importance as a crossing of the Tweed.

It is a Grade II* listed building in recognition of its innovative design and striking scale.

Design
The bridge is built from reinforced concrete and consists of four unequal arches, with approach viaducts at each end. The northern end of the bridge is higher, and towards that end the spans are longer.

The spans are of lengths 50.1 m, 74.4 m, 95.5 m and 108.5 m, and the approach viaducts are 60 m and 44 m long. The spans consist of four arched ribs, solid in the case of the shortest span and hollow for the longer spans. Columns rise from the ribs and are connected at the top by longitudinal beams, which support perpendicular beams that carry the roadway. The piers and abutments are constructed from mass concrete, and there are expansion joints and a system of wind braces over each of the piers.

The parapets are made of dressed sandstone, and there are cast iron lamposts on either side of the roadway.

At the time of its construction, it held the record for the longest single concrete span in the UK.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/English words of Indo-European origin

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

English words of Indo-European origin

 * Unmaintainable list. Since the vast majority of English words are of Indo-European origin, a complete list would be virtually a List of English words, that is to say, a dictionary. Therefore delete. Angr/undefined 22:59, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even a list of the Germanic or Romance words (both Indo-European) in English would have to have tens of thousands of entries each. For perspective, I believe every single word used so far in this deletion proposal is Indo-European in origin. — Ливай | ☺ 23:03, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * True; nevertheless not all words of Germanic origin are of Indo-European origin (ship, for example, is Germanic but not Indo-European). --Angr/undefined 11:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete For the same reasons Angr gave. I suggested on the talk page a while back that this article should be deleted unless the original author could suggest strategies for doing something with it.  As he has never responded, or returned to the page, I would pull that toilet chain now.  --Doric Loon 23:08, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - From a linguistics standpoint this is useless. It gives a complete misrepresentation of our language and may lead to confusion among people who are unfamiliar with historical linguistics. -- Barfooz  (talk)  00:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - however a page English words not of Indo-European origin might be useful, even if it was mainly a list pointing to various "English words of Foo origin" articles. Grutness...  wha?  00:52, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - however the page should be kept but changed from a list of words to a descrption of the history and liguistics involved sunja 21:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Bridges across the River Tweed

 * Bridges across the River Tweed — in the Scottish Borders of Scotland and Northumberland of England.

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Richard Goode

Richard Goode (born June 1, 1943) is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven.

Early life
Goode was born in the East Bronx, New York. He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, and Nadia Reisenberg at Mannes College - The New School for Music (where he is a faculty member), and Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Career
He has made many recordings, including several Mozart piano concerti with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the music of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Bach. Goode was the first American-born pianist to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. He regularly appears at the world's leading venues. He premiered works written for him by Carlos Chávez, George Perle, Robert Helps, and others. His chamber-music partners included Dawn Upshaw, Richard Stoltzman and Alexander Schneider.

From 1999 to 2013, Goode was the Artistic Co-Director of Marlboro Music School and Festival with Mitsuko Uchida.

Goode is married to violinist Marcia Weinfeld.

A literary portrait of Goode appears in David Blum's book Quintet: Five Journeys toward Musical Fulfillment (Cornell University Press, 1999). It originally appeared as an article in the 29 June 1992 issue of The New Yorker.

Recognition

 * Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
 * Richard Goode & Richard Stoltzman for Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120 (1983)
 * Recipient of Yale University's Sanford Medal.
 * Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1961
 * First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition in 1973
 * Avery Fisher Prize in 1980.

Discography

 * Benita Valente, Richard Goode / Mozart • Schubert • Brahms • Hugo Wolf. - Benita Valente Sings Mozart Schubert Brahms Wolf (LP). Desmar, Telefunken. 1976
 * Robert Schumann - Richard Goode - Humoreske, Op. 20 / Fantasia In C, Op. 17 Nonesuch. 1981
 * Richard Stoltzman, Richard Goode - Brahms* - The Sonatas For Clarinet And Piano, Op. 120 RCA Red Seal. 1982
 * Franz Schubert - Richard Goode - Sonata In A Major, D. 959 / Klavierstück In E Flat Minor, D. 946, No. 1 Nonesuch. 1985
 * George Perle - Richard Goode, Music Today Ensemble, Gerard Schwarz - Serenade No. 3 For Piano And Chamber Orchestra / Ballade / Concertino For Piano, Winds And Timpani. Nonesuch. 1985
 * Franz Schubert, Richard Goode - Schubert: Sonata In B-Flat Major, D. 960 Opus Posthumous • Allegretto D. 915 • Impromptu D. 935 No. 2 Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records. 1985
 * Richard Goode / Johannes Brahms - Richard Goode Plays Brahms Elektra Nonesuch. 1987
 * Beethoven, Late Sonatas, Opus 101, 106 ( Hammerklavier ), 109, 110, 111 (2xLP, Album) Nonesuch Digital. 1988
 * Schumann, Kathleen Battle, John Aler, Charles Wadsworth, Richard Goode - Spanische Liebeslider, Andante And Variations, Piano Quartet (CD) ASV Digital. 1988
 * Richard Stoltzman / Richard Goode : Schumann* / Schubert* - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73, 3 Romances, Op. 94 / 2 Sonatinas, D. 384, 385 (Cass, CrO) RCA Victor Red Seal. 1988
 * Richard Stoltzman, Richard Goode, Lucy Chapman Stoltzman* - Bartok - Contrasts; Stravinsky - L'Histoire Du Soldat - Suite; Ives - Largo; Songs (Cass, Album). RCA Victor Red Seal. 1990
 * Franz Schubert - Richard Goode - Sonata In C Minor, D. 958 • Ländler, Op. 171, D. 790 Elektra Nonesuch. 1992
 * Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos No. 18 & 20 (CD, Album) Nonesuch. 1996
 * Chopin (CD, Album) Nonesuch. 1997
 * Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos No. 25 & 9 Nonesuch. 1998
 * Richard Goode / Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach Partitas Nos. 4, 2, And 5 Nonesuch. 1999
 * Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos No. 23 & 24 (CD, Album) Nonesuch. 1999
 * Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos (No. 27 In B-flat Major, K.595 / No. 19 In F Major K.459) (CD) Nonesuch. 2000
 * Bach Partitas Nos. 1, 3 & 6 Nonesuch. 2003
 * Mozart Nonesuch. 2005
 * Beethoven, Richard Goode, Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra - The Five Piano Concertos (3xCD + Box) Nonesuch. 2009
 * Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos (No. 17 In G, K.453 / No. 23 In A, K.488) (CD, Album) Nonesuch - 9 79042-2
 * Beethoven, Richard Goode - The Complete Sonatas (10xCD + Box) Elektra Nonesuch, Book-Of-The-Month Records - 9 79328-2

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Category:Bridges in the United Kingdom by river

 * Bridges in the United Kingdom by river.


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ECW World Television Championship

The ECW World Television Championship was a professional wrestling television championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It was introduced in 1992 as part of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliate and ECW precursor, Eastern Championship Wrestling, but was established under ECW in 1994. It served as the secondary championship in the ECW.

History
The title was introduced on August 12, 1992, to Eastern Championship Wrestling, as the promotion was then known, as the Eastern Championship Wrestling Television Championship. ECW was a member of the NWA until seceding from that organization, in January 1993 and officially in September 1994 and becoming Extreme Championship Wrestling. The title then became known as the Extreme Championship Wrestling World Television Championship. The title's final defense took place on December 15, 2000, when the title belt was stolen out of the locker room and was retired in April 2001, when ECW closed down. ECW's assets were subsequently purchased by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In 2006, WWE relaunched the ECW franchise as a WWE brand that remained active until 2010, but did not bring back the title, choosing only to revive the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.

In January 2022, 21 years after ECW's closure, at Game Changer Wrestling's event "Most Notorious", the last ECW Television Champion Rhino, appeared with the physical title belt and "defended" it against Matt Cardona. Cardona won the match and was declared the "new" ECW World Television Champion. This title change is not recognized by WWE, the promotion that has the rights of the title. The next day, Cardona threw the title into a garbage can.

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List of films set in Houston

Part or all of these movies/shows either take place, or are set, in Houston, Texas or the surrounding area:

 * The Houston Story (1956) - starring Gene Barry and Barbara Hale (of Perry Mason)
 * Hellfighters (1968) - with John Wayne
 * Brewster McCloud (1970) – first film to be filmed inside the Astrodome
 * The Getaway (1972) – filmed in Huntsville, Texas
 * The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) – set and filmed in Houston
 * Sugar Hill (1974) - set and filmed in Houston
 * Together Brothers (1974) - filmed in Galveston, Texas
 * Rollerball (1975) – set in Houston but filmed in Bavaria, Germany
 * Futureworld (1976) – filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities and Jones Hall
 * Logan's Run (1976) – filmed inside the Houston Hyatt Regency
 * The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) - filmed in the Astrodome as well as Bayland Park on 6400 Bissonnet
 * Murder at the World Series (1977) – made-for-TV film
 * Telefon (1977) – set in Houston but filmed on a Hollywood backlot, parts of Los Angeles and inside the Hyatt Regency at 5 Embarcadero in San Francisco
 * FM (1978) – filmed at Greenway Plaza in Houston
 * The Swarm (1978) - second unit scenes filmed on Memorial Drive, Astrodome, Interstate 45 South/McKinney Street Exit ramp, and the main lobby of 2 Houston Center
 * Texas (1980–1982) – daytime soap opera, a spin-off of Another World
 * Urban Cowboy (1980) - Filmed at the old Gilley's in Pasadena, Texas.
 * Murder in Texas (1981) – made-for-TV film
 * Student Bodies (1981)
 * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) – character played by Dom DeLuise was based on KTRK-TV personality Marvin Zindler
 * Terms of Endearment (1982)
 * Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
 * Adam (1983) - set in Hollywood, Florida, filmed in and around Houston. Based on the 1981 disappearance and murder of Adam Walsh.
 * Local Hero (1983) - filmed in Houston and Scotland
 * The Man Who Loved Women (1983 film) - Blake Edwards movie filmed in Houston.
 * Uncommon Valor (1983) – set in Houston, filmed in California
 * Blood Simple (1984)
 * Cutter to Houston (1984)
 * Paris, Texas (1984) – shot in several cities around Texas, including Houston
 * The Trip to Bountiful (1984) – set in Houston but filmed in Dallas
 * Pray for Death (1985) - set and filmed in Houston
 * Buck James (1987–1988) – based on Dr. Red Duke
 * Houston Knights (1987–1988)
 * My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
 * Twins (1988) – sale of engine set in Houston
 * A Tiger's Tale (1988) – Rose's house was in League City
 * Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) – Filmed in Seabrook
 * Blind Fury (1989) – filmed partially in Houston
 * Cohen and Tate (1989) - Highway portion filmed along Memorial Drive near Allen Parkway
 * For All Mankind (1989) – documentary filmed partially in Houston
 * Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
 * Night Game (1989) – filmed in Galveston
 * Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990) – Malayalam movie filmed in Houston
 * I Come in Peace (1990)
 * RoboCop 2 (1990) - set in Detroit, but chiefly filmed in Houston
 * Rush (1991) – filmed in Houston as well as at The Swinging Door BBQ in Richmond, Texas.
 * City of Joy (1992) – first scene is set in Houston
 * Sidekicks (1992)
 * A Taste for Killing (1992) – made-for-TV film
 * Wild Wheels (1992) - documentary footage dating back to the late 1980s during the Houston Art Car Parade including artist interviews are seen in the film - some parade footage dates back to 1988 when the parade was co-branded with the Houston International Festival
 * A Perfect World (1993) – filmed in Huntsville
 * The Chase (1994) – filmed in the Rice Village area and several highways around the Houston area; one scene also shot in Kemah
 * City of Joy (1994) - set in Houston, though not filmed there
 * Jason's Lyric (1994) - set in Houston's Third, Fourth, and Fifth Ward including a scene at This Is It! Soul Food Restaurant, a local Houston eatery
 * Reality Bites (1994)
 * Thea (1994)
 * Apollo 13 (1995) Johnson Space Center (box office #1 film in U.S.)
 * Powder (1995) - filmed in Sugar Land, a Houston suburb, and some indoor scenes on a soundstage at Houston Studios in Downtown Houston
 * Don't Look Back (1996) – filmed in Galveston, Texas
 * The Evening Star (1996) - sequel to Terms of Endearment (1982)
 * Independence Day (1996) – Houston is largely destroyed by a nuclear missile
 * SubUrbia (1996) – filmed in Houston, Set in Austin, Texas
 * Tin Cup (1996) – final tournament shot in Kingwood, Texas
 * Prithvi (1997) - set in Houston, Texas
 * Selena (1997) – Selena's final concert scene is set in the Astrodome, but filmed in San Antonio, Texas
 * Armageddon (1998) – filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities
 * Dance With Me (1998)
 * Fifth Ward (1998) – filmed in and set in Houston's Fifth Ward
 * Rushmore (1998) – written and directed by Houstonian Wes Anderson; filmed at his alma mater, St. John's School, as well as Lamar High School and The Kinkaid School
 * Arlington Road (1999) – filmed in Pearland, a Houston suburb, and at the University of Houston
 * Mercy (2000)
 * Space Cowboys (2000)
 * Reba (2001-2007) – TV series set in Houston but filmed in Los Angeles
 * Pearl Harbor (2001) - San Jacinto Battlefield State Memorial Site
 * Texas Justice (2001-) – filmed in Houston
 * Houston Medical (2002)
 * Tarnation (2002) - contains old pictures from Houston
 * Animal Cops: Houston (2003-2015)
 * The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) – set in Houston, but filmed in Canada
 * Right on Track (2003) – Disney Channel movie set in Houston, but filmed in Utah
 * Where's the Party Yaar? (2003) - also called Dude, Where's the Party; filmed entirely in Houston, about a nerdy Indian student who visits his hip nephew in Houston
 * Friday Night Lights (2004) - in the book and real life events, the final game of the Permian High School Team is played at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin not the Astrodome of Houston
 * Suburban Madness (2004) - details the Clara Harris story
 * 14 Hours (2005) – made-for-TV film set in Houston, but filmed in Canada
 * Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) – documentary about the Enron scandal
 * Volver (2006) – Houston is mentioned briefly several times by a woman with cancer as a place where "they cure everything there"
 * Fast Food Nation (2006) – filmed in several US cities, including Houston
 * American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007) – documentary with scenes in Houston
 * Towelhead (2007) – set in a Houston suburb, but filmed in Los Angeles
 * Crazy Heart (2009) - partly filmed in downtown Houston
 * I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) - Set in and around this Houston area with references to Houston locations such as the Gulf Freeway and the Montrose District in Harris County. The real crimes of Steven Jay Russell mostly took place in Dallas. Filming happened in Miami, Los Angeles, and Louisiana
 * Mao's Last Dancer (2009) - drama about the life of ballet dancer Li Cunxin; partly filmed in Houston at the China Garden Restaurant and JP Morgan Chase Tower downtown, Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park, and the Wortham Theater Center downtown; mostly filmed in Australia and Nanjing, China
 * The Open Road (2009)
 * Puncture (2011)
 * Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (box office #1 film in U.S.)
 * Tree of Life (2011) – shot in Houston and other cities in Texas; starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt
 * My 600-lb Life - Filming is done at Dr. Younan Nowzaradan's office located at 4009 Bellaire Blvd. in Southside Place (Houston)
 * Boyhood (2014) – directed by Richard Linklater; shot in Houston, Austin, San Marcos, Big Bend National Park, and other locations in Texas
 * Draft Day (2014)
 * Top Five (2014)
 * God's Not Dead (2014) - filmed in Baton Rouge, set in Houston
 * The Martian (2015) (box office #1 film in the U.S.)
 * 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) sign that leads to Houston in the end of the movie
 * Billion Dollar Buyer (2016-2018)
 * Look Mom I Can Fly (2018)
 * Red Rocket (2021)
 * X (2022) begins in Houston
 * Top Chef: Houston (2022)
 * Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Set in Houston and the suburb of Clear Lake, featuring Johnson Space Center and Rice University.

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Substrate-level phosphorylation

Substrate-level phosphorylation is a metabolism reaction that results in the production of ATP or GTP supported by the energy released from another high-energy bond that leads to phosphorylation of ADP or GDP to ATP or GTP (note that the reaction catalyzed by creatine kinase is not considered as "substrate-level phosphorylation"). This process uses some of the released chemical energy, the Gibbs free energy, to transfer a phosphoryl (PO3) group to ADP or GDP. Occurs in glycolysis and in the citric acid cycle.

Unlike oxidative phosphorylation, oxidation and phosphorylation are not coupled in the process of substrate-level phosphorylation, and reactive intermediates are most often gained in the course of oxidation processes in catabolism. Most ATP is generated by oxidative phosphorylation in aerobic or anaerobic respiration while substrate-level phosphorylation provides a quicker, less efficient source of ATP, independent of external electron acceptors. This is the case in human erythrocytes, which have no mitochondria, and in oxygen-depleted muscle.

Overview
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a major "energy currency" of the cell. The high energy bonds between the phosphate groups can be broken to power a variety of reactions used in all aspects of cell function.

Substrate-level phosphorylation occurs in the cytoplasm of cells during glycolysis and in mitochondria either during the Krebs cycle or by MTHFD1L (EC 6.3.4.3), an enzyme interconverting ADP + phosphate + 10-formyltetrahydrofolate to ATP + formate + tetrahydrofolate (reversibly), under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. In the pay-off phase of glycolysis, a net of 2 ATP are produced by substrate-level phosphorylation.

Glycolysis
The first substrate-level phosphorylation occurs after the conversion of 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde and Pi and NAD+ to 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate via glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase. 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate is then dephosphorylated via phosphoglycerate kinase, producing 3-phosphoglycerate and ATP through a substrate-level phosphorylation.

The second substrate-level phosphorylation occurs by dephosphorylating phosphoenolpyruvate, catalyzed by pyruvate kinase, producing pyruvate and ATP.

During the preparatory phase, each 6-carbon glucose molecule is broken into two 3-carbon molecules. Thus, in glycolysis dephosphorylation results in the production of 4 ATP. However, the prior preparatory phase consumes 2 ATP, so the net yield in glycolysis is 2 ATP. 2 molecules of NADH are also produced and can be used in oxidative phosphorylation to generate more ATP.

Mitochondria
ATP can be generated by substrate-level phosphorylation in mitochondria in a pathway that is independent from the proton motive force. In the matrix there are three reactions capable of substrate-level phosphorylation, utilizing either phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase or succinate-CoA ligase, or monofunctional C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase.

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
Mitochondrial phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is thought to participate in the transfer of the phosphorylation potential from the matrix to the cytosol and vice versa. However, it is strongly favored towards GTP hydrolysis, thus it is not really considered as an important source of intra-mitochondrial substrate-level phosphorylation.

Succinate-CoA ligase
Succinate-CoA ligase is a heterodimer composed of an invariant α-subunit and a substrate-specific ß-subunit, encoded by either SUCLA2 or SUCLG2. This combination results in either an ADP-forming succinate-CoA ligase (A-SUCL, EC 6.2.1.5) or a GDP-forming succinate-CoA ligase (G-SUCL, EC 6.2.1.4). The ADP-forming succinate-CoA ligase is potentially the only matrix enzyme generating ATP in the absence of a proton motive force, capable of maintaining matrix ATP levels under energy-limited conditions, such as transient hypoxia.

Monofunctional C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase
This enzyme is encoded by MTHFD1L and reversibly interconverts ADP + phosphate + 10-formyltetrahydrofolate to ATP + formate + tetrahydrofolate.

Other mechanisms
In working skeletal muscles and the brain, Phosphocreatine is stored as a readily available high-energy phosphate supply, and the enzyme creatine phosphokinase transfers a phosphate from phosphocreatine to ADP to produce ATP. Then the ATP releases giving chemical energy. This is sometimes erroneously considered to be substrate-level phosphorylation, although it is a transphosphorylation.

Importance of substrate-level phosphorylation in anoxia
During anoxia, provision of ATP by substrate-level phosphorylation in the matrix is important not only as a mere means of energy, but also to prevent mitochondria from straining glycolytic ATP reserves by maintaining the adenine nucleotide translocator in ‘forward mode’ carrying ATP towards the cytosol.

Oxidative phosphorylation
An alternative method used to create ATP is through oxidative phosphorylation, which takes place during cellular respiration. This process utilizes the oxidation of NADH to NAD+, yielding 3 ATP, and of FADH2 to FAD, yielding 2 ATP. The potential energy stored as an electrochemical gradient of protons (H+) across the inner mitochondrial membrane is required to generate ATP from ADP and Pi (inorganic phosphate molecule), a key difference from substrate-level phosphorylation. This gradient is exploited by ATP synthase acting as a pore, allowing H+ from the mitochondrial intermembrane space to move down its electrochemical gradient into the matrix and coupling the release of free energy to ATP synthesis. Conversely, electron transfer provides the energy required to actively pump H+ out of the matrix.

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Inspector Gadget
I've dont alot of work on this article and think that it may could be featured will a little more clean up and possibley some more information.--The_stuart 23:03, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Ideas for improvement:
 * Lengthen the lead (probably two good sized paragraphs would be sufficient - include more info on the main characters and the background of the show)
 * More development in the background information would be helpful. For example, justify "After the first season the show was a worldwide hit" with what people said, size of audience, etc.
 * Remove exclamations! They don't belong in a good encyclopedia article! Ever! =)
 * Nor do rhetorical questions ("but will they make it in time?" in "Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas")
 * The "Other Incarnations" section needs work -- more info, better flow, and sentences that end (see "Gadget Boy & Heather")
 * Hopefully this is helpful! --Spangineer (háblame)  16:17, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Well, reading that has unearthed some fuzzy memories! It looks like you've taken account of most of Spangineer's comments, which is good. I've a couple more to make but these are based in part on Saturday morning memories of a long time ago so be gentle with me!
 * Is it possible (within copyright restrictions) to get a sample of Brain's voice. The description is great, and I think audio would be too. From a DVD or something? I wonder if the original voice is on any released media.
 * Didn't his car have various special abilities too? I'm sure I remember it being able grow 'legs' and dodge the traffic that way, as well as being able to float.
 * Might be worth explaining what Penny did with her Computer Book.

-Splash 01:07, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

There's a bit of a muddle on the subject of the article; some of it is about the character, some about the TV show, and the film (which would rightly share the same article title) is barely mentioned. The lead needs to sort this out. The film needs to be mentioned much earlier (that is, in the lead) and in more detail. The list of unresolved questions gets a bit silly; such a list could probably be generated for any show and doesn't add much to our understanding of the subject. Jgm 04:58, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Mainamati

Moinamoti (ময়নামতি) is an isolated low, dimpled range of hills, dotted with more than 50 ancient Buddhist settlements dating between the 8th and 12th century CE. It was part of the ancient Samatata division of Bengal. It extends through the centre of the district of Comilla in Bangladesh. Moinamoti is located almost 8 miles from the city of Comilla. It is the home of one of the most important Buddhist archaeological sites in the region. Comilla Cantonment is located nearby and houses a beautiful colonial era cemetery. Mainamati is named for the Chandra queen of the same name, mother of Govindachandra. Mainamati is 114 kilometers from Dhaka city through National Highway 1 and is nearly 162 kilometers from Chittagong. Also, there is a Buddhist temple beside it.

Buddhist Monuments

 * Shalban Vihara: The centre piece of the Buddhist sites at Mainamati is the Shalban vihara, almost in the middle of the Mainamati-Lalmai hill range consists of 115 cells, built around a spacious courtyard with a cruciform temple in the centre, facing its only gateway complex to the north, resembling that of the Sompur Bihara. It is clearly a Vihara, or an educational centre with residential facilities.
 * Kutila Mura: Situated on a flattened hillock, about 5 km north of Shalban Vihara inside the Comilla Cantonment is a picturesque Buddhist establishment. Here, three stupas are found side by side representing the Buddhist "Trinity" or three jewels, i.e. the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
 * Charpatra Mura: This is an isolated small oblong shrine situated about 2.5 km. north-west of Kotila Mura stupas. The only approach to the shrine is from the east through a gateway, which leads to a spacious hall. A number of shrines can be found here.
 * Ananda Rajer Badi
 * Mainamati Ranir Badi: The Mainamati site Museum, situated next to Shavian Vihara, houses a good collection of artifacts found at these sites. The Museum has a rich and varied collection of copper plates, gold and silver coins and 86 bronze objects. Over 150 bronze statues have been recovered mostly from the monastic cells, bronze stupas, stone sculptures and hundreds of terracotta plaques each measuring on an average of 9" high and 8" to 12" wide.

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Talk:Richard Rahl

Merging With Richard Cypher
These two articles are about the same person. They really should be merged into one in order to be encyclopedic. -- Redfarmer 01:15, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. I've always thought that the existing situation is somewhat odd. It is my opinion that Richard Cypher should be merged into this article, as this is how he is reguarly referred to. --Canderson7 01:19, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think the rationale is that his true name, being related to Darken Rahl, is actually a spoiler, and so should be kept under a spoiler tag. — flamingspinach | (talk) 04:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, the very title of this article is a spoiler, and that's a bad thing. I move that we change the article title back. KevinPuj 02:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

This article badly needs some updating. It only extends to the first book. There's like ten of them now.

I disagree. if you look at the situation; Richard Cypher was seen, even by Richard himself, as a wood's guide.Fun loving, never liked to fight, and always found a way out of trouble by telling a funny joke or two. Richard Rahl is his later role as Seeker, Lord Rahl, peeble in the pond, Bringer of death,ect. To say that this is the same man is true in a sense but not truely factial.When thrown into a sittuation such as his, you must improvise, adapt, and overcome. He never changed who he was only changed his outlook and his goals. Cypher just wanted to be left alone in his woods. Rahl knows that if he doesn't do his duty the life and love he knows will be gone. Now, if anyone here has had to overcome anything that almost killed you then you can see that a person can be differant in many ways after it all said and done with.Your still in the same body. you look just like you always have.(Baring any physically changes that might have happened.)You still have the things that matter most. But you, as a person have changed in ways that you can't go back to. This is something that Richard has been talking about sense he first killed someone in wizard's first rule. There is always two side to life and the gift. As pointed out by Darken Rahl. Richard even says after all this he wants to go back to living the life of Richard Cypher but this time with Kahlan. But, we all know that's not happening. He has been threw too much to go back to his old life. But doesn't mean he won't have an even better life with Kahlan because of what has happened. And as being a spoiler to anyone who reads it, I don't agree. how can something be spoiled if you have no idea what it is. only after you find out what it is can you know that you already knew it. that knowledge isn't spoiled in anyway. it is only added to the amount you already knew. and if people want to find out what the differants between Cypher and Rahl is, let them find out. If you don't believe me look up Wizard's rule number two. That's the best way i know how to explain it. if anyone wants to talk anymore about the sword of truth hit me up at http://profile.myspace.com/33956461

 * I also think this should be separated, or at least in some way hide the fact that Richard is actually of the Rahl bloodline. I stumbled into this trap as I was reading Wizard's First Rule, and had that part of the plot ruined for me.--MattG987 (talk) 07:22, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

i agree.... i'm actually pretty upset now that i just had this spoiled for me, i had no clue that he was a Rahl until this article, linked from the main article on the books, pointed this out to me. now its ruined 98.217.21.255 (talk) 02:39, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Atrocities?
You've got to be kidding me. His abandoning Anderith was an atrocity? Yeah, him and Kahlan and Cara are going to fight all of Jagang's incoming army. Great idea. And force his rule upon them. Good idea. And abandoning an army is an atrocity? Please. This section ought to be renamed and be less sensational, IMO. RobertM525 18:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

-I completely agree with you. Most of the things in the "Atrocities" section that Richard has done are things that the people chose for themselves, or brought on themselves by their actions. In my opinion, the entire "Atrocities" section is written from a highly non-neutral point of view. I suggest it be removed entirely. RxScram 04:29, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Magicana: Totally agreed. Glad to see it is gone.

Too much detail?
Or rather, strongly skewed detail - the article as it is now basically retells the first so many chapters of Wizard's First Rule, and then basically stops apart from the "Overview" section, which in turn is filled with spoilers, which doesn't seem ideal for an "Overview". I propose the following: a paragraph about his character, spoiler-free, and his defining characteristics, and perhaps also his importance in the whole of SoT. Then, a paragraph "Biography", which can talk about his earlier life (though, imho, with rather less detail than is the case now) but should also tell the story of the series so far, or at least those parts he was directly involved in himself. If someone wants to really make this detailed, they can always take a look at the character template of the WikiNovels project. Either way, though, some parts of this are far too detailed - we aren't trying to reproduce the books here. I'll not start cutting heavily without any consensus, of course, and I think there are more capable persons than myself when it comes to writing his biography througout the series, but I do think cutting is necessary... thoughts? Paul Willocx 12:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Mzombie 15:15, 30 August 2006 (UTC) - Agreed. I thought the same thing when I first read this article.

Prophecies
What about the prophecies naming Richard as the pebble in the pond and, more importantly the one in High D'Haran describing him as Fuer Grissa ost Drauka (The Bringer of Death), which is a name used throughout the series apllied to Richard Rahl.  Blizzard Beast  ''$ODIN' 00:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Richard Rahl and Lying
I re-applied my comments about him lying. It has been some time since I read the series, but I remember how I thought it odd that the Seeker of truth would so readily lie. Off the top of my head, from the first book, is the lie about which box his father should open. This is excusable. More blatant, however, was the convoluted lie he told about being immune to the curse of red fruits, and this immunity making his body poisonous and deadly to anybody with whom he is intimate. I feel that this contrast is important enough to merit mentioning for people to understand the character that Goodkind created. I have not been able to think of a non-wordy example (my examples above only make sense to people who have read the book) --Bertrc (talk) 22:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)for the article
 * Richard's being the Seeker of Truth does not preclude him from lying. Being the Seeker of Truth just means that he is to find the truth of what people are saying, and to uphold the truth in matters of great importance. While he doesn't lie often on principal (nothing major for instance, or when it's unnecessary), he is still able to lie. I understand that it's a bit interesting that a someone so related to the truth is capable of lying, but I wouldn't say that it's a major defining point of his character (again, he doesn't do it often enough). As for the red fruit thing, that was so that he wouldn't have to betray his own feelings. Though, that's just my two cents. Pyrotics (talk) 14:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. There is anything wrong with him lying, but I do feel it is worth mentioning.  I don't think the language over stresses it.  Do you?  --Bertrc (talk) 00:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Mary Sue Type Character
Any possible way to mention that this character is blatantly a Mary Sue type character? Several friends had me read the first book, then eventually the second book and both were painfully clear that the author loved this guy too much and was trying too hard to make Richard Cypher a god among men. By the end of the first book he's already proven to be potentially a first class Additive magic wizard, descendent of the most powerful Subtractive magic and therefore potentially the same himself, he is immune to the most powerful confessor in the world, has some control over birds, is owed a favor by a dragon, in possession of a legendary powerful sword AND survived torture under a group of people renowned for inflicting pain - thereby pretty much having the potential to become one of them. And that's all in the first book! What are his flaws? There's nothing he won't do the most powerful confessor, so he's immune to her too. He's generally too helpful - so he managed to get a lethal monster creature (Gar) loyal to him. His weakness is basically that he's too awesome.

The second book is pretty much more of the same. He just gets more powerful after more torture. He gets full wizard training.99.240.146.252 (talk) 23:10, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I think that that falls under Original Research. Heh, I don't know Mary Sue; personally, I think the plagiarism is against Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.--Bertrc (talk) 01:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * He isn't meaning a character when he uses the term "Mary Sue". A "Mary Sue" is (from the wiki article) "...sometimes shortened simply to Sue, is a pejorative term used to describe a fictional character who plays a major role in the plot and is particularly characterized by overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors or readers".
 * HOWEVER, I disagree that Richard is a Mary Sue, yes, in many ways, Richard is way more awesome than a normal human being could be, but that lends itself naturally to his being the hero of the novels. Richard is, however, given to false judgments, doubts, and mistakes. He is often fallen to breaking the Wizard's rules (notably doing so while trying to FOLLOW said rules). He is exceptional, true, but he is not perfect (as a Mary Sue would be). As well, Richard is very headstrong, and has occasionally thought poorly of people who are not deserving of his chagrin due to his own mistakes. In all, I think that Richard is a character who is just trying to do his best for what he believes in, and, while he is generally more able than his peers, is more than capable of failing just as much as succeeding in his attempts. Pyrotics (talk) 18:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow, I had never heard of that. Thanks, Pyrotics.  Considering how much I like Star Trek, I am ashamed I did not know that bit of lore.  Hmmm, by that definition, I actually think he is a Mary Sue character, but I still think that it is original research/personal opinion.  Maybe some literary critic will mention it some day. --Bertrc (talk) 00:20, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Plagiarism
I just wanted to underline the fact that some passage of the article directly refers to the book one of the serie. It is exactly word for word what the author had written. So maybe this passage needs to be rewritten in order to be more neutral, for plagiarism is illegal. --Damien Tomasini (talk) 09:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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