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User talk:Remember me

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Convention on Psychotropic Substances
There isn't a bot that can do this, no. However, the footnote system uses the tags {{ref}} and {{note}}. What you could do is include the link again in your next footnote, or refer to it explicitly by noting the previous footnote. If you want to, you could also link to the previous footnote by a link of the format Convention on Psychotropic Substances. If you set it up as per Footnote3, I'll have a look and sort it out if anything needs changing. Alternatively, if you are a bit wary about this, I'll sort it out myself. If the latter, please drop me another note and I'll do so. Cheers, smoddy 16:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm doing it now – if you give me half an hour, I'd be much obliged. :) Cheers, smoddy 16:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I have just gone through it all. I have removed some references that were not needed, or were too awkward to fit in and weren't necessary.  I did, however, get your note too late (I was only translating the notes from place to place, not checking them).  What I propose is to remove all links to that, then stuff in , which renders as shown. That would sort everything out, I think.  Is that OK? Cheers, smoddy 17:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You mean replace the refs, or the notes? Thanks, Remember me 17:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * All the refs and all the notes that link to the convention. smoddy 17:49, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The template belongs at the bottom. I have moved it for you. smoddy 17:58, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * What we still need to do:
 * Give short summaries in the external links in the endnotes section
 * Prune the References section for duplicates
 * Remove all {{ref}} and {{note}} tags that link to the convention out.
 * The wikisourcepar template is added in the References section, and doesn't need to go anywhere else. smoddy 18:06, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * This is okay, but isn't perfect, as the wikisource document is not properly formatted. I was suggesting just removing references and notes 1, 4, 12, 26, 27, and 28.  What do you think?  My considerations above are all that really apply still. smoddy 18:17, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Right. What I meant was to remove every reference item that duplicates a linked item.  Secondly, what are currently references 1, 4, 12, 26, 27, and 28 all link to the same document, without really acknowledging it.  I don't think we actually need them.  I think it would be adequate to leave the wikisourcepar box, especially as the first occurence of the term for the convention is linked to its own article.  Thus would be quite fine to remove those references I referred to.  Finally, the links just need to basically describe what the page is.  For example, 14 would probably read something like 21 U.S.C. § 811(d)(4) from theUS Department of Justice.  If the site is named, and the page is explained, then that would be sufficient.  BTW, I just actually read the article, and it's great. Well done!  Cheers, smoddy 19:34, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks great. Just 35 to go! Cheers, smoddy 19:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Quick migrate left! That page looks fantastic now.  If references were the only concern with WP:FAC, it must be ready now!  Cheers, smoddy 22:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Seems you've already managed to get everything working, all that's needed now is manual editing of each footnote to store reference info (author/title/date/publisher/summary). If there's something else I can help with just ask. Mozzerati 20:57, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)

I understand your concern, but I still feel that footnotes are needed - even if we don't have a proper footnoting system built into Wikipedia. The problem is that if the article is left for a long period of time it will be impossible to know which bits of the article are referenced by which source material, found in references. Even though citations are duplicated, I would like to see footnotes used. Btw, great job on that article! - Ta bu shi da yu 23:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Er... is there an issue that you need fixed via page deletion? I am no longer an admin so cannot assist with anything other than regular page moves. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have shifted it for you – is there any reason that you couldn't have done it yourself? Anyway, I have left a blank page at the old location, so you can go and fill it in. When it's nominated, drop me a line so that I can support! Cheers, smoddy 12:43, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, having read TBSDY's talk page, I understand now. Well, it's all sorted!  Good luck, smoddy 12:46, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Cheers for the pointer: I have supported. Cheers, smoddy 13:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Thank you for your support!  Grue  06:38, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Terminal Velocity (novel)

Terminal Velocity is a 1997 novel by Blanche McCrary Boyd, dealing with many lesbian-related issues in society.

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecoregions/spacetime DTD

If you look at Earth from a cosmic perpective, which any good encyclopedia should, time has to have both relative and absolute aspects. A useful resource for this sub-subtopic is the Geologic time scale. I think it behoves the WikiProject_Ecoregions to look at Pangea and the other Supercontinents from this "God's-eye view" in order to give readers a sense of where these ecoregions, biomes and other land masses came from. That is also important for gaining insight into the process of Ecological succession over the eons. In that context, It's reasonable that wikipediatlas may have a 10 or 20 year development timeframe. Quinobi 21:41, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Portal:Palestine/WikiProjects

 * Parent projects
 * Asia • Countering systemic bias • Western Asia • Arab World • Countries •

 * Main project
 * WikiProject Palestine

 * Sub-projects
 * Middle Eastern military history

 * Related projects
 * Geography • Egypt • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Islam • Syria

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Dealership (band)

Dealership is an American indie rock band based in Berkeley, California, thought to be disbanded.

History
The band was formed in 1995 at UC Berkeley by Chris Wetherell and his friend Chris Groves after the two had attended a Primus concert. After the concert, Wetherell went to a Guitar Center with a student loan check and said to an employee, "I would like the stuff to make a band". He bought microphones, microphone stands, a guitar amplifier, two electric guitars and a drum kit – without knowing how to play any of them. Eventually, Wetherell decided to play drums while Groves, who had played upright bass in high school, played bass guitar.

During the summer, they began holding auditions for a third band member, though these were largely unsuccessful. The auditions were held at Wetherell's place. Miyuki Jane Pinckard, who was dating Wetherell's roommate at the time, heard many of these auditions. Understanding that the auditions were going poorly, Pinckard decided to learn to play the guitar herself. Within weeks, the trio became Dealership.

In 1998, Dealership self-released their first album, Secret American Livingroom. The band then briefly ran their own record label, Keiki Records, on which they released their second full-length album, TV Highway to the Stars, in 2001. Keiki Records also distributed releases by the now-inactive San Francisco band Secadora, of which Chris Groves was a member. The band's third album, Action/Adventure, was released on Turn Records, based in Santa Clara, California, in 2004.

In 2005, Dealership went on their first (and only) tour of the United States. They also played at the X-Games.

Jesse Hudson joined the band in late 2006.

Recording was begun on a fourth unreleased album, The Future is Far Away, with an estimated 2008 release date. In November 2007, Pinckard announced on the game girl advance blog that Harmonix included the song "Dots and Dashes" in its iPod rhythm game Phase, and noted that the track would be sold on iTunes. "Dots and Dashes" was to appear on the upcoming album. Their song "Database Corrupted" is a downloadable track in Rock Band 2.

Since the announcement of The Future is Far Away, no official word has been heard from the band and it is thought to be disbanded.

Band members

 * Current members
 * Chris Groves — lead vocals, bass guitar
 * Jane Pinckard — keyboards, vocals (2006—present), guitar, vocals (1995—2006)
 * Chris Wetherell — drums, vocals
 * Jesse Hudson — guitar, bass (2006—present)

Discography

 * Albums
 * Secret American Livingroom (1998, self-released)
 * TV Highway to the Stars (2001, Keiki Records)
 * Action/Adventure (2004, Turn Records)
 * The Future Is Far Away (unreleased)

 * Other releases
 * Model Mortal / Domesticated 7" (2000, self-released)

 * Compilations
 * Noise Pop '99 - Souvenir Seven Inches (1999, 1 song)
 * Live 105 Local Lounge Vol.21 (1999, 1 song)
 * Cool Beans No. 11 (1999, 1 song)
 * Bored, Lonely and a Little Pissed Off (1999, 1 song)
 * Ten Years of Noisepop (2002, 1 song)

 * Music Videos
 * All The Kids (2004)
 * Forest (December 2005)

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Ben Petrick

Benjamin Wayne Petrick (born April 7, 1977) is an American former Major League Baseball player. A native of Oregon, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. After reaching the Majors, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and retired in 2004, returning to Hillsboro to coach at his old high school. As of 2013 he has been a consultant for the Hillsboro Hops, a minor-league affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks, helping the team's young players acclimatize to life as a professional baseball player. He is the author of the book 40,000 to One.

Early life
Petrick, who was born in Salem, Oregon, was a highly accomplished athlete while attending Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, Oregon. He played football, basketball and baseball. He was recruited to play college football as a safety. He ultimately signed a letter of intent to play college baseball for Arizona State. Petrick opted to enter the Colorado Rockies' farm system when they drafted him in the second round (38th overall) of the 1995 amateur draft and agreed to a signing bonus of $495,000.

Minor leagues
His first season in the minors was for the single-A Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League in 1996. The next season, he spent with the high-A Salem Avalanche, and for the 1998 season he was promoted to the AA New Haven Ravens. Petrick then played for the AA Carolina Mudcats to start the 1999 season before being promoted to the Rockies' AAA affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox after 20 games.

Major Leagues
He was called up to the Colorado Rockies for the first time in 1999 and hit .323 with 4 home runs in only 62 at-bats. In 2000, he hit .322 in 52 games for the major league club. However, he soon experienced a dramatic drop off in production, hitting only .238 in 85 games in 2001. On July 13, 2003, Petrick was acquired by the Detroit Tigers from Colorado in exchange for pitcher Adam Bernero. After an unsuccessful stint with the Tigers, Petrick was released. He attempted a brief comeback with the AAA Portland Beavers and the Toledo Mud Hens, and then retired.

Petrick is only the second player (after Bob O'Farrell) to record 4 RBI in a major league game without getting a hit. He achieved the feat in a 15–11 loss to the San Diego Padres on September 20, 2000, allowing his teammates to score by way of two ground outs, a sacrifice fly and a bases loaded walk.

Later life
In May 2004, when Petrick announced his retirement from baseball, he disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease after the 1999 season. He revealed that as time went on, it had become clear that despite the medication and treatment he was receiving, the effects of Parkinson's would no longer allow him to play baseball at a high level. At one point he stated that his symptoms were due to Lyme disease, but he has since returned to discussing Parkinson's as their cause.

Petrick did numerous interviews and spoke publicly about his story at various events and fundraisers in order to raise awareness of Parkinson's disease. His father Vern (former athletic director at Glencoe) also suffered from Parkinson's and died in January 2019.

Petrick has three daughters. He got remarried in Summer 2021, to Heidi (Springer) Petrick. Petrick’s aunt is Connie Ballmer, wife of Microsoft CEO and billionaire Steve Ballmer.

Petrick and Scott Brown have written a book called 40,000 to One (ISBN 0615583458), a collection of short stories from his life; The book was a New York Times best-seller in 2012 after ESPN aired a short film about Petrick.The film rights to the book were sold later that year.

In January 2013, the Hillsboro Hops announced that Petrick would join the Hops coaching staff as a consultant, assisting team "acclimating to life as a professional baseball player."

Petrick has developed a motivational website and clothing line called Strength Through Weakness; www.strengththroughweakness.com

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User talk:Darnhi11

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John Nettleton (actor)

John Slade Nettleton (5 February 1929 – 12 July 2023) was an English actor best known for playing Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980–1984) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister (1985–1988). Another political role for Nettleton was as Conservative Party MP Sir Stephen Baxter in the sitcom The New Statesman.

Early life
Nettleton was born in Sydenham, London, and graduated from RADA in 1951.

Career
Nettleton's most high profile role was as Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980–1984) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister (1985–1988). He also played a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (Sir Stephen Baxter) in the sitcom The New Statesman.

His other television roles included a Ministry of Defence department chief in The Avengers (episode "The See-Through Man", 1967), a police sergeant in Please Sir! (1969), Alfred Booker in The Champions (episode "Full Circle", 1969), Froggett in the office comedy series If It Moves File It (1970), Francis Bacon in Elizabeth R (1971), a Detective Superintendent in Doctor at Large in 1971, George Pattinson in a now lost episode ("The Uninvited") of Out of the Unknown (also in 1971), as Arthur Bellamy, brother to Viscount Bellamy, in Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), The Country Wife (1977), Brideshead Revisited (1981), The Flame Trees of Thika (1981), The Citadel (1983), Martin Luther, Heretic (1983), Brass (1983), East of Ipswich (1987), Major Membury in A Perfect Spy (1987), Reverend Ernest Matthews in the Doctor Who serial Ghost Light (1989), Longitude (2000),  Midsomer Murders (2005) and Kingdom (2008). In the 1960s and 1970s, Nettleton was the reader of various illustrated stories on children's television programme Blue Peter. Often these were about historical figures, such as Florence Nightingale.

On stage, Nettleton appeared in the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in the 2006 productions of Harley Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance, directed by Peter Gill. He also appeared at the Olivier Theatre in the 1990 production of Alan Bennett's Wind in the Willows, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He also voiced Grandpa in the PC video game The Scruffs.

Personal life and death
Nettleton married actress Deirdre Doone in 1954. They had three daughters. Nettleton and Doone were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He died on 12 July 2023, at the age of 94.

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Talk:Lazy caterer's sequence

I don't know if "lazy caterer's sequence" is the best name for this article. It is the second name given in the OEIS, the first being "central polygonal numbers." Anton Mravcek 21:43, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The only thing I have against the term "central polygonal number" is that is could easily be confused with centered number. PrimeFan 23:11, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I never heard of "lazy cater's sequence" until now, despite working with various sequences. That name sounds unprofessional to me.  I guess that, historically, the name must be "central polygonal numbers", with "lazy cater's sequence" a catchy pop name made up later.  If so, I'd prefer to rename the article; except that I don't think it's important enough to bother with!  (I did make a link from "central polygonal numbers".)  Zaslav 04:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Kimberling and Brown J. Int. Seq. 2004 do use the "lazy caterer" name. In general, I prefer a little whimsy in the nomenclature to the stuffy insistance that everything must be professional and serious, but I don't feel strongly about it in this case. —David Eppstein 04:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Per WP:NAME, "Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists." Given a choice between an established popular name and a more professional one, I'd go for the popular name in the title. I'm moving mention of central polygonal number to the article lede, however.--agr 12:16, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Importance
I'm dropping the rating to "mid" again. The evidence cited by Anton Mravcek (that OEIS calls it "core" and "nice") is enough to give it high importance within its own category of integer sequences, but that's not the same as its importance in mathematics more generally. Compared to most of the other "high" articles listed at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Basics (where it is listed now) or at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Number_theory (where it could plausibly be relisted) I think it just doesn't fit. I'm leaving the field alone for now, since the article's in the fuzzy area between number theory and geometry, but I wouldn't object if someone else thinks that should be changed. —David Eppstein 06:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm dropping this further to low-priority. It is a nice sequence, but it is related straightforwardly to another more basic sequence. Geometry guy 20:55, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with the mid importance rating. Note that there is some consensus to take context into account when assessing importance, but even in the context of Integer sequences, this article is not as important as triangle number. Geometry guy 10:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I guess I overcompensated. Yes, triangular numbers are more important: they turn up in all sorts of places, including the computation of these central polygonal numbers. Anton Mravcek 22:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Just because people forgot to look in the box here doesn't mean it's any less important. The concensus here is for "mid," with only Anton advocating "high" and only Geometry guy advocating "low." Everyone else agrees this is "mid" (and if you don't and I haven't already mentioned you, speak up). Concepts like this are far more important to a general encyclopedia than mathematical masturbations like impossible topologies. Knodeltheory (talk) 22:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Much easier proof
Make n straight cuts in a disk, none of them horizontal, no three cuts through a single point, and no cut through the bottom point of the disk. Each piece is convex, hence has a unique bottom point. This bottom point is either the meeting point of two out of the n+1 curves from the set (n cuts + the circle bounding the disk), or is the bottom point of the circle, and each two curves that cross form the bottom point of exactly one piece. Therefore, the maximum number of pieces occurs when all curves cross each other; there are (n + 1 choose 2) meeting points of two curves and one bottom point of the circle so there are (n + 1 choose 2) + 1 pieces.

If this proof can be sourced, I think it would be an improvement on the one in the article because it gives an explanation for why the formula is what it is rather than being just another boring induction proof.

By the way, there was a typo in the formula in the article for a long time: it said, incorrectly, that the number of pieces was (n + 2 choose 2) + 1. I just fixed it. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

A mistake
Notice that the formula is no more than an estimate for the number of parts. Prove that for any n, this estimate can be reached. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.114.140.17 (talk) 11:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The proof is there since at least 9 November 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lazy_caterer%27s_sequence&oldid=170243715#Proof --CiaPan (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

There's another mistake. The graphic showing the circles maximum cuts for n = 1 through 6 has f(n) = 23. But f(n) = 22. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.205.95.195 (talk) 08:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Commons:User:AnonMoos fixed f(6) value in this upload on  19 January 2016. --CiaPan (talk) 21:54, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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User talk:Andruzzo

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Santorini map
Hi. Thanks for uploading Image:Santorini map.gif, it's a gorgeous map. However, I don't think it can be used in Wikipedia because it looks like the map is from another website and is copyrighted. I've tagged the image as a possible copyright violation and it will probably be deleted. If you know that the image is not copyrighted and that Wikipedia has permission to use it, please add an image copyright tag to it. Thanks, and happy editing. --NormanEinstein 14:55, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

The image is used on another web site for a reason...this is a digital scan of maps issued by the greek national tourist organization that all tourists have access to on the islands. Furthermore, this site www.diamoni.gr has no copyright on this image. --User:Andruzzo Jun 26, 2005

This map as well as all the other maps on our site www.diamoni.gr are copyrighted by us and belong to our company Atlantic ltd. All the material in our site is copyrighted as you will see if you visit our site. You cannot upload this map or any other material but you can put a link to it. P.Pechlivanides, on behalf of Atlantic Ltd. 7 July 2005.(email:info@diamoni.gr)

Mykonos
Well alright, but keep in mind that this is an encyclopedia. What you were adding certainly could not be kept as it was written at the time. Adam Bishop 14:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Please see Talk:Mykonos regarding this matter. --dionyziz 21:30, 1 September 2005 (UTC).

 * Check out Talk:Mykonos, there are a few changes regarding the Mykonos' Nighlife disagreement. --dionyziz 16:13, 13 September 2005 (UTC).

Image copyright problem with Image:Paros-map.gif
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Image Tagging Image:Acropolis-panorama-night.jpg
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Image Tagging Image:Mykonos-25m.jpg
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Hello, fellow Tiger! - Brian Kendig 21:45, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Could you please revisit Votes for deletion/Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic? The article has been rewritten and I don't want it deleted unnecessarily. AndyL 4 July 2005 05:33 (UTC)

Re:Lohman
Sadly that figures. This is probably a lost cause considering the stack of votes already compiled. Nice to meet you too.

Regards, lots of issues | leave me a message 7 July 2005 06:26 (UTC)

Sandbox - word association
Hey there! I fixed up the sandbox, and a new game has just started. This time, we're gonna make sure that the links stay tasteful and not degenerate into a rather distasteful collection like last time. I added a little blurb at the top to hopefully minimize/prevent this. Feel free to join in if you like! --HappyCamper 22:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

User page reversions
No problem, anytime :-) --HappyCamper 10:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Your user page needs less Image:Cowbell2.gif
You have the image Image:Cowbell2.gif on your user page; this image is copyrighted and used in the Will Ferrell article under Fair use. The use on your user page of that image is unlikely to be covered by use however, and as such is probably a Copyright violation. Could you remove the image from your user page? Thanks. --fvw *  23:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Lloyd Banks
I just googled it. If he died, it was within several minutes. I'll be watching. Thanks, α Chimp laudare  04:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Maximillion
Thank you, I was unaware of how to do this. --Ionius Mundus 02:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Downfall Guy
You may want to report "Downfall Guy" to an administrator ASAP. He's an obvious sock of banned user "Mascot Guy." Thought you should know. 71.102.76.166 06:55, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your question on my talk page
It is a bit difficult to explain. Words are the source of misunderstandings, and the best understanding is made by yourself - it does not matter it is the correct understanding or a false one. So for your good I'll leave your question unanswered. Good luck. Aranherunar 16:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Princeton University rewrite

 * I'm in the process of moving myself. Perhaps, we might have to hold this off for a week or two longer. —ExplorerCDT 17:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I do agree with you wholeheartedly on the neologisms. Those, if kept at all, should be put on a "List of neologisms related to Princeton University" or something. Class of '05, you and I might know some of the same people between '01-'06. E-mail me sometime at cdthieme@gmail.com, or AIM: ExplorerCDT.  Regards, —ExplorerCDT 17:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Creating more work
Why you would remove ALL of my edits is assinine. You should have only removed the ones that you had reason to. Doctor Octagon 02:13, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Apology accepted. Pay careful attention in the future. Lots of people over-react here. It's like this one article I wrote in earlier, someone called it 'hearsay' as if this was a court of law or something. Cheers! Doctor Octagon 02:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on PWU
Just wanted to say I appreciate your work on PWU, and I appreciate your decision to take a break from it until Brad (or someone else) further clarifies what was wrong. My guess, looking over the page, was not that anything was unsourced or libelous, but that the article as a whole was unbalanced, spending too much text on the negatives. I intend to re-add as much of what was there as I can, while being very careful to maintain a balance of positive and negative text. I do hope somebody else shows up, because working alone makes it hard for me to tell if I'm going off on a wrong track. In any case, thanks! JesseW, the juggling janitor 20:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Help Request
I am trying to request arbitration in a new edit war, but am confused by all the steps needed... The article is Khalistan. Any help would be appreciated! Stealthound 20:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Pacific Western University
Sirmob, you've expressed an interest in this article before -- can you take a look at Talk:Pacific Western University and leave a note as to whether you think the proposed draft is acceptable as a replacement for the existing stub?

Thanks,

--A. B. 17:28, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

P.S. 'Ray 'ray 'ray .. Tiger, tiger, tiger .. Sis, sis, sis .. Boom, boom, boom, ah!''

Ed Felten
Hmm, I didn't realize that I had put my edit summary in all caps. I used the summary 'rv vandal' because usually page blanking for no reason is called vandalism. T REX speak 15:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

About 3RR
Don't worry, reverting vandalism doesn't count towards 3RR. EVula // talk // ☯  // 04:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Eating clubs
I find this edit hilarious. Someone's taking wikiality too seriously. dcandeto (talk) 03:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

IP is a school
You recently posted a warning on the user page for IP:216.162.85.209 and I wanted to let you know that it's a school and the issues are most likely just meddling students. I encourage you to block edits from this address for unregistered users to prevent vandalism. --216.162.85.209 (talk) 14:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Patrick Dowd
I undeleted this previously PROD'd article; now it's up to you to integrate some references and bring it up to date to reflect his candidacy for mayor, or someone will probably delete it again. :) — brighterorange  (talk) 04:27, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Ricky Allman
This article has been deleted once already. Can you please expedite deletion? 75.179.141.9 (talk) 13:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Blanche McCrary Boyd

Blanche McCrary Boyd (born August 31, 1945) is an American author. She is currently the Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Connecticut College.

Early life and education
Blanche McCrary Boyd was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Charles Fant McCrary and Mildred McDaniel. She says that growing up in South Carolina was the source of her "redneck roots." Boyd started college at Duke University, though left after getting a C+ in her first English class and being asked to leave because she was "drunk all the time". She married a man who "wouldn't put up with her drinking," and transferred to Pomona College where she graduated in 1967.

She earned her M.A. in 1971 at Stanford University. At Stanford, she relapsed into her alcoholism, started taking drugs, and realized she was a lesbian.

Career
Boyd wrote her first novel in hopes of combatting her lesbianism, in a sense, or at least to make something sad out of it. Nerves was published in 1973. Its publication did not cure her internalized homophobia, she realized, so she soon left her husband.

Her second novel was written under similar pretenses. Boyd thought publication might help her with her addictions. Mourning the Death of Magic was published in 1977. Boyd has since disavowed these two novels as "“talented but not good, because I was still playing my violin about the sad songs of life.”

After Mourning the Death of Magic, Boyd had a brief stint as a rock and roll critic.

The Redneck Way of Knowledge was published in 1982, her first work after getting clean. In the same year, she began teaching at Connecticut College.

In 1991, she published The Revolution of Little Girls to great acclaim. It won the 1992 Ferro-Grumley award for women.

Terminal Velocity, the follow-up to The Revolution of Little Girls, was published in 1997, and it was called “A rollicking, kaleidoscopic trip through the drug-tinged lesbian-feminist counter-culture of the 1970s”.

Boyd won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993–1994, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship in 1988, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission in 1982–1983 and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1967–1968. She was also won the Lambda Literary Award that same year. She was nominated for the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction again in 1997.

In 2018, she published the third installment in the Revolution of Little Girls trilogy, Tomb of the Unknown Racist. In 2019 she was named as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for this novel.

Boyd now acts as the Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Connecticut College.

Personal life
After leaving her husband, Boyd moved to Vermont to protest the Vietnam War and live on a commune. She continued drinking and doing drugs, until eventually she got arrested. She left Vermont a year and a half later, and then moved to New York.

After her stint as a rock and roll critic, Boyd moved back to South Carolina, where she continued to struggle with drug and alcohol addition until 1980, when she says she had a moment of clarity when she watched her friend shoot herself. Boyd abandoned alcohol in 1981.

Boyd met a woman in the late 90s that she "didn't screw things up with". They got married in Connecticut in 2009 and now have twins.

Works
Novels: Essays:
 * Nerves (Daughters Pub. Co., 1973)
 * Mourning the Death of Magic (Macmillan, 1977)
 * The Revolution of Little Girls (Vintage, 1991)
 * Terminal Velocity (Vintage, 1997)
 * Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A novel (Counterpoint, 2018)
 * The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-home Tales (Vintage, 1978; 2nd ed., 1994)

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Portal:Palestine/Culture

Palestinian culture is closely related to the culture of other Levantine countries but is distinct in its own way. For instance,

Palestinian cuisine has many striking similarities with other Levantine cuisines but has several of its own unique dishes.

Palestinian Arabic is easily recognizable. Famous Palestinian writers include the poet Mahmoud Darwish and the scholar Edward Said.

Palestinian music is well-known throughout the Arab world.

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Talk:Ghosting

Ghosting can also refer to multi-player online first person shooter games, in which the active player has a direct view, and those players who are "spectating" have a viewpoint slightly above and behind that of the pricipal player. From this elevated and somewhat removed postion, they are able to see certain things the active player cannot, such as enemies hiding behind walls, etc.

When ghosting, the spectating players are then able to feed intelligence about the adversary's whereabouts via a gaming voice communcation system i.e. GameComm, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo or Roger Wilco. The active player then has an advantage, as there are extra eyes with a slightly different viewpoint giving them hints about other players within the map.

Some people view ghosting as a cheat, others simply accept the reality that it is more likely to happen than not, and therefore expect it & plan accordingly.

Added to the article, thank you for your contribution. webjockey 13:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Ghosting is also an issue that is discussed on craigslist. But it's one that I'm not entirely familiar with. Would it be appropraite for somebody to write about it in this article? Joe (talk) 23:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, there's a thing for keyboard ghosting, where keys don't appear depending on certain keypresses (http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/AntiGhostingExplained.aspx). Wikipodium (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

'Ghosting in the sense of dropping out of society, being "off the radar". Used in MRA an MGTOW contexts.

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Johann Helfrich von Müller

Johann Helfrich von Müller (January 16, 1746 in Kleve – 1830) was an engineer in the Hessian army who conceived the difference engine in 1786 (first written reference to the basic principles of a difference machine is dated to 1784), an idea that later evolved into modern computers. In 1784, he was responsible for an improved adding machine based on principles of Leibniz's stepped reckoner.

Müller was demonstrably the first who came up with the idea of calculating mathematical tables automatically by a machine. To achieve this, he planned building a printing differential engine. However, this plan was not realized.

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User talk:Vote No!

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Portal:Palestine/History

The history of the region of Palestine stretches back to the year 10000 B.C.E.

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Rio Rita

Rio Rita may refer to:

 * Rio Rita (musical), a 1927 musical
 * Rio Rita (1929 film), starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles
 * Rio Rita (1942 film), starring Abbott and Costello as the comedy relief
 * Rio Rita, a character in the Femforce comic book series published by AC Comics
 * Río Rita, a town in Panama
 * Rio Rita, a main river passing through East China Normal University in Shanghai, which is synonymous with the university.

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Travels Through France and Italy

Travels Through France and Italy is a work of travel literature by Tobias Smollett, published in 1766. Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the Kingdom of France and the Italian Peninsula, and to voice his Anti-Catholicism. The book inspired a reply in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne, which contained a satirical depiction of Smollett as Smelfungus.

Composition history
In April 1763, the 15-year-old Elizabeth Smollett died. She was the only known child of Tobias Smollett. In June 1763, Tobias left England with his wife. The couple travelled across the Kingdom of France to Nice. In the autumn of 1764, Smollett visited Genoa, Rome, Florence and other towns of the Italian Peninsula. After staying in Nice for the winter, Smollett returned to London by June 1765. Travels Through France and Italy is his account of this journey.

Contents
Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road.

The writing is often characterized by spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. Smollett quarrels with innkeepers, postilions and fellow travellers, and holds many (though by no means all) foreigners who he meets in contempt. He voices his own Anti-Catholicism, and derides duelling, petty and proud nobility, such domestic arrangements as the cicisbeo (an 'approved' lover of a married woman), and many other French and Italian customs.

Responses to the book and Smollett's attitude
Laurence Sterne, who met Smollett in Italy, satirized Smollett's jaundiced attitude in the character of Smelfungus in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was written in part as an answer to Smollett's book.

Sources and external links

 * Travels through France and Italy, volume XI of The Works of Tobias Smollett, edited by William Ernest Henley, Scribner's sons, 1900. Introduction by Thomas Seccombe. From Google Books.
 * Frank Felsenstein, ed. (1999), Travels through France and Italy, Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283634-X. Introduction. 60 pages of footnotes.

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Chaparral High School

Chaparral High School may refer to:

 * Chaparral High School (Arizona)
 * Chaparral High School (Colorado)
 * Chaparral High School (Kansas)
 * Chaparral High School (Nevada)
 * Chaparral High School (El Cajon, California)
 * Chaparral High School (Temecula, California)
 * Chaparral High School (Ojai, California), Ojai, California
 * Chaparral High School (Phelan, California)

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Kansas City Cowboys (NFL)

The Kansas City Cowboys were a National Football League team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The team was founded as the Kansas City Blues in 1924, and as the Kansas City Cowboys in 1925 and 1926. The Blues competed as a traveling team, playing all of their NFL games in other cities' stadiums in their only year under that name. LeRoy Andrews acted as the team's player-coach.

History
The team was owned by Maurice R. Smith, Joe Brecklein and Cameron K. Reid. The Cowboys were known for dressing in cowboy attire and fans came out in great numbers to see them play. Immediately after the game, the Giants hired away head coach LeRoy Andrews and most of the Cowboys players. Maurice R. Smith then arranged to give what remained of the team to Cleveland under the condition that it would be given back if he wanted the team returned.

President Joe Carr (of the NFL) agreed to the arrangement although there was never any assurance it would be honored. The Kansas City Cowboys were actually purchased by the Cleveland Bulldogs in 1927 and merged with that franchise. It is believed The Bulldogs were sold to the Detroit Wolverines who hired coach LeRoy Andrews to coach the team. The Wolverines were then bought by the New York Giants who deactivated the team bringing the story of the Kansas City Cowboys, Cleveland Bulldogs and Detroit Wolverines to an end.

Coach Steve Owen played for the Kansas City Cowboys and played for the Cleveland Bulldogs. He and LeRoy Andrews fell out over their part of the purchase price for the Cowboys when they were sold to the Bulldogs and resulted in his contract being sold to the New York Giants. Owen was then hired as head coach of the Giants in 1931 and remained their coach until 1953.

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Save Happy Valley Coalition

The Save Happy Valley Coalition (SHVC) is an environmental activist movement formed with the express purpose of preventing the Cypress mine, an open cast coal mine on the West Coast of New Zealand, from proceeding.

The Coalition is a member of the environmental umbrella group Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Individuals previously involved in the Save Happy Valley Coalition have continued their work in groups such as Coal Action Network Aotearoa and the Biodiversity Defence Society.

History
In 2004, Solid Energy, a New Zealand State owned enterprise, applied for resource consents under the Resource Management Act for the Cypress Mine, a proposed open-cast coal mine. The consents were granted by the Buller District Council and the West Coast Regional Council. The Buller Conservation Group, Forest and Bird and Te Runanga O Ngati Waewae, and the Department of Conservation appealed the consent decision to the Environment Court. The appeal was declined and the resource consents confirmed in a decision issued on 24 May 2005.

Jon Oosterman, a spokesperson for the campaign, vowed publicly that a direct action campaign would proceed to halt the mine. The Forest and Bird appealed the decision in the High Court, and in December 2005, the High Court dismissed the appeal.

The campaign involved organising public meetings to raise awareness, postcard and letter writing, lobbying, occupying the head office of the Solid Energy, scaling a four-story building and blockading Solid Energy's coal trains. Members occupied an area adjacent to the proposed mine site.

The SHVC ''Save Happy Valley! Worth more than its weight in coal!'' leaflet describes the area as:

"Happy Valley, in the Upper Waimangaroa, near Westport, is a stunning, wild and untouched landscape – home to 30 great spotted kiwi/roa and the rare Powelliphanta patrickensis snail. Eleven other endangered birds and animals inhabit this enclave of diversity. Happy Valley is a colourful mosaic of magnificent red tussock wetlands, low forests of lush mountain beech and dense mats of intricate herbfield plants scattered over striking sandstone rocks and bluffs."

The proposed mine site is located at Happy Valley which is an unofficial locally used name for an area to the east of Waimangaroa. It is 25 kilometres north east of Westport. Reasons for the opposition to the mine include acid mine drainage, loss of kiwi, Powelliphanta snail and tussock habitat, and climate change due to the burning of the extracted coal.

At the nearby Mt Augustus, Solid Energy has pushed another 'absolutely protected' endemic snail species to the brink of extinction, and plan to mine its last remaining 4ha of habitat. Forest and Bird obtained a declaration in December 2005 that Solid Energy needed permission from the Ministers of Energy and Conservation to translocate the snails before mining. This permission was granted in April 2006.

The Save Happy Valley Coalition released a press statement stating they were 'appalled' at the decision. A spokesperson stated that it was 'New Zealand's first state-sponsored species extinction' and that Chris Carter, the Minister of Conservation at that time, had bowed to pressure from Solid Energy and had ignored consistent advice from the Department of Conservation.

The Save Happy Valley Coalition Inc has since taken Solid Energy to the High Court, and sought a Judicial Review of the Ministers' decision. In March 2007, the High Court did not uphold the review and it awarded costs of $5760 to Solid Energy.

In 2007 individuals involved with the Save Happy Valley Coalition were targeted in a series of contentious anti-terror raids.

In October 2012 Solid Energy announced that work on the proposed mine at Happy Valley would be delayed.

On 12 June 2013, The Biodiversity Defence Society filed proceedings with the Environment Court, arguing that Solid Energy no longer holds resource consents for its proposed mine at Happy Valley, due to the expiry of the allocated time period of the consent. In 2014 much of the targeted area was bulldozed in order to make way for mining despite the low price of coal and low return on investment.

Surveillance
In April 2008, the Sunday Star Times reported that Gavin Clark of the Auckland private investigation company, Thompson and Clark Investigations (TCIL), had offered a Christchurch man, Rob Gilchrist, $500 a week to inform on the Save Happy Valley Campaign, for the benefit of the state-owned coal company Solid Energy. In December of the same year Gilchrist was revealed to be a police informant and had infiltrated a number of activist organisations, including SHVC.

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Edward McGillivray

Edward McGillivray (September 15, 1815 – November 24, 1885) was the second mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 1858 to 1859.

He was born in Glengarry County in 1815, and moved to Bytown at the age 20. He opened a general store there in 1836 and was involved in the fur trade. He was an alderman on the first city council for Ottawa in 1855.

He was president of the Bytown Telegraph Company and one of the founders of the Bytown and Prescott Railway. In 1882, he became president of J.R. Booth's Canada Atlantic Railway.

He died in 1885, aged 70, and was buried in the Beechwood Cemetery.

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User talk:P0nc

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Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment system, commonly abbreviated as MCAS, is Massachusetts's statewide standards-based assessment program developed in 1993 in response to the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of the same year. State and federal law mandates that all students who are enrolled in the tested grades and who are educated with Massachusetts public funds participate in MCAS testing.

If necessary, students are given multiple opportunities to take the test to maximize the chance that said student will pass the exam.

Grade Levels
Students take different tests according to their grade level. In addition to these tests, students may be required to take tryouts and pilot tests. The following list is current as of spring 2017. It is required for a student to pass the English Language Arts, Mathematics and Science and Technology/Engineering portions of the Grade 10 test in order to meet the Competency Determination requirement.

Note: High School students take a Science and Technology/Engineering test in biology, chemistry, introductory physics, or technology/engineering.

Note: The History and Social Sciences test has been placed on hold due to budgetary concerns.

An Educational Proficiency Plan EPP must be developed for the subject matter area(s) in English Language Arts and mathematics in which students did not meet or exceed a scaled score of 240.

10th graders who score at the Advanced performance level on one of the three high school state assessment tests in ELA, Mathematics, or STE (Biology, Chemistry, Introductory Physics, or Technology/Engineering); and score at the Proficient level or higher on the remaining two high school state assessment tests; and have combined scores from the three tests that place them in the top 25 percent of students in the graduating class in their district are eligible for the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Recipients receive a tuition waiver (not including fees) to attend state colleges and universities in Massachusetts. The waiver is in effect for 6 years.

Contents
The MCAS test is accessible via a login (usually TestNav). The test is centered around a subject (English, Mathematics, and so on). However, the test itself and the questions the student will receive will vary depending on the student's academic performance. This way, students will have a test that is suited to fit their capability, and will (hypothetically) result in a score that is true to the student in question. However, the way the tests are distributed is still fairly questionable, as two students who are performing on the same academic level can still receive completely different tests. The most likely reasoning is because of different students having different strengths and weaknesses, but there could be another reason why most students will be distributed a personalized test. The process that administrators use to assign tests is still unknown.

The test itself will contain a set amount of questions, and will have different resources provided within the test, depending on the subject. In an English standardized test, there will usually be multiple passages, and a few open response questions. There is also an answer eliminator for multiple-choice questions. In a mathematics-based test, there may be a calculator section where a digital calculator is provided to help determine the answer to a question in the section, such as a conversion. A ruler/protractor is usually provided for measuring. All tests should contain a notepad, where students can type. However, the notes may vanish when switching to another question, which is an inconvenience that has not been fixed. A bookmark tool is also available in the tests, which allows you to move on from the question, and come back to it later.

In the early 2020s, a new version of the science-based test replaced the existing ones. The newer models of these science tests are interactive, and have significantly more depth than any of the other tests. Students taking the modern science MCAS test will be put into a scenario with a question centered around said situation. By following instructions, students can find the solution to the questions with time. Some questions are still simply about reading a question/analyzing an image, and answering the question(s) that follow.

Criticism
The MCAS has been criticized for being too narrow in nature and for pressuring teachers into restricting the curriculum to material covered by the tests. It has been met with opposition from former mayor Scott W. Lang of New Bedford, who called it "completely unsustainable" and "impractical". He claimed that the MCAS was causing students to drop out of high school, and expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that public high school students must pass the MCAS to graduate. Charles Gobron, former superintendent of the Northborough - Southborough Regional School District school district, claimed that the standards set by the MCAS were "unfair", and that the minimum threshold for proficiency on the tests was being raised each year, "making it look like schools are doing worse than they really are." The MCAS has also faced opposition from public school teachers. Some, such as Joan Bonsignore of Easthampton High School, claim that the tests do not accurately demonstrate the skills of students, and that they cause anxiety among the students.

Other institutions and individuals support the MCAS. For example, former Democratic State Senator Tom Birmingham, co-author of the 1993 law that created MCAS, staunchly supported it in subsequent decades as "a central ingredient in the historic rise of public education in Massachusetts that preceded the current decline." See, e.g., https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/columnists/tom-birmingham-massachusetts-shouldnt-ditch-mcas/article_cae0ddc8-1df3-11eb-a96e-eb8107f5979d.html.

The University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, a research arm of the University President's Office, wrote in 2001 that the MCAS do not measure school or district performance because 84% of the variation in the scores across schools and districts is due to socioeconomic factors. In other words, as the Donahue Institute reported, "One of the consistent findings of this research is that demography explains most of the variation in test scores from district to district. Results from this year's research are similar to results from last year's work: about 84% of the variation in test results (scores for all of the test-taking students for the nine MCAS tests combined) is explained by demography. That is why Weston and Wayland have high MCAS scores and why Holyoke and Brockton have low MCAS scores. Thus, though demography is not destiny, it sets a strong tendency." In the end, wrote the Donahue Report, the MCAS scores tell more about a district's real estate values than the quality of its schools."


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And they really don't reference how Indian's also have issues with this skin tone thing. It's not just AA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.5.254.14 (talk) 18:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

They are both offensive - High Yellow and Darkie! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.5.254.14 (talk) 18:10, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps this should include a segment about the fact that "high yellow" is now a very offensive term.

By whom? this is like saying darkie

Red Bone
The term red bone also reffers to the light hue of an african american. Maybe this should also be added?

"African-American?"
If she was YELLOW, that means she was not BLACK. She was interracial. The ODR didn't even apply in Texas at that time. Please stop hijacking everyone that has even a trace of Negroid ancestry for the silly "AA" catagory!! JBDay 04:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

What insult?
There is no way in Hell that I will ever believe that High yellow is an insult. The opposite is true. Velocicaptor 00:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Dr. Ralph Bunche is the best example of a successful High yellow. Velocicaptor 14:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * My first introduction to the term was from a black pastor, very well educated, who described the use to me, with absolutely no indication that it was offensive, just antiquated, a part of his cultural background. he himself could probably be considered high yellow, and i believe he mentioned that. its definitely not as insulting as the n word, and was used by african americans to indicate those among them of lighter skin tone: different, but not necessarily bad. I dont know about white use of the term.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Needs citations
This has been around since 2004, and it still doesn't have any citations? Searching Google brings up a hit in Urban Dictionary, hits in some blogs, and a reference to an article in Essence from 2004, plus lots of hits related to birds and geckos. But there's a reference to Alexander Dumas in Time Magazine that might help.

This is really a "dictdef", a dictionary definition, and should be moved (transwikied) to Wictionary. --John Nagle 05:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

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I think that the use of this term is so specific to cultural context that using a random light-skinned person with black ancestry to illustrate it is misleading.

The application of the term to any particular person should be sourced. I'm sure a photo can be found of someone to whom the term was actually applied while it was current.

Dybryd 07:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

including material on genetics?
I notice that some material on genetics has been added and removed a couple of times. Can we discuss it here before making the change again?

I have no position on the inclusion myself. The term "high yellow" is a cultural one, not a biological one - it doesn't automatically apply to light-skinned blacks any more than "cracker" automatically applies to whites. However, the facts of skin color are obviously of some tangential relevance.

Dybryd 02:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

In the article there seem to be some misunderstandings regarding genetics. One I saw in the article is that one skin color is genetically dominant over another. Is there a scientific reference for this statement? It certainly doesn't appear that way from observation.

Many traits are not due to simple dominant/recessive genetics, but rather are due to a degree of mixture between the two alleles inherited, one from each parent (Incomplete Dominance, Penetration, etc. in the parlance of classical geneticists). Additionally, many traits are the products of multiple genes, which greatly increases the complexity of the analysis. Finally, epigenetics is also a possible complication to this idea as well. In short, it is quite likely that one's observed skin color is the product of both parents, and certainly in day-to-day life, it seems pretty clear that progeny are midway between the parents. Of course, something else that can complicate the observation of this is that a significant number of children born each year have a different biological father than they think they do... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.173.82.81 (talk) 19:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Notable People
I believe that this section is problematic. I think that, at the very least, each entry should have a source; but since the term is considered derogatory I would argue that this list is inappropriate. If there's no objection I intend to blank this section.— James Estevez (talk) 03:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Section deleted. — James Estevez (talk) 05:55, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

I've reverted the reinsertion of this section. My objection still stands, and I invite editors to discuss their reasons for re-inserting it.— James Estevez (talk) 00:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

It Started With Eve (1941)
There was a line by the African American train porter, as Deanna Durbin told him not to forget her yellow bag. "High yellow, that's my favorite color!" he replied with a smile.24.253.195.42 (talk) 18:03, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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It seems perverse
that no color pictures to illustrate are included Talastra (talk) 18:49, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

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Hey Renard!

I saw your question at the help desk: The easiest way to find the image (if it has been uploaded) is to go to the link at the top of your page that says "my contributions" and the image should be in there.

I checked your contributions before posting this, however, and there were no images uploaded, which suggests that the upload didn't "take." Try uploading it again with the exact same file name; if it is already on the site, you'll get an error message telling you we already have an image with that filename. If you do, then put "Image:(whatever the file name is)" in the search box and click go.

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Spring? Sprung...
Hi Renard! I got your message; you've got leaving messages down right!

Hummmm...Did you remember to click the checkbox that says "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it under the terms of the Wikipedia copyright"? If you don't click that box, it won't let you upload, but you should get an error message if that happens.

It sounds to me as if the page isn't completely loading; if your image is properly uploaded, you should be taken to another page that shows the image, like. If you aren't getting that page, then it isn't uploading. I'd try again, make sure to click the box, and see what happens.

If it still doesn't work, go back to my user page and click "email this user" (it's in the box below the search box) and email me the image; I'll upload it for you. That won't solve the problem of not being able to upload, but at least you'll have your image. -- Essjay ·  Talk 01:42, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks like you've got the spring image uploaded. It's now on the spring page. I've edited it to crop out the date. By the way I'm assuming you own the copyright to the image and have released it under the gfdl. When you upload your own images, could you put GFDL in the description box. It lets both humans and computers know the image is properly licensed. (Oh and of course please don't upload images which aren't you own, unless they are public domain). Thanks for your contributions Zeimusu | (Talk page) 14:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Glad to see you got your image up. Zeimusu is right, though; we do have a copyright policy and I should have mentioned it to you before. You can read about the GFDL license at this link. If you have any other questions, let me know. -- Essjay ·  Talk 15:34, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Hey Renard; I got your message. To add the GFDL tag to your images, insert in the edit box. This will automatically add the tag to the image page, and add the image to the category of images released under the GFDL. Thanks for being so diligent! -- Essjay ·  Talk 00:14, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Re:Userpages
Hi. As for your spellchecking question, no there isn't. Some users have proposed we create one, but it proved too dificult to do. However, there is good news! Even if you do misspell, some user will see it and fix it quickly. And noone will yell at you even if you spell badly. There's even a wikipedia bot program that fixes spelling. So all in all you have nothing to worry about. I'm a little unsure what you mean about how to create a new user page. I will give you three answers to what I think you mean. If you want to write something different on your user page, then just edit your page, delete what you have, and start over. If you want your page deleted because you put something on it that you want gone forever, put it up for speedy deletion by putting on the top. Instead of reason put why you want your page deleted. Then some admin will be along to delete it in a day or two. Finnally, if you want a sub-page, like the link to my personal sandbox on my user page, make a page called User:Renard/whatever. Just type that in the search bar and click create this page. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me again. Howabout1 Talk to me! July 2, 2005 16:09 (UTC)

Subpage
Hi Renard!

I saw your question; when you make a user subpage, the way to do it is to make a link on your user page. To do that, add this text: User:Renard/Spring and save the page. That will appear as User:Renard/Spring. Then, click on the link it creates, which will take you to a blank page (like an article that hasn't been created). Enter the text you want just like on any other page. When you're finished, you can keep it around, like your own personal sandbox, or you can have it speedy deleted by adding the tag. One extra benefit: Just like any other page, you get a user page and a talk page, so you actualy get two sandboxes out of the deal, since you can start one project on the user page, and another on the talk page. If you have other questions, let me know! -- Essjay ·  Talk July 3, 2005 06:06 (UTC)

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I found WP quite a long time ago but only did I really start to read more of it, and as many others I found quirks, typos, errors and such and just couldn't keep my hands off it. So, now I kinda consider myself a semi-lurker, touching up stuff I come across. I haven't done any major work and I'm, to be honest, probably to lazy to do so. But, hey, someone has to proofread, right?

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Fatal Instinct

Fatal Instinct is a 1993 American sex comedy thriller film directed by Carl Reiner. A parody of the erotic thriller genre, which at the time had reached its commercial peak, as well as being a pastiche of 1940s film noir and psychological thriller genres, in particular Double Indemnity, the film stars Armand Assante as lawyer/cop Ned Ravine (a take-off on Body Heat, in which William Hurt plays the similarly named Ned Racine) who has an affair with a woman named Lola Cain (Sean Young). Kate Nelligan stars as Ned's wife and Sherilyn Fenn stars as his secretary. The film title is a combination of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct, both of which starred Michael Douglas.

Plot
Ned Ravine, who is both a police officer and lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he will throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at his law office, saying that she needs him to look over some papers she has come across. Meanwhile, Max Shady, who was just released from prison after seven years, starts stalking Ned, planning to kill him for failing to successfully defend Max in court.

Ned's wife Lana and her car mechanic Frank, with whom she is having an affair, start plotting to kill Ned in order to collect on his accident insurance, which has a triple indemnity rider; if Ned is shot, falls from a northbound train, and drowns in a freshwater stream, Lana will collect nine million dollars.

Lola gets Ned to come to her house to examine the "papers", which are actually a laundry receipt and an expired lottery ticket, and the two of them end up having sex in various wild ways. The next morning, Ned says that they can never do that again because he loves his wife; this drives Lola to start stalking Ned.

A few days later, Ned takes the train to go to a legal symposium; Lana and Frank are also on the train, and so is Max. When the train passes over a lake, Lana shoots Max 36 times with a revolver, mistaking him for Ned, and he backflips through the door to his death; Ned thinks that Lana had acted to save his life. He arrests Lana, and then defends her in court, getting her cleared of all charges. Lana later kills Frank, believing that he was going to abandon her, by pinning him against a wall with his power drill; Lola witnesses this, and starts blackmailing Lana.

Ned confronts Lola, and learns that she and Lana are identical twin sisters; after Lana had smashed Lola's face with a shovel, the doctors had given her a whole new face, causing the man she loved to leave her for Lana; Frank was the man's son. Lola's plan from the beginning was to get revenge on Lana by seducing her husband and ruining her marriage.

Later, Ned's secretary Laura tells Ned about Lana's plans to kill him, having figured it out herself. Upstairs, Lana is attacked by Lola, who drowns her in the bathtub. While Ned goes upstairs to investigate, Laura's abusive husband (whom she had escaped from three years ago) comes in and confronts her; she kills him with a frying pan. Lola and Ned fight, and Lola falls to her death from the second-floor landing after Ned pushes her back with a powered-up hair dryer through a broken handrail (which Lana had sawn off earlier). As Ned and Laura embrace each other (and Ned throws his badge away), Lola and Lana come back to life and attack; Laura shoots them both. Ned and Laura marry a few days later.

Cast

 * Armand Assante as Ned Ravine
 * Sherilyn Fenn as Laura Lingonberry
 * Kate Nelligan as Lana Ravine
 * Sean Young as Lola Cain
 * Christopher McDonald as Frank Kelbo
 * James Remar as Max Shady
 * John Witherspoon as Arch
 * Bob Uecker as himself
 * Clarence Clemons as himself
 * Eartha Kitt as Trial Judge
 * Tony Randall as Judge Skanky
 * Bill Cobbs as Man In Park (uncredited)
 * Rosie O'Donnell as Woman In Pet Store (uncredited)

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 17% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 4.3/10. On Metacritic it has a score of 33% based on reviews from 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert rated it one and a half stars out of four and stated "It's a strange thing about the parody genre: Some of these movies work ... and some don't. And you can't say why, except that sometimes you laugh, and sometimes you don't, and the reasons for that are not arguable." Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt the film's gags "vary much too wildly in terms of timing and wit. All that hold this comedy together are a playful outlook and a conviction that detective stories are intrinsically funny, especially if the detective is as much of a blockhead as Ned Ravine. As played by Armand Assante, Ned is a bit too convincingly dense, but he does make a useful fall guy."

The film opened on 1,886 screens in the United States and Canada on October 29, 1993 and grossed $3,502,569 in its opening weekend, placing sixth at the box office. It went on to gross $7.8 million in the United States and Canada.

Home media
The film was first released in March 1994 on VHS and it is available on DVD and Blu-ray, in North America and Europe.

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Chaplet of the Divine Mercy

The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, also called the Divine Mercy Chaplet, is a Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, based on the Christological apparitions of Jesus reported by Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), known as "the Apostle of Mercy". She was a Polish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and canonized as a Catholic saint in 2000.

Kowalska stated that she received the prayer through visions and conversations with Jesus, who made specific promises regarding the recitation of the prayers. Her Vatican biography quotes some of these conversations.

As a Roman Catholic devotion, the chaplet is often said as a rosary-based prayer with the same set of rosary beads used for reciting the Rosary or the Chaplet of Holy Wounds. As an Anglican devotion, the Divine Mercy Society of the Anglican Church states that the chaplet can also be recited on Anglican prayer beads. The chaplet may also be said without beads, usually by counting prayers on the fingertips, and may be accompanied by the veneration of the Divine Mercy image.

History
On September 13, 1935, while Kowalska was in Vilnius, she wrote of a vision of Jesus about the chaplet in her diary (Notebook 1 item 476). Kowalska stated that Jesus asked her to pray the chaplet and instruct others to do so. Although the chaplet is said on beads like the Rosary, it is about a third of the length of the Rosary, and unlike the Rosary that has evolved over the years, the form and structure of the chaplet has remained unchanged since Kowalska attributed it to a message from Jesus.

According to Kowalska's visions, written in her diary, the chaplet's prayers for mercy are threefold: to obtain mercy, to trust in Christ's mercy, and to show mercy to others. Kowalska wrote that Jesus promised that all who recite this chaplet at the hour of death or in the presence of the dying will receive great mercy. She wrote that Jesus said:

"...When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying not as the just judge but as the Merciful Savior."

Kowalska stated that Jesus also promised that anything can be obtained with this prayer if it is compatible with his will. In her diary Kowalska recounted a vision on September 13, 1935 in which she saw an angel sent to a city to destroy it. Kowalska began to pray for God's mercy on the city and felt the strong presence of the Holy Trinity. After she prayed the internally instructed prayers, the angel was powerless to harm the city. In subsequent visions, Kowalska learned that the prayers she spoke were to be taught to all the people of the world.

Pope John Paul II was instrumental in the formal establishment of the Divine Mercy devotion and acknowledged the efforts of the Marian Fathers in its promotion in a Papal Blessing in 2001, the 70th anniversary of the revelation of the Divine Mercy Message and Devotion. Although the prayers said on the beads of the rosary chain share specific similarities between the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and the Chaplet of Holy Wounds, these are distinct chaplets and were introduced over 20 years apart, one in Poland, the other in France.

Practice
According to Roman Catholic tradition, the chaplet may be said at any time, but it is said especially on Divine Mercy Sunday and Fridays at 3:00p.m. The chaplet is prayed daily at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and on the National Shrine in Krakow and Vilinus respectively at the shared time.

In the Philippines, the opening portion of the chaplet known as the "3 O'Clock Habit" (Panalangin Para Sa Ika-tatlo Ng Hapon) is broadcast on radio stations and television networks daily at 3:00p.m., beginning June 16, 1985. In 2000, Pope John Paul II ordained the Sunday after Easter as the Divine Mercy Sunday, where Roman Catholics remember the institution of the Sacrament of Penance. The hour Jesus died by crucifixion, 3:00p.m., is called the Hour of Mercy. In a novena, the chaplet is usually said each of the nine days from Good Friday to Divine Mercy Sunday.

Prayers
The chaplet contains several unique prayers. The rosary may be used to move through the prayers.

First opening prayer
The first prayer is prayed on the first large bead where the Our Father is normally prayed and may be used to begin the chaplet:

"You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us."

Second opening prayer
The second prayer is O Blood and Water (Polish: O krwi i wodo), also known as conversion prayer. It is repeated three times in succession, while remaining on the first large bead, and may be used along with the first opening prayer to begin the chaplet. Its full text, as reported in the Diary, is:

"O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You!"

It may be regarded as an extension of the ejaculatory prayer Jezu, ufam tobie ("Jesus, I trust in You"), set under the Divine Mercy image (according to Diary 47).

It is given three times in the Diary (84, 187, 309), for the first time under the date of August 2, 1934. Jesus himself promised to Faustina Kowalska: "When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of conversion" (186).

This prayer is often said in the Hour of Mercy (3:00p.m.), when someone has no time for a longer prayer, like the entire Chaplet, because of the duties (as recommended in Diary 1320, 1572). It is also applied in various other situations, especially when someone meets a sinner (as Jesus requires passim in the Diary).

It invokes the Divine Mercy that is given to the humanity from the cross of Jesus. Blood and water from his side pierced by a spear (John 19:34) symbolizes the grace of sacraments: help and forgiveness (cf. Diary 299). This is also the meaning of the red and white ray in the Divine Mercy image.

Eternal Father
The Eternal Father prayer opens each decade of the chaplet and is prayed on the single beads separating the decades where the Our Father is normally prayed: "Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world."

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion
The "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion" prayer, repeated 10 times in succession, forms the body of each decade of the chaplet, using the beads where the Hail Marys are normally recited:

"For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world."

Holy God
The Holy God prayer, repeated three times in succession, concludes the chaplet, recited where the Hail Holy Queen is normally prayed:

"Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world."

Closing prayer
The closing prayer is used after the Holy God to end the chaplet:

"Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion – inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself."

Structure
The chaplet is prayed on ordinary rosary beads that are also used to pray the Dominican Rosary. The structure of the chaplet is as follows:

The chaplet is begun on the short strand of the rosary beads:
 * The sign of the cross on the Crucifix;
 * The optional first opening prayer on the first large bead;
 * The optional second opening prayer, repeated three times, still on the first large bead;
 * The Lord's Prayer on the first small bead;
 * The Hail Mary on the second small bead; and
 * The Apostles' Creed on the third small bead.

The praying of the decades then follows, repeating this cycle for each:
 * The Eternal Father on the large bead, with a specific offering each decade; and
 * The For the sake of His sorrowful Passion on each of the ten adjacent small beads, with other petitions for mercy, emphasizing the offering of the Body and Blood of Christ.

To conclude:
 * The Holy God on the medallion;
 * The optional closing prayer, still on the medallion;
 * Any further intentions; and
 * The sign of the cross.

In Poland, the second opening prayer is used as a closing prayer instead, followed by Jesus, I trust in you three times, and Saint Faustina, Apostle of Mercy, save us three times.

Novena
The chaplet may be repeated over a period of nine days as part of a novena. According to Kowalska's Diary, Jesus himself in a vision asked that the Divine Mercy Novena be prayed as a preparation for the Feast of the Divine Mercy, celebrated each year on first Sunday after Easter. The novena should begin on Good Friday. There is a prayer intention for specific group of people on each of the nine days. The novena intentions for each day are:
 * 1) All mankind, in particular, all sinners.
 * 2) The souls of Catholic priests and religious.
 * 3) All devout and faithful souls.
 * 4) Those who do not believe in God and those who do not yet know him.
 * 5) The souls of those separated from the Catholic Church.
 * 6) Meek and humble of heart, and children.
 * 7) People who especially venerate and glorify Christ's mercy.
 * 8) The souls in Purgatory.
 * 9) The souls of those who have become lukewarm.

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Berlin-Tegel radio transmitter

The Transmitter Berlin-Tegel was a broadcasting facility for medium wave in Berlin-Tegel, Germany. It was built in 1933 and used as an aerial wire hung up in a 165 m tower of wood framework. In 1940, the height of the tower was reduced to 86 metres. On December 16, 1948 the tower (and a guyed mast under construction, intended to replace the tower) was bombed under orders of the French Commander (Jean Ganeval) at the time, because of concerns of endangering the air traffic of the nearby Berlin Tegel Airport, which was under construction at the time.

The transmitters were moved to Königs Wusterhausen and installed there. Nevertheless, the transmitter building is still standing.

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