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Canadian Automotive Museum

The Canadian Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum features many Canadian-made cars as the automobile industry, specifically the Canadian division of the General Motors, known as General Motors Canada, which has always been at the forefront of Oshawa's economy.

The museum was founded in 1962 by a group of Oshawa businessmen through the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce. The venture was initiated mainly to preserve the automotive history of Canada and to present this history in an educational and entertaining manner. Canadian Automotive Museum Inc is a charitable corporation and has been in operation since 1963.

The museum is housed in a 25000 sqft building in downtown Oshawa that was originally the location of Ontario Motor Sales, a local car dealership, in the 1920s. The building maintains its original period architecture right down to the original elevator used to move cars to the second floor.

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and the Virtual Museum of Canada.

Vehicles on display
The museum has two floors: the ground floors features foreign cars, while the upstairs features a "Made in Canada" exhibit.

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Hey, I just thought you might like to know: a better way to revert pages is by clicking on the version you want to revert to in the history tab, fill in the box and simply click save page. It's easier than having to sift through the vandalism or incorrect information. Since your reversion of Talim (Soul Calibur) cut some stuff out, I'm going to give it a true revert; but I thought you might like to know a more convenient and more accurate way to revert. --Shackleton 05:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

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Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film starring Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and produced by Hunt Stromberg. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

The film launched the career of Joan Crawford.

Plot
"Dangerous Diana" Medford (Crawford) is outwardly flamboyant and popular but inwardly virtuous and idealistic, patronizing her parents by telling them not to stay out late. Her friend Ann chases boys for their money and is as amoral as her mother.

Diana and Ann are both attracted to Ben Blaine (Brown). He takes Diana's flirtatious behavior with other boys as a sign of lack of interest in him and marries Ann, who has lied about her virtues. Bea, a mutual friend of Diana and Ann, also meets and marries a wealthy suitor named Norman who loves her but is haunted by her past.

Diana becomes distraught for a while about the marriages of her friends with questionable pasts. She decides to go away and Bea throws a raucous bon voyage party at the yacht club (complete with sculpted ice ocean liner centerpiece), which Ben declined to attend and made Ann decline as well. The same evening Ann hopes to meet up with her lover, Freddie, telling her husband she is going to see her sick mom. When her mom calls and Ben realizes Ann has lied to him yet again, they get into an argument and Ann storms out to meet Freddie.

Now alone, Ben decides to stop by the party where he and Diana realize their love for each other. Meanwhile, a drunken Ann follows Freddie into the party only to find Ben and Diana alone together in a quiet room. She causes an uproar, after which both Diana and Ben leave the party declaring their love but ultimately saying goodbye to one another.

Norman arrives at the dwindling party to find Bea trying to help the inebriated Ann home. On her way out, Ann mocks a trio of cleaning women and reflects on her and her mother's gold-digging strategy. Distracted by this, she stumbles and falls down a flight of stairs to her death. Headlines tell of Diana's return home after two years away, upon which she and Ben are happily reunited.

Cast

 * Joan Crawford as Diana "Di" Medford aka Diana the Dangerous
 * John Mack Brown as Ben Blaine
 * Nils Asther as Norman
 * Dorothy Sebastian as Beatrice "Bea"
 * Anita Page as Ann "Annikins"
 * Kathlyn Williams as Ann's mother
 * Edward J. Nugent as Freddie
 * Dorothy Cumming as Diana's mother
 * Huntley Gordon as Diana's father
 * Evelyn Hall as Freddie's mother
 * Sam De Grasse as Freddie's father

Music
This film featured a theme song entitled "I Loved You Then As I Love You Now" which was composed by William Axt, David Mendoza and Ballard Macdonald.

Production
Joan Crawford stripped naked in front of the producer in order to get the lead role in this film. When the decision maker told Joan that the director was in charge of casting, Joan went to his office, repeated her performance, and got the part.

Reception
Bland Johnson in the New York Mirror wrote "Joan Crawford...does the greatest work of her career." The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Writing (Josephine Lovett) and Best Cinematography (George Barnes) at the 2nd Academy Awards on April 3, 1930.

Box office
According to MGM records, the film earned $757,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $342,000 in other markets, resulting in a profit of $304,000.

Cultural impact
It was due in part to Joan Crawford's role as the ferociously free Charleston-dancing, Prohibition-era-booze-swilling, stage-diving "Dangerous" Diana Medford that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of : "Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living."

Home media
The film was released in 2010 on DVD and on blu-ray in January 2022.

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Staudinger reaction

The Staudinger reaction is a chemical reaction of an organic azide with a phosphine or phosphite produces an iminophosphorane. The reaction was discovered by and named after Hermann Staudinger. The reaction follows this stoichiometry:
 * R3P + R'N3 → R3P=NR' + N2

Staudinger reduction
The Staudinger reduction is conducted in two steps. First phosphine imine-forming reaction is conducted involving treatment of the azide with the phosphine. The intermediate, e.g. triphenylphosphine phenylimide, is then subjected to hydrolysis to produce a phosphine oxide and an amine:
 * R3P=NR' + H2O → R3P=O + R'NH2

The overall conversion is a mild method of reducing an azide to an amine. Triphenylphosphine or tributylphosphine are most commonly used, yielding tributylphosphine oxide or triphenylphosphine oxide as a side product in addition to the desired amine. An example of a Staudinger reduction is the organic synthesis of the pinwheel compound 1,3,5-tris(aminomethyl)-2,4,6-triethylbenzene.

Reaction mechanism
The reaction mechanism centers around the formation of an iminophosphorane through nucleophilic addition of the aryl or alkyl phosphine at the terminal nitrogen atom of the organic azide and expulsion of diatomic nitrogen. The iminophosphorane is then hydrolyzed in the second step to the amine and a phosphine oxide byproduct.

Staudinger ligation
Of interest in chemical biology is the Staudinger ligation, which has been called one of the most important bioconjugation methods. Two versions of the Staudinger ligation have been developed. Both begin with the classic iminophosphorane reaction.

In classical Staudinger ligation, the organophosphorus compound becomes incorporated into the peptide. Typically, appended to the organophosphorus component are reporter groups such as fluorophores. In traceless Staudinger ligation, the organophosphorus group dissociates giving a phosphorus-free bioconjugate.

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The Butcher Boy (novel)

The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe.

Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.

Francie's family
In the early part of the book it becomes apparent that Francie's mother is frequently abused both verbally and physically by her husband, Benny, a bitter alcoholic. Francie's mother often considers suicide and is committed for a time to a mental hospital.

The Nugents
Francie seems largely unaware of the trouble at home, and spends the early part of the book in the company of his best friend Joe Purcell, hiding out in a chicken-house and shouting abuse at the fish in the local stream. The two befriend classmate Phillip Nugent, the son of Francie's sanctimonious neighbour, Mrs. Nugent, but end up stealing his comic books. Francie recalls vividly an episode in which she hurls a torrent of verbal abuse at Francie's mother, claiming that the Brady family are "a bunch of pigs". Francie takes this insult to heart, and begins to harass the Nugents when they are walking through the town, denying them access through a certain street until they pay the fictional "Pig Toll tax". So begins an unhealthy obsession that underpins the rest of the novel.

Alo
Word comes that Francie's uncle Alo, who is something of a local celebrity, is coming to town. A party is arranged and most of the town turns up. Alo arrives and sings with his guests late into the night, and Francie observes his uncle with admiration. Eventually the guests leave, and Benny, drunk as usual, launches a verbal assault at his brother, claiming he is a fake and a liar, to the protestation and horror of Francie's mother. Alo is totally dejected and leaves.

Francie is horrified at the treatment of Alo, and runs away from home. He spends some time thieving in Dublin, and when he returns he discovers his mother has committed suicide, for which his father blames him. Again, Francie's mind turns to the Nugents. He attempts to harm Phillip after luring him to the chickenhouse, but Joe stops him. Eventually he breaks into the Nugents' house when they are out and pretends to be a pig, defecating on the floor. The Nugents interrupt him and call the police.

Punishment
Francie is sent to an 'industrial school' run by priests. During the course of his internment he is molested by one of the priests and befriended by a gardener who claims to have been an Old IRA member and close associate of Michael Collins. He claims to have forgotten all about the Nugents, and is determined to get back to town and resume his carefree friendship with Joe.

On release Francie heads back to town, fully expectant of a friendly welcome by Joe. However he finds it hard to get in touch with his friend, and when he does Joe is reluctant to talk to him. When Francie is attacked by Mrs. Nugent's brother, Buttsy, and his friend Devlin, Joe disowns him.

Commission to mental institution
Francie gets a job in the local abattoir, impressing the owner with his ability to unflinchingly kill a piglet, and dedicates himself to this job, aiming to make his father proud. He has also begun drinking at weekends with the local drunk, and he goes to clubs with the specific aim of getting into fights. After some months, the police enter his home to discover that his father has been dead for a long time, and Francie is committed to a mental hospital.

After he is released, Francie discovers that Joe is attending boarding school in Bundoran, County Donegal. He decides to go there, and en route he stops off at a boarding house where his father had said he and Francie's mother had spent their honeymoon. He interrogates the landlady, and she informs him that his father had treated his mother terribly for the duration of their honeymoon. Francie resumes his travels and arrives at Joe's school in the middle of the night. He breaks in and, coming face to face with Joe, discovers that his friend has outgrown him and, worse, befriended Phillip Nugent.

Murder
Francie returns home and resumes his job at the butchers. One day, while on his rounds, he calls at the Nugents' house. Mrs. Nugent answers and Francie forces his way in. He attacks her and shoots her in the head with the butcher's bolt gun. He cuts her open and writes the word 'PIGS' over the walls in an upstairs room with her blood. He puts her into the cart in which he transports the offal and meat-waste, covering her body with the detritus. He casually resumes his rounds and makes his way back to the abattoir, where he is apprehended by the police. He leads them on a wild goose chase for Mrs. Nugent's body, and escapes from them for a time, but he is recaptured and eventually imprisoned after revealing where her dismembered corpse is.

Style
The novel is written in a hybrid of first-person narrative and stream of consciousness, with little punctuation and no separation of dialogue and thought. Guathier, in examining the state of identity in the novel, explains that this style of writing forces the reader to "constantly [reassess] Francie Brady's psychological (in)stability [...] never quite sure to what extent Francie's perceptions are delusions or are incisive commentary on the narrow community in which he lives."

Themes
Like many other contemporary and modern pieces of Irish literature, The Butcher Boy addresses concerns about Ireland's neocolonial status. As Shahriyar Mansouri claims, the novel also examines the rise of a new wave of "decolonizing anarchic formations" in Ireland in the late 1960s and the 1970s, identifying split identity and non-conformism as outcries of a nation colonized by a post-colonial State. Critic Tim Guathier asserts that the crisis of identity which Francie experiences throughout the novel stems from the "unbalanced state" of Ireland and Irish identity. In particular, Guathier emphasizes that the instability of the community during the sixties—a time of rapid change and political violence within Ireland—shapes his dysfunctional family, and Francie's dysfunctional relationships with other characters such as Joe Purcell, and ensures that Francie does not feel part of the larger community, effectively turning him into the "Other".

Awards
The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times' Irish Literature Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.

Film
The book was adapted into a feature film directed by Neil Jordan in 1997. It starred Eamonn Owens as Francie, Stephen Rea as Benny and Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Nugent. The film was released on DVD on February 13, 2007.

The film won the Silver Berlin Bear award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998 and a Special Mention for Owens' "astonishing lead". It also won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Adrian Biddle.

The adaptation is mostly faithful to the novel, but there are some differences, the principal change being the ending. In the book, Francie is not seen to leave prison, and attempts to forge a friendship with an inmate similar to the one he had with Joe. In the film, a much older Francie is released from prison at the end to be brought to a halfway house. He picks a snowdrop, echoing the opening of the film.

This was the final film produced by Geffen Pictures, which distributed its films through Warner Bros. Pictures.

Stage
McCabe wrote his own stage adaptation of the novel, entitled "Frank Pig Says Hello," which debuted on 6 October 1992. The play is written for two actors.

In 2022, the Irish Repertory Theatre presented the world premiere production of a musical based on the novel, which featured book, music, and lyrics by Asher Muldoon.

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James Blackwood

James Webre Blackwood (August 4, 1919 – February 3, 2002) was an American gospel singer and one of the founding members of legendary Southern gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers. He is the only person in any field of music to have been nominated for a Grammy Award for 28 consecutive years. He received 31 nominations and won nine Grammy Awards.

Biography
Blackwood was born on August 4, 1919, in Choctaw County, Mississippi, to sharecropper William Emmett Blackwood and his wife Carrie Prewitt Blackwood. He was the youngest of four children, which included his brother Roy Blackwood (December 24, 1900 – March 21, 1971), sister Lena Blackwood Cain (December 31, 1904 – March 1, 1990) and brother Doyle Blackwood (August 21, 1911 – October 3, 1974).

In 1926, he and his brother Doyle had developed an interest in gospel music, singing at church gatherings, camp meetings, schools and any place they saw the opportunity. During this period, they sang on WTJS in Jackson, Tennessee.

Blackwood formed a singing group with his nephew R. W. and his brothers Roy and Doyle. The Blackwood Brothers' first broadcast was on the radio station WHEF, AM 1500, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 1934. The quartet soon began broadcasting on the larger WJDX in Jackson, moving to Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1939, and Shenandoah, Iowa, in 1940.

In early World War II, the quartet temporarily disbanded as James joined the war effort as a factory welder in California. As the other members joined him in California, they resumed singing and the quartet was based in San Diego, California from 1944 to 1945 as they continued simultaneously working in the war-related industries. After the war, they returned to Iowa in September 1945 resuming their broadcast on KMA Radio in Shenandoah. In 1950, the quartet moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and the radio station WMPS.

In 1951, they signed a recording contract with RCA Victor Records.

Soon they began traveling to their concert appearances by private plane with R.W. Blackwood and the bass singer Bill Lyles as pilot and co-pilot. On June 12, 1954, the Blackwood Brothers won first place on the CBS radio and TV program Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts Show. On June 30, 1954, in Clanton, Alabama, the quartet was preparing for concert at the airport for the Chilton County Peach Festival. During a few practice touch-and-go landings the plane crashed and R. W., Bill Lyles and family friend Johnny Ogburn died in the crash. The quartet re-organized following the plane crash with R. W.'s younger brother, Cecil Blackwood as baritone and J.D. Sumner as bass. In 1956, the re-organized group appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout Show and won a second time.

In the mid-1950s, the quartet started traveling in a customized bus, another first for the group.

James Blackwood, Cecil Blackwood and J. D. Sumner founded the National Quartet Convention in 1957, originally a 3-day event held at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis.

In 1964, the Blackwood Brothers chartered the Gospel Music Association.

After singing with The Blackwood Brothers Quartet for 47 years, James (together with four other veteran gospel singers, Hovie Lister, Jake Hess, J. D. Sumner and Rosie Rozell) formed the Masters V Quartet, the highlight being a joint concert with The Rivertown Boys in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In 1990, he formed the James Blackwood Quartet with Ken Turner, Brad White and Ray Shelton. Rosie Rozell sang tenor in the initial performances, but Larry Ford quickly became the permanent tenor as Shelton's health deteriorated. This group, like James' preceding groups, also received a Grammy nomination.

Personal life
On May 4, 1939, Blackwood married Miriam (Mim) Grantham. They had two sons, James Jr. and Billy. He died of a stroke on February 3, 2002, at Methodist Healthcare Central Hospital in Memphis. He was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery East, in Memphis.

Grammys
Win
 * 1966 Best Sacred Recording (Musical), The Grand Old Gospel, Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1967 Best Sacred Recording (Musical), More Grand Old Gospel, Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1969 Best Gospel Performance, In Gospel Country, Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1972 Best Gospel Performance, L-O-V-E, Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1973 Best Gospel Performance, Release Me (From My Sin), The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1979 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, Lift Up The Name Of Jesus, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1980 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, We Come To Worship, Produced by Mark Blackwood, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1981 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, The Masters V, The Masters V Quartet
 * 1982 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, I'm Following You, Produced by Mark Blackwood, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet

Nomination
 * 1965 Best Gospel, Sacred, Inspirational Performance, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1966 Best Sacred Recording (Musical), How Big is God, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1967 Best Gospel Performance, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet Sings for Joy, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1967 Best Sacred Performance, Surely Goodness and Mercy, George Beverly Shea with The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1968 Best Gospel Performance, Yours Faithfully, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1971 Best Gospel Performance, He's Still the King of Kings (and Lord of Lords), The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1974 Best Gospel Performance, There He Goes, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1976 Best Gospel Performance, Learning to Lean, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1977 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, Bill Gaither Songs by the Blackwood Brothers, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1978 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, His Amazing Love, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1997 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, Keep Lookin' Up: The Texas Swing Sessions, James Blackwood and The Light Crust Doughboys
 * 1998 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, They Gave the World a Smile: the Stamps Quartet Tribute Album, James Blackwood Quartet and The Light Crust Doughboys
 * 2000 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, The Great Gospel Hit Parade: From Memphis To Nashville To Texas, James Blackwood, The Jordanaires and The Light Crust Doughboys

During his long career, James was probably honored with more awards that any other gospel singer. He is the only person in any field of music to have been nominated for a Grammy award for 28 consecutive years. He received 31 total nominations and won nine Grammy Awards.

In the 1990s, at the request of Art Greenhaw, a lifelong fan and musical disciple of James Blackwood, Blackwood began a series of recording sessions with Greenhaw's band, The Light Crust Doughboys. The collaboration resulted in four Grammy nominations in four different years for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album of the Year, two Dove nominations for Best Gospel Album of the Year in either southern or country gospel categories, and Inspirational TV's nomination for Best Southern Gospel Album of the Year. In the year of Blackwood's, We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music: The James Blackwood Tribute Album (2002) was released and won the Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards in New York City.

GMA Dove Awards
His peers in the Gospel Music Association voted him the GMA Dove Award Top Male Vocalist for seven consecutive years.

 * 1969 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1970 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1972 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1973 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1974 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1975 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1976 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1977 Male Vocalist of the Year
 * 1970 Album of the Year - Darol Rice; RCA Victor, Fill My Cup, Lord, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1973 Male Group of the Year, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1974 Male Group of the Year, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1974 Associate Membership Award, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1976 Associate Membership Award, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
 * 1977 Associate Membership Award, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet

Others
In 1974, the Gospel Music Association inducted Blackwood as the third living person to be voted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Sang at the Funerals of Gladys Presley and Elvis Presley.

The Southern Gospel Music Association inducted Blackwood into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame in 1997.

In 1983, the Golden State University awarded him an honorary Doctoral Degree of Music. In 1986, Memphis State University awarded him its Distinguished Achievement Award in the field of communications and fine arts. In 1997, the Memphis and Shelby County Optimists Clubs named him Citizen of the Year, presenting him with plaques and citations from 16 government and civic groups.

In 1994, the Singing News magazine presented him with the Marvin Norcross Award. In 1997, Gospel Voice magazine gave him the Living Legend Award. These are among the highest awards in gospel music.

In 2001, he was presented with the General Superintendent's Medal of Honor from the Assemblies of God, the highest recognition from that organization.

He appeared on all of the major television networks, in shows including Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts (CBS), Dave Garroway (NBC), Johnny Cash Show (ABC), Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (ABC), Tom Snyder Show (NBC), Dinah Shore Show (NBC), Hee Haw (CBS), Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (NBC), Statler Brothers Show (TNN) and the 700 Club, PTL and TBN.

He sang in all 50 American states, every Canadian province and 35 foreign countries.

Television appearances

 * Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (1954)
 * Sing a Song for Heaven's Sake (1966)
 * The Johnny Cash Show (1971)
 * 28th Grammy Awards (1986)
 * Homecoming (1991)
 * Reunion: A Gospel Homecoming Celebration (1992)
 * A Christmas Homecoming (1993)
 * Old Friends: A Gospel Homecoming Celebration (1993)
 * Turn Your Radio On (1993)
 * Bill & Gloria Gaither Present: Landmark with Their Homecoming Friends (1994)
 * O Happy Day: Old-Time Southern Singing Convention (1994)
 * Precious Memories (1994)
 * Bill & Gloria Gaither Present: Revival with Their Homecoming Friends (1995)
 * The Sweetest Song I Know (1995)
 * Bill & Gloria Gaither Present: The Blackwood Brothers Family Reunion (1995)
 * When All God's Singers Get Home (1996)
 * He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley (2000)
 * Sounds of Memphis (2002)

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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is a 2002 role-playing game by Capcom for the PlayStation 2. It is the fifth entry in the Breath of Fire series.

Gameplay
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is a role-playing video game that deviates drastically from previous games in the series, and is the first using fully three-dimensional graphics for characters and environments. Players control their characters from a third-person perspective as they navigate a number of environments including dungeons and towns where they may interact with non-player characters. While previous Breath of Fire games took place in fantasy environments containing open areas, Dragon Quarter features a science fiction motif that sets the game in a series of bunkers 1000m below the surface in an industrialized, post-apocalyptic environment. Players must travel upward through a network of tunnels while battling enemies and collecting keys. A map system alerts players to nearby doors, treasures, and enemies.

Rather than experiencing the entire game in a single play-through, Dragon Quarter is designed to be played through multiple times to experience the whole story. Using the Scenario Overlay (SOL) System, specific plot points and game areas are only accessible if the player's D-Ratio number is high enough. Players' D-Ratio is initially 1/8192 and can only be raised by restarting the game and using the SOL: Restore function, which allows the player to begin a new game while carrying over all accumulated items, equipment, and skills previously acquired. Progress is saved to the PlayStation 2 memory card using limited save tokens found during gameplay. Players may suspend their game as many times as they wish by creating a temporary save at certain areas in the game, which is deleted as soon as it is loaded.

At a certain point in the game, the player can use dragon abilities and a D-Counter appears on screen. When the D-Counter reaches 100 percent, the game ends and the player is sent back to their last permanent save. The meter raises continually as the player uses the abilities and can only be lowered by restarting using SOL: Restore.

Battles use the Positive Encounter and Tactics System (PETS), described by Capcom as a "combined real-time and turn-based combat". A battle begins when a character encounters an on-screen enemy, and the player can employ a pre-emptive strike. Combat can be avoided by setting traps or leaving food. In combat each character takes action according to their "agility" statistic. The participant has free movement in the battle area during their turn. Characters are allocated Active Points (AP) at the start of their turn with the number decreasing with each step and attack they make. There are three levels of attack with higher levels costing more AP but doing more damage. Attacks may be strung together into combination attacks. New weapons provide new attacks and Attack Skills can be found scattered throughout the game. A battle is won when all enemies are defeated or have fled, with victories earning the player experience points.

Plot
Humanity has fled the devastated surface to the underground where the upper classes inhabit higher levels with better air. Ryu is a low level citizen who rebels against the government to save the life of Nina, who cannot survive underground due to experimental surgery to convert her into an air purification machine. Ryu can transform into a dragon.

Ryu's must ascend with Nina and the ever-watchful Lin from a kilometer below ground to the surface, traversing dark passageways and fending off encounters. On the lowest levels are those with low D-ratios; as one ascends the inhabitants' D-ratio increases. D-ratio determines social status. The highest D-ratio a human can achieve is 1/4 - this is the Dragon Quarter of the title, a one in four chance of linking with an available dragon.

There are two subplots; the first concerns the six mysterious rulers of the underground world, ubiquitous in their ability to acquire and act on information. These rulers reveal a legend that a boy with the power to become a dragon will return the world to the surface. The second subplot is a rivalry between Ryu and Bosch, an entitled, monomaniacal elitist. Bosch initially uses Ryu as his lackey to increase his rank, but inadvertently releases Ryu's ability to become a dragon. Seeing this power, Bosch undergoes dragon fusion and gains the ability to also become a dragon.

Ryu invades the upper levels. Three of the five regents which govern Ryu's world have fallen to his blade before he faces Elyon, aka "Origin", the leader of the Regeants and first host of the dragon Odjn. Elyon acknowledges none have come closer to reclaiming the surface world than Ryu. He summons two pieces of himself that he had he banished to extend his life. After a fierce battle Elyon is defeated and Ryu notes that Elyon was "Odjn's first", alluding to Elyon's responsibility for humanity not reclaiming the sky hundreds of years ago. Ryu, Lin and Nina approach the hatch itself, where Bosch intercepts them, now containing his own true dragon, Chertyre, instead of a mere construct. Bosch is defeated and gives himself over to Chertyre to manifest himself in the world again. Ryu is forced to use his D-Breath attack to channel Odjn's power against Chertyre. This brings his D-Counter to 100%, something to be avoided during other points in the game. Ryu's D-Counter rises far above 100%, and he finally defeats Chertyre and opens the way to the surface. As he lays dying, Ryu tells Lin and Nina to go on ahead, that he'll catch up with them in a moment.

As Nina and Lin ascend the spiral staircase to the surface, Odjn appears, asking if Ryu has any regrets. Ryu says he has none, and that reaching the surface was his only goal. Odjn exults, telling Ryu that it was not Odjn's power which brought Ryu this far, but Ryu's own determination. As Lin and Nina grieve, Odjn restores Ryu's life.

Development
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter was announced by Capcom at the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles as the first game in the series to appear on the PlayStation 2. The project was headed by series veteran Makoto Ikehara, who was inspired to create the game's dystopian setting by the 1994 alternate history novel Gofungo no Sekai (五分後の世界, lit. The World Five Minutes From Now) by Ryū Murakami. The unique gameplay and high challenge were to differentiate it from previous entries in the series, which Ikehara felt were too easy compared to other role-playing titles. The level of difficulty increased as development progressed. Character design was handled by Tatsuya Yoshikawa, who had provided the artwork for all previous games in the series. He modelled Elyon on the antagonist of the previous game, Fou-Lu, because he wanted to use the character again. To give the dragons Odjn, Dover, and Chetyre a distinct identity, they spoke Russian during cutscenes and were named after the Russian numbers one (один, adeen), two (два, dva), and four (четыре, chyetirye). Unlike the Ryu protagonists of previous Breath of Fire games, the Ryu in this game is a normal human being, characterized by Yoshikawa as "an average person like you might find anywhere", with his only extraordinary features being his strong will and sense of justice. The game was released in Japan in November 2002 under its regional title, Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter, and was dedicated to the memory of Capcom employee Yasuhito Okada.

Some features were cut from the final version including an online mode and a fishing minigame similar to earlier titles. The dragon Odjn was originally conceived as a "cutesy" companion to Ryu and his team before becoming large and menacing, with his early design instead being used for Cupid's pet Oncotte. Story points considered too shocking were removed, including a locked room in the Biocorp Labs containing headless duplicate bodies of Nina, and Nina's surgeon's resemblance to Adolf Hitler. Ikehara wanted to include a cutscene showing how the surface world became uninhabitable, but was unable to do so.

A week before the game's release in Japan, Capcom USA announced it would release Dragon Quarter in North America in February 2003. This version appeared at the 2003 Game Developers Conference under its official English title that excluded the numeral "V". The game was released in Europe in November 2003 featuring changes to the game's mechanics. The soft save function was removed so the only way to save the game was to create hard saves using save tokens. To compensate, there are roughly twice as many save tokens throughout the game.

On February 16, 2016, Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter was released on the Japanese PlayStation Store as a "PS2 Archives" digital title for PlayStation 3. The title was delisted from the store in early 2019.

Audio
The music was composed by series newcomer Hitoshi Sakimoto, who had contributed soundtracks for other role-playing titles such as Final Fantasy Tactics and the Ogre Battle series, along with sound producer Yasunori Mitsuda who oversaw the development of each track. A five-song promotional album called the Breath of Fire V Dragon Quarter Mini Image Soundtrack was given away to attendees of the 2002 Tokyo Game Show and sold on Capcom's online store. A full soundtrack on two discs was released in December 2002 by Capcom's music label Suleputer. Dragon Quarter features the vocal song "Castle・imitation" by J-pop performer Chihiro Onitsuka as the game's ending theme, which was included on her 2002 album "Sugar High". In 2006, the soundtrack was included on the 11-disc Breath of Fire Original Soundtrack Special Box, containing music from every game in the series.

Reception
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter was the top-selling game in Japan during the week of its release in November 2002 at 80,059 copies. It went on to sell 140,073 copies by the end of that year, qualifying it for a re-release in July 2003 under Sony's "PlayStation the Best" label at a lower price. The game was given an 8.5 out of 10 average by Japanese Hyper PlayStation 2 magazine, and a 32 out of 40 score by Weekly Famitsu, earning it the magazine's silver award.

Many North American reviewers commented on the changes made between Dragon Quarter and earlier games in the Breath of Fire series, with Game Informer claiming that "If anything, Dragon Quarter will likely tear the Breath of Fire fan base apart...it's unlike anything you've experienced before" and IGN calling it "a tough pill to swallow for returning fans." IGN praised the title's "enormous" combat strategy, steam punk atmosphere, and soundtrack, calling the game's musical score "pure genius", but found its playtime of around ten hours to be low, calling it the "perfect RPG rental." GameSpot felt that, while Dragon Quarter combat system was enjoyable at first, it became less tactical as the game progressed, and that it "devolves into the sorts of slugfests typical of RPGs." The website commended the "inspired" character designs and their "realistic emotions" accentuating the game's serious tone. Electronic Gaming Monthly stated of the new battle system "[we] don't think [we]'ve ever had as much fun with RPG battles before," but felt the pacing hindered the story. GamePro said "an RPG sequel that couldn't be more different if it tried", commending its "astonishing" combat, but felt the forced repetition of the Scenario Overlay system and having to play through several times to see all the content was its biggest downfall. TechTV similarly felt the game's restart mechanics will either "inspire you or drive you mad", but found the "unique combat" and "attractive visuals" to be positive.

European reviewers similarly commented on the deviation from role-playing game standards. Play magazine found most of the changes beneficial, stating "[we] wanted something different too, but what [we] got instead is marvelous." Edge found its innovations to be mixed, but overall good, saying "Such bastard generic cross-pollination will be of keen interest to those who have pigeonholed the console RPG as yesterday's bread, as Dragon Quarter variously succeeds in its misfit marriage." The title ultimately received mostly positive reviews, with a 78% average score from the aggregate review websites GameRankings and Metacritic. Dragon Quarter was nominated for "Best Original Music in a Game" during GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2003 awards, and in 2004, IGN ranked the game 6th on its list of the "Top 12 Hidden Gems for the PlayStation 2", which included games that sold less than 135,000 copies in North America, or less than half of one percent of the console's user base, stating that "For one of the most popular role-playing franchises in the entire 32-bit era, the lackluster performance of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is nothing short of surprising."

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Gyeongju/archive1

Gyeongju
July Collaboration for the South Korean counties & cities WikiProject. Looking for advice on what should be added, subtracted, or polished in order to bring this article up to the highest standard. Thanks in advance! -- Visviva 03:58, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Very detailed and has a lot of information, but please re-organize the article because the table of content shows that the contributors sticked info into the article without organizing things. Some changes on the headers, and move some sections around. — Stevey7788 (talk) 17:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Is it any better now? I'm not really sure what standard to follow. -- Visviva 18:08, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Stevey7788's comments helped me to see the disorganized state of this article. (Thanks!) I've done a general reorg and edit, and I think I have solved a lot of the cohesion issues. I'd appreciate any feedback on what more needs to be done. For instance... would it be a good idea to spin off and summarize the "History" section? -- Visviva 15:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Music venues in New York City

Articles relating to music venues in New York City.

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Cohesion (chemistry)

In chemistry and physics, cohesion, also called cohesive attraction or cohesive force, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive. It is an intrinsic property of a substance that is caused by the shape and structure of its molecules, which makes the distribution of surrounding electrons irregular when molecules get close to one another, creating electrical attraction that can maintain a macroscopic structure such as a water drop. Cohesion allows for surface tension, creating a "solid-like" state upon which light-weight or low-density materials can be placed.

Water, for example, is strongly cohesive as each molecule may make four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. This results in a relatively strong Coulomb force between molecules. In simple terms, the polarity (a state in which a molecule is oppositely charged on its poles) of water molecules allows them to be attracted to each other. The polarity is due to the electronegativity of the atom of oxygen: oxygen is more electronegative than the atoms of hydrogen, so the electrons they share through the covalent bonds are more often close to oxygen rather than hydrogen. These are called polar covalent bonds, covalent bonds between atoms that thus become oppositely charged. In the case of a water molecule, the hydrogen atoms carry positive charges while the oxygen atom has a negative charge. This charge polarization within the molecule allows it to align with adjacent molecules through strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding, rendering the bulk liquid cohesive. Van der Waals gases such as methane, however, have weak cohesion due only to van der Waals forces that operate by induced polarity in non-polar molecules.

Cohesion, along with adhesion (attraction between unlike molecules), helps explain phenomena such as meniscus, surface tension and capillary action.

Mercury in a glass flask is a good example of the effects of the ratio between cohesive and adhesive forces. Because of its high cohesion and low adhesion to the glass, mercury does not spread out to cover the bottom of the flask, and if enough is placed in the flask to cover the bottom, it exhibits a strongly convex meniscus, whereas the meniscus of water is concave. Mercury will not wet the glass, unlike water and many other liquids, and if the glass is tipped, it will 'roll' around inside.

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W80 (nuclear warhead)

The W80 is a low to intermediate yield two-stage thermonuclear warhead deployed by the U.S. enduring stockpile with a variable yield ("dial-a-yield") of 5 or.

It was designed for deployment on cruise missiles and is the warhead used in all nuclear-armed ALCM and ACM missiles deployed by the US Air Force, and in the US Navy's BGM-109 Tomahawk. It is essentially a modification of the widely deployed B61 weapon, which forms the basis of most of the current US stockpile of nuclear gravity bombs. The very similar W84 warhead was deployed on the retired BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile.

It was designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Dimensions
The W80 is physically quite small: the physics package itself is about the size of a conventional Mk.81 250 lb bomb, 11.8 in in diameter and 31.4 in long, and only slightly heavier at about 290 lb.

Early development
The Los Alamos National Laboratory began development on the W80 in June 1976, with the brief of producing a custom weapon for the cruise missiles then under construction. With "the basic design" being derived from the B61. The main design differences are presumably a smaller secondary producing only 150 ktTNT yield (the B61 producing a maximum of 170 ktTNT in the tactical variants and 340 ktTNT in the strategic variants) and simplification of the design giving the weapon only two yield settings; 5 and 150 ktTNT.

Production of the W80 mod 1 (W80-1) to arm the ALCM started in January 1979, and a number of warheads had been completed by January 1981 when the first low-temperature test was carried out. To everyone's surprise the test delivered a much lower yield than was expected, apparently due to problems in the TATB based insensitive high explosives used to fire the primary. This problem turned out to affect several models of the B61-based line, and production of all weapons was suspended while a solution was worked on. Production restarted in February 1982.

In March 1982, designers began working on a W80 variant intended for the Navy's Tomahawk program. The W80 mod 0 (W80-0) used "supergrade" fission fuel, which has less radioactivity, in the primary in place of the conventional plutonium used in the Air Force's version. "Supergrade" is industry parlance for plutonium alloy bearing an exceptionally high fraction of Pu-239 (>95%), leaving a very low amount of Pu-240 which is a gamma emitter in addition to being a high spontaneous fission isotope. Such plutonium is produced from fuel rods that have been irradiated a very short time as measured in MW-Day/Ton burnup. Such low irradiation times limit the amount of additional neutron capture and therefore buildup of alternate isotope products such as Pu-240 in the rod, and also by consequence is considerably more expensive to produce, needing far more rods irradiated and processed for a given amount of plutonium. Submarine crew members routinely operate in proximity to stored weapons in torpedo rooms, in contrast to the air force where exposure to warheads is relatively brief. The first models were delivered in December 1983 and the Mod 0 went into full production in March 1984.

Production of the W80 was completed by September 1990, although the exact date at which the respective Mod 0 and Mod 1 runs ended is not clear. A total of 1750 Mod 1 and 367 Mod 0 devices were delivered; 1,000 Mod 1 devices were deployed on the original ALCM, another 400 on the later ACM, and 350 Mod 0s on the Tomahawk.

Some of the original ALCMs would later have their mod 1 warheads removed and instead be fitted with conventional warheads producing the CALCM conversion. Under START II only 400 ACMs would have retained their nuclear warheads, and the rest would have been converted to CALCMs and their warheads removed to the inactive stockpile.

2007 nuclear weapons incident
On August 30, 2007, six cruise missiles armed with W80-1 warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 and flown from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, on a mission to transport cruise missiles for decommissioning. It was not discovered that the six missiles had nuclear warheads until the plane landed at Barksdale, leaving the warheads unaccounted for, for over 36 hours. 5th Bomb Wing subsequently failed its nuclear surety inspection in late-May 2008. 2nd Bomb Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base took over the role until the wing was recertified on 15 August 2008.

W80-4 Refurbishment and LRSO
In 2014, a life extension program (LEP) for the W80-1 was started and the LEP warhead was given the W80-4 designation. The warhead will be used on the new AGM-181 LRSO cruise missile. The first production unit is expected to be completed in 2027. According to public descriptions of the program, the warhead will offer no increased military capability, only refurbishing and updating components, and increasing weapon safety and reliability.

In FY2022, the National Nuclear Security Administration requested funding for the W80-4 ALT-SLCM variant of the warhead, for use on a new US Navy sea-launched cruise missile to be deployed in the late 2020s.

In popular culture
The W80 nuclear warhead is featured in the movie, Never Say Never Again.

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Some notables need pages, like Irving Plaza, Joe's Pub, etc. --Madchester 04:04, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

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shouldnt we move off this list the places that closed?--Applegigs (talk) 21:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


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The Dead School

The Dead School is a 1995 novel by Irish writer Patrick McCabe.

Synopsis
Set in small-town Ireland, 'The Dead School' tells the intriguing story about two interacting characters: Raphael Bell, an old schoolmaster, and Malachy Dudgeon, a young teacher.

Like other novels by Patrick McCabe, both of the two main characters had troubled childhoods. The intertwining of the two results in the destruction of Raphael and the dramatic change of Malachy.

Malachy Dudgeon comes from a small suburban Irish town, from a dysfunctional family, existing under the guise of happiness, using the facade of happy Sunday mornings, whilst the adulteress mother and suicidal father continue to make devastating blows to their son, from which he never truly recovers, and chooses to escape into his world of imaginations, dreams and Americanisms.

On the other hand, Raphael Bell comes from a small rural Irish town, and is the apparent picture of perfection. Raphael constantly seeks attention, from singing: "Wee Hughie" at any available moment to succeeding at school. However Raphael's world is gravely affected when Black and Tan soldiers shoot his father in the chest before his eyes. From this moment on Raphael strives to uphold the virtues and traditions of old Ireland, and it is inevitably this inability to transgress and adjust into modern living that leads, unsurprisingly to his suicide.

The two protagonists become inextricably linked when Malachy joins the teaching staff at Raphael's prestigious boys boarding school, which he sees as his whole life's worth. An unfortunate science trip leads to the drowning of school boy, Pat Hourican and the unravelling of both Malachy and Raphael. Malachy loses his job, and then his girlfriend, Marion, to a wild member of a rock-band, and Raphael loses his job and mind, and then subsequently his wife, Nessa dies.

Whilst Malachy becomes a waster and alcoholic and moves to London, Raphael opens what he calls 'The Dead School'. With black bin bags at the windows and an uncontrollable amount of mess and disorder. He begins to teach imaginary classes about his own life, as madness becomes inherent in his everyday life.

As the novel concludes, Raphael's suicide occurs, as does his unattended funeral. Malachy returns to his hometown to care for his incapacitated mother, whom he once loathed, and there is a general air of depression, as the golden age of Ireland which Raphael had once loved is exchanged for stripjoints and graffiti. A downright thing.

Throughout the novel the narrator becomes more of a character in his own right, making allusions to his opinions, which constantly change, as the omniscient voice chooses to blame a variety of people for the disastrous events. The colloquial narrative is also crucial in building the narrators persona, and also adds to the idea of base culture, something around which the novel is centered. Many critics have hailed McCabe's novel as a member, or rather cornerstone of the subgenre "Bog Gothic". This refers to the specialist Irish Gothic, which has been penned for McCabe's novels.

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Talk:Ecstasy (emotion)

Comment 1
Street name for MDMA, a widely used, only illegal for 20 years, street drug.

Reference to religions and shamans.
There is an article in wikipedia on religious ecstasy, the reference to which is given at the beginning of this article. if there is no objection in 15 days, I'll move the reference to shamans, Buddhism and Christianity to that page.
 * Your proposition seems reasonable, but then there won't be much left on this page. Someone familiar with the subject needs to add examples of non-religious ecstasy. BrainyBroad 23:06, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Above portions moved. September 17, 2005

"Examples of non-religious ecstasy" can be triggered by beauty of nature or art, by all creative activities, sports, music, sex, drugs... A movement called "scientific pantheism" recommends meditation-like methods for achieving ecstatic states which they interpret as "experiences of unity between self and cosmos, between mind and body, between consciousness and matter". They involve no supernaturalia in explaining those experiences.

Sometimes a similar experience can just happen without any special circumstances, efforts or methods. In these cases people interpret it afterwards according to their culture and beliefs (eg. as a revelation from God, a trip to world of spirits or a psychotic episode).

Unfortunately I have found no good descriptions, "diagnostic criteria", theories etc. about ecstasy from the viewpoint of contemporary psychology and medicine. If they exist, they should be summarized in the article. --Hele 7 12:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Additions 1.Sept.2006
If some more experienced Wiki editor finds some useful information from this discussion page or elsewhere, please include it into article in proper form. If nobody reacts before 31 Aug. 2006, a wiki newbie with English as her third language will try to do this. --Hele 7 14:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I wrote something, but the style is too pseudoscientific. It should be more clear and simple, I will try to improve it in near future. References to M. Laski will be updated next week when some books reach the local library. Corrections, additions and especially reliable sources are very welcome. A characteristic example: www.sciencedirect.com found 532 articles with "ecstasy" in title, abstract or keywords. Among these only 5 had something to say about the topic of the article, 3 were purely symbolic uses of the word, all others about the drug MDMA. Miserable. Hele 7 11:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

other pages to be referenced from there
I am not currently in mood to solve this, so, for future reference: If disambiguation page will be made, the link to it should also be updated at Ecstasy (drug). Samohyl Jan 22:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ecstasy (1933 movie) - these two should be merged and named (film) according to policy
 * Ecstasy (movie)
 * Ecstasis - is it something different?
 * Technical Ecstasy maybe?
 * Ecstasy (scratch)

"Ecstatic experiences are typically momentary and ecstasies //typo in source, probably it should read: ecstatics// often stress the extreme brevity of these experiences. Very occasionally an ecstasy is said to last longer—up to, say, half an hour or so. But however long an ecstasy may be said to last, we never find that a succession of often widely different events and moods is felt to take place. Ecstasies may involve a single change of feeling from dread to delight, never the reverse; they may begin with feelings of withdrawal which change to feelings of intensity; most often only a single if progressively deepening tone of feeling is involved. For the duration of the ecstasy the ecstatic is out of touch with normal life and is capable neither of communication with other people nor of undertaking normal actions." "Ecstasy almost always takes place after contact with something regarded as beautiful or valuable or both." "Ecstatics often claim to see bright light, whether as a flash or as sustained brightness, during their experience; and they often claim that afterwards everything seems brighter, as if they were looking at the world with a newly cleansed vision." From website quoting book "Ecstasy in Secular and Religious Experiences", Marghanita Laski, 1990 Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher. ISBN: 0-87477-574-4. Hele 7 22:26, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Previous versions combined with a reference. A separate meaning moved here for a while.
Thanks to recent contributors. I tried to combine previous versions and quotes from M.Laski. Also I moved here the following paragraph from the previous version:

 * "It is used in philosophy usually to mean outside-of-itself. One's consiousness, for example, is not self-enclosed, one can be conscious of others that conceptually fall well outside of one's self-consciouness. In a sense, consciousness is usually, "outside of itself," in that its object is not itself. Another example this use is, that one can be "outside of oneself" in the sense that one is deeply focused on the past or future (ie, outside of the present)."

The reason to move it here for a while: this particular meaning of the word is not widely used (as seen from Google search) and it is different from other contributions to the article. If such usage of the term "ecstasy" in philosophy is an established practice, then it does not belong to "Ecstasy (emotion)" and needs a separate link from disambiguation page. Please continue working on the article. Hele 7 18:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I created instead a page ecstasy(Philosophy) though the emotion is also connected with this philosophic usage. Other than giving a dictionary definition of ecstasy or a google result (as suggested above), the encyclopedic article tries to summarise its usage by various scholars in the area. One thing I have a problem with in the ecstasy(Emotion) page is repeated references to being in a "trance", transported and closed off to others, this is perhaps related to some religious form of ecstasy, religious ecstasy has its own page. --Lucaas 01:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Well done. I linked your new page from the disambiguation page Ecstasy, please look if the summary is correct.

Yes, the word is used in philosophy often in its near-to-usual meaning (e.g. by Plotinus and neoplatonics), so I rearranged the paragraphs accordingly to achieve some continuity.

About being in trance, closed off to others - I think this is true for any intense ecstasy, religious or not. "Religious ecstasy" is not a different meaning of the word, but a subset of the phenomenon described under Ecstasy (emotion) and the subset is separated in basis of context and interpretation of the experience. Religious context and interpretation are not necessary for being closed to sensory input due to ecstasy and religious ecstasy is often interpreted as being open to God.

Also, I am not completely happy with title of the article Ecstasy (emotion) - probably "Ecstasy (state of consciousness)" would be better? Hele 7 12:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

German version - could somebody translate?
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekstase - thanks for the link. It seems to have some interesting material for including here, unfortunately my German is too poor to translate it and the babelfish gives nonsense. Could somebody help? Hele 7 17:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing citations
The article was tagged as missing citations or footnotes. There are some citations, footnotes are under the text and the weblinks work. I copied some sentences from the sources directly into text as quotes. Please indicate which parts of the text need more exact references. Also please help with formatting the quotes and references, I am not a frequent editor. About category - yes, ecstasy is different from most emotions (maybe "a state of consciousness?"), but the category "religion" is certainly not better for it. It feels like categorizing "thinking" under "crossword". Hele 7 01:51, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, sourced additions to "Studies by modern psychology" are greatly welcome. Hele 7 02:01, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Citations should be in-line and have page or, at least, chapter numbers. DCDuring 01:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Who says that ecstasy is an emotion ?
I don't believe it. Yes, it's a mental state. An emotion? Is an orgasm an emotion? Is hunger an emotion? Is nausea an emotion? Whose got some citations? I'm going to propose that it be moved to a different name and removed from the "emotion" catagory. DCDuring 01:07, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's that darn Emotion footer. (There is also one that goes along the side that has a somewhat different selection.) Anyone can stick it on a page and add their "emotion" to it. -- Mattisse 01:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Look at the comments under Ratings above. The rater agrees with you. -- Mattisse 01:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I removed the "emotions" sidebar which at least in Mozilla obstructed text too badly. Probably this article should be merged with article Religious ecstasy under name "Ecstasy (state of mind)" or something alike. Hele 7 17:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I believe it is less an emotion, and more a state of mine, a state of pure bliss, happiness, and relaxation Suppakid (talk) 20:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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Hello fellow Wikipedians,

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unsolved problems in religion

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The result of the debate was delete (14 delete, 4 keep). - Mgm|(talk) 23:23, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Unsolved problems in religion
The article is innately unable to achieve a neutral point of view. The concept of "unsolved problems" in religion is without basis, and may well be a contradiction in terms. Alterego 04:05, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV, original research, unverifiable. Bleah. -EDM 04:23, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, rant/personal essay. Editor can surely edit the existing religion articles if they don't cover these points (I highly suspect they do).  Dcarrano 05:48, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Almafeta 07:25, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm no fan of religion, but this article is pretty hopeless. Kairos 09:08, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. per EDM --Malathion 09:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I am totally in favour of using pages like Religion, Atheist and Arguments For/Against the Existence of God to discuss religion and its demerits. Wikipedia should have them. However, this is a poor page, which would have likely slipped through the POV net. Thansk for catching it now. Some of the content is undoubedly relevant (and I dont think it is original research, more original rant), but should not be here. Batmanand 11:14, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, perfectly proper and encyclopaedic topic james gibbon  16:00, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Smite — This topic would take an immensely massive, heavy tome to address, and even then it would purely PoV of the author. — RJH 18:38, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete DJ Clayworth 19:56, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, per EDM. - Mustafaa 21:38, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete No explanation need be given. --AI 02:22, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, inherently POV. Xoloz 15:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This will never be NPOV. The very concept is POV. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 23:21, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Preaky 04:15, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, Better to modify the approach than to remove the entry. Article deficiencies aside, not an inherently POV flawed topic. Colby 10:18, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Critiques of religion are better placed in other articles. Quale 18:02, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. These are not problems in the traditional sense of a puzzle to be resolved. Some of these entries reflect an inevitable conflict between belief systems.  As such, they are either unsolvable, easily solved (in the mind of a religion's adherents), or an inate attribute of religion itself.  (The subject matter is worth covering however, but not in this context.) --EMS | Talk 19:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are topics that are encyclopaedic but are also inherently view-based. NPOV is achieved by (1) a one-liner saying that this topic has an inherent POV of which the reader must be aware, (2) a link to a contrary POV, (3) someone expanding the topic by stating "unsolved problems" from various religions, etc. I agree with Colby (above) that the flaws are recoverable. Peter Ellis 04:02, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Every time I reread this article it gets worse. The title is completely misleading, as it suggests that the article is going to contain a discussion of actual problems that are soluble, or at least open to intricate philosophical debate, with reference to a particular set of faith assumptions (like, for example, the problem of evil).  That's not at all what this article is.  It would more appropriately be titled Flaws with religious belief or Reasons that religion is incompatible with society's now fully evolved rationality-based belief system—and to state that is to realize that the topic is inherently POV and therefore unencyclopedic.  I think Colby and Peter Ellis are overly optimistic in their assessment of the salvageability of this article.
 * Oh, and what's with the "topics for further discussion" at the end? When did this become Wikitextbook?
 * Je dirais même plus: Bleah. -EDM 04:34, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Back of the School Bus

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mgm|(talk) 23:25, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Back of the School Bus
falls under original research and is clearly NPOV, also non encyclopedic and cannot be accurately fact checked due to the fact that facts change from school bus to school bus Jtkiefer 04:08, July 15, 2005 (UTC) *This seems like an informative article, I vote for this to stay. (Unsigned vote by 205.188.116.65)
 * speedy delete - looks like vandalism to me -Satori 04:09, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * delete even if only for the bad taste. Hansonc 04:22, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (Unsigned vote by 205.188.116.65)
 * Speedy delete, looks like vandalism or a joke to me K1Bond007 04:52, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep This is a good article, User 205.116.65
 * Delete. Original research. Besides, who know that sockpuppets sat at the bacl of the bus. Capitalistroadster 05:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research/nonenyclopedic. Hush that fuss.  Dcarrano 05:37, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, original research, nonency. Very, very stupid. Danlovejoy 05:41, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * For some reason I found it an interesting and compelling read and persisted until the end instead of glancing at it and coming back to cast my inevitable vote. Speedy delete. Nonsense. — Trilobite (Talk) 06:33, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This seems kind of nonsensical. It cant be proven.  Brianchi 07:57, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unverifiable. It doesn't even state which country this school bus is from and it's miscapitalized. - Mgm|(talk) 08:25, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Hilarious, but this is not the place for it. Youngamerican 13:04, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete A crude piece of social commentary... but original research, somewhat rude (and inaccurate) and gerenally not for Wikipedia. Batmanand 15:35, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unverifiable is the best that can be said about it. DJ Clayworth 19:58, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. To quote my old youth pastor, "Hey, you, I ride the Short Bus. Hey, you, I lick the windows. Hey you, I wear a helmet — 'cause I bang my head, and it really hurts." Hermione1980 21:49, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Should qualify as "other deleted nonsense." --Titoxd 23:09, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm impressed by what this article has to say, and feel that it does have informative qualities.Firespike
 * User's first edit was to this VFD. Second, Quaker Steak and Lube, does not seem promising and other edits constitute speculation at best - Skysmith 08:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there a problem with Quaker Steak and Lube? FireSpike
 * Delete POV original research. JamesBurns 04:24, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Although, I must say, this definitely made me laugh. Themindset 18:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keepi think the artical is true because im on the back of the bus and i think if adults want to find out what may be going on with thare kids a millon times keep _a mom who cares_im also a high school dopout and im a hourrabel speller as you can see/
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Talk:A-wing

Hyperspace
Isn't an A-wing also seen coming out of hyperspace in the battle of Endor?

 * There were at least four. This picture shows four A-wings viewed from the bridge of the Home One immediately after the Rebel fleet arrived at Endor.  They couldn't have been launched and joined the formation so quickly; they traveled through hyperspace.  Rogue 9 20:42, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Image
Can anyone get their hands on a decent image of the A-Wing? It would really spruce up the article. -Deathsythe (talk) 14:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

First appearance
I'm pretty sure that an A-wing appears in Episode IV, A New Hope, during the preparatives before the attack of the Death Star at Yavin (in the hangar, while the ships are checked before take-off) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.135.3.220 (talk) 17:07, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

 * No. The designs were first created for RotJ. Star Wars had a limited design budget; RotJ, laden with big backing, allowed for the creation of a huge variety of new craft, including the A-wing. --EEMIV (talk) 00:40, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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FYI, I've emailed and twittered at Ali Arikan asking for permission to use one of the photos (the one with Harry and Hamill) from the Episode VIII set visit in this article. Fingers crossed. --EEMIV (talk) 03:09, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suncoast Primate Sanctuary

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mgm|(talk) 23:27, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Suncoast Primate Sanctuary
Obvious advertisement. Notability not established in article for the subject, and a google search pulls 328 hits. Delete. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 04:10, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy. Blatant advertizing. --Malathion 06:24, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Please bookmark our website to learn when the Grand Opening will be announced. Delete, blatant advertising. - Mgm|(talk) 08:26, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity/ad. --Etacar11 22:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy. A desperate attempt to get more hits on their website. -- Titoxd 23:11, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy. Monkeying around with blatant advertizing. UncleFloyd 05:03, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
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James H. Kindelberger

James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger (May 8, 1895 – July 27, 1962) was an American aviation pioneer. He led North American Aviation from 1934 until 1960. An extroverted character, Kindelberger was famed for his emphasis on hard work, orderliness and punctuality.

Early life
Kindelberger was born on May 8, 1895, in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Charles Frederick Kindelberger, a steelworker and Rose Ann Kindelberger.

Kindelberger dropped out of school in the 10th grade and started working in the steel industry with his father. He took correspondence courses to further his education. In 1916, when he was 21 years old, he went to study at the Carnegie Institute of Technology to pursue engineering.

His nickname, 'Dutch' referred to his descent from German (Deutsch) immigrants from Nothweiler, Pfalz.

In 1919, he married Thelma Knarr and they had two children.

Aviation career
During World War I, Kindelberger was a member of the US Army Air Service. He was a pilot instructor based at Park Field in Memphis, Tennessee. After the war, Kindelberger looked for work in aviation. In 1920, became chief draftsman and assistant chief engineer with the Glenn L. Martin Company in Cleveland, Ohio.

Kindelberger formed a lifelong working association with J. L. "Lee" Atwood when they met as young engineers at Douglas Aircraft Company in 1930, working on the DC-1 and DC-2 transports. Kindelberger worked as chief engineer and remained with Douglas for nine years.

The two left Douglas Aircraft in 1934, moving to North American Aviation. Atwood assumed the title of Chief Engineer, and Kindelberger was named president and General Manager. When they started at NAA, the company had orders for one passenger aircraft. Kindelberger managed to get a $1 million order for a military trainer, the North American BT-9.

World War II
In the summer of 1941, while United States was still a non-participant in World War II, the British Air Ministry asked North American Aviation to build Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters for the Royal Air Force, since the total output of the Curtiss factory was earmarked for USA military use. Kindelberger told his UK contacts that North American could create a better design, and completed the prototype of the P-51 Mustang in four months. In all, 42,000 aircraft were built by the company by the end of the war.

Post war
After World War II Atwood expected there would be a need for improved rocket engines based on those developed by the Germans for the V-2. The two decided in 1946 to invest $1 million in a rocket engine test facility in Santa Susana, California, and a supersonic wind tunnel at Los Angeles International Airport. This paid off when North American landed the contract to develop the Navaho, a rocket-boosted intercontinental cruise missile.

Kindelberger was promoted to chairman and chief executive officer in 1948, with Atwood replacing him as president.

The Navaho project allowed North American to develop expertise in rocket engines, inertial navigation systems, and supersonic aerodynamics. This in turn led to securing contracts for many advanced aerospace vehicles in the late 1950s – the X-15 crewed hypersonic spaceplane, the Hound Dog missile, and the XB-70 Valkyrie triple-sonic bomber. The XB-70 required the company to develop new materials, welding, and manufacturing processes.

Later life
In 1960, Kindelberger retired and Atwood took over as Chief Executive. Kindelberger remained chairman of the board until his death on July 27, 1962, due to congestive heart failure at the age of 67. Dr. Toby Freedman was his personal doctor and medical director at NAA. Dr. Freedman was with Kindelberger when he died. He is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Upon his death, Atwood became chairman of the board.

Legacy
Under his guidance, North American Aviation broke technological barriers; produced propeller- and jet-powered fighters and bombers, military trainers, rocket engines, and rocket-powered aircraft; and began its role as the prime contractor for the country's space program. Between 1935 and 1967, North American Aviation (under Kindelberger's direction) built more military aircraft than any other airplane maker in U.S. history.

In 1972, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

The International Aerospace Hall of Fame inducted Kindelberger in 1977.

Kindelberger was featured in a 2006 documentary by filmmaker William Winship, aired by PBS: Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon, which profiled five US aerospace pioneers:William Boeing, Donald Douglas, Dutch Kindelberger, Harrison Storms, and James McDonnell. The film included previously unreleased interviews, photos, and film footage of Kindelberger.

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