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Rewrite
Starting with the work that 68.110.10.136 did, I've completely rewritten the biography section to hopefully make it NPOV and clear up some of the language and spelling. I think it's substantially better (although possibly too detailed?). Feel free to help me out. - MordredKLB 23:05, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * I thought this should go here. Sorry, I'm still a wiki newb so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right but in the end of one of the pargraphs there is a sentence that reads badly

 * "Billy stated in an interview for the sound of the record was by conflicting decisions on what sound the album should have been recorded."

 * Should this be fixed up or?

CharlieHAus 07:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Unfairness towards the Ritual
Now true even though the Ritual did not sell very well, many would say that 3 of Testaments 10 best songs are on that album. To this day many Thrash fans consider these 4 tracks, So Many Lies, The Ritual, Electric Crown, and Return to Serenity classics. I'm editing a little.

I think it is one of the band's best albums. Very underrated. - Markendust
 * Did it sell poorly? It was their highest charting in the US --MartinUK 18:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Markendust, although diehard, longtime Testament fans may disagree. But I thought The Ritual was their best album ever. Of course... that's just my personal opinion. BucsWeb (talk) 16:47, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

 * MartinUK has a point, I checked and The Ritual indeed is their highest charting album, who would it have sold more poorly than others?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.130.22.174 (talk) 16:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Album cover
Can someone tell me who the artist is who did the cover of ''Low? Thanks. -Freekee 04:29, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

The booklet says "Cover design, illustration and photography by Dave McKean @ Hourglass"

Authrom 00:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Jaxx Show Song Debut
"In July 2007, the band played a show at Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, VA, with Paul Bostaph filling in on drum duties. The band debuted a new song, currently entitled "Not Afraid", another new song, "The Afterlife", was debuted at the Earthshaker Fest."

I was there and I'm pretty sure that it was "The Afterlife" that was played. http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=27495 this also confirms it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flib (talk • contribs) 23:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Band line-up
Isn't the line-up table a bit.. messy? I mean, other bands have neat tables, similar to a time-line. I'd edit this myself but I have no clue :)

Authrom 00:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

if someone could edit it that would be great i would but i don't know how i figured someone on here would be able to if i posted the lineups. I can figure out the years if we need them but most of the changes happend really quickly so its hard to pinpoint exact time.

also someone deleted it because there are lineups posted for the discography but that doesn't cover all lineups. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.54.188 (talk) 20:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Testament Lineups
I used the weblink below along with information already on wikipedias testament page to put down all lineups. I can't figure out where Chris Kontos fits in. please help with adding the dates to how long each lineup was together, but i know that except for Chris the lineups are correct. I know there is a lineup for each member that recorded but it isn't detailed enough.

http://www.rockdetector.com/officialbio,8962.sm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.54.188 (talk) 07:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have been reverting this revision because it appears to me superfluous given the other lists and is confusing/difficult to read (see the Manual of Style). If, however, some editors feel strongly that every member past and present should be in some sort of list form, then I suggest creating an article that resembles List of Iron Maiden band members so as to increase readability. Nufy8 (talk) 20:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Del James has credits all over, I would suggest maybe putting him under "Touring Members" in a "Collaborator" section? He's might not be the only person to write/perform with Testament without being an actual band member. --West Horizon (talk) 05:48, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Death Metal
I added Death Metal to the genre box...There are numerous times that this subgenre has been listed on the main article as well as in album descriptions, and when listening to it myself I've heard quite a few songs that sound "death metally." "The Gathering" is supposed to be influenced by death metal, as well as "Demonic" is supposed to be outright death metal, with thrash guitars, ofcourse. I think it's fair that this addition should stay 72.72.222.152 (talk) 22:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Not really. The three listed are enough. Fair Deal (talk) 02:36, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The genres Groove metal and Death metal are mentioned in the Album articles "Gatherig", "Demonic" and "Low".Solino the Wolf (talk) 21:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Just because it's listed doesn't go for much and just passes as original research now until a source ermm... I mean reliable source is used as a reference. FireCrystal (talk) 21:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was consensus not to move; the band is not quite as well known as the holy books of two of the world's major religions.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:46, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Why was this consensus added to a genre discussion section? 72.72.212.58 (talk) 02:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Move
Move the article to simply Testament as it is the most important article with that exact name [just Testament] and --Testament-- counld be moved to Testament (disambiguation).--  Rockk3r       Spit it Out!  03:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose. The band is definitely not the most common usage of the word "testament". It is just as commonly used to refer to the parts of the Bible or a will. The disambiguator is just fine. Xnux   the   Echidna  03:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - clearly not the most common usage of the word -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:55, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - DITTO. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As stated several times above, this is not the most common meaning of the word. Wilhelm meis (talk) 22:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Bizarre proposal IMO. Andrewa (talk) 21:17, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose - When people search for testament they would likely be looking for Old and New testament not some non-notable band. --SkyWalker (talk) 15:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Testament quote from the Simpsons
I don't have the exact quote with me right now, but I remember Reverend Lovejoy mentioning that "the Christian Rock Styling of Testament will be performing in the Church" with Bart replying "all the good bands are associated with Satan." Should that be including as a reference to pop culture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.247.98.155 (talk) 19:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

First Strike Still Deadly as a studio album
I think "First Strike Still Deadly" should be listed in the discography section of this article. Yeah, I know that album contains only re-recordings of their older material, but they were recorded in a studio, so it should be counted as a studio album in the discography section, just like the Suicidal Tendencies album "Still Cyco After All These Years", which also has some re-recorded material but has been referred to as a studio album. A lot of sources refer to "The Formation of Damnation" as the follow-up to "The Gathering" and the biography on Testament's official website doesn't even mention "First Strike Still Deadly". What's confusing is that, on Wikipedia, it's referred to as a compilation album, yet on the Wikipedia article of "The Formation of Damnation", it says it's their first album since "First Strike Still Deadly". Like I said, even though "First Strike Still Deadly" has some re-recorded material, I think it should be changed to a studio album since it was recorded in a studio. In fact, Discogs, Rate Your Music, Encyclopedia Metallum and Allmusic.com all list "First Strike Still Deadly" as a standard album rather than a compilation. Thoughts? 2602:306:BDA9:8610:690C:94B4:FAFB:C239 (talk) 17:09, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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4 million sold albums
This can hardly be true since Overkill, similar band in terms of popularity, have sold at least 16 million albums, as stated in related article. Previous information about 20 million sold albums seems to be more real. Maybe there is smth wrong with the source or maybe Chuck was trying to something else? I also have to say that metbash.ru is not a reliable source even in Russian Wikipedia. --HeadsOff (talk) 21:32, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * 16 million for Overkill is obvious nonsense. Megadeth, the second most mopular band in genre with many platinum albums, have sold about 25-30 million. Cannibal Corpse, the most popular death metal band of all time, with close values of sales and chart positions, have only "achieved worldwide sales of two million units for combined sales of all their albums". A pure fanboyism. -- Yahuram (talk) 21:32, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * There is a source stating 16 million albums by Overkill, and there is also a source stating Megadeth have sold 50 million albums. Furthermore, metbash is not a reliable source even in Russian Wikipedia. HeadsOff (talk) 22:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Where fans and authors find those absurd sales figures for thrash bands?
 * Metallica: 58 million by SoundScan, 120 million worldwide. Ok.
 * Megadeth: 9 million by SoundScan, ostensibly 50 million worldwide. What?!
 * Testament: 1.4 million by SoundScan, ostensibly 14 million worldwide. No comments.
 * Overkill: 0.6 million by SoundScan, ostensibly 16 million worldwide! Facepalm.
 * Show me those mysterious countries where people buy all these tons of albums. Even the biggest European extreme cults, such as In Flames or Cradle of Filth, have sales figures of about 3-4 million throughout their career. And they have a lot more followers on Facebook or listeners on Last.fm than Testament, Overkill, Exodus, etc. By the way, my source is not metbash forum or something, this is Decibel Magazine.
 * 25 million for Megadeth, 4 million for Testament and about 2 million for Overkill would be far more correct numbers in all senses. -- Yahuram (talk)

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Claims of band members being influenced by other artists is unsourced and I am contesting this info. If no one is able to source these, I intend to remove them as per WP:V.  Rob van  vee  06:55, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I agree. Many "influences" are referring to Allmusic (page "Similar artists"), which can hardly be a reliable source. HeadsOff (talk) 15:50, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Auto independence

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This article needs working on or improving! US-CENTRIC, needs to be qualified.User:SatuSuro 08:17, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

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Livio Dante Porta

Livio Dante Porta (21 March 1922 – 10 June 2003) was an Argentine steam locomotive engineer. He is particularly remembered for his innovative modifications to existing locomotive systems in order to obtain better performance and energy efficiency, and reduced pollution. He developed the Kylpor and Lempor exhaust systems. The Lemprex was under development at the time of his death.

Early years

Porta was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, and studied civil engineering, concluding his studies in 1946, at a time when steam was already giving way to diesel and electric locomotives in Europe and North America.

Career
Naturally, Porta's first projects were in Argentina. Taking the work of Andre Chapelon in France as his starting point, he set out to demonstrate that the steam locomotive was far from reaching its maximum potential. His first locomotive project in 1948 took the remains of a 4-6-2 converting it into a 4-cylinder compound 4-8-0 named 'Presidente Peron'/'Argentina'. This machine, Porta's first project, still holds a number of locomotive efficiency records.

Porta moved to Patagonia in 1957 as general manager of the Red de Ferrocarril Industrial de Rio Turbio coal railway (Ramal Ferro Industrial Río Turbio) in Santa Cruz - see also Rio Turbio Railway; his work allowed the steam locomotive fleet to remain in service for another 40 years. In 1960 he returned to Buenos Aires to become head of thermodynamics at the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI). His writings on steam technology are voluminous, and whilst most of his papers remain unpublished, some 26 of them have been transcribed and published by the Advanced Steam Traction Trust.

In early 1983 Porta and his family moved to the United States to work on steam locomotive development for the American Coal Enterprises project. This was the only time in his life he lived outside of Argentina for any great length of time. Porta was among the co-inventors listed for the project's patent which was filed in 1980 and issued in 1984. After the collapse of this project he returned to Argentina in 1986, with further work being undertaken in that country as well as in Brazil and Paraguay. In 1992 Porta was contracted by the Cuban government to implement an extensive project on rational use of energy, which included modern steam rail traction as well as general industrial steam modernisation of power stations and sugar mill plants. His final steam project was the development of a steam bus in the capital of Buenos Aires along with Gustavo Durán; Porta had already designed a modern steam car whilst at INTI during 1970.

Porta's influence
Porta continued advancing steam technology right up to the time of his death: from the mid-1990s he worked for the Cuban Sugar Ministry (Minaz) on locomotives using new fuels such as bagasse; he also considerably influenced many later steam projects worldwide, notably those of David Wardale and the 5AT Project, Phil Girdlestone, Roger Waller, Shaun McMahon, and Nigel Day.

In 2001 he supported Shaun McMahon's heavy rebuilding and modification of a gauge Garratt locomotive for the Southern Fuegian Railway that had been produced in Argentina in 1994. McMahon included larger cross section for tubing, insulation of the boiler and improved front end as well as combustion system in line with Porta's teachings over the years; the economy of this modern steam engine was improved vastly, more than doubling train length. As a tribute to Porta's lifetime work and in celebration of his upcoming 80th birthday, McMahon named the locomotive "Ing. L.D. PORTA" when it was presented to the public on 11 December 2001. A second Garratt with similar technical specifications was built by Phil Girdlestone in South Africa and delivered to the FCAF in 2006. A third is now under construction again with similar technical features, in Ushuaia.

Family
He was a devoted family man and he and his wife, Ana Marie, had four children. One of his three sons died of cancer at an early age. On 7 July 1976, during Argentina's Dirty War, his daughter was taken at gunpoint from her home and never seen again.

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John O'Dowd

John Fitzgerald O'Dowd (born 10 May 1967) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann since 2003. He has served as Minister for Infrastructure from May to October 2022, and again since 2024. He served as Minister for Education in the Stormont Executive from 2011 to 2016. He briefly took on the duties of deputy First Minister in 2011 while Martin McGuinness ran in the 2011 Irish presidential election.

Early career
O'Dowd was born in 1967 in Tullylish, a rural community between Lurgan and Banbridge. He had trained as a chef before engaging in politics. He began his political career serving for 14 years as a councillor on Craigavon Borough Council and previously served as a school governor. O'Dowd has served as Chair of Upper Bann Sinn Féin and a member of the party's Six County Executive, O'Dowd was leader of the Sinn Féin group on Craigavon Council. In 2003 he was elected as MLA for Upper Bann and in 2005 unsuccessfully contested the same-named Westminster constituency. Between 2007 and 2011 he was Sinn Féin group leader in the Assembly and served as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee before becoming a member of the Education Committee in 2008.

On the 13 May 2022, he was confirmed as the 'caretaker' Infrastructure Minister replacing Nichola Mallon of the SDLP who failed to retain her seat in the previous weeks election. He took office on 16 May 2022.

Acting deputy First Minister
After Sinn Féin nominated Martin McGuinness as its candidate in the 2011 Irish presidential election, O'Dowd took over the duties of deputy First Minister on a temporary basis from 20 September to 31 October 2011.

Personal life
O'Dowd is married and has three children.

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General Staff Academy

General Staff Academy may refer to:

 * General Staff Academy (Russia) (formerly the Soviet General Staff Academy)
 * General Staff Academy (Imperial Russia), or Nicholas General Staff Academy

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The Fairyland Story

The Fairyland Story (フェアリーランドストーリー) is a platform arcade video game developed and published by Taito in 1985. In the game, the player controls the witch Ptolemy, with the objective being to clear the screen of all enemies. Ptolemy can use her wand to turn the enemies into large cakes, which she can then push off of platforms onto other enemies, which will squash them and award bonus points. Various items that increase Ptolemy's projectile radius, as well as kill multiple enemies at the same time, will also appear throughout the stages.

Gameplay has been compared to later Taito platform games, such as Bubble Bobble and The NewZealand Story. It has been ported to various home systems, and has seen releases in various Taito compilations.

Gameplay
The Fairyland Story is a platform arcade game. The player controls the witch Ptolemy through a series of single-screen stages, with the objective being to defeat all of the enemies on each screen. Ptolemy's main weapon is her projectile magic, which will temporarily transform the enemies into large cakes. While in a "caked" form, the enemies can be destroyed either by further magic attacks or by being dropped off a platform, possibly squashing other enemies below. Squashing more than one enemy results in an award of more points and, sometimes, in extra bonuses. 2000 points are awarded for squashing an enemy below a cake, with each additional enemy doubling the number of points awarded. If two or more enemies are killed at once in one spot, a coin will appear in that spot, which may be collected for additional points, and if more are collected, will multiply in points, so as long the player doesn't lose a life.

Ptolemy's enemies are based upon typical fantasy beings - these include Orcs, pig-like soldiers, Salamanders,  dragon-like creatures that can breathe fire, Wizards,  mages that can make Ptolemy shrink and disappear, Clerics,  bishops who can multiply themselves, Golems,  and Wraiths,  hooded creatures can phase through Ptolemy's magic. If Ptolemy takes too long to clear a level of a last remaining enemy, eventually that enemy will disappear without an award of points. If, however, Ptolemy takes too long to clear more than one enemy from the level, a flying devil, named Horned, appears to kill Ptolemy. The devil is invulnerable to Ptolemy's magic, and the only way to survive is for Ptolemy to kill all remaining enemies.

Ptolemy's deaths are animated in different ways, depending on the enemy who kills her. She can sometimes collect some utility bonuses which increase her power and range of her magic for a short while or offensive bonuses that, most usually, result in the cake-ification and destruction of all on-screen enemies. At various intervals between levels, an intermission screen appears during the game showing Ptolemy riding on the back of a large, wingless blue dragon named Rodemy.

Development and release
The Fairyland Story was released by Taito in Japan in July 1985 and in North America later that year. It was designed by Hiroshi "ONIJUST" Tsujino, best known for designing The Ninja Warriors, with music composed by Y. Tsuchida, and sound effects done by Tadashi Kimijima. While working at Taito's Yokohama Institute, Tsujino drafted an idea for a game where the player had to defeat enemies by crushing them under large cakes, which he claims to be partly inspired by his addiction to Namco's Dig Dug. Early versions of the game were said to have been "monotonous" and left Tsujino largely unhappy with the outcome — being inspired by Broderbund's Lode Runner for the Apple II, he gave the game a larger emphasis on strategy and memorization, featuring reworked stage designs. The game's final boss took a week to complete. Executives at Taito were against the idea of the game having an ending and demanded that the team remove it, but Tsujino ignored their request.

Conversions
An MSX port, developed and published by Hot-B, was released around 1987. This port featured new stages not found in the arcade version. The port also featured two new enemies, the Iron Golem, which is the same as the Golem enemy but immune to Ptolemy's magic, and Fleck, an enemy that can use the same magic as Ptolemy. Later, a Sharp X68000 port was developed and published by SPS, and was released around 1991. Unlike the MSX port, however, this was a more straightforward port of the arcade version. It added several features not found in the original arcade version, like level progress and high score saving, and the choice between two soundtracks, the choices being an emulation of the original soundtrack, or a remixed soundtrack. In 2003, a port was made available for Japanese mobile phones via the I-mode and EZweb network services. Some of the music from this port appears in a soundtrack album for mobile games made by Taito. Emulated versions of the original arcade version would later be included on the arcade collections Taito Legends 2, Taito Memories Jokan, Taito Memories Pocket, Taito Legends Power-Up. A port of the game was released worldwide in December 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as part of the Arcade Archives initiative by Hamster Corporation. This port features online leaderboards and new gameplay modes. The Arcade Archives port was later featured on Taito Milestones. The game is featured on the Taito Egret II Mini as part of the system's default 40-game lineup.

A NES version of the game developed by TOSE was set to be released in 1986, but was cancelled.

Reception and legacy
Retrospective views on The Fairyland Story have been mixed to positive. A mini review of the game in a The NewZealand Story retrospective in an issue of Retro Gamer claimed the game as "nothing special" due to its level designs and simplistic gameplay mechanics. PlayStation Official Magazine - UK, while reviewing Taito Legends Power Up, unfavorably compared it to Parasol Stars, referring to it as a "dress rehearsal" for Parasol Stars. When criticizing the fact that Bubble Bobble was a locked game in Taito Memories Jokan, Hardcore Gamer said that while one could "make do" with it and Don Doko Don, ultimately stated that it was "decaf when you want espresso". When reviewing Taito Legends 2, Eurogamer wrote that the game was "hugely additive", although criticized it for the lack of co-op play. A more in-depth retrospective review on the game by Hardcore Gaming 101 was more positive, praising the game for its detailed graphics (for the time) and its risk-versus-reward gameplay elements. While criticizing the game for being too punishing for beginner players, and for denying players the right to continue on rounds 99 through 101, they said that the game was "highly recommended" for people that are "into cute platformer games and/or Bubble Bobble-like games". However, it was noted that the Sharp X68000 version was the best way to play the game, due to the addition of the save system, as well as the fact that it lets players continue anytime they liked.

The game's inclusion in Taito Milestones has similarly led to a mixed to positive response. Some review sites, like multiplayer.it, Gaming Age, and TouchArcade, praised it for its mechanics, with some minor criticisms from the latter two. Others like Hardcore Gamer and Nintendo World Report unfavorably compared it to Bubble Bobble.

The Fairyland Story is often considered to be one of the spiritual predecessors to Bubble Bobble, mostly due to the similar gameplay mechanics. Gameplay elements and power-ups from The Fairyland Story would later be used in The NewZealand Story. A block formation that resembles Ptolemy appears as a hidden level in The NewZealand Story. A hidden world in Rainbow Islands, called Magical Island, is based on The Fairyland Story. The Worm enemy would later appear in both Don Doko Don and Don Doko Don 2.

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Pisces Dwarf

The Pisces Dwarf, also known as Pisces I, is an irregular dwarf galaxy that is part of the Local Group. The galaxy, taking its name from the constellation Pisces where it appears, is suspected of being a satellite galaxy of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). It displays a blueshift, as it is approaching the Milky Way at 287 km/s. It may be transition-type galaxy, somewhere between dwarf spheroidal and dwarf irregular. Alternatively, it may be a rare, but statistically acceptable, version of one of the two types.

History
It was discovered by Valentina Karachentseva in 1976.

Star formation history
Apparently, the star formation rate in the Pisces Dwarf has been declining for the past 10 billion years. Most of the galaxy's stars were formed in its early years, about 8 billion years ago. The study has also shown that there has been no significant star formation for the past 100 million years. Hence, most of the stars that populate this galaxy are old, metal-rich stars aged about 2.5 billion years. However, there are small clusters of young, hot, blue stars on the outer areas of the galaxy.

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Melyssa Ford

Melyssa Savannah Ford (born November 7, 1976) is a Canadian media personality, actress, and former video vixen. Since 2022, she has co-hosted The Joe Budden Podcast alongside broadcaster and former rapper Joe Budden.

Early life
Melyssa Savannah Ford was born on November 7, 1976, in Toronto, Ontario. Ford is of mixed-race, with her father having roots in Barbados, and her mother of Norwegian and Russian descent.

She attended York University, majoring in the field of forensic psychology.

Career
In the late 1990s, music video director Little X discovered Ford, who was in her early 20s, while she was working as a bartender at a Toronto nightclub and helped launch her modelling career. She has appeared in music videos, men's magazines, television programs and films. Ford was an on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio's Hot Jamz channel. She formerly sold a line of calendars and a DVD.

In a 2008 CNN interview, Ford explained that when making music videos she often asked herself whether she was "perpetuating a negative stereotype" about black women. When she was asked whether music videos, overall, are "demeaning to women", Ford replied, "Yes, I definitely have to say that".

From June 2014 to January 2015, Ford participated in the Bravo Network television series Blood, Sweat & Heels, documenting her social life against the background of her struggles of becoming a realtor in New York.

In 2016, Ford became a co-host of Hollywood Unlocked, a Los Angeles-based hip-hop and pop culture radio show. Ford returned to the show in April 2019 following her car accident in June 2018. In November 2019, Ford launched a podcast on YouTube called I'm Here for the Food. The podcast featured a host of guests and covered a range of topics, including colourism, human trafficking, and forgiveness. The podcast last aired in November 2020. On August 24, 2020, Ford announced she would no longer be co-hosting Hollywood Unlocked.

After several years in Los Angeles, Ford moved back to the New York Metropolitan area in 2022, becoming a co-host on The Joe Budden Podcast.

Personal life
In June 2018, Ford was seriously injured in a car crash involving an 18-wheeler truck. She suffered a skull fracture and concussion.

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Foot soldier (disambiguation)

Foot soldier is a generic term for members of the infantry.

Foot soldier may also refer to:
 * The Foot Soldiers, a comic book originally published by Dark Horse Comics
 * Padatik (poetry collection) (Foot Soldier), a 1940 book of poetry by Bengali poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay
 * Foot Soldier, a 1998 television program on the History Channel, hosted by Richard Karn
 * Characters in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series who belong to the Foot Clan
 * "Foot Soldier", a song by American rapper Rich Homie Quan from the 2018 album Rich as in Spirit
 * "Foot Soldier", a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, a b-side from her 2001 single "Hidden Place".
 * Dan Schneider

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Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres was middle-distance running event on the athletics programme at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was held on July 14 and July 16, 1900. The races were held on a track of 500 metres in circumference. 18 athletes from seven nations competed. The event was won by Alfred Tysoe of Great Britain, the nation's first medal in the event. The United States also won its first medals in the 800 metres, with silver and bronze.

Background
This was the second appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. None of the runners from 1896 returned. Among the favorites were Alexander Grant of the United States (1899 AAU one-mile champion) and Alfred Tysoe of Great Britain (1897 AAA one-mile champion).

Bohemia, Denmark, Italy, and the United States appeared in the event for the first time. France, Great Britain, and Hungary each made their second appearance, having also appeared in 1896.

Competition format
There were two rounds: heats and a final. There were three heats, of between 5 and 7 runners each. The top 2 runners in each heat advanced to the final.

Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1900 Summer Olympics.

In the first heat of the first round David Hall set a new Olympic record with 1:59.0.

Semifinals
In the first round, there were three semifinals. The top two runners in each advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
Hall's Olympic record time surprised most of those present, as Tysoe had been the favorite in the heat.

Semifinal 2
Deloge finished three yards in front of Spiedl, with the other runners trailing.

Semifinal 3
Cregan won the slowest of the three heats by six yards.

Final
Deloge led early, but was passed just before the final straight by Tysoe and Cregan. Hall, who had set an Olympic record in the heats, was just barely able to catch Deloge to finish third, but had no chance of passing the two leaders.


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David Grimal

David Grimal (born 1973) is a French violinist. He started to play the violin at the age of five. He won First Prize in violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1993. Afterwards he did his postgraduate studies with Régis Pasquier. He also enriched and deepened his musicality by studying with such personalities as Philippe Hirschhorn, Shlomo Mintz, Isaac Stern. He is the son of Egyptologist Nicolas Grimal and the grand-son of Latinist Pierre Grimal. Mathematician Pierre Colmez is Grimal's first cousin.

Activities
David Grimal pursues an international career as a solo violinist, which has seen him performing regularly over the past twenty years in the world's leading classical music venues and with prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Berliner Symphoniker, New Japan Philharmonic, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach, Michel Plasson, Michael Schønwandt, Peter Csaba, Heinrich Schiff, Lawrence Foster, Emmanuel Krivine, Mikhail Pletnev, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Péter Eötvös, Andris Nelsons, Christian Arming, among others...

He has been the honoured recipient of dedicated works by various composers, among whom are counted Marc-André Dalbavie, Brice Pauset, Thierry Escaich, Jean-François Zygel, Alexander Gasparov, Victor Kissine, Fuminori Tanada, Richard Dubugnon, Ivan Fedele, Philippe Harrowing, Anders Hillborg, Oscar Bianchi, Guillaume Connesson, Frederic Verrières, Richard Dubugnon and Eric Montalbetti.

An indefatigable researcher, he re-examines the early music repertory and in particular explores historically informed performance practice with such musicians as Andreas Staier, Brice Pauset, Mathieu Dupouy and Maude Gratton.

David Grimal teaches violin at the Musikhochschule, in Saarbrücken, Germany. He also presides over many Master Classes and was a member of the jury for the Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris, in 2010.

He was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministre de la Culture in 2008.

Les Dissonances
In addition to pursuing his career as a solo artist, David Grimal has been keen to explore more personal projects. The liberty afforded by his collaboration with Les Dissonances has enabled him to develop his inner universe by venturing into repertoires not available to soloists. With Les Dissonances, he has founded “L’Autre Saison”, a series of concerts performed to the benefit of and with homeless people in the Église Saint-Leu, in the very heart of Paris.

Artistic direction
Inspired by his experience with Les Dissonances, David Grimal develops projects as artistic director with other orchestras and regular ensembles. David Grimal rehearses the entire concert programme with the musicians in order to prepare them to play without a conductor at the concert. He shares the platform with them also by performing a concerto. He is invited by many orchestras to work with them and play the great violin concertos, notably Budapesti Vonosok, Anima Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orchestra Sinfonica de Murcia, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Lorraine, National Orchestra of Metz, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Taipei Symphony Orchestra…

Instrument
David Grimal plays the Ex Roederer, Stradivarius (1710) lent by Fazenda Ipiranga, Mguaranesia / MG, Brasil. He was awarded the European Culture Prize at Wiener Musikverein in 1996. France made him Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 2008.

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Talk:Negative temperature

I do exist. I do, I do, I do!
Had to laugh. Several comments were made as to the non-existence or bee-ess-ness of this topic. I suppose it would appear a bit hard to understand to the non-physics majors amongst us (myself included). However, after reading a couple articles it is apparent that it does indeed exist but probably only in that lofty realm of quantum physics (where all bets are off for the time being). Perhaps it will be the basis of transporter devices of the future! LOL Anyhow, a few links for those pondering edits to this and related articles:

E. T. Janes' 1964 paper, Boltzmann vs. Gibbs Entropies, published in American Journal of Physics in 1965.

What is the conceptual difference between Gibbs and Boltzmann entropies?

Gibbs Entropy, Negative Energy - discussion on Physics Forum

The Thomas Oikonomou -- the Physicist not the Greek actor -- paper on Clausius vs. Boltzmann-Gibbs Entropies.

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Please revise grammar
I can't understand this sentence at all:

> Confined point vortices are a system with bounded phase space as their canonical momenta are not independent degrees of freedom from their canonical position coordinates

StainlessSteelScorpion (talk) 23:07, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Thermodynamic equilibrum
Are these systems even in thermodynamic equilibrium? It sounds like from the descriptions that most of these will spontaneously exchange energy with additional degrees of freedom that are not being considered but will (always?) have some finite positive temperature. Is this truly a meaningful definition of temperature, or is it akin to saying v can exceed c because KE=1/2 mv^2 by disregarding the domain over which our equations are valid? And can these negative temperature values be used in a meaningful way in other thermodynamic calculations?150.203.179.56 (talk) 04:44, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

New Article
"Science News" February 9, 2013, Page 10. "Hottest temp is as negative one: New record reached with ultracold gas at high temperature" by Andrew Grant. (It's in the "In the News section".) RJFJR (talk) 20:06, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * found the online link RJFJR (talk) 20:07, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That link is broken. 2600:1702:1DE0:8FB0:109D:7D7:8939:A1C5 (talk) 18:25, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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David Jackson

Dave or David Jackson may refer to:

David Jackson (Jacksons singer, 1949-2018)

Academics

 * David Jackson (art historian) (born 1958), British professor of Russian and Scandinavian art histories
 * David J. Jackson, American political science professor
 * David M. Jackson, Canadian mathematics professor

Arts and entertainment

 * David Noyes Jackson (1922–2001), American writer, collaborator of James Merrill
 * David Jackson (actor) (1934–2005), British actor
 * David Jackson (rock musician) (born 1947), English musician and former member of the band Van der Graaf Generator
 * David Jackson (director) (active since 1983), American television director and writer
 * David Jackson (comics), American comic-book letterer and artist of Warrior

Politics and law

 * David S. Jackson (1813–1872), American politician, U.S. Representative from New York
 * David Jackson (Manitoba politician) (1852–1925), Canadian politician in Manitoba
 * David Jackson (Australian politician) (1889–1941), member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * David Francis Jackson (fl. 1985–1987), Australian jurist on List of judges of the Federal Court of Australia
 * David Jackson (judge), Australian jurist, judge in the Supreme Court of Queensland
 * David D. Jackson (born 1946), Kansas state legislator

Boxing

 * David Jackson (Ugandan boxer) (born 1949), Ugandan boxer
 * David Jackson (New Zealand boxer) (1955–2004), New Zealand boxer
 * David Jackson (American boxer) (born 1976), American Olympic boxer

Other sports

 * David Jackson (footballer, born 1937), English footballer
 * David Jackson (cricketer) (born 1953), English cricketer
 * David Jackson (footballer, born 1958), English footballer
 * David Jackson (golfer) (born 1964), American professional golfer
 * Dave Jackson (ice hockey) (born c. 1964), Canadian National Hockey League referee
 * David Jackson (American football) (born 1965), American football player
 * David Jackson (basketball, born 1982), American basketball player in Novo Basquete Brasil and Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol
 * Paddy Jackson (David Patrick Lindsay James Jackson, born 1992), Irish rugby player

Others

 * David Jackson (delegate) (1747–1801), American physician, delegate to Continental Congress for Pennsylvania
 * David Edward Jackson (1788–1837), American explorer, frontiersman, and trapper
 * D. Hamilton Jackson (1884–1946), civil rights leader, resident of the United States Virgin Islands
 * Dave Jackson (Maine game warden) (1902–1978), American game warden, Allagash Wilderness Waterway guide
 * Oliver David Jackson (1919–2004), Australian Army officer
 * David Jackson (Seeking Alpha), American entrepreneur, founder of Seeking Alpha in 2004

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Healing Device

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus, article has been redirected -- Francs2000 | Talk 12:25, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Healing Device

 * Delete-There is not enough information about this to make a full article, therefore this would be considered Stargate-cruft. The entry on the technology page that links to it is alright. If you cannot think of any other "healing device" then this has to go.--Zxcvbnm 23:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Hand Device. JamesBurns 06:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Robin Finck

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Via Google Images I found that the Portugese Wikipedia has a much nicer public domain photo. I don't speak Portugese but it looks like it's tagged for moving to Commons. GNR-interested editors might want to use that pic here or keep an eye on it's pending move to Commons so we can use it... --kingboyk 12:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Plays some sort of woodwind for I Ghosts 1, live in Fort Wayne IN 11-19-08
During I Ghosts 1, Finck was playing some sort of woodwind about the size of a recorder for the song. This might be added to the instruments played section if anyone can identify what he played. 98.223.27.212 (talk) 20:48, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Songs Robin Played On and went either uncredited for or ignored
Can we please include his Manson time, he played keyboards (uncredited however both Manson and Finck confirmed he played on Coma White on keybaords also: Finck played on Broken, Fixed, The Downward Spiral, Further Down The Spiral, The Perfect Drug, We're In This Together, The Fragile, Things Falling Apart and also And All That Could Have Been. So here's what Finck played on and thanks to Trent and Lohner, was uncredited for: Wish (Keyboards) Last (Keybaords) Gave Up (Keyboards) Physical (Oh So) (Backing Rhythm) Heresy (mute) (Keyboards) March Of The Pigs (Guitar) Closer (Precursor) (Remixed) Liar (Reptile Demo) (Sound FX) Reptile (Sound FX) The Art Of Self Destuction (Synth) The Downward Spiral (The Bottom) (Synth) March of The F**kheads (Guitar) Memorobilia (Voices, other) 10 Miles High (Backing Vocals) The Perfect Drug (perfect mix) (Backing Vocals) We're In This Together (Synth) Starf**kers (All About You Remix) (Guitar Overdub) and uncredited for I'm Afraid Of Americans.

Played since 1993
His first show was in 1993 as a backing keyboardist, was a trial and then he re-joined full time in 1994.

NIN Discography
Right, I believe the following to be correct: One place I usually trust is NINwiki, and this backs up these assertions. violet/riga (t) 19:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Finck contributed to "Memorabilia" which was featured on Closer to God
 * He is credited as a member of NIN for the recording of Further Down The Spiral
 * He toured around 1994–1996 as part of Downward and "Hurt (live)" features his work
 * Closer To God -
 * Further Down the Spiral -
 * And All that Could Have Been -
 * The Downward Spiral -

Bucketheader 20:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC) The following links contradict all of your information, however: http://www.discogs.com/release/4404 http://www.discogs.com/release/3528 http://www.discogs.com/release/4403 Bucketheader also wrote: "you haven't provided a reliable source to show he isn't credited on those NIN albums." Actually, these credits were taken directly from each albums liner notes. There is no reason why my posts should be degraded and referred to as "vandalism" when I am merely trying to post factual data with supported links. VR2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VR2007 (talk • contribs).
 * Anyone can contribute to discogs, as far as I'm aware, it's not a reliable source for information here. However, the sources I've included in the article are. Bucketheader 20:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think we need to assume good faith here: edit wars and accusations should always be avoided. I suggest that we look to other sources to further show his contributions.  NINwiki is one source which is obviously rather good at detailing all thing NIN, but is a wiki and thus not a truly reliable source.  If discogs is reader-submitted then it too isn't a decent source.  I don't think that it would be easy to prove that Finck didn't contribute as websites showing credit listings may be missing some information, but we should be able to prove if he is credited by finding some other sources.  I'll take a look.  violet/riga (t) 20:15, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, http://www.discogs.com/release/4403 shows "5 Memorabilia (7:21) Remix - Brian Pollack, Chris Vrenna , John Van Eaton , Robin Finck , Sean Beavan , Sugar And His Friend , Trent Reznor" violet/riga (t) 20:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia guidlines are to source information, this has been done, and it has been done with a reliable source. If you revert the edits again you will get a warning on your talk page, if you do it again you will be blocked. If you want to prove these sources wrong scan images of the credits in the CD booklets and show them to us and we will delete the sources. Skeeker [ Talk ] 20:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * AllMusic has been shown to be unreliable on several occasions and, just like any source, should not be considered infallible. violet/riga (t) 20:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Violet/riga: I'm willing to concede your information is correct. However, being a member of a band and touring with a band does not mean a musician is credited as a songwriter. Robin Finck was just a part of Nine Inch Nail's live touring ensemble, which is why I left And All That Could Have Been under his discography. It's widely known that Reznor (along with producers and engineers) wrote almost all of Nine Inch Nail's material dating back to the very albums in question. No one is denying that Finck was a member of the band. I am merely contending that he did not contribute to The Downward Spiral or Further Down The Spiral. I was partially incorrect for asserting that he made no contributions on Closer To God, and for that I apologize. He is, in fact, credited on the Memorabilia remix. My biggest concern was that Bucketheader was using his power to assert control over what was deemed valid. He was so quick to threaten a ban and remove my editing privileges - even going as far as to say I provided no reliable source. It seemed erratic and motivated by a particular bias. VR2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)
 * "He was so quick to threaten a ban and remove my editing privileges" Regarding this quote, I had asked you twice not to removed sourced content from wikipedia, you ignored me both times. Afterwards, I placed two template messages on your talk page, which was the correct thing to do - despite being asked numerous times, you removed sourced content from wikipedia, and yes, you don't have a reliable source to back up your edits. Bucketheader 20:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * As noted above AllMusic is not really a reliable source. I don't know if VR2007 was aware of this when removing the entries though.  Please do try and enter discussions before revert warring though.  violet/riga (t) 20:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

 * There are certainly better ways of handling disputes and this should really have been taken to the talk page by both of you. I'd rather not comment on behaviour as we all act a little badly sometimes - I hope this will be forgotten soon. violet/riga (t) 20:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

What is the best way of resolving this issue? Obviously, Bucketheader and I stand firmly on opposite sides of the spectrum. Since AllMusicGuide and Discog.com are not considered to be 100% reliable, I think the best means of achieving impartiality is to remove the discography section since it is so heavily contested. Until verified information can be presented as a valid source, we should bow out of this argument and remove what could potentially ignite another dispute. If the discography section is removed as an amicable gesture, I will certainly refrain from reverting entries. What do you think? VR2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VR2007 (talk • contribs).

 * This is interesting, though I don't believe it because it fails to mention "Closer to God" isn't mentioned. There are lots of sources I can find on Google that state that NIN are responsible for the "recreation" of various songs on Further, and since Finck was a member of NIN then they also say that he was part of that.  I think we need a little prose to discuss this in the article.  violet/riga (t) 20:54, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

See how it refers to Robin Finck as "Group Member" beside The Downward Spiral? It's because he was only a touring member of the band, which is why they also refer to him as "Group Member" next to Guns N' Roses. It's only on Ghosts of Mars that he is credited for "Guitar" - which is, in fact, one of the only 100% verifiable releases that feature Robin Finck as a contributor. The "Recreation" credit next to Further Down The Spiral also leads me to believe they're referring to live performances. However, it doesn't seem sufficient since it's missing what you've already mentioned. VR2007 21:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)VR2007 19 August 2007
 * If a musician is credited on an album, then it becomes part of their discography, correct? Robin Finck is credited on those albums, therefore they are part of his discography. Bucketheader 21:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * "Hurt" is a live version on Downward, so he would have played guitar for that. I'm not so sure about his credit for Further though. violet/riga (t) 21:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * On Further Down the Spiral, he is credited with recreation (which I assume is just another term for re-mix), as shown on the NIN wiki Bucketheader 21:12, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. Hours before he posted the above information, Bucketheader left the following message on my talk page:

"Regarding Finck's discography, you haven't provided a reliable source to show he isn't credited on those NIN albums. The NIN wiki can be edited by anyone, therefore isn't a reliable source."

First he claimed the NIN wiki page was not reliable since it could be edited by anyone, but now he's using it as a source to argue his point. Do you not see the obvious contradiction? VR2007 21:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I never said that was a reliable source, I merely stated that the NIN wiki stated exactly what he did on the album, whereas allmusic simply described it as 'recreation'. Bucketheader 22:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Why did you alter the edit I made? violet/riga already made it clear that AllMusicGuide is not truly reliable. Until one can be found, the discography should not be posted. There are too many conflicting sources that make it impossible to formulate a non-biased account of Finck's creative history. VR2007 22:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Allmusic is a reliable source. How is including a discography with using a reliable source being biased? Only two relaible sources have been presented so far, MSN and allmusic, both of which confirm Finck's discography. Bucketheader 22:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * AllMusic has been found to have several errors and is not a fully trusted site. The MSN link is odd because it omits Closer to God.  violet/riga (t) 07:50, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

False picture
The guitarist in this picture is not Robin Finck, but Ron Thal, aka Bumblefoot. Try google´s picture search and you´ll see. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.143.98.151 (talk) 13:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * This image? No, that's clearly Robin Finck. — Travelling Tragition (Talk) 22:15, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * When I compare this photograph with this one, I can understand the confusion. Apparently Finck likes a complete metamorphosis now and then. Also note Finck's long hair in the first picture, similiar to Thal's hair (like, for example, here). But this is a picture taken at the same show where this came from. The former is clearly Bumblefoot, so the other person is likely someone else (Finck). Cheers, Face 20:50, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

vh1 100 artist
plenty artists appeared in more than one band on the list i.e.

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Dollar sign

The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital $⟨S⟩$ crossed with one or two vertical strokes ( $ or  depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso". The explicitly double-barred  sign is called cifrão in the Portuguese language.

The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols, such as the Brazilian real (R$), the Nicaraguan Córdoba (C$) and the United States dollar (US$): in local use, the nationality prefix is usually omitted. In countries that have other currency symbols, the US dollar is often assumed and the "US" prefix omitted.

The one- and two-stroke versions are often considered mere stylistic (typeface) variants, although in some places and epochs one of them may have been specifically assigned, by law or custom, to a specific currency. The Unicode computer encoding standard defines a single code for both.

In most English-speaking countries that use that symbol, it is placed to the left of the amount specified, e.g. "$1", read as "one dollar".

Use for the Spanish American peso in the late 1700s
The symbol appears in business correspondence in the 1770s from Spanish America, the early independent U.S., British America and Britain, referring to the Spanish American peso, also known as "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight" in British America. Those coins provided the model for the currency that the United States adopted in 1792, and for the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics, such as the Mexican peso, Argentine peso, Peruvian real, and Bolivian sol coins.

With the Coinage Act of 1792, the United States Congress created the U.S. dollar, defining it to have "the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current" but a variety of foreign coins were deemed to be legal tender until the Coinage Act of 1857 ended this status.

The earliest U.S. dollar coins did not have any dollar symbol. The first occurrence in print is claimed to be from 1790s, by a Philadelphia printer Archibald Binny, creator of the Monticello typeface. The $1 United States Note issued by the United States in 1869 included a large symbol consisting of a "U" with the right bar overlapping an "S" like a single-bar dollar sign, as well as a very small double-stroke dollar sign in the legal warning against forgery.

Earlier history of the symbol

It is still uncertain, however, how the dollar sign came to represent the Spanish American peso. There are currently several competing hypotheses:

 * The most widely accepted theory holds that the sign grew out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late 18th- and early 19th-century manuscripts shows that the s gradually came to be written over the p, developing into a close equivalent to the "$" mark.  Oliver Pollock, a wealthy Irish trader and early supporter of the American Revolution, used the abbreviation "ps", sometimes run together in a way that almost exactly resembled the dollar sign, in a letter dated 1778. There are documents showing the common use of the two-stroke version in Portugal already by 1775.
 * Another hypothesis derives the sign from a depiction of the Pillars of Hercules, a classical symbol for two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, with a ribbon wrapped around each pillar (or both pillars) in the form of an "S". This device is a support element of the Spanish coat of arms, and appeared on the most common real de ocho coins circulating at the time in the Americas and Europe; namely, those minted at the Potosí mint in Bolivia, which operated from 1573 to 1825.  Indeed, one of the names used for Spanish dollars in Qing Dynasty China was.

 * A variant of the above theory claims that the sign comes from the mark of the mint at Potosí, where a large portion of the Spanish Empire's silver was mined. A feature on these coins were the letters "P T S I" superimposed. The core of this monogram is a (single-stroked) "$" sign.
 * Yet another hypothesis notes that the English word "dollar" for the Spanish piece of eight originally came (through Dutch daalder) from Joachimsthaler or thaler, a similar large German silver coin that was widely used in Europe. It is therefore conjectured that the dollar sign derived from a symbol consisting of a superimposing S and I or J that was used to denote the German silver coin.  Such symbol appears in the 1686 edition of An Introduction to Merchants' Accounts by John Collins. Alternatively, the symbol could have come from a snake and cross emblem on the thaler coins.

Less likely theories
The following theories seem to have been discredited or contradicted by documentary evidence:

 * In 1937, historian James Alton James claimed that the symbol with two strokes was an adapted design of patriot Robert Morris in 1778, in letters written to Pollock.
 * In 1939, H. M. Larson suggested that the sign could derive from a combination of the Greek character "psi" (ψ) and "S".
 * A theory claims that the sign started off as a monogram of "US", with a narrow "U" superimposed on the "S"; the bottom part of the "U" would have been lost, producing the dollar sign with two vertical lines. This theory was mentioned in letters to Notes and Queries in 1876. Henry Towne begins his classic 1886 essay on management with this theory. This was also claimed by Ayn Rand in her 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged; in her version of the theory the monogram "US" would have been used on money bags issued by the United States Mint.
 * Authors T. Seijas and J. Frederick noted that the captors of slaves in Spanish territories sometimes branded enslaved people with a symbol very similar to a one-barred dollar sign. Esclavo is Spanish for "slave," and clavo means nail. A dollar sign would then be S + clavo.
 * A theory often cited in Portuguese speaking countries is that the "S" part of the doubly-stroked sign is a schematic representation of the path followed by the Umayyad Caliphate general Tariq Ibn Ziyad in his conquest of the Visigoth kingdom in 711 CE, and the two strokes represent the Pillars of Hercules that he would have crossed along that path. That symbol would have been engraved in coins commemorating his victory, and then became symbolic of currency in general.

As symbol of the currency
The numerous currencies called "dollar" use the dollar sign to express money amounts. The sign is also generally used for the many currencies called "peso" (except the Philippine peso, which uses the symbol "₱"). Within a country the dollar/peso sign may be used alone. In other cases, and to avoid ambiguity in international usage, it is usually combined with other glyphs, e.g. CA$ or Can$ for Canadian dollar. Particularly in professional contexts, the unambiguous ISO 4217 three letter code (AUD, MXN, USD, etc.) is preferred.

The dollar sign, alone or in combination with other glyphs, is or was used to denote several currencies with other names, including:

 * Brazilian cruzeiro (various currencies, all defunct): ₢$, CR, Cr , NCr , etc.
 * Brazilian real: R$
 * Ethiopian birr (until 1976): E$
 * Macanese pataca: MOP$
 * Nicaraguan córdoba: C$
 * Samoan tālā (a transliteration of the word dollar): $
 * Tongan paʻanga: T$
 * Malaya and British Borneo dollar (1957–1967): $
 * Malaysian ringgit (1967–1997): $, M$, M
 * South Vietnamese đồng (1953–1975): $,

Prefix or suffix
In the United States, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Pacific Island nations, and English-speaking Canada, the sign is written before the number ("$5"), even though the word is written or spoken after it ("five dollars", "cinco pesos"). In French-speaking Canada, exceptionally, the dollar symbol usually appears after the number, e.g., "5$". (The cent symbol is written after the number in most countries that use it, e.g., "5¢".)

Use in the Portuguese Empire
In Portugal, Brazil, and other parts of the Portuguese Empire, the two-stroke variant of the sign (with the name cifrão; was used as the thousands separator of amounts in the national currency, the real (plural "réis", abbreviated "Rs."):  meant "$123,500 réis$". This usage is attested in 1775, but may be older by a century or more. It is always written with two vertical lines: . It is the official sign of the Cape Verdean escudo (ISO 4217: CVE).

In 1911, Portugal redefined the national currency as the escudo, worth $1,000 réis$, and divided into 100 centavos; but the cifrão continued to be used as the decimal separator, so that meant $123.5 escudos$ or 123 escudos and 50 centavos. This usage ended in 2002 when the country switched to the euro. (A similar scheme to use a letter symbol instead of a decimal point is used by the RKM code in electrical engineering since 1952.)

Cape Verde, a republic and former Portuguese colony, similarly switched from the real to their local escudo and centavos in 1914, and retains the cifrão usage as decimals separator as of 2021. Local versions of the Portuguese escudo were for a time created also for other overseas colonies, including East Timor (1958–1975), Portuguese India (1958–1961), Angola (1914–1928 and 1958–1977), Mozambique (1914–1980), Portuguese Guinea (1914–1975), and São Tomé and Príncipe (1914–1977); all using the cifrão as decimals separator.

Brazil retained the real and the cifrão as thousands separator until 1942, when it switched to the Brazilian cruzeiro, with comma as the decimals separator. The dollar sign, officially with one stroke but often rendered with two, was retained as part of the currency symbol "Cr$", so one would write Cr$13,50 for 13 cruzeiros and 50 centavos.

The cifrão was formerly used by the Portuguese escudo (ISO: PTE) before its replacement by the euro and by the Portuguese Timor escudo (ISO: TPE) before its replacement by the Indonesian rupiah and the US dollar. In Portuguese and Cape Verdean usage, the cifrão is placed as a decimal point between the escudo and centavo values. The name originates in the Arabic sifr, meaning 'zero'.

Outside the Portuguese cultural sphere, the South Vietnamese đồng before 1975 used a method similar to the cifrão to separate values of đồng from its decimal subunit xu. For example, meant 7 đồng and 50 xu.

One stroke vs. two strokes

In some places and at some times, the one- and two-stroke variants have been used in the same contexts to distinguish between the U.S. dollar and other local currency, such as the former Portuguese escudo.

However, such usage is not standardized, and the Unicode specification considers the two versions as graphic variants of the same symbol—a typeface design choice. Computer and typewriter keyboards usually have a single key for that sign, and many character encodings (including ASCII and Unicode) reserve a single numeric code for it. Indeed, dollar signs in the same digital document may be rendered with one or two strokes, if different computer fonts are used, but the underlying codepoint U+0024 (ASCII 3610) remains unchanged.

When a specific variant is not mandated by law or custom, the choice is usually a matter of expediency or aesthetic preference. Both versions were used in the US in the 18th century. (An 1861 Civil War-era advertisement depicts the two-stroked symbol as a snake. ) The two-stroke version seems to be generally less popular today, though used in some "old-style" fonts like Baskerville.

Use in computer software
Because of its use in early American computer applications such as business accounting, the dollar sign is almost universally present in computer character sets, and thus has been appropriated for many purposes unrelated to money in programming languages and command languages.

Encoding
The dollar sign "$" has Unicode code point U+0024 (inherited from ASCII via Latin-1).

There are no separate encodings for one- and two-line variants. The choice is typeface-dependent, they are allographs. However, there are three other code points that originate from other East Asian standards: the Taiwanese small form variant, the CJK fullwidth form, and the Japanese emoji. The glyphs for these code points are typically larger or smaller than the primary code point, but the difference is mostly aesthetic or typographic, and the meanings of the symbols are the same.

However, for usage as the special character in various computing applications (see following sections), U+0024 is typically the only code that is recognized.

Support for the two-line variant varies. the Unicode standard considers the distinction between one- and two-bar dollar signs a stylistic distinction between fonts, and has no separate code point for the cifrão. The symbol is not in the October 2019 "pipeline", though it has been requested formally.

Among others, the following fonts display a double-bar dollar sign for code point 0024: regular-weight Baskerville, Big Caslon, Bodoni MT, Garamond: ($ )

In LaTeX, with the textcomp package installed, the cifrão ( ) can be input using the command. However, because of font substitution and the lack of a dedicated code point, the author of an electronic document who uses one of these fonts intending to represent a cifrão cannot be sure that every reader will see a double-bar glyph rather than the single barred version. Because of the continued lack of support in Unicode, a single bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes. Where there is any risk of misunderstanding, the ISO 4217 three-letter acronym is used.

Programming languages

 * In BASIC, $ is appended to a variable name to define that variable’s data type as a character string, for example, .  In discussion, the variable   would be referred to as “H string.”
 * $ is prefixed to names to define variables in the PHP language and the AutoIt automation script language, scalar variables in the Perl language (see sigil (computer programming)), and global variables in the Ruby language. In Perl programming this includes scalar elements of arrays $array[7] and hashes $hash{foo}.
 * In Unix shells, and later in other programming languages, $ introduces an expression that should be evaluated to yield text. Languages that have adopted this convention include Perl, JavaScript, C, Scala, Groovy and Kotlin. Other languages, including Java and Python, use it to mark the place where the result of an expression elsewhere should be inserted into text.
 * $ is used for defining hexadecimal constants in Pascal-like languages such as Delphi, and in some variants of assembly language, most notably, in the Motorola 6800 and 68000, and MOS Technology 6502 assembly languages.
 * $ is used in the ALGOL 68 language to delimit transput format regions.
 * $ is used in the TeX typesetting language to delimit mathematical regions.
 * In many versions of FORTRAN 66, $ could be used as an alternative to a quotation mark for delimiting strings.
 * In PL/M, $ can be used to put a visible separation between words in compound identifiers. For example, Some$Name refers to the same thing as 'SomeName'.
 * In Haskell, $ is used as a function application operator.
 * In an AutoHotkey script, a hotkey declared with $ is not triggered by a 'Send' command elsewhere in the script.
 * The jQuery library defines $ as its main symbol, primarily as a function that queries a web page for one or more HTML elements, but also with other utilities attached to it as properties like $.ajax. The Prototype.js library defines it similarly for querying.
 * In ASP.NET, the dollar sign used in a tag in the web page indicates an expression will follow it. The expression that follows is .NET language-agnostic, as it will work with C#, VB.NET, or any CLR supported language.
 * In Erlang, the dollar sign precedes character literals. The dollar sign as a character can be written $.
 * In COBOL the $ sign is used in the Picture clause to depict a floating currency symbol as the left most character. The default symbol is $; however, if the CURRENCY= or CURRENCY SIGN clause is specified, many other symbols can be used.
 * In some assembly languages, such as MIPS, the $ sign is used to represent registers.
 * In Honeywell 6000 series assembler, the $ sign, when used as an address, meant the address of the instruction in which it appeared.
 * In CMS-2, the $ sign is used as a statement terminator.
 * In R, the $ sign is used as a subsetting operator.
 * In Q (programming language from Kx Systems), the $ sign is used as a casting/padding/enumeration/conditional operator.
 * In Sass, the $ sign is prefixed to define a variable.
 * In Svelte, the $ sign can be used to mark reactive statements.

Operating systems

 * In CP/M and subsequently in all versions of DOS (86-DOS, MS-DOS, PC DOS, more) and derivatives, $ marks the end of text displayed with system function 9. CP/M developer Gary Kildall never explained the choice and once pointedly remarked that he knew the reason while Bill Gates did not. Prior uses of $ for the "end of line" or "end of text" include JOVIAL, CMS-2, the QED editor and DECsystem-10 (a known influence on CP/M), which displayed the character to confirm that the user pressed the escape key to complete a line of input.
 * In Microsoft Windows, $ is appended to the share name to hide a shared folder or resource. For example, \\server\share will be visible to other computers on a network, while \\server\share$ will be accessible only by explicit reference. Hiding a shared folder or resource will not alter its access permissions but may render it inaccessible to programs or other functions which rely on its visibility. Most administrative shares are hidden in this way.
 * In the LDAP directory access protocol, $ is used as a line separator in various standard entry attributes such as postalAddress.
 * In the UNIVAC EXEC 8 operating system, $ means "system". It is appended to entities such as the names of system files, the "sender" name in messages sent by the operator, and the default names of system-created files (like compiler output) when no specific name is specified (e.g., TPF$, NAME$, etc.)
 * In RISC OS, $ is used in system variables to separate the application name from the variables specific to that application. For example  specifies the directory where the   application is located. It is also used to refer to the root directory of a file system.

Applications

 * Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet software use the dollar sign ($) to denote a fixed row, fixed column reference, or an absolute cell reference.
 * The dollar sign introduces a subfield delimiter in computer coding of library catalog records.
 * $ matches the end of a line or string in sed, grep, and POSIX and Perl regular expressions, as well as the end of a line or the file in text editors ed, ex, vi, pico, and derivatives.

Other uses
The symbol is sometimes used derisively, in place of the letter S, to indicate greed or excess money such as in "Micro$oft", "Di$ney", "Chel$ea" and "GW$"; or supposed overt Americanisation as in "$ky". The dollar sign is also used intentionally to stylize names such as A$AP Rocky, Ke$ha, and Ty Dolla $ign or words such as ¥€$. In 1872, Ambrose Bierce referred to California governor Leland Stanford as $tealand Landford.

In Scrabble notation, a dollar sign is placed after a word to indicate that it is valid according to the North American word lists, but not according to the British word lists.

A dollar symbol is used as unit of reactivity for a nuclear reactor, $0 $$ being the threshold of slow criticality, meaning a steady reaction rate, while $1 $$ is the threshold of prompt criticality, which means a nuclear excursion or explosion.

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Mount Majura

Mount Majura is a small mountain with an elevation of 890 m that is located in the northern suburbs of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Mount Majura lies close to the more prominent Mount Ainslie and is the highest point within the urban boundaries of Canberra. Mount Majura is contained within part of the Canberra Nature Park.

Canberra Nature Park
Mount Majura is part of the Canberra Nature Park, lying at the eastern end of the suburb of, which is on the northeast edge of Canberra. At the summit of Mount Majura is a radar station and aircraft warning light for the nearby Canberra Airport. The station contains a primary and secondary radar system, as well as transmitters and receivers for Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and a repeater for the Canberra Amateur Radio Club. Canberra's North East electricity substation is also located near the base of the mountain and is accessed via walking paths on the Ainslie side. The road primarily serves the radar station and, unlike the road on Mount Ainslie, is unavailable to the public. However, there are popular walking trails which lead to the top of the mountain from and Hackett. There is also an extensive series of single track bicycle trails on the eastern side, in an area known as the Majura Pines. The hill is covered with native Australian trees, mostly eucalyptus, but is also home to a large number of highly sensitive rare plant species, including up to 26 species of terrestrial orchids.

Mount Majura's local volunteer park care group is known as the Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM).

Other large hills that are part of Canberra Nature Park include Mount Taylor, Mount Ainslie, Mount Mugga Mugga, Mount Stromlo and Black Mountain.

Etymology
Mount Majura was likely named by Robert Campbell, one of the first major land owners close to the mountain. Majura (or similar names, such as Majurygong or Majongbury) was a common place name recorded across the district on early surveys. The first map of the region, Thomas Mitchell's 1831 survey records 'Majura' as the area south of Bungendore, where Hoskinstown is now located. By 1835, an area just to the north of Bungendore was referred to as Majura. Mitchell's surveys include mainly Indigenous place-names, and the name may ultimately derive from such a name.

It is also believed that Majura may be named after a location in India. Campbell spent much of his life as a merchant trading between England, India and Australia. Some believe that Mount Majura is named after Majura Gate in the city of Surat. However this is unlikely since the Indian office of Campbell & Co. was located in the city of Kolkata.

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Walter McCarty

Walter Lee McCarty (born February 1, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former professional player who serves as the head coach of the Freseros de Irapuato in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). McCarty played for the NBA's New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, and the Los Angeles Clippers. He last served as head coach of the Evansville Purple Aces from 2018 to 2019.

Early life and college career
McCarty was born in Evansville, Indiana. He played at William Henry Harrison High School, and as a senior in 1992 led his team to the Evansville II sectional championship and was named to the Indiana All Star Team. McCarty played college basketball at the University of Kentucky where he was a part of the team that won the NCAA championship in 1996. In 1994, McCarty's made three-pointer completed Kentucky's 31-point comeback over LSU—the biggest second-half rally in NCAA history. He was selected by the Knicks with the 19th pick in the 1996 NBA draft.

NBA career
McCarty played for the Knicks until October 1997, when he was traded to the Celtics. McCarty played in all 82 games that season, starting 64 of them. He also established career highs in virtually every category during this season. Over the next few years, he was one of Boston's top options off the bench, often making a key defensive play or three point shot. He became a fan favorite in Boston for his gutsy play, hustle, and penchant for making the big shot. He was also a favorite of Hall of Fame player, coach and longtime announcer Tommy Heinsohn, who often exclaimed, "I love Walter!" after some of McCarty's plays.

In February 2005, McCarty was traded, along with an undisclosed amount of cash, to the Suns for a second-round pick as a result of the Celtics' youth movement. He signed with the Clippers in the offseason of 2005.

Coaching career
In June 2007, McCarty accepted an assistant coach job at the University of Louisville under head men's basketball coach Rick Pitino, under whom he played at Kentucky and with the Celtics.

In June 2010, McCarty was named as an assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers under Jim O'Brien, replacing Lester Conner. Walter also played for O'Brien during his tenure with the Celtics.

In 2011, McCarty was let go by the Pacers when Frank Vogel took over as head coach.

In August 2013, McCarty joined the Boston Celtics as an assistant coach for the 2013–14 NBA season.

On March 22, 2018, McCarty was hired as the head men's basketball coach in University of Evansville. On November 12, 2019, McCarty led Evansville to their first victory over a #1 ranked opponent in a 67–64 victory over Kentucky at Rupp Arena in Lexington. On December 27, 2019, McCarty was placed on administrative leave after UE received "a troubling report about Coach McCarty’s interactions with a member of the campus community" which appeared to violate Title IX. UE stated that they have "received reports of unwelcome conduct by Coach McCarty since his arrival in March 2018" and that McCarty's success does not "in any way outweigh the need to uphold the standards that define our university." Assistant coach Bennie Seltzer was named as interim coach.

After additional alleged reports of inappropriate conduct came to light, Evansville fired McCarty on January 21, 2020.

In a statement defending McCarty, his attorney said he did not engage in any sexual misconduct and that University made an unfair rush to judgment.

McCarty's attorney also pointed out: "The investigation was not independent - UE hired the same national law firm to conduct the investigation that it previously hired to draft the University policies now under review. UE then actively participated in the investigation and, prior to its conclusion, terminated Walter without him having an opportunity to defend himself in accordance with his contract or UE’s Title IX Policy."

In a statement, UE school officials said that McCarty had been counseled the previous year for inappropriate behavior, and had taken part in Title IX training. The statement added that while the investigation would continue, "the facts uncovered thus far" demanded McCarty's immediate firing.

In a letter to the university community obtained by local NBC affiliate WFIE-TV, UE president Christopher Pietruszkiewicz said that the investigation had uncovered "persistent and troublesome facts" about McCarty's behavior, and that McCarty had allegedly attempted to "improperly influence witnesses." Based on this and other incidents, Pietruszkiewicz and other school officials concluded that it was "untenable" for McCarty to remain as head coach. Both the university's statement and the letter from Pietruszkiewicz said, "There is no place at UE for any behavior by any university employee or student that jeopardizes the safety and security of others." In April 2021, a former student sued the university and McCarty alleging he sexually assaulted her.

In the midst of the firing, supporters of McCarty also shared their suspicions that three hours after they fired McCarty, the University of Evansville hired new head coach Todd Lickliter to a multi-year contract.

McCarty was hired as head coach of the Ostioneros de Guaymas, a Mexican team in the Circuito de Baloncesto de la Costa del Pacífico (CIBACOPA). The following year, he took over the Rayos de Hermosillo and led the team to an appearance in the CIBACOPA finals.

In September 2023, McCarty was hired as the head coach of the Freseros de Irapuato in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). He returned for his second season with the Rayos de Hermosillo in 2024.

Personal life
He appeared in the 1998 film He Got Game as the character "Mance". In 2003, McCarty released the CD Moment for Love, an R&B/soul album to generally positive reviews. He sang the national anthem prior to All-Star Saturday Night on the eve of the 2006 NBA All-Star Game. McCarty has two daughters, Gabrielle and Sasha.

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 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. --Tony Sidaway Talk 11:56, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Abersee
Small part of a town of 3500 people. Not notable, not even easily redirectable since there is no hook in the town article to mention that a part of the town is called abersee without imo sounding silly. --Tagishsimon (talk)
 * Merge → St Gilgen anyway. …Markaci 2005-07-26 T 00:01:15 Z
 * Merge and redirect to St Gilgen. --TheMidnighters 00:14, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to St Gilgen. —PrologFan {Talk} 01:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambiguate as per Martg76. —PrologFan {Talk} 21:48, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambiguate. Abersee is also another name for Wolfgangsee. Martg76 20:20, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I did some hunting for maps and noted Martg76's comment, edited the page and am now happy that the page conveys useful information and serves a disambig function in pointing to Wolfgangsee and St Gilgen. --Tagishsimon (talk)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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