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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The depression party

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 09:52, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

The depression party
Not notable. ~100 google hits-- BMIComp (talk) 12:16, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Indeed, 103 hits and no claim to notability (other than gossip) -Harmil 14:15, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, band vanity. --Several Times 15:05, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. -- the wub  "?/!"  15:44, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. -- Etacar11   00:57, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable band vanity. Fails WP:MUSIC guidelines. JamesBurns 08:05, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Mercurysdemon

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VCELP

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 15:28, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

VCELP
Orphan article with no significant content. The title appears to be a mis-spelling of VSELP, which already has an article. Reccomend delete or merge with VSELP.
 * Keep It is hard to tell what this is. There's the possibility that it's a mis-spelling of VSELP, but I see a few references to it around the Web that indicate that it might be another (valid) name for VSELP or a pre-cursor. I hate to delete it, so instead I'm just going to note the point of confusion in the article and hope (in my eventualist way) that someone with more info will happen by. -Harmil 14:10, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete When I searched for VCELP on Google, nine of the top ten hits were simply copies of the wikipedia article, and the other one gave a different definition (Variable Code Excited Linear Prediction). The current article is confusing and probably inaccurate, and I see no point in having an article that says "We don't know what this is." 209.195.140.107 19:14, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Not enough coverage on web to warrant article (yet). --PhilipO 21:51, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:WRNN-TV

two transmitters
Considering that RNN has two transmitters, does that make it a network and not an independant station? matturn 12:21, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't think so, since they show the same programmming, as translators do. --User:Evice User talk:Evice Special:Contributions/Evice 01:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Two transmitters? I see references to channels 48 and analog 57. In New York City, there is (or was as of March 2011) digital channel 26.1 which identified itself as WRNN. Color bars is all that ever appears there now. Any indication what that is now and what might happen to that channel? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.88.200 (talk) 17:42, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Paul Mueller's Departure
I removed Paul Mueller's reference in NewsCenter Now, and added him to "Former Personalities" as he is no longer at RNN.

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POV on NY to Albany TV coverage gap
the article says: "The area is one of the biggest in the country to lack its own TV stations due to being in the signal range of both the New York and Albany stations."

What about the entire state of New Jersey? It is left out of the New York and Philly markets. Dogru144 (talk) 04:24, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material
Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:

 * 1) WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
 * 2) As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
 * 3) WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
 * 4) Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 05:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Location field
If the city of license and target city are in the same state, the state name is listed once after the target city and is not abbreviated. Thus, New Rochelle/New York, New York. This format is followed for all TV station articles. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:00, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

 * Please point me to the discussion regarding your statement BlueboyLINY (talk) 04:09, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * This is the discussion. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:11, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Then please point me to the WP:MOS that proves your statement is correct. BlueboyLINY (talk) 04:26, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * There's nothing in the MOS about this; it's just common practice in TV station articles. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:48, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Then please point me to the WP:MOS that proves your statement is correct. BlueboyLINY (talk) 04:26, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * There's nothing in the MOS about this; it's just common practice in TV station articles. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:48, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * There's nothing in the MOS about this; it's just common practice in TV station articles. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:48, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

I've been editing here for almost 10 years and this is news to me. I will wait for other editors to weigh in and reach a consensus. BlueboyLINY (talk) 05:08, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I could not find anything in MOS either, so I started a section at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. I'm hoping that some editors with more general familiarity about style conventions could provide some context. Raymie (t • c) 05:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE: "... the purpose of an infobox: to summarize (and not supplant) key facts that appear in the article ... The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose ..."
 * Space is at a premium in an infobox and concise formulations of key facts are always preferred over longer alternatives that convey the same information. --RexxS (talk) 12:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed. No need to list the same state twice. Only reason to do that is if the city of license is in a separate state, like WWOR-TV. oknazevad (talk) 15:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Space is at a premium in an infobox and concise formulations of key facts are always preferred over longer alternatives that convey the same information. --RexxS (talk) 12:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed. No need to list the same state twice. Only reason to do that is if the city of license is in a separate state, like WWOR-TV. oknazevad (talk) 15:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

 * When I began editing wikipedia articles 9 years ago, there was no city listed in the tv infobox only location. At some point city (col) was added, that created a redundancy situation. Why do we need both col and location? Radio station infoboxes don't have this redundancy why should tv stations? I feel only the col should be listed, along with the country in the infobox, not the location of the transmitter. BlueboyLINY (talk) 05:19, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Because which media market a station serves is important. TV stations aren't established unless there's a market for them, and they are spotted into the corresponding designated market areas. Which exact location in the DMA is the city of license or transmitter or studio location is actually pretty trivial comparatively. Noting the market served is the most important fact. oknazevad (talk) 15:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Regarding WRNN-TV Associates
I think there should be	a separate page for WRNN-TV Associates and it's other TV stations such as WMFP, WWDP, KUBE-TV, WTVE, WMCN-TV, and KIKU. Since the station group is obviously growing, it needs it's own page. --73.123.30.85 (talk) 01:42, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Look at the post above. Also look here: https://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=owner_search&owner=WRNN+License+Company This proves that WRNN is not "the company's only station". Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:39, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

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Lies My Parents Told Me

"Lies My Parents Told Me" is the 17th episode in the seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was originally intended to air on March 18, 2003, a day before the Angel episode "Orpheus", but was postponed due to the start of the Iraq War. The episode aired on March 25, 2003 on UPN. The gang investigates Spike's trigger; Principal Wood and Giles team up without Buffy.

Plot
In New York in 1977, Spike fights Nikki Wood, a Slayer whom he will eventually kill, in a park at night in pouring rain while her son Robin watches from his hiding place behind a bench. Spike has the opportunity to kill her but Robin distracts him and he lets her go, vowing that they will meet again. When he leaves, a clearly troubled Nikki finds her son and calms his fears by telling him, "The mission is what matters."

In present-day Sunnydale, Buffy, Principal Robin Wood, and Spike are fighting a bunch of vampires in an alley. Buffy and Spike manage to kill their quarry, but a vampire knocks Wood to the ground, and is about to kill him. Spike saves Wood by killing the vampire from behind, then helps him up, telling him not to hold back with using the stake. Wood thanks him, but he grips onto the stake so hard his hand starts dripping blood.

Previously, the First Evil had programmed Spike with a post-hypnotic suggestion in his mind that allows it to turn Spike violent using an old song, "Early One Morning", as a trigger. This way the First was able to command him to kill again. Buffy wants to find out how to turn it off so that she can fully trust Spike against the First, but Giles opposes Buffy, believing that Spike is still dangerous and must be contained or disposed of.

At the same time, the Scoobies go to Buffy's basement, where Willow makes a spell with the Prokaryote stone, a magical artifact that penetrates Spike's mind and makes him more conscious of how the trigger works. During this process information about Spike's human past is revealed, including how he turned his sick mother into a vampire only to be rejected by her newly vampiric self. The song that his mother used to sing makes him relive the whole episode and switch into his evil, soulless self. He unwittingly hurts Dawn in the process and scares them all, except Buffy. Meanwhile, Willow receives a phone call from a girl named Fred and quickly leaves for Los Angeles, promising Buffy she will be back as soon as she can.

After the previous incident, Wood and Giles privately conspire to get Spike killed. When Giles learns that Spike had killed Wood's mother, Nikki, the two plan for Giles to distract Buffy while Wood takes care of Spike. Giles takes Buffy on patrol and begins asking her indirect questions and making obscure references to her role against the First. In the meantime, Wood takes Spike to his hideout where he reveals that he knows Spike murdered his mother and that he is going to kill the monster inside him. Spike says he has no remorse over killing Wood's mother. Wood then plays "Early One Morning", which triggers Spike's violent, monstrous self and the two fight. As the fight progresses, Spike continues to relive the events that transpired between him and his mother, due to the Prokaryote Stone. Wood takes advantage of Spike's flashbacks, and using weapons, knocks Spike around until he cannot stand and he then attempts to stake him.

At this point, Spike regains control of his own mind, having faced his own anger and regret on turning his mother into a vampire and then being forced to kill her. Wood is now almost helpless against the much stronger Spike, who gives him a violent beating, demonstrates that the song has no more power over him and points out the difference between their own mothers – Spike's mother actually loved him back. While Giles and Buffy are talking in the cemetery, they are ambushed by another vampire. Buffy realizes that Giles has been trying to distract her while Wood kills Spike. She kills the vampire and rushes to Wood's place, where she finds Spike and a badly injured but alive Wood. Spike tells her that he stopped himself from killing Wood, but only because he had already killed Wood's mother. Buffy tells Wood that she needs Spike alive and that she has no time for personal vendettas, and vows to let Spike kill him if he tries anything like this again. As she walks away, she says she has a mission to win this war - "The mission is what matters" - echoing Wood's mother's words when he was a child. Once at home, Buffy tells Giles that his and Wood's plan failed, and disowns him as her mentor.

Reception
In 2023, Rolling Stone, raked this episode as #37 out of the 144 episodes in honor of 20th anniversary of the show ending.

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Victor Scheinman

Victor David Scheinman (December 28, 1942 – September 20, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of robotics. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his father Léonard was stationed with the US Army. At the end of the war, the family moved to Brooklyn and his father returned to work as a professor of psychiatry. His mother taught at a Hebrew school.

Scheinman's first experience with robots was watching The Day the Earth Stood Still around age 8 or 9. The movie frightened him and his father suggested building a wooden model as therapy. Scheinman attended the now-defunct New Lincoln School in New York where, in the late 1950s, he designed and constructed a voice-controlled typewriter as a science fair project. This endeavor gave him entry into MIT as an undergraduate in engineering, as well as providing a foundation for his later inventions.

Education
Scheinman attended MIT as an undergraduate, starting at age 15, and completed a degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1963. He was president of the Model Airplane Club and had a summer job at Sikorsky Aircraft. His Bachelor's thesis was on controlling the depth of a model hydrofoil wing in the MIT towing tank.

After graduation, on the advice and recommendation of his advisor, he got a job at Boeing, where he worked on a lunar gravity simulator. He left to travel the world for a while, and then enrolled at Stanford University's graduate program, initially in Aeronautics and Astronautics, switching later to Mechanical Engineering, while still taking courses in A&E. He completed his Master's degree in one year and stayed on to work on an engineer's degree. He had summer jobs working on the Apollo program, with projects on the Command Module heat shield and the Saturn rocket turbopumps.

Robotics
Scheinman was awarded a research assistantship at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working for Bernard Roth on building hands and arms for computers. The lab had an electric prosthetic arm developed circa 1962 by Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, known as the Rancho arm, which they had interfaced to a computer. (The arm was originally designed to be controlled with buttons pressed by a user's tongue.) Scheinman was assigned to maintaining the arm but it proved hard to use, with poor accuracy and inverse kinematics that were difficult to compute. He became involved with new robot designs. One was the Orm arm, (Norwegian for snake) which he built with Larry Leifer. It consisted of seven stacked plates, with each plate connected to the next by four small pneumatic actuators. Each actuator of which could be inflated or deflated by setting or resetting a bit in a computer word. That arm also proved difficult to control.

His next goal was a fast arm, which became the Stanford Hydraulic Arm. The hydraulic arm needed the full attention of the PDP-6 computer used to control it, which normally was time-shared, and the arm proved too powerful, with its motions shaking the computer room and requiring special isolation. Donald L. Pieper, in his 1968 PhD thesis lists its purpose as "smashing things." Pieper's thesis also recommended specific configurations of robot linkages that would allow easier arm solutions.

Stanford arm
In 1969, Scheinman invented the Stanford arm,  an all-electric, 6-axis articulated robot designed to permit an arm solution in closed form. The three wrist axes intersect at a point, as prescribed by Pipers thesis. This allowed the robot to accurately follow arbitrary paths in space under computer control and widened the potential use of the robot to more sophisticated applications such as assembly and arc welding. The robot also had brakes on each axis, allowing it to be controlled with a time-shared computer. The design became his engineer's degree thesis.

After completing his engineer's degree, Scheinman went to work for RacChem, designing automatic machines that would use RacChem's shrink plastic products. After about a year, Stanford asked him to come back as an employee of the AI lab and build the robot he had designed. He completed the first arm, the Gold arm, and was asked to build a second, the Blue arm, to allow experiments in arm coordination with vision. Other organizations wanted the arm, including SRI and Boston University, so Scheinman built kits for them that could be completed by a commercial machine shop.

MIT arm
Around 1972, Scheinman was asked by MIT's Marvin Minsky to design a more compact arm. Minsky had funding from DARPA for a new robot and had visions of using it for remotely supervised surgery. Scheinman spent the summer at the MIT AI lab, designing a new arm that became the MIT Arm, completing the design back at Stanford. Like the Stanford arm, the new arm featured a wrist with all axes intersecting, allowing a closed-form arm solution, but now all the axes were revolute, unlike the Stanford arm which had a prismatic joint. The arm had a shell structure made of sheet metal, instead of beams, that contained all the wiring. It also used specially designed gear trains, in part to minimize backlash, and custom electric motors, rather than only off-the-shelf components.

In 1973, Scheinman started Vicarm Inc. to manufacture his robot arms, hiring Brian Carlisle and Bruce Shimano, who later helped found Adept Robotics. Vicarm got orders for copies of the Stanford arm and MIT arm from various research organizations, including universities, General Motors, the National Bureau of Standards, AT&T, and the Naval Research Laboratory. The company soon offered a controller for the robots, using a Digital Equipment Corporation LSI-11, with 6502 microprocessors controlling the servos for each joint, including the end effector. They also developed a language, VAL, for controlling the robot.

PUMA and Unimation
While studying at Stanford, Scheinman was awarded a fellowship sponsored by George Devol, the inventor of the Unimate, the first industrial robot. Scheinman traveled with Devol and Joe Engelberger to Unimation and several of its customers, observing robot applications, including loading and unloading machines, handling material, and early attempts to do spot welding. These early robots were hydraulic and programmed by teaching the robot a series of individual points that the robot would repeat each cycle. Some path control could be achieved by defining many intermediated points, but true path following was not possible.

The Vicarm and its controller were small enough to be portable and Scheinman brought one to Unimation and set it up on Engelberger's desk, demonstrating the true path control that Unimation's robots could not achieve. He also brought an arm to an early robot trade show at the University of Illinois but was told it was a toy and could not be in the show, so he set it up on the front steps with an extension for power, attracting many researchers who understood its programmability advantage. Engelberger then invited him to bring the robot into his Unimation booth at the show. Scheinman was then approached by General Motors (GM) who wanted a bigger version of his arm for a robotic assembly concept they were developing but were concerned about his small company's ability to supply them, encouraging Scheinman to find a larger partner. In 1977, Scheinman sold his design to Unimation, who further developed it, with support from GM, as the Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly (PUMA). He served for a couple of years as General Manager of Unimation's West Coast division.

Automatix
In 1979, Scheinman was approached by Philippe Villers, then at Computervision, to join a new robotics and machine vision company he was forming as co-founder and vice-president. Automatix, which started operations in January 1980, was based in Massachusetts, but Scheinman ran its west coast office, where he developed RobotWorld, an automation system based on the concept that robots should operate in their own workspace, where there would be no potential conflicts with humans. It consisted of cooperating small modules suspended from a 2-D linear motor that formed the roof of the workspace. The West Coast office also supported other Automatix product development by designing components such as robot wrists. In the early 1990s, Automatix decided to stop selling robots because the application engineering required for each robot installation could exceed the cost of the robot itself by a factor of three or four and wasn't profitable. The RobotWorld product line was sold to Yaskawa, which offered them for biological lab automation and small part assembly. Scheinman worked for Yaskawa as a consultant for several years, and seven to eight hundred RobotWorld-based systems were sold.

Personal life
His niece is a jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman. He was married to Sandra Auerback in August 2006. His engineer son Dave Scheinman is head of hardware for 3D printing company Carbon (company)

Victor Scheinman died on September 20, 2016, in Petrolia, California at the age of 73. Up to the time of his death, Scheinman continued to consult and was a visiting professor at Stanford University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Awards and honors
In 1979, Scheinman and his Vicarm were featured in a Fortune Magazine cover story on robotics.

Scheinman received the Robotic Industries Association's Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award in 1986 and the ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1990.

On April 19, 2002, General Motors' Controls, Robotics, and Welding (CRW) organization donated the original prototype Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly (PUMA) robot to the Smithsonian.

On June 22, 2006, broadcast of the American game show Jeopardy!, Scheinman was the subject of the $1600 "answer" for the category "Robotics": "In the 1970s Victor Scheinman developed the PUMA, or programmable universal manipulation THIS" (question: "what is THIS?" — answer: "arm".).

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Please help complete the Angel/Buffy episode articles. See what needs to be done on this sub-page of WikiProject Buffy:

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I hope this makes sense
The expanded overview should be merged into a (much shortened) in general plot synopsis. Lots42 (talk) 10:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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Gull reference
In the scene where William's mother shows evidence of illness, he asks if they should call "Dr. Gull." This is a possible reference to Sir William Gull. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Gull,_1st_Baronet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.198.96.84 (talk) 08:26, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

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Millman's theorem

In electrical engineering, Millman's theorem (or the parallel generator theorem) is a method to simplify the solution of a circuit. Specifically, Millman's theorem is used to compute the voltage at the ends of a circuit made up of only branches in parallel.

It is named after Jacob Millman, who proved the theorem.

Explanation

Let $$e_k$$ be the generators' voltages. Let $$R_k$$ be the resistances on the branches with voltage generators $$e_k$$. Then Millman states that the voltage at the ends of the circuit is given by:

 * $$v=\frac{\sum{\frac{e_k}{R_k}}} {\sum{\frac{1}{R_k}}}.$$

That is, the sum of the short circuit currents in branch divided by the sum of the conductances in each branch.

It can be proved by considering the circuit as a single supernode. Then, according to Ohm and Kirchhoff, the voltage between the ends of the circuit is equal to the total current entering the supernode divided by the total equivalent conductance of the supernode. The total current is the sum of the currents in each branch. The total equivalent conductance of the supernode is the sum of the conductance of each branch, since all the branches are in parallel.

Current sources
One method of deriving Millman's theorem starts by converting all the branches to current sources (which can be done using Norton's theorem). A branch that is already a current source is simply not converted. In the expression above, this is equivalent to replacing the $$e_k/R_k$$ term in the numerator of the expression above with the current of the current generator, where the kth branch is the branch with the current generator. The parallel conductance of the current source is added to the denominator as for the series conductance of the voltage sources. An ideal current source has zero conductance (infinite resistance) and so adds nothing to the denominator.

Ideal voltage sources
If one of the branches is an ideal voltage source, Millman's theorem cannot be used, but in this case the solution is trivial, the voltage at the output is forced to the voltage of the ideal voltage source. The theorem does not work with ideal voltage sources because such sources have zero resistance (infinite conductance) so the summation of both the numerator and denominator are infinite and the result is indeterminate.

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Unimation

Unimation was the world's first robotics company. It was founded in 1962 by Joseph F. Engelberger and George Devol and was located in Danbury, Connecticut. Devol had already applied for a patent an industrial robotic arm in 1954; was issued in 1961.

Devol collaborated with Engelberger, who served as president of the company, to engineer and produce an industrial robot under the brand name Unimate. They introduced their new robot in 1961 at a trade show in Chicago. The first Unimate prototypes were controlled by vacuum tubes used as digital switches though later versions used transistors. Further, parts available off-the-shelf in the late 1950s, such as digital encoders, were not adequate for the Unimate, so with Devol's guidance and a team of skilled engineers, Unimation designed and machined practically every part in the first Unimates. They also invented a variety of new technologies, including a unique rotating drum memory system with data parity controls.

In 1960, Devol personally sold the first Unimate robot, which was shipped in 1961 to General Motors. GM first used the machine for die casting handling and spot welding of car bodies. The first Unimate robot was installed at GM's Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die-casting machine and stack them. Soon companies such as Chrysler, Ford, and Fiat saw the necessity for large Unimate purchases.

The introduction of robotics to the manufacturing process effectively transformed the automotive industry, with Chrysler and the Ford Motor Company soon following General Motors' lead and installing Unimates in their manufacturing facilities. The rapid adoption of the technology also provided Unimation with a working business model: after selling the first Unimate at a $35,000 loss, as demand increased, the company was able to begin building the robotic arms for significantly less and thus began to turn a substantial profit.

Unimation was purchased by Westinghouse (1983). Westinghouse later sold Unimation to the Swiss company Stäubli (1988) after the robotics industry shifted from the hydraulic models built by Unimation to electrically powered robots.

PUMA
The PUMA (Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, or Programmable Universal Manipulation Arm) was developed by Victor Scheinman at Unimation in 1978. Initially developed for General Motors, the PUMA was based on the earlier Vicarm design Scheinman invented while at Stanford University.

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List of cinemas in Singapore

This is a list of cinemas in Singapore. All of Singapore's cinemas are fully digital, with the majority of them equipped with Dolby Surround 7.1 speakers. Most movies are presented in Mandarin Chinese subtitles along with English subtitles for non-English language films, though options for English subtitles-only films are also offered.

Cinemas
Key:
 * – Operated by Carnival Cinemas
 * – Operated by mm2 Entertainment as Cathay Cineplexes
 * – Operated by Filmgarde Cineplexes
 * – Operated by Golden Village
 * – Operated by Shaw Organisation as Shaw Theatres
 * – Operated by Eng Wah Global as W3 Cinemas
 * – Operated by other minor film chains

Currently operational cinemas
The list of all the cinema chains across Singapore, with 36 outlets currently operational. Golden Village has more outlets in the list than any other vendors, with 17. It is then followed by Shaw Organisation with eight; Cathay Cineplexes with five; and Carnival Cinemas with two.

Defunct cinemas
There were 142 cinema outlets that were previously operational but now ceased operations due to various reasons such as low patronage, redevelopments, or transfer of operating vendor. Each reason of closure are categorized into certain tables as such. The operator for each cinema outlet lists only the recent vendor, unless otherwise stated; furthermore, cinema outlets that are still available but replaced with a different vendor, or was temporarily closed due to refurbishment, are separate from this table.

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Trisdee na Patalung

Trisdee na Patalung (ทฤษฎี ณ พัทลุง; ; born 9 March 1986) is a Thai composer and conductor. He is the Music Director of the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble and the Resident Conductor of the Orpheus Choir of Bangkok.

Na Patalung began studying music at the age of 13. At the age of 15, he stopped his formal education when he met Somtow Sucharitkul, who became his teacher and mentor. At the same time, he began working for the Bangkok Opera as a repetiteur and an assistant conductor.

Na Patalung made his operatic conducting debut in 2006 in a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

He has written two symphonies that he also conducted with the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked regularly with the Opera Studio Nederland since 2005 and became a permanent member in 2006.

In 2008, his composition Eternity was performed during the funeral of Princess Galyani Vadhana. In 2009, he made his Italian debut conducting Rossini's opera Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro.

In July 2011, na Patalung conducted the second revival performance of Sucharitkul's opera Mae Naak based on the Thai ghost story of the same name at the Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre in Bangkok. He also conducted the London premiere of this work at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, in September 2011.

On July 27, 2011, na Patalung conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai at the Organalia music festival in Turin, Italy.

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Ritsurin Garden

Ritsurin Garden (栗林公園) is a large, historic garden in Takamatsu, Japan. It was completed in 1745 as a private strolling garden and villa for the local feudal lords, and opened to the public in 1875. Ritsurin is one of the largest strolling gardens in Japan, and a major tourist attraction for Kagawa Prefecture.

Ritsurin Garden lies in a former river bed on the east side of Mt. Shiun. Numerous ponds and small artificial hills dot the garden. The southern portion is in traditional Japanese style, with historic teahouses and numerous shaped pine trees. After becoming a public garden in 1875, the north portion underwent Western-style redesigns, and a large museum (currently the multipurpose Commerce and Industry Promotion Hall) and folk craft galleries were built in the center of the garden. For a time, the garden even housed a zoo and swimming pool, since closed and removed.

History
The buildings in the garden date back to the early 17th century. In 1625, the feudal lord of Takamatsu in Sanuki Province, Ikoma Takatoshi, began construction of Ritsurin, specifically the building of a garden around the South Pond using the beautiful greenery of Mt. Shiun ("Purple Cloud Mountain") as a backdrop. After Matsudaira Yorishige took control of the province, he continued the garden's construction. Work was completed by the Fifth Lord Yoritaka in 1745 after 100 years of improvements and extensions made by successive lords.

The new Meiji government came to power in 1868 and requisitioned the garden. Despite an initial proposal to build a silk mill, Ritsurin was designated a prefectural garden and opened to the public on 16 March 1875. In 1953, the garden was designated a Special Place of Scenic Beauty.

Features
The garden covers 750,000 square meters. Among the features of the garden are:
 * Kikugetsu-tei (Moon Scooping Pavilion): This teahouse located in the southern section of the garden was built in the early years of the Edo period (around 1640).
 * Hakomatsu: Carefully cultivated black pine trees; their branches, twigs, and needles are elaborately trimmed into geometrical shapes and figures.
 * Hiraiho and Fuyō-ho: two artificial mountains
 * Wild Duck Hunting Moat
 * Sai-ko (Western Lake)
 * Nan-ko (Southern Lake)

The many ponds and streams are full of koi, sometimes fed by visitors.

Gallery
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Access

 * JR Shikoku: Kōtoku Line, Ritsurin-Kōen-Kitaguchi Station
 * Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad (Kotoden): Ritsurin-Kōen Station
 * Kotoden Bus: Ritsurin Kōen Mae stop
 * Kōsoku Bus Ritsurin Kōen Mae stop

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Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative

The Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative (SSETI) is a unique project put into execution by students from different universities spread over European countries. In collaboration with space industry they aim to build microsatellites together.

Most universities do not have capabilities to build their own complete satellite. The SSETI aims to combine different academic capabilities to realise pan-European student missions. Space projects, which are beyond the local existing capabilities, will be made possible through the fragmentation and redistribution of many small, locally achievable tasks. Ambitious projects, such as a lunar lander, may be realised by this distributed development.

SWARM
SWARM is the youngest project in line. SWARM will be developed consisting by a nanosatellite releasing femtosatellites into low Earth orbit from where scientific and/or technical experiments will be conducted.

ESEO
The ESEO (European Student Earth Orbiter) project was started as part of the SSETI project family, in collaboration with the European Space Agency who ran the project independently from SSETI. ESEO was launched from Vandenberg AFB on 3 December 2018 as a part of Spaceflight's SmallSat Express and was expected to function for 6 to 18 months.

The Mission Control Center was located in Forlì (Italy).

The ESEO project concluded in December 2020, after operating for two years.

ESMO
The ESMO (European Student Moon Orbiter) project was started as part of the SSETI project family, in collaboration with the European Space Agency who now run the project independently from SSETI.


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WBPX-TV

WBPX-TV (channel 68) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, airing programming from the Ion Television network. It is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E.W. Scripps Company, which also owns Woburn-licensed Grit station WDPX-TV (channel 58); the two channels share the same TV spectrum. WBPX-TV and WDPX-TV are broadcast from a tower shared with WUNI and WWJE-DT on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts.

WBPX-TV's programming is duplicated on WPXG-TV (channel 21) in Concord, New Hampshire, which shares its channel with Lowell, Massachusetts–licensed Daystar station WYDN (channel 48) and broadcasts from Fort Mountain near Epsom, New Hampshire.

WBPX-TV began broadcasting as WQTV in 1979 and originally broadcast subscription television programming to paying customers, which ended in 1983, with the station operating as a full-time commercial independent station until succumbing to financial troubles and paring back its programming. After being sold to The Christian Science Monitor in 1986, WQTV became the nucleus of a major production operation, which in 1991 spawned a cable television channel, the Monitor Channel. After $325 million in losses, this service shut down in 1992, and the Monitor sold WQTV to Boston University, which operated it for six years as commercial independent WABU. Boston University also bought the Concord station, which had been silent since it failed as CBS affiliate WNHT in 1989, and turned it into a satellite of WABU in 1995. Both stations were sold in 1999 to become outlets of the Pax network, which changed its name to i in 2005 before becoming known as Ion in 2007.

The subscription television years
On June 3, 1966, Boston Heritage Broadcasting, Inc.—a consortium of local owners and New Jersey-based Blonder-Tongue Laboratories—filed an application for a construction permit for channel 68 in Boston, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted on September 23, 1969, after a comparative hearing. Boston Heritage then filed the third-ever application for authority to install subscription television (STV) equipment in July 1970, which the FCC granted three years later.

Even though a construction permit had been awarded in 1969, it would be nearly a decade before channel 68 broadcast. By late 1977, Boston Heritage had begun work to build the transmitter on the Prudential Tower, and Blonder-Tongue's pay-TV system was already in use in the New York area. The subscription television programs to be aired on the station would come from Universal Subscription Television, a subsidiary of Canadian company CanWest Capital Corporation. CanWest was in the middle of assembling a network of stations to air its programming, with outlets in various stages of consideration on New York's Long Island and in Detroit, Minneapolis, and Sacramento.

WQTV began program testing at the very end of 1978 and regular programming on January 2, 1979. The subscription service, named BEST at launch, became known as StarCase in May 1979. That month, the station's only non-subscription programs were paid-for ethnic and religious hours. Universal was prompted to abandon its plan to sign up subscribers by area because prospective customers kept calling, having dialed past channel 56 to see the new station on their sets. Further interest was sparked when StarCase began broadcasting adult films in late-night hours.

Universal Subscription Television was acquired in two parts during the course of 1981 by Satellite Television & Associated Resources (STAR) of Santa Monica, California; after acquiring franchises for unbuilt services on stations in San Jose (KSTS) and Detroit (WGPR-TV) in January, STAR then spent $20.5 million (equivalent to $ in dollars) to acquire the Boston StarCase service and another $600,000 for WQTV itself. The service was rebranded Star with the sale. Star offered partial-season coverage of the Boston Celtics to subscribers in the 1981–82 season, mostly because cable carrier PRISM New England was not available on the Boston cable system at the time.

Channel 68 was not the only purveyor of subscription television programming in Massachusetts; alongside a microwave distribution system carrying HBO, its primary over-the-air competition came from Preview, owned by American Television and Communications (ATC)—the cable division of Time, Inc.—and broadcast on WSMW-TV from Worcester. By June 1982, generally the zenith of STV's existence nationally, Star was the 8th-largest service in the nation with 52,000 subscribers; Preview was the 7th-largest with 60,000.

Beginning in late 1982, subscription television began to decline as an industry due to increased penetration of cable services. Satellite Television & Associated Resources would be one of the first and highest-profile failures in the industry. At the end of January, Star's 23,000 remaining subscribers received Preview program guides for February; the end for Star came on the night of February 12, when customers were confronted with a graphic slide after a second mortgage holder foreclosed on the operation and sold its assets privately. Preview bought the subscriber list and temporarily simulcast most of its programming on both channels 68 and 27 until it could switch Star's subscribers to Preview equipment. At the end of March, Satellite Television & Associated Resources, with $ in liabilities, was forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy by three movie studios and an advertising company in Los Angeles.

"Where the Stars Shine"
Preview's transitional service for former Star customers and promotional messages for Preview occupied WQTV's evening hours until September 5, 1983, when channel 68 launched a new ad-supported evening lineup. The station's existing daytime programming from the Financial News Network (FNN) was joined by syndicated fare including Kojak, Barnaby Jones and Tic-Tac-Dough. The new programming proved popular enough that the FNN daytime programming was discontinued on April 2, 1984.

WQTV became an aggressive buyer of programs and an aggressive promoter of its programming. The station relocated its studios to a site on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton. It managed to see ratings increases, and sales nearly doubled in 1985 to $4.2 million ($ in dollars). However, the early 1980s had brought a boom in independent stations and rapid increases in the prices for syndicated programming that formed the backbone of these stations. WQTV succumbed in December 1985 and laid off all except "the essential operating staff"—dismissing more than half of its 40 workers—in a desperate bid to cut costs; it also put itself on the market. Many popular programs were axed by the station because they had become too expensive, while WQTV's national sales representative resigned from the position and began considering "further action" to obtain back payments. Clifford Curley, the general manager, managed to get the station to turn an operating profit in the first months of 1986 by subsisting on pre-1948 films, any and every network show turned down by the local affiliates, and other titles it owned in perpetuity, along with aggressively promoting the studios for lease to industrial filmmakers.

Within six months of going on the market, it had been joined by two competing independent stations: WXNE-TV (channel 25) and WSBK-TV (channel 38), with stronger programming portfolios and higher asking prices. Emerson College, owner of noncommercial WERS, was invited to make a bid.

Christian Science Monitor ownership
On May 28, 1986, The Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper owned by the Boston-based Church of Christ, Scientist, announced it would purchase WQTV for $7.5 million (equivalent to $ in dollars). It was the first broadcasting property to be owned by the Monitor, though the long-running publication had been involved in electronic media for nearly a decade with a news service for commercial radio stations, begun in 1977, and the half-hour Monitoradio program distributed through American Public Radio. The transaction closed six months later, by which time channel 68 had essentially fallen out of contention in the Boston market. After selling the station, former owner WQTV, Inc., was forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation by program distributors at the start of 1987; MCA Television, Paramount Television and 20th Century Fox Television alleged they had not been paid in six months. The Christian Science Monitor Syndicate was formed to serve as WQTV's licensee in order to comply with equal employment opportunity laws for broadcasters; the Monitor itself employed only Christian Scientists.

The Monitor hired Allan Ginsberg, the former vice president of Metromedia, and announced that it would not operate WQTV with an all-religious lineup; instead, channel 68 would feature commercial programs along with some programming already produced by the newspaper, such as the weekly Christian Science Monitor Reports, which was distributed through Independent Network News to 88 stations across the country. This program had debuted as a monthly show in 1985, though it aired in off hours and often on smaller, lesser-viewed stations. It had reason to begin an extensive expansion into broadcasting: the newspaper was prestigious but a longtime money-loser for Christian Science.

The Monitor-produced programming was restructured in September 1988, when World Monitor, a half-hour international news program hosted by former NBC News correspondent John Hart, debuted on WQTV in Boston and nationally on The Discovery Channel; the program almost aired on A&E, but Monitor executive John H. Hoagland, Jr., turned it down for a higher-priced offer from Discovery, a decision he would later regret. The original concept for World Monitor involved four co-anchors in Boston, London, Tokyo and Washington; this was scrapped when Hoagland hired Sanford Socolow, former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, who deemed the concept unworkable. The new program debuted to favorable reviews in the national media.

The introduction of World Monitor presaged a total programming change in April 1989; WQTV dropped almost all of its remaining entertainment programming—retaining just a handful of nature and children's shows—and began offering a suite of new Monitor-produced public affairs programs. The move was ordered by Hoagland, an ex-CIA officer and head of the Christian Science Publishing Society who became chair of the new Monitor television operation, against the advice of broadcast consultants; the new programs would appeal to the psychographic of the "global citizen" as opposed to demographics typically used in television targeting. Newer, more expensive consultants were then hired; one television producer noted that these consultants "talked the Monitor into incredible expenses" that amounted to a "flagrant waste of money", while a church member described the new consultants as "yes-men". An unsolicited $25 million ($ in dollars) offer for WQTV, made in 1988 by a group of outside investors, was rejected as a new project emerged on the horizon, using the internal name of "TV: Special Programming"—a 24-hour cable television service.

Even though ratings dropped precipitously for channel 68 after the removal of many of the syndicated shows, with the network plan well into development but still not publicly announced, Monitor officials forged ahead and announced they would add another 24 hours a week of new output on WQTV by early 1990, intending to syndicate some of it nationally. Programs on the air at this time included the newsmagazine One Norway Street; Today's Monitor, featuring looks at stories in that day's newspaper; the Spanish-language Monitor de Hoy, the first-ever Spanish-language TV show in Boston; 50 Years Ago Today, featuring excerpts from 50-year-old issues of the Monitor; and the weekly minority-oriented Inner City Beat, hosted by longtime Monitor journalist Luix Overbea. Religious programs featured in only a limited capacity: a daily Bible lesson and a five-minute reading of the religious article in the Monitor. This was supplemented by foreign-purchased programs, such as the 42-part Japanese documentary The Silk Road. Some of the new programs found their way to the WWOR EMI Service, the superstation feed of New York television station WWOR-TV, which was created at the start of 1990 to substitute some of the New York station's programming due to new syndication exclusivity rules. By 1990, World Monitor alone cost some $20 million ($ in dollars) a year to produce; that same year, Canadian journalist Peter Kent joined as reporter and substitute anchor, a post he would hold until the program ceased production in 1992.

The Monitor Channel
At the 1990 National Cable Television Association conference in Atlanta, the Monitor announced its plans to launch the Monitor Channel, a full-time cable television channel growing out of the newspaper's television output already seen on WQTV that would launch in May 1991. The new service would aim itself at people who were not frequent television viewers with a range of substantive, globally minded programs.

The Monitor Channel soft-launched on May 1, 1991 (with the official start date of May 15), into a crowded landscape. Between regulatory paralysis and a lack of channel capacity, a number of new channel launches at the start of the decade were struggling to get traction; Hoagland believed that the new service could wait out early lean years because most of its expenses were tied up in existing radio and WQTV operations. The launch was a major risk for the Monitor Syndicate. WQTV's programming was seen as in-depth but slow in pace and was not garnering audience interest in Boston, an image that would transfer to the Monitor Channel. At WQTV, the only show getting ratings attention of any variety was a weekly airing of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Monitor Television president Netty Douglass admitted to Variety that the station had lost as much as $10 million a year prior to restoring some of its catalog of syndicated shows to its schedule. However, major expenditures were made, including $14 million in newsgathering equipment.

As early as April 1990, when ABC's World News Tonight ran a report on the financial losses of the Monitor television division, concern arose among some within The Christian Science Monitor about the scope and priority placed on the broadcasting operation. Even before the Monitor Channel launched, several maneuvers prompted financial questions: church officials were touring the country urging an increase in contributions, while the Monitor Channel began to court outside investment. In April 1991, the church was revealed to have transferred $25 million (equivalent to $ in dollars) from its retirement fund to its general fund, sparking more concerns. Dissidents in the church complained of losing jobs or being warned of potential excommunication for criticizing the board of trustees.

While the Monitor Channel featured many of the same shows seen in Boston on WQTV, World Monitor could not be scheduled on the national service because of the existing Discovery contract. New shows included one helmed by comedian Mort Sahl. In the early months, the Monitor Channel performed well. With four million homes signed up in a difficult environment, regional Emmy and other awards for its programming, positive media reception, and new shows coming to air on a regular basis, the channel seemed set up for long-term success.

That fall, World Monitor—the most widely available Monitor program, with a national viewership of 450,000—underwent turmoil. Hart resigned on October 31, 1991, citing differences over the religious mission of the church, as well as the program's coverage of the Twitchell case in which two Christian Scientist parents were tried for refusing medical care for their child. A lengthy biography depicting Hart as a brooding, isolated anchor ran in The Boston Globe Magazine a week and a half after, unbeknownst to his Monitor colleagues; the resignation was made public days later. He was replaced by John Palmer, former host of The Today Show, but the resignation of Hart—who was a key element in Discovery chairman John Hendricks's decision to carry the program—prompted Discovery to pull out of its six-year contract to carry World Monitor. As a result, the show began to air only on the Monitor Channel, reducing its circulation from 56 million cable homes to just 2 million; indeed, the channel's existence was another reason for the end of the Discovery partnership. Executives would later regret not acting more decisively to combine what had essentially been parallel operations at that time. With the channel's carriage still severely limited by the same structural factors of channel capacity and an uncertain regulatory environment, the Monitor Channel offered World Monitor for air to cable systems free for two years, as long as the system added the Monitor Channel to its lineup at the end of that period.

Before long, any discussion of the Monitor television operation was overshadowed by financial considerations that by now were affecting the core religious functions of the Church of Christ, Scientist. In 1958, Bliss Knapp died and left a bequest to the church on one condition: that it publish The Destiny of The Mother Church, a book written by Knapp that had been repeatedly rejected by Christian Science leaders as blasphemous for depicting Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy as the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy and equal to Jesus Christ, by the year 1993. In 1991, the church published the book, leading to charges that this had only been carried out to obtain the money. A continued soft advertising market due to the deepening early 1990s recession—worst in New England, home to WQTV—and threats of legal challenges that delayed any collection of the Knapp bequest money, however, amplified the financial problems that would define 1992 for the Monitor Channel and its Boston television station.

Demise of the Monitor Channel and sale of WQTV
The Christian Science Church revealed in March 1992 that it had borrowed $41.5 million (equivalent to $ in dollars) in the first two months of the year to underwrite its media operations, including WQTV and the Monitor Channel; in doing so, it denied that the borrowing from its own endowment and other sources would affect the church's pension fund. By this time, the Monitor Channel was in 4 million cable homes, far short of the 25 million needed to turn a profit, and even the bequest was in doubt due to a lawsuit from the other potential beneficiaries, Stanford University and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The legal action prompted an immediate hiring and salary freeze in February 1992. At home, the coverage of the Globe, which generally had a negative tone toward the Monitor Channel operation, grew; in 1992, the newspaper wrote more about its woes than about the troubles engulfing Boston technology companies Digital Equipment Corporation, Wang Laboratories and the Raytheon Company combined. Monitor Channel executives released a statement, titled "Staying the Course", in which they described the Globe "all-out assault on the television activities of the Monitor"; according to Susan Bridge, a former employee who later wrote a book on the Monitor Channel's history, this had been provoked by continuing talks for a partnership between the Monitor Channel and The Providence Journal Company.

On March 9, the church announced it had put the Monitor Channel up for sale and would shut it down by June 15 if no buyer was found for the cable service; that same day, church leader Harvey W. Wood—who had been a supporter of the media expansion—resigned as chairman. WQTV would not be affected and was declared to not be for sale. The next month, the majority of the channel's 400-person workforce was laid off, with a small staff kept on to wind down operations; the cost of shutting down the channel was quoted at $45 million (equivalent to $ in dollars). Several last-minute sale talks were held in the two months that followed, but none bore fruit.

The last task confronting the church as it wound down its once-expansive media operation was to sell the Boston television station that had fueled its boom. The church announced on May 16, citing continued fiscal pressures, that it would seek to sell WQTV. With much of the equipment used in the Monitor Channel operation being sold separately and a poor signal from the Prudential Tower, added to a competitive market with many existing stations, the station would face some difficulty in its immediate future. As the Monitor Channel shut down on June 28, WQTV continued to air archive programming from the service. Continued litigation over the $97 million bequest, promoted by the two potential California beneficiaries, led the church to auction off equipment and the Monitor Channel transponder: the latter fetched $14.2 million (equivalent to $ in dollars), being sold at a profit to the Discovery Channel, while another $4 million (equivalent to $ in  dollars) was raised from the equipment.

By early May 1993, two bidders presented proposals to the church: Krypton Broadcasting Corporation, owned by Elvin Feltner, and audio electronics manufacturer Ira Gale. Gale dropped out, leaving Feltner as the sole bidder; he pledged to turn channel 68 into an all-movie station. However, the church was not able to conclude negotiations with Feltner, who was facing mounting difficulties with his stations in the Southeast. Less than two weeks after Feltner emerged as the only prospective buyer, several program distributors asked a federal bankruptcy court to force Feltner's two Florida stations, WNFT in Jacksonville and WTVX serving West Palm Beach, into Chapter 11 reorganization, and the bank that had supported the purchase of WTVX in 1988 was suing for nonpayment on a $19 million loan.

In the end, The Christian Science Monitor lost $325 million (equivalent to $ in dollars) in its television venture, and the Monitor Channel cost $65.9 million to shut down (equivalent to $ in  dollars). Bridge cites three outside factors that contributed to its closure: the recession, lack of channel capacity on cable systems in an uncertain and depressed investment environment, and the association of an "internal opposition" within Christian Science with The Globe.

Boston University ownership
With the Krypton bid in peril, another local group entered the picture: Boston University (BU) began to analyze the possibility of buying WQTV. The deal was officially announced in June, with WQTV being sold for $3.8 million (equivalent to $ in dollars), below the church's $4.5 million asking price. After the WQTV sale, Christian Science would retain only a small production facility to continue making religious programs.

While researching WQTV, Boston University also learned of other television opportunities. Less than a month after announcing its purchase of channel 68, BU reached a deal to buy WCVX (channel 58), an inactive television station licensed to Vineyard Haven and covering Cape Cod. Later that year, BU acquired WNHT (channel 21) in Concord, New Hampshire, which had been silent since going off the air in March 1989; it would not be able to go on air from Concord until 1995 due to complaints by other New Hampshire TV stations over competition. The combination of these stations, renamed WZBU and WNBU, created a station with regional coverage only surpassed by longtime regional superstation WSBK.

BU, through commercial affiliate Boston University Communications, closed on the purchase of WQTV in November 1993. The call letters were changed to WABU as the new ownership set out to build a commercial general entertainment station. The first local programs materialized three months later: hourly newsbreaks hosted by market veterans Ted O'Brien and Gail Harris, the latter of whom had also worked at the Monitor Channel. BU's presence also augmented the 37 paid staff with some two dozen student interns earning credit for their work at channel 68. Additionally, CBS This Morning briefly joined the channel 68 lineup in early 1994 after WHDH (channel 7) stopped carrying it. This would mark the start of two years of upgrades and new local programs. Adler on Line, a nightly call-in program hosted by Canadian broadcaster Charles Adler, started in August 1994 and was followed by two Sunday programs: news review Consider This and a business program, Business World with Jim Howell. Consider This became a nightly show the next year, and a new weeknight talk show fronted by Harris also joined the primetime lineup in 1995. By the end of 1995, WABU had upgraded its original programming and acquired newer and more popular syndicated shows than it aired at launch, including Baywatch, Northern Exposure and The Golden Girls. However, ratings had largely been flat.

At the same time, WABU ramped up its sports coverage. BU hockey was soon joined by the Beanpot and other events, and by 1995, the station aired 60 collegiate games a year. However, a bigger opportunity awaited. WSBK ended its 21-year run and dropped the Boston Red Sox after the 1995 season, and after another deal the Red Sox had been making collapsed, WABU became the new home of 80 Red Sox games for 1996 on a one-year contract. The deal, however, created upheaval for Red Sox fans outside of the Boston market, as WABU and the team had to seek new coverage partners where WSBK's regional cable carriage once sufficed. In the middle of the 1996 season, a new pact was reached between the Red Sox and WABU, extending the partnership through 1998. Also in 1996, the New England Revolution in the new Major League Soccer came to channel 68, which aired 19 of 32 games in the league's first season. In 1997, 68 Sports Night debuted, hosted by John Holt.

After the Red Sox arrived on WABU, potential buyers began to make themselves known. By February 1996, Boston University had received multiple unsolicited offers for channel 68 and its satellites, prompting BU to retain an investment firm to determine the value of the properties. One reported offer came from the Meredith Corporation, which had prepared a $50 million bid for WABU. BU's indebtedness began to increase administration's desire to sell off the television station; in 1998, the USA Broadcasting group owned by Barry Diller signed a letter of intent to purchase WABU for a reported $30 to $40 million.

In 1998, WABU struck a three-year deal to replace WSBK as the home of Boston Celtics away games. That same year was the last for the Red Sox on WABU; with the station losing $5 million (equivalent to $ in dollars) a year, the Red Sox sold their television rights to a consortium known as JCS for the 1999 season.

Pax and Ion ownership
On May 4, 1999, Boston University announced that it had sold WABU and its repeaters to an affiliate of Paxson Communications Corporation, which owned the Pax TV network. While the university had rejected a string of unsolicited offers, it felt comfortable with the Pax bid because of the network's family-friendly program orientation. Pax opted not to retain the Celtics, who moved all games to Fox Sports Net New England (now NBC Sports Boston). The buyer was not Paxson directly but DP Media, owned by Bud Paxson's son Devon; Pax had launched the year before in Boston over DP Media's WBPX (channel 46) and Paxson Communications-owned WPXB (channel 60) in Merrimack, New Hampshire. The WBPX call letters moved to channel 68 along with the Pax programming months later, and WNBU and WZBU became WPXG and WDPX, respectively. Paxson acquired the DP Media stations in December 1999.

Pax operated as a national network with very little program deviation and moved to shutter the entire WABU-TV local operation, resulting in 75 layoffs at channel 68, including a local personality who would move to WFXT: Butch Stearns, who had been a sports host at the station. The 1660 Soldiers Field Road studio space was acquired by the Staples Inc. office supply chain to expand its existing location; the Brighton store had been the chain's very first in 1986 and was now small compared to its more recent builds, and Pax moved into a former Ground Round restaurant at 1120 Soldiers Field Road. After changing its name to i: Independent Television in 2005, the network became known as Ion Television in 2007.

On May 18, 2016, the Boston Herald reported that NBCUniversal was considering acquiring WBPX to serve as the market's new NBC owned-and-operated station, after announcing in January that it was pulling the affiliation off of WHDH; such a purchase never materialized, as it ultimately purchased WTMU-LP and moved its programming there under the WBTS call sign on January 1, 2017.

In the FCC's incentive auction, WDPX-TV sold its spectrum for $43,467,644 (equivalent to $ in dollars) and indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement. WDPX now channel-shares with WBPX-TV; as WBPX's signal does not reach Vineyard Haven, WDPX changed its city of license to Woburn.

On February 27, 2021, Qubo, Ion Plus and Ion Shop ceased broadcasting, and WBPX-TV's second and fourth subchannels switched to Ion Mystery and Bounce TV; concurrently, WDPX-TV replaced Ion Plus with Court TV. This change was as part of the acquisition of Ion by the E. W. Scripps Company, which already owned a suite of diginets. The QVC and HSN subchannels were switched on July 1 to new multicast networks from Scripps, Defy TV and TrueReal, as part of their launch in 92 percent of the United States, with the Ion transmitters as their primary carriers. The two new channels' programs combined as Defy TV in March 2023, and Defy was replaced nationwide with Ion Plus on July 1, 2024.

Subchannels
One channel on each multiplex is devoted to the channel-sharing stations: WDPX-TV (58.1 Grit) on the WBPX-TV multiplex and WYDN (48.1 Daystar) on the WPXG-TV multiplex.

Analog-to-digital conversion
WBPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 68 (removed from television use after the transition), on April 16, 2009. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 32, using virtual channel 68.

Former translators
WBPX's signal was previously relayed on translator stations WMPX-LP (channel 33) in Dennis and W40BO (channel 40) in Boston. On December 15, 2014, Ion transferred WMPX-LP and W40BO to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar network.

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Two to Go

"Two to Go" is the 21st episode of season 6 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on May 21, 2002 on UPN. The name of the episode is a reference to the previous one, which ends with Willow saying "One down" after killing Warren. Despite having died, Tara Maclay remains in brief scenes that are part of the opening credits.

This episode, and its second part, "Grave", were shown, back-to-back, as a two-hour feature on its original airing in both the United States and United Kingdom – consequently, the presentation of this episode on DVD includes credits such as "Grave" Written by...

Joss Whedon wanted to keep Anthony Stewart Head's appearance in this episode a surprise, and thus left him off of the main cast list; Head is listed as a 'special guest' in the closing credits. Whedon also does this in Angel for Julie Benz in "To Shanshu in L.A.", Eliza Dushku in "Judgment", Juliet Landau in "The Trial" and Alyson Hannigan in "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb".

Plot
While Spike continues to pass trials in his quest in Africa, Buffy, Xander, and Anya try to pursue Willow, who has killed Warren to avenge his murder of Tara and now plans to execute his two jailed accomplices. They discover that Willow has damaged Xander's car to prevent them from catching her. Buffy continues her pursuit on foot.

Anya teleports into Jonathan and Andrew's cell shortly before Willow arrives. Anya and Buffy manage to evade Willow's attack and slip away with the two men. As Xander drives them away in a stolen police cruiser, Willow attacks them with a truck she is wielding magically; but her overuse of magic has drained her power, and they escape.

Dawn and Clem decide to go to the dark magician Rack's lair, expecting Willow to try to deal with him to recharge her powers. Buffy, Xander and Anya regroup at the Magic Box and debate their course of action. Buffy believes she can convince Willow to relent, but the others disagree; Buffy heads for Rack's, alone. Xander admits to Anya that he might have been able to stop Warren before he fired on Buffy and Tara, but was afraid to intervene, unarmed.

Willow meets with Rack, who attempts to seduce her. She rejects his advances, drains his power and kills him, just as Dawn arrives. Dawn's effort to calm the much more powerful Willow prove futile and serve only to annoy her, but Buffy arrives before she acts against Dawn. Buffy tries to talk with Willow, who replies that nothing in the world matters anymore since Tara's death. Willow teleports the group back to the Magic Shop, where Buffy and Dawn collapse. As Willow attacks, Anya fires up a protection spell to shield Jonathan and Andrew. As Willow intensifies her attack, Buffy tries a physical attack, allowing all but Anya to escape.

Willow subdues Buffy, then disables Anya and negates her protection spells. As she declares her victory, she is struck down by a bolt of energy from an arriving Giles.

Reception
In 2023, Rolling Stone, ranked this episode as #114 out of the 144 episodes in honor of the 20th anniversary of the show's ending.

Screen Rant named it an episode including some of "The Best 60 Seconds From All 7 Seasons." "A minute at the end of the episode depicts Willow's beating down of Buffy and her cockiness at how powerful she's become. She suggests there's nobody in the world with the power to stop her rampage just before a bolt of mystical energy smashes her to the ground. It's revealed to be Giles, absent for most of the season, returning with the power to subdue Willow. The minute ends with Giles challenging Willow's suggestion, saying, "I'd like to test that theory."

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Magnet Networks

Magnet Networks, trading as Magnet Plus, is an Irish company providing telephone and broadband internet services which was launched in Dublin in 2004. Originally owned by the US-based international investment company Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC), it was acquired in December 2020 by the "Irish investment vehicle" Speed Fibre Group. Speed Fibre Group, itself a subsidiary of the Irish Infrastructure Fund, also owned AirSpeed Telecom and, in 2021, these two companies joined to operate under a combined "Magnet Plus" brand. As of 2020, Magnet Networks reportedly had approximately 100 staff.

Organisation
Magnet Entertainment, the home services division of Magnet Networks, provides digital telephony, digital television, video on demand, and broadband internet products.

Magnet Business provides DSL internet access and VoIP telephony to business customers. As of 2016, Magnet Business was reportedly the "third-largest business telecoms provider" in Ireland.

As of February 2020, Magnet's "interim managing director" was Dave Brewer (of then parent organisation CVC).

Magnet Network's competitors in Ireland include Virgin Media Ireland, Sky Ireland and eir.

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User talk:Donp2965

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Maryland Baltimore County Public Policy Building

 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 article was merged already. I will fix any double redirects caused. Woohookitty 02:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I merged content into University of Maryland Baltimore County, so let's delete this page and the redirect that goes to it. -Howardjp 12:35, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete thanks for merging it -- jiy 17:46, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
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Dirty Girls

"Dirty Girls" is the 18th episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on April 15, 2003, on UPN.

Plot
A young Potential Slayer, Shannon, is chased through the woods by Bringers. She accepts the assistance of a stranger wearing a priest's collar and driving a truck but is horrified to discover that she has fallen into a trap. The man, who introduces himself as Caleb, terrifies her and burns his mark into her neck. He gives her a message for the Slayer (which the viewer does not hear at this time), stabs her in the stomach, and forces her out of the car. Minutes later, Faith and Willow find the girl on their way back to Sunnydale after re-ensouling Angel in Los Angeles and take her to the hospital, where Faith asks Willow why the Scooby Gang failed to warn her about the threat of the Bringers. Faith subsequently encounters Spike chasing a young woman and mistakenly believes Spike is evil again. The young woman, now in her vampire form, attacks Faith who, borrowing a stake from Buffy, quickly slays her.

Back at the house, Faith encounters a cold reception from both Dawn and Giles, and Spike explains that the tension is not all because of her. Meanwhile, the First Evil reveals Buffy's form to Caleb who is residing in the basement of a winery. The next day, Andrew brings the interested Potentials up to speed on Faith's history, as they watch Faith exercise in the back yard with fascination over this other Slayer. At Sunnydale High School, Principal Wood calls Buffy into his office where he fires her from her school job, emphasizing the need for her to focus on the mission.

Alarmed by the obsession over her at the Summers' home, Faith sneaks down into the basement for a cigarette break, where Spike joins her. The two talk and bond over their respective periods of being dangerous. Faith reveals they met once before years ago when Faith was in Buffy's body, and Spike reveals that he and Buffy had been more than just friends at one point. Buffy, having arrived home after leaving the school, comes down and seems a bit unnerved at seeing the two of them together. Dawn calls down that Willow has reported from the hospital: Shannon is awake. Buffy goes to the hospital, where Shannon tells Buffy of Caleb's message: he has something of Buffy's.

Later at the house, Buffy tries to motivate the terrified Potentials to accompany her when she attacks Caleb (who, meanwhile, is re-enacting scenes of his past murders with the First Evil). Buffy alone is confident in her plan; Giles, Spike, her friends, and the Potentials all question her decision. Buffy and Faith, on a recon mission, follow a Bringer through the woods. They discuss Faith's intentions and her recent experiences with Angel before locating Caleb's stronghold in an old winery.

At the Summers' home, Xander directs the Potentials on the methods of attacking in battle. When Rona criticizes Buffy's intentions, Xander strongly defends his friend. Leaving Willow and Giles to stay behind to protect the more inexperienced girls, Buffy leads Spike, Faith, Xander, and the more experienced Potentials (including Kennedy, Molly, Rona, Chao-Ahn, Amanda, Diane, and several others) to the vineyard; they divide into two groups: an assault team and a back-up team. After an initial clash with the Bringers, Caleb appears. He has super-strength: he quickly knocks aside Buffy and Spike, and breaks Rona's arm. Xander and Faith arrive with the back-up team, but Faith is soon knocked unconscious. Caleb kills Diane and Molly, and Buffy orders a retreat after managing to knock Caleb down. Xander starts to yell that everyone needs to get out, but is then attacked himself by Caleb, who then stabs his thumb into Xander's eye. Spike tackles Caleb, giving them enough time to get Xander and leave the vineyard.

Alone and distraught, Buffy leaves the injured girls and walks through the empty streets as Caleb tells the First, in Buffy's form, that their victory is imminent.

Reception
In 2023, Rolling Stone, ranked this episode as #50 out of the 144 episodes in honor of the 20th anniversary of the show's ending.

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Coa de jima

A coa de jima or coa ("hoe for harvesting", "hoe") is a specialized tool for harvesting agaves.

It is a long, machete-like round-ended knife on a long wooden handle used by a jimador to cut the leaves off an agave being harvested and to cut the agave from its roots. The core (or "heart") left, called piña ("pineapple"), is used for the production of mezcal, sotol or tequila.

The shape of the coa is adapted for the efficiency of carrying out these operations.

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Talk:Netherlands national football team

IP adding false information
An anonymous user keeps changing Jeroen Zoet's birthday. I've tried mentioning this to him on his user talk page, but his IP is different every time. Is there anything else that can be done about this? Kinetic37 (talk) 08:52, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Again, if the guy with the dynamic IP address could stop doing this, that would be great. Kinetic37 (talk) 08:27, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

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Australia away?
Until just now, it was listed that the Netherlands would play Australia away. This was however never the case. Who the hell put that in? Bas1411 (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Kit sponsorships
Has anyone got any references that has the history of the Dutch kit sponsorship so it can be added to the article. Thanks for the cooperation. Not Homura (talk) 02:15, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect info
The world cup data is incorrect, Belgium came in 3rd in 2018 in Russia although it's labeled they didn't participate, I think all of the dates are shifted up 4 years

Golden generation
This term is used twice in section headings but with no explanation. And why is it in the plural each time? Spicemix (talk) 18:36, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

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