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Llewellyn Thomas

Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas (21 October 1903 – 20 April 1992) was a British physicist and applied mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to atomic and molecular physics and solid-state physics. His key achievements include calculating relativistic effects on the spin-orbit interaction in a hydrogen atom (Thomas precession), creating an approximate theory of $$N$$-body quantum systems (Thomas-Fermi theory), and devising an efficient method for solving tridiagonal system of linear equations (Thomas algorithm).

Life and education
Born in London, he studied at Cambridge University, receiving his BA, PhD, and MA degrees in 1924, 1927 and 1928 respectively. While on a Traveling Fellowship for the academic year 1925–1926 at Bohr's Institute in Copenhagen, he proposed Thomas precession in 1926, to explain the difference between predictions made by spin-orbit coupling theory and experimental observations.

In 1929 he obtained a job as a professor of physics at the Ohio State University, where he stayed until 1943. He married Naomi Estelle Frech in 1933. In 1935 he was the master's thesis advisor for Leonard Schiff, whose thesis was published with Thomas as coauthor. From 1943 until 1945 Thomas worked on ballistics at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. In 1946 he became a member of the staff of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University, remaining there until 1968. In 1958 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1963, Thomas was appointed as IBM's First Fellow in the Watson Research Center. He was appointed professor at North Carolina State University in 1968, retiring from this position in 1976. In 1982 he received the Davisson-Germer Prize. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contributions
Thomas was responsible for multiple advances in physics. The Thomas precession is a correction to the atomic spin-orbit interaction in quantum mechanics, which takes into account the relativistic time dilation between the electron and the atomic nucleus. The Thomas–Fermi model is a statistical model for electron-ion interactions, which later formed the basis of density functional theory. The Thomas collapse is effect in few-body physics, which corresponds to infinite value of the three body binding energy for zero-range potentials.

In mathematics, his name is frequently attached to an efficient Gaussian elimination method for tridiagonal matrices—the Thomas algorithm.

Notable publications

 * Thomas L. H. The motion of the spinning electron // Nature. — 1926. — Vol. 117. — P. 514. — doi:10.1038/117514a0.
 * Thomas L. H. The calculation of atomic fields // Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. — 1927. — Vol. 23. — P. 542–548. — 10.1017/S0305004100011683.
 * Thomas L. H. The kinematics of an electron with an axis // Philosophical Magazine. — 1927. — Vol. 3. — P. 1—22. — 10.1080/14786440108564170.
 * Thomas L. H. Radiation field in a fluid in motion // Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. — 1930. — Vol. 1. — P. 239–251. — 10.1093/qmath/os-1.1.239.
 * Thomas L. H. The interaction between a neutron and a proton and the structure of H3 // Physical Review. — 1935. — Vol. 47. — P. 903–909. — 10.1103/PhysRev.47.903.
 * Thomas L. H. The paths of ions in the cyclotron I. Orbits in the magnetic field // Physical Review. — 1938. — Vol. 54. — P. 580–588. — 10.1103/PhysRev.54.580.
 * Shaffer W. H., Nielsen H. H., Thomas L. H. The rotation-vibration energies of tetrahedrally symmetric pentatomic molecules. I // Physical Review. — 1939. — Vol. 56. — P. 895–907. — 10.1103/PhysRev.56.895.
 * Thomas L. H. A Practical Method for the Solution of Certain Problems in Quantum Mechanics by Successive Removal of Terms from the Hamiltonian by Contact Transformations of the Dynamical Variables Part I. General Theory // Journal of Chemical Physics. — 1942. — Vol. 10. — P. 532–537. — 10.1063/1.1723760.
 * Thomas L. H. Note on Becker's Theory of the Shock Front // Journal of Chemical Physics. — 1944. — Vol. 12. — P. 449–453. — 10.1063/1.1723889.
 * Sheldon J., Thomas L. H. The use of large scale computing in physics // Journal of Applied Physics. — 1953. — Vol. 24. — P. 235–242. — 10.1063/1.1721257.
 * Thomas L. H. The stability of plane Poiseuille flow // Physical Review. — 1953. — Vol. 91. — P. 780–783. — doi:10.1103/PhysRev.91.780.
 * Bakamjian B., Thomas L. H. Relativistic particle dynamics. II // Physical Review. — 1953. — Vol. 92. — P. 1300–1310. — 10.1103/PhysRev.92.1300.
 * Thomas L. H. Satellite Countermeasures // Time. — 1954, May 3.
 * Thomas L. H., Umeda K. Atomic Scattering Factors Calculated from the TFD Atomic Model // Journal of Chemical Physics. — 1957. — Vol. 26. — P. 293–303. — 10.1063/1.1743287.

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Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva

Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva (German title: Das Schwarze Auge: Schatten über Riva, translated as "The Dark Eye: Shadow above Riva") is a role-playing video game based on the German role-playing game system Das Schwarze Auge by Attic Entertainment Software. It is the sequel to Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny and Realms of Arkania: Star Trail. The original German version of the game was published by TopWare Interactive in 1996. Sir-Tech released the English version in 1997.

The game was re-released via DOSBox for Windows in 2009 on GOG.com, OS X in 2013; it released in 2014 on Steam for both platforms and Linux.

Plot
Shadows over Riva continues after Realms of Arkania: Star Trail. After uniting the dwarves and elves, the party stops by the harbor city of Riva, which is under siege by the Orcish hordes. The countryside's once-lucrative dwarven mine has been decimated and occupied by the Orcs after a string of well-coordinated attacks. For some unknown reason, the magistrate refuses to recognize the threat the orcs pose just outside the city gates. Meanwhile, rumors abound of traitors in the slum ridden-Hoberkian community and strange corpse disappearances within the city's graveyard, the Field of Boron.

As the party investigates each lead, more questions seem to surface than answers. After investigating the dwarven mines the traps' design suggests that the Orcs have become much smarter and more organized than normally possible; they are no longer fragmented tribes warring among themselves. They speak of a single, wise, all-powerful chieftain with the powers of a wizard. Upon confronting the chieftain deep within the mines, he summons a massive demon from the underworld to fight the party. The party defeats it and sends the demon back to the underworld. When they kill the Orc chieftain, a tiny worm emerges from the chieftain's head and flees.

Returning to the city with this new information, the party still finds the city's magistrate apathetic. They befriend the Holberkians when they save one of them from a mob. As half-elves and half-Orcs, they know of the orcish hordes, but earned the enmity of the citizens, who think they are responsible for the Orcish siege of the city. The Hoberkians noticed a pronounced change in the Orcs' activity, suggesting an outside influence. They reveal a long-absent sorcerer living on an island in the swamp who could have been responsible for the changes in the orcs. The next day, the party is escorted to the sorcerer's tower, where they find experiments and letters pointing to a person known only as Borborad and his shipment of two worm queens. One queen was delivered but a second was lost en route when the urn sank with a cargo ship in Riva's harbor during a storm. Research notes further reveal much information on the worm spawned from the queen. They possess extreme intelligence and could possess hosts by entering their brains through the nose. They are also linked telepathically to the queen who spawned them and could not be killed unless the queen is killed. Queens reside in hives which were invulnerable to attack due to the queen's magic.

After returning to Riva, the party speaks with the magistrate about their suspicions, who dismisses them. Within the day, they are framed for murder. An underground movement contacts the group and offers them sanctuary and the use of a tunnel system that surfaces in every temple. They are informed of the movement's suspicions that the magistrate is under some unknown influence, possibly a worm spawn. They are tasked to rescue a group of wizards from the magistrate's prison island. The party witnesses an attempt at implanting worms into the wizards. After they are rescued, the wizards inform the group that it was the magistrate who ordered an expedition to recover the sunken ship items from the harbor. One of the urns was brought to him, which released the worm queen when it was opened. It possessed the magistrate, established a hive, and used its spawn to possess various people around the city. The worm queen is able to hear and see everything the possessed townsfolk see and hear. The group is told that the one remaining urn in the sunken ship is required to learn more about the queen and a means to defeat them. After obtaining the urn from the merfolk that lives in the waters near Riva's harbor, the wizards spend a few days studying the queen inside.

When the wizards summon the party, they give them a shrinking spell that reduces them to worm size and allows them to enter the magically reinforced hive. They fight their way through the hive, pick their way through a confusing maze, and fight off telepathic nightmares before confronting the queen. After killing her, they return to their normal size, destroying the hive as they grow, since the magic protecting the hive walls broke with the queen's death. Everywhere in the city, the worm spawn are dying and falling out of their hosts. None of them recall them being under the influence of the spawn, so the party is still considered to be a band of fugitives. They are forced to escape the city, but they go with the knowledge and satisfaction that they saved everyone from the orcish invasion. Without the queen's leadership, the orcish hordes fragment back into their warring tribes. Borborad swears vengeance against the party who foils his plans.

Side-stories
There is a sidequest involving the disappearances of corpses from the city cemetery known as the Field of Boron. The group finds one freshly dug grave to be a fake which leads to a shapeshifter's quarters below ground. After killing the shapeshifter and its demon familiar, they uncover information indicating the presence of a felimia, an elven vampire. The party goes on another side quest to investigate the sewers where they run across a massive humanoid rat, the city's rat catcher, and an old slight hag. The party travels deeper into the sewers and discovers the city's secret underground resistance. The old hag suddenly displays inhuman powers as she grabs an elf, kills him, and changes into a beautiful elven female sporting vampiric canines. The group learns from different citizens that, the last time the city caught the felimia, they imprisoned her in a coffin buried in the Field of Boron. After digging up the coffin, the group finds it empty with a hole in its bottom that leads to the shapeshifter's quarters; the felimia had bypassed the charms placed on the cover of the coffin by breaking through the bottom of the coffin. The resistance contacts the party and tells them that they learned that moonlight can kill the felimia when they last fought her. With the help of the resistance, the group finds the felimia's lair behind a magic mirror. Inside, they find a magically locked trunk that belonged to the resistance and open it with the password given to them. Inside the trunk are a moonlantern, moonstone, a cloak, and a magic dagger. The cloak is revealed to be an invisibility cloak that allows the wearer to turn invisible to normal people and gives them the ability to see the felimia. The resistance member dons the cloak, sees the invisible felimia standing right next to them, and attacks her with the dagger. He chases her into a room of mirrors. The party kills the felimia in the room of mirrors when they light the moonstone and place it into the lantern. After completing the sidequest, the underground resistance is forever grateful to your group and later aids you when you are framed for murder.

Out in the countryside, near the dwarven mines, there is a set of boots embedded in stone. When the party grasps it, they are transported to a mouthless cavern deep in the mountains and are confronted by a nameless warrior who was wearing the set of boots. He acknowledges that the party is after his magical boots, and tells them that he has been seeking death but cannot die by his own hands. As a warrior, he challenges the party to a fight for the boots. Upon killing him, he dies with a relieved smile and the party takes the pair of boots from him.

A sidequest comes up when the party investigates the sunken ship of Riva's harbor. The party is immediately attacked by a group of merpeople with tridents when they enter the water. After fighting them off, they encounter a second group of merpeople. If the party decide not to attack this second group, they are revealed to be friendly and escort the party to see the merking at their palace. The merking tells the party that some of his people have been under some evil influence since another ship sank in the harbor; he asks them to investigate and solve the problem. If the party accepts, the merking will also mention that his daughter feels that one member of the party has an extreme attraction to her and would like to reciprocate the feelings. If her feelings are accepted, the merprincess joins the party, which prevents them from being attacked by merpeople. In the depths of the second sunken ship, the party finds bottles of alcohol that line the supply room. If the alcohol is destroyed, all attacks by enraged merpeople will stop. When the party reports back to the palace, the merking mentions that the merprincess and the party member feel even closer than before. He offers the party member a life under the sea in his court: If the party accepts, the party member with the greatest charisma leaves the group with the merprincess; if they refuse, the party acknowledges that the current quest is more important and bid a fond farewell to the merfolk. In either case, the merprincess leaves the party.

Reception
According to Die Zeit, all three games in the Realms of Arkania series, including Shadows over Riva, were commercially and critically successful. Riva alone sold over 400,000 units by 2008. The paper's Nicole Lange reported in 2011 that the three Realms of Arkania entries together had surpassed 2.4 million sales worldwide.

In PC Gamer US, Michael Wolf wrote: "We roleplaying gamers are lucky — other RPGs slated for release this year will probably have better graphics, more intuitive interfaces, and more non-linear adventuring. But this one still has everything a real RPG fan could want." Steve Faragher of PC Gamer UK praised the game as a return to form for its genre, writing that it captured the "good ol' role-playing feel that's so desperately unpopular with games designers today".

A reviewer for Next Generation criticized the game's reuse of combat mechanics and graphical assets from Star Trail, but believed that "the story line makes it all worth playing". The writer concluded that "[r]ole-playing gamers will definitely be able to sink their teeth into this one." Robert Mayer of Computer Games Strategy Plus called the game "a ray of sunlight for fantasy gamers" and "a winner, a solid statistics-based RPG in an era of lightweight imitations".

In Computer Gaming World, Scorpia called Shadows over Riva "yet another of those products that aggravate me more than outright turkeys" due to the design of its final sequence and ending. However, she believed that the game was "still manna for a CRPG-starved gaming public", and worthwhile for those who overlooked its flaws. PC PowerPlay's David Wildgoose lauded the game as "a cracking good adventure" with "great character interaction and conversation", but found fault with its "unnecessary" reliance on statistics. Andy Backer of Computer Game Entertainment called Shadows over Riva a "solid and satisfactory" experience that fans of the genre "will undoubtedly welcome ... with open arms."

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José Reis (scientist)

José Reis (June 12, 1907 – May 16, 2002) was a Brazilian scientist, journalist, scientific leader and science writer.

Reis was born in Rio de Janeiro, the eleventh of thirteen children. He attended secondary school at Colégio D. Pedro II, and, on leaving school in 1924, was awarded the "Pantheon" prize, conferred on the best students of Colégio D. Pedro II. He went on to study medicine at the University of Brazil's National Faculty of Medicine (presently Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) from 1925. During his medical course, he studied pathology at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. After graduation, he worked from 1928 to 1929 at the Institute as a bacteriologist, having decided to specialize in scientific research in virology. For his achievements there, he received the Oswaldo Cruz Medal. As a result, he accepted an invitation to move to São Paulo in the next year and work at the Biological Institute, an applied research center set up by the state government, in the section of bacteriology. Later, he studied at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, United States, from 1935 to 1936.

Returning to Brazil, Dr. Reis resumed his work at the Biological Institute. Under the instigation of the Institute's director, the German biologist Hermann von Ihering, to study a mysterious viral disease afflicting chicken producers in the state, he became gradually a renowned world expert on ornithopathology (avian diseases) and eventually was nominated director of the Institute. He felt also the urge to write pamphlets and booklets in a simple language, in order to instruct the agriculturists of the state on how to prevent and fight this and other diseases, and soon started to contribute regularly to a specialized magazine in this field, "Chácaras & Quintais".

In 1947, Dr. José Reis, who now displayed a marvelous talent for explaining scientific concepts for laypeople, started a parallel career as a journalist, first by writing a science column at one of the town's two most important newspapers, the Folha de S.Paulo. He maintained this column for the next 55 years, until shortly before his death, probably a world record for a science newspaper columnist. The column was syndicated to many other newspapers. He also dabbed in general journalism, and became one of the editors-in-chief at the Folha from 1962 to 1968, during the critical years of the military régime which was installed in April 1964 in Brazil.

As a scientific leader, Reis was exceedingly important for the history of Brazilian science and technology, as one of the founders of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC), in 1949, together with other important scientific personalities of the country, such as Jorge Americano, Paulo Sawaya, Maurício Rocha e Silva, Gastão Rosenfeld, Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, José Ribeiro do Vale and others. He was also the founder and the editor-in-chief for almost his entire life of "Ciência e Cultura", SBPC's official journal.

Reis received many national and international prizes, awards and honours, such as the Jonh R. Reitermeyer Award, granted by the Inter-American Press Society and the Panamerican Press Union in 1964; and the prestigious Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science by UNESCO (United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture). In his honour, the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) instituted in 1978 the José Reis Science Communication Award. His name is honoured also in the Núcleo José Reis de Divulgação Científica, a research and education centre at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo.

Reis continued his work at Folha de S.Paulo until his death in São Paulo; he died of complications of multiple pneumonia in 2002, at 94 years of age. His latest work, Ética e Divulgação Científica: Os Desafios do Novo Século (Ethic and Cientific Divulgation: The Challenges of the New Century), fifth in the Science Popularization Series, was published in the same year.

Timeline
1935/36: Professor Thomas M. invites him for an internship at the Rockefeller Institute, In the United States.

1936: Publishes the book Tratado de Ornipatologia (Treatise of Ornithopathology - bird diseases), in collaboration with Paulo Nóbrega and Annita Swenson Reis

1941: J. Reis participates in the reorganization of the (Brazilian) Department of Agriculture; the book Rasgando Horizontes (Tearing Horizons), with C.B.Schmidt, resulted from this work.

1943: Interventor (a temporary governor indicated by the President) Fernando Costa invites him to direct the Department of Public Service of the State of São Paulo (Departamento de Serviço Público do Estado de São Paulo).

1947: April 6: Begins to write for Folha da Manhã (Morning Paper), Folha da Noite (Evening Paper) and Folha de S.Paulo (São Paulo Paper) newspapers. In the beginning his writings concerned administrative matters, but later they regularly started to deal only with Science, continuing until he died in 2002, 55 years later.

1948: July 8: J. Reis participates in the foundation of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (Sociedade Brasileira para o progresso da Ciência) - SBPC "(...) under my initiative, for this purpose I gathered, initially, doctors Paulo Sawaya, Maurício Rocha e Silva and Gastão Rosenfeld, the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science was founded, and I was its first secretary-general and which magazine Ciência e Cultura (Science and Culture) I currently direct, without compensation." Folha de S.Paulo starts his Sunday column The World of Science (No mundo da Ciência).

1949: Founds and becomes editor of Ciência e Cultura (Science and Culture) magazine.

1950: Becomes a professional journalist.

1954: First phase as editor of SBPC's "Ciência e Cultura" magazine ends.

1955: Becomes member of the Permanent Commission of the Integral Regime, until the advent of governor Adhemar de Barros's administration. Begins to collaborate with Anhembi (pronounced ain-am-bee) Magazine, with his column "Ciência de 30 dias" (Science in the Past 30 Days).

1956: Participates as relator on science teaching themes at the annual meeting of the Brazilian Education Association (Associação Brasileira de Educação), in Salvador, Bahia.

1957: The second edition of his book Treatise of Ornithopathology is released.

1958: Retires from the Biological Institute (Instituto Biológico), receiving the title of Emeritus Servant. Founds, with José Nabantino Ramos and Clóvis Queiroga, Editora IBRASA (IBRASA publishing house) -where he launches "ferment-books", "which bring new ideas and bring about debate"; his performance as editor endures for 20 years, until 1978.

1962: Assumes the post of Editing Director of Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, "responsible for the orientation and writing of editorials, without compromising the science popularization work" (1962–67). Receives the Governador do Estado de SP (Governor of the State of São Paulo) Science Journalism Prize.

1963: In a UN meeting about Science and Technology in Geneva, he presents a report on science attitude in teaching.

1964: Awarded with the John R. Reitemeyer Prize in science journalism, conferred for the first time by the Inter-American Press Society (Sociedade Interamericana de Imprensa) and by the Panamerican Press Union (UniãoPanamericana de Imprensa).

1967: Leaves the post of Editing Director at Folha de S. Paulo.

1968: Publishes the book Educação é Investimento (Education is Investment), with preface by Alceu Amoroso Lima, from Editora IBRASA.

1972: Returns to the position of director of SBPC's Ciência e Cultura magazine.

1975: Awarded with UNESCO' Kalinga Prize.

1978: The José Reis Prize for Science Communication is established by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq.

1986: Ends his activities at Ciência e Cultura magazine, for which he was responsible from 1949 to 1954 and from 1972 to 1985.

1992: The José Reis Center for the Popularization of Science (JRC) of the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo is founded.

1997: A committee headed by Prof.. Dr. Crodowaldo Pavan, composed of members of the JRC, School of Communications and Arts, FAPESP and CNPq, celebrates on the 12th of June the ninetieth anniversary of José Reis.

1998: On the 8th of July the first book of the Science Popularization Series, A Espiral em Busca do Infinito (The Spiral Toward Infinity) is released, honoring José Reis. It was created by the JRC team, under the supervision of Glória Kreinz and Crodowaldo Pavan.

1999: José Reis continues to act as a journalist at Folha de S.Paulo, with his column Periscópio (Periscope), Idealistas Isolados (Isolated Idealists), the second book of the Science Popularization Series was published.

2000: A text by José Reis, titled Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa (Research Fostering Foundation), was published in the book Os Donos da Paisagem (The Landscape Owners), third in the Science Popularization Series was published.

2001: José Reis is elected honorary president of the recently founded Brazilian Association of Science Popularization, ABRADIC, and José Reis: Jornalista, Cientista e Divulgador Científico (José Reis: Journalist, Cientist and Cientific Divugator), fourth in the Science Popularization Series was published.

After death:

2003: Divulgação Científica: Refexões (Cientific Divulgation: Refexions), sixth in the Science Popularization Series was published.

2004: Congresso Internacional de Divulgação Científica (International Congress of Science Divulgation), seventh in the Science Popularization Series was published.

2005: José Reis: Ciência, Poesia e Outros Caminhos (José Reis: Science, Poetry and Others), eighth in the Science Popularization Series was published.

2006: Círculos Crescentes (Crescent Circles), ninth in the Science Popularization Series was published.

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"Science is beautiful and deeply esthetic; therefore we should exhibit it to society" (A ciência é bonita e profundamente estética; portanto, devemos exibi-la à sociedade)

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Duncan Kenworthy

Duncan Hamish Kenworthy OBE (born September 1949) is a British film and television producer, and co-founder of the production company DNA Films. He is currently a producer at Toledo Productions.

Early life
Kenworthy was educated at Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay, North Wales, which is now Rydal Penrhos School, an independent international boarding school. The school renovated the sixth form social space in 2018 and, after a generous donation from Kenworthy during the campaign to all alumni for support, it named the study room in his honour, as The Kenworthy Study Room.

He later attended Christ's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, from 1968, graduating in 1971 with a first class degree in English. He then studied as a postgraduate in the United States at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career
After finishing his education in the US, he remained there, working with Jim Henson. On returning to the UK, he became an independent producer, with credits including Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Lawn Dogs (1995), Notting Hill (1999), Love Actually (2003) and The Eagle (2011). His television productions include Jim Henson's The Storyteller and the 1996 version of Gulliver's Travels. He was also co-creator of Fraggle Rock. Appears in photographs in the credits of Four Weddings and a Funeral (although uncredited) as "Matthew's Gorgeous New Boyfriend". He is currently the Vice President of BAFTA, having previously held the position of chairman (2004–06).

Selected filmography

 * 1994: Four Weddings and a Funeral
 * 1997: Lawn Dogs
 * 1999: Notting Hill
 * 2001: The Parole Officer
 * 2003: Love Actually
 * 2011: The Eagle
 * 2016: The Pass
 * 2018: The Children Act

Awards
In February 2015, the National Film and Television School's Board of Governors bestowed an Honorary Fellowship on Kenworthy.

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Distinction without a difference

A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists. It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.

For example, a person might say "I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit."

Form of the fallacy

 * Claim X is made where the truth of the claim requires a distinct difference between A and B.
 * There is no distinct difference between A and B.
 * Therefore, claim X is incorrectly claimed to be true.

Example

 * Sergio: There is no way I would ever even consider taking dancing lessons.
 * Kitty: How about I ask my friend from work to teach you?
 * Sergio: If you know someone who is willing to teach me how to dance, then I am willing to learn, sure.

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Oriental City

Oriental City was a major shopping centre in Colindale, North London, England, originally built as a luxury Japanese shopping centre called Yaohan Plaza by the Yaohan retail company of Japan. After Yaohan filed for bankruptcy in 1997, the centre became a lower-end mall specialising in various oriental foods and items, while also containing health and social services for the East Asian community. Opening in 1993, the 141,000 sq ft complex was located at 399 Edgware Road with a dedicated car park and two floors.

As Yaohan Plaza, the shopping centre played a short but significant role in promoting Japanese cuisine and culture in London. Later, as Oriental City, it was referred to as London's "real Chinatown". Oriental City received about 10,000 visitors weekly as of 2006. The complex was closed for redevelopment on 1 June 2008 and, after several changes of ownership, was demolished in August 2014. In July 2017 the smaller Bang Bang Oriental Food Hall opened on the site, comprising 32 food kiosks, massage and beauty therapy suites as well as shops and a cultural centre.

Background
During the rapid growth of the Japanese economy in the 1980s, many Japanese businesses established operations and partnerships in the UK. Honda formed a partnership with British Leyland in 1979 and Nissan opened its first European factory in Derby in 1986. Such activities caused a significant increase in Japanese living in the UK. This renaissance of Anglo-Japanese exchange culminated in Japan Festival 1991, a four-month festival celebrated across the UK with both traditional Japanese arts such as kabuki and noh as well as contemporary Japanese rock. At this time, Japanese department store Yaohan began plans to open a large shopping centre in London.

Yaohan estimated that over 40,000 Japanese lived in the vicinity of the planned shopping centre, and further cited the 1991 Japan Festival as evidence of growing interest in Japan. They planned the shopping centre with the dual-aim to serve the large Japanese community and introduce Europeans to Japanese food and culture. Yaohan was in the process of pursuing a plan of overseas expansion and had already established operations in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States.

Opening
Yaohan invested £50 million (£87 million in 2021) in the construction of a Japanese-themed department store in Colindale with 10,134 square metres of space dedicated to retail, additional office space and parking for 800 cars. The building would combine a modern shopping centre with traditional Japanese architectural elements such as a tile roof. The interior would do the same, and featured traditional Japanese facades on many of the shops, similar to the Edo-Koji shopping area at Tokyo International Airport. Yaohan Plaza, London opened as a high-end Japanese shopping centre on 28 August 1993 with the slogan: "All Japan under one roof." Chindon'ya performers from the Chin-don Tsushinsha group were flown in from Japan to promote the opening.

Yaohan Plaza featured a grand entry hall with a wooden frame supporting a large ceremonial banner and knot, covered by a traditional tile roof. The north wing was a single storey and housed the full-size Japanese supermarket and food court. The south wing was two stories and housed shops and restaurants. At the back was a multi-storey car park. In total, Yaohan had 15 directly-owned retail operations, 47 third-party stores and 11 restaurants. The supermarket sold a wide range of Japanese foods including a full range of Japanese dry goods, freshly made sushi and obento, fish, and Japanese-style meats for the purpose of dishes like yakiniku and shabu shabu. Fresh fruit was flown in from Japan, and a Japanese-style bakery was operated on site. Yaohan Plaza's supermarket offered over 70 varieties of sake and 40 kinds of miso. Prices were considered high relative to Japan due to import costs, but 10-20 per cent lower than smaller Japanese shops in central London. The New York Times reported in 1993 that a 1.5 litre bottle of cold Japanese tea cost £4.99 (£8.69 in 2021). Yaohan's sushi kitchen operated 24 hours a day and supplied Waitrose, Selfridges, and Harvey Nichols.

The shopping centre had both full-service restaurants such as a sushi bar, izakaya, okonomiyaki restaurant ('Abeno') and ramen bar ('Ramen Seto'), a cafe, as well as a food court offering bento, kushiyaki, donburi such as unatamadon noodles and other Japanese foods. A wagashi-ya also operated at Yaohan and Minamoto Kitchoan used Yaohan Plaza to establish its formal London presence in 1996. A couple that had moved to London from the craft town of Mino, Gifu operated the shop 'Utsuwa no Yakata', which sold Japanese porcelain and tablewares. The main hall hosted fairs where additional special import products such as antiques were sometimes sold. The space also hosted car sales and displays of Japanese culture such as kimono.

One notable feature of Yaohan was its SegaDome arcade, themed to be like a small version of SegaWorld. A large Sonic the Hedgehog graphic adorned the outside of the building.

Other Japanese-focussed shops included a bookshop, Asahiya Shoten, with a large selection of manga, a video store, an imported toy and video game shop, a Sanrio shop and an electronics retailer. Services included a hairdresser specialising in Asian hair, a travel agency, an estate agent, a cram school and a dental practice. Additional shops in Yaohan Plaza focussed on selling British and European luxury goods to Japanese tourists. Liberty of London operated one such shop. Miyuki Hazzard, Yaohan Plaza London's publicity manager reported that 70% of customers were Japanese. Yaohan negotiated with a local taxi service to provide Japanese-language service and female drivers to put shoppers at ease, many of whom were housewives. Yaohan Plaza was actively promoted in the Japanese-language edition of British Airways's in-flight magazine.

Yaohan Plaza employed 190 staff, and each were expected to participate in a morning rituals typical of a Japanese company, including singing the company song.

The opening of Yaohan Plaza attracted some media attention in Britain, and several journalists described their experiences at the shopping centre. Monique Roffey of the Independent described it as a "hypermarket cum shopping mall cum cultural space-capsule".

Demise
By 1995, Yaohan had encountered problems with their business plan. A report in the Independent newspaper suggested that younger Japanese, who were a growing demographic in Britain's Japanese community, were more cosmopolitan and less likely to require a Japanese-tailored shopping experience. This younger demographic also had reduced spending power, particularly during a time of recession, and were unwilling to spend the premium for imported goods. Complaints included that expensive imported food would go on to the shelf already past its sell-by date. Thus, Yaohan began to change direction and renamed the shopping centre Oriental City. The focus would gradually shift away from Japanese clientele towards Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Malaysian communities. Many Japanese shops and restaurants were replaced and British Chinese became the largest group of customers.

Furthermore, Yaohan company's heavy focus on expanding across Asia left it vulnerable to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, and the company filed for bankruptcy that year. As a result, the London shopping centre was sold in October 1997 to new Malaysian owners, furthering the move away from a Japanese focus.

Legacy
Yaohan Plaza had a significant impact on the Japanese cuisine and cultural scene in London. Individuals and businesses involved in Yaohan Plaza continued after the Plaza's demise. Yaohan's Miyuki Hazzard went on to serve as a director for the newly founded Japanese-inspired British fast-food chain itsu, which opened in 1997. The owners of the okonomiyaki shop 'Abeno' re-opened in central London and were eventually awarded a Michelin star. Many other Japanese restaurants founded at Yaohan Plaza spread across London and remain today, including Ramen Seto. The couple that ran the homewares shop eventually founded their own Japanese tableware importer 'Doki'. Minamoto Kitchoan opened a flagship location on Piccadilly in 1997 and have maintained a presence in London ever since.

Yaohan Plaza may be considered ahead of its time, as demand for Japanese cuisine in the UK continued to grow in the 2000s and 2010s. By 2018, Yaohan Plaza's competitor Japan Centre had created their own large food hall in London, Ichiba, along with a chain of restaurants.

Oriental City
Oriental City saw some of the more expensive to maintain Japanese architectural elements were removed or neglected. The grand entrance to the main hall was removed and replaced by two Chinese guardian lions. The Japanese garden was no longer maintained. Elements of the exterior which were previously painted in a natural wood tone were repainted yellow. Many Japanese elements were also stripped from the interior, however most stalls in the food court maintained their distinctly Japanese facades despite serving other cuisines.

After the centre was bought by Malaysian owners, it contained a large oriental supermarket, now relocated to Bayswater, and a food court with a range of foods from different areas of South-East Asia; stalls offered Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese foods including bento boxes and sushi, ramen noodles, and assorted Asian desserts. The food court was immensely popular with surrounding office workers and the North London community; and often became very crowded at weekends.

The food court was complemented by a number of oriental restaurants in the complex, with the majority of them located on the upper floor. The complex contained two Dim Sum restaurants, a Sichuan restaurant, and an 'all you can eat' restaurant. Outside, there was a durian stall and a satay stall.

Aside from the food outlets, the complex also contained a number of small shops and stalls. Over its history there was a high turnover of shops, with only one remaining original tenant in the facility, the Japanese tableware store, Utsuwa-No-Yataka. Most original tenants had left by 2003. In the period shortly before the centre closed down, shoppers could find a tailor's shop, a jeweller, a hairdresser, a beauty shop, Chinese medicine shops, a martial arts store, a large furniture store, and visit the Sega Park arcade.

The centre was a focal point for the Oriental community, often hosting weeks which promoted the cultural identity of different South East Asian countries. These events typically consisted of various performing arts, and the promotion of that country's particular cuisine.

Proposed redevelopment and closure
In November 2006, Oriental City was bought out by the developer Development Securities who planned to demolish the centre and replace it with a B&Q, a housing development and a primary school. This private business transaction was beset by delays from store owners, the East Asian community, petitions, and even interference by the Chinese Consul-General and an ex-Arsenal football player. The developer was not able to close the complex until 2008, by which time the Great Recession had soured their ability to proceed with the redevelopment.

In 2006, the developers stated that there would be provisions for the current tenants of Oriental City to continue in the new development; however, the tenants objected to this, owing to the lack of consultation. Tenants stated that the new complex would take up to 9 years to complete, contrary to Development Securities' claim that redevelopment would take 3 years. Most tenants did not believe they could survive even a temporary relocation of their businesses.

Aside from business considerations, the East Asian community feared any redevelopment would mean the loss of an important community focal point. The tenants shut their businesses for a day to protest to the council at Brent Town Hall on 21 November 2006 feeling that they had been treated like 'second class citizens'. The tenants' plight was backed by a long-time visitor of the Centre, ex-Arsenal football player Ian Wright, who met the then London Mayor Ken Livingstone's planning officials in early December 2006 to object to the redevelopment plans.

In February 2007, the Chinese Consul-General wrote to London's mayor to express his "deep concern" about the project, calling for the proposal to be modified. Following a petition, it was announced that Oriental City would remain open until at least May 2008. The centre closed permanently at 7:00 pm on Sunday 1 June 2008, with thousands of people flocking to see Oriental City for the last time on its final day.

On 31 July 2008 Development Securities sold the site to a new developer, B & S Homes, for £68 million. The purchasers paid a £16 million deposit but were unable to find the £52 million required to complete their purchase. Their deposit was lost, the building went back into the hands of Development Securities, and further progress in the prevailing economic climate looked unlikely. As a result, the building remained boarded up and derelict.

From early 2009, there was much talk amongst former tenants of a proposal to reopen the doors of Oriental City in its previous form later that year. Discussions were understood to be taking place between the owners and former tenants. In February 2010, former tenants of Oriental City held a protest at the site over the continued closure of the centre. A campaign to re-open the centre was initiated, and it was reported that Morrisons was interested in developing the site.

In May 2013, planning permission was granted for a full redevelopment of the site by Development Securities with Morrisons as an anchor tenant. In August 2014 the Oriental City building was demolished, and a new development including flats and a Morrisons Superstore was built on the location, the store opening in March 2016. Brent Council reserved the remaining part of the retail site for "Far Eastern and Oriental uses" only, incorporating 30,000 sq ft of restaurant space. This was later allocated to the Bang Bang Oriental Food Hall.

In TV and film
The centre was used as an abandoned mall in the BBC One series Luther. It appeared in the 2012 film Dredd, where it was restored to a semblance of its former glory with a Blade Runner-like makeover. It was used in the first episode of the 2011 BBC Three series The Fades. Oriental City was the single location used for the 2012 TV film of a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, directed by Gregory Doran. The complex appeared in 2013 during a first season episode of the BBC Two series Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, with Brooker wandering around various parts of the derelict car park, Zen Tian Di Chinese buffet and a set of escalators. The centre was also used for the music video Bittersweet Memories by Welsh metalcore band Bullet For My Valentine.

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User:MizuAmina

Still reconstructing... it's not going very well, to say the least. T-T

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Talk:Life University

Not the end of the story
There's much more to write about the controversy surrounding Life's loss of accreditation, including the recent restoration of accreditation. However, I'm out of time at the moment to finish. Others are welcome to take up the torch here; otherwise, I'll be back to complete the section at a later time. SwissCelt 12:21, 22 July 2005 (UTC) Per Controversy section - either the section needs to be completed or needs to be deleted, currently it does not have all the facts and leaves the reader with just partial truths. Tpalmer70 4:06, 1,Oct. 2011
 * I've finished the edits I intended to do at this time. I invite others to add information about the university's culture, alumni, and much more. -- SwissCelt 02:42, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * (A bit amazed to be participating in a discussion first started in 2005) What in the section needs to be sourced? What information needs to be added? ElKevbo (talk) 20:11, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

 * Really, the simplest way to resolve it is to point out that chiropracty is not a recognized medical specialty and thus all accreditation boards and higher learning institutions associated with it are not recognized institutions. Accuracy Banshee (talk) 23:06, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Under Controversy - the episode starts in 2002 and doesn't truely finalize till 2006 when the US DoE rebukes CCE for its handling of the LU accreditation and CCE's ignoring its own accreditation rules. The way "controversy" ends leaves the reader not seeing the whole picture that the US DoEd found CCE lacking in four major areas over LU's dis-accreditation. ~Controversy is a way to slap LU on Wiki without telling the entire truth and really should be deleted per the 2006 USDOE findings, if CCE had followed its own rules, the outcome would have been different~ Do you need the source for the 2006 USDOE letter? Tpalmer70 15:11, 28,Oct. 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.29.182.118 (talk) 19:14, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

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Maque choux

Maque choux is a traditional dish of Louisiana. It is thought to be an amalgam of Creole and Native American cultural influence, and the name is likely to derive from the French interpretation of the Native American name.

It contains corn, green bell pepper, onion, and sometimes garlic, celery, okra, and tomato. The ingredients are braised in a pot. Historically bacon grease was used for the braising stage, although various combinations of oil, butter, or cream may be substituted. The vegetables are then left to simmer until they reach a tender consistency, with chicken stock or water added as necessary. The dish is finished with salt and a combination of red and black pepper. Some cooks include hot sauce and a bit of sugar for greater complexity.

Maque choux is usually served as an accompaniment; however, it can also act as a base for a main meal and use local ingredients such as bite-sized portions of chicken or crawfish. Shrimp is often added in the later stages of cooking as well.

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Teano

Teano is a town and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, 30 km northwest of Caserta on the main line to Rome from Naples. It stands at the southeast foot of an extinct volcano, Rocca Monfina. Its St. Clement's cathedral is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Teano-Calvi, which started as the Diocese of Teano circa AD 300.

Ancient times and Middle Ages
The ancient Teanum Sidicinum was the capital of the Oscan tribe of the Sidicini, which drove the Aurunci from Roccamonfina. They probably submitted to Rome in 334 BC and their troops were grouped with those of Campania in the Roman army. Thus the garrison of Regium, which in 280 attacked the citizens, consisted of one cohort of Sidicini and two of Campanians. Like Cales, Teanum continued to have the right of coinage, and, like Suessa and Cales, remained faithful to Rome in both the Hannibalic and the Social wars. Its position gave it some military importance, and it was apparently made a colony by Claudius, not by Augustus. Strabo speaks of it as the most important town on the Via Latina, joined by a branch road from Suessa, of which remains still exist, and which continued east to Alife.

In the 4th century Teano became seat of a diocese, and was later an important Lombard county, as part of the Duchy of Benevento. The Benedictines had several properties in the city, where the monks from Montecassino took refuge when their abbey was destroyed in 883. Here one of the first document of vulgare Italian was issued in 963.

"Handshake of Teano"
Teano was the site of the famous meeting of 26 October 1860, between Italian nationalist fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel II, the King of Sardinia. Having wrested the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from the Neapolitan Bourbons, Garibaldi shook Victor Emanuel's hand and hailed him as King of Italy. Thus, Garibaldi sacrificed republican hopes for the sake of Italian unity under a monarchy. The event is a popular subject for Italian patriotic statues and paintings.

Main sights

 * Roman remains of Teano include the theater (2nd century BC, rebuilt in the 2nd century AD), once one of the greatest in Italy with its 85 m of diameter, some extensive baths (Le Caldarelle) containing several statues, and some Roman dwellings. A tomb with a Christian mosaic representing the visit of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem was found in 1907. Of the famous amphitheater, cited by several sources, no traces remain.
 * Cathedral of St Clement (also called San Giovanni Ante Portam Latinam), begun around 1050 and completed in 1116, using Corinthian columns obtained from the ruins of the ancient town. It has a basilica plant with a nave and two aisles. After a fire, the church was rebuilt in 1610. The portico preceding the facade houses two sphinxes in red granite, coming from a pre-existing pagan temple. In the interior are a pergamum, with interesting parts from the original of the 12th century and a 14th-century Crucifix of Giotto's school, while the crypt houses a noteworthy Roman sarcophagus.
 * Castle, built by the dukes of Sessa in the 15th century, originating from a 4th-century BC fortress. In the Bourbon era it was used as prison.

Other sights include:
 * Loggione, built over Roman baths in Gothic style.
 * San Peter in Aquariis: 14th century church, built over a Palaeo-Christian edifice (in turn constructed over a Roman bath, whence the epithet in Aquariis, "on the water"). Recent restoration work has revealed precious Byzantine frescoes depicting St. Agatha, St Martha, and St Mark and John the Evangelist. The belfry is a rare example of Byzantine architecture in southern Italy.
 * St Benedict, the most ancient church within the walls, built in the 9th century over a temple dedicated to Ceres. It has 12 granite and marble columns with antique capitals, and once housed precious Benedictine documents which went lost after a fire.
 * San Paride ad Fontem: Paleo-Christian church located on the southeast site below the town. It was built over a Roman cisterna, whence the name (fons, fontis being Latin for a fountain or water source). Built originally in the 4th century, the current construction is from the 11th-12th centuries (extensively restored in 1988).
 * Franciscan convent of St Anthony of Padua was built in 1427, according to tradition, by the will of Bernardino da Siena, who also lived here for some years.

Transportation
Teano is 7 km from the gate of Capua of A1 Milan-Naples highway. It can be also reached by road through SS.7 Via Appia and SS.6 Via Casilina. The city is also served by a railway station.

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Welschenrohr

Welschenrohr (French: Rosières) is a former municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Gänsbrunnen and Welschenrohr merged to form the new municipality of Welschenrohr-Gänsbrunnen.

History
Welschenrohr is first mentioned in 1179 as Rore. An important watch manufacturing place up to the 1960s, its economy was heavily affected by the late 1960s watch crisis. Now, its economy specializes in fine mechanics.

Geography
Welschenrohr had an area,, of 12.99 km2. Of this area, 4.61 km2 or 35.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.58 km2 or 58.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.64 km2 or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.11 km2 or 0.8% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 56.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 7.3% is used for growing crops and 24.1% is pastures and 3.8% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

The former municipality is located in the Thal district, along the road between Balsthal and Moutier. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Welschenrohr. It is located in the Jura mountains.

Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend sinister Gules and Argent a Cramp fesswise counterchanged.

Demographics
Welschenrohr had a population (as of 2019) of 1,076. , 6.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -6.3%. Over the same time period the population has changed at a rate of -4.7% due to migration and at a rate of -3.5% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks German (1,105 or 94.4%), with Albanian being second most common (18 or 1.5%) and French being third (10 or 0.9%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh.

, the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 527 Swiss men (46.1% of the population) and 49 (4.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 525 Swiss women (46.0%) and 41 (3.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 616 or about 52.6% were born in Welschenrohr and lived there in 2000. There were 179 or 15.3% who were born in the same canton, while 227 or 19.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 101 or 8.6% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 5 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 8 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population remained the same. There were 2 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland and 3 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men and 3 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 18 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 1 people. This represents a population growth rate of -1.7%.

The age distribution,, in Welschenrohr is; 88 children or 7.5% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 206 teenagers or 17.6% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 53 people or 4.5% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 304 people or 26.0% are between 25 and 44, and 252 people or 21.5% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 210 people or 17.9% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 58 people or 5.0% who are over 80.

, there were 458 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 579 married individuals, 91 widows or widowers and 43 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 471 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 132 households that consist of only one person and 47 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 478 households that answered this question, 27.6% were households made up of just one person and there were 10 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 148 married couples without children, 155 married couples with children There were 18 single parents with a child or children. There were 8 households that were made up of unrelated people and 7 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 251 single family homes (or 67.8% of the total) out of a total of 370 inhabited buildings. There were 60 multi-family buildings (16.2%), along with 42 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (11.4%) and 17 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.6%). Of the single family homes 30 were built before 1919, while 20 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (79) were built between 1946 and 1960.

there were 539 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 163. There were 9 single room apartments and 213 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 460 apartments (85.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 28 apartments (5.2%) were seasonally occupied and 51 apartments (9.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 4.42%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.71% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (28.7%), the FDP (25.44%) and the SP (10.33%). In the federal election, a total of 472 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.3%.

Economy
, Welschenrohr had an unemployment rate of 3.6%. , there were 44 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector. 182 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 16 businesses in this sector. 115 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 24 businesses in this sector. There were 566 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.6% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 263. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 33, of which 32 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 158 of which 143 or (90.5%) were in manufacturing and 15 (9.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 72. In the tertiary sector; 9 or 12.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 8.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 12.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 10 or 13.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 8 or 11.1% were in education and 13 or 18.1% were in health care.

, there were 124 workers who commuted into the municipality and 274 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 15.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 42.6% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 720 or 61.5% were Roman Catholic, while 296 or 25.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 4 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.34% of the population), there were 4 individuals (or about 0.34% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 15 individuals (or about 1.28% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 48 (or about 4.10% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist, 9 individuals who were Hindu and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 61 (or about 5.21% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 11 individuals (or about 0.94% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Welschenrohr about 442 or (37.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 56 or (4.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 56 who completed tertiary schooling, 78.6% were Swiss men, 10.7% were Swiss women, 8.9% were non-Swiss men.

During the 2010-2011 school year there were a total of 107 students in the Welschenrohr school system. The education system in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 21 children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 86 students in primary school. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Welschenrohr attend their school in a neighboring municipality.

, there were 16 students in Welschenrohr who came from another municipality, while 66 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

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Teanum Apulum

Teanum Apulum (Tiati in pre-Roman times or Civitate in imperial times) is an ancient town of Apulia, southeastern Italy, near the modern town of San Paolo di Civitate. It was located on the road between Larinum and Sipontum, at a crossing of the Fortore river, and was 18 mi east of Larinum.

History
The town was called Teate in pre-Roman times, as seen on its numerous ancient coins, which have Oscan legends. It submitted to Ancient Rome in 318 BC, when it was the primary town of Apulia. Afterwards, it became a municipium and was renamed Teanum Apulum.

Some ancient Roman ruins and an old bridge over the Fortore river still exist.

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Ma Jian

Ma Jian may refer to:

 * Muhammad Ma Jian (马坚, 1906–1978), Chinese Confucian scholar and Islamic jurist
 * Ma Jian (writer) (马建, born 1953), Chinese writer
 * Ma Jian (politician) (马建, born 1956), former Vice Minister of State Security of China
 * Ma Jian (basketball) (马健, born 1969), Chinese basketball player and occasional actor
 * Jian Ma (computer scientist) (马坚), American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University working on computational biology

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Talk:George Willig

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That's weird - he doesn't show on the credits of Trauma Center in the IMDB stunts credits...

The Trauma Center credits only show the Stunt Coordinator or Stunt Supervisor, not individual stuntmen hired for individual episodes.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stockport cricket club 2

 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 (again). Eugene van der Pijll 19:23, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Stockport cricket club (again)
Previous vfd at Votes for deletion/Stockport cricket club. Votes 11-7 in favour of deleting. Its author ( aka (though I think the latter is a shared IP)) even recognised its utter non-importance and even requested that it should be deleted, and was clearly just arsing around with it anyway. . If that isn't consensus, though I don't know what is. (This I think has a quite a lot to do with the fact that I vote on the merits of school articles rather than automatically voting keep).

To clarify: This is a small cricket club, which there are thousands like throughout the country. We lack depth on the subject; we have articles on each of the County Championship sides, but the Minor counties (the next level down) are just listed - and only Cambridgeshire has an article. It sits like a thorn in category:English cricket right next to the MCC!. It gets 110 Google hits, none of which reveals a website. Dunc|☺ 12:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if you think "11-7" is consensus, you obviously don't know what it is. Kappa 12:42, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'd like to see a reference to it, and it should be at Stockport Cricket Club - but it passes the (admittedly very low) WP notability threshold. As far as lack of website is concerned - if you have a look at List of current first-class cricket teams you'll see that many major clubs lack a website, jguk 12:50, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * But no cricket club without a website has an article... It is also different for Pakistan, Bangladesh and West Indies where use of the Web for such things is far less. Incidentally, this article is never going to be verifiable, simply because there is no possible reference.  smoddy 13:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Already gone through VFD, too early for renomination. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I feel I need to explain the structure of English cricket. At the top level, there is the County Championship. This is equivilent to the Premiership. There are 18 counties. In addition, there is a minor counties championship, perhaps equivilent to football's lower professional leagues. Very few players in minor counties cricket are professional. Then, below that, is league cricket. These are Saturday afternoon cricketers. This is where Stockport is. Now, there is no promotion between these levels. Therefore, Stockport cricket club can never become any more notable than they are today. I understand that the previous keep was on account of people not really understanding quite how insignificant this club is... smoddy 13:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I understand perfectly well, and there is no reason why Wikipedia shouldn't cover clubs like this. This should not have been renominated. CalJW 15:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I undeleted it because 11-7 is not consensus for anything, and the original poster has no right to ask for it to be automatically deleted if other people have also edited the article. I have no opinion on whether this should be allowed so soon after the first vfd debate, or on the article itself. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px|  ]] 13:09, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: with "club members who died in both World Wars", it must at least be nearly a century old, which possibly speaks in its favour. Uppland 13:55, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Not really. Most cricket clubs in the country are that age.  My town club was founded some time in the 1860s, yet Monmouth Cricket Club is red.  smoddy 13:59, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * But Wikipedia has hardly started crawling yet. It will have much more depth in 10 years time. CalJW 15:39, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps WP will evolve into an indiscriminate collection of information, but it isn't there yet. Consider (1) that many places that have such clubs are stubs, and (2) we have a single article on a minor county.  Look at the number of cricket clubs in Greater Manchester only.  Now further consider that at the next level down, the top club league in Lancashire is the Lancashire League.  I can't find which league Stockport are in, but it's below this.  Starting from the bottom and working up isn't a very clever approach to writing articles.  Revisit this issue in 10 years perhaps, but not now. Dunc|☺ 18:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I was not under the impression that Wikipedia as a whole used any specific "approach to writing articles". Nor do I believe that arguments such as "there are more notable things without articles" is a valid reason to delete any article.  The correct response would be to write an article for the more important cricket clubs if cricket clubs interest you, and leave the valid stub be either way. -- Jonel | Speak 23:35, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, equivalent to a not particularly notable local business. Dcarrano 15:07, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete seems to be of at best local notability. DES 18:44, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for non-notability. Nandesuka 19:20, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Perhaps vanity from a Mr. M. Short? Not notable. -R. fiend 20:45, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Stockport. The information is somewhat useful, I feel, but it does feel a bit odd sitting on its own. Sam Vimes 22:40, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge with Stockport. --Calton | Talk 00:18, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 04:24, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep again, both for the reason cited at the previous VfD and for the reason that there was a previous VfD not so long ago. -- Jonel | Speak 15:10, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe your original reasoning was "cricket clubs are inherently notable", though it would be interesting to see you justify and elaborate on that comment. The previous vfd ended in "no consensus". Dunc|☺ 16:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Tony has pointed out the verifiability of such clubs. It is trivial to make the articles NPOV.  Uppland has noted that the clubs typically have a great deal of longevity, including the one in question.  If those qualities are not enough to create an assumption of noteworthiness that must be overcome in order for me to agree with deletion, I don't know what qualities would be.  Also, if people went through and re-nominated every article that finished VfD as "no consensus" (or worse, deleted the article anyway as you did with this one), VfD would be an even more aggravating place to spend time than it is now.  I hope you're not really suggesting that articles be nominated time after time until they reach consensus. -- Jonel | Speak 23:35, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep again. If our cricket coverage lacks depth, we will achieve that depth by writing more cricket club articles, not deleting the few that we have. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 17:41, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, about half-notable clubs. This article can never be verified, because no sources exist.  The club will never become even remotely notable.  This isn't just a "lower division" club.  This is a "right down the bottom of the scale" club.  Improving our cricket coverage will never, I repeat, never, encompass this sort of article.  [[smoddy ]] 19:09, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a cricket club. It's simply incorrect to say that it isn't possible to write a verifiable article.  Cheshire Cricket Board lists the club's name and a contact name and address, and gives match summaries involving the club's teams.  It isn't a prestigious county club but it's active in local league.  If someone wants to write about it, I see no reason why they shouldn't. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 19:34, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed it does appear to be in Cheshire rather than Lancs. However I count about 56 clubs in Chesh. plus 12 unafilliated clubs.  There are 53 traditional counties in England and Wales, so we're saying that you've just requested about 3000 rather mundane and difficult to verify articles, whilst bearing in mind that Cheshire County Cricket Club itself doesn't have one yet.  Dunc|☺ 20:47, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Whether Cheshire County Cricket Club has an article or not is irrelevant. When someone wants to write an article about it, an article would be written.  Just because no one has yet isn't a good reason to delete other articles. -- Jonel | Speak 23:35, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * We're discussing whether to delete this article, not whether a further 3,000 articles should be written. If someone wants to write a verifiable article about a small cricket club, I personally have no problem with that.  It's a wiki. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 03:34, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, local sports clubs generally aren't notable. Radiant_ >|< 19:04, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable. Squash 08:49, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * 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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Talk:Health and Wealth Gospel

Link to prosperity theology?
Is this basically the same thing as prosperity theology? If so, which one should redirect to the other, or which one is the most widely-used of the two? More work needs to be done to whichever article remains, however. - Jersyko   talk  12:28, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Or maybe both should be merged into Word of faith . . . - Jersyko   talk  21:55, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

A careful clarification of the Tithes, and the prosperity gospels is expounded at length at the Grace website. Grace Website Used as a bible study, and input is left by visitors.
 * There's a plug for someone's website in the text.

Luke 6:20 -> It is the same as Matthew 5:3 -> Sermon on the mount -> Therefore, the poor refered in LK6:20 is refering to the poor in spirit

Matthew 19:24 -> Look at the context of this verse starting from verse 16. A self-righteousness boasted of keeping the law, therefore Jesus showed that you cannot keep the Law. So Jesus used the Law and pointed to the self-righteous man that no one can keep the law. This is consistent in the bible as Jesus always uses the Law when the Pharisees came to Him using the Law.

Ezekiel 16:49 -> Indeed helping the poor and needy is what we ought to do. When we put Jesus first, He will position us to be able to help the poor and needy.

James 2:5 -> Look at the context of this verse from chapter 2. The bible is telling us not to look at people based on their wealth but rather those that are rich in faith (ie. wealth and poor cannot be equated to faith). It has nothing to do with gaining wealth or prosperity.

One note of caution. Verses should always be quoted in the context of the original intention and not quoted to suit one's preference. God put verses at that particular spot for a reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.9.2 (talk) 11:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Reformated
I broke up the original article and hopefully made it more clear. I added an internal link to the WOF article. Gabriello talk  16:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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OVO (album)

OVO (also released as OVO: The Millennium Show) is a soundtrack album (although not in reference to a film) by English singer-songwriter and musician Peter Gabriel and his eleventh album overall. It was released on 12 June 2000 by Real World Records as the commissioned work to the Millennium Dome Show, a multimedia performance show that ran 999 times at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London between 1 January and 31 December 2000.

Background

Gabriel was already working on the songs for his 2002 album Up, which was slated for release in 2001 at the time, when he started work on OVO: "'Ovo' was going to be a six-month diversion. In the end it took two years." Initially, work was being done simultaneously on both Up and OVO for a few months, separately by engineers Richard Chappell and Richard Evans (respectively). However, in November 1998, both engineers decided to focus on completing the OVO soundtrack, so work on Up was temporarily put on hold.

Mark Fisher, creative director of the Millennium Dome, had asked Gabriel to write the music for the Millennium Dome Show. Gabriel agreed to work on the project as collaborator: "I told Mark if he wanted a full collaborator to create something with a story and visual ideas, then I would love to do it. The appeal was that it was a huge project which offered the ability to dream up some crazy things, and there was a budget there to pay for it." The bad public image and the problems revolving around the Millennium Dome were taken by Gabriel as a challenge: "I knew what I was walking into and that it was a quite unpopular project. But the fact that it was going to be controversial was actually what attracted me."

Douglas Hodge would join Fisher and Gabriel as a writer in 1998, before being assigned as director in the same year, on the condition that The Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida would sponsor the show and later ship the whole stage and set over to the Resort for a future attraction.

In 2007, Walt Disney Imagineering asked Hodge to assist in converting the stage and sets into a Ride Based on the Toy Story Franchise. He jumped at the offer and Toy Story Midway Mania was officially opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios on 31 May 2008.

Writing
Comparing the album with 2002's Up, Gabriel saw a number of differences: "It's referential to folk music, and there are futuristic elements that I wouldn't normally work with. 'Ovo' has an external focus, whereas the other album I've been working on is more internally focused." "Different versions of Britain" piqued Gabriel's interest: "There was the traditional view of a white England, with folk references which I knew very little about musically and had to research. Then there was contemporary Britain, and the aim was to include Asian, African, Caribbean, and Irish elements from what is now a very multicultural society."

Gabriel deliberately chose rap as genre in the opening track "The Story of OVO" where singer Neneh Cherry and rapper Rasco narrate the story line: "I wanted to make it appeal to kids, and rap seems to be their No. 1 music these days."

Release
The album was released in two different versions. The double CD edition with the title "OVO The Millennium Show" contains a different cover and booklet, a comic book and bonus track "The Tree That Went Up". It was initially sold exclusively at the Millennium Dome Show. The track listing for this version is shifted in comparison to the other version. The track "The Story of OVO" has been moved to the additional CD. Every CD of every edition includes a multimedia part with the time lapse video "The Nest That Sailed the Sky". While the single CD version's booklet contains an introduction by Peter Gabriel and lyrics, the double CD version's booklet contains a short summary of the story, statements of artists involved and images from the Millennium Dome Show. The single CD release of OVO removed Alison Goldfrapp's name from the credits.

Prior to the official release the album was made available to the public through a web promotion campaign called "Web Wheel" with three tracks not available on the album. The tracks were individually distributed to different interlinked sites timed to expire at the official release date.

Live performance
Gabriel performed "Father, Son", "The Tower That Ate People", "White Ashes", and "Downside Up" over the course of the Growing Up and Still Growing Up tours. Melanie Gabriel provided backing vocals for "Downside Up". These performances are available on the live albums Growing Up Live and Still Growing Up: Live & Unwrapped. "Downside-Up" and "The Nest That Sailed The Sky" were also performed as part of The New Blood Tour in 2010 and 2011, the former as a duet between Peter and Melanie Gabriel and the latter as the closing, orchestra-only track of the show. "Father, Son" was also performed. These performances are available on the New Blood Live in London DVD. "The Tower That Ate People" also appears on the Back to Front: Live in London DVD released in 2014.

The Story of OVO
The Story of OVO was released in the CD-booklet-shaped comic book which was part of the CD edition with the title "OVO The Millennium Show".

Act I: The man who loved the earth
Long ago on the island of Albion lived Theo, a man who loved the earth. He was engaged in agriculture and could enjoy successful harvests. Nature provided him and his people with everything they needed to live. His wife Beth was strong and intuitive. She was able to concentrate strongly on the activity of weaving. Their son Ion was busy with ideas to improve the world. His sister Sofia was a dreamer and lived in her own world. One evening, she saw a forest in a pond from the sky's reflection. That's how she first discovered the existence of Skypeople and fell in love with Skyboy. Theo was annoyed by this and followed her into the woods. He drove Skyboy and his companions away. Theo was worried about his daughter and the mysterious strangers. He tried to find another man for his daughter but she rejected all of them because she had the same stubbornness as Theo in her veins. Theo understood that she would do exactly what she herself wanted. During a festival, a storm destroyed the family's barn. Theo tried to save what he could, but died from a falling beam in the burning barn.

Act II: The tower that ate people
Theo's death left a great emptiness in his village. His son Ion discovered at a campfire how iron could be extracted from ore with the help of burning coal. He began to develop machines made of iron, which would decisively change the lives of the villagers in agriculture and all other areas to an industrial society. He built a large tower of iron on the island with a city inside. Ion assured everyone that no one would be exposed to the dangers of nature there anymore. The tower kept growing with the help of materials from all parts of the world. Beth was nevertheless worried, she felt that nature was now only a prisoner inside the tower. The Skypeople had only the choice to live outside the tower in poverty or inside the tower in slavery. The Skypeople were getting weaker and weaker and could do nothing about how the once fertile land was turning into a dry desert. Sofia met up with Skyboy again in what was left of the forests. Ion developed more and more fears and blamed the Skypeople for everything that changed for the worse. He saw Skyboy as his enemy from now on and imprisoned him in the tower, blaming him for Theo's death. Even Beth could not stop him. Sofia allowed the Skypeople to attack the tower, as she hoped to free Skyboy. The tower was captured by the Skypeople and Skyboy was freed. Ion understood what he had created, threw himself from the top of the tower and died. His mother Beth mourned for her son. The tower was blown up by the Skypeople and collapsed.

Act III: The nest that sailed the sky
Sofia discovered that her mother Beth had been killed by the rubble of the tower and mourned her loss. She had now lost her entire family and Skyboy was gone. At Ion and Beth's funeral, she remembered her happy childhood surrounded by her family. She planted an acorn from her old house that she found in her pocket. Suddenly she met Skyboy again, who took her above the clouds. Sofia became pregnant. On the day of her wedding, a tree grew from her mother's grave. The oak tree quickly grew bigger and bigger. Then the great rain began and the dry land was filled with life again. But the rain didn't stop, the Skypeople couldn't fly because their wings got wet. The water kept rising. Skyboy and Sofia called everyone to the big oak tree to save themselves. Sofia became the leader of all, the child inside her was getting heavier and heavier. The tree remained the only thing still peeking out. The child of Skyboy and Beth was born. His eyelids formed the word OVO with his eyes and so get his name. The water did not recede for several months. Sofia discovered that if she looked up into the sky, she could fall in it. The whole top of the world was spinning upside down. She told the others about a dream of how a nest with her son could sail into the sky. They made a nest out of twigs and put food in it and OVO in its center. The nest with OVO went up to the sky. Sofia was very sad, but at the same time she saw in the faces of the others more hope than ever before. The nest disappeared into the sky. The last thing they could see was a blue ball floating away.

Personnel

 * Douglas Hodge – director
 * Peter Gabriel, Bob Baker – story and text development
 * Douglas Hodge, Peter Gabriel, Mark Fisher – original show concept
 * Charlotte Cory – additional text
 * Christian Perret – illustration concept and design
 * Georges Crisci – illustrations
 * Zadok Ben-David – frontispiece
 * Marc Bessant – book design
 * Martha Ladly – design co-ordination

Personnel
The numbers in brackets refer to the single CD edition.

 * Peter Gabriel – production, vocals (1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12), keyboard (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, "The Tree That Went Up"), percussion (1, 4), drone treatments (2), tanpura (2), piano (2, 6, 12), synthesizer (2, 6, 11, 12), string arrangements (2, 3, 10–12, "The Tree That Went Up"), piano loops (3), hammer dulcimer treatments (3), crotales (3, 4), African percussion (3, 5), claps (4), strings (5), synth bass (5, 10), brass arrangements (5, 6), treatments (7), keyboard bass (7, 12), keyboard treatments (8), bass (9), backing vocals (10), programming (10, 12), surdu (10, "The Tree That Went Up"), Peruvian drum (10), synth guitar (10), calliope (12)
 * Simon Emmerson – production (5b), drum programming (5), bells (5), finger cymbals (5)
 * Brian Transeau – production (12), programming (7), fills (7), chorus guitar (7), string arrangements (12), drum programming (12), nord programming (12), bass (12)
 * Richard Chappell – engineering, programming, mixing (1, 4a, 7–9), treatments (1, 4, 7, 9), drum programming (1, 3, 4, 7–9, "The Tree That Went Up"), loops (7), end toms (7)
 * Richard Evans – engineering, programming, mixing (1–3, 4b–6, 10–12, "The Tree That Went Up"), synthesizer (1), nord bass (2), treatments (3, 11), guitar loops (3), mandola (3, 5, 12), flute (3, 5), hammer dulcimer (3), crotales (4), claps (4), bass (5), drum programming (5, "The Tree That Went Up"), shaker (5), 12 string electric guitar (10, 12), 12 string acoustic guitar (10), electric guitar (12), percussion (12)
 * Edel Griffith – additional engineering
 * Alan Coleman – additional engineering
 * Neneh Cherry – rap (1)
 * Rasco – rap (1)
 * Ganga Giri – didgeridoo (1, 4)
 * The Dhol Foundation – dhol drums (1, 4, 5, 8, 10, "The Tree That Went Up")
 * Johnny Kalsi – master drums (1, 4, 8, 10, "The Tree That Went Up"), dhol drum (5), tabla (5)
 * Jim Barr – bass (1, 4), upright bass (12), 12 string acoustic guitar (12)
 * Hossam Ramzy – finger cymbals (1, 4), dufs (1), tabla (4), crotales (4)
 * James McNally – bodhran (1, 4, 5), whistle (4, 5), piano accordion
 * Iarla Ó Lionáird – vocals (2)
 * Shankar – additional vocals (2), double violin (2, 11)
 * Kudsi Erguner – ney flute (2)
 * Jocelyn Pook – string arrangements (2, 3, 10, 11), strings (5)
 * Electra Strings – strings (2, 3, 10–12, "The Tree That Went Up"), string arrangements (5)
 * Richie Havens – vocals (3, 12)
 * Ged Lynch – shakers (3), drums (12)
 * David Bottrill – mixing (3, 7, 10, 12), end rhythm section recording (10)
 * Omi Hall – vocals (4, 9)
 * David Rhodes – guitar (4, 7, 10, 12, "The Tree That Went Up")
 * Nigel Eaton – hurdy gurdy (4, 5)
 * Stuart Gordon – fiddle (5), viola (5)
 * Jim Couza – hammer dulcimer (5)
 * The Black Dyke Band – brass (5, 6, 10, 11)
 * James Watson – conducting (5, 6, 10, 11)
 * Will Gregory – brass arrangements (5, 6, 10)
 * Elizabeth Purnell – brass orchestration (5, 6, 10, 11), brass arrangements (10, 11)
 * Tony Levin – bass (6, 7, 10), mid section bass (12)
 * Manu Katché – drums (7, 10)
 * Adzido – drums (8,, "The Tree That Went Up")
 * George Dzikunu – master drummer (8, "The Tree That Went Up")
 * Sussan Deyhim – screams (9)
 * Steve Gadd – drums (9)
 * Elizabeth Fraser – vocals (10, 12)
 * Alison Goldfrapp – vocals (3, 5)
 * Paul Buchanan – vocals (10, 12)
 * Babacar Faye – sabar (10)
 * Assane Thiam – talking drum (10)
 * Carol Steel – congas (10), shaker (10)
 * Tchad Blake – mixing (10, 12)
 * Daniel Lanois – end rhythm section recording (10), flutey section recording (12)
 * Jacquie Turner – end rhythm section recording assistant (10), additional percussion session (12), mixing assistant (12)
 * Markus Dravs – additional percussion session (12)
 * David Bascombe – flutey section recording (12)
 * Tony Cousins – mastering
 * York Tillyer – E-CD, E-CD video, front and back cover photographs (double CD edition), additional photography (double CD edition)
 * Ben Wakeford – E-CD
 * Lee Parry – E-CD
 * Nils-Udo – images (single CD edition)
 * Marc Bessant – graphic design, additional photography (single CD edition)
 * Anna-Karin Sundin – additional photography (single CD edition)
 * Dennis Kunkel – microscopy images (single CD edition)
 * Gideon Mendel – additional photography (double CD edition)
 * Peter Nicholls – dome exterior photographs (double CD edition)
 * Athena Connal – graphic design (double CD edition)
 * Tristan Manco – graphic design (double CD edition)
 * Martha Ladly – design coordination

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Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (17 September 1814 at Châteauroux – 29 July 1892 in Paris), was a French writer and politician.

Life
He entered the civil service after the completion of his education at the École Polytechnique. He was a railway expert, becoming secretary-general of the Railway Commission established in 1842, government commissioner to the authorized railway companies, administrator of the Lyon-Mediterranean railway, and commissioner to examine foreign railways.

In 1846 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Hérault, but the revolution of 1848 drove him into private life, from which he only emerged after the downfall of the Second Empire, when in February 1871 he was returned to the National Assembly. He supported the government of Adolphe Thiers and was minister of agriculture and commerce in 1872–73.

He sat in the Left Centre, and steadily supported republican principles. He entered the Senate in 1876, and was minister of agriculture in the Dufaure-Ricard cabinet of that year, retaining his portfolio in the Jules Simon ministry which fell on 16 May 1877. In 1878, when he joined the new Dufaure cabinet, he opened the Paris exhibition of agriculture and manufactures, the original suggestion of which had been made by him during his 1876 ministry. In 1879 he was sent as ambassador to Vienna, whence he was next year recalled on the score of health. Two years later he re-entered the Senate, where he did good service to the cause of "Republican Defence" during the Boulangist agitation.

His works consist of discussions of railway policy from the technical and economic side.

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Category:Israeli jurists

Included in the Category: Israeli jurists are Israeli citizens or long-term residents who have actively worked as jurists.

title: Category:Israeli jurists