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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeremy Hammond

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The result of the debate was delete. humblefool®Deletion Reform 01:43, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Jeremy Hammond
Vanity (I think). If not deletion then serious cleanup is required. Paddy whack 11:51, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Not vanity. I'm not Jeremy Hammond.   If you wish to suggest some of the steps to clean it up, I'd be more than willing to listen, and can probably oblige.  Chi2600Admin
 * There are a couple things to do to make this an OK contribution. First, you have to explain why this guy is notable (see Notability). He's just a criminal, albeit a politically-motivated one--what has he done to get into an encyclopedia? Secondly, you have to write as if you're a third party--for example, phrases like "our entire mail server" have to go. Also, remember to follow Wikipedia's neutrality policy. Best, Meelar (talk) 15:20, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * DOH! Thanks for the heads-up.  Some of the stuff is chopped straight out from news on the issues.  I thought I'd purged the first-person stuff.  Will begin reworking this entry.Chi2600Admin
 * Delete - no evidence that he's anything other than one of myriad small-time criminals. CDC   (talk)  22:47, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per CDC. Pavel Vozenilek 23:34, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Much of the content is what he "would have done." As his own defense was "I didn't do anything really bad" he isn't that notable. --Icelight 23:07, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Sasso Marconi

Sasso Marconi (Bolognese: Al Sâs) is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Bologna in northern Italy, 17 km south-southwest of Bologna.

Known as Sasso Bolognese until 1938, it is named after Guglielmo Marconi, the radio pioneer, who was born in the nearby city of Bologna. His villa now contains the Marconi Museum and Mausoleum. The name Sasso ("rock") derives from the Pliocenic rock formation called Sasso della Glosina that commands the confluence of the Setta and Reno rivers.

Twin cities

 * 🇬🇧  Helston, UK
 * 🇫🇷  Sassenage, France
 * 🇮🇹 Siderno, Italy

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Carl August Dohrn

Carl August Dohrn (27 June 1806 – 10 May 1892) was a German entomologist.

Biography
Born at Stettin (Szczecin, now Poland) Carl August was the son of Heinrich Dohrn, who was a wine and spice merchant, and had made the family fortune by trading in sugar. This wealth allowed Carl August to devote himself to his various hobbies; travelling, folk music and entomology.

Although interested in all orders of insects Dohrn specialised in Coleoptera. His first published paper was in the Entomologische Zeitung for 1845 but he was an active entomologist long before this, since he had acted as Secretary to the Stettin Entomological Society from its foundation in 1839 and edited its journal. He was elected president of the society in 1843 retiring from the post in 1887.During this time he held together the rather fractious German entomologists and the society flourished. Dohrn had many contacts including Alexander Henry Haliday, with whom he wrote a paper on the Linnaean Diptera (See Talk:Carl August Dohrn) and the London entomologists. He was a personal friend of Henry Tibbats Stainton with whom he stayed in England.

A frequent visitor to London he was accompanied by the Lepidopterist, Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852, by Carl Henrik Boheman in 1854 and by Hermann August Hagen in 1857. He spent many summers in Italy, in Lucca with Haliday and in Turin with Maximilian Spinola. Dohrn was elected a fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1855 and an honorary member in 1855. A classicist he was fluent in many European languages. His Coleoptera collection was very extensive and just prior to his death, at 86, he had received upwards of 1,000 beetles from Sumatra.

Family
Dohrn's son Anton Dohrn, an ardent supporter of Charles Darwin, became a famous marine zoologist. Another, older, son Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn was also an entomologist.

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United National Liberation Front

The United National Liberation Front (UNLF), also known as the United National Liberation Front of Manipur, is a separatist insurgent group active in the state of Manipur in Northeast India which aims at establishing a sovereign and socialist Manipur.

Background
The United National Liberation Front's movement manifested as a result of several similar movements of the same political agenda. The outfit was founded on 24 November 1964 with the following key personalities as its central committee members:

 * 1) Sana Yaima, Chairman
 * 2) Kalalung Kamei, President
 * 3) Thankhopao Singsit, Vice-President
 * 4) Arambam Samarendra, General Secretary
 * 5) Longjam Manimohan, Member
 * 6) Laishram Kanhai, Member
 * 7) Nongmeikapam Sanajaoba, Member
 * 8) Nongmaithem Pahari, Member

Ideology and Aim
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in September 2012, acknowledged that "the activities carried out by the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) are for bringing sovereignty in the state of Manipur." The UNLF has viewed the statement as "a big political victory."

The UNLF chairperson, R. K. Meghan alias Sanayaima, has been charged for "waging war" against India by the NIA, but the UNLF leader has voiced that the UNLF does not view India or its army as enemies, and "the UNLF only resist the Indian armed forces stationed in Manipur and to resist those people who engaged in colonial repression."

Sana Yaima believes that Manipur is "under martial law," and has questioned the character and worthiness of the elections that had been held in Manipur. He further believes that "the most democratic means to resolve conflict is plebiscite."

Organization
The UNLF is one of the oldest insurgent organizations in Northeast India. E. N. Rammohan, the former Director-General of the Border Security Force, once wrote, "Of the five major (Imphal) valley underground groups, the UNLF's ideology is by and large intact. The senior leadership is well educated and has good organizational control."

Manipur People's Army
Manipur People's Army (MPA) was formed on 9 February 1987 as an Army Wing of UNLF. In 1991, the UNLF picked up arms, and its first armed action against IOF was carried out on 15 December 1991 at Lamdan on a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). In 2005, the MPA's strength was estimated to be about 2,000 armed cadres. According to the UNLF, by 2005, the UNLF was engaged in a battle against about 50,000 armed personnel from the Indian Army deployed against the organisation in the forest regions of Manipur. The cadres of the group are drawn largely from the Meiteis and the Pangals.

Strategy and Tactics
The UNLF is known to be heavily involved with Extortion, Arms Trading, and Income Generating Projects to finance their armed movements. They have several organized training camps within the northeast sector of India and the neighbouring countries of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Ningtam Meira is the primary media outlet they use to make publications.

Four–point proposal to Indian government
The UNLF had put forward four condiciones sine quibus non before the government of India if it is willing to initiate dialogue and ink a peace accord with the organisation, which are:
 * 1) "A plebiscite under UN supervision to elicit the people's opinion on the core issue of restoration of Manipur's independence."
 * 2) "Deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in Manipur to ensure free and fair process."
 * 3) "Surrender of arms by the UNLF to the UN force, matched by the withdrawal of Indian troops."
 * 4) "Handing over of political power by the UN in accordance with the results of the plebiscite."

Arrest of chairperson
On 4 December 2010, Sanayaima was produced by the NIA, who claimed to have arrested Sanayaima from Motihari in Bihar; while, Sanayaima has proclaimed that he was abducted by the Bangladeshi agencies on 29 September 2010 and "handed over" to the agencies of India. Sanayaima has been booked by the NIA for "waging war against the Indian Union under section 120 (B) IPC, 121, 121 (A), 122 IPC and 16, 17, 18, 18 (A), 18 (B) & 20 Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 as amended in 2008." After the arrest, he said that "in a multi-community region, the idea of peace cannot be achieved without considering the collateral damages of the secondary conflict that emerges out of the meaningless peace process." "The Indian government ploy in the so called peace process in 'Western South East Asia' (WESIA) [Indian northeast region] is aimed at transforming the conflict between the peoples of the region with the government of India into a conflict between the peoples on ethnic lines."

Drawing inspiration from the "charged political atmosphere" during the "Naxalbari uprising", he had dropped out of the higher studies at the Jadavpur University in Kolkata, and "picked up a gun and vanished into the forest" about 4 decades ago; and had remained underground since then.

Controversies
Civil rights activist Babloo Loitongbom, said that "there was an allegation that certain members of the UNLF had raped 20 women. We formed a multi-ethnic fact finding team to go to the place. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to go inside the camp, we were not given any medical evidence."

Peace Talk
On 29 November 2023, the Pambei faction of UNLF signed a ceasefire agreement with the Government of India. The agreement was claimed as being "historic" as the UNLF is the first Meitei insurgent organization to sign such an agreement.

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Lottso!

Lottso! is a game offered by the website Pogo.com. It is a blend of Bingo and a Lottery. Its outcome usually is decided by luck, although players can develop certain strategies to win the game.

The game
Lottso! is usually played by a number of players that varies between 2 and 20, but a player can sit by themselves and play the game as well. There is a triangle, similar to those used to play billiards, that comes on the screen, with six numbers, five numbers and a star or four numbers and two stars. There are three tickets containing numbers to each side of the game screen.

The purpose of the game is to place the numbers inside the triangle in the tickets that have matching numbers, to fill out the tickets. All tickets that get filled help the player obtain points, but some tickets are better than others. Practically all of the tickets feature themes from other games available on the Pogo website. The most valuable tickets are Aces Up and Pop Fu. The least valuable tickets are Harvest Mania, Squelchies, and Jigsaw Detective. There are also Team Lottso tickets which can vary in value from 50 to 500 depending on how many additional players in the room complete a Team Lottso ticket. Players can also choose to play in competitive rooms where the Team Lottso ticket is unavailable. The Lottso ticket itself has a changing value depending on how often it is scratched during the game, typically never going higher than 550 in a full room.

Most tickets are scratch tickets. These allow the player to keep scoring until a stop sign is scratched on the ticket. The player keeps the points scored regardless that the negative sign has come. Other tickets are match tickets. Match tickets allow a player to look for a high number of points, but can also give players a low score. When a player matches one number, that number of points is given to the contestant.

Ten rounds consisting of 25 seconds each are played. The winners get rewards in the shape of tokens, which can be used to purchase entries into the various Pogo prize drawings or to edit a player's Pogo Mini. The winner is that contestant with the most points scored after ten rounds. Players who score over 3000 in a game receive a jackpot spin for more tokens or prizes. Players advance rank in Lottso by placing balls on cards during the game. There are 100 ranks in the game with badges awarded at various ranks.

Strategy
Unlike bingo, where a number can be played on all cards the player is playing, in Lottso! a ball can only be played once. This adds a lot of strategy to the game.

Knowing which cards are worth the most points and clearing them first is important to winning the game. A player should play wild numbers on a number they need the most of. In team play, a Team Lottso! card can be worth anywhere from 50 to 500 points depending on how many other players play a Team Lottso! card in the same round; a shrewd player plays the Team Lottso! card when it is worth the most points. Also note that just because a card is filled does not mean it needs to be scratched, players can hold onto this card until a round where it is "flashing", which will multiply the points it is worth. Flashing cards begin showing up in round 6, with the total multiplied by a factor of two until round 9 where the total is multiplied by three.

Another strategy is to get the Super Lottso Card. The easiest way of getting the card is to wait until all the cards in one row are filled, before scratching them to get the points. This way the whole row will empty in one round, and the Super Lottso Card will drop down for the next round. Another way to get a Super Lottso Card is to have a Fire Card stay at the top of the stack, and wait 3 turns.

Variations
There are various variations of the game Lottso!. Electronic Arts released a PC version named "Lottso! Deluxe" in 2007, while another version is named "Lottso! Express HD".

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Frank O. Salisbury

Francis Owen Salisbury CVO (18 December 1874 – 31 August 1962) was an English artist who specialised in portraits, large canvases of historical and ceremonial events, stained glass and book illustration. In his heyday he made a fortune on both sides of the Atlantic and was known as "Britain's Painter Laureate". His art was steadfastly conservative and he was a vitriolic critic of Modern Art – particularly of his contemporaries Picasso, Chagall and Mondrian.

Personal life
Salisbury was born on 18 December 1874 at Harpenden, Hertfordshire. His father was Henry Salisbury, a plumber and glazier, and his mother was Susan Hawes. One of 11 children, Salisbury was such a delicate child that he was educated at home, in the main by his student teacher sister, Emilie. He had only a few weeks formal schooling and began work by repairing bicycles at his father's Cycle Depot in Harpenden.

Uncertain as to his ability to find and maintain a job, the family determined that he be apprenticed, at the age of 15, to Henry James Salisbury, his eldest brother, who managed a major stained glass company in Alma Road, St Albans. He rapidly acquired all the practical skills of a stained glass artist and exhibited exceptional skills in the painterly detail that was applied to glass before its final firing. This led to his brother sponsoring him to attend Heatherley's School of Art three days a week to further a career in painting.

He then won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools which he attended for five years and where he won two silver medals and two scholarships, including the Landseer scholarship which funded his to travel to Italy in 1896. In due course he would have seventy exhibits accepted for the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, from 1899 until 1943, though he was never offered membership, which reportedly disappointed him very much.

In 1901 he married Alice Maude (d. 1951), daughter of C. Colmer Greenwood, with whom he had several children, including twin daughters Monica and Sylvia. His first Royal Academy exhibit was a portrait of Alice and he often painted pictures of their children. Salisbury died on 31 August 1962 at Sarum Chase, the neo-Tudor mansion he built, in 1932, in Hampstead, London. He is buried in a rather unassuming grave, with his baby daughter Elaine Maude and his wife, in St Nicholas Churchyard, Harpenden.

Portraits

It is for portraiture that he is best known. His speed in producing portraits stemmed from his painting his own twin daughters every morning for an hour. His career began with child portraiture and his painting the Hertfordshire gentry and members of the Harpenden Methodist Church. He had a studio at his home, Sarum Chase. A providential meeting with Lord Wakefield, founder of Castrol Oils and a Methodist philanthropist, saw his introduction to society portraiture. Salisbury's being selected to paint the Boy Cornwell in the Battle of Jutland then brought him to the notice of Royalty. Lord Wakefield then arranged for him to paint President Woodrow Wilson whilst he was in London, but Wilson departed for Paris and the opportunity was lost. It was to be John W. Davis, American Ambassador to London, who encouraged Salisbury to go to the USA; Davis had met Salisbury at art receptions and had admired his child portraits.

Twenty-five members of the Royal House of Windsor sat for Salisbury and he was the first artist to paint HM Queen Elizabeth II. In 1919 he painted a mural for the Royal Exchange, London National Peace Thanksgiving Service on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, 6 July 1919.

He painted Winston Churchill on more occasions than any other artist; the two iconic images of Churchill – The Siren Suit and Blood, Sweat and Tears are both Salisbury images. Another, the "Freedom Portrait", in private ownership in the United States, is the only one for which Churchill sat during World War II. Its title refers to the fact that it commemorates Churchill receiving the Freedom of the City of London. It is signed and erroneously dated 24 October 1944, but in fact was painted in a single short sitting on 24 November that year. The work is now in a private collection. Salisbury had also included Churchill in a larger, multi-figure work the previous year, The Presentation of the Freedom of the City to Winston Churchill in the Guildhall, London, 30 June 1943 (now in the Guildhall Art Gallery ), but on that occasion his request for a sitting was refused, and he worked from photographs and other paintings.

Mayoral regalia was a ready made requisite for the Salisbury style with Councillor Sam Ryder (of Ryder Cup fame) as Mayor of St Albans being the most famous of his civic images.

Other significant portraits include those of Richard Burton, Andrew Carnegie (posthumous), Sir Alan Cobham, Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, Maria Montessori, Montgomery of Alamein, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Benito Mussolini, John Player, Lord Rank, Jan-Christiaan Smuts and Sir Henry Wood.

Salisbury was remarkably successful in the USA where he was deemed to have fulfilled the American Dream. He made thirteen visits, basing himself in Washington DC, Chicago and New York City where his portraiture would be a roll call of American wealth. He painted six Presidents with his Franklin D. Roosevelt remaining as the official White House portrait to this day. Industrial and financial giants who sat for him included Henry Clay Folger, Elbert Henry Gary, Edward Stephen Harkness, Will Keith Kellogg, Andrew William Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan, George Mortimer Pullman, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and Myron C. Taylor.

Salisbury produced several self-portraits including depicting himself whilst painting the 1937 Coronation and his being Master Glazier in 1934.

Pageant
Salisbury's great forte was in his painting of over forty large canvases of historical and national events, a field in which he was virtually unchallenged until 1951. The two most significant of these are The Heart of Empire – the Jubilee Thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral 1935 and The Coronation of their Royal Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth 1937.

One of the great ironies of his art is that, although he was to all intents and purposes a pacifist, his introduction to Royalty, the aristocracy and overseas politicians came as a result of his war art, particularly his posthumous portraits of the fallen in the First World War. The large canvas of the Boy Cornwell was followed by The King and Queen visiting the Battle Districts of France. It was Salisbury who was required, by Royal Command, to paint two large images of The Burial of the Unknown Warrior for the first Remembrance Day. War memorials followed on from this. During the Second World War he was required to paint The Signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty and one of his most endearing images is ''The Briefing of an Air Squadron. ''

A matched pair of his pictures are in Walsall Town Hall's theatre, flanking its organ. They were commissioned by Joseph Leckie "to commemorate the never to be forgotten valour of the South Staffordshire Regiments in the Great War 1914 – 1918" and completed in 1920. One shows "the First South Staffordshires attacking the Hohenzollern Redoubt", the other "the 5th South Staffords storming the St. Quentin Canal at Bellingtise Sept 29th 1918". They were unveiled on the same day as a nearby memorial to John Carless V.C.

His painting India's Homage to the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, which hung in the Bengal Court of the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924, was presented to the India Office, as a gift from the artist when the exhibition closed. It is now in the British Library. The scene, after the wedding of the Duke of York in 1923, shows "The four Indian orderly officers of the King, who that year were Sikhs, passed the grave of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey, and spontaneously paid tribute. ... The orderly officers, the Dean and Chapter, and others in the painting sat for their portraits."

Faith
Salisbury was a Methodist who took his faith seriously and always considered his gifts to be God given. He manifested the Protestant work ethic and the Non-Conformist conscience. He produced much work for the mainstream denominations, in particular Methodism and the Salvation Army. He painted posthumous portraits of historical Methodist figures with perhaps his best known image being that of John Wesley in John Wesley's House in London. Salisbury arranged and paid for the restoration of Wesley's House in 1934 which restoration stood the test of time for sixty years. He lived an alcohol free lifestyle and was firmly in favour of Prohibition in the US. He refused to work on Sundays. Many of his associates including Pierpont Morgan, Lord Wakefield, Will Kellogg and Andrew Mellon were both rich industrialists and Christian philanthropists. He bequeathed Sarum Chase in trust to the British Council of Churches. However, the BCC sold the mansion and auctioned its contents. His range of portraits stretched from Billy Graham, to four Salvation Army Generals, to Pope Pius XII.

Stained glass
But it was stained glass that remained his favourite, though not his most profitable, art form. One of his earliest pieces of stained glass is the east window (depicting Christ, knights and angels) of St. Michael and All Angels Church, Bassett, Southampton.

Thirty-four windows have been confirmed as being designed by him with the largest collections being at Wesley's Chapel in London, the former National Children's Home chapel in Harpenden, and the Forest Hill Methodist Church in London. All of his glass was installed in England with three notable exceptions in Medak Cathedral in India. He was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass in 1933.

Images
The copyright of all of his paintings bar two is held by the Estate of Frank O. Salisbury. Authorised images appear in the books in the listing below. Significant collections of his work are held at the Chicago Historical Society, National Portrait Gallery in London, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Royal Air Force Museum in London, Wesley's Chapel in London and the World Methodist Headquarters in North Carolina.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nose game

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The result of the debate was delete. Dmcdevit·t 07:38, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Nose game
A simple game made up by a bunch of policy kids, determining that the person who touches his nose last has to do some kind of unpleasant task. Not encyclo. Radiant_ >|< 11:53, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * delete --Melaen 14:18, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * delete - non-encyclopedic JoJan 14:58, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unverifiable. Dcarrano 16:44, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Despite the fact that I've "played" this on a regular basis (which in and of itself would count as original research) it is not exactly an encyclopedic article. And, of course, the real way to play it is to say "not it" as well... --Icelight 16:58, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Interesting...but not worthy of an entry. Sonic Mew | talk to me 19:01, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 07:39, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Mike McRoberts

Mike McRoberts (born 1966) is a New Zealand television journalist and news anchor. He has presented Newshub Live at 6pm on Three since 2005.

Early life
McRoberts was born in 1966 to a Ngāti Kahungunu father and Pākehā mother. The 2000 documentary White Sheep, written and produced by McRoberts, tells the story of Māori men like McRoberts' father who moved to Christchurch from Wairoa as teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s.

He attended Manning Intermediate and Hillmorton High School in Christchurch. He completed a journalism diploma from the New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT (now Ara Institute of Canterbury) in 1986.

McRoberts grew up unable to speak Māori, as detailed in the 2022 documentary Kia Ora, Good Evening.

Journalism career
McRoberts began his career in 1984 as a cadet at Radio New Zealand. He became a sports reporter for TVNZ in 1995 before moving to current affairs with the Holmes programme in 1998.

He moved to rival network TV3 as a reporter in 2001 and began a presenting role the following year as host of 60 Minutes.

In March 2005 McRoberts and journalist Hilary Barry were appointed as newsreaders for the flagship 6pm bulletin then titled 3 News (now Newshub). He has continued to report for the network and has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, East Timor and Solomon Islands as well as national disasters including the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Canterbury earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

In May 2012, McRoberts became the anchor of TV3's new current affairs show Three 60 focusing on international news, politics, and business. The show has now been cancelled.

In mid April 2024, McRoberts announced he would retire from news broadcasting after Newshub closes on 5 July 2024. In early May, the National Business Review confirmed that McRoberts would be taking up position as Te Ao Māori Editor, focusing on stories about Māori economic development in New Zealand. He did return for the final edition of Newshub on 5 July 2024.

Reality television appearances
In 2019, McRoberts was a contestant on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars. He was the fourth contestant to be eliminated.

McRoberts appeared on the first season of The Masked Singer NZ as "Orange Roughy" in 2021. He was eliminated in the fifth episode after three appearances.

Personal life
McRoberts married journalist Paula Penfold in 1995. The couple share two children, Ben and Maia, and separated in 2017. McRoberts married publicist Heidi Ettema in 2023.

McRoberts won TV Journalist of the Year at the Qantas Television Awards in 2006 and Best Presenter at the New Zealand Television Awards in 2017 and 2018.

McRoberts published his memoir Beyond the Front Line in October 2011.

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Valentin Friedland

Valentin Friedland (14 February 1490 – 26 April 1556), also called Valentin Troitschendorf (or Trozendorf or Trotzendorf or Trocedorfius) after his birthplace, was a German scholar and educationist of the Reformation. Friedland was a friend of Martin Luther and Melanchthon. His fame as a teacher was an attraction of Goldberg in Silesia, where he taught pupils from far and near. The secret of his success lay in his inculcating on his pupils respect for their own honour. He had a great faith in the intelligence that evinced itself in clear expression.

Biography
Friedland was born in Trozendorf near the town of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia, of parents so poor that they could not keep him at school. The boy taught himself to read and write while herding cattle; he made paper from birch bark and ink from soot. When difficulties were overcome and he was sent for education to Görlitz, his mother's last words were "Stick to the school, dear son". The words determined his career: he refused all ecclesiastical promotion, and lived and died a schoolmaster.

Friedland became a distinguished student at the University of Leipzig, learned Ciceronian Latin from Peter Mosellanus and Greek from Richard Croke, and after graduation was appointed assistant master in the school at Görlitz in 1515. There he also taught the rector and other teachers. When Martin Luther began his attack on indulgences, Trotzendorff resigned his position and went to study under Luther and Melanchthon at Wittenberg, supporting himself by private tuition. Thence he was called to be a master in the school at Goldberg, and in 1524 became rector. There he remained three years, when he was sent to Liegnitz.

Friedland returned to Goldberg in 1531 and began that career which has made him the typical German schoolmaster of the Reformation period. His system of education and discipline speedily attracted attention. He made his best elder scholars the teachers of the younger classes, and insisted that the way to learn was to teach. He organized the school modelled on the Roman Republic in such a way that the whole ordinary discipline was in the hands of the boys themselves. Every month a consul, twelve senators and two censors were chosen from the pupils, and over all Trotzendorff ruled as dictator perpetuus. One hour a day was spent in going over the lessons of the previous day. The lessons were repeatedly recalled by examinations, which were conducted on the plan of academical disputations. Every week each pupil had to write two exercitia styli, one in prose and the other in verse, and Trotzendorff took pains to see that the subject of each exercise was something interesting. The fame of the Goldberg School extended over all Protestant Germany, and a large number of the more famous men of the following generation were taught by Trotzendorf.

After Friedland's school, his library, his assets, and the greater part of Goldberg were destroyed by a fire in 1554, he moved again to Liegnitz at the invitation of the duke there. His school, now with a significantly reduced number of pupils, found a place in a church. He gathered the means for rebuilding the school in Goldberg, but died before this was accomplished, in 1556.

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Proposed deletion of The Mariner's Revenge Song

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There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You

There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You is the debut studio album by Will Oldham. It was released under the band name Palace Brothers on Drag City in 1993. Oldham is accompanied by several members of Louisville rock band Slint.

Critical reception
The Toronto Star labeled the album "quietly beautiful and slightly askew". The album was included in Mojo magazine's book The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time (2001).

Personnel

 * Grant Barger – organ, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, background vocals
 * Todd Brashear – lap steel guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, shakers, harmonies
 * Paul Greenlaw – banjo, additional vocals
 * Brian McMahan – electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
 * Britt Walford – electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
 * Will Oldham – vocals, guitar


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Thiruvambady

Thiruvambady is a historic hill town in Kozhikode district in Kerala, India. Thiruvambady is a Panchayat headquarters, and a legislative assembly constituency, situated 35 km from west of Kozhikode.

Geography
Thiruvambady is 35 km towards east from Calicut city and is on the banks of the Iruvanjippuzha River. Thiruvambady is on the footage of Western Ghats and Wyanad forrest which is close to major waterfalls, such as Thusharagiri Falls, Aripara Falls and Kozhippara Waterfalls Kakkadampoyil.

History
Thiruvambady was established in 1805 (British Rule). Earlier Thiruvambady was a forest area and belonged to East India Company. During that time the land where people settled in Thiruvambady was given to Kottayam King Kalppakassery Karnoru and forest area's domain of land was given to Manniledathu Nair Tharavadu. Old name of Thiruvambady was Nayarukolli and town was situated at Thazhe Thiruvambady. Nair and Exhava people was majority around 1900's. Later in the year 1944, Christians migrated from Pala and Kottayam to this town and settled permanently engaged in agriculture. They built School, Hospital and Church and town relocated to current place. Construction of bridges at Thottathin Kadavu and Agastianmuzhi (Mukkam) gives better access to Thiruvambady. Later a new Bus Stand was built on upper side of Thiruvambady and town gradually moved to current location. As it was Malabar region, Muslims also migrated from other Malabar region to Thiruvambady and engaged in business. Earlier agriculture was the main economy, early from 2000's agricultural economy decline and majority of people engaged in job and business. Due to urban sprawl of Kozhikode city, Thiruvambady became a major town.

Economy
Earlier Thiruvambady was an agricultural town, now due to urban sprawl majority of people engaged in job and business. Still people from hilly area like Anakkampoyil, Kakkadampoyil,  Punnackal and Poovaranthodu live on agriculture economy and depends Thiruvambady for their day-to-day life. Many people migrated to overseas as well.

Now Thiruvambady is a major town with all facilities including Schools, Hospitals, Banks, Supermarkets, Hotel, Accommodation, ATM, Fuel Stations, Colleges and shopping centres. There is a Private Bus Station and KSRTC Bus Station with regular access to major towns.

Administration
Thiruvambady Gramapanchayath was established on 1 January 1962 and consists of 17 wards covering an area of 83.96 sqkm, which includes 9000 acre of forest. Thiruvambady is under Koduvally Block Panchayat and Thamarassery Taluk.

Thiruvambady is part of the Wayanad parliamentary constituency. The current MP is Rahul Gandhi.

In 1977, the Thiruvambady assembly constituency of the Kerala Legislative Assembly was established, consisting of 7 Panchayats. The current MLA is Linto Joseph.

Road
Thiruvambady is well connected by road to nearby places. State Highway 83 passes through Thiruvambady town. It can be reached by the following routes:
 * Thiruvananthapuram - Kochi - Guruvayoor/Thrissur - Pattambi - Perinthalmanna - Manjeri - Areekode - Mukkam - Thiruvambady
 * Kozhikode - Kunnamangalam - REC (NIT) - Mukkam (Agastiamuzhi) - Thiruvambady
 * Kannur - Koyilandy - Thamarassery - Omassery - Thiruvambady
 * Wayanad - Kalpetta - Adivaram - Kaithapoyil - Kodenchery - Thiruvambady
 * Nilambur - Akambadam - Kakkadampoyil - Koombara - Koodaranhi - Thiruvambady
 * Koduvally - Omassery - Thiruvambady - Pulloorampara - Anakkampoyil

Buses
A KSRTC bus operating centre is in town, as well as a private bus stand. There are buses to nearby places such as Kozhikode, Mukkam, Omassery, Thamarassery, Koduvally, Pulloorampara, Anakkampoyil, Poovaranthode, Koodaranji, and Kodenchery; and KSRTC operates many inter-district routes.

KSRTC buses operates many inter district services from here.

Rail
The nearest railway station is Kozhikode Railway Station, 35 km distant.

Air
The nearest airport is Calicut International Airport, 43 km distant.

There was a proposal to built Thiruvambady International Airport for Calicut City, later the plan cancelled. Restrictions on larger aircraft landing at the existing airport for safety considerations has been reported as one rationale for building a new airport.

Distance chart
The Kilometer chart from Thiruvambady is given below:

Notable people from Thiruvambady

 * Mathai Chacko – Late former MLA and communist leader
 * Jacob Thoomkuzhy – Former metropolitan archbishop
 * Noufal PN footballer

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I did a lot of cleaning up on this article - a lot of stuff was really awkward and messy. However, I don't have all of the factual information at hand, so there are some contradictions that still remain. Any one have any citations for this one? 68.165.184.207 06:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Just got back from performing with Eric at the Sydney Opera House! What an experience.

No mention of his opera, Paradise Lost (the Opera Electronica)? I'd guess that's what he's better known for.

I may expand this article if/when I have time to do more research...

cluth 11:59, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * I expanded and added some brief tidbits. Not sure how I should source it in the article, but the information I contributed in this edit is based on some background information printed on published copies of his scores as well as what I heard from him firsthand during our rehearsals.

 * Another note that I might work in later: I asked him why he chose a sitar for the opening of "Winter." He told me he had been commissioned by the University of Miami to create a piece for the winter season, but he strongly wanted to avoid the typical cliche sounds of Christmas music. He tried to find the most non-Christmasy instrument possible and originally chose something else (I forget--I'll have to see if I can email him) but then before settling on the sitar. Does this info violate WP's "no original research" principal?

 * cluth 08:30, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * I saw the citation needed tags. I may be able to add some references when I get back home and can look up the publishing info from the scores. cluth 18:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Godzilla vs. Gawd$illa
I don't have many recordings at all of this (in fact, I only have one :)), but my album and liner notes has "Gawd$illa" as a consistent rendering, even in the notes from Eric.

Mariana 03:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * It's listed as "Godzilla Eats Las Vegas" on Eric Whitacre's website. That would seem to be definitive! --Ant 21:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I included the additional note: "† Note: This piece was originally titled 'Gawd$illa Eats Las Vegas!' from fear of legal action. However, Whitacre always hated the name 'Gawd$illa ...' as it held no significance to him. It's listed as 'Godzilla ...' on his official website." I know the Wikipedia policy behind referencing that all information must be sourced to some verifiable location, but I'm unsure how to address this. Eric came to my school and during that time someone asked him about the Gawd$illa thingy... to which he gave the above response. All I can say is: it's true, it's not verifiable (maybe someone has an appropriate source?), should it be removed?  ChaoticLlama  20:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

The answer is yes, it should be removed under WP's no original research policy. Good catch! SingCal 04:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Discography
Shouldn't there be a discography section somewhere on the page??????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.28.225.215 (talk) 03:32, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

The article could do with one. 92.235.199.62 (talk) 12:24, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

It is common for composers to have their "works" listed instead of a discography. [They are almost the same thing.] The question is, is Whitacre more of a composer (who writes "works") or more of a modern musical performer (who has a discography)? Seems like he falls more into the composer category so that his "works" are listed. Negative p (talk) 20:30, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Sections
I decided that the article's gotten to the point where we can break it down further into smaller sections. I also cleaned up a few things and added some new information. Feel free to comment. --SingCal 08:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Favorite Piece (if possible!!)
Do you have a favorite song by Eric Whitacre? Tell us! :D

(mine's probably...Lux Aurumque) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Literaturer007 (talk • contribs) 04:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC).

 * Wikipedia is not a discussion forum. Sign your posts. If you want to talk about Eric's music, there's a link to his website in the article, and there is a forum there. Counterfit 10:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I am concerned about the revision history
I am concerned about edits made by to this page. I am particularly concerned about this edit: [ diff] (?). The text seems to be elsewhere on the Internet, including domains not known to be Wikipedia mirrors such as Mr. Whitacre's MySpace page. Copying and pasting texts from external sources without providing a source and without indicating how the copyright to the material is licensable under the GFDL is not permissible per established policy and can jeopardize Wikipedia. As such, I am reverting to the edits made before EWHITINC; specifically to revision #75987425 ([ diff]). That revision is from 16 September 2006. That is a long time ago, and I apologize for the inconvenience. I will be working on introducing the information added by other editors after the date. Any help would be appreciated. --Iamunknown 14:07, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely. The username would suggest that the author is likely affiliated with Mr. Whitacre's publicity and/or distribution; not to mention most of what he adds serves to make the article look like an advert. I think it's fine to go that far back and start from scratch; I'll be glad to help keep an eye out for such language in the future. SingCal 04:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I removed the inappropriate "Reviews" section and the links that were in violation of WP:EL. I also informed the editor who added them that I would be reverting his edits to the biography section unless he cleaned up the WP:NPOV issue. Trusilver 02:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Eric Whitacre and the LDS Church
There is nothing in the article to suggest that Eric Whitacre is a Mormon/Latter-Day Saint, yet he is listed as one in the Category:American Latter-Day Saints page. I could not find any information suggesting that he shares anything more than a professional connection with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir or Brigham Young University - could someone please explain?

Since I could find nothing anywhere suggesting that his religious background is LDS, I have removed him from the list.24.8.20.66 (talk) 04:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Capitalization
* Three Songs of Faith (poems by e. e. cummings)
 * i will wade out
 * hope, faith, life, love
 * i thank You God for most this amazing day

Are these song titles supposed to be in lower-case? Kareeser|Talk! 20:31, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh hell. The author's name isn't even capitalized. I'm going to go out on a limb and fix it. If I'm wrong, correct me. Kareeser|Talk! 20:37, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I have the sheet music for "i thank You God for most this amazing day" in front of me and the lower case is correct, so I have reverted your edits.

e. e. cummings wrote his name and all or most of his poems entirely in lower case, apart from God and pronouns standing for god (e.g. "i think You God").

I've just read the article on E. E. Cummings and it says

Cummings' publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional orthography in his poetry by writing his name in lower case and without periods. Cummings himself used both the lowercase and capitalized versions, but according to his widow did not, as reported in the preface of one book, have his name legally changed to "e e cummings". He did, however, write to his French translator that he preferred the capitalized version ("may it not be tricksy"). One Cummings scholar believes that on the occasions Cummings signed his name in all-lowercase, the poet may have intended it as a gesture of humility, and not as an indication that it was the preferred orthography for others to use for his name.

and obviously spells the author's name with a capital. So we may want to change this Whitacre article to use an initial capital as well. 82.69.72.254 (talk) 23:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

 * I've added an invisible comment just before the titles of the poems, gently asking they shouldn't be changed. Classical geographer (talk) 08:51, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

That is a good idea. Thank you.

82.69.72.254 (talk) 22:11, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Looking much better. Thank you. 92.235.199.62 (talk) 19:08, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Lux Aurumque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs&feature=player_embedded# Virtual choir - Youtube project?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.9.232.169 (talk) 04:17, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Semi-sold out?
From the opening paragraph "2010 saw a staged, semi-sold out performance at Carnegie Hall. [9]". Either sold out or not I would have thought. I can't amend ti as I don't know which is correctMistleymatt (talk) 12:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * "Semi-sold out" would have to be another way of saying "half-empty", but the cited source does not confirm this suspicion. To judge from the junior-high-school writing style of that sentence, I suspect it was meant to say "semi-staged performance", but this is not confirmed, either (in fact, the review contradicts this claim, stating it was a "concert performance"). To add formatting insult to stylistic injury the sentence was made to begin with a date expressed in numerals. A little judicious editing has, I think, set all this right. Thanks for calling attention to this.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 16:58, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Link tidy-up
I tried to keep todays copyedit and link tidyup non-contentious, but have found it necessary to remove some references. In case any are missed, here's what they were and why they went (numbers are old ref numbers):

 * (3) "Hyperion Records, 2005 Liner notes.":This reference doesn't support any assertion made in the article.

 * (6) Sleep : Youtube Video:private video

 * (7) Hyperion Records - Whitacre Biography Accessed 2010-04-15: doesn't support the assertion

 * (9) TED featured Virtual Choir:over-citation (doesn't add anything over and above the Lux aurumque reference)

 * (12) [www.ericwhitacre.com Whitacre Official Site]: I removed this and the text citing it ("He is currently working on a commission for the Berlin Rundfunkchor and a major commission for the London Symphony Chorus which will be performed with the London Symphony Orchestra in October 2010." because it is out of date. The reference is too non-specific anyway and no longer describes these events. The official website is still to be found in the External Links.

 * (16) Sleep:private video

 * (19) Barbican:This reference is too non-specific. It no longer appears to support the assertion cited.

 * (20) Berlin Rundfunkchor:This reference is too non-specific. It no longer appears to support the assertion cited.

 * (21) Wales Millennium Centre:Dead link, and nothing to support the asseertion cited was found on www.wmc.org.uk.

 * These last three illustrate why it's risky to cite sites - ;) - that are basically promotional and likely to change quickly. But is the Projects section already looking a bit too much like a CV?

 * (25) Review of the Premiere :there is no assertion to support.

External links removed are those occurring already in the citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stfg (talk • contribs) 17:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Opening Description - "unprecedented"
The opening paragraph is written well enough - I do however take issue with the misuse (or at least the ambiguous use) of the word "unprecedented" within:

"His virtual choirs have exposed his music to a new audience and have helped it gain an unprecedented popularity."

"Unprecedented" means preceded by nothing, so that used in front of the word "popularity" it describes a degree of popularity that has never before occurred, ever.

1 - Certainly there has been other music with greater volumes of popularity, so we can't use "unprecedented" like this.

2 - Maybe the sentence means that his own specific popularity has never been this great so that the current degree of Whitacre popularity is truly unprecedented. But this is a very (very) awkward way of saying that his popularity is growing (in that if something is growing then each new level is of course "unprecedented") and I hope that wasn't how the word was being used.

3 - Or the word is being used to describe the popularity of "virtual choirs", which are new and so maybe it is really true that never ever before has interest in virtual choirs been at this level so that the popularity levels are legitimately "unprecedented". If this is the way the word is being used then I would like to see the research on how we know the popularity level is higher now than it ever has been. Also, if this is the intended use of the word, "virtual choirs" are a new phenomenon so of course their popularity will just go up from here (and eventually hit a peak like all new things) and so the unprecedented nature of each new level of popularity is implied by the novelty of these "virtual choirs".

Yes I am being picky but can we please stop using the word "unprecedented" unless the thing being described is actually unprecedented in a non-obvious way. If you think about it, almost everything is unprecedented, so if you are going to describe something as such you better have a really good reason. Negative p (talk) 02:37, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

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Pending Divorce from Hila Plitmann
https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la23-whitacre-eric-vs-plitmann-hila-149054 How do we incorporate this? 174.3.41.30 (talk) 00:21, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That's a primary source, so Wikipedia doesn't use it until a reliable secondary source comments on it. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:54, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 April 2018
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 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:08, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

“changed his life”
The section starts with “Whitacre states that the first work he sang, Mozart's Requiem, changed his life”. Genereally, it's not a bad idea to start a career section with a life changing event, but that works only if the reader understands how it influenced the career. That information is missing. Neither the fact that KV626 was the first work he sang nor that he was one of the many people impressed by it provides encyclopedically useful information. I will therefore delete it. ◅ Sebastian 07:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC) P.S.: If ever someone writes an article about me, the first work I sang was “A little dog named Fips” by Hans Friedrich Micheelsen. ◅ Sebastian 07:18, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

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User:Mpatel/sandbox/Scientific statements in the Quran

The Quran contains many verses that refer to natural phenomena, many of which have only recently been verified by scientific findings. As numerous verses in the Quran are intended to be interpreted both literally and metaphorically (according to Islamic scholars), critics may argue that such alleged scientific knowledge in the Quran is merely incidental. An interesting point to note is that the French surgeon Dr. Maurice Bucaille in his book, 'The Bible, the Quran and science' has shown that Quranic verses referring to natural phenomena are in complete accordance with modern scientific findings.

The expansion of the universe
the holy quran says "The heaven,We have built it with power.Verily we are expanding it"(sura 51,verse 47)

Heaven' is the translation of the word sama' and this is exactly the extra-terrestrial world that is meant.

'We are expanding it' is the translation of the plural present participle musi'una of the verb ausa'a meaning 'to make wider, more spacious, to extend, to expand'.

The Sun and moon
The Holy Quran always describes the sun and moon withe different words.The sun is always described as 'diya' or 'siraj' which mean 'shining glory' and 'a blazing lamp' respectively.Moon, on the other hand is always described as 'munir' or 'nur' meaning 'reflected light' or borrowed light.

The Holy Quran saya in sura 25, verse 61: "Blessed is the One Who placed the constellations in heaven and placed therein a lamp and a moon giving light."

--sura 71, 15-16: "Did you see how God created seven heavens one above an other and made the moon a light therein and made the sun a lamp?"

--sura 78, verses 12-13: "We have built above you seven strong (heavens) and placed a blazing lamp."

The blazing lamp is quite obviously the sun. Here the moon is defined as a body that gives light (munir) from the same root as nur (the light applied to the Moon). The Sun however is compared to a torch (siraj) or a blazing (wahhaj) lamp.

There are two very important verses on the orbits of the Sun and Moon:

--sura 21, verse 33: "(God is) the One Who created the night, the day, the sun and the moon. Each one is travelling in an orbit with its own motion."

--sura 36, verse 40: "The sun must not catch up the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. Each one is travelling in an orbit with its own motion."

Here an essential fact is clearly stated: the existence of the Sun's and Moon's orbits, plus a reference is made to the travelling of these bodies in space with their own motion.

A negative fact also emerges from a reading of these verses: it is shown that the Sun moves in an orbit, but no indication is given as to what this orbit might be in relation to the Earth. At the time of the Qur'anic Revelation, it was thought that the Sun moved while the Earth stood still. This was the system of geocentrism that had held sway since the time of ptolemy, Second century B.C., and was to continue to do so until Copernicus in the Sixteenth century A.D. Although people supported this concept at the time of Muhammad, it does not appear anywhere in the Qur'an, either here or elsewhere.

The Arabic word falak has here been translated by the word 'orbit'. many French translators of the Qur'an attach to it the meaning of a 'sphere'. This is indeed its initial sense. Hamidullah translates it by the word 'orbit'.

The word caused concern to older translators of the Qur'an who were unable to imagine the circular course of the Moon and the Sun and therefore retained images of their course through space that were either more or less correct, or hopelessly wrong. Sir Hamza Boubekeur in his translation of the Qur'an cites the diversity of interpretations given to it: "A sort of axle, like an iron rod, that a mill turns around; a celestial sphere, orbit, sign of the zodiac, speed, wave . . .", but he adds the following observation made by Tabari, the famous Tenth century commentator: "It is our duty to keep silent when we do not know." (XVII, 15). This shows just how incapable men were of understanding this concept of the Sun's and Moon's orbit. It is obvious that if the word had expressed an astronomical concept common in Muhammad's day, it would not have been so difficult to interpret these verses. A Dew concept therefore existed in the Qur'an that was not to be explained until centuries later.

At a time when it was held that the Earth was the centre of the world and that the Sun moved in relation to it, how could any one have failed to refer to the Sun's movement when talking of the sequence of night and day? This is not however referred to in the Qur'an and the subject is dealt with as follows:

--sura 7, verse 54: "(God) covers the day with the night which is in haste to follow it . . ."

--sura 36, verse 37: "And a sign for them (human beings) is the night. We strip it of the day and they are in darkness."

--sura 31, verse 29: "Hast thou not seen how God merges the night into the day and merges the day into the night."

--sura 39, verse 5: ". . . He coils the night upon the day and He coils the day upon the night."

The first verse cited requires no comment. The second simply provides an image.

It is mainly the third and fourth verses quoted above that provide interesting material on the process of interpenetration and especially of winding the night upon the day and the day upon the night. (sura 39, verse 5)

'To coil' or 'to wind' seems, as in the French translation by R. Blachère, to be the best way of translating the Arabic verb kawwara. The original meaning of the verb is to 'coil' a turban around the head; the notion of coiling is preserved in all the other senses of the word.

What actually happens however in space? American astronauts have seen and photographed what happens from their spaceships, especially at a great distance from Earth, e.g. from the Moon. They saw how the Sun permanently lights up (except in the case of an eclipse) the half of the Earth's surface that is facing it, while the other half of the globe is in darkness. The Earth turns on its own axis and the lighting remains the same, so that an area in the form of a half-sphere makes one revolution around the Earth in twenty-four hours while the other half-sphere, that has remained in darkness, makes the same revolution in the same time. This perpetual rotation of night and day is quite clearly described in the Qur'an. It is easy for the human understanding to grasp this notion nowadays because we have the idea of the Sun's (relative) immobility and the Earth's rotation. This process of perpetual coiling, including the interpenetration of one sector by another is expressed in the Qur'an just as if the concept of the Earth's roundness had already been conceived at the time-which was obviously not the case.

Further to the above reflections on the sequence of day and night, one must also mention, with a quotation of some verses from the Qur'an, the idea that there is more than one Orient and one Occident. This is of purely descriptive interest because these phenomena rely on the most commonplace observations. The idea is mentioned here with the aim of reproducing as faithfully as possible all that the Qur'an has to say on this subject.

The following are examples:

--In sura 70 verse 40, the expression 'Lord of Orients and Occidents'. --In sura 55, verse 17, the expression 'Lord of the two Orients and the two Occidents'. --In sura 43, verse 38, a reference to the 'distance between the two Orients', an image intended to express the immense size of the distance separating the two points.

Anyone who carefully watches the sunrise and sunset knows that the Sun rises at different point of the Orient and sets at different points of the Occident, according to season. Bearings taken on each of the horizons define the extreme limits that mark the two Orients and Occidents, and between these there are points marked off throughout the year. The phenomenon described here is rather commonplace, but what mainly deserves attention in this chapter are the other. topics dealt with, where the description of astronomical phenomena referred to in the Qur'an is in keeping with modern data.


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The result of the debate was speedy deleted. --Dmcdevit·t 06:54, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Slow now

 * Delete Nonsense article that seems to be an advertisement. Mrendo 12:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as fast as possible — along with the rest of this morning's crop of stuff from the same user. Bill 12:18, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * delete. vanity/commercial/patent nonsense Robinh 12:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * ok delete. Can I delete it? I don't think it's patent nonsense, but it needs to be included in a larger entry. --Jseidel 15:58, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete (ironically enough) as per request of only editor Jseidel. Dcarrano 16:46, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Nonsense. Themindset 17:13, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, possibly moving some content to Wikiquote. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Pavel Vozenilek 23:33, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense. JamesBurns 07:41, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Argishti I of Urartu

Argishti I (Արգիշտի Ա), was the sixth known king of Urartu, reigning from 786 BC to 764 BC. He founded the citadel of Erebuni in 782 BC, which is the present capital of Armenia, Yerevan. Alternate transliterations of the name include Argishtis, Argisti, Argišti, and Argishtish. Although the name is usually rendered as Argišti (read: Argishti), some scholars argue that Argisti is the most likely pronunciation. This is due to the belief that the Urartians used the cuneiform symbol š to voice an s-sound, as opposed to representing the digraph sh.

A son and the successor of Menua, he continued the series of conquests initiated by his predecessors, apparently campaigning every year of his reign. He was involved in a number of inconclusive conflicts with the Assyrian king Shalmaneser IV. He conquered the northern part of Syria and made Urartu the most powerful state in post-Hittite Asia Minor. He also expanded his kingdom north to Lake Sevan, conquering much of Diauehi and the Ararat Valley. After an uprising by the inhabitants of the newly conquered regions, Argishti deported them and repopulated the area with subjects from other parts of his empire. In those territories, Argishti built Erebuni Fortress in 782 BC, settling it with 6,600 prisoners of war from Hatti and Supani. He also founded the fortress of Argishtikhinili in 776 BC, on the site of Armavir, the first capital of the later Kingdom of Armenia.

He was succeeded by his son Sarduri II.

Linguists believe that the name Argishti has Indo-European etymology (Armenian). Compare Armenian արեգ (translit. areg) – "sun deity", "sun" ΑΡΕJΑΣΤΙΝ (translit. Areyastin) - "epithet of the great mother"  and Ancient Greek αργεστής (translit. argestes) - "shining", "brilliant", "white", "bright". Ti (Di) meant "god" in proto-Armenian (compare with Classical Armenian Dik'). Inscriptions belonging to the Urartian king Argishti I were found in Kepenek Castle, located on a hill near Muş.

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Talk:Event stream processing

Would love feedback on this page. - Mark

Products

 * this section has been removed. Listing of selected companies can be seen as representing bias or endorsing more weight on a few "selected' companies.  It's probably best to continue keeping sections like this out of the article in order to maintain Wikipedia's Neutral point of view Hu12 00:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * See response on Talk:Complex Event Processing. I believe the list or something like it should stay. Ronnotel 02:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * copy from Talk:Complex Event Processing. As policy states, Wikipedia is not a repository for lists, directories or Advocacy of commercial products and/or websites. NPOV requires views to be represented without bias, this applies not only to article text, but to companies, products, external links, and any other material as well. Although it may have been helpful in the past, it is not Wikipedia's purpose to include a comprehensive list of companies, products or external links. Hu12 06:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Note that some products have been put in the external links - have removed them (as they are equally inappropriate there). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.29.130 (talk) 22:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposed
It's not clear what the difference is between this and Complex Event Processing. Unless I'm missing something, seems like we can save some pixels. Ronnotel 21:51, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

ESP and CEP should not be merged. Event stream processing has it roots in data stream processing and CEP roots are toward more complex debugging and simulations in distributed systems. See http:// tibcoblogs.com/cep for a good emerging explaination of this. Snaggydog 15:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I do not agree that these referenced (tibcoblog) discussions help to make the case against merging these two articles. I support the merge proposal. Chris Loosley 18:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, however I propose that Event Stream Processing is a subset of Complex Event Processing, so this should not suggest merge but mapping? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.195.229.179 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 24 November 2006.

 * Sounds fine. (BTW, kindly sign your posts - use four ~'s) Ronnotel 04:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe CEP and ESP are closely related and that the articles should be merged, but they are industry terms, and the industry uses both terms, and it is not clear (or agreed) what exactly the difference is between the two terms. Equally, it is not agreed if one is a subset of the other as they both appear to be capable of solving the same problems - just different models/implementations of the same problem resulting in similar solutions. If the articles are merged, both terms will (most likely) apply to the article equally. Maybe it's possible to create a 3rd page calles "CEP/ESP" and have the other terms link to the new page?

CEP and ESP should not be merged. 24.255.127.4 07:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

If this was a vote, then great - we'd know your position. But it's a discussion. Would you care to elaborate on why you believe CEP and ESP should not be merged? Thank you. Bardcom 23:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be much easier to compare the two if they were merged. As it is, you have to go back and forth to try to see what's different about them. My $0.02. Ronnotel 02:44, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Made a new subsection below to comment on this. --Sigma 7 01:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm more familiar with some products in this space than others. Personally, I see ESP as a class of, or one specific type of complex events processing. I'd say as a general rule ESP has been specifically focused on business/situation activity monitoring as opposed to proactive operations and management. In my experience ESP is generally focused on data that is generally perceived to be in motion - either data on topics, queues, subjects, or channels, etc. Many of the engines have the ability to retain this information in their memory and/or cache (which is persisted in some cases) for purposes of aggregating information across time (or some other boundary) but the data is persisted in the cache of the ESP engine as opposed to going back to an end point application - as compared to or possibly contrasted to something like Enterprise Information Integration (EII) which essentially goes back to the end point application to retrieve data.

personally I see CEP is combining these two disciplines. As as example, you may want to specially recognize a customer's loyalty by watching for customers that have more than 3 transactions within a given time period - say a month. This is not a BI problem because you want to identify and connect with the customer at the POS not some later point in time via mail, email, etc. Here's where it gets complicated though - I don't just want to recognize the third occurrence/transaction with the customer but I now want to go retrieve more detail about the customer so that I can determine if this is a fantastic customer, a great customer or merely a good customer which should be factored in to how I as a company treat this situation. So, I'd really like to go retrieve information about this specific customer and potentially even get their transaction history so I can not only determine how to treat them given their affinity but potentially even determine what specific types of things are most likely to appeal to them given their history. The type of model would be desired for cross-sell and up-sell. I don't want to be out there just asking my customer's, "would you like fries with that" but be much more specific about what type of offer I'd like to provide for them.

Sorry for the long post but to me these are problems that are beyond the complexity that ESPs are designed for and are an example of why whether combined or not it is important to distinguish the differences between event stream processing and complex event processing. my $0.04 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wenger2K (talk • contribs).

Content of Event-driven architecture
On a related note to the merge, Event-driven architecture seems to give a slight difference between the two (although I did rename it from Stream Event Processing.) Either this means that the two articles are different enough that they should not be merged, or there's writing styles in other articles that treats them as seperate topics. Clearing things up in this article may make the decision to merge slightly easier. While I'm not an expert on this topic, I suspect there's a slight difference, between the two that could be expanded on. --Sigma 7 01:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

ESP SHOULD GO AWAY AND I HELPED CREATE THE PROBLEM!!!You are completely correct in my opinion; these should be merged. And I say this from the perpsective of the software vendor that popularized and caused the confusion in the first place. I'm the general manager of the Progress Apama software division and we coined the term "event stream processing" in April of 2005 when we acquired Apama for $30M - we didn't like the term "complex event processing" and decided to make up another term. Yes, stream processing, and data stream processing have been used as terms in academia, but we made up the term ESP as a synonym for CEP. Some on this list will argue that there are subtle, technical differences, but, being in the center of this quagmire of a debate, I think they should be merged, and that ESP should basically go away!

- Mark Palmer, General Manager, Progress Apama, mpalmer@PROGRESS.COM

 * I find this argument convincing, because it shows how Progress software has been using the ESP terminology, and accounts for the overlap in the way people understand the meanings of the two terms. I therefore support the merge, to reflect actual usage.
 * However, evidence suggests that Progress only thought they had "coined" the terminology "event stream processing" in 2005. In fact, in November 2004, the paper Dataflow Networks for Event Stream Processing by R. Manohar and K. Mani Chandy was presented at the conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (see item 439-202 in the Applications track). Chris Loosley 18:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I too find Mark's argument valid. If the details are so "subtle" as to be impossible to explain, or impossible to convince your peers, then realistically there are no differences. Let's kill ESP. Bardcom 21:28, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Category:Event (computing)
There are various disconnected merger proposals relating to articles in this category. I think it would be better to focus on tidying up the whole category. --RichardVeryard 08:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * You'd be a brave person to try. This industry (event processing) is still embryonic and there are many polarized views that don't exactly merge yet.  I believe that any merger right now will be contentious.  Perhaps as the market matures, this task will simplify.  Bardcom 21:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Merger opposed
I dont think much would be served by merging ESP and CEP entries. This field is still growing and the entries will probably change over time.

Merger opposed
I dont think much would be served by merging ESP and CEP entries. This field is still growing and the entries will probably change over time. - David Luckham —Preceding unsigned comment added by Topfatcat (talk • contribs) 00:34, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Vendor Links
Before adding vendor links to this page, please refer to [Complex Event Processing Talk] page first, as this topic is currently being discussed. Bardcom 00:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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Allyce Beasley

Allyce Beasley ( Tannenberg; born July 6, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as rhyming, love-struck receptionist Agnes DiPesto in the television series Moonlighting. From 2001 to 2007, she was the announcer on Playhouse Disney, a morning lineup of programming for young children on Disney Channel. She appeared briefly as a guidance counselor in the comedy film Legally Blonde and played Coach's daughter, Lisa Pantusso, on Cheers. She also announced the safety video during The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida.

Early life
Beasley was born in Brooklyn, New York as Allyce Tannenberg, the daughter of Marvin, a magazine cartoonist, and Harriet Tannenberg, who worked as a bookkeeper. Beasley is Jewish. She and her family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Philadelphia, Long Island and New York City, before settling in the latter location.

She studied philosophy at SUNY Brockport, aspiring to be a poet. However, Beasley developed an interest in acting and soon shifted her focus to theater. She dropped out of college and began acting in local theater productions in New Mexico. Upon returning to New York, Beasley took drama classes under Lee Strasberg during the day while working nights as a waitress to make ends meet. Her professional surname was chosen after football player Beasley Reece. She moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1982.

Television and film work
Early in her career, Beasley appeared as Coach Pantusso's daughter on Cheers and played the role of Latka Gravas' one night stand on the sitcom Taxi. She also made guest appearances on crime drama Remington Steele and sitcom ALF.

In 1985, she landed the role of receptionist Agnes DiPesto on Moonlighting, starring opposite Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. Beasley claims to have auditioned for the role multiple times before getting the part. For her work on Moonlighting, Beasley received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1986 and 1987. Beasley continued playing the character until the series ended in 1989.

Following the end of Moonlighting, Beasley was often typecast in roles similar to Agnes, which she found creatively frustrating. She was a friend of Susan Dey's character in the television film Lies and Lullabies and acted in the 1993 miniseries The Tommyknockers, based on the novel by Stephen King. Beasley started appearing in films during the 1990s, having roles in Dream with the Fishes (1997) and Stuart Little (1999).

She guest starred in one episode of Joan of Arcadia as Cat Woman God. On Bored to Death, she played the role of Florence, the mother of Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzman), and appeared on the YouTube Premium series Champaign ILL.

Voice work
Beasley has also worked as a voice actress. Her first voice over work was portraying two cats in the Garfield special Garfield on the Town (1983). She is best known for her role as Miss Alordayne Grotke in the popular Disney TV series Recess (1997−2001), reprising this role in the feature film Recess: School's Out (2001) and three direct-to-video specials.

She voiced herself in an episode of Johnny Bravo, made a guest appearance in the television series The Wild Thornberrys, Extreme Ghostbusters, Pound Puppies, Darkwing Duck, Lloyd in Space and Duckman in addition to voicing several characters in the video game EverQuest II.

Beasley narrated for Playhouse Disney from April 16, 2001, until March 30, 2007. She was also the announcer for the safety video with Itchy and Scratchy that plays during The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida.

Stage work
During the summer of 2009, she was seen onstage in The Drowsy Chaperone at Gateway Playhouse on Long Island, playing Mrs. Tottendale.

She replaced Veanne Cox in the role of Mme. Renaud/Mme. Dindon in the Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles alongside Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge on September 14, 2010.

In the spring of 2014, Beasley portrayed Doris in the musical Damn Yankees with Lora Lee Gayer at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Personal life
Beasley married photographer Christopher Sansocie in 1970. They divorced in 1972. While appearing on Taxi, Beasley met actor Vincent Schiavelli. The two were married from 1985 to 1988, and had one son, Andrea Schiavelli. In 1999, Beasley married for the third time to her current husband Jim Bosche, a writer.

Beasley was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. After undergoing a partial mastectomy and stem cell transplant, she was declared cancer free.

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Petr Cársky

Petr Čársky (born on May 29, 1942) is a Slovakian quantum chemist. He obtained in 1968 his Ph.D. at Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague. He worked as senior researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague (1989-1990). He became in 1990 Theoretical group leader, Jaroslav Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.

Research
Development of quantum-chemical methods in general. And in particular:
 * Multireference coupled cluster
 * Electron-molecule scattering theory and its applications to high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy
 * Ab initio calculations on molecules with unusual bonding.

Awards and honors

 * Fellow of the Czech Learned Society (1994).
 * International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (1994)

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Talk:Pizza Delivery

Delete this article and merge it with the other episode articles. user:robertvan1

VfD Results
This article has been changed to a redirect as a result of a VfD discussion. See Votes for deletion/Pizza Delivery for details. --Allen3 talk 00:10, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

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Mount Cargill

Mount Cargill, known in Māori as Kapukataumahaka, is a volcanic outcrop which dominates the skyline of northern Dunedin, New Zealand.

The peak is named for Captain William Cargill, an early leader of the Province of Otago. Māori legend tells of the mountain showing the profile of a prominent warrior, and indeed from Dunedin Buttar's Peak and Mount Cargill between them do form the outline of a reclining figure, with the nearby Buttar's Peak being the head and Mount Cargill the body.

Panoramic views of Dunedin and its surrounding area are visible from the summit, making it a popular, if difficult to access, site. A single rough road ascends to the peak, and several popular walking tracks also ascend the slopes.

Mount Cargill is topped by a telecommunications station and mast, the Mount Cargill Transmitting Station. The mast is Dunedin's tallest man-made structure.

Geography
Mt. Cargill is situated some 15 kilometres (9 miles) north of the city centre, and dominates the city's northern skyline. It rises to a height of 676 metres (2,218 ft). To the north and east of Mount Cargill's peak are several smaller peaks including Mount Zion, Mount Holmes and (most notably) Buttar's Peak.

A rough road from the end of Pine Hill Road provides vehicular access to the summit, and several walking tracks also lead to the top, notably a 4 km walk from Bethune's Gully in North East Valley at the northern end of Dunedin's urban area and a 6 km walk through Graham's Bush, which starts in Sawyers Bay close to Port Chalmers. These tracks pass through regenerating native bush and volcanic outcrops before a sharp climb along the northern flank immediately below the summit.

The tracks pass two significant points of interest. One of these is a prominent formation of columnar jointed basalt known as the Organ Pipes. Similar outcrops are found elsewhere in the Dunedin area, at Blackhead near Waldronville and at Second Beach, Saint Clair. The second point of interest is the small temperate cloud forest which dominates the vegetation of the upper slopes. Though not a true cloud forest, in that it is not tropical, it bears many of the hallmarks of true cloud forest, with abundant moss and fern cover under thick low canopy. The cloud forest is protected within a 1.8 km2 reserve, which includes the peak of the mountain as well as several secondary peaks. Although the tracks are easy (but steep), care should be taken by walkers, as the weather conditions on Mount Cargill are notoriously unpredictable and can change very rapidly.

The peak is, along with the similarly high Flagstaff one of the highest points surrounding Dunedin, and as such, it is a popular lookout. From the summit, views can be obtained of the entire Dunedin urban area, as well as a considerable stretch of open countryside and much of Otago's coastline, from Shag Point near Palmerston to Nugget Point in The Catlins. Particularly notable is the view of the Otago Peninsula and Otago Harbour, the entire length of which can be seen from the summit.

Geology
Mount Cargill, and the nearby smaller peaks are among the youngest parts of the massive extinct Dunedin Volcano and was formed between 16 and 10 million years ago. Its peak comprises a nepheline phonolite dome, an intrusion through earlier pyroclastics and phonolite flows, suggesting that the volcanic origins of the peak were as a pyroclastic cone, followed by a plugging with the nepheline dome.

Buttar's Peak and Mt. Zion are similar, smaller domes. Mt. Holmes is a more distinct plug, featuring the columnar jointed basalt of the Organ Pipes.

Demographics
The Mount Cargill statistical area includes Waitati, Pūrākaunui and Aramoana. It covers 129.78 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Mount Cargill had a population of 2,016 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 240 people (13.5%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 261 people (14.9%) since the 2006 census. There were 798 households, comprising 1,038 males and 975 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.06 males per female. The median age was 47.0 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 390 people (19.3%) aged under 15 years, 192 (9.5%) aged 15 to 29, 1,119 (55.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 312 (15.5%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 92.9% European/Pākehā, 7.9% Māori, 0.9% Pasifika, 2.4% Asian, and 3.6% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 23.7, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 62.9% had no religion, 25.1% were Christian, 0.4% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.1% were Hindu, 0.7% were Buddhist and 3.4% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 639 (39.3%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 189 (11.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $34,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. 363 people (22.3%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 822 (50.6%) people were employed full-time, 291 (17.9%) were part-time, and 54 (3.3%) were unemployed.

Transmitting station
The Mount Cargill transmitting station sits atop the mountain, broadcasting television and FM radio to Dunedin and the eastern Otago area. The station was completed in 1970, transmitting television channel DNTV2 (now part of TVNZ 1) and replacing the original station at Highcliff. The station features a 104.6 m mast, the tallest structure in Dunedin.

The following television stations and radio stations broadcast from Mount Cargill:

Former analogue television frequencies
The following frequencies were used until 29 April 2013, when Mount Cargill switched off analogue broadcasts (see Digital changeover dates in New Zealand).

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Talk:Moonlighting (TV series)

Madeleine? Madelyn? Madolyn?
Do we have a source for the correct spelling of Ms Hayes's forename? The status quo before recent edits was "Madelyn", recently changed to "Madeleine". I happened to watch a few minutes of "Moonlighting" Season 4 Episode 10, and noticed the spelling "Madolyn" on official correspondence from the IRS. Can this be taken as correct, or is it a joke that the IRS would misspell her name? Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 22:21, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

 * In the scripts it’s officially Madolyn. Such as pilot script posted here:
 * [Https://moonlightingstrangers.com/scripts/Moonlighting-ML-101-Pilot-1984-10-23.pdf https://moonlightingstrangers.com/scripts/Moonlighting-ML-101-Pilot-1984-10-23.pdf] - see script page 28, although I don’t know if this would pass the Wikipedia Citation Laws. 68.52.185.132 (talk) 17:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I'd corrected the spelling not long after writing the above, but it was miscorrected again recently. Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 18:45, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Another Parody
There was an episode of that 1980s Chipmunks cartoon called “Dreamlighting” with Alvin Seville as David Alvinson, Brittany Miller as Bratty Hayes, etc. Cbsteffen (talk) 04:30, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

DVD price
user:Rcarter555. The high price of DVDs is notable because it comes from an already-existing cite, and it is directly inferred by the title (not just some aside within the article). Yes, it is subject to change, but it's been that way for a decade, and I used an "as of" template to indicate that it can potentially change. Please revert your revert. Michaelmalak (talk) 18:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Just because it comes from an already existing cite doesn’t make it notable. Rcarter555 (talk) 07:43, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * From the title of an existing cite. Michaelmalak (talk) 10:58, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Still not notable. Rcarter555 (talk) 07:38, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

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Viva Last Blues

Viva Last Blues is the third studio album by Will Oldham. It was released under the moniker Palace Music on Drag City in 1995. The album features Oldham on vocals and guitar, and was recorded by Steve Albini.

Critical reception
Pitchfork placed the album at number 60 on the "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s" list. In 2007, Blender placed it at number 98 on the "100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever" list.

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

 * Liam Hayes – piano, organ
 * Jason Loewenstein – drums, additional vocals
 * Ned Oldham – bass guitar, slide guitar, additional vocals
 * Will Oldham – vocals, guitar
 * Bryan Rich – lead guitar
 * Steve Albini – recording
 * Eric Bates – engineering
 * Eugene Bates – engineering
 * Dianne Bellino – cover drawing
 * Cynthia Kirkwood – painting

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Bedok Police Division

The Bedok Police Division (or  'G' Division) is one of the seven land division of the Singapore Police Force. Bedok Division covers approximately 114 square kilometres of the eastern sector of Singapore. The building became operational on 1 August 1987 when the former Joo Chiat Police Station at East Coast Road was closed down.

Bedok Division initially comprised seven Neighbourhood Police Centres (NPC) and 16 Neighbourhood Police Posts (NPP). The seven NPCs are Bedok North, Bedok South, Changi, Geylang, Marine Parade, Pasir Ris and Tampines. Bedok Division serves about 800 thousand residents in private and public housing estates within our boundaries. In addition, scattered throughout the division's jurisdiction are several industrial estates, as well as other commercial, sporting and recreational facilities, which include the Singapore Sports Hub, East Coast Park, Our Tampines Hub and Downtown East.

In January 2022, Bedok South NPC and Bedok North NPC were merged to form Bedok NPC.

History
Previously headquartered at Joo Chiat Police Station in East Coast Road under the former NPP system, the present headquarters took over jurisdiction of the division on 1 August 1987. The rest of the NPCs came online when the NPC system was implemented here on 17 December 2000. When the Geylang Police Division was closed in December 2000, 'G' Division took over half of its areas of control, while the rest came under the Ang Mo Kio Police Division and Central Police Division, thus extending its responsibilities to critical areas and sites around Geylang Road and the National Stadium, where major events regularly require support from the entire division and beyond, such as during the National Day Parade when it is held there.

Other major events handled by the division include the Singapore Airshow exhibitions in Changi, and the Hari Raya Puasa bazaars at Geylang Serai.

Establishments

 * Bedok Division HQ
 * Bedok Neighbourhood Police Centre
 * Kaki Bukit Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Eunos Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Bedok Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Chai Chee Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Kampong Kembangan Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Siglap Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Tanah Merah Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Changi Neighbourhood Police Centre
 * Changkat Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Geylang Neighbourhood Police Centre
 * Geylang Serai Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Joo Chiat Neighbourhood Police Post
 * MacPherson Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Mountbatten Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Kampong Ubi Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Marine Parade Neighbourhood Police Centre
 * Marine Parade Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Pasir Ris Neighbourhood Police Centre
 * Tampines Neighbourhood Police Centre
 * Tampines East Neighbourhood Police Post
 * Tampines North Neighbourhood Police Post

Kovan double murders
Senior Staff Sergeant Iskandar bin Rahmat, a 14-year veteran investigation officer from Bedok Police Division, was convicted and sentenced to death in the Kovan Double Murders case. Iskandar has been on death row since 2023, after failing in his appeal and request for president clemency against the death sentence for killing a car workshop owner and the man's son on 10 July 2013; the case received extensive media attention and became known as the Kovan Double Murders. In 2024, Iskandar is currently in Changi Prison still awaiting for stipulated date of execution. Iskandar was found to be motivated to rob Tan Boon Sin, 67 and Tan Chee Heong, 42 to clear his bank debts. Iskandar defended his actions, claiming that he had planned a rob-and-run job and that he reacted in self defence when the father-son pair attacked him separately. The High Court rejected his defence and sentenced him to death. The Court of Appeal also later rejected his defence and other arguments that were brought up only towards the end of the case, saying that "accused persons should and are expected to put their best case forward at the earliest time possible".

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User:Mathias Johansson

Not much to see here yet.

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