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SV-328

The SV-328 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Spectravideo in June 1983. It was the business-targeted model of the Spectravideo range, sporting a compact full-travel keyboard with numeric keypad. It had 80 KB RAM (64 KB available for software, remaining 16 KB video memory), a respectable amount for its time. Other than the keyboard and RAM, this machine was identical to its little brother, the SV-318.

The SV-328 is the design on which the MSX standard was based. Spectravideo's MSX-compliant successor to the 328, the SV-728, looks almost identical, the only immediately noticeable differences being a larger cartridge slot in the central position (to fit MSX standard cartridges), lighter shaded keyboard and the MSX badging.

Reference to the operating system Microsoft Extended BASIC is not to be confused with MSX BASIC, although some marketing at the time claimed that Microsoft Extended is what MSX stood for. More than 130 games were released for the system.

System specs

 * Processor: Zilog Z80A running at 3.6 MHz
 * ROM: 32 KB
 * BIOS (16 KB)
 * BASIC (16 KB)
 * RAM: 64 KB
 * Video Display Processor: TMS9918
 * VRAM: 16 KB
 * Text modes: 40×24 and 32×24
 * Resolution: 256×192 (16 colours)
 * Sprites: 32, 1 colour, max 4 per horizontal line
 * Sound chip: General Instrument AY-3-8910 (PSG)
 * I/O chip: Intel 8255

Peripherals

The standard ports of a SV-318 / SV-328 support only a few peripherals such as the SV-903 tape drive, a CVBS monitor (or external RF modulator for TV), and two joysticks. However the Super Expander edge connector offered more options:

 * SV-803 Memory expansion card, 16 KB
 * SV-807 Memory expansion card, 64 KB
 * SV-805 RS-232 card
 * SV-701 Internal modem, 300 baud
 * SV-802 Centronics parallel port card for printer
 * SV-806 80-column video card
 * SV-801 Floppy controller card, needed for disk drive usage
 * Hard disk controller card
 * SV-809 Network card
 * SV-602 Mini Expander (for one card)
 * SV-601A Expander case with power supply and many slots. External disk drives
 * SV-601B Super Expander, similar but with built-in floppy drive and an optional second drive
 * SV-603 ColecoVision adapter, enabling ColecoVision games to be played on the SV-328
 * SV-901C 80-columns printer at 50 cps (a refurbished Seikosha SK-100)
 * SV-902 External floppy drive
 * SV-903 cassette drive
 * SV-105 Graphics Tablet

Emulators

 * SVI-318/328 Emulator by Jimmy Mårdell
 * BlueMSX MSX emulator, support SVI 318/328

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Hattytown Tales

Hattytown Tales is a 39-episode stop-motion animated children's television series produced by FilmFair for Thames Television, which aired in the United Kingdom between 1969 and 1973. Creator and writer Keith Chatfield narrated the series, and Ivor Wood directed it. Books were published by World Distributors and it was featured in the Playland Comic (offshoot of Pippin) published by Polystyle Publications and in children's annuals for 10 years.

The residents of Hattytown were anthropomorphic hats. The style of hat each character was indicated by their ethnicity, attitude, and role in Hattytown society. For instance, Bobby, the constable, resembles the hat of a constable. Buildings in the town are also hat-shaped; each building's form suggests either its primary function or resident.

The main character, Sancho, is a Mexican sombrero with legs and eyes. Carrots, his best friend, is a donkey with a carrot dangling in front of his face. In one episode, an angry bird makes its nest in Sancho's car. Every time the Hattytown residents try to move the bird, it snaps at them. At the end of the episode, the car door opens to reveal a nest of eggs that eventually hatch.

Episodes
Series 1 (1969)
 * 1) Mr Wimple's Breakfast Rolls
 * 2) Bobby's Flower Garden
 * 3) Carrot's Carrot
 * 4) King Ethelbert
 * 5) Milko's Day Off
 * 6) Simon's Magnifying Glass
 * 7) Going Fishing
 * 8) The Statue
 * 9) Sancho's Camera
 * 10) Posty's Old Boots
 * 11) You Cannot Please Everyone
 * 12) Wash Day
 * 13) The King's Portrait

Series 2 (1970)
 * 1) Saving Time
 * 2) Up and Away
 * 3) Creatures of Outer Space
 * 4) Almost Magic
 * 5) The Pillar Box
 * 6) The Royal Hattytown Guards
 * 7) Friendship
 * 8) The Picnic
 * 9) The Cannon
 * 10) Carrots for the Mayor
 * 11) Too Much of a Good Thing
 * 12) Hiccup Buns
 * 13) Bookworms

Series 3 (1973)
 * 1) Bobby's Security Patrol
 * 2) Mr. Bun the Master Baker
 * 3) The Walking Pillar Box
 * 4) The Fete
 * 5) A Note for the Milkman
 * 6) Sneezy Cheese
 * 7) Mrs. Bagwash and the King
 * 8) The Secret Tunnel
 * 9) It Pays to Advertise
 * 10) The Auction
 * 11) The Telephone Box
 * 12) A Taxi for Hire
 * 13) Mustafer the Hedgehog

International broadcast
In the United States, Hattytown Tales was also often featured during the television programme Pinwheel on Nickelodeon.

VHS
On 17 July 1995, Castle Communications released three videos with five episodes on each one. The copyright year on the back cover and the label is mistakenly printed as 1981 even though all 13 Series 1 episodes of Hattytown Tales were broadcast on ATV in 1969 and the first two Series 2 episodes of Hattytown Tales were broadcast on ATV in 1970.

On 14 May 2001, Contender Entertainment Group released a single video with the first three episodes as part of the company's 'kult kidz' range of classic British children's shows from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that were released on video.

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Inferi

Inferi may refer to:
 * Inferi, also di inferi or dii inferi, the collective gods of the underworld in ancient Rome
 * Inferi (Harry Potter), corpses controlled through a Dark wizard's spells in Harry Potter

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Talk:Communes of the Lot department

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do we really need a redlink for EVERY one of these in the english version? please feel free to create these articles and then link them in.

BigFatDave 04:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * We DO need them. I am restoring the former version of the page. olivier 08:02, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Please explain what those redlinks benefit. It looks like a long list of communes that have no articles yet. What good does that do anyone? I stumbled onto your list from the Pern page, and all I saw was a redlink farm. So why not make them links as articles are created? BigFatDave 04:12, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Why don't you remove all red links from Wikipedia and make them links as articles are created? olivier 08:05, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * These red links serve in fact several purposes. They are useful for the "what links here function". For instance, it is common to see "Mr. XYZ was born in xyz". Using the "what links here function" will be useful to identify the potential candidates for "xyz" (usually xyz is the name of several places) and write a related article about the birthplace of Mr. XYZ. In many cases, they are also the only occurence of the name of the town in Wikipedia. As a matter of fact, most such articles are created by anonymous users, who may have an incentive to create an article because the link already exists. Should they first have to create the link in order to write an article, they would probably not bother, and less such articles would be created. Also, you will notice that several of these red links are in fact disambiguated. This disambiguation work is part of an ongoing process of identifying the need for disambiguation pages, and therefore again increase the willingness to create town related articles. Hope this helps. olivier 08:47, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Merge/Grouping
I propose that the related articles that are 1 sentence stubs be grouped up in some fashion. There is nothing to learn from these articles at all. Even though there is notability (slight, but notability none-the-less), I see no reason to have 300+ articles that give you less information than a telephone book. Jcmcc450 (talk) 15:26, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

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Why has my vote been "discounted"? I'm not a "sockpuppet" or whatever it is; I've been a Wikipedia user for a while. It seems like there's a significant bias in which votes are disqualified.

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Talk:Herbert Huncke

Questions
The first paragraph states he is a "homosexual pioneer", but subsequent paragraphs state he is bisexual. Even if bisexuality is a form of homosexuality, the two terms should not be used interchangeably.

I've got questions about a few details...

 * Assured that Burroughs was all right, Huncke bought the morphine and, at Burroughs request, immediately gave him an injection.

My vague memory of the Ted Morgan book is that Huncke didn't give Burroughs his first hit.

 * In the late 40s Allen Ginsberg, Jack Melody and "Detroit Redhead" flipped a car in Queens, New York while trying to run down a motorcycle cop

While trying to run down a cop? Really? They were on the run from the cops, as I remember it, but I don't remember that they were trying to kill one of them at any point.

Looking up the first point, Ted Morgan has it like so (p.121 of the Avon books trade paper):

 * Bernie vouched for him, and when they came back into the kitchen, Burroughs and Phil White were discussing the Syrettes. But Huncke was still suspicious and said, "I don't think I want to bother, really."  Phil, however, was interested and said he would be in touch.

 * A few days later, Burroughs used one of the Syrettes and had his first experience with junk. He wanted to see what it was like, as he had done with chloral hydrate at Los Alamos ...

Sounds an awful lot like Burroughs gave himself his own first shot.

"Someone has to do the bid."
Surely this should be "Someone has to do the bird." which is a standard English (UK) phrase for serving a prison sentence?

Ginsberg Biography
According to Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Micheal Schumacher, Burroughs was trying to sell "a submachine gun," it also tells that according to Huncke's biography, Huncke was responsible for Burrough's first shot.

Bisexual Writers category
Does this need to be categorised as Bisexual Writers and Bisexual Writers From The United States? Ianwilliams 17:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Clean Up Notice June, 2007
This article needs work. It isn't objective and doesn't cite any sources. It reads like a lauditory magazine article. Griot 18:13, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

"street hustler, high school dropout and drug addict"
True, but misleading without pointing out he grew up upper middle class in Chicago.72.209.63.226 (talk) 18:13, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Needs citations
I updated the "article needs additional citations for verification" notice. On Wikipedia, these beatniks get treated like Catholic saints. Each one has a wee little personal mythology. Each one performed a wee little literary miracle. For example, what are you supposed to make of the following passage from the article?
 * Huncke used the word "Beat" to describe someone living with no money and few prospects. "Beat to my socks," he said. Huncke coined the phrase in a conversation with Jack Kerouac, who was interested in how their generation would be remembered. "I'm beat," was Huncke's reply, meaning tired and beat to his socks. Kerouac used the term to describe an entire generation.

Is this taken from a memoir or something? It needs a citation. Without a citation, it sounds to me like something an undergraduate literature student invented on Saturday night. Chisme (talk) 20:53, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

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Article full of PR, inaccurate/ read David Sedaris on Huncke
David Sedaris's newly published diaries, Theft by Finding (2017) are a welcome antidote to the endless Beat self-mythologizing in this naive and gushy article. Sedaris worked as a laborer in the years before he was discovered. One job was helping Huncke move, and Huncke treated the moving men, mere ordinary people who weren't poets, like dirt, exactly the way a plutocrat would have. Nice Ivy League boys like Ginsburg and Kerouac, and rich kids like Burroughs, were always meeting some ordinary dirtbag like Huncke, and fantasizing that they had met The People. Or something. Profhum (talk) 23:02, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed your edits to Ward Churchill this evening. I just removed a lot of superfluous material from that article and I was wondering if there was any way I could help you keep it focused and neutral. IMO, the ethicity issue is something of a red herring. I reduced it to a couple of lines, which together with the external links to texts pro and con I hope will suffice. I hope that you agree. -- Viajero 00:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Congratulations Calicocat. You see, it is like water. It can be a big wave, or it can be slow work. Anthere 06:07, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Great work on VNR, CC. I have some clarity issues re JS&E though. Will explain later. SV|t|add 04:20, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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I listed Template:News-trade on WP:TFD for you. It is not enough to add the tag to a template to list it for deletion; you have to add a section to WP:TFD as well. You should definitely go to WP:TFD and add your comments there. Kelly Martin 19:42, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I placed the tag and was editing my comments, which I've now added to WP:TFD. Calicocat 20:17, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Journalism misc.
Hi, I've made some comments at WikiProject Journalism, in case you're interested. Maurreen 03:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi, thanks for your nice note and your work on the journalism articles. I'm not sure who started the Wikiproject; I haven't done much with them myself. I just figured it could be a good place for discussion.

 * I don't know how much I'll be able to put into this stuff. Lately I'm spending more of my time at [Journawiki], a wiki about journalism. Maurreen 17:23, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

News trade
Hi, I'm thinking of listing News trade at VFD. What do you think? Maurreen 14:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I've listed it. You can vote on it here. Maurreen 17:40, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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I overhauled the article, including changing the name to Managing the news. See what you think. And a happy holiday to you also. :) Maurreen 3 July 2005 16:52 (UTC)

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Do you think it should be VFD'd or just merged and redirected? Maurreen 3 July 2005 17:06 (UTC)

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Re: Vandalism by user 24.60.52.200
Hi; thanks for your note. I didn't block the user because (1) I received your message a bit late, and (2) the user actually did stop vandalizing after my third warning (at 02:19 UTC). That said, I appreciate the time you took to inform me of the problem, and I'll keep an eye on the IP for the next few days. Cheers, -- Hadal 7 July 2005 05:37 (UTC)

Spam revert
Hi Calicocat, I noticed you reverted my spam removal in the Newspaper article. The reason I removed the external link was because this user Special:Contributions/80.58.16.235 has been adding the same link to many articles including nearly all 50 states articles and the United States article. This user will also add his link into the middle of the external links, in what I assume is an attempt to make it less obvious that a change was made. Also, his site is missing several major newspapers (such as the Richmond-Times Dispatch in Virginia). Unless an external link looks very legitimite to me, I'll remove it by default because of the huge increase in advertising attempts on Wikipedia lately. Monkeyman 12:29, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

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David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an English Conservative politician.

Education and early career
Eccles was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a second-class degree in PPE. He worked with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg. During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ministry of Production from 1942 to 1943 and was Economic Adviser to the British ambassadors at Lisbon and Madrid from 1940 to 1942.

Political career
Eccles was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham in a wartime by-election in 1943, a seat he held until 1962. He served in the Conservative administrations of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan respectively as Minister of Works from 1951 to 1954 (in which position he helped organise the 1953 Coronation and was appointed KCVO), as Minister of Education from 1954 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1962 and as President of the Board of Trade from 1957 to 1959. Eccles was also President of the Board of Trade in January 1957.

In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, and in 1964 he was created Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire. Lord Eccles returned to the government in 1970 when Edward Heath appointed him Paymaster General and Minister for the Arts, a post he held until 1973. As Minister for the Arts he clashed with the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain Arnold Goodman over the funding of controversial plays and exhibitions and introduced mandatory admission charges at public museums and galleries. Lord Eccles was made a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1966 by Loughborough University. He also received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Bath in 1972.

Personal life
Eccles married, firstly, the Hon. Sybil Frances Dawson (1904–1977), daughter of Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, on 1 October 1929. They had three children:

 * The Hon. John Dawson Eccles; later 2nd Viscount Eccles (born 1931).
 * The Hon. Simon Dawson Eccles (born 1934).
 * The Hon. Selina Eccles (born 1937); m. firstly Robin Andrew Duthac Carnegie (grandson of Charles Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk); m. secondly George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne; became The Marchioness of Lansdowne.

A collection of the couple's wartime letters were published under the title By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil & David Eccles 1939-42 (Bodley Head, 1983).

Widowed in 1977, he married again, this time to book collector and philanthropist Mary Morley Crapo Hyde (1912–2003) on 26 September 1984. He died in 1999 at the age of 94, at home of natural causes, leaving an estate of approximately £2.4 million.

Styles and honours

 * Mr David Eccles (1904–1943)
 * Mr David Eccles MP (1943–1953)
 * Sir David Eccles KCVO MP (1953–1962)
 * The Rt. Hon. The Lord Eccles KCVO PC (1962–1964)
 * The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Eccles KCVO PC (1964–1984)
 * The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC (1984–1999)

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Eric Jolliffe

Eric Ernest Jolliffe (31 January 1907 – 16 November 2001) was an Australian cartoonist and illustrator.

Early life
Born in Portsmouth, England, he was the youngest boy in a family of twelve children. The family migrated to Perth, Western Australia, in 1911 before moving to Sydney after six months, where they settled in Balmain. Joliffe left school at the age of fifteen, where he spent the next six years in the country New South Wales and Queensland, working as a boundary rider, rabbit trapper and in shearing sheds.

Artistic career
A visit to Angus & Robertson bookstore, while visiting his family in Sydney, led to the discovery of a book on drawing. He afterwards reflected: "I learned to my surprise that art wasn't necessarily a gift divine but a craft that could be studied and worked at".

Jolliffe enrolled in an introductory course at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School), where his teachers commented on his lack of talent. During the Great Depression he worked as a window cleaner, during which time he inundated The Bulletin with cartoons, which they initially rejected. Eventually they began to buy his cartoons and by the beginning of World War II he became a regular contributor, taking over Andy from Arthur Horner. During the war, he served as a camouflage officer with the RAAF and spent time in Arnhem Land.

After the war, he joined Smith's Weekly but resigned and began freelancing by selling his cartoon strips Saltbush Bill and Witchetty's Tribe to Pix magazine. He was particularly fond of "bush" subjects. Another cartoon strip, Sandy Blight, appeared in Sydney's Sun-Herald. In 1973, Jolliffe began publishing his own magazine, Jolliffe's Outback.

Legacy
George Blaikie recalled in 1979 that Jolliffe "had humped the bluey and toiled at all kinds of farm and station jobs. Wherever he went he sketched the minutiae most people failed to see – shacks and sheds, funny old gates and tree stumps they hinged on, bark roofs, billabongs and cows in bogs. Such authentic reference was poured into his gags and he became our most brilliant interpreter of the countryside."

Australian Aborigines figured largely in Jolliffe's work, including in his numerous pen and pencil portraits in Witchetty's Tribe. Jim Hodge observed that "sensitivity without sentiment describes his approach" and Tony Stephens noted that "Joliffe made Aboriginal men hunters with a sense of humour" and "the women as beautiful as ... models".

Jolliffe's cartoons enjoyed great success with the Australian reading public. Saltbush Bill ran "in Pix magazine for almost 50 years from 1945" and his other series experienced similar success.

Personal life
From 1932, Jolliffe was married to the Scottish-born May H. Clark. She died in Chatswood in 1993. Their daughter Margaret ("Meg") had died in 1989.

He died on 16 November 2001 at the age of 94. His funeral service was held at Ourimbah on the Central Coast of New South Wales.

Honours and awards

 * 2009: Member of Hall of Fame of the Australian Cartoonists' Association
 * 1998: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to art as a cartoonist and illustrator"
 * 1985, 1986: Stanley Award: "Single Gag Cartoonist of the Year"
 * 1960, 1961: Sydney Savage Club Cartoonist Award

Books and magazines by Jolliffe

 * Corroboree : Aboriginal Cartoon Fun, Cremorne [N.S.W.] : E. Jolliffe [1946] - online copy at State Library Victoria

Books about Jolliffe and his work

 * ACE Biographical Portraits: The Artists Behind the Comic Book Characters: The Australian Comic Book Exhibition, Australian Comics 1930s-1990s, Touring Australia During 1995/96 / edited by Annette Shiell and Ingrid Unger (1994, ISBN 0-7326-0829-5)
 * Joan Kerr, Artists and Cartoonists: In Black and White, Sydney: S. H. Ervin Gallery, 1999
 * Annette Shiell and Mick Stone, eds., Bonzer: Australian Comics, 1900s-1990s, Redhill South, Melbourne: Elgua Media, 1998
 * Richard Rae, Cartoonists of Australia, View Productions, 1983.
 * Toby Burrows and Grant Stone, eds., Comics in Australia and New Zealand: The Collections, the Collectors, the Creators, New York, London, Norwood (Australia): The Haworth Press, Inc., 1994, p. 28
 * Vane Lindsay, Drawing From Life: A History of the Australian Black and White Artists' Club, Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994
 * Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning, The Journalists’ Club, 1964
 * Graeme Cliffe, From Sunbeams To Sunset. The Rise And Fall Of The Australian Comic Book (1924-1965), Margate Beach: Ozcomics, 2019
 * Frederick Luis Aldama, Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia, University Press of Mississippi, 2020, pp. 56–57
 * Vane Lindsay, The Inked-in Image, Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia, 1979
 * John Ryan, Panel by Panel: A History of Australian Comics, Melbourne: Cassell Australia 1979

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Shattered Steel

Shattered Steel is a mech simulation game developed by BioWare and published by Interplay Productions for MS-DOS in 1996. It was later ported to Mac OS by now-defunct Logicware. It is notable for the deformable terrain effects, and for being BioWare's first developed game.

Story
Shattered Steel takes place in a desolate future where humanity is on the verge of extinction. The single-player campaign takes place over 5 separate worlds (planets); each planet has about 20 missions.

The enemy in the game is a group of aliens who are in some way or another organic, mechanical or a combination of both. Examples of this are the Aspis, a spider-like enemy with an organic look and the Wasp, a very mechanical looking air vehicle. As the story unfolds, more is discovered about who controls the aliens, what their purposes are, and how to destroy them once and for all.

Gameplay
The gameplay is similar in style to the MechWarrior video game series, featuring mechanized combat in bipedal machines called "Planet Runners". Runners do not generally take humanoid shapes - only two of them, the Retro and Shiva, have a distinct human shape and neither of them have arms. Some of the Runners are based around animals, such as the Raptor, with a very overbearing appearance and "Chicken walker" style legs, with claw-like feet. The enemies are somewhat more varied but generally center around animals such as spiders, scorpions and the praying mantis.

All of the Runners have a specific weight limitation, and can have their weapons, shield generator and engines interchanged and removed based around this limit. Each of the runners has a primary weapon mount, and one or more secondary weapon mounts, along with a shield and generator bay. Primary weapons are mounted on the head of the Runner and most feature twin primary mounts for a pair of guns. Secondary mounts are singular and weapons can be grouped, single, or alternately fired independent of the primary guns.

There are specific sets of primary and secondary weapons, and they are not interchangeable. A set of three laser and three bullet weapons, with two special energy weapons round out the primary weapons. Secondary weapons range from dumb fire rockets, guided missiles and energy cannons to howitzers, mortar cannons and - very late in the game - nuclear missiles.

Energy weapons have a maximum ammo amount (up to 200 in some cases) and recharge when below this number. Bullet weapons however, do not recharge, nor are mid-mission reloads possible. Weapons can sometimes be picked up off the battlefield, at the expense of dropping the currently selected secondary (or current primary) weapon. One advantage of this is the ability to pick up a weapon too heavy for the Runner to normally use, at the cost of drastically reduced speed.

Missions vary from assaults, infiltrations, recon to defending bases or convoy escorts. Combat is fairly straightforward, with the ability to tilt and pivot the Runners "head" (and sometimes the entire torso) to target enemies not directly ahead of the player. This is especially useful when attempting to take down rather frequent encounters with airborne units.

The two main features are locational damage and deformable terrain. Locational damage applies to all enemy units and buildings, allowing the player to target legs to quickly destroy or disable enemies, to destroying the head, which in most cases is not actually fatal, but has practical or comedic purposes. The basic bipedal walker enemy without its head has no weapons, but it will continue to walk around - blind - bumping into the player or buildings. Deformable terrain is primarily a visual pleasure, with little practical use. However, persistence or clever thinking can reward the player with a tactical advantage. shooting at the edge of a hillside can create a "notch" to fire down onto or up at targets. The biggest deformation possible is the nuclear missile. Accompanied by a white flash, it will not only obliterate almost anything within its wide explosion radius, it also creates a large crater and sends out a shock wave along the ground, using the terrain as a moving "wall". Not only does this serve to trap anyone surviving the blast inside a deep, burning crater, but it can be used as a mountain-destroying device, or to rip a chunk out of just about anything that stands in the player's way. Any terrain deformation can be seen on the game's 3D, real-time map screen.

In total there are 7 Planet Runners available to the player: Gnat, Stormguard, Invader, Warthog, Raptor, Retro, and Shiva. Each class of Runner also has its own onboard computer, with its own voice overs and in some cases, a different view on things. The heavy runners speak in first person ("I have damage to my hull"), where the lighter runners are more formal ("Warning: Damage to hull").

The player is assisted by yet another voiced computer situated in its starship in orbit around the planet. The AINIC(Artificial Intelligence Network Interface Coupler) Mark 3, as it calls itself, provides all mission summaries, briefings and mid-mission updates with a full voiced backing, and is presented as a self-aware computer entity.

The game also includes multiplayer and a mission editor. Multiplayer can support up to 16 players, and a "single player anarchy" mode also includes options for co-op play, custom missions, bots, and playing single player missions with multiple humans, either with the aliens or against them.

Release
Before the game release, a playable "Interactive Preview" was sold in stores. This preview came with a cloudy-red "Interactive Preview" CD-Rom (DOS version) in a standard jewel case, a red manual with, on its front, a small Interplay advertisement "6$ OFF mail-in rebate..." and a promotional "coming this fall" Shattered Steel advertising the full version at $15.95, and a "Get Shattered" back cover with the game plot and screenshots. This demo was not rated at its release (Rating Pending "RP"). Some Interactive Preview discs were defective, rendering working copies very scarce for collectors and fans.

Reception
According to BioWare, sales of Shattered Steel had surpassed 170,000 units by late 2002. The game held an aggregate review score of 73% on GameRankings.

Reviewing the MS-DOS version, Tim Soete of GameSpot said that while the plot is interesting, Shattered Steel is more of a mindless action game than MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat and does not have the same sense of immersion, though it is still enjoyable. Next Generation similarly described it as "along the lines of Earthsiege II or MechWarrior 2, but without the complexity. It settles for pure action from the minute players climb into their giant robots ..." He too found it enjoyable in spite of its lack of depth or innovation, noting the numerous missions, selection of weapons, and options for networked multiplayer. Macworlds Michael Gowan wrote that Shattered Steels "visuals are solid (although a few years old at this point), and the play is engaging." While he recommended it to fans of science-fiction simulation games, he argued that the "scope of the game's missions could be more varied".

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Rotterdam The Hague Airport

Rotterdam The Hague Airport (formerly Rotterdam Airport, Vliegveld Zestienhoven in Dutch), is a minor international airport serving Rotterdam, the Netherlands' second largest city, and The Hague, its administrative and royal capital. It is located 3 NM north northwest of Rotterdam in South Holland and is the third busiest airport in the Netherlands.

The airport handled over 2.1 million passengers in 2019 and features scheduled flights to European metropolitan and leisure destinations. It is also used extensively by general aviation and there are several flying clubs, a skydiving club and a flight training school located at the airport.

Early years
After World War II, the Dutch government decided that a second national airport was needed in addition to Schiphol. Rotterdam had previously had an airport before the war; Waalhaven airport, but it was heavily damaged in the German bombing of Rotterdam, and was later completely destroyed to prevent it from being used by the Germans. Reconstruction of the airport was not a realistic proposition, so a new location was found in the Zestienhoven polder, giving the airport its original name.

Construction of the airport began in August 1955 and the airport was officially opened in October 1956. Several large international airlines, such as Swissair, Lufthansa, Air France, Channel Airways, and British Air Ferries (Channel Air Bridge) were soon operating to Rotterdam. However, in the 1970s plans were made to either close or move the airport to make space for housing. Its uncertain future halted the airport's growth and led to many operators leaving.

Development since the 1990s
For almost thirty years the airport faced closure, but the economic growth of the 1990s caused an increase in passengers again, and in 2001 it was decided that the airport's current location would be maintained for at least a century.

The route with the longest continual service, to London Heathrow and operated by KLM Cityhopper, was suspended in 2008. This marked the end of KLM's involvement with the airport. However, in December 2012, British Airways began a service to Rotterdam from Heathrow. In October 2014, British Airways announced they would suspend the route again in March 2015. British Airways now flies to Rotterdam from London City Airport.

The name of the airport was changed from Zestienhoven to Rotterdam Airport and finally in 2010 to its current name Rotterdam The Hague Airport.

Most flights today are operated by smaller mainline jets such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 series or the Embraer 190. There is also a fair amount of business aviation. State and military aircraft also use the airport frequently, due to its proximity to The Hague, the seat of the Dutch government and various international institutions such as the International Criminal Court. With the closure of nearby Ypenburg Airport in 1992 and Valkenburg Naval Air Base in 2006, Rotterdam The Hague Airport is now the only remaining airport in the area.

The airport experienced significant growth in the 2010s, doubling passenger numbers from 1,000,858 in 2010 to 2,133,976 in 2019.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Rotterdam/The Hague:

Bus
The airport is served by bus line 33, which runs between Rotterdam Centraal, the airport, and further to Meijersplein station. At Meijersplein, transfers are available to metro line E, with frequent service to Den Haag Centraal, Rotterdam Centraal and Rotterdam city center.

Car
The airport is situated next to the busy A13/E19 motorway, which makes it easily accessible via car.

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Selenate

The selenate ion is.

Selenates are analogous to sulfates and have similar chemistry. They are highly soluble in aqueous solutions at ambient temperatures.

Unlike sulfate, selenate is a somewhat good oxidizer; it can be reduced to selenite or selenium.

In strongly acidic conditions, the hydrogen selenate ion,, is formed. It corresponds to the selenic acid, H2SeO4, which is a strong acid and can in its concentrated form dissolve gold.

The element selenium exhibits several valence states. Selenate is the least reduced, followed by selenite, and elemental selenium; selenide is even more reduced than elemental selenium. The valence state is an important factor to the toxicity of selenium. Selenate is the form required by organisms that need selenium as a micronutrient. These organisms have the ability to acquire, metabolize and excrete selenium. The level at which selenium becomes toxic varies from species to species and is related to other environmental factors like pH and alkalinity that influence the concentration of selenite over selenate.

Selenate and other forms of selenium are highest in areas where ancient seas have evaporated. These areas are enriched in selenium and over millennia, biologic adaptation has occurred.

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Red raspberry leaf

The red raspberry leaf (Rubus idaeus), also known as garden raspberry leaf, is produced by the deciduous raspberry plant and used in folk remedies.

Use in pregnancy
Traditional lore suggests that pregnant women use raspberry leaf tea, especially as an aid in delivery. However, scientific research has found little to no evidence to support this claim. Most of the evidence available is anecdotal, and a 2009 review article stressed concern at the lack of evidence for safety and efficacy and called recommendations of its use "questionable".

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Saban Theatre

The Saban Theatre is a historic theatre in Beverly Hills, California, formerly known as the Fox Wilshire Theater. It is an Art Deco structure at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hamilton Drive designed by architect S. Charles Lee and is considered a classic Los Angeles landmark. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 2012-4-3.

Location
Located on Wilshire Boulevard, the exterior of the building with its simple Art Deco ornamentation is one of the first buildings seen by pedestrians and drivers entering the eastern boundary of the city of Beverly Hills.

History
The Saban Theatre has been both a significant cultural and architectural landmark for Los Angeles and Beverly Hills since its opening as the Fox Wilshire Theatre on September 19, 1930. It was originally designed with 2500 seats by noted theatre architect S. Charles Lee to be a major film presentation house, even including a stage for Vaudeville acts before the films.

Over its 91-year history, the Saban has been the site of numerous film premieres, exclusive first-run film engagements, live concerts and touring Broadway shows. Despite several renovations, the interior remains mostly intact with its columned two-story rotunda lobby, spacious orchestra and balcony level seating for 2,000, and its silver, gold and black proscenium and organ screens. The connection with architect S. Charles Lee, a long-time resident of the city of Beverly Hills, makes the Saban significant also as an example of Lee's transition from the French Regency style of the Tower Theatre and other Los Angeles Theatres to the nascent Art Deco style that would come to dominate movie palace architecture in the 1930s.

Opened as the Fox Wilshire Theatre, it was one of 20th Century Fox's premiere theaters for several decades, serving as a movie palace until a 1981 renovation converted it into a stage venue. It was operated by the Nederlander Organization from 1981 to 1989. The Saban Theater is now regularly used as a live performance venue for comedy, music, television, film shoots, screenings, and community intercultural events such as PaleyFest. Temple of the Arts has owned and operated the theatre since 2005. Sterling Venue Ventures, led by Lance Sterling currently produces over 50 concerts and events at the Saban per year. Notable performers Sterling has brought to the theatre include Marillion, Paul Anka, Burt Bacharach, Frankie Valli, Styx, George Thorogood, Kenny Loggins, Todd Rundgren, and Morris Day.

Renaming
In March 2009, owners announced that the Wilshire would be renamed the Saban Theatre in recognition of a $5 million grant from Haim and Cheryl Saban. The funds have been used to further restoration efforts on the orchestra, proscenium and marquee. It also houses programs by Temple of the Arts, which aims to integrate the arts and Judaism.

Preservation
Beverly Hills Performing Arts Center led the movement to have the city of Beverly Hills create a Historic Preservation Ordinance passing the Mills Act, which supports historic theatres. BHPAC secured placement of the venue on The Federal and State Registry of Historic Places and designation of the theatre as a Beverly Hills landmark.

Restoration
BHPAC'S mission was summarized as "Awakening a Sleeping Beauty," engaging design firm Evergreene Architectural Arts, which specializes in historic theatre restoration. Past evergreen projects include Radio City Music Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre, Hollywood's Pantages and Santa Barbara's Granada Theatre. They guided the restoration of the theatre orchestra and proscenium with the help of the archives of renowned theatre architect S. Charles Lee at the UCLA School of Architecture.

Modernization
In conjunction with Sterling Venue Ventures LLC, management began an extensive update of the stage, lighting, and sound systems so that performances of Broadway shows and live concerts could be enhanced. State of the art robotic cameras were also installed to capture live performance in high quality. Sterling Venue Ventures, in addition to updating the space, has also added special private event functionality to the venue to accommodate all types of special events up to 1,800 people.

The Steve Tisch Cinema Center
To reawaken the storied film history of the theatre, philanthropist film producer Steve Tisch gifted the naming rights for the Steve Tisch Cinema Center. This endowment enabled the installation of a state of the art film projection system as the theatre continues to host opening nights for major film festivals and special screenings.

Notable events
Notable events include:
 * The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn (December 26, 1951)
 * How to Marry a Millionaire starring Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall (November 1953)
 * 12 Angry Men starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and Ed Begley (April 10, 1957)
 * Sleeping Beauty starring Mary Costa and Bill Shirley (January 1959)
 * Stevie Nicks's "White Winged Dove" tour (1981), filmed for an HBO special
 * Los Angeles premiere of Paramount Pictures's Dreamgirls (December 11, 2006)
 * Taping of the Season 1 finale episode "Journey" of the TV series Glee
 * Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin (September 15, 2019)

Since Sterling Venue Ventures took over management, the Saban has become a dominant force on the LA music scene. Notable events include:
 * 'LA Comics Support Their Own' a special event featuring Ray Romano, Brian Regan, Bill Burr, and Bob Saget amongst many other Los Angeles-based comics.
 * The 26th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards
 * Star-Studded Tribute to Eddie Money with Sammy Hagar, George Thorogood, Kevin Cronin, James Hatfield, John Waite and more / February 20, 2020
 * REO Speedwagon / February 4, 2020
 * Styx / January 12, 2020 and January 19, 2019, and January 28, 2018
 * Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo / October 19, 2019
 * David Crosby & Friends / September 10, 2019
 * Art Garfunkel / May 9, 2019
 * Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul with a special guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen / May 4, 2019
 * Rick Springfield Accompanied by a Symphony Orchestra / March 30, 2019
 * Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons February 28 and March 1, 2019
 * Paul Anka / February 2, 2019 and January 14, 2018
 * Todd Rundgren / December 31, 2017

Starlet disappearance (Folklore)
In May 1944, thirteen-year-old Patsy Ruth Brown disappeared after leaving producer Jack Schwarz's Fox Wilshire Building penthouse. Schwarz told juvenile officers that Patsy had spent the afternoon in his apartment. That evening he gave her three dollars for a taxi. According to Schwarz, Patsy left in the company of an older girl named O'Hara, whom Patsy had brought with her. Schwarz said that Patsy had begged him numerous times for a role in one of his films. Her only film appearance (uncredited) was in Nearly Eighteen (1943). A taxi driver who took Patsy to Union Station told the police that Patsy said she was going to San Bernardino to visit her father, an employee of a Barstow, California rock company. However, the taxi driver's tip failed to help police trace the missing girl.

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James Marcello

James J. Marcello (born December 13, 1943), also known variously as "Little Jimmy", "Jimmy Light" and as "Jimmy the Man", is a crime boss who was the boss for the Chicago Outfit criminal organization during the early and mid 2000s. Organized crime observers identified Marcello as a figurehead during that period while the organization's day-to-day operations actually were run by John "No Nose" DiFronzo, Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo, Joseph "Joe the Builder" Andriacchi and Angelo J. LaPietra.

Early career
Born in Chicago, Marcello worked as a laborer for Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation from 1960 until 1973.

Marcello reportedly became a "made" member in the Chicago mob in 1983—a step that, a mob turncoat testified in 2007, required an individual to be of 100 percent Italian heritage and also to have participated in at least one killing. Actually (and perhaps unknown to Marcello's bosses), Marcello's mother was Irish.

Although he had no criminal record, Marcello first became identified by authorities as a critical member of the Chicago Outfit in the 1980s because of his role as a driver for Chicago mob bosses Joseph Aiuppa and Sam "Wings" Carlisi and as a confidant to Carlisi.

Carlisi trial
On December 15, 1992, federal authorities charged Marcello and reputed mob boss Sam "Wings" Carlisi with racketeering. Marcello was accused of being the underboss for Carlisi, whose street crew worked its rackets in Chicago's western suburbs. On December 16, 1993, Marcello, Carlisi and five other crew members were convicted on racketeering charges, with Marcello in particular being found to have run bookmaking, street-tax and juice-loan operations in western Cook County and in DuPage County. Marcello and Carlisi also were convicted of plotting the never-carried-out murder of gangland associate Anthony Daddino because of fears that Daddino would cooperate with law enforcement after a 1989 extortion conviction, and Marcello also was convicted of financing long-time mobster Lenny Patrick's juice-loan operation. In addition, Marcello was found to have ordered Patrick to firebomb the Lake Theater in Oak Park, Illinois during a union dispute.

On April 5, 1995, Marcello was sentenced to 12½ years in prison. During his sentencing, he told U.S. District Judge Paul Plunkett, "If my name wasn't James Marcello, I wouldn't be standing in front of you. That's all I have to say," according to an April 6, 1995, Chicago Tribune article. In November 2003, Marcello was released from a federal prison camp in Milan, Michigan and returned to his home in Lombard, Illinois. During the Family Secrets trial, it came out that Marcello began working at some point after his 2003 release from prison for DVD Management, an Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based operator of nursing homes.

Family Secrets Trial
In April 2005, Marcello and his younger half-brother, Michael "Mickey" Marcello, were indicted on murder and racketeering charges. Marcello was accused of murdering Nicholas D'Andrea, in 1981, attempting to kill Nicholas Sarillo Sr. in 1982, and murdering brothers Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro in 1986. Until his indictment, James Marcello also was identified as running the Cicero, Illinois, crew faction of the Outfit with his brother Michael. The indictment alleged that both Marcellos had operated a lucrative video-gambling business, named M&M Amusement, that had placed video-gambling machines in businesses in Berwyn, Illinois and Cicero, Illinois from January 1996 until April 2004.

Shortly after he was indicted, Marcello attempted to be released on bond, offering to put up homes worth $12.5 million as bond and also offering to permit law enforcement officials to intercept his telephone calls. The homes included a $9 million house in Oak Brook, Illinois that was owned by Marcello's niece, Theresa Borsellino, and her husband; $1.1 million of equity in a house in Oak Brook that was owned by Nicholas Vangel—described as Marcello's employer—and his wife, Dorothy; a house in Palos Hills, Illinois owned by Marcello's son, James Marcello, Jr.; a summer house in Michigan City, Indiana owned by James Marcello, Jr.; a farm in McHenry County, Illinois owned by James Marcello, Jr.; and two homes in Long Beach, Indiana owned by James Marcello, Jr.'s boss. On April 29, 2005, however, U.S. District Judge James Zagel denied Marcello's request to be released on bond.

On June 21, 2007, the "Operation Family Secrets" trial began in Chicago. The case was prosecuted by federal mob prosecutors Mitch Mars, T. Markus Funk, and John Scully. Although several other high-profile defendants, including Frank Calabrese, Sr., and Joseph Lombardo, took the highly unusual step of testifying in their own defense, Marcello opted not to take the stand to testify. On September 10, 2007, Marcello was convicted of racketeering conspiracy that involved decades of extortion, loan sharking and murder.

On February 5, 2009, Marcello was sentenced to life in prison for the Spilotro murders, and United States District Judge James Zagel, agreeing with the presentation made by federal prosecutor Markus Funk, also found Marcello responsible for the D'Andrea murder as well, even though the jury had deadlocked on that count. "Mr. Marcello, you did have the appropriate demeanor in court," United States District Judge James Zagel told Marcello. "I believe you possess abilities that your co-defendants (Frank Calabrese, Sr. and Joseph Lombardo) did not have. I believe you have self-control and judgment that your co-defendants did not have...You know how to do the right thing....What is most significant is that you could have done better, because perhaps unlike your co-defendants, you know how to do better.  I regret that you did not lead a better life.  You are going to pay for your crimes."

Right after his sentencing in 2009, Marcello was sent to be incarcerated at the high-security United States Penitentiary, Atwater, near Atwater, California. However, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago ordered him returned to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to be present for a hearing on a related legal matter, and Zagel then approved Marcello's extended stay for his appeal. With Marcello's appeals virtually exhausted, the federal government—without Zagel's permission—began transferring Marcello to Atwater in early February 2012. However, on February 9, 2012, Zagel angrily demanded that Marcello be brought back to Chicago to help his attorney with his pending appeal. Arguments in Marcello's appeal were scheduled for February 13, 2012, and Zagel acknowledged the tight turnaround as he publicly excoriated the federal government for transferring Marcello out of Chicago without Zagel's permission. "I don't even know how they're going to get him back," Zagel said, referring to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. "But they are going to get him back here because that's my order...He will remain here until I order him released."

Marcello currently is imprisoned at the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado.

Personal
Marcello is the son of Samuel Marcello, a Chicago mobster who disappeared in November 1973 after collecting a juice loan from a Chicago restaurant owner. Samuel Marcello's body was not found until July 6, 1974, when it was uncovered in a 50-gallon steel drum left at the sandwich shop. The sandwich shop owner, Sam Rantis, had been found dead earlier in 1974, his body stuffed into his car trunk at O'Hare International Airport. Law enforcement believed at the time that Rantis was blamed by the mob for the deaths of Samuel Marcello, and fellow mobster Joseph Grisafe, and he was slain in retaliation. Marcello's mother, Irene Flynn (later Irene Marcello, and later Irene Marcello Evans), was of Irish descent. She died in mid-February 2009, less than two weeks after her son James Marcello was sentenced to life in prison.

Marcello's sister, Ann, is married to William Galioto, a former police officer who has been listed as a lieutenant on the Chicago Crime Commission's organizational chart of Chicago organized crime. In 1995, William Galioto, Ann Galioto, and William Galioto's son, Sam Galioto, were denied a $5.5 million loan from City of Chicago officials to build a video and movie production center because of city officials' fears that the family might have organized crime ties.

Marcello has been married to Sandra Marcello since the early 1960s and has three children with her, Samuel, James Marcello, Jr., and Rocco. He had two daughters, Debbie and Mary, by an extramarital relationship.

Marcello had a mistress for more than two decades who took his last name and testified for the prosecution in the Family Secrets trial. Connie Marcello told jurors in 2007 that James Marcello had given her thousands of dollars a month in cash.

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Selenic acid

Selenic acid is the inorganic compound with the formula H2SeO4. It is an oxoacid of selenium, and its structure is more accurately described as O2Se(OH)2. It is a colorless compound. Although it has few uses, one of its salts, sodium selenate is used in the production of glass and animal feeds.

Structure and bonding
The molecule is tetrahedral, as predicted by VSEPR theory. The Se–O bond length is 161 pm. In the solid state, it crystallizes in an orthorhombic structure.

Preparation
It is prepared by oxidising selenium compounds in lower oxidation states. One method involves the oxidation of selenium dioxide with hydrogen peroxide:
 * SeO2 + H2O2 → H2SeO4

Unlike the production sulfuric acid by hydration of sulfur trioxide, the hydration of selenium trioxide is an impractical method. Instead, selenic acid may also be prepared by the oxidation of selenous acid (H2SeO3) with halogens, such as chlorine or bromine, or with potassium permanganate. Using chlorine or bromine as the oxidising agents also produces hydrochloric or hydrobromic acid as a side-product, which needs to be removed from the solution since they can reduce the selenic acid to selenous acid.

To obtain the anhydrous acid as a crystalline solid, the resulting solution is evaporated at temperatures below 140 C in a vacuum.

Reactions
Like sulfuric acid, selenic acid is a strong acid that is hygroscopic and extremely soluble in water. Concentrated solutions are viscous. Crystalline mono- and di-hydrates are known. The monohydrate melts at 26 °C, and the dihydrate melts at −51.7 °C.

Selenic acid is a stronger oxidizer than sulfuric acid, capable of liberating chlorine from chloride ions, being reduced to selenous acid in the process:
 * H2SeO4 + 2 H+ + 2 Cl- → H2SeO3 + H2O + Cl2

It decomposes above 200 °C, liberating oxygen gas and being reduced to selenous acid:
 * 2 H2SeO4 → 2 H2SeO3 + O2

Selenic acid reacts with barium salts to precipitate solid BaSeO4, analogous to the sulfate. In general, selenate salts resemble sulfate salts, but are more soluble. Many selenate salts have the same crystal structure as the corresponding sulfate salts.

Treatment with fluorosulfuric acid gives selenoyl fluoride:
 * H2SeO4 + 2 HSO3F → SeO2F2 + 2 H2SO4

Hot, concentrated selenic acid reacts with gold, forming a reddish-yellow solution of gold(III) selenate:
 * 2 Au + 6 H2SeO4 → Au2(SeO4)3 + 3 H2SeO3 + 3 H2O

Applications
Selenic acid is used as a specialized oxidizing agent.

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Move the article to SVD rifle and make Dragunov a disambiguation
I propose that the article be moved to the page 'SVD rifle' and this page ('Dragunov') be made a disambiguation page. The SVD is only really known as the 'Dragunov' in American gun hobbyist circles, and being the designer's (and a few other person's as well) last name, I feel that this move is justified. Unless anyone comes up with a compelling reason not to, I will do this move sometime next week.

Moonshiner 04:47, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Some sort of video
There's an amazing video here of an American medic getting hit by a Dragunov in Iraq. He gets knocked off his feet, gets back up, locates the sniper, calls for support, and later applies first aid to the man who shot him. His body armor stopped the round from penetrating and left only a bruise. I don't know if this is something that should be linked to in the article, but it's certainly interesting stuff.--Daveswagon 04:34, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Resemblence to AK
It's piqued my curiousity and before I do any research I was wondering if there was a reason why this article was changed from reading along the lines 'the Dragunov is based on the AK' to 'the Dragunov resembles the AK but has different internals'. It seems the article is a little confusing since it states that the action on the Dragunov is the same as that on the AK. I know it's chambered for a different round but it sounds an awful lot like Dragunov took the AK design, rechambered it, gave it a different barrel, and called it good. Sounds like basing it on the AK to me.

I guess the question is this: what are the drastic differences between the two that justifies the statment that the two weapons have little in common? Zytsef 09:16, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

The most common parts between the AK and the SVD are the receiver (both have stamped steel ones of the same general shape) and the safety selector (the position and operation of both are rather similar). The action of the SVD is based on a short-stroke gas piston (the AK has a gas piston with a long stroke and it is permanently attached to the bolt carrier, unlike the SVD) and has a completely different trigger assembly and sear. The AK and SVD have about as much in common as any two self-loading rifles with a gas piston mechanism.

Moonshiner 04:39, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I see, thanks for the correction. Zytsef 22:53, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

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Sinawi

Sinawi, sometimes spelled shinawi, is a traditional Korean music. It is performed improvisationally by a musical ensemble, and traditionally accompanies the rites of Korean shamanism. The style first emerged in the Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces, but is now widespread. The traditional sinawi ensemble followed the principle of sam-hyeon-yuk-gak (三絃六角), with two flutes, a haegeum, a daegeum, a janggu hourglass-drum, and a large buk drum. However, today other traditional Korean instruments such as the gayageum and geomungo are also often included.

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Talk:Sinawi

Instruments used?
I noticed that "instruments used" includes "two flutes" as well as "daegeum". Am I wrong in thinking daegeum is a flute? Does this mean that two flutes as well as a daegeum are used, or that two flutes including at least one daegeum are used? Can someone please amend this? There is no citation either, so I can't look at that to check Chartrekhan (talk) 12:24, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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I have done the bulk of the M.U.G.E.N article. This is no longer true. :P

 * Sadly, you're right, the article has become a tribute to extraneousness. --D70306 17:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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Deplorable Word

The Deplorable Word, as used by author C. S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia, is a fictional magical curse which ends all life on a world except that of the one who speaks it.

Background
In The Magician's Nephew, the children who are the central characters, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, come to a lifeless world called Charn. In an ancient, ruined building they awaken a queen called Jadis. She tells them of a worldwide civil war she fought against her sister. All of Jadis's armies were defeated, having been made to fight to the death of the last soldier, and her sister claimed victory. Then Jadis spoke the horrible curse which her sister knew she had discovered but did not think she would use. In speaking the Deplorable Word, Jadis killed every living thing in her world, except herself, to avoid losing the war to her sister.

The children are shocked by this account, but Jadis has no remorse or pity for all the ordinary people whom she killed; in her eyes, they existed only for her to use. The past rulers of her race, who evidently had not always been evil, knew of the Deplorable Word's existence but not the word itself, and had vowed that none of them, nor their descendants, would seek to discover it. Jadis said she had “learned it in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it".

Lewis did not say what the word was, or the price paid to learn it.

Meaning
The book was written in 1955 during the Cold War, ten years after the first atomic weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and three years after the hydrogen bomb was first detonated. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to any specific weapon of mass destruction, but he alludes to the power of humanity to destroy life. Near the end of the story Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters from the Victorian era:

It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations of your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware. That is the warning.

Several writers have interpreted this warning as an allusion to atomic weapons.

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Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne

Charles Maurice Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne, (born 21 February 1941), styled Earl of Shelburne between 1944 and 1999, is a British peer, landowner and army officer.

He was Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2012 to 2016, having served on a rural district council in the 1960s, chaired North Wiltshire District Council in the 1970s, and served for fifteen years on Wiltshire County Council.

He is also Earl of Kerry in the peerage of Ireland (1722); Earl of Shelburne and Earl of Wycombe in the peerage of Great Britain (1753 and 1784); Viscount Clanmaurice, Viscount Fitzmaurice (1751), and Viscount Calne and Calston; the 30th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw in the peerage of Ireland (1181); Baron Dunkeron, and Baron Wycombe.

Early life
Lansdowne is the elder son of George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, a Conservative politician and landowner, by his marriage to Barbara, daughter of Harold Stuart Chase, of Santa Barbara, California. His father inherited the peerage titles (and the Bowood House estates in Wiltshire) from a cousin, the 7th Marquess of Lansdowne, who was killed in action in 1944, when the present Marquess became known as the Earl of Shelburne, a courtesy title. He was educated at Eton College and was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II in 1956–1957.

Career
Lord Shelburne (as he then was) served in the Kenya Regiment from 1960 to 1961. In 1962 he was gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and in 1971 transferred with the rank of Lieutenant to the Royal Yeomanry, attached to the Royal Armoured Corps.

He was a member of Calne and Chippenham Rural District Council from 1964 to 1973, President of the Wiltshire Playing Fields Association from 1965 to 1974, a member of Wiltshire County Council from 1970 to 1985, and a councillor of North Wiltshire District Council from 1973 to 1976. He chaired Calne and Chippenham Rural District Council from 1970 to 1973 and then North Wiltshire District Council from 1973 to 1976. He also served as a member of the South West Economic Planning Council from 1972 to 1977 and chaired its Population Settlement Pattern Working Committee during the same period. He was a member of the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (English Heritage) from 1983 to 1989; Deputy President of the Historic Houses Association from 1986 to 1988, and President from 1988 to 1993; President of South West Tourism from 1989 to 2006; President of the Wiltshire Association of Boys Clubs and Youth Clubs from 1976 to 2003; and President of the North Wiltshire Conservative Association from 1986 to 1989.

At the 1979 general election, he contested Coventry North East for the Conservatives, coming second behind Labour's George Park.

In 1990, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire and served as the Vice Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2012 to 2016. He was President of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust from 1994 and also of the Wiltshire Swindon & Oxfordshire Canal Partnership, which oversaw the restoration of the Wilts & Berks Canal, from 2002 to 2019.

On 25 August 1999, his father died and he became Marquess of Lansdowne and a member of the House of Lords.

From 1996 to 2001, Lansdowne was a member of the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Personal life
In 1956, Lansdowne's sister Lady Caroline Petty-Fitzmaurice died in a shooting accident, aged seventeen. On 18 February 1965, his mother also died from shotgun injuries in the gunroom at her Scottish home, Meikleour House, which was also found to have been an accident.

On 9 October 1965, as Lord Shelburne, he married Lady Frances Helen Mary Eliot (6 March 1943 – 6 January 2004), daughter of Nicholas Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans; they were divorced in 1987, having had four children:

 * Lady Arabella Helen Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice, now Lady Arabella Haldane Unwin (born 1966), married Rupert William Haldane Unwin, and has three children.
 * Lady Rachel Barbara Violet Petty-Fitzmaurice (born 1968), married James Spickernell and has four children.
 * Simon Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry (born 24 November 1970), married Nadine Mentior in January 2016, and has one child.
 * Lord William Nicholas Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (born 1973), married in 2004 Rebecca Sansum (born 1982), of Chippenham, Wiltshire; and have three daughters.

Subsequently, Lansdowne married secondly Fiona Mary Merritt (born 1954), daughter of Donald Merritt and Lady Davies, an interior decorator known by her earlier married name of Fiona Shelburne. She was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2019, and as High Sheriff for 2022–2023. She is one of the official Queen's companions to Queen Camilla.

The heir apparent to the peerages is Simon, Earl of Kerry (born 1970).

Honours

 * Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, 2001


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The Girl Hunters (film)

The Girl Hunters (1963) is a British crime drama film directed by Roy Rowland and adapted from the 1962 Mickey Spillane pulp novel of the same name. Exteriors were shot on location in New York with studio scenes in London.

Spillane stars as private detective Mike Hammer, one of the few occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literary hero has portrayed his own character. The film also stars Shirley Eaton, Lloyd Nolan and columnist Hy Gardner as himself.

Producer Robert Fellows intended to follow the film with Spillane's The Snake, but the second film was never produced.

Plot
Ever since his assistant Velda went missing, private detective Mike Hammer has been drinking and he is now homeless. Although Hammer hasn't worked a case in seven years, his old police friend Capt. Pat Chambers asks for his assistance on a job. Chambers and Hammer were both in love with Velda, which had ended their friendship. The case involves a senator who has been murdered.

Hammer is needed to talk with Richie Cole, a dying sailor who refuses to speak with anybody else. According to federal agent Art Rickerby, not only has Richie been shot by the same gun recently used to kill a politician, he is actually an undercover federal agent.

Hammer's investigation leads to Laura Knapp, the late senator's widow. She is beautiful and seductive, but Hammer does not trust her. He learns that they are caught in the fallout from a network of spies operating during World War II. Now a killer nicknamed the Dragon is trying to silence people who had information about the spy operation. Hammer finds and kills the Dragon. He confronts Laura with his suspicions about her involvement. Laura fires a shotgun that Hammer had rigged to backfire in order to test her loyalty. It is not clear if Velda is still alive.

Cast

 * Mickey Spillane as Mike Hammer
 * Shirley Eaton as Laura Knapp
 * Scott Peters as Police Captain Pat Chambers
 * Guy Kingsley Poynter as Dr. Larry Snyder
 * Charles Farrell as Joe Grissi
 * Kim Tracy as Nurse
 * Hy Gardner as himself - The Columnist
 * Lloyd Nolan as Federal Agent Arthur Rickerby
 * Benny Lee as Nat Drutman
 * Murray Kash as Richie Cole
 * Bill Nagy as Georgie
 * Hal Galili as a thug with an ice pick

Production
Spillane recalled meeting crime figure Billy Hill in London and invited him to the film set. According to Spillane, Hill provided firearms that were used in the film. Spillane also noted that the producers surrounded him with actors who were shorter than he was.

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Guruvayur Temple

Guruvayur Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Guruvayurappan (four-armed form of the Vishnu), located in the town of Guruvayur in Kerala, India. Administrated by the Guruvayur Devaswom, it is one of the most important places of worship for Hindus in Kerala and Tamil Nadu and is often referred to as Bhuloka Vaikunta (Holy Abode of Vishnu on Earth). The temple is Classified one among the 108 Abhimana Kshethram of Vaishnavate tradition.

The central icon is a four-armed standing Vishnu carrying the conch Panchajanya, the discus Sudarshana, the mace Kaumodaki, and a lotus with a tulasi garland. This image represents the form of Vishnu as revealed to Krishna's parents Vasudeva and Devaki around the time of his birth. Worship proceeds according to routines laid down by Adi Shankara and later written formally in the Tantric way, the inter-religious spiritual movement that arose in medieval India, by Chennas Ravinarayanan Nambudiri (1427-1527), whose descendants are the hereditary tantris (high priests) of the Guruvayur Temple.

The temple is managed by A special administrative authority under the control of the Government of Kerala. The main festivals of this temple are the 10-day festival in the Malayalam month of Kumbham starting with flag hoisting on Pooyam star, Krishna Janmashtami (Birthday of Krishna) in the month of Chingam, Ekadasi (11th day) in the shukla paksha (bright fortnight) in the month of Vrischikam, popularly called as the Guruvayur Ekadasi and Vishu on the first day of the month of Medam, once a harvest festival. The temple's sub-deities are Ganapathi, Ayyappan, and Bhagavathi (Who is given more importance), and there are two sub-temples, one for Ganapati and the other for Nagadevathas (Snake deities nearby the temple. All non-Hindus are prohibited from entry within the Guruvayur Temple.

Guruvayur Mahatmyam – early legend
According to legend, the king Janamejaya conducted a sacrifice to destroy all the snakes of the world including Takshaka, who was the cause of his father Parikshit's death. Hundreds of thousands of snakes fell into the sacrificial fire and were killed, but the sacrifice was stopped by a Brahmin called Astika, before Takshaka was killed.

Since Janamejaya was responsible for the death of millions of snakes, he was afflicted with leprosy. He lost all hope of a cure. One day Sage Atreya (son of Atri) came before Janamejaya and told him to take refuge under the feet of Krishna at Guruvayur. Atreya told him that in the temple at Guruvayur the effulgence of Hari is at its best and Vishnu showers his blessings on all devotees. He immediately rushed there and spent the next ten months worshipping the god of Guruvayur. At the end of ten months, he returned home healthy and took the astrologer to task for making a false prediction. The astrologer told him that he would find the mark of a snakebite on his left leg. He had escaped death only because he was at that time in a temple where Ananta (the king of serpents) was present and Ananta was the brother to the deity at Guruvayur where he had finished worshipping.

The king then decided to build a full-fledged temple at Guruvayur. In time, this temple came to be downgraded and reduced to poverty during the days when Kerala was ruled by the Perumals. The Perumal rulers were mostly Shaivites and did not extend their patronage to Vaishnavite shrines. The Shiva temple at Mammiyur received their patronage and with the shift of royal patronage, the worshippers also moved to the Shiva temple. The Guruvayur temple was thus reduced to utmost poverty. However, one day, a holy man went to the Mammiyur temple for food and hospitality for the night. Though the temple was affluent, the temple authorities pretended they had nothing and scornfully directed him to the neighbouring Guruvayur temple. When the holy man entered the precincts of that temple, he was courteously received by a Brahmin boy and sumptuously fed. The holy man was very much pleased and he pronounced a blessing. According to the legend, Mammiyur Siva temple began to decline, and the fortunes of Guruvayur Vishnu temple progressed from strength to strength.

Pre-colonial age
In the 14th century, the Tamil literature "Kokasandesam" refers to a place named "Kuruvayur" and in the 16th century (fifty years after Narayaniyam was composed) there are also multiple references to Kuruvayur. In Old Tamil, "kuruvai" means "sea", hence the village on the Malabar Coast may be called Kuruvayur.

The earliest temple records date back to the 17th century. The earliest mention of the many important Vishnu temples of Kerala are found in the songs of Alvars, the Tamil poet-saints, whose time-line is not exactly fixed. However, by the end of 16th century, Guruvayur had become the most popular pilgrimage centre in Kerala.

Colonial age
In 1716, the Dutch raided Guruvayur. They looted treasures and set fire to the Western Gopuram (later rebuilt in 1747). In 1755, the Dutch destroyed the Trikkunavay temple and the Brahmins fled from there.

In 1766, Hyder Ali of Mysore captured Kozhikkode (Calicut) and then Guruvayur. He demanded 10,000 fanams in ransom to spare the temple. The ransom was paid but due to insecurity pilgrims receded. On the request of the Malabar Governor, Shrnivasa Rao, Hyder Ali granted a Devadaya to save the temple. Later, in 1789 CE, Tipu Sultan invaded the province. Tipu destroyed the smaller shrines and set fire to the Temple, but it was saved due to timely rain. Tipu lost to the Travancore and the English in 1792. The idol, which had been hidden underground in anticipation of the Tippu's takeover, was re-installed on 17 September 1792.

Ullanad Panikkars rescued and looked after the temple from 1825 to 1900. From 1859 to 1892, the Chuttambalam, the Vilakkumatam, the Koottambalam and Sasta shrine were renovated and roofed with copper sheeting. In 1900, the administrator Konti Menon fixed the hours of worship and led the drive to keep the temple premises clean. He set up the big bell and reconstructed Pathayappura (granary). In 1928, Kozhikode once again became the administrator of Guruvayur.

Post-colonial age

On 30 November 1970, a massive fire broke out in the temple, gutting the whole chuttambalam and the entire Vilakkumatam on the west, south and north sides.

Rudratheertham

The temple tank (pond) on the northern side of the temple is called Rudratheertham. According to legend, for thousands of years, Lord Shiva used to bathe on the southern bank of this pond. Since Shiva is also known by the name 'Rudra', the pond came to be known as Rudratheertham.

Popular devotees

 * Kururamma Old woman Devotee of Lord Sri Guruvayurappan is among list of prominent devotees of Guruvayoorappan. For her immense devotion in the form of Motherhood, Lord himself had decided to live with her as a foster son. She is regarded as a Re-incarnation of Mother Yashodha in Kaliyuga.
 * Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri (1560-1646/1666): A Sanskrit scholar and a devotee of Lord Guruvayurappan, known for his magnum opus Narayaneeyam.
 * Poonthanam Namboothiri (1547-1640): A contemporary of Melpathur. Wrote poems in pure Malayalam, unlike Melpathur. There is a story that he was not that much fluent in Sanskrit, and was shunned by Sanskrit scholars when he wrongly chanted Vishnu Sahasranama, and the Lord himself corrected it. He is a well-known figure in the stories related to Guruvayur Temple. Well known for his work Jnanappana, known as the Bhagavad Gita of Malayalis.
 * Vilwamangalam Swamiyar a Brahmin saint, a contemporary of Melpathur, Poonthanam and Kurooramma.
 * Manjula
 * Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
 * Sengalipuram Anantarama Dikshitar

Dress code for entering the temple

Strict dress code exists for people who wish to enter the Guruvayur Temple. Men are to wear mundu around their waist, without any dress covering their chest. But it is allowed to cover the chest region with a small piece of cloth (veshthi). Boys are allowed to wear shorts, but they are also prohibited from wearing a shirt. Girls and women are not allowed to wear any trouser like dresses or short skirts. Women are allowed to wear sari and girls are to wear long skirt and blouses. Presently the dress code for women have been relaxed with shalwar kameez (churidar pyjamas) being allowed.

Temple Elephants

The Punnathur kotta, also known as the Anakotta (Elephant Yard in English), houses the 38 elephants belonging to the temple. This place is the home to the largest population of captive male Asian elephants in the world. These elephants are donated by devotees to the temple, and due to the preference of donating tusked male elephants, the ratio of male and female elephants living at the Anakotta is skewed. The elephants were initially kept at a compound close to the temple when the numbers were low. However, as more and more devotees donated elephants, the space became insufficient and hence they were moved to a larger property three kilometres away from the temple. Because of their association with the temple, devotees consider several of these elephants as living forms of Lord Guruvayurappa himself. Guruvayur Keshavan was the most famous among those. The other notable elephant was Guruvayur Padmanabhan, who was the chief of Guruvayur elephants.

The capture, treatment, and living conditions of the elephants in Guruvayur has been subject to criticism. In a study, the Animal Welfare Board of India found several violations.

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Aho

Aho or AHO may refer to:

People

 * Aho (name), Finnish surname (article includes list of people with the name)
 * 'Aho'eitu, figure in Tongan oral history or mythology

Places

 * Aho, North Carolina, unincorporated community and river in North Carolina, United States.
 * Aho-dong, village in North Korea
 * Fertilia Airport in Alghero, Sardinia (IATA airport code AHO)
 * Netherlands Antilles, former IAAF country code AHO

Other uses

 * , a phrase in the Kansai dialect of Japanese, meaning "idiot", see Baka (Japanese word)
 * Aboriginal Housing Office, a statutory authority in New South Wales, Australia
 * Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO, Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo)
 * Aho report, a 2006 report Creating an innovative Europe
 * Aho & Soldan, a Finnish film production company (1925–61)
 * 2395 Aho, an asteroid
 * Anti-Harassment Order, a form of restraining order

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