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Bushcraft

Bushcraft is the use and practice of skills, thereby acquiring and developing knowledge and understanding, in order to survive and thrive in a natural environment.

Bushcraft skills provide for the basic physiological necessities for human life: food (through foraging, tracking, hunting, trapping, fishing), water sourcing and purification, shelter-building, and firecraft. These may be supplemented with expertise in twine-making, knots and lashings, wood-carving, campcraft, medicine/health, natural navigation, and tool and weapon making.

Bushcraft includes the knowledge to handle certain tools such as bushcraft knives and axes. A bushcrafter can use these tools to create many different types of constructions, from dugout canoes to a-frame shelters. There are various types of shelters to construct or use in the wilderness. The first is a purpose-built shelter like a tent. Another example is an improvised shelter, like using a large tarp or blanket as a tent. Indigenous shelters include a snow cave or bark lean-to. Lastly, natural shelters include caves, underneath a tree, or within thickets.

Bushcraft includes the knowledge to tie different knots for different purposes. These knots include the reef knot, figure 8 loop, improved clinch knot, clove hitch, and snare noose. The reef knot is also referred to as a square knot. It is good for bundling items together because you can tension the rope during the first part of the knot tying. Tying bondages together like a sling is a common use. The figure 8 loop is a strong knot because it forms a loop that will not draw tight. You can use a figure 8 loop at the end of a fishing line to tie on a hook or lure. This knot is also useful to hold loads or to lift or drag items. The improved clinch knot is often used to attach a hook to a line or to attach an anchor to rope, or fore tying up to a pole or tree. The clove hitch can be used when creating a raft or to attach a shelter to a tree. It is commonly used to start a lashing, binding one thing to another such as a shelter frame. The snare noose use is commonly used to catch animals. The snare consists of a noose attached to an anchor point like a shrub. As the animal moves through the noose, the line will tighten around its neck.

The term bushcraft was popularized in the Southern Hemisphere by Les Hiddins (the Bush Tucker Man) as well as in the Northern Hemisphere by Mors Kochanski and more recently gained considerable currency in the United Kingdom due to the popularity of Ray Mears and his bushcraft and survival television programs. The origin of the phrase "bushcraft" comes from skills used in the Australian bush. Often the phrases "wilderness skills" or "woodcraft" are used as they describe skills used all over the world.

Etymology

The Oxford English Dictionary definition of bushcraft is "skill in matters pertaining to life in the bush".

The word has been used in its current sense in Australia and South Africa at least as far back as the 1800s. Bush in this sense is probably a direct adoption of the Dutch 'bosch', (now 'bos') originally used in Dutch colonies for woodland and country covered with natural wood, but extended to usage in British colonies, applied to the uncleared or un-farmed districts, still in a state of nature. Later this was used by extension for the country as opposed to the town. In Southern Africa, they get Bushman from the Dutch 'boschjesman' applied by the Dutch colonists to the natives living in the bush. In North America, where there was also considerable colonisation by the Dutch, they have the word 'bushwacker' which is close to the Dutch 'bosch-wachter' (now 'boswachter') meaning 'forest-keeper' or 'forest ranger'.

Historically, the term has been spotted in the following books (amongst others):

 * Preliminary titles for The Art of Travel by Francis Galton, published in 1854, included Bushcraft or Science of Travel and Bushcraft or the Shifts and Science of Travel in Other Countries
 * The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc; published in 1888.
 * My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin; published in 1901.
 * Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899–1900) by A. G. Hales; published in 1901.
 * The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc; published in 1908.
 * We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn; published in 1908.
 * The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott; published in 1914.

Trademark
The word bushcraft was registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark by Bushcraft USA LLC on November 12, 2013, as a service mark, for "Providing an on-line forum for bushcraft," and "Providing on-line forums for transmission of messages among computer users concerning bushcraft" (Ser. No. 85690815). This led to some concern about the validity of the mark among Internet users who asserted there were senior uses of the mark in a more general context such as Mors Kochanski as early as 1981, however no formal opposition was ever filed, nor any assertion of continuous use in commerce as the mark related to Internet forums. As of 2021, Bushcraft USA has not publicly enforced its mark against other Internet forums using the term.

Promoters
The Irish-born Australian writer Richard Graves titled his outdoor manuals "The 10 bushcraft books".

Canadian wilderness instructor Mors Kochanski published the "Northern Bushcraft" book in 1981 and an expanded edition of the book in 1988. He has stated on numerous occasions that book title was an explicit reference to Graves' work.

The term has enjoyed a recent popularity largely thanks to Ray Mears, Cody Lundin, Les Hiddins, Les Stroud, Dave Canterbury and Mors Kochanski and their television programs.

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Talk:The Cumbraes

I've changed this from a disambig page to an actual page describing and listing the islands because The Cumbraes are (in my opinion) an entity in their own right. --Neil McDermott July 15 [[2005]

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Are a Drag

Are a Drag is the second album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released in 1999 on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label.

The album is made up mainly of show tunes. The album's title alludes to the fact that most of the songs on the album feature vocalist Spike Slawson singing songs that were originally performed by female characters in their original stage shows/movies (with the exception of the Phantom's part in "Phantom of the Opera", "Science Fiction/Double Feature" which was sung by a female traditionally, but more popularly by Richard O'Brien in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and "Rainbow Connection").

The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five characters from the musicals represented in song: a member of A Chorus Line ("What I Did For Love"), Annie Mudge from Annie ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski from Grease ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Show ("Science Fiction/Double Feature").

Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, Are a Drag contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in their covers. The intro to the song "My Favorite Things" quotes "Generator", by Bad Religion, and at the end of "Tomorrow", Fat Mike can be heard singing "Mommy's alright, daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird" - a lyric from "Surrender" by Cheap Trick.

Geoff Carter, writing in the Las Vegas Sun, described the album as "infectious" and "oh-so-satisfying", though warned that it may become less enjoyable with repeat listening.

Personnel

 * Spike Slawson - vocals
 * Chris Shiflett (a.k.a. Jake Jackson) - lead guitar
 * Joey Cape - rhythm guitar
 * Fat Mike - bass
 * Dave Raun - drums

Additional musicians

 * Karina Denike - backing vocals
 * Sara K. Fisher - backing vocals

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Dune II

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (titled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and Dune: The Battle for Arrakis for the North American Mega Drive/Genesis port, respectively) is a 1992 real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games. It serves as the sequel to Dune, following a more traditional adventure strategy game format, that came out earlier the same year.

While not the first real-time strategy (RTS) video game, Dune II established the format that would be followed for years to come. As such, Dune II is the archetypal real-time strategy game. Striking a balance between complexity and innovation, it was a huge success and laid the foundation for Age of Empires, Command & Conquer, Warcraft, and many other RTS games that followed.

Plot
Emperor Frederick IV of House Corrino is desperate for the harvesting of the valuable drug melange (also known as "the spice"), found only on the planet Arrakis, to pay off all of his debt incurred on internecine wars with family members. To achieve this, he offers the sole governorship of Arrakis to whichever of the three Houses (Atreides, Harkonnen, and the non-canon Ordos) delivers the most spice for him. War begins as deputations from all three Houses arrive on Arrakis.

The player is a military commander from a House of their choice. In the first few missions, the objectives are to successfully establish a base on an unoccupied territory of Arrakis, to harvest spice, and to defeat intruders. Later, when the three Houses divide Arrakis among them, the player has to assault and capture enemy territories. When the player dominates Arrakis on the world map, the two other enemy factions ally against their common enemy. The final showdown is the battle between the player's House against both rival Houses and the Emperor's Sardaukar (an unplayable elite force whose heavy infantry are particularly powerful). The introductory, mission briefing and endgame cutscenes are different for each House, in keeping with their very disparate world views. The weaponry and units also vary from house to house.

Gameplay
The player takes the role of the commander of one of the three interplanetary houses, the Atreides, the Harkonnen or the Ordos, with the objective of wresting control of Arrakis from the other two houses. House Ordos is not featured in the Dune novels and is mentioned only in the non-canon The Dune Encyclopedia. The basic strategy in the game is to harvest spice from the treacherous sand dunes using a harvester vehicle, convert the spice into credits via a refinery, and to build military units with these acquired credits in order to fend off and destroy the enemy.

The game map initially starts with a fog of war covering all area which is not covered by the player's units range of view. As the units explore the map, the darkness is removed. Unlike later games such as Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, the fog of war is lifted forever with initial exploration; it does not become dark once more when units leave the area.

In addition to enemy incursions, there are other dangers such as the marauding, gigantic sandworm, capable of swallowing vehicles and infantry whole but blocked by rocky terrain. The player can only build on rocky terrain and must build concrete foundations to avoid deterioration of the structures due to the harsh weather conditions. Structures will still gradually decay over time regardless of the presence of those concrete slabs, but they save repair costs in the long run. Spice fields are indicated by orange coloration on the sand, darker orange indicating high concentration. Some spice may be concealed as bumps on the terrain (a "spice bloom") that become spice fields when they are shot at, or when a unit runs over them (the unit is destroyed in the ensuing "spice blow").

A map of the planet Arrakis is shown before most missions, where the player can choose the next territory to play in among two or three. This affects primarily the enemy house fought in the next mission, as all missions except the first two require the destruction of the enemy. Nine territories must be fought, irrespective of house, to reach the endgame.

Some key elements that first appeared in Dune II and later appear in many other RTS games include:
 * A world map from which the next mission is chosen
 * Resource-gathering to fund unit construction
 * Simple base and unit construction
 * Building construction dependencies (technology tree)
 * Mobile units that can be deployed as buildings
 * Different sides/factions (the Houses), each with unique unit-types and super weapons
 * A context-sensitive mouse cursor to issue commands (introduced in the Mega Drive/Genesis version)

Completing higher missions gives authorization to use improved technology and higher-order weaponry unique to each House, ensuring varied game play. For example, House Harkonnen may be able to construct their Devastator tanks with heavy armor and ordnance but cannot build the similarly impressive Atreides Sonic Tank. The Ordos have access to the Deviator - a specialized tank firing a nerve gas that switches the allegiance of targeted units to Ordos for a limited period of time. The three Houses also are restricted in their production capabilities—House Ordos cannot build Atreides-style trikes, instead making the faster "Raider" trikes, while House Harkonnen eschews trikes completely, building only the heavier, more expensive "Quad" light attack vehicle.

A player can gain access to other Houses' special units by capturing an enemy Factory and manufacturing the desired units at the captured Factory.

Buildings may only be built in rocky zones and connected to another existing building. To protect them from constant wear, the player must first place concrete slabs in the construction areas. Production buildings can be upgraded at a cost several times, allowing the production of more advanced units or buildings.

The final prize for the commander is the building of the House Palace from where superweapons may be unleashed on opponents in the final closing chapters of the game. The House Harkonnen superweapon is a long-range powerful but inaccurate finger of missiles called the Death Hand, whereas House Atreides may call upon the local Fremen infantry warriors, over which the player has no control, to engage enemy targets. House Ordos may unleash a fast-moving Saboteur whose main purpose is the destruction of buildings.

The AI of Dune II was one of the first used in RTS games, and while better than that of Herzog Zwei, it has various drawbacks. Examples include only attacking the side of the player's base facing its own, and general inability to perform flanking maneuvers. Research into the game's engine revealed that the AI is in fact capable of more advanced strategy, but that a large part of these capabilities is unused due to consistently repeated errors in all of the game's mission scripts.

Development
According to Virgin Interactive vice president Stephen Clarke-Willson in 1998, the development of Dune II began when Virgin Interactive planned to cancel the production of Cryo Interactive's adventure game Dune, after which he was given the task of figuring out what to do with the Dune license. After reading the original Dune novel, he decided that "from a gaming point-of-view the real stress was the battle to control the spice", so a resource-based strategy video game would be a good idea. It was around this time that employee Graeme Devine (who later founded Trilobyte) introduced to everyone at the Virgin office a real-time strategy game on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive console called Herzog Zwei (1989). Clarke-Willson described it as a game where the player "kept clicking on stuff and then zooming off to another part of the screen. It was very hard to keep track of what was going on as an observer. Still, everyone liked it, it had fast action, and it was a strategy game". Virgin staff, including Clarke-Willson and Seth Mendelsohn (who later worked on the Ultima series), then went to Westwood Studios to talk about making a Dune game. According to Clarke-Willson, "Westwood agreed to make a resource strategy game based on Dune, and agreed to look at Herzog Zwei for design ideas". It later turned out that Cryo's game of the same name was not cancelled, and Westwood's real-time strategy game was called Dune II as a result.

Westwood Studios co-founder and Dune II producer Brett Sperry said in 2008 that conceptualization for the game began when Virgin president Martin Alper approached him with the offer of using their Dune license to produce a game, with the understanding that Cryo's Dune had been cancelled. In terms of video game design, Sperry said: "The inspiration for Dune II was partly from Populous, partly from my work on Eye Of The Beholder and the final and perhaps most crucial part came from an argument I once had with Chuck Kroegel, then vice president of Strategic Simulations Inc ... The crux of my argument with Chuck was that wargames sucked because of a lack of innovation and poor design. Chuck felt the category was in a long, slow decline, because the players were moving to more exciting genres ... I felt that the genre had a lot of potential – the surface was barely scratched as far as I was concerned, especially from a design standpoint. So I took it as a personal challenge and figured how to harness realtime dynamics with great game controls into a fast-paced wargame". He also stated that, while "Herzog Zwei was a lot of fun", the "other inspiration for Dune II was the Mac software interface", referring to the "design/interface dynamics of mouse clicking and selecting desktop items" which got him thinking: "Why not allow the same inside the game environment? Why not a context-sensitive playfield? To hell with all these hot keys, to hell with keyboard as the primary means of manipulating the game!" During production, he found out that Cryo rushed to finish their game first, leading to Virgin publishing their game as Dune and Westwood's game as Dune II, despite Sperry protesting against this decision. Louis Castle said in 1998 that the game's influence on the real-time strategy genre was unplanned, and that the team's goal was simply "to include all of the excitement and intensity of a war game, but with action-packed gameplay".

Other influences cited by Joseph Bostic (also known as Joe Bostic), the co-designer and lead programmer, and Mike Legg, one of the game's programmers, include the turn-based strategy games Military Madness (1989) and Civilization (1991), along with Herzog Zwei. According to Bostic, a "benefit over Herzog Zwei is that we had the advantage of a mouse and keyboard. This greatly facilitated precise player control, which enabled the player to give orders to individual units. The mouse, and the direct control it allowed, was critical in making the RTS genre possible".

Release
Originally released for MS-DOS in 1992, Dune II was one of the first games to support the recently introduced General MIDI standard. The game audio was programmed with the middleware Miles audio library which handled the dynamic conversion of the game's MIDI musical score, originally composed on the Roland MT-32, to the selected soundcard. At initial release, the game's setup utility lacked the means to support separate output devices for the musical score and speech/sound-effects. This limitation was frustrating to owners of high-quality MIDI synthesisers (such as the Roland Sound Canvas), because users could not play the game with both digital sound effects (which MIDI synthesisers lacked) and high-quality MIDI score. Westwood later published a revised setup utility to enable users select a different soundcard for each type of game audio: digital speech, music, and sound effects.

Ports to the Amiga and Mega Drive/Genesis were released in 1993 and 1994 respectively. The Amiga floppy disk version has less detailed graphics and requires frequent disk swapping. Save games are stored on a specially formatted disk.

Two years later, it was also brought to the Archimedes and Risc PC range of RISC OS computers.

The Mega Drive/Genesis port has fairly different building and unit graphics, a full-screen menu-less user interface suited for gamepad control, and no save game support, relying on access codes for accessing each level. Other additions include a music test option and a tutorial that replaces the mentat screen. Several ideas from this version, including the music track listing and the replacement of sidebar command buttons by a context-sensitive cursor, were used in Westwood's next strategy game, Command & Conquer.

The game was ported to Android in 2013; also a fan-made port for Pandora became available based on the reverse engineered game engine.

Reception
According to Westwood Studios, Dune II was a commercial success, with global sales in excess of 250,000 units by November 1996.

Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that the PC version of Dune II "easily outshines its predecessor in terms of game play ... a real gem", with "arguably the most outstanding sound and graphics ever to appear in a strategy game of its kind". A February 1994 survey of space war games gave it a grade of B+, stating that without online play, there was little replayability once each House conquered the planet, but a May 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game five stars out of five, describing it as "a wargame par excellance; superb graphics and sound make an enjoyable gaming experience". The magazine hoped that Command & Conquer would be its sequel. Electronic Games gave the game a 92% score.

When the Amiga version of Dune II was released in 1993, it was met with positive reviews. CU Amiga magazine rated the game highly with 85%, praising the smooth gameplay and controls. Dune II received Amiga User International Game of the Month award when it was reviewed in September 1993.

GamePro rated the Genesis version 17 out of 20, dubbing it "one of the best war strategy carts for the Genesis" while praising the controls, digitized speech, music, and fun gameplay. Electronic Gaming Monthly scored the Genesis version 32 out of 40, commenting that the gameplay is not only addictive, but easy to learn, which they stated is highly unusual for a strategy game. Game Informer rated it 8.25 out of 10.

In 1993, Computer Gaming World named Dune II Strategy Game of the Year. The game was ranked the 11th best game of all time by Amiga Power in 1996. In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Dune 2 the 70th-best computer game ever released. In 2004, this "legendary" game entered the GameSpy Hall of Fame. In Poland, it was included in the retrospective lists of the best Amiga games by Wirtualna Polska (ranked eight) and CHIP (ranked fourth). In 2012, Time named it one of the 100 greatest video games of all time. In 1994, PC Gamer US named Dune II the 49th best computer game ever. That same year, PC Gamer UK named it the 21st best computer game of all time, calling it "a wargame for those who don't like wargames". In 1996, GamesMaster listed the Mega Drive version 8th in its "The Gamesmaster Mega Drive Top 10". In the same issue, they also ranked the PC version 21st on their "Top 100 Games of All Time".

Legacy
Dune II was one of the most influential games in the real-time strategy genre, particularly in Westwood's own Command & Conquer series. Though not every feature was unique, its specific combination of a fog of war, mouse-based military micromanagement, and an economic model of resource-gathering and base-building became the hallmark of the RTS genre. It served as the template for subsequent real-time strategy games. Chris Taylor has stated that Dune II and Command & Conquer were great inspirations, driving him to leave Electronic Arts to create Total Annihilation.

Dune II also led to direct sequels: Westwood released a semi-remake for Windows in 1998 as Dune 2000, along with a PlayStation port in the same year. Westwood subsequently released Emperor: Battle for Dune in 2001. There are also fan-made game engine recreations, like Dune Legacy, which aims for improved usability and controls while not changing the gameplay.

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Coutts, Alberta

Coutts is a village in southern Alberta, Canada that is a port of entry into the U.S. state of Montana. It is one of the busiest ports of entry on the Canada–United States border in western Canada. It connects Highway 4 to Interstate 15, an important trade route (CANAMEX Corridor) between Alberta, American states along I-15, and Mexico.

The community has the name of William Burdett-Coutts, a railroad official.

In 2004, a joint border facility opened in Coutts–Sweet Grass, Montana, housing both Canadian and American federal authorities.

History
In February 2022, four men were arrested on allegations that they conspired to kill Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The arrests occurred during the Canada convoy protest in Coutts. According to police, the plot was part of a wider plan to alter "Canada's political, justice and medical systems." In December 2022, Coutts was described by CTV News as a "village divided" as residents identified as supporting or opposing the protest earlier that year.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Coutts had a population of 224 living in 112 of its 152 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 245. With a land area of 1.18 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Coutts recorded a population of 245 living in 122 of its 159 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2011 population of 277. With a land area of 1.24 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

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Happy Halloween!
Ya! I'm the first on your fresh new talk page! Have a great day! Happy Halloween too! X Mac Davis ] ( SUPERDESK | Help me improve ) 18:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Edit summaries
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 * About Refdeskbot – I'd just better make it clear that I prefer the current system above anything else and am quite happy with it (I'd have to say that :p). Hopefully people will settle down about the change soon (and the IP who took offence at it has left a message at WT:BOTS, asking for a change, just FYI).  Thanks - M a rtinp23 18:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
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I dug up this old page, which is older than what you have there. I moved it to the reference desk archive and made the old page a redirect. Just wanted to let you know, in case you wanted to parse it to make it look like the other ones. --froth T C  06:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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That's still funny if someone mistakes a wall for a well...either way, good pun! :) In Defense of the Artist 19:06, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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All Question before December 31 have been archived.

However this is not being done for Jan 1, 2007 on all reference desks, and now they are exploding in size.

Furthermore the new Entertainment desk has never been archived.

What I mean by archive is you know once archived. --Judged 05:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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You may be interested...
...to hear that the spirit of your proposed RD layout change lives on!

Wikipedia talk:Reference desk

--froth T 05:32, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Rakugo
Back in January 2006 you listed rakugo for clean up. I just went through it, and am wondering what you think of it now. DocWatson42 22:36, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Downtown kombi.jpg)
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Chibi
As you commented about the Chibi article before, I thought you might be interested to know that it has gone to AfD. The discussion is here. JohnnyMrNinja 08:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

TIM_kombi.jpg
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Project deletion
As you have participated in WikiProject Gaijin Tarento, you should be aware of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Gaijin tarento. Please go participate there if you wish. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:37, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Hikari_Ota.jpg
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In case you were curious
This is what your old reference desk rehaul idea would look like in the new format :) -- ffroth 00:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind I irrevocably broke that project with a major overhaul to the header code. sorry -- ffroth 04:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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Added to WP:Missing Wikipedians
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Kombi infobox
Template:Kombi infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. eh bien mon prince (talk) 22:01, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronic music
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Proposed deletion of Inu ga Nyaa to Naita Hi

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

The county lists 168 properties and districts on the National Register. Another 3 properties were once listed but have since been removed.

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User talk:ErichMaraite

Welcome!
Hello, ErichMaraite, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Blow in the Wind

Blow in the Wind is the third album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released in 2001, on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label. Blow in the Wind features several tracks which are led off with musical mash-ups of, or homages to, classic Punk songs, a trend the group began on their second album, Are a Drag (with an appropriation of "Generator" by Bad Religion for their cover of "My Favorite Things") and would continue with Take a Break and Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah: "Sloop John B" samples "Teenage Lobotomy" by The Ramones, "Elenor" samples "London Calling" by The Clash, "San Francisco" samples "Stranger Than Fiction" by Bad Religion, "I Only Want to Be With You" samples and "The Money Will Roll Right In" by Fang. Similarly, the track "Different Drum" also ends with a guitar riff taken from "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers.

The first song begins with a clip similar to the hidden track on the NOFX album Punk in Drublic where Fat Mike attempts to find the proper pitch of the word "how" in the line "How did the cat get so fat?" from "Perfect Government".

The album is made up entirely of "Hits of the 1960s". The band's version of "Different Drum" can be heard during the credits of the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

The band's version of "Sloop John B" is featured in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.

Personnel

 * Spike Slawson - vocals
 * Chris Shiflett (a.k.a. Jake Jackson) - lead guitar
 * Joey Cape - rhythm guitar
 * Fat Mike - bass
 * Dave Raun - drums

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User talk:Max Powers~enwiki

Welcome!
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Stop with the nonsense
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Shanes 14:59, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
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Renamed
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User:Smowton

New editor as of 7th July 2005. Originally used Wikipedia as a source for idle reading on topics including quantum physics and genetics whilst bored at work in early 2005. I use Wikipedia for inordinate timewasting, moderate-depth research and occasional arguing in that order.

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User talk:Nywf64

Welcome!
Hello, Nywf64, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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World's fair picture
I really like the picture. Do you have a larger scanned version of it that you could upload? I think it could make featured picture status if it was higher resolution. Night Gyr 02:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Redrey

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Deltaretrovirus

Deltaretrovirus is a genus of the Retroviridae family. It consists of exogenous horizontally transmitted viruses found in several groups of mammals. , ICTV lists under this genus the Bovine leukemia virus and three species of primate T-lymphotropic virus.

The genus of viruses is known for its propensity to target immune cells and oncogenity, evident in the names of the four named species. Infection is usually asymptomatic, but inflammation and cancer can develop over time.

Classification
Four species are recognized by the ICTV as of 2023:
 * Bovine leukemia virus
 * Primate T-lymphotropic virus 1
 * Primate T-lymphotropic virus 2
 * Primate T-lymphotropic virus 3

Two additional PTLVs are known but not regonized: HTLV-4 (South Cameroon, 2005) and STLV-5 (Mac B43 strain, highly divergent PTLV-1).

In addition, eight endogenous retroviruses identified as Deltaretrovirus are known as of 2019. Two of these were complete enough to show ORFs; the rest only showing long terminal repeats.

Hosts
Known exogenous deltaretroviruses infect cattle and primates.

The two complete endogenous ones were found in bats and dolphins; the others in Solenodon, mongoose, and fossa. These endogenous examples fill in the large gap in the host range.

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User talk:Medwaymark

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Image copyright problem with Image:Blue Mountains at Katoomba.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Blue Mountains at Katoomba.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

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Image Tagging Image:ChathamFortAmherst3.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:ChathamFortAmherst3.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1964 New York World's Fair/archive1

1964 New York World's Fair
Self-nomination. I was the original author of this piece, created back in 2002. I was unaware that it had been nominated to be a Feature Article in July, 2004, and just stumbled across the nomination and discussion yesterday. Subsequently, I've corrected what I believe to be the major objections to the article and have removed portions that I did not feel were factually correct. I've also listed my sources to the material. I will follow this closely over the next few days and will monitor suggestions for changes as they arise. Thank you!

 * Object Image:1964Fair.jpg is a copyvio - fair use - has little to do with fairs. Dunc|☺ 14:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Update I do know the difference between "fair use" and "Fairs." Thank you though, for pointing it out to me.  The image was incorrectly attributed by the individual who added it to the article as being copyrighted TO ME!  I have modified the TALK page of the photograph to indicted that it is properly "fair use."  The New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation would have held the copyrights to the photograph.  However, the photograph may have already passed into public domain since much of the Fair Corporation's copyrighted materials, including the Fair's logos, have now passed into Public Domain. nywf64 15:05, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * My understanding is that nothing passes into the public domain by abandonment. Monopoly franchises held by dissolved corporations, out of print books from defunct publishers, texts by authors who left no estates, and the like enter a sort of limbo where it seems unlikely that anyone will ever again profit from the monopoly, but those who use them do so at their risk.  It's not certain that the rights to this aerial photo were held by the Fair itself in any case.  Smerdis of Tlön 17:15, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The picture in question was taken in 1964 or 1965. Assuming that it was copyrighted in the first place, it is covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.  As a result, the earliest it could pass into the public domain is 2059. --Carnildo 19:01, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Update Good points regarding copyrights. I would assume then that this photograph is probably still copyrighted by someone.  What is your suggestion to resolve this?  I do not have access to photos that are aerials of the Fair other than those that were taken by/for the Fair Corporation.  Should I remove the photograph or should I keep it there and claim "Fair Use" for it?  An overview of the Fairgrounds seems an appropriate photograph to accompany an opening that is an overview of the Fair and the article itself.  I would have access to other photos of the Fair that belog specifically to individuals from whom I could secure copyright clearance.  Would one of those be better even if it was not an overview of the Fairgrounds?  Any suggestions would be helpful.  Please, also comment on the article itself.  Someone along the line thought it might be worth of a Featured article so that is why I dusted it off and resubmitted it.  Had it not been originally nominated, I would never have considered doing it.  If enough people think it's simply trash, I will, of course, remove the self-nominaton.  Thanks! nywf64 01:29, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * An image under an open license would be much better than a "fair use" one. Good choices would be an image of the fairground entrance, or of distinctive architecture from the fair.  I seem to recall the fairgrounds including some rather famous UFO-like structures. --Carnildo 03:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Not objections (or support), just remarks: shouldn't there be more comparison of the '64 and '39 fairs in terms of magnitude, layout and how the space was used, etc.? Also that the Unisphere echoed the Trylon and Perisphere? Oh and I think Herbert Hoover made one of his last prominent public appearances there, maybe at the opening. Also possibly worth mentioning: the Texas Pavilion was financed by Angus Wynne, who lost a lot of money on it, forcing him to sell Six Flags over Texas. -- Jmabel | Talk 17:59, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input. The Fair was a very involved event.  I've touched on that a bit by including the section on the problems with the BIE, Robert Moses and the financial debacles the Fair faced.  I could go into much more detail on the Fair, there is much that can be said about it.  However, I felt that the best thing would be to present a concise synopsis of the highlights of the Fair, that the majority of the readers would find interesting and then supply the links to the other websites that go into greater detail.  There is a WIKIPEDIA article on the 1939/1940 World's Fair and readers are refered to that in the article and can make their own comparisons.  I wanted this article to be specifically on the 1964/1965 World's Fair.  And yes, Herbert Hoover probably did attend the Fair.  He, along with Harry Truman, was an honorary Chairman of the World's Fair Corporation.  And, yes, Angus Wynn did loose his shirt on the Texas Pavlions and Music Hall.  But, again, I would risk info overload if I put all of those tidbits into the story -- and, believe me, there are many more that could be added.  But much of that is covered at the other websites that specifically deal with the Fair in detail.  I think a more concise presentation of the Fair and what it was about is called for here. nywf64 13:06, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm. It's not really a notably long article. I agree that there is an article on the '39 Fair, but I would actually be intrigued to know how their geographic footprints compared, and have no idea where to start looking. As to the rest of this, I guess I feel this could use more "color". (And given the well-known Disney connection, the less-known Six Flags connection seems of particular interest.) As I say, neither supporting nor objecting to this being featured, just making suggestions. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:16, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Update I've removed the original photograph with the questionable copyright issues. I've replaced it with a photo that an acquantance has donated to the GNU that his father took back in 1964 of the Fairgrounds.  I hope that I've documented and credited this appropriately.  If not, please let me know what should be changed. nywf64 02:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. --Carnildo 03:32, 20 July 2005 (UTC)


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Take a Break (album)

Take a Break is the fourth album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released on July 1, 2003, on Fat Wreck Chords independent record label.

The album consists entirely of cover versions of R&B songs. Like its predecessor, Blow in the Wind, several tracks lead off with appropriations of classic punk (or related genres like new wave) riffs ("Crazy" incorporates "Six Pack" by Black Flag, "Save the Best for Last" includes "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols, and "I'll Be There" borrows the intro from the Cars' "Just What I Needed").

Production
The band had trouble selecting songs for inclusion, at first attempting upbeat songs such as "Papa Was a Rolling Stone", but found that they did not translate well to sped-up punk rhythms. They eventually settled on ballads with "no real time signature" that were more amenable to rearrangement. When the band first finished recording and submitted the album to be pressed and distributed, the record label, Fat Wreck Chords, initially refused to distribute it; this was at the behest of the label's employees and was despite label owner Fat Mike being a member of the band. This prompted the Gimme Gimmes to record five additional songs to make the album acceptable to those employees. Even after the addition of the new recordings, guitarist Joey Cape felt that Take a Break was the band's "worst record".

Critical reception
Mackenzie Wilson of AllMusic praised Take a Break as superior to the band's previous outing, Blow in the Wind, saying it was rock & roll done "the right way". Andrew Parks of the Buffalo News praised the "infectious takes" on R&B songs, and the "sly songwriting touches" that the Gimme Gimmes included, while Roger Catlin in the Hartford Courant described it as "giddy fun". Richard Baker of The Age described the middle section of the album as "the Gimmes at their best", and Darryl Sterdan in the London Free Press was similarly positive about the middle tracks "Nothing Compares 2 U", "Isn't She Lovely", and "I'll Be There". Dan MacEachern of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald and Jeremy Plothow of the Post Register gave negative reviews, each saying that the band's formula had become tired, and Mark Robison in the Reno Gazette-Journal wrote that the song selections were uninspired.

Personnel

 * Spike Slawson - vocals
 * Chris Shiflett (a.k.a. Jake Jackson) - lead guitar
 * Joey Cape - rhythm guitar
 * Fat Mike - bass
 * Dave Raun - drums

title: Take a Break (album)


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Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)

Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 — February 10, 1954) was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist. He presided over the Fourth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences that was held at Vienna in 1952.

Biography
Wilhelm Schmidt, born in Hörde, Germany in 1868, entered the Society of the Divine Word in 1890 and was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1892. He studied linguistics at the universities of Berlin and  Vienna.

Schmidt’s main passion was linguistics. He spent many years in study of languages around the world. His early work focussed on the Mon–Khmer languages of Southeast Asia, and on languages of Oceania and Australia. The conclusions from this study led him to hypothesize the existence of a broader Austric group of languages, which included the Austronesian language group. Schmidt managed to prove that Mon–Khmer language has inner connections with languages of the South Seas - one of the most significant findings in the field of linguistics.

From 1912 to his death in 1954, Schmidt published his 12-volume work Der Ursprung der Gottesidee (The Origin of the Idea of God). In it he explained his theory of primitive monotheism: the belief that primitive religion among almost all tribal peoples began with an essentially monotheistic concept of a high god — usually a sky god — who was a benevolent creator. Schmidt theorized that human beings believed in a God who was the First Cause of all things and Ruler of Heaven and Earth before men and women began to worship a number of gods:
 * "Schmidt suggested that there had been a primitive monotheism before men and women had started to worship a number of gods. Originally they had acknowledged only one Supreme Deity, who had created the world and governed human affairs from afar."

In 1906, Schmidt founded the journal Anthropos, and in 1931, the Anthropos Institute, both of which still exist today. In 1938, Schmidt and the Institute fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Fribourg, Switzerland. He died there in 1954.

His works available in English translation are: The Origin and Growth of Religion: Facts and Theories (1931), High Gods in North America (1933), The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology (1939), and Primitive Revelation (1939).

On Primitive Revelation, Eric J. Sharpe has said: "Schmidt did believe the emergent data of historical ethnology to be fundamentally in accord with biblical revelation—a point which he made in Die Uroffenbarung als Anfang der Offenbarung Gottes (1913) . . . A revised and augmented version of this apologetical monograph was published in an English translation as Primitive Revelation (Sharpe 1939)."

title: Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)