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Griffith College Dublin

Griffith College Dublin (GCD) (Coláiste Uí Ghríofa) is one of the longest-established private third level (higher education) colleges in Dublin, Ireland.

Overview
Established in 1974, with four campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, Griffith College is one of the two largest independent higher education college in Ireland, with a student population of around 7,000 with 1,400 overseas students from over 77 countries. It is named after the former Griffith Barracks on the South Circular Road in Dublin.

The 7-acre Dublin campus is close to the city centre, where Griffith College has an additional campus. Student Halls of Residence are located on campus, close to the library, creative studios, the student bar and restaurant, gym facilities, and the Students Union.

Griffith College runs full and part-time degree and higher education qualifications in Law, Accountancy, Business, Computing Science, Journalism, Media, TV Production, Film Production, Design, Fashion, Music, and Drama.

The college offers professional accountancy programmes for Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), ACA, CPA and IATI, Griffith College is a goldStar CPA approved Educator. The ACCA has awarded Griffith College Dublin the Platinum accreditation – the highest recognition by the ACCA, and is also an ACCA CPD registered course provider.

The Griffith College Dublin campus is the home of the Leinster School of Music & Drama. Established in 1904, the Leinster School offers theory classes in Music & Drama to groups and individuals subject to availability. The Leinster School is also an examining body and has a Theory Examinations Syllabus with levels from Preparatory to Grade 8.

History
The college was established in 1974 by Diarmuid Hegarty and incorporated in 1978 as the Business and Accounting Training (BAT). Originally located on Morehampton Road, in 1991 the Business and Accounting College moved from Milltown Park, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, to the Griffith Barracks site and changed its name to Griffith College Dublin. In 1979 Griffith College was designated as being an institution under the Irish Government's National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA) Act. In 1990 the first degree course was offered by Griffith College in Computer Science and it was validated by the University of Ulster. In 1992 it was followed by a Business Studies degree. This arrangement ceased in 1996 and the degrees were validated by Irish National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA), the predecessor of HETAC.

In 1992 the Tiernan Design School moved to the Griffith Campus, becoming the Griffith College Faculty of Design. In the late 1990s Newman College, Dublin became part of Griffith College.

In 2005, Griffith College Dublin merged with Skerry's College to form Griffith College Cork. Skerry's College had been active in Cork since 1884.

In September 2006 Griffith College Dublin merged with the Mid-West Business Institute to form Griffith College Limerick.

Griffith College City Centre
In 2018, the college opened Griffith College City Centre, off Mary Street in Dublin 1. The Dublin city centre facility offers courses such as Professional Accountancy, BAs in Accounting and Finance and also Business, Diplomas in Business Management and Human Resources Management, a Professional Diploma in Management and Leadership, and a Certificate in Applied IT and Office Skills.

Faculties
The College is divided into a number of faculties:
 * Faculty of Business
 * Graduate School of Business
 * The School of Professional Accountancy
 * Faculty of Law
 * Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science
 * The Professional Law School
 * Faculty of Computing Science
 * Faculty of Journalism & Media Communications
 * Faculty of Design
 * The Leinster School of Music & Drama
 * Faculty of Training & Education
 * Corporate Training
 * Short Courses
 * Griffith Institute of Language

Faculty of Law & the Professional Law School
Griffith College Dublin is home to Ireland's largest law school, incorporating the Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Professional Law Schools.

Innocence Project
In September 2009, David Langwallner, Dean of Law, founded the Irish Innocence Project at Griffith College.

The Irish Innocence Project reviews claims of wrongful conviction and miscarriages of justice in Ireland. It is based on the famous Innocence Project in the USA.

Final-year law students, drawn from Griffith, Trinity College Dublin and DCU, work with qualified and practising barristers, who in turn are working closely with the Griffith Dean of Law, to give post-conviction reviews of cases. Currently there are 20 active files and cases going back before the courts.

The Irish Innocence Project (Irish: Tionscadal Neamhchiontachta na hÉireann) was launched officially by Dr.Greg Hampikian, director of the Idaho Innocence Project and DNA expert for the Georgia Innocence Project in March 2010.

School of Professional Accountancy
Griffith College works with several local and international partners to offer professional courses in areas of accounting.

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Griffith College holds a platinum status Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) accreditation, and offers courses in the following areas:
 * ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
 * ACCA - Computer Based Exams
 * ACCA Diploma in Accounting & Business

Certified Public Accountants
Griffith College is also a Goldstar CPA Approved Educator, offering Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification and preparation programmes. These include:
 * CPA (Certified Public Accountants)
 * CPA - Computer Based Exams
 * CPA -Certificate in Business & Accounting
 * CPA Certified Tax Adviser (CTax)

Accounting Technicians Ireland
Griffith College is a licensed college provider by Accounting Technicians Ireland (ATI) and offers an ATI membership qualification course.

Collaborations and recognition
There are seven publicly funded universities in Ireland, fourteen Institutes of Technology, and a number of independent higher education colleges. Griffith College is one of the latter.

At an international level, Griffith College Dublin is a participant in the Erasmus / Socrates mobility programmes.

Ireland is a member of the Bologna Process, of which Griffith College is a promoter. The generic outcomes for Irish degrees are laid out in the National Framework of Qualifications. In 2006, Ireland became the first country to verify the compatibility of its national framework with the overarching framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and Griffith College’s degree programmes adhere to this framework.

Validating partners
Griffith College works in partnership with a number of validating bodies in Ireland and the UK. This ensures that all programmes are recognised nationally and internationally.

QQI (HETAC) validation
The Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC – now part of QQI) is the awarding body for Irish higher education and training institutions outside the university sector.

HETAC complies with the standards and guidelines set by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).

King's Inns Recognition
In 2004, Griffith became the first independent college in the country to have its degrees (LLB and BA in Business & Law) recognised by the Honorable Society of King's Inns. for the purposes of admission to its annual entrance examinations. Having successfully completed these five examinations, students may then complete the Barrister of Law degree in one year. which is a professional qualification for practice at the bar.

Halls of Residence
Overlooking Dublin's Grand Canal, Griffith College was originally an army barracks dating from the 1830s. Griffith Halls of Residence, commonly referred to as GHR) is located on campus and is a new apartment complex. This on-site accommodation can house 160+ students, with 24-hour security and reception. GHR is open to all students living and studying in Dublin and is not dedicated solely to Griffith students.

GriffFM
During the spring, students from the Journalism & Media Faculty operate a radio station from the campus. The radio station is licensed by the BAI (and the BCI before that) to broadcast for a couple of weeks. This year GriffFM broadcasts on 92.1 FM from 1–15 February and will be relayed online. The station airs both hard news and music-oriented programmes produced and presented by second year journalism degree students and postgraduate journalism students.

Students' union
Griffith College Students' Union is the representative body for all full-time and part-time Griffith College students. The students' union executives include the roles of president and (as of 2021) two vice-presidents. The union organises a number of trips and events throughout the academic year, including Freshers Week and several balls. It also helps fund and assist college clubs and societies covering activities such as sport, music, debating, and film. GCD's debating society were team winners of the 2009 Thomas Finlay Court Moot Competition in UCD. The students' union also publishes a magazine which was originally titled Griffiti and later published as Baked Goods. Launched in 2004, the magazine has won several awards at the National Student Media (sMedia) Awards (including a "Small College Publication of the Year" award in 2007).

College and student publications
There are a number of college publications. These include a newspaper published by Journalism students, where examples of student work get published. The paper won the award for Small College Publication of the Year at the annual Oxygen Student Media (sMedia) Awards in 2005 and 2006, while Griffiti won in 2007. The Griff, The Griffin, 90 Degrees and Maverick are other student publications which have been produced by degree, higher diploma and print journalism students in the past. Glór uí Ghríofa (The Voice of Griffith) is the official college newsletter outlining college news, developments and campus life.

Events
An annual "Creative Week" takes place to showcase student work of the creative disciplines, Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Fashion Design, TV & Video production, Photography, Digital Media, Sound Engineering, Journalism, and Visual Media.

Facilities and services
The college facilities include a library, common room, computer laboratories (248 workstations across 10 labs), CAD lab, photography lab, fitness room, sound studios, shop, and bar & restaurant. The college also offers students a career advice service. There is also a professional counsellor off campus providing advice and counselling for personal and non-academic issues.

The college library provides research and study facilities to students (and to college alumni), the library holds a range of set course texts and background reading material for all college programmes.

Conference centre
Griffith Conference Center is located on the college campus. The facilities include a 575-seat auditorium, as well as smaller suites and rooms for hire. The buildings were officially opened by then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in September 2006. The Conference Centre has been used for a variety of functions such as conventions of political parties, medical bodies, and industry groups. It has also hosted television programmes such as the You're a Star auditions.

Notable staff and graduates

 * Vincent Browne, journalist and broadcaster, lectured in Journalism and Media at Griffith College Dublin.
 * Cecelia Ahern, author, is a Journalism graduate from Griffith College.
 * Laura Woods, RTÉ announcer, is also a Journalism graduate.
 * Frank Dunlop, former Irish government press secretary, studied for an LLB in Irish Law, graduating in 2007.
 * Mark Vaughan, Dublin Gaelic footballer, also studied at Griffith College.
 * Laura Whitmore, graduate of the LSMD at Griffith College, is a TV Personality and MTV Presenter
 * Maria Walsh, Media and Journalism graduate (2009), won the Rose of Tralee festival in 2014 and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
 * Seán O'Brien, Seán Cronin, Fergus McFadden and Jordan Larmour, all Ireland national rugby union team members, attended the college.
 * Michael Conlan, Irish Olympian and professional boxer, attended the college.
 * Helen McEntee, Fine Gael TD and Minister for European Affairs, studied Journalism and Media Communications at Griffith.
 * Emmet McNamara, who won the 2020 Epsom Derby on Serpentine, graduated from the Accounting and Finance program in 2018.

Buildings

 * Daniel O'Connell Building – North Wing, International Office, Accounts, DIFC, Admissions, Journalism & Media faculty, Business Faculty.
 * Arthur Griffith Building – West Wing, Reception, Lecture Rooms, Library, Fashion Design, Law Faculty, Graduate Business School.
 * Meagher Building – houses the Griffith College Students Union
 * James Stephens Building – Computer Labs, CAD Labs.
 * Richmond Building – Photography Studios, Radio & Sound Engineering Studios.
 * Wellington Building – Houses the Faculty of Computing Science, IT Department & Computer Labs.
 * Cavalry Buildings – Photography Dark Rooms.
 * Stables – Video Editing Studios.
 * Academic Facilities Building – Restaurant, Auditorium, Conference Centre, School of Professional Accountancy (Opened in 2006)
 * Design Studio (Opened in 2007)

Expansion and developments
Over the years Griffith College has expanded beyond its base in Dublin.

Having previously established its Professional Accountancy Programmes in Cork in 2000, offering training in ACCA, CIMA, CPA, and IATI, Griffith College acquired Skerry's College Cork in 2005, forming Griffith College Cork. The college runs a variety of full- and part-time courses in Business, Law, Media & Communications, Design, Secretarial, and Office skills.

In 2006 Griffith College opened in Limerick with the acquisition of the Mid West Business Institute, creating Griffith College Limerick. In 2009 Griffith College Limerick moved into new premises which were officially opened by the Minister of Defence Willie O'Dea T.D. on 23 January 2009.

There is also one campus based in Moscow which mainly offers accountancy courses.

In 2009 the Professional Law courses were made available completely online – such as the FE1 and IILEX courses.

In Spring 2013 Griffith College Cork expanded to a 5.3 acre campus on Wellington Road, Cork City, on the former site of St. Patrick's Hospital and Marymount Hospice. The Campus is called 'Griffith College Cork, Wellington Road Campus'. Teaching commenced at the Wellington Road campus in Summer 2013 with an English Language Residential School. From August 2013 all evening undergraduate, postgraduate, short-term and professional programmes in the areas of Law, Business, Journalism and Media Communications, Accountancy and Drama moved to the facility.

St. Patrick's Hospital and Marymount Hospice occupied this building until 2011, when, 141 years after it first opened its doors, the institution relocated all of its services to new premises at Curraheen in Cork.

Graduations
The college graduation ceremonies take place over two days each November in the Conference Center. In previous years the ceremony took place in Royal Hospital Kilmainham in 2004 and 2005, and St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin the year before that.

The 2002 graduation was addressed by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Education Minister Noel Dempsey address the 2003 Graduation and in 2005 justice minister Michael McDowell addressed Law graduates. In attendance are graduates with their families and friends, representatives of Validation Bodies, as well as political and diplomatic dignitaries. At the graduation ceremony there are prizes awarded such as HETAC Student of the Year Award and Best Academic Achievements for each faculty and school.

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Kineshma

Kineshma (Кинешма), the second-largest town in Ivanovo Oblast in Russia, sprawls for 15 km along the Volga River, 335 kilometers north-east of Moscow. Population:

Etymology
From a substrate Finno-Ugric language (cf. кыне ('kine', < Proto-Finno-Permic *känз), "hemp").

History
Kineshma was first noticed as a posad in 1429. In 1504, Ivan III gave it to Prince Feodor Belsky, who escaped to Moscow from Lithuania and married Ivan's niece. Later on, Ivan the Terrible gave Kineshma to Ivan Petrovich Shuisky, but after the latter's death it was returned to the Tsar in 1587. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Kineshma was a major fishing center, which supplied sturgeon for the Tsar's table. In 1608, it was twice ravaged by the Poles. Throughout its history, Kineshma belonged to different Russian regions, including Archangelgorod Governorate, Yaroslavl Province of Saint Petersburg Governorate, and Moscow Governorate.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kineshma serves as the administrative center of Kineshemsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the Town of Kineshma—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the Town of Kineshma is incorporated as Kineshma Urban Okrug.

Economy
Since the 18th century, the town's main industry has been textile manufacturing. Like all the textile centers in Russia, the town's prosperity declined after the perestroika.

Architecture
Kineshma's principal landmark is the Trinity Cathedral, built in 1838–1845 to a typical Neoclassical design. There are also several 18th-century churches in the town. The neighborhoods of Kineshma contain estates and museums of Alexander Ostrovsky, Alexander Borodin, and Fyodor Bredikhin.

In 2010, Kineshma was granted status of a town of historical significance.

Religion

Currently there are eleven churches, nine of which are active, and three chapels.

Notable people

 * Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist
 * Fyodor Bredikhin, astronomer
 * Sergey Klyugin, Olympic high jumper
 * Alexander Ostrovsky, writer
 * Andrei Semenov, mixed martial artist
 * Kostromin, musical artist

Twin towns – sister cities
Kineshma is twinned with:
 * 🇫🇮 Vantaa, Finland
 * 🇧🇾 Baranavichy, Belarus
 * Gudauta, Abkhazia

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Many thanks to John Giblin for his invaluable assistance in preparing this article. bobg1756 11:29, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

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Suggest that this article mention that there are two principal types of military communications systems and networks: strategic (aka infrastructure) and tactical.

Military communications
Historically speaking there are several forms of military communication --Mrg3105 (talk) 00:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Verbal messaging
 * Audio signaling
 * Visual signaling
 * By road
 * By sea
 * By naval signaling systems
 * By semaphore
 * By rail
 * By air
 * By telegraph
 * By telephone (land line)
 * By radio transmission
 * By video transmission
 * By satellite
 * By optical cable

Redirects
I think we need a redirect to SIGINT from Radio reconnaissance and Radioelectronic reconnaissance (the calques from Russian Радиоэлектронная разведка) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.133.184.254 (talk) 07:57, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Purpose of the Article
It appears this article is intended to be an overview. If so, it can be ordered into land-based, then sea-based and then air-based, if one wants to organize it chronologically. I'll see what I can dig up for good references. LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 15:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Jargon
This article also lapses into signal-specific jargon that may not be helpful to a civilian reader. Some of the assemblages mentioned are also outmoded. I'll see what I can dig up for fresher sources. If you aren't military-versant, please provide your perspective to help clean this up. LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 15:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Far too specific to "messaging"
In military terms military communications include supply lines and other forms of support. This article is weak itself within the covered subject but completely ignores the wider logistical communications aspects. Its topic should probably be a section in a full coverage piece or perhaps retitled. The "communications zone" or frequently in U.S. military terms "Zone of Communications" is that area between the combat zone and "Zone of the Interior" which is the manufacturing and economic base outside the active combat zone (though as in the case of Birtian in WW II such a base could be more than a bit "active"). At least in the mid 20th century such a zone was supposed to lie behind the combat zone where direct combat support activity would take place and a relatively safe zone where logistics activities from the zone of interior would be stored, transshipped or otherwise organized for movement toward the combat zone. Some quickly found extracts giving the idea:

 * This reaction alone should well support the contention that the front-behind-the front is a theater of operations in its own right. No longer is it appropriate to treat this zone as a stepchild or to regard it merely as the zone of communications in the traditional sense.

 * "zone of communications," which is the second constituent part of a theater of military operations

 * Those states or groups will be equipped with small quantities of modern mass destruction weapons, and sometimes the theater will not be clearly determined. The next two decades, are low intensity conflicts against rogue states or against terrorist conflict environment will include mostly urban or mountainous areas. The tragedy that happened in New York on September 11, 2001 shows that unexpected methods can be used everywhere, and that sensitive areas, like the homeland and the zone of communications, can be targeted.

The closest Wikipedia coverage, brief, is in Area of responsibility. Palmeira (talk) 18:35, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

First?
"The first military communications tool was the communication automobile designed by the Soviet Union in 1934 to send and receive signals."

The FIRST tool? EVER? In 1934? I'm not sure what this passage is meant to convey (or I would fix it myself) but obviously there were many, many "communications tools" before 1934. 24.189.13.87 (talk) 11:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

I modified this spurious claim, but I'd like to see the documentation supporting it, and figure out what the writer intended. LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 14:48, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Criticism as Praxis
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Fatal Bond

Fatal Bond is a 1992 Australia erotic thriller film, directed by Vince Monton, starring Linda Blair and Jerome Ehlers. It was filmed in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, New South Wales, including Narrabeen Caravan Park.

Synopsis
Leonie Stevens is a hairdresser who dates the charming Joe Martinez who may or may not be a serial killer.

Cast

 * Linda Blair as Leonie Stevens
 * Jerome Ehlers as Joe Martinez
 * Stephen Leeder as Anthony Boon
 * Donal Gibson as Rocky Borgetta
 * Joe Bugner as Claw Miller
 * Caz Lederman as Detective Chenko
 * Teo Gebert as Shane Boon
 * Penny Pederson as Bree Boon
 * Roger Ward as Detective Greaves
 * Ross Newton as John Harding
 * Kevin Johnson as himself
 * Caroline Beck as Jenny
 * Jan Adele as Mrs Karvan
 * Lyndon Harris as Joy Turner
 * Ken Snodgrass as Sgt. Taylor
 * Peter Browne as Caravan Man
 * Bob Barrett as Fisherman Bob
 * Jim Winshuttle as Fisherman
 * Donna Lee as Celia Boon
 * Ron Holbrow as Celia's Husband

Production
Avalon was going to cast Russell Crowe as a villain but Universal then contacted them and said they were interested in buying the film if Donal Gibson, Mel's brother, was cast. Donal Gibson got the role.

Box office
Fatal Bond grossed $13,871 at the box office in Australia.

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John Broderick (producer)

John C. Broderick (October 22, 1942 in San Francisco, California – June 17, 2001 in Santa Monica, California) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and entertainer.

He is mostly known for the sword and sorcery film The Warrior and the Sorceress.

Biography
John's entertainment career began as a high school student actor in South San Francisco and while at college worked as a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He performed in the Troupe's award-winning production of A Minstrel Show (or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel) He attended film schools in Sweden and London, and returned to the US to ply his trade. Initially he directed underground films in New York City and then moved on to a producing, directing, acting and editing career in Hollywood.

He worked on a wide range of films, including The Exorcist (1973, supervising editor, for which he received an Oscar nomination), Six Pack Annie (1975, director), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986, production manager) and Monkey Trouble (1994, production manager and co-producer).

He met his wife, Eunice (Neecee), when he was in Brazil during the filming of Moon over Parador. They lived in Malibu, California.

Broderick died in Santa Monica, California, on June 17, 2001. He had kidney disease for several years.

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Denise Robertson

Denise Robertson (9 June 1932 – 31 March 2016) was a British writer and television broadcaster. She made her television debut as the presenter of the Junior Advice Line segment of the BBC's Breakfast Time programme in 1985, though she is best known as the resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning from its first broadcast on 3 October 1988 until her death. In the course of her career, she dealt with over 200,000 letters from viewers seeking advice. In 2006 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting.

Early life
Born Margaret Denise Mary Broderick on 9 June 1932 in Sunderland, County Durham, she was the youngest of two daughters of Herbert Stanley (1889–1961) and Catherine Maud Broderick (née Cahill, 1896–1970). Herbert ran a shipping business that failed before she was born. She attended Sunderland High School.

Career
Her first job was as a clerk at Sunderland Royal Infirmary. She then progressed to the position of medical secretary and later became a counsellor. She won a BBC competition to write a play and became an agony aunt on Metro Radio in Newcastle. In addition to This Morning, Robertson briefly hosted her own television series Dear Denise in 2000. She also featured as a love and relationships pundit on Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment in 2002. She ran an advice website called DearDenise.com and wrote a monthly column for national magazine, Candis. Robertson also made regular appearances on Channel 5's Big Brother's Bit on the Side.

Personal life
Robertson was twice widowed; she married Alexander Inkster "Alex" Robertson (1919–1972) in 1960 and they had a son Mark Alexander (born 1962). Alexander Robertson died of lung cancer in 1972. In 1973, she married John "Jack" Tomlin (1921–1995); he died of a stroke in 1995.

She then married her childhood friend Bryan Thubron in 1997. Robertson was a keen supporter of Sunderland A.F.C. and had worked with the University of Sunderland, appearing as guest speaker at graduation ceremonies. She lived in East Boldon, South Tyneside.

Honours
In 1998, Robertson was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham. She was given the Freedom of the City of Sunderland in 2006 and appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Birthday Honours that year for "services to Broadcasting and to Charity".

Death
Robertson died on 31 March 2016, aged 83, at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London after being diagnosed in early 2016 with pancreatic cancer. She made the diagnosis public in February 2016 on the television show This Morning after being absent from her usual posting as agony aunt. This Morning aired a special edition tribute programme on 1 April 2016. Her funeral took place on 13 April 2016 at Sunderland Minster, and she was buried in Sunderland Cemetery in Grangetown.

Works

 * Don't Cry Aloud Hopcyn Press 2015 ISBN 9780992893323
 * Winds of War Little Books 2009 ISBN 9781906264079
 * None To Make You Cry Little Books 2009 ISBN 9781906264062
 * The Promise Little Books 2008 ISBN 9781904435976
 * The Second Wife Little Books 2008 ISBN 9781904435952
 * Agony? Don't Get Me Started... Autobiography Max Press 2006 ISBN 9781904435846
 * The Bad Sister Little Books 2005 ISBN 9781904435426
 * Relax It's Only a Baby Little Books 2005 ISBN 9781904435464
 * Men Are From Earth. Women Are From Earth.: Deal with It! Little Books 2005 ISBN 9781904435327
 * Sir Tom Cowie, A True Entrepreneur: A Biography University of Sunderland 2004 ISBN 9781873757840
 * A Relative Freedom ISBN 9781904435853
 * Wait For the Day ISBN 9781904435556
 * The Beloved People (Belgate Trilogy 1) 2004 ISBN 978190443534-1
 * Strength for the Morning (Belgate Trilogy 2) 2004 ISBN 9781904435358
 * Towards Jerusalem (Belgate Trilogy 3) 2005 ISBN 9781904435372
 * A Year of Winter 1986 ISBN 9780094672307
 * The Land of Lost Content 1985 ISBN 9780094664401
 * Blue Remembered Hills 1987 ISBN 9780753102473

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Affinity credit card

An affinity credit card program allows an organization to offer its members and supporters—those who have an "affinity" for that organization—a credit card branded with the organization's brand and imagery. An affinity credit card program may pay the brand owning organization a bonus for each new account generated, plus a percentage of every transaction charged to the card. In some cases the brand-owning organization will form a revenue and profit sharing joint venture on a 50/50 basis. The venture is funded by the interchange income from the card scheme such as MasterCard or Visa, fees, charges and credit lent to cardholders.

Affinity credit cards are offered by many retailers, shopping centers, airlines, universities, alumni associations, sports teams, professional associations and others, and increasingly by small and mid-sized nonprofits and membership-based groups that rely on these programs for incremental revenue.

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Monetary Policy Council

The Monetary Policy Council, Polish: Rada Polityki Pieniężnej (RPP), is a body of Narodowy Bank Polski, the central bank of Poland.

Each year, in parallel with the budget project presented by the government, the MPC sets the bases of monetary policy. It sets the level of the NBP's interest rates, the rules and levels of bank's reserve obligations, sets an upper limit on obligations resulting from loans taken by the NBP in foreign banking and financial institutions.

The MPC is made up of: Council Leader, who is the President of the NBP, and nine other members, selected in equal parts by the President of Poland, the Sejm and the Senate. Members of the MPC are chosen to serve for six-year terms.

1998 - 2004

 * Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (until 2000) - President of NBP - Chairman of the MPC
 * Leszek Balcerowicz (since 2001) - President of NBP - Chairman of the MPC
 * Marek Dąbrowski
 * Bogusław Grabowski
 * Cezary Józefiak
 * Janusz Krzyżewski (deceased 2003)
 * Wojciech Łączkowski
 * Jerzy Pruski
 * Dariusz Rosati
 * Grzegorz Wójtowicz
 * Wiesława Ziółkowska
 * Jan Czekaj (since 2003)

2004 - 2010

 * Leszek Balcerowicz (until January 10, 2007) - President of NBP - Chairman of the MPC
 * Sławomir Skrzypek (since January 10, 2007) - President of NBP - Chairman of the MPC
 * Jan Czekaj
 * Dariusz Filar
 * Stanisław Nieckarz
 * Marian Noga
 * Stanisław Owsiak
 * Mirosław Pietrewicz
 * Andrzej Sławiński
 * Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner
 * Andrzej Wojtyna

2010 - 2016

 * Marek Belka - Chairman of the MPC
 * Andrzej Bratkowski
 * Elżbieta Chojna-Duch
 * Zyta Gilowska
 * Adam Glapiński
 * Jerzy Hausner
 * Andrzej Kaźmierczak
 * Andrzej Rzońca
 * Jan Winiecki
 * Anna Zielińska-Głębocka

2016 - 2022

 * Adam Glapiński - Chairman of the MPC
 * Grażyna Ancyparowicz
 * Eugeniusz Gatnar
 * Łukasz Hardt
 * Cezary Kochalski - since December 21, 2019
 * Jerzy Kropiwnicki
 * Eryk Łon
 * Rafał Sura - since November 16, 2016
 * Kamil Zubelewicz
 * Jerzy Żyżyński
 * Jerzy Osiatyński - until December 20, 2019
 * Marek Chrzanowski - until October 6, 2016

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Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny is a role-playing video game developed by Attic Entertainment Software. It was the first game based on the German pen & paper RPG system The Dark Eye by Schmidt Spiele. The original German version of the game (German title: Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge) was released in 1992. Due to its success it was translated to English and released by Sir-Tech in 1993.

Gameplay
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny is a classical 3D party role-playing video game that has up to six characters (plus an optional NPC that may be recruited) moving through 3D towns and dungeons. Travels between those 3D levels were simulated by showing a path on a regional 2D map. The game generally uses the same pseudo-3D-engine as Attic's 1991 game Spirit of Adventure, utilizing an increased resolution for the 3D part of the screen. The game also borrowed ideas from Eye of the Beholder (the inventory user interface) and Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra (the main screen user interface layout). The game did not feature NPC/monster sprites in the 3D view (a shortcoming that can be found in the entire Northlands Trilogy) that were already introduced by the first 3D real-time action role-playing video game - Dungeon Master - in 1987. Instead of visualizing fights in the 3D view, the game switched to the isometric perspective for a unique turn-based tactical combat simulation.

Plot
An orc chief has united all tribes of the orcs and plans to attack the lands of the humans. The player is hired by Hetman Tronde Torbensson, the leader of the Thorwalians, to find the sword Grimring (the Blade of Destiny) and prevent an orc invasion on Thorwal. However, Grimring has been lost since the death of its bearer, the Hetman Hyggelik the Great. In order to recover the sword, the player must find pieces of a treasure map which shows the location of the sword. Once the sword is recovered the player needs to defeat the orc chief and his minions. If the player does not succeed within about two in-game years, the orcs will attack and the player loses.

Reception
According to Die Zeit, all three games in the Realms of Arkania series, including Blade of Destiny, were commercially and critically successful. The paper's Nicole Lange reported in 2011 that the three entries together had surpassed 2.4 million sales worldwide.

In a 1993 review from Computer Gaming World, Scorpia wrote, "'Das Schwarze Auge' means 'The Black Eye,' and that might be appropriate here". She wrote that "there are so many things wrong with the game play that we should start off with the few that are right" such as automapping and extra experience points for fighting unfamiliar enemies, but criticized the "awkward and confusing" magic system, discrepancies between the documentation and gameplay. Worst of all, she wrote, were the reduction in experience points for saving outside a temple, high failure rates during combat, and a bug that "won" the game by quitting during the final fight.

The One gave the Amiga version of Blade of Destiny an overall score of 73%, criticizing its graphics and small draw distance, saying "you can't even 'see' the poorly-drawn buildings until you're practically standing in front of them" and calling it a generic RPG, stating "The main problem with Blade of Destiny is that you really have seen this sort of thing before - and better, most probably. There are few surprises as you travel around, with everyone and everything you meet conforming to their usual clichéd fantasy roles." The One criticized the combat, calling it "uninspiring", and expressed that the 'movement points' system removes a sense of urgency.

Chris W. McCubbin reviewed Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny in Pyramid #6 (March/April, 1994), and stated that "I have no hesitancy about recommending Realms of Arkania for what it does well -- graphics, story and background. And I remain optimistic about the combat problems as well. After all, Blade of Destiny is only the first game in the Realms of Arkania series. If subsequent games correct the unrealistic aspects of ranged combat, Realms of Arkania could easily be a state-of-the art game for mature, discerning computer gamers."

Sequels
Blade of Destiny was the first game in the Northlands Trilogy, it was followed by Realms of Arkania: Star Trail, and Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva. As a feature players could save the game after beating it, this allowed the players to import their characters into any of the sequels.

Remake
A remake developed by the Austrian Crafty Studios and published by German United Independent Entertainment was released on Steam on July 30, 2013. Metacritic, a review aggregator, rated it 18/100 based on five reviews. This is one of Metacritic's lowest ratings for a PC game. On release, the game was plagued with bugs, and the developer's forums were full of complaints. Crafty Studios eventually posted an apology to Steam in which they promised to update the game. Steven Strom of Ars Technica, in an article where he played each of the five worst-rated games on Metacritic, said the remake is playable but still feels unfinished, including untranslated dialogue.

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World Poker Tour season 4 results

Below are the results of season 4 of the World Poker Tour television series (2005–2006).

Mirage Poker Showdown

 * Casino: The Mirage, Paradise, Nevada
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 4-Day Event: May 23, 2005 to May 26, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 317
 * Total Prize Pool: $3,074,900
 * Number of Payouts: 27
 * Winning Hand: Q-Q

Grand Prix de Paris

 * Casino: Aviation Club de France, Paris
 * Buy-in: €10,000
 * 5-Day Event: July 25, 2005 to July 29, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 160
 * Total Prize Pool: €1,520,000
 * Number of Payouts: 18

Legends of Poker

 * Casino: Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles
 * Buy-in: $5,000
 * 5-Day Event: August 27, 2005 to August 31, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 839
 * Total Prize Pool: $4,195,000
 * Number of Payouts: 72
 * Winning Hand:

Borgata Poker Open

 * Casino: Borgata, Atlantic City
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 4-Day Event: September 19, 2005 to September 22, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 515
 * Total Prize Pool: $4,995,500
 * Number of Payouts: 45
 * Winning Hand:

UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic

 * Casino: Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino, Palm Beach, Aruba
 * Buy-in: $5,000
 * 6-Day Event: September 26, 2005 to October 1, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 647
 * Total Prize Pool: $3,235,000
 * Number of Payouts: 125
 * Winning Hand:

Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship

 * Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 4-Day Event: October 18, 2005 to October 21, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 420
 * Total Prize Pool: $4,074,000
 * Number of Payouts: 100
 * Winning Hand:

World Poker Finals

 * Casino: Foxwoods, Mashantucket, Connecticut
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 5-Day Event: November 13, 2005 to November 18, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 783
 * Total Prize Pool: $7,855,000
 * Number of Payouts: 120
 * Winning Hand:

Five Diamond World Poker Classic

 * Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas
 * Buy-in: $15,000
 * 5-Day Event: December 12, 2005 to December 16, 2005
 * Number of Entries: 555
 * Total Prize Pool: $8,075,250
 * Number of Payouts: 100
 * Winning Hand:

PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure

 * Casino: Atlantis, Paradise Island
 * Buy-in: $7,800
 * 5-Day Event: January 5, 2006 to January 10, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 724
 * Total Prize Pool: $5,477,700
 * Number of Payouts: 130
 * Winning Hand:

Gold Strike World Poker Open

 * Casino: Gold Strike Tunica
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 5-Day Event: January 19, 2006 to January 23, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 327
 * Total Prize Pool: $3,171,900
 * Number of Payouts: 50
 * Winning Hand:

Borgata Winter Poker Open

 * Casino: Borgata, Atlantic City
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 4-Day Event: January 29, 2006 to February 1, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 381
 * Total Prize Pool: $3,695,700
 * Number of Payouts: 75
 * Winning Hand:

L.A. Poker Classic

 * Casino: Commerce Casino, Los Angeles
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 6-Day Event: February 16, 2006 to February 21, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 692
 * Total Prize Pool: $6,643,200
 * Number of Payouts: 45
 * Winning Hand:

L.A. Poker Classic

 * Casino: Commerce Casino, Los Angeles
 * Buy-in:
 * 2-Day Event: February 22, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 315
 * Total Prize Pool:
 * Number of Payouts:
 * Winning Hand:

Bay 101 Shooting Star

 * Casino: Bay 101, San Jose, California
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 5-Day Event: February 27, 2006 to March 3, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 518
 * Total Prize Pool: $4,702,800
 * Number of Payouts: 45
 * Winning Hand:

World Poker Challenge

 * Casino: Reno Hilton, Reno
 * Buy-in: $5,000
 * 4-Day Event: March 27, 2006 to March 30, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 592
 * Total Prize Pool: $2,845,700
 * Number of Payouts: 36
 * Winning Hand:

Foxwoods Poker Classic

 * Casino: Foxwoods, Mashantucket
 * Buy-in: $10,000
 * 4-Day Event: April 6, 2006 to April 9, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 431
 * Total Prize Pool: $4,175,200
 * Number of Payouts: 40
 * Winning Hand:

WPT Championship

 * Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas
 * Buy-in: $25,000
 * 7-Day Event: April 18, 2006 to April 24, 2006
 * Number of Entries: 605
 * Total Prize Pool: $14,671,250
 * Number of Payouts: 100
 * Winning Hand: 9-5

Other Events
During season 4 of the WPT there was one special event that did not apply to the Player of the Year standings:
 * The WPT Celebrity Invitational - February 22–24, 2006 - Commerce Casino - postscript to Event #12: L.A. Poker Classic

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Caligula (disambiguation)

Caligula was a Roman Emperor.

His name is understood to be derived from Caligae, heavy-soled hobnailed military sandal-boots known for being issued to Roman legionary soldiers and auxiliaries throughout the Roman Republic.

Caligula may also refer to:

Film, theatre, and television

 * Caligula (play), a 1938 play by Albert Camus
 * Caligula, a 1968 tragedy by John Crowne
 * Caligula (film), a 1979 film about the emperor
 * Caligula 2 (film), a 1982 film about the emperor
 * Caligula (TV series), a 2018 anime television series
 * Yellowjackets (TV series), a Showtime drama series featuring an African Grey parrot named Caligula

Music

 * Caligula (band), an Australian pop/rock band
 * Caligula (musical), a 2004 rock musical by Eric Svejcar
 * Caligula (Glanert), a 2006 opera by Detlev Glanert
 * Caligula, a 1671 opera by Giovanni Maria Pagliardi

Albums

 * Caligvla, a 2012 album by Ex Deo
 * Caligula (Anthony Jeselnik album), a 2013 album by Anthony Jeselnik
 * Caligula Theme Music, a 2014 album by Lee Bannon
 * Caligula, a 2008 album by Hästpojken
 * Caligula (Lingua Ignota album), a 2019 album by Lingua Ignota

Songs

 * "Caligula", a 1989 song by The Dickies from Second Coming
 * "Caligula", a song by Modey Lemon from Modey Lemon
 * "Caligula", a song by Macy Gray on On How Life Is

Other uses

 * Caligula (horse), an Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Caligula (moth), a genus of moths
 * Raziel (wrestler) or Caligula, professional wrestler

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User:H.A.

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Talk:Thomas Campbell (poet)

Cleanup
This page could stand to be reorganized with some section headings, but I can't decide how to do it. NickelShoe 22:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Some of the sentence structure unwittingly leads to wrong conclusions about information on the page. He was NOT the 4th son of Alexander Campbell, rather, Alexander was the fourth son of Archibald Campbell. Because of all the commas and run on sentences, the first poorly worded sentence is very misleading (now changed although I didn't include a source, there are plenty, pick one.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.246.111.216 (talk) 00:35, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Redirect
I'd like to redirect this page to Thomas Campbell (disambiguation), but I can't seem to get it to work. Fishhead64 05:50, January 29, 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Zhu Rongji

Hongwu Emperor
Can we get a good source for the fact that he's Hongwu's descendant? Can anyone with the family name Zhu be a descendant of the Hongwu Emperor? Is Zhu De a descendant too? Colipon+(T) 03:47, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I have found that the Chinese pinyin for "Zhu Bian (朱楩)" is wrong, it is zhu pian(3), refer to this dictionary: http://baike.baidu.com/view/896162.htm, Zhu Bian in Chinese has pretty bad meaning that no one would use it for a name. --Wolvesled (talk) 12:19, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

NPOV section
The Viewpoints section created by User:Giantcn is hardly an example of NPOV, as demonstrated by his other Chinese-related article edits. I strongly recommend that this entire section either be reedited or deleted.

I have removed the Viewpoints section, which was clearly POV.--Nicsilo 16:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

ZRJ's current whereabout
Where is ZRJ now? Is he teaching or just enjoying retirement life?

"Two countries" remark
Zhu's reference to Taiwan as a "country" has been published. Removing it can be seen as a non-NPOV edit. Shawnc 23:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Picture
Will someone find a picture of Zhu soon? It's been a while. Colipon+(T) 07:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

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User:Itsme~enwiki

my real name is willem.

(until about 2010) you could find me on http://forum.xda-developers.com/ or http://www.spv-developers.com/

my homepage is still (2022) https://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/ or https://github.com/nlitsme/

I am currently mostly busy reverse engineering and programming smartphones.

Some years ago a wikipedia editor stole my username. That's what they can do apparently.

But originally I was User:Itsme

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File:Flightplan.jpg

Fair use rationale
Fair use in Flightplan:
 * 1) This image illustrates the text next to which it appears, which describes the film in question for which it promotes.
 * 2) It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the film in any way.
 * 3) The image is of lower resolution than the original poster (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
 * 4) The image is being used in an informative way and does not detract from the film.
 * 5) No free or public domain images have been located for this film.

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Asrat Woldeyes

Asrat Woldeyes (Amharic: አስራት ወልደየስ; June 20, 1928 – May 14, 1999 ) was an Ethiopian surgeon, a professor of medicine at Addis Ababa University, and the founder and leader of the All-Amhara People's Organization (AAPO). He was jailed by the Derg and later by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). After his death, The Guardian described him as "successively Ethiopia's most distinguished surgeon, physician and university dean, most controversial political party leader and best known political prisoner".

Medical work
Asrat studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, becoming the first Ethiopian to qualify as a surgeon in the West. He then returned to Ethiopia, serving as Emperor Haile Selassie's personal physician until his 1975 death. He continued teaching and practicing medicine throughout the rule of President Mengistu Haile-Mariam.

Political activism and imprisonment
When Meles Zenawi succeeded Mengistu in 1991, Asrat became an active critic of the government, particularly of Meles' formation of new autonomous regions in Ethiopia. He then formed his own political party, the AAPO, with a central tenet of restoring Ethiopian unity. The new Addis Ababa University administration led by Duri Mohammed dismissed Asrat in 1993. In 1994, he was sentenced to two years in prison for "planning violence against the state". International human rights organizations protested the evidence against him as unsound, and Amnesty International named him a prisoner of conscience. He was later convicted of more charges, extending his sentence by an additional three years. In 1996, Asrat faced a new trial which was repeatedly adjourned, keeping him in prison indefinitely.

Illness and death
In 1998, Asrat, who had previously had bypass surgery, developed further heart problems, and government doctors stated that he needed treatment overseas to survive. However, the Ethiopian government initially denied him permission to travel, triggering international appeals on his behalf. On December 25, 1998, authorities yielded to international pressure, granting him a compassionate release and allowing him treatment in Houston. Though his treatment was at first successful, Asrat died five months later of his heart ailment at the University of Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia.

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User talk:Jakobpr

Hey there, Jakobpr. Since you sent me a message, I might as well welcome you to the Wikipedia. However, as I don't much approve the use of stock messages to greet new editors (you can see one at the top of my Talk page), I will simply volunteer myself to answer any question you might have regarding the project. My only advice is that you gave a quick glance at WP:MOS. That is a really useful article.

Anyway, it is always good to receive an editor interested in heavy metal, as this is an area in which the Wikipedia regretfully flawed. But things are improving with time, and in case you decide to stay, feel welcome. Cheers! --Sn0wflake 11:51, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Online building

Contradiction with online creation article
Online "building" was the original name for software that was later released publically as online creation. Unlike OLC, ... The online creation article claims that online creation and OLC are the same thing. This quote above says that online building and online creation are the same thing except that online building predates online creation. Atari2600tim 11:49, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * online creation's ACRONYM is OLC. On-Line Creation; OLC
 * That's how I understood it. So, online building came first, and then later online creation I guess, based on the online building.  I'd somehow been under a different impression before. Atari2600tim 22:44, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, that's still a source of confusion. Online "building" was the original name for software that was later released publically as online creation. sounds like online building predated online creation/OLC, and then it was given a new name when it was released to the public.  Unlike OLC... in the next sentence makes it sound like online building and online creation are not the same thing, because it is contrasting OLC against online building.  Is online building a completely different thing as it sounded like from where I had read elsewhere, or is OLC a newer version of online building, and the mode changes and stuff all just cooincided with the name change?  Atari2600tim 23:00, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Proposed merge
It was proposed that this article and online creation be merged. I started a discussion on the Talk page over there, since it's the longer article and where most discussion has been. Atari2600tim 10:08, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I did a merge and redirect Atari2600tim 19:30, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

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Opaskwayak Cree Nation

The Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN, Cree: ᐅᐸᐢᑿᔭᐠ) is a First Nations band government located in Manitoba, Canada. The main OCN reserve is regarded as one of three distinct communities that comprise "The Pas area" in northern Manitoba, with the two others being the Town of The Pas and the Rural Municipality of Kelsey.

Most of the OCN's on-reserve population lives near the Town of The Pas on the OCN 21E reserve, but the band also has many other reserves stretching from Goose Lake in the north to Mountain Cabin, Saskatchewan, in the south. OCN is accessible by rail, road, water, and air travel.

Peoples of the OCN are Swampy Cree, and their dominant language is from the Swampy Cree n-dialect. The Opaskwayak people first negotiated and entered into Treaty 5 in 1876.

The First Nation hosts the Opaskwayak Indian Days annually each August.

History
When the Opaskwayak people signed Treaty 5 on in 1876, the federal government agreed to give timber rights. In 1904, the band opened a sawmill on Mission Island on the Saskatchewan River. Soon after, the band surrendered their land on the south side of the river, and in 1908, moved its sawmill to the north side. The sawmill operated intermittently until 1930, and provided wood for most of the homes built in the first few decades of the 20th century.

According to oral tradition, Cree peoples have occupied the landscape of north-central Manitoba since time immemorial; this claim has been supported by archaeology. The earliest archeological evidence of the people occupying the area has been carbon dated 2,600–4,000 years ago.

The current townsite of Opaskwayak, reserve parcel 21E, was a historical gathering place where people travelled for spiritual healing. The area Cree would meet here every summer to fish, harvest, and cultivate the land. Also during this time, it was an opportunity for creating social ties and practicing the ceremonial way of life known as the Midewiwin, or Grand Medicine Society.

The language of the Opaskwayak people is from the Swampy Cree n-dialect. There was a number of local bands who shared the same defined territory which, in turn, composed of a number of interrelated families who came together periodically through the year for various social, cultural activities and ceremonies.

MacKay Indian Residential School
In 1912, an area located about 7 mi northwest of The Pas, bordering on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, was chosen by a representative of the federal Indian Department as the site for a new Indian Residential School. 20 acre of forest were cleared and a building was constructed between the fall of 1912 and June 1914.

Opening for classes in October 1914, the school was named the MacKay Indian Residential School in commemoration of Anglican archdeacon John Alexander Mackay of Saskatchewan. In its first year, the school had 81 pupils. As the land was largely unsuitable for farming, the school only had a vegetable garden to grow food for students.

The school was administered by the Bishop and Diocese of Saskatchewan until January 1922, when it was transferred to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada. It was destroyed by fire on March 19, 1933, and was not rebuilt. Many of the displaced students were sent to the Elkhorn and Lake La Ronge schools. Another residential school of the same name operated at Dauphin from 1955 to 1980.

The former school site is now used for community events.

Gordon Lathlin Memorial Centre
Gordon Lathlin Memorial Centre is a 1,100-seat arena, built in 1985. Since 1996 it has been home to the OCN Blizzard, who play in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. During a four-month off-season for hockey each year, the centre is used for social gatherings, concerts, and weddings.

The arena is named after the late Gordon Lathlin, who served as the Opaskwayak's chief from 1967 to 1974.

In 2012, a second hockey tenant began play at the GLMC when OCN Storm joined the Keystone Junior Hockey League.

Education
In terms of education on-reserve, OCN houses the Hilda Young Child Care Centre, Joe A. Ross School, and Oscar Lathlin Collegiate. The band government also supports post-secondary students at various institutions throughout Canada and the United States.

In January 2023, Opaskwayak, along with the federal and provincial governments, announced the construction of a new apartment block in downtown Winnipeg which will be owned and operated by OCN. OCN intends to lease several of the units to First Nations students, though the apartment will be open to other applicants as well.

The building will be 7-stories tall and is located next to the University of Winnipeg's Axworthy Health & RecPlex. Built by Paragon Design Build and Bockstael Construction, the apartment's construction is expected to take 18 months and be done by summer 2024.

The combined funding will equal a $17.4 million investment, with contributions from Opaskwayak, the Government of Manitoba through Efficiency Manitoba, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Government
The Band is governed by the Chief and eight Councillors, who are elected according to its own election code which was adopted by its members in 2012, for a three-year term.

The reserve consists of 24 parcels of land varying in size from 10 to 5200 acres and totaling about 45,000 acres. The most populated settlements are located in and around The Pas. Most of the reserve's borders are with the Rural Municipality of Kelsey and The Pas. The balance is with the unorganized portion of Census Division No. 21.

Notable people

 * Wilfred Buck, educator
 * Amanda Lathlin, politician
 * Oscar Lathlin, politician
 * Greg Younging, writer

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User:Tuxoid

I am the tuxoid. I have knowledge of a variety of operating systems and multimedia.

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Talk:System Administrator Appreciation Day

=Lyrics= Borg and thus his intellectual property. I've sent him an e-mail asking him for permission to reproduce the lyrics in this article. — WCityMike (T 02:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Granted! — WCityMike (T 04:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:57:49 +0000 From: Wes Borg To: [WCityMike's real name] Subject: Re: Request for Permission to Reprint Lyrics in "System Administration Appreciation Day" Article

Absolutely, please do, and thanks for asking.

I would suggest that folks be encouraged to add their own lyrics as well. wes

"Immature artists borrow. Mature artists steal" - Wes Borg

http://www.deadtroll.com

I clipped this from the article page, where should it go? j-beda 15:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Changes there's a line that is a bit longer in my version.
 * "and forgetting my mother's maiden name, and I can name files with ampersands and spaces and colons 'cuz you'll fix it all for me!"
 * What i have is something close to that, you might want to check it though.

Our companies are celebrating this holliday since it was founded in 2006. Vega.

=Fidelity National Title= "Fidelity National Title, located at 2510 Red Hill in Santa Ana, voted 42 - 0 to NOT celebrate this day for unknown reasons." I don't mean to be pedantic here, but what significance does some fortune500 company have for deciding not to celebrate the holiday and why is it in the article? Am I misreading the sentence, or missing the point of it? I can see that it might be worthwhile to expand on the fact that it is not a nationally acknowledged holiday, but this seems out of place.Forgotten Lords (talk) 22:09, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Just about to ask the same thing; seems very much out of place. Surely there are thousands of companies that don't celebrate it. GideonJones (talk) 23:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

=Neologism complaint= A moment with Google turns up two print sources: And at least one union promoting it: Seems to meet the notability guidelines. Please don't AfD - Will work the aforementioned into the article shortly. MrZaius talk  14:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1330/
 * http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=367
 * http://www.lopsa.org/
 * Note that it probably would be a good idea to nine-six the song. As the article isn't specifically about the filky little diddy, it should be probably be moved offsite or to WikiBooks.  MrZaius  talk  14:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, two of the print sources that you have cited are blogs, and as such, not really reliable sources. I would prefer to leave the notability tag up until some more bona fide sources can be found. - Tiswas (t) 09:49, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Would someone please explain "nine-six"? Or is it just a mistake for "eighty-six", like "diddy" for "ditty"? --Thnidu (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

=Press sources:=

Forbes.com - Digital Download - July 29, 2005 - "Break Out The Mountain Dew" http://www.forbes.com/2005/07/29/computers-software-internet-cx_de_0729digitaldownload_print.html

The Register UK - July 29, 2005 Love, love your sysadmin, do http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/29/sysadmins_day_2005

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online (mcpmag.com) July 21, 2005 "Thank You, SysAdmin Guy!" http://www.mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=824

InformationWeek - By John Soat June 20, 2005 IT Confidential: Identifying Foreigners, Human And Not (See last paragraph) http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164900908

User Friendly - Cartoon for SysAdmin Day 2004 - July 30 2004 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040730

IT Administrator - Germany 27 July 2004 - Am 30.7.04 ist System Administrator Appreciation Day http://www.it-administrator.de/aktuell/13152.html

NU.nl Net - The Netherlands 27 July 2004 - Zet je systeembeheerder in het zonnetje http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=366830&c=50

Spencer Katt - eWEEK Magazine - USA 19 July 2004 - (See the last few sentences of Spencer Katt's article) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1625858,00.asp

BBC News - UK Friday, 26 July, 2002 - "Celebrate the computer helpers" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2151602.stm

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=Original poster of the SysAdminDay Song= The original poster of the SysAdminDay Song was the author of the song. Check the article history, and you will see it was original inserted by Wes.
 * Two points - One, it was hardly relevant. Any editor could coin a poem about any topic and post it to the associated article if the above was an adequate rationale for the post. Two, an edit summary is hardly proof of ownership. MrZaius  talk  01:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

why isn't it always the last friday of july? crap in the middle of the week. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.79.103.60 (talk) 17:36, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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Bacillary dysentery

Bacillary dysentery is a type of dysentery, and is a severe form of shigellosis. It is associated with species of bacteria from the family Enterobacteriaceae. The term is usually restricted to Shigella infections.

Shigellosis is caused by one of several types of Shigella bacteria. Three species are associated with bacillary dysentery: Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri and Shigella dysenteriae. A study in China indicated that Shigella flexneri 2a was the most common serotype.

Salmonellosis caused by Salmonella enterica (serovar Typhimurium) has also been described as a cause of bacillary dysentery, though this definition is less common. It is sometimes listed as an explicit differential diagnosis of bacillary dysentery, as opposed to a cause.

Bacillary dysentery should not be confused with diarrhea caused by other bacterial infections. One characteristic of bacillary dysentery is blood in stool, which is the result of invasion of the mucosa by the pathogen.

Pathogenesis
Transmission is fecal-oral and is remarkable for the small number of organisms that may cause disease (10 ingested organisms cause illness in 10% of volunteers, and 500 organisms cause disease in 50% of volunteers). Shigella bacteria invade the intestinal mucosal cells but do not usually go beyond the lamina propria. Dysentery is caused when the bacteria escape the epithelial cell phagolysosome, multiply within the cytoplasm, and destroy host cells. Shiga toxin causes hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome by damaging endothelial cells in the microvasculature of the colon and the glomeruli, respectively. In addition, chronic arthritis secondary to S. flexneri infection, called reactive arthritis, may be caused by a bacterial antigen; the occurrence of this syndrome is strongly linked to HLA-B27 genotype, but the immunologic basis of this reaction is not understood.

Diagnosis
Specimen: Fresh stool is collected.

Culture: Specimen is inoculated on selective media like MacConkey's agar, DCA, XLD agar. Selenite F broth(0.4%) is used as enrichment medium which permits the rapid growth of enteric pathogens while inhibiting the growth of normal flora like E. coli for 6–8 hours. Subculture is done on the solid media from selenite F broth. All the solid media are incubated at 37 degrees for 24 hours.

Cultural characteristics: Colorless (NLF) colonies appear on MacConkey's agar which are further confirmed by gram staining, hanging drop preparation and biochemical reactions.

Treatment
Dysentery is initially managed by maintaining fluid intake using oral rehydration therapy. If this treatment cannot be adequately maintained due to vomiting or the profuseness of diarrhea, hospital admission may be required for intravenous fluid replacement. Ideally, no antimicrobial therapy should be administered until microbiological microscopy and culture studies have established the specific infection involved. When laboratory services are not available, it may be necessary to administer a combination of drugs, including an amoebicidal drug to kill the parasite and an antibiotic to treat any associated bacterial infection.

Anyone with bloody diarrhea needs immediate medical help. Treatment often starts with an oral rehydrating solution—water mixed with salt and carbohydrates—to prevent dehydration. (Emergency relief services often distribute inexpensive packets of sugars and mineral salts that can be mixed with clean water and used to restore lifesaving fluids in dehydrated children gravely ill from dysentery.)

If Shigella is suspected and it is not too severe, the doctor may recommend letting it run its course—usually less than a week. The patient will be advised to replace fluids lost through diarrhea. If the infection is severe, the doctor may prescribe antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin or TMP-SMX (Bactrim). Unfortunately, many strains of Shigella are becoming resistant to common antibiotics, and effective medications are often in short supply in developing countries. If necessary, a doctor may have to reserve antibiotics for those at highest risk for death, including young children, people over 50, and anyone suffering from dehydration or malnutrition.

No vaccine is available. There are several Shigella vaccine candidates in various stages of development that could reduce the incidence of dysentery in endemic countries, as well as in travelers with traveler's diarrhea.

History
The bacterium causing shigellosis is named after Kiyoshi Shiga, a Japanese researcher who discovered it in 1897.

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User talk:RyanJones

Ryan - Welcome to Wikipedia ! I notice you have made quite a number of edits moving a full stop from within $$...$$ tags to place it outside of the tags. In How to write a Wikipedia article on Mathematics it says

 * It is good style to put a period at the end of a formula, if that formula is at the end of a sentence. If the formula is written in LaTeX, that is, surrounded by the $$ and $$ tags, then the period must be also inside the tags, because otherwise the period can get badly misaligned.

so there is a good reason why the full stops are placed inside the tags. Perhaps you might think about reverting your edits ? Gandalf61 11:54, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry
The fem-nazis on that page deleted my well written "Defense" second that at least gave the article a small feel of neutrality. So i'll probably continue to screw with them. This is a lab computer so banning it really wont accomplish anything. Thanks and sorry.

Sorry...
Sorry, I was un-aware of that. Will do so imediatly :)

Cheers,

RyanJ
 * Welcome from me too. I reverted the other places where you put the period out. By the way, can you take a look at the current version of Hectagon, and the one you modified, which is this one? It indeed looks to me that the period shows up much better if put inside of the math tags rather than outside. On my screen, the version with the period out (second one) has the period kind of tiny and half a space to the right which looks rather unnatural. Would you agree with that? Oleg Alexandrov 16:25, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I agree.
I do agree 100% - I just thought that they were not supposed to have been there - notmally in formula images they are not present, I suppose I should have read the rules more carefully.

Cheers,

RyanJ

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This edit appears to have replaced some of the interlanguage links with question marks. Do you have any idea why that happened? —Keenan Pepper 01:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * That is wierd! The problem seems to have disappeared since I did another edit - can someone confirm that?

 * RyanJ: It could be I do not have the correct character sets installed and so its showing them as question marks and saving them as such. I have no idea but thats the only reason I can think of. Ryan Jones 10:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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I love the Welsh valleys, by the way, I have a little Davis blood in me myself. Cheers, Walkerma 04:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Your proposed additions to the WP:Chem worklist
Hello Ryan, thanks for participating in the work of the Chemicals wikiproject. We have determined quite some time ago a formally established worklist, to achieve the GOAL of the wikiproject. So, there are no simple additions to the worklist accepted. If you have another chemical that you deem important enough to also be on the the worklist (out of the 4000 in Wikipedia!!!), please use the wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals for proposing the addition or replacement of another chemical currently in the worklist. I have removed your text additions from the worklist. Please don't take a personal affront, as none is intended. Please use the talk page for giving good argument to after all get the chemicals on the worklist. Wim van Dorst (Talk)'' 17:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC).

 * Hi, thanks for the nifty drawing of arsine. Of course, bismuthine, stibine, phosphine (some of my pets) adopt the same structure.--Smokefoot 15:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

chembox table
Hi Ryan, you're making good progress in making tables according to the WP:Chem worklist. A simple recommendation is to make a stub page for those compounds and then add the table to it. But more importantly, may I kindly recommend that you use the standard chembox, by using subst:chembox for each empty table? The chembox has been designed very carefully, and we would like the WP:Chem to stick to it. Wim van Dorst (Talk)'' 20:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC).
 * Can do - will use that template instead :)
 * Ryan Jones 20:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I have writen no nonsense on Wikipedia. Do not make stupid comments like this with out backing them up. A bit of info please? What nonsense have I added? People will take you more seriously if you do just that.
 * Very hard for me to reply when you do not state the page or your username. If it was a vandalism notice then it could have been someone else using your computer / had the same IP address. Ryan Jones 10:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Please decategorize your subpage
Your subpage RyanJones/InorganicList contains category links which causes it to be shown on that category page. --JeffW 03:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Missed that. Commented out the cat. refs untill the page is done. Ryan Jones 09:53, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks. And when you finish the page, could you use Category:Chemistry lists instead of Category:Science-related lists?  --JeffW 13:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes I will do that, thanks for the suggestion. Ryan Jones 17:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

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If you are trying to install that, make sure that is under /skinname where skinname is the skin you are using, they are always lowercase and have no spaces. Voice -of- All Talk 23:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Lithium nitride

Lithium nitride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Li3N. It is the only stable alkali metal nitride. It is a reddish-pink solid. It has high melting point.

Preparation and handling
Lithium nitride is prepared by direct reaction of elemental lithium with nitrogen gas:
 * 6 Li + N2 → 2 Li3N

Instead of burning lithium metal in an atmosphere of nitrogen, a solution of lithium in liquid sodium metal can be treated with N2.

Lithium nitride must be protected from moisture as it reacts violently with water to produce ammonia:
 * Li3N + 3 H2O → 3 LiOH + NH3

Structure and properties

 * alpha-Li3N (stable at room temperature and pressure) has an unusual crystal structure that consists of two types of layers: one layer has the composition Li2N− contains 6-coordinate N centers and the other layer consists only of lithium cations.

Two other forms are known:
 * beta-Li3N, formed from the alpha phase at 0.42 GPa has the sodium arsenide (Na3As) structure;
 * gamma-Li3N (same structure as lithium bismuthide Li3Bi) forms from the beta form at 35 to 45 GPa.

Lithium nitride shows ionic conductivity for Li+, with a value of c. 2×10−4 Ω−1cm−1, and an (intracrystal) activation energy of c. 0.26 eV (c. 24 kJ/mol). Hydrogen doping increases conductivity, whilst doping with metal ions (Al, Cu, Mg) reduces it. The activation energy for lithium transfer across lithium nitride crystals (intercrystalline) has been determined to be higher, at c. 68.5 kJ/mol. The alpha form is a semiconductor with band gap of c. 2.1 eV.

Reactions
Reacting lithium nitride with carbon dioxide results in amorphous carbon nitride (C3N4), a semiconductor, and lithium cyanamide (Li2CN2), a precursor to fertilizers, in an exothermic reaction.

Under hydrogen at around 200°C, Li3N will react to form lithium amide.
 * Li3N + 2 H2 → 2LiH + 2LiNH2

At higher temperatures it will react further to form ammonia and lithium hydride.
 * LiNH2 + H2 → LiH + NH3

Lithium imide can also be formed under certain conditions. Some research has explored this as a possible industrial process to produce ammonia since lithium hydride can be thermally decomposed back to lithium metal.

Lithium nitride has been investigated as a storage medium for hydrogen gas, as the reaction is reversible at 270 °C. Up to 11.5% by weight absorption of hydrogen has been achieved.

title: Lithium nitride