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 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was No consensus, so keep --Allen3 talk 13:27, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Übernet
Some anonymous editor put this up for speedy deletion and while I don't think it fits that criteria I am not sure it is notable. I looked at the ubernet site and everything and I can't tell whether this article is self-promotion or what. In any case it is not notable as it is just a small community of audio-likers. It's not nearly as as well known as hydrogenaudio.org or the like and I fail to see any reason why it's encyclopedic. Ubernet which is a redirect page to this should also suffer the same outcome as this article. gren 22:18, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete gren 22:16, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Ubernet is well known in the audiophile filesharing community. I'm not a member, but they're relevant. --malathion talk 00:10, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Well, I put the article up, it could certainly use some fleshing out. Their website is not that infomative, but my friend tells me that the network is fairly large.  I beleive one of the requirements to join is to rip a certain number of cds according to their specifications.  I find the idea interesting, and would hope that people that know more could add to the article, but I shall let the community decide if it belongs here. [I am not associted with Übernet] --Terrible Tim 16:28, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ubernet is smaller than most direct connect hubs and the only thing it has going for it is that people don't know much about it. Which, seems to be against what is encyclopedic.  I mean, the only source is their site and what users or people who have heard from users would have to say.  Which seems a little odd because it can't be more than hearsay at that point.  gren 17:02, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I certianly agree that not every DC hub needs an article. However these people seem to be more organised, they have even released their own client based on DC.  The reason I wrote the article was because I wanted to know more about them, but Wikipedia had no article.--Terrible Tim 22:49, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete advertising. JamesBurns 07:29, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Factually incorrect. Übernet ceased their P2P activities.  Maeka 01:04, 04 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Users second edit. --Allen3 talk 13:27, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
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Drumcree Church

Drumcree Parish Church, officially The Church of the Ascension, is the Church of Ireland parish church of Drumcree in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It sits on a hill in the townland of Drumcree, outside Portadown. It is a site of historic significance and is a listed building.

There has been a church on the site since the Middle Ages. The foundation stone of the present church was laid on Ascension Day in 1855, and the church was consecrated the following year. The current rector is the Reverend Gary Galway, previous curate of St. Marks Parish in Portadown. The Church of Ireland parish of Drumcree has the same boundaries as the Roman Catholic parish of Drumcree.

For several years in the 1990s, the church drew international attention as the scene of the Drumcree standoffs. Each year, the Protestant Orange Order marches to-and-from a service at the church on the Sunday before 12th July. Residents of the nearby Catholic district prevented the march from continuing through their neighbourhood. Thousands of Orangemen and loyalists gathered at Drumcree and violently tried to force their way through, but were held back by the security forces, who built large steel and barbed wire barricades. These yearly "sieges" of Drumcree ended in the early 2000s.

History of the site
Drumcree is the townland in which the church is located. Its name comes from Irish Droim Crí meaning "boundary ridge", most likely referring to the River Bann marking the boundary between the old districts of Clancann and Clanbrassil.

There had been a church on the site since the Middle Ages. The parish of Drumcree was formed in 1110, comprising sixty-six townlands lying to the west of the Bann. The first recorded vicar was David MacRalagen, who died in 1414.

In September 1563, the powerful Irish chieftain Shane O'Neill of Tír Eoghain met the English Crown's representative Thomas Cusack at Drumcree. They agreed the 'Treaty of Drumcree', whereby the English would lawfully acknowledge Shane as Earl of Tyrone and chief of the O'Neill dynasty, but this never came to pass.

The church and parish remained Catholic until after the Protestant Reformation and the English conquest of the area in the early 1600s. It is unclear what happened to the church during the Reformation, but a map of 1609 shows the church in ruins. Following the Ulster Plantation in 1610 a new and Protestant church was built. This was described as "a plain stone building rough cast and whitewashed". In 1812 a tower was built and in 1814 a church bell was installed. In 1826 the rector, Charles Alexander, had a new rectory built.

History of the present church
In 1854, it was decided to build a new church. Its foundation stone was laid on Ascension Day, 17 May 1855. The church so built is the one that stands today and is on the same site as the former church. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, Robert Bent Knox, on 28 October 1856.

The Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1871 and as a result Drumcree lost most of its land, known as the glebe.

In 1901 a new burial ground was established on the north side of the church. In the following year the Parochial Hall was built. A pipe organ was installed in the church in 1907 and a memorial to the Great War was built in 1921. A further burial ground known as the Terrace Burial Ground was created on the east side of the church in 1922. In 1989 a war memorial to commemorate those lost in World War II was erected. Then in 1992 major renovation work was carried out to repair the fabric of the building.

Drumcree and the Orange Order
The Orange Order was founded in and around the County Armagh town of Portadown in 1795. The first Orange service and 'church parade' from Drumcree was on 1 July 1795. That parade was instigated by Protestant ministers in the Portadown area. One of them, a Reverend George Maunsell gave a sermon in June 1795. Maunsell called on his congregation: " to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in the true spirit of the institution" by attending a sermon to be given by a Rev. Devine of the Established Church at Drumcree on Sunday 1 July. And that 1st first Sunday church parade, like so many since, was celebrated with 'wrecking' and bloodletting in the parish of Drumcree. On page 17 of his History of Ireland (Vol. I), published in 1809, the historian Francis Plowden described the events that followed the Rev Devine's sermon:

This evangelical labourer in the vineyard of the Lord of peace so worked up the minds of his audience, that upon retiring from service, on the different roads leading to their respective homes, they gave full scope to the antipapistical zeal, with which he had inspired them, falling upon every Catholic they met, beating and bruising them without provocation or distinction, breaking the doors and windows of their houses, and actually murdering two unoffending Catholics in a bog. This unprovoked atrocity of the Protestants revived and redoubled religious rancour. The flame spread and threatened a contest of extermination...

Plowden tells of a similar assault on Catholics in Lurgan where influential Catholics and Protestants living east of the river Bann convened a meeting and succeeded in maintaining the peace in that area. But in Portadown the Catholic Defenders: "remained under arms for three days successively, challenging their opponents to fight it out fairly in the field rather that harass them with murderous nocturnal visits". Seven weeks later, on 21 September a party of Defenders was routed by a smaller but better armed coalition of 'wreckers' at the Diamond, 4 miles from Drumcree. The 'wreckers' were under the command of a Captain Giffard from Dublin. William Blacker, a member of the landed gentry and commander of the Seagoe Yeomanry, was later attributed a role in the affray. He is said to have stripped lead from the roof of his house to make ammunition in preparation for the ambush of Catholic Defenders at the Diamond. However, we could find nothing to support this and it may be no more than a piece of Orange legend that helped establish an affinity with the aristocracy in the minds of the Protestant peasantry. It was after the Diamond skirmish that the name 'Orange Boys' was adopted. This was changed to 'the Orange Order' as the ‘wreckers’ became more organised under the leadership of Blacker and James Verner, an attorney and agent for the Armagh estates of absentee landlord, Lord Charlemont.

Traditionally the Orangemen parade from the centre of Portadown, returning after the church service. The service and accompanying parades are now often represented by Orangemen as being held to commemorate the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who died during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Portadown is a predominantly Protestant town. The small area surrounding the Garvaghy Road is a small Catholic community within Portadown. That community has long been subjected to sectarian discrimination, marginalisation, and abuse. The Orange Order insist it is their right as citizens to march down the Garvaghy Road, a route they claim to hold traditional and communal value. The residents of Garvaghy Road insist it is their right not to be subjected to marches perceived by many as sectarian and intimidating. The stand-off between the Orangemen and the RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary, which previously colluded in facilitating the Orange demonstrations of strength, has become symbolic of the intractable sectarian divide that poisons relations between the two communities in Northern Ireland. And a local anthropologist, Peter Mulholland, has argued that Orange parades effectively deny the human rights and dignity of the minority community through annually reviving and fanning the flames of sectarian hatred.

The aforementioned Plowden report and many other instances of Orange parade-related violence during the two centuries since 1795 were documented by a small group of Portadown Nationalists in the early 1980s and circulated to journalists in 1996-7 under the title 'Two Hundred Years in the Orange Citadel'. Their research was also included in Nationalist submissions to the British government's 'North' commission of inquiry into sectarian parades.

In 1998 the Northern Ireland Parades Commission banned the Orangeman's parade. Every year since then the parade has been prevented from parading down the Garvaghy Road. In an attempt to defuse the situation the General Synod of the Church of Ireland has requested the Reverend John Pickering, Rector of Drumcree Church, to refrain from holding the Orangemen's service. The Primate of the Church of Ireland, Dr. Robin Eames, stated that "It is a form of blasphemy if, following a religious service, those who have attended it engage in behaviour which makes a mockery of such a service." Pickering has, however, refused the request, maintaining that "the doors of my church are open to anyone, including Orangemen".

In 2007, following the Northern Ireland power-sharing agreement, the Orange Order parade passed peacefully. The Order is still blocked from marching down the Garvaghy Road.

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Coupling Facility

In IBM System/390 and IBM Z mainframe computers, a Coupling Facility or CF is a piece of computer hardware or virtual machine that coordinates multiple processors.

A Parallel Sysplex  relies on one or more Coupling Facilities (CFs). A coupling facility is a mainframe processor (runs in an own LPAR, with dedicated physical CP, defined through Hardware Management Console (HMC)), with memory and special channels (CF Links), and a specialized operating system called Coupling Facility Control Code (CFCC). It has no I/O devices, other than the CF links. The information in the CF resides entirely in memory as CFCC is not a virtual memory operating system. A CF typically has a large memory – of the order of several tens of gigabytes. The CF runs no application software.

When originally introduced, the CFCC executed in a separate 9674 mainframe unit that was essentially a processor without I/O facilities other than the CF links. Later IBM enabled the use of an Internal Coupling Facility where the CFCC runs in a logical partition (LPAR) defined in standard processor complex and communicates over internal links within that processor complex hardware. Internal links are simulated, whereas links to another processor unit are over copper or optical fiber cables. More than one CF is typically configured in a Sysplex cluster for reliability and availability. Recovery support in the z/OS operating system allows structures to be rebuilt in the alternate CF in the event of a failure.

Supported by CFs, a Sysplex cluster scales very well up to several hundreds of CPUs (in up to 32 members, each with up to 190 CPUs) running transaction and data base applications. Using the CF links, data can be directly exchanged between the CF memory and the memory of the attached systems, using a direct memory access like mechanism, without interrupting a running program. Systems in a Sysplex cluster store CF information in local memory in an area called a bit vector. This enables them to locally query critical state information of other systems in the Sysplex without the need for issuing requests to the CF. The System z Architecture includes 18 special machine instructions and additional hardware features supporting CF operation.

Coupling Facility structures
A CF is used for three purposes: These three purposes are catered for by three types of structure: A structure is a dedicated portion of CF memory. It is said to be connected to by specific CF-exploiting applications on the coupled z/OS systems. A typical Parallel Sysplex contains several structures of each type. Each software exploiter may use several structures of each type. For example, each Db2 Data Sharing Group uses one Lock structure, one List structure and several cache structures (one for each Group Buffer Pool (GBP)).
 * Locking information that is shared among all attached systems
 * Cache information (such as for a data base) that is shared among all attached systems (or maintaining coherency between local buffer pools in each system).
 * Data list information that is shared among all attached systems
 * Lock
 * Cache
 * List (and the variant Serialised List)

Structure duplexing
Structures may be duplexed across different CFs, allowing two copies of the same structure to be kept synchronized. Duplexing is often used as part of an installation's drive to remove single points of failure, with the aim of reducing the incidence and duration of application outages. In the event of the failure of one CF, the other copy of the structure is used to satisfy all requests.

Coupling Facility requests
A request to a CF structure is of one of two kinds: Exploiting z/OS applications explicitly issue CF requests as synch or asynch.
 * Synchronous (sync) requests. When a z/OS system issues a request it waits for the request to complete, actively spinning on one of its own processors. Sync requests are quick but the response time is the same as the coupled system's spinning CPU loss. So Sync requests are relatively expensive in CPU terms – from the coupled system's perspective.
 * Asynchronous (async) requests. When a z/OS system issues a request it doesn't wait for the request to complete. Async requests are slower than sync requests (as they have a lower priority in the CF) but don't lead to the coupled system's processor spinning.

Dynamic Request Conversion
In z/OS Release 2, the Dynamic Request Conversion heuristic algorithm was introduced. This uses sampled response times to decide whether to convert Sync requests to Async or not. These decisions are based on such criteria as coupled processor speed. The greater the distance between the coupled z/OS system and the CF the greater the likelihood requests will be converted to Async from Sync.

Async requests are never converted to Sync.

This heuristic algorithm complements a previously-existing algorithm that automatically (but not heuristically) converted requests, based on conditions such as path busy and on request data size. The difference is the new algorithm samples response times dynamically.

CFs are unique to S/390, zSeries and System z mainframes. They are key to Parallel Sysplex technology.

Coupling Facility Levels and Exploiting Software Levels
The CFCC code is released as Levels, usually denoted by their CFLEVEL. For example, CFLEVEL 15 was announced in April 2007. Each level brings new function and sometimes improved performance. In most cases the new function or performance improvement requires a corequisite release of z/OS and perhaps new function in some subsystem (such as Db2). One such example is Coupling Facility Structure Duplexing. (Sometimes support from the operating system and subsystems is available via PTFs rather than a full release.)

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thanks for your images! i tried to use them in german wikipedia too, but i would have to upload them separately. could you put your images (like the west chester center image) into http://commons.wikipedia.org pls, so it might be used with other languages without upload? very nice would be also to give them a speaking name.

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Muhammad Imaaduddeen V

Sultan Muhammad Imaaduddeen V (1884–1920), son of Ibrahim Nooraddeen and Bodugaluge Didi of Machchangoalhi Ganduvaru, and also younger half-brother of Muhammad Shamsuddeen III, was the sultan of the Maldives from 1892 to 1893 for five months. He was 8 years old when he became the sultan, after the death of his father Sultan Ibrahim Nooraddeen. Despite having an older half-brother, Imaaduddeen V, was appointed as sultan by a decree of the Council of Ministers (Raskan-hingaa Majlis) headed by Ibrahim Didi, brother-in-law to the late sultan Nooraddeen. Meanwhile, a vigorous protest was handed down to the Ceylon Governor in Colombo by Muhammed Didi, the brother of Kakaage Don Goma, one of the late Sultan Nooraddeen's wives highlighting that the Law of Succession in the Maldive Islands which supported lineal primogeniture has been breached and that his great-nephew Muhammed Shamsuddeen (then Kakaage Doshi Mannipulhu) who was 14 and thus the eldest son of the late Sultan should be the legitimate heir to the throne. Five months later Imaaduddeen was deposed by Muhammad Shamsuddeen III as the Sultan of the Maldives. He died during his brother's reign.

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Sleeping Bride

Sleeping Bride (ガラスの脳) is a Japanese 2000 romance film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on a comic by Osamu Tezuka. It is probably best known to Western audiences for its inclusion in a Collector's Edition Version of the 2004 Tartan Video DVD release of the Ring trilogy, which included it as a fourth Nakata feature unrelated to the Ring series. It was released on January 29, 2000.

Plot
On March 13, 1954, a passenger plane crashes in Japan, killing all but one passenger: a woman who is nine months pregnant. Ultimately she dies in a hospital, but her unborn daughter is saved. However, for a reason inexplicable by the science of the day, the daughter (named Yumi) does not wake up and is essentially in a comatose state. Her wealthy father has her placed in a hospital where she will be cared for indefinitely (and also offers a reward to anyone who can wake her) while he vanishes in search of a cure to her condition.

Seven years later (March 25, 1961) Yuichi (a boy who is roughly seven himself) is admitted to the same hospital (with asthma) and discovers Yumi. After being told of her condition and then reading the story of Sleeping Beauty, he resolves to awaken Yumi by kissing her. Saying, "Wake up, I'm the prince," he kisses her on the lips. This has no effect, but Yuichi is undeterred, and makes a routine of this, even after he leaves the hospital, repeating the same line and kissing her. Although a nurse finds this "cute" and lets him continue, when Doctor Hikawa discovers his actions, he ejects Yuichi from the hospital, infuriated that Yuichi believes that he can awaken the girl, whom he himself could not awaken with all the powers of medical science.

For the next ten years Yuichi does not visit the hospital at all, until February 14, 1972, when he sees a new report on Yumi who, after 17 years, has still never awoken. Overcome by the memories of his childhood, Yuichi returns to the hospital, and although initially thwarted by a new (apparently American) nurse, he eventually resumes his ten-year-old routine, with similarly little results, although more genuine emotion. Doctor Hikawa – now a Director of the Hospital – gradually becomes aware of his actions.

After Yuichi accidentally kisses a girl at school as part of an elaborate setup on the part of his friends, he rushes to the hospital (it would appear he considered it an act of infidelity) despite the rain and late hour, and passionately kisses Yumi. He does not use the "Wake up, I'm the prince" line, but instead begs her (apparently in his thoughts), stating, "I'm no prince, I'm Yuichi Nasagawa, but please wake up, I want to talk to you." Though it would appear to have no effect at first, as Yuichi is leaving he notices some movement, and then he realises that Yumi has indeed awoken.

Promptly, the silent Yumi is besieged by a team of doctors and nurses who start to run series of tests, essentially ignoring and shutting out Yuichi. Yuichi, seeing that Yumi has been revived only to become some sort of human guinea pig, abducts her. Although Yumi has the mentality of a baby (even lacking the ability to walk or talk) they have a mutually enjoyable time together, until Yumi is reminded* of the crash-site in which her mother died, and is returned to the hospital by orderlies.

Yumi is seen in bed, at night, with her eyes open; Yumi does not sleep at all any more.

The next day (the "second day" that Yumi is awake), Yumi has advanced to the mentality of a young child, able to speak and read, and also an amazing talent for photo-realistic art, as she draws the image of her father. Yuichi returns after school and is immediately recognised by Yumi. They (this time by mutual consent, and accompanied by orderlies) walk outside in the grounds of the hospital. Upon sighting a bus (which Yumi seems to want to ride) Yuichi decides to give the orderlies (who have the air of cartoon comic-relief thugs to them) the slip, and does so successfully. They have an enjoyable "date" together (although Yumi is still only capable of conversing in simple terms).

By the third day Yumi has been discovered by the media and is being paraded all over for the press. Yuichi, Yuichi's nurse (who retired), and Yumi's father all witness the report on TV. Yuichi, once more, decides of his own accord that this is not "right" (although unlike when she was being tested, Yumi can clearly be seen to be distressed by many of the questions about her own genesis) and abducts Yumi once more. By this time Yumi has acquired the vocal and cognitive abilities approximately the same as other girls her age.

Yumi and Yuichi have their first conversation as intellectual equals. Yumi asks several philosophical questions about life and death. She declares that she only has two more days left before she falls asleep again (she gives no explanation as to how she acquired this knowledge, but she simply has it). Overall, she only has five days to be awake. She goes on to inquire about a strange emotion she has when she thinks of someone. After hearing the description, Yuichi explains the emotion is probably love. Yumi declares that, therefore, she is in love with Doctor Hikawa, shattering Yuichi.

Yuichi comes to the conclusion that someone told Yumi that she could only be awake for five days while she was asleep, and as such she believes it, but it is not true. He urges Hikawa to marry Yumi, as Yumi apparently loves him, and Yuichi's primary concern is Yumi's happiness. Hikawa does not believe in the five-day limit either, or that Yumi really loves him. Yumi hears their conversation through the door and is herself, heart-broken. She attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but she is stopped by Yuichi.

On the fourth day, Yuichi's old nurse returns to the hospital to see Yumi, who is now in a state of depression. After hearing the story from Yuichi, she reveals that Hikawa had been doing something sexual to her at night, and that she left the hospital upon discovering this. Yuichi is infuriated, he confronts Hikawa and punches him, knocking him to the floor. Hikawa does not get up, but simply talks, his head lying down, not facing anything, of how Yumi was abandoned by her parents, and God. She was left only with him, but he was unable to help her. He explains that it was because he was unwilling to admit his impotency that he did what he did.

Yuichi returns to Yumi. Yumi explains that she heard someone, for a long time, praying for her to wake up, and then felt something that made her feel very warm. She thought this was Doctor Hikawa, and as such, that she loved him. Yuichi kisses her, and she realises the kiss was what made her warm, and by extension, it was Yuichi who prayed to her, and he whom she loved all along. They continue to kiss, and presumably make love. The same night they announce to Yuichi's mother that they are getting married.

On the fifth and final day of the film, Yuichi and Yumi are wed. Although Yumi's father watches and is happy to see that his daughter has found happiness, he does not reveal himself, but simply leaves once more, content. Hikawa arrives after the wedding and speaks alone to Yuichi about the fifth day limit. While he maintains that it is simply autosuggestion, he reminds Yuichi that it is real for Yumi. When Yuichi asks what to do, all Hikawa can suggest is prayer.

That night as Yumi and Yuichi depart on their honeymoon on a train, Yumi states, "I will be with Yuichi forever," and that she remembers everything about him, even in sleep, going on to list all the things they did together. Yumi's speech is rather bittersweet. Despite the fact she appears genuinely happy at moments, she is also on the verge of tears. Yuichi has a similar mix of anxiety and sorrow. Yumi inquires if Yuichi believes in God. Yuichi replies, that if God is the one who only allows her to be awake for five days, then he does not believe in him. Yumi says she will tell God that the world is "very big," paraphrasing something Yuichi told her before. Finally, she states she will thank God for meeting Yuichi as well, and then she drifts off to sleep. Yuichi tries to wake her, eventually even resorting to the sleeping-beauty kiss. Yumi opens her eyes briefly and says, "I… am… happy," before falling asleep once more, forever.

Twenty seven years later (August 7, 1999), an aged Yuichi, now a scientist, returns home from work and talks to his wife. Yumi, herself aged, but not dramatically (her hair has greyed, but presumably her face has not wrinkled since she has not been moving) and still sleeps. As he is showing her a picture of a friend's son, he notices she has stopped breathing – Yumi is dead.

As Yuichi watches the video of Yumi talking to the press (before he, in his youth, liberates her – i.e. the third day) he explains by monologue that after her death he had an autopsy performed on Yumi. When her brain was removed, it was completely transparent, and beautiful. He believes that although she was only awake for five days, she was happier than anyone else.

The film ends, replaying the earlier footage of Yumi and Yuichi running from the press. Yumi happily calls, "Yuichi!" and he retorts, "The world is very big, Yumi."

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The University of Coimbra General Library (Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra) is the central library of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal.

Even before 1537, the year when the university was definitively established in Coimbra, transferred for its last time from Lisbon, a library was already in operation in the city. It was called Livraria de Estudo (Study Library). Based on the inventories of 1513 and 1532, more than 120 manuscript volumes were stored at the library. After the university refounding of 1537, the Livraria de Estudo was reinstalled and opened for students and professors, 4 hours a day. The statutes of 1559 already determined 6 hours of functioning a day, and the statutes of 1571 and 1597 called it livraria pública para lentes, estudantes e quaisquer pessoas outras (public library for lecturers, students and everybody else). In 1705 the library was closed and about 20 years later a new library was established-–the Biblioteca Joanina (Joanina Library, named after King João V). By the reform which occurred in 1901, the library was renamed Biblioteca Central da Universidade (Central Library of the university).

The current designation of the library, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, came in 1924, and its current main building is from 1962. The library is divided in two buildings:

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The library is open every day from 9:00 to 22:45.

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The 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships were held July 12–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. The championships featured competition in all 5 of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Synchronised swimming, Water Polo, and Open Water Swimming.

Competition was held in the facilities all around the city: Palau Sant Jordi, Piscines Bernat Picornell, Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc, Club de Natació de Barcelona and Port Vell.

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Crazy for You (Madonna song)

"Crazy for You" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for the film Vision Quest (1985). It was released in February 1985 by Geffen Records as the lead single from the film's soundtrack album. Film producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, along with music director Phil Ramone, decided to use Madonna after listening to her previous recordings, employing John Bettis and Jon Lind to write the song. After reading the script of the film, Bettis and Lind wrote the song about the situation in which the lead characters meet at a nightclub. Initial recording sessions did not impress Bettis and Lind, and they felt that "Crazy for You" would be dropped from the soundtrack. However, a new version was recorded to their liking.

John "Jellybean" Benitez was the record producer of "Crazy for You", and it was a challenge for him, as previously he was associated with recording dance-pop songs only. Initially Warner Bros. Records did not want the song to be released as a single, since they believed that it would take away the attention from Madonna's second studio album Like a Virgin (1984). In the end, Peters and Guber convinced Warner officials to greenlight its release. "Crazy for You" ushered a new musical direction for Madonna, as she had not previously released a ballad as a single. The track features instrumentation from snare drums, harp, bass synthesizer and electric guitar. Lyrically, the song speaks of sexual desire between two lovers and consists of innuendos.

"Crazy for You" received positive response from music critics and earned Madonna her first Grammy Award nomination in the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance category. The song became Madonna's second number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top of the charts of Australia and Canada. It also peaked at number two in Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, where it was released twice, in 1985 and 1991. Madonna has performed "Crazy for You" during the Virgin Tour in 1985, Re-Invention World Tour in 2004 and in some dates of Rebel Heart Tour in 2016. The performance from The Virgin Tour was included in the home video release on VHS and LaserDisc. "Crazy for You" appears on the compilation albums The Immaculate Collection (1990), Something to Remember (1995) and Celebration (2009). "Crazy for You" has also been covered by a number of artists.

Background
"Crazy for You" was written by John Bettis and Jon Lind. The ballad was released as the first single from the soundtrack of the 1985 film Vision Quest, a coming of age drama about a high school wrestler, played by Matthew Modine. Film producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber and music director Phil Ramone were aware of the then unknown Madonna, who was just signed to Sire Records. Ramone took her for dinner at his house where she played some of her music videos. Ramone and the other Warner executives present there, were impressed by Madonna's self-possession and fishnet-crucifix style, and they decided to test her voice in a New York studio. Peters assigned Joel Sill, an executive in charge of music at Warner Bros. Pictures, to handle the recording of the two songs for the film. Sill sent the script of the film to Bettis and Lind. After reading through the script, Bettis wanted to write a song about the situation where the main characters – a young boy and a girl boarding at a house – dance together at a nightclub. He elaborated: "We were noodling around and 'Crazy for You' was something that Jon was singing over that section of the song. It was really descriptive of the scene in the film. [...] After that, I was out on vacation out in the desert and [Sill] called and said Phil Ramone was in love with the song and wanted to cut it on Madonna. [Laughing] 'Borderline' was out at that time and I said, 'Excuse me? This is for Madonna? Really? Can she sing a song like this?' Jon and I were surprised at the choice of artist at the time, if you want to know the truth."

Recording
After Sill let Bettis and Lind know that Madonna was singing the song, some time elapsed before either of them heard anything from Warner Bros. Records. In between, they went to one of the recording sessions and were not impressed with the process of recording the song. Bettis commented, "We went to one of the sessions, and to be honest, that particular session did not go all that well. [...] Jon and I were depressed about the way the song had come out. We heard nothing else about it and we were a little nervous that the song was going to be dropped from the picture." Bettis went to England to work on the 1985 fantasy film Legend with music producer Jerry Goldsmith. It was there he received a call from Lind, who informed Bettis that a new version of "Crazy for You" was recorded and was made ready for a single release. Bettis was surprised and went over to Lind's house, where he warmly received the new recorded version of the song. It had a different arrangement from the demo version, and the arrangement was done by composer Rob Mounsey who rearranged the original track and added the background vocals. Bettis said: "We owe a big debt of gratitude to [Mounsey]. He really made a hit record out of [the song]." Mounsey was introduced in the project by record producer John "Jellybean" Benitez who was producing "Crazy for You". Benitez was previously associated with producing dance-pop themed songs and it was the first time that he produced a ballad. In Fred Bronson's The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, Benitez commented, "The song was recorded live. It was the first time that I produced a live session, as opposed to having synthesizers and drum machines do everything. [...] I was tense because I had never done a record like this. [...] Everything I did was totally on instinct. I tried to make the song stand on its own, but at the same time work in the two scenes in which it was used in the movie." Benitez also noted that "Crazy for You" was an important recording for Madonna, as the song being a ballad, was openly accepted at adult contemporary radios. She had already charted with her singles "Like a Virgin" and "Material Girl", hence Madonna wanted to prove that she can sing in a different genre of music. However, Warner initially did not want the song to be released as a single, since the release of Vision Quest coincided with the release of Madonna's second studio album Like a Virgin and releasing "Crazy for You" would have distracted attention from the album. Warner Bros. Records chief Mo Ostin went to Robert A. Daly, chairman of Warner, and requested him to pull out the Madonna tracks from the Vision Quest soundtrack. Daly summoned Peters and Guber to his office and informed them that they had to let-go of the Madonna tracks. Peters protested and shouted at Daly, resulting him escaping in fright and Warner allowing "Crazy for You" to be released as a single.

Composition
"Crazy for You" was a new musical direction for Madonna, as she had not recorded ballad songs before. According to author Rikky Rooksby, the song is sophisticated compared to her previous singles. The introduction features a melody by an oboe and an electric guitar chord, sliding from one motif to the other. It has a snare drum on the last beat of the bar, leading to the spacey quality to most of the verses. Other instrumentation comes from a harp, a bass synthesizer and a chattering single note guitar lick. The fuller rhythm of the song does not start, until the chorus is reached. The turn of the melody allows Madonna's voice to stretch further on the higher notes.

According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Alfred Publishing, "Crazy for You" is set in the time signature of common time, with a medium tempo of 104 beats per minute. It is set in the key of E major with Madonna's voice spanning between the high note of C♯5 to the low note of G♯3. The song has a basic sequence of E–A–B–A as its chord progression. Unlike her previous singles, the chord sequence does not repeat itself and the chorus slowly unravels to the climax of the song. Lyrically, the song talks about extreme love for one another. It contains innuendos similar to the Crystals' 1963 song "Then He Kissed Me". According to scholar Dave Marsh, the lyrics talk about frank sexual desire among two teenagers. He believed that the line "I'm crazy for you, Touch me once and you'll know it's true" was not ambiguous and it helped Madonna to capitalize on such disambiguation.

Critical reception
Keith Caulfield of Billboard said that "Crazy for You" is "perhaps the ultimate slow-dance song." Cash Box said that "though less infectiously danceable than her other two current singles 'Like a Virgin' and 'Material Girl'], 'Crazy For You' displays Madonna's voice in a different context, one that is more mature and ultimately marketable." Rikky Rooksby, author of The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna, called the song sophisticated. Alex Henderson of Allmusic felt that the other Madonna song on the Vision Quest soundtrack, "Gambler", should have been the more successful single. Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli characterized the song as "sassy" and commented that the song provided proof that Madonna was vocally capable of delivering a serious ballad. Author Andrew Morton believed that the song cemented Madonna as a talented and serious singer which "had been missing from her past recordings." Allen Metz and Carol Benson, authors of The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of Commentary, said that the song sounded like a "remake of sweet-sixteen Connie Francis tune, dripping with old-fashioned, hand-held romance" especially in the line "It's so brand new; I'm really crazy for you." Edna Gundersen from USA Today felt that the song is "touching and beautifully arranged."

Dave Marsh, author of The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, felt that with the coda of the song, Madonna transformed her record into an adult love song. William McKeen, author of Rock and Roll is Here to Stay: An Anthology, said that the song "offered an aggressive sexuality for women". Maria Raha, author of Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground, said that with the song, "Madonna brought a trunk full of trite lyrics on the long-standing tradition of pop music, love."

"Crazy for You" was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at 1986 Grammy Awards, but lost to Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love for You". The song was ranked number 38 on VH1's "100 Greatest Love Songs", and during the special it was revealed that "Crazy for You" was recorded in one take. In 2003, Madonna fans were asked to vote for their Top 20 Madonna singles of all time by Q; "Crazy for You" was allocated the eleventh spot.

Chart performance
In the United States, "Crazy for You" became Madonna's second number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The song debuted on the chart at number 55 on the issue dated March 2, 1985. After 11 weeks, the song reached the top of the chart, replacing "We Are the World" by USA for Africa. "Crazy for You" was the second number-one song for Bettis as a songwriter, after "Top of the World" by the Carpenters (1973). With "Crazy for You", Bettis was in doubt whether the song would reach the top, after it was stuck at number two for three weeks, behind "We Are the World". Both he and Lind commented, "If you gotta lose to something, it might as well be 'We Are the World'. Luckily enough, the final week of the upsurge of the record, we topped 'We Are the World', which lets you know how hot the song and how hot the artist [Madonna] was."

"Crazy for You" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 16, 1985, for shipment of one million copies of the single across United States—the requirement for a gold single prior to 1989. The song reached number two on the Adult Contemporary Singles (behind "Rhythm of the Night" by DeBarge), and 80 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It placed at nine on the year-end chart for 1985, with Madonna becoming the top pop artist for the year. In Canada, the song debuted at number 70 on the RPM issue dated March 16, 1985. On its eleventh week on the chart, the song reached the top position. It was present on the chart for a total of 25 weeks and was ranked seventh on the RPM Year-end chart for 1985. A music video was released, featuring Madonna singing the song in a night-club. The video was included in Celebration: The Video Collection, released in 2009.

"Crazy for You" reached number one in Australia and displaced another Madonna release, "Angel"/"Into the Groove", from the top spot on the Kent Music Report chart, making Madonna one of the few acts in Australian chart history to replace themselves at the number-one spot. After the song was released in the United Kingdom on June 8, 1985, it debuted at number 25 and peaked at number two. On February 18, 1991, the QSound version of the song (as remixed by Shep Pettibone for The Immaculate Collection) was released and debuted in the peak position of number two in the Official UK Singles chart. It would equal the chart position of the 1985 original, as it was kept off the number-one slot by another record from the 1980s, namely "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash. "Crazy for You" was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipment of 500,000 copies across United Kingdom. "Crazy For You" was 16th-best-selling single of 1985 in United Kingdom. Such was Madonna's popularity that when Vision Quest was released on home video in the UK it was renamed as Crazy for You, to cash in on her success. According to the Official Charts Company, the song had sold 782,000 copies there as of August 2017. "Crazy for You" was also a number-two hit in Ireland and New Zealand. The song reached the top 20 in Belgium, Europe, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland  and top 40 in Austria, France and Germany.

Live performances
Madonna first performed "Crazy for You" on the Virgin Tour in 1985. She wore a black top and long black skirt with her hair in knots and a crucifix attached. After an energetic performance of "Lucky Star", Madonna sat on some steps and sang "Crazy for You". Paul Grein, music editor of Billboard, commented that "She was at her best on 'Crazy for You', making good use of a deeper, huskier vocal quality that mirrors the song's deeper lyrical approach. The performance was included in the VHS release Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour recorded in Detroit, Michigan.

In the Re-Invention World Tour of 2004, Madonna performed the song in the last segment of the show, the Scottish segment. During that segment, she wore a Scottish kilt and a t-shirt which had different captions in different venues; usually it had the caption "Kabbalists Do It Better", however she also had "Brits Do It Better" and "Irish Do It Better" on the British and Irish stops of the tour, respectively. Generally after finishing the performance of "Papa Don't Preach", Madonna would dedicate the next song to the fans of twenty years, and start singing "Crazy for You" on top of a rising platform. At the end of the performance, she would usually throw her t-shirt to the audience. The performance was excluded from the album of the documentary on the tour titled I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, which was released in 2006.

On February 25, 2016, Madonna performed "Crazy for You" during the Manila stop of her Rebel Heart Tour as a tribute to the 30th anniversary of the 1986 EDSA Revolution. Before the performance she said; "I believe 30 years ago you fought for your freedom, am I correct? It's called People Power Freedom [sic], did I say that right? Up with democracy and freedom! That is the revolution of love. And that's what a rebel heart fights for. So on this very special occasion, I want to sing this song".

In 2023, Madonna included "Crazy for You" in the setlist for her The Celebration Tour.

Cover versions and media appearances
Philippine acoustic band MYMP recorded a cover version and released it their album New Horizon (2006). In 2007, Groove Armada recorded a cover with Alan Donohoe of art rock band the Rakes on vocals for the compilation Radio 1 Established 1967. New Found Glory recorded a pop punk cover of the song with Max Bemis for their 2007 album From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II. A cover of the song by Lion of Panjshir was included on the 2007 Madonna tribute compilation Through the Wilderness. Madonna impersonator Melissa Totten did a Hi-NRG cover for her 2008 dance album, Forever Madonna. An instrumental version was played in the Full House episode 13 Candles when Kimmy dares D.J. to kiss Kevin at her party.

"Crazy for You" originally appeared on the soundtrack of Brazilian telenovela A Gata Comeu (1985), however, Warner Bros. representatives did not obtain permission in due time for its inclusion on the soundtrack. Thus, all of the pressings of the soundtrack with the song on its tracklist were withdrawn from stores, and replaced with "Smooth Operator" by Sade; these vinyl copies with "Crazy for You" became collector items, being sold at a high price in online stores. The original Madonna recording was featured in the 2004 film 13 Going on 30, starring Jennifer Garner. At the end of the film, the song is played again, but to signify Jenna Rink's life staying on the "good path" 17 years later, and a bigger, modern rock/string orchestration by the film's composer Theodore Shapiro is added. Kelly Clarkson covered the song during her 2012 Stronger Tour per fan request in Bossier City, Louisiana. The song was also featured in the 2016 web film The Do-Over with vocals by Adam Sandler and David Spade.

Track listing and formats

 * US 7" single
 * 1) "Crazy for You" – 3:59
 * 2) "No More Words" (Berlin) – 3:54

 * US 7" promo single
 * 1) "Crazy for You" – 4:08
 * 2) "Gambler" – 3:54

 * Dutch 12" single
 * 1) "Crazy for You" – 4:08
 * 2) "I'll Fall in Love Again" (Sammy Hagar) – 4:11
 * 3) "Only the Young" (Journey) – 4:01

 * UK 7" single (1985)
 * 1) "Crazy for You" – 3:59
 * 2) "I'll Fall in Love Again" (Sammy Hagar) – 4:11

 * UK 7" single/cassette single (1991)
 * 1) "Crazy for You" (Remix) – 3:45
 * 2) "Keep It Together" (Shep Pettibone Single Remix) – 4:30

 * UK 12" single/CD maxi-single (1991)
 * 1) "Crazy for You" (Remix) – 3:45
 * 2) "Keep It Together" (Shep Pettibone Remix) – 7:45
 * 3) "Into the Groove" (Shep Pettibone Remix) – 8:06

Credits and personnel

 * Madonna – lead vocals, background vocals
 * John Bettis – writer
 * Jon Lind – writer
 * John "Jellybean" Benitez – record producer
 * Rob Mounsey – music arrangement
 * Greg Fulginiti – mastering

Credits adapted from the soundtrack's liner notes.

Certifications and sales
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Shallan Meiers

Shallan Meiers (born September 30, 1981) is an American model and actress. She was born in San Diego, California.

She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for September, 2002 after appearing on the TV special Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold?, that was broadcast on Fox in May 2002. Meiers was a second runner-up, losing to Lauren Anderson and Christina Santiago. All three would eventually become Playmates.

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Thyra

Thyra (Old Norse: Þyri or Þyre) was the wife of King Gorm the Old of Denmark, and one of the first queens of Denmark widely believed by scholars to be historical rather than legendary. She is presented in medieval sources as a wise and powerful woman who ordered the building or fortification of the Danevirke, consistent with her commemoration on multiple Viking Age runestones. These include those at Jelling which was the seat of power for her dynasty. When she was born and became queen is unclear, however, she likely ruled until her death in the middle of the 10th century CE.

Name
Thyra's name is attested in Old Norse as Þyri and Þyre and has been alternatively anglicised as Thorvi and Thyre.

The Jelling 1 stone, commissioned in honour of Thyra by her husband after her death refers to her as Danmarkar bót, translating as "Denmark's adornment", "strength", "salvation" or "remedy". It has been further argued that the words Danmarkar bót instead refer to Gorm, with Thyra's importance being a later innovation by medieval writers, though this is not the scholarly consensus. This term is also used to describe her in Saga Hálfdanar svarta as Danmarkar bótar (sometimes anglicised as "Dannebod").

Early life
Thyra's parentage is unclear and is attested differently in different sources. Saxo Grammaticus describes her as the daughter of the English king Ethelred. This king has typically been identified as Æthelred I of Wessex, though alternatives include Edward the Elder. If Thyra was actually the daughter of Æthelred, the invasion of England by Sweyn Forkbeard could be more accurately depicted as a succession crisis, with the descendants of Thyra having a stronger claim to the throne than the children of Alfred the Great.

An alternative proposal given by accounts such as Heimskringla and Jómsvíkinga saga is that her father was Klak Harald, an earl who ruled over a region in the area around Jutland. Heimskringla further says that Thyra's sister was Þorní, the wife of Sigurðr hjörtr and grandmother of Harald Fairhair. Based on the account in Jómsvíkinga saga, it has been proposed that Thyra was born around 806-812 CE and married Gorm around 825 CE. Jómsvíkinga saga further describes Thyra as having two sons with Gorm, Canute and Harald and that Harald eventually killed Canute. It has been noted though that Klak Harald died in 846 CE, while Harald Bluetooth died around 986 CE. Based on other dating such as the possible birth years of Thyra's other children, it has been argued that Thyra, the wife of Gorm the Old, could not have been the daughter of Klak Harald, with the lengths of time between her children's births being too great.

Gesta Danorum
Gesta Danorum describes that Thyra stood out as a serious and cunning woman and said that she would not marry Gorm until she had all of Denmark as her dowry. When this was agreed, she was betrothed to him but asked him not to have sex with her when they shared a bed for the first three nights until she had had a vision that their marriage would go well. Gorm agreed and laid a drawn sword between them in the bed, and at night he dreamed that a large bird and a smaller one flew out of his wife's womb and flew up into the sky and sat on each of his hands. Again they flew off and came back but the third time when they flew away, only the smaller bird came back and its wings were covered in blood. At this, Gorm woke and cried out, telling his vision to his servants and Thyra took it to mean that they would have children together. This later happened when she gave birth to Canute and Harald.

Jómsvíkinga saga
According to Jómsvíkinga saga, before Thyra married Gorm, she was already working closely with Klak Harald in the running of his kingdom. Gorm at the time was ruling a kingdom in the north of Jutland and asked her for marriage and threatened to take her by force if she did not go willingly. Neither accepting nor rejecting her offer, she told him that to work out if they would have a happy marriage, he had to build a house in a wood that could fit only one bed and to sleep there alone for three nights, telling her what dreams he had. Gorm did this, setting his men to watch the house and had three dreams. In the first dream, three white boars came out of the sea, fed on the grass, and went back to the sea. In the next, three red boars with large tusks came out of the sea, and did the same. In the third dream, three black boars with even larger tusks did the same, but when they returned to the sea, there was such a loud rush of the waves returning to the land that he thought the noise could be heard throughout Denmark.

Thyra's interpretation was that the three white boars represented three very cold, snowy winters that would harm crops. The red boars were interpreted to mean that three mild winters would follow, while the black boars meant there would be wars in the land. The fact that all of the boars went back into the sea showed that their effects would not be long-lasting. The loud noise as the waves of the sea rolled back on the Danish shores signified that mighty men would come to the land and Gorm's relations would be drawn into the wars that would follow. She said that had he dreamed of the black boars and the rushing waves the first night, she would not have married him, but since she would be available to provide advice as queen, there would be little injury from the wars foretold.

Historia Norwegiæ
The Historia Norwegiæ records that Thyra was the mother of Gunnhildr konungamóðir with her husband and contrasts her astuteness with the foolishness of Gorm.

Runestones
The Jelling 2 stone records that Thyra and Gorm the Old had Harald Bluetooth as a child. This is widely accepted as historically accurate by scholars. Based on the prominence of Thyra seen in the runestone record, it has been proposed that Thyra may have been of the preexisting royal line and that Gorm became king through marriage with her.

Dating
Gorm became king around 936 CE however when Thyra became queen is not well understood.

Runestones
Along with two runestones at the royal site of Jelling dating to the mid 10th century CE, the name Thyra is recorded on five more from Viking Age Denmark - Laeborg (DR 26), Bække 1 and 2 (DR 29 and 30), Horne (DR 34) and Randbøl (DR 40). Although all seven stones reference a woman called Thyra, it has been debated whether they refer to the same person.

It has been proposed however, based on analysis of factors such as groove depth, rune shape and spelling, that a single runecarver named Ravnunge-Tue (who is one of the earliest known Western European artisans to have carved his name on his work as the maker) wrote the inscriptions both on the Læborg and Jelling 2 stones, while another individual carved the Horne, Bække and possibly the Randbøl stones. From this, it has been argued that the Jelling stones, the Læborg stone and Bække 1 commemorate the same woman named Thyra. If correct, she would be recorded on at least four runestones - the most for anyone in Viking Age Denmark, exceeding both Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth. Following this, it has been suggested that she was either one of the individuals or even the leading figure who drove the assembly of the Danish kingdom.

Strengthening of the Danework
Both Aggesen and Saxo Grammaticus record that Thyra was a wise and steadfast queen who ordered the building of the Danework, an earthwork built to protect Denmark from invaders from the south. Though the first phase of construction of the fortifications predates Thyra's reign, with some trees in the fortification having been felled in 737 CE, they were extended significantly several times until the 12th-century CE.

Death and burial
The northern howe at Jelling, the seat of power for Gorm's dynasty, is traditionally known as Thyras Høj ("Thyra's mound"), with the southern as Gorm's, although when excavated, no evidence of a body was found in it. Wooden artefacts from the howe have however been dated by tree-ring analysis to 959-960 CE which would put this as the latest date for Thyra's death if it is indeed her grave.

It has been proposed that her burial in the larger, northern barrow is consistent with the idea of her as a prominent woman who may have been even more powerful than her husband Gorm.

Gorm died around 963 CE and while Saxo records in Gesta Danorum that Thyra died after her husband, it is typically believed that Thyra died before Gorm due to the Jelling 1 stone which he raised to commemorate her.

Modern influences

 * Asteroid 115 Thyra is named after her.
 * Danebod, a district in Minnesota in the USA

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User talk:Spute

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Re: Mercedes in F3
Hello, Spute. Thanks for the reply. I will expand that section for you in a day or two. Regards, Adrian M. H. 18:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, Spute. I got around to working on the Mercedes F3 section. Regards, Adrian   M. H.  17:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Ferrari 312T
Sorry Spute. When I saw you hadn't touched the page for nearly an hour, I thought you'd finished editing. If I'd known you were still going, I wouldn't have "butted in". DH85868993 13:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've made all the changes I wanted to. Actually, it's funny - I saw the (excellent) changes you made the other day and thought "1980 needs it own section; I'll make that change some time in the next few days". I finally got around to doing it tonight at exactly the same time you were making the same change - when I browsed to the page, 1979 and 1980 were in the same section; when I got into the editing screen they were in separate sections - boy was I confused! But it's all sorted now. DH85868993 14:08, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the technical history of F1, I've made some suggestions on the talk page of your sandbox. I though that might be beter than leaping in and editing it straight off. I'll keep adding thoughts there, if that's OK? 4u1e 19:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

F1 chassis redirects
Hi Spute. I notice that you recently created articles for Arrows A3, Renault RE20B, Tyrrell 010 and Fittipaldi F8C which are just redirects to the respective constructor pages. I'm wondering whether it might be a better idea to not create "pre-emptive" redirects like these, but instead to create any necessary redirects after the base article has been written. Otherwise, seeing blue links might discourage people from writing the articles because they think they've already been written. What do you think? DH85868993 07:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I see your point. Another question: Yesterday I updated a driver career summary table for a driver (Reine Wisell) who drove a Lotus 72D. I wikilinked "72D" directly to Lotus 72. Do you think it would be better to have created a "Lotus 72D" article (which redirects to Lotus 72) and wikilinked to that instead? One advantage of doing that would be that if anyone ever types Lotus 72D in the future, they'll get a blue link straight away. But I'm worried that we'd end up with a clutter of little redirect pages for every /B, /C, /D, etc chassis variation. And a slight variation on that theme: Wisell also drove a BRM P160B and a BRM P160C. Noting that there currently isn't a BRM P160 article, do you think I should have:
 * (1) linked "P160B" and "P160C" to BRM P160, resulting in red links (this is what I actually did)
 * (2) linked "P160B" to BRM P160B and linked "P160C" to BRM P160C, resulting in red links

 * (3) linked "P160B" to BRM P160B and linked "P160C" to BRM P160C, created BRM P160B and BRM P160C both as redirects to BRM, resulting in blue links
 * (4) linked "P160B" to BRM P160B and linked "P160C" to BRM P160C, created BRM P160B and BRM P160C both as redirects to BRM P160 and created BRM P160 as a redirect to BRM, resulting in blue links, or
 * (5) something else?
 * DH85868993 01:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi DH85868993. Yeah in the Lotus 72 case i'd agree with you, it'll be easy enough to sort it out, as the Lotus 72 will never have too many links. AS fot the other case, personally, I'd go for:
 * linked "P160B" and "P160C" to BRM P160, and created BRM P160 as a redirect to BRM, resulting in blue links

for the following reasons: If someone does ever make "P160B" and "P160C", it'll be quite easy to spot the incorrect links, as there'll never be too many of them. I think blue links are much more helpful to the general reader/F1 fan. I know it's slightly less easy for people, like you and I, who want to spot articles in need of attention, but we can always mention these on the project pages. What i do think is important is that someone who knows very litte about F1 history, can click on a link and instantly get some relevant info, even if it's not yet a full article solely about that car. That's why i did it for Fittipaldi F8C. I thought someone might be looking at, say the page for the MP4/1 or another 1981 car, and want to know about its competitors. At least with the link to the redirect they find out a bit about Fittipaldi Automotive/Copersucar - a fair bit of intersting F1 history they may never have known, whereas a red link would give them nothing, unless they do a google search for the car or something. That might seem trivial, but i'm keen to make things as easy as possible particularly as someone who has had computer-related repetitive strain injury problems. Having said that, i'm not too bothered if there's abit of inconsistency in this respect, there's plenty of other stuff to do on wikipedia.Spute 21:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I've just realised that option (4) isn't a viable option anyway, since BRM P160B and BRM P160C would be double-redirects (which don't work). So I agree that your suggestion is probably best. BTW, are you happy for me to copy this discussion to the WP:F1 discussion page, so we can share the idea with others? DH85868993 01:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Suspension keel
Hi. I notice that you have some good looking start material in your sandbox relating to the proposed F1 technical innovation page. Just thought I'd let you know that I created a page specifically about suspension keels, if it is of any use to you. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the page if you have time as well. Bye for now. Pyrope 15:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Your sandbox
Hi, I noticed that in the article in your sandbox you a referring to the venturi redirect page using the link venturi. That page redirects to the venturi disambiguation page. I would like to ask you to change the link to point to a more useful article like venturi pump or venturi effect. Thanks ʍαμ$ʏ5043 18:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:2007renaultpromo.jpg
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New entries edit (2010 Formula One Championship)
It's very good!

Just felt like you needed some credit! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter-27 (talk • contribs) 21:52, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

 * How do you propose to explain away the (very good) sources that say that bernie Ecclestone owns the F1 name? I would also suggest leaving the edit as it was originally while this is discussed, i.e. when I put the "new entries" section there, not how it was after your shaky edits. If you keep changing it to your idea, it looks like an edit war. "And again" is not an adequate edit summary, by the way. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I would add thgat Ken Anderson doesn't get to decide what the team is called if the FIA or Ecclestone doesn't like it. Therefore, Anderson saying "It's called this" before he has any kind of confirmation is meaningless. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * As it says in the link you posted - they can't use it until they're in. In which case, neither can we. You've just undone your own argument. We'll leave it as USGPE with an explanatory note until theentry list is confirmed. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has to stick with what's current and legal. If it's not allowed to be called USF1 until the entry is accepted, then we can't call it that either. Crystal-balling, they call it, plus there might be legal ramifications. When the name is confirmed, we can change the article title. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, good idea. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

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Fourcroy

Fourcroy may refer to:
 * Antoine François Fourcroy (1755-1809), a French chemist
 * Charles-René de Fourcroy (1715-1791), a French military engineer, member of the Academy of Sciences, author of the Tableau poléométrique
 * Cape Fourcroy, a cape located at the western tip of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia
 * 13180 Fourcroy, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1996

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Biblioteca Joanina

The Biblioteca Joanina, sometimes known in English as the Joanine Library, is a Baroque library in Coimbra, Portugal, located at the heart of the University of Coimbra. The Biblioteca Joanina is regularly considered one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

The Biblioteca Joanina is named after its founder, King John V of Portugal, who began construction on the library in 1717, during the onset of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. It is home to more than 70,000 volumes, including many priceless, historical documents and first editions. It is registered as a National Monument.

History
The Casa da Livraria (House of the Library), the name that it was known, received its first books in 1750, its construction completed between 1717 and 1728.

Architecture
The building has three floors and shelters about 200,000 volumes, of which 40,000 are located on the first floor. These bibliographic collections can be consulted, by request, with justification and motives for the need to consultation. Upon approval, the referenced work is taken to the Biblioteca Geral by a staff member, where the document can be examined.

The care taken in this respect is a direct consequence of the rarity and age of the documents in the library; the collection date from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, whose majority represent the best works from Europe at the time. The library contains about 250 thousand volumes, namely works of medicine, geography, history, humanistic studies, science, civil and canon law, philosophy and theology.

Design
The artistry of the library is characterized by its international origin and emphasizes the global reach of the Portuguese Empire. Chinoiserie motifs painted on exotic South American wood were entirely executed by Portuguese artists, with the notable exception being the monumental portrait of King John V of Portugal, executed by Domenico Duprà in 1725.

Over the entrance door, the library exhibits the national coat of arms. Inside, there are three great rooms divided by decorated arches, bearing the same style as the portal and entirely executed by Portuguese artists.

The walls are covered by two storied shelves, in gilded or painted exotic woods (primarily from Brazil); the painted ceilings, by the Lisbon artists Simões Ribeiro and Vicente Nunes, blend harmoniously with the rest of the decoration.

Book preservation
All the bibliographic works are in the best condition since the building is a perfect vault, with a stable environment, throughout the year, from summer to winter. The building was conceived as a library house constructed with exterior walls around 2.11 m thick. The door of the "vault" is constructed of teak, that permits the space maintain a constant temperature of 18 - 20 C. To maintain this stable environment the humidity hovers around 60%, thereby conditioning the wood interior. In addition to issues of humidity and temperature, the stacks are affected by another "enemy": papirófagos, insects that survive on paper. But, the structure is protected by being constructed of oak woods, that, in addition to its dense nature (which makes it difficult for wood penetration), elicits an odor that is repellent to these insects.

Bats
The library is noted as being one of two in the world (the Mafra palace library being the other) whose books are protected from insects by the presence of a colony of bats within the library. During the night, the bats consume the insects that appear, eliminating the pest and assisting the maintenance of the stacks. Each night, workers cover the "buffets" (credenzas) with sheets of leather. In the morning the library is cleaned of bat guano.

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