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Anthony Cronin

Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (28 December 1923 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poet, arts activist, biographer, commentator, critic, editor and barrister.

Early life and family
Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford on 28 December 1923. After obtaining a B.A. from the National University of Ireland, he entered the King's Inns and was later called to the Bar.

Cronin was married to Thérèse Campbell, from whom he separated in the mid-1980s. She died in 1999. They had two daughters, Iseult and Sarah; Iseult was killed in a road accident in Spain.

In his later years Cronin suffered from failing health, which prevented him from travelling abroad, thus limiting his dealings to local matters. He died on 27 December 2016, one day short of his 93rd birthday, having married a second wife, the writer Anne Haverty; his daughter Sarah also survived him.

Activism
Cronin was known as an arts activist as well as a writer. He was Cultural Adviser to the Taoiseach Charles Haughey (and briefly to Garret FitzGerald). He involved himself in initiatives such as Aosdána, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Heritage Council. He was a founding member of Aosdána, and was a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht, for many years; he was elected Saoi (a distinction for exceptional artistic achievement) in 2003. He was also a member of the governing bodies of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland, of which he was (for a time) Acting Chairman.

With Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Con Leventhal, Cronin celebrated the first Bloomsday in 1954. He contributed to many television programmes, including Flann O'Brien: Man of Parts (BBC) and Folio (RTÉ).

From 1966 to 1968 Cronin was a visiting lecturer at the University of Montana and from 1968 to 1970 he was a poet in residence at Drake University. Cronin read a selection of his poems for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive in 2015. He had honorary doctorates from several institutions, including Dublin University, the National University of Ireland and the University of Poznan.

Writing
Cronin began his literary career as a contributor to Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art. He was editor of The Bell in the 1950s and literary editor of Time and Tide (London). He wrote a weekly column, "Viewpoint", in The Irish Times from 1974 to 1980. Later he contributed a column on poetry to the Sunday Independent.

His first collection of poems, called simply Poems (Cresset, London), was published in 1958. Several collections followed and his Collected Poems (New Island, Dublin) was published in 2004. The End of the Modern World (New Island, 2016), written over several decades, was his final publication.

Cronin's novel, The Life of Riley, is a satire on bohemian life in Ireland in the mid-20th century, while his memoir Dead as Doornails addresses the same subject.

Cronin knew Samuel Beckett from when they did some work for the BBC during the 1950s and 1960s. Cronin gave a prefatory talk to Patrick Magee's reading of The Unnamable on the BBC Third Programme. Beckett said: "Cronin delivered his discourse … It was all right, not very exciting". Cronin later published a biography of him. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (1996) followed on from No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien (1989).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anna Taverner

 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 delete. Woohookitty 08:25, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Anna Taverner
She's pretty hot, but sadly she's just another interchangeable product of the sex industry. Just as there is an average professor test, there needs to be an average pr0n queen test. On the evidence of the article, she's on the wrong side of the line. Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:50, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think the picture on the page is appropriate for Wikipedia. (I hope I make this vote correctly!) Jakes18 03:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Doesn't appear to be notable enough. The photo on the site now is possibly a no-no and probably a copyvio. 23skidoo 05:11, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Copyright considerations aside, Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors. Uncle G 12:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Page 3 girls from the Sun are not notable unless known for other things. Capitalistroadster 05:57, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, page 3 girls from the Sun are seen by millions of people. Kappa 09:25, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * So are people who are mentioned in newspapers in actual news articles. Yet the consensus was to delete Maureen Faibish. Uncle G 12:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Not an entertainment figure. Kappa 14:28, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Whether Page Three girls are "pr0n queens" is a subject of longstanding debate. It's irrelevant here, though.  These are women who are simply models that have their pictures shown in a newspaper, and no more meet the WP:BIO criteria on that ground than do the models that drape themselves over cars and furniture in newspaper advertisements to sell cars and furniture.  Page Three girls can be encyclopaedia-worthy, but they have to do more than just appear on page 3 in order to be so.  Some have.  Samantha Fox had a career as a pop singer and as a presenter, Jo Guest has a career as a television presenter, as does Melinda Messenger, and ... you can read about Jordan (model) yourself.  This model has, per this biography, done exactly none of these things. Delete. Uncle G 12:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I turned up that biography via a Google Web search, it being the first result in the search for "Anna Taverner" biography. I've since discovered that following any of the hyperlinks on the biography leads, either directly or via just 1 intermediate step, to pornography.  Some research reveals that this site hosts a wide range of biographies on people from Anna Taverner to Lindsay Lohan, doubtless for the express purpose of capturing Google searches, all of which are just fronts.  This calls the legitimacy of the information contained in that biography into question, of course.  If the hyperlinks are lies, why not the rest of it, too?  My vote remains unchanged.  I cannot find any other biographies that contain even as much information as that one.  Seemingly all that is known about this person, as reported by sources that are not untrustworthy pornography industry sources, is her name, place and year of birth, and occupation as a model for a newspaper.  Uncle G 19:44, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * A Page 3 girl? Oh for gods sake, delete. --Calton | Talk 13:47, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Rewrite to explain why she is notable beyond having her photo in the paper. If that can't be done, Delete. Nandesuka 13:52, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, although I don't like blondes myself james gibbon  13:56, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not confirmable, if all she was was in one issue of one newspaper.  Almafeta 13:58, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * She's a regular page 3 girl, not a one-off. Kappa 14:28, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Then somebody needs to confirm it. As of right now, to me it looks like an exceptionally weak excuse of a nude picture of dubious legality (how do photos from british papers come under US law?) on Wikipedia.
 * Keep if she's a regular Sun girl, as that is notable in itself. I'd argue that Page 3 girls (who appear in mainstream newspapers with 7-digit circulation figures) are far more notable than "pr0n queens" known only to purchasers of adult DVDs. I admit this may be a UK-centric perspective. AdorableRuffian 15:48, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or establish notability beyond being a model in a single publication (even a 7-digit one). We have deleted local newscasters who are seen every day by hundreds of thousands of viewers and I believe they are more notable than a Page 3 girl. DS1953 16:00, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just another model. No info. -R. fiend 17:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Uncle G and DS1953. Dcarrano 22:30, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. Pavel Vozenilek 22:51, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, but only if notability or importance is not established. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 22:53, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. Radiant_ >|< 13:05, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless expanded. fap fap fap  Grue   19:28, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, but nice double-X chromosomes. :) — RJH 23:11, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Some notability as per AdorableRuffian. JamesBurns 02:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Simply being a Page 3 model is not encyclopedically notable. Quale 21:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art

The office of Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Works of Art in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of works of art owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity, about 700,000 objects - many of museum quality. The collection is spread across the various official and historic residences. Those objects in the official residences are in constant use. Objects in the Royal Collection are distinct from those objects owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle and elsewhere. The Surveyor oversaw conservation of works of art: there are three conservation workshops, including a recently constructed workshop in the Home Park, Windsor.

The office dates from 1928, and has only been full-time since 1972. Sir Lionel Cust, Surveyor of the King's Pictures, had been responsible for works of art from 1901 to 1927. The current Surveyor is Caroline de Guitaut, LVO, who was appointed in December 2023. She is the first woman to hold the position. The previous Surveyor, Rufus Bird, was appointed upon the retirement of Jonathan Marsden, CVO, who was in turn appointed upon the retirement of Sir Hugh Roberts on 20 April 2010. Jonathan Marsden was the last Surveyor who was also concurrently Director of the Royal Collection for which he chaired a management committee of the Surveyors and Librarian and other administrators.

The post of Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art was in abeyance until December 3, 2023.

List of Surveyors of the King's/Queen's Works of Art

 * Caroline de Guitaut  2023–
 * Rufus Bird 2017–2020
 * Sir Jonathan Marsden 2010–2017
 * Sir Hugh Roberts 1996–2010
 * Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue 1972–1996
 * Sir Francis J.B. Watson 1963–1972
 * Sir James Mann 1946–1962
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Gerald Wellesley 1936–1943
 * Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith 1928–1936
 * Sir Lionel Cust 1901–1927 (also Pictures)

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Charlene Gonzales

Charlene Mae Gonzales Bonnin-Muhlach (born May 1, 1974) is a Filipino actress, media personality and beauty pageant titleholder. Gonzales won the Binibining Pilipinas Universe 1994 title and represented her country at the Miss Universe 1994 pageant held in Manila, where she won the Best National Costume award and was one of the Top 6 Finalists.

She is also an award-winning talk show host and a commercial model.

Early and personal life
Charlene Mae Gonzales Bonnin was born to actor Bernard Bonnin and model Elvira Gonzales, on May 1, 1974. Among her siblings is actor Richard Bonnin, and her cousin is Bagets actor J.C. Bonnin. She is of Spanish ancestry and a maternal descendant of the prominent Pamintuan family of Angeles City. She attended Bishop Amat Memorial Highschool in La Puente, California, finishing in 1992. She earned a degree in BS Psychology from the University of Santo Tomas.

She married Filipino actor Aga Muhlach on May 28, 2001. They have twin children born on November 5, 2001, named Andrés and Atasha.

Pageant career
Gonzales won the Binibining Pilipinas Universe 1994 title and represented her country at the Miss Universe 1994 pageant held in Manila, where she won the Best National Costume award and landed in the Top 6. When asked by the host about the number of islands in the Philippines, she boldly asked back, “High tide or low tide?”

Career and filmography
She hosted the dance program Eezy Dancing on ABC-5 (1997–1998) and Keep On Dancing from (1998–2001) on ABS-CBN and Viva Television Movies on Viva TV. She hosted the show, At Home Ka Dito, a Philippine lifestyle program airing on ABS-CBN. Adding to its branding as a show is the introduction of a reality TV treatment to its features, pioneering what may be a new trend—the reality TV lifestyle show.

In 1994, Gonzales got her first film role with Fernando Poe Jr. in Epimaco Velasco: NBI. She also starred in Ben Delubyo with Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. in (1998) and Resbak with Phillip Salvador (1998).

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Talk:Proteales

Does anyone know what is unique about Poteales?

 * That will depend on the circumscription of the order. Brya 19:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Using the APG 2 circumscription of the Proteales, a few common features of the order are having 1-2 ovules per carpel, having a large embryo and having nuclear endosperm development (in which the nuclei of the endosperm multiply for awhile before any cell walls form between them). Admittedly these are all a little obscure. Justinleif 04:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

The representatives of the Proteales are very different from each other. The order contains plants that do not look alike at all.
My section title is a quote from the lead. It seems to me to say exactly the same thing twice, first in a slight nerdy way, then in a slightly childish one. Perhaps we should say it just once, in an accessible but encyclopaedic way? Not sure haw, though. Or:
 * The representatives of the Proteales are very different from each other, order containing plants that do not look alike at all.

But I'm no great fan of my own suggestion here.--Nø (talk) 14:44, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

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Dig a Pony

"Dig a Pony" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The band recorded the song on 30 January 1969, during their rooftop concert at the Apple Corps building on Savile Row in central London.

Composition
"Dig a Pony" is in the key of A major and in 3/4 time. It was originally called "All I Want Is You". John Lennon said the song was "a piece of garbage", though he expressed similar scorn for many of his songs. It was written for his soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono, and features a multitude of strange, seemingly nonsensical phrases strung together in what Lennon referred to as a Bob Dylan style of lyric.

In author Ian MacDonald's description, the lyrics "celebrat[e] countercultural claims that society's old values and taboos were dead, that life was a game and art a free-for-all, and (especially) that words meant whatever the hell one wished them to".

"Dig a Pony" was among the first songs the Beatles worked on during day one of their filmed rehearsals for a planned return to live performance, in January 1969. Lennon introduced it to George Harrison soon after arriving at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January, as the pair ran through their latest songs.

Recording
"Dig a Pony" was one of the songs on Let It Be recorded at the rooftop concert on 30 January 1969. Kevin Harrington, the band's roadie, held up Lennon's lyrics for him while he sang. It begins with a false start, with Ringo Starr yelling "Hold it!" because he was putting out his cigarette and had both of his drum sticks in his right hand. On the recording, the sound of someone blowing his nose right after Starr's interjection can be heard, which Mark Lewisohn attributes to Lennon.

A studio take of the song from 22 January appears on the 1996 Anthology 3 outtakes compilation. The sessions took place at the Beatles' Apple Studio after they had abandoned the filmed rehearsals at Twickenham. When Glyn Johns compiled an album titled Get Back for the band's consideration in 1969, he favoured the 22 January recording of "Dig a Pony" over the rooftop performance. As originally included in the rooftop performance also, the studio recording begins and ends with the line "All I want is ..." When Phil Spector prepared the album (now titled Let It Be) for release in March 1970, he selected the 30 January live version but shortened the track by cutting the opening and closing "All I want is ..." refrains. These edits were retained for the Let It Be... Naked mix of the rooftop version, issued in 2003, which also omits the false start.

Release and reception
Apple Records issued Let It Be on 8 May 1970 with "Dig a Pony" sequenced as the second track, between "Two of Us" and "Across the Universe". The release followed a month after McCartney's comments in a questionnaire promoting his self-titled solo album had resulted in the Beatles' break-up. Early American pressings of Let It Be mistitled the song as "I Dig a Pony".

Reviewing the album for Melody Maker, Richard Williams said that "Dig a Pony" was the only genuinely new song by Lennon and he admired the "tremendously funky unison guitar riff", adding that "the insane words and wandering tune are typical contemporary Lennon". Having bemoaned Spector's addition of orchestral and choral overdubs elsewhere on Let It Be, John Mendelsohn of Rolling Stone welcomed the song as an example of the producer's minimal alteration of some of the January 1969 recordings. He described it as "crossword-puzzlish" and said that the combination of "urgent old rocker's vocal" and similarity to "such earlier Lennonisms as 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun'" almost made up for Spector's omission of "Don't Let Me Down" and "Save the Last Dance for Me".

Writing for Mojo in 2001, John Harris dismissed the track as "pretty execrable" and an example of Lennon's reduced creativity during Let It Be, as well as a reason that Lennon's criticism of Harrison's songwriting in one of the Twickenham sessions contributed to Harrison's decision to leave the band. Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph views "Dig a Pony" as "embarrassing", saying that Lennon was "the guiltiest party" with regard to the generally uninspiring songs on Let It Be.

Among Beatles biographers, Ian MacDonald described the song as "inconsequential fun", saying of the counterculture-inspired lyrics: "Suspect even in 1967, such whimsy was looking distinctly bedraggled by 1969, but enough people wanted it to be true to ensure that it survived in the minds of progressive educationalists for the next twenty years." In his view, the track benefits from the discipline imposed on the Beatles by having to perform in public, resulting in a "real ensemble performance ... and even a hint of swing". Mark Hertsgaard deems it a "lyrically muddled love call to Yoko" and lacking in melody, yet the combination of McCartney's high harmony singing and the inventiveness of Harrison's lead guitar part "made it seem more interesting than it actually was". Citing the lyrics, Peter Doggett says that Lennon was rightly dismissive of the song, while Chris Ingham calls it "riffily convoluted gobbledygook" with a "lugubrious chromatic approach" that Spector's editing wisely pared back.

Personnel
According to Walter Everett:

The Beatles
 * John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar
 * Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass guitar
 * George Harrison – lead guitar
 * Ringo Starr – drums

Additional musician
 * Billy Preston – electric piano

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Future updates

 * Don't forget that, with the new laws recently passed by the Parliament, all unelected senate seats will be abolished on 11 March 2006. That section'll need a tweaking in nine months. -Wareq 00:50 EDT 16-7-2005

Translation of Juntos podemos más
I just edited the old "other parties" section to remove the Christian left, that's apparently inactive since 1999 and changed the name of the section to "Together We Can Do More (Juntos Podemos Más)". If someone has a better transaltion for the name, please change it.

Important notice
The government section of the "Outline of Chile" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.

Please check that this country's outline is not in error.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact The Transhumanist.

Thank you.

Added "outdated" template
The section dealing with the Legislative branch is detailing a Congress that existed somewhere between 2006 and 20010, even though the latest edition was in 2011. Most articles dealing with the Chilean Congress are similarly outdated - I guess it's not a very exciting subject. I'll see if I can find time to fix them, although I'm just a beginner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EstaFortaleza (talk • contribs) 18:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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Cell group

The cell group is a form of church organization that is used in many Christian churches. Cell groups are generally intended to teach the Bible and personalize Christian fellowship. They are always used in cell churches, but also occur in parachurch organizations and other interdenominational settings, where they are usually referred to as Bible study groups. In Methodism, they are known as class meetings and are a means of grace; in Catholicism, they are known as basic ecclesial communities.

The cell group differs from the house church in that the group is part of an overall church congregation, whereas the house church is a self-contained congregation.

Terminology
The term cell group is derived from biology: the cell is the basic unit of life in a body. In a metaphorical sense, just as a body is made up of many cells that give it life, the cell church is made of cell groups that give it life.

These groups are known by a variety of other names, including life groups, small groups, home groups, classes or class meetings (used historically in Methodism) and fellowship groups.

Colin Marshall uses the term growth group, suggesting that the aim is for group members to "grow in Christ", and, through the group, for the gospel to "grow and bear fruit."

Another term, typically employed in Missional Communities, is huddle. This refers to a small group in which discipleship is emphasized and in which membership is by invitation only.

Christian Bible
David Hunsicker points out that while house churches are mentioned in the New Testament, the institution of a "well-organized, structured church" resulted in the decline of the small home groups.

Radical Reformation
The concept was resurrected at the time of the Radical Reformation and "Ulrich Zwingli inadvertently pushed the Anabaptists in the direction of small groups when he started meeting with a small gathering of men who were interested in learning New Testament Greek. The concept of small groups was revived again in the late seventeenth century by Anthony Horneck in Great Britain and Philipp Jacob Spener in Germany.

Pietistic Lutheranism
Philipp Jakob Spener published his Pia Desideria in 1675 and laid out his program for the pietistic revival of the Lutheran Church, emphasising the use of small groups. He suggested the reintroduction of "the ancient and apostolic kind of church meetings," held "in the manner in which Paul describes them in 1 Corinthians 14:26–40." Spener goes on to suggest: This might conveniently be done by having several ministers (in places where a number of them live in a town) meet together or by having several members of a congregation who have a fair knowledge of God or desire to increase their knowledge meet under the leadership of a minister, take up the Holy Scriptures, read aloud from them, and fraternally discuss each verse in order to discover its simple meaning and what- ever may be useful to the edification of all. Anybody who is not satisfied with his understanding of a matter should be permitted to express his doubts and seek further explanation. On the other hand those (including the ministers) who have made progress should be allowed the freedom to state how they understand each passage. Then all that has been contributed, insofar as it accords with the sense of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures, should be carefully considered by the rest, especially by the ordained ministers, and applied to the edification of the whole meeting.

Methodism
Influenced by Pietistic Lutheran conventicles, John Wesley took on the concept of small groups, and has been called the "Father" of the modern small-group concept. Wesley encouraged different kinds of small groups to develop, so that both leaders and members of the Methodist societies could receive support and challenge in their faith. He formed class meetings to "bring small numbers of people together (usually twelve) to pray, read the Bible and listen to exhortations, and to encourage and enjoy each other's company." Specifically, the format of the class meeting is described as follows: "...following an opening prayer and the singing of a hymn, the class leader shared the status of his or her own spiritual standing, thanking God for victory and progress, and then honestly reported any failures, temptations, and struggles. Following the leader's testimony, each person in the group responded to the all-important question, 'How does your soul prosper' or rephrased 'How is your life with God?' and related any failures of the previous week. The honest answers to direct and specific questions were contagious—accounts exist of members who, having lapsed spiritually since the last meeting, were stricken with conviction and sought pardon and restoration during the class meeting. In order to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of the members, visitors were permitted to visit twice before deciding to join a class. If that visitor decided not to become a member of the class, he or she was excluded from any future meeting of the class."

Class meetings, in Methodist theology (inclusive of the holiness movement), are a means of grace for one's sanctification. Louisa Thomas writes, with regard to Methodist class meetings, that: "Class meetings were intentionally limited to a small group; composed of only ten to twelve members, the group met once a week for an hour with the aim of maintaining personal supervision of the group's spiritual growth. Each member frankly and honestly shared his or her victories and struggles with the others. The groups were coeducational in composition and often were a curious mixture of age, social status, and spiritual maturity. Within each class Wesley intended a blending of the seasoned saints with babes in Christ as a means of educating and encouraging the newest converts."

The first class meetings can thus be summarized as a weekly gathering of Methodists who "spoke about their temptations, confessed their faults, shared their concerns, testified to the working of God in their lives and exhorted & prayed for each other." With respect to the practice of confession among Methodists, it is done "To speak each of us in order, freely and plainly, the true state of our souls, with the faults we have committed in thought or deed and the temptations we have felt since our last meeting."

Class meetings continue among certain Methodist connexions today, such as the Lumber River Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church, which holds them on the Lord's Day "for instruction, encouragement, and admonition that shall be a profitable means of grace to our people." Class leaders are examined and appointed by the pastor; in addition to discipling church members in class meetings, the class leader (along with the pastor and board) recommends probationers to membership in the church after a period of six months during which probationers are "taught the doctrines, rules, and regulations" of the Lumber River Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church. Class meetings are held on Friday evenings (the historical fasting day in Methodism) in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, in which the pastor and class leader are to ensure "that all persons on probation be instructed in the Rules and Doctrines of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church before they are admitted to Full Membership" and that "probationers are expected to conform to the rules and usages of the Church, and to show evidence of their desire for fellowship in the Church". The Book of Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church states:

Before the Lord's Supper is celebrated on Sunday, the pastor meets with the class leader and class meeting on the preceding Friday to "inquire how their souls are prospering; to exhort, reprove, advise, etc., as duty may require, preparatory to their receiving the Lord's Supper."

Those members of class meetings who are backsliding, often join Methodist penitent bands for counsel.

Catholicism
In the Catholic Church, small groups that meet to reflect on Scripture are known as basic ecclesial communities. These became popular after the Second Vatican Council.

Ecumenical Era
Cell groups have become more common in the 20th and 21st centuries. Hunsicker suggests that the concept of cell groups "is becoming prominent in almost every denomination in American Protestantism."

Structure
Cell groups are made of small numbers of Christians, often between 6 and 12, and led by a cell leader. Members may be in the same cell group because of common locality, schools or interests. Cell meetings are usually not conducted in the church sanctuary, if any, but in any of the members' homes, rooms in the church building or other third-party venues.

Cell meetings may consist of a fellowship meal, communion, prayer, worship, sharing or Bible study and discussion.

The use of small Bible study groups is related, but not exclusively associated with, the large churches sometimes called megachurches. In these congregations, small groups perform much of the ministerial work of the church, including teaching the Bible. David Hunsicker suggests that Willow Creek Community Church "has exploded through an effective use of small group strategy."

A number of lesson plans, workbooks, and programs have been developed to facilitate the study of the Bible in small groups. The Alpha Course, originally developed in a Church of England context, but now ecumenical, is one such course intended for use by small groups that provides a synoptic introduction to the entire Bible. The more theologically evangelical Christianity Explored course was devised as an evangelical response to the Alpha Course. Other denominations have similar resources available, such as the Roman Catholic Great Adventure Catholic Bible Study and the United Methodist Church's Disciple series.

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Keith was a Freemason, as is apparent from his grave marker. If some one has a pic or more info on this, it might be good to add it.

From: Throughout his career Keith was connected with several charitable and fraternal societies. He served as president of the North British Society from 1831 and as chief of the Highland Society from 1868 until his death. In 1838 he was connected with the Halifax Mechanics Library and in the early 1840s with the Nova Scotia Auxiliary Colonial Society. Keith was perhaps best known to the Halifax public as a leader of the freemasons. He became provincial grand master for the Maritimes under the English authority in 1840 and under the Scottish lodge in 1845. Following a reorganization of the various divisions in 1869, he became grand master of Nova Scotia.

Seperate pages
These two individuals should be on seperate pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.133.84.67 (talk) 18:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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One After 909

"One After 909" (sometimes entitled "The One After 909" in early recordings) is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by John Lennon, with input from Paul McCartney, and credited to their joint partnership. The album version is the live performance from the rooftop concert which took place on 30 January 1969. This performance is also included in the Let It Be film. The song was written no later than spring 1960 and perhaps as early as 1957, and is one of the first Lennon–McCartney compositions. "One After 909" is perhaps more reminiscent of early American rock and roll than any of the other songs from the rooftop show, and as a joke for the rooftop chatter, Lennon sings a variant on the opening line of "Danny Boy" after the song is finished.

Origin
In his 1980 Playboy interview Lennon explained, "That was something I wrote when I was about seventeen. I lived at 9 Newcastle Road. I was born on the ninth of October, the ninth month [sic]. It's just a number that follows me around, but, numerologically, apparently I'm a number six or a three or something, but it's all part of nine."

McCartney said, "It's not a great song but it's a great favourite of mine because it has great memories for me of John and I trying to write a bluesy freight-train song. There were a lot of those songs at the time, like 'Midnight Special', 'Freight Train', 'Rock Island Line', so this was the 'One After 909'; she didn't get the 9:09, she got the one after it."

Different versions
The first version was recorded in 1960 under The Quarrymen name.

On 5 March 1963, the Beatles recorded a version of the song in five takes during the same session that produced their third single, "From Me to You", and its B-side "Thank You Girl". They were unhappy with the result and that version was not released at the time. Various takes from the 5 March session, and an edit of them, were released in 1995 on the Anthology 1 compilation. The song was shelved for six years, until the Beatles re-recorded it for their Get Back project, and eventually saw the release in Let It Be.

"One After 909" is included on 2003's Let It Be... Naked, in a remixed and remastered version of the 1969 rooftop concert take. The original third take of the song was released as part of the 2021 re-release of Let It Be.

Let It Be (1970, recorded 1969)
According to Mark Lewisohn:

The Beatles
 * John Lennon – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
 * Paul McCartney – backing vocals, bass guitar
 * George Harrison – lead guitar
 * Ringo Starr – drums

Additional musician
 * Billy Preston – electric piano

Anthology 1 (1995, recorded 1963)
According to Ian MacDonald:

The Beatles
 * John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonica
 * Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass
 * George Harrison – lead guitar
 * Ringo Starr – drums

Cover versions
The song has been covered by various artists including Ricky Nelson, Terry Manning, Laibach, Willie Nelson, Helen Reddy, Carmen Rasmusen, the Long Ryders, and The Smithereens. James Apollo recorded a version of the song in 2010 for Mojo's 40th Anniversary recreation Let It Be Revisited. Caspar Babypants released a children's version in 2015.

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Hypnosis
Thanks for your note.

I have no problem with differing opinions. I have problems with comments that are a directed directly to people's character or, worse, generalizations. I also have a problem with words such as "all", "every", "never", and so forth. These words indicate black and white thinking and, especially in discussing hypnosis, there's many shades of gray. Make sense?

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Washington Double Star Catalog

The Washington Double Star Catalog, or WDS, is a catalog of double stars, maintained at the United States Naval Observatory. The catalog contains positions, magnitudes, proper motions and spectral types and has entries for (as of June 2017) 141,743 pairs of double stars. The catalog also includes multiple stars. In general, a multiple star with n components will be represented by entries in the catalog for n-1 pairs of stars.

History
The database used to construct the WDS originated at Lick Observatory, where it was used to construct the Index Catalog of Visual Double Stars, published in 1963. In 1965, under the initiative of Charles Worley, it was transferred to the Naval Observatory.

The catalog has since been augmented by many measurements, mainly from the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues and results from speckle interferometry, as well as other sources. A unique 1–3 letter discovery code is used to identify the observer who reported the information. For example, HEI is used for the German astronomer W. D. Heintz.

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/List of Nintendo Revolution games

Crystal Ball
Crystal Ball is not a factor. I have proven that every single game on that list (with the exception of WarioWare and Camelot RPG, which have not had the word of Nintendo or Camelot presented as of yet), and thusly, not speculation. Anyone who claimed Crystal Ball should now be supporting this. No speculation involved. Thoughts from deleters? -- A Link to the Past 04:56, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

A large part of my problem is that I think it's inappropriate to put games in development in lists of this type; mixing released games and unreleased games can be very confusing. This applies to any game list of this type, not just the Revolution list. In addition, lists of games which will be released in the far future often turn out to be incorrect despite the best efforts of the list's compilers. Take Mario 128, for example, a game which could have legitimately been placed on a list of Gamecube games when that system was being revealed several years ago. As we all know, however, this game never materialized.

I think game lists on the Wikipedia should stick to released software. Seperate lists for rumored and otherwise forthcoming titles may be appropriate, but I'm not certain. Kairos 05:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Just remember, Daikatana came out in 1997, and Duke Nukem Forever is coming out in 1998. --Carnildo 06:00, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1. Twilight Princess is, in fact, an unreleased game. The fact that it may be deleted is irrelevant; Twilight Princess, while almost impossible, is not exactly impossible to be cancelled. These are known to be in development, and I would be lying if I said I thought that there would be no games confirmed in the near future.

 * 1) 2. We're not writing on stone tablets, so the idea of a changing list is of no inconvenience to anyone.

 * 1) 3. Yes, and you know what we would have done? We would have made it so that Daikatana was listed as confirmed for 1997, and Duke Nukem Forever was confirmed for 1998, until it turned out it wasn't. We go on accurate information, not 'it could get cancelled'. Wikipedia articles are not set in stone. This list will have games being added and games being removed, years after the Revolution is released. -- A Link to the Past 06:05, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * Please re-read Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. We are not in the business of making predictions here. --Carnildo 06:13, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Carnildo, please read, period. If Miyamoto is speculating that HIS GAME is being developed, then who the Hell do we treat as a correct source? God almighty? Do you want me to spoon feed you the links on Nintendo Revolution proving these games are in development? Or would you prefer to ignore them so that your already debunked argument is preserved? -- A Link to the Past 06:20, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * And on top of that, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess would fall under Crystal Ball. Unless, of course, you make the exception that a game doesn't apply because it is that far in. Both are confirmed to be coming out and in development (one lacks a release date and screenshots), so if one of those is to apply to Crystal Ball, so shall the other. -- A Link to the Past 06:25, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * I disagree. On the one hand, we have a game that is far along in development and for which there exists a reasonable amount of information. On the other, we have a collection of games which exist in the public eye only in the form of "untitled games of X series, possibly being released on this upcoming system, whenever it does come out". I don't personally think it's that fine of a distinction. Kairos 06:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's more likely than not that these games are coming. Not because of common sense; but because they are saying so. We should assume that they won't be cancelled, because there's no reason to believe it. -- A Link to the Past 06:53, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think this is all getting a little heated. If the article is deleted, it can be easily created again once there is the kind of information available that would prohibit deletion. If it is kept, it will eventually morph into something more concrete. My concern with the article is that these games are only 'confirmed' in the sense that they might be delayed, cancelled etc at some point in the future. Since there is uncertainty of this degree involved, I'm inclined to think it does require use of a crystal ball. However, I presume the article as it stands has been constructed from an adequately authoritative source, and so it contains verifiable and currenly correct information. On this assumption, the use of the crystal ball is not in the article, it is in Nintendo's Head Office and that's different. Can a suitably authoritative reference be put in the article to show this? I mean something proper — not just an enthusiastic games mag saying how much there is going on, but a source from e.g. Nintendo or their dev teams or something. I think also that a current template of some appropriate flavour might help a little. For now, I'll leave my vote at delete, but will change to keep (or perhaps abstain given the tentativity of this article) if what I said above can be confirmed by someone who knows where to look. -Splash 16:01, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Would it work out if I gave you an IGN link where they talked to various people in the industry, and got confirmation of the games? -- A Link to the Past 18:31, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure of what an IGN link is, but if it is confirmation from Nintendo, or someone suitably close to them then yes, I imagine that would help. If you can confirm that the games are being developed, I think I'd not have too much problem with the article. (But put the info in the article, rather than giving it to me.) -Splash 15:10, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * IGN is the well-known website, while disliked for its IGNsider crap, it is still informative. Posted, now, is it encyclopediatic? -- A Link to the Past 02:53, July 18, 2005 (UTC)


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Why does this appear as a redirect from cadmium sulfate (CdSO4)? Isn't it cadmium sulfide (CdS)? Walkerma 04:56, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
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Evelyn Wells

Evelyn Wells (7 April 1899 – 6 September 1984) was a 20th-century American biographer and author most known for her biographies of the ancient Egyptian royals of the 18th dynasty, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut.

Biography
Evelyn Minerva Wells was born 7 April 1899 in Illinois to unknown parents. She was adopted by William James Wells and his wife, Edith Alice Squire by June, 1900. The family lived in the Chicago area until about 1905, when they moved to Ashland, Oregon, and then to San Jose, California.

While in the Chicago area (Palos), the family had become friends with Thorstein Veblen and his wife, Ellen. Around 1918, young Evelyn, armed with a letter from Veblen's divorced wife, went to Fremont Older seeking work. He asked instead that she do a piece on being an 18-year-old girl, which she promptly produced, after which she began working with Older at the San Francisco Call, and was even part of his household for a while.

During her tenure with the San Francisco Call, she interviewed Martha Jane "Patty" Reed Lewis of the Donner Party and wrote a series of articles in 1919 entitled "The Tragedy of Donner Lake." She also wrote serials about Lola Montez, Sarah Althea Hill, and other early California personalities.

She married Loyal James Podesta (1900–1987), the son of a well-known San Francisco florist, about 1925, and had two children with him. She retained her maiden name in her many books, though she is referred to in a few accounts as Evelyn Wells Podesta. She appears to have separated from her husband by 1950, when she purchased a home in New York for herself and her two children.

In addition to the books listed below, she also edited Betty Martin's best-selling "Miracle at Carville" (Doubleday, 1950) and its sequel, "No One Must Ever Know" (Doubleday, 1959).

In 1977, she travelled with "lifelong friend" Nathalia Walker Richmond to Colorado to revisit the childhood home of Nathalia (supposedly last living daughter of John Brisben Walker) at Mt. Falcon, near Morrison, Colorado.

She died 6 September 1984 in Seattle, Washington.

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You Never Give Me Your Money

"You Never Give Me Your Money" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney (and credited to Lennon–McCartney), and thematically documents the personal difficulties that were facing the band. The song is the first part of the medley on side two of their 1969 album Abbey Road and was recorded in stages between May and August that year.

The song was the first one to be recorded for the medley, which was conceived by McCartney and producer George Martin as a finale for the Beatles' career. The backing track was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes, London, but the remainder of overdubs occurred at EMI Studios. Musically, the song is made up of a suite of various segments, ranging from a piano ballad at the beginning through to guitar arpeggios at the end.

Background
The song was written by McCartney when he was staying with his wife Linda in New York in March 1969 shortly after their wedding. This was a break following the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. John Lennon and McCartney were at risk of losing overall control of Northern Songs, the company that published their songs, after ATV Music bought a majority share. McCartney had been largely responsible for the group's direction and projects since the death of manager Brian Epstein in 1967, but he began to realise that the group dynamic of the Beatles was unraveling. He was particularly unhappy at the others, who wanted manager Allen Klein to help resolve financial matters. McCartney later said that the song was written with Klein in mind, saying "it's basically a song about no faith in the person". He added that the line "One sweet dream, pack up the bags, get in the limousine" was based on his trips in the country with Linda to get away from the tense atmosphere with the Beatles, though author Walter Everett thought the line was also a nostalgic look at the Beatles' touring years, which had ended in 1966.

Realising that Abbey Road could be the group's last album, McCartney and Martin decided to combine various portions of tracks into a medley, which would act as a climactic finale of the group's career. McCartney later said that the idea of a song suite was inspired by Keith West's "Excerpt from A Teenage Opera". Some musical segments of "You Never Give Me Your Money" were reused for the "Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" portion of the medley, including the opening verses and later guitar arpeggios.

Structurally, the music begins with a piano ballad and moves to several other styles, including boogie-woogie piano, arpeggiated guitars and nursery rhyme. Beatles author Ian MacDonald speculates that the guitar arpeggios at the end of the track were influenced by "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and the middle section of "Here Comes the Sun", and that the overall structure was inspired by Lennon's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" from the previous year's album The Beatles, which also joined unrelated song fragments together.

Recording
The basic backing track was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes on 6 May 1969. Recording started at 3pm and went on until 4am the next morning. McCartney sang lead and played piano, Lennon played an Epiphone Casino guitar, George Harrison played a Fender Telecaster guitar fed through a Leslie speaker, and Ringo Starr played drums. The group recorded 36 takes, selecting take 30 as the best, which was made into a rough stereo mix. The basic structure of the song as it appeared on Abbey Road had not been worked out at this stage, and the original recording ran onto a loose jam session, ending up as a fast rock-and-roll instrumental towards the end.

The track was completed in EMI Studios. McCartney overdubbed a lead vocal onto the basic track on 1 July, and further vocals and sound effects were added on 15 July. On 30 July, a reduction mix was made of the original eight track tape, so further overdubs could be made, and a rough mix of the Abbey Road medley was put together. The cross-fade from "You Never Give Me Your Money" into the next track, "Sun King", proved to be problematic, and the group made several attempts before deciding to merge the songs via an organ note. McCartney completed the instrumental overdubs the next day, on 31 July, by adding a bass guitar part and additional piano overdubs, including some punched-in honky-tonk piano in place of the original.

The final recording session occurred on 5 August, when McCartney made a number of tape loops at EMI Studios, including bells, birds, bubbles and chirping crickets. Martin mixed the track into stereo on 13 August, and made 11 attempts at a final mix, combining the tape loops with the cross-fade into "Sun King", replacing the earlier organ note. He made another attempt at a final mix on 21 August, and this was used for the finished master.

Personnel
According to Ian MacDonald:
 * Paul McCartney – lead and backing vocals, piano, bass, wind chimes, tape loops
 * John Lennon – guitar, backing vocal
 * George Harrison – guitar, backing vocal
 * Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine

Other versions
American guitarist George Benson covered the song in a medley with "Golden Slumbers" in his 1970 album The Other Side of Abbey Road.

Comedy rock duo Tenacious D covered "You Never Give Me Your Money" in medley with "The End" as a single released on 2 July 2021. The proceeds benefit Doctors Without Borders.

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