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DC Meetup notice
Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Maryland, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 00:27, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Meetup
As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Meetup/DC 4.

You are receiving this automated message because your userpage appears in Category:Wikipedians in Maryland. Melon ‑ Bot  ( STOP! )  19:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We as a community are glad to have you and thank you for creating a user account! Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Redwolf24 06:14, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I like messages :-P

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009
The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) Delivered by The  Helpful  Bot   at 20:20, 2 June 2009 (UTC) to report errors, please leave a note here.

Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16
The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)

The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.

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D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26
The 8th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. The event will be at Burma Restaurant (740 6th St, NW near the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station). For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Meetup/DC 8. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) --EdwardsBot (talk) 07:09, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.

If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho (talk) 05:46, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Have time on Saturday?
I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

I hope to see you there!

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Harej (talk) 04:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, June 15!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Join us this Sunday for the Great American Wiknic!
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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, July 13!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 00:18, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 03:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
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Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Brigham Young University Wikiproject
This new wikiproject has been proposed at WikiProject Council/Proposals. Please sign up in order to improve the quality of BYU related articles on wikipedia, including BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii. Thanks. Wrad 01:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Doug Stewart
Same article so I won't start a new one. Doug Stewart is a writer and a playwright apparently (he wrote that horrible musical "Saturday's Warrior"), but the person who added him to the article didn't check to make sure the link went to the right person. There's no article about the Doug Stewart the editor meant to link to, so it's up in the air whether or not he's really that notable to add to the list of alumni/people to begin with. What say you? --ScreaminEagle 07:02, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I see. Thanks for the information on that.  I've seen Saturday's Warrior a few times (back in the 1980s when it was quite popular in Utah), but had no idea who wrote it, and can't say that I was ever interested in knowing that fact.  Seeing as how Saturday's Warrior has been a rather important part of Mormon pop-culture, I think it could be left there.  If someone puts it back, I won't delete it.  —  John 14:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

The Page Itself
V-ball, I think it would be better to have a page called "List of Brigham Young University people" instead of one called "List of Brigham Young University alumni." That way, the page could include notable people associated with BYU who are not alumni (current students, dropouts, professors, university presidents, former students who complete their studies elsewhere, etc). Check out the articles for Harvard and Yale Universities; I believe they link to "people" pages rather than "alumni" pages. JackWilliams 01:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC) JackWilliams 01:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I saw the updated page and the link's new description on the BYU page, and I think everything looks good. Thanks! — John 03:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Etymology of Brno
I changed the text a bit and added one source (not a scholar one). Your wish for sources is very much spot on. Pavel Vozenilek 02:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Germans and their role in Brno's history
Please provide source to these edits otherwise we need to pick up the first sourced one or delete whole paragraph.
 * Do you really think that this unreferenced unsourced statement:
 * Thousands of them died on the way (Brünner Todesmarsch, Brünn death march) due to exertion.
 * fulfils NPOV ?
 *  ≈Tulkolahten≈ ≈talk≈ 00:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what you're quoting here, but the whole paragraph does need to go. That's what I said on my comments on the talk page for Brno.
 * I think facts, if that's what they really are, are POV. If something happened, even if it makes people mad, it's POV.  You're right that it's unsourced, though, and it should go, too.  I'll delete it right now. — John 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Sorting external links lexicographically
I'd reverted the edit. The municipal website is the most important here while the locatin on map link already duplicates the map in article, for example.

IMO the links should NOT be sorted lexicographically but by relevance and assesment of relevance is rather easy on such towns. Pavel Vozenilek 21:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Template: Czech statutory City
Hi, I'm from Brno, and "místní část" isn't administrative unit. "Katastrální území" = Cadastral area. --KirkEN 20:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

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WikiSk template
Hello,

I have recently created a template which can be used on the user pages of those who contribute to the Slovak Wikipedia as well. If you do, and if you are interested, you can have a look at Template:User wikisk. Jan.Kamenicek 22:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the heads-up. — John 16:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

wikiru userbox
In an attempt to avert an edit war, I wanted to discuss something about the aforementioned userbox. When a nationality is mentioned as a language, Russians put the prefix "по-" in front. That way, we would avoid confusion and have a little understanding re: this matter.

Thanks for your concern and interest. --J-AyeB( c )82 00:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The part about по- in front is not necessarily true. The adverb по-русски does not necessarily mean in [the] Russian [language], although it can mean that; it can also mean in a Russian manner or in a Russian style.  Almost any adjective, related to a nationality or not, can be turned into an adverb in Russian by using по- in front and dropping the final й or by putting the adjective in dative case (i.e., по-моему).

 * A few more examples may be in order here. По-чешски can mean in [the] Czech [language] as in the sentence я говорю по-чешски (which can also be said я говорю на чешском [языке]), or it can mean in a Czech style as in the sentence они это сделали по-чешски, which means they did that the Czech way.  The adverb по-людски means as others do or in the acceptable way.

 * So, with that background, we need to look at what we're trying to translate, and that is the phrase, "I support the Russian-language Wikipedia with my contributions." As with any translation, there are probably 8,000 different ways to render this in idiomatically correct Russian.  There are, of course, just as many possibilities at an incorrect translation.  The most literal approach would be я поддерживаю рускоязычную Википедию моими вкладами.  The box's current translation, я сотрудничаю в русской Википедии isn't bad and would be reverse-rendered as "I contribute to the Russian Wikipedia," which accurately conveys what we're looking for and is idiomatically correct Russian.  Returning to я сотрудничаю в Википедии по-русском leaves us with "I contribute to Wikipedia the Russian way," which isn't really what we're looking for, and the word по-русском is impossible in the Russian language (it's grammatically incorrect).  Russian in our translation is an adjective (русский) and not an adverb (по-русски).

 * If that doesn't make sense, post again on my talk page or e-mail, I'm happy to help.

 * John 01:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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Welcome from Redwolf24
Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We as a community are glad to have you and thank you for creating a user account! Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Redwolf24 06:16, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I like messages :-P

I am very interested in becoming an administrator. What would you recommend that I do to become one?

 * Redwolf24 and I have responded on Red's talk page. -- Essjay ·  Talk 18:11, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

hello baby
Hello buddy, how's it going. Wikipedia Username 19:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

NPA
Please be aware your comments on User talk:Wikipedia Username border on violation of No Personal Attacks. Please be more careful in the future. -- Essjay ·  Talk 20:04, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Zao
Thanks for all your work in getting the Zao albums pages up! I've been following that band since the Splinter days, but I wasn't aware that they had released a split with Through and Through. Do you have any proof of that, maybe a link? --Idont Havaname 21:40, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * (sorry, I accidentally placed this on your user page instead of here first - even veteran editors make mistakes.) --Idont Havaname 21:55, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok. Never mind.  I found it on Wickedland a few minutes ago. --Idont Havaname 22:14, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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The Nylons

The Nylons were an a cappella group founded in 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, best known for their covers of pop songs such as The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

The band's final lineup included Claude Morrison (tenor), Garth Mosbaugh (tenor/baritone), Gavin Hope (baritone/tenor/bass) and Tyrone Gabriel (bass/baritone). Morrison was the only original member in the final lineup. The band has reissued all their albums on CD through Unidisc Music.

The band announced their retirement in 2016, and their final tour ended in 2017.

Career
The Nylons' original lineup consisted of Claude Morrison (tenor), Paul Cooper (baritone; born James Paul Cooper in Pikeville, Tennessee, February 20, 1950 – December 29, 2013), Marc Connors (tenor), and Denis Simpson (bass). In April 1979, Simpson left the group to perform in a musical and was replaced by Ralph Cole (bass). All of the original members were gay men, although later lineups included both gay and non-gay singers. Cole left the band in late 1981 and was replaced by Arnold Robinson (bass).

In 1986, the group appeared on the critically acclaimed children's television show Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show, featuring children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram. The Nylons appeared in Season 3 of the show on the "Treasure Island" episode, singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". These songs appeared on the band's albums Seamless (1984) and Rockapella (1989). During this era, the band also gained exposure from the mid-1980s syndicated sitcom Throb by singing (with the show's lead actress Diana Canova) the theme to the show.

The Nylons also appeared on the very popular new Super Dave Osborne Show in Season 1, Episode 8 in 1987, singing "Kiss Him Goodbye.

In October 24, 1992, The Nylons sang "O Canada" at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, preceding Game 6 of the 1992 World Series, in which their hometown team, the Toronto Blue Jays, won their first championship.

Cooper retired from the band in 1990 and was replaced by Micah Barnes (baritone). Connors died in 1991 as a result of AIDS-related complications, and was replaced by Billy Newton-Davis (tenor). In 1994 both Newton-Davis and Barnes left the group to pursue their solo careers, and were replaced by Garth Mosbaugh (tenor) and Gavin Hope (baritone), respectively. In 1997 Hope left the group to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Mark Cassius (baritone). In 2005, Cassius left the group; Tyrone Gabriel replaced him. After Robinson's retirement in early 2006, Gavin Hope returned as baritone; Tyrone Gabriel moved to the bass position to replace Robinson.

Paul Cooper died in 2013 of cardiac arrest, at the age of 63.

On May 30, 2014, the Nylons performed a show in Toronto which included the participation of every living past or present member of the band.

In fall and winter 2016, The Nylons toured and performed their farewell show throughout Canada, before disbanding in 2017.

Members

 * Marc Connors (tenor 1978-1991) (died March 1991)*
 * Paul Cooper (baritone 1978-1990) (died December 29, 2013)*
 * Claude Morrison (tenor 1978–2017)*
 * Denis Simpson (bass 1978-1979) (died October 22, 2010)*
 * Ralph Cole (bass 1979-1981) (deceased, buried in Manitoba, Canada)
 * Arnold Robinson (bass 1981-2006) (died March 16, 2013)
 * Micah Barnes (baritone 1990-1994)
 * Billy Newton-Davis (tenor 1991-1994)
 * Garth Mosbaugh (tenor 1994–2017)
 * Gavin Hope (baritone 1994-1997, 2006–2017)
 * Mark Cassius (baritone 1997-2005)
 * Tyrone Gabriel (baritone 2005, bass 2006–2017) (died January 11, 2022)

* Denotes the four founding members.

Discography
Albums from 1982-1989 were released on Attic Records in Canada and Windham Hill in the United States, albums from 1989-1996 were released on BMG's Scotti Brothers imprint, and albums after 1997 were released on Shoreline Records.

 * Some People (1980, EP)
 * The Nylons (1982) #8 Canada
 * One Size Fits All (1982) - #59 AUS / #25 Canada
 * Seamless (1984) - #133 Billboard 200 / #40 Canada
 * Happy Together (1987) - #43 Billboard 200 / #45 Canada
 * Rockapella (1989) #60 Canada
 * The Very Best of The Nylons (1989, compilation)
 * 4 on the Floor (1991, live)
 * Live to Love (1992)
 * The Best of the Nylons (1993, compilation)
 * Illustrious: A Collection of Classic Hits (1993, compilation)
 * Because... (1994) (a.k.a. Another Fine Mesh)
 * Harmony: The Christmas Songs (1994)
 * Run for Cover (1996)
 * Hits of the 60's: A Cappella Style (1997, compilation))
 * Fabric of Life (1997)
 * Perfect Fit (1997, compilation)
 * A Wish for You (1999)
 * Lost and Found (1999) (previously unreleased tracks and new arrangements)
 * Fabric of Life: Vocal Percussion Remix (2000)
 * Play On (2002)
 * Sterling (2006) (compilation double album with new material)
 * Skintight (2011)

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CSN (album)

CSN is the third studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released on Atlantic Records on June 17, 1977. It is the group's second studio release in the trio configuration. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; two singles taken from the album, Nash's "Just a Song Before I Go" (No. 7) and Stills' "Fair Game" (No. 43) charted on the Billboard Hot 100. It is currently the trio configuration's best selling record, outselling 1969's Crosby, Stills & Nash by 200,000 copies. It has been certified quadruple platinum by RIAA.

Content
Following their tour in the spring and summer of 1970 to support Déjà Vu, Crosby, Stills and Nash had only completed one project together, a 1974 reunion tour of CSNY. David Crosby and Graham Nash had recorded three albums as a duo, with Crosby releasing a single solo album (in addition to a Byrds reunion album) and Nash a pair. Stephen Stills pursued other projects including the release of four solo albums, a short career with Manassas that yielded two albums, as well as a tour and an album with Neil Young, which itself nearly became a CSNY project.

CSN featured strong writing from all three members, the last time for seventeen years that the band would compose songs and handle vocals without major assistance from outside sources.

Many of Stills' songs on the album echo his marital problems, with "Dark Star" returning to the Latin rhythms he had favored all the way back to his Buffalo Springfield days. Crosby continued the existential probings consistent with much of his past work, and Nash offered both a radio-ready acoustic ballad with "Just a Song Before I Go", and an elaborate set piece re-creating a vision of an LSD experience that he had in Winchester Cathedral with "Cathedral". Many tracks included a string section, a first on a CSN project.

The album was released for compact disc an initial time in the 1980s, then again at Ocean View Digital from the original tapes and reissued on September 20, 1994. It was remastered once more by Steve Hoffman in April 2013, for an Audio Fidelity 24kt gold disk release in the summer of 2013.

Critical reception
Cash Box said that "Fair Game" "combines a snappy Latin rhythm, neatly interlocking harmonies, and layers of Stephen Stills' thoughtful acoustic guitar work." It commented on the "surging guitars and piano" and "harmonic hooks" and "powerful rhythmic elements" of "I Give You Give Blind".

Record World called "Fair Game" a "mid-tempo Stills song with samba touches, with the trio's trademark vocal harmonies again standing out."

Track listing
Side oneSide two

Personnel
Additional musicians Production
 * David Crosby – vocals; rhythm guitar on "Fair Game" and "Dark Star" ; acoustic guitar on "Just A Song Before I Go" and "In My Dreams" ; string arrangements on "Cathedral" and "Cold Rain"
 * Stephen Stills – vocals; guitars on all tracks except "Carried Away", "Cathedral" and "Cold Rain" electric piano on "Anything at All" ; piano, string arrangements on "I Give You Give Blind" ; timbales on "Fair Game"
 * Graham Nash – vocals; piano on "Carried Away", "Cathedral", "Just A Song Before I Go", and "Cold Rain" ; harmonica on "Carried Away" ; string arrangements on "Cathedral" and "Cold Rain"
 * Joe Vitale – drums on "Carried Away", "Fair Game", "Cathedral", "Dark Star", "Run From Tears" and "I Give You Give Blind" ; organ on "Shadow Captain", "Fair Game", "Anything at All", "Dark Star" ; electric piano on "Carried Away", "Just A Song Before I Go" ; percussion on "Cathedral", "I Give You Give Blind" ; flute on "Shadow Captain" ; timpani on "Cathedral" ; vibraphone on "In My Dreams"
 * Craig Doerge – piano on "Shadow Captain" and "Anything at All" ; electric piano on "Shadow Captain" and "Dark Star"
 * Mike Finnigan – organ on "Run From Tears"
 * George "Chocolate" Perry – bass on "Shadow Captain", "Fair Game", "Anything at All", "Cathedral", "Dark Star", and "I Give You Give Blind"
 * Jimmy Haslip – bass on "Carried Away"
 * Tim Drummond – bass on "Just A Song Before I Go"
 * Gerald Johnson – bass on "Run From Tears"
 * Russ Kunkel – drums on "Shadow Captain", "Anything at All", "Just A Song Before I Go", and "In My Dreams" ; congas on "Shadow Captain", "Dark Star" ; percussion on "Just A Song Before I Go"
 * Ray Barretto – congas on "Fair Game"
 * Mike Lewis – string arrangements on "Cathedral", "Cold Rain", and "I Give You Give Blind"
 * Joel Bernstein – string arrangements on "Cathedral"
 * Crosby, Stills & Nash – producers
 * Howard Albert, Ron Albert – co-producers, engineers
 * Steve Gursky – assistant engineer
 * Joel Bernstein – photography
 * Gary Burden – art direction, design
 * Joe Gastwirt – digital remastering

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This "folk poet" was affectionately known as "Eddie Guest." It is imperative that a redirect for "Eddie Guest" be created. Otherwise, most of the people who probably would want to look him up will be at a loss.Kdammers 06:19, 21 July 2005 (UTC) It's too bad someone would call Edgar A. Guest "mundane and overly sentimental." His poems speak to what is noble and worthy in humankind, (which is what is sadly lacking in our modern world.)Sue knuckles 18:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)1:04 P.M. 28 July, 2006

I think the quality Lemony Snicket referred to are his overtly positive- verging on the optimistic- view on life and humanity in general which, while excellent in their origin, may certainly suggest a general lack of deeper consideration and further thought to the wirter. Perhaps if you do read anything by Snicket it will be easier to comprehend his attitudes. 87.74.4.67 11:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

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Edgar Guest → Edgar A. Guest – Although some RMs (Talk:Ben Wattenberg or Talk:Lawrence Spivak) have successfully proposed deletion of the middle initial, pen names of authors known for using a middle initial, are depicted with the middle initial in English Wikipedia main title headers. Analogous to such names as Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, James A. Michener, Hunter S. Thompson or William T. Vollmann, Edgar A. Guest's name appears with the middle initial on the covers of his books and in various reference works. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:38, 25 August 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom - Google search confirms that his books predominantly used the middle initial. User:力 (power~enwiki, π,  ν ) 00:36, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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I have been working among the Fulani in Burkina Faso since 1989.

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Mwindo epic
Thanks for writing Mwindo epic! I was just rewriting and expanding a stub on Nyanga language and I was pleasantly surprised when my link to the epic turned out to be blue instead of red. Keep up the good work, — mark ✎ 10:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yume Kitasei

 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 07:03, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Yume Kitasei
This new article tells the tale of a recent high school graduate's political exploits in a school club. Not-notable, not verifiable, vanity, and probably a hoax. Tobycat 06:20, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Borders on being an attack page. I don't believe it to be a hoax. I've removed the attack element from the page, but it doesn't make her notable. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 06:39, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Save it for the year book. Hamster Sandwich 06:59, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. No evidence of notability other than involvement in a high school organisation. Capitalistroadster 07:26, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete teen vanity/hoax. -- Hoary 08:28, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn teen vanity. JamesBurns 09:12, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. -- Etacar11   00:24, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Pachyrhizus

Hello everyone. I've created a page about Pachyrhizus Ahipa and I am wondering what you think about it. I am happy about comments.

Pachyrhizus Ahipa
Pachyrhizus ahipa (pachy=thick, rhizus=root), also called the Andean bean is a tuberous root producing legume, which is mainly distributed in the Andean region. Page text.

History
Archaeological evidence suggests, that Pachyrhizus Ahipa was widely distributed about 2000 years ago. Page text. The first mentioning of Ahipa was in connection with the Indian cultures in the Andes, more precisely in the Salta and Jujuy provinces of Argentina.Page text. Indications of the Pachyrhizus species in general were also made at the southern coast of Peru, in the Nasca culture. The origin of the Ahipa plants is most likely in the “ceja de montañas” Andean region. Today it is still in use in small native communities in Bolivia and Northern Argentina. The crop was never widely distributed which could have to do with the very specific climatic adaptions Ahipa exhibits. Another reason could be the acquisition of Latin America by the Spanish and Portuguese conquest, which had the general policy to destroy the traditional Andean agricultural systems. The local marketing of the Andean bean during the religious festival “Corpus Cristi” indicates a relationship with ancient religious uses. Today, the production is restricted to a few local villages and farmers.

Biology
P.Ahipa is one of a few Fabaceae and predominantly self-pollinating. It is a perennial plant. Page text.

The Andean bean is a perennial plant and can grow in erect, semi-erect and in twining forms. The erect species can get 15-40 cm tall, the semi-erect one about 30-60 cm and the twining forms 60-200 cm long. P.Ahipa plants are herbaceous and lignified depending on the genotype. They do not show a lateral axis.

The leaves are trifoliate leaves with stipules or pinnately arranged leaflets with caduceus stipels. The flowers, which grow on short stalks, are white blossoms or of a pale lavender colour. They show a tubular calyx and a papilionaceous corolla. Generally the flowers exhibit an internally curved stigma in close contact with the anthers. This habitus is very unfavourable in connection with the pollination behaviour of insects, as those are not able to pollinate the flowers very effectively. Additionally, the pollen fertility is often not very high. It differs between 45-100%. The flowering pattern is not consistent. Per season 100 – 800 flowers per plant can be produced. P. Ahipa is a short-day plant. Therefore, the flowering will take place under decreasing day length.

The pods are 13-17 cm long and up to 16 mm wide.

The seeds are black, lilac, maroon or black and white mottled. They are round, kidney shaped and about 0.8-1 cm long. The seed production differs from plant to plant and lies between 20-100 per plant. The thousand grain weight is around 300 g.

Every plant shows a single swollen root, which thins out toward both ends. The roots are about 15 cm long and usually weight about 500-800 g. The yellow skin of the root encloses a white pulp, which is interwoven with a soft fiber.

Sowing
Before sowing, the soil has to be loosened to a depth of 15-25 cm using a hoe. Further, the soil has to be thoroughly cleaned from weeds and stones. In Bolivia P.Ahipa is normally sown between August and October, depending on the rainy season. The seeding rate is between 40 and 65 kg/ha. In determining the rate, preferred traits such as tuber size play an important role. Further soil fertility and seed weight have to be taken into account. The planting distance is 20-60 cm between rows and 6-25 cm between plants in the same row. Therefore about 6-83 plants/m2 are possible. P.Ahipa is planted on ridges, when it is flood irrigated, which is mostly the case in the Andean region.

Cultivation
The cultivation period is between 5-10 months. 87-140 days after sowing the first flowers appear. Those flowers have to be removed manually, a process called reproductive pruning. This means, that the flowers, as well as the young pods are removed. Therefore the tuberous roots remain the main sink for photosynthates and nutrients. The yield improves drastically. Reproductive pruning is very labour intensive and has to be done once or twice a season. Mature pods normally show themselves in April till June. At about nine months, the roots are tuberized and the aerial part is completely dry. P. Ahipa is normally sown in a pure culture and can be intercropped with maize. In a crop rotation, P. Ahipa is sown prior to maize/potato, maize/tomato, maize/oca, groundnut or manioc.

Environmental conditions
P. Ahipa can mainly be found in cool tropical and subtropical valleys, on sun-facing slopes, on the border between the warm and cold tropics. The average temperature in this region is 16-18 °C, although the climatic conditions are extremely dependant on the time of day. The precipitation lies between 400-700 mm, occurring within 4-6 months, with the rest being the dry season. Therefore the climate is semi-arid. P.Ahipa grows on a height of 1800 – 3000 meters above sea level. Cultivation is mainly carried out along loamy riverbanks. At a pinch, it can also be grown on loamy hillsides. P. Ahipa favours pH conditions from 6-8 and well-drained soil types.

P.Ahipa plants can tolerate long dry spells. Anyway, to increase tuber yield, an additional water supply is essential.

Nutrient Needs
P. Ahipas nutrient needs are versatile. At the time of harvest, seeds show high nitrogen (N) contents. Anyway, a lot of N remains in leaves, providing a N-rich straw which can be used for animal feeding or as fertilizer, given that the plant material is incorporated into the soil. In one season, 67 kg N/ha were taken up by roots and seeds. This N is mainly provided by the inoculation with efficient bacteria strains. The P.Ahipa plant is therefore able to form an efficient symbiosis with nitrogen fixing bacteria, such as Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium. Because of that, P. Ahipa is able to fix 58-80 kg nitrogen per hectare and therefore does not need any further supply via nitrogen fertilizer. A further positive aspect is that if the vegetative aboveground parts are left in the field, a substantial amount of the fixated nitrogen is returned to the soil. This can be seen in the soil enrichment of about 12-80 kg N/ha. The enrichment is very important if a sustainable land-use system is desired. During nodulation, an increased phosphorus (P) supply is advantageous, because this way the nodulation can be improved. Further it promotes the root and seed yield in P.Ahipa plants. The final recipients of P are the pod shells, as well as the seeds. In total, about 7-9.6 kg P/ha were extracted from the soil. At harvest, the highest potassium (K) contents can be found in pod shells, as well as in the roots. The removal of K at harvest was about 20.2 kg K/ha. Page text.

Disease
P.Ahipa plants are not very susceptible to pests. Anyway, nematodes such as Meloidogyne sp. can pose a serious problem. Further, some of the bean weevil species can be harmful to P.Ahipa. The most serious viral disease is the bean common mosaic virus (BCMV). Yields can be reduced up to 30% if infected by this virus. If a general irrigation management is lacking, rot is also likely to appear.

Harvest
The tubers of P. Ahipa are harvested, as soon as the tubers show a marketable weight, depending on consumer’s preferences. Mostly the preferred weight lies minimally at about 0.4 kg. The tubers are mostly harvested using a hoe. Harvest duration lies between 10 and 30 days. The vegetative top is often left on the field to later incorporate it into the fields. If the tubers are not needed at the moment, they can even be left in the soil until needed. Only the plant tops have to be cut off. The yields of the different organs differ a lot. It is about 28-53 tonnes/ha for the tuberous roots, 18-36 tonnes/ha for the fruits and 1.3-2.7 tonnes/ha for the dry seeds.

Post-Harvest
The optimal storage temperature for tubers lies between 12.5 and 17.5 °C. The storage however, changes the ratio of starch and sugar in the direction of sweeter tubers. This characteristic is valued by most consumers. There are even farmers, who leave their tubers in a sunny place, before marketing them. Due to a high moisture content, the P.Ahipa tubers may shrivel and lose condition. The storage and transportation methods therefore have to be improved. Another solution to fight the shrivelling could pose a thicker epidermis.Page text. It is important, to avoid a damage to the tuber while harvesting. This has one main reason. If the tubers are damaged, they are getting very susceptible to attacks by fungi, mainly by Rhizobus stolonifer, Cladosporium sp. as well as Penicillin sp.. An attack of one of those fungi leads to textural changes, decay and internal browning when stored at low temperatures and high relative humidity (>80%). The seed storage is problematic. Under humid conditions, the germination rapidly decreases. This is challenging, because the climate in tropics is very humid in the rainy season.

Commercial Aspects
The sometimes dwarf like habit makes P. Ahipa well suited for large-scale commercial cultivation. P.Ahipa is on one hand grown for home consumption on the other hand, half of its production is sold on the local markets. There is no international trade in P. Ahipa.

Roots
The carbohydrate-rich roots can be eaten raw and provide calories and vitamin K and C, as well as potassium to the diet.Page text. Normally they are eaten fresh, almost like a fruit. In some raw cases, it is also prepared as a juice. The roots taste sweet and are crisp like an apple and are an attractive addition to green salads. They can be boiled and even after cooking, they retain their crunchy texture. Ahipa tubers are even considered to have a cleansing effect on the body. It is supposed to cure infections of the throat and the air passage.

Its dry matter ranges from 15-30%.

Further the tuber contains 48-54% starch, which consists of 96-99.9% amylopectin. This is a very high value and especially interesting for food processing, where low solubilisation and retrogradation are important. Because of the high starch and amylopectin content, Ahipa is a good material for the starch industry. Further the suitability of th Andean bean depends on other factors such as extractability of the starch, the diameter of the starch granules or particles and their distribution. After nine months, the starch granules are very homogenously distributed in the tuber. There is a high percentage of granules, which show the same size of about 12-18 μm diameter. This indicates that the tuber growth is completed.

P.Ahipa can produce 19-28% sugars in its root.

The protein content lies between 8 and 18%. The protein content is of interest as well. Mainly, because the European market is economically highly interested in the protein import, mostly as feed for cattle. Further the protein content may be interesting for the food industry, because about 80% of the protein is water soluble and not extractable within a pH range of 2-10.

The lipid content is very low and lies below 1%.

Altogether the tuber shows a very good nutritional composition. However, because the tuber contains a lot of water, the protein and energy concentration may be rated as being medium.

Seeds
The seeds of the Andean bean contain high protein concentrations. As an adaption to insect predators, Ahipa plants accumulated canavanine in its seeds. This is highly toxic to some insects and can pose a big problem in the livestock foraging, especially if the Ahipa plants escaped into the wild vegetation. The oil of the seeds has special properties such as high palmitic acid and γ-tocopherol concentrations as well as few linolenic acids. These aspects are of interest in the food industry.

Breeding
There are several breeding aims which are important in P.Ahipa, apart from it being used as a vegetable crop, a basic food crop or a possible industrial crop. Those traits are mainly the reduction of the growth period and a reduced pod formation. This is especially important, because this way, the reproductive pruning could be avoided. Therefore a lot of time and money could be saved.

P.Ahipa plants have to be propagated sexually, because the reproductive rate by cloning from tubers is very low. The propagation by seed is very advantageous. This is mainly, because this way a transmission of viruses can be avoided and the storage of the propagation material is pretty cheap.

There have been interspecific hybridization experiments among all the Pachyrhizus species. The traits of the Andean bean, which are most interesting are tuber quality, growth habit as well as the earliness. The results of the breeding between the different species showed especially good performing hybrid lines with regard to high tuber yield as well as wide adaptability. Nevertheless, negative secondary effects, such as reduced seed set and reduced germination rates, have been observed.

Prospects
P.Ahipa should be used by a higher variability of farmers for several reasons:
 * It shows a very good adaptability to climatic and edaphic ranges
 * The nutritious composition of the protein/starch content is very well balanced, additionally, the taste is good
 * It shows good post-harvest and storage characteristics
 * The nitrogen fixation as well as a little demand for fuel wood in the preparation of food are favourable for the environment

Jicama vs. Pachyrhizus
I don't believe these are synonyms. Perhaps we should move this article to the genus name, and write a little about ahipa? — Pekinensis 06:20, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * This seems to be an inappropriate application of a common name to a whole genus. I'm in favor of moving it to the genus name. --nixie 06:35, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Done. — Pekinensis 00:22, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

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Waiakea, Hawaii

Waiākea is an ancient subdivision (ahupuaa) in the Hilo District of the Big Island of Hawaii and an early settlement on Hilo Bay.

Origin
The name comes from wai ākea in the Hawaiian Language meaning "broad waters", and sometimes what is now called Hilo Bay was called Waiākea Bay. Waiākea is home to many and has its own schools. It stretches for miles and ends at Waiākea-Uka (the area on the slopes of Mauna Loa). Waiākea-Uka houses many expensive houses, including a Swiss chateau. There are also some cattle farms in Waiākea-Uka, and a state forest reserve.

There are four schools located in the Waiākea complex: Waiakeawaena Elementary School, Waiakea Elementary School, Waiakea Intermediate School, and Waiakea High School.

Waiākea Stream flows from the slopes of Mauna Loa at 19.6325°N, -155.17806°W into Waiākea Pond at an elevation of only 10 ft at 19.71472°N, -155.07639°W.

History
When William Ellis visited in 1823, Waiākea was the main settlement on Hilo Bay. The Waiākea Mission (now called Haili Church) was the first church in eastern Hawaii island, founded in 1824. Several eruptions of Mauna Loa (the most recent in 1984) have threatened the area. Tsunamis devastated Waiākea-Kai (along the coast), with the largest in 1946 and 1960. A clock found in the rubble set to the exact time when it stopped in 1960 serves as a memorial.

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Universalist Church of West Hartford

The Universalist Church of West Hartford is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in West Hartford, Connecticut.

History
The church organized in 1821, but it had its origins in Hartford in the late 18th century, during the period when the Congregational church was dominant in the area. At that time, a sizable group of people, influenced by Elhanan Winchester, began to reject Calvinist doctrine and espouse a belief in the universal goodness of God. In 1821, after a visit to Hartford by Hosea Ballou of Boston, the "First Independent Universalist Society of the City of Hartford" was formed and called its first minister. The name was changed in 1870 to "Church of the Redeemer"—to give the church "a specific title or name", and in the early 1960s was changed to "The Universalist Church of West Hartford".

The first meetinghouse, located in downtown Hartford across the street from the Old State House, was completed and dedicated in 1824. It was used until 1860. In 1860 the church moved to a larger building on Main Street at the site where the Travelers Tower now stands. In 1906, the church moved out of downtown, to a building on Asylum Hill. Each of the first three churches was located on prime real estate in the city of Hartford, so the sale of the property each time largely financed the building of the next church. The present building was dedicated in 1931, and a sizable addition completed in 1962. It is in a strictly residential neighborhood in West Hartford, but serves a much larger community, both urban and suburban. The present building in West Hartford dates from 1931, with the addition of Fiske Hall, some church school rooms and a new sanctuary organ in 1962. The church maintains membership in the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), organized in 1961 by the merger of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America.

In the early years of the church, ministers’ tenures in general were only a few years. However, since the 1860s there have been long series of ministries, averaging fifteen years. Most notable is the 25-year ministry of former Minister Emeritus, The Reverend Wallace Grant Fiske, followed by fifteen years with The Reverend Frederick Lipp and twelve years with The Reverend Stephen Kendrick. In 2001, The Reverend Dr. Judith Walker-Riggs joined the church as Interim Minister. On November 17, 2002, Jan Katrina Nielsen was installed as the 22nd Senior Minister in the history of this church.

Building
The present church building edifice is a colonial-style, tall-steepled building, erected in 1931 and designed by Walter Crabtree. A large addition was constructed in 1962 includes additional church school rooms, music room, Fiske Hall, a large multi-purpose parish hall with a stage and main kitchen. Between the sanctuary and the addition is the most-used areas, containing newly expanded office space, conference room, library, program center with kitchen and a formal parlor. The church is one of the many in West Hartford to have a youth group, a place for teens to meet and reflect on the spirituality together. The sanctuary seats up to 350 in double rows of pews flanking a center aisle. The memorial stained glass windows which grace the chancel area were designed originally for the former church building. These and other memorial windows were saved and incorporated into this building. An Austin pipe organ was installed in 1963. On the west side of the building is a memorial garden dedicated in 1985. A large parking lot, which is leased from the Town of West Hartford, borders the south side of the property. The church also has a ten-room brick colonial parsonage on Middlefield Drive which it acquired in 1942. On December 5, 1999, the entire church was renovated with a total expenditure of $1.5 million (~$ in ). The extensive renovations touched nearly every inch of the building, including the refurbishing of the sanctuary and addition of a three-floor two-door elevator.

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Christian Brentano

Christian Brentano (24 January 1784, Frankfurt – 27 October 1851, Frankfurt) was a German writer and Catholic publicist.

Brentano was born to Peter Anton Brentano and Maximiliane von La Roche, a wealthy merchant family in Frankfurt. His father's family was of Italian descent. His maternal grandmother was Sophie von La Roche.He was the brother of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, famous German writers of the Romantic school, and the father of the philosopher Franz Brentano.

Brentano is noted for editing and releasing nine volumes of his brother's work in 1851–55. He survived Clemens, who actually died in 1842 while visiting Christian in Aschaffenburg.

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Talk:Thiensville, Wisconsin

"It is the largest village that is completely surrounded by a city in the United States." Does anybody have a source for that piece of information? I live in the area and have never heard that and have not (yet) found it searching the web. I removed it from the article. If I was wrong, please correct my mistake.

It is sometimes referred to by locals as "the ghetto of Mequon".

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The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience

The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience is a compilation album released in 1993 by Geffen Records and related to the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The name is a reference to Jimi Hendrix's original band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It is one of the best selling comedy albums and has sold 1,610,000 units as of May 2014. It was certified double platinum by the RIAA in the United States.

Overview
The album features genres of hard rock, heavy metal, and hip-hop. Many of the songs are intercut with commentary by Beavis and Butt-Head. They are joined by Cher on a cover of "I Got You Babe", the music video which featured Beavis and Butt-Head meeting a live-action Cher via computer-generated imagery. Beavis and Butt-Head also performed the slow jam "Come to Butt-Head". "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" (a Beastie Boys cover performed by Anthrax) starts with a skit in which Beavis and Butt-Head meet the members of Anthrax in their tour bus.

The album contains a hidden track. After a period of silence following "I Got You Babe", a reprise of "Come to Butt-Head" starts at 5:08, in which Beavis and Butt-Head are joined by rapper Positive K.

"I Got You Babe" with Cher was released as a single internationally and had chart success in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Europe, Netherlands, Sweden, US and the UK and featured a music video which would rotate on MTV and MTV Europe. The song "Come to Butt-Head" was also released as a single in Germany.

In 2016, the album was reissued as a vinyl picture disc.

Liner notes
The album's liner notes featured drawings of Beavis and Butt-Head adapted as a variety of other characters, including hippies, old women, Hasidic Jews, and Captain Picard and Commander Riker of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The title of the track "Mental Masturbation" by Jackyl is censored on the track listing, appearing as "Mental *@%#!" on the inner liner notes and "Mental ★@%#!" on the back cover.

Track listing
[*] Contains the hidden track "Come to Butt-Head (Reprise)" by Beavis and Butt-Head featuring Positive K at 5:08.

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Chinese crocodile lizard

The Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) is a semiaquatic anguimorph lizard found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam. The Chinese crocodile lizard spends much of its time in shallow water or in overhanging branches and vegetation, where it hunts its prey of insects, snails, tadpoles, and worms. Individuals in captivity may be fed baby mice. A rare and little-studied lizard, it is listed in CITES Appendix II, which regulates international trade of specimens. This is the only species in the monotypic genus Shinisaurus. It is the only living member of Shinisauria, a clade of lizards whose fossil record extends back to the Early Cretaceous, over 120 million years ago.

Anatomy
Chinese crocodile lizards are characterized by their green, colored with reddish necks. They often have alternating bands of light and dark patterns. Male Chinese crocodile lizards are more common than females, especially during the breeding season. On average, these lizards are 40-46 cm (16-18 in) long. Perhaps the lizards' most distinctive features are the rows of bony scales down its back and muscular tail, imitating those of a crocodile. Additionally, Chinese crocodile lizards are sexually dimorphic and can be distinguished visually. Adult males are larger and more colorful than females, with their color intensifying during the breeding season.

Gut microbes
The composition of gut microbiota is associated with the lizard's metabolism and health. For the Chinese crocodile lizard (as an endangered species), the gut microbiota is an area of concerned study and interest; greater understanding of their diet and dietary functions help contribute to a more stable international, and (ultimately) wild, population. With Chinese crocodile lizards of different ages, there are minimal differences between the adult and juvenile lizards' gut microbial composition; the young will typically seek out the smallest invertebrates they can find, from larvae and young of beetles to spiders, small flies and ants. For mature animals, the crocodile lizards consume prey opportunistically, from earthworms, centipedes, millipedes, and beetles to the larvae from Lepidoptera. Female crocodile lizards have a preference for larval beetles and earthworms, especially during breeding seasons. Within the gut microbiota population, Bacillota and Pseudomonadota are the main microbiota found in the Shinisaurus crocodilurus. These two gut microbes are important across vertebrates and, for crocodile lizards, it benefits and aids in the species' metabolism, environmental information processing, genetic information processing and cellular processing.

Diet
In China, Shinisaurus crocodilurus is known to feed on both vertebrates and invertebrates. They are "sit-and-wait" predators, perched on branches near streams until prey items are sighted. Invertebrates include both terrestrial groups (worms, spiders, katydids, etc.) and aquatic shrimp. Vertebrate prey includes tadpoles, small fish, and occasionally frogs and lizards. The Vietnamese subspecies prefers terrestrial invertebrates, such as cockroaches, crickets, and particularly earthworms. Vertebrates are not known to be part of their diet.

Territorial behavior
Shinisaurus crocodilurus have been observed to be territorial and in a given pond or stream, one sole lizard will occupy the entire space. They will widen their mouths to establish dominance, which is known as gaping. The frequency of which Shinisaurus crocodilurus gape is thought to establish a dominant-subordinate social structure to their conspecifics. Similar to other lizards like Dipsosaurus dorsalis or Tropidurus spp., the Chinese crocodile lizards would also swing their tails and lunge at their competitors. The dominant lizard will lunge and whip its tail, without force, at the subordinate lizard. The result of this is often little to no physical harm done to the subordinate. However, the subordinate lizard will retreat from the dominant's territory. Another interesting dominance-establishing behavior for Shinisaurus crocodilurus is push-up behavior. The lizard would straighten its forelimbs and level the head. Unlike other lizards, the Shinisaurus crocodilurus would only perform this push-up motion with its anterior portion. While they were doing push-ups, Shinisaurus crocodilurus would sometimes bob their head in a circular motion.

Reproduction
On average, Shinisaurus crocodilurus are fully mature and able to reproduce by the age of 3. They are viviparous lizards, giving birth to 2-12 fully developed offspring every spring. The gestation period for lasts for up to 9 months. This means that the mother does not have to take care of their offspring and that the offspring can survive independently. Female crocodile lizards are able to breed annually. Courtship often begins at the end of winter and breeding often occurs in the summer season, mainly July and August.

Pre-copulation for the Shinisaurus crocodilurus often begins with the adult male appearance changing to a more vibrant coloration. Adult male lizards will display courtship behaviors like head-nodding and approaching the females. Successful copulation for the Shinisaurus crocodilurus is when the adult male approaches to bite the female adult on the neck. He then will move his body position to be on top of the female's and secure his tail below the female. This position is observed to be securing the position of the adult female to male contact with the cloaca. After ejaculation, the adult male will release the neck bite and physically release the female.

Distribution and habitat
Surviving subpopulations of Chinese crocodile lizards primarily occupy isolated fragments of land in Guangxi and Guandong provinces of southeastern China. The Vietnamese subspecies is only found on Yên Tử Mountain in Quảng Ninh and Bac Giang provinces of northeastern Vietnam. Shinisaurus crocodilurus live alongside clear streams within subtropical broadleaf evergreen forests. They have a habitual preference for remote streams in undisturbed areas such as mountain ridges and dense forests. The species lives in a relatively cool, monsoonal climate at moderately high elevations, 200-1,500 meters (656-4,921 feet) above sea level. Their preference to occupy less dense habitat is in-line with their antipredator trajectory towards flight rather than fight. Shinisaurus crocodilurus utilize tree holes, rocks, vegetated perches as shelter and are rarely found exposed on the forest floor.

Taxonomy
Shinisaurus (literally "Shin's lizard") honors the biologist, a member of a joint Chinese-German expedition that discovered this species (as well as the frog Quasipaa shini). Its specific name – like the separate genus Crocodilurus – means "crocodile-tail".

Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized:

A subpopulation of Shinisaurus crocodilurus was first described from Vietnam in 2003. They were named as a new subspecies (S. crocodilurus vietnamensis) in 2016, in light of several ecological, genetic, and morphological distinctions relative to the Chinese subpopulations. The Vietnamese subspecies preferred granitic mountains with warmer winters and overall milder temperatures. They tended to perch on higher branches above streams which were wider, more active, and not completely covered by vegetation. The diet was primarily terrestrial invertebrates, rather than aquatic vertebrates. In general, the head was slightly longer and more pointed, with smaller eyes and a shallower cheek region.
 * Shinisaurus crocodilurus crocodilurus Ahl, 1930 (southeast China)
 * Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis Schingen et al., 2016 — Vietnamese crocodile lizard (northeast Vietnam)

Variation within the Chinese subspecies is poorly-understood. Genetic studies of captive individuals indicate that Shinisaurus crocodilurus is split into four clades, three of which originated in China and one of which corresponds to the Vietnamese subspecies. However, wild individuals and local breeding programs in China appear show low genetic diversity between subpopulations.

Classification
Shinisaurus was once also regarded as a member of Xenosauridae, but most recent studies of the evolutionary relationships of anguimorphs consider Shinisaurus to be more closely related to monitor lizards and helodermatids than to Xenosaurus. It is now placed as the only living member of the clade Shinisauria within the Anguimorpha. The fossil record of Shinisauria extends back to the Early Cretaceous, over 120 million years ago, with fossils being known from Asia, Europe and North America.

Population dynamics
A 2008 study, based on a 2004 survey, estimated that 950 crocodile lizards were left in China, split into eight isolated subpopulations. The largest subpopulation, with around 350 individuals, represents 36% of the entire population in China. A 1978 survey estimated the presence of 6,000 individuals, while a 1990 survey estimated around 2,500 individuals in the entirety of China. This points to severe population decline, on the order of 70-90% per subpopulation, in the 1978-2004 period. Five subpopulations appear to have been extirpated, including the only sites known from Hunan province. The smallest surviving subpopulations are likely unsustainable due to a lack of genetic diversity. A 2013 survey estimated that around 60 adults were left in Vietnam. Despite the discovery of an additional subpopulation near the border with China, the estimated adult population in Vietnam decreased to 41 by 2015. The rate of decline in Vietnam is nearly equivalent to 26 years in China.

Threats
In 2014, Shinisaurus crocodilurus was listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. Subpopulations are fragmented and restricted by specific habitat requirements, which make repopulation difficult. The majority of individuals, including the largest subpopulation, occur outside of protected areas. Habitat loss is a major threat, with Chinese populations particularly impacted by logging. Removal of broadleaf evergreen foliage makes streams more volatile, leading to flooding and drying cycles which are unsuitable for the lizards. Other sources of habitat loss include mining pollution, small-scale farming, and dam construction leading to water flow changes. Environmentally destructive fishing styles, such as electrofishing and poisoning, contribute to stream degradation. Another prominent threat is poaching for the pet trade, meat, and traditional Chinese medicine as a claimed cure for insomnia. In Vietnam, the local subspecies is impacted by similar threats, as well as road construction and coal mining. Local tourism has also led to habitat loss and stream pollution. Habitat loss will be amplified by climate change: one model argues that forest habitats with a climate suitable for the Chinese subspecies will be eliminated by 2080.

The species was introduced into the international pet trade in the 1980s, with exports increasing to several hundred per year by the late 1980s. Population decline linked to increasing exports led to the species being listed on CITES Appendix II in 1990. In 1990, export listings abruptly shifted to the claim that sold individuals were captive bred. However, most exported specimens were likely illegally harvested, as the number of exports has sharply increased with demand despite a lack of evidence for breeding facilities among sellers. The relative number of observed adults in the Vietnamese population sharply declined from 2013 to 2015, even as new sites were discovered. This trend is consistent with illegal collection, as the Vietnamese subspecies was introduced into the pet trade around the same time. In some cases, the number of traded animals approaches or exceeds the wild population estimate, suggesting the presence of undiscovered subpopulations known only to collectors. The sedentary lifestyle of the lizards eases collection, and poaching by local citizens is further incentivized by lucrative selling prices offered by dealers. The striking appearance of Shinisaurus crocodilurus has fueled the interest of reptile hobbyists in Europe and North America, though most captive individuals are slow to mature and did not live long before knowledge on their care was widely known. In 2017, the species was transferred to CITES Appendix I, according to its ongoing threat of extinction enhanced by poaching and trade.

Conservation measures
In China, subpopulations within nature reserves benefit from habitat preservation measures. Closely monitored breeding programs have been set up in Daguishan and Luokeng nature reserves, in the hopes of eventual reintroduction to other protected areas. The breeding program at Daguishan appears to have the only stable subpopulation in the country. Although the species has been listed as a protected species in China since 1989, hunting and trading laws are generally unenforced, especially outside of protected areas. Chinese crocodile lizards are well-represented in zoos throughout Europe and North America, though large populations of captive individuals are only found in the Philadelphia Zoo and Zoo Dresden.

The Vietnamese subspecies is entirely located within protected areas, but mining and tourism are poorly regulated. Brochures, posters, and petitions developed with the help of the Cologne Zoo have attempted to spread awareness on the subspecies and its conservation, for the sake of both local citizens and Vietnamese government officials. The species currently receives no special treatment under Vietnamese law, though hunting animals within protected areas without a permit is illegal. Breeding programs for the Vietnamese subspecies are run at the Me Linh Station for Biodiversity and Cologne Zoo. Isotope analyses have shown that the scales of captive bred individuals are enriched in Carbon-13 and Nitrogen-15, likely a result of being fed with protein-loaded feeding insects. This forensic technique may help to differentiate true captive bred individuals from wild caught lizards which are merely labelled as captive bred.

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Self-Titled (Zao album)

Self-Titled is the fifth studio album by American metalcore band Zao, released on February 21, 2001, by Solid State/Tooth & Nail/EMI. This album saw the departure of guitarist Russ Cogdell. The entire album was written in the recording studio by Scott and Jesse. Dan would be sent the tracks to write lyrics and then recorded them. The band famously broke up on stage (in Pennsylvania, Sept 2001) touring this album.

Credits

 * Daniel Weyandt – vocals, percussion
 * Scott Mellinger – composer, guitar, bass, percussion, producer
 * Jesse Smith – drums, acoustic guitar, clean vocals, composer, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, producer, programming
 * Rob Horner – bass
 * Production
 * Russ Cogdell – composer
 * Brian Gardner – mastering
 * David Johnson – photography
 * Jason Magnusson – engineer
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John T. Howe (engineer)

John T. Howe (1928-2022) was a mechanical engineer and former Chief Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

He is known for his pioneering research contributions to the aerothermodynamics of atmospheric entry, including radiative energy transfer, reactive gas flows, and innovative thermal protection systems.

John T. Howe received his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1950 and his M.S. in 1956 and the degree of Engineer in 1958 from Stanford University, all in engineering mechanics. John also completed his post doctorate studies and continued research at Stanford University while working at SRI Stanford Research Institute.

He taught Hypervelocity Atmospheric Flight and Real Gas Phenomena at Stanford University.

After several years with Stanford Research Institute, he joined the Ames Laboratory of NASA. During his 35 years with NASA, he served as Senior Staff Scientist, Head of Aerothermodynamics, Assistant Chief for the Physics Branch, and Branch Chief for Fluid Dynamics.

He was a member of the AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee (1982–84) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (1982–84). He is a recipient of the AIAA Thermophysics Award (1986) and a Fellow of AIAA.

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OWL (magazine)

OWL Magazine is a popular Canadian children's magazine founded in 1976 by Young Naturalist Foundation members Annabel Slaight and Mary-Anne Brinkmann. It was designed to make children ages 8–12 “think beyond the printed page”.

Originally a science and nature magazine – OWL stands for “Outdoors and Wild Life” – in recent years, like sister publication Chickadee, the magazine has come to encompass a larger variety of topics.

Regular features include weird news from around the world, how-to articles, science stories, a reader-driven advice column, and comics The Spruce Street Squad and Max Finder Mystery. Memorable past features include Dr. Zed (written by Canadian scientist Gordon Penrose and is being continued in Chickadee) and comic strip The Mighty Mites, which left in 2002.

Related OWL media has included books and videos, produced by former owner OWL Communications. In 1997, OWL (as well as sister publications Chickadee and Chirp) was purchased by Bayard Canada, which also owns a number of French-language children’s magazines, including Les Débrouillards and Les Explorateurs.

OWL/TV
OWL/TV was a half-hour television show that aired from 1985 to 1994 and was based on the magazine. Like the magazine, it focused on science and nature. It aired on CBC, and then later on CTV.

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Ganzeltopf

Ganzeltopf is a traditional Alsatian goose dish, popular at Christmas, prepared much like a conserve and simmered in the oven with winter vegetables and eaten with a bottle of Sylvaner. Alsace is a region situated in the East of France along the Rhine river. It was part of Germany until being annexed by France after the Thirty Years' War.

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