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Talk:Interstate 526

incomplete interchange of I-526
Completion of i-526 across islands to the James Island connector is a controversial issue in Charleston. This morning a letter to the local newspaper editor cited the (correct) language on Wikipedia about the Savannah highway interchange being "incomplete" and my first thought was, Here come the would-be revisionists to change the word "incomplete" to something else. Not sure how I'm supposed to alert the top editors that this might be an issue today. I believe the interchange is best described as incomplete, regardless which side of the controversy. Fergdoug (talk) 11:37, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

 * There is no "top editor," but their are those, like myself, that patrol the page from time to time. Haven driven I-526 myself, wrote some of the history of it and listed references, I know it is also "incomplete;" if someone were to make changes saying otherwise, it would likely be reverse.  If anything else, we also have a "view history" tab for when changes were made and by whom. So no worries.  --WashuOtaku (talk) 22:01, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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Graham Branch

Graham Branch (born 12 February 1972) is a former professional footballer.

Playing career
Branch was born in Liverpool, England. A childhood Liverpool fan, he started his footballing career across the River Mersey with Heswall and then Tranmere Rovers. Having made 109 appearances for them, with loan deals at Bury and Wigan Athletic along the way, he was released on a free transfer to Stockport County for the beginning of the 1998–99 season, and quickly arrived at Burnley in January 1999, signed by the colourful manager Stan Ternent, following a falling-out with then Stockport manager, Gary Megson.

Once described by Ternent as a Premiership-standard player, his inability to hold down a regular position either as a left-winger, left-sided or central defender, or striker, saw him never play there. He played more than 200 games for the club. His unpopularity with some supporters was balanced with him becoming something of a cult figure, earning him regular chants of "Graham di Branchio," (in reference to the football chant given to Italian footballer Paolo Di Canio), in an effort to boost his confidence and let his more prominent abilities such as pace and height come to the fore.

Branch's contract was set to expire at the end of the 2004–05 season before he earned a one-year extension in April 2005. The 2005–06 season held even more promise for the player after his hard work and commitment paid off after he was offered a new one-year extension to his current deal. Although he only scored two goals he played a large role in many victories due to his skill and crossing abilities. The 2006–07 was widely expected to be his last with Burnley and he spent it as a little-used substitute or squad player. However, the season was dedicated as an entire testimonial season for him, culminating on 7 May 2007, when 1,809 fans turned out at Turf Moor to say goodbye to him. In his testimonial, the current Burnley side played a 'Branch XI'. Although no official announcement had been made by that stage, Branch's departure had been confirmed by Steve Cotterill in interviews leading up to this testimonial match. His departure was confirmed on 8 May 2007.

In March 2010 he was forced to retire from football after suffering a serious eye injury whilst playing for Colwyn Bay.

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Talk:Shielded cable

Question not addressed by article
I am an electrician at a major steel company. I occasionally work with high voltage shielded cable and am curious as to why a semiconductor material is usually used in between the cable insulator and the cable shielding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs)

The Semiconductor (Semicon) is used between the Shield and Insulation on Low Voltage cables and between the Conductor and Insulation and between the Shield and Insulation to help "smooth out" the voltage stress caused by higher voltages. High voltages will damage the insulation by creating stress in the insulation - basically ripping the insulation at the molecular level - the stress is greatest in Corners and sharp radius turns - the Semiconductor provides a slight buffer - rounding out the area of the stress.. The reason this is applied on the shield side in Low Voltage cables - is that the shield typically sees higher voltages than the conductor- these are created by gound currents and voltages as well as disturbances such a lightning.

Paul.J.Moore 21:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)Paul.J.Moore

Grounding at both ends
The article mentions that the shield of signal cable should only be grounded at the source end. I know this has been common practice for years for many years, but there has been some new thought in this area.

The original reason for only grounding on one end was to eliminate "ground loops" or common mode hum, on audio circuits and the like. Line frequency would get onto the audio (and now network) circuit and screw up the signal. That is a good fix for that problem and it works. However, the better solution is to fix the grounding of the overall installation so that nothing is leaking to ground in the first place.

The cable shield works best when the signal lines are completely surrounded by a conductive "tunnel" that is completely at ground potential. That means it should be grounded at BOTH ends (grounded at one end means the other end is similar to an antenna at some frequencies). But to prevent ground loops, both devices have to be at the same ground potential (otherwise current will flow on the shield). That means lots of high quality ground straps between both ends. Think of it this way, if everything in the installation were sitting on a 12 inch slab of pure copper, and bonded to it, how could a ground loop arise? It couldn't, as long as all the components in the installation are connected correctly and have not failed. In a real world application, the real solution is to reduce the slab of copper and the bonding to something practical (lots of conductive straps between all components), and to watch that all components are installed correctly and to the same standards. This is the infamous Multipoint Ground.

Cutting the shield at one end works when you have an installation with uncorrected problems, but it is not the best way to shield a signal cable. --Wolfram.Tungsten 18:47, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

 * In single conductor signal cables the shield may act as the return path for the signal and is usually connected only at the signal source. In multiconductor cables the shield should be grounded only at the source end, and will not carry circuit current.

86.4.152.167 (talk) 20:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) what end should be connected where depends entirely on the circuit design
 * 2) fwiw it is more common to connect at both ends
 * 3) to suggest that only one much used method is the one that a designer or user 'should' use is simply wrong.

Grounding Cable Shields
There is a very good reason why ordnance standards require wire and cable shields to be grounded at both ends. (reference: MIL-HNDBK-1512, MIL-STD-1576, MIL-STD-1542, among others) To use lightning as one example for grounding at both ends disregards the need to do so in almost all applications. Grounding at one end only to prevent groundloops has gone to far into EE designer folklore, so much they will ground coax signal cable shields at one end only with distastrous results. Grounding at both ends is the only way to intercept magnetic fields and reduce their coupling to the interconnecting wires. When not grounded at both ends, the shield does nothing until the frequency hits the quarter wavelength of the shield length and then will resonate and create a larger voltage on the wires than if there was no shield. There are specific cases where shields should be grounded at one end only but not as a general rule. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry A West (talk • contribs) 17:40, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

A cable/wire shield grounded at one end only is not a shield. Rather, it is a low pass filter to magnetic fields and a high pass filter to electric fields. Larry A. West — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.116.245.154 (talk) 07:03, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Mr. Larry A. West asserts that a shield grounded at only one end is resonant to RF frequencies at its quarter wavelength and will induce voltage to internal conductors at that frequency. He neglects to mention that a shield grounded at both ends also has resonant frequencies and can induce voltage to its internal conductors. No configuration of grounding results in the shield always being a low-impedance path to ground across its entire length, for anything but DC and low frequencies. There will always be high-voltage points and null points across its length, for any frequency with a wavelength approaching or smaller than 4 times the circuit length, where the circuit includes the ground path between both ends of the shield if the shield is connected at both ends. Grounding both ends of the shield simply increases the circuit length, creating a loop with external conductors, including conductive soil, this makes the circuit more vulnerable to lower frequencies than it would be otherwise, and admits additional possibilities for lightning currents to be introduced onto the shield. And you can't count on the conductors being balanced such that induced currents oppose each other across the length of the circuit.

So, you can't win whichever way you ground the shield. You must also consider that conductive ground is not a perfect sink to RF currents, and induced lightning voltage across the ground is a possibility with nearby strikes.

This is one reason for use of optical fiber, especially in areas where lightning-induced currents or RF interference (emitted or received) is a problem. But we eventually transition to copper or aluminum at the ends of fiber runs. We must then consider lightning-induced currents and how to shield them. The frequencies are generally low, and energy is generally distributed across frequencies with a 1/f characteristic: more energy at lower frequencies. In this case, grounding the shield at both ends can indeed cause a shield that would be unresonant if single-point grounded to conduct significant energy. Ferroresonant chokes are ineffective during lightning strikes because they saturate. In problem areas, shielded wires are further protected with metallic conduit.

So, I'll be using single-ended grounding for my application, if for no other reason than that it removes many unknowns from the equation. I suggest that those who wish to do otherwise actually attempt to model the circuit for its RF resonance and potential for induction of lightning current, using NEC or similar software. Bruce Perens (talk) 15:24, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Is coaxial a type of shielded cable?
I don't believe that it is considered to be. If it isn't, then this photo should be deleted from the article.

--Wyn.junior (talk) 15:47, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Coax cable is definitely shielded. The shielding on a properly constructed coax cable gets crimped to the end connector.

Coax cable is not shielded in the nature that makes it relevant to this article. The shielding being talked about for this article is the shield of data and audio cables which is there to mitigate EMI and other noise that can be induced onto the cable, or armor/shields of outdoor cables used for physical protection. The shield of a coax cable is actually a conductor that is used for transmitting signals on coax cables. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.90.224.212 (talk) 18:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

40.135.74.114 (talk) 13:47, 30 September 2016 (UTC)CipherTheTerminator

Yes, Shielded. Coax Cable is designed to transmits radio signals with the shielding grounded to the source and/or grounding block. In traditional CATV designs the COAX is grounded at the pole or pedestal at the street and at the house using a ground block bonded to the home grounding rod per NEC code. Other applications of COAX, like high power speaker cables, is a misuse of COAX and would be better served by twisted cables. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:9280:2360:46F:8A4F:7009:3DD5 (talk) 16:20, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Unencyclopedic section lacking citations
The section 'Practical guide for shielded cables for industrial signal applications' is not encyclopedic and lacks citatations of sources. See Wikipedia:Verifiability and "What wikipedia is not" Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_manual.2C_guidebook_or_textbook. The title says it all in its use of the word "guide" and exhortations to the reader to do this/don't do that. This sections needs to be rewritten to be appropriate in tone for an encyclopedia and to be based on cited reliable sources. 83.105.29.229 (talk) 12:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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Beijing–Harbin railway

The Beijing–Harbin railway, or the Jingha Railway, is the railway that connects Beijing with Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province. It spans 1249 km. It is a very prominent route in the provinces of northeastern China.

History
Construction of the section between Tangshan and Tianjin began in 1881 as the Kaiping Tramway. This section is the second-oldest railway in China and the oldest still in use. (The oldest railway in China was the Woosung Railway in Shanghai, built in 1876 but dismantled and removed to Taiwan the next year.) Later this section was extended west to Beijing and east to Shanhaiguan. It was further extended to the east and reached Mukden (modern Shenyang) in Fengtian province (modern Liaoning) by 1912.

The railway operated under or was known by several names, including:
 * the Imperial Railroad of North China,
 * the Guanneiwai Railway (literally "Shanhaiguan Inner & Outer Railway"),
 * the Jingfeng Railway, or Peking−Mukden Railway in English, from August 1907 to 1928,
 * the Pingfeng Railway, or Peiping−Mukden Railway in English, from 1928 to April 1929,
 * the Beining Railway, from April 1929 to 1932.

Under the late Qing and during the early Republic, it was administered by and provided much of the revenue for the Ministry of Posts and Communications. It is now administered by the Ministry of Railways for the People's Republic of China.

The section from Shenyang to Harbin used to be a part of the South Manchuria branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway built by the Russian Empire from 1898 to 1902. Later, the section from Changchun to Shenyang became part of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway. There used to be no linking line between the Beining Railway and the South Manchuria Railway. A bridge was built for the South Manchuria Railway to cross the Beining Railway. The Huanggutun Incident took place on June 4, 1928 right at this bridge, several kilometres east of the Huanggutun railway station on the Beining Railway.

After the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and the subsequent establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, the section of the line east of Shanhaiguan - being within the territory of Manchukuo – was separated from the Beining Railway, becoming the Fengshan Line of the Manchukuo National Railway. In the Japanese-occupied territory under the authority of the collaborationist Provisional Government of the Republic of China, a new company was set up to manage railways and bus transportation in northern China (excluding the puppet states of Manchukuo and Mengjiang). Called the North China Transportation Company, it was formed in 1938 through the nationalisation of all railways in the territory of the Provisional Government, including the Beining Railway. During the existence of the NCTC, the truncated Beining Line was known as the Beishan Line (from its termini, Beijing and Shanhaiguan). The NCTC was liquidated after Japan's defeat in the Pacific War, and its operations were taken over by the Republic of China Railway in 1945; this became the China Railway after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

After 1949, the Beining Railway, the Shenyang−Changchun section of the South Manchuria Railway's Renkyō Line, and the Manchukuo National Railway's Changchun–Harbin Jingbin Line were merged and named the Jingha Railway.

Before 2007, the Beijing–Harbin railway shared the route with the Beijing–Shanghai railway from Beijing to Tianjin, and then to Qinhuangdao then continuing to Harbin. The railway was merged with the Beijing–Qinhuangdao railway, bypassing Tianjin. The remaining section between Tianjin and Qinhuangdao was renamed into the Tianjin–Shanhaiguan railway.

Current status
As of December 31, 2006, it uses the Beijing–Qinhuangdao railway, the Qinhuangdao–Shenyang high-speed railway, and the Shenyang-Harbin portion of the Harbin–Dalian railway.

Important cities en route

 * Beijing
 * Hebei Province: Tangshan, Qinhuangdao
 * Liaoning Province: Huludao, Jinzhou, Shenyang, Tieling
 * Jilin Province: Siping, Changchun
 * Heilongjiang Province: Harbin

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Brodsky Quartet

The Brodsky Quartet is a British string quartet, formed in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, in 1972 as the "Cleveland Quartet", and subsequently named for Russian violinist Adolph Brodsky. Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original members, though Paul Cassidy remains a long-standing member, joining in 1982.

In addition to performing and recording classical music, and in particular the string quartet repertoire of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartók, Zemlinsky, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel and Shostakovich, they have collaborated with such rock and pop figures as Björk, Elvis Costello, Sting, Katie Noonan and Paul McCartney. With Elvis Costello they co-wrote the Juliet Letters, released and toured in 1993. They perform the "Strings" on Björk's Family Tree box set. This material mostly comes from concerts Björk and the Brodsky gave at London's Union Chapel in December 1999.

The Quartet has commissioned many contemporary composers including Errolynn Wallen, Isidora Zebeljan, Elena Virsova, Andrea Tarodi, Theo Verbey, Javier Alvarez, John Tavener, Andrew Ford, Julian Nott and George Grundmann, and championed new work from composers such as Mario Lavista, Osvaldo Golijov and Peter Sculthorpe.

The quartet has performed standing up since 1992. Jacqueline Thomas sits on a podium, bringing her to the same head height as her colleagues, but sometimes also stands, using a small stool under her left foot, so that the instrument can rest against her bent knee.

In May 1998 the Brodsky Quartet was presented with a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for an outstanding contribution to innovation in programming. In 1999 they received Honorary Fellowship at Teesside University and in 2004 they were awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Kent.

As well as their performance and recording work, the Brodsky Quartet was Quartet in Residence at Cambridge University in the 1980s, International Chair of Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland from 2007 and holds visiting residencies at many establishments worldwide. For fourteen years they taught and performed at the Dartington International Summer School.

The Brodsky Quartet are also known for their arranging of non-quartet repertoire for use as concert encores. These have been compiled into various recordings, including Brodsky Unlimited, Petits Fours and Golden Oldies. They have worked in music theatre productions including Complicité's The Noise of Time, Brian Friel's Performances (with Rosamund Pike and Henry Goodman) and Bill Barclay's Letters to a Young Poet.

The Brodsky Quartet has an extensive discography of over seventy recordings, having been signed by IMP, ASV, Teldec, Challenge, Vanguard, Warner, Autor, Brodsky Records, SOMM, Kim, Silva Classics, Orchid, CPO, Hybrid and latterly Chandos. They left Chandos in 2023, deciding to end their recording career, following three releases to mark their 50th anniversary; Rocking Horse Road with Jacqui Dankworth, Schubert's Cello Quintet with Laura Van Der Heijden and Golden Oldies, a compilation of their encore arrangements. They have collaborated with singers and instrumentalists worldwide, including Sir Willard White, Natasha Kudritskaya, Michael Collins, Joan-Enric Lluna, Leon Bosch, Laura van den Heijden, Natalie Clein, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Martin Roscoe, Tunde Jegede, John Harle, Craig Ogden, Martin Fröst, Nobuko Imai, Ryota Komatsu, Eddie Perfect and David Hansen.

Members
1972–1982
 * Michael Thomas
 * Ian Belton
 * Alexander Robertson
 * Jacqueline Thomas

1982–1999
 * Michael Thomas
 * Ian Belton
 * Paul Cassidy
 * Jacqueline Thomas

1999–2007
 * Andrew Haveron
 * Ian Belton
 * Paul Cassidy
 * Jacqueline Thomas

2007–2019
 * Daniel Rowland,
 * Ian Belton
 * Paul Cassidy
 * Jacqueline Thomas

2019–2021
 * Gina McCormack, violin
 * Ian Belton, violin
 * Paul Cassidy, viola
 * Jacqueline Thomas, cello

2021-
 * Krysia Osostowicz, violin
 * Ian Belton, violin
 * Paul Cassidy, viola
 * Jacqueline Thomas, cello

Awards and nominations

 * Edison Prize (The Juliet Letters)
 * Choc Du Monde
 * Royal Philharmonic Prize

ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

! Ref.
 * 2016
 * With Love and Fury (with Katie Noonan)
 * Best Classical Album
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

Namesake
The Brodsky Quartet is not the first quartet of that name. They are named for Russian violinist Adolph Brodsky (1851–1929), who performed the world premiere of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and was founder of two quartets under the Brodsky name. In 1918 Edward Elgar dedicated his String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 to the 2nd Adolph Brodsky quartet.

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Talk:Cycle of the West

To start with...
I just finished punching up in a major way the article on John Neihardt, but felt that his major work, the Cycle, needed to be listed on its own. I can put some of the basic info up, but I am by no means an expert on poetry or literary history. "Enjambement" was a new one to me when I went to read on "heroic couplets"!!! So if anyone who has more experience than I do wants to add to the appreciation of what I think is an amazing work of literary art, please do so.

In the meantime, I'll just add a few more details when I get to it. --KJPurscell 22:02, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

what's the meaning of...
May somebody tell me the meaning of words below? Is " deal out some requisite summary justice"means Hugh Glass killed them both?

but only to set out to track down his betrayers and deal out some requisite summary justice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.150.10.196 (talk) 00:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clok Krew

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The result of the debate was speedy deleted. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Clok_Krew
Recreation of deleted "Clock Crew" page. Billpg 22:02, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Pichincha (volcano)

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Although Quechua is indeed the Incan language that spread through much of the Andean region as a result of the expansion of the Inca Empire, it has changed and evolved over time in the disparate Andean regions in which it is used. When discussing indigenous languages in Ecuador, especially in Northern areas like Pichincha, it is important to recognise that the people there call their language Kichwa, or Quichua, and that it is distinct from, although similar to, Quechua. There are also considerable regional differences in Kichwa, particularly between that spoken by the indigenous Kichwa groups of the Amazon region and those of the Andean region.

 * True, it's transliterated into Spanish as Quichua. The Quechuan languages have a 3 vowel system, essentially /i/, /u/ and /a/, whereas Spanish has 5 vowels: the same 3, plus /e/ and /o/.  In many Quechuan languages, the consonant /q/ is a uvular stop, pronounced further back in the mouth than Spanish /k/ (spelled 'qu' or 'c'); Quechua also has a /k/, essentially the same as the Spanish /k/.  The backness of the Quechua /q/ causes a following /i/ vowel to lower from [i] to something more like [e], hence Spanish speakers perceive /i/ as being the same as the Spanish /e/ in this position.  Hence "Quechua", phonemically /qitʃua/, is heard by Spanish speakers as /qetʃua/.  However, northern Quechuan languages have lost the /q/~/k/ contrast, so that the /i/ after etymological /q/ actually follows /k/ in these (Ecuadorian) varieties.  The result is that Spanish speakers hear this word as [qitʃua] in Ecuador, not as [qetʃua].  Which is why it's called "Quichua" in Ecuador, but "Quechua" in Peru and Bolivia.

 * Just to make things more complicated, the language is usually called Runa Shimi ("people's language") by the indigenous people themselves.

 * But what I really came here to ask is this: when I lived in Quito, I was told there was a third peak, Padre Encantado. It's not mentioned here, but there's a description here: https://lonelygirltravelling.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/padre-encantado/.  Should it be mentioned? Or is it a minor peak? Mcswell (talk) 04:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Padre Encantado is a very minor peak, between the two major peaks of Rucu and Guagua pichincha. It was likely a side vent of one of the two main volcanoes at some point in their volcanic history. 2A02:A46F:576B:0:79CC:3491:6CAD:1705 (talk) 21:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Last eruption date
There is a mistake in the GVP source. I wrote to GVP and they answered this "Hi Yanik, It looks like you found a mistake in our database. The phreatic explosion on December 7, 2002, was the last with confirmed ejection of material. Other explosions were reported as late as February 2009, but it was not known if those events caused the ejection of solid material. Thanks for letting me know. Best regards, Ed Venzke, GVP Data Researcher". --YB ✍ 16:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cock tickling

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The result of the debate was speedy delete. Coffee 22:06, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Cock tickling
Read that crap and you'll agree. V. Molotov 22:03, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Lotad

There are two versions of Lotad in Pokémon TCG, they're simply repeated copies of the same one with different number.

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Clare Selgin Wolfowitz

Clare Selgin Wolfowitz (born November 1945) is an American anthropologist with a specialism in Indonesia. She currently works at the IRIS center at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Governance Institutions Group, primarily on its projects in Indonesia and with the Programs and Policy Coordination office of USAID. She also currently serves as a board member for Health In Harmony, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that supports environmental conservation and health projects in Indonesia. Her first stay in Indonesia was as an American Field Service (AFS) exchange student in the summer of 1962.

In 1968 she married Paul Wolfowitz, who became United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005) and subsequently President of the World Bank Group. They had met while they were studying together at Cornell University in the mid-1960s and co-residing in the Telluride House. There are conflicting reports of their marital status. They have been reported as divorcing in 2002. They have three children.

She is the half-sister of author, playwright, and illustrator Peter Selgin and economist George Selgin.

Books

 * Language Style and Social Space: Stylistic Choice in Suriname Javanese (University of Illinois Press, 1991)

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The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 15:36, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Floor 42
Local access cable shows do not an article make. This guy is spamming the site with other articles realted to himself and...dare I say it...his band. - Lucky 6.9 22:04, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * delete as nn TVanity. Brighterorange 23:05, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; searching for "Floor 42" "Josh Parker" yields 0 results. Jaxl | talk 00:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above Roodog2k 01:07, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above (it's so true) Schalicto 07:45, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Especially since the above new user admitted to writing this in the first place, apparently for fun. Naughty boy.  :)  Seriously, if you haven't yet checked your talk page, thanks for your honesty and welcome to the club! - Lucky 6.9 14:23, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
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Articulation (music)

Articulation is a musical parameter that determines how a single note or other discrete event is sounded. Articulations primarily structure an event's start and end, determining the length of its sound and the shape of its attack and decay. They can also modify an event's timbre, dynamics, and pitch. Musical articulation is analogous to the articulation of speech, and during the Baroque and Classical periods it was taught by comparison to oratory.

Western music has a set of traditional articulations that were standardized in the 19th century and remain widely used. Composers are not limited to these, however, and may invent new articulations as a piece requires. When writing electronic and computer music, composers can design articulations from the ground up.

In addition to the following instructions given by composers, performers choose how to articulate the events of a score independently, in accordance with their interpretation of it. Until the 17th century, it was rare to mark articulations in a score, and even during the Baroque period they were uncommon apart from ornaments, leaving them up to the performer and the standards of the time. Even during the Classical period, the interpretation of articulation marks varied far more widely than it does today. Articulations have now become more tightly standardized, but performers still must consider the fashions of their time, methods of playing that were current at the time the piece they are performing was written, the context of their performance, the style of the music, and their own taste and analysis when deciding how to articulate a score's events.

Articulations
There are many types of articulation, each with a different effect on how the note is played. In music notation articulation marks include the slur, phrase mark, staccato, staccatissimo, accent, sforzando, rinforzando, and legato. A different symbol, placed above or below the note (depending on its position on the staff), represents each articulation.

The third movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) exemplifies the effective use of contrast between staccato and legato within the same passage of music:

Varying the articulation of a theme can play a role in musical development. For example, Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture opens with a phrase played legato:

This idea later re-emerges played staccato as Mendelssohn develops it across the orchestral texture:

Brass and woodwind instruments
Woodwind and brass instruments generally produce articulations by tonguing, the use of the tongue to break the airflow into the instrument.

Certain palate cues can help student musicians master articulations. For example, the syllable "dah" demonstrates one placement of the tongue to articulate notes. In most cases, using the near tip of the tongue, is the best way of articulation. However, different articulation markings require different tongue placement. Smooth, connected passages may require an articulation more reminiscent of the syllable "la," while heavy, sharp notes may be attacked with an articulation similar to "tah."

Furthermore, the implementation of double-tonguing may be required when many articulations are required in rapid succession. Double-tonguing can be simulated by repeating the syllables "dig" and "guh" in rapid succession. Other syllables for double tonguing are "tuh" and "kuh," "tih" and "kuh," and any other combination of syllables that use the tip of the tongue behind the front teeth and then the back of the tongue against the back of the mouth. Double-tonguing is an articulation primarily used by brass players, but the use of double-tonguing by woodwind players is becoming more common.

A third, rare form of articulation for wind players is "doodle tonguing". The name of this articulation comes from the sound, doodle, one would make if she were to sound her voice while performing the articulation. Doodle-tonguing is achieved by moving the tip of the tongue up and down quickly to block the air stream momentarily on the way up, and again on the way down.

String Instruments
Stringed instruments use different techniques such as bowing, picking, or a technique by plucking the strings with the hand. This technique is called pizzicato. String instruments use these methods to achieve different articulations, varying the speed, pressure, and angle of the bow or pick. Musicians use articulation to create a link between notes, such as legato. Legato is formed by letting the string vibrate without stopping or muting it so the note slurs with the consecutive ones. Staccato is another very common musical articulation found in music. This action is caused by the player plucking, bowing, or picking the note and immediately muting the note so it is shorter than normal. Think of these two as opposites. Duration is indeed the most striking feature of articulation but is not its only one. Articulation describes the forming of a tone in all its facets. This also includes loudness, timbre, intonation, and envelope characteristics. A note is accented by a sort of triangle without its base. A musician using a string instrument would accent a note by playing the string harder and with more attack creating a louder sound.

Compound articulations
Occasionally, articulations can be combined to create stylistically or technically correct sounds. For example, when staccato marks are combined with a slur, the result is portato, also known as articulated legato. Tenuto markings under a slur are called (for bowed strings) hook bows. This name is also less commonly applied to staccato or martellato (martelé) markings.

Apagados
Apagados (from the Spanish verb apagar, "to mute") refers to notes that are played dampened or "muted", without sustain. The term is written above or below the notes with a dotted or dashed line drawn to the end of the group of notes that are to be played dampened. The technique is chiefly written for bowed or plucked instruments. Modernists refer to the 'apogado' (slightly different spelling) as "palm mute". On the guitar, the musician dampens the strings with the palm of the hand and plucks with the thumb. Strictly speaking, the term dampened is correct for this effect in music; since to mute means to silence. Illustration of the apagados may be found in the work of the composer for Spanish guitar, Gerardo de Altona.

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Cooper, Minneapolis

The Cooper neighborhood (part of the larger Longfellow community) resides along the west shore of the Mississippi River in south Minneapolis. It is bound by 34th St. E. on the south, 38th Ave. S. on the west, 27th St. E. on the north, and the river gorge to the east. Bordering neighborhoods are Seward to the north, Longfellow to the west, and Howe to the south. St. Paul's Merriam Park neighborhood is just across the Mississippi River to the east.

Cooper was named after the 19th-century author James Fenimore Cooper, best known for writing The Last of the Mohicans (1832).

Geography
The Mississippi River Gorge is unique to this stretch of the entire Mississippi. The river cut an eighty-plus foot gorge as what is now St. Anthony Falls moved upstream over thousands of years, finally stopping at downtown Minneapolis due to engineering work during the city's flour milling boom times. Today, the Mississippi River Gorge is a protected natural landscape.

Schools
2005 marked the closing of Cooper Elementary School, forcing Cooper's children to move to the neighboring Longfellow Elementary, which itself closed in 2010. Today, elementary students in Cooper are split between Dowling Elementary School and Hiawatha Elementary School.

Sanford Middle School (formerly Jr. High) is the closest middle school, located in the Howe neighborhood to the south.

South High School is the closest senior high school, located in the Corcoran neighborhood further to the west.

Minnehaha Academy's (private) high school is located in Cooper along West River Road. Their middle school is further south on West River Road in the Howe neighborhood.

Political representation
Cooper is part of City Council Ward 12 and Minnesota Legislative District 63A.

 * City Council (Ward 12): Aurin Chowdhury
 * Minneapolis Park Board (District 3): Becky Alper
 * Minneapolis Mayor: Jacob Frey
 * Hennepin County Commissioner (District 4): Angela Conley
 * Minnesota House of Representatives (District 63A): Samantha Sencer-Mura
 * Minnesota Senate (District 63): Zaynab Mohamed
 * US House of Representatives (District 5): Ilhan Omar

Notable residents

 * Jesse Ventura, former Minnesota Governor, grew up in the house on the southwest corner of 32nd St. E. and 46th Ave. S.

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Endothelin

Endothelins are peptides with receptors and effects in many body organs. Endothelin constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. The endothelins are normally kept in balance by other mechanisms, but when overexpressed, they contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension), heart disease, and potentially other diseases.

Endothelins are 21-amino acid vasoconstricting peptides produced primarily in the endothelium having a key role in vascular homeostasis. Endothelins are implicated in vascular diseases of several organ systems, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain. As of 2018, endothelins remain under extensive basic and clinical research to define their roles in several organ systems.

Etymology
Endothelins derived the name from their isolation in cultured endothelial cells.

Isoforms
There are three isoforms of the peptide (identified as ET-1, 2, 3), each encoded by a separate gene, with varying regions of expression and binding to at least four known endothelin receptors, ETA, ETB1, ETB2 and ETC.

The human genes for endothelin-1 (ET-1), endothelin-2 (ET-2), and endothelin-3 (ET-3) are located on chromosomes 6, 1, and 20, respectively.

Mechanism of action and function
Endothelin functions through activation of two G protein-coupled receptors, endothelinA and endothelinB receptor (ETA and ETB, respectively). These two subtypes of endothelin receptor are distinguished in the laboratory by the order of their affinity for the three endothelin peptides: the ETA receptor is selective for ET-1, whereas the ETB receptor has the same affinity for all three ET peptides. The two types of ET receptor are distributed across diverse cells and organs, but with different levels of expression and activity, indicating a multiple-organ ET system. Most endothelin receptors in the human cerebral cortex (~90%) are of the ETB subtype.

Endothelin-1 is the most powerful endogenous chemical affecting vascular tone across organ systems. Secretion of endothelin-1 from the vascular endothelium signals vasoconstriction and influences local cellular growth and survival. ET-1 has been implicated in the development and progression of several cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and hypertension. Endothelin also has roles in mitogenesis, cell survival, angiogenesis, bone growth, nociceptor function, and cancer onset mechanisms. Clinically, anti-ET drugs are used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Endothelin-2 differs from endothelin-1 by two amino acids, and sometimes has the same affinity as endothelin-1 for ETA and ETB receptors. Studies have shown that endothelin-2 plays a significant role in ovarian physiology and could impact the pathophysiology of heart failure, immunology, and cancer.

Physiological effects
Endothelins are the most potent vasoconstrictors known. Overproduction of endothelin in the lungs may cause pulmonary hypertension, which was treatable in preliminary research by bosentan, sitaxentan or ambrisentan.

Endothelins have involvement in cardiovascular function, fluid-electrolyte homeostasis, and neuronal mechanisms across diverse cell types. Endothelin receptors are present in the three pituitary lobes which display increased metabolic activity when exposed to ET-1 in the blood or ventricular system.

ET-1 contributes to the vascular dysfunction associated with cardiovascular disease, particularly atherosclerosis and hypertension. The ETA receptor for ET-1 is primarily located on vascular smooth muscle cells, mediating vasoconstriction, whereas the ETB receptor for ET-1 is primarily located on endothelial cells, causing vasodilation due to nitric oxide release.

The binding of platelets to the endothelial cell receptor LOX-1 causes a release of endothelin, which induces endothelial dysfunction.

Clinical significance
The ubiquitous distribution of endothelin peptides and receptors implicates involvement in a wide variety of physiological and pathological processes among different organ systems. Among numerous diseases potentially occurring from endothelin dysregulation are:

 * several types of cancer
 * cerebral vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage
 * arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, and other cardiovascular disorders
 * pain mediation
 * cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
 * Dengue haemorrhagic fever
 * Type II diabetes
 * some cases of Hirschsprung disease

In insulin resistance the high levels of blood insulin results in increased production and activity of ET-1, which promotes vasoconstriction and elevates blood pressure.

ET-1 impairs glucose uptake in the skeletal muscles of insulin resistant subjects, thereby worsening insulin resistance.

In preliminary research, injection of endothelin-1 into a lateral cerebral ventricle was shown to potently stimulate glucose metabolism in specified interconnected circuits of the brain, and to induce convulsions, indicating its potential for diverse neural effects in conditions such as epilepsy. Receptors for endothelin-1 exist in brain neurons, indicating a potential role in neural functions.

Antagonists
Earliest antagonists discovered for ETA were BQ123, and for ETB, BQ788. An ETA-selective antagonist, ambrisentan was approved for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in 2007, followed by a more selective ETA antagonist, sitaxentan, which was later withdrawn due to potentially lethal effects in the liver. Bosentan was a precursor to macitentan, which was approved in 2013.

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Tinkerer (Marvel Comics)

The Tinkerer (Phineas Mason) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the superhero Spider-Man and the father of Rick Mason. The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963). The Tinkerer is generally depicted as a genius in engineering who is able to create gadgets and other devices from nothing more than spare parts left over from ordinary household appliances. While in his initial appearances he sought to personally eliminate Spider-Man, more recent storylines depict him under the employ of other supervillains, whom he supplies with his gadgets for their personal vendettas against Spider-Man or other heroes.

Since his introduction in comics, the character has been adapted into several other forms of media, such as animated television series and video games. The Tinkerer made his live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), portrayed by Michael Chernus. Additionally, a female version of Phineas Mason named Phin Mason appears in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, voiced by Jasmin Savoy Brown.

Publication history
The Tinkerer is a character that was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and made his initial appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (April 1963), opposing Spider-Man as a villain. It would, however, be several years before he would return, and made his second appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #160 (September 1976), once again opposing Spider-Man in a losing effort. The Tinkerer would be mentioned in The Amazing Spider-Man #182 (July 1978). This was his first mention in the publication as a supporting side character to the other villains.

Criminal career
Phineas Mason is a brilliant inventor and technician who designs advanced weaponry for criminals and sometimes undertakes crimes of his own. As "the Terrible Tinkerer", he runs an underground fix-it shop disguised as a radio repair shop. On at least one occasion, a potential customer gained the inventor's attention by presenting a transistor radio and telling Mason that "I've got a radio that just can't carry a tune". The Tinkerer's original scheme involved the employment of a team of petty has-been stuntmen and thugs. They specialized in placing bugs into radios and blackmailing state officials and politicians. The Tinkerer tried to present himself as an alien to confuse his pursuers by leaving behind a mask that looked like his face when he escaped from Spider-Man in a hovercraft shaped like a flying saucer.

The Tinkerer's next encounter with Spider-Man resulted in deploying the Toy, a hi-tech robot that serves as an assistant and lackey. The Toy also helped the Tinkerer escape from his hideout when raided by the police. The Tinkerer is known to have created the suit for Mysterio, a man that once worked as one of his alien-suited servants. Much later, he was hired by the Kingpin to rebuild the Spider-Mobile to destroy Spider-Man. The Tinkerer redesigned Rocket Racer's rocket-powered skateboard, designed the armed wheel-shaped Big Wheel vehicle, repaired the Goldbug's bug-ship., and designed some technological hardware so that Joseph Rambo can become Binary Bug. He robbed loan companies by using remote-controlled toys until stopped by Spider-Man. The Tinkerer also provided Whirlwind with improved armor and weaponry, provided Diamondback with new throwing diamonds, built the Grim Reaper's scythe-like weapon to go over where his right hand was, provided Mac Gargan with a modified scorpion tail during the "Acts of Vengeance" storyline, and even fixed Grizzly's exo-skeleton harness and grizzly suit. He has worked for Hammerhead (who was mentioned to have made Hammerhead's exoskeleton), the Beetle (who Tinkerer helped to make a new Beetle armor), the Black Cat (who received special equipment from him that enhanced her agility, senses, and strength), the Jack O'Lantern, Owl (who made special equipment for him), the Ani-Men, Jester (who made a number of gimmicks for him), and the Constrictor.

Since he is a small business operator who works alone (and arms criminals), the Terrible Tinkerer takes precautions to prevent being cheated. For instance, Killer Shrike commissioned the Tinkerer to improve weapon gauntlets. At delivery time, the criminal decided to use the weapons to threaten the inventor and avoid paying. The gauntlets backfired on Killer Shrike, wounding and immobilizing due to a failsafe the Tinkerer engineers into his products for such situations.

Mason is forced to work for the Vulture (Adrian Toomes) interested in freeing Nitro from custody. This falls apart when the heroic mutants Rusty Collins and Skids chance upon the situation and defeat the villains. The Tinkerer is arrested off-panel.

The Trapster later sued the Tinkerer for selling faulty equipment. The Trapster's character witnesses in the case against the Tinkerer include the Beetle, Blacklash, Blizzard, Boomerang, Jack O'Lantern, Mad Thinker, Porcupine, Ringer, Stilt-Man, Spymaster and Taskmaster. When Taskmaster accuses the other villains of not properly using the equipment that the Tinkerer provided, it resulted in an in-court brawl that was broken up by She-Hulk which leads to the villains getting arrested. When the Tinkerer and Mad Thinker ask She-Hulk who is superior, She-Hulk says to sort it out themselves and storms off.

His son Rick Mason is a world-class mercenary for the American government and freelance operative. Despite the two being on opposite sides of the law, father and son remained on good terms and met frequently. The Tinkerer even aided Rick from time to time, and once provided his son with information about a coup in South America. After Rick was seemingly killed in action, the grief-stricken father decided to mend his ways while still maintaining links to supervillains to give information he could discreetly pass along.

In the Secret War miniseries, Nick Fury discovered a link between the weaponry of most of the known technology-based villains in the Marvel Universe and the kingdom of Latveria. The Tinkerer was revealed to have received a vast portion of his funding and presumably the resources and technology from which he has developed most of his clients' arsenals over the years from Latveria. This was part of an ongoing "terrorist" initiative fostered by the kingdom's despotic leader Doctor Doom and minion Countess Luciana Von Bardas. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents discovered the Tinkerer's workshop by using Killer Shrike as a mole. When the agents converged on the workshop, the canny villain detected this. Killer Shrike was struck down by the Tinkerer's security systems, and the Tinkerer fled to Latveria rather than face justice. Early in the Marvel Knights imprint of Spider-Man, Eddie Brock sells the Venom symbiote through an auction put on by the Tinkerer.

The Punisher finds and confronts the Tinkerer after a confrontation with the murderous Stilt-Man to which Tinkerer begs for death. Not only was his son dead, but his grandson perished in the Stamford, Connecticut explosion that heralded the Civil War's beginning. Without his beloved son or grandson, he was suicidal and continued his work in the hope that both superheroes and supervillains would wipe each other out. The Punisher stabs the Tinkerer in the back, likely leaving him paralyzed. Now reliant on a wheelchair, Mason has been contracted by Silas "Cyber" Burr to subject the resurrected villain's new body to the Adamantium-epidermal bonding process. Mason agrees to create a "pacemaker" for the ailing Cyber's heart condition, as well as three carbonadium bullets for Logan in exchange for the use of Logan's mysterious carbonadium synthesizer. Cyber awakens from the procedure to discover the deadly radioactive device permanently attached to the chest and that Logan has disappeared with the C-synth. Phineas is last seen in the enraged Cyber's clutches. Surviving his encounter with Cyber, he is seen attending the Survivors' Guild, a therapy group for survivors of the Punisher. He is later apprehended by Iron Man for ties to a super WMD black market.

During the "Secret Invasion" storyline, he is freed from Prison 42 to help Human Torch, Thing, Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards return to the Earth dimension. It is mentioned that Mason had retired the Tinkerer identity but is imprisoned for breaking the Registration Act anyway. He is initially reluctant to help his old foes, but Franklin's and Valeria's resemblance to his own grandchildren causes him to relent. It was revealed Rick is in fact still alive, under deep cover, and in a conspiracy which resulted in Carol Danvers's apparent murder for Norman Osborn in exchange for his father's release and cleared record. The Tinkerer is later seen in jail where he repairs Hypno-Hustler's costume.

Phil Urich later visits the Tinkerer to have the Hobgoblin's gear upgraded to evade the Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus' mind in Spider-Man's body). It is shown that the Tinkerer has taken in Tiberius Stone as a secret apprentice as Stone gets revenge on the Hobgoblin by making it so that the Hobgoblin's tech fails.

He fabricated the identity of his own brother Hophni Mason via a robotic suit. As Hophni, he acted a confidant of various superheroes (such as Ant-Man and Captain America), and both provided technology and an acquaintance to Teresa Parker. His façade is revealed to which he used his said disguise as a battlesuit which gets defeated by Spider-Man. However, it is revealed that Tinkerer is an ally to the Vedomi alien race of sentient A.I.s. After escaping from custody, the Tinkerer (equipped with the Vedomi's battlesuit) battles Spider-Man. Spider-Man realized the Tinkerer was sorrowful and resentful towards humanity and help change his point of view and stay with the Vedomi to help guide positively.

Skills and abilities
Phineas Mason has a genius-level intellect with extensive knowledge in various sciences. He is capable of designing and manufacturing numerous inventions derived from pre-existing technologies. The Tinkerer can access to a wide array of advanced devices if needed. The Tinkerer's old age limits his physical abilities.

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows
During the "Secret Wars" storyline in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, a version of Tinkerer resides in the Battleworld domain of The Regency. When Regent defeated every superhero, Tinkerer gave up a life of crime and started a fix-it shop. When Spider-Man came to him for Inhibitor Chips (to conceal the superhuman signatures of himself and his daughter Annie), Tinkerer stalled until the Sinister Six could arrive, although Spider-Man managed to steal the Inhibitor Chips and escape.

Old Man Logan
On Earth-807127, Tinkerer was mentioned by Pappy Banner where he built an Adamantium suit of armor that ran on gamma energy. By the time Banner's head was placed on the Adamantium armor so that he can take revenge on Old Man Logan for the defeat that cost Pappy Banner his body, he admitted that he ate Tinkerer after the Adamantium armor was complete.

Ultimate Marvel
The Ultimate Marvel incarnation of Phineas Mason is a scientific prodigy at Nursery Two, one of the think tanks of young geniuses sponsored by the U.S. government. The Mole Man kidnapped Mason and his fellow students with the intention of using them to seed a new underground civilization in Subterranea. With the Fantastic Four's help, the Nursery Two students defeated Mole Man. Rather than return to their lives above ground, Mason and his teammates opted to stay behind and start a civilization on their own terms.

The Ultimate Marvel equivalent of Tinkerer is Elijah Stern, an original character created by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, and designed to resemble Paul Giamatti. This iteration's alias key indicator is stating that he merely "tinkers". The Tinkerer vindictively hires Killer Shrike, Omega Red and the Vulture (Blackie Drago) to torment his former Donald Roxxon for being fired by the Roxxon Corporation after discovering a way to use vibranium as a power source. His plan gets foiled by the original Spider-Man and he is given a choice to work for Nick Fury or death when S.H.I.E.L.D. finds his hideout. Choosing to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., the Tinkerer commands his Spider-Slayer robots in going after the Carnage symbiote and Peter Parker.

While repairing the Beetle's suit, the Tinkerer is approached to accommodate a group of villains with weapons against Spider-Man. As the Tinkerer is reluctant to take up the accommodations due to the Tinkerer stating that the Vulture hasn't paid him last time and the fact that he still blames the Vulture for bringing S.H.I.E.L.D. to his door, the Green Goblin "motivates" him to help. The Tinkerer does so by providing the Vulture's suit stating that nobody can fit it. Kraven the Hunter helps himself to some blasters and knives stating that he is starting a tab.

The Prowler (Aaron Davis) later breaks into his workshop, getting interrogated before being killed in cold blood once his killer realized things about the new Spider-Man.

Television

 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man, voiced by Thom Adcox-Hernandez. This version is depicted as younger and with more hair than his comics counterpart. Following a minor appearance in the first season episode "Persona" while working for the Chameleon until he is arrested, Mason appears in the second season as the Tinkerer and the Master Planner's right-hand man. Additionally, the former designs Mysterio's equipment, oversees the Sinister Six's work, upgrades the Vulture's suit, and is hired by Tombstone to create powered suits for the Enforcers.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears in Spider-Man (2017), voiced by Aaron Abrams. This version is an eccentric inventor who can create various forms of machinery from everyday appliances, primarily for his own amusement.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears in Marvel Super Hero Adventures, voiced by Michael Daingerfield. This version creates toys for children that serve evil purposes.

Film
Phineas Mason appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), portrayed by Michael Chernus. Depicted around Elijah Stern's age, this version is a weapons maker and former member of a salvage company alongside Adrian Toomes, Herman Schultz and Jackson Brice. Following the events of The Avengers (2012), the salvaging company went out of business due to interference from the Department of Damage Control, a joint venture between the U.S. government and Stark Industries. As part of their revenge scheme against them, Mason helps Toomes steal leftover technology from the Avengers' battles and build advanced weapons out of it, such as Toomes' flight suit and modified versions of Crossbones's vibro-blast emitting gauntlets. While his associates are defeated by Spider-Man and arrested by the authorities, Mason's fate is left unknown.

Video games

 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears as the first boss of the Master System version of Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears in Spider-Man (1995). He serves as a boss in the Sega Genesis version and makes a cameo appearance in the SNES version.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears as a boss in the PS2 and PSP versions of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, voiced by William Utay.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Philip Proctor. He uses the Fold, a nanite hive mind that has brainwashed supervillains that Iron Man injected control nanites into, to achieve his goals until he is defeated by the heroes.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears as a boss in the Nintendo DS version of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, voiced by Jim Cummings in an homage to Sterling Holloway. He utilizes a fragment of the Tablet of Order and Chaos to power a machine capable of creating an army of robots. However, Spider-Man tracks him down and destroys it.
 * The Phineas Mason incarnation of the Tinkerer appears as a playable character and mini-boss in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, voiced by Kevin Coello.
 * A character based on Phineas Mason / Tinkerer, a female, African-American teenager named Phin Mason, appears as the final boss of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, voiced by Jasmin Savoy Brown. She is Miles Morales's childhood best friend who seeks revenge against Roxxon after her brother Rick Mason died trying to expose the company's corruption and fast-tracking a dangerous new fuel called "Nuform". As the Tinkerer, she becomes the leader of the criminal group, the Underground, whom she supplies with her advanced programmable matter technology, and comes into conflict with the second Spider-Man, who she eventually learns is Morales. After her vendetta nearly destroys Harlem and almost kills Morales, Phin sees the error of her ways and sacrifices herself to save him.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Organized Mayhem

 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 --Allen3 talk 15:34, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Organized Mayhem
Probably a vanity page. The website is down, and is not mentioned on any other webpage. Apoc2400 22:06, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If that is the case, our only choice is to delete. Gets google hits, albeit irrelevant ones. Punkmorten 22:24, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete a website. Wow. Not many of them, these days. Especially not with so little traffic it doesn't get a rank on Alexa at all. Advertising. Two people barely constitute a 'group' on the internet. -Splash 23:28, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Splash. Jaxl | talk 00:59, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Burton Memorial Tower

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I don't think Lurie Tower should redirect here. It deserves an article of its own, and newbies won't know how to change the redirect (and whether they're allowed to). Tlogmer 03:36, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

" It stands at 10 floors in height. " The building stands 212 tall, doesn't sound like 10 floors. I think the office space is on the 10th floor, or am I misreading the article? 66.65.129.119 16:16, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

There initially may seem to be a discrepancy, but take into consideration the first floor has a very high ceiling, and above the tenth floor, there is an entire belfry! But technically, ten floors, yes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.205.143.201 (talk) 23:08, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

University of Michigan Project
University of Michigan is not represented with a project at Category:WikiProject Universities. Please comment at Talk:University_of_Michigan.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:10, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Eve teasing

Clarification?
"The death of a female student (Sarika Shah) in Chennai in 1998, caused by Eve teasing, brought some tough laws to counter this menace in South India. After this case, there had been a half-a-dozen reports of suicide, that had been attributed to pressures caused due to Eve Teasing."

What does this mean? How did Sarika Shah die? I guess she committed suicide like those mentioned in the following sentence, but the sentence on its own implies that Ms Shah was "eve teased" and somehow fell over dead. --62.56.36.233 22:12, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

This comment seems unreasonable: while the term includes "teasing", the reality goes way beyond, as the article says. Here are some details: http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98jul27/spotlite.htm

Capitalization
The article inconsistently capitalizes the term: is Eve meant to be always capitalized like the female name or is the term lower-case now? -Phoenixrod 11:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Opinions
There is editorializing about the term that I have removed. Although there are some valid points here about the term "eve teasing," the user(s) who have editorialized here do not seem to have knowledge of the Indian (and possibly other South Asian countries') tendencies to coin utterly ridiculous terms (usually in the news) for grave subjects, among them death. I have read several articles about this South Asian phenomenon but can't find any right now (it's hard to Google for this) - if any users can find such articles it would be helpful in understanding the context of this term. There are indeed strong indications for sexism in Indian society, even explicit sexism in surveys (the PROBE Report on Basic Education in India has some surveys that show such sexism). That being said, the users who have editorialized demonstrate an ignorance of the absurdities of Indian English that may not necessarily (although might!) point solely to systematic bias against groups such as women, but may point to something else in addition (especially since we such ridiculous terms applied to all kinds of serious issues).

"puritanical"
I don't think that word means what the authors of this article evidently think it means! No one following the link to "Puritan" would have the least idea what your meaning was. "Puritan" really means something closer to "anti-Catholic" and has nothing to do with sex. So I have removed the link and the word, too. It could be perhaps replaced with it something like "victorian" or better yet, to avoid cultural stereotyping altogether, how about "prudish"?Amity150 22:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Can we stop perpetuating an inaccurate stereotype? Amity150 22:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Times of india
May be someone can put some material, in the article, from above URL. --- ALM 15:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Western Media?
Yup, because every crime in the entire world is caused by the west. Racists. Jboyler 02:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't actually say that. Moving on, isn't this article just a bit pointless? Do we have to make everything region-specific now? How about 'groping in Idaho' or 'rape in southern Indonesia'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.128.48 (talk) 22:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The word "eve-teasing" is unique to and has certain local cultural connotations in South Asian society. It definitely merits an article of its own.--SohanDsouza (talk) 09:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Well frankly speaking it depends, I've never heard this term outside south east asia but there might be some other type of term similar to "eve-teasing" used in Idaho( or any other place)? If so then that place could deserve it's own article since in that way we could know a little more about a new location's unique culture.( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kuronama_Sawako)

Removed reference to class
I removed the un-cited statement "In other trains, ladies are advised to travel in AC Coaches as these would be free of the economically poor and socially backward men." The current wording implies that "poor and backward" men are more likely to harass. There is no evidence that men of a certain class or economic background are more likely to harass. In my very brief experience in India, I was 'eve-teased' by white collar IT workers and rural farmers alike. A quick scan of Indian articles about eve-teasing shows many examples harassment by male college students (arguably well-educated).

I only think the line is worth including if someone cited an article with a government official's recommendation, and included an explanation that the poor/backward comment is the official's opinion.Nomenphile (talk) 06:49, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

How did the 2012 Delhi gang rape case not get cited?
The 2012 Delhi gang rape case seems classic as an illustration of this harassment phenomenon.Dogru144 (talk) 22:58, 26 July 2013 (UTC) I am adding it then. Zezen (talk) 15:18, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Removed socialscribblers.in citation
I removed the citation for the last sentence in the article "Eve-teasing is highly criticized by the media and have initiated many angry remarks on social media sites like Facebook." link to citation because it is a blog article and not anything close to a reliable source. It reads much like a fictionalized story and there's no way of knowing whether or not any of the claims are supported by actual evidence. I would not say this constitutes as support for the claim "highly criticized by the media". I'm not sure if the second statement about receiving angry remarks on social media sites is even notable, for that matter. Fuebar (talk) 23:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Hyphen
There is consistent use of a hyphen for the term in the article, but not in the title. Which reflects common use? Me, Myself & I (talk) 02:26, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Should be more open to wider audiences
The Article is pretty informative and will work to reach the general indian population but I would request the addition of more worldwide views regarding this topic so that the readers could be aware of the various laws, rallies, views etc. implemented in the world. If possible could the author add more topics regarding the issue in different countries ? As this would surely achieve to give us more knowledge which is the aim of an encyclopedia in the end. (Comment by- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kuronama_Sawako) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuronama Sawako (talk • contribs) 14:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

 * "Eve-teasing" is a specifically Indian term, as far as I know. Look at the sexual harassment article for a more general treatment. 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:81D5:526C:7C5C:479F (talk) 04:31, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

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what is eve teashing 202.168.86.221 (talk) 07:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:HMS Rodney

Name?
For whom was the first ship named? Bastie 22:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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Sheila Kiscaden

Sheila Kiscaden is a United States politician, community volunteer, and organizational development consultant. She was elected in 2012 to be one of the 7 Olmsted County Board of Commissioners and represents a district within Rochester, Minnesota. Olmsted County, Minnesota Commissioners serve on a non-partisan board: there are no party designations or endorsements.

Kiscaden is a former Minnesota State Senator from District 30, which includes much of Rochester and nearby rural areas. She was first elected to the Senate in 1992 as a Republican. In 2002, after being denied the Republican endorsement at the senate district convention, she ran as a member of the Independence Party of Minnesota. That fall she defeated the Republican candidate and a Democratic challenger in a three-way race.

Despite being elected as a member of the Independence Party, Kiscaden still caucused with the Republicans until they publicly separated from her. She was invited to join the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) caucus, which she did, though she did not formally join that party until January 2006.

In January 2006, Kiscaden became a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota with DFLer Kelly Doran in his bid for governor. He dropped out of the race after only a couple of months. Kiscaden had endorsed another member of the DFL to succeed her in the legislature. Her most recent term in the State Senate ended in January 2007. Although recruited to run for Congress and to return to the Minnesota State Senate, Kiscaden chose to run for County Commissioner.

In that role she has served on the State Community Health Advisory Council, chairing a Health Equity Task Force in 2015, and serving on the Future of Public Health Task Force in 2017. As a State Senator she had a lead role in health care and human services policy. That policy interest and expertise has led to serving on a variety of state commissions and task forces since being elected to the County Board. This includes serving on the State Community Health Advisory Council, for which she chaired a work group on Health Equity, and serving on the Future of Public Health Task Force. She created a task force that is examining the consequences of parental incarceration on children and considering state and local policies to reduce the long-term negative developmental impacts on children.

Her expertise in health, human services, and corrections was developed from her years as human services planner and program manager at the county level as well as her 25 years of experience as and organizational development consultant for government and non-profit organizations.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota in Education where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, she also earned a master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. She used a Bush Leadership Fellowship to earn a second master's degree in Participation, Development and Social Change from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England.

She has extensive experience as an engaged community volunteer and has been the founder of several local initiatives, including the Beat the Odds Scholarship Program, Rochester Issues Forum, SE MN Together, and More Women on the Move. Her long history of service on local boards and commissions continues. She is currently an Advisory Board Member of the Future Services Institute, participating in the Government Alliance for Racial Equity, and on the board of Seasons Hospice.

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Talk:Segregation

removal of link to Ethnic segregation
I removed the link to Ethnic segregation from the Segregation page because it redirects to the Racial segregation page. This is redundant, and so serves no purpose. If there was an actual Ethnic segregation page, I would have gladly left the link alone. As it was/is, the Ethnic segregation link was just misleading. Also, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. As the sentence in the link does not more than define it, the phrase is unnecessary as well. Thank you for trying to point out a mistake to me. In the future, please also point out why it is a mistake. Thank you! Darius4 08:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Metals
A link to metals and MSE related "Phase segregation" would be good. --Meawoppl 03:06, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Reorganize
A brief defintion followed by putting things first, followed by neutral practices, followed by social practices. Just less confusing for average reader. Probably should have subsections to make it even clearer, like "substances" and "practices" or something. CarolMooreDC (talk) 17:02, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Broad concept article may be warranted
I have styled this page according to Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages since, by all appearances, it is intended as a DAB page. That meant, for example, removing the segregation template. However, a broad concept article may be called for, discussing segregation by race, gender, etc. In that case, this page should be moved to Segregation (disambiguation) (over the redirect), since it will still be necessary to disambiguate particle segregation and the like. Cnilep (talk) 05:25, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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Crescent City Connection

The Crescent City Connection (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.) over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges in the world. Each span carries four general-use automobile lanes; additionally the westbound span has two reversible HOV lanes across the river.

It is the farthest downstream bridge on the Mississippi River. It is also the widest and most heavily traveled bridge on the lower Mississippi; the only other comparable bridges on the Mississippi are in the St. Louis area, those being the Poplar Street Bridge, the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, and the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge.

History
What later became known as the Crescent City Connection is the second bridge to span the Mississippi south of Baton Rouge, the first being the Huey P. Long Bridge, a few miles upriver from the city, and is the first bridge across the river in Orleans Parish, coterminous with the city of New Orleans.

The Mississippi River Bridge Authority, known since 1989 as the Crescent City Connection Division (CCCD), began construction of the first span in November 1954, which opened on April 15, 1958, as the Greater New Orleans Bridge. At its opening, the bridge was the longest cantilever bridge in the world, although in terms of main span length it was third, after the Forth Bridge and the Quebec Bridge. It carried two lanes of traffic in each direction and spurred growth in the suburban area known as the West Bank (named for its location on the western bank of the river although it is geographically southeast of New Orleans). Construction of the second span began in March 1981. Despite promises that it would be ready for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, it did not open to traffic until September 1988. The second span was originally designated as the Greater New Orleans Bridge No. 2. Both bridges were designed by Modjeski & Masters, Inc. As soon as the new span was opened, the old span was temporarily closed in phases to replace the asphalt-on-steel deck with concrete. All the exits and entrances to the bridge were replaced as well.

After the completion of the second span, a public contest was held in 1989 to rename the bridges, which was won by Jennifer Grodsky, of St. Clement of Rome School in Metairie, Louisiana, on March 17. The name was selected over the second-place finisher, the Greater New Orleans Superspan, as the name for the spans. Other names voted on for the naming of the spans included: the Crescent City Twins, the Delta Twins, the Crescent City Bridge, the New Orleans Metro Span, the Crescent City Gateway, the Crescent City Twin Span, the Crescent City River Bridge, The Big Easy and the Li'l Easy, the Jazz City Bridge, the Big East Twin Spans, The Pelican Bridge, the Fleur-de-Lis, the Greater Mississippi River Bridge, the Unity Bridge, the Mississippi River Twins, The Friendship Connection, The Pelican Pride, the Riverview Bridge, the Creole Crossing, the Jazz Gate Bridge, the Greater New Orleans Twin Bridges, and the Crescent Bend Bridge.

Following this contest, the Louisiana Legislature officially designated the bridges as the Crescent City Connection. (The bridge is commonly known among local Vietnamese Americans as Cầu Con Cò, the "Pelican Bridge", due to blue signs at either end that feature a pelican from the state flag. ) Beginning in 1989, it was maintained and policed as a toll bridge by the CCCD, a special division of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, although a 2013 vote removed the tolls, and the crossing is now overseen by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety. This separate state police agency used elsewhere in the state, is required because of the high traffic volume and the fact that the two spans briefly cross into Jefferson Parish and the city of Gretna, Louisiana. Since renaming of the twin bridges, some local residents refer to the bridge as "The GNO", in spite of the name change from decades past. Most people refer to it as the "CCC", whereas the proper name of "Crescent City Connection" is used mainly in the media.

Due to the Mississippi River's winding course through the New Orleans area (the river is flowing north at the place where the two bridges cross), the bridge contains two wrong-way concurrencies, with the eastbound span carrying Business US 90 West, while the westbound span carries Business US 90 East. The Crescent City Connection was the fifth most traveled toll bridge in the United States in 2006, with annual traffic exceeding 63 million vehicles.

The bridge is the centerpiece of the Crescent Connection Road Race (CCRR) or Bridge Race as it is locally known, an annual event held on the first Saturday in September following Labor Day. The bridge remains open to vehicular traffic during the race, which only uses the two HOV lanes. The CCRR was originally started as a fundraiser for the bridge's decorative lights. These lights line the top profile lines of both bridges; 64 lights along each string for a total 256 lights.

Hurricane Katrina
As Hurricane Katrina approached the city in August 2005, the CCCD halted toll collections on August 26 to aid in speed of evacuation of the Metro area. Two overhead signs were blown down on the older span, but no other damage occurred to either bridge. After the storm hit on August 29, 2005, much of the east bank of New Orleans flooded severely (see Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans). With all other major and minor highways out of town flooded in both directions, the CCC was the only open highway into or out of the east bank of Orleans Parish. (One other route, Leake Avenue/Old River Road, a small road along the Mississippi River levee, was initially blocked by debris but was cleared by local volunteer work). Two days after the storm passed, the Gretna police set up a controversial roadblock on the bridge, refusing passage to evacuees on foot.

In the initial weeks following the storm, only emergency personnel and contractors were permitted to use the bridge. The bridge reopened to traffic in mid-September as decreasing water levels on the East Bank of Orleans Parish allowed Interstate 10 to reopen and residents to return, but then was temporarily closed to regular traffic again when another evacuation was declared due to Hurricane Rita, with the bridge again reopening in late September. Toll collection resumed on October 10 after a six-week suspension, as the revenue was needed to maintain operations. Long lines at the toll booth lanes during non-rush times became common, due to a shortage of toll collectors and electronic toll tags, combined with heavy usage of the bridge due to the many New Orleanians staying with friends and relatives on the Westbank while they worked on gutting and repairing their flooded Eastbank homes.

Proposed Future Interstate 49 designation
In addition to the CCC's designation as Business US 90, the bridge, along with its approach roads, the Pontchartrain Expressway and Westbank Expressway were proposed to also serve as Interstate 910. This proposed designation was federal only and no signs identify the bridge as I-910. This is a temporary designation until Interstate 49 is completed between New Orleans and Lafayette, at which time the bridge will be signed as I-49. This proposed designation currently does not have funding to support all the needed infrastructure to accomplish the plan and has largely been dropped.

Upon its opening in 1958, the GNO Bridge charged a toll of 35 cents for cars and light trucks, and higher tolls for heavier vehicles. The toll was reduced to 30 cents on July 1, 1962. While running for governor John McKeithen published a campaign promise to remove the toll if he were elected,. After he was elected the toll was removed on May 16, 1964.

Tolls were again collected on the Crescent City Connection as defined in Louisiana state law R.S. 47:820.5(B). This law said that from October 1, 1994, through December 31, 2012, tolls were to be collected at a rate of $0.20 per axle for toll tag users, and $0.50 per axle for cash users. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, annual toll collections averaged $20 million.

There have been investigations conducted by the Louisiana Office of Legislative Auditor regarding bridge employees pocketing toll revenue for their own use and supervisors falsifying reports to hide the theft.

There were citizen action groups who were actively opposing the tolls and their potential renewal in 2012. The Times-Picayune newspaper wrote an editorial recommending that the tolls not be renewed at the end of 2012. The Bureau of Governmental Research, an independent watchdog group in New Orleans, released a detailed financial study on the CCC tolls which showed that the majority of the toll money collected in tolls does not benefit those who pay the tolls. The full BGR report is available as well.

On March 5, 2013, toll collection was nullified on the Crescent City Connection due to 19th Judicial District Judge William Morvant's decision to nullify the November 2012 toll vote. A new referendum held on May 4, 2013, defeated the toll extension and officially ended tolls on the Crescent City Connection. The referendum was defeated by 78% of voters in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes.

GeauxPass
The Crescent City Connection introduced toll tags on January 4, 1989, becoming the first toll facility in the United States to use electronic toll collection. The system was originally designed and installed by TransCore, who managed the system until tolls were ended in 2013. However, in the first quarter of 2005, the CCCD awarded a contract to Electronic Transaction Consultants (ETC) Corporation to design, develop and implement a replacement toll collection system. The "GeauxPass" was announced in the summer of 2009 as the new statewide electronic toll system for Louisiana. GeauxPass is compatible with the Crescent City Connection, the LA-1 Tollway, and all future Louisiana toll roads. There are currently over 100,000 tags in operation. To encourage use of the toll tags, the Crescent City Connection offered several benefits to commuters until 2013, including:
 * Reduced Toll: $0.40
 * Dedicated Toll Tag lanes
 * Use of HOV lanes when carrying Eastbank-bound traffic

Use as a film setting
As an iconic part of the city's skyline, the spans have been a favorite of movie production crews. The HOV lanes are frequently used for filming, as they are not heavily used and are separated from normal traffic by barrier walls. Both spans were briefly closed on April 9, 2006, to allow filming with stunts and pyrotechnics for the Denzel Washington film Déjà Vu. The HOV lanes were used to film a scene in 21 Jump Street when a truck loaded with chickens explodes. The spans also served as the anchor for the background in most of the outdoor scenes in the film A Love Song for Bobby Long. The spans have been used as a filming location for episodes of NCIS: New Orleans. The spans appeared on the finale of The Amazing Race 32 as the site of a task where contestants had to jump off one of the beams.

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User:Extreme Unction

Note: '''My WikiActivity levels these days are extremely low. I log in twice a year, if that, to create the occasional article, but otherwise do my editing anonymously.'''

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Talk:Titan (1988 video game)

I see the "strategy-cvg-stub" was added to this article, unless this means something else than that this is a "strategy computer video game stub", then i believe it to be wrong -- Titan is not a strategy game in any way.

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Spread (food)

A spread is a food that is spread, generally with a knife, onto foods such as bread or crackers. Spreads are added to food to enhance the flavor or texture of the food, which may be considered bland without it. Butter and soft cheeses are typical spreads.

A sandwich spread is a spreadable condiment used in a sandwich, in addition to more solid ingredients. Butter, mayonnaise, prepared mustard, and ketchup are typical sandwich spreads, along with their variants such as Thousand Island dressing, tartar sauce, and Russian dressing.

Spreads are different from dips, such as salsa, which are generally not applied to spread onto food but have food dipped into them instead.

Common spreads include dairy spreads (such as cheeses, creams, and butters, although the term "butter" is broadly applied to many spreads), margarines, honey, nut-based spreads (peanut/cashew/hazelnut butter, Nutella), plant-derived spreads (such as jams, jellies, and hummus), yeast spreads (such as Vegemite and Marmite), roe spreads (such as caviar and mentaiko paste), and meat-based spreads (such as pâté).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grandma Patada

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The result of the debate was delete. -R. fiend 17:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Grandma Patada
This is an undergraduate joke entered by a confirmed vandal User:210.8.110.33, all of whose other entries are vandalism or intentionally inconsequential. Delete. --Wetman 22:11, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  Delete, flunks google test. —Cryptic (talk) 12:50, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Cryptic - resounding zero on Google CLW 13:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. If there was a "common sense" speedy, this would qualify.  Friday (talk) 14:32, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete gobbledeygook. Tonywalton | Talk 22:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Firm Delete. This is a sub-undergraduate joke at best. --Daveb 09:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
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User:DahLiaSE

DahLiaSE currently resides in Redondo Beach, California.

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