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Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. Read was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history. Among his most popular works are The Professor's Daughter, A Married Man, and A Season in the West. In addition to his written works, Read is also a dramatist and television scriptwriter. In recent years, he has produced a number of authorized biographies and popular history books which are intended for a general audience. Read has worked and lived in both the United Kingdom and the United States, where he published many of his recent works. Read was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Junkers, the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award for Monk Dawson, the Thomas More Medal for Alive, and the Enid McLeod Award for The Free Frenchman.

Background
Piers Paul Read was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. He is the third son of Sir Herbert Read, a poet, art critic and theorist of anarchism, and Margaret Read (née Ludwig), a professional musician. His mother was a convert to Roman Catholicism and he was raised in that religion.

When Read was eight, his family moved to North Yorkshire. He was educated by Benedictine monks at Gilling Castle and Ampleforth College. His years at Ampleforth would later provide much of the material for the first part of his third novel Monk Dawson (1969) and rural Ryedale was the setting of his fifth novel, The Upstart (1973). In 1959 he went to St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history. He received his B.A. in 1961 and M.A. in 1962. In 1963–64, he spent a year in West Berlin on a Ford Foundation Fellowship. There he came into contact with German writers in the Gruppe 47, the French nouveau romancier Michel Butor, and the Polish novelist, diarist and playwright, Witold Gombrowicz, and worked on his first novel Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx (1966). He later enrolled in an academy for writers funded by the Ford Foundation, the Literarisches Colloquium, where he made friends with fellow members Tom Stoppard and Derek Marlowe.

His stay in Berlin inspired his second novel The Junkers (1968, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize) and confirmed the general sympathy towards the Germans that he felt on account of his mother's part-German ancestry. On returning to England, he took a job as sub-editor on The Times Literary Supplement and shared a flat in Pimlico with Stoppard and Marlowe. In 1967–68, he spent a year in New York – an experience he used in his fourth novel The Professor's Daughter (1971).

Personal life
Read is a practising Catholic and has served on the board of Catholic charities such as Aid to the Church in Need (UK) and the National Catholic Library. He was Master and remains Vice-President of the Catholic Writers' Guild of England and Wales. He has served on the governing bodies of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-1975), the Society of Authors (1973-1976) and the Royal Society of Literature (2001-2007).

In 1967, he married Emily Albertine, daughter of (Evelyn) Basil Boothby, CMG, British Ambassador to Iceland from 1962 to 1965, and descended from Sir William Boothby, 7th Baronet; her mother, Susan, was granddaughter of British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. They live in London, and have two sons, including Albert Read, and two daughters. Read was romantically involved with a 15-year-old Anna Wintour when he was 24.

In 2005, he correctly predicted the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. In Read's 1988 WWII novel The Free Frenchman, the protagonist's Catholic faith plays an important part in political decisions and dilemmas during the German occupation of France, as well as in the protagonist's tangled relations with the women in his life.

Work
Early in his career, Read wrote a number of scripts for film and television – A Premeditated Crime (1967) for the German director Peter Lilienthal whom he met in Berlin; Coincidence (1968), The House on Highbury Hill (1971) and The Childhood Friend (1974) /as Wednesday Plays for BBC television – the latter starring Anthony Hopkins who would also play the title role in the television adaptation of Read's A Married Man (1984). A short play The Class War was staged by the Questors Theatre Company in 1964, and his Margaret Clitherow was broadcast by Granada Television in 1977.

The greater part of Read's work has been in prose form. After his plotless first novel, Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx (1967), Read's fiction adopted a more traditional narrative structure with both contemporary and historical settings. Three of his historical novels – The Junkers (1968), Polonaise (1976), The Free Frenchman (1986), are set in Continental Europe around World War II; and Alice in Exile (2001) in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. Read's contemporaneous novels – A Married Man (1979), A Season in the West (1988), and The Misogynist (2010) - are ironic critiques of the manners and morals of the English upper-middle classes. There are elements of the thriller in The Villa Golitsyn (1981), On the Third Day (1990), A Patriot in Berlin (1995), Knights of the Cross (1997) and The Death of a Pope (2009), though these too show Read's historical, political and religious concerns. With Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), The Train Robbers (1978), and Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl (1993) Read extended his range to reportage; to history with The Templars (1999) and The Dreyfus Affair (2012); and to biography with Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (2003). He has also contributed to moral and religious controversies with a pamphlet Quo Vadis: The Subversion of the Catholic Church (1991), and essays and articles collected in Hell and Other Destinations (2006). Read was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Junkers; the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award for Monk Dawson; the Thomas More Medal for Alive; the Enid McLeod Award for The Free Frenchman; and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for A Season in the West. Read's novels A Married Man (1984) and The Free Frenchman (1988) were adapted for television; Alive was made into a feature film by the director Frank Marshal in 1993; and Monk Dawson by Tom Waller in 1998.

Alive
Read is best known for his non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains. Alive won the Thomas More Medal for the most distinguished contribution to Catholic literature in 1974 and has sold more than five million copies worldwide. The book was adapted into the 1993 film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.

Other work
Read's first notable success was his novel Monk Dawson (1969), which won him a Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and was later made into the 1998 film of the same name by Tom Waller.

In 1978 he wrote the book The Train Robbers about the Great Train Robbery in England in 1963.

In 1988 he was awarded a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his book A Season in the West.

In 2003 his authorised biography of the actor Alec Guinness was published.

In 2009 he wrote The Death of a Pope (ISBN 9781586172954) set with the 2005 Papal conclave as a backdrop.

In 2015 he wrote Scarpia (ISBN 9781408867501), a fictional retelling of the story in the Puccini opera Tosca.

Archive
Read's archive of literary papers and correspondence is held by Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The collection consists of 139 boxes and contains manuscripts and typescripts of his novels and plays. It also contains articles and short stories; extensive correspondence, interview tapes and research notes; press-cuttings and other papers.

Themes
Read's novels are strongly influenced by his Catholic faith. His stories focus on the religious themes of sin and redemption. Read writes in a fairly traditional, linear style and he often uses plot elements from popular fiction, especially the thriller, like espionage, murder and conspiracy theories. Most of his main characters are fairly unsympathetic and some of them commit horrific deeds before they finally convert to God.

Almost all of Read's novels are set in Europe. Many of his books show a great interest and sympathy especially for Germany – quite unusual in British literature – and for Eastern European countries like Russia and Poland. In The Knights of the Cross, he explicitly satirises the expectations and prejudices of the British readership towards the Germans.

Fiction

 * Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx (1966)
 * The Junkers (1968)
 * Monk Dawson (1969)
 * The Professor's Daughter (1971)
 * The Upstart (1973)
 * Polonaise (1976)
 * A Married Man (1979)
 * The Villa Golitsyn (1981)
 * The Free Frenchman (1986)
 * A Season in the West (1988)
 * On the Third Day (1990)
 * A Patriot in Berlin (1995)
 * Knights of the Cross (1997)
 * Alice in Exile (2001)
 * The Death of a Pope (2009)
 * The Misogynist (2010)
 * Scarpia (2015)

Non-fiction

 * Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974)
 * The Train Robbers (1978)
 * Quo Vadis? The Subversion of the Catholic Church (a 45-page pamphlet in the Claridge "Blasts" series) (1991)
 * Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl (1993)
 * The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades (1999)
 * Alec Guinness. The Authorised Biography (2003)
 * Hell and Other Destinations (US title: Hell and Other Essays) (2006)
 * The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History (2012)

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WWE Road to WrestleMania X8

WWE Road to WrestleMania X8 is a professional wrestling video game released on the Game Boy Advance handheld console by THQ in 2002, based on WWE's 2002 pay-per-view WrestleMania X8. The game featured improved gameplay and grappling techniques compared to its predecessors. This game was the Game Boy Advance successor to WWF Road to WrestleMania from 2001 and was succeeded by WWE Survivor Series in 2004. It was one of two games named after the event, the other being WWE WrestleMania X8 for the GameCube, released five months prior in June 2002. Of the three WWE games developed by Natsume Co., Ltd. for the Game Boy Advance, WWE Road to WrestleMania X8 was the most successful in regard to both sales and reviews.

Gameplay
With the limited number of buttons on the Game Boy Advance, just "A" and "B", WWE Road to WrestleMania X8 employed a simple approach to simulating wrestling moves. It has been likened to how Fire Pro Wrestling based the actions on timed button pressing and strategy. The combination of a button push and a direction choice when the two wrestlers lock up would result in different wrestling moves and also allowed for moves to be reversed if the timing was right. In addition, characters could climb ropes, perform running moves and pick up weapons. The gameplay was seen as an improvement over the "button mashing" approach of its predecessor WWF Road to WrestleMania.

Reviewers did point out that the game lacked a "Create-a-Wrestler" feature, most likely due to the limited memory of the Game Boy Advance. While the gameplay itself was improved, several reviewers noted that the Artificial Intelligence that controlled the computer opponents was easy and predictable. The AI also had problems during multi-man matches, on occasion attacking their own partner during a game.

Match types
WWE Road to WresteMania X8 features four different game modes, Exhibition, Championship Mode, pay-per-view mode and Gauntlet mode. The Championship allowed a player to play through a WWE "Season" from the day after WrestleMania X-Seven until WrestleMania X8 to challenge for various WWE championship. The pay-per-view mode allowed the player to create a number of matches for a specific WWE PPV to play through. In the Gauntlet mode the player must survive against a set number of opponents, one match at a time. The game allows players to choose standard match options like one versus one, tag team matches as well as options such as lumberjack matches, with other wrestlers around the ring, Hardcore matches where weapons are allowed and even play a fifteen-man version of the Royal Rumble match as well as playing an eight-man King of the Ring tournament. Multiple players could play together, as many a four players if they all have the game cartridge and connect by using the GameLink cable.

The roster for the game included only 15 wrestlers (a reduced number from the previous game's 24): Kurt Angle, Booker T, Edge, Christian, Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Hulk Hogan, Chris Jericho, Kane, Kevin Nash. Rob Van Dam, The Rock, Triple H, Test and the Undertaker. Of the 15 wrestlers selected for the game only Kevin Nash had not actually wrestled at WrestleMania X8, but did appear on the show as he accompanied Scott Hall (who was released from the company during the game's development) for his match against Stone Cold Steve Austin (who also did not appear in the game, likely due to creative issues that year). Test was not part of the pay-per-view broadcast but did wrestle on the pre-show.

Visual and audio
The gameplay takes place in a "side-to-side" view of the ring from a single, fixed point of view providing a view of the wrestlers themselves and the audience in the background. The digitized sprite characters were described to look like as their onscreen counterparts and that they also move rather "smoothly" as well, thanks to an overall increase in animation.

From an audio standpoint the game featured versions of each wrestler's entrance music and the occasional catch phrase, but no ring commentary during the match. The sound was described as "high-quality as well, with punches, kicks, and slams having a crisp meaty sound" that captures the high-impact world of the WWE.

Reception
The game received "mixed or average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic, based on a total of ten reviews, four of which were positive and six were mixed. Metacritic's user score was slightly better, listed as "generally favorable" with a score of 7.5. GameZone said that the game does a solid job of emulating WWE wrestling while challenging and entertaining the players and rated it as "great".

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Talk:Yusef Lateef

Birth name
Some sources cite "William Evans" as Yusef Lateef's name of birth

 * You're right, many sites do (http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/ylcat.htm is one), but as William Emanuel Huddleston is what it says in the biography on his official website (http://www.yuseflateef.com/AboutYusef.html) I think we should stick with that.
 * --Bungopolis 23:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

You're right. I did some additional research and apparently Lateef appears under the name William Evans on recordings with the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra in 1949. Huddleston is indeed his birthname.

The Wikipedia entry on Lateef could use some additional comments on his stint with the Cannonball Adderley Sextet in the 60s.

Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 19:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

"Detroit" the album
I'm removing the link under Lateef's discography for the album Detroit (1969). The link sends the reader to the wikipedia page for Detroit (city), which in the context of the discography is not an appropriate link. It should be a dead link until/if someone writes something about the album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.22.44 (talk) 02:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

EDIT: I discovered that the official title of the 1969 album is actually "Yusef Lateef's Detroit" (although the erroneously truncated "Detroit" predominates online as it's title)... this correction of the title automatically fixes the link to the Detroit (city) page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.22.44 (talk) 02:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

yusef
yusef is the man! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.22.40 (talk) 05:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, Yusef was the man. :( RIP, Yusef Lateef - Darr247 (talk) 19:27, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

"the world music as subgenres of jazz"?
Can somebody explain/clarify/correct the following sentence? "Along with trumpeter Don Cherry, Lateef can lay claim to being among the first exponents of the world music as subgenres of jazz. " --Human fella (talk) 10:55, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

 * Removed the sentence, obviously the term "world music" only dates back about a quarter century at most. The quote from Peter Keepnews I added to the summary helpfully gets around the problem with making this point. Philip Cross (talk) 12:09, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Sideman error in obits
Lateef's regular drummer in the late '50s was Frank Gant. In many obits, his name is misspelled as "Grant." I wonder if the misspelling wasn't present on an album cover released in 1960? Activist (talk) 22:47, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

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2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster

The Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster (كارثة جسر الائمة) occurred on August 31, 2005 when 953 people died following a panic, and subsequent crowd crush, on the Al-Aimmah Bridge, which crosses the Tigris river in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Incident
At the time of the disaster, around one million pilgrims had gathered around or were marching toward Al Kadhimiya Mosque, which is the shrine of the Shi'ite Imam Musa al-Kazim. Tensions had been high within the crowd. Earlier in the day, seven people had been killed and dozens more wounded in a mortar attack upon the assembled crowd for which an Al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group claimed responsibility. Near the shrine, rumors of an imminent suicide bomb attack broke out, panicking many pilgrims. Interior Minister Bayan Baqir Solagh said that one person "pointed a finger at another person saying that he was carrying explosives...and that led to the panic". The man was presumed to be wearing a suicide explosive belt on the bridge.

The panicked crowd flocked to the bridge, which had been closed. Somehow, the gate at their end of the bridge opened, and the pilgrims rushed through. Some people fell onto the concrete base and died instantly. The ensuing crush of people caused many to suffocate. The pressure of the crowd caused the bridge's iron railings to give way, dropping hundreds of people 9 m into the Tigris river. There was nowhere on the bridge for the people to go, as the other end of the bridge remained closed, and was impossible to open anyway, as it opened inward.

Attempts to rescue people
People dived in from both ends of the bridge trying to help those drowning in the river. On the Sunni side, calls went out from the loudspeakers of local mosques to help those in trouble. A Sunni Arab teenager, Othman Ali Abdul-Hafez (عُـثْـمَـان عَـلِي عَـبْـدُ الْـحَـافِـظ, ‘Uthmān ‘Alī ‘Abdul-Ḥāfiẓ), succumbed to exhaustion as he rescued people in the water. Thus he had drowned, and was later praised as a "martyr" by Iraqi politicians.

Aftermath
A three-day mourning period was announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the catastrophe "will leave a scar in our souls and will be remembered with those who died in the result of terror acts." Many of the dead were buried in the holy Shia Islamic town of Najaf.

There was some political fallout also from the event, with Mutalib Mohammad Ali, the Minister for Health, blaming the defence ministers for not doing enough to secure the area. However, the prime minister dismissed any calls for resignation for any ministry.

After the disaster, a few commentators in the Western media speculated that given the scale of the incident it might tip the country into a civil war by antagonizing the Shi'a community. However, there was no immediate surge in sectarian violence. Opposition groups blamed the government and security forces for failing to prevent the incident. However, these groups themselves often encourage high turn-outs at religious events to prove the relative strength of their sect. Another factor leading to a high turn-out at Shia religious events is the fact such events were banned under Saddam Hussein, and so many attend to express faith in a way they were banned from doing for decades.

World reaction
Governments and world leaders offered their condolences after the catastrophe:
 * Syrian Foreign ministry official quoted by state news agency Sana:
 * "The Syrian government and people express their sympathy to Iraqis and to the families of the victims, and they wait for the day when security, stability and progress reign in the country."

 * 🇮🇷 Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi:
 * "[Iran offers its] condolences and sympathy with the Iraqi people and government. Suspicious hands are involved in conspiracies to incite violence and bloodshed among the different Iraqi groups and tribes so that they disturb the security and calm of the Iraqi people"

 * 🇬🇧 UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, speaking on behalf of the EU and the UK – holder of the EU presidency:
 * "It is still not clear exactly what started the stampede which led to these hundreds of deaths and injuries. However, it is clear that the same crowd of Shia pilgrims, celebrating an important Shia religious festival, had earlier suffered a mortar attack... I condemn utterly this despicable act of terrorism against innocent civilians just as I condemn, too, those that continue to use violence and terror more widely in order to further their aims in Iraq. The depravity of these individuals who commit these acts of terrorism against their fellow Muslims sadly knows no bounds."

 * 🇺🇸 United States Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack:
 * "The United States deeply regrets the tragic loss of life of worshipers in Kadhimiya, Baghdad today... Our sincere condolences and thoughts and prayers go out to the many Iraqi families who lost loved ones in this tragedy." The stampede received relatively little attention in the U.S. media because it occurred just two days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the aftermath of which continued to dominate headlines.

 * Amr Mussa, Arab League Secretary General:
 * "[We need a] redoubling of Arab efforts to support the Iraqi people in their sad hour."

 * 🇵🇰 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf:
 * "It is with most profound sadness and grief that I had learnt about the death of hundreds of pilgrims in Baghdad."

 * 🇺🇳 UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe:
 * "The secretary general has learned with great sadness of the human tragedy that took place today in Baghdad."

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And So to Sleep Again

"And So to Sleep Again" is a popular song, written in 1951 by Joe Marsala and Sunny Skylar.

It was popularized by Patti Page in 1951. The Page recording was issued by Mercury Records as catalog number 5706, and first reached the Billboard chart on September 22, 1951, lasting 16 weeks and peaking at number 4.

Other recordings
It was also recorded in America by Dick Haymes, April Stevens and Margaret Whiting, and British covers were recorded by Jimmy Young and Dorothy Squires. It peaked at number 21 in the British sheet music charts. Coleman Hawkins also recorded it in October 1951

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RSD

RSD most often refers to:
 * Serbian dinar, ISO 4217 code for the currency of the Republic of Serbia
 * Reflex sympathetic dystrophy; see complex regional pain syndrome
 * Rejection sensitive dysphoria in psychology

RSD may also refer to:

Science

 * Redshift-space distortions in cosmology
 * Rejection sensitive dysphoria in psychology
 * Repetitive stress disorder, another term for repetitive strain injury
 * Regulator of sigma D, an anti-sigma factor in E. coli bacteria

Statistics

 * Relative standard deviation
 * Robust standard deviation

Technology

 * Really Simple Discovery, an XML format describing some features of a blog service
 * Remote sensing data
 * Roller shutter door
 * Retinal scanning display, another term for a virtual retinal display
 * Recreational Software Designs, the developer of the game creation system Game-Maker

People

 * Rahul Sharad Dravid, an Indian former cricketer and commentator
 * Alias of Rob Smith (British musician), British electronic musician

Schools and school districts

 * Rochester School for the Deaf, a school in Rochester, New York, USA
 * Royal School Dungannon, a grammar school in Northern Ireland
 * Reading School District in Reading, Pennsylvania
 * Recovery School District - Louisiana
 * Rhinelander School District in Rhinelander, Wisconsin
 * Rochester City School District in Rochester, New York
 * Rockwood School District in St. Louis County, Missouri
 * Roosevelt School District in Phoenix, Arizona

Other uses

 * Record Store Day, an annual celebration of independent record stores
 * RSD-Gaskiya, or Social Democratic Rally, a political party of Niger
 * Real Social Dynamics, a US-based company specializing in teaching men how to meet and pick up women, run by Julien Blanc
 * Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich security service), Hitler's SS bodyguard unit in Nazi Germany
 * Rock Sound International Airport, Bahamas (IATA code: RSD)

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Visnes

Visnes may refer to:

Places

 * Visnes, Møre og Romsdal, a village in the municipality of Hustadvika in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway
 * Visnes, Rogaland, a village in the municipality of Karmøy in Rogaland county, Norway
 * Visnes, Vestland, a village in the municipality of Stryn in Vestland county, Norway

People

 * Tom Cato Visnes, a Norwegian bass guitarist also known under the name King ov Hell

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Wiggler

Wiggler may refer to:

 * Wiggler (Mario), the caterpillar-like creature in the Mario series of games
 * Wiggler (JTAG), a parallel port JTAG tool from the Macraigor Systems LLC
 * Wiggler (synchrotron), an insertion device for a synchrotron
 * Wiggler (tool), a centering tool in metalworking
 * Mosquito larva, or wiggler

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Wiggler (tool)

A wiggler, also known as a wobbler, edge-finder, center-finder or laser-centering-device, is a tool used with a machine like a mill, to accurately align the machine head with the work prior to machining.

Edge finder
An edge finder is a rotating tool, meaning the machine spindle must be turning for the tool to work. On one end of a cylindrical shank, a second cylinder is attached by a spring running through the center of both cylinders. The second cylinder rotates with the first. The axes of the two cylinders are always parallel, but the mating faces are able to slide against each other. Thus the second cylinder can rotate about a different, but always parallel axis to the first.

As the second cylinder approaches the edge to be located, it is pushed into alignment with the first. When the horizontal distance from the workpiece to the axis of the shank is exactly equal to the radius of the second cylinder, the second cylinder turns perfectly coaxially with the shank. Even a very small displacement in the direction of the workpiece cause the second cylinder to "kick off" and displace dramatically along the workpiece edge.

On the other end, a cone shape is also spring-loaded and is used to locate the center of a previously drilled hole. This style of edge finder is considered to be the most accurate, and its accuracy can be further improved through the use of a collet. In proper setups, a repeatability of 0.0002 in or better can be obtained.

Electronic edge finder
An electronic edge finder, is an instrument that can locate edges of work pieces and also height offsets. It works in a non-rotating spindle, which is a great advantage over its mechanical counterparts. It is battery-operated and works by lighting up its internal LED (usually red) when the electrical circuit formed by the instrument, the workpiece and the machine is closed. The light is thus illuminated when the edge finder is touching the workpiece and is visible through openings in the case. A repeatability of 0.001 in can be obtained.

Center finder
A center finder is a tool used to align the machining center to a precision location on a work piece. Often these locations might be marked using a layout method (coating the surface with layout stain and scribing a precise location with the intersection of the two lines identifying the position to be machined, etc. Sometimes a magnifying glass is used to assist in marking the location.  One drawback of this method is that it is only as accurate as the lines that are drawn on the part.).

In contrast to the edge finder, in the mechanical versions, the tip is not spring-loaded, and it works with the spindle stopped. In laser versions, an 'X' of light is often projected from the machining center onto the work piece and the work piece location is adjusted to align with the intersection of these lines. In contrast to centering devices, the center finder cannot directly find the center of a work piece, thus requires additional calculation, measurement and/or layout method to align to.

Centering device
A centering device is a tool used to accurately adjust and align the center plane or axis of a work piece or work piece feature to the machining center. In contrast to the edge finder, it most often requires no calculation, measurements or layout method markings to allow this alignment. Mechanical versions may work with the spindle stopped. Laser centering devices can be used to cast patterns of light which, depending on angle of the laser, can achieve a high degree of precision.

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User talk:Emanning

Welcome!

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User talk:Adr oliveira

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Adr oliveira! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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User talk:Liberalis~enwiki

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Image copyright problem with Image:Chris Huhne.jpg
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I didn't upload the original picture of Chris Huhne, it was uploaded by somebody else. I just edited it, so that the size would be on line with the other pictures of the Lib Dem politicians. I had the impression, that it was originally uploaded by somebody who was related to the site of Chris Huhne, but I can't tell this for sure, because all the original data seems to have disappeared. --Liberalis 23:28, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

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Altermann

Altermann is a German surname. Notable people of the surname include the following:

 * Karl-Heinz Altermann (1922-2013), German officer
 * Theodor Altermann (1885–1915), Estonian actor, theatre producer and director

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User talk:Kyaw 2003

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Kyaw 2003! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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Hi! Thank you for contributing information about the Saung. Are the pictures you uploaded copyrighted? If they are, please ask permission first. We can only use pictures in the public domain or under another free license. Another thing: instead of duplicating information on many similarly-named articles, we can use redirects. Thanks! Dreamyshade 03:50, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Burma/Myanmar
Hi! Please join us! Chris 05:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Dhamma Society Fund
It's a bit difficult because in Thai culture it's not really accepted to criticize in public... But, i found the following:

http://www.dhammasociety.org/mds/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=309&limit=1&limitstart=1#tocontent

The Dhamma Society Fund is publishing this new Tipitaka, and on the above page they mention that their Tipitaka is the "first-ever publication of the complete Pāḷi Tipiṭaka of the Great Buddhist International Council convened in B.E. 2500/1956". It's indirectly claiming that none of the other publications (whether in Roman or Burmese script) were complete. I can't get more specific than this. If it's not good enough, please copy the comments to the talk-page, and when at a later time more info is published (on their website?), it can be re-inserted easily.

Image:WAGGGS-Burma Girl Guides badge.jpg
Do you know of any way to render asinthint on this badge into Burmese text? I am going to have a clearer version made if I can get that. (I apologize, I'm trying to build it from a graphic of the Burmese alphabet, and I am messing it up) Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! When I try to open it, though, it brings up a spam site and will not let me in. Would you get to that screen again, and hit the keyboard buttons [ctrl] and [print screen] and send that image to me? I can walk you through, but it will not let me in, sorry. Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that is wonderful, just what I needed! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Union of Burma Girl Guides Association 1950.svg Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ESEAP Conference 2018
Hello Kyaw 2003,

I’m Irvin from PhilWiki Community, a member of the Communication Committee of the ESEAP Conference. ESEAP Conference 2018 is a regional conference for Wikimedia communities throughout the ESEAP region: ESEAP stands for East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific. Taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 5–6 May 2018, this is the first regional conference for these Wikimedia communities.

East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific are the most under-represented regions within the Wikimedia community. There is a significant number of Wikimedia contributors in our regions, yet we continue to struggle in establishing a well-managed community. This conference will bring participants from various ESEAP communities together in order to better understand the issues and to look for solutions. It also aims to connect people of the Wikimedia movement within ESEAP regions, to share ideas, and to build regional collaborations that are impossible to achieve through online communication.

We’ve got a lot of participation from several countries, but we’re lacking from your country. As we need more participants from your country, we believe that your contribution and participation would be a valuable asset to the success of this event. If you would like to participate in the conference, please do fill the form as soon as possible (by April 5, 2018) and we’ll inform you if you get selected for the conference.

Thank you and we hope to see you soon. --Filipinayzd 16:00, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

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Alterman

Alterman is a surname of German and also Yiddish origin, meaning "old man". Notable people of the surname include the following:

 * Boris Alterman (born 1970), Israeli chess player of Ukrainian origin
 * Dan Alterman (born 1980), Israeli triathlete
 * Eric Alterman (born 1960), American columnist
 * Idan Alterman (born 1971), Israeli actor
 * Ira Alterman (1945–2015), American journalist and author
 * Kent Alterman, American film director and producer
 * Meyer Alterman (1891–1967), New York assemblyman
 * Nathan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli writer of Polish origin
 * Ran Alterman (born 1980), Israeli triathlete

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AFES

AFES may refer to:

 * Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
 * Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students
 * Automatic fire extinguishing system

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User talk:MarkKB

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, MarkKB! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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Kim Possible
Hey MarkKB! Good job on adding the Kim Possible template to all the pages! Only one word...templates can simply be written as instead of. That should make you life a little easier. Anyways, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Have fun editing! =D  Jumping cheese  Contact 04:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Great job on the template! I like how it unifies all the Kim Possible pages.  ^_^   Jumping cheese  Contact 19:10, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Templates
The template was badly designed, with style errors and varying levels of notability for the characters, example Tara was on allies, but Felix wasn't. I didn't change many links within it, just the design. Sorry, H ig hway Grammar Enforcer!  10:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Please see, Ownership of articles. H ig hway Grammar Enforcer!  10:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the rationale. -- Chris B  •  talk  09:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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Regarding Need for Speed
Any source to your last edit? -- Mr Stalker  ( talk ) 18:48, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Sure thing. From Alex Ward's twitter feed (sourced from ):

 * "Hmm nobody worked out that our NFS game is a shooter in the style of Mad Dog McCree then....this lists what I am playing not making fellas.." There you have it, no, the Criterion Need for Speed project isn't going all 3DO; it's just what he's playing at the moment.

 * From a post at NFS Unlimited.net :
 * Alex Ward here. I just wanted to say that my comments on Twitter were related to what games I was playing that day at Criterion HQ. They got picked up and reported incorrectly in the press.

 * We booted up my 3DO here in the office and spent an hour playing the original game.

 * We did redline it. We did make it pay. We were 'returning' to playing the game after not looking at it in a while. That's alll it was. It's much too early to be talking about our game. We'll talk at the apppropriate time next year.

 * --MarkKB (talk) 11:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Good, thanks. Please leave a link on the talk page next time :) -- Mr Stalker  ( talk ) 12:40, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Cool, no prob.

 * Personally, I thought it was common knowledge and thus no discussion on the talk-page needed, but looking at the number of publications that picked up the tweet vs. those that published corrections, I seem to be quite mistaken. ^^; Oh well! --MarkKB (talk) 04:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Come and Get It (Rachel Stevens album)

Come and Get It is the second solo studio album by English singer Rachel Stevens, released on 17 October 2005 by 19 Recordings and Polydor Records. It spawned three singles, two of which reached the top 10, while the album itself reached number 28 on the UK Albums Chart. The album received almost universally positive reviews; two years after the album's release, The Guardian placed it on their "1000 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" list.

Overview
Three singles were released from Come and Get It during 2005; "Negotiate with Love", "So Good" and "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)" as well as an earlier hit, "Some Girls" being included as a late addition. The first two of these charted in the UK at number 10, with the third at number 12. With a television advertising campaign, the album was released by Polydor Records on 17 October 2005, two weeks after the album's final single. Track "Nothing Good About This Goodbye" was announced as the next single in early 2006, with a single mix prepared and promo copies made, but these plans were scrapped.

The album was produced by a number of top record producers, including Xenomania, Richard X, Pascal Gabriel and Jewels and Stone. It reached number 28 in the United Kingdom, remaining of the charts for just two weeks. Come and Get It was not released in many territories outside the UK; in the United States, it was released on 26 June 2007 on iTunes.

The final two tracks, "Every Little Thing" and "Dumb Dumb" are listed on the album as 'bonus tracks', but appear on all versions of the album. "It's All About Me" features a sample from "Lullaby" by The Cure. Stevens herself co-wrote one song from the album; "Funny How".

Critical reception
The album received critical acclaim from the music press. Writing for BBC Music, Talia Kraines wrote that it was "Bold, swaggering and accomplished...Quite simply, it's the pop album of the year." Mention was also made of the credibility of the music, stating that had the songs been done by another artist, they would be "lauded by critics". Allmusic made mention of the album's lack of success saying, "This utterly mediocre [chart] performance (in terms of its genre, at least) is astonishing when you consider that the album was masterminded by the finest songwriters and producers in the game...but its failure becomes utterly mind-boggling when you actually listen to the thing." Of the singles the review said they were "tremendous" and summed up the album as "a collection of 13 thoroughly excellent electronic dance-pop songs". Like many of the reviewers, Ben Hogwood of Music OMH said that almost every song on the album could be a single, but also made mention of the obvious low-involvement of Stevens herself in the making of the music. Edward Oculicz of Stylus acknowledged this but said it was simply a case of "Machiavellian record producers grabbing the best songs available for their favored daughter [and are] so endlessly delightful. You want continuity and consistency? Come And Get It is 13 quality electro-pop songs, all sung by the same woman. What more continuity do you need?"

Negative comments included that Stevens' vocals were rather lacklustre and emotionless, while David Cheal of The Telegraph said that "its 13 tracks drift by in a haze of nothingness; it is a masterpiece of insubstantiality." Yahoo Music, like a number of others, claimed the album as "one of the best albums of the year". The Guardian, while two years later lauding the album as an ignored classic, at the time said that it "deserves to be a hit. It is packed with brilliant, cutting-edge pop music". In 2007 they said that its lack of success was "the public's loss". Many reviews commented that the album was a big improvement on her debut, including Londonist who added that it was "a brilliant collection of sophisticated dancefloor songs and quite frankly, one of the most stunning albums of the year." As a summing up, the BBC music review concluded: "Come and Get It is quite simply a pop tour-de-force that deserves to sell a billion copies. Please, don't let this end up as a forgotten classic."

Track listing
Notes Sample credits
 * undefined"Every Little Thing" and "Dumb Dumb" are labeled as United Kingdom bonus tracks on the CD packaging, but are included on all editions of the album.
 * undefined denotes additional production.
 * "All About Me" is labeled as "It's All About Me" on digital editions of the album.
 * The South Asian digital release places "So Good" and "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)" as the final two tracks, while all previous tracks are moved two positions higher.

 * "All About Me" contains a sample from "Lullaby" by The Cure

Personnel

 * Eivind Aarset, Nick Coler, Shawn Lee and James Nisbet – guitar
 * David Eriksen, Julian Gingell, Brian Higgins, Eliott James, Damian LeGassick, Tim Powell, Paul Statham, Barry Stone and Anders Wollbeck – keyboard
 * David Eriksen, Priscilla Jones Campbell, Hannah Robinson, Barry Stone and Richard X - background vocals
 * David Eriksen and Paul Statham – drum programming
 * Adrian Bushby, Tommy D., Pete Hofmann, Tim Powell, Fraser Smith, Jeremy Wheatley and Anders Wollbeck – mixing

 * Francesco Cameli, David Eriksen, Pete Hofmann and Fraser Smith – engineering
 * Dave Clews, Julian Gingel, Eliott James, Tim "Rolf" Larcombe, Damian LeGassick, Tim Powell, Paul Statham, Barry Stone, Brio Taliaferro, Damian Taylor and Anders Wollbeck – programming
 * Dick Beetham and Richard Dowling – mastering
 * Paul West – art direction/design

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Prefoldin subunit 3

Prefoldin subunit 3 (VBP-1), also Von Hippel–Lindau binding protein 1, is a prefoldin chaperone protein that binds to von Hippel–Lindau protein and transports it from perinuclear granules to the nucleus or cytoplasm inside the cell. It is also involved in transporting nascent polypeptides to cytosolic chaperonins for post-translational folding.

VBP-1 is a 197–amino acid heterohexamer comprising two prefoldin-α and four prefoldin-β subunits, and is a member of the prefoldin-α subunit family. It is ubiquitously expressed in tissues, and is located in the cell nucleus and cytoplasm. The VBP1 gene is located at Xq28. Homologues are known to exist between human VBP-1 and proteins in mice, Drosophila and C. elegans.

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User talk:Stevemiller

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Stevemiller! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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Another Time, Another Place (1958 song)

"Another Time, Another Place" is a popular song published in 1958. The music was written by Jay Livingston, the lyrics by Ray Evans.

Background and chart performance
It was featured in the movie of the same name. It was popularized by Patti Page in 1958. The Page recording was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 71294. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on May 5, 1958. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at number 20, on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached number 81.

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