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As per request by RaF at German-English translation requests: -

 * Could someone take a look at it, because nor English, nor German is my native language.  .

I've done a fairly substantial re-write so I hope I haven't changed any of your intentions. The re-write was mainly to make the English read better, but there were a few changes where I think the translation was a little off. There were also a couple of sentences in the German that appear to have been accidentally missed. If it was your intention to leave these out, you may like to remove them again. There was one significant mistranslation - Charlotte did not disarm her father as per the previous translation, the German text states she beat him to death with his own gun (erschlagen = strike dead).

I also tidied the formatting slightly, clarified what the external references point to and removed the Tony Awards link as it is now out-of-date - it now lists the 2005 winners not the 2004 winners. Hope this is all OK. Valiantis 22:02, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Transvestite -> transgender
I have changed "transvestite" in the text to "transgender woman", since that seems to be a much better translation. 7daysahead (talk) 23:40, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Psoralen

Psoralen (also called psoralene) is the parent compound in a family of naturally occurring organic compounds known as the linear furanocoumarins. It is structurally related to coumarin by the addition of a fused furan ring, and may be considered as a derivative of umbelliferone. Psoralen occurs naturally in the seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, as well as in the common fig, celery, parsley, West Indian satinwood, and in all citrus fruits. It is widely used in PUVA (psoralen + UVA) treatment for psoriasis, eczema, vitiligo, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma; these applications are typically through the use of medications such as Methoxsalen. Many furanocoumarins are extremely toxic to fish, and some are deposited in streams in Indonesia to catch fish.

Uses
Psoralen is a mutagen, and is used for this purpose in molecular biology research. Psoralen intercalates into DNA and on exposure to ultraviolet (UVA) radiation can form monoadducts and covalent interstrand cross-links (ICL) with thymines, preferentially at 5'-TpA sites in the genome, inducing apoptosis. Psoralen plus UVA (PUVA) therapy can be used to treat hyperproliferative skin disorders like psoriasis and certain kinds of skin cancer. Unfortunately, PUVA treatment itself leads to a higher risk of skin cancer.

An important use of psoralen is in PUVA treatment for skin problems such as psoriasis and, to a lesser extent, eczema and vitiligo. This takes advantage of the high UV absorbance of psoralen. The psoralen is applied first to sensitise the skin, then UVA light is applied to address the condition. Psoralens are also used in photopheresis, where they are mixed with the extracted leukocytes before UV radiation is applied.

Despite the photocarcinogenic properties of psoralen, it was used as a tanning activator in sunscreens until 1996. Psoralens are used in tanning accelerators, because psoralen increases the skin's sensitivity to light. Some patients have had severe skin loss after sunbathing with psoralen-containing tanning activators. Patients with lighter skin colour suffer four times as much from the melanoma-generating properties of psoralens than those with darker skin. Psoralens short term side effects include nausea, vomiting, erythrema, pruritus, xerosis, skin pain due to phototoxic damage of dermal nerve and may cause cutaneous and genital skin malignancies.

An additional use for optimized psoralens is for the inactivation of pathogens in blood products. The synthetic amino-psoralen, amotosalen HCl, has been developed for the inactivation of infectious pathogens (bacteria, viruses, protozoa) in platelet and plasma blood components prepared for transfusion support of patients. Prior to clinical use, amotosalen-treated platelets have been tested and found to be non-carcinogenic when using the established p53 knockout mouse model. The technology is currently in routine use in certain European blood centers and has been recently approved in the US.

Chemistry
Psoralen intercalates into the DNA double helix where it is ideally positioned to form one or more adducts with adjacent pyrimidine bases, preferentially thymine, upon excitation by an ultraviolet photon.

Several physicochemical methods have been employed to derive binding constants for psoralen-DNA interactions. Classically, two chambers of psoralen and buffered DNA solution are partitioned by a semi-permeable membrane; the affinity of the psoralen for DNA is directly related to the concentration of the psoralen in the DNA chamber after equilibrium. Water solubility is important for two reasons: pharmacokinetics relating to drug solubility in blood and necessitating the use of organic solvents (e.g. DMSO). Psoralens can also be activated by irradiation with long wavelength UV light. While UVA range light is the clinical standard, research that UVB is more efficient at forming photoadducts suggests that its use may lead to higher efficacy and lower treatment times.

The photochemically reactive sites in psoralens are the alkene-like carbon-carbon double bonds in the furan ring (the five-member ring) and the pyrone ring (the six-member ring). When appropriately intercalated adjacent to a pyrimidine base, a four-center photocycloaddition reaction can lead to the formation of either of two cyclobutyl-type monoadducts. Ordinarily, furan-side monoadducts form in a higher proportion. The furan monoadduct can absorb a second UVA photon leading to a second four-center photocycloaddition at the pyrone end of the molecule and hence the formation of a diadduct or cross-link. Pyrone monoadducts do not absorb in the UVA range and hence cannot form cross-links with further UVA irradiation.

Another important feature of this class of compounds is their ability to generate singlet oxygen, although this process is in direct competition with adduct formation and may be an alternate pathway for the dissipation of excited state energy.

Research on psoralen has historically focused on interactions with DNA and RNA (in particular, ICL formation). Psoralen, however, has also been shown to block signaling of the ErbB2 receptor which is overexpressed in certain aggressive types of breast cancer. A synthetic derivative of bergapten, 5-(4-phenoxybutoxy)psoralen, shows promise as an immunosuppressant by inhibiting a specific potassium channel. Its structure prevents intercalation into DNA, and it only very weakly produces singlet oxygen, majorly reducing unwanted toxicity and mutagenicity in vivo. This has implications for the treatment of various autoimmune diseases (e.g. multiple sclerosis, type-1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis). While cell-surface modification and ion channel blocking are two newly discovered mechanisms of action, much research remains to be done.

Structure
Most furanocoumarins can be regarded as derivatives of either psoralen or angelicin. Psoralen and its derivatives are often referred to as the linear furanocoumarins, so called since they exhibit a linear chemical structure. Important linear furanocoumarins include xanthotoxin (also called methoxsalen), bergapten, imperatorin, and nodakenetin.

The structure of psoralen was originally deduced by identifying the products of its degradation reactions. It exhibits the normal reactions of the lactone of coumarin, such as ring opening by alkali to give a coumarinic acid or coumaric acid derivative. Potassium permanganate causes oxidation of the furan ring, while other methods of oxidation produce furan-2,3-carboxylic acid.

Synthesis
Psoralen is difficult to synthesize because umbelliferone undergoes substitution at the 8-position rather than at the desired 6 position. Benzofuran reacts preferentially in the furan ring rather than in the benzene ring. However, the 7-hydroxy derivative of 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran (also called coumaran) does undergo substitution at the desired 6-position allowing the following synthesis of the coumarin system via a Gattermann–Koch reaction followed by a Perkin condensation using acetic anhydride. The synthesis is then completed by dehydrogenation of the five-membered ring to produce the furan ring.

Biosynthesis
Psoralen originates from coumarins in the shikimate pathway; its biosynthesis is shown in the figure below. The aromatic ring in 6 is activated at positions ortho to the hydroxyl group, and is alkylated by 5, an alkylating agent. The dimethylallyl group in 7 then undergoes cyclization with the phenol group to give 8. This transformation is catalysed by a cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenase17 (psoralen 5-monooxygenase), and cofactors (NADPH) and molecular oxygen.

A biosynthetic pathway in which psoralen is formed is shown in the figure below. A second P-450-dependent monooxygenase enzyme (psoralen synthase) then cleaves off 10 (in the form of 11) from 8 to give 1. This pathway does not involve any hydroxylated intermediate, and cleavage is postulated to be initiated by a radical reaction.

Plant sources
Ficus carica (fig) is probably the most abundant source of psoralens. They are also found in small quantities in Ammi visnaga (bisnaga), Pastinaca sativa (parsnip), Petroselinum crispum (parsley), Levisticum officinale (lovage), Foeniculum vulgare (fruit, i.e., fennel seeds), Daucus carota (carrot), Psoralea corylifolia (babchi), Apium graveolens (celery), bergamot oil (bergapten, bergamottin).

Repair of psoralen DNA adducts
PUVA treatment produces both DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) and monoadducts. The ICLs introduced by psoralen are highly genotoxic to actively replicating cells. The covalent linkage impedes replication fork progression. Thus unlinking the ICL is required before replication can resume. The initial steps in repair ordinarily involve incisions in one parental strand on both sides of the crosslink. Subsequently, repair of the lesion can occur by an accurate or an inaccurate process.

The accurate process for repairing crosslinks is homologous recombinational repair (HRR). This involves replacing the damaged information using the intact information from another homologous chromosome in the same cell. Escherichia coli cells deficient in HRR are highly sensitive to PUVA compared to wild-type cells. HRR appears to be efficient. In E. coli, even though one or two unrepaired crosslinks are sufficient to inactivate a cell, a wild-type cell can repair and therefore recover from 53 to 71 psoralen crosslinks. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae HRR is a major pathway for accurately removing psoralen-crosslinks. In wild-type yeast, the recombination events associated with crosslink removal by HRR are predominantly non-crossover gene conversion events. Psoralen crosslinks in virus DNA also appear to be removed by a recombinational repair process as occurs in SV40 virus infected cells, and in herpes simplex virus infected cells.

One inaccurate process for repairing psoralen crosslinks appears to employ a DNA polymerase to fill in the gap formed in the strand with the two incisions. This process is inaccurate because the complementary un-incised strand still retains a portion of the crosslink and thus cannot serve as an adequate template for accurate repair synthesis. Inaccurate repair synthesis can cause mutation. Psoralen monoadducts in the template DNA strand may also cause inaccurate replication bypass (translesion synthesis) that can lead to mutation. In phage T4, the increase in mutation observed after PUVA treatment was found to reflect translesion synthesis by wild-type DNA polymerase, likely due to imperfect proof reading capability.

Analysis of nucleic acids structures
Psoralens can reversibly crosslink nucleic acids double helices, and therefore have been used extensively for the analysis of interactions and structures for both DNA and RNA.

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Labour supply

In mainstream economic theories, the labour supply is the total hours (adjusted for intensity of effort) that workers wish to work at a given real wage rate. It is frequently represented graphically by a labour supply curve, which shows hypothetical wage rates plotted vertically and the amount of labour that an individual or group of individuals is willing to supply at that wage rate plotted horizontally. There are three distinct aspects to labor supply or expected hours of work: the fraction of the population who are employed, the average number of hours worked by those that are employed, and the average number of hours worked in the population as a whole.

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Labour supply curves derive from the 'labour-leisure' trade-off. More hours worked earn higher incomes, but necessitate a cut in the amount of leisure that workers enjoy. Consequently, there are two effects on the amount of labour supplied due to a change in the real wage rate. As, for example, the real wage rate rises, the opportunity cost of leisure increases. This tends to make workers supply more labour (the "substitution effect"). However, also as the real wage rate rises, workers earn a higher income for a given number of hours. If leisure is a normal good—the demand for it increases as income increases—this increase in income tends to make workers supply less labour so they can "spend" the higher income on leisure (the "income effect"). If the substitution effect is stronger than the income effect then the labour supply slopes upward. If, beyond a certain wage rate, the income effect is stronger than the substitution effect, then the labour supply curve bends backward. Individual labor supply curves can be aggregated to derive the total labour supply of an economy.

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From a Marxist perspective, a labour supply is a core requirement in a capitalist society. To avoid labour shortage and ensure a labour supply, a large portion of the population must not possess sources of self-provisioning, which would let them be independent—and they must instead, to survive, be compelled to sell their labour for a subsistence wage. In the pre-industrial economies wage labour was generally undertaken only by those with little or no land of their own.

Effects of contraceptive pills on women's labor supply
It is utterly important to know the effects of contraceptive pills on women's labor supply to study further about the Female Labor Supply. Two innovations in the theory of household behavior have broadened the analysis of labor supply in recent years. One is the conceptualization of the labor supply as being linked to decisions about a variety of nonmarket activities such as pregnancy, education, and marriage. The second is to observe wage rates both in the market and in the home as choice variables that are influenced by the behaviors of household members in terms of job search, employment, and investment.

The first birth control pill, Enovid was released in 1960. Enovid changed the perspective of women in the workforce. Thanks to the contraceptive pill, women now had more control over family planning, which in turn led to more control and flexibility in terms of choosing occupational and career paths/goals. There is also evidence to support that at all levels of received education, this form of contraception has had long-term and far-reaching implications on Women's labor force participation rates. Historically, empirical research has lacked in the field of oral contraceptives and its impacts on Women and labor force participation. The pill's introduction in 1960 and subsequent widespread use coincided with the revival of the Women's movement at the time. Furthermore, abortion became more widely available around the same time that many young women obtained access to the pill. Evidence suggests that these breakthroughs in Women's sexual health had significant impacts on their fertility and employment/career endeavors. According to Katz and Goldin, the wider access to contraceptive pills brought about two major economic changes. First, it brought drastic changes in women's educational and career-oriented choices. In earlier years, if a woman wanted to follow her dreams of obtaining a higher education she had to delay her marriage and it came with certain social costs. She would either have to pay a penalty for sexual absenteeism or take a chance that she won't be pregnant and that her investment in he career would not go wasted. This was called the direct effect of the pill. The second was the indirect effect according to Katz and Goldin. They coined this effect as the social multiplier effect. This had an impact on both men and women. Because men also had now an opportunity to delay the marriage and not pay the huge penalty for it. Now, since everyone got the chance to delay their marriage, it created a great pool of people or better chances of marrying someone with a better match.

Scientific journals dealing with labour supply

 * Journal of Labor Economics
 * Review of Economics of the Household
 * Journal of Human Resources
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Somena issues
I hear what you're saying, and have tried to deal with this entry with kid gloves because of the nature of First Nations culture/heritage, and the plausibility of her argument; true, it needs corroboration from another expert on the Cowichan-area peoples, but it may very well be that only her websites contain any information about the Somena group because it ISN'T officially represented in BC's indexes of bands, chiefs, governments, ethnographies, etc; the Sinixt also aren't. I have big reservations about all the editorializing on Somena, but until I know what's dross and what's correct I don't feel right in editing it; or in posting a POV tag, for that matter. First Nations culture politics is a dicey thing....Skookum1 21:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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Luzzatto

Luzzatto (or Luzzato) is an Italian surname. According to a tradition communicated by S. D. Luzzatto, the family descends from a German Jew who immigrated into Italy from the province of Lusatia, and who was named after his native place.

Notable people with the surname include:

 * Amos Luzzatto (1928–2020), Italian Jewish writer
 * Carolina Luzzatto (1837–1919), Italian journalist and writer
 * Filosseno Luzzatto (1829–1854), Italian Jewish scholar, son of Samuel David Luzzatto
 * Laura Luzzatto Dallapiccola, known as Laura Dallapiccola (1911–1995), Italian librarian and translator
 * Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746), Italian rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher
 * Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), Italian Jewish scholar, and poet
 * Simone Luzzatto (1583–1663), Italian rabbi

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Thanks for clarifying your edits and AGF, etc. However, please see Talk:Adobe_Integrated_Runtime

New messages at my talk page. I moved the AIR/Flex discussion there since it was no longer relevant on the AIR page, it was incorrect, and getting a bit personal. Wonderfl (reply) 18:40, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for being quite gentle so far. It was pretty rough at the start but I'm happy we could come to an amicable solution. I hate 3RR and edit wars. Believe me I've had dozens of horrid arguments on WP and even have even written "Guides" that aim to explain such behaviour in the WP community. Thanks -- Wonderfl (reply) 18:40, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem. Sorry if I was rude yesterday, I have been under a lot of stress lately. I've had some really bad arguments on here as well.
 * I learned some things too, I was not very familiar with building AIR for desktops and didn't know there were desktop ANEs or some of the native Windows functionality (e.g. menu bars) that you can accomplish with AIR for Windows.
 * I have not worked with Flex much. I usually prefer manually coding my UI. I also remember when I first got started with AIR, I was trying to figure out what Flex was and downloaded some sample Flex apps. They were all horribly broken, even Adobe's official sample app. I decided Flex was an unstable and unreliable platform and never looked into it again. Some guy (talk) 01:12, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the follow up. My experience with AIR is mostly with desktop apps, and a few tests/prototypes done for mobile. I've built both desktop and mobile ANEs and its quite a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. It allows you to access any C++(Windows) / Java(Android) library from Flash, something once deemed impossible. People have used it to create all kinds of amazing things. I clarified with some friends about the Flex/AIR SDK confusion, and it appears that before a certain AIR SDK version you needed to merge the 2 SDKs, but after the same version you no longer need to do it. I'm just getting more details from experts.

 * I see you've got 6.1 k edits, and have been active for 9 years. Since you don't like barnstars you probably won't like this, but anyways, consider adding the following userbox to your userpage. Cheers! Wonderfl (reply) 07:08, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
I know you don't like barnstars (apparently), but what the heck! I like them a lot!

 * You may blank this page anytime you want. I've copied the talk into my archive. -- Wonderfl (reply) 07:15, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:Michele Birch Conery

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POV Discussion
The irresponsibly propagandistic "corrections" made by Veledan clearly side with the magisterial authorities, and erase the fact that some Catholics do not agree that the ordinations were invalid. A distinction must be made between illicit and invalid in Catholic sacramental theology. A sacrament is invalid when there is something wrong with how the ceremony is conducted. In this case, since the Vatican believes that they have "no authority" to ordain women (how humble of them--on no other occasion have I read a Vatican document which disclaimed authority!) the sacrament of ordination somehow didn't "take". The Anglican Church, on the other hand, would recognise the ordinations, since they recognise both Catholic orders and those of women. Do not turn wikipedia into a soapbox--for the Roman Hierarchy or anyone else. Carolynparrishfan 22:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry to have offended! And sorry I couldn't find a sufficiently forceful quote from Rev Conery to balance those of her detractors in an article whose raison d'etre is conflicting opinion.  I arrived here while working on disambiguating Vatican, but I ended up attempting to flesh out what I thought was a dodgy article.  I thought the implicit assumption in the first sentence of your version that the ordination had taken place was misleading: whether Anglicans or anybody else thinks it was valid seemed irrelevant when the notable point at issue is that Rev Conery is claiming a Roman Catholic ordination.  And I'm sorry to speak so bluntly, but your fourth and final sentence regarding the excommunication of the women was simply false — the 2002 ordinations were indeed followed by excommunication (because they were conferred by someone the Holy See recognised as a bishop, even though he had been consecrated by a schismatic sect), but the Vatican has accorded no such importance to July's events.
 * I won't deny I have a POV, but I honestly wasn't trying to be a dick. Please  reword the things you think I said badly, add your Anglican support, quote your catholics who think the ordinations were illicit rather than invalid, replace the quote from Rev Conery with a better one, and remove your NPOV tag, and I'll support your edits.  Peace, ~ Veledan • Talk + new 01:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Categories
I have added categories representing the claimed status. I am sure Roman Catholics is appropriate for she was a Roman Catholics before that date, though she might have since been excommunicated. Christian Clergy, and Christian Ordination should apply in any event. I do not intend to become involved in a discussion whether Roman Catholic Priests applies. DGG 20:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * No debate needed, imo. I've removed the Roman Catholic Priests category. Valrith 21:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mambo (CMS)

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The result of the debate was KEEP. 19 keep votes and 5 delete votes (including nominator). — J I P | Talk 07:15, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Mambo (CMS)
Blatant advertising, similar to its successor Joomla! listed above. Bishonen | talk 22:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, similarly. Tonywalton | Talk 22:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. We may be friendly, but we're not that gullible. / Peter Isotalo 22:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Ad. DV8 2XL 22:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP Why don't you IMPROVE these articles instead of deleting every article about Open Source software you don't like? Than continue with typo3, drupal, etc. --Opi27 22:48, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge with Joomla! or whatever. The article could use some trimming of hype (spends too much time on awards, yes), but the proggie itself is being used really widely and as such deserves an article. I was under the impression this was just about the most popular CMS right now, ferchrissakes. --Wwwwolf 22:58, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * ' Something to think of for people who consider deleting these two articles: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,170,000 for "powered by mambo". (0.18 seconds) --Wwwwolf 00:06, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep as per above Roodog2k (talk) 23:16, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep If you delete this, then it makes sense to delete the firefox entry as well. It is not a replica of Joomla as Joomla and Mambo are two distinct programs now--Wrobertson 23:57, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Cleanup. Yes, this is an ad.  That said, Mambo is a notable CMS package rating an article.  — Lomn | Talk / RfC 02:22:46, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * Wait and let develop: Keep! - Joomla is new. The articles will still develop. There is need to work on them - but you can not work on deleted articles! --Sputnik(.de) 07:12, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, Joomla! is new, but Mambo (CMS) was created over a year ago, in April 2004, and has been growing more, not less, ad-like ever since. That's what "working" on it has meant so far. Do you think Joomla! is likely to fare differently, really? But they will both have at least 5 days now on Articles for Deletion, maybe somebody/some people watching this page will dig in and . Improvements while on AfD are invited and welcomed, and they have often been known to save articles. Bishonen | talk 08:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - An article about a product is not automatically an advertisement. This article is substandard, but worth keeping and improving. Also, Mambo has an immense install base, where as Joomla! is only a rebranding (at this point), it would make far more sense to keep this article and just raise the quality. Couldn't the request for deletion be changed to a plea for rewriting?--Choz 07:27, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - if this is to be deleted, then mark MediaWiki and PHP-Nuke for deletion as well, would you! --Carlsmith 12:23, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Errm. This is a vote about this article, not the potential deletion of other articles. No one, except someone trying to prove a point would nominate MediaWiki. / Peter Isotalo 12:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The article may not be in great shape, but the subject is certainly notable. Friday (talk) 13:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This article should be merged with Joomla! updated to reflect that Mambo is now developed by Miro. Mambo is now just another CMS like Joomla!, PHP-Nuke and Drupal, and those aren't candidates for deletion.  Don't merge with Joomla!, separate projects by separate parties should be separate articles.  Shoffman11 18:53, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: As someone who knows what Mambo is, but doesn't use it / particularly care about it, let me note for clarity: Mambo is established. Joomla is brand new.  Enthusiasm is all well and good, but let's keep the crystal ball in check when we talk about what merges where, etc. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 20:58:44, 2005-09-02 (UTC)

 * Delete delete delete this is why God created /. - take it there! Dottore So 01:28, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Droomla! and then turn into redirect'''. This AfD is complicated by the fact that Mambo recently had its name changed . Are they the same? I have no clue! But definitely don't Delete. — Ambush Commander (Talk) 17:31, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It appears they are different things... Due to the recent departure of the old dev team, the programming team at Miro will continue with the development of Mambo in the interim period. Definitely notable. — Ambush Commander (Talk) 17:43, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * KEEP, merge with Joomla!, et cetera. This is getting ridiculous. Can Dottoreso/Tonywalton/Karmosin/DV8 2XL and especially Bishonen please answer WHY mambo/joomla! is the ONLY open source CMS with an AfD?  I personally have tried well over 2/3rds of the ones on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems#Free_and_open_source_software and I find it laughable that you guys want to delete Mambo but not something as unusable (no offense, but really) as boastMachine or PHP-Nuke forks like phpWebSite and Xaraya...  Please, enough.  Mambo has no reason to be deleted.  Perhaps the article should be rewritten, but that's all. Applegoddess 19:07, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP, I found this article useful. I had read an article about web development, and had no idea what Mambo was...this wikipedia entry gave me an answer.  I think that some fleshing out would be useful though.  pierrerosen 19:50, September 3 2005
 * Keep notable widely used software. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 18:00, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a very popular piece of software, and I suspect this nomination was not in the best of faith.  You can't complain that every article about a commercial product is 'advertising'.  Wikipedia has an article about Cap'n Crunch! --TexasDex 04:01, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup and keep, subject of article is verifiable, notable, and encyclopedic. Alphax τεχ 07:38, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wikipedia is a very good tool for a quick comparison of content management systems and other software. SGJ 09:05, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mambo is a product of significance, and is not the same thing as Joomla (something I've never even heard of before). Seems like some of you don't even know what you're voting for... --Zilog Jones 01:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and don't merge. See my comment in the VfD discussion for Joomla!; it applies to both pages. Batsonjay 04:15, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. This is an important software tool. If Wikipedia didn't have an article on Mambo CMS, it would be clearly lacking. --rasmusdf 13:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
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Mai

Mai, or MAI, may refer to:

Names

 * Mai (Chinese surname)
 * Mai (Vietnamese surname)
 * Mai (name)
 * Mai (singer), J-Pop singer

Places

 * Chiang Mai, largest city in northern Thailand
 * Ma-i, a pre-Hispanic Philippine state
 * Mai, Non Sung, Thailand

Organisations

 * Manufacturers Association of Israel, an Israeli business organization
 * Marina Abramović Institute, a performance art organization
 * Market for Alternative Investment, a stock market for small/medium enterprises in Thailand
 * Montreal Arts Interculturels, a multidisciplinary cultural organization in Montreal, Canada
 * Moscow Aviation Institute, an engineering and aviation university in Russia
 * Motorsports Association of India, the FIA arm of Indian Motorsports

Science and Technology

 * Machine augmented intelligence, use of technology to amplify and empower human thought and consciousness
 * Mean annual increment, a measure of the average growth per year a tree or stand of trees has exhibited at a specified age
 * Multiple Access Interference, a type of interference that occurs in code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems
 * Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection, an atypical mycobacterial infection that was a common cause of wasting and death in the early AIDS Crisis

Transport

 * MAI, the National Rail code for Maidenhead railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK
 * Marine Accident Investigation, investigation of shipping accidents
 * Myanmar Airways International, an airline from Myanmar (Burma)

Film and television

 * Mai (2024 film), a film by Trấn Thành
 * Mai (1989 film), a Bhojpuri film
 * Mai (2013 film), a Bollywood film featuring Asha Bhosle
 * Mai (TV series), a 2022 Netflix India Original series

Other uses

 * Mai Shiranui, a character appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series.
 * Mai, a pronouncing dubbed name for main character in Jungle de Ikou!
 * Mai, a character from Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Mai, month May in several Indonesian local languages, including Banjarese and Minangkabau
 * Mai FM, a New Zealand radio network
 * "Mai", a song by Josh Groban song on his album Awake Live
 * mai, the ISO 639 code for the Maithili language spoken in India and Nepal
 * Multilateral Agreement on Investment, a proposed OECD treaty for which negotiations were abandoned in 1998
 * The Mai, fictional supernatural beings in The Nine Lives of Chloe King
 * Mai Minakami, one of the 3 main characters of Nichijou

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John T. Kennedy blogs at No Treason

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Hillview-Adeytown

Hillview-Adeytown is a former local service district and former designated place on the east coast of Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that existed from 1999 until 2008. It consisted of the village of Hillview on the Southwest Arm of Trinity Bay and the village of Adeytown on the Northwest Arm of Trinity Bay, just south of Clarenville.

Today Hillview-Adeytown is part of the designated place of Hillview-Adeytown-Hatchet Cove-St. Jones Within and part of the local service district of Random Sound West.

History of Adeytown
Adeytown (formerly called Lee Bight), like Deep Bight, Piston Mere, Maggoty Cove and Forrester's Point, was founded in the 1850s and 1860s as a small logging operation and, with the building of the Newfoundland Railway, it grew as the demand for lumber was at a peak.

Edward and Pasco Adey came to Lee Bight c.1865 from Hant's Harbour with the intention of logging. Lee Bight had all of the natural requirements for a logging operation, a nearby timber stand sufficient to support a water powered sawmill from a nearby fast flowing brook and clear access to the sea to ship the sawn lumber.

Around 1865, Edward, Israel, and Pasco Adey came to Lee Bight (later Adeytown), from Hants Harbour with the intention of logging. By 1870 a water powered sawmill had been built, one of several in the Northwest Arm in Trinity Bay at the time. The first (Methodist) school in Lee Bight was reported in 1883 with 16 students taught by a Miss Mary Mayo. Miss. Mayo had split her time at the Lee Bight School and the half at the Deep Bight school nearby.

In the early 20th century Adeytown had closed its Methodist school and shared one with Caplin Cove. By 1911 Adeytown had 2 sawmills and a church along with the school shared with Caplin Cove and about 30 people were living there for the 1911 Census. At the height of its economic boom in 1921 Adeytown had become a full logging town with 7 sawmills operating, also by this time there was 38 residents living in Adeytown.

As of September 13, 1966, the Adeytown Post Office closed and in 1970 the school was closed and students were bussed to Deep Bight for Elementary School and Clarenville for High School.

History of Hillview
Hillview (formerly called Northern Bight and North Bight) was populated in the mid-1800s, and renamed in 1913.

In the mid-1800s, James Stoyles and David Benson arrived to Northern Bight (later Hillview) from Grates Cove. By 1891, Hillview had 212 residents. Employment in Hillview varied from fisherman, clergy, farmers, and merchants. In the 1950s, the Labrador fishery and local sawmilling no longer contributed to Hillview, though proximity to Clarenville provided employment opportunities.

Hillview, as Northern Bight, contained the Northern Bight railroad station, which allowed freight to be unloaded and loaded onto boats in Hillview.

Hillview students, as well as Adeytown students, travel to Clarenville for high school.

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Tidjani

Tidjani is a given name or surname. Notable people with the name include:

 * Sidi Ahmad al-Tijani (1737–1815), founder of the Tijānī Sūfī order
 * Tidjani Anaane (born 1997), Beninese footballer

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I'm from Toronto, Canada. I edit Wikipedia infrequently, but try to make an effort when I see something particularly egregious. Otherwise, I know nothing.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demonocracy

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The result of the debate was TRANSWIKI to Wikt:. -Splash 01:28, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Demonocracy
Delete Neologism PhilipO 22:09, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 545 Google hits --137.111.7.135 22:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Even so, wikipedia is not a dictionary. --PhilipO 22:16, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Transwiki to Wiktionary DV8 2XL 23:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * WP:ISNOT a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Transwiki. Tonywalton  | Talk 23:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Transwiktionary as per above, not convinced its notable Roodog2k (talk) 23:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment you have a point. Dicdefs for {Greek root of your choice}|[o}cracy, anyone? Pognocracy? Tonywalton | Talk 23:20, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment Actually, I did find it referenced here, so it probably is notable. Changing my vote to Transwiki to Wiktionary --PhilipO 23:21, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, but must be moved beyond a stub; quite a few finds in Google. −Woodstone 16:59:13, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
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Never have I ever

"Never have I ever", also known as "I've never.." or "ten fingers", is a drinking game in which players take turns asking other players about things they have not done. Other players who have done this thing respond by taking a drink. A version that requires no drinking, usually played by children and underage adolescents, has players counting scores on their fingers instead.

Rules
The verbal game starts with all players forming a circle. The first player starts by saying a simple statement about something they have never done before starting with "Never have I ever". Anyone who at some point in their life has done the action that the first player says must drink. Then the game continues around the circle, and the next person makes a statement.

An additional rule says that if no one takes a drink, then the one who said the particular "Never have I ever..." statement must take a drink. This rule often forces the players to strategize more and makes for fewer disposable or pointless statements.

A further variation holds that whenever only one person is drinking, that person must give a detailed account of why they are drinking.

Another variety of this game known as "ten fingers" (or sometimes five) involves players raising their fingers at the start of the game, and putting one down whenever something mentioned has been done.

Versions of the game are available on cards or online with pre-written statements which players must admit to have done or not.

Conversation games such as this one can help to build friendships, and players often admit to things that they previously had not. As with truth or dare, the game is often sexual in nature. In some variations, the game may be incorporated into other drinking games, such as kings.

In popular culture

 * In the Family Guy episode "The Perfect Castaway", Peter and his friends play the game (referred to "I never"). However, Quagmire has pretty much done everything the gang has said they never did. (e.g. "I never gave a reach-around to a spider monkey while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.")
 * In 2015 Under the Gun Theater, a Chicago-based theater company, created an interactive comedy show based on the party game. This was in response to the closing of their show based on Cards Against Humanity.
 * In the 2014 horror film Unfriended, the ghost of Laura Barns forces those who drove her to suicide into a game of NHIE, during which a number of secrets are revealed which severely damage the players' friendships.
 * The game is featured in the 2009 British comedy-drama film The Boat that Rocked.
 * In 2020, the game was adapted for the Game Changer game show episode of the same name, with the host reading a secret and players earning points for correctly guessing who it belongs to or successfully deceiving the others. In 2022, this episode's premise was spun off into its own series on Dropout, titled Dirty Laundry.

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David Bergelson

David (or Dovid) Bergelson (דוד בערגעלסאָן, Давид Бергельсон, 12 August 1884 – 12 August 1952) was a Yiddish language writer born in the Russian Empire. He lived for a time in Berlin, Germany, before moving to the Soviet Union following the Nazi rise to power in Germany. He was a victim of the post-war antisemitic "rootless cosmopolitan" campaign and one of those executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets.

Youth
Bergelson was born on August 12, 1884, in the shtetl of Okhrimovo (also known as Okhrymovka, and also as Sarny near Uman ) in Kiev province. His early years were characterized by pogroms throughout the Pale of Settlement, catalyzed by the assassination of Czar Alexander II by a group of five young revolutionaries that included one Jew among them.

Bergelson grew up in a wealthy, religious, and Yiddish-speaking family. His father was a grain and timber merchant who spoke no Russian, maintaining his business entirely within the Jewish community. His mother came from a richer cultural background of writing and books. A maskil, a scholar in the Jewish Enlightenment movement, tutored him in Hebrew, Russian, and his parents' Yiddish. The extent of this tutoring was insufficient to allow Bergelson to enter a higher educational institution in later life.

Adulthood and work
Bergelson first became known as a writer in the wake of the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. From a Hasidic background, but having received both religious and secular education, much of his writing is reminiscent of Anton Chekhov: stories of "largely secular, frustrated young people…, ineffectual intellectuals…", frustrated by the provincial shtetl life. Writing at first in Hebrew and Russian, he only met success when he turned to his native Yiddish; his first successful book was Arum Vokzal (At the Depot) a novella, published at his own expense in 1909 in Warsaw.

In 1917, he founded the avant garde Yidishe Kultur Lige (Yiddish Culture League) in Kiev. In spring 1921 he moved to Berlin, which would be his base throughout the years of the Weimar Republic, although he traveled extensively through Europe and also visited the United States in 1929-30, to cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York. According to J. Hoberman, he was "the best-known (and certainly the best-paid) Russian Yiddish writer of the 1920s". Until the mid-1920s he wrote for the New York City-based Yiddish-language newspaper The Forward.

His 1926 essay "Three Centers" expressed a belief that the Soviet Union (where Yiddish language and literature were then receiving official patronage) had eclipsed the assimilationist United States and backwards Poland as the great future locus of Yiddish literature. He began writing for the Communist Yiddish press in both New York (Morgen Freiheit) and Moscow (Emes), and moved to the Soviet Union in 1933, around the time the Nazis came to power in Germany.

He was positively impressed with the Jewish Autonomous Republic of Birobidzhan, and participated in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II, co-editing the literary section of the Committee's journal, Eynikayt (Unity). However, like many Soviet Jewish writers, he became a target of the antisemitic "rootless cosmopolitan" campaign. Arrested in January 1949, he was tried secretly and executed by a firing squad in the event known as the Night of the Murdered Poets on 12–13 August 1952. After Stalin's death, he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955, and his complete works were published in the Soviet Union in 1961. Bergelson's only child, Lev Bergelson, was an eminent Soviet biochemist who also served as a Soviet Army captain during World War II. Prof. Lev Bergelson emigrated to Israel in 1991 with his wife Naomi, where both he and his wife died in 2014.

Works
The following is a partial list of Bergelson's works.
 * Arum Vokzal (At the Depot, novella, 1909). "Alrededor de la estación", ed. Círculo d´Escritores, Madrid, 2014
 * Opgang (novella, aka Descent as listed below, 1921)
 * Nokh Alemen; title variously translated as When All Is Said and Done (1977 English-language title) or The End of Everything.
 * Divine Justice (novel, 1925)
 * "Three Centers" (essay, 1926)
 * Storm Days (short stories, 1928)
 * Mides Hadin (novel, 1929). "Judgment", Northwestern University Press, 2017.
 * Baym Dnieper (At the Dnieper, novel, 1932)
 * Materialn (memoir, 1934)
 * The Jewish Autonomous Region (pamphlet published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow)
 * Naye Dertseylungen (New Stories, war stories, 1947)

Translations into English

 * When All Is Said and Done, translated, and introduced by Bernard Martin. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-8214-0360-5.
 * The End of Everything, translated and edited by Joseph Sherman. New Haven: Yale University, 2010. ISBN 9780300110678.
 * The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia (two short stories and the novella Departing), translated and introduced by Golda Werman, foreword by Aharon Appelfeld. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8156-2712-2.
 * Descent (aka Departing as noted above), translated and introduced by Joseph Sherman. Modern Language Association of America: New York, 1999. ISBN 0-87352-788-7.
 * Shadows of Berlin: the Berlin stories of Dovid Bergelson (seven short stories and a satirical sketch from The Forward), translated by Joachim Neugroschel. City Lights Books: San Francisco, June 2005. ISBN 0-87286-444-8.
 * Judgment: A Novel, translated and introduced by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich. Northwestern University Press: Evanston, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8101-3592-5.

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