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New York University residence halls

With 12,500 residents, New York University has the 7th largest university housing system in the United States, the largest among private schools.

Description
Residence halls are unique in that many are converted apartment complexes or old hotels. Most freshman residence halls are in the Washington Square area. Many of the upperclassmen halls are in the Union Square area. Until the Spring 2005 semester, NYU used a lottery system to determine eligibility for residence hall preference. Under this system, a student received one point for every semester they had lived in campus housing. Freshmen are freed from the lottery system and are by tradition placed in the halls closest to the main campus area. Therefore, historically, most of the students who lived in halls found far from Washington Square were sophomores. However, beginning in the fall 2006 semester, sophomores received priority housing, giving them first choice of residence halls. The purpose of this initiative was to keep the sophomore class together in the Union Square area. As a result, that year's junior class (class of 2008) and senior class (class of 2007) never benefited from having first choice, either as seniors under the old system or sophomores under the new system. The university operates its own transit system to transport its students, by bus or trolley, to campus. Undergraduate students were guaranteed housing during their enrollment at NYU if they declared a need on their admissions applications.

Twenty-one buildings comprise NYU's undergraduate housing system. In general, NYU residence halls receive favorable ratings, and some are opulent. Many rooms are spacious and contain amenities considered rare for individual college residence hall rooms, such as kitchens and living rooms/common areas. All residence halls are staffed by 24-hour security staff, contain multiple resident assistants (RAs), and several halls contain faculty in residence. Unlike many other universities, NYU rooms all have their own bathrooms and thus no common bathrooms exist. Many residence halls have their own dining hall, and the university has meal choices to suit various diets. Almost all the residence halls have a laundry room that is open to resident students 24 hours a day. The price of using these facilities varies from hall to hall; as some halls are leased, NYU is unable to control the laundry prices. All the residence halls are governed by the Inter-Residence Hall Council (IRHC), an umbrella student council organization. Each hall elects student representatives to the IRHC, and those representatives meet with one another to form committees and vote on an executive board. The goal of this group is to create programs for university students and to act as a link to university administration.

Recent hall construction
In November 2005, NYU announced plans to build a 26-floor, 190000 sqft residence hall on East 12th Street. The residence hall is expected to accommodate about 700 undergraduates and contain a host of other student facilities. It is to be the tallest building in the East Village. The plans caused anger among East Village and other New York City residents, as the new building would be built over the old St. Ann's Church. 12th street dorm is currently in use as a freshman dorm as of August 2009. It is located between 3rd and 4th avenues, close to the Coral, Alumni, and 3rd North dorms. A small piece of the church's facade remains standing.

NYU announced in February 2008 that it had purchased a high-end apartment building to use as a residence hall. The building was already under construction for some time, originally intended for overseas investors. This building, Gramercy Green—located at 23rd Street and 3rd Avenue—is in the heart of Gramercy and near to Madison Square Park. The rooms inside the building were partitioned to maximize the number of students. The building housed over 900 in its first year. In Spring 2009, Gramercy Green opened up a massive sub-cellar, which includes a fully functioning gym, a bike room, multiple television lounges, multiple study lounges, and a game room.

Relations with local residents
There has been friction between the residents of the East Village and NYU. Amongst brownstones and historic buildings, the school has built many large residence halls. NYU's destruction or purchase of many historic buildings (such as the Peter Cooper post office or St. Ann's Church, a rusticated-stone structure with a Romanesque tower that dated to 1847) have made it symbolic of change that many long-time residents fear is destroying what made the neighborhood interesting and attractive.

Undergraduate residence halls
There are currently 23 buildings in New York University's undergraduate housing system. Many are home to special interest "explorations" communities.

First-Year Halls

 * Brittany Hall is a 17-story pre-war gothic high rise located at 55 East 10th Street at the corner of 10th and Broadway. The building was once a hotel and is now home to 566 freshman and 15 RAs. Comedy troupe the State was founded in Brittany in 1988.
 * Special Interest Communities
 * Big Apple, Big Screen

 * Founders Hall is the newest addition to the system. It first opened for the Fall 2009 semester. It is located at 120 East 12th Street, houses over 700 students, and is known for its clean facilities, large windows, and extra large rooms. It is home to "The Meaning of Food", "NYU C.O.R.P.S.", "Global Citizen", and "Media Revolution" Explorations floors.

 * Goddard Hall is a small freshman hall located on 79 Washington Square East. This hall is regularly shown on NYU campus tours. Goddard houses 212 students and six RAs. In the fall of 2007, it became a "residential college". In 2022, Goddard Hall closed as a residence hall.

 * Lipton Hall Formerly a law school residence, Lipton was one of the university's first residence halls. It is now exclusively for freshmen like most of the residence halls closest to the park. It is located at 33 Washington Square West. Lipton holds 700 students and 15 RAs. Lipton Hall was formerly known as Hayden Hall before its name was changed in June 2016.

 * Rubin Hall is located at 35 Fifth Avenue, across from Church of the Ascension (New York). Prior to its purchase by NYU in the 1960s, the building was the Grosvenor Hotel. It houses 688 students and 13 RAs.

 * Third Avenue North is the largest first-year residence hall at NYU and one of the largest in the United States, housing 952 freshmen. "Third North" is located at 75 Third Avenue (between 11th and 12th streets) and is split into three towers. Third North has 29 RAs.

 * Weinstein Hall is the only pre-1980 residence hall that was built as a residence hall specifically for NYU students. It is located at 5-11 University Place. This freshman residence hall has a two level dining hall; the upper level's food court is known as "Upstein" and is adjacent to the kosher eatery. The lower level is known as "Downstein." Weinstein houses 554 students and 30 RAs. Weinstein is notable for being the dorm in which Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons founded Def Jam Records.

Mixed freshman/upperclassman halls

 * Clark Street is an 11-story building located at 55 Clark Street in Brooklyn, housing over 400 students in exclusively traditional-style suites. The residence is contained in a building shared with Hotel St. George and operated by EHS, meaning that the residence houses students from universities around New York City. Due to the nature of the arrangement, Clark St. has many amenities that other Residence's at NYU lack, such as in-room TV's, a private gym, a private spa, etc.

 * Othmer Hall is an 18-story building located at 101 Johnson Street in Brooklyn Brooklyn, housing over 400 students in both traditional and apartment-style suites. The residence includes student lounges and study rooms on every floor with laundry facilities and vending machines located in its basement. The residence hall was acquired by NYU when it merged with Polytechnic University to form the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in 2015. Othmer Hall stands within the MetroTech Center, and directly adjoins the academic buildings that make up NYU Tandon, including Rogers Hall which holds Othmers primary dining hall: the Jasper Kane Café.

 * University Hall is located in Union Square at 110 East 14th Street and was converted in the 2005-06 school year to all freshmen, and was then converted back to upperclassmen in fall 2009. For the 2012-2013 school year, it housed freshmen once more due to massive renovations at Brittany Hall. There was a small campus general store in the building, which in the Spring of 2006 was converted to a Dunkin' Donuts. "U-Hall" had a dining hall which was closed in 2005. The primary dining hall in U-Hall is currently operating in the general store located in "The Commons". University Hall holds 603 students and 14 RAs.

Upperclassman halls

 * Alumni Hall is located at 33 Third Avenue and houses exclusively single rooms, the only residence hall in the NYU system to do so. Alumni Hall is home to 452 residents and 12 Resident Assistants. Alumni staff and hall council are paired with the 7th Street dorm (this arrangement is commonly called the "7-A Partnership").

 * Broome Street is located at 400 Broome Street and houses many sophomores and juniors. In whole, Broome holds 353 students and nine RAs. In the fall of 2007, it became a "residential college".

 * Carlyle Court is located at 25 Union Square West. It houses 736 students and 15 RAs - mostly sophomores.

 * Coral Towers is located at 129 Third Avenue. It, along with Carlyle Court, was once notable for having balconies to which the students no longer have access due to safety concerns. Coral holds 410 students and 13 RAs.

 * Gramercy Green is one of the newest residence halls in the system, located on the northeast corner of 23rd Street and 3rd Avenue (entrance on 3rd). Gramercy Green features a new addition to the University's residence halls: it has two Chaplains in Residence. Gramercy Green is a converted luxury condo building, which is why the residence boasts numerous amenities not held in traditional 'college dorms.' These amenities include a private gym, granite countertops, marble bathroom fixtures and floor to ceiling windows. It, however, is one of the furthest dorms from campus.

 * Greenwich Hotel is largely a sophomore residence hall and is located at 636 Greenwich Street. Greenwich holds 314 students and seven RAs.

 * Lafayette Hall is located at 80 Lafayette Street. "Laf" is the largest residence hall at NYU, housing 1000+ students. Most of NYU Greek's Life have 'houses' in the penthouse floors of this residence hall.

 * Palladium Hall is located at 140 East 14th Street and houses upperclassmen and Stern's full-time MBA students. It contains a dining area and an athletic center, which is open to the general NYU community. Palladium Hall is named after the night club, The Palladium, owned by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager (both former owners of Studio 54) and formerly known as the Academy of Music. NYU purchased the land and built the Palladium Residence Hall in 2001. Palladium holds over 900 students with 22 RAs.

 * Second Street is a small residence hall with a large percentage of its residents being returning students. It is located at 1 East Second Street. Second Street has 282 residents and eight RAs.

 * Seventh Street is a small residence hall that houses mostly juniors and seniors. Its address is 40 East Seventh Street. It is known as the Green Dorm. Seventh Street is the smallest hall on campus, housing 82 students and two RAs, and so shares its staff and hall council with nearby Alumni Hall in what is commonly called the "7-A Partnership."

 * 13th Street is located at 47 West 13th Street. It has four RAs and 180 residents. As of Fall 2010, 13th street became the Senior House, a residence hall open to only seniors.

Formerly used as residence halls

 * Cliff Street was located at 15 Cliff Street and was one of two undergraduate residence halls in the Financial District. Cliff Street housed 321 residents and six RAs. The contract NYU had with the landlord of Cliff Street ended in May 2008 and the building is no longer used by NYU.
 * Water Street formerly known as NYU at the Seaport, was an upperclassmen residence hall. Despite its distance from campus, many students favored it for the size of the rooms. With 1181 residents and 28 RAs, Water Street was the largest residence hall on campus. However, since the hall was leased and not owned by NYU, the university closed the hall in May 2009 and replaced the beds with a new residence hall recently constructed on East 12th Street (Founders Hall).

Graduate halls

 * D'Agostino Hall is located at 110 West Third St. "D'Ag" is one of three residence halls for law school students.
 * 130 MacDougal Street is a two building law school residence also known as the "Alcott Houses." Students are not provided with cable, telephone, or internet services.
 * Hayden Hall is located at 240 Mercer Street. Formerly known as "240 Mercer," the building was renamed after the original Hayden Hall located on Washington Square West was renamed Lipton Hall in 2016. It is the largest of the five residence halls for law school students.

Notable residents
Brittany Hall
 * Adam Sandler
 * Dave Attell
 * Kristen Johnston
 * The State
 * Tabitha Soren
 * Tim Herlihy

Carlyle Court
 * Sam Sheffler

Goddard Hall
 * Donald Glover

Rubin Hall
 * Alec Baldwin
 * Chris Columbus
 * Haley Joel Osment
 * Sarah Silverman

Third Avenue North
 * Lady Gaga
 * Stephanie Hsu
 * Dylan and Cole Sprouse

Weinstein Hall
 * Adam Savage
 * Bill de Blasio
 * Def Jam Recordings
 * George Drakoulias
 * Wayne Federman
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman
 * Rick Rubin
 * John Waters
 * Andrew Watt

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Wheeze

A wheeze is a clinical symptom of a continuous, coarse, whistling sound produced in the respiratory airways during breathing. For wheezes to occur, part of the respiratory tree must be narrowed or obstructed (for example narrowing of the lower respiratory tract in an asthmatic attack), or airflow velocity within the respiratory tree must be heightened. Wheezing is commonly experienced by persons with a lung disease; the most common cause of recurrent wheezing is asthma, though it can also be a symptom of lung cancer, congestive heart failure, and certain types of heart diseases.

The differential diagnosis of wheezing is wide, and the reason for wheezing in a given patient is determined by considering the characteristics of the wheezes and the historical and clinical findings made by the examining physician.

The term "wheeze" is also used as a clinical condition describing wheezing in preschool children, termed as "preschool wheeze".

Wheeze
Wheezes occupy different portions of the respiratory cycle depending on the site of airway obstruction and its nature. The fraction of the respiratory cycle during which a wheeze is produced roughly corresponds to the degree of airway obstruction. Bronchiolar disease usually causes wheezing that occurs in the expiratory phase of respiration. As a rule, extrathoracic airway obstruction produce inspiratory sounds. Intrathoracic major airway obstruction produces inspiratory as well as expiratory sounds. Distal airway obstruction predominantly produces expiratory sounds.

The presence of expiratory phase wheezing signifies that the patient's peak expiratory flow rate is less than 50% of normal. Wheezing heard in the inspiratory phase, on the other hand, is often a sign of a stiff stenosis, usually caused by tumors, foreign bodies or scarring. This is especially true if the wheeze is monotonal, occurs throughout the inspiratory phase (i.e. is "holoinspiratory"), and is heard more proximally, in the trachea. Inspiratory wheezing also occurs in hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Wheezes heard at the end of both expiratory and inspiratory phases usually signify the periodic opening of deflated alveoli, as occurs in some diseases that lead to collapse of parts of the lungs.

The location of the wheeze can also be an important clue to the diagnosis. Diffuse processes that affect most parts of the lungs are more likely to produce wheezing that may be heard throughout the chest via a stethoscope. Localized processes, such as the occlusion of a portion of the respiratory tree, are more likely to produce wheezing at that location, hence the sound will be loudest and radiate outwardly. The pitch of a wheeze does not reliably predict the degree of narrowing in the affected airway.

Stridor
A special type of wheeze is stridor. Stridor — the word is from the Latin, strīdor — is a harsh, high-pitched, vibrating sound that is heard in respiratory tract obstruction. Stridor heard solely in the inspiratory phase of respiration usually indicates an upper respiratory tract obstruction, "as with aspiration of a foreign body (such as the fabled pediatric peanut)." Stridor in the inspiratory phase is usually heard with obstruction in the upper airways, such as the trachea, epiglottis, or larynx; because a block here means that no air may reach either lung, this condition is a medical emergency. Biphasic stridor (occurring during both the inspiratory and expiratory phases) indicates narrowing at the level of the glottis or subglottis, the point between the upper and lower airways.

Preschool wheeze
Preschool wheezing is a clinical condition that describes wheezing preschool children that do not fulfill the criteria of "asthma" fully as asthma would require a person to demonstrate a history of at least three episodes of exacerbations (worsening of symptoms) or chronic cough or wheeze for the past six months. Besides, a number of wheezing preschool children would have their symptoms resolved after they had grown up, unlike asthma which persists into adulthood. Preschool wheezing can be divided into "viral-induced wheeze" and "multi-trigger wheeze". Viral-induced wheezing accounts for about two-thirds of all preschool wheezes. The wheezing symptom is episodic and the child is completely normal in between wheezing episodes. It has a good prognosis and only supportive treatment is required. Meanwhile, multi-trigger wheezing is associated with allergy and a family history of asthma. Symptoms occur in between wheezing episodes and are likely to persist beyond early childhood. Due to difficulty in differentiating both types of wheeze, the diagnosis of viral-induced versus multi-trigger wheeze may be delayed for a period of time until its clinical course has become clear.

To wheeze (slang)
Since to Wheeze implies an inability to speak clearly, so in politics it refers to an unorthodox or less than ethical maneuver that is not actually illegal, but relies on an element of deception or sleight of hand, being an intermediate between a workaround and a scam

In this context wheezing is notably linked with the slang expression Joe Blow meaning any external person or group beyond a secretive fraternity (See also insider trading)

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Craig McMahon

Craig McMahon is an Australian actor and television personality who has spent most of his working life within the Australian television industry.

He has worked as a presenter on the Network Ten's children's show Totally Wild and previously, with his wife Dominique, he co-hosted the children's TV series In the Box. He has worked on other shows including Neighbours, Fat Cow Motel and The Man From Snowy River.

He was nominated as a finalist for Cleo's Bachelor of the Year in 2000.

He and his wife Dominique co-founded the Film & Television Studio International, which runs acting classes in Brisbane and Melbourne. McMahon is the founder and artistic director whilst his wife is the co-founder and managing director.

McMahon also runs McMahon Management (MCM), an agency that represents Australian actors including Luke Mitchell, Esther Jackie Anderson, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Daniel Daperis, Glenda Linscott, Mauricio Merino Jr, Chris Milligan and Andrew James Morley.

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Ten Mile Point

Ten Mile Point may refer to the following:

 * Ten Mile Point, British Columbia, a residential neighbourhood in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
 * Ten Mile Point, New York, an area on the shore of Skaneateles Lake, New York, USA
 * Ten Mile Point, Ontario, an area on Manitoulin Island near Little Current, in Ontario, Canada

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Talk:Archaeoraptor

NPOV of Taxonomy
and second, because they do not want Olson's attempted taxonomic sabotage to succeed.

I don't think this meets NPOV. It might be the view of "Most paleontologists", but then it should be mentioned that this is their POV. I propose:

and second, because they view Olson's name as "nomenclatural sabotage" and do not want to support it.

This same POV issue is present in the Microraptor article. I don't believe the articles should be merged, since one deals with the fraud while the other deals with a real specimen. However, there should probably be better consistency between the articles (a See Main Article on the Microraptor article would do the trick). - Jokermage 06:48:46, 2005-08-28 (UTC)
 * Could be a good idea. Could you implement it? - Skysmith 11:47, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, the proposed phrasing is an improvement. Please go ahead. Gdr 17:38:42, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

Turns out there was already a link to Archaeoraptor in the text. I reworded the sentence and added the Main Article link, for style consistancy and clarity. - Jokermage 06:39:22, 2005-09-06 (UTC)

Wrong category?
Why is this article under "Archaeological forgery"? Archaeologists deal with cultural and not natural remains, i.e remains of people. It is a common misconception that archaeologists are all interested in anything fossil or bone, and that they concern themselves with dinosaur remains as well as human remains. Dinosaurs are for palaeontologists, human remains for the archaeologist (there are, after all, a few million years between the two species). I therefore suggest the article be removed from the archaeological forgery category. --Grumpy444grumpy 08:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Status of Archaeoraptor
Storrs Olson not only failed to establish Archaeoraptor liaoningensis as a new taxon; his designation of the Microraptor holotype as the lectotype of Archaeoraptor is not valid. [1]

1. http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Jul/msg00009.html

Inconsistancies in article
I'm not an archeology expert, but two items in this article do not make sense to me:

1) The following passage appears self-contradictory:

 * "By January 2000 the fossil had proven to be fraudulent and National Geographic retracted their article and promised an investigation. In the October 2000 issue, the magazine published a retraction and an article about the case. A Chinese farmer had created the archaeoraptor fossil by gluing two fossils together, one of which was a Microraptor, the other one was a fossil bird now named Archaeovolans.

 * On November 21, 2002 Nature announced that the front end of the fossil was the Avialan species Yanornis martini"

Is the second fossil Archeovolans, or Yanornis? Are these names synonymous, or were there three fossils involved?

2)For me, the article does not adequately explain what Olson's alleged motivation was in naming the tail portion "Archaeoraptor liaoningensis." Am I correct in my interpretation that he disputes the dinosaur-bird connection, so he was trying to ensure that the clearly "dinosaur" part of the chimeric specimen, rather than the "bird" portion bore the name "archeoraptor," which would imply a relationship to dinosaurs with "raptor" in their names? But "raptor" is obviously a term applied to groups of birds too. I think this needs to be explained more clearly.

Also I added a low-res image of the first two pages of the NG article. I think this is legit fair use, and helpful to the article.
 * 1) Archaeovolans was sunk as a junior synonym of the previously-named Yanornis. I agree this should be more clear.
 * 2) Olson's motivation was that he didn't want a name widely known associated with a hoax in the paleorinithological literature, so he went ahead and dumped it on the dinosaur paleontologists (the whole issue could have been avoided if nobody used the name in an official publication, ever, which makes Olson's actions seem a little malicious). For this reason, among other, dinosaur paleontologists reject the name Archaeoraptor in favor of Microraptor, even though the former is technically valid, I assume in the hopes that Archaeoraptor will eventually become a nomen oblitum through disuse, officially making it an invalid name. Dinoguy2 06:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, and to better answer your question, I'm not sure it would be appropriate to speculate on what Olson's motivation was, especially given the circumstances--it would end up being both original research and POV. Better just to state what he did and when, rather than why. Dinoguy2 06:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I reworded the first part of the taxonomy section to eliminate speculation as to Olson's motivations, but hopefully more clearly describe their effects (in a manner relevent to the alleged motivations). The last part of the section ("nomenclatural sabotage") is still questionable from a POV standpoint though (needs attribution). Rustavo 06:48, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

New Lead
Firsfron, don't you feel that the intro sentence is a run on, and that it could be made into three succinct sentences? You know, just so that there aren't, like, six subjects in each sentence.Jbrougham (talk) 17:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Feel free to rework it, but it's only 32 words, man. :) *Shrug* I didn't think it was bad at all. I've seen some 90+ word sentences that should be broken up, and I know some editors (and Veropedia) recommend breaking up a sentence after 50. Ruslik above states that the lead is still too short, and that some of the sentences are too stubby. If he prefers longer sentences, I guess we should accommodate him. But as I said, feel free to rework. Firsfron of Ronchester  17:51, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I actually said that the lead is too short. I did not mean that the sentences were stubby. One of my concerns with this article was that a number of sentences were too long and complex. Some of them were unreadable. Though I split majority of them myself. Ruslik (talk) 05:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately-timed wikibreak
I am going on a business trip tomorrow and may not have time to address further issues. I do apologize for leaving everyone in the lurch. Firsfron of Ronchester 18:06, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Bon voyage!--MWAK (talk) 14:17, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Olson
There are some difficulties involved in determining what Olson exactly accomplished. The normal interpretation would be that his attempt was unsuccesful merely because he presumed that "Archaeoraptor" had been named already. I refer to the relevant ICZN articles:
 * Article 73.1.5. If a subsequent author finds that a holotype which consists of a set of components (e.g. disarticulated body parts) is not derived from an individual animal, the extraneous components may, by appropriate citation, be excluded from the holotype. —This is what Olson assumed he was doing. However there was no holotype in the first place, because the National Geographic article did not validly name.
 * Article 16.1. All names: intention of authors to establish new nominal taxa to be explicit. Every new name published after 1999, including new replacement names (nomina nova), must be explicitly indicated as intentionally new. —This condition is not met. Therefore it cannot be succesfully argued that Olson by default created a new name and assigned a holotype to it.

I am aware that Olson denied the correctness of this interpretation, but I don't have the papers in which he does so. Could anyone provide this information?--MWAK (talk) 07:05, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The Czerkas
Could someone explain to me how the section about their travelling show is related to the Archaeoraptor controversy? It's interesting, yes, but doesn't seem too relevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.133.223 (talk • contribs)
 * The "Archaeoraptor" fraud was one of the fossils in the traveling exhibit. The fake highlighted the fact that fossils are leaving China illegally. Qiang stated 1/3rd of the fossils in this exhibit were illegal, and they apparently have not been returned. Which part isn't relevant? The hoax gets most of the attention, but there's more to this controversy than just a hoax, right? Firsfron of Ronchester  04:56, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Fossil infobox
Take a look at for example the Kabwe cranium article, it seems that articles about specific fossil hominid specimens have a "fossil infobox", should that maybe be used on articles about other specific fossil specimens, including Archaeo, as well? FunkMonk (talk) 15:03, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Travelling exhibit
Hello. What happened with the travelling exhibit? The article says, that "Through March 2009 the show is scheduled for the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science in California." However, this museum has been closed for financial reasons, so I think that the exhibit had to move somewhere else. Thanks. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 20:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Neutrality
This article is a GA one, but I see several lines apparently showing bias. Although evolution is generally accepted by the scientific community, showing that there is no other possibility other than evolution is not neutrality.

 * Although "Archaeoraptor" was a forgery, many true examples of feathered dinosaurs have been found and demonstrate the evolutionary connection between birds and other theropods.

 * That birds are derived theropod dinosaurs is no longer the subject of scholarly dispute.

 * Furthermore, the authenticity of "Archaeoraptor" would not have been an essential proof for the hypothesis that birds are theropods, as this is sufficiently corroborated by other data.

I don't think this article retains a GA status. 110.55.3.22 (talk) 05:44, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

 * I think you confuse the question of whether there has been an evolution or not, with the problem of the evolutionary origins of birds. The statements you object to, already presume, as does the entire article, an evolutionary context. They are opposed to an alternative hypothesis, that also presumes evolution.--MWAK (talk) 08:13, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

 * There is no viable alternative to evolution because 1. evolution has been directly observed over and over again, and 2. no creationist has ever provided any theory that comes even close to explaining the centuries of robust evidence in favor of natural selection. No, the Bible is not scientific evidence. Promoting creationism as "science" would be inexcusably biased. 2601:441:5000:ADF0:7D82:AFEC:99DA:4C96 (talk) 23:24, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

"Not a deliberate hoax"?
"However, contrary to the Piltdown Man, 'Archaeoraptor' was not a deliberate hoax."

Does the cited source really say this - and if it does, what exactly does it mean? 85.255.233.216 (talk) 19:29, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it should be removed because it sounds nonsensical. A forgery must be something done deliberately, and the intention is to deceive. There cannot be a hoax that is not deliberate since deception is the intent. Hzh (talk) 16:18, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

 * It is now explained somewhat better, I hope.--MWAK (talk) 18:26, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Do we need the outdated userbox any more?
I added a section to Travelling Exhibit about its inclusion in a recent exhibition about which I intend to write an article. Do we need the outdated box any more?TomBarker23 (talk) 14:22, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fitzroy Tavern

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 01:55, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Fitzroy Tavern
Non-notable pub; claims it used to be famous and now intellectuals hang out there. Paul Klenk 06:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, although I'd like a list of what intellectuals hung out there, the fact that it gave its name to a district of London gives it a slight notability. Zoe 06:52, August 28, 2005 (UTC) Having read the Dottore's comments below, I change my vote to delete, nn tavern.  Zoe 07:15, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Zoe, that's a good reason to merge this to an article about the district itself -- providing, of course, the district itself is in fact notable. Paul Klenk

 * Keep; I intend to develop this article further. Sjc 07:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The pub did NOT give rise to the name of the neighbourhood; the assertion is false! The linked article Fitzrovia even says as much. Dottore So 07:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A lot of Google hits, difficult to find the relevant ones. Dylan Thomas and George Orwell used to be there, according to this page. Keep, iff more can be made of this connection. Uppland 07:28, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It didn't give rise to the name of Fitzrovia, but it was frequented by Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, and George Orwell. --Tony Sidaway Talk  07:31, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, fair enough. Also seems [zoe] had lunch there. Weak keep Dottore So 07:38, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Damn, that London trip is all a blur. :)  Zoe 07:58, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep if expanded. Has the basis for an interesting article. Cnwb 07:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I was going to recommend deletion, but it's starting to look interesting. (And how come I've never come across this place before???!! I spent much of the early 1980s hanging around the Tottenham Court Road area.) --Finbarr Saunders 08:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but move to Fitzroy Tavern (London). There must be hundreds of Fitzroy Taverns (my local is a Fitzroy Tavern - on the other side of the planet from this one!) Grutness...  wha?  09:04, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's probably the only famous one, so no need to disambiguate unless and until necessary. --Tony Sidaway Talk 11:00, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * We have the Eagle and Child, so we might actually keep this one. Pilatus 10:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep on it's stomping grounds of.. merits. (Ignore my Cambridge bias here). Alf 10:54, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but a little more information in the article would be welcome before this process closes. --Bhadani 14:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand as it does have significant literary connections. It's a nice pub, and this looks like a good excuse for a visit later in the week... Sliggy 20:45, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I've made a few changes. CalJW 21:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Pitch (filmmaking)

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Aw, c'mon... "supplicant"? --Crid 06:51, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Dramatical Devices
There should be a line or two about the dramatical devices usually employed in a pitch, like how it efficiently describes the theme and dramatical premise of the film in as little as one sentence. --Kebman (talk) 12:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Um, that's actually not a novel approach
That's actually the traditional approach in animation. --Coolcaesar (talk) 12:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

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Baptist Collegiate Network

The Baptist Collegiate Network (BCN) is a Baptist college-level organization that can be found on many college campuses in the United States and Canada; many of its collegiate ministries operate under the name Baptist Collegiate Ministry or the Baptist Student Union. The organization, while Baptist, functions as an interdenominational and coeducational fellowship, student society and service organization. Baptist Collegiate Network is primarily associated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

History
The organization was founded as the Baptist Student Union in 1919 by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Joseph P. Boone, a Baylor University graduate, was the first secretary. In 1920, the first state-wide convocation members was held at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. 300 students from twenty schools came for the development of programs. Churches and state conventions were deemed crucial to its growth.

In 2012, the network had more than 69,500 students actively involved in campus ministry through this organization and its affiliated state-level Baptist conventions, in 839 college and university campuses. 782 was in the United States and 57 was in Canada.

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Talk:USC Trojans football

early USC nickname(s)
"Trojans" was adopted in 1912. Nickname(s) in earlier seasons are more contested.

 * USC's position is "Up to that time, teams from USC were called the Methodists or Wesleyans and neither nickname was looked upon with favor by university officials." and "The first USC football squad is formed in 1888. Before being nicknamed the Trojans in 1912, they are known variously as the USC Cardinals and as the Methodists.".
 * LA Times includes "HENRY H. GODDARD and FRANK H. SUFFEL (1888, 2-0)--They began USC football, organizing the Methodists--later to be the Trojan..."

Any research assistance is appreciated re 1888~1911 team articles. WP:COMMONNAME leads me to Methodists at this point. UW Dawgs (talk) 19:29, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

"Arts and Entertainment" section necessary?
I believe the "Arts and Entertainment" section is okay here. John Wayne, arguably America's most famous actor, played at USC. That makes this cogent in my opinion. If you object, please explain why rather than summarily tag it. Thanking you in advance. Chisme (talk) 04:18, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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Recruiting football
May I suggest football recruiters for SC look at Brent Venables comment today on espn college football recruiting why he elects not to poach football recruits of Clemson even though he was the lead recruiter on many of them. It’s very clear his feelings and most would say it’s about ethics here in recruiting young men and doing it the right and correct way. Hopefully it will hit home with the athletic dept recruiters etc. 2600:8804:5A00:23F0:602C:B573:6111:7B99 (talk) 01:35, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Pilot Episode

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The result of the debate was keep, no consensus on where to move it. It's apparent to me that this is still an ongoing discussion, with some editors making conflicting suggestions at different times in the discussion. Please arrive at a consensus on what this article should be called and move it there. --Tony Sidaway Talk 12:05, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

The Pilot Episode
Move content to Are You Being Served; very poor choice for an article title. Paul Klenk 06:53, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, every tv show that has ever existed is getting to have an article on every episode ever created or thought of. Keep, but rename to The Pilot Episode (Are You Being Served?), and delete the redirect.  Zoe 07:01, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it should be at Pilot episode (Are You Being Served?), in accordance with Wikipedia style, assuming it's not a title (the article is unclear on this). No vote. --Apostrophe 07:10, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * That's the problem. If the title of the episode is "The Pilot Episdoe", then we have to include the "The".  Like every episode of Friends was "The one about ...".  Zoe 07:18, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Agree, it would be less clumsy to relocate the text directly into the show's main page, but the problem is that it then eliminates the choice to view the info, if one wishes not to see spoiler or plot details. Markt3 8/28/05
 * sadly, Zoe is correct. Dottore So 07:09, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename as per Zoe --Mysidia (talk) 07:16, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep (and, of course, rename) - if there is a bit more content. --Finbarr Saunders 10:00(ish), 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to whichever name is deemed most correct. Alf 11:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Note on my DVD set, it's just called "Pilot". Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 12:25, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * How about if we call it Are You Being Served? pilot episode? Zoe 20:16, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Rename to The Pilot Episode (Are You Being Served?)--195.92.168.174 02:40, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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Players (DeLillo novel)

Players is Don DeLillo's fifth novel, published in 1977. It follows Lyle and Pammy Wynant, a young and affluent Manhattan couple whose casual boredom is overturned by their willing participation in chaotic detours from the everyday.

Plot summary
Lyle works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and spends evenings seated close to the television, rapidly flipping channels, while his wife Pammy works at a "grief management firm" in the World Trade Center. While their marriage is free of problems and they have many friends, a cloud of ennui hangs over their domestic life.

Pammy joins her friends Ethan and Jack on a trip to Maine, where they come to the realization that their collective nostalgia for simpler times and rural life is largely invented. Pammy begins a sexual relationship with Jack, who is in a homosexual relationship with Ethan, which ultimately ends in Jack's inexplicable self-immolation at a nearby junkyard.

Meanwhile, in a divergent and concurrent storyline, Lyle witnesses the shooting death of one of his acquaintances, George Sedbauer, on the floor of the exchange. Through this event, Lyle becomes privy to a vague conspiracy of violent terrorists targeting Wall Street, and his curiosity draws him into their fold. His recruitment and participation are equally inexplicable, a function of the draw of revolutionary activity and respite from the boredom of his ordinary life. His engagement with the radicals, themselves devoid of any morality or particular ideology, becomes more absurd when he attempts to inform on them to equally ill-defined government agents, and begins having sexual relationships with two other conspirators. Lyle discovers that J. Kinnear, one of the shadow key figures in the terrorist network, is a double-agent himself and the web of essentially meaningless conspiracies appears to be endless and be the end in itself; pursued not for chaotic ends, but for the sake of imposing structural order on what the "players" view to be chaos.

Main themes
In Players DeLillo precipitates many of the themes wrought by rampant consumerism in late twentieth century America that he would later explore in White Noise and Underworld. The notion of terrorist as societal actor, the appeal of fringe ideologies, and the utility of conspiracies first explored here would later be given more in-depth treatment in DeLillo's Mao II.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYU residence halls

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, which defaults to KEEP Paul August ☎ 03:28, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

NYU residence halls
Exhaustively trifling, non-notable. Merge to NYU article. Paul Klenk 06:57, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge per nom --Mysidia (talk) 07:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment NYU article is already 44k, would this make a merge problematic?Alf 11:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Article is named improperly. Should be New York University residence halls.  --Ichabod 11:44, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to New York University - the size of the target article shouldn't be a problem, because really only the first paragraph of this is encyclopedic. The exhaustive list of the halls themself is simply not  needed, and is probably just copied from an NYU site somewhere.  CDC   (talk)  17:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Numerous universities have separate articles about their residential housing, and I'm sure there is encyclopedic information to be found for many of the listed halls. Sdedeo 19:25, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep separate, minority interest. Kappa 20:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge While it's true many universities have residence hall pages, the NYU dorms are not "colleges" in the sense of Yale and therefore don't have detailed histories and statistics. They were a better fit on the main page.  By the by, I wrote the sections initially, and most of it is pulled from what I remember of being a student at NYU. TommyP 01:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep

- Argument on size: The article is indeed already too long, alumni and presidents have already been outsourced. Many large sites at wikipedia have separate articles on subcategorical content in order to maintain a sizeable format. At Wikipedia, most university-related articles have the following on their main page: information on schools, rankings, size, general campus information, specialities, faculty, history, athletics and sometimes alumni and trivia/lore/traditions. Other, especially campus-related information is mainainted in separate articles, cf.: Harvard Yard, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Watterson Towers, Davenport College

- Argument on content: the article is in my view still encyclopedic, although every university article on this page contains more information than a traditional encyclopedia article. If that was a criterion, we`d have to delete 90 % of all university-related articles. I haven`t found any specific and detailed information on residence halls elsewhere and I believe it should not be included on the main page. However, I believe that this article contains valid information on NYU and should therefore not be deleted. If this article is deleted, may other articles will have to be deleted as well (see above). There are separate lists of university presidents, university museums and what not. So why delete this article ? One could argue that not all information contained therein is encyclopedic style and that for example it is not really important whether an NYU dorm offers washing machines or not - but then change the article, don`t delete it.
 * Keep but rename per Ichcabod. Cmadler 14:12, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename, redirect this to there. Alf 14:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename. Alf 21:14, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
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Théophile Mbemba Fundu

Professor Théophile Mbemba Fundu was the Interior Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2001 until 2006. He was governor of Kinshasa from 1997 until 2001.

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Haupia

Haupia is the Hawaiian name for a traditional coconut pudding found throughout Polynesia.

History
Haupia and other similar coconut puddings are a variety of traditional Polynesian pudding. Puddings made in the Pacific islands generally consist of two components; a base made from a starch such taro or breadfruit and an emollient such as coconut milk or oil that bound the material together when cooked.

Starch extracted from the pia (or Polynesian arrowroot) is the original thickening agent used in making this dish. These puddings would originally have had a more mucilaginous consistency, and more so without refrigeration historically. Cornstarch (grain starch) is often substituted for pia in modern recipes which give a different texture overall more akin to gelatin. A suitable substitute for arrowroot starch would be another root starch like potato starch or tapioca. Traditional haupia is vegan and does not contain gelatin, eggs, or dairy.

These coconut puddings that were made by the Polynesians were noted by early European explorers to have a resemblance in appearance and taste to the European dessert blancmange.

Preparation
A standard recipe calls for coconut cream (or coconut milk), water, sugar, salt, and starch to be mixed, then heated until thickened. The mixture may be chilled or left to set until firm.

In popular culture
Haupia remains a popular dessert on its own. It is often served along traditional Hawaiian dishes and at luaus. But it is also a versatile dish that can be incorporated into other desserts.

Haupia is popularly layered on chocolate pudding pie and sweet potato pie. Haupia can also be used in place of buttercream in fillings for cakes, donuts (including malasadas), incorporated into ice cream, or provide a more local twist in almond tofu. McDonald's restaurants in Hawaii seasonally sell fried haupia pies and taro pies.

In Hawaii, products that are coconut flavored but not containing haupia are sometimes appropriated as "haupia".

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Tales of Legendia

Tales of Legendia (テイルズ オブ レジェンディア) is an action role-playing game that was developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2 as the seventh main title in their Tales series. Originally released in Japan in August 2005, it was later made available in English in North America in February 2006. The game was created by a development team known collectively as "Project MelFes", which was composed of members of Namco's Tales Studio along with developers from the company's Tekken and Soulcalibur fighting game series. It features character designs from anime artist Kazuto Nakazawa and music from composer Go Shiina, as well as songs performed by Do As Infinity, Donna Burke, and Kanon. Its producers gave it the characteristic genre name RPG Where Bonds Spin Legends (絆が伝説を紡ぎだすRPG).

The game is set in a fantasy world covered in water, taking place entirely on a gigantic ship that is actually a remnant of an ancient civilization. Players assume the role of a young man named Senel, who must rescue his sister from individuals who believe her to be a prophesied savior, while the mysteries of his world begin to unravel before him. It received mostly mixed reviews upon its release in North America, with critics routinely commending the title's music while panning its derivative plot and tedious pace, and would sell approximately 397,000 copies worldwide.

Gameplay
Tales of Legendia is a console role-playing game set in a fantasy world featuring three-dimensional characters and environments. The game is presented from a top-down perspective, and players must move their character through a number of locales, battle monsters, and interact with non-player characters to advance the story. Unlike previous games in the series where monsters were visible before being encountered, Tales of Legendia features randomized battles that occur every few steps while inside dungeons or other hostile areas.

Like previous games in the series, Tales of Legendia was designed to focus on the interactions between the main cast. However, a unique feature to this game is the addition of a second series of scenarios after the player has completed the main story that focuses more on the individual characters themselves. Animated sequences also accompany certain story segments.

The game features a variation of the series' Linear Motion Battle System, where players are able to freely move their characters around the battle area and engage enemies in real-time, known as the "X-LiMBS" (Crossover Linear Motion Battle System), which was specifically designed to resemble a traditional fighting game. Despite playable characters and enemies being rendered in 3D, battles are limited to a two-dimensional plane where combatants can only move forward, backward, or jump straight up into the air. In addition to normal attacks, players can attack enemies using special skills called "Eres", which involve spending Tech Points (TP), and can be chained together to create combos. A total of eight playable characters can be recruited as the game progresses, with up to four of them making up a player's party at any time. As players attack enemies, they fill up a "Climax" gauge at the bottom of the screen that can be expended to freeze all enemies in place for a short period. Whenever battles are completed, players are awarded both experience points that allow characters to gain levels and grow stronger, as well as items called "Eres Stones" that allow them to purchase additional skills.

Setting
Tales of Legendia is set in a world covered mostly in water, with all the events of the game taking place aboard a massive, country-sized ship called the Legacy, a remnant of a highly advanced ancient civilization. The population is divided into two groups: the Orerines ("the people of the land") and the Ferines ("the people of the sea"), a race of fair-skinned, light-haired people with the ability to live underwater, with the tensions between them serving as the backdrop to the game's plot. In addition, a select portion of the population are known as "erens", people born with the ability to use special powers known as "eres", which are divided into two groups: crystal eres, which includes casting magic spells, and iron eres, which revolves around physical abilities. A fictional language known as Relares appears throughout the game, forming the basis for some location and character names.

Main characters

 * Senel Coolidge (セネル・クーリッジ) is a 17-year-old martial artist and marine of the Holy Alliance who can use iron eres. Although strong-willed and passionately protective of his surrogate "sister" Shirley, his cold nature comes off as uncaring to those around him. He is voiced by Kenichi Suzumura in the Japanese version. His name comes from Cuban writer Senel Paz.
 * Shirley Fennes (シャーリィ・フェンネス) is a 15-year-old practitioner of crystal eres. She has a demure yet stubborn demeanor and is constantly chased by those who view her as the "Merines", the chosen one of the Ferines said to command great power. She is voiced by Carrie Savage in the English version, and Ryō Hirohashi in the Japanese version. Her name comes from the 1849 novel Shirley by English author Charlotte Brontë.
 * Will Raynard (ウィル・レイナード) is a 28-year-old historian and local sheriff who can use crystal eres. The oldest character in the group, he is often looked to for leadership and advice, and is characterized as having a strict yet kind personality. He is voiced by Susumu Chiba in the Japanese version. His name comes from English writer William Shakespeare.
 * Chloe Valens (クロエ・ヴァレンス) is a 17-year-old female knight from the prestigious House of Valens who uses iron eres. Her staunch determination to prove herself as a warrior worthy of her family name masks her true feminine nature. She is voiced by Heather Halley in the English version, and Masumi Asano in the Japanese version. Her name comes from the character Chloë from the 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream by French author Boris Vian.
 * Norma Beatty (ノーマ・ビアッティ) is a 16-year-old treasure hunter and practitioner of crystal eres. Uniformly cheerful and positive, she also possesses an insightful side and has a habit of creating nicknames for other members of the party. She is voiced by Kaori Mizuhashi in the Japanese version. Her name comes from American author Norma Field.
 * Moses Sandor (モーゼス・シャンドル) is the 17-year-old leader of a tribe of bandits and beast-tamers who wields a spear and uses iron eres. Despite his wild, uncouth exterior, he is a caring individual who looks after a large wolf-like creature named Giet (ギート), and values family above all else. He is voiced by Kazuya Nakai in the Japanese version. His name comes from Romanian writer Moses Gaster.
 * Jay (ジェイ) is a cryptic 16-year-old ninja and practitioner of iron eres. He is characterized as being highly cynical and tends to liberally use cutting remarks, and has a talent for information gathering and analysis. He is voiced by Ryoko Shiraishi in the Japanese version. His name comes from American author Jay McInerney.
 * Grune (グリューネ) is a mysterious woman who wields magic water jugs and has the ability to use crystal eres. Despite being amnesiac, she is perpetually in high spirits and never strays from her calm demeanor, smiling almost constantly. She is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi in the Japanese version.

Story
The game begins as Senel and Shirley wash ashore on the Legacy after their boat is tossed in a storm. Shirley is soon kidnapped by a bandit named Moses, prompting Senel to team up with a local sheriff named Will and a female knight named Chloe to rescue her. Will explains that Shirley's arrival coincided with a pillar of light at the center of the ship, leading many to believe that she is the legendary "Merines", a person destined to lead the Ferines to prosperity. After finding her at the thieves' hideout, she is captured yet again by a Ferines soldier named Walter Delques, who takes her away. When the group eventually catches Walter, he reveals that he was only protecting her from the real enemy: the Orerine Crusand Empire Army, led by a man named Vaclav Bolud, who promptly arrives and abducts Shirley himself. While in captivity, Shirley becomes friends with another captive, a young Ferines girl named Fenimore Xelhes.

Senel and his team are joined by a treasure hunter named Norma as well as Moses, who has decided to atone for his earlier actions. Together, the team travels deeper into the ship, where they discover that not only does Vaclav have Shirley, but her older sister Stella, who Shirley and Senel believed dead three years earlier when the Empire's forces invaded their hometown. After being forced to escape when they are confronted by Vaclav's underlings, the Terrors, the party regroups and meets an amnesiac women named Grune and boy named Jay who joins the team and accompanies them to the Legacy's bridge. They confront Vaclav once more, who plans to use Shirley and Stella's latent Merines powers to activate a giant laser cannon located on the ship to destroy the Ferines' village and later subjugate other countries around the world. Although the party is victorious, Vaclav sets the cannon to fire in his final moments, with Stella in turn awakening her powers just in time to fly into the path of the beam, sacrificing herself.

Shirley resolves to complete a ritual to fully become the Merines and fulfill her destiny, meeting with Walter and the Ferines leader Maurits Welnes. However, soldiers from the country of Gadoria attack during the ceremony attempting to kill her thinking she willfully sided with Vaclav, with Fenimore jumping in the way of one of their blades and dying instead. The traumatic event causes Shirley to be fully engulfed by Nerifes, the malevolent spirit of the ocean itself, before leaving with Maurits. Senel and his friends go after her, passing through the deeper areas of the ship where they discover from fractured recordings that the Legacy was a colony ship from another world, and the Ferines came to the planet and made war with the Orerines 4000 years ago. Arriving at Maurits' stronghold, the party faces Walter, who reveals his jealousy over Shirley choosing Senel over him, and fights until his life gives out. They learn from Maurits that it was in fact the Orerines, not the Ferines, who are the outsiders. He explains that the Orerines' terraforming technology upset the will of the sea so much that his people can no longer live in it, and wishes to use Shirley to flood the world and appease the ocean so that the Ferines can thrive once more. After he is beaten and Shirley brought back to her senses, Maurits summons a physical manifestation of Nerifes itself, which is driven back by Senel and his friends. In the end, Maurits resolves to put aside old hatreds and work towards an era of peace between Orerines and Ferines as the characters return to their old lives.

Development
Preliminary development on Tales of Legendia began in 2000, after the release of Tales of Eternia, with many of its staff drawn from that of Eternia. Its development happened in parallel to Tales of Destiny 2 and Tales of Symphonia. While its exact development time is unknown, a report in Famitsu stated that its development lasted three years. It was first revealed in December 2004 in a teaser trailer featured on a pre-order bonus disc for the series' previous title Tales of Rebirth, which only referred to the game by its development codename "Project MelFes". On February 14, 2005, Namco posted silhouettes of two characters on their Tales Channel website, with the game's official reveal coming four days later. A tentative Japanese release date of sometime in 2005 was announced the following month, with an English North American release formally announced by the company in April for February 2006. In May 2005, Namco gave a finalized Japanese release date set for the following August. The game would make an appearance at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles the following June.

The game was developed by a team that consisted of staff members from previous Tales entries, as well as developers from the company's Tekken and Soulcalibur fighting game series. Producer Jun Toyoda explained that the goal was to create a role-playing game with the "exhilarating battle scenes" found in those titles, and to appeal to players who either felt that fighting games lacked a story or felt that traditional role-playing game combat was too "tedious". Although the game features three-dimensional characters, battle sequences were purposefully restricted to a two-dimensional plane to allow the developers to create large monsters without fear of them obstructing the player's view of the action. Character animation was handled by Yosuke Kadowaki, who had previously used the same motion-capture technology on Soulcalibur II. The scenario was written by Koki Matsumoto and Tsuyoshi Tanaka. The main story theme was "bonds", with the main priority being the overlapping stories of the main cast. Unlike previous Tales games where character art and design was mostly done by Mutsumi Inomata, Tales of Legendia features characters designed by anime illustrator and animator Kazuto Nakazawa, known for his prior work on the animated sequences from the 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1, as well as animated features such as El-Hazard and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Tales of Legendia includes animated cutscenes produced by Japanese studio Production I.G., and contains more animation than any previous game in the series.

Audio
Tales of Legendia is the first main series title in the Tales franchise to not feature music by Motoi Sakuraba, with composition duties instead going to Go Shiina. The game features the opening theme song "Tao" performed by J-pop group Do As Infinity, which is replaced with an original track, due to licensing issues, as well as the ending theme "My Tales" performed in English by Donna Burke and Gab Desmond. Incidental vocal songs include "A Firefly's Light" (蛍火) performed in Japanese by Mayumi Sudou, "Hotarubi", performed in English by Donna Burke, "Let's Talk" (お話しましょう) performed by the Suzukake Children's Choir, and both "The Legendary Sorcerer" (伝説の巫術士) and "The Birds Chirp, I Sing" (鳥は鳴き、僕は歌う) both performed by Kanon. In addition, some of the game's instrumental themes were performed live by the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

An official soundtrack was released in Japan in August 2005 by Avex Trax, which includes two discs of select tracks from the game, and a third disc that includes a radio drama featuring members of the game's voice cast. Two follow-up drama albums called Tales of Legendia ~Voice of Character Quest~ (テイルズ オブ レジェンディア ～voice of character quest～1) were released one year later in August and September 2006 respectively, with the second volume containing an additional 41 tracks not present on the previous official soundtrack release. Music from the game has been featured in video game concerts such as the Eminence Symphony Orchestra's A Night in Fantasia 2007 in Sydney, Australia, and Press Start -Symphony of Games- 2009 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space.

Reception
Tales of Legendia was mostly well received in Japan, earning a 32 out of 40 total score from Weekly Famitsu based on individual reviews of 8, 8, 8, and 8, as well as an 85 out of 100 average from Dengeki PlayStation magazine based on scores of 80, 80, 90, and 90. The game would go on to sell 342,779 copies in the region by the end of 2005, becoming the 30th best-selling software title of that year, with a total of 397,000 copies sold worldwide by December 2007.

Elsewhere, Tales of Legendia received "mixed or average reviews" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. While IGN felt that the game's characterization and "addictive" battle system were its high points, the title was ultimately marred by a "run of the mill" story and "lackluster" battle AI. The website would find that the game's second half was more enjoyable overall, stating that "Legendia is definitely slanted towards more action-oriented role-players who don't mind breezing through an easy twenty hours before getting to the real tests of skill," and although the voice acting was "rather stiff," the translation was of good quality overall. GameSpot similarly praised the strong cast of characters, and the interactions between them, but complained of excessive random battles and backtracking through locations in the game.

1UP.com praised the game's story, stating that "despite the predictability of the overall narrative, the details are frequently surprising and consistently entertaining," and additionally found that the game tended to flaunt convention in its characters: "Yet within this morass of overly familiar plot devices, Legendia tries to rise above its limitations by twisting conventions. The strongest combatants are female, and the burly man who wields a massive hammer plays the role of intellectual and healer." However, the website criticized the game for its sometimes "frustrating" combat and playing too similarly to past Tales titles, and that it would primarily appeal to longtime fans of the series. In 2012, 1UP would include Tales of Legendia on its list of "Underwhelming RPGs with Overwhelming Soundtracks," calling the game one of Go Shiina's strongest works and "one of the best and most moving RPG soundtracks to date."

The characters Chloe and Senel would rank 8th and 29th respectively in Namco Bandai's 2nd Top 30 character fan poll in 2005. Game Informer would also list Jay and Moses on their list of the best characters in the series that same year for "having some of the best banter in any Tales game."

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Paul August ☎ 03:31, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Monkeysorce
Non-notable website, can't get an alexa ranking, even though Alexa is really a man, 27 unique hits. Zoe 06:59, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete -- appears to be a speedy candidate, due to its short length and lack of context --Mysidia (talk) 07:00, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Agree with above. Dottore So 07:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Alf 11:15, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Nandesuka 12:34, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Tap wrench

Wikification
Edited for wikification (from list of articles) and for various language changes. My first such act; I believe the article is better for it. Veg0matic 07:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

The chuck type tap wrench is available in various lengths.

The smaller bar type wrench has a common variation in which a knurled screw is provided to lock the tool and prevent the slippage which occurs in the larger design shown.

The larger bar type tool shown is very widely known in the UK as an American Pattern wrench.

There is another bar design that I cannot find a photo of. This consists of two similar bars, each bar is circular at one end and blends into a rectangular cross section at the other. Each rectangular section has a 90 degree V shaped indentation. One bar has two plain circular holes, the other has two threaded holes. the tap is inserted in to the vees and two screws tighten the wrench. This gives the most rigid arrangement possible and accepts a very wide range of sizes. AnnaComnemna (talk) 18:30, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was copyvio --Tony Sidaway Talk 12:37, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Pia Manalo
Vanity/non-entity whose favorite bread is pita. Paul Klenk 07:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete a copy and paste from here CanadianCaesar 07:40, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep If copyvio sorted, never watched Barney and Friends, it's a children's tv show right? It's not as copyvio tagged yet. Alf 11:19, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Now tagged for copyvio. Alf 11:28, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. I prefer baguette.  Nandesuka 12:34, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Copyvio --Mysidia (talk) 16:42, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Pita? Delete, then. james gibbon  20:04, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was Keep. No consensus. --Tony Sidaway Talk 12:51, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Hacked By Chinese!
Non-notable "meme". Almost every Google hit I get is describing the worm, not using this phrase in other meanings. Zoe 07:05, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Code Red worm Halo 09:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. --cesarb 17:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Code Red worm. Uttaddmb 19:41, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Ugh. A redirect never even occurred to me when I nominated. That would be a valid choice. Sorry. Zoe 20:22, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect Agreed. Redirect to Code Red worm. InfallibleRoxi 10:22 AM, 29 August, 2005
 * Weak Keep and expand. Its in the Urban Dictionary Urban Dictionary - Hacked by Chinese content: "A phrase popularized after the Code Red worm appeared with this text in it. Basically nonsense. Code Red originated from China. Often used as an expression, much like pwned by n00bshop, except with less emphasis on the winner being neophyte-esque. - You lose. Hacked by Chinese!" end content I got 464,000 Google hits and while most are about the worm, quite a few are about the phrase.--KillerChihuahua 17:26, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Please note that UrbanDictionary is a dictionary. Wikipedia is not.  Zoe 06:04, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Kill it. and if that doesn't work, delete. Rather useless. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 03:08, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, being in the urban dictionary is not notable.--nixie 03:09, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, It's all good in da hood. Gold Stur 20:27, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, This phrase, while not wildly popular, certainly has enough non-code-red-based use to warrent its own article. Nukekubi 14:00, 2005 September 1 (UTC)

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Sénanque Abbey

Sénanque Abbey (Occitan: abadiá de Senhanca, French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France.

First foundation
It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of Alfant, bishop of Cavaillon, and Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona, Count of Provence, by Cistercian monks who came from Mazan Abbey in the Ardèche. Temporary huts housed the first community of impoverished monks. By 1152 the community already had so many members that Sénanque was able to found Chambons Abbey, in the diocese of Viviers. The young community found patrons in the seigneurs of Simiane, whose support enabled them to build the abbey church, consecrated in 1178. Other structures at Sénanque followed, laid out according to the rule of Cîteaux Abbey, mother house of the Cistercians. Among its existing structures, famed examples of Romanesque architecture, are the abbey church, cloister, dormitory, chapter house and the small calefactory, the one heated space in the austere surroundings, so that the monks could write, for this was their scriptorium. A refectory was added in the 17th century, when some minimal rebuilding of existing walls was undertaken, but the abbey is a remarkably untouched survival, of rare beauty and severity: the capitals of the paired columns in the cloister arcades are reduced to the simplest leaf forms, not to offer sensual distraction.

The abbey church is in the form of a tau cross with an apse projecting beyond the abbey's outer walls. Somewhat unusually, its liturgical east end faces north, as the narrow and secluded valley offered no space for the conventional arrangement.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Sénanque reached its apogee, operating four mills, seven granges and possessing large estates in Provence. In 1509, when the first abbot in commendam was named, a sure sign of the decline of vocation, the community at Sénanque had shrunk to about a dozen. During the Wars of Religion the quarters for the lay brothers were destroyed and the abbey was ransacked by Huguenots. At the French Revolution the abbey's lands were nationalized, the one remaining monk was expelled and Sénanque itself was sold to a private individual.

Second foundation
The site was repurchased in 1854 for a new community of Cistercian monks of the Immaculate Conception, under a rule less stringent than that of the Trappists. The community was expelled in 1903 and departed to the Order's headquarters, Lérins Abbey on the island of St. Honorat, near Cannes. A small community returned in 1988 as a priory of Lérins.

The monks who live at Sénanque grow lavender (visible in front of the abbey, illustration, right) and tend honey bees for their livelihood.

It is possible for individuals to arrange to stay at the abbey for spiritual retreat.

Two other early Cistercian abbeys in Provence are Silvacane Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; with Sénanque, they are sometimes referred to as the "Three Sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales").

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Running Dog

Running Dog is a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. The book concerns Moll Robbins, a reporter for the eponymous magazine--a fictional "underground" once-radical magazine, a parody of Rolling Stone-- whose investigation into the suspicious activities of a member of the U.S. Senate uncover the possible existence of a pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. As Robbins digs deeper into the film's existence and whereabouts, more and more individuals become obsessed with finding it, including underground art collectors and the Mafia, leading to a surreal and violent series of events.

The book is a loose sequel to DeLillo's third novel Great Jones Street, which also featured the staff of Running Dog as characters.

Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Michael Wood wrote: "the work itself has an air of weariness, of routine violence and acceptable paranoia, of intrigue without point or profit, which strikes me as a very accurate reflection of a contemporary mood."

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Stock Artists Alliance

Founded in 2001, the Stock Artists Alliance was an international trade association of photographers who produce images for stock photography. The mission of SAA was to support and protect the business interests of professional stock photographers with regard to the worldwide distribution of their intellectual property.

As an advocate for its members, SAA encouraged the use of fair contracts and ethical behavior at all levels of the industry. SAA monitored the stock photography industry and served as an ombudsman for its members' interests in dealing with picture agencies and other distribution channels.

SAA's first major negotiation was with Getty Images to improve the photographers' contract.

In 2008, SAA joined over 60 other art licensing businesses (including the Artists Rights Society, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Illustrator's Partnership of America and the Advertising Photographers of America, among others) in opposing both The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. Known collectively as "Artists United Against the U.S. Orphan Works Acts," the diverse organizations joined forces to oppose the bills, which the groups believe "permits, and even encourages, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of protections currently available under the Copyright Act."

In October 2009 SAA formally became a member of the Alliance of Visual Artists an umbrella organization representing six photographic associations and some 45,000 professional photographers (direct and affiliated members) worldwide, led by Professional Photographers of America

The organization ceased operations in April 2011.

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