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I have heard some general plans are in the works to restore Sunset Limited service east of New Orleans, but are currently waiting for train crew training according an Amtrak conductor on the Silver Meteor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 146.201.175.222 (talk • contribs) 01:57, September 20, 2006.

Amtrak is discussing splitting the Eagle/Sunset into two or three parts: a daily Los Angeles - San Antonio - Dallas - Chicago train (perhaps to be called the "Golden State"); a daily San Antonio - Houston - New Orleans train (the "Arcadian"?) and possibly a daily New Orleans - Jacksonville train. Wlindley (talk) 15:42, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

All of the information about "future service" is out-of-date and should be deleted. User:Aura.Hyel60.229.57.116 (talk) 08:23, 12 June 2014 (UTC)Aura.Hyel 13 June 2014.

Politics?
There is a remark in there that the obstacles to restoration are more managerial and political than technical. Do we have any more information on this? Uberhill 23:28, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Named train?
I believe that this is actually a 'named rail service' or a 'named railway route' rather than a 'named train' given that it would appear that at least two trains are required to operate the service. Is that correct? If so the lead should make it clear that 'Sunset Limited is a rail service operating between xxx and xxxx' etc rather that 'Sunset Limited is a passenger train ...'. PeterEastern (talk) 07:54, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Attempt to kill train
According to a mailing I got from NARP today it looks like the House has passed a bill removing all funding for the Sunset Limited. While this DOES NOT mean it's dead (Sorry, feel the need to stress this, as there's always someone who jumps the gun and changes pages to past tense because of an upcoming closure or merger), and while it's just the House at the moment - the Senate certainly hasn't ratified the measure - this seems a notable bit of news both from the point of view of showing the pressure the service is under (long term news, even if the measure comes to nothing or the States kick in funding) and, in the short term, showing the latest developments.

I can't find a _good_ link outlining what's happened (ie a story devoted to it), but it is briefly mentioned in this Politico (urgh) story: http://www.politico.com/morningtransportation/0614/morningtransportation14251.html 98.254.202.225 (talk) 11:15, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not clear to me that it signifies anything beyond certain representatives having a go at Amtrak. If the Senate takes it up then that's a different matter of course. Mackensen (talk) 11:50, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Move service east of NOL into the "former services" section of each station it served?
The train clearly is not going to be extended back to Orlando, so I think it's somewhat misleading that the Sunset East is listed among the other current routes, simply as a "suspended service". I really think it should just be moved into the Former Services section of each infobox, to make it clear that service east of New Orleans is no more. Anyone else agree?Cpotisch (talk) 22:51, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, so I made this change and it’s looking great. My question now is whether I should give any mention of the fact that the Sunset ran all the way to Miami for several years. I definitely want to avoid any sort of information overload, but I also don’t think it makes sense to completely omit this. Should I maybe split the right cell into two parts and have it list the years that the Sunset went to Miami and to Orlando? And should the articles for closed stations such as Phoenix and Tempe list today’s termini or that of when they closed?Cpotisch (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that it should be moved. I've changed the termini for the "West" type of the Sunset Limited in Module:Adjacent stations/Amtrak to "Orlando or Miami". And about the closed stations...I'm not sure, but I'd lean towards the termini when they were closed. This is easily done with the  and   parameters. Do you know how to use Adjacent stations? I can help you out if you need help; I only recently learned how it all works. –Daybeers (talk) 21:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm all set with the to-left and to-right tags, but don't know about "Adjacent Stations" (looked through that page and still don't quite understand what it is). Any help on that would be much appreciated. I can also just manually change the terminus from Orlando to "Orlando or Miami" and add those stations if you want. I'm getting all my info about the Sunset from http://www.timetables.org/full.php?group=19960414n&item=0029, by the way. Cpotisch (talk) 21:56, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * From your contributions, it looks like you've been doing it right actually! It's just the new version of s-line, look at this page for the differences between them. Yes, you could write "Orlando or Miami", or just remove that parameter and replace it with "type=West" instead like I did here. It produces the same result. Also, "Services" in "Former Services" shouldn't be capitalized. But otherwise thanks for tackling this! –Daybeers (talk) 01:02, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear I've been (mostly) doing it right. Can you please convert the Gulfport station from S-Line to Adjacent Stations so that I can change it to "Orlando or Miami"? And how do I add a “Former services” box to the Decatur station page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_Depot_(Decatur,_Alabama)), which used to be served by the Floridian? Thanks! Cpotisch (talk) 16:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like you figured both of those out! Let me know if you need help with anything else. –Daybeers (talk) 02:04, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

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Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb

The Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, England, organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC). It is one of the oldest motorsport events in the world, and is the oldest to have been staged continuously (wartime excepted) on its original course, first having been run in 1905. On that first occasion, the course was 992 yards (907 m) in length, but in 1907 it was standardised at 1000 yards (914 m), the length it remains today.

Shelsley Walsh is a notably steep course by the standards of today's hillclimbs held in the United Kingdom. It rises 328 feet (100 m) during its length, for an average gradient of 1 in 9.14 (10.9%), with the steepest section being as much as 1 in 6.24 (16%). This makes Shelsley a hill on which power is important, and on which the gap in times between the most powerful cars and the rest is greater than at many other venues. It is also narrow, being no more than 12 feet (3.66 m) wide at some points.

Early years
The winner of the first event, held on Saturday 12 August 1905, was Ernest Instone (35 hp Daimler), who established the hill record by recording a time of 77.6 seconds for an average speed of 26.15 mph (42.08 km/h). However, at that time hillclimbs were not strictly speed events at all, performances being rated in terms of a formula based on power and cars of 20 hp or more being required to be four-seaters and to carry passengers. All cars were required to carry full touring trim and a full load of passengers. The winner was calculated by multiplying the car's time in seconds by the horsepower, and then divided by the total weight (including the weight of the driver and passengers and any ballast). There was also the question of whether a particular car would make it up the hill at all. In these early years, drivers' times were not announced to spectators.

First speed events
Restrictions on competing cars were dropped from 1913, meaning that specialised racing cars were now eligible to enter Shelsley. Unsurprisingly, climbs immediately became much faster, and on 7 June 1913, Joseph Higginson's Vauxhall 30-98 recorded the best time of the day: 55.2 seconds, more than eight seconds faster than H. C. Holder's mark of 63.4 seconds which had been set just two years before. The First World War intervened and hillclimbing did not resume until July 1920. The formula competition continued into the 1920s but focus quickly shifted towards earning fastest time of the day (FTD). Awards were also given for a cyclecar class in 1913, and a light car class from 1920–1922, and also recognised was the fastest amateur driver who was a member of the organising club, known as the closed winner.

Shelsley Walsh winners from 1913 to 1922

 * Joseph Higginson set a time of 55.2 seconds on his third run but at the time only a driver's first run counted.

1920s
Times continued to come down, and during the 1920s the emphasis moved firmly away from reliability and onto speed. A new generation of competitors emerged with Count Zborowski of Chitty Bang Bang fame driving a Sunbeam in 1921 and Raymond Mays taking to the hill for the first time in a self tuned Hillman. Basil Davenport was perhaps Shelsley's first "superstar", breaking the hill record four times between 1926 and 1928 in his GN "Spider". Starting in 1923, numerous class awards were introduced, at first for different engine capacities but later also dividing cars into touring, sports and racing types as well. Starting in 1926, it was decided to hold two events per year, with the closed competition taking place at the earlier meeting, and the open event later in the year.

Shelsley Walsh winners from 1923 to 1929

 * Raymond Mays improved his time to 51.9 seconds later in the day but this was not considered to be official.
 * Due to rain the unlimited racing cars did not set times, with their runs postponed to the already scheduled September meeting. Davenport's time in the September meeting won both the Open meeting and the postponed Amateur unlimited racing class.

1930s
The 1930s were a golden era for Shelsley. The decade began with some notable changes. Most important of these was that the Open meeting for 1930 would count towards the first European Hill Climbing Championship. As a result, it was decided to move the Open date to July, with the Amateur meeting taking the September date. It was also decided that the track should be resurfaced, now sprayed with bitumen. The two most important international competitors at this meeting were Hans Stuck in an Austro Daimler and Rudolf Caracciola in a Mercedes SSK sports car of the type he raced to win the 1929 RAC Tourist Trophy. Stuck was able to significantly lower Raymond May's record time to 42.8 seconds, taking fastest time of the day, with Caracciola setting fastest time for a sports car but finding the running difficult in such a large car. Both Germans would go on to win their respective 1930 Hill Climbing Championships.

For 1931 the Open event was again a part of the European Championship but few international entries were received. In the end just two foreign cars were entered, both factory Nacional Pescaras. As drivers Zanelli and Tort understood little English and had never been before, they had difficulty finding the track and were late to arrive. Although they were unprepared, new to the track and had to make numerous changes to gear ratios, the Nacional Pescaras set times of 44.4 and 44.6 seconds respectively. Fastest time of the day went to R.G.J. Nash in a Frazer Nash "The Terror" with 43.3 seconds, with Mays a fifth of a second slower in his Vauxhall.

Prior to the June 1932 Open meeting, a large rain-storm caused significant damage to the track. However although it was initially feared the 1932 season would need to be cancelled, a large team of volunteers were able to have the track ready in time. The only international entry for 1932 attracted great interest as it was a four-wheel-drive Bugatti, entered by the factory and to be driven by Ettore Bugatti's son Jean. Unfortunately Jean crashed the car during a practice run and had to use a borrowed conventional Bugatti for the event itself. 1932 also saw the introduction of a live radio broadcast by the BBC at Open events, which would run throughout the rest of the 1930s.

From 1933 the two annual events were placed on equal footing as Open events, and it was at the second of these, in September that Stuck's record was finally broken first by Mays in Riley in 42.2 seconds, then by eventual fastest time of the day winner Whitney Straight in 41.2 seconds in his Maserati. Straight would lower his record to 40.0 seconds at the following June 1934 meeting.

It was Mays who was first to break 40 seconds, at the May 1935 meeting. He set a time of 39.8 seconds in his 1.5 litre ERA but later improved this slightly to 39.6 in his 2-litre ERA. For the June 1936 meeting Hans Stuck made his return, this time in a 16-cylinder Auto Union. The weather was wet however, and he was unable to even match the time he set in 1930, with a best time of 45.2. Fellow German Walter Baumer set a time of 42.6 in an Austin, a new 750cc record and just a second slower than fastest time of the day winner Mays. For the September 1936 meeting new timing apparatus were installed, allowing timing to the one-hundredth of a second rather than the one-tenth previously. However due to very poor weather times were not improved. At the next meeting however (June 1937), in good weather Mays was able to lower his record to 39.09 in the first event to take place over two days.

At the last meeting before World War II, in June 1939, Mays set a new record of 37.37 seconds in his ERA R4D.

Post war
Hillclimbing resumed at the track in 1947, and the 1950s saw a move from Saturday to Sunday meetings, despite protests from, among others, the Lord's Day Observance Society. Several Formula One drivers competed regularly at Shelsley in this era, among them four-time British Hill Climb Championship winner Ken Wharton who broke the hill record on four occasions, and Tony Marsh. The young Stirling Moss would have made his competition debut at Shelsley in 1947, but the entry list was full; he had to be content with a win in 1948.

The first sub-30 second climb at Shelsley was made by David Hepworth in 1971 in his own four-wheel-drive Hepworth FF, and little by little the outright record was chipped away - particularly by Alister Douglas-Osborn, who broke it no fewer than eight times between 1976 and 1983 - until Richard Brown brought it down to 25.34 seconds in 1992. However, an increasingly uneven surface made smooth runs more difficult, and around the start of the 21st century, the 25 second barrier had still not been broken. Meanwhile, the MAC had the much more pressing problem of its future to confront.

2000 to date
The land on which the course is run does not belong to the MAC, but is rather leased from a local landowner. The original lease, taken out in 1905, ran for the common length of 99 years - which meant that a solution was urgently needed if 2004 was not to mark the end of hillclimbing at the venue. The owners of the land would not consider selling it outright, but were prepared to extend the lease (by a further 99 years). This, however, would cost a very substantial sum of money, and so the MAC launched the Shelsley Trust, with the aim of raising over a million pounds in order to secure the future of hillclimbing at Shelsley. This target was achieved, and the new lease signed in 2005.

For nine years, the track record had stood at 25.34 seconds and many wondered when it would fall again and who could beat the record. The Scottish driver Graeme Wight Jr was the first to achieve the feat, in 2002, and he collected the £1,000 prize which had been put up for the first driver to dip under 25 seconds with a run of 24.85 seconds. The record was lowered several more times in the next few years, including two records in 2008 by three-time reigning champion Martin Groves. In the June meeting, he took the record down to 22.71 seconds and then shaved 0.13 seconds off that record in the August meeting to set the record at 22.58 seconds.

At the meeting on 11 June 2021, a memorial plaque to Stirling Moss was unveiled, highlighting the fact that he first competed on the course as a teenager in 1948. Also present for the occasion were Joe Dunn, editor of Motor Sport, Moss' biographer, Philip Porter, and Moss' personal Jaguar XK120.

In August 2021 the long standing outright hill record was beaten by Sean Gould with the new mark set at 22.37 seconds. Alex Summers was close behind with 22.52 and Wallace Menzies with 22.55 seconds. Later that day Nicola Menzies set a new lady's record of 24.70 seconds.

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Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive

The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, branded as Nexus, is an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee and is best known for owning and operating the Tyne and Wear Metro. It replaced the Tyneside PTE on 1 April 1974.

Overview
Nexus is responsible for the following aspects of the Tyne and Wear public transport system:

 * owning, operating and maintaining the Tyne and Wear Metro;
 * owning, operating and maintaining the Shields Ferry;
 * coordinating local bus services;
 * contracting and subsidising unprofitable but socially necessary bus services, including school buses;
 * subsidising local heavy rail services between Newcastle and Sunderland;
 * administering the concessionary travel scheme for older people and eligible disabled adults and children
 * subsidising public transport for children aged under 16 and further education students
 * providing public transport information;
 * maintaining bus stops and most bus stations.
 * running Taxicard, a subsidised taxi service for disabled people

Concession
Between 2010 and 2017, the Tyne and Wear Metro was operated under contract by DB Regio instead of Nexus.

During November 2008, Nexus invited potential bidders to declare an interest in a contract to run the operations side of the Metro on its behalf. The successful bidder was to obtain a seven-year contract commencing on 1 April 2010, with up to an additional two years depending on performance. In February 2009, four bids were shortlisted: DB Regio, MTR Corporation, Serco-Abellio, and an in-house bid from Nexus. By October 2009, the shortlist had been reduced to bids from DB Regio and Nexus.

In December 2009, DB Regio was named as the preferred bidder, with the contract for operating the system signed in February 2010, and the handover of the service taking place in April 2010. In February 2010, the government confirmed it would award Nexus up to £580million to modernise and operate the Tyne and Wear Metro, with up to £350million to be spent on the Metro: All Change programme, over the course of the following eleven years; a further £230million would support running and maintenance costs, over the following nine years.

In March 2016, Nexus announced that they did not intend to renew the contract with DB Regio, following the contract ending in 2017, after stating that they were dissatisfied with the operator due to missed performance targets. During April 2017, Nexus took over direct operation of Metro for a planned period of two years; at the time, it announced its intention to re-tender the contract at some future date.

Policies and programmes
Nexus is pursuing a number of major programmes aimed at improving public transport in Tyne and Wear. These include the £389 million "Metro: All Change" programme to modernise the Tyne and Wear Metro over eleven years. Most of the capital money will be invested in renewal and upgrade of infrastructure, with modernisation of stations and trains also included. Trains will not be replaced within this programme, but are expected to be replaced in around 2023.

In April 2009, Nexus launched a Bus Strategy aimed at improving the bus network in Tyne and Wear, which accounts for around 77% of all public transport journeys in the area. Nexus said it wished to work in partnership with commercial bus companies which operate 90% of services in Tyne and Wear. Priorities include increasing the punctuality and reliability of bus services, improving information and ensuring the network offers a high level of access to local shops, services and workplaces. In October 2014, the North East Combined Authority accepted a recommendation from Nexus to take forward a Quality Contracts Scheme as the best means of meeting this objective.

Nexus seeks to reduce social exclusion, particularly for disabled people, through a number of overlapping schemes. These include subsidised taxis, weekly community bus services between sheltered accommodation and supermarkets, a "companion card" allowing free use of public transport by caretakers, and specialist training and mentoring for people with learning difficulties.

Smart ticketing
Nexus has led one of the UK's biggest roll-outs of smart ticketing technology, in partnership with local councils and commercial transport companies as part of the North East Smart Ticketing Initiative (NESTI). NESTI aims to deliver a single smart infrastructure for North East England, making it possible to travel on public transport with a single smart payment card. Nexus has itself launched the Pop brand, which encompasses a number of smartcards including Pop cards for season tickets, Pop Pay As You Go cards and Under 16 Pop cards which facilitate concessionary travel by young people in Tyne and Wear. Pop branded smartcards are accepted and are commonplace on Nexus' services, while the Pop PAYG card is accepted on a range of public transport across North East England.

Nexus have also introduced Pop PAYG for Google Pay, allowing users with Android smartphones to use Google Pay instead of a Physical Pop card. However, existing cards are unable to be added, requiring a new card be created via the App.

TravelShops
Nexus operated six TravelShops which sold tickets and provided local public transport information. These were located at:

 * Central Station Metro station, Newcastle
 * Gateshead Interchange
 * Haymarket Metro station, Newcastle
 * North Shields Metro station
 * Park Lane Interchange, Sunderland
 * South Shields Interchange

Following the coronavirus outbreak all of the shops were closed and staff were redeployed to assist at bus and Metro stations.


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Imbrex and tegula

The imbrex and tegula (: imbrices and tegulae) were overlapping roof tiles used in ancient Greek and Roman architecture as a waterproof and durable roof covering. They were made predominantly of fired clay, but also sometimes of marble, bronze or gilt. In Rome, they replaced wooden shingles, and were used on almost every type of structure, from humble outbuildings to grand temples and public facilities.

The tegula (Greek solenes) was a plain flat tile, or a flat tile with raised edges, which was laid flat upon the roof, while the imbrex (Greek kalupter) was a semi-cylindrical roofing tile, like a half-pipe, laid over the joints between the tegulae. When well-made and properly imbricated (overlapped), there was little need for further waterproofing or sealant.

The roofing area was generally surrounded by antefixae, which were often decorated and had several decorative anthemia to cover each end row imbrex.

The concept of imbrex and tegula roofing in pitched roof construction is still in use today as an international feature of style and design, and is the origin of the term imbrication for the condition of things arranged in overlapping layers.

History and development
Imbrices and tegulae were first made by the Greeks. Like bricks, they were formed of wet clay in a four-sided mould, often shaped with a piece of wire, and then baked in an oven or kiln. More sophisticated moulds were developed over time.

Tegulae were originally made perfectly flat, or with nothing more than a ridge underneath the upper border, which allowed the tile to be "hung" upon a sloping roof so that it would not slide to the ground. Later, tegulae were formed with a raised border on the two vertical sides, which would channel rainwater to the bottom of the tile, rather than allowing it to seep between tiles to dampen the roofing materials. Another improvement occurred when these two raised borders were made to converge, forming a broad v-shaped trapezoid with the narrowest edge downwards, nestling into the widest part of the tile below it to form a continuous channel.

The imbrices completed the waterproofing of the roof by arching over the joints between the vertical edges of the tegulae, dividing the roof into channels. Rain water flowed off the curved imbrices into the channels and down over the surfaces of the tegulae, and descended into the gutter (canalis). In formal architecture the canalis had a plain or ornamented frontal piece set atop the entablature, immediately above the cornice. The semicircular opening at the front of the lowermost imbrex was often capped with an ornamental fronton, and the spouts which drained the gutters were frequently decorated with lions' heads (capita leonina) or other fantastic or grotesque faces.

By Roman times many tiles were being made under the auspices of various Roman legions, and were imprinted with a stamp of the legion's insignia. Imbrices and tegulae are common finds in archaeological sites, and their design and markings can be of use in dating the sites and identifying the inhabitants. For instance, a 1993 archaeological dig in Merseyside in England uncovered over 300 kg of tile and kiln remains. Some of the tegulae were stamped with the "LXXVV" insigniae of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix. Romans also often recycled broken tiles by incorporating them into mortar.

Tiles of marble were first used around the year 620 BC. Besides the superior beauty and durability of the material, these tiles could be made of a much larger size than those of clay. Consequently, they were used in the construction of the greatest temples, such as the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Parthenon at Athens, and the Macellum of Pozzuoli. Still more expensive and magnificent tiles were made of bronze and gilt.

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Talk:River Neckinger

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Isn't it *still* a river, albeit underground? --RobertBrook 13:21, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, it is. I've reworded the article to reflect that. WarpFlyght 06:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

 * it's not underground. I walked over the mouth of it today. Bit muddy maybe (tide was out) but definitely not undergroung Petsco 12:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It is underground for most of its course. We need the actual source of the river. There was also a Neckinger Mills. Secretlondon (talk) 19:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Neil Gaiman reference
"The Neckinger, along with subterranean Thames tributaries, the Fleet (Hole-born) and Tyburn, were mentioned in Neil Gaiman's 2013 short story Down to a Sunless Sea."

This is a thousand word short story available online, the second sentence of which says of the Thames that "All the rivers flow into it, the Fleet and the Tyburn and the Neckinger, carrying all the filth and scum and waste..." Gaiman is just namechecking three tributaries of the Thames, possibly at random, and has nothing more to say about them.

Unless I'm missing some nuance of the text, this seems a textbook unhelpful pop culture example where the subject was used as an arbitrary example in passing. A reader clicking through to the reference, keen to see how Gaiman depicted the Neckinger, will not learn anything from it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 20:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest it demonstrates that the Neckinger has remained part of a Thames docklands literary landscape from Dickens to the modern day. But if you're determined to delete it, do so. AnonNep (talk) 07:14, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

 * The Dickens quote adds some vivid context for how the river would have been seen in his time, but the Gaiman one seems such a brief and contextless namecheck that I can't see how it tells us anything about anything, beyond the fact that Neil Gaiman knows or researched the names of three Thames tributaries in 2013. I'll remove it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How is it pronounced? 87.75.117.183 (talk) 04:26, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

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Property master

The property master, often called the prop(s) master, is an artistic and organizational employee in a film, television or theatrical production who is responsible for purchasing, acquiring, manufacturing, properly placing, and/or overseeing any props needed for a production. The property master also works with other members of the production managing the physical appearance of the stage or set; for example, they might work with the script supervisor to maintain set continuity. The property master is on staff during preproduction, develops the stylistic concept of the physical production, then continues on as a member of the physical shooting/production crew. A person responsible for purchasing the props can be called a props buyer or production buyer.

Role
During preproduction, the props master develops a props breakdown. This is essentially mapping out the logical progression of each prop throughout the story. In film and television productions the props master maintains the logical progression while shooting by ensuring the props are positioned in their correct logical place for each scene according to the props breakdown. If the logical progression of a prop changes during shooting, the props breakdown is revised to reflect the change.

This job description varies somewhat from country to country. In the United States, food styling, weapons and animals are often directly or indirectly within the property master's domain.

The job is a collaboration with the director, production designer, cameraman, set decorator and other members of the production to physically express their stylistic and aesthetic requirements. They maintain their own budget. There are physical aspects of productions that are managed by specialists other than the property master, for example costume designers are responsible for the actors' dress, and weapons masters are responsible for any weapons (firearms, blades, staff-based or otherwise).

In professional theatre, the property master is responsible for the setup and organization of the props. The property master is directed by the director.

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Radio Ceredigion

Radio Ceredigion was an Independent Local Radio station that was broadcast to Ceredigion. It was broadcast across the county on 96.6, 97.4 and 103.3 FM.

On 31 May 2019 the station became a relay of Nation Radio Wales.

History
From its launch on Monday 14 December 1992, the station broadcast a bilingual schedule with roughly half English and half Welsh output, much of it community-orientated, from studios and offices at the Old School in Aberystwyth.

On 9 March 2010, Radio Ceredigion's owners Tindle Newspaper Group announced that the station would be sold off to the Welsh radio group Town and Country Broadcasting. At 9am on 19 April 2010, broadcasting ceased from its Aberystwyth studios and switched to Town and Country's West Wales studios in Narberth, Pembrokeshire (also the base for Radio Pembrokeshire and Radio Carmarthenshire). After a short transition period, a daytime programming service was launched.

A proposal to reduce Welsh language programming on the station from 50% to 10% was rejected by the broadcasting regulator OFCOM in 2011 but subsequently permitted following further requests. As of March 2016, Radio Ceredigion aired a one-hour Welsh language music show on Sunday nights.

In September 2016, Nation Broadcasting announced plans to relocate Radio Ceredigion and its two sister services from the Narberth studios to the group's headquarters near the St Hilary transmitter on the outskirts of Cowbridge. The station switched broadcasting to the St Hilary studios at 10am on Tuesday 22 November 2016, although the Narberth site was retained as a regional sales and production office.

In December 2018, OFCOM announced it had granted Nation's request to close Radio Ceredigion and replace it with a straight relay of its regional service, Nation Radio. Five months later, it was reported Nation had decided to retain the local service and would request to reverse its decision on the station's format.

But in May 2019, Nation Broadcasting withdrew its format change request and preceded with its original plan to relay Nation Radio. Radio Ceredigion ceased broadcasting on 31 May 2019.

Coverage
Radio Ceredigion had a total service area population of 74,000 people, and the station could be heard from Bangor through to Cross Hands, including parts of Powys, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. The main transmitter was located at Blaenplwyf transmitting station near Aberystwyth and broadcast on 103.3 FM, with relay stations at Mynydd Pencarreg transmitting station near Lampeter on 96.6FM and Penwaun near Cardigan on 97.4 FM.

General References

 * An application for the Ceredigion FM licence from Radio Ceredigion Ltd
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Charles E. Whittingham

Charles Edward Whittingham (April 13, 1913 – April 20, 1999) was an American Thoroughbred race horse trainer who is one of the most acclaimed trainers in U.S. racing history.

Early career
Born in Chula Vista, California, Whittingham began working around race horses at a young age and was eventually taken on as an assistant by Hall of Fame trainer Horatio Luro. During World War II, his career was interrupted by service with the United States Marine Corps. At war's end, he returned as an assistant trainer until 1950, when he set up his own stable to take on the training of horses for various owners. He got his big break when Liz Whitney Tippett hired him to condition her Llangollen Farm Stable racing stable. On June 10, 1953, the then forty-year-old Whittingham saddled his first stakes winner when Liz Person's Porterhouse won the National Stallion Stakes. The colt would go on to earn that year's U.S. Two-year-old colt honors.

Records and champions
Over his 49 years as a head trainer, Whittingham had 252 stakes wins and became the all-time leading trainer at both Hollywood Park Racetrack and Santa Anita Park.

Whittingham trained several champions, including American Horse of the Year honorees Ack Ack, Ferdinand, and Sunday Silence. Among others, he trained Daryl's Joy, champion New Zealand two-year-old, winner in Australia wfa championship W S Cox Plate, Victoria Derby, Oak Tree International (USA), Cougar II, the 1972 U.S. Champion Turf Horse, Kennedy Road, the 1983 Canadian Horse of the Year, and for a time, Exceller. He also trained the champion daughter of Affirmed, Flawlessly. His horses were named Champion Female Turf Horse on four occasions. In 1986, at the age of 73, he became the oldest trainer to win the Kentucky Derby, then won the prestigious race again three years later. Both Derby-winning horses went on to win the Breeders' Cup Classic.

He continued to train horses right up to the time of his death at age 86.

Honors
In 1974, Charlie Whittingham was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In 1993, he was also inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame in the San Diego Hall of Champions. He won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in the U.S. in 1971, 1982, and 1989 and U.S. Champion Trainer by earnings seven times: 1970 to 1973, 1975, 1981, and 1982.

Named in his honor is the Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap, a Grade 1 stakes race that was held annually at Hollywood Park and moved to Santa Anita Park when Hollywood closed. A bust of Whittingham and his dog Toby is at the paddock at Santa Anita. Del Mar Race Track has the Whittingham Sports Pub with photos and sports memorabilia honoring Charles Whittingham, and Hollywood Park Racetrack has the Whittingham Pub and Deli.

Selected other race wins

 * Futurity Stakes (1953)
 * Knickerbocker Handicap (1954)
 * San Carlos Handicap (1955, 1956, 1960, 1971, 1988, 1993)
 * Arlington Handicap (1956, 1983, 1987)
 * Californian Stakes (1956, 1957, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990)
 * San Felipe Handicap (1956, 1963, 1966, 1989)
 * Santa Barbara Handicap (1956, 1964, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1985, 1987)
 * Woodward Stakes (1956)
 * San Gabriel Handicap (1957, 1966, 1971, 1977, 1984, 1985, 1997)
 * San Juan Capistrano Handicap (1957, 1959, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989)
 * Santa Maria Handicap (1958, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978)
 * San Bernardino Handicap (1960, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991)
 * Del Mar Handicap (1961, 1970, 1971, 1976, 1987, 1989, 1990)
 * American Derby (1962)
 * San Vicente Handicap (1962, 1966, 1967, 1976)
 * Sam Marcos Handicap (1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985)
 * Santa Catalina Stakes (1964, 1970, 1986, 1988)
 * Top Flight Handicap (1964)
 * Charles H. Strub Stakes (1967, 1975, 1989)
 * John C. Mabee Handicap (1968, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994)
 * San Luis Obispo Handicap (1968, 1971, 1972 (2), 1977, 1983, 1987, 1990)
 * Del Mar Oaks (1970, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1991)
 * San Luis Rey Handicap (1970, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989)
 * Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap (1970, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1987)
 * Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap (1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1987)
 * Santa Anita Oaks (1971, 1973, 1974, 1986)
 * Norfolk Stakes (1972, 1977, 1980)
 * Chula Vista Handicap (1973, 1980, 1987, 1989)
 * Beverly Hills Handicap (1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993)
 * Sunset Handicap (1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1992)
 * Fantasy Stakes (1974, 1984, 1988)
 * Hawthorne Handicap (1974, 1976)
 * Santa Ana Handicap (1974, 1981, 1985, 1987)
 * Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes (1981, 1989, 1991)
 * Yellow Ribbon Stakes (1981, 1982, 1985, 1994)
 * Goodwood Handicap (1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991)
 * John Henry Handicap (1986, 1989, 1990)
 * Providencia Stakes (1986, 1988)
 * Longacres Mile Handicap (1987)
 * Kentucky Oaks (1988)
 * Super Derby (1989)

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Alice Freeman Palmer

Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was president of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer. From 1892 to 1895 she was dean of women at the newly founded University of Chicago.

She was an advocate for college education for women, improving their opportunities to attend college through improved college preparation, sponsorship, public lectures, and in her role in many education organizations. She was co-founder and president of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, which later became the American Association of University Women. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

She called for women to attain a college education so that if they needed to support themselves, they would have the necessary skills to do so. She is seen as the model New Woman of the 19th century.

Early life
Alice Elvira Freeman was born in Colesville, New York, as the eldest child of four children of Elizabeth Josephine Higley and James Warren Freeman. From her father, she acquired her "moral beauty", as well as her height and red highlights in her hair. Palmer was particularly close to her mother during her childhood, partly because her mother was only 17 years-of-age when she was born, and also because of their shared responsibility caring for her younger siblings and performing household duties. Elizabeth was an advocate for children and women's rights and health care, as well as the temperance movement. Her father, a farmer in her early years, was interested in making direct changes to people's lives, rather than through reform movements, and shared his interest in education and the sciences with his daughter.

Both of her parents came from early settlers and major landholders of the Susquehanna Valley in southern New York. They had interests in farming and lumber.

At the age of three, she taught herself to read and developed what became a lifelong enjoyment of reading aloud. Her father enrolled in Albany Medical School in 1861 and graduated in 1864, which created an added burden on her mother to manage the farm when her father was away. During that time she attended a rural district school. After his return, when she was six-years old, the family moved into a rented house in Windsor, New York and her father established a medical practice in the town. When she was ten, she began attending the co-educational Windsor Academy in her hometown.

She met Thomas Barclay, a student at Yale University, in her hometown when he worked as a teacher to pay off his college expenses. He encouraged her intellectual curiosity and served as her mentor. They became close and were engaged when she was 14 years of age, but she broke off the engagement in February 1871.

She was described as "an eager, ambitious student, determined by the very forces of her nature towards the getting of knowledge and the building of a symmetrical character." Palmer won awards for her compositions and performance at regional oratorical contents. She was inspired by a lecture given by Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and engaged in community service, giving away some of her savings for college, at a time when she did not have a winter coat. She became a member of the Presbyterian Church in her final year at the academy, both because it was an expected action and as an expression of her personal commitment.

Biographer Ruth Birgitta Anderson Bordin suggests that Palmer was influenced to gain a college education due to her relationship with Barclay, having been inspired by orator Anna Dickinson, and having experienced the financial uncertainty of her family. Palmer later said that attainment of a college education is "life insurance for a girl", should she need to provide for herself financially. Her parents did not have the financial capacity to send more than one child, a son, to college. Therefore, they agree to help with the financing with the stipulation that Palmer provide financial support so that her brother and perhaps other siblings could go to college.

Education
In 1870, the University of Michigan began enrolling women. Palmer took an entrance examination in 1872 at the University of Michigan, at the time was the largest university in the country, and had been found to have deficiency in some areas. She made a strong impression on James B. Angell, the president and registrar of the university. She was admitted under the condition that she make up the missing course content, which she did before her sophomore year.

James invested in a speculative mining endeavor in 1873 and due to its failure, he lost his farm and possessions. and asked for Palmer to return home. Instead, with the help of her professors, she acquired a Greek and Latin language teaching position at Ottawa, Illinois. Under the arrangement, she was allowed to continue her studies as a member of the Junior class. In addition to supporting, she was self-supporting from that point further.

Palmer became the first of her class and was a member of the Students' Christian Association. She spoke at her commencement in 1876 about The Conflict Between Science and Poetry.

Early years
After she graduated from the University of Michigan, she taught at a private boarding school in Wisconsin in Geneva for one school year. Beginning in 1877, she was the principal of the high school at East Saginaw, Michigan. Her father declared bankruptcy in 1877 and Alice assumed his debts and moved the family to Saginaw to a rented house that was paid for with her principal's salary and the income that her mother made from boarders. Her father established a practice that ultimately became successful in the city. She began to suffer poor health, in part due to how hard she had worked since she was 19 years of age.

Wellesley College
Henry Fowle Durant, the founder of Wellesley College, made Palmer three offers to teach at the college, first in mathematics, and then Greek. Due to her sister's dire health condition, she did not accept these offers. She accepted the third professorship offer to teach history in 1879. Later that same year, her younger sister Estelle became ill and died.

In October 1881, she was named acting president of Wellesley. When Durant died, Palmer, at 26 years old, was elected president of the college, succeeding Ada Howard who was the first woman to be the head of a nationally known college. Palmer improved the academic program at Wellesley. Palmer "transformed the fledgling school from one devoted to Christian domesticity into one of the nation's premier colleges for women." She improved the academic curriculum, raised the standards for admission to the school, established 15 "feeder schools" for pre-college preparation, and recruited distinguished faculty members. She improved the image of the educated woman, against the prevailing opinion that education would affect a woman's femininity or health.

The "cottage system" that she implemented brought faculty and students together in small homes. She was personally engaging with students and staff and the people that were the closest to her gave her the appreciative nickname "The Princess". During the period as president, she was quite ill with "weak lungs" and told she only had six months to live. She was advised to travel to the south of France to recuperate. She retired from Wellesley in June 1887.

Palmer was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the University of Michigan in 1882 and an honorary L.H.D. from Columbia University in 1887.

Public speaker and advocate
She was a pioneer in the advancement of college education for women, and the image of educated women. A national figure, she portrayed herself as a New Woman, and especially in Boston was seen as a "respected, financially independent, successful academic woman devoted to promoting women's education." She appeared in magazine and news stories and was requested for public speaking engagements. After she retired from Wellesley she also wrote articles for major magazines.

"She labored earnestly in many paths to increase opportunities of service for college women, and in every field to choose for advancement those with capacity for leadership and scholarship, who should themselves become creators of new and larger opportunities for others."

In 1881, Palmer co-founded the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, which later became the American Association of University Women. She would serve as its president from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1889 to 1890.

From 1887 to 1889, Palmer lectured about higher education for women. After working at the University of Chicago, she continued lecturing and advocating for women's education. She was appointed to the Massachusetts Board of education. Palmer was the trustee of many organizations and worked to solve educational problems. She resigned as trustee of one college when she learned at a young woman was refused admission because she was colored. The school modified its policy shortly after Palmer resigned. In 1893, she helped organized the Woman's Building for the World's Fair in Chicago.

Palmer received an honorary L.L.Ds in 1895 from Union College and the University of Wisconsin.

She was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1889 to 1902. From 1891 to 1901, she was the president of the Woman's Education Association in Boston. She was general secretary of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, one of the chief executive officers of the Association for Promoting Scientific Research by Women, and president of the International Institute for Girls in Spain.

University of Chicago
In 1892, Palmer accepted an offer by the president of the new University of Chicago as non-resident dean of the women's department or the colleges and graduate schools. Her husband had also been offered a position, but he decided to stay at Cambridge.

She was required to be on-site for one third of the academic year. The goal of her office was to help students plan their educational career and create a social relationship between the university and its students. During her time as dean of the women's department she doubled the percentage of the female students at the school from 24% to 48%, which resulted in a backlash from mainly male faculty members. Discouraged by the faculty and staff's response, she resigned in 1895.

Personal life
She had a number of suitors while at the University of Michigan and as she began her career, but waited to pursue marriage until she was established in her career with a comfortable income. Palmer had also been seen as the epitome of the New Woman, and so some people were content that she remained an independent unmarried woman. During her time at Wellesley she met her future husband, George Herbert Palmer, who taught at Harvard University. She was engaged to marry George and resigned from her position at Wellesley College in June 1887 partly due to her poor health. She had early signs of tuberculosis and was exhausted. Her new husband also felt that she had already made major strides towards improving the university. She took a break to recuperate.

Alice and George married on December 23, 1887 and she began to give public speeches on women's higher public education. They had a "marriage of comradeship". They both pursued their individual careers, and George contributed efforts to managing the household, particularly when she was at the University of Illinois during her post there.

While summering at her husband's home in Boxford, Massachusetts, she explored the local area, sewed, watched birds, and took up photography. They took long trips to Europe over three of George's sabbaticals, during which they lived in their favorite cities and traveled through the countryside on bicycles. She composed many beautiful poems, some of which are found in Life of Alice Freeman Palmer and A Marriage Cycle. In 1901, she wrote the hymn How sweet and silent is the place (Holy Communion).

In December 1902, while the Palmers were in Paris on sabbatical, she complained of pains that required surgery to remove a bowel obstruction.

Death
During convalescence following surgery, Alice Palmer died of a heart attack. Her life was commemorated at a service at Harvard University in 1903 attended by college presidents whom she had known as well as other notable individuals in academia.

Her widower, George, retained her ashes until 1909, when a monument was erected by sculptor Daniel Chester French at Houghton Chapel in Wellesley College. At his request, George's ashes were entombed beside his wife's in 1933.

Posthumous honors
The Alice Freeman Palmer Institute, commonly called the Palmer Memorial Institute, was founded in Sedalia, North Carolina in 1902 for African-American students by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, who was sponsored for her education and mentored by Palmer. Brown saw Palmer shortly before her death when she was fundraising for the school. It was named for Palmer following her death in December. In 1922, the school built the Alice Freeman Building, which held an auditorium, library, classes, and offices. It also had a collection of reproductions of art masterpieces, the first known school in the South for African-Americans to do so. In 1971, it was destroyed in a fire.

In 1908, the first endowment at the AAUW was created in Palmer's memory to help women attend colleges, conduct research, and write dissertations.

In 1920, Alice Freeman Palmer was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

In 1921, Whittier College named a new women's literary society after her. The college had as its mission to create a female literary society, with the hope of bringing such groups back to Whittier College after they faded from existence at the beginning of World War I. Fullerton Junior College transfer Jessamynn West and friends reportedly researched and lobbied extensively to name the group for Alice Freeman Palmer, due to her reputation as a staunch advocate of higher education for women during the late 19th century. In the early years, the Palmer Society was an intercollegiate society that read and performed plays with the school's cross-town rival, Occidental College. Today, the Palmer Society's goal is still to "attain to the highest ideals of American womanhood."

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Talk:Birchen Edge

Grading debate
Many of these grades are traditional which can mean that the climbing can be more awkward than you might expect.

This doesn't make a lot of sense -- I presume you don't mean the grades are traditional grades, as that would be expected at this sort of crag, but rather that the grades are historical in some sense? Either way, many of the climbs at Birchen are something of a soft touch for the grade, so I'm still not sure I believe you :) MichaelHudson 13:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * There are at two well-known sets of grades for Birchen: those in Paul Nunn's Rock Climbing in the Peak District, which in a few cases understate the difficulty; and those in the BMC's Chatsworth guidebook (and reprinted in On Peak Rock) which in many cases overstate the difficulty. Maybe the writer was thinking of the Paul Nunn grades? But yes, it's unclear and should be rewritten. Gdr 16:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, there's even more than that because there's the RockFax Eastern Grit guide as well (which overstates the grades in places, just to complete the balance or something). Anyway, as you say it should probably just be rewritten.  Maybe I'll do that eventually... MichaelHudson 13:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Cushing

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

The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Tim Cushing
please remove this page. I am Tim Cushing and none of the information on this page is even remotely true. Thank you. (Comment by Anon User:152.160.56.93)
 * Could you provide someone here at Wikipedia with proof, you are Tim Cushing? Be advised, there's more people with the same name in the world, so it may be about a namesake. - Mgm|(talk) 13:38, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep/Edit If this is the same Tim Cushing as referenced to in the article (see Mgm's comment), then perhaps the VfD-requester would be so kind to indicate which part of the article is incorrect, or perhaps edit it himself considering he's probably an authority on the topic of his own life. Kander 13:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment there seem to be no Google hits on Tim Cushing and terms like hair, stylist, hairsylist and so on (except this article and its mirrors). I suggest this may be a hoax Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 13:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * weak delete article looks like a hoax to me, regardless of the nominator's association with it. Brighterorange 13:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Only google hits for a notable hairstylist are Wikipedia mirrors. Somehow, I suspect someone who's cultural impact can be compared to Elvis and the Rollig Stones wuld have more. --Scimitar parley 15:08, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax CDC   (talk)  18:22, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 18:40, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as a possible hoax if this cannot be referenced. I tagged this as  back in June and here we are now.  Hall Monitor 19:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Verification aside, this hair stylist to the stars is not notable.  Thatdog 20:00, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I know this person and this is an elaborate hoax. Please remove. 20:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. hoax.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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User:Madridejos~enwiki

Madridejos está comprendido entre las coordenadas geográficas WGS84: Longitud 4º 27´ 58.18" W y Latitud 39º 28´ 7.36" N, en el centro de la Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha y al Sur-Este de la provincia de Toledo, de cuya capital dista 70 km.; y 117 km. de Madrid por la Autovía de Andalucía. Limita al Norte con los términos municipales de Turleque y Tembleque; al Este con los de Villafranca de los Caballeros y Camuñas; al Sur, con Villarrubia de los Ojos y Puerto Lápice.; y al Oeste, con Consuegra; formando parte de la comarca natural de La Mancha. Pertenece al partido judicial de Orgaz. Tiene el término municipal de perímetro irregular, de naturaleza arcillosa y arenosa, siendo su extensión de 26.213 Hectáreas, y una población de 10.533 habitantes al 1 de mayo de 1.996, a los que se les llaman "barrudos". Por su altitud de 688 metros esta población presenta un relieve llano tan solo alterado por las estribaciones de los Montes de Toledo -Sierra de Valdehierro- los cerros y montes aislados: Carbonera 714 metros, Larga 764, Juego de los Bolos 717, Cabalgador 933, Moral 699, Basto 1.134, etc. La línea por la unión de los vértices geodésicos llamados "Juego de los Bolos" y "Carbonera" de una longitud de 14.662 metros, fue la primera para la medición de la altitud de España y Norte de África, creada en 1.853. Cortes topográficos Cruza la población el Río Amarguillo de Oeste a Este, habiendo a sus lados fértiles vegas, aunque seco en verano. En general predominan inviernos y veranos largos y rigurosos, propios de los climas continentales. Las temperaturas mínimas se suelen dar en Enero, siguiendo las de Diciembre, Febrero y Noviembre; las máximas absolutas en la segunda quincena de Julio y durante el mes de Agosto. Se caracteriza por la sequedad de la atmósfera durante dos tercios del año, registrándose la mayor humedad relativa entre los meses de Noviembre a Febrero, siendo mínima como en la mayor parte de La Mancha. El mes de más lluvias suele ser Abril, con la lógica reserva.

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Hannes Meyer

Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.

Early life
Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany. From 1916 to 1918, he briefly served as a department manager at the Krupp works in Essen.

Early work
Between 1919 and 1921, Meyer completed planning the housing estate "Freidorf" near the Swiss city of Basel.

In 1923, Meyer co-initiated the architectural magazine 'ABC Beiträge zum Bauen' (Contributions on Building) with Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, and the Suprematist El Lissitzky in Zurich.

Meyer's design philosophy is represented by the following quote: "1. sex life, 2. sleeping habits, 3. pets, 4. gardening, 5. personal hygiene, 6. weather protection, 7. hygiene in the home, 8. car maintenance, 9. cooking, 10. heating, 11. exposure to the sun, 12. services - these are the only motives when building a house. We examine the daily routine of everyone who lives in the house and this gives us the functional diagram - the functional diagram and the economic programme are the determining principles of the building project."(Meyer, 1928)

In 1926, Meyer established a company with Hans Wittwer and produced his two most famous designs, for the Basel Petersschule (1926) and for the Geneva League of Nations Building (1926/1927). Both projects are strict, inventive, and rely on the new possibilities of structural steel. Neither was built. The Petersschule was designed to be a new primary school for girls, such that the school itself would be raised as high above the ground as possible to allow for sunlight and fresh air.

Bauhaus
Walter Gropius appointed Meyer director of the Bauhaus architecture department when it was finally established during April 1927, though Mart Stam had been Gropius's first choice. Meyer brought his radical functionalist philosophy which he named, during 1929, Die neue Baulehre (the new way to build). His philosophy was that architecture was an organizational task without relationship to aesthetics, that buildings should be low cost and designed to fulfill social needs. He was dismissed for allegedly politicizing the school.

Meyer brought the two most significant building commissions for the school, both of which still exist. One was a complex of five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau known as Laubenganghäuser ("Houses with Balcony Access"). The apartments are considered to be 'real' Bauhaus buildings because they originated with the Bauhaus department of Architecture. The development bordered on the Törten housing estate which was designed by Walter Gropius.

The other major building commission was the Bundesschule des Allgemeinen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (ADGB Trade Union School), in Bernau bei Berlin, which was completed during 1930. It was the second largest project ever undertaken by the Bauhaus, after the Bauhaus school buildings in Dessau. The school operated for only three years until the Nazis confiscated it during 1933 for use as a management training school. The building now has historic protection status and it experienced an extensive restoration which was completed during 2007. The restoration project won the World Monuments Fund / Knoll Modernism prize during 2008.

In July 2017, both the Laubenganghäuser and the ADGB Trade Union School were inscribed as part of the Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau World Heritage Site.

Walter Gropius appointed Meyer to replace him as the school's director on 1 April 1928. Meyer continued with Gropius' innovations to emphasize designing prototypes for serial mass production and functionalist architecture. In the increasingly dangerous political era of the Weimar Republic, Dessau's Mayor, Hesse, alleged that Meyer allowed a Communist student organization to flourish and bring bad publicity to the school, threatening its survival. Hesse dismissed Meyer as head of the Bauhaus school, with a monetary settlement, on 1 August 1930. Meyer's open letter in a left-wing newspaper two weeks later characterizes the Bauhaus as "Incestuous theories (blocking) all access to healthy, life-oriented design... As head of the Bauhaus, I fought the Bauhaus style".

Career in the Soviet Union
In the autumn of 1930, Meyer emigrated to the Soviet Union, along with several former Bauhaus students, including Konrad Püschel and. He taught at WASI, a Soviet academy for architecture and civil engineering. During his years in the Soviet Union, he acted as an advisor for urban projects at Giprogor (the Soviet Institute for Urban and Investment Development) and created plans related to aspects of the redevelopment of Moscow as part of the first five-year plan.

Outside Moscow, Meyer realised his ideas especially in the recently created Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Far East. Meyer not only realised the buildings (such as worker's dormitory, theatre etc.) and their internal design and furnishings but also developed the urbanist project for the area's capital, the city of Birobidzhan.

Meyer fell increasingly out of favour with the Stalinist authorities from 1933 onwards. The first so-called "purges" also began within the large Moscow community of foreigners. Meyer therefore returned to Geneva in his Swiss homeland in 1936. Margarete Mengel, his partner and mother of his son, as a German citizen, was not granted a visa and therefore remained in Moscow with their son. Margarete was arrested in 1938 and sentenced to death by administrative means along with many other foreigners. The execution by firing squad took place on 20 August 1938. The son Johannes Mengel, born 4 January 1927, survived in a state reformatory and only learned of his mother's violent death in 1993.

Career in Mexico
In 1939 Meyer emigrated to Mexico City to work for the Mexican government as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planificación from 1939 through 1941. In 1942, he became the director of Estampa Mexicana, the publishing house of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (the Popular Graphic Arts Workshop).

Death and legacy
Meyer returned to Switzerland in 1949 and died in 1954.

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Conflict: Vietnam

Conflict: Vietnam is a tactical shooter video game developed by Pivotal Games and published by Global Star Software and SCi Games for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Windows. Released in 2004, it is the third installment in the Conflict series. A separate version was developed by 8bit Games and published by Synergenix for mobile devices the same year. A port for Gizmondo devices was planned before being cancelled.

Gameplay
Conflict: Vietnam has players taking control of Frank "Ragman" Wier, Bruce "Junior" Lesh, Will "Hoss" Schafer & Harold "Cherry AKA Doc" Kahler, a squad of four 101st Airborne Division soldiers on the eve of the Tet Offensive in 1968.

Multiplayer
Multiplayer for Playstation 2 allows two players to each control two of the squad's four men and take on Viet Cong (VC) members and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces.

Multiplayer for Xbox allows up to four players to play together under local co-op. If three players decide to play on Xbox, one of the players will take control of two of the squad’s four men whilst the two other players will control the remaining squad soldiers individually. If two players just decide to play, then the same principle will apply like the PlayStation 2 version.

Plot
Conflict: Vietnam opens in 1968, just days before the Tet Offensive begins, as 19-year-old Private Harold "Cherry (later known as Doc)" Kahler is introduced to his squadmates on a Huey gunship heading to "Ghost Town", a 101st Airborne Division base in South Vietnam. Twenty-eight-year-old Staff Sergeant Frank "Ragman" Wier is the leader, highly familiar with the Vietnam War from two previous tours of duty. Corporals Bruce "Junior" Lesh and Will "Hoss" Schafer comprise the rest of the squad. Hoss is the squad's adrenaline-junkie machine gunner, while Junior, the squad sniper, is counting the final days of his tour. The Tet Offensive occurs just after Kahler's first combat patrol, and he and the rest of Ragman's squad soon find themselves cut off behind enemy lines after the helicopters deploying them on a night patrol are shot down.

Over the next several days, the squad battles through miles of unknown jungle filled with hostile NVA and VC. After escaping a napalm strike, they meet up with "The Chief", commander of a Navy PBR. The Chief is alone prior to meeting up with Wier's squad, having dropped some Green Berets off up river where he "saw some strange shit". After fighting their way through a VC-fortified area called 'Charlie's Point', the men discover the Chief has been killed and soon meet up with a group of Montagnards. After retrieving a sacred statue and releasing several village prisoners for the leader of the village, the squad uses a radio gained as a reward to call for a helicopter extraction from the 1st Air Cav, being landed in a base under siege. After fighting off a heavy VC and NVA assault, the squad is praised by an overjoyed Major Wallace, who promises all of them commendations for their bravery. A dying VC throws a grenade into the bunker as the Major speaks, however, rendering them unconscious, and the five men are taken prisoner. Major Wallace is killed when the men are forced to play Russian roulette.

Escaping from the VC POW camp, Ragman's squad fights their way through the jungle and meets Sergeant Stone of the SASR and his squad. The two sergeants lead their men through a series of VC tunnels that the SASR were ordered to destroy. They succeed, and Stone and Wier part on good terms. Meeting up with a USMC jeep, the squad joins up with a column of trucks and tanks headed for Huế. After battling through the war-torn city and destroying numerous NVA T-34s with an M48 Patton tank, the squad mounts up in a 101st Airborne Huey. While attempting to destroy HAWK surface-to-air missile batteries in the area that were captured by the NVA, the helicopter is shot down by an RPG, crash-landing near an NVA stronghold, the Citadel of Huế. The squad infiltrates the Citadel, taking the fortress and eliminating its garrison, including a handful of tanks and the commanding general.

A closing cinematic, narrated by Kahler, tells what happens to the members of his squad after their tour. Hoss signs on for another tour, and Kahler eventually learns from a drunk CIA agent that he is fighting in Laos or Cambodia, seeking the thrill of combat. Junior finally goes home, but meets an unjust fate after he joins the Black Panther Party and is killed in a shootout with the FBI. Ragman comes home to an empty house and divorce papers, and moves to live in the Rocky Mountains with his dog, Ho Chi Minh, having found peace. Kahler moves to New York City, raises a family, and becomes a respected doctor, utilizing his experience as a combat medic to treat wounds caused by inner-city violence.

Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Maxim gave the game a score of six out of ten, saying, "figuring out how to work the controller is absolutely infuriating, meaning you go into firefights against stealthy Charlie with no knowledge of your environment, opponent, or weapon." The Times similarly gave the PlayStation 2 version three stars out of five and said, "It is the clichéd choice of music played on the camp radio that makes you wonder whether it is worth delving deeper into this game," citing the use of "Paint It Black" in the TV series Tour of Duty and of "Nowhere to Run" in Good Morning, Vietnam. The Sydney Morning Herald, however, gave the same console version two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying: "Squeezing the Desert Storm games into the currently fashionable Vietnam setting was a mistake. Open landscapes are replaced by claustrophobic jungle, eliminating tactical freedom. Players edge along narrow paths, progressing from one firefight to the next."

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Walter Kaminsky

Walter Kaminsky (born 7 May 1941) is a German chemist who specializes in olefin polymerization and plastic recycling. He discovered the high activity of Group 4 metallocene/methylaluminoxane (MAO) mixtures (later named the Kaminsky catalyst) as catalysts for olefin polymerization in 1980.

Education and career
Kaminsky was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg. He received his PhD under Hansjörg Sinn in 1978 and obtained his habilitation in 1982, both at the University of Hamburg. He has been a faculty member at the University of Hamburg since 1977, and later became a full professor for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry. He retired and became an emeritus professor in 2006.

Kaminsky was awarded, among other prizes, the Körber European Science Prize in 1988, the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal, and the Hermann Staudinger Prize 2002. In 2024, he was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame.

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Route 67D
Who added that, and what is your source?

Official site link
The link erroneously goes to the Durham Transit website. Correction needed.

Fair use rationale for Image:Refuel2.gif
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Name Change
Was it necessary to change the page from Mississauga Transit to MiWay? The system was know as MT for over 40 years, and frankly I doubt that "MiWay" is going to last even ten… Useddenim (talk) 13:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

 * It can be moved again if the system is renamed. (I renamed the page based on a request I received.)  Mind  matrix  17:02, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Ordering of sections
The facilities and services sections are now lengthy tables that break up the flow of the article. WoOuld anyone object if I move the text section that now follow them up before these sections so that the text sections can be easily read together, and then be followed by the tables that list specific details of the system? I think this would improve the flow of the article without removing any information. Ground Zero | t 13:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable (although changing facilities to a table actually compacted it slightly...) Useddenim (talk) 13:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm going to do this now... 14 years later... Millsy0303 (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Old Routes
I think there should be a part of the article that talks about discontinued routes like 2 (Hurontario). Information can be obtained from websites like cpdtb.ca. Spbone (talk) 21:49, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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Bus fleet
Wikipedia is not the place for lists of indiscriminate details on bus fleets. Not only that the section was entirely unsourced. The editor who re-instated the revert added All Information which has been listed on the fleet section has been given by reliable sources on both CPTDB Wiki, Facebook, and from others. I'll remind them that all of those are not reliable sources. Ajf773 (talk) 08:47, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

 * Completely disagree that "Wikipedia is not the place for lists of indiscriminate details on bus fleets". Perhaps you feel that way, that doesn't mean everyone else does. NemesisAT (talk) 09:23, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Add some sources then if you think the content is so important it deserves inclusion into the encyclopedia. Ajf773 (talk) 09:38, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I left a citation needed tag for that purpose, to encourage the addition of sources. Deleting content does not encourage other editors, nor does it encourage the addition of sources. NemesisAT (talk) 09:45, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * You've frequently deleted, or nominated for deletion, well-sourced bus articles. It appears it's not the sourcing you're worried about, but rather the subject. NemesisAT (talk) 09:47, 22 June 2021
 * I have no problems with bus routes articles, as I have no problem challenging indiscriminate content that is also not sourced. I'll be watching the article. Ajf773 (talk) 10:01, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I believe separate routes and facilities pages are needed. See below in talk thread. Millsy0303 (talk) 16:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Cancelled routes 100 Airport Express and 185 Dixie Express
Should we have these routes removed from the list of routes under the Transitway Stations table? Or are we keeping them there for historic reasons? Miway.photos (talk) 22:38, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

West Credit Transit Garage Feasibility Study
The City of Mississauga release a bid awhile back that is currently still active, this is for a study of a new area that could be developed as a new garage for the storage of buses, particularly electric ones. Should we include this in the Wiki page along with a citation? Miway.photos (talk) 23:27, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

 * Mentioned bid: Bids and Tenders - Mississauga Miway.photos (talk) 23:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Split Proposed List of Routes and Facilities Pages
Seeing as the system is quite large, the lists of routes and fleet should not be included on the main article and should be kept in separate articles. I will create them in my sandbox and if there is no objection after a week or so I will publish them and remove the list from the main article.

I am doing this in response to the overly detailed tag on the article. Millsy0303 (talk) 16:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Seeing as there was already a List of MiWay bus routes redirect page, I have updated and published the existing list from this article. If there is no comment after a week I will remove and update the routes section to be text based. Millsy0303 (talk) 18:46, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Removed list of bus routes from main page Millsy0303 (talk) 15:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have created a draft article listing the fleet as it also does not need to be on the main article page and has been the subject of dispute. User:Millsy0303/MiWay_fleet I will leave this for discussion for a week before I remove the fleet from the main page and submit the article for review. Seeing as much of it is unsourced, I don't feel like it will be accepted, but if User:NemesisAT would like to source or argue it that is fine by me. Millsy0303 (talk) 20:06, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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Dribble glass

A dribble glass is a drinking glass that has holes hidden in its etched design.

The purpose of a dribble glass is for pranks. When a person tilts the glass to take a drink from this glass, they will end up spilling the liquid on their clothing as the drink trickles through the holes.

In ancient Greece, sculptors created so-called "dirty trick vases" that featured a small rectangular hole in the foot of the vase.

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Accoarding to this page the cigar torpedoboat classes were named "1. klasse" and "2. klasse". These pages are also very usefull. They are very time consuming if you are looking for a specific piece of info, but I have found a lot for my articles on nb: and nn:. But anyway I think the cigar-boats are mentioned here as 1.klasse and 2. klasse as well. Inge 13:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Tusen takk =). The torpedoboats of "1. klasse" ('first class', for our english speaking friends) was also known as cigars, but unlike the boats of 2. class, they had movable torpedotubes as opposed to fixed tubes in the bow. I'll probaly extend this page as I get time, as well as making a page for the "1. klasse" boats - unless someone beats me too it =) WegianWarrior 17:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice to see someone with the same interests as me. Is the Lyn-class the same as either 1. klasse or 2.klasse?Inge 17:49, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The Lyn class was considered 2. klasse torpedoboats - however it seems (from my talk to people working at the armed forces museum) that the divition into 1 and 2 class did not take hold until some time after the Lyn was launced. I guess one could say it was retroactivly classed as a 2. klasse boat (reason being that there was no 1. klasse boats until later, so no need to divide the classes). WegianWarrior 21:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Property master

 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 00:38, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Property master
Computer translation. This is a worthy subject of an article, but better to start over (also possible copyvio)Zeimusu | Talk page 13:47, 2005 August 25 (UTC)

 * Keep and re-write The English is terrible, but it's a noble effort and a solid topic. This content could be cleaned up and enhanced into a good article. --Outlander 13:57, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and re-write agree with Outlanderssc. Trollderella 16:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and re-write. I'd have a shot at translation, but it would be easier to start off with the original... Tonywalton | Talk
 * Keep I re-wrote it, it's a little stubbish but I kept what I could from the original but it could obvouisly use more. Rx StrangeLove 19:39, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Kudos, nice job - --Outlander 15:58, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep RX Strangelove's rewrite.Capitalistroadster 23:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

Thanks for nice job. In Germany the property master is REQUISITEUR -M.Friedrich-


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Haltdalen Stave Church

Haltdalen Stave Church (Haltdalen stavkyrkje) is a stave church that was originally built in the 1170s in the village of Haltdalen in what is now the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is now on display at the Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum in the city of Trondheim. This is a single-nave stave church of the east Scandinavian-style, and it is the only one that is preserved.

Original church
The church originated in Haltdalen, where it served as the parish church. It was probably built in the 1170s. The church was moved to Trondheim during the 1880s. The church was relocated to the Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum in 1937. The church has been disassembled several times, which has led to repeated repairs. Significant portions of the existing building are original parts that have been preserved for over 800 years. Smaller sections of the building have been rebuilt using newer materials.

The majority of the building comes from the old Haltdalen Church in Haltdalen. That church had been expanded over its history and when the old church was moved to Trondheim, the "new" additions were not kept and the building was restored to its medieval look. This meant that the entire western wall of the building and the western portal needed to be replaced because they were taken down during one of the church additions. Rather than rebuilding from new on that part of the church, the western wall and the portal from the old Ålen stave church were used. That church had been torn down around the same time as this building and they were both similar in age and design.

Replica in Iceland
In commemoration of the one thousandth anniversary of the conversion of Iceland to Christianity, developing a suggestion by the Icelandic government, the Norwegian state presented Iceland with a replica of the Haltdalen church, which was erected by the harbour of Vestmannaeyjabær in the Vestmannaeyjar, in an area formed by the lava of the 1973 eruption of Eldfell. The replica was undertaken by the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research as a three-year research and reconstruction project from 1998 to 2000 under the leadership of Elisabeth Seip. The church was constructed at Lom from materials deliberately drawn widely from around Norway, including timber from Røros, shingles from Odalen, tar from Skjåk, wrought iron from Vågå, and a doorstep from Holtålen. A gallery was added around the outside of the building, inspired by other stave churches, to provide the building with extra strength against the stormy weather of the Vestmannaeyjar. The church was built and consecrated in summer 2000. The project was supported by a Norwegian government grant of 5.5m Norwegian kroner; Icelandic government funding for the redevelopment of the Skansinn area of Vestmannaeyjarbær as a heritage area; and some private sponsorship was also involved, most importantly that the Icelandic company Eimskip shipped the church to Iceland for free.

The replica also includes an altar decorated with a replica of the St Olav frontal, one of the finest surviving medieval Norwegian works of art, undertaken under the leadership of Terje Nordsted.

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Gerber Scientific

Gerber Scientific Inc., is a parent company headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, USA. It supplies software and hardware systems for apparel and technical textiles, sign-making and specialty graphics, and composites and packaging applications.

Gerber Scientific is owned by Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based global private equity firm specializing in the technology sector that manages more than $2 billion of equity capital. On August 18, 2011, Gerber Scientific's stockholders approved the take-private transaction of Gerber Scientific, Inc. by Vector Capital in a transaction valued at approximately $283 million. CITIC Capital Partners, a leading China-based private equity firm, has a minority stake in Gerber Scientific alongside Vector.

Divisions
Gerber Scientific, Inc. is divided into five businesses:

 * 1) Gerber Technology provides hardware and software systems to automate and manage the product design and manufacturing process with CAD software for pattern design, automated material spreading systems and computer-controlled cutting systems.
 * 2) Gerber Innovations manufactures automated cutting hardware for the design, die making and short-run production segments of the packaging industry.
 * 3) Virtek Vision International serves aerospace carbon fiber composite part assembly, sheet metal part fabrication and construction markets with laser templating, quality inspection and spatial positioning systems.
 * 4) Gerber's Yunique Solutions offers product lifecycle management software. This web-based system helps retailers, brand owners and manufacturers manage all of the details associated with their products from conception to store shelf and helps them communicate with their suppliers.
 * 5) Gerber Scientific Products (GSP) develops and manufactures computerized sign making and specialty graphics systems, software, materials, and accessories to provide sign shops and graphics professionals with solutions for vinyl-cutting, digital color printing and dimensional signage needs. GSP also develops and supplies aftermarket materials.

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Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804–1820, with additions made even later) is a prophetic book by English poet William Blake. Jerusalem is the last, longest and greatest in scope of Blake's works. Etched in handwriting, accompanied by small sketches, marginal figures and huge full-plate illustrations, it has been described as "visionary theatre". The poet himself believed it was his masterpiece and it has been said that "of all Blake's illuminated epics, this is by far the most public and accessible". Nonetheless, only six copies were printed in Blake's lifetime and the book, like all of Blake's prophetic works, was all but ignored by his contemporaries.

The lyric to the famous hymn Jerusalem (text also by Blake, with music by Sir Hubert Parry) is not connected to this poem. It is in fact taken from the preface to another of Blake's "prophetic books", Milton.

Production technique
The poem, which was produced between 1804 and 1820, consists of 100 etched and illustrated plates, thus making it Blake's longest single work. The illustrated plates were made using Blake's self-devised technique of "illuminated printing", which required each copy to be individually coloured and produced, plate by plate. Blake was not averse to changing the text of some plates between printings or changing the colouring, as a result of which no two original copies of the poem are the same.

Six copies (A-F) were printed between 1820 and 1827. Four copies (G–J) are posthumous (1832). Copy B is incomplete and includes only the First Chapter (25 plates). The arrangement of the Second chapter is different in early (A & C) and late (D & E) copies. Copy F, which was collated later in 1827 by John Linnell, is arranged like early copy C.

There are only two coloured copies (B & E). Copy B being incomplete, the sole complete extant colour edition of the work (copy E) is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

Plate 1. Frontispiece. Los enters the Door of Death
The design corresponds to the following lines originally incised in the plate (see below the Separate proof in Fitzwilliam Museum), but erased later: "There is a Void, outside of Existence, which if enterd into Englobes itself & becomes a Womb

Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity said Los As he enterd the Door of Death for Albions sake Inspired The long sufferings of God are not for ever there is a Judgment"

Summary of the poem
Jerusalem tells the story of the fall of Albion, Blake's embodiment of man, Britain or the western world as a whole.

The poetic narrative takes the form of a "drama of the psyche", couched in the dense symbolism of Blake's self-constructed mythology.

Because it includes a cast of billions, Jerusalem can seem confusing. The poem does not have a linear plot. Characters morph in and out of each other. A character can be a person and a place. Jerusalem, the Emanation of Albion, is a woman and a city. Albion, "the Universal Humanity", is a man and a land (Britain). He contains twelve sons who co-inhere with the twelve tribes of Israel, as well as Four Zoas. Every Zoa (embodying a life principle) has an Emanation (a feminine figure through which the human can become divine). The Zoas and Emanations include:

 * Tharmas, the primal man, linked with Enion, an earth mother.
 * Urthona, the spirit of inspiration, embodied in Los, the prophetic artist, who forges a city of art in his furnaces. Enitharmon, his Emanation, weaves beams of beauty.
 * Luvah, the "feeling-function" Zoa, is Albion's spectre, whose counterpart Vala is Jerusalem's shadow. Vala eroticises war.
 * Urizen embodies Reason. Gracious Ahania is his Emanation.

Chapter One: To the Public
Jerusalem's first chapter tells the story of Albion's fall into Selfhood. Its overture sets the scene for Los's journey into Albion's interior and humanity's transfiguration in forgiveness of sins. In the first scene, Albion banishes Jerusalem and Jesus, blighting nature, culture and his internal life. Then Los contends with his Spectre, forcing him to work for Albion's restoration. Jerusalem mourns, animating shadowy Vala as Los builds Golgonooza, a city that can open into Edenic Eternity. Urizenic rationality assaults Jerusalem and enshrouds the life of the mind. Los battles against this, mapping Britain onto Israel, but his shadowy Spectre infects him with wrath and shame, stalking Albion's daughters and empowering Albion's warrior sons who banish Jerusalem. Vala tries to seduce Jerusalem. Albion curses them both, and finds himself enmeshed in Vala's deadly veil. He refuses divine forgiveness.

Chapter Two: To the Jews
Blake's Jews co-inhere with bellicose British Druids. In this chapter Los and a host of angelic Eternals attempt to rescue Albion. Los's Spectre and Emanation appear as refugees, fleeing from Albion to tell their version of his fall. Los journeys into Albion's interior where bloodthirsty Vala is worshipped. Then Los sensually constricts Reuben (Albion's son) in an attempt to control his lusts as Jesus imaginatively creates states through which humanity can find forgiveness. Angelmorphic Eternals (cathedral cities) seek to help Albion, but they too get blighted by Selfhood. Los rouses them, but Albion chooses to remain trapped. Vala tramples Jerusalem but wise Erin (Ireland) separates the poem's heroine from Albion in whose body she is infected with bellicose Moral Law.

Chapter Three: To the Deists
Blake's Deists create more violence than the Christianity they critique. When the chapter begins Albion's rational Moral Law infects Los, Albion falls yet again, and Vala's bellicose erotics encompass humanity. Urizen builds what he thinks is a redemptive Druid temple and Jerusalem works in Satanic mills where, infected by industrial chaos and Albion's morality, she can barely perceive Jesus and divine forgiveness. Vala melds with the rational beast, spreading war throughout the world, and her daughters enjoy human sacrifice. The peace of "heavenly Canaan" still hovers above Ulro's chaos, but Los fallibly builds Golgonooza which becomes the structure of "Religion Hid in War". The harlot-dragon reigns.

Chapter Four: To the Christians
Now universal humanity awakens to forgiveness. Jerusalem finally melds love with wrath, confronting shadowy Vala whose daughters weave death. As Los sings, Jerusalem appears tri-locational, emanating angelmorphic and descending as a city and a woman. Sexual contentions obstruct Los' work and Vala thrusts her wrath cup upon Jerusalem who is devoured by the dragon to rise again. Los keeps building, freeing himself from gender disputes. Time ends. The Breath Divine breathes. Albion awakens, and sees that Los is Christ and Christ is Los. He throws himself into Los's fires which become fountains of living water. Fragmented Zoas reunite in wars of love, in the Song of Jerusalem. All living things become a great Divine Body.

Artistic influence in other media
The book was an important inspiration behind composer Georges Lentz's sound installation, the Cobar Sound Chapel, in Australia, and the first lines from the poem can be found inscribed in the Chapel's north-eastern concrete wall (see picture above of Plate 1 in the Fitzwilliam Museum separate proof. The Fitzwilliam copy is the only version containing these particular lines. They were erased in later copies).


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Category:Russian folklore

For ancient folklore and myths of Russia, see Category:Slavic mythology.

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