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most parts of this article are from skazi`s hompage and under copyrights

External link and style
I removed the external link to the official site in the discography section as it is repeated (as I feel it should) at the bottom of the page. I would also invite anyone to rewrite this page as it reads very self-promoting.--Kalpha 00:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The New Album
I've added information about Skazi's new release - Total Anarchy. It will be good if somebody gives an information about the record company that released this album. Thanx to all. Mashkins. 06/29/06

Happy Hardcore?
"Skazi isAsher Swissa Israel. They have been producing trance music, mostly happy hardcore, since 1998." This one was funny, I've been changed it.--TaZaR 21:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Ridiculous...
This biography is just self-promotion all the way. I've been listening to trance (including a lot of psy-trance) for years, and I only recently heard about this dude/duo! ""Animal" ... considered revolutionary", "dramatically exploded in the worldwide trance scene"...bullshit.
 * Anecdotal evidence works both ways. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean no-one has.

And how about this one: "released more than a hundred tracks in over forty albums & compilations"? Skazi doesn't even have nearly a hundred tracks!
 * Prove it. I've got one here that I cannot find any proper evidence for online, yet it exists, and it is one of theirs. There may be 101 others like it. It's what led to me ending up here, in fact, trying to track down what album/single/whatever it was on. It's probably a whitelabel of some kind. Dance acts chuck these things out to DJs all the damn time.

"Australia has embraced the Skazi phenomenon further, with a local tribute act named "Skuzi" appearing at many parties and festivals dressed in authentic Skazi wig, carrying a guitar and often flanked by groupies and firecrackers." - this one seems like a joke to me.
 * Probably, but who knows? Much, much wierder things have happened.

"Skazi has performed at more than 1000 parties in the last 6 years." - uhh.. there's only 365 days in a year, and they HAVE done something else besides attending parties every second day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.193.1.240 (talk) 15:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You can go to more than one party in a day. They may have had a block of doing 2 or 3 appearances a day then some time off. If you're just doing an hour's set, some of them in the daytime, it's possible. Compared to the gruelling schedules of bands and comedians in the 50s and 60s, that's nothing. Or perhaps it was supposed to be 100, and was just a slip of the finger. 77.102.101.220 (talk) 01:48, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Francis J. Beckwith

Francis J. "Frank" Beckwith (born November 3, 1960) is an American philosopher, professor, scholar, speaker, writer, and lecturer.

He is currently Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Affiliate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy, at Baylor University, where he first served as Associate Director of Baylor's J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies.

Biography
Beckwith was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a graduate of Bishop Gorman High School, where he was a member of the 1978 AAA Basketball high school state championship team. His siblings include the writer, comic, and actress Elizabeth Beckwith.

Francis Beckwith earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He later earned his MA in apologetics from Simon Greenleaf University, Anaheim, which merged with Trinity International University, Illinois in 1996. Beckwith earned his doctorate from Fordham University (PhD. and M.A. in philosophy), and his MJS (Master of Juridical Studies) from the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis.

A condensed version of Beckwith's 1984 M.A. thesis on the Baháʼí Faith was published by Bethany House, as Baha'i [sic]: A Christian Response in 1985.

In 2001, Beckwith completed his Wash. U. M.J.S dissertation on the inclusion of intelligent design in public school science curricula. In 2003, Rowman and Littlefield published his dissertation in revised and expanded form as Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design.

Prior to arriving at Baylor in July 2003, he was a Visiting Research Fellow (2002–2003) in the James Madison Program in the Politics Department at Princeton University. He has also held full-time academic appointments at UNLV (Lecturer in Philosophy, 1989–96), Whittier College (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1996–97), and Trinity International University (Associate Professor Philosophy, Culture, and Law, 1997-2002). Beckwith has also held two visiting endowed appointments: (2008-2009) Mary Anne Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in the de Nicola Center for Ethics & Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and (2016–2017) Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy in the Benson Center for Western Civilization, Thought, and Policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

In November 2006, Beckwith became the 58th president of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), only to resign both his presidency and membership in May 2007, a week after he returned to the Catholic Church. Over a decade later, he became the 90th president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA). From 1995 to 2007, he was a fellow at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

In 2003, after his appointment as associate director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor, 29 members of the Dawson family called on Baylor University to remove Beckwith as associate director. The Dawson family members questioned the appointment, accusing Beckwith of holding church-state positions contrary to Dawson's beliefs on the separation of church and state, largely because of Beckwith's affiliation with the Discovery Institute (DI) and his work on intelligent design and public education. Beckwith argued that their concerns were not well founded and that they represented a fundamental misunderstanding of his positions. In summer 2007 Beckwith dropped his affiliation with Discovery. He has subsequently published works highly critical of intelligent design, including chapters in his award-winning 2015 book Taking Rites Seriously' and his 2019 book Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant.

Personal life
In May 2007, Beckwith returned to the Catholicism of his youth, after decades as an Evangelical Protestant. This inspired him to write a book describing his faith journey, titled Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic published by Brazos Press. It is compared with Scott Hahn's Rome Sweet Home, as a significant work of Catholic Apologetics. He currently resides with his wife in Texas.

Work
Beckwith works in the areas of ethics, legal and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and church-state jurisprudence.

Beckwith is well known for his legal and philosophical work on abortion, arguing in defense of the sanctity of life in several academic publications including his 2007 book Defending Life, published by Cambridge University Press, and his 1993 book, Politically Correct Death, published by Baker Publishing Group. He has also published multiple books examining current philosophical questions regarding religion, law and politics. His 2015 book, Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics and the Reasonableness of Faith, (Cambridge University Press), was the winner of the prestigious American Academy of Religion's 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies.

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San Sebastián de La Gomera

San Sebastián de La Gomera is the capital and a municipality of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, Spain. It also hosts the main harbour. The population was 8,945 in 2018, and the area is 113.59 km2.

The port serves ferry routes to the islands of Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro. Streets include Calle Real and F. Olsen. A bus station named Estación de Guaguas is used for bus lines throughout the island; it is located on Avenida Del Quinto Centenario.

History
On 6 September, 1492, Christopher Columbus, having restocked his provisions and made repairs, departed from San Sebastián de La Gomera on his first expedition to the Americas.

List of Notable people

 * Ignacio Lorenzo de Armas (1706 - unknown), settler and mayor of San Antonio, Texas in 1738 and 1764.

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Tresaith

Tresaith (until recently, Treathsaith) is a coastal village in Ceredigion, Wales, between Aberporth and Llangranog. It is linked to the former by a two-mile section of the Ceredigion Coast Path, part of the Wales Coast Path. Tresaith is within the Ceredigion Heritage Coast which offers extensive walking and views. There is an abundance of wildlife and flora. Many kinds of seabirds can be spotted and regular sightings of grey seals and dolphins are made. The village derives its name from the Saith, a small river/stream that runs down the valley towards the east side of the village before flowing into the sea via a waterfall.

History
Until the mid-19th century, Tresaith consisted of two dwellings; a thatched cottage and the Ship Inn. Shipowners, the Parry family, ran the inn. Their first vessel, the New Hope, was built on the beach in 1827. Later, several smacks of about 25 tons operated from Tresaith, bringing in coal, limestone and culm. In the last few decades of the 19th-century the village became popular as a seaside holiday destination and contemporary newspapers referred to it as the Second Brighton.

Attractions

 * Tresaith is a European Blue Flag beach. In 2012, the beach was also awarded a Seaside Award. Lifeguards are normally on duty at peak seasons. Tresaith is a popular location for surfing.
 * Dolphins can be sighted most summer days. Cardigan Bay has a resident bottle-nosed dolphin population.
 * The Waterfall, where the River Saith cascades over the cliffs into the sea.
 * Active sailing club, the "Tresaith Mariners" with a mixed fleet of dinghies and catamarans.

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Talk:Soybean cyst nematode

And just think.. One day it will superevolve into a human that is a very strict vegetarian. Better yet! Maybe a hippie... ;) --Cyberman 19:51, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Aztec legendary creatures

Aztec mythological creatures of Aztec mythology.

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Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics

The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB) is an Iranian research institute founded in 1976 to conduct research in cellular and molecular biology. It is affiliated with University of Tehran and is located in the university campus.

IBB is an educational and research oriented center for training postgraduate students both nationally and internationally. Interdisciplinary research is one of the main themes at the institute.

History
At first, IBB was known as the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, but later separated to three departments of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioinformatics as will be described below. Master's degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics were established in 1986 and 1990, respectively and PhD degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics were established in 1989 and 1996, respectively. Initially IBB was divided into two independent educational groups of Biochemistry and Biophysics in 2002. The department of Bioinformatics was established in 2005 just for training Ph.D. students.

Research and Facilities
Currently, IBB is composed of three departments of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioinformatics with 21 full-time faculty members of which 10 members are Professors. The department also has 35 administrative staff members. IBB has 17 research laboratories, a general communal use equipments laboratory, a greenhouse, an animal house, a number of computer laboratories, a library and a restaurant.

National and international forum affiliated at IBB:

1. IBB is an affiliated Center of The World Academy of Science(TWAS) in Iran

2. Iranian Secretariat of  UNESCO chair on Interdisciplinary Research in Diabetes, (UCIRD) located at IBB

3. Iranian Secretariat of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) located at IBB

4. Iranian Secretariat of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB)

5.Center of Excellence in Biothermodynamics (CEBiotherm) is located at IBB

6. The Secretariat of the Iran Society of Biophysical Chemistry is  located at IBB

7. The Secretariat of Iranian BioInformatics Society

8. IBB is affiliated with the Nanotechnology Laboratory Network

Library
The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics' (IBB) library was founded in 1976. IBB's library contains 10,000 professional books and 900 thesis in the fields of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioinformatics. IBB library offers services to all students inside and outside of IBB. Students and researchers register as a library member to benefit from all the valuable facilities of this professional library. The library includes a good archive of previously published journal issues. The IBB library is rich in international documents for specialized fields. This library is one of the libraries at the University of Tehran.

Notable faculty and alumni

 * Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi
 * Alireza Mashaghi
 * Mohammad Nabi Sarbolouki


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ISHR

ISHR can stand for:

 * International Service for Human Rights
 * International Society for Heart Research
 * International Society for the History of Rhetoric
 * International Society for Human Rights
 * International School Hannover Region

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Free (Free album)

Free is the second studio album by English rock band Free, recorded and released in 1969. It saw the burgeoning of the songwriting partnership between Paul Rodgers and 16-year-old bassist Andy Fraser; eight of the nine songs are credited to the two.

The album performed poorly, failing to chart in the UK and in the US. The single releases, "Broad Daylight" and "I'll be Creepin'", also failed. Two songs from the album, "I'll be Creepin'" and "Woman", were later covered by the American rock band Three Dog Night.

Track listing
All tracks written by Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers unless otherwise noted.

 * Side one
 * 1) "I'll Be Creepin'" – 3:27
 * 2) "Songs of Yesterday" – 3:33
 * 3) "Lying in the Sunshine" – 3:51
 * 4) "Trouble on Double Time" (Fraser, Rodgers, Simon Kirke, Paul Kossoff) – 3:23
 * 5) "Mouthful of Grass" – 3:36
 * Side two
 * 1) "Woman" – 3:50
 * 2) "Free Me" – 5:24
 * 3) "Broad Daylight" – 3:15
 * 4) "Mourning Sad Morning" – 5:04

Personnel

 * Paul Rodgers – lead vocals
 * Paul Kossoff – lead guitar
 * Andy Fraser – bass guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, piano
 * Simon Kirke – drums, percussion
 * Chris Wood – flute on " Mourning Sad Morning"

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Baldwin Baldwinson

Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (October 26, 1856 – October 5, 1936) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1899 to 1907 and from 1910 to 1913, as a member of the Conservative Party.

Baldwinson was born in Akureyri, Iceland, and attended public school in that country. He came to Canada in 1873, and worked in the newspaper industry. He was editor of the Icelandic Weekly Heimskringla, and served as president, secretary and manager of the Heimskringla News and Publishing Co., Ltd. He was a member of the Lutheran church.

He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1892 provincial election, and lost to Liberal Frederick Colcleugh by seventy-eight votes in the St. Andrews constituency. He ran again in the 1896 election, and lost to Liberal Sigtryggur Jonasson by seventy-nine votes.

He was elected to the legislature on his third attempt, defeating Jonasson by eight votes in the 1899 election, for the deferred Gimli constituency. The Conservatives won the election, and Baldwinson served in the legislature as a backbench supporter of the administrations led by Hugh John Macdonald and Rodmond Roblin. He was re-elected by acclamation in the 1903 election.

Baldwinson lost to Jonasson by 156 votes in the 1907 election. Jonasson did not seek re-election in the 1910 campaign, and Baldwin returned to the legislature after defeating a new Liberal candidate by 450 votes. He resigned his seat in 1913, on being appointed as deputy Provincial Secretary.

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praise God Pastor, am Robert Ssesanga from Uganda East Africa. I wanted to come and sing on this Sunday. Hope to hear from you soon. 213.10.192.202 (talk) 19:34, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

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BioForge

BioForge is a 1995 action-adventure game developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts for MS-DOS. Set in the future, the player controls an amnesiac cyborg trying to escape the research facility in which they are being held prisoner.

BioForge was developed as an interactive movie making use of motion capture, voice acting, and multiple camera angles.

BioForge received mixed reviews. Work was started on a sequel for the game, which was then re-scoped as an expansion pack, and ultimately cancelled. BioForge was re-released on GOG.com in 2012.

Setting
Writer Jack Herman created a fictional universe as the setting for BioForge. The backstory is revealed in-game by reading the diaries of various non-player characters.

In the distant future, a group of scientists called the Mondites are attempting to overthrow the intergalactic government known as the Reticulum. The Mondites are conducting experiments in genetics and cybernetics in the hopes of blending man and machine into assassins for their plans.

Years before the game takes place, the Mondites intercept a distress call from a Reticulum spacecraft that self-destructed after encountering and reviving an alien lifeform which went on a hostile rampage. Through studying the black box and the remains, they discover the aliens' home world, a moon in a remote sector of the galaxy which they name Daedalus. The Mondites establish a base on Daedalus while investigating the ruins the aliens left behind; a sentient race known as the Phyxx who were long thought to be extinct.

The Mondites abduct people and imprison them on Daedalus for their experiments. A mad scientist called Dr. Mastaba is the base commander and head of the "ABA Project" (Assassin Biologically Augmented). Dr. Mastaba mutilates the bodies of his victims in an attempt to turn them into the ultimate killing machine. Until now, the subjects of Dr. Mastaba's experiments have ended up either dead or insane.

Using technology borrowed from the Phyxx, the Mondites have finally succeeded in their experiments. But when one of the aliens is accidentally revived from suspended animation in its tomb, it goes on a rampage through the complex, damaging the reactor and killing half of the base personnel in the process.

Plot
The player takes on the role of a cyborg (Experimental Unit AP-127) who awakens in a cell on Daedalus with no prior memories. After escaping the cell, the protagonist finds himself one of the few survivors of an incident that has devastated the station. The player must unravel the truth about himself, the research station, the Mondites that control it, and the mysterious alien race that once inhabited the moon.

The game ends after the player escapes Daedalus in an experimental Mondite spacecraft in the wake of the moon's destruction, along with several Phyxx ships.

Gameplay
BioForge centers mainly on exploration and puzzle solving using items, and also on fighting and interaction with non-player characters (NPCs). The objective of the game is not obvious at the beginning, since the player is unaware of his identity, which depends on his actions during the game. The player has full control over the main character's actions. This was a deliberate idea of Ken Demarest and Jack Herman. Richard Garriott helped kick off the interactive movie theme. In a 1994 magazine article he said that "Interactive Movies have become a buzzword, so it's being applied to games which really aren't. Just because a game has FMV that doesn't automatically make it an interactive movie, because you have very little control over the actor. Neither is a game in which you click on an icon, then sit back and watch a scene take place."

BioForge has tank controls as in the player character can rotate left and right, walk and run forwards and backwards, and sidestep. The player can also enter a combat stance that makes several punch and kick movements and hand-to-hand weapons (if carried) available. The combat system has been described as being similar to Alone in the Dark.

The body of the player character houses an exchangeable (and depletable) battery that powers various body functions put there by the experimenters. Functions include a regeneration system that heals all damage when activated, as well as a powerful projectile weapon (known as the PFD Prototype). Upgrading and swapping the battery is key to the player's progress at certain points in the game. The player can also don a protective armoured suit that enables him to survive the harsh atmosphere outside the facility and explore the archaeological dig.

Various objects, such as datalogs or healing packs, can be picked up and stored in the player's inventory. Selected objects are shown carried in the left hand of the player character. Several hand-to-hand and ranged weapons, as well as batteries and other large or one-use objects, can also be picked up during the game, but only one can be carried, using the right hand, and they cannot be stored in the inventory.

Much of the game's plot is revealed by finding and reading logs on PDAs and notes left behind by characters, including accounts of experimental subjects losing their memories and lapsing into insanity. As the plot progresses, the main character automatically updates his own diary/log summarizing what he has discovered since the beginning and what has happened for the player to review, an event marked by a sound cue. A large portion of the puzzle element relies on accessing control and computer terminals in order to remotely control robots, open doors and bypass security systems. The puzzles are integrated with the plot, so unfortunately several have a time limit.

Development
Director Ken Demarest had the core idea for BioForge whilst working as a programmer on Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Demarest felt that Ultima VII had too much freedom, and that creating an interactive movie with synthetic actors would create a more immersive game. BioForge was developed at Origin by a core team of ten people under Demarest, during a period of two years from February 1993 to March 1995. The game was developed using C++ and 80x86 assembly and used the Phar Lap DOS extender. Internally, the game used a custom script language for world management and animation. It also employed an HTML-styled language to code the in-game interface. The working title for the game was Interactive Movie 1.

The 3D models of BioForge were created from reference sketches in 3D Studio and then texture-mapped in a proprietary Electronic Arts tool named EOR. The animations were created using the rotoscope technique on live-actor movements captured with the Flock of Birds on-body motion detector system, using an in-house pose editor named System for Animating Lifelike Synthetic Actors (S.A.L.S.A.) that was capable of displaying captured movement as fully rendered models in real time. Origin reportedly paid between $30,000 and $32,000 for the Flock of Birds hardware in order to save time on creating animations.

SFX and music was created and composed by John Tipton.

Technical details
BioForge uses a software-only 3D engine to draw polygonal objects and characters against pre-rendered backdrops with a fixed resolution of 320x200 pixels in 256 colors.

Other technical details also worthy of note are:
 * As a character gets more and more injured in combat, wounds and blood appear on the model, which will also limp or move awkwardly, indicating its overall health (effects that diminish when the player regains health).
 * Laser blaster beams deflect intelligently off metal surfaces in scenes, often bouncing multiple times before dissipating.
 * BioForge pioneered quaternion-based skeletal animation, with pose interpolation and interchangeable skeletons. This would later become a common technique in 3D computer and video games.

BioForge can be run reliably in the DOSBox PC emulator as of version 0.65.

Cancelled expansion pack
A sequel (BioForge II) was designed and the team were working on the art when the project was halted and changed to an expansion pack of the original game, BioForge Plus.

BioForge Plus was projected by Origin as an extension to the original game, which would directly continue the plot, but it was cancelled after a rushed beta was completed in 10 weeks. A former Origin employee noted that the company was going through a "hard year" in 1995 and that job and production team cuts resulted in the cancellation of BioForge Plus.

A Rock, Paper, Shotgun blog reported that EA Mythic received a crate full of old Origin Systems archive materials, possibly containing BioForge Plus source code.

Reviews
Reviews for BioForge at its release were mixed. More positive reviews summarized it as "a game that combines outstanding atmospherics with decent gameplay", and "incredibly well-rounded". Other reviewers noted problems but considered the game worthwhile, saying "While it isn't perfect [...] it would be a mistake to ignore BioForge" and "flaws aren't enough to keep BioForge from being one of the most unusual and intriguing adventues of the year". Edge described it as "an enjoyable but ultimately uninvolving experience". Elements such as the graphics, attention to detail, and interactivity received praise while the system requirements, combat, and controls drew criticism.

The game's graphics were described as "first-class", "superb", and "pretty close to top of the line". Next Generation noted that the characters "move and fight in a smooth, utterly convincing manner".

System requirements were mentioned by several reviewers. Electronic Games noted that the game "devours more than 30-Meg of hard drive space to deliver a frequently clumsy combination of an RPG and one of the interactive movies which are so en vogue these days." Next Generation said "The game has some steep hardware requirements [...] but the payoff is impressive".

Awards
PC Gamer US nominated BioForge as its 1995 "Best Adventure Game", although it lost to Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity. It was the second-place finalist for Computer Game Review's 1995 "Role Playing Game of the Year" award, which went to Anvil of Dawn. The editors wrote, "[I]n a year that held few RPGs for a starved audience, it had the guts to try role-playing in a sci-fi universe instead of one plagued with magic and dragons."

Legacy
Tim Schafer cited BioForge as an influence on the critically acclaimed 1998 game Grim Fandango in its approach to 3D graphics and use of tank controls.

PC Gamer UK ranked BioForge at 88 in its Top 100 PC games in 2001, noting that it "pushed boundaries at the time". BioForge was included as one of the titles in the 2010 book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. The Guardian included BioForge in a 2014 list of the "greatest video games that time forgot" calling it a "fascinating example" among the "nightmarishly unplayable dross" of the mid-90s interactive movie genre.

In 2013, director Ken Demarest reflected that "BioForge was conceived from a technical perspective, and I think that if I’d given as much focus to the gameplay as the underlying technology, it might have enjoyed greater acclaim."

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International Society for Heart Research

The International Society for Heart Research began as an "International Study Group for Research in Cardiac Metabolism" in Dubrovnik in 1968; at the 1976 World Congress in Tokyo, it adopted the name "International Society for Heart Research". It currently has over 3,000 members and comprises 7 international Sections (Australasian, Chinese, European, Indian, Japanese, Latin American and North American). The current president is Dr. Yoshihiko Saito Nara.

The Society publishes its own journal (Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology ) and newsletter (Heart News and Views ).

The ISHR has developed a number of awards (Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award, Research Achievement Award, Outstanding Investigator Award, three named Distinguished Lecture Awards and Distinguished Leader Award for Faculty). It also gives the Richard J. Bing Award for Young Investigators, an award named after its first President and founder.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Krelian

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

The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 01:26, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Krelian
Original research garbage. Boringly written. (Unsigned nomination by User:68.254.181.153) User has only four edits; one in the sandbox, and the other three were for creating this AfD. --Apostrophe 20:35, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or, failing that, merge with Main Characters (Xenogears)--main character of a prominent (indeed, notorious) video game. Not sure how this would qualify as original research, and boring is very much in the eye of the beholder (I've been working on historical U.S. Congresspeople from Idaho, if that's any indication). Meelar (talk) 20:18, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Xenogears link as per Meelar. "Boringly written" is not a CFD! DV8 2XL 20:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Huh, wha? Only half of the article, specifically the Evangelion and personality sections, is original research (which I've failed to remove), and being boring isn't any indication of merit for deletion. Keep and cleanup. --Apostrophe 20:27, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, main character of notorious videogame, less boring than historical US Congresspeople. Kappa 21:20, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep/Merge UniReb 21:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep and do not merge. Major villains have their own articles (e.g. Sephiroth, Ultimecia, Lavos); there's a video game villains category. Also I would vote strong keep for the personality section and weak keep for the Evangelion section. -ArcTheLad 22:34, 1 September 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.

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Talk:Royal Hawaiian Hotel

Ownership
Just to clarify, the article states that Starwood owns the hotel in the info box, but in the body it says it's owned by the Osano family. Anyone have further info on this? --Travis Thurston+ 07:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't know, but I don't see why the Osano brothers should have their own section. I'm going to combine this with the History section where I think it belongs.

 * In 2007 it was owned by Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts LP, according to this: Royal Hawaiian Hotel to close for renovations. I suspect it's owned by Osana family by way of Kyo-ya, and Starwood is the franchiser. But I can't find a recent source.

 * There is a bit more info here: Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Rees11 (talk) 18:22, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

History
The frst paragraph in the history section has numerous inaccuracies including the relationship between the purchase of the Moana Hotel by the Matson Navigation Co. and the subsequent building of the Royal Hawaiian. The Matson Navigation Co. did not even acquire the Moana Hotel until 1932 which was 5 years after the Royal Hawaiian opened. There is also a suggestion that William Matson was directly responsible for the Royal Hawaiian which is gross exageration of his role since he died in 1917. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanapapiki (talk • contribs) 21:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Is this an ad or an article?
Probably useless to try to rewrite this thing and battle the hotel's PR staff. So bad that the cost of building the hotel is cited twice, and changes. Came here because of Mad Men. When they wanted to set a scene in the sixties, they set it here. Not a good sign. This area was less fashionable by the Eighties, and heavily aimed at Japanese tourists. Profhum (talk) 20:58, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Abigail Kawananakoa
The article states that Abigail Kawananakoa, "would have been Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii had the monarchy survived." That's not strictly true. While Abigail Kawananakoa certainly would have been a candidate for the throne, the fact that Liliʻuokalani died without issue, and that she did not (or rather, could not, as it was no longer possible to fulfill the constitutional requirements) select a new heir designate after her original heir designate, Victoria Kaʻiulani, died in 1899, means that, under [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1887_Constitution_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hawaii#ARTICLE_22. Article 22 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi], no one had a legitimate pretense to the Hawaiian throne, and it would have been necessary that the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii elect a new Sovereign from among the aliʻi had the Kingdom survived (or were the Kingdom restored) after 1917. Consequently, I'm removing that statement.—MNTRT2009 (talk) 17:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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Dreamland Manor

Dreamland Manor is the debut album of German power metal band Savage Circus. The album sounds similar to older classic Blind Guardian.

Writing
The band wrote most of the album together. Three songs, however, were written solely by Thomen for the next Blind Guardian album: "Evil Eyes", "It – The Gathering", and the ballad "Beyond Reality". Thomen comments:

"Three songs I wrote for Blind Guardian. And when I noticed, when they were done, that the songs were very similar to old Blind Guardian stuff, more back-to-the-roots, I noticed that it would be big problem to present these songs to my ex-band members, because, OK, then I was still in the band, but I knew when I would play the songs to them they would say: 'Hey, this is something we already did ten years ago.'"

Track listing
All music written by: Savage Circus

All lyrics by: Jens Carlsson and Piet Sielck

Trivia

 * The Japanese bonus track "Ça plane pour moi" is sung in French, however Jens does not speak the language. Emil knows some French, and he wrote down the lyrics at home in Umeå and told Jens how to pronounce it.

Credits

 * Jens Carlsson – lead vocals
 * Emil Norberg – guitar
 * Piet Sielck – guitar, bass, and backing vocals
 * Thomas Stauch – drums

 * Guest musicians
 * Rolf Köhler – backing vocals

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Talk:Reliability engineering

Introduction
The third paragraph implies that uncertainty about parameter estimates and large multivariate methods invalidate statistical predictions, neither of which is true. It seems like it's written by someone who has been burned by bad statistical models and got faulty results. If the point of the paragraph is to emphasize that reliability encompasses more than statistics that is fine, but its current tone seems to attack statistics as a discipline.

See also section
In the see also section of this article, I have just added a link to product qualification even though such a page does not exist today. This is such a common term in both reliability engineering and quality engineering, that it would be very useful if someone could start to write it up. A Google search for "product qualification" just found 65,000 hits, so there's plenty to work from. DFH 19:59:33, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

Bayes Theorem
Bayes theorem is a very important tool in reliability engineering to reduce a complicated system into a simpler system or a black box. It should be mentioned in the article. -- HN.

Related article created
I just came across Reliability verification in the New Pages Queue. As it deals with a subtopic of this article, editors watching this page may be interested in contributing. signed,Rosguill talk 20:24, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Reliability verification into Reliability engineering
wide overlap and redundancy fgnievinski (talk) 02:12, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 18:10, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Pan-Arabism

Aflaq impacted by Arsuzi who was fascinated with the Nazi ideology of "racial purity"?
In fact Arsuzi stated that he did not see in Aflaq's young movement more than "un mouvement droite soutenu par l'Allemagne nazie et ainsi incompatible avec les idéaux du nationalisme arabe". Aflaq's answer was, that in spite of his stance, regarding the enemy's enemy as a friend, there was no need to copy an ideologie whatsoever. You may reed this in Guingamp's book Hafes el Assad et le parti Baath en Syrie Paris 1996, p. 44). 130.83.12.163 (talk) 19:07, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Revival
Some have argued that the Arab Spring has triggered a revival of Arab nationalism and Pan-Arabism, as there has been solidarity between the revolutionary movements in all the Arab states and the role of Arab nationalists in the revolutions. Charles Essie (talk) 21:35, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * As a personal opinion, what is notable with the Arab Spring is that the fact that people across the Arab World share the same language enabled online communities/social networks to flourish in a way not possible in the pre-www era. It is not a revival of the very rigid and militaristic pan-Arabism of the Cold War but rather evolution of a new trend of civic nationalism (that, unlike the earler pan-Arab trend, do not deny national or regional particularities of each state). --Soman (talk) 22:22, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree, but I would describe this as a new kind of Pan-Arabism, based in revolutionary solidarity between the people of the Arab world in their common struggle for freedom and self-determination. Charles Essie (talk) 01:23, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps not so much a centralized union would be sought, but it is almost assured that one of the greatest divider of Arab nations today is politics, and chiefly, the relations of non-democratic states (making most of them dived on issues like a common currency in the Gulf region into camps of spheres of influence). The Arabian peninsula shows the divisions that are often more over ideology or considerations by the leaders of states not any inherent feelings of say Qataris and Bahrainis that they are massively different, rather their respective monarchs would wish to retain power rather than have it delegated. So while in the future revolutions may lead to democracies which in turn would be willing to unify, we are almost guaranteed to see a European union style transnational union emerge.

This is as looking at a world where some Europeans view themselves in a collective regional identity, and holding some cultural unity as well. Culturally European as it were, is one in which Poland, Germany, France, and Spain are all in the EU despite being vastly different. If you know spanish in Spain, it doesn't mean you can go to the other end of the EU in poland and understand or communicate with them.

Take the Arab world, where not only is the same regional or cultural identity present, but unlike the term "European", being "Arab", means that while there will be large regional variations on your culture and language, the basic ARAB culture or language exists, and a morrocan and Saudi ARabian could therefore communicate better than a Pole and Spaniard could in their respective languages. This phenomenon is true of online boards that use Arabic, as well as the standardized Arabic taught across the middle east, which has made the younger generation more educated in a common Arabic language, and reduced some regional differences.

This isn't to suggest that a national identity of Egyptian or Iraqi doesn't exist, many Arabs also identify with their state, but If you look at how a European union managed to unite such different people, an Arab union for people that are diverse but also have more in common could in theory be eaiser. in theory.

As I said, an EU style union is more likely at the present time, actual Political union may happen on smaller scale but who knows. Continue to update the page with what scholars have seen happen post-revolution. However unless enough Arab states become democratic to break the system of each monarch wanting a state to rule, Pan-Arabism is a back burner mainly popular with the people. Although politicians will give lip service to it, some states are more interested in funding islamist rather than pan-arab ideologies, and islamist are often pro-unification themselves (the islamic world as it were including the Arab world), so it's a tangled mess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.69.168.225 (talk) 15:26, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * One thing is sure though. Pan-Arabism is not nearly as dead as this article portrays it to be. We here less about it, sure. But they're are still many groups out there that continue to espouse it. Yes, these days it's mainly Islamists, but as you've said, they tend to be pan-Arabist and pan-Islamist. Pan-Islamism is pretty much an extension of Pan-Arabism anyway (just like how Turanism is an extension of Pan-Turkism). So at the very least, this article should recognize more recent trends, such as the fusion of Islamism and Pan-Arabism promoted by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Charles Essie (talk) 21:43, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Wrong pan Arabic flag used
the image shown on this page associated to pan Arabic flag is wrong. The flag is of Palestine, and not pan Arabic. Pan arabic flag is black, green and white (from the top) with a red triangle on the left hand side Donnaherb (talk) 23:27, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Clara Dickson Hall

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I've worked for Cornell campus life, and that building houses 450 students, maybe 455. 1000 is just plain wrong.

I have located at least three halls at UMich which are substantially larger (1000+), and I believe at least the other Big 10 schools will have dorms of comparable size. Also, Bancroft Hall at USNA evidently houses approximately 4000 students, so this hall is nowhere near the largest. Fsiler 09:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think this article probably merits deletion; in light of a suggestion on the deletion precedents page, I am changing this to a redirect to Cornell. If it is the largest dorm on campus or holds some other distinction, it can be mentioned there. Fsiler 11:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Orton Grain

Orton Irwin Grain (August 9, 1863 – February 2, 1930 ) was a Canadian physician and politician in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1899 to 1903, and again from 1907 to 1913.

Grain was born in Fergus, Canada West, the son of William Grain, a native of Gibraltar, and Mary Orton, the sister of Dr. G. T. Orton, and attended schools in Fergus and the Toronto School of Medicine. He was assistant surgeon of the 91st battalion in Canada. Grain was one of the charter holders of the Winnipeg and Northern Railway, and served as mayor of Selkirk in 1896. In religion, he was a member of the Church of England. He practised medicine in Banff, Alberta, Manitou, Manitoba, Winnipeg and Selkirk. In 1890, Grain married Annie Cull.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1899 provincial election, winning the constituency of Kildonan and St. Andrews as a Liberal-Conservative. He supported the Conservative administration of Hugh John Macdonald and Rodmond Roblin, and sat as a government backbencher in the legislature which followed. Running as a Conservative, he lost to Liberal candidate M.J. O'Donohue by five votes in the 1903 election.

Grain defeated O'Donahue by 41 votes in the 1907 election, and again served as a backbench supporter of Roblin's government. He was re-elected in the 1910 election, and resigned from the legislature in 1913.

In late 1913, he was named medical inspector for the western provinces for the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, charged with dealing with the problem of tuberculosis on first nations reserves and, at the same time, with reducing expenses incurred by the department. Grain made a number of suggestions for treating tuberculosis on reserves, but these were rejected for economic reasons. His position in the department was abolished in 1918.

In 1914, Grain moved to Winnipeg. He died at home there in 1930.

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Holiday Island

Holiday Island is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten. The show aired twice weekly from 1981 to 1982, with the first episode going to air on 17 June 1981.

Series synopsis
Like preceding Crawford's series, the aborted Hotel Story, Holiday Island was a Love Boat-style drama series set in a luxury hotel. This time the location was a tropical resort island in Queensland. In each episode the regular characters - the various islanders and hotel workers - hosted a new batch of guest star hotel guests. Various plots and situations on the show included a fierce cyclone hitting the island, children being kidnapped, a siege where the hotel workers were held hostage by less than pleasant guests, drug trafficking, the resort being terrorised by a biker gang and a politician dying of a heart attack while staying at the island's resort.

The series became notorious amongst critics for its allegedly poor production values, and the wintry conditions under which the tropical drama was shot became the focus of most jibes. Though set in a tropical hotel with palm trees, sunshine and beautiful beaches, for practical reasons all interiors scenes - and the bulk of exterior scenes - were shot at the Ten Network's studios in Nunawading, Melbourne. The exterior set made heavy use of awnings in an attempt to disguise Melbourne's propensity for overcast skies, but attempts to mask the icy breath of the bathing beauties was not always successful. Attempts to shoot location footage in Queensland were hampered by the fact that the local television crews assigned to the shoot had experience only in shooting news footage, and the fact that heavy rain fell for several days of a planned shoot. Ray Meagher, a guest star in the show's first episode, later jokingly referred to the show as Horror Day on Iceland.

Location footage in Queensland was taken at the Tangalooma Island Resort on Moreton Island, east of Brisbane Queensland. The "Tangalooma Ship-Wrecks" were often seen chroma-keyed as a background to the studio sequences of 'Banjo's' beachside shack.

Main / regular

 * Nick Tate as Neil Scott
 * Tom Oliver as Wally Simmons
 * Peter Mochrie as Tony 'Zack' Zackarakis
 * Alyson Best as Lisa Kendall
 * Frank Wilson as Banjo Paterson
 * Patricia Kennedy as Emily Muldoon
 * Caz Lederman as Angela Scott
 * Steven Grives as Jason Scott
 * Gaynor Martin as Kylie McArthur
 * Marilyn Mayo as Dusty Davis
 * Brian James as George Tippett
 * Olga Tamara as Victoria Buckland
 * Ronne Arnold as Alex Utalo
 * Tracy Mann as Wendy Robinson

Guests

 * Amanda Muggleton as Ruth Faraday (1 episode)
 * Anne Phelan
 * Brian Blain as Jack Fitzsimmons
 * Briony Behets
 * Chantal Contouri (1 episode)
 * Christine Amor
 * Debra Lawrance as Michelle Costello (1 episode)
 * Diane Craig as Marie-Claude (1 episode)
 * Jane Clifton as Fran (1 episode)
 * Jill Forster (2 episodes)
 * Joanna Lockwood (1 episode)
 * John Blackman
 * Judy Nunn
 * Julieanne Newbould (1 episode)
 * June Salter
 * Leslie Dayman
 * Liddy Clark as Meredith (1 episode)
 * Lisa Crittenden
 * Maurie Fields as Fred (1 episode)
 * Penne Hackforth-Jones as Dellie Kramer (2 episodes)
 * Peta Toppano (2 episodes)
 * Ray Meagher
 * Rebecca Gilling as Trish McKenzie
 * Rowena Wallace as Marjorie Quinn (2 episodes)
 * Terry McDermott as Max Costello
 * Vic Gordon as Pat Donegan (1 episode)
 * Wynn Roberts as David Owens (2 episodes)

Cancellation
Holiday Island was cancelled after 64 episodes. The set was later revamped and turned into the Lassiter's Complex featured in the soap opera, Neighbours.

Reruns
Network Ten which was the TV series original broadcast channel replayed the Holiday Island TV series during the earlier part of 1990 at the graveyard time-slot of 4.00am weekday mornings. It had not been replayed until WIN TV began to show the entire series during 2006 as part of its early morning Crawfords Australian Classic series.

From January 2006 to March 2007, the WIN Television network repeated Holiday Island on early Saturday mornings from 2.00am before changing to 3.00am during the later half of 2006 as part of its Crawford's Australian Classics series.

Reception
Robert Fidgeon of the Herald Sun named Holiday Island as one of "Australia's All-time Top 50 TV Turkeys". He stated "Shocker Melbourne soap about the antics of guests and staff of a Queensland island resort, starred Nick Tate. Planned as 64, one-hour episodes, axed within two months."

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Megacolon

Megacolon is an abnormal dilation of the colon (also called the large intestine). This leads to hypertrophy of the colon. The dilation is often accompanied by a paralysis of the peristaltic movements of the bowel. In more extreme cases, the feces consolidate into hard masses inside the colon, called fecalomas (literally, fecal tumor), which can require surgery to be removed.

A human colon is considered abnormally enlarged if it has a diameter greater than 12 cm in the cecum (it is usually less than 9 cm ), greater than 6.5 cm in the rectosigmoid region and greater than 8 cm for the ascending colon. The transverse colon is usually less than 6 cm in diameter.

A megacolon can be either acute or chronic. It can also be classified according to cause.

Signs and symptoms
External signs and symptoms are constipation of very long duration, abdominal bloating, abdominal tenderness and tympany, abdominal pain, palpation of hard fecal masses and, in toxic megacolon, fever, low blood potassium, tachycardia and may lead to shock. Stercoral ulcers are sometimes observed in chronic megacolon, which may lead to perforation of the intestinal wall in approximately 3% of the cases, leading to sepsis and risk of death.

Cause

 * Congenital or aganglionic megacolon
 * Medication
 * Acquired megacolon, of which there are several possible causes:
 * Idiopathic megacolon
 * Toxic megacolon
 * Megacolon secondary to infection
 * Clostridioides difficile infection
 * Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease)
 * Pheochromocytoma, possibly secondary to its presenting constipation.
 * Other neurologic, systemic and metabolic diseases

Aganglionic megacolon
Also called Hirschsprung's disease, it is a congenital disorder of the colon in which nerve cells of the myenteric plexus in its walls, also known as ganglion cells, are absent. It is a rare disorder (1:5 000), with prevalence among males being four times that of females. Hirschsprung's disease develops in the fetus during the early stages of pregnancy. A genetic predisposition to Hirschsprung's disease has been linked to chromosome 13 where a missense mutation at an ultraconserved region impairs functionality of the W276C receptor. Seven other genes seem to be implicated, however. If untreated, the patient can develop enterocolitis.

Medication
Risperidone, an anti-psychotic medication, can result in megacolon.

Toxic megacolon
Toxic megacolon is mainly seen in ulcerative colitis and pseudomembranous colitis, two chronic inflammations of the colon (and occasionally, in the other type of inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease). Its mechanism is incompletely understood. It is probably due to excessive production of nitric oxide, at least in ulcerative colitis. The prevalence is about the same for both sexes.

In patients with HIV/AIDS, cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis is the leading cause of toxic megacolon and emergency laparotomy. CMV may also increase the risk of toxic megacolon in non-HIV/AIDS patients with IBD.

Chagas disease
Megacolon can be associated with Chagas disease. Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a flagellate protozoan transmitted by the assassin bug. Chagas disease can also be acquired congenitally, through blood transfusion or organ transplant, and rarely through contaminated food (for example garapa). There are several theories on how megacolon (and also megaesophagus) develops in Chagas disease. The Austrian-Brazilian physician and pathologist Fritz Köberle was the first to propose the neurogenic hypothesis based on the documented destruction of the myenteric plexus in the walls of the intestinal tracts of Chagas patients. In this, the destruction of the autonomic nervous system innervation of the colon leads to a loss of the normal smooth muscle tone of the wall and subsequent gradual dilation. His research proved that, by extensively quantifying the number of neurons of the autonomic nervous system in the Auerbach's plexus, that:

 * 1) neurons were strongly reduced all over the digestive tract;
 * 2) megacolon appeared only when there was a reduction of over 80% of the number of neurons
 * 3) these pathologies appeared as a result of the disruption of the neurally integrated control of peristalsis (muscular annular contraction) in those parts where a strong force is necessary to impel the luminal bolus of feces
 * 4) idiopathic megacolon and Chagas megacolon appear to have the same cause, namely the degeneration of the myenteric plexus.

Why T. cruzi causes the destruction, however, remains to be determined. There is evidence for the presence of specific neurotoxins as well as a disorderly immune system reaction.

Diagnosis
Diagnosis is achieved mainly by plain and contrasted radiographical and ultrasound imaging. Colonic marker transit studies are useful to distinguish colonic inertia from functional outlet obstruction causes. In this test, the patient swallows a water-soluble bolus of radiocontrast agent and films are obtained 1, 3, and 5 days later. Patients with colonic inertia show the marker spread throughout the large intestines, while patients with outlet obstruction exhibit slow accumulations of markers in some places. A colonoscopy can also be used to rule out mechanical obstructive causes. Anorectal manometry may help to differentiate acquired from congenital forms. Rectal biopsy is recommended to make a final diagnosis of Hirschsprung disease.

Treatment
Possible treatments include:
 * Stable cases are effectively treated with laxatives and bulking agents, as well as modifications in diet and stool habits.
 * Corticosteroids and other anti-inflammatory medications are used in toxic megacolon.
 * Antibiotics are used for bacterial infections such as oral vancomycin for Clostridioides difficile
 * Disimpaction of feces and decompression using anorectal and nasogastric tubes are used to treat megacolon.
 * When megacolon worsens and the conservative measures fail to restore transit, surgery may be necessary.
 * Bethanechol can also be used to treat megacolon by means of its direct cholinergic action and its stimulation of muscarinic receptors which bring about a parasympathetic-like effect.

There are several surgical approaches to treat megacolon, such as a colectomy (removal of the entire colon) with ileorectal anastomosis (ligation of the remaining ileum and rectum segments), or a total proctocolectomy (removal of colon, sigmoid and rectum) followed by ileostomy or followed by ileoanal anastomosis.

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The following quoted paragraph was removed from Goose bumps,

"== Positive effects ==

Goose bumps being a form of nervous stimuli, it is in theory, a state that can alter certain unpleasant nervous conditions. It is assumed a positive feeling of awe that it can emulate may in a sense be a diminishing factor of certain stressful conditions such as paranoia, or short-term panic attacks caused by various forms of phobia."

because it is

a) unclear,

b) unreferenced, and

c) dealing with health-related information, so both a) and b) are especially important, so that people do not receive bad health information and misdiagnose themselves or another.

makeswell (talk) 04:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Music section is pulled verbatim from its source.
This is plagiarism unless the whole section is in quotation marks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.232.84 (talk) 21:42, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Emission of an "Air-trapping oil" / Creationist sourcing
I have not been able to find any other sort of evidence or support for the idea that the skin secretes an oil that traps air for the purpose of insulation (note: not sweat) when a person experiences goose bumps. Additionally, the source provided does not appear to be sufficiently scientific or medical in nature or purpose (creationist website making unsupported claims). If anyone can provide a reliable source to support this effect it would be most welcome. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jetblackson (talk • contribs) 05:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

More causes of goose bumps
Goose bumps can be caused by sounds, physical feeling and thoughts of those. For example, whenever someone washes a plastic cutting board I get goose bumps from the sound od that, and from some sounds than can be emitted then writting on a blackboard. For the feeling part, touching some textiles can cause goose bumps. Examples: hats, mouse mats, sweaters, t-shirts and those fluffy things electronics are sometimes shipped with. And of cause the sound of rubbing such materials against each other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.150.208.92 (talk) 17:41, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Whoever wrote the above -- you need research publication / studies to support the above. Otherwise, you cannot and should not use rare incidents to apply to the general population. I personally don't get goose bumps from touching any of the things that you have mentioned above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.174.171.21 (talk) 21:11, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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This article described a few common theories, but were presented as fact, when, in fact, they are not factual. So, to make it correctly scientific and unbiased in nature, those opinionated statements were qualified as such.--98.167.13.43 (talk) 02:28, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

goose bump image
It would help if a before and after image of the same person were available for "goose bumps" wiki page illustration. Ryper (talk) 11:07, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:Sarevok33

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The Fourth "R"

The Fourth "R" (also known as The Brain Machine) is a science fiction novel by American writer George O. Smith, first published in 1959. It is a science fictional examination of the genius naïf phenomemon. The plot follows a five-year-old boy named Jimmy Holden, who was given the equivalent of a college education by virtue of his parents' invention, an "Electromechanical Educator." The book is not related to the movie The Brain Machine (1977).

Publication history
The book was first published by Ballantine Books in 1959 as The Fourth "R" (#316K), a paperback original. It was reprinted by Lancer Books in 1968 (paperback 74-936) and then by Garland Press in 1975 in hardcover as The Brain Machine. It was reprinted again by Dell under its original title, The Fourth "R", in 1979 (paperback #13419, ISBN 0-440-13419-6)

Plot summary
At the beginning of the story, Jimmy's mother and father are murdered by their best friend, who is also the youngster's godfather and appointed guardian as well as the inventors' trustee. It leaves the protagonist—who has had the plans of his parents' invention eidetically and indelibly imprinted in his mind—to destroy the physical copies of these plans before his "uncle" can finish him off as well.

Jimmy must survive his guardian's efforts to squeeze the secret of the invention out of him (whereupon his death will most certainly be arranged, just as his parents' were), and then escape into hiding until he can grow into a physical stature commensurate with his mental age.

In the process, the character must make for himself a living and a safe place of residence, and Smith uses his protagonist's situation and capabilities to examine the nature of childhood and the "protections" (including incapacitations) imposed upon legal infants in American civil society at the time of writing.

Reception
In his review column for F&SF, Damon Knight selected the novel as one of the 10 best genre books of 1959. R. D. Mullen reported that "Though it becomes tendentious and sentimental in its last chapters, [The Brain Machine] is up to that point a surprisingly good story of the difficulties of the superboy in a world run by stupid adults.

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User talk:Leon lego

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --Alan Au 20:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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User:Davidl

Hello, and welcome to my page!

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RGBW

RGBW may refer to:

Red, green, blue and white

 * RGBW sensor, a color filter array
 * RGBW, an LED strip light with four channels
 * RGBW color wheel, in a DLP projector
 * PenTile RGBW, in the PenTile matrix family
 * RGBW sub-pixels, in WhiteMagic display technology

Other uses

 * Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, a former regiment of the British Army

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Highwaymen (film)

Highwaymen is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Robert Harmon. An American-Canadian production, it stars Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, and Colm Feore. The score was composed by Mark Isham. The film was released on 13 February 2004.

Plot
A man named Rennie Cray is motivated by revenge to track down and kill the man who ran over his wife, a serial killer immobilized by the man himself. The killer uses a wheelchair. He drives a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado to stalk and kill his victims in car accidents. When the serial killer makes a young woman his next target, the man has to stop the killer once and for all.

Cast

 * Jim Caviezel as Renford James "Rennie" Cray
 * Rhona Mitra as Molly Poole
 * Colm Feore as Fargo
 * Gordon Currie as Ray Boone
 * Frankie Faison as Will Macklin
 * Andrea Roth as Alex Farrow
 * Noam Jenkins as Kelt

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 13% based on 15 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 3.2/10.

Anna Smith from Empire gave the film 2/5 stars, writing, "Both the well-choreographed crash scenes and the gritty cinematography hint at a better film. Shame no-one took the time to make it." Jamie Russell from BBC awarded the film 1/5 stars, calling it "a five-lane pileup on the freeway to hell". Mark Savlov from Austin Chronicle gave the film 2/5 stars, stating that the film "lacks the sprawling, Westernized mythos of The Hitcher and feels, in the end, like a previously owned nightmare sorely in need of a new universal hell joint."

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User:Blidgood

Blidgood is an ethnomusicologist and a part-time musicianer.

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John W. Thompson (Manitoba politician)

John W. Thompson (May 31, 1858 – February 4, 1914 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1910 to 1914, as a member of the Liberal Party.

Thompson was born in Ravenswood, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of Malcolm Thompson and Anne McLarty, and was educated at local public schools. He came to Manitoba with his parents in 1879. Thompson taught school for two years, then worked in the agricultural implement business from 1882 to 1886 and operated a livery business from 1890 to 1895. He served as a lieutenant during the North-West Rebellion of 1885 and was a homestead inspector for the Canadian government in 1897. Thompson later worked as a farmer and resided in Minnedosa, Manitoba during his political career. He also served on the council for Minnedosa. In 1881, Thompson married Annie Smith.

He ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1900 federal election as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada, but lost to Conservative William James Roche by 422 votes in the Marquette riding.

Thompson was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1910 provincial election, defeating Conservative incumbent William B. Waddell by 34 votes in Minnedosa. The Conservatives won the election, and he served as an opposition member. He did not seek re-election in 1914.

Thompson died in Winnipeg at the age of 55.

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Talk:Theda Bara

Number of surviving films?
One part of the paragraph on Ms Bara's career states that six of her films survive and another part states that three survive. I checked various online sources for silent movies, and couldn't find a definitive answer to how many actually do survive - six seems to be a more likely answer, but tbh I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough about the subject to want to correct either statement. Can someone knowledgeable take a look at this?
 * I just read this article and wondered the same thing. i believe the answer is that six still exist – presumably The Stain, A Fool There Was, East Lynne, The Unchastened Woman, Madame Mystery and 45 Minutes from Hollywood – of which three exist in complete form, with no missing footage.

 * The article tells us that A Fool There Was is one of the three complete ones. Of The Stain, IMDb says that "for decades a projectionist admirer hoarded one of the original 231 copies made on the early Diacetate safety stock, passing it to a friend who would keep it under his spare bed for another forty years", so that seems to be whole too. The print of East Lynne at MoMA, discovered in 1971, seems to be intact (IMDb refers to it as one of the only Theda Bara films to survive the silent era, no reference to it only partially surviving or to any cuts). 45 Minutes, also notable as the second film Laurel & Hardy appeared in together, also appears to be intact (although Theda is really only in it by default, as Hal Roach recycled footage of her from Madame Mystery after she left her contract with him). Oddly, i can find nothing to suggest any cuts to The Unchastened Woman either.

 * The article says the 9.5mm print of Madame Mystery may have been cut for video presentation; this excellent piece also notes that some scenes are missing towards the end.

 * Forty seconds of Cleopatra exist. Bits of Madame Du Barry allegedly exist. And a French documentary named Theda Bara et William Fox contains clips of two of her other films, both unidentified. And that would appear to be the size of it.

 * So i make that five existing intact, one existing but with missing sections, fragments of three, and rumours of fragments of a fourth. Will update the article accordingly.  tomasz.  00:59, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Named for Aaron Burr's Daughter?
Why would European immigrants choose the name of Aaron Burr's daughter (Theodosia_Burr_Alston) for their child? Could her parents have a Burr connection from his years in Europe?

The Carmen (1915) link points to another movie of the same name made many decades later. I have no idea how to fix that.

Needs better sources
This article was very poorly footnoted. I've removed most of the footnotes pointing to external links, as several simply led to sites with just one or two poor-quality photos of Bara and no further information. The link to http://www.mutoworld.com/Bara.htm seems to have been meant merely to promote a fetish site, as it requires a paid membership to read a brief bio of Bara that was plagiarized from http://www.bombshells.com/gallery/bara/theda_bio.php anyway. The essay at http://www.theolddyke.co.uk/nazimova.htm only mentioned Bara once, in passing. Surely we can do a better job than this. CKarnstein 03:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Theda Bara was on Broadway in 1920, not 1926
"Her film career soon began to slow down, finally ending in 1926 with the Hal Roach comedy Madame Mystery. The following year, Bara made a successful but much maligned appearance on Broadway in The Blue Flame."

The NY Times reviewed her performance in 1920: http://snipurl.com/blue_flame

Theda Speaking
I'm not sure what the complaint is here since the other FTT link was left. I would like other users input, Wildhartlive is welcome to her opinion but I am disputing it and I would like more than 2 people's opinions. This link (http://forgetthetalkies.com/2008/09/silents-talk-theda-bara.html) is my site, and I would like to know how else to show Theda's voice on Wikipedia without linking there. I feel its a relevant link because many people are curious what silent film stars sounded like (or indeed if that ended their careers, though in Theda's case she was long fallen by talkies). How could this be unsourced or wrong?

As for the filmography link hard research went into that which is not linkable in a simple way on Wikipedia. A silent film forum full of authors and preservationists looked into archive records and some have even gone their themselves to find what still exists. This is verifiable by looking at something like the UCLA film archive online. But how in the world would you link that elsewise? On the lost film page the PSFL was cited for Camille existing even though it was wrong and user added. They had had that up for 4 years. I wrote them and they changed it. Film historian Bob Birchard found this was indeed a mislabelled tin. I linked the filmography but Wildhardlive removed it, I dont know why its extremely valuable here.

I am sick of these blog accusations. Sites like (or their variants) and  are all run by one person, and in certain cases have user contributions like Wikipedia (the PSFL list). Those sites are allowed to link and generally added on wikipedia, I do not see what the difference between them and Forget the Talkies is. We do valuable research and I think it is INSANE to be written off based on layout, and not content.--Maggiedane (talk) 00:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I'm not going to go around to each page and restate the same thing. If I left a link, that can be rectified. Your site link was removed per WP:SPS, WP:V, WP:OR, and WP:ELNO. It doesn't do your case any good to keep putting the links back in. When, and if, the noticeboards I mentioned determine your site is a reliable source, not original research and your adding it is not a conflict of interest, then fine. But until then, please don't keep readding your website. And again, there is only your word that the owners of the sites you mention add the links themselves and meanwhile, WP:Other stuff exists isn't a good argument for your site. Wildhartlivie (talk) 09:28, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I understand about the filmography not being acceptable (bc it's original research), but what exactly is the problem with linking to the voice? Givememoney17 (talk) 21:46, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Could someone add a pronunciation guide on her name? Would it rhyme with "Greta Barbara?" "Zeta Sarah?" 68.165.77.136 (talk) 19:15, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, it looks like it actually rhymes with "Rita Sarah." 68.165.77.136 (talk) 19:23, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Can you tell me what is totally wrong . ..
with the second paragraph from Theda Bara's page??? 'Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most are now lost due to a fire that destroyed the majority of her films in 1937. She retired from acting upon her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, and never appeared in a sound film.' johncheverly 02:14, 17 February 2013 (UTC)johncheverly 02:15, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

 * No, I can't. So why don't you tell us? GrindtXX (talk) 13:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm not seeing what is "totally wrong" with those sentences either. If you find something confusing or grammatically incorrect, edit the page to correct it. If you don't want to fix it, it makes more sense to clearly explain what is "wrong" on the talk page instead of trying to get others to read your mind.  Pinkadelica ♣  19:26, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I would guess the problem being pointed out is that she supposedly retired in 19*21* but made more than 40 films between 1914 and 19*26*. There's an unexplained 5 year gap there. And I guess before fixing it we would need to figure out which one is more reliable. DreamGuy (talk) 03:15, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I fixed it. It's explained in the article but it doesn't make sense in the lead all buy itself - she had a five year contract (which presumably began in 1919) and let it run out. She then appeared in two films in 1925 and 1926 and then she retired. Thanks for pointing it out. You don't win anything though :).  Pinkadelica ♣  09:15, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

When Men Desire
Article states there are fragments of When Men Desire. I've never seen that written anywhere else. Did the film get found recently? What's the deal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.36.107.205 (talk) 20:05, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Even mentioned in Dragnet
Was surprised to hear Officer Gannon (Harry Morgan) describe some girl as being almost as pretty as Theda Bara in a 1969 episode of Dragnet. As her career ended with the introduction of talkies in the mid-20s, Gannon must have been the oldest officer on the force. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:801:4280:A710:84A1:2254:5C2D:974A (talk) 09:53, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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Strangely appearing Hays Code
In the "Persona" section: "Bara was known for wearing very revealing costumes in her films. Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Production Code (a.k.a. the Hays Code) started in 1930 under Will H. Hays and then rigorously enforced beginning in mid-1934 by Joseph Breen. It was popular at that time to promote an actress as mysterious..." The Hays Code postdates Bara's career so the sentence "Such outfits..." is irrelevant and should be deleted. Anyway it appears to be a random interpolation since "It was popular at that time..." fits only with "in her films", not with "1930" or "1934". I am deleting that sentence; if someone thinks it should be restored, I've copied it here. Zaslav (talk) 05:39, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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John S. Harris

John Spafford Harris (December 18, 1825 – January 25, 1906) was an American politician for the state of Louisiana and member of the Republican Party. Born to a farm family in Truxton, New York, Harris was a delegate to the Louisiana state constitutional convention in 1868. He was a member of Louisiana State Senate in 1868 and the first Republican U.S. Senator from Louisiana, serving from 1868 to 1871. Harris was buried at Forestvale Cemetery in Helena, Montana.

Education
Harris attended the common schools, and received some college education during his time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Career
After the death of his mother, Harris accompanied his father to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1846. Initially employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment, he worked as a merchant, real estate dealer, and banker. He eventually rose to be president of Milwaukee's Marine Bank.

In the fall of 1863, traveled to Memphis, Tennessee but found it strictly blockaded by federal authorities. Consequently, he resolved to return home via New Orleans and New York. An accident happened and his boat was detained in Natchez, Mississippi, where he was induced to lease one of the largest cotton plantations in Louisiana. By the end of the American Civil War, he had become one of the biggest planters in Louisiana.

He became increasingly involved in politics by organizing local freedmen into clubs and instructing them about their new political rights. As a member of the Republican Party, he took a moderate course, and was seen by the New Orleans Picayune as "one of the mildest and most temperate Republicans", although the New Orleans Republican noted that he was an abolitionist. He was sworn in as a state senator on June 29, 1868. Nine days later, he was nominated to serve as a US senator for the short term ending in 1871. He succeeded Judah P. Benjamin who had withdrawn from the Senate previous to the war. His nomination was confirmed by both houses. He completed his term on March 3, 1871.

Harris was appointed surveyor general for the state of Montana by President Chester Arthur in 1881.

Death
Harris died in Butte, Montana on January 25, 1906, and is buried in Helena, Montana.

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