text:
User talk:Rasmus Faber

Gamecast
I just read over it all again... Gamecast is distributed by a company called Spectre they own http://www.halolive.com.au, http://www.gamersworld.com.au and http://www.spectreworld.com.au which is like the amazon in australia they are the ones hosting Gamecast and it is being distributed from them.. does that mean I comply with number #3?

Pet lovers
Hi I was wonder in g if you would like to help my wikicity http://pets.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page[1]. For pet lovers

Meet in the middle attack
HAC references Meet in the Middle attack to Diffie and Hellman, chapter 7 page 272 "Exhaustive cryptanalysis of the NBS Data Encryption Standard", Computer, 10 (1977), 7484

IEEE Computer is not online for 1977 so a trip to the library will be needed, or you could email him at sun ;)

Meet in the Middle is also acredited to Diffie and Hellma in A Known-Plaintext Attack on Two-Key Triple Encryption, Paul C. van Oorschot and Michael J. Wiener. Thats avaliable online under the filename Euro90.pdf its was published in 1991 but I can't remember where.

The attack by Merkle-Hellman is for two-key triple DES, not double DES. acid2000 12:22, 11 November 2005 (GMT)

God
Very quick reversion of vandalism. Good eye; fast fingers. Well done. KHM03 11:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation
You were listed on the Wikipedians/Denmark page as living in or being associated with Denmark. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Danish Wikipedians for instructions.--Rmky87 20:01, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Possessive apostrophe
Hi Rasmus,

just so you know, the apostrophe in possessives formed from nouns (e.g. Gödel's) is mandatory in English. Confusingly, the possessive pronoun "its" does not take the apostrophe. --Trovatore 05:02, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Wow, you're a lot more patient than I am!
Seriously, I applaud your work on The talk page. I've given up, but I'm still watching. Melchoir 22:32, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Medical tourism
Perhaps you may do the merging suggested. There are other topics that may be be covered, e.g. travelling from the US to Canada/Mexico to buy cheap medicals, traveling between European countries due to regulations and limits there and here.

The article exists for a year and for the whole time it served only as battleground for several spammers. I myself do not have enough of knowledge to deal with this topic. Pavel Vozenilek 23:28, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Restored placebo comments
Hej Rasmus

Tusind tak for hjælpen med Placebo artiklen. Jeg havde virkelig forsøgt at "neutralisere" mine kommentarer. HVIS deres konlusioner er korrekt, er Hróbjartsson & Götzsche's metaanalyse banebrydende, og kaster lys over et emne der har været fyldt med myter, der blev antaget som bevist sandhed, men det var de ikke.

Jeg tror at noget af broden kan fjernes ved at vælge andre ord end "Does the placebo effect exist?". Det eksisterer, men deres analyse viser at effekten er primært en subjektive oplevelse, og ikke forårsager objektive fysiologiske forandringer af en karakter der kan udrette meget for alvorlige sygdom.

Another subtitle could be "Objective or subjective effects?"

I will take another look at it and see if anything that isn't NPOV has gone unnoticed, but as it was, it was "neutralized", just stating what their metaanalysis had shown. Basically it would only be quacks who would object to this new way of looking at things. The placebo effect would still be an important research tool, but quacks would be exposed for misusing it. -- Fyslee 00:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC) (Amerikaner i Sorø)

 * I have now made some changes that should improve the quality of that section. -- Fyslee 00:32, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

yay for polite AfD'ing
Kudos for keeping your head on the AfD for Israel news agency, and explaining your stance in a polite fashion :)

Adrian Lamo 08:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Owe You A Beer
Just saw your edit - thanks! What's your favorite beer? ;> Israelbeach 17:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

fyi merge
Rasmus -- Saw you said you lost stuff to a discussion because of cross-posting. When you get the message that someone else has modified the same text as you, in a discussion you can simply go down to the bottom of your page (the second edit textbox), find where you added your edit, copy that text, and then paste it back up into the top textbox where it should go. That way both your comments and the comments someone else wrote gets displayed -- no rewrites needed. Hopefully that made sense.;) --Utopianheaven 09:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Edit Conflict / text lost
Hi, I saw you posted on the Muhammad Drawings talk page that you had lost some text due to an edit conflict. Usually when you have an edit conflict, you can simply click "back" and copy your text. Then just paste it into the new version of the article. Hope that helps in the future ;) Jaco  plane  10:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

American Auction
The term just appears to be very poorly defined. Some of the various uses are summed up in a book i found through google book search, which indicates that the terms dutch auction, english auction and american auction are used interchangeably in different scenarios. According to google, the most common use is the first-price sealed-bid auction. I am ok with either changing the redirect ro making it a disambiguation page. However, I don't think that the use of the american auction to refer to a dollar auction is valid or commodity- It was probably an error made by the forum users. --DDG 21:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Hello,

this is the second time you have removed the picture. I'm not sure what you're thinking. The article is about these cartoons. People want to see them. The picture in the article is too small, so people cannot make up their minds just by looking at that. So I've added the inline link. Please stop removing it. AucamanTalk 10:14, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm just trying to make the readers' job easier. Most people who click on the article want to see the pictures right away, so listing them in the reference section is not enough. AucamanTalk 10:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Rasmus,

thanks for correcting my silly mistake. Don't know how I deleted half of the article... :-) --Adornix 12:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Surface Subdivision
If you cannot read (or you cannot understand) do not remove links that give references to new way of executing surface subdivision. You have dutifully removed such links, have you taken the trouble to read the paper in cause? Fine, I can give you a link to a free page. What next, you'll complain that it is in pdf, I bet.

Hi RF; From your contributions page and the above comment, it would seem to me that you might be interested in the requests for mediation page at Requests for mediation. Or perhaps you are not interested, if so, I apologize for wasting your time. Regards, Rickert 04:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

My Proof
Thanks! I happen to think it's a rather nifty proof myself, especially since it attacks one of their biggest arguments head-on. I'm sure there's a proof somewhere about uniqueness of limits, although I wouldn't know where to start on it. In other news, I'm not too happy that the entire talk page was archived while those last few sections were still active, so I might check the policy on that - especially since I want to see what the reaction to my proof is from the other side of the fence. Confusing Manifestation 11:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Rasmus Faber Personal Data
Rasmus, as you believe that it is critically important to mention how many times a journalist was married in his Wiki bio (i.e. - Joel Leyden) then I am now asking you how many times have you been married? Is Christina your first, second or third wife? If divorced, what were the reasons? Thanks for your cooperation in being as open to the public as those you wish to edit on Wiki. Bonnieisrael 18:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Rasmus, how's the cartoon business in Denmark? Re: your accusation in my Bio that I was divorced twice, that is incorrect. You also mention that I live in Ra'anana, Israel. Please cite your verifiable and accurate sources according to Wikipedia's guidelines or be banned for libel. In addition, there is no relationship between being involved in children's rights and revealing a person's private "family" details. In fact, according to Israeli and International law, all matters regarding one's family details and court precedings thereof are forbidden to enter the public domain. This law protects our children. I strongly suggest that you stick to software development and not "editing" copy. Your lack of professionalism, carelessness and negative approach which now enters the realm of vandalism in editing articles in Wikipedia is now transparent for all to see. Thank you. Israelbeach 21:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The below has been copied from the Leyden Bio Talk Page. User:85.64.5.224 is no longer anonymous and a police complaint pertaining to criminal harassment has been filed with the local authorities. The information is inaccurate but yet you continue to talk of my "former wifes" without citing reliable and accurate sources as per Wikipedia's guidelines? That is libel. I do not know what your problem is. Perhaps you hate Jews, perhaps you hate Israelis. In researching you on the Internet I did discover that you write Arabic very well! What is transparent is that you are obsessed in harassing and vandalizing this article by attempting to delete it (vote was taken to Keep) and uploading baseless facts, that you have much time on your hands ( are you unemployed?) for such negative purposes, that rather than focusing on Denmark's destructive cartoons which have created riots around the world, Iran's building of nuclear weapons or talking about genocide in the Sudan, you wish to discuss who kissed who? Should I now ask you if your wife Christina is frigid? Does that get you off? You may have noticed that I have now deleted mention of my children in this bio. Children should not be hurt by destructive gossip for which you are attemting to spread. Lastly, you state: "Wikipedia works under Florida law, so Israeli law is irrelevant." Again you are so wrong. International law applies to both the US and Israel. Rasmus - give it a rest. Find another sandbox to play in. Or sit outside the Israeli embassy and protest Israel's existence. Do whatever your Danish heart desires, but don't continue to hurt children through baseless rumors. (I am willing to bet that you do not have children nor know, appreciate or respect a parent's responsibility). Cite your sources or be banned from Wikipedia. Israelbeach 09:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Imaro
Thanks for the quick fix Rasmus, you sir are a lifesaver! Basique 21:08, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

"Congratulations...for a job miserably done"
....for depriving hundreds of people from free information. You obviously have no clue of physics and by removing the extended information you have done quite a damage to wiki.

Rasmus, you claim to have an MsC in physics.

Prove any of my papers wrong.

I challenge you in front of the wiki community. Take the one on the Transverse Doppler Effect and its Measurement through the Ives-Stilwell experiment.

Ati3414 14:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Trouton-Rankine Experiment
I noticed you asked "What is Rankine's full name?". I've been looking around for awhile and eventually found that it is "Alexander Oliver Rankine". Ironically, typing that into google brings me back to JSTOR. I'm not sure if the link will work, but here is a biography.

Also, Trouton died in 1922 and Rankine died in 1956. I can only see the first page of that biography from JSTOR, so I don't know the day Rankine died, but if it is before Mar 17, then, in an incredible ironic jesture ... the publication just now became public domain (inaccessibility was one of Ati3414's "reasons" for self promotion spam).

One of us (or Ati3414) could upload the article elsewhere and provide a free source to it. Maybe this would be a nice compromise for Ati3414. What do you think? Gregory9 22:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... rereading Copyright law of the United Kingdom I'm not so sure anymore. It appears that it may be 50 years from the "death" of the publisher? But even then I'm not sure as usually in accademic publications the authors still retain rights. If it looks like its worth pursuing, maybe I'll email the publisher and ask them directly. Gregory9 22:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Since it was still under copyright in 1995, it must fall under the copyright extension in 1996. The new copyright duration is then death + 70 years. This means that we will have to wait another 20 years, I am afraid. Thanks a lot for figuring out Rankine's full name. Now we might have to write an article for him :) Rasmus (talk) 17:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Gah! I didn't notice that section. Oh well, there goes that idea. Gregory9 13:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

0.999... equals 1
Don't worry, I'm not a crackpot :) But I'm not a mathematician either, and I saw your award regarding this on your user page and was hoping you could explain some math to me. Please excuse me if this is not even a valid question.

Given the set of points that are contained in a line segment, is the set of "pairs of points zero distance apart" empty?

Thanks. Gregory9 22:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The question is valid enough, but it has some implicit assumptions that should be made explicit. I assume you mean points in (a subset/interval of) the reals. We should probably also say explicitly that a pair is two different numbers/points and that the distance is the usual euclidian distance. Then we can rephrase the question to whether there exists any numbers $$x,y \in R$$, $$x \ne y$$ so that $$|x-y|=0$$. The answer to that is no, and the proof might be trivial or not depending on which set of axioms you start out with. You can read the archives of Talk:Proof that 0.999... equals 1 for a few ideas. Of course we might consider a line segment in fx. the hyperreal numbers, and the answer might be different. But if the distance-measure is metric, points with zero distance are per definiton identical. Rasmus (talk) 18:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I've never heard of the hyperreals before. I started reading the wiki page and it looks quite interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm still a bit confused with your explanation for the reals though. For example if I took the set of reals between 0 and 1, wouldn't the smallest element be arbitrarily close to 0? So is it still okay to say that the smallest element > 0? Since we didn't include zero, I guess the answer is yes by definition. However if it is > 0, then I can easily define an even smaller element (element/2). So it appears there is no smallest element. Which seems to imply the set is empty. Somehow I was thinking there might be some way that "neighborring elements" had "zero distance" between them, so there is indeed a smallest element != 0, but "zero distance" away from 0. Which is of course contradictory as well, but would also make the set of pairs of differing points that are "zero distance" apart (ie neighboring points) a non null set. Obviously I'm just making up nonsense at this juncture. Can you help me be a bit more rigorous here and understand the common flaw in my thinking here? Thanks Gregory9 13:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I am not quite sure that I understand what you mean in your first example. You don't say whether the set is open or closed, but I assume you mean the set of reals strictly between 0 and 1 (ie. $$x \in R, 0 < x < 1$$). That set doesn't have a smallest element, as you correctly conclude, but it certainly isn't empty - 0.5 is a member for instance.
 * I have met the concept of "neighboring elements" before. The fact is, there is no such thing in the reals. Consider this: If x and y, $$x \ne y$$, are neighbors. What then is the relationship between x and $$\frac{x+y}{2}$$?
 * If I follow your reasoning correctly, you are imagining moving an infinitesimal small distance away from your point, so that you are now at a different point, but the distance moved is still 0. The problem with that reasoning is that per the Archimedean property of the reals, there is no such thing as an infinitesimal small distance. The distance is either 0 or a finite number.
 * I hope that helps a bit. In these matters intuition is sometimes more of a hindrance than a help :-) Rasmus (talk) 19:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... you're right about the comment "intuition is sometimes more of a hindrance" here. So some infinite sets of reals have a least number, some don't. I really have trouble conceptually understanding what allows that. It appears to me that the problem is more in representation. For instance if we consider all $$x \in R, 1 < x < 2$$ we can't "write out" the least number, but for $$1 \le x < 2$$ we can ... I have trouble seeing what makes the elements in those two sets different besides that fact.

Also, does any of this change if we consider the rationals since those are countable? If I can order them, why can't I ask what the least number is? We still run into the same problem. It's almost as if the set is countable until you order it. Is this really correct?

Oh, and after you pointed out the hyperreals to me, I saw the page on the surreal numbers. If we consider the set of surreal numbers in an interval, then is there always a least number and always a largest number? The surreals almost seem more like the average person's conception of numbers than the reals. And while I'm afraid to ask, if we consider the decimal representation to be representing surreals, then is 0.9999... not equal to 1? Gregory9 17:39, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * If I may butt in, unfortunately with any infinite set it is possible for it to not have a "least element". However, it is possible to have an infimum, which may or may not be in the set - and of course there are cases where even that is undefined, depending on the underlying structure. For example, the sets $$\left \{x : 1 \le x < 2\right \}$$ and $$\left \{x : 1 < x < 2\right \}$$, taken as subsets of the real numbers, both have infimum of 1. The set $$\left \{1, 1.4, 1.41, 1.414, ...\right \}$$, taken as a subset of the reals, has infimum $$\sqrt{2}$$, but taken as a subset of the rationals has no infimum. Note that this set is even countably infinite. If the idea of a set not necessarily having a smallest element is troubling, try this geometrical comparison - where are the endpoints of a closed curve, such as a circle? Probably the same place the smallest element of the real numbers is ;) Confusing Manifestation 03:37, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. If you have time, can you answer some of my other questions in the last post? Also, I don't see how your geometrical comparison is equivalent. With the set of numbers in a particular interval there is a defined order as you can always state if any one element is greater or less than any other specified element. You can't do this with points on a circle. Gregory9 09:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

 * First, just to make this completely clear, let us reiterate the proof that the set $${x \in R: 0 < x < 1}=(0,1)$$ has no least element. We do it by contradiction: assume there is a least member $$x \in (0,1)$$. But if $$x \in (0,1)$$ then also $$x/2 \in (0,1)$$, since $$x/2 \in R$$ and $$0 < x/2 < 1$$. But since $$x/2 < x $$, we have a contradiction. Conclusion: there is no least member. That was of course trivial, but it sometimes helps to see a proof including all (or at least most) of the details.
 * Another way to visualize the concept of sets with no least element, may be to first think of the natural numbers. It should be clear that the natural numbers, N, has no largest member. Now consider the set $${1/n : n \in N}={1/1, 1/2, 1/3, ...}$$. This set cannot contain a smallest number, since if it did, it would contradict the fact that N has no largest number.
 * The difference between the sets (0,1) and [0,1] is exactly that the second set contains the infimum and supremum of the first set. You may want to read open set, closed set and closure (mathematics), which explains how this can be generalized.
 * As User:ConMan explained, the existence of subsets that are not closed (which is what this boils down to), is not limited to uncountable sets. In fact it is a property of the topology of the set. If all subsets are closed we call the set (with the associated topology) a discrete space.
 * You might be thinking of countability in the wrong way. The integers are countable, but they don't have a least element. Countability does not imply that you can count them in order - just that there is some place to start and a method to count, so that you at some point reach every member of the set.
 * I am not very familiar with the surreal numbers. But since the article states that you can embed the real numbers in them, the embedding of the set (0,1) is also a set in the surreal numbers, and this set can't contain a least number either. However, it is probably not an interval in the surreals. My guess would be that the equivalent interval $${x \in S: 0_S < x < 1_S}$$ does not have a least element, either, but I am not sure how to prove it (if the reals are dense in the surreals, it should be easy to show it).
 * As for the final question, if we define $$0.999..._S = \sum_{i=1}^\infty \frac{9_S}{10_S^i} = \lim_{n -> \infty} \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{9_S}{10_S^i}$$, then since 0.999... = 1 in the reals, then also $$0.999..._S = 1_S$$ in the surreals (by the transfer principle). We might however (for some strange reason) choose to define $$0.999..._S = 1 - \epsilon$$, where $$\epsilon$$ is an infinitesimal. Then of course $$0.999... \ne 1$$. Rasmus (talk) 10:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Because the surreals contain infinitesimals, intervals can contain a smallest element since there now is an element which $$x = x/2, x \ne 0$$. Because it also includes infinite numbers, it seems obvious to me that all intervals in the surreals do indeed have a least element and a largest element (regardless of open vs closed intervals). In many cases, the surreals fit better with the lay person's usage / expectations of numbers. So I wonder if it is better to consider the decimal representation as representing surreals instead of just reals. In most cases it wouldn't make a difference, but for things like $$0.999... = 1 - \epsilon$$ and thus $$0.999... \ne 1$$ it would.

Note that I am in no way saying that any of the $$0.999... = 1$$ proofs are wrong. I am merely stating that this is only true if you disallow infinitesimal numbers, which since the average person would consider that a set of numbers should have a least number that the lay person implicitly uses a set of numbers "larger" than the reals. The question of what numbers are being represented by decimal notion is therefore non-trival (since it is rarely explicitly stated). The disagreements over what 0.999... represent are therefore not even being discussed on the same level since the openning statement ($$x \in R$$) is already differring from the laypersons definition of what the decimals are representing. In this sense (and only in this sense) I feel they have a valid point. Gregory9 21:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

 * First of all, it is not true that for an infinitesimal $$\epsilon$$, $$\epsilon = \epsilon/2$$. By the field-structure (the surreals are actually not a field (mathematics, since it is a class not a set), if $$x = x/2 \Rightarrow 2x = x \Rightarrow x = 0$$. This also means that defining $$0.999... = 1 - \epsilon$$ would be very arbitrary. Why not define it as $$0.999... = 1 - \epsilon/2$$?

 * As for the lay-person's/non-mathematician's view of numbers, I would actually think that the rational numbers, or perhaps even (after the introduction of calculators) the set of all finite decimal numbers, would be the closest match for the average person. At least it very much is opposite to my intuition to have infinitesimals. I like being able to approximate numbers with rational numbers. Say I have two numbers x and y. I know they are close but different. If they are reals, I can find the difference by approximating the values. If they are different, at some point, I will be able to see the difference. For example, x<1.2345678 and y>1.2345679. If these were surreals, they might be different, yet I could continue forever, but never see any difference. That goes against my intuition about the nature of "real" numbers. Rasmus (talk) 08:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh. I thought that for an infinitesimal number, x=x/2. And that for an infinite number, x=x+1. (Basically, I somehow thought that they obeyed different rules for arithmetic.) Apparently I've got the concepts all mixed up. Anyway, thanks for the conversation. This was fun (and hopefully I learned a little). Gregory9 11:13, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Rasmus Faber
Rasmus, please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy: '''There is no excuse for personal attacks on other contributors. Do not make them.' Comment on content'', not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that you may be blocked for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Your daily, unsuccessful attempts to delete Joel Leyden's article illustrates an obcession with personal attacks. Please stop. Thanks, IsraelBeach 00:42, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * You might want to point out where I have made a personal attack. If you want to continue editing the article about yourself, you will need to differentiate between discussions about you as the subject of an article and as an editor of articles. The WP:NPOV-policy does not prevent us from discussing subjects of articles. As for deleting Joel Leyden, I wonder where you get the idea that I have been trying to delete it? (I note that you make a similar claim here). Since the original AfD my only edits to the article have been to defend the inclusion of your marital status and to revert vandalism ( and ). Rasmus (talk) 16:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Rasmus, would you please be kind enough to email me your email address to israelmarketing @ gmail.com. I wish to continue this conversation in private. And if we both owe an apology to one another we can do so in public ;> Best wishes and TIA, Joel IsraelBeach 11:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

 * You can send e-mail to me by pressing the "E-mail this user"-link in the toolbox on the left. If you make accusations or personal attacks, I reserve the right to publish any correspondence here. Rasmus (talk) 11:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Customer relationship management
I saw that you changed my tag on that page to. I am considering changing it back, but perhaps my words on the talk page were not strong enough.

Very simply, the article is patent nonsense, reeks of advertising, and so full of inane, empty buzzwords as to make it impossible to rewrite from the current version. I don't really think it's possible to clean up the current version into something presentable. It also counts as original research in my view. I doubt that there is anything here that isn't already covered by database marketing; the only difference is that this version has been inflated with a blizzard of empty words, seeking to invest that tawdry subject with false grandeur. The cleanup tag is wrong if the real question is whether there should be an article on this bogus subject at all. Smerdis of Tlön 14:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Israelbeach
I would like to bring to your attention that I have filed a request for comment on User:Israelbeach's conduct. --Woggly 11:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Posted by (^'-')^ Covington 07:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC), on behalf of the the AID Maintenance Team

Requests for comment/Woggly
I would like to bring to your attention that a request for comment on User:Woggly's conduct has been filed. Bonnieisrael 17:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Massagetime spam
Hej Rasmus, Spammeren er igang igen. (Lykke til med faderskabet! Håber alt går godt.) -- Fyslee 14:22, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Fyslee spam and slander
Why is Fyslee labelling me with spam tag ? Please offer advice. Labelling people trying to contribute to the body of information  must be detrimental.

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available
 After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

New baby
I assume this means felicitations are due on your new baby? :-) --woggly 08:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks! We had a beautiful baby boy!
 * I am sorry to see that you had so many problems with Israelbeach. I had a few encounters with him myself, but I actually thought he had reformed somewhat. But at least the community was quick to back you up. Rasmus (talk) 21:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

 * He's gorgeous! I'm so jealous. Then again, I like sleeping, and wearing clothes that are not decorated with spit up.
 * The Israelbeach story, unfortunately, now goes beyond wikipedia. But "don't feed the trolls" seems to be a good policy for life as well. --woggly 06:24, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Napoleon's theorem.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Napoleon's theorem.png, has been listed at. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Shinobu 12:07, 7 July 2006 (UTC) (It has been redrawn as a vector image - nothing links to it anymore.)

Biggest Loser
I added a new kim lyons page. Maybe you can expand it.Mrsmart 01:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Today's featured article
Tobacman 00:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Are you still here?
Rasmus,

You contributed some critical links which stopped some falsehoods that were being told on the Bjorn Lomborg page. Those links, such as this one, are now inaccessible, requiring a password. I wish very much that I had thought to make copies of the articles before, but I did not. Do you know of any way to access these sources again? The point of the article was that it affirmed that the DCSD's findings had been rendered moot by the MSTI. Thank you. Unschool 06:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Sure, I am still here. Just not very active. The problem seems to be that Agency for Science (www.forsk.dk) has changed its name and become the Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (www.fist.dk). In doing so they dropped their old website, including the old documents. I have written a letter to them, asking them to help me dig up the old documents. Best regards, Rasmus (talk) 07:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Many thanks. I think that those arguments would still be raging had you not brought those documents to the table, and I can imagine, once someone finds that they are no longer live links, questioning the result of the previous discussion.  I shall continue to look here for your success in this matter.  Thanks, Unschool 07:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * They finally replied, and kindly sent me both the Danish and the English version of the press-release. I have copied the text here. If you want the original Word-files that I received, just send me an e-mail address. Rasmus (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hej!
Jeg kan se at du er aktiv på den engelske Wikipedia, og at du er fra Danmark. I skrivende stund, diskuterer vi på landsbybrønden et nyt forslag, om at starte en national afdeling, der vil blive kaldet Wikimedia Danmark. Hvis du er interesseret i at bidrage med noget tid til at få startet afdelingen, kan du skrive dit navn på denne side hos meta. Tak for din tid! Mike H. Fierce! 08:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Disney's PhotoPass
Do you have a reference for the revision you just made to Disney's PhotoPass concerning sale of photopass CDs on DCL?--RadioFan (talk) 12:56, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Photopass CDs are still not sold on DCL (as the article correctly notes, there is no connection between DCL and PhotoPass), but you can now buy a CD with all the pictures taken on your cruise. Here is one reference: Photo CDs, but that one is not suitable for inclusion in the article. Rasmus (talk) 16:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Rasmus Faber! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is an  Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current  article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 16:36, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo -

Wikidag 2012
Hej!

Den 23. september er der Wikidag 2012 i København. Der bliver workshops og oplæg og mulighed for at mødes "i den virkelige verden" med andre wikipedianere. Det vil glæde os at se en masse mennesker! --Palnatoke (talk) 21:39, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:13, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Gunilla Sköld-Feiler for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gunilla Sköld-Feiler is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Gunilla Sköld-Feiler until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Shrike (talk) 14:17, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Gunilla Sköld-Feiler for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gunilla Sköld-Feiler is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Gunilla Sköld-Feiler& until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 09:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed
Hello Rasmus Faber! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II  talk  20:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process
Hello!

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to improve the community consultation outreach process for Foundation policies, and we are interested in why you didn't participate in a recent consultation that followed a community discussion you’ve been part of.

Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes.

The privacy policy for this survey is here. This survey is a one-off request from us related to this unique topic.

Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:45, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Supersolid phase.png

The file File:Supersolid phase.png has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern: "unused, low-res, no obvious use"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the file's talk page.

Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 01:01, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

title: User talk:Rasmus Faber


text: Template:Minnesota-geo-stub

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Template:Minnesota-geo-stub


text: Template:Missouri-geo-stub

title: Template:Missouri-geo-stub


text: Category:Pakistani models

title: Category:Pakistani models


text:
User talk:Strider1411

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. -- 11:39, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Strider1411


text:
The Sunchaser

The Sunchaser (marketed simply as Sunchaser in promotional material) is a 1996 road crime drama film directed by Michael Cimino, written by Charles Leavitt and starring Woody Harrelson and Jon Seda. It was director Cimino's last feature-length film.

It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 49th Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
Brandon "Blue" Monroe, a 16-year-old half-Navajo gang member from East L.A., is serving time in prison for murdering his abusive stepfather. On an annual medical visit, Blue is told by Dr. Michael Reynolds, a wealthy, materialistic oncologist with a wife and daughter, that he is dying of abdominal cancer and has very little time left to live. Convinced that he can heal if he gets to a medicine man in Arizona he knew when he was 8, Blue kidnaps Michael, holding him at gunpoint, and forces him to drive them to a nearby garage where they switch cars.

Blue seeks to find Dibé Nitsaa (one of the six mountain lakes sacred to the Navajo people), said to heal the wounds of anyone who swims in its waters. Michael, however, bemoans his capture to Blue, seeking help to anyone who he comes across and complaining that he is missing out on a dinner engagement for promotion as head of the oncology department. The two men are instantly at odds with each other, separated by their education, class, race, and two very different world views. Michael believes that modern medicine has all the answers to whatever ails human beings, while Blue believes in Native American spirituality which honors the spirit world, sacred places, and herbal medicine.

En route to Arizona, Michael and Blue have a rough encounter with a group of bikers in a small town, and a chase pursues. Later, Michael is bitten by a rattlesnake but is quickly treated for it by Blue, without medical equipment. Back in Los Angeles, Mrs. Reynolds elicits a police manhunt, and the authorities then attempt to track the two men on their eastward journey. As Michael grows closer to his abductor, he comes to terms with a harbored childhood secret that had haunted him; he was forced to take the life of his older brother, who was on his death bed and had asked a young Michael to pull the plug.

As Blue's condition worsens, Michael resorts to illegal means to obtain the needed medicine by breaking into a hospital in Flagstaff. The next morning, the two enter the Navajo reservation, but spot a police cruiser parked ahead of them. To escape, Michael drives off the main road and blends in with a cattle herd, becoming unnoticed in the dust kickup.

Eluding the authorities and finally committed to helping Blue on his quest, Michael manages to whisk Blue up the mountain. Meanwhile, a police helicopter spots their car parked nearby. Reaching the top, Blue is reunited with the medicine man, who directs him to the lake. Michael and Blue embrace, and the two part ways. As the helicopter spots Michael, Blue runs toward the lake, before mystically disappearing into its waters. Back in L.A., Michael, escorted by the police and wearing handcuffs, is reunited with his family.

Cast

 * Woody Harrelson as Michael Reynolds
 * Jon Seda as Brandon "Blue" Monroe
 * Anne Bancroft as Renata Baumbauer
 * Alexandra Tydings as Victoria Reynolds
 * Matt Mulhern as Chip Byrnes
 * Talisa Soto as Navajo Woman
 * Richard Bauer as Dr. Bradford
 * Victor Aaron as Webster Skyhorse
 * Lawrence Pressman as FBI Agent-In-Charge Collier
 * Michael O'Neill as FBI Agent Moreland
 * Harry Carey Jr. as Cashier
 * Carmen Dell'Orefice as Arabella
 * Brooke Ashley as Calantha Reynolds
 * Andrea Roth as Head Nurse
 * Bob Minor as Deputy Lynch
 * Brett Harrelson as Younger Highway Patrol Officer
 * Andy Berman as Person In Oncology

Production
In 1994, Cimino was approached by Regency Enterprises producer Arnon Milchan to direct The Sunchaser, a script by Charles Leavitt that had been offered previously to Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson. Taking creative liberties with the screenplay, Cimino spent several months researching the gang culture of Los Angeles.

Parts of the film were shot in Downtown Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, Arizona, Zion National Park, Utah and Colorado. To give authenticity to the dialogue, Cimino had several Navajo advisors on set at all times, including actor Leon Skyhorse Thomas, who gave input on the scenes between Woody Harrelson and Jon Seda.

Mickey Rourke, a collaborator and friend of Cimino's, believed the director "snapped" sometime during the making of The Sunchaser. "Michael is the sort of person that if you take away his money he short-circuits," Rourke said. "He is a man of honor."

Post-production
Although Cimino was not granted final cut privilege, the producers did not interfere with the editing. Pablo Ferro, the film's main title designer, recommended Joe D'Augustine after the original editor was fired. D'Augustine recalled his first meeting with Cimino: "It was kind of eerie, freaky. I was led into this dark editing room with black velvet curtains and there was this guy hunched over. They bring me into, like, his chamber, as if he was the Pope. Everyone was speaking in hushed tones. He had something covering his face, a handkerchief. He kept his face covered. And nobody was allowed to take his picture [...] Welcome to Ciminoville."

Eventually, he began to like working with Cimino; "He was a genius. I wanted to be his friend," said D'Augustine. "We're sitting there watching the movie, looking for places to add sound effects. We get to the scene where the kid is on the phone, calling 911, shouting, 'There's a guy here with a gun.' I said, 'Do want to put in their side of the conversation?' Michael says, 'I don't know what they'd say,' and then he picks up the phone and dials 911. He says, 'There's a man here with a gun, a very large one,' and then he hands the phone to the sound guy so he can write down what they say."

Jack Nitzsche was originally slated to compose the music for the film, however, creative differences between him and Cimino led to Nitzsche's replacement by Maurice Jarre. Jarre was chosen on the basis of his scores for David Lean epics such as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, which Cimino loved. He once said that his favorite part of making a film was watching the recording of the soundtrack over the film:

"'Suddenly you see this music come on the screen and you think for the first time: I really made a movie. My God, it looks like a movie up there! And it's like, you feel like you're about 12, and it's the first time it occurs to you that you've done a movie [...] It's sublime. Really sublime moment. The best moment in movies I think.'"

In the end credits, Cimino dedicates the film "To Hal", referencing fellow director Hal Ashby, who himself refused medical treatment for, and died of pancreatic cancer. Coincidentally, on his deathbed, Ashby had still believed he could pull through and pondered making a film with similar themes of The Sunchaser, dealing with how he had miraculously cheated death.

Release
The film had its world premiere in France where it was entered into competition at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for the Palme D'Or. A theatrical release was intended, but the film fared so poorly with test audiences that it went straight to video in the United States.

According to composer Maurice Jarre, the film was blocked from receiving the Special Jury Prize by Francis Ford Coppola, who was head of the jury that year: "'Everybody from the Cannes organization loved the film and they wanted to give it Le Prix du Jury, but Francis Ford Coppola disliked Cimino and so the prize was given to another film.'"

Critical reception
The film received largely negative reviews. Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "Michael Cimino's return to filmmaking after a six-year layoff is a conceptually bold tale marked, in its execution, both by visceral intensity and dramatic sloppiness." Jo-Ann Pittman wrote in Film Directors that The Sunchaser had "a predictable and often laughable script. Not good considering it is a drama. The characters are stereotypical and the story again lacks direction. It attempts to handle too many stories at one time. The New Age mystical healing waters are cliche as is the kidnapper/victim story." Leonard Maltin gave the film one and a half stars: "Misbegotten mess tries to touch all trendy bases, scrambling American Indian mysticism, 'New Age' theories and buddy-movie clichés into the format of a road movie."

Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times gave The Sunchaser one of its few positive notices. While noting the predictability of the script, Thomas added, "Yet all that's so familiar in Charles Leavitt's script has been given a fresh, brisk spin by the sheer audacity and force of Cimino's style and by an incisive, wide-ranging performance by Harrelson..."

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, The Sunchaser has a "rotten" approval rating of 17% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10.

title: The Sunchaser


text:
User:Nachoman-au/Image Gallery

Perth

title: User:Nachoman-au/Image Gallery


text:
Fabrice Ehret

Fabrice Ehret (born 28 September 1979) is a former footballer who played as a left midfielder. Born in Switzerland, he represented France at youth level. Former Anderlecht coach Hugo Broos described him as "a player who can control the whole left flank and also is strong in attack".

title: Fabrice Ehret


text: Category:Minnesota geography stubs

title: Category:Minnesota geography stubs


text: Category:Missouri geography stubs

title: Category:Missouri geography stubs


text:
Osteotome

An osteotome is an instrument used for cutting or preparing bone. Osteotomes are similar to a chisel but bevelled on both sides. They are used today in plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery and dental implantation.

The chain osteotome, originally referred to simply as the osteotome, was invented by the German physician Bernhard Heine in 1830. This device is essentially a small chainsaw.

title: Osteotome


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Media audiences

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent 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. Rx StrangeLove 20:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Media audiences
Not much substance to this article, not really informative or encyclopedic. -- Curps 11:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - looks like cut n paste from an undergrad's essay. --MacRusgail 13:31, 3 October 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.


text:
South Simcoe Railway

The South Simcoe Railway is a steam heritage railway in Tottenham, Ontario, north of Toronto. Operating excursions since 1992, it is the oldest operating steam heritage railway in Ontario and features the second oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada.

Operations and rolling stock
Excursions last about 50 minutes over 4 mi of track from Tottenham through the scenic Beeton Creek valley to Beeton and back. Although the trains stop in Beeton, passengers cannot disembark, as there is not a station there. The railway has plans to add a Beeton station, but as is common with many heritage railways, this sort of project is highly dependent on fundraising.

The railway has two ex-Canadian Pacific steam locomotives, the best known being an 1883 Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works 4-4-0 A2m #136, which was used in the 1970s CBC television series The National Dream. #136 helped build the transcontinental railroad, the Canadian Pacific, across Canada in the 1880s. The railway also owns a 1912 Montreal Locomotive Works 4-6-0 D10h, ex-CPR #1057, and two road-capable diesel locomotives, (ex-Canadian Pacific Canadian Locomotive Company D-T-C #22 and ex-Norfolk Southern GE 70-ton diesel-electric #703). Rounding out the collection is a diesel-electric yard switcher locomotive, Ruston-Hornsby 165DE #10.

The excursion train is made up of restored 1920s era coaches, previously owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railway, Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The railway's equipment collection also includes rolling stock not used on the excursions, including a former Ontario Northland Railway business car #200, a combination passenger/baggage coach used as a museum, two wooden cabooses, one steel wide-vision ex-CPR caboose, a ballast car, various boxcars, flat cars, and steam generator cars.

Regular excursions operate from the May long weekend through to the weekend after Thanksgiving. Excursions feature the conductor's commentary on the scenery, the history of the line, and the place of the railways in Canadian history. Special events during the year include the Easter Express, Halloween Adventure and the Santa Claus Express at Christmas, which have a holiday focus. The PBS series Shining Time Station was shot here and at Union Station.

Organization Volunteers
The driving force behind the South Simcoe Railway is Eric Smith, who is the organization's president, Operations Manager and Chief Mechanical Officer. He oversees all aspects of the operation of the railway and its volunteer members.

The excursion trains are operated by volunteers who have taken their training regarding all aspects of railway operation, and qualified as flagmen, trainmen, conductors, firemen or locomotive engineers. All volunteers with operational qualifications haven written their Canadian Rail Operating Rules examination and GOI examination, and are required to regularly re-qualify.

Maintenance and restoration activities are also carried out by volunteers. This includes track, right-of-way, site and property maintenance, locomotive maintenance and repair, and coach maintenance, cleaning and repair.

Operational and restoration activities are managed and supervised by volunteer foremen, department managers and the board of directors; in all cases, these managers and directors are also active volunteers who take on roles in the day-to-day operation of the Railway.

Restoration
Engine #136 was returned to service in August 2011 after extensive restoration work by the organization's volunteers. As of 2024, the South Simcoe Railway operates excursion trains behind diesel locomotive #703, with steam locomotive #136 currently undergoing planned maintenance. Engine #1057, which had hauled excursion trains since the 2001 season, has been out of service since 2007 awaiting maintenance.

title: South Simcoe Railway


text:
Revenue protection inspector

Revenue protection inspector (RPI) or revenue protection officer (RPO) is the job title given to staff who patrol different forms of public transport issuing penalty fares to passengers who travel without a valid ticket or without the correct ticket (e.g. travelling where the ticket is not valid or a commuter using a concession ticket without possessing appropriate evidence of entitlement to concession). Bus inspectors also check whether the bus is running to time and whether the driver/conductor is collecting fares correctly, and attempt to maintain headways.

These titles are principally used in the United Kingdom and Australia. In the United States, and Canada, fare inspectors are transit police officers who audit transit passengers for proper payment of fare; in addition in some cases, regular police officers are authorized to conduct fare inspections on some systems.

United Kingdom
Revenue inspectors and officers mostly work at railway stations checking passengers' tickets as they board and alight trains, but can also be found on bus services. Inspectors may begin an investigation if they believe a passenger is travelling without a valid ticket, such as an adult travelling on a child ticket, an out of date or invalid ticket, or if the passenger has travelled beyond the destination printed on their ticket, with the intent to avoid their correct rail or bus fare. If the revenue inspector or officer believes there was intent to avoid payment, a penalty fare may be issued, or the passenger may be reported for prosecution. Inspectors usually wear a uniform provided by their employer..

In some areas, penalty fare schemes operate with a minimum charge of £100 (£50 if paid within 14 days) plus the full single fare for the journey made. In other areas, the penalty is £80. These penalty fare areas are clearly advertised with large yellow station posters. If the journey is to be continued, the fare for the remaining portion is also taken into account.

Inspectors can caution potential fare evaders before interviewing them for the purpose of reporting the offender for possible prosecution. If found guilty, offenders can currently face a maximum of a £1,000 fine or three months in prison.

East Midlands Railway, Merseyrail, Northern, Govia Thameslink Railway, South Western Railway, West Midland Railway, London Overground, Southeastern, c2c, Abellio Greater Anglia, TransPennine Express, Chiltern Railways and Great Western Railway are some of the train operating companies that participate in the penalty fare scheme. With bus companies such as Arriva, Stagecoach, First, National Express West Midlands and National Express Coventry also fining people.

Transport for London currently employs over 200 revenue protection inspectors that work on the bus network alone.

Powers
Revenue Protection Officers have the power to require anyone they reasonably suspect of a ticket or bylaw violation to provide their name and address. As of the 23rd January 2023, Revenue Protection Officers additionally have the power to require anyone suspected of a ticket or bylaw violation to provide their date of birth. However, RPOs cannot require a suspect to produce ID.

They also have the power to detain people under common or criminal law circumstances:
 * if a person fails to provide their name and address after being required to because for lack of a ticket or failing to buy a ticket when required, (this legislation only applies to railways) and
 * if a person fails to leave the train when reaching the point that has been paid for.

Australia
Revenue protection officers also patrol Yarra Trams and Metro Trains Melbourne services in Victoria. They were introduced in a bid to curb fare evasion after conductors were taken away from the trams. Replacement of conductors with ticket machines as the point of sale method has also resulted in thousands of commuters evading fares on Melbourne trams. Many people view RPIs and RPOs negatively, and in the discharge of their duties, they regularly face being verbally abused and sometimes even physically assaulted. It is believed that an estimated 1,500 people are reported each week on services.

In New South Wales, revenue protection on its rail network is primarily the responsibility of transit officers. Like their Victorian counterparts, these transit officers also carry out security patrols on trains and railway stations, with the power of issuing on-the-spot penalty notices for minor offences, and even to use "reasonable force" to make arrests.

Revenue protection on the NSW state government-owned Sydney Buses & Sydney Ferries is done by state transit revenue protection officers.

In Queensland, Queensland Rail, G:Link and Translink employ authorised officers and senior network officers to patrol bus, train, ferry and tram services.

In Victoria, regardless of their attire, revenue protection personnel must produce identification when discharging their duties. They operate by asking the alleged offender to pay a $75 penalty fare on-the-spot, or, if the person who committed the offence is not offered this option or otherwise does not pay on the spot, they instead request for the person's name, address and proof of identity to submit a report to the Department of Transport, in which case the fine can increase to $212. The former option does not allow an appeal or refund, but neither does a suspect have to provide their contact details. The latter option allows the accused person to challenge the penalty in court, appeal the matter, request for a payment plan or apply for a work and development permit. If the alleged offender may elect to request a review, the department can either continue demanding a financial penalty, withdraw and refer the matter to the court, withdraw and issue a caution to the person, withdraw and take no further action or reduce the fees payable.

As of 2017, however, the on-the-spot system was abolished and replaced with a blanket penalty amounting to $240 for adults or $80 for minors. Revenue protection personnel may use their discretion to issue either a warning or an infringement notice.

Because the Victoria tram system relies on a 'honour system', where commuters can freely access a tram without barriers blocking them, plain-clothed personnel are much more common on these modes of transport rather than on trains or buses, although undercover employees are known to patrol all types of vehicles.

Western Australia

Public Transport Authority,

Transit Officers are employed directly by the PTA and have powers of a Public Officer as per the Criminal Investigation Act 2004. Previously known as 'Railway Special Constables' PTA Revenue Protection Officers wear a similar uniform, however are employed by a private security company contracted to the PTA. The contractor us currently MSS. They are required to attend a 21-day training course that includes legal powers, railway geography, ticket checking and rails identification safety.

Transport Security are the PTA Bus and Ferry Operations unit that utilise contract private security staff. The current contractor is Wilson Security. They patrol on board vehicles, by foot at bus terminals and in marked cars.

Security contractors have limited powers under the Act.

'Inhalation of a substance' (aka 'petrol sniffing') is an offence on PTA property, however it is not under the Criminal Code Crime Act Compilation Act 1913

Powers
Railway employees in Australia generally have the same power to detain a person who may have committed an offence as those in the United Kingdom:

 * They can check a commuter's ticket and/or evidence of concession, even after the passenger has left the vehicle or station
 * They can retain a ticket for use as evidence unless the commuter has an electronic ticket
 * Unlike inspectors in the UK, those in Australia are generally empowered to request identification from any person on premises or a vehicle. They can request a person of interest's name, address and evidence of identification (for example driver license, learner permit, proof of age, or Keypass)
 * They can report the suspect to the Department of Transport
 * They can detain any person who they believe may have committed an offence, who do not comply until the police arrives. However, this is only implemented in Victoria, and in other states, such as Sydney, it is theoretically possible to run away from a ticket inspector without ramifications, unless there is a member, or members, of the police force in the general vicinity.

title: Revenue protection inspector


text:
TBJ

TBJ is may refer to:
 * Toronto Blue Jays, a Major League Baseball team
 * Law & Order: Trial by Jury, an American television drama
 * Tabarka-Ain Draham International Airport, IATA airport code
 * The Basketball Jones, a former sports blog on The Score covering the NBA

title: TBJ


text:
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.

History
The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine Luce!. In 1912 he founded La Sociale and published the first book AiaMadama together with his close friend Tommaso Monicelli and the following year, La Lampada, a series of children's books.

The publishing house kept working intensely even during the First World War, mainly on the publication of magazines for the troops on the front such as La Tradotta, which included contributions from famous illustrators and writers such as Soffici, De Chirico and Carrà.

In 1919 the publishing house headquarters were transferred to Milan. After the First World War, Mondadori launched several successful book series including Gialli Mondadori in 1929, the first example of an Italian book series dedicated to detective and crime novels, by international writers, a new genre for Italy. The series is distinguished by the yellow (giallo in Italian) color of the covers. The response from the public was positive, with five thousand copies sold in a month and eight thousand after a hundred days. In addition to those who are considered the masters of the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Georges Simenon, Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner, in 1931 even some Italian writers began to take an interest in the genre and write yellow novels. As a result of the success and longevity of the series, still on newsstands, "giallo" has become the Italian name of the literary genre.

Despite a period of cultural autarky, in 1933 Mondadori started publishing works of international writers with the Medusa book series. In 1935, through an agreement with Walt Disney, the publishing house began the publication of a children's magazines based on Disney comics characters, which ran until 1988, when the agreement between Mondadori and the Walt Disney Company ended (the comics rights were transferred to The Walt Disney Company Italy).

In 1950 Mondadori returned to the information magazines, abandoned ten years earlier with the suspension, due to the war, of the monthly Tempo. The weekly Epoca was started, which imported the American model of photojournalism into Italy. A few years later, in 1962, Mondadori published Panorama. The magazine was founded as a monthly information magazine and it was only in 1967 that it became a weekly, inspired by the editorial formula of Time and Newsweek, and was transformed into a successful newsmagazine.

In 1952 Mondadori launched I romanzi di Urania (Urania's novels), a twice monthly Italian science fiction magazine that contributed to the wider diffusion of this genre in Italy.

In 1960 Mondadori launched Il Club degli Editori, the first Italian mail-order book club and in 1965 became the first Italian publishing house to launch low-cost paperbacks for sale through newsstands (Oscar Mondadori), an experiment that would be a huge success and that was imitated by many publishers. The aim of the series was to reach an audience not used to buying in bookshops. The first novel published was A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, who immediately experienced great results in terms of copies sold. Between 1950 and 1965, the number of employees at Mondadori rose from 335 to 3,000 and resulted in the company's decision to construct a new building in the outskirts of Milan, specifically within the municipality of Segrate.

In 1968, Giorgio Mondadori, Arnoldo's son and chairman of the publishing house, decided to assign the project for the new headquarters to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, after having admired his work on the Foreign Ministry (Palácio Itamaraty) in Brasilia three years earlier. Construction began in 1971 and the new headquarters was inaugurated in January 1975.

Through a joint venture with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso in 1976, Mondadori published La Repubblica, its first daily newspaper; Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso was finally separated from Mondadori in 1991.

In 1981 Mondadori entered the television business with the launch of the Rete Quattro TV station, which was sold to Fininvest a few years later. In the same year, through a joint venture with Canada's Harlequin Enterprises, the romantic fiction book series Harmony began to be published in Italy.

The company has been controlled by Fininvest, Silvio Berlusconi's family holding company since 1991. Marina Berlusconi is the chairman.

In 1989, Mondadori expanded into Mexico by acquiring Editorial Grijalbo. Beginning in 2001, Mondadori operated a joint venture with Random House in Spanish-speaking countries. Random House bought out Mondadori's stake in 2012.

In 2006, Mondadori took a big step forward in its international expansion with the acquisition of Emap France, one of France's leading magazine publishers, today Mondadori France.

Mondadori was one of the first Italian publishers to enter the e-book market and in 2000 an agreement was signed with Microsoft Corporation for the creation of the first Italian site for the sale of electronic books. In 2010 Mondadori accelerated its presence: in June, the Group's online bookstore launched a store dedicated to digital books, with a vast catalogue of titles in Italian and English. In December, Mondadori reached an agreement for the international distribution of books produced by the Group's publishing houses on Google Books and Google eBooks. Thanks to an accord with Vodafone Italia, in 2011 Mondadori launched the first online newsstand for tablets. Through this new platform, it is possible to access the digital edition of the Group's major weeklies and monthlies. The digital development continued in July 2011 with an agreement between Mondadori and Amazon that makes the Group's e-books available through the Kindle store. In September 2011, Mondadori's digital titles were also made available on the iBookstore for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

The following year Mondadori Group and Kobo Inc., a leading company globally in digital reading, signed an accord for the distribution in Italy of Kobo's eReading platform and related devices. In 2014 Mondadori bought the trademark and assets of aNobii, the global social reading platform with more than a million users around the world, of which around 300,000 in Italy, with the aim of supporting the process of growth in digital for books.

In 2012 Mondadori published Fifty Shades of Grey, the first volume of the erotic trilogy by debut London author E L James, rapidly followed by the two other titles, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. The trilogy saw in Italy the same kind of unprecedented success it gained in the English-language world: with more than 3.3 million copies sold in Italy and 130,000 downloads of the electronic version, the three volumes reached first, third and fourth position of the bestseller list for 2012.

In 2015–16, the acquisitions of RCS Libri (was renamed to Rizzoli Libri) from RCS MediaGroup as well as Banzai Media mark the culmination of the strategy launched in 2013 of focusing on the traditional core businesses: books and magazines.

In 2016, the Italian Competition Authority ruled that Mondadori would have to divest the publishers Bompiani and Marsilio Editori, following its acquisition of RCS Libri. Marsilio Editori was sold by Rizzoli Libri to De Michelis family's GEM S.r.l. while Bompiani was sold to Giunti Editore for €16.5 million.

As part of the strategy of focusing on its core businesses, in 2018 the Group sold Panorama and in 2019 its subsidiary Mondadori France to Reworld Media.

Mondadori war
Between 1989 and 1991, there was a financial conflict between Silvio Berlusconi and Carlo De Benedetti, two of the largest employers of those years.

In 1988 Berlusconi bought Leonardo Mondadori's (nephew of Arnoldo Mondadori) shares. Mondadori was then owned by three: Berlusconi's Fininvest, Carlo De Benedetti's CIR and the Formenton family (Arnoldo Mondadori's heir). Carlo De Benedetti convinced the Formentons to conclude an agreement that would allow him to obtain the Formenton's shares by 30 January 1991, but in November 1989 the Formenton family sided with Berlusconi, allowing him to become the new Mondadori chairman on 25 January 1990; De Benedetti then protested, citing its agreement. The three sides took the unanimous decision of an arbitrary award to solve the conflict.

On 20 June 1990 was the first verdict: the agreement between De Benedetti and Formenton was considered still valid; as a consequence, the Mondadori shares became owned by the CIR (De Benedetti) and Berlusconi left the chairmanship of the company. Berlusconi and the Formentons then appealed at the Appeal Court of Rome, which assigned the case to Civil Section I. This section was chaired by Arnaldo Valente and the Judge-Rapporteur was Vittorio Metta. The ruling was made public on 24 January 1991 and nullified the arbitrary award verdict and gave the Mondadori shares back to Berlusconi's Fininvest.

In 1995, after receiving some proclamations, the judiciary started investigating the authenticity of the ruling. It turned out that Berlusconi won thanks to the corruption of Judge Vittorio Metta. Metta was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, but won an appeal in 2005. The Supreme Court of Cassation nullified that appeal in 2006, and Vittorio Metta was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months in 2007. Berlusconi has not been sentenced. The trial expired for time limit.

Business areas

 * Books
 * Magazines (Italy, and worldwide licensing)
 * Retail: the company owns a chain of bookshops and the internet-based bookshop mondadoristore.it.

Imprints
The group today includes several distinct publishing houses, a number of which have more than one imprint:

Mondadori
Founded in 1907 by Arnoldo Mondadori in Ostiglia, but based in Milan since 1919, Edizioni Mondadori became one of the best-known Italian book publishers, with early collaborations with Disney and the Il Giallo Mondadori series of mystery/crime novels.

Giulio Einaudi editore
Founded in 1933 by Giulio Einaudi in Turin, it became one of the most significant Italian publishing houses of the twentieth century. Its authors included Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Leone Ginzburg and Bruno Zevi, and it was the publisher of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. It was acquired by Mondadori in 1994.

Edizioni EL
Based in Trieste and publishing children's books under the imprints EL, Einaudi Ragazzi and Emme Edizione. Giulio Einaudi editore has a 50% stake in the company.

Sperling & Kupfer
Acquired by Mondadori in the 1980s, this publishing house founded in 1899 is one of the oldest publishing houses in Milan. Its traditional international focus, and concentration on current affairs, has been supplemented in recent years by publications in fiction, non-fiction, economics, manuals and popular science. Its imprints include Frassinelli.

Edizioni Piemme
Acquired by Mondadori in 2003, Edizioni Piemme is particularly active in the area of religion and books for children and young adults.

Mondadori Electa
A group based in Milan with three imprints: Electa, active in the art and history of art sector since 1945; Mondadori, which publishes illustrated books in areas such as nature, hobbies and history as well as tourist guides; and Mondadori Arte, intended to present art, architecture, design and archeology to non-specialist audiences.

Mondadori Education
Formerly Edumond Le Monnier, was acquired in 2008 and based in Milan, Bologna and Florence.

Rizzoli Libri
Founded in 1927, Rizzoli is a large general publishing house which publishes works of fiction and non-fiction, books for young adults, graphic novels, manuals and illustrated books.

Rizzoli Education
Rizzoli Education is a leader in Italian school publishing, where it is present in every order of instruction through publishing products (paper and digital), services and technologies for students, families and teachers.

Italy

 * Automobile Club until 2011
 * Auto oggi until 2011
 * Bolero Film
 * Panoramauto.it
 * CasaFacile
 * Casabella
 * Casaviva until 2013
 * Chi
 * Ciak until 2014
 * Confidenze until 2019
 * Cosmopolitan until 2011
 * Creare until 2007
 * Cucina Moderna until 2019
 * Cucina No Problem until 2018
 * Donna Moderna
 * Doppiovù until 1978
 * Economy until 2012
 * Epoca
 * Evo until 2011
 * Flair until 2016
 * Focus
 * Focus Brain Trainer until 2012
 * Focus Junior
 * Focus Pico
 * Focus Storia
 * Geo until 2015
 * Giallo Zafferano
 * Grazia until 2022
 * Grazia Casa until 2015
 * Guida Cucina until 2018
 * Guida TV
 * Icon
 * Icon Design
 * Il mio Papa
 * Interni
 * Jack until 2012
 * Men's Health until 2013
 * Nuovi Argomenti
 * Panorama until 2018
 * Panorama Travel until 2013
 * PC Professionale until 2014
 * Prometeo
 * Sale & Pepe until 2019
 * Spy
 * Starbene until 2019
 * Telepiù
 * Tempo
 * Topolino until 1988
 * TuStyle until 2019
 * TV Sorrisi e Canzoni
 * VilleGiardini until 2013

Greece
Mondadori owns 41.66% of Greece's Attica Publications S.A., Athens DeeJay (Greece), and Rock FM (Greece).

Digital properties

 * AndroidWorld.it
 * SmartWorld.it
 * MobileWorld.it
 * AlterVista.org
 * PianetaDonna.it
 * GialloZafferano.it
 * Studenti.it
 * Mypersonaltrainer.it
 * SoldiOnline.it

Market shares and competitors 2019

 * Italian market share (trade books): 26.2% (source: GFK, December 2019) – competitors: GeMS Group, Giunti Group, Feltrinelli Editore, Newton Compton, De Agostini Group.
 * Italian market share (Educational): 21.7% (source: ESAIE, 2019) – competitors: Zanichelli, Pearson, De Agostini Group.
 * Italian market share (circulation): 28.9% (in terms of value; source: Press-di, December 2019) – competitors: Cairo Editore, RCS MediaGroup, Casa Editrice Universo, Hearst Magazine, Condé Nast.

Financial performance
Table with a comparison of Mondadori financial performance over the last 10 years.

The figures for 2018 are presented in accordance with IFRS 5, not including the figures for the asset sold (Mondadori France).

title: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ClickJobs.com

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent 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.  Rob e  rt  01:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

ClickJobs.com
Wow, now thats badversising... Check out the original version, where every time they wrote clickjobs, they made it an external link... Usrnme h8er 11:49, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not free advertising space. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 15:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete advertisement.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   15:57, 3 October 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.


text:
User talk:Triplestrike

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your tests worked, and have been reverted. 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. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 11:49, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Triplestrike


text:
Jamal Shah

Jamal Shah (Pashto: جمال شاہ) is a Pakistani actor, director, musician, writer, sculptor, painter, and social activist. He has also served as the Federal Minister of Culture in Kakar cabinet.

Early life and education
Shah was born into a Pashto speaking Syed family in 1956 in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.

Shah received a Master's degree in English literature from the University of Balochistan in 1978. He graduated from the National College of Arts in Lahore in 1983. He later obtained a Master's degree in fine arts from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, United Kingdom.

Personal life
He married actress Faryal Gohar which ended after nine years on divorce. Shah described the contrast in their personalities as cause of their personalities.

Career
In 1984, Shah established the Fine Arts Department at the University of Balochistan and headed it until 1986. In 1985, he founded the Artists Association of Balochistan and also was appointed the first Chairman of the Artist Association of Pakistan.

During the 1980s he began to have an international recognition, being called "the next Omar Sharif" and getting a role in the 1989 BBC television serial Traffik, but he refused most of these offers as they clashed with his Islamic values.

In 1991, Shah made his acting debut in the film K2, directed by Franc Roddam, and since then, he has appeared in many other movies and TV dramas.

He founded the Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts in Islamabad in 1992 and later became a Telenor Pakistan brand ambassador doing television productions under the banner of Hunerkada Productions.

In 2007, Shah became the executive director of Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) in Islamabad, Pakistan, and then was appointed its Director General in October 2016. His tenure at PNCA ended on 22 September 2019 with him stating in an interview with Alyan Khan that he "did not want any extension". In 2019, Shah was the President and Chief Curator of the first Islamabad Art Festival.

Shah made his directorial debut with the 2016 film Revenge of the Worthless.

In 2021, Shah was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture.

In 2022, he sculpted a bronze bust of Pakistani Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam, which was unveiled by the director general of International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano at IAEA's 61st general conference.

title: Jamal Shah


text: User talk:72.10.120.201

title: User talk:72.10.120.201


text:
Talk:Fon language

Comments
Bonjour,

un nouveau lien sur l'apprentissage du fon du Bénin :

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/langue.fongbe/

Bien cordialement.

Gérard Poirot

 * Thanks for your link. It looks as a useful addition to the article. If you feel like expanding the article itself (or the French version of it), don't hesitate!
 * PS I have removed your emailadress since listing it openly is a sure way to get spam. For those interested it can still be found in the former revision] of this page. Cheers, — mark ✎ 16:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Fon language template
If you are a native speaker of Fon then you can help translate this template into your own language:

Edit

--Amazonien (talk) 21:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Fon language. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120415014719/http://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/Fon.aspx to http://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/Fon.aspx

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 04:04, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Numbers discrepancy
This page and the page about Fon people site respectively 1,5 mill and 3,5 mill users of this language. I'm not editing it as I do not know which one would be the correct number.

Asabiyya (talk) 11:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

title: Talk:Fon language


text:
Transliminality

Transliminality (literally, "going beyond the threshold") was a concept introduced by the parapsychologist Michael Thalbourne, an Australian psychologist who was based at the University of Adelaide. It is defined as a hypersensitivity to psychological material (imagery, ideation, affect, and perception) originating in (a) the unconscious, and/or (b) the external environment (Thalbourne & Maltby, 2008). High degrees of this trait have been shown by Thalbourne to be associated with increased tendency to mystical experience, greater creativity, and greater belief in the paranormal, but Thalbourne has also found evidence that transliminality may be positively correlated with psychoticism. He has published articles on transliminality in journals on parapsychology and psychology.

Measurement and correlates
The original transliminality scale had 29 items. A revised version with 17 items was developed to eliminate bias associated with age and gender differences. The revised version of the transliminality scale includes items assessing magical ideation, mystical experience, absorption, hyperaesthesia, manic experience, dream interpretation, and fantasy proneness.

Dreaming
The revised scale was found to be positively correlated with seven types of dream experiences:
 * lucid dreams
 * archetypal dreams - dreams "carrying a sense of awe and fascination and/or encounters with strange and unusual beings"
 * fantastic nightmares - upsetting and very vivid memorable dreams, involving a range of negative emotions
 * prelucid dreams - where one questions whether one is dreaming but cannot decide
 * control dreams - control not possible in waking life is exercised in the dream
 * posttraumatic nightmares - a traumatic real event is relived
 * night terrors - awakening in terror with no recall of dream content

Personality
Transliminality is positively correlated with openness to experience and negatively correlated with tough-mindedness and self-control from the 16PF Questionnaire. Some of the item content assesses absorption and the scale is therefore correlated with the Tellegen Absorption Scale. Transliminality is conceptually similar to Ernest Hartmann's concept of "boundaries of the mind" and accordingly is correlated with the Boundary Questionnaire.

title: Transliminality


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astrolinguist

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent 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 REDIRECTED to Alien language by Theresa Knott.  Rob e  rt  15:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Astrolinguist
110 google hits does not a job make... unless there is a reference to where this term has been used seriously, and the community feels it warrants an encyclopaedia entry (rather than just being dicdef)... Delete Usrnme h8er 11:55, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * On closer inspection, that should be 14 unique hits... Isn't it called a xenolinguist anyway? Usrnme h8er 14:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Ridiculous. Enochlau 12:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to "Alien language" - such people do exist, i.e. in preparation for first contact, but I believe the "Alien language" article is much superior. --MacRusgail 13:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 15:24, 3 October 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.


text:
Snivilisation

Snivilisation is the third studio album by the British electronic music duo Orbital. It was released on 8 August 1994 through FFRR Records.

The album peaked at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart, and had sold over 80,000 copies in the United Kingdom by April 1996.

Background
The band released the album at the time of the launch of the Criminal Justice Act, the legislation that gave British Police greater legal powers to break up unlicensed raves that gave Orbital its name. The Are We Here? single featured the track "Are We Here? (Criminal Justice Bill?)", which consists of four minutes of complete silence.

"Philosophy by Numbers" samples Sidney Stratton's chemistry experiment, "Guggle Glub Gurgle", from the film The Man in the White Suit.

"Are We Here?" samples a part of "Man at C&A" by The Specials; the track's vocals are by Alison Goldfrapp, as on "Sad But True". "Are We Here?" is also on Work 1989-2002.

The album was included in Q magazine's "The 25 Best Dance Albums Ever" in October 1997. It also made Q's end-of-year top 10 best albums list in 1994.

title: Snivilisation


text:
Creggs

Creggs (Na Creaga) is a small village and townland in County Galway, Ireland. It is on the border with County Roscommon, on the R362 regional road between Glenamaddy and Roscommon town.

With a population of approximately one hundred people, the village now contains two public houses (although it used to contain seven). The village of Creggs was also once the location of a monthly fair, dancing, football and Feiseanna (music competitions).

The village has a rugby union team. The rugby grounds is known as the Green. The club has four playing pitches including a full-size artificial pitch. The rugby club also has a circa one kilometre community amenity walkway around its grounds.

A memorial in the village at the entrance to the rugby club commemorates the last speech by Charles Stewart Parnell, which was made here approximately two weeks before his death. The memorial was erected by Éamon de Valera in 1946, on the centenary of Parnell's birth.

title: Creggs


text:
File:Broken Arrow Film Poster.jpg

Fair use in Broken Arrow (1950 film)
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a Film Poster / VHS or DVD Cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork/image.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image  is significant because it was used to promoted a notable film.

Source

 * 1) Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the Film Poster/ VHS or DVD Cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the film company or the artist.  Claimed as fair use regardless.

title: File:Broken Arrow Film Poster.jpg


text:
Peter Crill

Sir Peter Leslie Crill (1 February 1925 – 3 October 2005) was Bailiff of Jersey from 1986 to 1991.

Early years
Crill attended Victoria College, Jersey between 1932 and 1943. He started work, during the German occupation of Jersey, for the law firm Crill and Benest, where his father was a partner.

As a young man, he was one of the few people who successfully escaped from German-occupied Jersey during the Second World War. With two friends he retrieved the family’s 12 ft dinghy from store, hiding it while it was made seaworthy. They set out at 8.15pm at the end of the first week in November 1944, choosing a place where they knew the nearest German guard was at least 100 yd away (there were some 13,000 German troops garrisoning 26,000 islanders). The danger was that if they failed to get far enough out to sea, they would simply be carried round the island by the tide and spotted at daylight. Rowing out through a heavy swell till they could safely start the engine, they soon had to stop, to go to the aid of a second boat behind them. When the engine would not restart, they put up a small sail, but lost the compass in a squall an hour later. With the sea too rough to sail, they allowed the boat to drift, feeling thoroughly seasick after years ashore. Soon after dawn, the tide began to carry them away from land. Finally, they restarted the motor and landed safely at Agon-Coutainville near Coutances.

From France, Crill crossed to England. He later wrote of the escape 'With hindsight we achieved very little except to confirm through the memorandum of the then Bailiff, Mr A.M. Coutanche, the state of the Island as regards food and heating. Coutanche had prepared a memorandum about the problems facing the Island and had handed it to the German authorities. It contained courageously a hint that if they failed to fulfil their obligations under the Geneva Convention that might be something to be levelled against them after the war'.

He read modern history at Exeter College, Oxford and in 1949 was called to the bar in Jersey.

Politics
At the age of 26, he was elected to the States of Jersey as a Deputy for St Clement from 1951 to 1958. During this period he was President of the Legislation Committee and was responsible for introducing examinations for candidates seeking to become Jersey advocates and solicitors. In 1960, he was elected as a Senator.

Career as a Crown Officer
In 1962, Crill resigned from elected office to take up the post of HM Solicitor General. He became HM Attorney General in 1969, and led the prosecution of Edward Paisnel.

He was appointed Deputy Bailiff in 1974 and then succeed Sir Frank Ereaut as Bailiff of Jersey in January 1986. Among the trials he presided over in the Royal Court was that of the murders of Nicholas and Elizabeth Newell. As Bailiff of Jersey, he was ex officio a member of the Guernsey Court of Appeal. As a judge of that court in 1996, his comment that 'A conscientious mason will, if anything, bring to the office of jurat another degree of probity that will enhance not detract from that office' was reported in the national press.

He was said to have 'enjoyed the theatricality of the part of bailiff—the elaborate costumes, the steely gaze—and was often seen as a little grandiose and distant'. A senior Jersey politician said 'He was always very dignified in office, a great traditionalist'. Another that 'A man who appeared to have a tough exterior, Sir Peter also had a great capacity to be hurt as he was on several occasions during his time as Bailiff'.

The Tomes affair
In the early 1990s, Crill faced one of the toughest challenges of his career in handling 'the Tomes affair', which ultimately led to the United Kingdom Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke removing the Deputy Bailiff Vernon Tomes from office in 1992. Sir Peter received complaints from lawyers and the Jersey Law Society about Tomes' delays in producing reserved judgments. Prior to their appointments as Crown Officers, Crill and Tomes had been partners in the same legal practice. In 1990, the then Home Secretary David Waddington gave Mr Tomes six months to clear a backlog in judgment writing and in October 1991, Kenneth Baker gave him a further three months to rectify the delays.

In March 1992, a senior home office official gave Tomes seven days to resign, prompting a delegation of Jersey politicians to travel to the Home Office to protest and a reversal of that ultimatum. In May 1992, however, Tomes was finally told he would be removed from office with effect on 1 July 1992, provoking a demonstration of 1,000 people in his support.

Tomes was reported as saying that 'Sir Peter Crill has been the sole instigator behind this. I have warned him he will have no rest while he remains in office because I am determined now to enter the States and change the constitution'. Sir Peter "called for the people of Jersey to consider the situation calmly". In 1993, Tomes successfully stood for elected office as a Senator in the States of Jersey but failed to bring about any constitutional reforms.

Social conservatism
Sir Peter's outlook was socially conservative. While serving as Bailiff, he wrote letters in a personal capacity to The Times expressing disquiet about aspects of the changing world, including the campaign to admit women members to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London and proposals to give degree-awarding powers to polytechnics.

As Bailiff, Sir Peter, with the assistance of an advisory panel, exercised powers to license public entertainment in the island. He refused permission for a visiting amateur theatre group to perform Howard Brenton's play Christie in Love and required changes to the staging of a production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus by the Tricycle Theatre Company to prevent an actor's naked buttocks being visible to the audience. On several occasions, however, 'he suggested that the role of chief censor should not lie with him, but should be at taken on by the elected members of the States'.

Honours
Crill was knighted in 1987 and made KBE in 1995. In 1994, the refurbished wing of the former nurses' home in Gloucester Street, St Helier was renamed 'Peter Crill House'. In 1997, he was awarded an honorary LLD degree by the University of Buckingham.

Private life
Crill married Dr Gail Dodd, a medical doctor, in 1953. They had three daughters. His pastimes included amateur dramatics, yachting and supporting Jersey's draghunt.

Following his retirement in 1995, he was active in organizations promoting the culture of Jersey, including the Société Jersiaise and the Jersey Arts Centre. A practising Christian, from 1957 he sang in St Helier Church Chior and later Trinity Church. He was received into the Catholic Church in July 1995.

His activities in latter years were curtailed by the onset of motor neurone disease. An autobiography entitled A Little Brief Authority: A Memoir was privately published shortly after his death, causing some controversy.

title: Peter Crill