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New Game Plus

New Game Plus, also New Game+ (NG+), is an unlockable video game mode available in some video game titles that allows the player to restart the game's story with all or some of the items or experience gained in the first playthrough. New Game Plus modes are typically unlocked after completing the game's story at least once and sometimes contain certain features not normally available in the initial playthrough, such as increased difficulty, altered combat or encounters, and more.

Origin
The term was coined in the 1995 role-playing video game Chrono Trigger, but examples can be found in earlier games, such as Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, The Legend of Zelda, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and Super Mario Bros.. This play mode is most often found in role-playing video games, where starting a New Game Plus will usually have the player characters start the new game with the statistics and equipment with which they ended the last game. Key items that are related to the story are normally removed so they cannot ruin the game's progression, and are given back to the player at the time they are needed; likewise, characters that the player acquires throughout the story will also not appear until their scheduled place and time, but will get the enhanced stats from the previous playthrough.

Examples
Games with multiple endings, such as Chrono Trigger, may feature a New Game Plus mode which allows the player to explore alternate endings. Many games increase the difficulty in a New Game Plus mode, such as those in the Mega Man Battle Network series and Borderlands series. Others use the feature to advance the plot. In Astro Boy: Omega Factor, the player uses the game's Stage Select mechanism, explained in-story as a form of time travel, to avert disaster, while in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, the player defeats three different final bosses, one in each playthrough, to access the true ending.

Some New Game Plus variations alter established gameplay. This includes unlocking new characters, such as in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night; new areas, such as in Parasite Eve; new items, such as in the Metal Gear series; new challenges, such as in the .hack series, or new weapon and armor upgrades, like in God of War II 's Bonus Mode and God of War (2018) 's New Game+ mode.

Games that connect to online marketplaces may require the player to complete a New Game Plus game to obtain certain achievements, such as the "Calamity Kid" achievement in the game Bastion. Others may require or be required by additional purchases in the form of downloadable content, such as in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.

Final Fantasy XIV is a MMORPG with an extensive story line called the "main scenario quest" or colloquially the "MSQ". A New Game Plus option was introduced during the Shadowbringers expansion patch cycle, which allows players to replay the main scenario and selected other scenarios, either in their entirety or specific expansion's stories.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mercedes Benz F1 Engine Unreliability

 * 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. — J I P | Talk 07:47, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Mercedes Benz F1 Engine Unreliability
Delete if concensus reached that page serves little purpose other than to denigrate its subject User:D-bot forgot to sign

 * Delete -- Egil 18:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Bobblewik 19:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - as non-encyclopedic "article".--Isotope23 19:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopedic topic. If M-B's F1 engines were failing at a rate much higher than competitors' engines, and if that were a point of widespread discussion, then maybe this topic would be worthy of being merged into an article such as "2005 Season in Formula 1 Racing".  In fact, though, there's no notable content here.  Barno 20:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Uh... they are failing at a higher rate than their competitors, and the relative technical unreliability of the Maclarens is already mentioned in the 2005 Formula One season article. Which is all that is needed. Delete.Average Earthman 13:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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DONE (New articles or significant rewrites)

 * 08 JUL 2005 - (New/expand) Update/expand/consolidate content on Dublin Bridges
 * 19 SEP 2006 - (Rewrite) Signif summary of "history" section in Cork City FC article
 * 27 JAN 2007 - (New) Everyman Palace Theatre
 * 25 AUG 2007 - (Rewrite) Garda Síochána "Allegations" summary
 * 06 SEP 2007 - (Collab/new) Cathal Brugha Barracks
 * 25 NOV 2007 - (New) Irish Conservation Box
 * 06 MAY 2008 - (New) John Gray (Irish politician)
 * 01 SEP 2008 - (Collab/expand) Samuel Beckett Bridge
 * 19 AUG 2009 - (New) Elizabeth Fort
 * 07 JAN 2010 - (New/trans) Palazzo Comunale (San Gimignano)
 * 17 MAR 2010 - (Start) Surveyor General of Ireland
 * 07 JUL 2011 - (New/trans) Jacopo Inghirami
 * 28 SEP 2012 - (New) Dundanion Castle
 * 06 JUN 2014 - (New) Camden Fort Meagher
 * 04 SEP 2014 - (New) Château de Kerjean
 * 20 MAR 2015 - (New) Fort Davis, County Cork
 * 23 APR 2015 - (New) Fort Templebreedy
 * 09 MAY 2015 - (New) List of coastal fortifications of County Cork
 * 24 MAY 2015 - (New) Cove Fort, County Cork
 * 05 DEC 2015 - (New) Magazine Fort
 * 25 FEB 2016 - (New) Spit Bank Lighthouse
 * 24 MAR 2016 - (New) Cork Public Museum
 * 19 JUN 2016 - (Expand) Ballinlough - history section
 * 29 JUL 2016 - (New) Vernon Mount
 * 17 AUG 2016 - (New) Abraham Hargrave
 * 30 JAN 2017 - (Expand) Sir John Rogerson's Quay
 * 24 MAR 2018 - (New) Irish Landmark Trust
 * 01 AUG 2018 - (Expand) Great Island
 * 28 JAN 2021 - (New) Shandon Castle
 * Late 2020/21 - (New) 'missing' towns (Aughnacliffe, Ballymacoda, Bartlemy, Glenflesk, Shannonvale)
 * Mid/late 2021 - (New) census towns (Ballincar, Ballyhahill, Carrigkerry, Courtbrack, Freemount, New Twopothouse, Rathtoe, Robinstown, Saleen)
 * 03 JUN 2021 - (New) Irish Steel
 * Late/end 2021 - (New) census towns #2 (Ballindrait, Ballyhogue, Boherlahan, Corrandulla, Curraghbinny, Gleneely, Lordship)
 * Various 2022 - (New) census towns #3 (Ballinameen, others)
 * 02 FEB 2022 - (New) Cillian O'Sullivan
 * 19 MAY 2022 - (New) Tolka Valley Park
 * 19 AUG 2022 - (New) Matehy
 * 15 OCT 2022 - (New) BusConnects
 * 30 NOV 2022 - (New) Water-rock
 * 04 DEC 2022 - (New) Slade, County Wexford
 * 24 JAN 2023 - (New) Columbkille, County Kilkenny
 * 03 APR 2023 - (New) New Quay, County Clare
 * 03 MAY 2023 - (New) John O'Mahony (antiquarian)
 * 12 MAY 2023 - (Rescope) Clontead More
 * 24 MAY 2023 - (New) Garryvoe
 * 10 JUL 2023 - (New) Christ Church, Cork
 * 23 AUG 2023 - (New) Notre-Dame de Kerbader
 * 06 OCT 2023 - (Rescope) Dripsey River

TODO (Mainly promised clean-ups that didn't yet follow-through)

 * Talk:Water supply and sanitation in the Republic of Ireland (fix infobox and update subsections)
 * Talk:Modern vehicles of the Irish Army (is list up-to-date? what can be done about it?)
 * Talk:Fort Davis, County Cork (create and add a layout map/image)
 * Talk:Ballinlough, Cork (add images?)
 * Temper most obvious or promotional puffery ("famous X"/"excelled at Y"/"picturesque Q", possibly using AWB)
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Thomas Tsugi

Thomas Tsugi, SJ (1571 – 1627) was a Japanese Catholic preacher and member of the Society of Jesus. He was killed during the anti-Catholic persecutions in Japan and was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

Biography
Tsugi was born in 1570 near Omura, Japan, to a wealthy family of Japanese nobility. Educated by the priests of the Society of Jesus at Arima, he joined the order in 1589. As a Jesuit, Thomas traveled Japan and became very popular as an eloquent and persuasive preacher.

Under the edict of 1614, Tsugi was arrested and exiled to Macau, where he spent four years. Desiring to continue his missionary work in his homeland, he returned to Japan in disguised as a merchant. In 1619, suffering some moments of doubt, he asked to be relieved of his vows. He later returned and was readmitted, resuming his holy missionary work and life of prayer.

The Japanese authorities soon caught up with him and recaptured him. They imprisoned Thomas and sentenced him to death. In 1627 Thomas Tsugi became a martyr, burned to death in Nagasaki, Japan — along with several companions. He was heard to proclaim as he died, "Praise the Lord of all nations!"

He is one of the 205 martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867, who are remembered on the 10 September each year.

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Talk:Alfred Chicken

Play Station
The Play Station game seems too different to be mentioned with the others.

Mancomb 17:47, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Amiga version info incorrect.
Who put "It's a direct port of the Game Boy game"? It's not, and you know it. Put the correct information in, and cite it. predcon (talk) 20:03, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Different games
In this page multiple different games of Alfred Chicken are mentioned as if they were the same, but are not, the SNES version, for example, is Super Alfred Chicken, a completely different games with different levels and mechanics it can't even be considered a port, and even the Gameboy and NES versions differ in the number of levels, the Gameboy version has 11 levels while the NES only has 5. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.47.64.159 (talk) 16:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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Murcof

Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronic musician Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000, he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006, Corona has been living in Barcelona, Spain.

Music
Murcof's music is sparse, minimalist electronic music. Many of his compositions are founded on abstract, glitchy, sometimes complex electronic percussion. Harmonic and melodic influences come from classical music (modern classical music, musique concrète, holy minimalism, micropolyphony, baroque music, etc.), ambient music, drone music, berlin school synthesizer music, ethnic music and free improvisation. Rhythms are derived from minimal techno, dub, glitch, industrial music and IDM, and are often aligned around a 4/4 beat. The more recent works in the Murcof catalogue no longer include electronic beats.

His earlier works, like the 2001 EP Monotonu, feature orchestral instruments sampled from recordings of works by modern composers such as Arvo Pärt and Morton Feldman. Some of his later works, like the 2005 album Remembranza, incorporate samples of Corona and his friends playing classical instruments. Besides his personally initiated albums, Corona worked as Murcof on the 2008 commission project The Versailles Sessions, in which he reinterpreted recordings of a baroque ensemble. Live shows of Murcof featured guest musicians from varied musical backgrounds, like jazz trumpet player Erik Truffaz, tabla player Talvin Singh, crossover electronica-classical pianist Francesco Tristano and contemporary composer Philippe Petit.

Early youth (1970)
Murcof was born as Fernando Corona in 1970 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. His earliest contact with music came from his home, where his father sang, played bass and accordion. Corona tried some of these instruments as his father bought a very cheap organ for him and his sister. He began to wonder how these sounds were made, becoming primarily interested in the sound design aspect of music. His father's record collection included Bach, The Beatles and The Carpenters. His mother listened more to traditional Mexican music. Corona was taught by his father to pay attention to the compositions and arrangements of both classical and pop music, which helped him to better understand what elements in music he liked or not.

On his eight-year (1978) he moved to Chula Vista, close to the United States border. He went to school and learned English across the U.S. border, in San Diego. A few years later (around 1980) he moved 100 miles south, to a small port called Ensenada.

At the age of eleven (1981) Corona was introduced to electronic music by a friend of his father's who gave him a tape of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygène. Soon afterwards he got fascinated by electronic‐classical crossover through a present from his father, an album on which Jon Santos plays Bach on a classic Moog synthesizer. This resulted in him purchasing other electronic music from artist such as the Berlin School synthesizer gurus Tangerine Dream, Japanese electronica composer Isao Tomita and Mexican ethnic crossover (new age) composers Jorge Reyes and Antonio Zepada (link in Spanish). The US was Corona's "window to the world", as he had to cross the US border to obtain records and magazines.

First electronic instruments (1985)
Around his fifteenth Corona started to play music, taking piano and music theory lessons from 1985 to 1989. He bought his first keyboard in 1985, one out of the Casio Sample Keyboard series, which made him excited as he could use it to record and transform snippets of everyday sounds.

For a while Corona enjoyed an alternative club in Tijuana, called Iguanas. There he developed a taste for mid 80s industrial (Play It Again Sam, Wax Trax! Records and Nettwerk labels, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, and In The Nursery) and synthpop (e.g. Depeche Mode’s A Broken Frame (1982) and Black Celebration (1986)).

Around 1988 Corona acquired some more sophisticated equipment. His first professional keyboard was a synthesizer, the Kawai K1. Corona was “blown away” by the concept of designing his own sounds with oscillators and waveforms. He also began to program sounds on the Commodore 64. He started to write his own compositions influenced by techno pop (e.g. Kraftwerk), acid house and industrial. He continued in that style by forming the live act Vortex together with two of his friends. The group was active from 1988 to 1991.

Besides electronic music Corona was also listening pre‐1900 classical music during his whole teens. His uncle employed him as a warehouse manager around the mid 80s. In 1988 he started his study to become a computer programmer, but dropped out in 1990. By then he was focusing on DJing with his mobile DJ system and later as a resident DJ in a club in Ensenada. From 1992 to 2000 he worked in a nursing agency that dealt primarily with the elderly and terminally ill in San Diego (USA).

Prog-rock (1991)
In this period of time Corona played keys (and occasionally guitar, drums and flute) in the rock band Sonios, which was first influenced by British pop music like The Smiths, but later went into the direction of prog rock, jazz fusion, ambient and post rock. Corona states that this was a learning school for him about the various elements of music. He took influences from the local rock scene. The 1998 Sonios album ‘200 Fonios’ was released on Tijuana indie label Nimboestatic, won various prizes from cultural institutions in the Baja California region, was rated one of the best rock albums of 1998 by the Mexican press and reached a cult status in many places of Mexico and Latin America.

Electro-acoustic projects (1994)
Whilst in Sonios, Corona also engaged in other musical co‐operations like Elohim (1994‐1995), an experimental multimedia group, and Arvoles (1995‐1997), an acoustic‐ambient crossover project including a female vocalist. Then Corona got to compose for modern dance ensembles in Ensenada, an experience that led him to develop a taste for modern academic music, from the dodecaphonism and minimalism of the early 20th century to the experimentalists and serialists of the mid 1900s. Also, he grew tired of pre‐1900 classical music having listened to it for all his teens and adolescence. Upon hearing Xenakis’ Oresteia, plus later Pleiades and Metastasis, as well as Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna his perception of music altered immediately and drastically.

Some of the other composers he became interested in where Igor Stravinsky, Wolfgang Rihm, Giya Kancheli, Arnold Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Stefano Scodanibbio (piece: Voyage That Never Ends).

Corona took his electronic experiments in a more extreme direction, playing with feedback effects to create walls of noise. He began to digitally process samples of classical music and mix them up with doom metal, death metal, ambient and noise.

Non‐classical music he listened in that time were for example Steve Roach’s dark ambient record The Magnificent Void (1996). As well as Squarepusher’s mix of jazz, D&B and acid (IDM) on Hard Normal Daddy (1997). And the at that time freshly emerging glitch genre initiated by the Raster-Noton label (formed in 1990 by Alva Noto, Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Benders (byetone)). Also capturing Corona's attention were the ambient noise of Deathprod (active from 1994). And the Icelandic post‐rock band Sigur Rós (active since 1997).

Corona studied cello at the Centro de Estudios Musicales in Ensenada in the years 1993 and 1994. In 1995 and 1996 Corona had private lessons in audio engineering in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. In 1998 and 1998 he studied audio engineering and music arrangement at Harper's Music, Chula Vista, California, USA.

Terrestre and Nortec (1999)
Early 1999 Corona leaves Sonios to fully focus on his solo electronic project Terrestre, for which his goal was to bring together the worlds of ambient electronica, pre‐Hispanic music and other ethnic sounds. For this project Corona sampled from vinyl records in the styles of tambora (small bass drum music), danzón (traditional Cuban dance music which also flourishes in Mexico) and salsa (the broad and internationally used term for popular Cuban dance music like Cuban son montuno, guaracha, chachachá, mambo, bolero, etc.). In a later period of 1999 he gets an e‐mail from three Tijuana based electronic musicians (Fusible, Bostich and Panoptica) inviting electronic musicians to work with some norteña and tambora tracks downloaded from a studio in Tijuana. This way he became a part of the team of electronic musicians, DJs and graphic artists who would soon develop the Nortec Collective. Nortec's objective is to blend traditional Mexican norteño‐tex‐mex border culture with electronic dance music and visual projections. It grew from being a local phenomenon to getting some worldwide recognition (e.g. by Time Magazine, NY Times).

Murcof - MF Relay / Martes / Monotonu (2001)
In 2001, during his Terrestre activities, Corona's Murcof project comes alive out of the need to explore modern classical territories, like the holy minimalism of Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt and the post‐modern atmosphere of Valentyn Sylvestrov. In 2002, whilst experimenting with digital effects on samples of Arvo Pärt and Morton Feldman he creates his first Murcof track: MF Relay, a track with glitchy minimal techno percussion, a synth drone and “sliced and diced” samples from orchestral percussion, choir, piano, strings and woodwinds.

Somewhere around here Corona started to listen to Deathprod’s electro‐acoustic free improv (jazz) band Supersilent, particularly their releases 4 (1998) and in later times 6 (2003) and 7 (2005). He also took influences from Oren Ambarchi (a musician in the free improv and noise spectrum) and ambient/dub/electronica producer Biosphere.

Martes, the first Murcof album, came out in the year Corona became a father. With this album Corona continued to work in the MF Relay style of minimal dance rhythms interwoven with samples from holy minimalism and other modern classical sources. Corona later stated that the composing wasn’t a hard job for him: "It almost composed itself".

Corona left Nortec in 2002. He then teamed up with artists and personal friends Rubén Tamayo (Fax) and Eji Val (Ejival) from Nimboestatic (the label that released Sonios ‐ 200 Fonios) to create the Electronic label Static Discos, which in 2002 released Martes as a CD in Mexico.

Corona was at Barcelona's Sónar Festival in 2001 to perform with the Nortec Collective when a friend of his insisted he would give his Murcof demo CD to Tony Marley of UK based independent record label The Leaf Label. So he went to meet Tony in a club and gave him the demo. This led to the worldwide vinyl and CD release of Martes, three months after its Mexican CD debut with Static Discos. The pioneering MF Relay track did not become a part of Martes, but was published, also in 2002, by Context Free Media (label by multidisciplinary artist Seth Joshua Horvitz) on the Monotónu 12”. Martes received an almost instant universal praise from well known magazines like The Wire UK and consecutively Murcof got to play at festivals like Montreal's Mutek and the next edition of Sónar.

Martes was reissued by The Leaf Label in 2015 as part of the label's 20th anniversary celebrations. This was a special triple LP release combining the original album with unreleased tracks and the 2004 album Utopia.

Terrestre commissions (2002)
A friend of Corona's, Argentinian Latin‐crossover composer and multi-instrumentalist Gustavo Santaolalla, was involved in the production of Nuevo, an album of Mexican compositions performed by modern classical string ensemble Kronos Quartet. Santaolalla asked Nortec to get involved, resulting in Terrestre finding its spot on the 2002 Nortec remix EP of Kronos Quartet ‐ El Sinaloense.

Corona also got commissioned to remix Miles Davis.

Later Corona moved into the domain of film scores when he got commissioned as Terrestre to compose the soundtrack of the film Nicotina, a dark comedy by the producers of one of Mexico's biggest ever films, Amores Perros. The film was released in 2003 and the CD came out in 2004.

Other commissions included music for a Heineken commercial focused on the Latin American market (USA, 2002), an Edwin Jeans commercial (JP, 2002) the documentary Iraq - Counting The Cost (UK, 2004), a trailer for the Edinburgh Film Festival (UK, 2004), Barratt Urban Development (USA, 2004), Valencia Biennale (2003).

Mexican electronica netlabels Mandorla, Cyan Recs, Umor Rex and Soundsister caught Corona's around this time attention.

Murcof - Ulysses / Utopía (2003)
In 2003 followed another Murcof release on The Leaf Label, the Ulysses EP. Corona's focus began to shift from sampling records to recording musicians, the violin and double bass on this record were recorded from Tijuana musicians, giving parts of the music a more live feel.

Utopía saw the daylight in 2004 when it was published as a CD by The Leaf Label. This album came to realization as a result of the success of Martes. It contained seven remixes and four new Murcof tracks. Corona has stated that it was exciting and inspiring for him to select people to remix his works. He also called Utopía a self-indulgent record. On his four new tracks he experimented with placing the aesthetics of Martes into less conventional structures. Corona later claimed to be extremely proud of this record and to regularly relisten it. He sees Utopía as an important transition from the Martes style into the style of his upcoming album Remembranza.

The remixers were Sutekh (Californian multimedia artist Seth Joshua Horvitz (Sutekh) of Context Free Media), Jan Jelinek (German experimental minimalist who released on labels such as Berlin's ~scape), Deathprod (Norwegian ambient noise composer Helge Sten, who earlier produced Motorpsycho), Icarus (UK based experimental electronica duo Ollie Bown and Sam Britton), Fax (Ruben Alonso Tamayo, Mexican minimal techno producer and co‐founder of Static Discos), Aeroc (Geoff White, melodic IDM producer releasing on the renowned electronica label Ghostly International) and Colleen (the French Cécile Schott, sample transforming and cello playing colleague from The Leaf Label).

Terrestre - Secondary Inspection (2004)
It took Corona from 1999 to 2004 to release his first full-length Terrestre record. Secondary Inspection became a creepy mix of electronic dance music, Latin percussion and ambient electronics. It contained processed sounds of Tijuana street musicians, which Corona "reduced to a pulp of post 9/11 paranoia".

Murcof - Remembranza (2005)
The second full-length Murcof album Remembranza came out in 2005 and helped Corona cope with the turmoil of his mother passing away. Remembranza was produced during her illness until her death and became a requiem for her. The Murcof aesthetic moved a bit away from minimalism towards more complex and melancholic harmonic progressions, slightly reminiscent of his prog-rock past. Recordings of his friends or himself playing classical instruments played a significant role on this album. Corona stated that he could hardly play them, but that did not bother him too much as he was mainly interested in texture and vibe.

In 2005 Native Instruments released the sample pack Synthetic Drums 2 for use with their software drum instrument Battery or software sampler Kontakt. It included samples by Speedy J, Jake Mandell, Plaid, Telefon Tel Aviv, Atom Heart, Murcof and other artists.

Live with Singh, Truffaz and Tristano (2006)
A trio with Talvin Singh on tabla and Erik Truffaz was formed in this year. Both of these artists had a firm background in acoustic‐electronic crossover. The trio played sporadically in the following years, at for example Montreux Jazz 2006 and in Mumbai in 2010.

Corona got to master the album Not For Piano by Luxembourg crossover electronic‐classical pianist/synthesist Francesco Tristano. In 2007 Corona and Tristano started the Not For Piano live duo, which for example toured the UK in 2010.

Murcof - Cosmos (2007)
In 2007 Corona released the third Murcof album Cosmos. It was a spacious dark ambient record which included dense walls of textures (hinting at Ligeti), abstracted sounds of synth pioneers, intense climaxes and on some tracks glitchy dub and techno beats. Corona stated that it expressed some personal changes in his life, including his move from Ensenada to Barcelona in 2006. Before moving to Europe, Corona sold his hardware instruments, including a Roland Juno‐106 and Moog Prodigy. Corona described the album as follows: “Cosmos is a celebration of our existence, of the universe: we must see beyond the skyscrapers around us, look above, look the star and the sky.”

Murcof - The Versailles Sessions (2008)
In the summer of 2007 Corona got invited by Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes (an annual festival of sound, light and water at Château de Versailles in France) to compose a 6 speaker composition for the grand evening fountain display in the Jardin du Roi. The Versaille Sessions is an aural document of that installation. GetSound, who commissioned the project, hired a Parisian group of musicians specialized in baroque music. Murcof and the musicians resided in the GetSound studio in Paris for two days to record the musicians’ interpretations of compositions from the baroque time, from for example Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Purcell and François Couperin. The pieces were played traditionally as well as with note and instrument experimentation. They experimented with modifying the score, tempo, pitch and by inserting random pauses. Texturally they explored the instruments by throwing all sorts of material inside the harpsichord and pounding on the viola da gamba's body, capturing a wide range of timbres, giving Corona many composing options. Corona stated it was a great learning experience for him thanks to the musicians’ open mindedness and fun approach. Corona described the composition process as partially different from the usual Murcof composition method. He was processing previously recorded acoustic material as usual, but this time the source material was very specific 17th century baroque and the experiments in the studio were already a part of the composing process. Two weeks before the opening Corona went to the site wanting to get an impression of the sound, but could not make the necessary tests due to pouring rain. He did realize though that he was going in the wrong musical direction. He thought the big space demanded a different sound: more openness, more time for the sounds to develop and resonate. So in the remaining two weeks he reworked the whole commission into The Versailles Sessions.

Projects with AntiVJ (2008)
Early 2008 Corona was commissioned by the Contemporary Music Network of England to create the live audio-visual Océano show for a UK tour. "Blackout Arts" member Flicker (Roderick Maclachlan) created visuals live on stage by using camera feeds from micro-installations of dust, smoke, plants, dark water and live scratch animations. He used feedback effects to manipulate the video and his visuals responded to the music. Live instrumentation was served by Spanish classical ensemble BCN 216 and consisted of cello, viola and trombone.

June 2008 Corona played a space themed audio-video show in The Planetarium of Bristol, during the Venn Festival. Visuals were improvised by Joanie Lemercier of visual arts label AntiVJ.

Albums

 * Martes (2002) (Static Discos (Mexico)/Leaf (UK/US))
 * Utopia (2004) (Leaf)
 * Martes/Utopía (2005) (Static Discos) (Mexico only double CD)
 * Remembranza (2005) (Leaf)
 * Cosmos (2007) (Leaf)
 * The Versailles Sessions (2008) (Leaf)
 * La Sangre Iluminada (2009) (Intolerancia) (soundtrack)
 * Being Human Being (with Erik Truffaz) (2014)
 * Statea (with Vanessa Wagner) (InFiné) (2016)
 * The Alias Sessions (2021) (Leaf)

Singles/EPs

 * Monotonu (2002) (Context Free Media)
 * Ulyssess (2003) (Leaf)
 * Utopia Remixes (2004) (Leaf)
 * Ultimatum (2004) (Leaf)
 * Mexico (2008) (with Erik Truffaz) (Blue Note, EMI Music (France))
 * EP01 (2016) (with Vanessa Wagner) (InFiné)
 * Static Discos 100 (2019) (with Fax) (Static Discos (Mexico))

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Merger
Some of these templates should be merged. One of the purposes of a navbox is to guide the reader to related articles while providing a consistant UI element. As a reader clicks the articles in the navbox the same navbox appears in the linked articles. Template:Securities And Template:Financial markets share a majority of content so they should be easy. 'Category:Finance templates' has a long list of templates which could be merger candidates. Perhaps a horizontal box with columns like Template:Navbox with columns is more suitable for the merged templates. Helena srilowa (talk) 17:18, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

 * Declined. 1. No active discussion for over a year, actually, no discussion at all, apart from the proposal itself. 2. Both templates are large as they are, and merging them would result in an unacceptably large template. Debresser (talk) 06:47, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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Consider making a category for all the finance templates:

--68.239.240.144 17:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

US Dollar/US Exchanges
Is there a particularly good reason why all of these templates have pictures that either relate to the US Dollar of the New York Stock Exchange? Surely the pictures should be more universal given the very nature of Wikipedia? There are many other very important exchanges and currencies in the world that could be used. Perhaps more abstract pictures should be used? A generic trading floor rather than the front of the NYSE building? Or even old paintings of drawings of capitalism from bygone era's? --Aliwalla 13:33, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Removing Valuation Models section for now
Only two links, one of which is unimplemented, the other is basically a stub. Ronnotel 16:31, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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For Currency markets, there already is a link to Foreign exchange market, which currency market redirects to. Commodity markets are not financial markets. Financial markets are for financial products; commodity markets relate to physical products like silver, pork bellies, corn etc. (Thobius 17:49, 7 October 2005 (UTC))

Background of the business
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User talk:Paul Klenk/Archive2

es.wiki: From Sister Ray
HI!! You left a message in my page requesting for help, but i can see you are a experienced Wikipedist!! Well, I would like to help you in everything you need (even though I'm an amateur) or want, specially if your most serious problems are related with spanish languaje. So,what can I do for you? Write me in my page, and you could start to fill your own page in wikipedia spanish, not only receive message in this one. I'm really sorry for my terrible, horrible english, you can help me out with this too. So, now we are connected, the process is now working. The big question is: What can I do for you?

Here I am. Hasta luego!!

(I cannot leave a signature because I'm registrated in Wikipedia spanish, and if I try to redirect you to my page, you will end reading about some star and about the velvet underground (of course). I understand that one of your "rules" is that everyone must put their signature on the messages that they write to you, but now you will have to apologize me because I cannot do that. I'm no mistery, you already found me. Now you can start using the other account in wiki spanish so everyone can sign your book of visits. I´ll be seing you. I apologize again for my english. Sure you understand.)

Wikipedistas de Argentina: Usuario: Sister Ray

 * I´m FAR from es: I have to give you bad news: there is a vandal who use yoyr nickname. do you know something about this? (unsigned)

 * In es: there is an user with your nicname (Paul Klenk) he is writing wrong things and saying in teh summary that his you. (Sister Ray for example has received an message from him). ¿The count is yours?

 * Apologize me, but ...

 * 1) Have you already create the account? There is one
 * 2) Have you only write aboyt the interview? Something with the account I´ve named up, has write en several User Discussión
 * 3) Some users have talked about vandalism un the café. Please read again points 1 and 2 and if you have done it, please, spend a minut to tell me it. I´ll give your answer in the café, before anyone think in bann you.

No problem: I´m a administrator. The accounts is already banned. If you need more, help, ask me as you need.

Vandalismo
Soy Fernando Suárez, llevo poco tiempo aqui, pero te recomiendo que cambies tu clave en preferencias. Solicita una clave nueva. Es posible que se evite ese problema. 212.51.52.5 22:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

pt.wiki: Welcome
Welcome to the Wiki_pt!

Message in es:
I'm an admin on es:, my native language is English, and I left you a message on Temporary_User's talk page.--Orgullomoore 05:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And what do you intend to do with this username? Yes, the password can be changed.--Orgullomoore 06:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It can be done, but based on the responses in the café section, it doesn't look like they want to do it. Okay, some of them do, but most of them are asking (1) How do we know you don't have a plot and (2) Why can't you just use another name and link to your en: page, and have Paul Klenk in your signature? FYI, this guy has been blocked forever on es: so there is not really the risk of him stealing your identity--Orgullomoore 07:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC) PS: Yeah, use my es: cuz I check it more and am more active in es:
 * Thank you, you are also being exceptionally patient. However, I must say, I don't own the Wikipedia and we try to go by consensus over there. I can't just change it while others oppose it. Also, these aren't just little buggie other users, we're talkin' other admins here. Several users cite that the same thing has happened in our wiki before and they have just had to conform. It's a nice idea that you have, registering in every wiki and what not but, as I said, I'm not the boss. I've been trusted with the authority and I'm not going to go against the grain just because. If you want to, you might stop by #es.wikipedia on freenode's IRC server, both of the opposing users tend to hang out there (though I'm not sure they are awake right now..) It sure would make things alot easier on me. Wikis are great, but they aren't instant messaging. --Orgullomoore 07:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I hear everything you're saying. I have left messages at Chwely (sp?) and angus asking them to visit this page and read my "plea" and my reasoning behind it.  I really am encouraged that we're halfway there, Orgullo.  One more "case" for me is, this all did happen instantaneously -- it is a pretty extraordinary case.  It is not like I "happened upon" a user name today that I wanted.  Do keep in mind that this user did some vandalism -- something I have never done on any site -- so that gives you some more ammunition that if there is a plot, it is he and not I that is plotting.  He was obviously watching my English page and jumped in ahead of me.

 * I'll keep my fingers crossed and make a point to buy you all beers when you visit NYC for Wikimania 2006.

 * By the way, can you believe my German and Dutch pages are already translated? Go take a look at them.  In fact, the German guy who translated my page is a first-time user today -- my page was his 2nd or 3rd edit!  Give me faith in people.  I'm a pretty experienced Wiki and sometimes even I'm surprised.  paul klenk talk 08:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I see Orgullomoore has already answered your questions. I cannot do anything more until there is a consensous in the café.--User:FAR

nl:userpage
translated. Aleichem 07:13, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
Hi! Thank you very much for your barnstar, Paul. I hope you can finally fix your problem at es:wikipedia. Regards. --Kokoo 09:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

no:userpage
Hi! I just wanted to tell you i translated your userpage on no: to Norwegian:) OPus- msg

Your pt user page translated
Hi. Just to let you know that I translated your page in wiki-pt, as you requested on it. --Daniduc 19:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC) PS. Just read New York's Village Halloween Parade, it´s really cool, congrats! ---Daniduc 19:18, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It was my pleasure! :) Drop me a line if you need anything. Thanx for the star ;) --Daniduc 19:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

nl.wikipedia
Hi from Dolledre in Bruges (Assebroek), Belgium

Thanks Paul for registering with nl.wikipedia and your feedback on my talk page. Since we still don't use welcome bots, it's always nice to get some response.

Sorry if I hardly ever log in to en.wikipedia or fr.wikipedia. I'm thinking of redirecting my talk pages in other languages to the Dutch talk page.

I Included the Babel template you requested on your Dutch talk page.

Stop by anytime.

Kind regards,

Dre

Dolledre Overleg 1 okt 2005 22:24 (CEST)

pl New User Log
Hi again Paul.

Hmm... Funny thing, actually. We don't have a New User Log. I guess nobody thought about that. :P You seem to be all over the place so tell me, is this (the New User Log) a common international practice? I hardly stick my nose outside plwiki and enwiki so I haven't the slightest clue. Do the Germans, the French and others each have one?

Best, TOR 21:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

P.S. We can continue this discussion here on en.

 * Always nice to see a community spirit. Espcially an international one. :) I cannot promise anything but I'll try to get your user page translated somewhere around tommorow (CEST tommorow, i.e. Monday). And I will talk to the others about that New Users Log thingy. Who knows, maybe we'll have one soon. Cheers, TOR 22:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Paul Klenk, International Man of Mystery!
Dude, I love the idea of copying a user page to other languages! Brilliant! I'm afraid that I'm limited to basic Spanish and Italian, but not enough to be able to contribute in a way that'll make grammatical sense. - Lucky 6.9 22:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I am truly speechless. If this isn't the best possible way to contribute to this site, I don't know what is. Absolutely marvelous idea. I may just ask Spanish to translate my page since I can read it fairly well. This will be fun! - Lucky 6.9 22:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

You bet. I have to sign off for now, but I'll sneak a peek when I get back if it isn't too late. See ya! - Lucky 6.9 22:38, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * nice. are you aware of the commons?  It might be useful to host images there if you tranlate your parade article. Derex 19:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Directions, please [English message]
Where can I find your New User Log, the page where new users can introduce themselves to the community? You can reply on my English or Finnish pages, or this page. Thank you. paul klenk en:?!
 * I did some digging on both the Finnish and English wikipedias and noticed that we don't yet have a page like the en wiki's new user log. I think you could use the fi:Wikipedia:Kahvihuone for this purpose. --Joonasl 09:14, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Dutch Grammar
hi, i'm in the process of translating this Dutch Grammar into english. should this be placed on the en: or made a reference to it? tnx Aleichem 09:53, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * PS maybe the same in 16 languages? + shortlist of words? Aleichem 10:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Dutch Grammar
 * Such an article already exists (en:Dutch grammar) on en:wiki (Note: we only capitalize the first word of an article at en:wiki, unless it is a proper noun. Also note the :en: and :nl: method of creating links between sites.)  Of course, the current article could work in any language.  If the English version is of high quality, translators of other languages can be invited to take it to any wiki they like.  I think this is a good model, too, Aleichem, for many articles:  1] See if an article already exists at en:wiki; 2] If not, write a new Dutch article, or translate an existing one into English; 3] Work hard to polish and perfect it; 4] Then invite others to take it world-wide.
 * We should see if other similar non-English-language grammar articles exist on en:wiki, to use as models. (You're going to have me speaking Dutch if you're not careful!)
 * Speaking of which, 1] are you familiar with the international phonetic alphabet, and 2] do you have a guide to Dutch pronunciation in that alphabet? I could start learning to pronounce Dutch before I know what the words mean (I've done this in Italian, French and Spanish).   paul klenk talk
 * some 'overworked' sysop did remove the page. Aleichem 04:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Message on sv:Wikipedia:Hjälp
Hi Paul, welcome to sv!

There is no specific New Users log on sv. You could try the village pump instead. I also reverted your edit on sv:Wikipedia:Hjälp which really didn't belong there. /probell (Talk) 19:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Languages!
So... are you planning to learn all of these languages, too? ;-) just a hello from Boston.  +sj  +

Greetings!
はじめまして！ or こんにちは！
 * Translated from English by ( ~ )

My name is Paul Klenk, and I live in New York City (NYC). I'd like to make friends in the world-wide Wikipedia community. I have user pages in the 15 largest non-English wikis, all with the same user name. I established them to assist me in international collaboration, and to maintain and protect one identity across all of Wikipedia.

わたしはポール・クレンクで、ニューヨーク市（NYC）に住んでおります. 世界中の WIKIPEDIA コミュニティで、友達を作りたく思っています. 英語以外で、WIKIでトップ15の言語において、ユーザー・ページを造っています. ユーザー・ネームはすべて同一です. これらのユーザ・ページは、国際的な共同作業を行いやすくするため、また世界中の Wikipedia で、わたしのアイデンティティを確立し保持するため造りました.

One of the pages I have written is New York's Village Halloween Parade. I am the sole author of this article, and hope you enjoy it. I would love to see it translated into another language.

わたしが執筆した記事ページとしては、ニューヨークのヴィレッジ・ハロウィーンのパレードがあります. この記事は、わたしが一人で執筆したものです. 読んで面白いものになっているよう願っています. 英語以外の言語に翻訳されることは、わたしにとって喜ばしいことです.

If you would like to collaborate, contact me and we can talk about your idea. I have advanced skills in editing. I am happy to assist in proofreading English translations and polishing language, syntax and punctuation. I can also help you navigate the English wiki and find the correct page for your questions or concerns.

どなたか、共同作業をお望みの方がおられましたら、連絡をお願いします. 作業について話し合うことができるでしょう. わたしは編集作業では、かなりな技量を持っています. 翻訳英文のプルーフリーディングや、表現、文法、句読法などのブラシュアップでお手伝いできれば幸いです. また、英語のWIKIについて案内できますし、疑問や関心のあることについて、どこに適切なページがあるか、見つけだす手助けができます.

How to contact me
わたしへの連絡の方法

I am fluent only in English, and speak no Japanese. My international home page is at the en.wiki site:
 * en:User:Paul Klenk
 * en:User talk:Paul Klenk

わたしが自由に使える言語は英語だけで、日本語はまったく分かりません. わたしの国際的活動の拠点ページは、以下の英語のWIKIページです：
 * en:User:Paul Klenk
 * en:User talk:Paul Klenk

I do not often check this site for messages. Contact me at my English talk page, or by private e-mail. If you and I decide to work on a project or problem together, we can use my Japanese discussion page, and I will check it often until the project is complete.

メッセージを書いていただいても、このページを頻繁にはチェックしておりません. できましたら、わたしの英語版会話ページか, プライヴェート電子メイ ルを使って、連絡をお願い致します. 何かのプロジェクトか問題について、共同作業を行うことを、互いに決めた場合、私たちは、ここのわたしの日本語会話ページを使うことができます. 共同プロジェクトなどに着手した場合は、頻繁にこのページをチェックして、完成まで持って行きたく思います.

When you visit my user page, please let me know which language site you are from.

わたしの英語版のユーザー・ページを訪ねてこられたときは、どの言語のページから来られたのか、お教え願えれば幸いです.

I look forward to hearing from you!

ご連絡が戴けるのを、心待ちにしております！

 * Paul Klenk 2005年10月1日 (土) 05:26 (UTC)
 * ポール・クレンク 2005年10月1日 (土) 05:26 (UTC)

--

 * Hello Paul. I roughly translated your message into Japanese. Maris stella 11:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, Maris, for your wonderful translation! I am very grateful.  Please enjoy your new Babel Barnstar on your talk page here at en:wiki.  paul klenk talk 12:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello. You changed "Japanese" with "母語" in my discussion page. Well, "母語" is not Japanese. "母語" means "mother-tongue". "Japanese (language)" in Japanese is "日本語". "日本" (Nihon) is Japan and "語" (go) is word/language. So Japanese is Nihon + go = Nihongo (日本語).
 * BTW. How did you find my Japanese user page? I have "Maris stella" pages in Japanese Wiki and English Wiki. (In addition, there are French and German pages of Maris stella.) But I have not made the interlinks connecting these pages. Cordially, Maris stella 12:55, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/BigDaddy777
Requests for arbitration/BigDaddy777 has been accepted. Please place evidence at Requests for arbitration/BigDaddy777/Evidence Fred Bauder 15:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your Barnstar
In fact,I also have an en.wiki user page with the same name.But obviously my English is not so good that I can do same useful edits.It's very agonisingly,because I really wanna improve my English,maybe you can assist me in "proofreading English translations and polishing language, syntax and punctuation":)--Super1(talk in zh) 15:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Dear Paul,I appreciate your correction genuinely,you are a clever,energetic and enthusiasm fellow:)thanks again and good evening,I will go bed soon (actually,it's midnight now)--Super1(talk in zh) 15:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

IN RE BigDaddy777 RfA
Several questions (you can answer here and I'll watch):

 * 1) I am listed as a "complainer" -- but am actually only an interested party, and have no real complaints about BD. I have much more criticism with BD's accusers than anything he has done.  I never endorsed the RfC but actually have much to say.  How/where do I indicate this on the RfA?
 * 2) Does one really bring arbitration "against" another user? Isn't that an oxymoron?  Someone has been using that word when referring to the RfA, and I think it is inappropriate.  Arbitration should be "between" parties, not against them.  And it should be controlled by neutral parties, and aimed at resolving the dispute, no?

Thanks, Fred.

paul klenk talk

 * Ok, go to Requests for arbitration/BigDaddy777 and edit it to suit yourself. Whoever made the request listed you. At this point I don't know who is who at this point. You can make a statement below BD's if you wish. Keep in mind that editing that page MAKES you a party in my opinion. However if you simply wish to remove any mention of yourself as one of the parties that would make you not a party. Putting material on /Evidence is a different matter. Fred Bauder 17:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't have a lot of patience with trying to find the correct way of saying things. Of course, folks bring arbitration cases against other users which results in an arbitration  between them. One person or several initiate the case and could be called plaintiffs (or something else). The person complained of could be called the defendent; but often has a better complaint than those who started it. Arbitrators recuse themselves if they feel they are not neutral parties. We sometimes do attempt mediation or what amounts to a plea bargain, but the time to resolve the matter is before you take it to arbitration. One of the talking points during mediation ought to be, "Do you want to take this to arbitration which might result in an unpleasant remedy."  Our efforts to craft more forgiving remedies works against this since there is no reason to settle if you win by hanging tough. Fred Bauder 17:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you from MG
Thanks for your Barnstar on Polish Wiki. I feel like the olimpic champion! :)) I am MG from Poland, here known as Mrc. Best wishes, Mrc 18:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Your page in the Russian wiki
Greetings Paul, I have translated your brand-new user page in the Russian wikipedia :) One thing I wasn't sure about was, how to best translate the name "New York Village" (in my mind, the word "village" doesn't really go well if translated directly; it mostly relates to a rural settlement in Russian).  For now, I put it up as something like, "New York Greeenwich district".  Let me know if this feels wrong and I'll try to think of something better for you.  As to your question about the new user log... frankly, I am not sure about this myself but I think you might want to try the the russian wikipedia village pump, it is certainly being checked out quite frequently.

Wanted to also say, your Halloween Parade article looks really great! Although I am afraid I won't be able to lend you much help with the translation of the article itself as I am very limited in time and can't really commit to anything of that scope. I am hoping strongly that enthusiasts interested in collaborating with you in that exciting project will come forth and make it a success! However don't hesitate to let me know if I can be of more help, and I'll try what I can. Good luck and cheers - ru:User:Bepa Introvert   talk  02:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Having had all the coffee and still munching yummy cookies, jigging around... What a beautiful, fantastic babel-star, what a fabulous award. My first one too :) Thank you very much, you really shouldn't have to.

 * You are asking, "how did you learn of my user page" - I noticed your question on the main talk page of the Russian wikipedia, and looked up the user, nothing magic :) Before any confusion - my real name is Vera, which is Вера in cyrillic; my user name on other wikies where I happened to register, is Introvert (which I think I am). Thank you for your kind offer of help, I might take you up on that one :) and again, I'd be happy to help what I can as well.  Best wishes with your international project  - ru:User:Bepa  Introvert   talk  06:40, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

BigDaddy777
Fvw,

User BigDaddy777 has informed me that he is blocked for 24 hours, for violating 3RR.

I have some questions about this:
 * 1) Since he does not appear to be named in the complaint, why was he blocked?
 * 2) Was he blocked for other behavior besides 3RR or sock puppetry? If not:
 * 3) If it was for sock puppetry, what is the evidence of that, if any?
 * 4) Which, if any, of the edits listed on the complaint have been attributed to him, and on what evidence?
 * 5) I noticed one of the IPs was alleged to be from Halliburton. As BigDaddy777 seems to be a truck driver (I am double checking this), how would it be he has access to HB's corporate servers?

Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions. I will leave them on the 3RR page as well, in case someone else has the answers.

paul klenk talk 02:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It seemed likely to me he was the sockpuppeteer behind those IPs, given his past editing behaviour and the fact that these anonymous users suddenly popped up when he needed reversions. --fvw *  02:08, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * "Likely..." What actual evidence in this case, based on the edits themselves?  Others on that page have also violated 3RR in the past.  What past behavior bears on these specific edits?  Are you familiar enough with his writing style to see any correlations in style, etc.?  I am, and I do not believe it is him.  Further (of course) he is denying this.  Are you also aware that guettarda and elee... have been egregiously and maliciously throwing around accusations and behaving extraordinarily uncivil towards him; if not, does that give you cause to rethink this?  What reversions did he "need"?  It seems to me you are going on an unreasonably arbitrary basis, especially since he was not listed on the complaint, and it does not appear

 * I would like to cordially ask you to consider unblocking him while this so-called evidence is being compiled. If, after he is unblocked, it can be proven he sock-puppeted or broke 3RR, I will allow you to block me for 24 hours (in addition to re-blocking BigDaddy777, if you so desire).

 * I will wait for your response. Please address my specific questions.  Your last answer was extremely vague and general.

 * Thank you in advance for your time.  paul klenk talk 02:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * They were reversions, so there was no specific edit style. If I'm handling 3RR reports of others on that page I'll process them just as I have this one. --fvw *  02:27, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification; it makes sense. Reversions are reversions.

 * So, getting back to my questions, which did you attribute to BigDaddy and on what evidence? Why was he blocked when he was not named?  I noticed guettarda (I think) accused him of making anonymous edits.  This is only partially true; he used an anonymous IP but always signed his edits "Big Daddy on the road," and no evidence has ever been provided that he has ever sock puppeted.  Of course there are lots of reckless allegations, but no evidence of any kind?

 * Please explain what policy Big Daddy violated to get him blocked.  I apologize if I sound indignant; this is not personal -- but you are not explaining this block, nor are you specifically addressing these questions.   paul klenk talk 02:40, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Based on timing and bigdaddy's behaviour I suspect that they were sockpuppets of Bigdaddy's. I'm can't give a twelve page powerpoint presentation of statistical correlations, it's a judgement call. --fvw *  02:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

The list of alleged sockpuppets of BigDaddy777 in his RFA is ludicrous. I honestly think there are some people here who can't tell the difference between one conservative and another. There are people listed who clearly have a much higher vocabulary and (trying not to make a personal attack here) are just much more capable of rational discourse than BigDaddy. There are also people who have never even edited the same pages.

I agree BigDaddy probably needs to be pitched off this site. But the idea that he has ever sockpuppeted (until, possibly, just recently) seems to be completely groundless and not at all well thought out. It almost lends credence to his assertions that there is bias against and organized persecution of conservatives on Wikipedia. It makes it look like instead of him being banned for bad behavior that we drove him to it.

Yesterday I worked with a guy who reverted a page on a conservative website four times because he wanted to add some material he thought was damaging to the website. Apparently he was working from an astroturfing campaign spawned by a liberal website, but I didn't care. The information could stand or fall on its own. I successfully got him working on the article talk page instead of repeatedly reverting the article, where the consensus seemed to be growing to not include the information. I wonder: do people treat new users who are conservative the way I treated this guy? Jdavidb 14:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * just for the record, i also think this sockpuppet thing borders on a witchhunt. see my comments on eleemysonary's page.  jdavidb, i think an awful lot of it depends on newcomer attitude, regardless of politics.  i do think most people give newbies of any stripe a chance by seriously engaging them, just like you did.  i know i do.  i see if they respond to reasoned argument and friendliness in kind or with blustering battleground rhetoric.  that response is what makes the difference in reception; and i think that's true across the spectrum, left and right.  if pushed far enough though, i'll brawl right back with anyone, newbie or not.  Derex 15:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree with Derex, both regarding the treatment of new possibly problem editors and the witchunt aspect of the sockpuppet hunt. Hipocrite - « Talk » 16:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree that the response makes all the difference, too. I do think that sometimes some editors are less willing to give a chance for a conservative POV-pusher to reform. But overall Wikipedia is exhorbitantly tolerant and longsuffering. Moreso than I would prefer, most of the time, particularly in regards to people who show up with no intent other than to post linkspam. I certainly don't think BigDaddy's response was in any way appropriate, and as of yet I don't see any evidence that a different response would have reformed him. Jdavidb 16:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
For your kind words. If we can somehow find common ground, I'm interested to try. You don't have to do nice things for me, just do them for everyone :) Anyway, this effort on your part to bridge the gulf in our outlook is appreciated. The only piece of advice I'd offer about the BD RR vio's (and in fact, the purported RR vio of mine you reported) is that when bringing a vio, let the admins respond and try to leave it at that. It causes ongoing bad will to try to 'push' the issue after the admins opine and decide. Your interest in the truth is admirable, but in so doing, your energy may be misdirected. Just my opinion, please do not take offense - as none is intended. -- RyanFreisling @ 04:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Just a heads up
I changed the formatting of your evidence on the BD evidence page. Please try to make the sections matchup. If I don't yell at you for it, the arbitrators will. --Woohookitty 03:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Woohoo - I presented that information, not Paul. He has thus far not participated in the RfA and it is incorrect for you to attribute it, and my comments to him. He presented it on the RfC, I presented it on the RfA, for the reasons explained in my summary. Please revert. Paul - sorry for the disturbance. -- RyanFreisling @ 04:04, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Hebrew Wiki
Hi Paul. I have just translated your page into hebrew. you can see the results in he: משתמש:Paul Klenk. I think your idea is very good and wish you the best of luck. I am an admin in our hebrew wiki. If anyone gives you a hard time over there, let me know. Shalom! he: שיחת משתמש: אלמוג

 * Thank you for the lovely barn-star. By the way my nick is "Almog" (Meaning Coral. that is my daughter's name). I hope you will be approached by Hebrew Wikipedians. I will try to remember your page if future need for interwiki translations will arise. have a good day. Almog

cs.wiki
Hello. I just translated your user page, as you wish. We are looking forward to see you. Welcome on Czech Wikipedia. --cs:Zirland Zirland 06:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Hungarian WP
Hi Paul, this is Alensha from Hungarian Wikipedia. I translated your user page there. This collaboration is a great idea. I'll translate the Halloween Parade into Hungarian because it's an interesting article and with such nice photos it has featured article potential. If you have any other article that you'd like to see in our wiki, just tell me. :) Alensha 13:21, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi & thank you for the barnstar. I'm working on the Halloween parade article now and I like it very much, you have every reason to be proud of it. Can I copy all those pictures to our wiki or to Commons? I don't know much about this copyright stuff... :-) Alensha 18:07, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Category:Conservative Wikipedians
Hey Paul: JDavid and I ahve joined this, I invite you to do the same. Category:Conservative Wikipedians Hope to see you there.Gator1 14:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Gator, I don't think I will. My views are too complex to be categorized, and I am not even a registered Republican.   paul klenk talk 15:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Your page in catalan
I've just translated the first paragraphs of your user page in catalan, I'll finish it later. Anyway... welcome to the catalan wikipedia! --80.102.183.103 (Oersted) 20:02, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Imdaking
I've been investigating the alarming behaviour of this user, including his violation of several of our policies, and plan to start on the most appropriate form of dispute resolution as soon as I have prepared some evidence. Part of that evidence is contained in the abusive comments this user has made towards you.

I would therefore like to extend an invitation to you to advise me of any other users you are aware of that Imdaking has been particularly foul towards. Everything I have is going on User:Robchurch/Imdaking. All help would be appreciated, and if you would like to join me in whatever action I decide to take, you are most welcome to do so.

This user's behaviour is not acceptable. Rob Church Talk 22:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you. Any assistance, however small, will be gratefully accepted. Rob Church Talk 23:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Bildoj al la komunejo !

 * Se vi deziras ke via artikolo estu tradukotra al diversaj lingvoj estus afable meti la bildojn en la komunejon anstataŭ nur en la anglalingva WP, tiel la alilingvaj artikoloj povos esti same bunte ilustritaj kiel la originala. Antaŭdankas Arno Lagrange  ✉ 05:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If you want your article be transalted to others languages, please upload the pictures to commons, so they can easyly appear also in the translated versions of your article and they can be so beautiful as the original. Thanks Arno Lagrange  ✉ 05:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems Alensha did it for the hungarian translation but didn't create a category nor a link to commons; I created it but I didn't categorize all pictures. Please find them from the hungarian WP.  Arno Lagrange  ✉ 05:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

To your message in the Hungarian Wikipedia
Thanks for your message and your kind offer. I think I'll certainly need your help with some articles sooner or later, because I've already asked for help from other native speakers for other articles (like for Kató Lomb, which is supposed to be good English now). I have plans for other articles as well. So thanks again; let's keep in touch! -- Adam78 12:26, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Translation of user page to sl:
Hi Paul. I am volunteering for translation of your user page to Slovene. Just let me know what do you need exactly. Best regards. --xJaM 15:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

your non-English Wiki user pages
A suggestion: You can add your other user pages as interwiki links, just like the interwiki links for regular Wikipedia articles. For example, my user page has & to connect to my user page on the Japanese Wikipedia. Once you've set it up for one page, you can then just copy the same code to each of your other user pages to create the same interwiki links.

The Sister projects, unfortunately, don't allow a similar interwiki link, but you can see at the top of my user page the abbreviated links that I've created to my user pages on the different sister projects (b=Wikibooks, c=Commons, m-Meta, etc.). I've even created accounts on the EvoWiki and WikiTravel Wikis and added abbreviated links to those Wikis. Blank Verse  ∅  15:45, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The difference is that your are using the inline linking method like this, de (notice the colon after the brackets), so the links show up in the main edit area of your user page itself. If you do de:User:Paul Klenk instead, then they show up as links in the sidebar below the navigation, search and toolbox boxes on the left side of your page (if you are using the default monobook skin). See on my user page how the link the the Japanese Wikipedia shows up in Kanji below the toolbox box. You can see on my Japanese Wiki user page that I have interwiki links to both my Enlish and Simple Wikipedia user pages. If you wanted, you could both types of links on your user page, but I prefer the uncluttered method of just using the Interlanguage links links. Blank Verse   ∅  16:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Hendrik Niehoff

Hendrik Niehoff (c. 1495 – December 1560) was a Dutch pipe organ builder.

Life
Niehoff was born in Leeuwarden and served as an apprentice to pipe organ builder Jan van Covelen (c. 1470–1532). After Van Covelen's death, Niehoff established his shop in 's-Hertogenbosch to continue building new and upgrading organs throughout the Netherlands and in major Hanseatic cities and is considered one of the most significant organ builders in northwestern Europe in the middle third of the 16th century.

Craftsmanship
The pipes in Niehoff's organs use an alloy of over 98% lead, with only about 1.3% tin and minimal amounts of antimony, copper and bismuth. Pipes made of this alloy are noted for producing sounds with the "vocale" characteristic of the organs of the high Renaissance–early Baroque period. To enhance their appearance, the façade pipes usually were covered with thin, bright tin foil that was held to the underlying lead pipe with a glue made of duck egg white.

American organbuilder John Brombaugh has used several surviving examples of pipes from the 1539 Schoonhoven Niehoff organ as models for many instruments his firm made and used in the organ at Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon, that was dedicated in 1976. This instrument also uses vertical pallets in its ruckpositive windchest, a method that was normal in Niehoff's organs but seldom found anytime since.

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Cricket Wireless

Cricket Wireless is an American wireless service provider, owned by AT&T. It provides wireless services to ten million subscribers in the United States. Cricket Wireless was founded in March 1999 by Leap Wireless International. AT&T acquired Leap Wireless International in March 2014, and later merged Cricket Wireless operations with Aio Wireless. Cricket Wireless competes primarily against T-Mobile's Metro by T-Mobile, EchoStar's Boost Mobile and Verizon's Visible in the prepaid wireless segment.

History

Cricket Wireless was founded in March 1999 by Leap Wireless International. AT&T acquired Leap Wireless International in March 2014 and merged Cricket Wireless with Aio Wireless. Before AT&T's acquisition, the company had 4.5 million subscribers.

Cricket's first market was Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1999 and through much of its early growth became known as a network focused on small, rural markets.

In September 2007, MetroPCS, Cricket Wireless's competing carrier at the time, announced a $5.3 billion bid to merge with Leap Wireless. Leap informally rejected the bid less than two weeks later. MetroPCS officially withdrew the bid less than two months later. In December 2007, Cricket acquired Hargray Communications Group's wireless telecommunications business.

In September 2008, Cricket and MetroPCS entered into a ten-year roaming agreement covering both companies' existing and future markets. The companies also entered into a spectrum exchange agreement covering licenses in certain markets. In November 2008, they launched "Premium Extended Coverage", a roaming partnership with 14 wireless companies. In August 2010, Cricket and Sprint signed a five-year wholesale agreement (MVNO) which allowed Cricket to utilize Sprint's nationwide 3G EVDO network in the United States.

In late 2010 at CES 2011, Cricket unveiled Muve Music, the carriers own music streaming service alongside the $199 Samsung Suede SCH-r710 which was the first phone to support Muve Music and included a 4GB SD Card to store music on. Muve Music was initially included in its own $55 plan but was later expanded to all plans as a $5 add-on before being included in all plans free-of-charge. The music service was deemed by Cricket as a major success and credited with helping drive up at least 100,000 new subscribers in the course of a few months. Muve Music originally required an SD Card with a capacity of at least 4GBs to download music, the ability to do so without an SD Card was introduced in version 4.0 of Muve Music but required an internal storage capacity of at least 4GBs. Muve Music 4.0 was officially unveiled on the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Discover while the Samsung Galaxy Admire would ship with version 3.5 but was upgradeable to version 4.0. At its peak, the service was the biggest music streaming service in regards to paying customers with a customer base of 2.3 million users and was hinted in making appearances in international markets such as in Brazil. The fate of the service was put in doubt after the acquisition of Crickets parent company, Leap Wireless, by AT&T and was rumored to be merged with AT&Ts own Beats Music service or possibly left as-is. AT&T expressed a lack of interest in maintaining the service and discontinued it in May 2014. AT&T made Muve Music inaccessible to any new phone purchased after the merger but allowed legacy handsets bought before the merger to access the service. The service was acquired by Deezer for $100 million and formally shut down on February 7, 2015. Deezer offered all Cricket customers a discounted $6 plan which was made available on January 31, 2015. Cricket offers a variety of phones including most of the latest iPhone and Android models.

In July 2013, AT&T agreed to buy Cricket Wireless' parent for $1.2 billion. The FCC approved the acquisition between AT&T and Leap Wireless in March 2014. In doing so, AT&T merged its own Aio Wireless prepaid brand into Cricket to form the "New Cricket". Cricket Wireless began a gradual shutdown of its CDMA network in March 2015 before a total shutdown in September 2015 and moved all users over to AT&Ts GSM network. All users were required to buy new devices in order to be able to maintain connectivity to the new Cricket network. Cricket Wireless, alongside AT&T, shut down its 2G networks on December 31, 2016. Customers with legacy handsets were also required to upgrade their devices to use on newer networks.

Cricket Wireless deployed its 5G network nationwide on August 21, 2020. Shortly afterward, Cricket announced the shutdown of its 3G network starting in February 2022.

Coverage network
Prior to its acquisition by AT&T, Cricket's CDMA network used its home network and roaming agreements with Sprint, among other CDMA carriers. However, Cricket's CDMA network was shut down and the spectrum was reframed for use on AT&T's HSPA+ and LTE networks. Following the acquisition by AT&T, Cricket Wireless released devices that use AT&T's 3G, 4G, and 4G LTE networks.

Cricket Wireless noted on its old website that CDMA service would be terminated as early as September 2015. Most devices prior to the merger would not be compatible on the GSM network except the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and iPhone 5s. Compatible iPhone devices would only require a new SIM card.

CDMA phones
In May 2015, Cricket Wireless was sued for selling CDMA phones that would not work after the merger with AT&T. The lawsuit alleged that Cricket knew at the time of the merger with AT&T that any devices sold would soon need to be replaced because AT&T's network did not support CDMA devices and yet continued to do so. The lawsuit further stated that "AT&T and Cricket had decided to discontinue the CDMA network and require Cricket customers to use AT&T's GSM cellular network" yet continued to sell the devices, and due to Cricket's policy of not unlocking cellphones at that time, "the cellphones became useless and worthless." The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff and Cricket was forced to either unlock the locked cell phones, provide 1 month of free service on the 1GB plan for former customers and waive the activation fee, or provide current customers with one extra gigabyte of data for four months.

A similar lawsuit was filed by the Attorney General of Maryland in June 2020 for violating the state's consumer protection act.

STARTTLS stripping attack
In October 2014, Cricket Wireless (and its parent company, AT&T) came under scrutiny for intercepting and modifying its customers' email traffic to downgrade and prevent encryption of the conversation and its metadata. An engineer at a digital security and privacy firm, Golden Frog, first noticed the issue in September 2013 via his Aio Wireless connection (later acquired by Cricket). Upon further investigation by the privacy firm in June 2014, Golden Frog determined that Cricket masked the STARTTLS command in email server responses, thereby "putting its customers at serious risk by inhibiting their ability to protect online communications." In October, a Washington Post investigation revealed that "Cricket did not address repeated questions about the issue and did not alert customers, many of whom rely on Cricket as their sole Internet service, that they would not be able to protect their e-mails from prying eyes. AT&T, which absorbed Cricket when it acquired Leap Wireless that spring, did not respond to a request for comment." The EFF also published a technical analysis condemning ISPs like Cricket for tampering with customer internet traffic.

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The Homeward Bounders

The Homeward Bounders is a fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones in which a vast series of parallel universes serve as the game-boards for a race of demons that delight in war-games and fantasy-games.

Plot summary
Twelve-year-old Jamie discovers a strange place in his hometown in which mysterious and demonic entities, known only as Them, are playing a board game with the entire world. Upon his discovering Them, They are forced to make Jamie a Homeward Bounder; this means he must constantly travel from world to world until he finds his home again. Homeward Bounders cannot die, and must not interfere with Play. If he can reach his home he may stay, and re-enter play. No-one is allowed to interfere directly with the Homeward Bounders; for example, if someone were to attempt to hurt or steal from Jamie, that person would die mysteriously.

In his travels through the many worlds, Jamie meets the Flying Dutchman, with his ship and crew, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew. In addition, he meets a strange entity chained to a rock by Them. Every day, a Vulture comes to peck at him. While he is never named, the entity is Prometheus (he states that his name means "foresight" and that, according to legend, he was punished for bringing fire to humanity). Jamie becomes skilled at travelling, learning to read the signs left by other Homeward Bounders, growing fluent in many languages and proficient in many unusual skills.

So Jamie wanders through the worlds, time passing, never reaching his home, yet hardly aging at all, until he meets Helen Haras-Uquara, from the barbaric world of Uquar. She has a gift - she can change her right arm into anything at all (for instance, an elephant trunk or a snake). Helen has only recently become a Homeward Bounder, because she, like Jamie, has seen Them playing Their game with the worlds. Although she has no experience with anything much, having been shut in a temple for most of her life, she proves to be a resourceful and intelligent person; her knowledge of Them, which mainly comes from the teachings of Uquar, her god, turns out to be very useful.

Helen and Jamie travel together until they meet Joris, another new Homeward Bounder, who was a slave and apprentice demon hunter from another world, separated from his master by a demon that showed him Them. The three travel together until they come to a world in which they meet Adam and Vanessa.

This world is like our current world, and is also strongly reminiscent of Jamie's home world. He is sure that if they could just travel on one or two worlds more he would reach his Home. The Homeward Bounders convince Adam and Vanessa that They exist, when Konstam, Joris' demon-hunting-master arrives, and joins their party. Konstam is eager to fight this new kind of demon, if only because of the challenge that They present, and the six invade Their strange place and try to defeat Them. The attack goes awry, however, and all six of them are made into Homeward Bounders. This fills the Bounder circuits to their maximum capacity; in effect, this means that They cannot create any more Homeward Bounders. Even They must play by Their own rules.

Jamie awakens, alone, and realizes that Adam and Vanessa's world is his Home, only 100 years too late – he recognizes a photo of Adam and Vanessa's grandmother when she was young; it was his little sister, grown up. He realizes that although he did not age during his time on the Bounder circuits, time was still passing on his Home world, and his family and his Home world have gone forever. They are cheating; his world is gone. He has no home to go to.

His hope of ever returning home crushed, he returns to the mysterious entity chained to a rock, and inadvertently frees him, as only one without hope can free him. With his help, Jamie rallies all the Homeward Bounders, and they make a frontal assault on the main base of Them, and destroy many of Them and also Their special place, known as "The Real Place".

Everyone is returned to their respective home worlds, except for Jamie. Since his home is gone, he chooses to continue to wander through the worlds, so as to keep The Real Place in all the worlds, not just in one place, as They did. So, in the end, Jamie stops Them from returning for at least a few centuries, by giving up any hope of a normal life and having to endure watching his friends die while he stays young.

Reception
Kirkus Reviews considered it to be "elaborate and intricate" and a "chilly scenario", recommending it for "admirers of cerebral puzzle-fantasy". James Nicoll lauded Jones for being able to "introduce all of her characters, outline the rules of her setting, and make her way through a complete plot in 267 pages".

Dave Langford reviewed The Homeward Bounders for White Dwarf #53, and stated that "few writers can bring off this sort of thing, but Jones does. She has the trick of conviction and empathy, of larding the narrative with humour where appropriate and thus heightening the desolation and horror elsewhere. A powerful little book."

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1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1935/36 / Државно првенство 1935/36) was the 13th season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier football competition.

It was played in a cup format from June 7 to August 2, 1936. Compared to the previous season, the number of clubs competing was increased by four to a record fourteen. The competition was marred by withdrawal of already drawn Croatian clubs Concordia Zagreb and Hajduk Split who objected to the format of the competition.

Winning squad
Champions:

BSK Belgrade (Coach: Antal Nemes)
 * Franjo Glaser
 * Đorđe Popović
 * Predrag Radovanović
 * Milorad Mitrović
 * Milorad Arsenijević
 * Ivan Stevović
 * Gustav Lechner
 * Aleksandar Tirnanić
 * Slavko Šurdonja
 * Blagoje Marjanović
 * Đorđe Vujadinović
 * Vojin Božović
 * Svetislav Glišović

Top scorers
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.
 * 1 - 5 goals - Blagoje Marjanović (BSK Belgrade)
 * 2 - 4 goals - Đorđe Vujadinović (BSK Belgrade), Milan Rajlić (Slavija Sarajevo)

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WMKS

WMKS (100.3 FM, "Hits 100.3"), is a top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, that serves the Piedmont Triad region, including Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The iHeartMedia, Inc. outlet broadcasts with an ERP of 100 kW. It has studio facilities and offices located on Pai Park in Greensboro, and a transmitter site is located south of Greensboro in unincorporated Guilford County.

Early years
This station signed on the air in June 1953 as WNOS-FM. In October 1975, Bernie Mann bought WNOS and WNOS-FM. He changed the FM station's letters to WGLD and the format to beautiful music, also increasing the power to 100,000 watts and building a new 400-foot tower.

In 1985, the WGLD letters and format moved to 1320 AM and the station became WOJY "Joy 100", a satellite MOR station. In 1989, WOJY changed to soft adult contemporary with the new name WWWB "B-100". For a year starting in 1994, the station was WFXF "100.3 the Fox", a hit-oriented classic rock station focusing on the 70s and listeners 35 to 45, with some songs no one else was playing. Then the station became WHSL "Whistle 100", playing country music. In 1999, WHSL became one of the first country music stations to air John Boy and Billy, which had previously been designed for classic rock stations. Around New Year's Day 2001, the station took over the rock format previously heard on WXRA, calling itself WVBZ "100.3 the Buzzard", keeping John Boy and Billy. This arrangement lasted until early 2009, when it changed its moniker to "The Buzz" and shifted its music towards active rock.

100.3 KISS-FM
The Buzz moved to 105.7 FM on January 1, 2014, at 5p.m., taking the spot of sister station WMKS. WVBZ adopted the Top 40 format of its predecessor, and later rebranded as "100.3 KISS-FM." On January 3, 2014, the call letters switched to WMKS.

Prior to 2018, WMKS aired Fred & Angi from WKSC-FM in Chicago in the morning. The station had no morning DJs until adding Ace and TJ May 28, 2019.

Hits 100.3
On October 29, 2020, WMKS dropped the "Kiss-FM" branding and began promoting "The New Sound of 100.3" coming on November 2, at Noon. At said time, after playing "This Is What You Came For" by Calvin Harris, WMKS rebranded as "Hits 100.3", promising to be commercial free on weekends. The first song on "Hits" was "What's Poppin" by Jack Harlow. The new format leans rhythmic, and the new station claimed that listeners of hip hop-formatted 102 Jamz like only one in four songs played on that station, and that Mainstream CHR-formatted WKZL has too many commercials.

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User:SpIash

I created the password offline, randomly, and have deleted the file. Not even I am able to login to this account. -Splash talk 17:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:SpIash

I created the password offline, randomly, and have deleted the file. Not even I am able to login to this account. -Splash talk 17:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Magnusfeuer

Engine control unit
Hi Magnus. Nice work on engine control unit. Thanks for contributing! --Heron 17:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Mazda Cosworth
I changed it because the larger Duratec 4-cylinder engines (1.8, 2.0 and 2.3) were designed by Mazda, not by Ford. In any case, the engine factory is the same, so either Mazda MZR or Ford Duratec would be correct. But "Ford Ranger" would be too specific. That engine is used in many other Ford products, both in Europe and North America. --Pc13 17:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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Higher-order programming

Higher-order programming is a style of computer programming that uses software components, like functions, modules or objects, as values. It is usually instantiated with, or borrowed from, models of computation such as lambda calculus which make heavy use of higher-order functions. A programming language can be considered higher-order if components, such as procedures or labels, can be used just like data. For example, these elements could be used in the same way as arguments or values.

For example, in higher-order programming, one can pass functions as arguments to other functions and functions can be the return value of other functions (such as in macros or for interpreting). This style of programming is mostly used in functional programming, but it can also be very useful in object-oriented programming. A slightly different interpretation of higher-order programming in the context of object-oriented programming are higher order messages, which let messages have other messages as arguments, rather than functions.

Examples of languages supporting this are Ada, Wolfram Language, C#, Java, ECMAScript (ActionScript, JavaScript, JScript), F#, Haskell, Lisp (Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, others), Lua, Oz, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Scala, ML, and Erlang.

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Copperton, Utah

Copperton is a town in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, located at the mouth of Bingham Canyon, approximately 17 mi southwest of Salt Lake City. The town boundaries include a smaller area than that of both the former CDP (designated by the U.S. Census) and the former township. Much of the town is included in the Copperton Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Copperton was established in 1926, by the Utah Copper Company as a residential area and "model city" for its employees. It emerged as a "showplace for company-subsidized family life." Housing construction ended in the 1930s, and company-furnished housing ended in 1955. After that, a private real estate developer managed the homes for employees. A rather large park was also built in the small town.

As of the 2010 Census, Copperton has a population of 826. Copperton is the only mining town remaining for the Bingham Canyon Mine after Lark was torn down in 1980. Currently, only a handful of residents work for the mine. The town's history is directly linked to the mine.

The 2017 American Community Survey reported the population at 579.

In 2015, the township's residents voted to incorporate and become a metro township.

As of May 2024, Copperton has reverted to town status.

Climate
Climate is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfa" (Humid Subtropical Climate).

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Talk:Headbangers Ball

Dropping the apostrophe
Although it's grammatically incorrect, the actual title does not appear to include an apostrophe. MTV2.com refers to it as Headbangers Ball, as does Amazon.com in its merchandise (i.e., MTV2 Headbangers Ball). Also, on the highly unlikely side, "ball" could be meant as a verb so as to give the impression that headbangers are balling, thus eliminating the need for a possessive apostrophe. But, as I said, unlikely. Either way, the article's title should reflect the title given by the creators, grammatically correct or not. Anyone have any thoughts? Should we go ahead and move this to Headbangers Ball? Nufy8 17:56, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Then with no objections, I shall go ahead and do so. Nufy8 19:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Headbangers Ball Redux Criticism
I think it should be further added that many criticize this Headbangers ball for being still very commercially oriented. They only play mainstream metalcore bands and big name, "sell-out" European bands e.g. Cradle of Filth, Children of Bodom. In the old days they played everything, hell I even saw them play the only Bathory video ever made followed by an interview with Qouthorn back in the 90's. "From the Cradle to Enslave" doesn't really count as being "non-mainstream."

Headbangers Ball History Criticism
MTV's Headbangers Ball from the start did not show equal amounts of Glam Rock & Heavy Metal. It mainly aired Metal videos, thus, how it received credibility from its fans because they showed videos from Slayer,Iron Maiden,Gothic Slam,etc... When Adam Curry left they were switching to the Glam Rock format(which is why I believe he left in the first place but don't quote me) and that's how alot of the faithful viewers, like myself, adopted the title,"HardRock Cafe". Rikki was great at interviews but he mainly sucked up to the Glam elite to push the "Metal"club that he owned at the time called The Cathouse.

No warning?
Much to the surprise of my cynical self at the time, there was plenty of warning that the Headbangers Ball was getting cancelled. They even had a big final episode, said goodbye, etc. This part of the article should changed. TJSwoboda (talk) 17:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

No warning? pt2
Can someone verify that they're not even airing blocks of videos anymore at Tuesday 3am EDT? They've not been airing since approximately mid-March 2011. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.192.207.194 (talk) 00:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Leslie West?
Curious why Leslie West is omitted from the list of hosts; I remember taping and watching his shows dozens of times. MTV.com HueyLouie2e (talk) 19:52, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Rise of heavier music really a factor?
This is probably nothing that could be useful for the article unless you could get a source from the era, but I find it hard to believe there was any serious overlap between MTV's regular video rotation and Headbanger's Ball. Sure, there were probably at least a couple of bands that originally were only going to be shown on Headbanger's Ball that suddenly blew up huge not long afterward (Soundgarden, Marilyn Manson), but overall, like, MTV never played probably 90% of the genres represented on Headbanger's Ball outside of the show itself. Well if you do not count Beavis & Butt-head usually making fun of the few death/thrash/speed metal videos they played despite ostensibly being metal fans 98.102.131.218 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Horror film/archive1

Horror film
Has gone through major revisions in the past few months, now should be close to FA status, but apart from the obvious lack of references whats the opinion on this article? detailed comments and specifics welcome. Niz 17:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a good article. I think I'd like to see some discussion about the relationship between religion and horror. I.e. a lot of horror films draw upon the religious mythos, most notably catholicism, to justify their story line and the elements of horror and evil. &c. Also the article is very euro/hollywood-centric. Is there anything to tell about horror films from Asia, for example? — RJH 15:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm. Short paragraphs are a problem here. Other then that I can't help but thinking there is something big missing here... perhaps on seperate section on how phsycology influences these? I don't know its just an idea. Feels like its missing something.... Ryan Norton T 21:30, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * which paragraphs do you consider too short? what do you mean by "how psychology influences these?" influences what? Niz 23:07, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It is quite good but definitely not a Feature yet. Sentences like this one: "The Canadian film Cube (1997) was perhaps one of the few interesting horror films of the 1990s" just reek of POV. Yes it is qualified with "perhaps" but I think its just an unnecessary opinion. In re: the discussion of psychology, there is a lot that needs to be added here, just one example is 70's American horror directors who brought their experiences of Vietnam and that tumultuous period of history into their work. The lack of Asian or extremely low-budget third-world cinema is also of note. I would say it needs a lot more work and expansion. Many of these expansions could be made in other articles specific to national cinemas and genres, but those need to be created and linked at the bottom. I also read some of the Talk re: use of the term mysogyny and I think this needs to be clarified, expanded, or removed to make it a meaningful reference. I would love to see this article get feature status as well but it feels like there are huge pieces of history, information, and theory missing yet. Powers of i 20:12, 22 October 2005 (UTC)