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More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_%28electronic%29#Plaxo.3F that could be worked in, but needs NPOV work.

Mentioning David Coursey in the criticism section isn't really worthy of the article. Coursey isn't even that relevant of a figure. If we want a better example, perhaps use Joel Spolsky.

I'm not quite understanding what Coursey's compaint was exactly, "Plaxo received criticism from technology journalist David Coursey, who was upset about receiving a number of requests from Plaxo users to update their contact information..." - He received requests from people wanting HIM to change THEIR information? That doesn't make much sense... Wegsjac 00:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the comment above, especially that the nature of Coursey's complaint is unclear. However, my guess is that Coursey's complaint actually relates to an important and current controversy on unintended and unwanted sharing of personal information.

Let's call that topic "Privacy". The controversy is with Plaxo Pulse in which, at the time of writing, all new connections (people) that a person adds into Pulse are pushed out to all other connections. Users appear to have no control over who receives that information. In Plaxo's responses they assert that Pulse is a social network, and by definition (to them) this means information is open to all. Some users view this as a violation of Plaxo's own privacy policy. In my opinion the issue of privacy -- specifically the users' control of their privacy -- probably should to be addressed in all discussions of social networking platforms.

Related questions are: do users clearly understand who can see their information; is the policy transparent and easy to understand; is there a mechanism for the user to control their privacy; how granular are the control mechanisms (e.g. can a user block specific persons, or block specific pieces of information from being automatically distributed); what risks are users exposed to (e.g. phishing, stalking).

In essense, to what extent can users trust their online social network?

The Plaxo forum currently has at least one thread from concerned users on this topic at http://forum.plaxo.com/showthread.php?t=4357

- AdmiralSven (talk) 23:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

What's the best way to add this information since I'm an employee?

The Comcast deal closed in July 2008 -

Comcast announced its intent to acquire Plaxo as a subsidiary of Comcast Interactive Media on May 14, 2008, and completed the deal July 1, 2008.

- 66.151.128.22 (talk) 20:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Critism section needs expansion
There's definitely more to the story about Plaxo criticism than one tech journalist. A lot of people thought of them as practically synonymous with spam, and still may. See "Spam, or Not?", "Now That Plaxo Spam Has Annoyed Enough People, It's Time To Fade It Out?", and "Plaxo: Now With Less Evil" for examples and potential sources. William Pietri (talk) 21:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Since there have been comments since Jan about the "Criticism" section not being quite appropriate (I suspect it was posted by the journo himself to drive traffic? who else would put that in there?), I have renamed it privacy and it is open to others to describe the issues in a more encyclopedic way. JNC 14:48 31 Aug 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.106.235.192 (talk) 21:49, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Dubious business practices
Plaxo is not a serious service. In my personal case they have ignored a termination of a free of charge trial service twice and charge my credit card. 81.210.176.112 (talk) 22:43, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Easy - charge back with your credit card. Why are you posting this here? Lexlex (talk) 11:33, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Comcast acquires Plaxo
someone else could probably modify this article better than i could...

May 14, 2008 Comcast is adding a social dimension to its services through the acquisition of Plaxo, a deal the two companies announced Wednesday afternoon. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase price is thought to be in the $150 to $170 range. The acquisition is a big win for Plaxo, whose Pulse social network service, with 1.5 million active monthly users, has been overshadowed by the likes of Facebook and MySpace. It's a smart move by Comcast, which can enhance the user experience across its 14 million high-speed Internet subscribers, 3 million voice customers, and 24.2 million cable subscribers. The acquisition is built on a preexisting relationship. In May 2007, Comcast partnered with Plaxo to offer a networked address book to subscribers of its various services. Comcast is Plaxo's largest customer and partner, with Plaxo hosting all Comcast subscriber e-mail address book accounts. http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9944352-80.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sadchild (talk • contribs) 11:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Malware?
Somehow I ended up with this Plaxo program on my computer, and I never installed anything ( I don't have a pre-installed version of Windows, and nobody used the comp except me, this is definitely new, and some sort of malware). Is this company involved in malware? It should be mentioned in the article if so. Brentt (talk) 03:40, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

A SCAM called PLAXO
I received an invitation to join PLAXO (9/2008) from one of my LinkedIn connections. The funny thing is that the person later told me they didn't recall sending out invitations.

In any case - stupid me took the bait; signed on to PLAXO using the same credentials I used for LinkedIn. A fast splash screen appeared, then my new account page. I was curious about that screen - so went back in my browser and captured it. It was a screen with my username and password filled in, along with a reference to LinkedIn.

And guess what? My LinkedIn contacts received invitations to join PLAXO. Yes!! without my approval, permission, or knowledge!!

Needless to say I changed my LinkedIm password since, but the damage is done.

People - DO NOT LOG ON TO PLAXO with the same credentials to LinkedIn.

Johnny. 10/25/2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnyb555 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Plaxo creates accounts for people without their permission!
I just got an e-mail from Plaxo about a friend request from someone I don't even know, and it turns out Plaxo had created an account for me without my knowledge, using my main e-mail address. Of course I didn't know the password to my account because I didn't create it, so I sent a change password request to my e-mail, changed the password, logged in, and deleted the account. Is there some law about creating accounts for people without their knowledge or consent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guidepoint2 (talk • contribs) 20:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Plaxo Co-Founder Minh Nguyen Charged With Murder

 * TechCrunch
 * Washington Post -173.162.252.241 (talk) 22:15, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * He was not a co-founder. See Lies, damn lies and Wikipedia: Murder suspect NOT a Plaxo founder – ex-staffer --Racklever (talk) 16:44, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Plaxo end of service 12/31/2017
I didn't even know I had an account, but I received the following in an email:

> After 15 years of helping customers enrich their address books, we regret to > announce that we will be shutting down the Plaxo service at the end of the day on > December 31, 2017. > > We will begin purging user data on January 1, 2018. If you would like to export > your address book data, please do so before that date. Instructions for how to > export your data are available > here. > > Thank you for subscribing to Plaxo. We appreciate the support you have given us > over the years and we wish you all the best.

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Walter Poppe

Walter Fritz Rudolf Poppe (8 August 1892 – 17 August 1968) was a German general during the Second World War leading the 59th Infantry Division.

On 12 January 1942, he succeeded Wilhelm Wetzel as command of the 255th Infantry Division between the Eastern Front and France until it was disbanded in October 1943, at which point he succeeded Otto Lasch as command of the 217th Infantry Division on the Eastern Front, until it was also disbanded a month later on November 15. He participated in Operation Market Garden, leading the 59th Infantry Division where he led his troops across a river crossing between Breskens and Flushing. After the war he was credited as a 'Military Advisor' on the 1974 film A Bridge Too Far even though he had died in 1968. By war's end, he held command of the 467th Infantry Division.

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Thanks for fixing up my bad grammer in prophets... I did a bad on the last edit.

1freethinker 15:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Ramindjeri

The Ramindjeri or Raminjeri people were an Aboriginal Australian people forming part of the Kukabrak grouping now otherwise known as the Ngarrindjeri people. They were the most westerly Ngarrindjeri, living in the area around Encounter Bay and Goolwa in southern South Australia, including Victor Harbor and Port Elliot. In modern native title actions a much more extensive territory has been claimed.

Country and naming
Ramindjeri Heritage Association Inc asserts historical territory including Karta (Kangaroo Island) and the whole southern portion of the Fleurieu Peninsula, extending as far north as Noarlunga or even the River Torrens. However, the claimed territory overlaps a significant portion of the territory claimed by both the neighbouring Ngarrindjeri to the east and the Kaurna to the west, in their Federal Court Native Title Claims Registered respectively in 1998 and 2000. Linguistic evidence suggests that the "Aborigines" encountered by Colonel Light at Rapid Bay in 1836 were Kaurna speakers. David Horton's map as hosted online by AIATSIS, based largely on Norman Tindale's work, shows Kaurna down the west side of the Fleurieu and Ngarrindjeri to the east of them. The Dreaming story of the Kaurna creator ancestor, Tjilbruke, extends as far west as Rosetta Head.

There is no evidence of continual occupation on Kangaroo Island earlier than the complete separation of the island from the mainland 11,000 years ago. Several small sites dated 6,000, 5,200 and 4,300 years BP have been found, but it is unknown whether these belong to visitors or a remnant population. As available technology precludes intentional visits by Aboriginal people, a remnant population of up to 200 individuals is the preferred hypothesis, with the last dying 2,500 years ago.

Ramindjeri, dubbed "Encounter Bay blacks", were observed holding a full moon ceremony at Onkaparinga by John Bull's 1837 water exploration party, guided by pre-1836 Sealer Nat Thomas.

Ronald and Catherine Berndt's ethnographic study, which was conducted in the 1930s, identified six Kukabrak, subsequently described as "Ngarrindjeri" clans, the Ramindjeri lakinyeri occupying the coast from Cape Jervis to a few kilometres south of Adelaide. Berndt posited that the Ramindjeri clans may have expanded along trade routes as the Kaurna were dispossessed by colonists.

Law professor Irene Watson wrote in a 2019 article about the Maria massacre: "The ancient identity and name of the Milmendjeri, one of the Tanganekald peoples, belong to the Coorong. They are ancient names that have become almost lost to living memory. Post-invasion, the peoples and territories of the Coorong have become known as Ngarrindjeri — this name is now privileged in native title claims over the lands and affairs of traditional First Nations nations such as Ramindjeri, Tanganekald, and Yaralde."

Native title
Ramindjeri lands have been subject to a native title claim lodged by Ngarrindjeri claimants in 1998. In 2009, Ramindjeri Heritage Association Inc spokesman Karno Walker challenged the legitimacy of that claim, claiming the Ramindjeri were the rightful owners of land encompassing much of both the 1998 Ngarrindjeri claim and the 2000 Kaurna claim, and calling the Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri "Johnny-come-latelys".

A native title claim was registered with the Federal Court in 2010, encompassing over 20000 km2 of land extending to the River Torrens on the north, Kangaroo Island on the west, and the Murray Mouth on the east. Subsequently, Walker made unofficial claims to land as far north as Tea Tree Gully.

The claim was rejected by the National Native Title Tribunal on 24 March 2011, having failed six of the eleven required preconditions for acceptance, Walker later claimed that eight out of ten had been fulfilled. The Federal Court was set to hear the case in October 2011. The Federal Court published the findings of Mansfield in September 2014 that the application be dismissed.

The native title dispute led one local council to alter their "Acknowledgement of country" statement before meetings. The City of Unley changed their acknowledgement to read "Aboriginal people" instead of "Kaurna", so as not to take sides in the dispute.

Language
The Ramindjeri language was a dialect of the Ngarrindjeri language, with a separate classification in the AUSTLANG database, but is now extinct.

Alternative names
Raminjeri is an alternative spelling, while other variant names and spellings include: Rormear, Ramong, Raminyeri, Ramindjerar, and Ramingara. Ethnonyms used by other peoples include Paruru (meaning "uncircumcised" or "animal") and Wirramu-mejo, both used by Kaurna; and Tarbanawalun, used by the Jarildekald people, to the east of Lake Alexandrina and the River Murray.

Social organisation
The Ramindjeri were composed of 14 clans.

Culture
The Ramindjeri had a genre of tuŋari songs, called mantimanŋari, which were songs of caution, composed to warn or teach lessons to members of the tribe, such as one mocking a recently bereaved woman for appearing to be too much in a hurry to remarry.

History of contact
Ramindjeri were amongst, if not the first South Australian Aboriginal people to come into regular contact with Europeans since 1802, with Karta (Kangaroo Island) based sealers raiding Ramindjeri ruwe (territorial lands) for women. In the early 19th century, pre-1836 settlement.

Ramindjeri men began working as whalers around Encounter Bay in the 1830s.

Victoria Square proposal
After the Adelaide City Council released a master plan for a A$100 million redevelopment for Victoria Square in 2010, Karno Walker, with architect Michael Thiele and community development consultants Encompass Technology, proposed a Ramindjeri-themed redevelopment at a projected cost of A$500 million. They claimed it could be funded by private developers in return for parking revenue from a 2000-space underground carpark.

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White Earth River

White Earth River may be either of two American rivers:

 * White Earth River (Minnesota)
 * White Earth River (North Dakota)

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User:Kuxu~enwiki

Hello,

I'm french and I write articles on wikipedia in french (see fr:Utilisateur:Kuxu).

For the moment : I translate some english articles into french (see Piccadilly Circus and fr:Piccadilly Circus for exemple). I make some minor edits here about french culture and I put interlangage links between english and french articles. Kuxu 15:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Warki

The Warki are a lakalinyeri (tribe) of the Ngarrindjeri Australian Aboriginal people of southern Australia.

Language
The Warki spoke a dialect variety of Ngarrindjeri.

Country
The Warki traditionally inhabited the area around the north and western areas of Lake Alexandrina, from Grote Hill as far as Currency Creek. Norman Tindale estimated their lands at 300 mi2. They were also present on the eastern and western extremities of Hindmarsh Island.

Social organization
The Warki were composed of at least 8 clans
 * Korowalle

Alternative names

 * Warkend
 * Wakend
 * Koraulun (Jarildekald exonym for the Korowalle clan)
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Talk:MrSID

Pyramid file format?
Is this just an implementation of the more generic Pyramid image file storage method where multiple resolutions of the same file are stored to speed processing time, display time, etc?

I am not an image compression technologist and know very little about the process. All I have is their tech sheet. Please look for copyright issues and expand on the encoding technique.

Mancomb 15:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

> Is this just an implementation of the more generic Pyramid image file

No, it is similar to JPEG 2000. The article (now?) contains a link to Wavelet compression, which explains it a little more. I'm no compression technologist, but I think the MrSID format can use decompress a subset of the data which results in a lower-quality (lower resolution) copy of the image with the benefits you describe. see also Set partitioning in hierarchical trees

- As I understand it is not a pyramid image, it just stores all wavelet components, and retrivies nacassary components. So it is much more like quad-tree of wavelets. It Have advantage, than normally pyramid image will need about 33% more space on disk. With wavelet based approach one can easly go down to about +5% percent of more space used (actually it can go down to 0%, but some indexing informations are naccassary to know where each wevelet level and block lies in memory). It is much more like progressive reffinment (similar like in JPEG, or much more like in PGF, by just using first few wavelet levels, you already have full image, but of lower quality, by selectivly using deeper level you can improve quality of any reqion of image you really need - this way you can easly store and view gigantic files at any zoom level). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.156.82.207 (talk) 16:24, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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Portaulun

Portaulun may be,

 * Portaulun people
 * Portaulun language

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Tanganekald

Tanganekald may be,

 * Tanganekald people
 * Tanganekald language

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Meintangk

Meintangk may refer to:

 * Meintangk people
 * Meintangk language

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The Bathers

"The Bathers", or in French "Les Baigneuses", can refer to the following artworks:
 * Bathers at Asnières, a painting by Georges Seurat in 1883
 * Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1887
 * The Bathers (Renoir), another painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1918–1919
 * A painting by Paul Gauguin in 1898
 * The Bathers (Cézanne), by Paul Cézanne, who has a number of paintings with this title
 * The Bathers (Gleizes), a 1912 painting by Albert Gleizes
 * The Bathers (Metzinger), a c. 1908 painting by Jean Metzinger
 * The Bathers, a painting by Australian artist Lionel Jago in 1950

 * Other uses
 * The Bathers (band), a Scottish band

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Joseph A. Gilmore

Joseph Albree Gilmore (June 10, 1811 – April 17, 1867) was an American railroad superintendent from Concord, New Hampshire, and the 29th governor of New Hampshire from 1863 to 1865.

Biography
Joseph A. Gilmore was born in Weston, Vermont, on June 10, 1811. He was educated in Vermont, and moved to Boston to learn the mercantile business. Gilmore then moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where he established a wholesale grocery business.

Gilmore became involved with the Concord and Claremont Railroad, serving first as a construction agent, and later as the railroad's general superintendent. He also served as superintendent of the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad and the Portsmouth and Concord Railroad.

Originally a Whig, Gilmore joined the Republican when it was founded in the mid-1850s. He served in the New Hampshire State Senate from 1858 to 1860, and was the Senate's President pro Tempore in 1859.

Gilmore was elected governor in 1863 and reelected in 1864, and served from June 3, 1863, to June 8, 1865. Serving during the American Civil War. Gilmore's term was consumed by support for the Union, including a loan to provide bonuses and supplemental salary payments to soldiers, and arranging for the transport of soldiers traveling to New Hampshire on furlough and returning to the front lines.

Death and burial
Gilmore died in Concord, New Hampshire, on April 17, 1867, and is buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Family
Gilmore was married to Ann Page Whipple, and they had eleven children.

Their daughter Ann was the first wife of Senator William E. Chandler.

Their son Joseph Henry Gilmore was a Newton Theological Seminary trained Baptist pastor, and wrote the words to the hymn "He Leadeth Me", inspired by the 23rd Psalm.

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WKSC-FM

WKSC-FM (103.5 MHz) – branded "103.5 Kiss FM" – is a commercial Top 40/CHR radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois. Owned by iHeartMedia, its studios are located at the Illinois Center complex on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago, and its transmitter is located at Willis Tower. WKSC is the flagship station of the syndicated morning show The Fred Show.

WKFM
The station began broadcasting in November 1957 under the call sign WKFM. WKFM was owned by Frank Kovas, Jr. The station's transmitter was located atop the Randolph Tower at 188 West Randolph, and had an ERP of 50,000 watts. On February 2, 1970, its antenna fell off the building during high winds, but no one was injured.

WKFM aired beautiful music/light classical format. The music had appropriate moods through the day, with morning and afternoon drive times more upbeat, and it was considered to have a "highbrow" sound. Programs included Morning Serenade, Musical Bon-Bons, Pleasant Listening, Rendezvous With Rhythm, Dinner Musicale, and Stereo Showcase. The station had five-minute newscasts at the top of each hour and headlines at the half-hour.

Though WEFM, the Zenith owned classical music station, was the first station to broadcast in stereo, WKFM was the first to broadcast in stereo 24/7.

WFYR
In 1973, the station was sold to RKO General for $2.4 million. The new owner changed the call letters to WFYR in March 1973. The letters FYR, standing for "Fire", was a reference to the infamous Great Chicago Fire. The station adopted an automated oldies format, using Drake-Chenault's Classic Gold package.

In autumn 1973, RKO opened an oldies dance club, the "FYR Station", located at the McCormick Inn, where the station held live broadcasts on Friday and Saturday evenings.

In 1974, the station's transmitter was moved to the Sears Tower.

In 1976, WFYR began carrying Dick Biondi's syndicated program Super Gold Rock n' Roll.

In April 1977, the station adopted a live adult contemporary format. Personalities included Fred Winson, Dick Bartley, Stu Collins, and Dean Richards.

In the 1980s, the station carried Dick Bartley's oldies program Solid Gold Saturday Night, and Bartley's Sunday night oldies program Solid Gold Scrapbook.

By January 1989, WFYR had transitioned back to an oldies format, with the slogan "Chicago's Hottest Oldies".

In 1989, WFYR was sold to Summit Broadcasting for $21 million as a consequence of an FCC sanction forcing RKO General to end their broadcasting operations due to their dishonest business practices. On October 30, 1989, WFYR's oldies format was dropped and replaced with an adult contemporary format.

The Blaze
In 1991, the station was sold to Major Broadcasting for $19 million. On March 29, 1991, at 6p.m., the station signed off the air. At 4 p.m. the following day, it returned to the air with a 44-hour stunt of Rock Rock ('Til You Drop) by Def Leppard. At Noon on April 1, the station debuted a hard rock format as "The Blaze". Shortly thereafter, the station's call sign was changed to WWBZ. "The Blaze" featured acts such as AC/DC, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Great White, Guns N' Roses, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Mötley Crüe, Slaughter, and Warrant.

The station's initial on-air personalities included Steven Craig in mornings, Steve Seaver in middays, Brian Kelly in afternoons, and Kevin Lewis evenings. Other personalities on The Blaze included Leslie Harris, Scott Childers, and helicopter reporter "Major Tom".

WWBZ presented "Blazefest", a rock music memorabilia show and concert at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, which featured performances by bands such as Kiss, I Mother Earth, Saigon Kick, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, and Warrant.

In 1993, the station was sold to Evergreen Media for $28 million.

Rock 103.5
Over the July 4, 1994, weekend, the station stunted, playing music from a variety of music genres, promoting a feedback phone number for listeners to call, and taking potshots at B96, WCKG, Q101, and US99. At 6 a.m. on July 5, the station was relaunched as "Rock 103-5", airing an active rock format. On July 28, the station's call sign was changed to WRCX.

Mancow Muller was added to mornings and soon achieved the highest ratings for the station. Other airstaff on Rock 103-5 included Terry Gibson, Eddie Webb, Ned Spindle, Sludge, Cara Carriveau, and Chris Payne. WRCX hosted "Rockstock", which featured performances from Megadeth, Local H, Veruca Salt, Silverchair, Faith No More, Helmet, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

In February 1996, sister station WYNY in New York City simulcasted WRCX for a day as part of a week-long stunt of simulcasting sister stations nationwide before flipping formats to rhythmic adult contemporary as WKTU.

In 1997, Evergreen merged with Chancellor Broadcasting.

In late June 1998, Mancow left WRCX and joined 101.1 WKQX in late July. Bob & Tom replaced Muller in the morning drive slot.

WRCX's ratings plummeted after Muller's departure; in the Spring 1998 ratings period, the station was ranked 12th in the market with a 3.2 share (though the station did well in its primary target demographics of Men 18-34 and 25-54), but in the Summer of that year, the station fell to 19th place with a 2.0 share. On October 29, 1998, Chancellor announced that WRCX would change formats. A farewell show aired October 30, with the current and former DJs re-airing station memories (which included phone-calls from Lars Ulrich and Mancow), and a final goodbye from the station's departing staff.

The Beat
The station continued its rock format (albeit jockless) until 5:30 p.m. on November 2, when, after playing "Sad but True" by Metallica, the station flipped to a rhythmic oldies format as "Chicago's Jammin' Oldies", branded first as "The New 103-5", then (after a "name the station" contest) as "The Beat". The first song on "The New 103-5" was "Get Ready" by The Temptations. Doug James was morning host on The Beat. On December 21, the station's call sign was changed to WUBT. In 2000, Larry Lujack was hired to host a program on Saturdays, which was repeated on Sundays.

Chancellor merged with Capstar and restructured as AMFM, Inc. in 1999, and in 2000, merged with Clear Channel Communications.

Top 40 era
On January 12, 2001, the station adopted a contemporary hit radio format as "Kiss 103.5". The final song on "The Beat" was "Last Dance" by Donna Summer and the first song on "Kiss" was "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited. The station's call sign became the current WKSC-FM on February 13. At the time of the flip, Big City Radio's WKIE, WKIF, and WDEK had collectively been known as "92 Kiss FM" (also with a CHR format) since 1998. Clear Channel filed suit against Big City for the use of the "Kiss" name because Clear Channel owned the rights to it in most markets (and continues to do so as iHeartMedia).

The station carried the syndicated program Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, as well as American Top 40 (first with Casey Kasem and later with Ryan Seacrest). As of 2019, American Top 40 continues to air on the station. Java Joel was the evening host of The Rubber Room on the station from 2001 until January 2005 when he was fired for comments that were deemed racist. In 2002, the station adjusted its moniker from "KISS 103.5" to "103.5 KISS FM". It continues to air On Air with Ryan Seacrest as well.

DreX was morning host on WKSC-FM from 2003 until 2010.

Nina Chantele joined WKSC-FM as midday host in 2006, remaining with the station until 2014.

From August 2007 until September 2009, Silly Jilly hosted nights on WKSC. Silly Jilly was replaced by Special K, who remained with the station until 2013.

In December 2010, it was announced that Charlotte's "Brotha Fred" would take over the morning show on KISS FM. Angi Taylor and David L. joined Brotha Fred as co-hosts of the new morning show known as Brotha Fred's Neighborhood. David L. left the show in February 2012. The show was later renamed Fred and Angi in the Morning. In mid-September 2020, Taylor announced that she would be leaving the station to host mornings on sister station WCHI-FM. Fred still hosts WKSC's morning show, now known as "The Fred Show".

In November 2013, Brady joined the station as the night host and music director. In June 2015, Brady assumed afternoon and APD duties.

In October 2016, Erik Zachary was named as the new full-time evening personality and served in that position until August 2019 when he exited to pursue other opportunities.

103.5 HD2
From June 2006 to early 2013, WKSC-FM HD2 aired programming from "Pride Radio", a Top 40/Dance format targeting the LGBTQ community. This would change to iHeart's Dance/EDM network "Evolution". In November 2013, WKSC-FM HD2 changed to a smooth jazz format along with airport information as "Air Chicago Radio". In late 2018, WKSC's HD2 subchannel began broadcasting soft adult contemporary music as "The Breeze". This overlapped with its Soft AC sister station WLIT (93.9 Lite FM). On June 26, 2019, WKSC-FM HD2 returned to "Pride Radio".

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Talk:Matthew Miller

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I changed this to be a disambiguation page, combined with the previous "Matt Miller" page, and removed all entries which do not seem to meet the basic level of notability as outlined in WP:BIO. I don't mean to personally slight all the previously-listed people who share this name, but let's try to keep future additions within those guidelines.

Meanwhile, being named Matthew Miller myself, I do think it'd be nice if there were some place more appropriate than Wikipedia for keeping us all sorted out from each other....

Mattdm 16:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Bloomberg anchor
There's an orphaned article on the Bloomberg anchor: Matthew Tulley Miller. I haven't been able to find any real information on him aside from his Twitter page, but at some point he may become notable, since he is a Bloomberg TV anchor. II | (t - c) 21:04, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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Mira Calix

Chantal Francesca Passamonte (28 October 1969 – 25 March 2022), known professionally as Mira Calix, was a South African-born, British-based audio and visual artist and musician signed to Warp Records.

Although her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic, from the 2000s onwards she incorporated writing for classical instrumentation into her musical works and expanded her practice to include multidisciplinary performance, film and multi-channel installation artworks. She often stated that she considered sound a sculptural material.

Biography
Calix was born Chantal Francesca Passamonte in Durban, South Africa on 28 October 1969. She was raised in Durban in a liberal middle-class family of English and Italian descent. She grew up learning ballet and listening to jazz and classical music. She moved to London in 1991. She began to work at a record shop and took up organising parties and DJing. She worked at the labels 4AD and Warp Records, where she held the position of a publicist from 1994 to 1997. In the late 1990s, Calix married Sean Booth, who is a member of electronic duo Autechre. The two separated in the mid-2000s.

Calix's earlier music specialised in mixing her intimate vocals with jittering beats and experimental electronic textures and natural sounds. In 2003, she collaborated with the London Sinfonietta for the first time. Nunu premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in London at a concert titled "Warp Works and 20th Century Masters". The piece then toured internationally, performed by live insects, orchestra, and Calix on electronics. Subsequently, she incorporated orchestration and live classical instruments in her performances and recorded work. She worked with visual artists and musicians from other disciplines to create music for dance, theatre, film, opera, and installations. Calix was commissioned to write new works for the London Sinfonietta, Bang on a Can, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Opera North, Streetwise Opera, the Manchester International Festival, National Arts Festival, Sydney Festival, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and more.

In 2004, she formed Alexander's Annexe, a band/ensemble with pianist Sarah Nicolls and sound designer David Sheppard. Their debut performance was at the Ravello Festival in Italy, followed by performances at the Aldeburgh Festival and Parco della Musica in Rome. Alexander's Annexe released the album Push Door To Exit on Warp in November 2006. Calix consistently titled her works and albums in lower case, having rejected capitalisation due to her introduction to the work of ee cummings as a child.

As a live performer and DJ, Calix supported and toured with Radiohead, Boards of Canada, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Autechre, and other artists. She performed at Sonar, Glastonbury, All Tomorrow's Parties, Coachella, Latitude, and other concert halls and festivals.

Commissioned work
Calix had a long history of creating works presented as installation, film, theatre, and dance, as well as more traditional concerts and musical performances. She had a collaborative practice, often working with those from other disciplines, in particular the sciences. These projects were commissioned by some of the world's leading institutions and were often presented as public artworks.

In early 2008, Calix was commissioned to set Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" to music. The project was curated by composer Gavin Bryars for The Royal Shakespeare Company. During 2007 there were two theatrical works; the first, an opera titled Elephant and Castle, for the Aldeburgh Festival, was a collaboration with composer Tansy Davies, directed by Tim Hopkins, libretto by author Blake Morrison. The second, Dead Wedding, premiered at the first Manchester International Festival. Extracts from these performances appear on the album The Elephant in the Room: 3 Commissions. The album also includes pieces from a video installation work titled Natures, a collaboration with video artist Quayola and cellist Oliver Coates.

In December 2008, My Secret Heart premièred at the Royal Festival Hall in London with 100 members of Streetwise Opera. The installation piece, inspired by Gregorio Allegri's 17th century choral work Miserere, is a collaboration with British video artists Flat-E. In December 2009, Calix won a British Composer Award for My Secret Heart. It was described by the judges as "transformational, capturing raw humanity and giving voice to the disenfranchised in a sound-world which is original, absorbing and unsettling". My Secret Heart also won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2009 and was nominated for a National Lottery Arts Award in 2010. The installation toured in other countries too, both with The Creators Project and The British Council. In February 2009, she collaborated with United Visual Artists on Chorus for the opening of the Howard Assembly Rooms in Leeds. The installation piece, which was also exhibited at Durham Cathedral and The Wapping Project, won an Award of Distinction in the Interactive Category at Prix Ars Electronica in 2010. Calix continued to work with UVA, in 2019 for an installation at 180 The Strand.

In 2009, she contributed a cover of a Boards of Canada song, "In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country", featuring cellist Oliver Coates, to the Warp20 compilation. Later in the year she worked with Malcolm Middleton of Arab Strap on a session for BBC Radio 3's Late Junction.

In 2010, Calix worked with poet Alice Oswald on another commission for Opera North and collaborated for the first time with the ensemble Bang on a Can. Calix and the ensemble premiered Spring Falls Back at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York. She also spent the year working on a R&D project to develop her skills in orchestration with composers Tansy Davies and Larry Goves. Exchange and Return, an 18-month-long collaborative project, was awarded a Grant for the Arts by Arts Council England.

In 2011, Calix wrote a choral score for Fables – A Film Opera, working once more with visual artists Flat-e and Streetwise Opera. The film soundtrack, based on the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", was nominated for a British Composers Award that year.

In 2012, Calix created an interactive site specific sound sculpture for the cultural Olympiad. "Nothing Is Set In Stone" was presented by the Mayor Of London and Oxford Contemporary Music in partnership with the Natural History Museum and was situated at Fairlop Waters. The sonic aspects of this multichannel work combined her score for a South African choir and field recordings.

In 2013, Calix collaborated with United Visual Artists to create a permanent sound and light installation in the city of Bath by the Two Tunnels Group in the Combe Down Tunnel walking and cycling path.

In 2015, Calix created a large scale mixed media installation, "Inside There Falls", a mixed media installation at Carriageworks, during the Sydney Festival. Her multi-sensory artwork consisted of 180 channel orchestral score and spoken word diffused through custom made speakers incorporated into 1.5 km of hand crushed paper. She invited Rafael Bonachela, choreographer and director of the Sydney Dance Company, to collaborate with her. Dancers wore hidden speakers and performed intermittently throughout the durational installation work. The audience was invited to immerse themselves in the work and don paper suits. It was on this project that Calix initiated her practice of creating what she termed "human diffusion" incorporating small speakers into costumes of performers to create sound installations that are mobile.

In 2016, Calix presented Moving Museum35, a multichannel mixed media sound artwork installed in a commuter bus in Nanjing, China. The installation ran for three months and was the first public artwork presented in the city. It was supported by the British Council, JCDecaux, Amnua Museum of Contemporary Art and Nanjing University of The Arts as part of UKinChina2015.

In 2017, Calix wrote the scores for two productions in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Rome Season directed by Angus Jackson: Julius Caesar for brass and electronics and Coriolanus for string quartet and soprano. The plays ran for the entire year between the RSC theatre in Stratford-Upon Avon and the Barbican in London.

In 2018, Calix created "viccissitude of the divided and united", a score for choir presented as a large scale multichannel sound and light installation in collaboration with Tom Piper. The work "Beyond the Deepening Shadow" was commissioned by Historic Palaces London and presented at the Tower of London, to mark the centenary of the end of the Great War. She chose to use the text of the remarkable but forgotten poet Mary Borden to connect the geopolitical turbulence of that period and the divisiveness of the current climate.

In 2019, Calix presented a multidisciplinary performance and installation artwork at Bozar in Brussels in response to artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's "Third Paradise" project.

In 2020, Calix created a new digital-instrument that re-voices John Cage's music in response to the percussiveness of his sounds, extending the scope of the Sonatas using her own, idiomatic sound-world, and making connections between Cage's music and contemporary, electronics. She brings body into the work, transcribing and reciting recordings of Cage's life-partner, Merce Cunningham, leading dance rehearsals for the release and project titled "John Cage remixed".

In 2021, Calix exhibited "16 weeks", an audio visual artwork part of a series of works based on the signification of data, at Mimosa House, London.

Recording history
Calix's debut album, One on One, was released by Warp on 6 March 2000. This was followed by another studio album, Skimskitta in 2003 and Eyes Set Against the Sun in 2007. Two albums of commissioned works, 3 Commissions (2004) and The Elephant In The Room: 3 Commissions (2008), were also released on Warp Records. Lost Foundling, a collaboration with Mark Clifford of the band Seefeel, was released on Aperture Records in 2010. Her Utopia EP, was released on Warp Records in 2019. The record shares its title with the short film written and directed by Adam Thirlwell, for which she wrote the original score. There have also been numerous remixes and contributions to compilations and two installation related releases on The Vinyl Factory. Her original scores for Julius Caesar and Coriolanus are available through the Royal Shakespeare Company imprint. Calix ran a bespoke Calix Portal through Bleep Records, on which many of her classical works can be found.

Death
Calix died by suicide at her home in Bedford, England on 25 March 2022 at the age of 52.

Albums

 * One on One (2000)
 * Skimskitta (2003)
 * Eyes Set Against the Sun (2007)
 * Lost Foundling 1999-2004 (2010, collaboration with Mark Clifford of Seefeel)
 * Julius Caesar (2018, directed by Angus Jackson for The Royal Shakespeare Company)
 * Coriolanus (2018, directed by Angus Jackson for The Royal Shakespeare Company)
 *  absent origin (2021)

EPs and singles

 * Ilanga EP (1996)
 * "Pin Skeeling" (single) (1998)
 * Peel Session TX 09/03/00 (2000)
 * "Prickle" (single) (2001)
 * Nunu (2003)
 * 3 Commissions EP (2004)
 * ''The Elephant in the Room: 3 Commissions (2008)
 * "If then while for" (2014)
 * Utopia EP (2019)

Soundtracks

 * Transparent Roads (2008)
 * Onibus (2009)
 * Khala – Shot List (2009)
 * The Orestei – directed by Adele Thomas for Shakespeare's Globe (2017)
 * The Other Side of Mars – directed by Minna Långström, napafilms (2019)

Awards

 * Royal Philharmonic Society Award – My Secret Heart – winner (2009)
 * British Composers Award – My Secret Heart – winner –  Community Category (2009)
 * Rencontres Audiovisuelles – Strata No. 2 – Best Original Soundtrack – winner (2010)
 * Grant for the Arts – the Arts Council of England/Escalator Music (2010)
 * National Lottery Arts Award – My Secret Heart – nominee (2010)
 * Award of Distinction – Prix Ars Electronica – Chorus with United Visual Artists (2010)
 * British Composers Award – Fables – A Film Opera – nominee – Outreach Category (2011)
 * Lovie Award - Ode To The Future - Gold & People's Award (Internet Video: Music & Entertainment, 2019)
 * London International Awards: Finalist (Music & Sound: Music Original – Score) - Ode To the Future (2019)
 * Golden Award of Montreux: Gold Medal (Music) - Ode to the Future

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Thon Buri district

Thon Buri (ธนบุรี, ) is one of the 50 districts (khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. On the west bank of Chao Phraya River, it was once part of Thon Buri province. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Bangkok Yai, Phra Nakhon (across Chao Phraya River), Khlong San, Bang Kho Laem (across Chao Phraya), Rat Burana, Chom Thong, and Phasi Charoen.

History
In addition to the native inhabitants, the district was settled relatively early by foreigners, first Chinese merchants, then the Portuguese after the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese in 1767. In addition to the Chinese and Portuguese, there were also Muslims and Mon, from Burma, as well as French priests, particularly in the neighbourhood called Kudi Chin. The area still retains many Chinese shrines, mosques, and Santa Cruz Church, the second Catholic church to be built in Thailand.

The district used to be called Ratchakhrue (ราชคฤห์) due to a nearby wat of the same name. It was renamed Bang Yi Ruea on 11 July 1916 (after the location of the new district office), and finally Thon Buri on 17 April 1939. The district then belonged to Thon Buri province. In December 1971 the province was merged with Bangkok to form the present day Bangkok metropolitan area.

Administration
The district is divided into seven sub-districts (khwaeng).

Places

 * Taksin Monument and Wongwian Yai (วงเวียนใหญ่) (technically the monument lies on Khlong San side of boundary between Thon Buri and Khlong San Districts)
 * Santa Cruz Church
 * Wat Kanlayanamit
 * Wat Intharam
 * Wat Prayurawongsawat
 * First Presbyterian Church, Samray

Transportation

 * Wongwian Yai is a major bus hub on the west side of the Chao Phraya River.
 * The district is served by Bangkok Skytrain stations: Pho Nimit, Talad Phlu and Wutthakat. A Bangkok Skytrain Wongwian Yai station lies just outside Thon Buri District into Khlong San District.

Health

 * Somdech Phra Pinklao Hospital, Royal Thai Navy

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Degree day

A degree day is a measure of heating or cooling. Total degree days from an appropriate starting date are used to plan the planting of crops and management of pests and pest control timing. Weekly or monthly degree-day figures may also be used within an energy monitoring and targeting scheme to monitor the heating and cooling costs of climate controlled buildings, while annual figures can be used for estimating future costs.

A degree day is computed as the integral of a function of time that generally varies with temperature. The function is truncated to upper and lower limits that vary by organism, or to limits that are appropriate for climate control. The function can be estimated or measured by one of the following methods, in each case by reference to a chosen base temperature:
 * Frequent measurements and continuously integrating the temperature deficit or excess;
 * Treating each day's temperature profile as a sine wave with amplitude equal to the day's temperature variation, measured from max and min, and totalling the daily results;
 * As above, but calculating the daily difference between mean temperature and base temperature;
 * As previous, but with modified formulae on days when the max and min straddle the base temperature.

A zero degree-day in energy monitoring and targeting is when either heating or cooling consumption is at a minimum, which is useful with power utility companies in predicting seasonal low points in energy demand.

Degree days are a useful metric for estimating energy consumption required for household heating and cooling, and in this context are formally referred to as heating degree days. Since the escape or ingress of heat due to conduction is proportional to the difference between the indoor and outdoor temperature, the amount of energy needed to maintain the base temperature indoors for some period of time is roughly proportional to the number of degree days. For example, if the base temperature is 18 C and the outdoor temperature is constant at 10 C for one day, this counts as 8 degree days (14 degree days in Fahrenheit). Note that the base temperature used for these calculations is 2 - 3 C-change lower than a typical indoor temperature setting, since a building will naturally be slightly warmer than the surrounding air due to body heat of its occupants and absorption of solar radiation.

Growing degree days
Growing degree days are based on 5 °C, given that typical plant growth stops below that temperature. Plant growth has been observed to be correlated to the number of degree days. Many plants will fruit after a certain number of degree days. Common examples are strawberries and raspberries. In contrast, deterministic plants will fruit based on the time of year, which the plant determines from the number of consecutive hours of dark. Examples of these include Easter lilies or Christmas cactus.

The paper referenced shows the complexity of plant growth and degree days.

Black Fly
In Canada, Growing Degree Days are used in order to predict when mosquitoes and blackflies emerge and vanish. But in order to chart the actual growth of insects, degree days above freezing are used.

United States
In the United States, the mean ($max + min⁄2$) daily temperature in Fahrenheit and a temperature of 65 F is used.
 * If the mean daily temperature is 65 °F, no degree days are counted.
 * If the mean daily temperature is below 65 °F, the mean degrees Fahrenheit below 65 °F are counted as the heating degree day.
 * If the mean daily temperature is above 65 °F, the mean degrees Fahrenheit above 65 °F are counted as the cooling degree day.

The heating and cooling degree days are tallied separately to calculate monthly, seasonal, and yearly total heating and cooling degree days. Heating and cooling degree days closely correlate with heating and cooling demand.

Standardization
The degree day is not an SI derived unit; although the day is acceptable for use in the SI, it is not a decimal multiple of its base unit, the second. (The degree, in Celsius and measured relative to a base temperature, is identical to the kelvin, the SI base unit). Expressed as a proper SI unit, a quantity of kelvin second is four orders of magnitude higher than the corresponding degree day (1 Celsius degree-day is 8.64×104 K·s; 1 Fahrenheit degree-day is 4.8×104 K·s).

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Chieu Hoi

The Chiêu Hồi program ( (also spelled "chu hoi" or "chu-hoi" in English) loosely translated as "Open Arms" ) was an initiative by the United States and South Vietnam to encourage defection by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) and their supporters to the side of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. According to U.S, 101,511 PAVN/VC defected under the program but one analyst speculates that fewer than 25% of those were genuine.

Campaign

Defection was urged by means of a propaganda campaign, usually leaflets delivered by artillery shell or dropped over enemy-controlled areas by aircraft, or messages broadcast over areas of South Vietnam. A number of incentives were offered to those who chose to cooperate, along with psychological warfare to break enemy morale.

To further this aim, invitations to defect, which also acted as safe conduct passes, were printed on clear plastic waterproof bags used to carry ammunition for the U.S. soldiers' M16 rifle. Each bag held one magazine and was sealed to prevent moisture from the jungle's humid climate from damaging the contents. When the magazine was needed during a firefight with the enemy, the bag would be torn open and discarded, in the hope that it would later be discovered by enemy troops who would read the text and consider defection.

By 1967, approximately 75,000 defections had been recorded, but analysts speculate that less than 25% of those were genuine. The program had some difficulty catching on, due in part to culture gap—errors, such as misspellings and unintentionally offensive statements—and worsened by communist reprisals against defectors and their families. To make matters worse, as testified by Sergeant Scott Camil during the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, the passes were sometimes ignored by U.S. forces, and their holders shot while surrendering.

Overall, however, the Chieu Hoi program was considered successful. Those who surrendered were known as "Hoi Chanh" and were often integrated into allied units as Kit Carson Scouts, operating in the same area where they had defected. Many made great contributions to the effectiveness of U.S. units, and often distinguished themselves, earning decorations as high as the Silver Star. The program was relatively inexpensive, and removed over 100,000 combatants from the field (assuming the accuracy of the numbers recorded and the sincerity of the defections).

Related people

 * Hồ Văn Châm

Archival collections

 * Guide to the Joseph M. Carrier Collection on the Chieu Hoi Program and Vietnamese Conflict. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

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 * The Chieu Hoi Program of Vietnam
 * Chieu Hoi Leaflet Collection
 * Vietnam War "Flag" Safe Conduct Passes
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Since it's an adult fanfic I had to laboriously exclude a fragillion Google bombs, not to mention removing dozens of incidental references to the goddess Artemis and/or her lovers, and I get the whopping grand total of 100 unique Googles. Hagor, wake the heck up, you're desperately needed! Aw, crap... ladies, can you fill in for them with a verse or two? "We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of merging we do take our stand, We don't test Yahoo, because we do think, The cruft that's bombed on it is likely to stink!" GarrettTalk 15:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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Joydeep Sircar

Joydeep Sircar (born 1947) is a mountaineer and mountain historian. In 1979, he published his Himalayan Handbook, an index of all the-then named peaks of 6096 meters (20000 feet) and above in Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent, giving chronological entries of expeditions up to 1975 to each peak with a brief summary of results and references to expedition reports, after a decade of solitary research. He was inspired in this formidable undertaking by the pronouncement of the late Soli S. Mehta, Hony. Local Secretary of The Himalayan Club, that the task had never been attempted before and was well-nigh impossible. This book, introduced by the famous British mountaineer-explorer J. O. M. Roberts, one of Sircar's idols, was the first one of its kind. Printed in 500 copies only, it received excellent international notices and became a basic reference resource.

In 1982, Sircar was the first to suspect and draw public attention to the covert competition between India and Pakistan over the Siachen Glacier and coined the term Oropolitics to describe the use of mountaineering expeditions as a cloak for establishing territorial claims. His essay on this topic was published in abbreviated form in an article in The Telegraph newspaper of Calcutta. The full essay titled "Oropolitics" came out in Himalaya Sameeksha, a limited circulation magazine published by Kamala Mukherjee in Calcutta, and was subsequently reprinted in the prestigious Alpine Journal of London in 1984.. India sent troops into the Siachen Glacier the same year.

Sircar surmised the existence of a feasible pass in Himachal Pradesh, India on the Himalayan divide between Kullu and Spiti Districts. He led three expeditions to the high range separating the Upper Parvati valley from the unexplored Debsa Glacier in 1992, 1993 and 1995. The Debsa Pass (5340 metres), named by him, was reached in 1993 and crossed on 21 September 1995, and the team descended the unexplored West Debsa Glacier and followed the Debsa stream to the Parahio Valley and from there to the Spiti Valley. The pass has become a regular route as it saves 2–3 days over the traditional Kullu-Spiti route by the Pin Parvati Pass (5319 metres).

Sircar has taken part in a number of other mountaineering expeditions, likes travelling to remote places, and is a poet, essayist, and wildlifer. He drew the attention of the Bombay Natural History Society in 2001 to the presence of large numbers of the endangered Bar-headed goose at Gharana Wetland Reserve, Jammu, which eventually led to this neglected sanctuary on the Indo-Pak border being classified as an Important Bird Area

He is also avidly interested in history and military matters, particularly aviation, and was the first to compose a brief biography of the World War II Beaufighter ace Flying Officer A.M.O. Pring, DFM, a childhood hero who flew and died in combat defending Calcutta from Japanese air attack and is buried at Calcutta. He followed this up with an expanded essay called Sergeant Pring and the Calcutta Hurricane  in which  an outline biography of Maurice Pring is combined with the pioneering study of a rare and little-known night-fighter, the Hawker Hurricane II C(NF) equipped with the pilot-operated AI Mark VI radar. Both essays have won praise from aviation cognoscenti. He has followed these pieces up with an article conclusively demonstrating that the Hurricane II C(NF) was, in fact, the first radar-equipped single-seater night-fighter.These essays came out in book form in 2021 in Sergeant Pring and the Calcutta Hurricane (ISBN 978-81-949542-2-4, published by The Browser, SCO 14-15, Sector 8-C, Chandigarh 160 009).

A selection of his English poetry is available in Poemhunter

In a recent article, Sircar has claimed to have solved the mystery of the Lake of No Return, Myanmar, which he visited in 2002.

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