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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg

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The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
Non-notable band. Fails WP:MUSIC on most counts.

 * Has never had a top 100 hit
 * Has never been on a major tour
 * Has not released two or more albums on other than self-label
 * Not listed on allmusic.com
 * No members famous from other notable groups
 * Has won no major music awards

And finally, the band has split up and no longer exists. ♠DanMS 03:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC) TO address your final point "The band has split up and no longer exists" the band are actually still in existance working to get their final album done (which also, by the way, invalidates Point 3 of your argument), the band are not necessarily splitting up but inner turmoil may lead to line-up changes and FURTHERMORE there are numerous bands who have split up on Wikipedia, yet that doesnt make it a valid reason for removing their Wikipedia page. Wikipedia is a resource for people to find information and there is little to no point in making unnecessary deletions such as deleting this when there are editorials on the make up of the turd the author took yesterday hovering around wikipedia. Your time is better spent being a busy body on the really unnecessary wikipedia pages.WFCO 15:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. Nateji77 04:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per WP:MUSIC. --FuriousFreddy 04:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Marcus22 12:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Point 2 of WP:MUSIC states "Has gone on an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in a large or medium-sized country" not as it has been misquoted by the nominator, a "major tour" Evidence of tours: http://www.toxicpete.co.uk/tmorl.html http://www.indigoflow.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48 Therefore they have toured the UK, meet point 2 and are notable. There is no shortage of online journalism about this band. Also, besides your stating that the band no longer exists being factually incorrect, since when was that a criterion for deletion? Stephen 12:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep As SilhouetteSaloon said they have been on a national tour of the country playing noted venues such as the London Astoria. They have released one album and three Eps on UNDERGROOVE records which is not a self run label it a MAJOR label currently holding contracts for bands such as Alexisonfire and Johnny Truant http://www.undergroove.co.uk. As to point 4 "not Listed on All Music.com" All Music has a reasonably pathetic database of English rock music, providing little to no information on major bands such as Million Dead which are given nothing except the genre "Rock" and a picture of their first album. Further proof of their mainstream existance can be found in the fact that their album is available from Amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000E6RR5/qid%3D1128090115/202-4739900-3915855
 * Comment Hmmm.. no need to be unpleasant. Surely the point about the band splitting up is a fair one in as much as were the vote to be borderline, the fact that they had split up would probably tilt the vote against keeping the article. (Not by virtue of the fact that they had split up - as you rightly say, many bands have split up but are still included - but by virtue of the fact that in splitting up they would be unlikely to become more notable).  Marcus22 13:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: The first source given did not talk about a tour, it said they were playing gigs.  This is not the same thing.  The second one mentioned "a short 5-date tour" with 2 other bands, it's not clear who the headliner was.  I'm thinking they don't meet WP:MUSIC, but the apparent existance of a record makes me wonder. Friday (talk) 14:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: Your differentiation between playing lots of gigs over a short period of time and and touring sounds to me like big business promotional rhetoric. And there's nothing 'apparent' about the existence of recorded output Stephen 16:00, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * My comment was not intended that way at all. I'm an independant musician myself, and my band plays gigs, but we do not "tour".  I'm all in favor of music being made outside of "big business".  Unfortunately, I think the tone of this discussion has gotten unneccessarily combative.  Remember, we all want to do what's right for Wikipedia.  Sometimes we have different opinions.  Friday (talk) 16:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm afraid I agree with Friday's interpretation of the 'tour' — it just wasn't, I'm afraid. Releasing EPs doesn't really make the grade unless they significantly chart, and WP:MUSIC wants two albums. However, having split up is irrelevant. -Splash talk 21:08, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, per media coverage. WP:MUSIC only demanded ONE requirement to be passed, last time I looked. Kappa 23:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Point 4 requires Major media coverage, it does not require it to be specifically All music.com and I've found an issue of Rock Sound in which they feature http://www.rock-sound.net/current_issue.php?issue_id=55 Do a word search you'll find them there which, i think, is enough to keep them on Wikipedia. WFCO 01:35, 31 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per nominator, do not meet WP:MUSIC requirements. User:Zoe|(talk) 07:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Gamaliel 03:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as evident by tour info OmegaWikipedia 06:48, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of meeting WP:MUSIC criteria. Friday (talk) 13:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Ferricyanide

Ferricyanide is the anion [Fe(CN)6]3−. It is also called hexacyanoferrate(III) and in rare, but systematic nomenclature, hexacyanidoferrate(III). The most common salt of this anion is potassium ferricyanide, a red crystalline material that is used as an oxidant in organic chemistry.

Properties
[Fe(CN)6]3− consists of a Fe3+ center bound in octahedral geometry to six cyanide ligands. The complex has Oh symmetry. The iron is low spin and easily reduced to the related ferrocyanide ion [Fe(CN)6]4−, which is a ferrous (Fe2+) derivative. This redox couple is reversible and entails no making or breaking of Fe–C bonds:
 * [Fe(CN)6]3− + e− ⇌ [Fe(CN)6]4−

This redox couple is a standard in electrochemistry.

Compared to main group cyanides like potassium cyanide, ferricyanides are much less toxic because of the strong bond between the cyanide ion (CN−) and the Fe3+. They do react with mineral acids, however, to release highly toxic hydrogen cyanide gas.

Uses
Treatment of ferricyanide with iron(II) salts affords the brilliant, long-lasting pigment Prussian blue, the traditional color of blueprints.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Znode

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Znode
Ad.--Shanel 03:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ad. Nateji77 04:36, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources to prove that it isn't just an ad. Ciraric 20:13, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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The opening measures of Webern's arrangement of Bach's six part Ricercar showing klangfarbenmelodie.

Created by Kongming819 using Finale after Hyacinth (talk) 21:55, 29 September 2005.

Source

 * Erickson, Robert (1975). Sound Structure in Music, p.14. University of California Press. ISBN 0520023765.

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Snowbank Trail

The Snowbank Trail is a hiking trail in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota. The trail runs the perimeter of Snowbank Lake and crosses the Kekekabic Trail at the south side of Snowbank Lake. The entire trail comprises a 24 mi loop, numerous campsites are available. During the BWCAW Visitor' Distribution Program (May 1 - September 30), permits are required for overnight use of the trail. It is located in Fall Lake Township in northernmost Lake County.

Editor's Note: The Following information was obtained from a 2003 Forest Service Survey of the Trail. A lot of stuff can happen over the years, including new beaver dams, bridges and campsites. But this wiki has the basic information to help someone hike the trail.

The Snowbank Trail typically passes through rolling terrain of 0 to 20%. If there are steeper grades it is noted in the text. Smitty's on Snowbank is the closest resort to the Trailhead. It is just up the road from the trailhead. They have motel rooms, cabins and are known for their Hungry Man Breakfast. They can also transport you and your gear across Snowbank Lake if you want to do some base camp hiking. Permit are needed for hiking in the designated wilderness area. If you are just day hiking, you need to fill out a self issued permit located at the Trailhead. If you are camping overnight in the designated wilderness area, you will need to buy a fee permit which can be obtained at a Forest Service office or most Resorts and Outfitters. Voyagers North Outfitters in Ely seems to be the place that is open the latest at night. They are open until 10 pm during the season.

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Santa Ynez Valley

The Santa Ynez Valley (Spanish: Valle de Santa Ynez) is located in Santa Barbara County, California,  between the Santa Ynez Mountains to the south and the San Rafael Mountains to the north. The Santa Ynez River flows through the valley from east to west. The Santa Ynez Valley is separated from the Los Alamos Valley, to the northwest, by the Purisima Hills, and from the Santa Maria Valley by the Solomon Hills. The Santa Rita Hills separate the Santa Ynez Valley from the Santa Rita and Lompoc Valleys to the west.

The valley has a population of about 20,000 residents living in the communities of Solvang, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, Buellton, and Ballard.

Economy

The economy of the Santa Ynez Valley is driven by agriculture (particularly viticulture), the equine industry, and tourism.

Agriculture
The wine industry is a major part of the Santa Ynez Valley's economy. The Santa Ynez Valley Visitors Association lists over 70 wineries and tasting rooms on their website. Besides grapes, the valley also has numerous apple farms, many of them with roadside apple stands or "pick your own" programs. It is the location of the Santa Ynez Valley American Viticultural Area.

Equine
Horses are seen throughout the valley and a historic Western atmosphere is kept alive. Notable ranches include Monty Roberts' Flag Is Up Farms, River Edge Farm (thoroughbreds), and the nationally known Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center. This valley is noted for having over 52 different breeds of horses, plus 28 veterinarians.

Tourism
Tourists often visit the valley for its attractions including numerous art galleries, wine tasting rooms, and antique stores as well as resorts such as the Alisal Guest Ranch, Lake Cachuma, PCPA's Theatrefest, and the Chumash Casino. Because of good weather year round, many participate in outdoor activities such as hiking in the nearby Los Padres National Forest or bicycling throughout the valley.

Politics
The Santa Ynez Valley is part of Santa Barbara County's Third Supervisorial District, whose voters are registered 39% Democratic and 31% Republican; however, registered voters within the Valley's two incorporated cities, Buellton and Solvang, are approximately 31% Democratic and 45% Republican, reflecting the greater Valley's more conservative political constituency. The Valley, geographically located at the center of Santa Barbara County and partially surrounded by the Los Padres National Forest, is sometimes regarded as more politically aligned with northern Santa Barbara County and would have been included in the proposed Mission County under "Measure H," rejected by 81% of County voters in the June 6, 2006 Direct Primary election. Numerous smart growth-type coalitions have formed such as the Santa Ynez Valley Alliance, Preservation of Los Olivos (POLO), Preservation of Santa Ynez (POSY), WeWatch, and the Santa Ynez Valley Concerned Citizens. These groups' stated mission is the preservation of the Santa Ynez Valley.

Education

 * Allan Hancock College: Solvang Campus
 * Santa Ynez Valley Union High School
 * Los Olivos Elementary School
 * Ballard Elementary School
 * Olive Grove Charter School
 * Dunn School
 * Midland School
 * The Family School
 * Santa Ynez School
 * College School (Charter School)
 * Santa Ynez Valley Christian Academy]
 * Jonata Middle School
 * Oak Valley Elementary School
 * Solvang Elementary School

Major highways

 * US 101 (1961 cutout).svg U.S. Route 101
 * California 154.svg State Route 154
 * California 246.svg State Route 246

Public transportation

 * Santa Ynez Valley Transit provides service to the communities of Buellton, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang. Route A is a clockwise-oriented route through the four communities, traveling along State Route 246 as its primary thoroughfare. Route B transit service circulates along the same route, in a counterclockwise direction.

Airports

 * Santa Ynez Airport, a public regional general aviation airport, which is located about 1 mi southeast of the central business district of Santa Ynez.

In popular culture
The 2004 film Sideways was set (and shot on location) in the Santa Ynez Valley. Since then, visits from tourists looking to recreate the experiences of the fictional characters Miles and Jack, have become common. Fans of the movie can often be seen making a pilgrimage from the Buellton Days Inn to the Hitching Post restaurant. Other movies that have been filmed in the Santa Ynez Valley include indie film "Flying Lessons" featuring Michael O’Neill, Maggie Grace, and Hal Holbrook, “Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland", “Uncorked” /Hallmark/Larry Levinson; “Bad Girls”; “It’s Complicated”/Universal; Nitro Circus/MTV; “Inside Luxury Travel”; “The Othersiders”/Red Varden Studios;“More to Love”; “Back in Wedding Shape”; “You’re Hired”; “Kathy Griffin Season 2”; and “Somewhere” Movie locations

An estate in the Valley, five miles from the town of Los Olivos, California, was one of the filming locations for a 1983 video of the song "Say Say Say", featuring Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. At the time, it was called Sycamore Valley Ranch. According to La Toya Jackson, Michael expressed interest in someday buying the property. In 1988, he would do so, renaming it Neverland Ranch. The singer sold the property prior to his death and in 2017, the estate, again Sycamore Valley Ranch (5225 Figueroa Mountain Road, Los Olivos), was for sale at an asking price of $67 million.

Notable residents
Notable present or past residents include

 * Robert Carradine
 * Jimmy Connors
 * Jake Copass
 * John Corbett
 * David Crosby
 * Bo Derek
 * Bob Eubanks
 * Brooks Firestone
 * John Forsythe
 * Dan Gerber
 * Richard A. Harris
 * Dan Henry
 * Sandy Hill
 * Michael Jackson (Neverland Ranch)
 * Ed Joyce
 * Kelly Le Brock
 * Peter Lewis
 * Tom Leykis
 * Olivia Newton-John
 * Marty Paich
 * Fess Parker
 * Dolly Parton
 * Ronald Reagan (Rancho del Cielo)
 * Monty Roberts
 * Todd Rogers
 * Steven Seagal
 * Edie Sedgwick
 * Doc Severinsen
 * Steven Spielberg
 * Bernie Taupin
 * Noah Wyle
 * Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

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Ferrocyanide

Ferrocyanide is the name of the anion [Fe(CN)6]4−. Salts of this coordination complex give yellow solutions. It is usually available as the salt potassium ferrocyanide, which has the formula K4Fe(CN)6. [Fe(CN)6]4− is a diamagnetic species, featuring low-spin iron(II) center in an octahedral ligand environment. Although many salts of cyanide are highly toxic, ferro- and ferricyanides are less toxic because they tend not to release free cyanide. It is of commercial interest as a precursor to the pigment Prussian blue and, as its potassium salt, an anticaking agent.

Reactions
Treatment of ferrocyanide with ferric-containing salts gives the intensely coloured pigment Prussian blue (sometimes called ferric ferrocyanide and ferrous ferricyanide).

Ferrocyanide reversibly oxidized by one electron, giving ferricyanide:
 * [Fe(CN)6]4− ⇌ [Fe(CN)6]3− + e−

This conversion can be followed spectroscopically at 420 nm, since ferricyanide has negligible absorption at this wavelength while ferricyanide has an extinction coefficient of 1040 M−1 cm−1.

Applications
The dominant use of ferrocyanides is as precursors to the Prussian blue pigments. Sodium ferrocyanide is a common anti-caking agent. Specialized applications involves their use as precipitating agents for production of citric acid and wine.

Research
Ferrocyanide and its oxidized product ferricyanide cannot freely pass through the plasma membrane. For this reason ferrocyanide has been used as a probe of extracellular electron acceptor in the study of redox reactions in cells. Ferricyanide is consumed in the process, thus any increase in ferrocyanide can be attributed to secretions of reductants or transplasma membrane electron transport activity.

Nickel ferrocyanide (Ni2Fe(CN)6) is also used as catalyst in electro-oxidation (anodic oxidation) of urea. Aspirational applications range from hydrogen production for cleaner energy with lower CO2 emission to wastewater treatment.

Ferrocyanide is also studied as an electrolyte in flow batteries.

Nomenclature
According to the recommendations of IUPAC, ferrocyanide should be called "hexacyanidoferrate(II)". Cyanides as a chemical class were named because they were discovered in ferrocyanide. Ferrocyanide in turn was named in Latin to mean "blue substance with iron." The dye Prussian blue had been first made in the early 18th century. The word "cyanide" used in the name is from κύανος kyanos, Greek for "(dark) blue."

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Leo Sternbach

Leo Sternbach (May 7, 1908 – September 28, 2005) was a Polish American chemist who is credited with first synthesizing benzodiazepines, the main class of tranquilizers.

Background and family
Sternbach was born on May 7, 1908, in Opatija, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, to an upper middle class Jewish family. He had a younger brother, Giusi. His father Michael Abracham Sternbach was from the Polish city of Przemyśl in Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary), and his mother Piroska (née Cohn) Sternbach was from Orosháza, Hungary. Sternbach's parents met and married in Opatija where they both lived. The family lived in modest conditions, in a rented four-room apartment on the third floor of the "Vila Jadran" (Villa Adriatic), near the pharmacy owned by Sternbach's father. Sternbach attended a private German school in Opatija until it was closed in 1920, and—since he could not speak Italian—continued his schooling in Villach, Graz, and Bielitz. In 1926, Sternbach moved with his family to Kraków, Poland. In the same year, his younger brother died of scarlet fever, at the age of fifteen.

Education and career
He received his master's degree in pharmacy in 1929 and his doctoral degree in organic chemistry in 1931 from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1937, he received a scholarship from Feliks Wislicki Foundation. He moved to Vienna and then to Zürich where he continued his researches started in Kraków. In Vienna, he worked with Wolfgang Joseph Pauli (Sr.) and Sigmund Fränkel; after which he worked with Leopold Ružička at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. When war started, he was still in Switzerland. His mother, Hungarian born, survived hidden by Poles. While in Basel on June 1, 1940, he started his career at Hoffmann-La Roche where he worked until 2003. He married Herta Kreuzer. In 1941, he moved to the United States to work at Hoffmann-La Roche in Nutley, New Jersey, thus escaping the Nazis.

While working for Hoffmann-La Roche in Nutley, New Jersey, Sternbach did significant work on new drugs. He is credited with the discovery of chlordiazepoxide (Librium), diazepam (Valium), flurazepam (Dalmane), nitrazepam (Mogadon), flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), clonazepam (Klonopin), and trimethaphan (Arfonad). Librium, based on the R0 6-690 compound discovered by Sternbach in 1956, was approved for use in 1960. In 1963, its improved version, Valium, was released and became astonishingly popular: between 1969 and 1982, it was the most prescribed drug in America, with over 2.3 billion doses sold in its peak year of 1978. With Moses Wolf Goldberg, Sternbach also developed "the first commercially applicable" method for synthesizing biotin.

Sternbach held 241 patents, and his discoveries helped to turn Roche into a pharmaceutical industry giant. He did not become wealthy from his discoveries, but he was happy; he treated chemistry as a passion and said, "I always did just what I wanted to do". He was active in his career until the age of 95. Sternbach was a longtime resident of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, from 1943 to 2003. He then moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he died in 2005.

Legacy
A book Good chemistry: The life and legacy of Valium inventor Leo Sternbach was published by McGraw-Hill in 2004.

Sternbach's uncle, Leon Sternbach, the brother of Sternbach's father Michael, was a professor of classical philology at Jagiellonian University. He was murdered in 1940 in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp as the result of the Nazi action against Polish academic teachers called Sonderaktion Krakau. His killer was Gustav Sorge.

He is present in the New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame; and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in February 2005, a few months before his death. Sternbach is a member of the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame.

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Tiger Telematics

Tiger Telematics, or Tiger, was a Swedish electronics company, best known for the failed Gizmondo handheld game console.

History
In 2000, Carl Freer formed Eagle Eye Scandinavian, a small electronics distribution business in Sweden. In 2002 the company merged with Floor Décor, a carpet retailer based in Jacksonville, Florida. Once that was completed, Floor Décor's Michael Carrender became the company's chief financial officer.

The merged company soon renamed itself Tiger Telematics Inc. with a new ticker symbol "TIGR". It made an attempt to take on Sony and Nintendo in the UK gaming market and relocated at an office near Farnborough Airfield. Stefan Eriksson, whom Freer had met during a previous business visit, was brought into the company with Peter Uf and Johan Enander.

Gizmondo launch
The Gizmondo device made its debut as a concept product at the German CeBIT show in March 2004, when its European subsidiary was then known as Gametrac Europe before renaming itself as Gizmondo Europe.

The company became known for its extravagant spending, despite not yet making a profit, let alone getting the Gizmondo off the ground. It counts amongst its exploits buying out model agency ISIS, and leasing a shop on Regent Street in London as its flagship showroom at a cost of £175,000 per annum. Despite the losses, Tiger Telematics gained continuing funding, including $73.1 million worth of investment capital during 2005, and it issued some 24.7 million shares which brought in over $200 million.

The showroom also ran a launch party at the Park Lane Hotel and its own store, sparing no expense. The party was hosted by Dannii Minogue and Tom Green, with performances by Sting, Pharrell, Busta Rhymes and Jamiroquai. Sting was rumored to be paid £750,000 for the performance. In an attempt to promote the product, Eriksson competed at the 24 hours of Le Mans in the Gizmondo-sponsored Ferrari 360 Modena GTC in 2005, but retired in the morning with mechanical troubles.

In August 2004, the company announced it was buying Swedish games developer Indie Studios, which had already agreed to create two titles for the handheld.

Organised crime links
In October 2005, shortly after Gizmondo was released in America, a Swedish yellow-page paper printed a story linking Stefan Eriksson and two other Swedish Gizmondo Europe executives to the Swedish crime ring "Uppsalamaffian" (Uppsala Mafia). The paper investigated a 6-month loss of 200 million dollars, exhibiting large payouts to later bankrupt entities. Further, the trio's felonious history was revealed, such as Eriksson's 10-year prison sentences in 1993/94, for, among other things, conspiracy to pass counterfeit currency and attempted fraud, and the fact that Johan Enander was wanted by the Swedish police. In light of these findings, Eriksson and others resigned. One of those resignations came from Carl Freer, the chairman of the board and a director who, with Eriksson, co-owned Northern Lights Software Limited. Freer had previously sold luxury cars in France, Germany and the U.K., some of which turned out to have been stolen. Northern Lights was paid $3.5 million to create Chicane (a Formula One racing game being developed exclusively for Gizmondo) and Colors (an urban gang warfare first-person perspective shooter), two Gizmondo games that were actually developed by Gizmondo Europe itself. Freer paid the money back to Gizmondo in order to stop an investigation into the matter. The Gizmondo company itself denied knowing anything about Eriksson's past.

In addition, Gizmondo paid $4 million to Games Factory Publishing for nineteen concept games on the handheld, including a game called Typing Tutor, despite having no keyboard peripheral, and $5.9 million to Electronic Arts to port its SSX and FIFA games.

Around March 2005, US-based Tiger Telematics bought UK stock market-listed games developer Warthog for almost 500,000 Tiger shares and $1.13 million in cash—altogether worth $8.1 million. Acquiring all of Warthog's operating subsidiaries, along with the group's debts, and Warthog's CEO, Ashley Hall, COO Steven Law and CFO Simon Elms, to become Tiger employees. Warthog's team also has close ties with key games publishers and game franchise owners.

Bankruptcy
On January 23, 2006, the UK based arm, Gizmondo Europe (GE) declared bankruptcy. Gizmondo hemorrhaged hundreds of millions of dollars before filing for bankruptcy: in 2004, Tiger Telematics reported a loss of $99.29 million, and between January and September 2005, they lost $210 million, "Principally due to development costs for the Gizmondo and non-cash expenses associated with shares of restricted common stock issued for services". In other words, it had bartered shares in lieu of cash payments. Soon after Gizmondo retail locations in both the US and the UK closed, and the Gizmondo website was shut down. The game development arm of Gizmondo also went out of business.

The company was also involved in litigation. Swedish Ogilvy Group, MTV Europe, Christian and Timbers (landlord to their office), Handheld Gaming and Jordan Grand Prix all filed million dollar lawsuits against the company. Gizmondo was also currently under investigation in the UK for approximately £25-30 million owed to HM Revenue and Customs.

In early February 2006, the High Court appointed two liquidators. David Rubin & Partners was to deal with the sale of the company's assets, thought to amount to little more than the furniture in its Regent Street showroom and Begbies Traynor was asked to investigate exactly where Gizmondo's money had gone. The 27 staff remaining at Gizmondo's head office in Farnborough and five at its London store were made redundant. No Gizmondo accounts for 2005 have been published, but internal figures show sales of just £1.4m in the first nine months of the year. Losses were equivalent to £500,000 a day. Directors' salaries amounted to £6.6m for the nine months. Leasing cars cost £2m-plus.

The console was deemed the worst console of all time by GameTrailers because they claimed it drove Tiger into bankruptcy.

Carl Freer buys intellectual property assets
In November 2007, Carl Freer stated in an interview with the Swedish-American journalist Hans Sandberg that he was interested in starting up production of the Gizmondo again. In April 2008, a press release was issued that an agreement had been reached between the joint liquidators of Gizmondo Europe Ltd in Liquidation and one of the company's ex-Directors, Carl Freer. The press release originated as a low quality copy of a letter purported to be from one of the accounting firms handling the insolvency, posted to a file sharing site. According to Mr Freer, “the shareholders of Tiger Telematics will now be able to prosper on the re-introduction of the Gizmondo into the market."

The new system never appeared. The original planned launch date was May 2008, but this was quickly pushed back to November 2008, along with details of a new company, Media Power, behind the launch, headed by Carl Freer and his Swedish partner Mikael Ljungman, with development apparently proceeding according to the new schedule at least until September. By December 2008, the console had still not appeared, and another announcement was made about a complete redesign as a Windows CE or Google Android powered smart phone.

Since then, the Media Power website has gone offline and co-founder Mikael Ljungman has been arrested and convicted of serious fraud.

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Girgaon Chowpatty

Girgaon Chowpatty (IAST: Giragāva Chaupāṭī), is a public beach along the Queen’s Necklace adjoining Marine Drive in the Girgaon area of Mumbai (Bombay), Konkan division, India. It is served by the Charni Road railway station. The beach is noted for its Ganesh Visarjan, when thousands of people from all over Mumbai and Pune come to immerse idols of Ganesha in the Arabian Sea after the 10 day festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. It is also one of the many places in the city where the Ramlila play is performed onstage every year during Navaratri and an effigy of Ravana erected on the sand is burnt on Vijayadashami at the end of the 10-day performance.

Shiv Smarak, including 210 m tall statue of Shivaji, is being constructed facing Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty beach, $1.5 km$ away on a manmade island of rocks.

Etymology
Chowpatty is an Anglicised form of Chau-pati (four channels or four creeks in Marathi) as per (Bombay City Gazetteer, I. 27). This name is analogous to that of Satpaty, a village in the Mahim Taluka of the Thane District, which is approached through a Channel or Creek, containing seven divisions of water.

History
On the road running along the beach, i.e. Marine Drive, the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 attacks, Ajmal Kasab, was caught and arrested. A bronze bust of Tukaram Omble, the policeman who helped to arrest Kasab, was erected on 26November 2009.

Pollution
The water surrounding the beach is heavily polluted, and swimming should be avoided. Fecal coliform was recorded in the water in 2013 at levels of 1455 per 100 mL, far above the acceptable standard of 500 per 100 mL. The presence of fecal coliform in the water has been attributed to waste from storm drains, open defecation, and the discharge of raw sewage from sewer pipes not connected to the city mains.

In 2015, there were reports of deteriorated Ganesha idols washing up on the shore. The idols were found after they were immersed on Anant Chaturdashi day, which heralds the end of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. The idols that were found were made from plaster-of-paris. It is believed that POP idols cause pollution to marine life. After this, the government ordered only artisan made, clay idols to be immersed, since natural clay deteriorates into the ocean quickly without harming wildlife. POP was banned in Mumbai and most of the Ganesha idols are being made from clay.

On 30 August 2016, the sand on the beach is said to be turning black due to a possible oil slick in the area. The specific cause of the blackening is unknown.

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Milos Milos

Milos Milos (Милош Милошевић; born Miloš Milošević; 1 July 1941 – 30 January 1966) was a Serbian-born American actor, stunt double and bodyguard for actor Alain Delon.

Early life
Milos came from an influential family. His grandfather was the mayor of Knjaževac and his father was chairman of the Guild of Exporters of Yugoslavia. Milos' family suffered under the Communist authorities and most of their private properties were confiscated.

In the 1950s, Milošević and his friend Stevan Marković were involved in street fights in Belgrade. They met Alain Delon, who was filming Marco Polo, an eventually cancelled film, in Belgrade. Delon hired Milošević and Marković as bodyguards, and Milošević later moved to Hollywood, California.

Hollywood
As a young Hollywood actor, Milos is best known for his performance as a Soviet naval officer in the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, as well as for playing the title role in the 1966 Esperanto horror movie, Incubus.

Personal life and death
Milos was married to Cynthia Bouron from 1964 to 1966; they had one child.

In 1965, Milos began an affair with actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell) who was estranged from her husband Mickey Rooney. Milos and Thomason were found dead in Rooney's Los Angeles house in 1966. The official inquiry found that Milos had shot Thomason with Rooney's chrome-plated .38 caliber revolver and then committed suicide. The official inquiry provoked rumors that they were actually both murdered in revenge for having an affair; however, Rooney was at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica recovering from an infection that he caught on location in Manila during the filming of Ambush Bay.

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User talk:AtlantaGA1010

what is this all about?

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World Dressage Championships

The World Dressage Championships is held every four years. The best horse and rider competitions in the world compete for individual and team titles. The Dressage World Championship is since 1990, held at the World Equestrian Games in conjunction with other equestrian world championships.

Medal count

 * Note 1: Medal count is sorted by total gold medals, then total silver medals, then total bronze medals, then alphabetically.
 * Note 2: Germany includes both Germany and West Germany.

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Alappuzha Beach

Alappuzha Beach is a beach in Alappuzha town and a tourist attraction in Kerala, India. Beach has an old pier which extend to sea is over 150 years old. Alappuzha beach host many events annually like Alappuzha beach festival, Sand art festival and many more.

Overview
Alappuzha beach is one of the major tourist spot in Alappuzha town. Alappuzha Lighthouse situated near to the beach. Beach is accessible through various town roads and an elevated highway will passing by the beach as part of Alappuzha bypass in order to preserve the beauty of the area. Camel safaris was another attraction in beach which introduced a couple of years ago but it got banned by authorities.

Events in Alappuzha beach
Alappuzha beach festival is a famous event organised as part of new year celebration. It's organised as an annual event in every year. Thousands of people gathers in the event includes from other district. Kerala's first international sand art festival and competition held on April 26-2015 in Alappuzha beach. Many national and international sand artists participated in event. The state tourism department and the Alleppey Foundation has jointly organised the event.

Local Attractions

 * Alappuzha Lighthouse
 * Vijay Park
 * Sea View Park
 * Alappuzha Bypass
 * Jain Temple

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User:Ver

Hi. This is Ver from the Philippines. Hmm, need I say more? --Ver 07:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I have moved to Sydney as of 12 Feb 2018

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Talk:Ben Skywalker

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I think this kid should have his own page already. After all, he is beginning to play a major role in the Expanded Universe, especially in the Dark Nest Trilogy. What do you all say? is it really potrayed by zac effron? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.245.212.219 (talk) 11:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Definitely. In Legacy of the Force he's becoming a much larger character. -LtNOWIS

= Merger proposal = This article and Ben Skywalker (Star Wars) cover the same topic. Olinga (talk) 20:22, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Agree per nom. Eventually, there will be a rapper named Ben and we'll disambiguate, but WP:CRYSTAL  MMetro (talk) 08:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

= NO! = That is the stupidest idea that i have ever heard, give it up! its never gonna happen! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kemo1993 (talk • contribs) 16:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, that argument sure helped prove your point. Anyway, I agree with the proposal that we should disambiguate in order to break confusion. 68.219.26.177 (talk) 23:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

= Are you kidding me? =

That is one of the best ideas ive ever heard, dont listen to that guy who said give it up! its never gonna happen! because it will happen!

Redirect
This is mostly in-universe plot summary, with no citations to third-party sources to establish notability. I am redirecting this to List of Star Wars characters. Please feel free to add there any sort of that real-world/development stuff, but only if cited to sources. --EEMIV (talk) 14:52, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

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Li Guang

Li Guang (184-119 BC ) was a Chinese military general of the Western Han dynasty. Nicknamed "Flying General" by the Xiongnu, he fought primarily in the campaigns against the nomadic Xiongnu tribes to the north of China. He was known to the Xiongnu as a tough opponent when it came to fortress defense, and his presence was sometimes enough for the Xiongnu to abort a siege.

Li Guang committed suicide shortly after the Battle of Mobei in 119 BC. He was blamed for failing to arrive at the battlefield in time (after getting lost in the desert), creating a gap in the encirclement and allowing Ichise Chanyu to escape after a confrontation between Wei Qing and the Chanyu's main force, which the Han army narrowly managed to defeat. Refusing to accept the humiliation of a court-martial, Li Guang killed himself.

Li Guang belonged to the Longxi branch of the Li clan (隴西李氏). Li Guang was a descendant of Laozi and the Qin general Li Xin, as well as an ancestor of the Western Liang and Tang dynasty monarchs. Li Guang was the grandfather of general Li Ling who defected to the Xiongnu.

Life
According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Li Guang was a man of great build, with long arms and good archery skills, able to shoot an arrow deeply into a stone (which resembles the shape of a crouching tiger) on one occasion. At the same time, like his contemporaries Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, he was a caring and well-respected general who earned the respect of his soldiers. He also earned the favor of Emperor Wen, who said of him: "If he had been born in the time of Emperor Gaozu, he would have been given a fief of ten thousand households (Chinese:万户侯) without any difficulty".

Li Guang first distinguished himself during the Rebellion of the Seven States, where he served under the Grand General Zhou Yafu. However, Emperor Jing was unhappy that he had accepted a seal given by Liu Wu, Prince of Liang, Emperor Jing's brother; Emperor Jing had been wary of the Prince of Liang, as Liu Wu had ambitions to place himself as Emperor Jing's successor, over Emperor Jing's sons. This stance was also supported by Empress Dowager Dou, their mother. Thus, Li did not get promoted to a marquisate despite his anti-rebellion achievement.

As the border of Hebei was always subject to constant attacks by the Xiongnu, Li Guang's valorous temper was deemed a good fit, and he was assigned to defend against them.

However, Li Guang's late military career was constantly haunted by repeated incidents of what would be regarded as jinxed with "bad luck" by later scholars. He had a nasty tendency of losing direction during mobilisations; in field battles, he was often outnumbered and surrounded by superior enemies. While Li Guang's fame attracted much of his enemies' attention, Li Guang's troops relative lack of discipline and his lack of strategic planning often put him and his regiments in awkward situations. Li Guang himself narrowly escaped capture after his army was annihilated during an offensive campaign at Yanmen in 129 BC, and was stripped of official titles and demoted to commoner status with fellow defeated general Gongsun Ao (公孫敖) after paying parole. During a separate campaign in 120 BC, Li Guang, this time with his son Li Gan (李敢) by his side, was surrounded again by superior enemies. His 4,000 troops suffered heavy casualties before reinforcements led by Zhang Qian (張騫) arrived in time for the rescue. The rules of the Han army dictated a commander's achievement was measured only according to his number of enemy kills minus the casualties of his own side. These, together with Li Guang's political naivety (as shown in the Prince of Liang incident), denied him of any chance of promotion to a marquisate, his lifelong dream. Emperor Wu even secretly ordered Wei Qing not to assign Li Guang to important missions (such as the vanguard position), on the grounds of Li Guang's famed "terrible fortune".

During the Battle of Mobei in 119 BC, an old but still enthusiastic Li Guang insisted Emperor Wu to promise him a vanguard position, but the emperor had secretly messaged generalissimo Wei Qing to not let Li lead the vanguard due to his infamy of "bad fortune". Wei Qing then assigned Li Guang to combine forces with Zhao Shiqi (赵食其/趙食其) on an eastern flanking route through a barren plain. Li Guang protested against the arrangement and angrily stormed out of the main camp. However, he and Zhao then got lost and missed the battle entirely, and only rejoining the main force after Wei Qing returned from a hard-fought victory against Yizhixie Chanyu's numerically superior army. As a result, Li and Zhao were summoned to a court martial to explain why they failed to accomplish orders and put the battle strategy at risk. Li Guang, frustrated and humiliated as this was his last chance to obtain sufficient merits to receive a marquessate as a reward, committed honor suicide. His son Li Gan blamed Wei Qing for his father's death, assaulted Wei and was later shot dead for the offence by his own superior Huo Qubing (who was Wei's nephew) during a hunting trip.

In popular culture
Li Guang is mentioned by his nickname in Wang Changling's seven-character quatrain "On the Frontier" (出塞). Wang comments on how war has been taking its toll on the troops stationed at the frontier, particularly given the lack of a brilliant and charismatic military commander like Li Guang.

In the Imperial Japanese gunka Teki wa Ikuman, the song's lyrics reference Li Guang's ability to pierce a stone with an arrow as an example of determination regardless of difficulty.

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USS Mansfield

USS Mansfield (DD-728), was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy

Namesake
Duncan Mansfield was born in February 1778 at Albany, New York. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 August 1798 and served until 1805. While serving on the schooner USS Enterprise (1799) during the First Barbary War, Sergeant Mansfield volunteered for the cutting‑out expedition led by Lt. Stephen Decatur, Jr., 16 February 1804. Lieutenant Decatur and his 84‑man crew sailed ketch USS Intrepid (1798), disguised as an Arab ship, into Tripoli Harbor to destroy the recently captured U.S. frigate USS Philadelphia (1799) and prevent her use against the United States.

The name Mansfield was canceled for DD-594 and reassigned to DD-728 on 26 July 1943. DD-594 was renamed USS Hart (DD-594) on 21 March 1944 before launching.

Initial operations
Mansfield was laid down 28 August 1943 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched 29 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Edmond F. Jewell; and commissioned 14 April 1944.

After shakedown off Bermuda and further training at Norfolk and Casco Bay, Maine, Mansfield steamed via the Panama Canal for the West Coast, arriving San Diego 10 September 1944. A week later, in company with DesDiv 122, she headed for Pearl Harbor, conducting training exercises en route. After antiaircraft and shore bombardment exercises at Pearl Harbor, Mansfield and four other destroyers escorted a convoy to Ulithi.

World War II
There Mansfield joined TG 38.1 to screen and serve as picket during carrier strikes against central Luzon, including the Manila area. On 10 December 1944, Mansfield, with DesRon 61 in TG 38.2, again screened raids on Luzon. After several successful strikes, a sudden typhoon canceled further strikes and capsized destroyers USS Hull (DD-350), USS Spence (DD-512), and USS Monaghan (DD-354). Mansfield's task group picked up survivors and returned to Ulithi.

On 30 December, Mansfield joined TG 30.1 for airstrikes against Formosa and central Luzon. Afterwards, Admiral William Halsey took the 3rd Fleet, with TG 30.1, through the Bashi Strait into the South China Sea. However, no Japanese units challenged Halsey's fleet during its 3,800 mile foray along the China coast from Hong Kong to Saigon. From 10 to 20 January 1945, 3rd Fleet aircraft battered enemy facilities and merchant ships and destroyed 112 Japanese planes.

In early February 1945, Mansfield screened in TG 58.1 as carriers flew strikes against targets in the Tokyo industrial area. On 15 February Mansfield helped USS Bush (DD-529) splash an enemy fighter closing the formation. From 17 to 23 February, TG 58.1 lent fighter support for the Iwo Jima assault, then steamed at full speed back to the Tokyo area for bombing runs on Nagoya and Kobe. As heavy weather set in, the task group retired southward, pounding enemy shore installations on Okinawa while en route to Ulithi for replenishment.

From 14 March to 27 April 1945, Mansfield screened carriers during strikes against southern Kyushu, followed by sweeps against Okinawa Gunto. On 9 May 1945, her flattops again pounded Kyushu, Okinawa, and the island groups between. From 28 May, when the 5th Fleet again became the 3rd Fleet and TG 58.1 became TG 38.1, to the Japanese surrender 15 August, the destroyer operated off the Japanese homeland. Three weeks before VJ Day, Mansfield, with eight destroyers of DesRon 61, conducted a daring high‑speed torpedo run into Nojima Saki, sinking or damaging four enemy ships.

After witnessing the formal Japanese surrender ceremony (alongside the USS Missouri) in September in Tokyo Bay, Mansfield returned to the West Coast. During the postwar years, the combat veterans trained reservists from the West Coast and made annual cruises to WestPac as part of the Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet.

Korean War
On 27 June 1950, two days after the North Korean invasion of South Korea, Mansfield steamed from Sasebo, Japan, to South Korea to provide gunfire support and escort services. Three months later, as flagship for DesDiv 91, she led the division into Inchon Channel, openly inviting shore batteries to unmask themselves. After the shore opened up upon her, Mansfield smothered them with a 5‑inch bombardment; she suffered no damage or casualties in the action.

Two weeks after Inchon, Mansfield, while searching for a downed Air Force B‑26, struck a mine which severed the bow below the main deck and seriously injured 27 crewmembers. Receiving a stub bow at Subic Bay, she steamed to Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington for repairs; rejoining the U.N. Fleet off South Korea late in 1951 for gunfire support, escort, and shore bombardment duty.

After Korea, Mansfield alternated between duty in WestPac and training West Coast reservists. Overhauled in the fall of 1955 at the Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California, she returned there in 1960 for FRAM. The Mark II overhaul and conversion replaced her 3-inch 50 cal. battery with Mark 25 and Mark 32 antisubmarine torpedo batteries, and configured the aft superstructure for DASH. From October 1960 to October 1961, the "new" destroyer conducted training exercises with the 1st Fleet off the West Coast. For the following 3 years, home ported at Yokosuka, she provided escort service for the 7th Fleet's Fast Carrier Attack Force.

Vietnam
To be home ported at Long Beach, the destroyer returned to the United States in June 1964. On 20 August 1965 Mansfield again sailed westward for duty with the 7th Fleet. For the next 6 months she carried out screening and plane guard duties with fast carriers, and provided gunfire support for South Vietnamese, Australian, and American forces fighting in South Vietnam.

In June 1966, Mansfield was once again assigned Yokosuka Naval Base as her homeport, after which her deployment schedule repeatedly took her back to the South China Sea for operations off the coast of Vietnam. Excluding 2 weeks in September with TF 130 as an alternate recovery ship for Gemini XI and 2 weeks in late November as station ship at Hong Kong, she spent the remainder of 1966 off the Vietnamese coast in roles which ranged from blockade patrol in the I Corps area and the interdiction of junk and sampan traffic from the north into South Vietnam, to gunfire support south of Saigon. Adding air‑sea rescue to her services in 1967, she continued to carry out similar missions in support of Allied operations in Vietnam from 1967 into 1970. On September 25, 1967, 0930,the Mansfield was hit by North Vietnam shore battery off Tiger Island, north of the DMZ. MM2 Richard Archer was KIA and 19 were wounded.

End of career
The Mansfield was decommissioned 4 February 1971. On 1 February 1974, she was officially stricken from the Navy Vessel Register. Along with USS Collett, she was sold to Argentina, 4 June 1974, and cannibalized for spare parts.

Mansfield received five battle stars for World War II service, three for Korean service, and at least three for Vietnam service.

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Article rescue contest
I'm writing to tell you the contest has begun and will take 3 weeks. Since you've shown interest, I thought you'd like to know. You'll be pleased to know copyvio rewrites will be included. - Mgm|(talk) 16:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

205.222.240.2
205.222.240.2 (talk • contribs • [ page moves] • block user • [ block log])

Hi Duk!

I'm a bit concerned that blocking a shared IP for six months might be a bit... drastic. Sometimes shared IPs are used by a number of legitimate users who have created accounts and such blocks affect them as well. Any thoughts? Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You are right, this is a little drastic. Check the block log and contribution history for more information. If you would like to revise this block, go ahead - I won't mind. --Duk 14:16, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, from the block log I see that Shanes blocked it for 48 hours first, and when that one expires the IP will be unblocked, even the six month one. I know, vandals using shared IPs are a real pain. Who invented shared IPs in the first place? Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

VVAW
Thanks for the thorough explanation. TDC has been known to use copyvio to fudge his POV, for example at the WSI article, which I sorted out simply by removing the exised points. I disagree with the notion that any post-vio edits constitute a "derivative work" particularly if such is in areas not directly in question. But I understand that limiting such is good policy and forces attention on the vio issue. After looking at the history, this should have been a WP:RFAR / WP:3RR, and if TDC was simply and properly removing the copyvio sections, then the page should have been protected, and the WP:DR process instituted. This is all the more true, IMHO, if as you say nobodys wanted to touch it. -St|eve 19:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I have not been using Copyvio as a way to “fudge” my pov. The specific copyvio’ of this anon have been addressed by several other users, including myself to no avail. This was not a grey case, as I documented in talk the copyvio’s were blatant and constituted large sections of the article.

 * And speaking of which, this is the new version compared to the one just before the Copyvio tag was put up. . TDC 14:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I've merged the text from the /Temp page into the main article space. Thank you for your attention to the matter. 165.247.200.208 19:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Dear Duk,

Thankyou very much with your message. Looking at it with more consideration I totaly agree with you, thanks for bringing it to my attention about RipRap, as at the time I didn't think of it other uses. Also thanks for picking up on the spelling.

However, what is the purpose of a image tag and how do I categorise my articles?

Many Thanks, Josh

Steven Chu
It looks like the article was first deleted without any discussion. Would this be accurate? If it was copied under GNU as the history suggests, there was no copyright violation.
 * There sure was discussion- on Duk 14:33, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Pheasant
Thanks for reverting this. The perpetrator insists on Americanising this, despite the fact that all species of pheasant are native to only the Old World, and the article was written in British English. If this persists, would you consider protecting the page, I'm too directly involved to do so myself. jimfbleak 05:28, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks again, Jim

reply from user: 195.131.172.165
''Please be carefull adding external links to articles. Adding excessive external links (like your edits to viscosity) might be reverted as spam. Probably a single link would be better. --Duk 17:23, 10 October 2005 (UTC)''

Duke,

This 4 links are to 4 different converters/conversion tables since viscosity itself breaks into dynamic and kinematic... --User with static IP of 195.131.172.165 :)

Re-usability of Falcon V
Per the payload user guide, the second stage is not reusable. I've pulled an edit that suggested it was. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 21:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You are confusing the Falcon I with the Falcon 5. SpaceX says both stages od the Falcon 5 are designed to be reusable, see.--Duk 23:06, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoops! You're right, I did.  Thanks! - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 05:10, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio and derivatives, in Winter Soldier Article
Please have a look when you get a minute or two. TDC 19:52, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

While you are at it, could you please take a look at the article General Intelligence Directorate? Please note in this version of the wiki-article from August, there appears the line:
 * "Technical Support Division, responsible for production of false documents, communications systems supporting clandestine operations, and development of clandestine message capabilities."

Does it look similar to this content from this copyright protected website here?
 * "The Technical Support Division is responsible for production of false documents, communications systems supporting clandestine operations, and development of clandestine message capabilities."

In fact, it seems quite a bit of the content in the article is directly derived from this website. The edit history shows that the article was tagged as a possible Copyvio last month, but TDC swapped a few words around and reinstated the article. Does this seem proper to you?

Also while you are at it, could you please take a look at the article Massacre at Hue? Please note there appears the following paragraphs in this wiki-article:
 * "In November 1974, when a documentary film produced by South Vietnamese reporters about the Tet Offensive was shown to an American audience of more than 200 US Army officers in Fort Benning, Georgia, almost no one in the audience had ever heard of the full details of the atrocity. Many afterwards said that had they known the savage slaughter at the time, they would have acted differently while serving in Vietnam."
 * "Since April 1975, the Vietnamese Communist government has moved many families related to the victims out of Hue City. Some people in the city, however, still commemorate them every year. Because the people are mingling the rites with Tet celebrations, Communist local authorities have no reason to forbid them."

With the exception of a few words shuffled around, do they not look strikingly similar to these lines from the copyright protected website here?
 * "When a Tet Offensive documentary film by South Vietnamese reporters was shown to the American audience of more than 200 US Army officers in Fort Benning, Ga. in November 1974, almost 90 percent of them hadn't been informed of the facts. Many even said that had they known the savage slaughter at the time, they would have acted differently while serving in Vietnam."
 * "Since April 1975, the Vietnamese Communist regime deliberately moved many families of the 68-massacre victims out of Hue City. People in the city however, still commemorate them every year. Because the people are mingling the rites with Tet celebrations, Communist local authorities have no reason to forbid them."

I could cite many similar instances. Should these articles be blanked because of these cut-n-paste transgressions by TDC? Do they constitute copyright violations in their present form? Since you've been dealing with copyvios lately, I figured I'd ask your opinion. 165.247.213.210 09:03, 22 October 2005 (UTC) Before I post them, and other similar examples, on WP:CP I mean. If there is a way to retain valuable information while avoiding the blanking of whole articles, that would be great. I'd rather not add to your case load if at all possible. 165.247.221.190 20:17, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi again
Hi, sorry to go off the handle with you--I jump to conclusions and am often wrong--sorry--it comes from being marginalized--I appreciate the info on the copyright argument

In regards to "talking behind your back" I will tell you everything I say to anyone to your face. This is what really bothers me about Americans, and I try as much as socially possible not to do the same. Travb 22:07, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Copywrite and fair use
Fair use says "Fair use makes copyrighted work available to the public as raw material without the need for permission or clearance, so long as such free usage serves the purpose of copyright law, which the U.S. Constitution defines as the promotion of "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (I.1.8), better than the legal enforcement of claims of infringement."

See for further information.

"RULES OF THUMB FOR COURSEPACKS

The Classroom Guidelines that were negotiated in 1976 can provide helpful guidance and we recommend that you read them. 1. Limit coursepack materials to from illustrates the principle of extracting part of a work being covered by fair use.
 * single chapters
 * single articles from a journal issue
 * several charts, graphs or illustrations
 * other similarly small parts of a work. "

The New York Times itself quotes others.

"Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself; it does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work." therefore a quote that essentially lists facts isn't even covered by copywrite in the first place.

Wikipedia primary servers are in the US.

While it would be nice to have no legal complications, the rich in this world are seeking to own everything including math equations (which is what software patents are).

Don't help memes that block the free flow of information. Help memes that promote freedom. Fair use is one such doctrine, law and meme. WAS 4.250 00:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Was, I'm glad to see someone is reading up on fair use. You should also read wikipedia's fair use policy (WP:FU). It is a litte more restrictive, and specific to our uses, than the stuff you quoted. Among other things, attribution is required. --Duk 01:29, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Duk, I argue that instead of deleting things, we find the source of things and add footnotes to the items, as I did in the Winter Soldier Investigation, and at H5N1. TDK spent a good amount of time finding the source of these articles, just to (what appears) to delete it. (Please mention this to TDK, if you feel)Travb 01:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

you are a gentleman
You are teaching me how to be a gentleman Duk.Travb 01:40, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

See link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Travb#copyvio_argument

How to lose friends and alienate people
You are not going to like my comments. I hammered you on the winter soldier talk page, and got chastized by WAS 4.250 for it. WAS 4.250 had some really good points.

I am going to lay off of wikipedia for a couple of weeks maybe.

When I first started to use wikipedia, about a month ago, I thought it was the most wonderful thing ever created, but since then I realize that their two types of people I simply can't get along with:
 * People like TDC who destroy information because it does not fit their ideology
 * People like yourself and Splash who actively destroy information of all types, for whatever reason.

(again, please let the whole world know about this message if you wish)

Trashing your work
Hi. I am a professional software developer. I'm probably one of the best in the world - or at least in the top 3%. One of the things I've learned is that the best thing you can do for your project sometimes is to delete the whole thing and start over!

What took a week to write, can be rewritten from scratch in half a day, usually. And it's often twice as good as what was lost - like if you didn't make back-ups and your hard drive crashed.

I'm not saying we should go around Wikipedia randomly deleting articles, just that in the case of WSI it probably will be no loss if we do just that: start fresh, with no disputed passages, no POV violations, no "copyvios". Start from a core version that everyone can agree with, and move on from there.

I'd even like to see the 4 paragraphs I left this afternoon trimmed even smaller, if you like. But let's get a tiny, indisputably OKAY core version hammered out by Sunday, okay? Uncle Ed 01:06, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Read...
Talk:Winter_Soldier_Investigation as well as Talk:Winter_Soldier_Investigation before you revert mass chunks again. If you find a copyvio sentence, delete that sentence and that sentence ALONE. Honestly, Wikipedia's position on this cannot be more clear of copyvios. The only reason to delete an entire article is iff the entire thing is a copyvio. Thanks  Sasquatch  t|c 04:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You are flat out wrong. Read the instructions for dealing with copyright violations on WP:CP. Articles get reverted to the pre-copyvio verstion, not only the remove the copied text but to remove the possiblity of derivative work that occurred to, and in relation to, the copied text. --Duk 04:43, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe that is refering to large chunks of copyrighted text. Right now, you're only pointing out a few sentences that can easily be reworded without too much trouble. In fact, find those sentences for me and I'll do it myself. I'll even footnote if you want it that bad. If you read Copyrights carefull you will not that "If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed". Followed by "If all of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement, then the page should be listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems and the content of the page replaced by the standard notice which you can find there." which makes it clear the you only list on CP when there are large chunks that are copied. Please do reconsider calling me "flat out wrong" before re-examining evidence.  Sasquatch  t|c 04:51, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Also see Avoid Copyright Paranoia.  Sasquatch  t|c 04:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * And there's one comment I don't quite understand, that being "remove the possiblity of derivative work that occurred to[sic]". It is perfectly fine to base judgements off copyrighted work (i.e. to derive stuff from it). So there's absolutely no problem in basing a section off a copyrighted page as a summary of that page or an analysis of that page. Could you clarify that?  Sasquatch  t|c 04:56, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, now your getting a tad rude my friend. Saying "I am flat out wrong" is not very nice at all. Frankly, if you opened your mind a little and read that stuff, you can see all the evidence supporting my evidence. And don't patronise me on Wikipedia policy thank you very much. Again, reconsider the stuff i wrote and add a rebuttal. I quoted from Copyrights directly which is actually the master page in dealing with copyright issues. Again, all you've cited is one page while I cited the ACTUAL policy page as well as a meta page discussing it.  Sasquatch  t|c 05:02, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I did look at your comments and all you asked were more questions. While copyright law clearly states that using a few sentences is okay (although I prefer to reference them). Again, Copyrights says... well, i've quoted it above. so why are you asserting that I have a problem with the policy when you seem to disagree with it too.  Sasquatch  t|c 05:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Derivative works
Okay, so what is a derivative work? I read a bit about it and basing a movie off a book would be a derivative. But how is taking facts and restating them really derivative? If your more familiar clarify what constitutes a derivative and what doesn't on Wikipedia. It would be absurd to require all the stuff on Wikipedia to be completely original as they have occurred elsewhere. Also, there is the whole issue of fair use but I won't dig into that.  Sasquatch  t|c 05:05, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * sigh* alright, I'm going to start rewriting. Are all the problems mentioned on the talk page?  Sasquatch  t|c 05:42, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Redux 1
I have rehashed the offending section that I am aware of. If you know of any more problems, make note of them on the talk page and I will fix them.  Sasquatch  t|c 06:10, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Fair Use on Jimbo's Talk page
Just wanted to let you know that I moved the entire Fair Use discussion from Jimbo's Talk page to the Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems page.

Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 16:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

What Happens to History
What happens to an article's history, i.e. WSI, when it gets rolled it back? There is, yet again, another argument over what went where and when. TDC 21:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * (answered on TDC's page)

Specs
The ASTM specs. are partially inapplicable to that table. The table is ISO 898-1 and SAE J429. I think it would be good if you or I remove the ASTM specifications. --Simian, 2005-10-28, 00:14 Z
 * (OK, i did)

"Pickles"
In one placement on my talk page you said you noticed that I put "Pickles" on the List of nicknames used by George W. Bush, I didn't do that so you're confusing me with somebody else I have never been on that article before. Patricknoddy 6:59 AM October 30, 2005 EDT
 * Wow, your talking about a note I left on your page fourteen months ago? (did you think the note was only two months old?). And, yes, you did edit that page . Best regards, Duk 16:51, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I think that you didn't look at the user name correctly. Patricknoddy 4:00 PM November 1, 2005 EDT

Uploaded New Image
Hi Duk; not been on for a while. I have just uploaded a scanned image of a personal item, from my own collection:- Please could you check to see if I have put on the correct copyright info, so as to stave off any comeback or copyvio claims. I would also appreciate your 'experienced' feedback on this new website:- .Richard Harvey 17:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Duk; Yes! I own the badge, the scanner and have a Licenced copy of the software used to do it with. The badge wasn't photographed, with a camera it was put on the scanner direct. I scanned it myself then edited it to enhance the image. So I guess I own the copyright which I release as per the tag I put on it. I will add the extra info as advised.

As for the Website, It took a lot of work, a lot of time and the regiment, or I, own the images. I tried to keep all the gallery images low in size but high in quality to speed up loading, especially the audio and video clips. Thanks: Richard Harvey 18:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Admin nomination
Hi there. I certainly appreciate your offer, and your kind words. Having seen some recent votes on WP:RFA, I'm suspecting I won't get the votes given the current standards, but I'm willing to risk it (and it's no big deal if I don't get it.) So if you'd like to nominate me, I'll certainly accept. Thank you! --Bob Mellish 01:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I've added my acceptance and answers to my RFA. Thanks once again! --Bob Mellish 04:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi again. Well, as you know I got through, so perhaps I was being too pesimistic above. Thanks for nominating me, keeping an eye on things, and that well-timed email to WikiEN-L. Cheers! --Bob Mellish 19:17, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you very much for supporting my rather contentious request for adminship, but now that I've been promoted, I'd like to do a little dance here *DANCES*. If you have any specific issues/problems with me, please feel free to state them on my talk page so that I can work to prevent them in the future, and thanks once again! ALKIVAR ™ 07:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
I just wanted to thank you for your support of my RfA which finally passed! I greatly appreciate it! Ramallite (talk) 04:28, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio baloney
I looked at those links and I'm not seeing any obvious copyright violations -- unless you're claiming use of individual words violates copyrights. No, your knee-jerk blanking and paper-thin excuse told me all I needed to know about the intellectual honesty -- or lack thereof -- of TDC and your "copywrite violation" [sic] campaign battle.

I'll try to remember to pass along your note to Ed Poor, though: I'm sure he'll appreciate your calling him a liar. --Calton | Talk 01:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Carlton, I'm sorry you left such an angry note on my talk page. I hope we can talk this through.

 * First, can you show me where Ed claims I tagged as a copyvio an article he re-wrote from scratch. If he really said this I'd like to talk to him about it, because it's not true.
 * All right, I misremembered the "from scratch" part, for which I apologize. On the other hand, you blanked the ENTIRE page, despite, as Ed Poor put it in his very next edit, The first 4 paragraphs, having been written largely by me, can not posibly be considered a copyright violation. So I stand by my "knee-jerk" characterization.*

 * Ed_Poors words: "The first 4 paragraphs, having been written largely by me, can not posibly be considered a copyright violation." "having been written largely by me" is not "from scratch" but "almost from scratch"
 * And the paragraphs that he didn't write were riddled with copyvios that are still showing up   to this day. --Duk 14:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The page languished for over a year with huge amounts of copyvio material because nobody would do anything about it. The copyvios weren't removed until I steeped in and got serious. When a copyvio showed up I tagged the dam page until someone fixed it. It's that simple. --Duk 16:07, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It is much funner to be the editing cop then the editor huh?
 * As I've said before, I've only edited this page to deal with copyvios. --Duk 14:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Sasqatch: "Oh.. My.. god... go fix it... you're really good at complaining about problems, I get it. But please do try to fix some of the problems... I mean.. that's all I ask of you.. really.. that's it. Thanks."
 * Sasqatch didn't even know that derivative works were copyvios until I explained it to him. --Duk 14:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Second, I gave an example of the copyvio that you said didn't exist on requests for arbitration. The example I gave is one of many you can find if you take a good look at the article's talk page and archived talk pages.

 * No, you gave a link to a diff on my Talk page and made the sweeping claim that this diff was a priori evidence of a copyvio. To be ACTUAL evidence of a copyvio, there should be, at minimum, some text to compare or reference to the thing being copied, so one can see if it's so. You did no such thing, merely presenting a diff and waving your hands wildly, crying "See? See?"
 * please re-read my response above, the example I gave was on requests for arbitration. Also, if you carefully read through the talk pages and archive you will find many, many more. --Duk 16:07, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Finally, you've all but accused me of a political agenda here. Carlton, I've resolved thousands of copyvios, but have almost no politically oriented edits (if you'd care to look). Politics aren't my thing, they don't interest me. I assure you that I have no political agenda whatsoever regarding this article.--Duk 03:11, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Walks like duck, etc. Your unflagging nitpicking of copyright issues on this particular article -- and your out-of-policy complete blankings for many, at worst, minor violations, makes me think otherwise.

 * That's right, thousands of resolved copyvios and pretty much no political edits, that's the kind of duck I am. As far as nitpicking and page blanking with a copyviotag, this page was an exceptional problem for over a year because nobody would do anything about it until I stepped in. The unpleasant characters and name calling probably had something to do with scaring away anyone interested in cleaning up the mess.

 * As far as out-of-policy actions; read the instructions on WP:CP for resolving copyvios. Pages are supposed to be reverted to the pre-copyvio version (this eliminates the possibility of derivative work copyvios). I did not enforce this during the last few times a copyvio was found, instead letting people just edit the copyvio out. This was lax on my part, the opposite of nitpicking and kneejerking. However, none of the editors on this page would do _even that_ until they realized that the alternative was a copyvio tag. Again, this page was a copyvio disaster for over a year, and nobody would do anything about it until I started enforcing the copyvio tagging. --Duk 16:07, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Of course, if you don't have a political agenda, maybe it's just that you're not very good at what you're trying to do.
 * Other way around, I'm very good at resolving copyvios. This page is, for the most part, copyvio free for the first time in over a year :-) --Duk 16:13, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

* Oh, and speaking of lack attention to detail, might I point out that my name is, and has always been, Calton, not "Carlton"? just like it says in my sig, just like it says at the top of my User Page in big bold letters, just like it says in the header on the Arbitration page. No "r" in the name. None. See over to the right, there? ---> --Calton | Talk 07:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * sorry, this was not intentional --Duk 16:44, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Against my better judgement, but out of courtesy, which I promised to you before, I wanted to mention that I mentioned your name again on my talk page. Travb 02:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Because of my better judgement, I have decided, a half hour later, to remove you from the arbitration. I don't agree with your copyvio, but you do it in such a way that it is within current copyvio rules.Travb 03:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I need to apologize to you
As you know, I have been digging deep these past two days for evidence about the arbitration. I found that I was wrong, that you seem to be apolitical in this revert war. I still disagree with your copyright zeal and how you apply the copyrights in a heavy hand way to the winter soldier page. That is my opinion, and I would rather not discuss it anymore. But I don't think you have a political motivation. I believe your statment now:

 * i've no interest in this article other than trying to resolve old copyvios

I apologize for my accusation otherwise.

When I came to wikipedia just over a month ago, it was from frontpagemag.com, and I was used to insults etc. More than anyone, you have made me become more civil here. For that I thank you.

We will probably butt heads again, but I felt like I owed you an apology.Travb 06:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. --Duk 23:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Some advice
I'd appreciate some advice on. In January, inserted a large amount of material  plagiarized from their AMG biography. This went unnoticed until about two weeks ago, when it was listed on WP:CP. While the article has since been edited such that I can't find any phrases of more than a half dozen or so words that are still exactly replicated from AMG, a close read shows that much of the article is still a directly derived work.

Bgruber reverted to the pre-copyvio revision, per the guidelines on WP:CP, when he listed it there; Painbearer immediately reverted back. When I started working the copyvio backlog, I also reverted to the pre-copyvio version, and Painbearer again reverted back, and pledges to continue doing so.

My specific questions are:
 * 1) Is this amount of infringement worth worrying about?
 * 2) If so, how would you suggest dealing with this user? I don't care if he ends up hating me, but I'd rather not have to deal with this every day for weeks on end.

If you reply, I'd prefer that you did so only here, instead of on my talk page where he's (more) likely to see it. —Cryptic (talk) 00:01, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the advice in this matter, and especially for the backup. It wasn't my intention to drag you into the situation, too. —Cryptic (talk) 17:10, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok
I will change the copyvio information in the article with other words, so that there is no problem with the copyied info anymore and no problem with any kind of guides or thinks. I don't think that "much of the article" is "exactly derived work" and I think that you are exaggerating this, to nail me down. Nevertheless, I assure you that when the final output is on, there won't be no problems with copyvio anynmore.
 * Best regards: Painbearer 08:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Just wanted to drop by and thank you for taking the time to respond to my RfA. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 16:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Halibutt
Since you have supported me during my RfA, I wonder if you could review and comment on the RfA for Halibutt, the first person I have nominated myself. There seem to be a heated debate and votes of experienced, unbiased editors would be appreciated. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

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Puri Beach

Puri Beach or the Golden beach is a beach in the city of Puri in the state of Odisha, India. It is on the shore of the Bay of Bengal. It is known for being a tourist attraction and a Hindu sacred place. The beach is the site of the annual Puri Beach Festival, which is co-sponsored by the Indian Ministry of Tourism, the city of Puri

, the Development Commissioner of Handicrafts, and the Eastern Zonal Cultural Center, Kolkata. The beach hosts sand art displays, including work by international award-winning local sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik. The Golden Beach at Puri was awarded the prestigious 'Blue Flag' tag on October 11, 2020 by the Foundation for Environment Education (FEE), Denmark.

Transportation
Puri Beach is located at the city of Puri and the distance between Puri railway station and the beach is only 2 km. Nearest airport is located at Bhubaneswar which is 60 km away. Buses and Taxis are available for local transportation.

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User talk:4815162342

Jacob Lewis
Please do not remove the "speedy delete" notice until a decision has been made about the article. Thank you. Owen× ☎  04:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Please do not restore deleted articles. If you believe Jacob Lewis was improperly deleted, please submit it to WP:VFU. Otherwise, re-creating deleted articles is considered vandalism. Owen× ☎  01:53, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Disgaea 2

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (魔界戦記ディスガイア2) is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Disgaea 2 is the sequel to 2003's Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and was released for the PlayStation 2. It is also the predecessor to Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice for the PlayStation 3.

Unlike Nippon Ichi's previous games, Disgaea 2 is on DVD-ROM and has an animated opening movie.

It was re-released for the PlayStation Portable as Disgaea 2 Portable (魔界戦記ディスガイア 2 PORTABLE) in Japan and as Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days in North America and Europe. It was re-released on PC via Linux, macOS, and Windows in 2017.

Gameplay
Disgaea 2 is divided into 13 chapters. Each chapter begins with cut scenes to explain Adell's next mission. Players then take control of Adell in his hometown of Holt. The town serves as a gateway to story maps, side quests, the dark council, and the item world. At the beginning of each chapter, a new area is unlocked. Each area consists of multiple maps which must be beaten to advance to the next chapter. Talking to the gatekeeper of Holt will give players the option of exploring the new area or repeating any maps that have been beaten. Many maps also have cut scenes. Scenes at the beginning and end of each chapter cannot be skipped.

The gameplay in Disgaea 2 builds directly upon that of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness; players control a party of characters to do battle on a 3D isometric grid map.

The Item World game mode returns from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. Players can select any item in the party's inventory and enter it. The levels within are randomly generated, and the difficulty of enemies depends on the item's rarity or power. There are two ways to descend through the Item World: by defeating all enemies on a given level, or by using exit portals located somewhere on each level. Special enemies, called Guardians, can be freed by defeating them, imparting certain benefits to the item, such as increased attack or defense values. Once they are freed, they can be moved between items freely. The further a player descends through a given item's Item World, the higher the stat bonuses it will receive.

Plot
Fifteen years ago, a powerful Overlord by the name of Zenon appeared in Veldime and cursed its human population. Since then, all its inhabitants have become demons and are to remain that way if the curse was not broken. However, a young man named Adell was the only human unaffected by the curse. Wanting to save his family and return them back to their true form, Adell decides to seek out Overlord Zenon and defeat him. Adell's mother tries to summon Zenon and fails, but instead summons Rozalin, Zenon's daughter. They later go on a quest to find Zenon and return Rozalin to him, and then defeat him so that the curse would be lifted, making his family and the rest of the world human again.

Reception
Disgaea 2 has received generally favorable reviews, obtaining an aggregate score of 84/100 on Metacritic. It received a mention in Gaming Target's selection of '52 Games We'll Still Be Playing From 2006' and won "IGN's Best of 2006" prize of "Best PS2 Strategy Game".

Re-releases
The official website for Disgaea 2 Portable opened on December 29, 2008. It was released in Japan on March 26, 2009. NIS America announced that they were publishing the PlayStation Portable version under the name Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days. It was released in the United States on September 8, 2009.

The re-release features bonus material over the original, including an expanded playable character line-up(including three of the main cast from the sequel Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice; Mao, Raspberyl and Mr. Champloo), an 'Axel Mode' storyline, more creatable monsters and more powerful versions of existing spells. Features from Disgaea 3 are also introduced, including an enhanced Magichange system, Pass & Toss and Level Spheres in the Item World.

A PlayStation 2 Classic Edition of Disgaea 2 was released for U.S. PSN on January 22, 2013.

A port of the game for PCs titled Disgaea 2 PC was released on January 30, 2017, and includes all content from the PS2 and PSP versions, along with an updated interface and support for mouse and keyboard.

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Konark Beach

Konark Beach or Chandrabhaga Beach is situated in Odisha on the eastern coast of India and is considered to be India's finest beach. It is situated three km east of the Sun temple of Konark, in the Puri district in the state of Odisha, India. It is 30 km from the city of Puri. Formerly Chandrabhaga Beach was considered a place of natural cure for lepers. The beach on the coast of Konark becoming India's first to get the Blue Flag certification — a tag given to environment-friendly  clean beaches, equipped with amenities of international standards for tourists.

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User talk:IMSivam

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
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Speedy deletion of Lakshmikanthan Murder Case
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Proposed deletion of Udhayam Welfare Foundation

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Job hunting

Job hunting, job seeking, or job searching is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment, underemployment, discontent with a current position, or a desire for a better position. The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired. The job hunter or seeker typically first looks for job vacancies or employment opportunities.

Locating jobs
Common methods of job hunting are:

 * Finding a job through a friend or an extended business network, personal network
 * Through social media platforms, some of which have inbuilt job platforms and searches
 * Using an employment website
 * Job listing search engines
 * Looking through the classifieds in newspapers
 * Using a private or public employment agency or recruiter
 * Looking on a company's web site for open jobs, typically in its applicant tracking system
 * Going to a job or careers fair
 * Using professional guidance such as outplacement services that give training in writing a résumé, applying for jobs and how to be successful at interview.
 * Visiting an organization to find out whether it is recruiting staff or will be doing so in the near future.

As of 2010, less than 10% of U.S. jobs are filled through online ads.

Researching the employers
Many job seekers research the employers to which they are applying, and some employers see evidence of this as a positive sign of enthusiasm for the position or the company, or as a mark of thoroughness. Information collected might include open positions, full name, locations, web site, business description, year established, revenues, number of employees, stock price if public, name of chief executive officer, major products or services, major competitors, and strengths and weaknesses.

Networking
Contacting as many people as possible is a highly effective way to find a job. It is estimated that 50% or higher of all jobs are found through networking.

Job recruiters and decision makers are increasingly using online social networking sites to gather information about job applicants, according to a mid-2011 Jobvite survey of 800 employers in the US.

Likewise, job seekers are beginning to use social networking sites to advertise their skills and post resumes. Today, job seekers can use resources such as Google+’s Circles, Facebook’s BranchOut, LinkedIn’s InMaps, and Twitter’s Lists to make employers notice them in a unique way. In 2014, using these social media networks has led to 1 of 6 job seekers finding employment.

Job seekers need to begin to pay more attention to what employers and recruiters find when they do their pre-interview information gathering about applicants, according to this 2010 study by Microsoft, "Online Reputation in a Connected World".

Applying
One can also go and hand out résumés or Curricula Vitae to prospective employers, in the hope that they are recruiting for staff or could soon be doing so. Résumés can also be submitted to online employment sites that aid in job searching. Another recommended method of job hunting is cold calling and, since the 1990s, emailing companies that one desires to work for and inquire to whether there are any job vacancies.

After finding a desirable job, they would then apply for the job by responding to the advertisement. This may mean applying through a website, emailing or mailing in a hard copy of a résumé to a prospective employer. It is generally recommended that résumés be brief, organized, concise, and targeted to the position being sought. With certain occupations, such as graphic design or writing, portfolios of a job seeker's previous work are essential and are evaluated as much, if not more than the person's résumé. In most other occupations, the résumé should focus on past accomplishments, expressed in terms as concretely as possible (e.g. number of people managed, amount of increased sales or improved customer satisfaction).

Since the year 2000, the Internet has been increasingly popular method for job applications, with many companies giving job applicants the option of applying through their company website, while some companies now have no alternative form of recruitment.

Interviewing
Once an employer has received résumés, they will make a list of potential employees to be interviewed based on the résumé and any other information contributed. During the interview process, interviewers generally look for persons who they believe will be best for the job and work environment. The interview may occur in several rounds until the interviewer is satisfied and offers the job to the applicant.

Job hunting in economic theory
Economists use the term "frictional unemployment" to mean unemployment resulting from the time and effort that must be expended before an appropriate job is found. This type of unemployment is always present in the economy. Search theory is the economic theory that studies the optimal decision of how much time and effort to spend searching, and which offers to accept or reject (in the context of a job hunt, or likewise in other contexts like searching for a low price). People in work who use their time off-duty to job search has recently become the norm due to new jobs being mostly temporary and/or part-time (usually with not set hours) or professions becoming freelance, with people hired for individual projects rather than a lifelong job.

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