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Further article cleanup
G'day. Wikipedia newbie here. Thought I'd put in my 2c worth for this Exetel article. My thoughts upon reading this article, the attributed sources and this discussion page are: CoreyPlover 14:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The entire "Residential Services" and "Small/Large Business" seem superfluous and I would have thought that the quality of the article would be improved by removing them. Some very specific criticisms include:
 * Explanation of ADSL = 8Mbits/s and ADSL2+ = 24Mbit/s seem redundant and can be accomplished more succinctly by simply linking to the Wikipedia ADSL and ADSL2+ articles
 * The fact that Exetel offers two specific types of ADSL2+ plan (bundled vs unbundled) does not seem to add much value (i.e. the exact form of Exetel's ADSL2+ offering does not seem significant to me)
 * SMS Via ADSL (and now, Fax via ADSL) are extremely minor service offerings
 * "Telephone : Provides for users who do not already bundle their phone with ADSL2+" - Again, the exact form of bundling of telecommunication services could be deemed insignificant
 * "Allows users to keep existing phone numbers from other providers" - This is incredibly minor and completely insignificant
 * "Mainly used for Long distance calling but does local also" - Reads in a much too casual tone
 * Small/large business contains many redundant dot points essentially stating "same as for residential"
 * Corporate Employee ADSL Service includes mention of "lower cost" which may border on advertising / promotion of Exetel
 * Online Gaming Services seems to devote too large of a contribution. I would think that Exetel's history and policies should contain the bulk of the information in this article, not gaming services. Again, specific criticisms:
 * Again, the exact form and structure of the gaming services does not seem significant
 * "friendly/tight nit type atmosphere" - bordering on non-NPOV
 * "This has made the network one of the more popular services" - definitely not NPOV
 * The list of gaming servers and services provided seem incredibly minor and below the threshold for significance for inclusion in a Wikipedia article
 * Policies:
 * Traffic shaping 50% of P2P traffic and 40->48Gb offpeak limit seem to be separate policies and could be separated
 * In fact, "off-peak" download limits don't seem to be an "atypical policy of Australian ISPs" at all and could be removed
 * The atypical policy relating to off-peak is the unique shaping protocols in place (i.e. 48Gb to 72Gb = restricted pool, 72Gb and over - charged). So this may require a new subheading under Policies
 * Clean up of cited sources
 * Items 4, 5 and 6 (dealing with Traffic Shaping) to be replaced with the original and official Exetel source of http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=17721. 2 of the 3 cited sources in question each reference the official Exetel source anyway, so why not replace with the original?
 * Item 4 states "According to a post by Exetel..."
 * Item 5 states "In a letter to customers posted on its user forum, Exetel said..."
 * Removal of items 10, 11 and 13 as they cite blogs
 * In fact, complete removal of the sentence linking to these footnotes: "In June 2007, this policy was reported on after a post was made on Boing Boing.[10] [11] [12] [13]"
 * Item 12 is entered as a footnote to "Boing Boing" and should be relocated to be next to [9].

 * I've done some work on the page based on the above and posted the following at User talk:CoreyPlover

I'm trying not to edit the Exetel talk page or the Exetel article for a while because of the edit wars but I wanted to comment on some of the things you said.

Essentially there's a lot of merit in what you've suggested and I've taken it on board. I've completely revised the Exetel article correcting links, rewriting text etc and I've incorporated a lot of what you've suggested. You can see my proposal at User:AussieLegend/Exetel/Article. (Ignore the header icons etc. They only exist on my user pages.)

The following are some specific comments.

"The entire "Residential Services" and "Small/Large Business" seem superfluous and I would have thought that the quality of the article would be improved by removing them."

 * I agree but I felt there should be something about EGN and with the two sections removed the article didn't look right so I combined the two and just listed all of the options in bullet point format. I've also left out a couple of items as you suggested.

"Corporate Employee ADSL Service includes mention of "lower cost" which may border on advertising / promotion of Exetel"

 * Since it is a service that's offered I think it's valid to leave it in but I've shortened what was there so it's just listing the service and describing what the purpose of the service is since it may not be clear to some (a lot of?) people.

"Online Gaming Services seems to devote too large of a contribution."

 * That's an understatement. I've reduced it considerably.

"Traffic shaping 50% of P2P traffic and 40->48Gb offpeak limit seem to be separate policies and could be separated"

 * Agreed. Unfortunately our Texan friend seems to believe they're related so I've added some citations that prove they aren't and separated them into two sections under "Bandwidth Management" rather than "Policies".

"In fact, "off-peak" download limits don't seem to be an "atypical policy of Australian ISPs" at all and could be removed"

 * I've reworded the section as an introduction to bandwidth management practices.

"The atypical policy relating to off-peak is the unique shaping protocols in place (i.e. 48Gb to 72Gb = restricted pool, 72Gb and over - charged). So this may require a new subheading under Policies"

 * Agreed. Also done.

"Items 4, 5 and 6 (dealing with Traffic Shaping) to be replaced with the original and official Exetel source of http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=17721. 2 of the 3 cited sources in question each reference the official Exetel source anyway, so why not replace with the original?"

 * Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires that sources be from "reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". Exetel's original post is a primary source so it's not acceptable. It seems weird but the idea is that it prevents somebody creating a website for the sole purpose of creating a source used to support their own view. What I've done is used the sources provided and included the Exetel post so you can compare all evidence in order to verify the claim.

"Removal of items 10, 11 and 13 as they cite blogs"

 * I agree. Policy says they're not acceptable sources so they're out. Interestingly, I posted a request for some information about reliable sources at Reliable sources/Noticeboard and have yet to receive a reply of any sort.

"In fact, complete removal of the sentence linking to these footnotes: "In June 2007, this policy was reported on after a post was made on Boing Boing.[10] [11] [12] [13]"

 * Definitely. That sentence is unnecessary. All that is needed is to mention the policy. Whether it was reported anywhere is really irrelevant and adds nothing to the article. The Age article (item 12) is all that is needed to verify the claim. It also verifies that Exetel has a policy of exempting files from the scan so I've relied on just that and the original notice.

"Item 12 is entered as a footnote to "Boing Boing" and should be relocated to be next to [9]"

 * That's exactly what I've done.

 * Let me know what you think.--AussieLegend 13:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

 * This resulted in further discussion at my user pages which is reproduced below.

What I've done so far
diffs --AussieLegend 14:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Replaced infobox with the version in the template
 * Repopulated the new infobox
 * Corrected all wikilinks.
 * Rewritten "Exetel service offerings" removing a lot of unnecessary data.
 * Reduced the size of the "Exetel Gaming Network" section to just a summary of what is offered.
 * Replaced the "Policies" section with "Bandwidth management".
 * Separated Off-peak downloads and P2P deprioritisation section into two subsections of Bandwidth management and rewritten some of the text.
 * Added information on leechers pools and the new process of charging >72GB downloaders for downloads exceeding 72GB
 * Promoted the "Copyright Issues" section since it isn't part of Bandwidth management
 * Expanded the copright issues section to include infomation regarding exclusions from the policy based on information already in the references.
 * Removed "boing boing" and 3 of its 4 references. None of these are essential to the article and the references were from unacceptable sources (blogs)
 * Added an external link that is useful to editors and people just reading the article because it adds to the history of Exetel without cluttering the article.

 * Changes look fantastic. Only one I don't agree with is not replacing items 4, 5 and 6 (now 9, 10 and 11) with the official Exetel source of http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=17721, but that is more of me not agreeing with the Wikipedia policy. Wikipedia's Verifiability says:

Material from self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources in articles about themselves, so long as:
 * it is relevant to their notability;
 * it is not contentious;
 * it is not unduly self-serving;
 * it does not involve claims about third parties;
 * it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the subject;
 * there is no reasonable doubt as to who wrote it;
 * the article is not based primarily on such sources.
 * I think the forum post fits all these items, but in order to counter the last item, and to also include so called third-party, reliable sources, maybe there should be a dual footnote, one to the original source forum post and another to one of The Age (probably item 9, as it's date and content is more relevant to the single issue of 50% deprioritisation)

 * I would also still remove "Corporate employee ADSL Service". It is no different to ADSL as an offering, just bundled and priced in a different way

 * Minor item: Revenue in the infobox needs a line break

 * Otherwise, it reads fantastically. I may come along later and pad out the History section to be a bit more formal, and maybe some other small things too. Should I directly edit the User:AussieLegend/Exetel/Article version with my suggestions?
 * CoreyPlover 23:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I think you're right regarding sources. The Exetel item seems to cover everything in more detail which makes it a better source to use. Item 11 only briefly mentions the policy on page 3 making it hard to find and therefore item 11 is not a good source, even though it confirms the policy. Item 10 at least puts everything on one page but all it does is confirm that Exetel has a policy making it a very weak source. Item 9 is the best of the three third-party sources and covers everything that 10 and 11 cover so there seems little point in including them. They just don't add anything to the article.

 * I can also see your point regarding the "Corporate employee ADSL Service" and yes, a line break is needed. All of your suggestions have been incorporated.diffs

 * Since you seem to agree with the proposal it seems more logical to edit my page for now rather than try to fit them into the main article so feel free to edit away. --AussieLegend 01:28, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I've just noticed that 203.213.56.184 removed a category. Justification for this seems to be quite valid under WP:SUBCAT so I've removed it from this version too. No other Aussie ISP has this cat in their articles. --AussieLegend 18:11, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've now incorporated the changes above into the main Exetel article. It's now more factual with less unnecessary "fluff". --AussieLegend 10:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Archiving this page
This page is now getting a bit long and older conversations (probably everything prior to September) should probably be archived. Does anyone have any objections to this? --AussieLegend 10:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Since there have been no objections I've archived the page to Talk:Exetel/Archive 1. --AussieLegend 22:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

John Linton passed away
John passed away february 1. 2012:

 * https://johnl.blogs.exetel.com.au/index.php?/archives/7112-A-Very-Sad-Day.....html
 * http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/414161/exetel_john_linton_passes_away/
 * http://technologyspectator.com.au/industry/telecommunications/exetel-founder-john-linton-passes-away-0
 * http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/02/rip-aussie-tech-legend-john-linton/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidMarsh (talk • contribs) 06:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

This article reads like an advertisement or published by the companies PR dept.
Whilst I do not want to offend anyone here for their wonderful work. this article does appear to be an advertisement for the company it is about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.92.208.17 (talk) 01:57, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Hadamard matrix

Anon edits
''Hadi Kharaghani and Behruz Tayfeh-Rezaie announced on 21 June 2004 that they constructed a Hadamard matrix of order 428. As a result, the smallest order for which no Hadamard matrix is presently known is 668.''

Anon, would you please advise us what your objection is to this statement? Bearcat 03:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You can actually download a text file of their matrix and verify it yourself, so what's the problem? Ntsimp 17:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hadamard matrices of order 764 exist

 * http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0703312

Might be helpful. Melchoir 02:27, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Balanced repeated replication
Maybe balanced repeated replication deserves its own page? Will Orrick 01:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Mistake or not?
Previously: $$ H^{\mathrm{T}} H = n I_n \ $$

Now: $$ H H^{\mathrm{T}} = n I_n \ $$

Matrix multiplication is not commutative.

When I tried to calculate $$ H^{\mathrm{T}} H = n I_n \ $$, the result did not derive from the definition: I am to multiply items from columns of matrix H when rows (not columns) of matrix H are supposed to be orthogonal.

When one tries to calculate $$ H H^{\mathrm{T}} = n I_n \ $$, everything comes out logically. (IMHO: I could have been mistaken).

This page Mathworld page has it also in the same way.

But, if the definition would be given as follows: "In mathematics, a Hadamard matrix is a square matrix whose entries are either +1 or −1 and whose columns are mutually orthogonal.", then the following formula $$ H^{\mathrm{T}} H = n I_n \ $$ would be true.

Am I correct? :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.55.64 (talk) 16:47, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually both are true, but I agree that the way you have it now, $$ H H^{\mathrm{T}} = n I_n \ $$ does follow more directly from the definition as stated. The way it was previously follows from the fact that $$ H^{\mathrm{T}} = n H^{-1} \ $$ and therefore commutes with $$H$$. This, of course, is not quite as immmediate. Will Orrick (talk) 19:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Plain English
One of the things I hate about mathematical notation (especially in an Encyclopedia!) is that the definitions of the notations used are not immediately obvious to someone who's forgotten their math (or never learned it) and doesn't have an easily readable notation cheat sheet on hand.

From context, I'm assuming $$ H H^{\mathrm{T}} = n I_n \ $$ (thanks to the person above for the math markup) means "The matrix H noncommutatively multiplied with the matrix H to the Tth power (where the variable[?] T isn't defined) is equal to n times the nxn identity matrix. Is this correct?  What does $$ \operatorname{det} $$ mean?

Could those who write these articles begin appending plain (mathematical) language descriptions for those who haven't used matrix algebra (or whatever) in the previous decade (or ever)? I'd greatly appreciate it, I'm sure others would as well. --99.14.107.65 (talk) 05:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree that we should wp:Make technical articles accessible by adding a few sentences to wp:explain jargon and make things more wp:obvious to people who don't already know everything about the topic, attempting to use plain English.
 * . The article now has a few more words, explicitly stating
 * "... where In is the n × n identity matrix and HT is the transpose of H. Consequently the determinant of H equals ...",
 * and linking to articles that go into more depth on those notations. Does that answer these specific questions? --68.0.124.33 (talk) 05:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Determinant of Sylvester matrix
The determinant should be $$2^{k\cdot2^{k-1}}$$, but as this is just the usual dependence of the determinant of a Hadamard matrix on its size, it probably doesn't merit special mention. Will Orrick (talk) 17:31, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yup, that's my bad. Didn't see the bit on determinants above.  Have a good day, Robinh (talk) 20:39, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Williamson type Hadamard matrices
It is a common mistake that Williamson type construction is from Williamson. It is actually from Golomb and two other co-authors of the paper in 1962. The construction is named after Williamson because Williamson later proved that such construction can be generalized for many other (possibly, infinitely many) values of n.

Hysong88 (talk) 01:50, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

 * This is not true. Williamson's construction dates from 1944.  Baumert, Golomb, and Hall cite Williamson's work in their paper.  I will add literature references to the article. Will Orrick (talk) 19:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Circulant Hadamard matrices
The word "order" in the discussion of circulant Hadamard matrices did refer to the size of the matrices. The definition of "circulant" being used here is that each row of the matrix is rotated one unit to the right relative to the row above it. I have updated the article, pointing the the Wikipedia article where "circulant" is defined, and expanding a bit on what is known about the conjecture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Orrick (talk • contribs) 23:55, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

images
Hello. Can anybody add a example image of some rather small Hadamard matrix? Smth. like mathworld.wolfram.com/HadamardMatrix.html or even better one http://www.math.pitt.edu/~egw1/Hadamard8.jpg not with '+' and '-', but with black and white squares. `a5b (talk) 23:03, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Equivalence and transposition
I have reverted the edit that added transposition to the list of operations under which Hadamard matrices are considered equivalent. Obviously there are different possible definitions of equivalence, but if transposition is added to the list, then the numbers of equivalence classes listed in the article become wrong. For example, for 16×16 Hadamard matrices there are five equivalence classes up to row/column negation/permutation, but only four equivalence classes up to row/column negation/permutation and transposition. Will Orrick (talk) 16:17, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

For which natural numbers is the Hadamard conjecture known?
In the article it says:

''"As a result, the smallest order for which no Hadamard matrix is presently known is 668." ''

and it says:

''"As of 2008[update], there are 13 integers n less than or equal to 500 for which no Hadamard matrix of order 4n is known.[6] They are: 167, 179, 223, 251, 283, 311, 347, 359, 419, 443, 479, 487, 491." ''

Isnt that a contradiction? --131.234.106.197 (talk) 14:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

 * The two statements agree. The size of a Hadamard matrix must be a multiple of 4 — sizes 1 and 2 being the sole exceptions.  "Order" in the first statement refers to the actual matrix size.  The n in the second statement is a quarter of the matrix size.  One quarter of 668 is 167, which is the first number on the list of orders for which no Hadamard matrix is known.  Perhaps it's worth trying to clarify the article slightly to avoid confusion. Will Orrick (talk) 20:33, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Circulant Hadamard conjecture
I've reverted the edit of 6 October 2011 by user 195.176.20.45. It is not clear that the "post-publication revision" has been refereed or accepted for publication anywhere, which, in my view, means that the claimed result is not yet suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The edit contained the somewhat odd sentence, "The version that appeared mistakenly contained an older version of the manuscript whose Section 3.3 had a flaw." By my reading, this is suggesting that it is not the original published article that was in error, but rather the form in which it appeared that was a mistake—as though the publisher accidentally printed a rough draft rather than the finished paper. If true, this would be an extraordinary story, one that should be backed up, at the very least, by a statement from the publisher. I have checked the website of the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society; it does not appear to contain a correction or retraction of the article. On the other hand, the phrase "post-publication revision", which also appears in the comment line of the arxiv posting, suggests a revision made after publication, implying a different sequence of events. If more information comes to light, I would be in favor of restoring the reverted edits. Will Orrick (talk) 19:12, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Enough with the proofs of the Hadamard circulant conjecture! While I have great respect for people who are attacking such difficult problems, I would point out that Wikipedia is a resource for non-experts seeking information about what is known about a topic, not a place for advertising recent preprints whose validity can only be confirmed by experts. Once the results in these papers become widely known to workers in the field, as they surely will, assuming they check out, it would be entirely appropriate to summarize them in the Wikipedia article. Will Orrick (talk) 22:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Attribution of Hadamard Conjecture
An editor recently put a tag on the statement that Paley should probably be given the attribution for the Hadamard conjecture. I tried to locate a citation. Several texts cite Hadamard's 1893 paper for this, but I'm not actually convinced. Part of my hesitation is that in his 1933 paper, Paley proved that the order was 1,2,or 4n. If Hadamard didn't know this result, what would he have conjectured in 1893? Can someone look at Hadamard's paper to see what is actually there? Bill Cherowitzo (talk) 03:33, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * Hadamard's paper is available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34348304d/date. You'll need to look at the 1893 volume, page 397.  This is the paper where Hadamard proves his determinant bound.  Here is my summary of what's in the paper:

 * After proving the bound, Hadamard notes that it is attained by Vandermonde matrices whose elements are the roots of unity. For size 3, he notes, Sylvester proved that, up to obvious transformations, this is the only maximum-determinant matrix. For size 4, Hadamard exhibits a one-parameter family of non-equivalent complex Hadamard matrices.

 * He then turns to the real case, noting that Sylvester's Kronecker-product construction gives maximum determinants for power-of-2 sizes. In answer to your question, he then indeed does prove that the size must be a multiple of 4 (if greater than 2).  He next exhibits the constructions he found for sizes 12 and 20.

 * At this point he makes the remark, "Il y a donc lieu de se demander quelles sont les valeurs de n pour lesquelles existent des déterminants maximum à éléments réels." (My translation: It is therefore appropriate to ask what are the values of n for which there exist maximum determinants with real elements.)  There is a footnote here, which reads, "Les déterminants maximum que nous venous de former pour n=12 et n=20 mettent encore un fois en évidence l'arbitraire que comporte la question actuelle; car il est clair que ces nouveaux détermiants maximum ne peuvent se déduire des procédés donnés au n° 6."  (My translation: The maximum determinants that we have just constructed for n=12 and n=20 put once more in evidence the arbitrariness that the present question involves; for it is clear that these new maximum determinants cannot be deduced from the procedures given in Section 6.  ("These procedures" are essentially Sylvester's Kronecker product construction as modified by Hadamard to allow multiplication by a unit of a fixed row in all of the submatrices contained in a given column of the array.))

 * After this remark, Hadamard concludes the paper with the following sentence, which poses what is now known as Hadamard's maximum determinant problem, "De plus, on peut rechercher, pour les autres valeurs, quel est le plus grand module que puisse atteindre le déterminant lorsque'on impose aux éléments la condition d'être réels." (My translation: In addition, one can study, for other values, what is the largest modulus that can be attained by the determinant when one imposes on its elements the condition of being real.)

 * There is no explicit (or, in my opinion, implicit) statement of the Hadamard conjecture in any of this. This doesn't surprise me: Hadamard only had powers of 2 and sizes 12 and 20 (and products of powers of these sizes).  There wasn't much evidence one way or the other at that point.  I've actually never seen the conjecture referred to as "Hadamard's conjecture" (as the anonymous editor does).  It's either the "Hadamard matrix conjecture" or the "Hadamard conjecture", which I've always interpreted as "the conjecture about Hadamard matrices" rather than as "the conjecture made by Hadamard".  Are there actually books that attribute the conjecture to Hadamard? Will Orrick (talk) 20:31, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I also wanted to mention that the Paley construction article contains a quotation of the line from Paley's article where he conjectures that Hadamard matrices exist of every allowed size. Will Orrick (talk) 01:14, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Will, that is pretty much what I suspected was true. Given what he knew about, it would have been a very bold conjecture on Hadamard's part. I have also never seen the possessive form of the title of the conjecture. What threw me off were two references which attributed the conjecture to Hadamard (Handbook of Combinatorial Designs, p. 274 and Doug Stinson's Combinatorial Designs –from which I quote–"It is a famous open conjecture, first stated by Jacques Hadamard in 1893, that there exists a Hadamard matrix of every order n ≡ 0 (mod 4)." p.74) As to my statement about Paley's contribution, that came from Dembowski's Finite Geometry, where he attributes the result to Paley and also to Ryser, but doesn't mention Hadamard. I wonder if this is just another instance of that French/German rivalry where they selectively forget to mention the contributions coming from the other country. Thanks again. Bill Cherowitzo (talk) 02:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

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Wachtendonk

Wachtendonk at the confluence of Niers River and Nette River is a municipality in the district of Kleve in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine halfway between Duisburg and Venlo at the Dutch border. Its name means 'bailiff's Donk'.

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Maria Luise

Maria Luise may refer to:

 * Maria Luise Thurmair (1912–2005), a German Catholic theologian and hymnwriter
 * Maria Luise von Quistorp (10 June 1928 - 29 April 2016), wife of Wernher von Braun
 * Maria-Luise Rainer (born 1959), an Italian luger

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VDA-FS

VDA-FS is a CAD data exchange format for the transfer of surface models from one CAD system to another. Its name is an abbreviation of "Verband der Automobilindustrie - Flächenschnittstelle", which translates to the "automotive industry association - surface data interface". Standard was specified by the German organization VDA

VDA-FS has been superseded by STEP, ISO 10303.

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Premuda

Premuda is a small island in Croatia, off the northern Adriatic coast. It belongs to the north Dalmatian islands which are situated north-west from the county center Zadar. Premuda is approximately 9 km long, up to 1.6 km wide, and has an area of 9.2 km2. It is situated southwest of Silba and northwest of Škarda and as such it is one of the outermost Adriatic islands from the perspective of the Croatian coastline.

Premuda was first mentioned in historical sources by Tabula Peutingeriana, as Pamodos. In the 7th century, the island is mentioned as Primodia, derived from Latin primus ("the first"), indicating its geographical position as the first island in the Zadar Channel seen from the northwest. In 16th and 17th centuries Premuda was targeted by Ottoman corsairs who took the islanders away as slaves. This reduced the island's population to just 26 in 1608. In the 18th century, the island recovered through immigration, mostly from Olib, and by 1760 the population grew to 322.

Natural water resources on Premuda are scarce, which has historically been a limiting factor in the island's development. The island's population peaked at 577 inhabitants in 1857, and has steadily declined since, particularly in the second half of the 20th century, when many islanders moved to Zadar and Rijeka, and also to North and South America.

Electricity was introduced to Premuda in 1971. The elementary school, opened in 1867, was closed in 1991. The island's telephone network was built in 1998.

The only settlement on the island, the town of Premuda, has about 60 inhabitants but the population strongly varies during the summer season. The population of Premuda is cultivating olives and breeding sheep and in the last few years they have become involved in tourism. There are three restaurants on the island.

Premuda is a destination for nautical and diving tourists, and has a number of diving spots. The "Katedrala" is a system of connected caves with light rays that fall through the porous ceiling of the caves. Another well-known underwater site is the wreck of the World War I Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István, which is located 8 NM off the coast of Premuda at a depth of 68 m.

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Rebound (sports)

'Rebound' is a term used in sports to describe the ball (or puck or other object of play) becoming available for possession by either opponent after an attempt to put the ball or puck into the goal has been unsuccessful. Rebounds are generally considered to be a major part of the game, as they often lead either to a possession change or to a second (and often better) opportunity to score by the side whose initial attempt failed.

In sports such as basketball and netball, the term is also used as either noun or verb to describe the successful retrieval of the ball in that circumstance.

In sports that have an assigned goalkeeper or goaltender, after that player makes a save, they may (and if they are able, usually should) then retain immediate possession of the ball or puck themselves, thus preventing a rebound from occurring.

Rebounds in basketball
In basketball, rebounds are divided into two categories: offensive rebounds, in which the ball is recovered by the offensive side and does not change possession, and defensive rebounds, in which the defending team gain possession of the loose ball. Generally, most rebounds are defensive because the team on defense tends to be in a better position (in other words, closer to the basket) to recover missed shots. Often these are grouped under the rebounds per game statistic which denotes the average number of rebounds a player or team averages for a series or season.

Football Rebounder
A football rebounder is the name of a piece of training equipment used for practising football (soccer). The football is kicked into the frame which then returns the ball back to the player mimicking a pass from a teammate. Football rebounders help players anticipate passes and improve their reactions. Football rebounders come in many forms such as small solid rebound boards which bounce the ball back to you in a variety of ways either along the floor or through the air. Another form of football rebounder is similar to a trampoline, they consist of a solid frame with either a mesh net or wireframe stretched over them to create tension which then returns the ball in a similar way as a player would.

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United Communist Party of Armenia

The United Communist Party of Armenia (Հայաստանի Միավորված Կոմունիստական Կուսակցության, abbreviated ՀՄԿԿ / HMKK, Hayastani Miatsial Komunistakan Kusaktsutyun) is a communist political party in Armenia. It was formed on July 7, 2003 through the merger of:

 * Renewed Communist Party of Armenia - (in Հայաստանի նորացված կոմունիստական կուսակցություն) abbreviated HNKK, formed on May 25, 2002, by former Armenian Communist Party (HKK) leaders Yuri Manukian and Grant Voskanyan who had been expelled from HKK the previous year on the grounds that they had advocated cooperation with the government. Manukian became the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the United Communist Party of Armenia
 * Armenian Workers Communist Party - (in Հայաստանի աշխատավորության կոմունիստական կուսակցություն)
 * Armenian Workers Union - (in Հայ աշխատավորների միություն)  founded in 1999.
 * Union of Communists of Armenia - (in Armenian: Հայաստանի կոմունիստների միություն). In the 2003 elections, the party formed part of the Free and Fair Armenia electoral bloc before joining the United Communist Party of Armenia.
 * Marxist Party of Armenia - (in Հայաստանի մարքսիստական կուսակցություն) The Marxist Party of Armenia had registered in 1997, but failed to get re-registered by 1 January 2001. In the 2003 elections, the party formed part of the Free and Fair Armenia electoral bloc before joining the United Communist Party of Armenia.
 * Party of Intellectuals.

The HMKK held its first congress on March 25, 2004. Yuri Manoukian was elected First Secretary of the party. The meeting saw the election of a 77-member Central Committee and a 17-member Politburo.

The HMKK considers itself as a "constructive opposition party". It has closer links to the government than the main Armenian Communist Party and does not join opposition fronts.

The HMKK extended its support to the successful presidential bid of Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan.

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Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield (born August 19, 1944 ) is an American author and motivational speaker. He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages. In 2005 Canfield co-authored with Janet Switzer The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

Early life and education
Canfield was born in Fort Worth, Texas on August 19, 1944. He spent his teen years in Wheeling, West Virginia and graduated from the Linsly Military Institute in 1962. Canfield received his B.A. in Chinese History from Harvard University in 1966. He received his M.Ed. in 1973 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Canfield received an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Santa Monica in 1981.

Career
Canfield began his career in 1967 when he taught a year of high school in Chicago, Illinois. He worked at the Clinton Job Corps Center in Iowa and the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago. In 1976 Canfield co-authored 100 Ways to Enhance Self-Concept in the Classroom. He ran a residential Gestalt center called the New England Center for Personal and Organizational Development and was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America (TOYA) by the U.S. Jaycees in 1978.

Canfield is the founder and CEO of The Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California and founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California. Canfield hosts a radio program and writes a globally syndicated newspaper column. He holds a Guinness World Record for having seven books on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time. In 2006 Canfield was featured in a self-development film called The Secret. His best known books include: The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, and Dare to Win. In 2005 Canfield co-authored The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council.

Chicken Soup for the Soul
Canfield coauthored Chicken Soup for the Soul with Mark Victor Hansen in 1993. According to USA Today, Chicken Soup for the Soul was the third bestselling book in the United States during the mid-1990s. Canfield later co-authored dozens of additional books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

The Success Principles
In his book The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Jack Canfield has collected what he asserts to be 67 essential principles for attaining goals and creating a successful life.

Personal life
Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 and they had two sons together, Oran and Kyle, before divorcing in 1976. Canfield left the family and moved in with a masseuse in 1976, while his wife was pregnant with their second son. His son Oran has written two memoirs, Freefall: The Strange True Life Growing Up Adventures of Oran Canfield and Long Past Stopping: A Memoir.

In 1978, he married Georgia Lee Noble, with whom he had one son, Christopher. They divorced in 1999. He married Inga Marie Mahoney in 2001, and is stepfather to her children, Travis and Riley.

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Mafalda Arnauth

Mafalda Arnauth (born October 1974) is a Portuguese fado singer.

Life and career
Arnauth was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 1974, and her career began in 1995 when she was invited by João Braga to participate in a concert at S. Luis's Theater.

She released her debut album in 1999, which won the award for Best Upcoming Voice from the weekly magazine Blitz. She performed concerts in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Italy, as well as at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon.

Her second album, Esta Voz Que Me Atravessa (English: This voice that goes through me) was released in 2001, produced by Amélia Muge and José Martins. Andreas Dorschel praised the album, writing that: "capable of the tenderest nuances of voice, [Mafalda Arnauth] ingeniously counterbalances them with a roughness that calls to mind fado's subcultural origins".

Mafalda Arnauth's third album, Encantamento, was self-produced.

Solo

 * Mafalda Arnauth (1999) CD
 * Esta voz que me atravessa (2001) CD
 * Encantamento (2003) CD
 * Talvez se Chame Saudade (2005) Compilation
 * Diário (2005) CD
 * Flor de Fado (2009) CD
 * Fadas (2010) CD
 * Terra Da Luz (2013) CD
 * Mafalda Arnauth & Antlantihda (2015) CD

Collaborations

 * Pessoa (2013) — With Fernando Lameirinhas and Eric Vloeimans
 * Mariano Deidda canta Pessoa - Mensagem (2013) — Singing the song «Mare Portoghese» with Mariano Deidda

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Philip Cashian

Philip Cashian (born 1963) is an English composer. He is the head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music.

Early life and education
Philip Cashian was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied at Cardiff University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oliver Knussen and Simon Bainbridge. In 1997 he completed his doctorate at Durham University.

Career
In 1990 he was the Benjamin Britten fellow at Tanglewood where he studied with Lukas Foss. He was awarded the Britten Prize in 1991, the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1992 and the PRS Composition Prize in 1994. His fast-paced style of music has been described as "an uncompromising reflection of the modern world".

Cashian has collaborated and worked with many leading musicians, ensembles and orchestras. Performances include the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Riga Sinfonietta, Ensemble Profil (Romania), Arctic Philharmonic, the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Ergon Ensemble (Athens), Festival de Mùsica de Alicante, Bergen Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Ojai Festival (California), Musikmonat (Basle), Moscow Autumn Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Spitalfields Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the BBC Proms as well as recent performances in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Norway, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and China.

In 2008 the London Sinfonietta commissioned Cashian to write The Opening of the House for their inaugural concert at Kings Place and later in the same year his first opera, The Cumnor Affair was premiered by Tête à Tête Opera Company at the Riverside Studios, London.

Recent commissions include Firewheel for Dark Inventions, Strix for the Britten Sinfonia Academy, the world's turning for the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto),  Nocturnes and Dances for the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, The Language of Birds for Tabea Debus and Scenes from the Life of Viscount Medardo for Richard Watkins and the Red Note Ensemble. In 2017 his String Quartet No.2 was premiered in the St Magnus International Festival by the Gildas Quartet and Psappha gave the premiere of Leonora Pictures in Manchester followed by three further performances in New York, Oberlin and Aspen. His second piano concerto, The Book of Ingenious Devices, premiered by Huw Watkins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen in the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival was described in The Times as  '"mesmerising music". In the 2019 Beijing Modern Music Festival the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra gave the premiere of his most recent orchestral work, Fanfaronades.

Cashian has also written extensively for young and amateur musicians: to date he has written six pieces for the ABRSM’s Spectrum series as well as large scale works for Contemporary Music for All and the Centre for Young Musicians. Between 2010 and 2013 he was invited by the British Council to curate a series of concerts of contemporary British music in Bucharest during the course of which works by over sixty living British composers were performed.

He is also a sought after teacher and has been Head of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music since 2007. He is published by Wise Music and Composers Edition. Recordings of his music are available on the NMC label including the two portrait discs The House of Night and Dark Inventions.

He is published by Wise Music and Composers Edition.

Recordings of his music are available on the NMC label including the two portrait discs The House of Night and Dark Inventions.

Stage works
The Cumnor Affair chamber opera in one act, libretto Iain Pears (2008)

Orchestral works
Chamber Concerto for 16 instruments (1995)

Tableaux (2003)

Three Pieces for chamber orchestra (2004)

Concerto for cello and strings (2012)

Io (2002)

The World's Turning (2015)

The Book of Ingenious Devices (piano concerto no.2) (2016)

Fanfarronades (2019)

Choral works
Music for an Empty Sky (2000)

The Winter's Spring (2013)

Fall Leaves, Fall (2017)

Chamber works
Dark Inventions for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, cello (1992)

Horn Trio for horn, piano, violin (1998)

The Devil's Box for clarinet, piano, viola (1999)

Caprichos for clarinet, piano, violin, cello (2002)

Mechanik for any combination of instruments (2003)

Aquila for clarinet, piano, cello (2010)

Settala's Machine for double wind quintet (2012)

Firewheel for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, violin, cello (2013)

Leonora Pictures for flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, harp, violin, cello (2017)

Brass Quintet (2018)

Dances and Nocturnes for violin, viola, cello, piano (2019)

A House of Rumours for flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, piano, violin, cello (2020)

Physichromie for piano trio (2021)

Works with voice
So Lonely for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (1994)

The Dark Horsemen and Other Tales for soprano and viola (1996)

Three Baudelaire Songs for soprano, viola and piano (2011)

The Songs Few Hear for mezzo-soprano and piano (2010)

Ballad of the Moon, Moon for counter tenor (or mezzo) and piano (2020)

Madrigali for mezzo-soprano and cello (2022)

Instrumental works
Dancing with Venus for cello and piano (1992)

Songs from a Still World for alto saxophone or clarinet (2000)

Tag for solo percussion (2000)

The Language of Birds for solo alto recorder (2016)

Short Stories for solo piano (2019)

Spoor for solo guitar (2020)

The Art of Memory for solo cello (2021)

Saltimbanques for violin and piano (2021)

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User talk:Skarredmunkey

Hi and welcome to Wikipedia, I'm glad to see a fellow Newfoundlander contributing to our beautiful and talented province. I have generated a number of articles on communities and individuals that I hope others will expand upon and make them great articles. You will find a community list, which is almost complete List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and a list of people List of People of Newfoundland and Labrador (not nearly as complete just to the B's), who have influenced the history and direction of Newfoundland and Labrador. The more we can get interested in adding articles the more people of the world will know of people and this great province. HJKeats 13:23, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Mary Wambui

Mary Wambui is a Kenyan businesswoman.

Born on 12 December 1965, Ms. Mary Wambui Mungai was bred from a humble background in the remote village of Gachika, Gatundu South, Kiambu County.

Currently, Ms. Mungai is the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) having been appointed to the position on 2 December 2022.

Prior to this appointment, she served as a board member in several entities, including the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) for seven (7) years, where she was Chair of Finance and all Purposes Committee, and Chair of Corporate Strategy and Enterprise Committee.

She carries a wealth of experience, spanning over 30 years in key managerial positions, business and leadership. Ms. Mungai is a decisive and strategic leader with skills in strategic leadership, financial management, business operations and strategy, communication and delegation, and risk management.

She owns and co-runs a range of multi-million businesses, touching majorly on hospitality and real estate, with over 500 direct employees and over 1,000 indirect employees.

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Baderic

Baderic, Baderich, Balderich or Boderic (ca. 480 – 529), son of Bisinus and Menia, was a co-king of the Thuringii. He and his brothers Hermanfrid and Berthar succeeded their father Bisinus. After Hermanfrid defeated Berthar in battle, he invited King Theuderic I of Metz to help him defeat Baderic in return for half of the kingdom. Theuderic I agreed and Baderic was defeated and killed in 529. Hermanfrid became the sole king.

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Ashish Patel

Ashish Patel (born July 31, 1975) is a Canadian cricketer. A medium-pacer, he took his place in the team given the absence of several players for the 2002 ICC Americas Championship, followed by a strong performance in the 2002 ICC Six Nations Challenge in Namibia.

He participated in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, and made an impressive debut in which he disposed of South Africans Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis. He took more wickets than any other bowler in the 2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge. He has not played for Canada since the final of the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup.

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Blocked. --fvw *  13:27, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

How about blocking WoW instead?

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Deirdre Gribbin

Deirdre Gribbin (born 14 May 1967) is a composer from Northern Ireland.

Career
Gribbin was born in Belfast. She studied at Queen's University Belfast where, at the age of twenty, she began to compose. Further studies were in London (at the Guildhall School of Music with (Robert Saxton) and in Denmark (with Per Nørgård). Her first professional success came when her piano piece Per Speculum in Aenigmate won the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Composition Prize.

Subsequent major works have included the piano quartet Jack B. (inspired by the work of the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats), the piano trio How to Make the Water Sound, the opera Hey Persephone!, the violin concerto Venus Blazing, which was directed by Lou Stein with lighting by Jeff Ravitz, and The Binding of The Years, for piano and orchestra. Celestial Pied Piper was published as part of Faber's Millennium Series. She lived in New York where she was a Fulbright Fellow. Several of her works respond to the political climate of her homeland, such as the ensemble piece Tribe, the orchestral work Unity of Being, which was performed by the Ulster Orchestra as part of the UK WITH NY Festival in New York after 9/11, and her epic percussion concerto Goliath, premiered at the Belfast Festival in 2006.

She has written extensively for radio including music for The Possessed, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Embers, starring Patrick Stewart. She wrote the music for Sky Picture's My Kingdom, starring Richard Harris and her string quartet Hearing your genes Evolve, based on DNA was featured in the Filmtank Production The Dark Gene.

She won an award in the 2003 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers with her orchestral work Empire States, and an Arts Foundation Award for her first opera Hey Persephone!. She was Artistic Director of the London-based Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM), 2003–05. Richard Morrison of the Times wrote of her in June 2004: "This Belfast born composer is one of the most original thinkers in years."

In 2019, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland awarded Gribbin a Major Individual Award.

Gribbin lectures in composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich.

In 2020 Gribbin won a PRS Composers' Award.

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TRT Haber

TRT Haber (English: TRT News) is a Turkish news and current affairs television channel. It was listed by Anadolu Agency as the most watched news channel in May 2018.

Radyo Haber
Radyo Haber is a radio broadcasting news content founded by TRT in 2011. It was established after the establishment of TRT Haber channel. It was broadcasting Turkey's and the world's agenda 24 hours a day uninterruptedly. It started broadcasting again in January 2017.

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2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The 4 × 400 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

Qualifying
From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

All times shown are in seconds.
 * Q denotes automatic qualification.
 * q denotes fastest losers.
 * DNS denotes did not start.
 * DNF denotes did not finish.
 * AR denotes area record.
 * NR denotes national record.
 * PB denotes personal best.
 * SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of the Bahamas.svg|20px]] Bahamas (Nathaniel McKinney, Avard Moncur, Troy McIntosh, Andrae Williams) 2:59.73 Q (WL)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg|20px]] Jamaica (Michael Blackwood, Sanjay Ayre, Lansford Spence, Davian Clarke) 2:59.75 Q (SB)
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Poland.svg|20px]] Poland (Piotr Klimczak, Marcin Marciniszyn, Robert Maćkowiak, Rafał Wieruszewski) 3:00.38 q (SB)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|20px]] Germany (Simon Kirch, Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Bastian Swillims) 3:03.17
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Sweden.svg|20px]] Sweden (Mattias Claesson, Jimisola Laursen, Johan Wissman, Thomas Nikitin) 3:03.62 (SB)
 * 6) [[Image:Flag of Botswana.svg|20px]] Botswana (Obakeng Ngwigwa, California Molefe, Tshepho Kelaotswe, Masheto Gakologelwang) 3:06.39 (SB)

Heat 2

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] United States (Miles Smith, Derrick Brew, LaShawn Merritt, Darold Williamson) 3:00.48 Q (SB)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg|20px]] Trinidad and Tobago (Ato Modibo, Julieon Raeburn, Renny Quow, Damion Barry) 3:01.91 Q
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|20px]] Russia (Dmitriy Forshev, Andrey Rudnitskiy, Andrey Polukeyev, Yevgeniy Lebedev) 3:02.05 q (SB)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg|20px]] Ukraine (Oleksiy Rachkovsky, Andriy Tverdostup, Myhaylo Knysh, Vitaliy Dubonosov) 3:03.41 (SB)
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Spain.svg|20px]] Spain (David Testa, David Canal, David Melo, Antonio Manuel Reina) 3:08.03
 * 6) [[Image:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg|20px]] Zimbabwe (Nelton Ndebele, Young Talkmore Nyongani, Brian Dzingai, Temba Ncube) 3:08.26 (SB)
 * [[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|20px]] Japan (Yuzo Kanemaru, Kenji Narisako, Yoshihiro Horigome, Mitsuhiro Sato) DQ

Heat 3

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] Great Britain (Robert Tobin, Martyn Rooney, Malachi Davis, Graham Hedman) 3:01.95 Q
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of France.svg|20px]] France (Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Marc Raquil) 3:02.86 Q
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg|20px]] Dominican Republic (Arismendi Peguero, Carlos Santa, Danis García, Antonio Side) 3:03.57 (SB)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of South Africa.svg|20px]] South Africa (Jan van der Merwe, Ockert Cilliers, Pieter de Villiers, L. J. van Zyl) 3:04.64 (SB)
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg|20px]] Nigeria (Saul Weigopwa, Musa Audu, Bolaji Lawal, Enefiok Udo Obong) 3:07.91 (SB)
 * [[Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg|20px]] Saudi Arabia (Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily, Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi, Mohammed Al Salhi) DQ

Final

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] United States (Andrew Rock, Derrick Brew, Darold Williamson, Jeremy Wariner) 2:56.91 (WL)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of the Bahamas.svg|20px]] Bahamas (Nathaniel McKinney, Avard Moncur, Andrae Williams, Chris Brown) 2:57.32 (NR)
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg|20px]] Jamaica (Sanjay Ayre, Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence, Davian Clarke) 2:58.07 (SB)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] Great Britain (Timothy Benjamin, Martyn Rooney, Robert Tobin, Malachi Davis) 2:58.82 (SB)
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Poland.svg|20px]] Poland (Marcin Marciniszyn, Robert Maćkowiak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Klimczak) 3:00.58
 * 6) [[Image:Flag of France.svg|20px]] France (Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Marc Raquil) 3:03.10
 * 7) [[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|20px]] Russia (Dmitriy Forshev, Andrey Rudnitskiy, Oleg Mishukov, Yevgeniy Lebedev) 3:03.20
 * [[Image:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg|20px]] Trinidad and Tobago (Ato Modibo, Julieon Raeburn, Renny Quow, Damion Barry) DQ


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Hyperdrive (British TV series)

Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom broadcast by BBC Two in 2006 and 2007. Set in 2151 and 2152, it follows the crew of HMS Camden Lock as they stumble through their heroic mission to protect British interests in a changing galaxy.

The series was written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, directed by John Henderson and produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor. The working title was Full Power. The first episode was broadcast on BBC Two on 11 January 2006. A second series began on 12 July 2007 on BBC Two. The series is available on CW Seed, iTunes and Amazon Prime Video in the US.

Cast and characters

 * Nick Frost plays the character of Space Commander Michael "Mike" "Lucky Jack" "Hendo" Henderson. According to the official website of the series, Henderson's "Space Force File" describes Henderson's career arc this way: "Henderson rose through the ranks in exactly the way we say people can in the recruitment ads, yet endeavour to prevent in practice. Henderson shows initiative; always a dangerous sign." It also says Henderson's education was received at Dagenham Secondary Modern and New Portsmouth Cadet Camp. The website further describes Henderson as an idealistic explorer, eager to meet new races, and feels he is undervalued given his low-priority assignments. Frost's character also has a recurring theme, his favourite show, Captain Helix. He is very protective of his Commander's chair, which he refers to as "Spinning Jenny."
 * Kevin Eldon as First Officer Eduardo Pauline York – a brilliant scientist and tactician, second in command of the Camden Lock. He is also a borderline sociopath, obsessed with and taking immense joy in violence, needing only the slightest provocation to attack someone. He believes in a hardline doctrine and feels Commander Henderson is too lenient regarding the crew and application of regulations. He does not trust Technical Officer Jeffers, and has the ability to hold his breath for seven and a half hours to avoid the effects of sedative gas. He also shows great affection towards Sandstrom, appearing to be in love with her at certain points in the show, even becoming jealous when Vine is kissing Sandstrom in his "Pub-conscious". Like his friend Henderson, York also watches Captain Helix.  At times, he can be quite poetic when describing acts of violence.
 * Miranda Hart as Diplomatic Officer Chloe Alice Teal. Teal has an obvious crush on Commander Henderson, who has not responded to her advances. Teal's skills as a diplomat could be questioned, as during the episode Hello, Queppu, her drunken outburst results in the Queppu imprisoning the three senior officers of the Camden Lock. She failed her final exam to become an officer, and is only present on the Camden Lock as her father is an ambassador. In series two it is revealed that Teal is a devout agnostic, a belief which has apparently become a more formal religion in the future. She is also the yoga instructor on the ship.
 * Stephen Evans as Navigator Dave Vine. Vine's greatest apparent achievement to date is purchasing a planet in an auction. The planet was quickly renamed Vineworld with such locations as Vine City 1 and Vine Ridge. Vine is a quiet member of the crew, uncomfortable with standing up to the outgoing personality of Jeffers or the authoritarianism of York. He is a collector of 1990s "antiques", believing it to be a simpler time; this is reflected by his "pub-conscious", which is the only dream he has, a pub in 1995, where it is revealed that he, like York, is attracted to Sandstrom.
 * Dan Antopolski as Technical Officer Karl Jeffers, an easy-going and lax member of the bridge crew who has been placed in command of the Camden Lock on at least two occasions by Commander Henderson. He dislikes York and makes written notes on all the senior officer's mistakes. Jeffers has a liking for alien music; in particular, he enjoyed listening to the Lallakiss war anthem, "Kill the Humans", whilst on duty.
 * Petra Massey as Sandstrom – an "enhanced human", a cyborg interface needed to ensure the Camden Lock keeps functioning. She agreed to have her body and mind modified in exchange for the Space Force paying off her student loan, assuming the offer would not be made if the procedure was not safe. Her personality was then overwritten and she functions much like an android, although chocolate seems to have an adverse emotional effect on her, leading to hypersexuality. She seems to have a lot of affection for York, and is much more obvious about her feelings for him than he is about his for her. She gets very jealous whenever another Enhanced comes on board. She appears to interact with the ship via deliberate dance-like movements, and rubbing or stroking the luminescent tubes that surround her usual working space.
 * Maggie Service as a variety of Computer Voices. These serve primarily as throwaway lines and interstitials, and include user interfaces (To access the toilet, enter the second, fourth and eighty-third numbers in your security code) and shipwide announcements (Attention all crew: Today is Take Your Clone to Work Day. If you don't have a clone, go and see the Clone Officer on Level 7). In series two, other computer voices are played by Ewan Bailey.
 * Waen Shepherd as Gareth Stannis, the actor who plays the title part in the television drama Captain Helix, watched obsessively by Captain Henderson in the privacy of his cabin as a source of emotional comfort. Captain Helix – who resembles a somewhat camper version of Doctor Who – may also not be quite what he seems.

HMS Camden Lock
The design for HMS Camden Lock was based loosely upon the BT Tower in London. It is a 'Wendover' class ship and measures 376 m long by 90 m wide. The ship's registration is XH558 – the same serial number as the last flying Avro Vulcan bomber. Shuttlebay doors on the Camden are shown with the Union Jack embossed on them, which is part of the comic jingoism of the series. Camden Lock is the name of a lock on a canal in the real Camden in London.

The Camden Lock is powered by "P-Rods", with the P standing for Perfectly safe, although it is rumoured to stand for Plutonium. Her maximum speed is 170 Vs—any higher and the reactors overheat. Her maximum crush depth is 197 atm.

The Camden Lock is armed with missiles and pulse weapons of some form. The laser guns wielded by her crew bear a striking resemblance to crutches.

The Green Javelins (a "space-o-batics" precision flying team that appear in Series 2, Episode 1) also use 'Wendover' class ships. (The Red Arrows are the Royal Air Force's aerobatic team.)

The Glish
The Glish are repulsive-looking, slimy creatures who like to communicate by drooling and licking. Commander Henderson causes a diplomatic conflict by not allowing the Glish ambassadors to rub their genitals on his face.

The Queppu
A Medieval-ish race living on a mostly desert planet. They have a pseudo-feudal society with monarchical (if not totalitarian) government. Typical dress includes jester-like bright red latex suits. The despotic and insane Supreme Ruler, played by Geoffrey McGivern, desires that everyone marvel at his civilization, for example, he possesses a "Doom Ray", with which he threatens Henderson, Teal, and York and at which he expects them to marvel. The "Doom Ray" apparently takes three days to disintegrate a single person and a week to recharge. Princess Lavya, played by Montserrat Lombard, bears a remarkable resemblance to Lucrezia Borgia. As revealed in "Artefact", they gained a space-faring capability after half of the population was sold as food to an insectoid species to 'grind up in their mandibles to feed to their larval young.' The Supreme Ruler described this as a good trade.

The Lallakkis
A pseudo-Medieval race. They dress in somber brown leather, appear unkempt, have the mental capability of 10-year-olds, and are eager to play chicken and use violence at slightest irritation. Every war the race participates in, a battle song is written. One of their battle songs is "Kill the Humans", which includes a death threat for Commander Henderson in the lyrics. The race is possibly caricatures of the British Chav subculture, or the Ali G stereotype of youth.

The Bulaagh
A highly advanced race, but very haughty, looking down on everyone else. Not as trigger-happy as the Lallakkis, but nevertheless ally themselves against Britain with the Lallakkis after Commander Henderson caused the destruction of an asteroid that was the subject of a dispute between the two races. They seem able to communicate with each other, telepathically, by touching a gem-like marking on their long chins.

The Red Shiny Robots of Vortis
A parody of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Borg. A race eager to absorb information and knowledge of various races, exterminating them in the process. They appear to be clad in red latex and they extract the minds of the lifeforms into the "data-sphere" which leaves the bodies dead, although it has the weakness of disruption if those who are having their minds "harvested" think of falsehoods (allusion to the Starfleet attempt to plant an optical illusion computational worm in the Borg collective in the I, Borg episode).

There is also a model of Red Shiny Robot of Vortis used for infiltration, designed to look like attractive women, though based on the episode, it's debatable whether they truly understand the concept of attractive.

The Engulfers
Extradimensional beings of pure energy, they consume atoms and excrete black holes. They are able to swallow spaceships whole.

The Scrane
Interstellar pirates who are interested in stealing the most lethal weapon the Space Fleet has at its disposal.

Episode list
The original pilot episode was first named "Lepus" and later "Full Power", It starred Sanjeev Bhaskar as Henderson and Mark Gatiss as York, the rest of the cast was the same as in the series. It was directed by Armando Iannucci and was never broadcast.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elisabeth Jordan

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Deletion review nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep — the article has been translated into English. Although it is still a stub, the grounds for AFD have been dealt with. --Gareth Hughes 15:38, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Elisabeth Jordan
Article is entirely in Spanish. Perhaps move to eswiki? after notablity established.

 * Delete or Move to Spanish Wiki--MONGO 13:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: article claims that Elisabeth Jordan was one of the winners who got to form the musical group Bellepop on the Spanish version of the reality television show Popstars and later became an actress on a television series. Apparently this is true; see IMDb.  If this article is kept, move and redirect to Elisabeth Jordán to conform to Spanish orthography. --Metropolitan90 16:38, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment — I'm going to list this on Pages needing translation into English (it should have been sent there first). I'm going to leave this AFD open, so that translators can comment, and so that, if it's not translated within 2 weeks, it can be deleted immeadiately. --Gareth Hughes 22:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The article has now been translated into English. I didn't transwiki the Spanish version, as it was a bit fancruftish. I also haven't moved the article to the correct orthography, to avoid disrupting the AfD. No vote.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Execution and murder rates countrywide

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 00:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Execution_and_murder_rates_countrywide
Rubbish, POV article, heavily biased, unsourced.
 * Delete virtually no information of an encyclopedic nature.--MONGO 13:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Also countrywide in title is inherent systemic bias. Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   14:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. —Wahoofive (talk) 16:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete but would keep if it could be salvaged.  [[Image:Smilie.gif|20px]] Molotov [[Image:Caranimationforvmolotov.gif|25px]]   (talk)
 * Delete. POV, original essay, comment rather than facts, US-centric title and badly written. Average Earthman 20:45, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Recommended only as part of a low-content diet. Can be used to increase your POV level. Consult a brain surgeon before keeping. -Splash talk 21:08, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Country? Which country? Saberwyn 04:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

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Bertachar

Bertachar (or Berthachar) was a king of Thuringia from about 510 until about 525, co-ruling with his brothers Hermanfrid and Baderic.

Bertachar was probably not a Thuringian himself. Frankish sources, such as Venantius Fortunatus, make the three brothers sons of King Bisinus. They are sometimes considered as sons of Bisinus' wife Menia, or else as sons of Basina, who is called a wife of Bisinus by the Frankish historian Gregory of Tours. Many scholars, however, reject Bisinus' marriage to Basina as ahistorical, leaving Menia as his only known wife.

Bertachar's rule probably began between 507 and 511. He was murdered by his brother Hermanfrid, who later murdered Baderic to become sole ruler of Thuringia. This assassination may have taken place as early as 525.

Bertachar had at least one daughter and, depending on the source, one or several sons. His sons are unnamed. His daughter, Radegund, married the Frankish king Chlothar I and founded Holy Cross Abbey in Poitiers. She is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church. Two hagiographies of her were produced by her friends Baudovinia and Venantius Fortunatus. Fortunatus specifies that she was "from the Thuringian region", a daughter of King Bertachar and a granddaughter of King Bisinus.

title: Bertachar