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HMS Activity (D94)

HMS Activity was an escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. After the war, she was sold into merchant service as the MV Breconshire, serving for over 20 years until scrapped in 1967.

Royal Navy
HMS Activity was built at Caledon shipyards in Dundee. When construction started in 1940 she was intended to become the refrigerated cargo ship Telemachus for the Alfred Holt Line. In February 1941, she was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Activity. In January 1942, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for conversion to an escort carrier, now named HMS Activity and carrying pennant number D94. Following her launch in May 1942 and completion in August of that year, Activity worked up at Lamlash before going to Rosyth for rectification of defects. Entering service on 1 January 1943, Activity operated as a deck landing training carrier until October 1943, when she was sent to Liverpool for a refit before entering active service.

After her refit, Activity took part in convoy escort duties in the North Atlantic. Activity embarked 819 Naval Air Squadron on 12 January 1944, and began escort duties on 29 January as part of the Second Escort Group. Activity was involved in the escort of convoys OS 66, KMS 40, ON 222, NS 28, SL 147, MKS 38, HX 277, KMS 43 and MKF 29 in the period to March 1944. Following this, Activity moved to the Arctic, escorting convoy JW 58 to Murmansk. Her aircraft—together with those from HMS Tracker (D24)—were responsible for the sinking of U-boat GS U-288, and GS U-355, as well as damaging GS U-362, GS U-673 and GS U-990. The return convoy—RA 58—reached its destination without loss.

In May 1944, Activity spent some time at a shipyard on the Clyde for defect rectification before rejoining the Second Escort Group for escort duties. Activity escorted convoys OS 78, KMS 52, SL 158, MKS 49, OS 78, KMS 52, AL 159, MKS 50, SL 162, MK 53, KMF 33, MKF 33, OS 86, KMS 60, SL 167 and MKS 58.

In August 1944, Activity was designated as a ferry carrier. She transported aircraft, personnel and supplies to Trincomalee, Ceylon, arriving on 23 October 1944 and returning via Gibraltar, where she joined convoy MKF 36 back to the United Kingdom. Activity spent some time in a Clyde shipyard in December 1944 for defect rectification, after which she was reallocated to the East Indies Fleet and given a new pennant number, R301. She sailed with convoy KM 39 on 29 January 1945, arriving in Colombo on 20 February. Whilst en route to Sydney, Activity rescued the 92 survivors from SS Peter Silvester, an American liberty ship which had been sunk by GS U-862 on 6 February 1945, the last Allied ship sunk by enemy action in the Indian Ocean. Survivors from Peter Silvester were landed at Fremantle and Activity then continued her journey to Sydney.

Activity departed Sydney on 24 March, bound for Colombo for duty ferrying aircraft from Cochin to Colombo. After the end of the war, Activity was sent to Singapore to support the reoccupation of Singapore. She loaded ex-POWs and other passengers and sailed for Trincomalee on 15 September. Activity arrived home on the Clyde on 20 October 1945, and was then de-stored and placed in the Reserve Fleet. She was placed in the Category B Reserve on 30 January 1946, and sold to Glen Lines on 25 March 1946 for conversion to a merchant ship.

Merchant Navy
Activity was converted to a Glenearn class merchant ship by Palmers of Hebburn-on-Tyne, and renamed Breconshire, entering service with Glen Line in September 1947. She was the second Glen Line ship to be named Breconshire. She measured 9,061 gross register tons. She remained in service until April 1967, sailing from Kobe to Mihara for scrapping, arriving there on 24 April 1967.

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Samuel Arthur Saunder

Samuel Arthur Saunder (1852 – December 8, 1912) was a British mathematician and selenographer who taught at Wellington College, Berkshire. In 1894 he became a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1908 he was made Gresham Professor of Astronomy giving public lectures on the subject.

Saunder was one of the first to use photography of the Moon to measure and triangulate its features. He was also responsible for pointing out the confused state of lunar nomenclature at the beginning of the 20th century, and initiating the process of standardizing the names of lunar features. The crater Saunder on the Moon was named after him in 1935.

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Podocnemis

Podocnemis is a genus of aquatic turtles, commonly known as South American river turtles, in the family Podocnemididae. The genus consists of six extant species occurring in tropical South America. Four additional species are known only from fossils.

Species
These six species are extant.
 * Podocnemis erythrocephala (Spix, 1824) – red-headed Amazon River turtle
 * Podocnemis expansa (Schweigger, 1812) – Arrau turtle
 * Podocnemis lewyana A.H.A. Duméril, 1852 – Magdalena River turtle
 * Podocnemis sextuberculata Cornalia, 1849 – six-tubercled Amazon River turtle
 * Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 – yellow-spotted river turtle, yellow-headed sideneck
 * Podocnemis vogli L. Müller, 1935 – savanna side-necked turtle

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Podocnemis.

Fossil species
The following four species are extinct, all from Neogene deposits in South America:
 * Podocnemis bassleri †
 * Podocnemis medemi †
 * Podocnemis pritchardi †
 * Podocnemis tatacoensis † Cadena & Vanegas, 2023.

The Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) species "Podocnemis" parva Haas, 1978, based on remains from the West Bank, is now assigned to Algorachelus, as A. parvus.

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Summary
Big finish Doctor Who 30 - Seasons of Fear cover by Clayton Hickman.

Fair use in Seasons of Fear
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist.

Source

 * 1) Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

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User talk:Kalbers

I am a graduate student at George Mason University studying US history. I also work at the Center for History and New Media, mostly on a history of science and technology database project called ECHO.

However, we are also currently involved in producing a project about open source software. We are very interested in digital, peer-produced works of history, including history articles in Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. If you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email please contact me at kalbers (at) gmu dot edu.

Patton
You are right. My title is misleading too. I think the true perception of the man is that he really wouldn't give a damn what color you were, as long as you kicked the other side's ass. I would imagine he was one of the less racist ones around at the time, and said exactly what he thought at that precise moment. The media was always asking him for an opinion, and he would always give a strong one, whether he really belived it or not, and off course he would be quoted on it. Remember that the time in which he lived had different ways of expressing things. We can still be racist now, but not sound as if we are! I am not too fussed about the title. I don't really like strong words such as racist... it can be true, but it can be also applied to almost anyone. What I am trying to say is that Patton is no more racist that most others. Its just that he is more outspoken. I can attempt to change the heading, if you or someone else doesn't first. Wallie 14:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Boston Massacre
You axed: ''I was wondering where you might have found the information that this engraving was done by John Puford. I have done a little research on it, and believe it to be different (see my comments on the Crispus Attucks talk page. I'm curious to get to the bottom of this.''

 * Ken, I've been trying to remember where I got the info, but I forget. (It was silly of me not to record it in the article.) I remember reading about Paul Revere beating the other engraver to the punch by being the first to publish a depiction of the massacre, but where I read that, I dunno. The "Puford" misprint likely stems from the website where I downloaded the image, and not from my source of information, which was a book or book-on-tape. Sorry I cannot remember more; it may come to me later. --Kevin Myers | (complaint dept.) 19:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

History of Science WikiProject
Kalbers, you might be interested in WikiProject History of Science, if you haven't seen it already.--ragesoss 18:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Please help
I'd appreciate it if you would check out the article on White people and comment on this discussion. Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk 06:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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User:WebDrake

For info on me and the things I am interested in, see my homepage: http://braingam.es/

My older and no-longer-maintained homepage is at: http://webdrake.net/

I've been on a rather long hiatus from Wikipedia work but will be attempting to put that right in future.

This page is divided up into two sections. WikiProjects are my plans for new Wikipedia contributions the near future. By contrast WikiWork gives an overview of what I've already done. Neither is an exhaustive list, but they cover the pages I am committed to in some sense and that I keep an eye on. It's too easy to make minor but relevant changes to articles for me to bother listing everything I've done!

WikiProjects

 * Self-organized criticality — I wrote much of the current article, which has survived a bunch of more recent edits, and was for a time perhaps the honorary editor of this page.
 * Power law — I made some fairly large contributions here, particularly to a major revision a few years back. It seems to have been very much rewritten since then.
 * The Wikipedia pages on Fighting Fantasy and the individual gamebooks need rewriting and standardising. A fun project to give me an alternative to science. :-)

articles created

 * Bak-Sneppen model
 * Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile
 * Forest-fire models
 * Olami-Feder-Christensen model

major contributions

 * Self-organized criticality

minor contributions

 * 1/f noise
 * Power laws
 * Santa Fe Institute
 * Self-organization

categories created

 * Category:Theoretical biology

articles created

 * Gail Ann Dorsey
 * John Metcalf (composer)

Fighting Fantasy
A joyful let-my-hair-down blast from the past... Articles are in alphabetical order. I would have put them in gamebook order but since Wizard is reissuing stuff all over the place it kind of defeats the point... :-)

articles created

 * Black Vein Prophecy
 * Legend of the Shadow Warriors
 * Midnight Rogue
 * Night Dragon

major contributions

 * Moonrunner

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Terry Yorath

Terence Charles Yorath (born 27 March 1950) is a Welsh former football player and manager at both club and international level.

He represented Leeds United, Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur, Vancouver Whitecaps, Bradford City, Swansea City and the Welsh national team. He later became a football manager for Bradford City, Swansea City, Cardiff City and Sheffield Wednesday, as well as assistant at Huddersfield Town. Yorath also managed the Wales and Lebanon national teams.

Early career
Yorath was an apprentice at Leeds United signing professional forms at the age of 17. Along with other Leeds midfield players of the time, such as Mick Bates and Terry Hibbitt, he found it difficult to establish himself ahead of Don Revie's preferred pairing of Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles. Between 1967 and 1972 he made just 14 League appearances for Leeds.

Leeds United
In the 1972–73 season, injuries and suspensions allowed Yorath to establish himself as a first team regular. His first season ended with two cup final runners-up medals; he was a substitute in the 1973 FA Cup Final, which Leeds lost 1–0 to Sunderland, and also appeared in the 1973 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final, which Leeds lost in controversial circumstances to AC Milan.

Yorath finally won some silverware the following 1973–74 season, where he was a key member of the Leeds championship winning side. Yorath became the first Welshman to play in a European Cup final when Leeds reached the final of the UEFA European Cup, but again Yorath ended up with a runners up medal as Leeds lost 2–0 to Bayern Munich in controversial circumstances.

Don Revie had left Leeds to manage England, and his eventual replacement Jimmy Armfield decided to dispense with Yorath's services in 1976, selling him to Coventry City for £125,000. During his time with Leeds, Yorath made 120 appearances and scored ten goals.

Coventry City
Yorath would be captain to one of only a handful of top flight Coventry City sides that spent an entire season in the top ten. Spearheaded by the prolific strike partnership of Ian Wallace and Mick Ferguson, and ably abetted by the legendary winger Tommy Hutchison and attacking full backs Graham Oakey and Bobby MacDonald, the Sky Blues would enjoy a 7th-place finish in the 1977–78 season, narrowly missing out on European football. Yorath's Coventry side containing such notables as Alan Green, McDonald and Mick Coop are still fondly remembered even today by the Sky Blue faithful. A remarkable 5–4 win over Norwich City at Highfield Road, Christmas 1977, replete with bicycle kick by Ian Wallace and last gasp penalty save by Jim Blyth, lives long in Coventry folklore.

Yorath remained at Coventry for three years, playing 99 games and scoring three goals and was captain for most of this period. He moved onto Tottenham Hotspur in 1979 for £300,000, and then briefly to Vancouver Whitecaps in 1981, where he made 59 appearances, scoring four goals in his two seasons with the club.

International career
Yorath picked up the first of 59 Welsh caps in 1970 against Italy, and he maintained a regular presence in the international side until 1981. Yorath also captained his country on 42 occasions.

Managerial career
In 1982, Yorath joined Bradford City as player/assistant coach. He was injured during the Bradford City stadium fire disaster in 1985 when he was forced to jump out of a window after evacuating supporters from a bar. He subsequently took up the manager's position at Swansea City in 1986 (making a single and final league appearance), and led the club to promotion from the Division Four to the Division Three at the end of the 1987–88 season.

In 1989, he was appointed part-time manager of Wales, eventually taking up the post on a full-time basis whilst still managing Swansea. However, this caused conflict with the club, and Yorath left Swansea to manage Bradford. He was dismissed by Bradford after just one year in charge, and returned to manage Swansea again.

In 1991, after a run of nine consecutive defeats, he left Swansea for a second time to concentrate on managing Wales. Yorath was popular amongst the Wales players and fans and guided them to wins over Brazil in 1990 and World Cup holders Germany in a European Championship Qualifier in 1991. Under Yorath, Wales attained what was then their highest ever FIFA ranking of 27th in August 1993 and came close to qualifying for the 1994 World Cup tournament. The qualifying group started disastrously with a 5–1 defeat away to Romania. However, Yorath turned things around with victories over the Faroe Isles, Belgium and Cyprus. Needing to win their final game of the qualifying group at home to Romania, Paul Bodin's penalty hit the crossbar with the scores level at 1–1. Romania went on to win 2–1. Following the failure to qualify Yorath's contract as manager was not renewed, angering many Welsh fans and John Toshack, then manager of Real Sociedad, was appointed as a part-time manager. However, Toshack resigned after just one game – a 3–1 defeat to Norway with the team being booed off the pitch in Cardiff by the Welsh fans still upset at the dismissal of Yorath.

Yorath joined Cardiff City as general manager in 1994, after speculation that he would become manager of Middlesbrough in May that year, and assumed control of team affairs in November of that year when manager Eddie May left the club. However, his time in the hotseat with the Bluebirds was brief, and he was sacked opening the door for Eddie May to return in March 1995 with the club headed for relegation, but he could not save them from the drop. In April of the same year, Yorath took over as coach of the Lebanon national team, and helped them rise 60 places in the FIFA World Rankings before leaving in 1997.

Between 1997 and 2000 he worked as a coach at Huddersfield Town and Bradford City, before joining Sheffield Wednesday as assistant to Paul Jewell. Yorath retained his position when Jewell was dismissed, and eventually became manager in 2001. However, he resigned in 2002 after a run of five defeats in six league matches saw Wednesday drop into the relegation zone.

In June 2008, Yorath returned to football when he was appointed the director of football at Isthmian League Premier Division side Margate, where his brother Dai and nephew Dean had both played. On 21 November 2008, he was appointed manager of the club after Barry Ashby was sacked. However, Yorath resigned as Margate manager on 24 September 2009 following a run of disappointing results, leaving Neville Southall in temporary charge of the team.

Personal life
Yorath's autobiography, published in 2004, is titled Hard Man, Hard Knocks. He is the father of television presenter Gabby Logan.

Player
Leeds United
 * Football League First Division: 1973–74
 * FA Cup runner-up: 1972–73

Manager
Lebanon
 * Pan Arab Games third place: 1997

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User talk:49TL/Archive-1

Information This is the FireFox talk page archive 1.

If you want to leave me a message, please see my current talk page.

Welcome
No-one seems to have welcomed you yet. Here we are:

--Celestianpower talk 14:32, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Deletion
Hey there, FireFox. In such situations you should use the template, replacing WHATEVER with the reason you feel the article should be deleted, in your example the reason would be vandalism. Articles with this template are pooled at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, which admins check constantly, analyzing and deleting articles in a time span which may vary from a minute to half-an-hour. Only use this template in extreme cases though, see WP:CSD. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 14:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

thanks!
for the repariative work on that redirect.Gavin the Chosen 16:14, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Secret Garden
Thanks for the speedy reply to my request for secret garden info (here). Just to let you know that on disambiguation pages, its the policy not to pipe links (eg use Secret Garden (Big Brother) rather than Secret Garden), for easier navigation (documented in the MoS, here). --Commander Keane 15:23, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Where is the Big Brother house in the UK? In Australia, it is located in isolated bush near a theme park. Nadia's visit to our house has got me thinking about your version. --Commander Keane 12:16, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Hiya
I noticed you a few days ago (4th?) and keep running into your eidts :o Just ran into your work yet again at Semantic models of perceptional filters and thought I'd say, 'hi'. I'm not judging or anything but your userpage hurts my eyes %-). Might want to compare to my site.  Cheers! — HopeSeekr of xMule (Talk) 15:08, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Many Thanks
Thanks for supporting my RFA. It couldn't have happened without your effort. FeloniousMonk 17:15, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Translations / thank you
Thanks for jumping on the two articles that I tagged today.

--Cje 14:46, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

About "Asociacion de amigos de Gorki"
Hi, I´m the person was proposed the article. The copyrighted personal page that appears is my own personal web. The publication of the article is permissed for me (the vicepresident of the association and webmaster of the copyraighted web).

The Association was the first tourist group in Nizhny Novgorod after the city closed status.

Sorry for my english and best regards from Spain.

José Antonio Lozano joslozano@hotmail.com

category:Firefox users
Have you ever thought of adding yourself to category:Firefox users or is the name just for show? --Celestianpower hab 13:52, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Now there is a new Firefox babel template. is the shortcut... --Celestianpower hab 17:47, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Great!
I, V. Molotov hereby give you this Random Acts of Kindness barnstar for being an all around kind user.

Take Care,  V. Molotov    20:05, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

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Mario Rodríguez Cobos

Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (6 January 1938 – 16 September 2010), also known by the mononym Silo, was an Argentine writer and founder of the international volunteer organisation Humanist Movement.

An active speaker, he wrote books, short stories, articles and studies related to politics, society, psychology, spirituality and other topics. Although he described himself simply as a writer, many see him as a thinker and philosopher, based on the diversity of issues about which he has written.

Biography
Silo was born into a middle-class family of Spanish origin in Mendoza, Argentina. His father was winemaker Rafael Rodriguez (from Granada) and his mother Maria Luisa Cobos, a Basque and a music teacher. He was the youngest of three children, with two older siblings in Raquel and Guillermo. He undertook primary and secondary education with the Maristas Brotherhood, achieving excellent grades, while practising gymnastics and specializing in the pommel horse and reaching high positions in the regional rankings. In addition, he was involved in various youth organizations and lead a very active social and intellectual life. He carried out special studies, in languages including French and Italian, and philosophy. He also published articles in cultural magazines.

Silo studied law for three years at the National University of Córdoba, and later returned to his home town to continue his studies in this field at the National University of Cuyo. At university he began to organize research groups on human beings and their existential and social problems.

Silo travelled around Argentina, South America and Europe and undertook various jobs. By 1960 – following "a rearrangement of his inner truths" as a newspaper slogan of the time reported – he began to present his proposals, while still forming study groups in Argentina and Chile. With members of these groups he organized a public talk, which was initially banned by the military government but later was permitted in the mountains, away from the centres of population. The military dictatorships which subsequently beset the country were present throughout the life of Silo with successive arrests and detentions.

So, on 4 May 1969, Silo spoke to some two hundred people gathered in Punta de Vacas (Province of Mendoza), in the high Andes mountains near Mount Aconcagua, and gave his first public exposition of the ideas, that in time, would form the basis of the Humanist Movement. In this talk, known as "The Healing of Suffering", he explained themes such as the overcoming of pain and suffering, the meaning of life, violence, desire and pleasure.

Silo married Ana Luisa Cremaschi, whom he knew from his youth, and had two sons, Alejandro and Federico, with whom he lived in his hometown.

In 1972 he published The Inner Look and the initial groups extended to other countries, partly because the military dictatorships provoked the exile of many of the participants. In the early 70's, Silo created the current of thought now known as New Humanism or Universalist Humanism, and founded the Humanist Movement, an organized group that sought to translate this thought into practice. It can be said that this thinking encompasses the whole of human existence, not only social but also personal.

Since the eighties, and under his orientation, the Humanist Movement began a period of expansion in the world with the creation of organisms and fronts of action: the Humanist Party with a presence in more than 30 countries, The Community for Human Development (a cultural association), Convergence of Cultures (a civil association), World Without Wars (an anti-armament association) and the World Centre of Humanist Studies.

During 1981 he was invited to express his proposals in various public rallies in European and Asian cities, visiting Madrid, Rome, Barcelona, and later Mumbai (India) and Colombo (Sri Lanka), before returning to Paris, and later San Francisco (California) and Mexico City. He explained with particular force the position of nonviolence, manifested in the overcoming of suffering, the human treatment of others and the attitude of not searching for those to blame. Aspects of these talks relevant to his thought were published in the bookSilo Speaks.

On 6 October 1993 in Moscow, Silo was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In this ceremony, he supported his ideas on "conditions of dialogue," concluding his presentation with these words: "We will see no full dialogue on the fundamental questions of today’s civilization until we, as a society, begin to lose our belief in the innumerable illusions fed by the enticements of the current system. In the meantime, the dialogue will continue to be insubstantial and without any connection to the profound motivations of society. However, in some latitudes of the world something new has begun to move, something that, beginning in a dialogue of specialists, will slowly begin to move into the public arena."

Later years
In early 2002, Silo announced his retirement from the Humanist Movement, after being its driving force for 32 years. He did it by moving the orientation of the Humanist Movement to an assembly composed of the general coordinators of the movement. By August 2007 there were about 400 members in this assembly.

In mid-2002 he launched Silo's Message understood as a book, an experience and a path. Among his more recent projects he gave impetus to the construction of complexes known as Parks of Study and Reflection in Argentina, Chile, Spain, USA, Italy, India and Egypt, among other geographical locations. The money to build these parks was gathered from voluntary donations.

During the first decade of the 21st century he returned to speak at Punta de Vacas on several occasions with proposals of reconciliation, access to the profound and the sacred of human being, accepting invitations to speak about his Message and going to more humble places, like family homes, or small halls (salitas) in the same neighbourhood of Mendoza, and in greater Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Quito (Ecuador). He also attended events organized in Lisbon, Rome, northern Italy and elsewhere. Furthermore, as well as organising Halls of the Message and Parks of Study and Reflection around his works, Silo attended various opening ceremonies in places such as in La Reja (Buenos Aires), Las Manantiales (Santiago de Chile), Carcarañá (Rosario, Argentina), Toledo (Spain), Attigliano (Rome, Italy), etc.

One of his last public addresses was made in Berlin at the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, on 11 November 2009, during the passage through that city of the "World March for Peace and Nonviolence". On this occasion Silo called for global nuclear disarmament as the main urgency of the moment.

His last years were spent in Chacras de Coria, a town on the outskirts of the city of Mendoza. He died at his home on 16 September 2010, after suffering for more than a year with renal disease.

His figure, until his death, was highly controversial, since he was considered a "spiritual guide" by his followers, while his critics labeled him a cult leader. He referred to himself as a writer and practitioner of what he called an "inner religion".

There exist few interviews and reports in the media on the life of Silo, however, the most numerous were carried out in Chile in the early nineties (with the return to democracy) from the major talk shows on television.

Some institutions showed recognition of his career in the days after his death, such as the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica.

On psychology
The concept of the intentionality of the consciousness, which had been taken up by Franz Brentano from medieval scholasticism and developed by Edmund Husserl in  Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, takes central importance in the thought of Silo. In it he made a differentiation between sensation, perception and imagination: "understanding feeling as the register obtained when detecting a stimulus from the external or internal environment and the variation in the tone of work of the sense involved. (...)

Understanding perception as a structure of sensations made by the consciousness referred to a sense, or several senses (...)

Preferring to understand the image as a re-presentation and formalization of sensations or perceptions, coming from the external or internal environment. The image is therefore not a "copy" but a synthesis, an intention and therefore is not mere passivity of the consciousness. (...)

In this work, an account of the image is given as an active way for the consciousness to be in the world which can not be independent of spatiality and as a way in which it accomplishes the many functions it performs, depending on the position assumed in this spatiality. (...)

To every perception there is a corresponding representation that unfailingly modifies the “data” of “reality.” In other words, the structure perception-image is a behaviour of the consciousness in the world, whose meaning is the transformation of this world. (...)

This mode of consciousness-being-in-the-world is basically a mode of action in perspective, whose immediate spatial reference is the body itself, not simply the intrabody. But the body, while being an object of the world, is also an object of the landscape and an object of transformation, and in this way it ends up becoming a prosthesis of human intentionality. If images allow recognition and action, then according to the structure of the landscape and the needs of individuals and peoples (or according to what they consider their needs to be), they will, in the same way, tend to transform the world."

- Psychology of the Image - Contributions to Thought

Rejecting ideas of the unconscious and subconscious as epochal myths based on scientific premises which are incorrectly formulated, it focuses on the study of the co-presence, impulses, levels of consciousness, centres of response, etc., as part of the psychism and the functioning of consciousness. What is new in Silo's thinking is the definition of the space of representation: "All the senses produce their representations, and this representation is given in a mental space, this space sets an ambit where the representations are emplaced that have originated from different perceptual sources. This space is nothing other than the totality of internal representations proper to the cenaesthetic system. And so the mental space is a sort of screen that reproduces the impulses of one’s cenaesthesia.

Thus, every phenomenon of perception that arrives to the apparatus of coordination is emplaced at some point of the representation screen. Whether it is a matter of a sound, a smell, or an object that enters visually, in every case it is emplaced at some point of the space of representation. This space not only has gradation on two planes—it has depth, it has volume, and it approximately replicates one’s own body. It is a “body” of representation, or—if you prefer—a “spatial referential background.”"

- Psychology II - Psychology Notes

On the conception of the human being
Silo differentiates himself further from the academic ambits with a conception of the human being which led to the formation of the Humanist Movement. In fact, the definition of humanist movement as the group of people who study and interpret the needs of human beings and provide the conditions for advancing from the field of determinism to the field of freedom, i.e. to overcome pain and suffering, both individually and socially, is implied in the idea of human beings:

"Human beings are historical beings whose mode of social action transforms their own nature. If we accept this definition, we will also have to accept that this is a being that can, intentionally, transform its physical constitution. And indeed, that is something we see happening. This process began with the use of instruments that, arrayed before the body as external “prostheses,” allowed human beings to extend their reach, to extend and amplify their senses, and to increase their strength and the quality of their work.

Though not endowed with the ability to function in aerial or aquatic environments, they have nonetheless created the means to move through these media, and have even begun to migrate from their natural environment, the planet Earth. Today, moreover, human beings have begun to penetrate into the interior of their own bodies, transplanting organs, intervening in their neurochemistry, practicing in vitro fertilization, and even manipulating their genes. If by the word “nature” we have wanted to signify something fixed and unchanging, then it’s a seriously deficient idea, even when applied to what is most object-like about the human being, that is, the body. In light of this, it is clear that nothing of what is termed “natural morality” or “natural law” or “natural institutions” exists through nature; on the contrary, all of this is socio-historic."

- Third Letter to my Friends

"Humanist action does not draw its inspiration from imaginative theories about God, nature, society, or history. Rather, it begins with life’s necessities, which consist most elementally of avoiding pain and moving toward pleasure. Yet human life entails the additional need to foresee future necessities, based on past experience and the intention to improve the present situation. Human experience is not simply the product of natural physiological accumulation or selection, as happens in all other species. It is social experience and personal experience directed toward overcoming pain in the present and avoiding it in the future. Human work, accumulated in the productions of society, is passed on and transformed from one generation to the next in a continuous struggle to improve the existing or natural conditions, even those of the human body itself. Human beings must therefore be defined as historical beings whose mode of social behaviour is capable of transforming both the world and their own nature. Each time that individuals or human groups violently impose themselves on others, they succeed in detaining history, turning their victims into “natural” objects. Nature does not have intentions, and thus to negate the freedom and intentions of others is to convert them into natural objects without intentions, objects to be used."

- Sixth letter to my Friends

On spirituality
Silo explains his thoughts about spirituality in these terms:

"All human beings should have full rights to believe, or not to believe, in immortality and the sacred. The Message gives the utmost importance to the themes of immortality and the sacred because, depending on how a person places him or herself with respect to these themes, so will be his or her orientation in life.

The Message takes on the difficulties of openly examining the fundamental beliefs, clashing with the censorship and self-censorship that inhibit freedom of thought and good conscience. Within the context of freedom of interpretation, immortality for some refers to the actions performed in life continuing in the world despite physical death. For others, the memory that continues in loved ones, or even in societies, guarantees the persistence after physical death. For still others, immortality is accepted as personal persistence in another level of existence. Continuing with freedom of interpretation, some feel the sacred as one’s deepest affection. For them, their children or other loved ones represent the sacred and possess an utmost value that should not be defiled for any reason. There are some others who consider the human being and his universal rights as sacred. Still others experience the divinity as the essence of the sacred. The different positions taken with respect to the themes of immortality and the sacred should not be simply “tolerated,” but rather genuinely respected."

- Silo's Message

Published books

 * 1979: The Inner Look.
 * 1981: The Internal Landscape.
 * 1989: Humanize the Earth (consisting of the Inner Look, the Internal Landscape and the Human Landscape).
 * 1989: Guided Experiences.
 * 1991: Contributions to Thought.
 * 1991: Universal Root Myths.
 * 1993: Letters to my Friends.
 * 1993: The Day of the Winged Lion.
 * 1996: Dictionary of New Humanism.
 * 1996: Silo Speaks.
 * 1998: Collected Works - Volume I.
 * 2002: Collected Works - Volume II.
 * 2006: Notes on Psychology (collection of conferences, 1975, 1976, 1978 and 2006).
 * 2008: Silo's Message.

All these books are translated and published in the most common major languages.

Criticism and influence

In a journal of anthropology and American studies in the early 1970s, sections of the left began a campaign against Silo and his followers, who were accused of fascism and of being a reactionary movement. At the same time, conservative sectors of the Catholic Church accused them of threatening the family and Christian morality, as seen in the Chilean newspapers of the time. According to Siloists, this campaign was a reaction to the growing influence of Silo with the youth and the proposal of a new leftist, humanist, non-Marxist ideology.

The notoriety of his influence was reflected in obituaries in the newspapers Página/12 in Argentina and El País in Spain. The latter refers to Silo as the "founder of a philosophy that came to gather a million followers in over 100 countries" and "a strange character for the West, one who could have been born in the East. He trumpeted a spiritual and social change as the foundation of the “human nation”".

Two months after his death, he was honoured at the Book Fair in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

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Carlos Atanes

Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971) is a Spanish film director, writer and playwright. He was born in Barcelona, and is a member of The Film-Makers' Cooperative, founded by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and others. His first finished feature-length movie was FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions, which he released in 2004. The movie won the Best Feature Film Award at the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in 2005 and was also nominated for the Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto that same year.

Reception
Critics often express the difficulty of valuing Atanes' cinematography and sometimes they even refrain from scoring it, since these are unusual films that escape the standard classification. Dave J. Wilson from Cinematic Shocks says regarding Maximum Shame “it exists outside of the cinematic norm not following its conventions (…) it is purely visual art rather than a real narrative a dreamlike mind-fuck of philosophical musings. It is not a question of whether it is good or not as it does not conform to cinematic conventions. Therefore, I will not be giving a rating for this review, as it is hard for me to judge it on such terms. Whether you like the film or not you will ultimately more likely all reach the same conclusion that it is at least a unique work.” Film Threat, meanwhile, says that within Gallino, the Chicken System “is an entire universe of creativity, albeit one that may or may not reflect this plane of reality as we know it. I don't know that the traditional sense of how we react to film applies here. It's more of an art experience than a simple film (…) I don't know that it's for everyone (or anyone), but it's certainly unique.”

As a writer
In addition to his work as a screenwriter and playwright, Carlos Atanes has published several books and essays on cultural issues, cinema and Chaos magic.

Filmography as director

 * La ira (1989)
 * Le Descente à l’enfer d’un poète (1990)
 * Romanzio in el sècolo ventuno (1991)
 * Els Peixos argentats a la peixera (1991)
 * Morir de calor (1991)
 * The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird (1991)
 * Els Peixos Argentats a la Peixera (1991, co-directed with Hermann Bonnin)
 * El Parc (1992, co-directed with Hermann Bonnin)
 * The Mental Tenor (1993)
 * The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka (1993)
 * Metaminds & Metabodies (1995)
 * Morfing (1996)
 * Borneo (1997)
 * The Seven Hills of Rome (1998)
 * Welcome to Spain (1999)
 * Cyberspace Under Control (2000)
 * Perdurabo (Where is Aleister Crowley?) (2003)
 * FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004)
 * Proxima (2007)
 * Made in Proxima (2007)
 * Codex Atanicus (2007)
 * Scream Queen (2008)
 * Maximum Shame (2010)
 * Gallino, the Chicken System (2012)
 * Meat Market - Esa Linna (2013) (Music video)
 * Romance bizarro (2017)

Released plays

 * 2021 – Rey de Marte (Dramatic reading, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
 * 2021 – Báthory (Dramatic reading, Madrid)
 * 2019 – Antimateria (Tenerife)
 * 2018 – Amaya Galeote's La incapacidad de exprimirte (Madrid)
 * 2018 – La línea del horizonte (Madrid)
 * 2015 – Un genio olvidado (Un rato en la vida de Charles Howard Hinton) (Madrid)
 * 2014 – La quinta estación del puto Vivaldi (Madrid)
 * 2014 – Los ciclos atánicos (Madrid)
 * 2013 – El triunfo de la mediocridad (Madrid)
 * 2013 – Secretitos (Madrid)
 * 2011 – El hombre de la pistola de nata (Madrid)
 * 2011 – La cobra en la cesta de mimbre (Madrid)

Brief plays

 * 2019 – ¿Hasta cuándo estáis? (Madrid)
 * 2019 – A Praga y vámonos (Madrid)
 * 2018 – Chéjov bajo cero (Málaga)
 * 2017 – Sexo y tortilla (Madrid)
 * 2017 – Pasión mostrenca (Madrid)
 * 2016 – La abuela de Frankenstein (Madrid)
 * 2016 – Love is in the Box (Madrid)
 * 2015 – Caminando por el valle inquietante (Madrid)
 * 2015 – Santos varones (Madrid)
 * 2015 – Porno emocional (Madrid)
 * 2014 – El grifo de 5.000.000 euros (Madrid)
 * 2014 – El vello público (Madrid)
 * 2013 – Necrofilia fina (Madrid)
 * 2013 – Romance bizarro (Madrid)
 * 2012 – La lluvia (Madrid)
 * 2012 – La depredadora (Leganés)

In English

 * 2024 – Querida - The Sufferings and Self Empowerment of a Doll (Novel illustrated by Jan van Rijn) – ISBN 978-3-9826372-1-1
 * 2022 – Chaos Magic For Skeptics (Essay) – Mandrake of Oxford 2022 – ISBN 1914153170
 * 2013 – Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell: The screenplay never filmed (Screenplay) – ISBN 1482599554

In German

 * 2024 – Querida - Vom Leid und der Selbstermächtigung einer Puppe (Novel illustrated by Jan van Rijn) – ISBN 978-3-9826372-0-4

In Spanish

 * 2024 – Antimateria (Theatre) – ISBN 978-84- 10060-21-0
 * 2024 – Querida - De los sufrimientos y el empoderamiento de una muñeca (Novel illustrated by Jan van Rijn) – ISBN 978-3-9826372-2-8
 * 2021 – Filmar los sueños (Essay) – ISBN 978-84-123896-8-5
 * 2018 – Magia del Caos para escépticos (Essay) – ISBN 978-84-949113-4-7
 * 2018 – Demos lo que sobre a los perros (Essay) – ISBN 978-1721253517
 * 2017 – Un genio olvidado (Un rato en la vida de Charles Howard Hinton) (Theatre) – ISBN 1546636897
 * 2013 – Aleister Crowley en la Boca del Infierno: El guion nunca filmado (Screenplay) – ISBN 1483946649
 * 2007 – Los trabajos del director (Essay) – ISBN 978-1-4348-1870-6
 * 2003 – El hombre de la pistola de nata (Theatre) – ISBN 978-1-4348-1903-1
 * 2002 – Confutatis Maledictis (Novel) – ISBN 978-1-4348-1901-7
 * 2002 – La cobra en la cesta de mimbre (Theatre) – ISBN 978-1-4348-1902-4
 * 2001 – Combustión espontánea de un jurado (Novel) – ISBN 978-1-4752-4148-8

In Catalan

 * 2003 – La cobra al cistell de vímet (Theatre) – ISBN 84-89826-30-7

In English

 * 2022 – Querida - A Doll's Tale of Misery and Liberation (Novel illustrated by Jan van Rijn)
 * 2016 – In the Woods & on the Heath (Artbook illustrated by Jan van Rijn)

In Spanish

 * 2022 – Monstruos (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 978-84-18941-61-0
 * 2021 – La invasión de los ultracuerpos, de Philip Kaufman (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 978-84-120493-7-4
 * 2020 – Cine que hoy no se podría rodar (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 978-84-122716-0-7
 * 2020 – Eyes Wide Shut (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 978-84-121874-6-5
 * 2020 – Space Fiction: Visiones de lo cósmico en la ciencia ficción (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 978-8412049664
 * 2019 – De Arrebato a Zulueta (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 978-84-120493-1-2
 * 2010 – La Bestia en la pantalla. Aleister Crowley y el cine fantástico (Essay, Carlos Atanes et al.) – ISBN 9788489668843

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Sean Ervine

Sean Michael Ervine (born 6 December 1982) is a Zimbabwean former cricketer. Ervine played as an all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled right-arm medium pace.

Ervine was born at Harare in Zimbabwe and played for his country in the 2003 Cricket World Cup but became one of the cricketers who rebelled against the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, and left the country in May 2004 for a new life in Australia. He subsequently made his way to England, playing for Hampshire County Cricket Club between 2005 and 2018. In September 2018, he retired from all forms of cricket. After retiring from cricket, he took up golf, with the aim to qualify for the MENA Golf Tour. He is currently playing for Minster (Sheppey) Cricket Club.

Domestic career
Ervine originally played for the short-lived CFX Academy team and then Midlands cricket team in Zimbabwe. He made his first-class cricket debut for CFX in the Logan Cup in March 2001.

Ervine was educated at Lomagundi College. After leaving Zimbabwe in 2005 he signed to play for Hampshire County Cricket Club in English county cricket and for Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket. Ervine declared that he would not return to play for the Zimbabwean national side and, following excellent form for Hampshire and Western Australia, Ervine announced that he would seek to qualify for either English or Australian international representation. His time in Australia was less successful and he was unable to hold down a place in the Western Australia team, although he became a regular in county cricket for Hampshire. Once he had committed to no longer playing for Zimbabwe he was able to play county cricket in England as a non-overseas player as he holds an Irish passport. He retired from professional cricket towards the end of the 2018 English cricket season. After finding his opportunities to play limited at Hampshire he had joined Derbyshire on loan but retired after just two matches with the team.

During the 2009 County Championship season, Ervine scored 832 runs at an average of 41.60, making him Hampshire's fourth highest run scorer in the competition. In the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy, Ervine scored his highest List-A score of 167 not out against Ireland. Ervine was later a member of Hampshire's winning squad in the final as they defeated Sussex by six wickets.

Later in his career, Ervine returned to Zimbabwean domestic cricket with the Southern Rocks in 2010 before going on to play for Mountaineers and Matabeleland Tuskers. On debut for Southern Rocks, he made scores of 208 and 160, his two highest innings in first-class cricket at the time. Later the same year, he scored 237 not out against Somerset playing for Hampshire.

International career
Ervine made his debut for Zimbabwe in October 2001 in a One Day International against England. He was a member of the 2003 World Cup squad and ever-present during the England tour later that year. He had begun to show signs of maturing into a genuine international player with his last three Test innings all half centuries, 53 against Australia, and 86 and 74 against Bangladesh.

He played 42 one-day internationals, scoring a total of 698 runs at a batting average of nearly 26 and taking 41 wickets. Arguably his best moment in international cricket came in the 2003–04 VB Series in Australia against India when he scored a century before being run out for 100 during an ultimately unsuccessful run-chase at the Adelaide Oval. Batting with Stuart Carlisle, Ervine contributed to what was Zimbabwe's highest partnership for any wicket in ODIs, putting on 202 runs between them.

Ervine was one of the 15 rebel cricketers in dispute with the Zimbabwe Cricket Union and left the country in 2004. It seemed he might make an unlikely comeback for the country at the 2011 World Cup when he was named in their squad for the tournament, having had some preliminary discussions about the possibility, but later pulled out, reversing his decision due to the financial security that a guaranteed county contract with Hampshire brought.

Family
Ervine's father Rory and uncle Neil both played first-class cricket for Rhodesia B in the 1977/78 Castle Bowl competition and another uncle, Gordon Den, played for Rhodesia and Eastern province in the 1960s. Den's father, Ervine's grandfather, Alexander Den is recorded as having made one appearance for Rhodesia against the touring Australian national side in 1936.

Ervine's brother, Craig is also a Zimbabwean international cricketer who has played Test, ODI and T20I matches for the country. Craig left Zimbabwe for 18 months from late 2013 but, unlike his brother, later made himself available again for the national side. Another brother, Ryan played domestic limited overs cricket in Zimbabwe in 2009/10

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Maybe shouldn't have used the accented character in the page name? I'll change that now. I'll also make a Silo page that links here.

 * oops, Silo goes to grain silos. Need to work on disambiguating.

Siloism perhaps?

Deleting links to defamatory websites
Hmmmm. Whoever deleted the links to the defamatory websites about Silo is ill-advised in my opinion. It will only lead to a war of reverts and re-insertions. I suggest that they are just restored and left alone. Let people read it and decide for themselves. Deleting the links suggests those who follow Silo have something to be ashamed of - even if it is a load of rubbish.Tonyr68uk

12th October - Seeeee. The reverting war has already started.Tonyr68uk I'll put back in the other website that was added.

30th march - I've deleted one of the diffamatory links because doesn't exist anymore. I'm collecting also a lot of links about siloism, humanist movement and silo's message. I want to add it because I think that's not fair how the list is presented now. 3 sites against them and only 2 sites on the pro side are not fair when this three links are the only ones that exist and we have LOADS and LOADS of humanist, siloist and silo's message sites. It's simply not representing the facts. Echetto

The Criticism and influence section is full of weasel words to say the least.

"In spite of this, he was always able to reach the common people to whom his message was directed" - what is that, seriously? This sentence definitely isn't something that could be supported with reliable source, looks like pure POV instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ondrejpar (talk • contribs) 17:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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Alexander (son of Polyperchon)

Alexander (Αλέξανδρος; killed 314 BC) was a son of Polyperchon, the regent of Macedonia, and an important general in the Wars of the Diadochi.

Alexander in Athens
Antipater, on his death in 319 BC, had left the regency to Polyperchon, to the exclusion and consequent discontent of his own son, Cassander. Those who had been placed in authority by Antipater in the garrisoned towns of Greece, were favourably disposed to Cassander, as their patron's son, and Polyperchon's policy, therefore, was to reverse the measures of Antipater, and restore democracy where Antipater had abolished it. To implement this plan Polyperchon's son, Alexander, was sent to Athens during 318, with the aim of delivering the city from Nicanor, who had been appointed by Cassander to command the garrison placed on Munychia (a hill in the port city of Piraeus, Athens' harbour) by Antipater.

Before Alexander's arrival, Nicanor strengthening his position on Munychia with fresh troops and had also treacherously seized Piraeus. Alexander had the same intentions, intentions which he had probably formed before he had any communication with Phocion, though Diodorus seems to imply the contrary. The Athenians, however, looked on Phocion as the author of the design, and their suspicions and anger were further excited by the private conferences between Alexander and Nicanor. As a result, Phocion was accused of treason, and, fleeing with several of his friends to Alexander, was despatched by Alexander to Polyperchon.

Cassander arrived in Athens soon after and occupied Piraeus. There he was besieged by Polyperchon with a large force. However, Polyperchon's forces lacked adequate supplies, so he was obliged to withdraw a portion of his army. Polyperchon used this army to attempt the reduction of Megalopolis, while Alexander was left in command of the remaining forces in Athens. However, it appears he achieved little, until the treaty and capitulation of Athens to Cassander.

Alexander in the Peloponnese
When Polyperchon, baffled at Megalopolis, withdrew into Macedonia, his son seems to have been left with an army in the Peloponnese, where, according to Diodorus the field was left open to him. The friends of oligarchy were greatly alarmed by the departure of Cassander to Macedonia following the murder of Philip Arrhidaeus and Eurydice by Olympias during 317 BC. During Cassander's absence, Alexander captured several cities and important places in the Peloponnese. However, on Cassander's return to the south, after defeating Olympias in Macedonia, Alexander attempted in vain to check Cassander by fortifying the Isthmus of Corinth. Instead Cassander, crossed over to Epidaurus by sea, regained Argos and Hermione, and afterwards also the Messenian towns, with the exception of Ithome.

Alliances with Antigonus and then Cassander
In the next year, 315 BC, Antigonus (whose ambition and successes in the east had united Cassander, Lysimachus, Asander, and Ptolemy against him), sent Aristodemus into the Peloponnese to form an alliance with Polyperchon and Alexander. Alexander was persuaded by Aristodemus to travel to Asia for a personal conference with Antigonus. Finding Antigonus in Tyre, a treaty was made between them, and Alexander returned to Greece with a present of 500 talents from Antigonus, and a multitude of magnificent promises. Yet, in the very same year, Alexander renounced his alliance with Antigonus and was bribed with the title of governor of the Peloponnese to reconcile himself to Cassander.

Alexander's death
In the ensuing year, 314 BC, Alexander besieged Cyllene on behalf of Cassander. In 313 BC, after winning the allegiance of the Aetolian League, Aristodemus of Miletus (Antigonus' general and top diplomat in mainland Greece) crossed over into the Peloponnese at the head of a mercenary army, and raised the siege. After liberating Patrae and Aegium from Cassander's garrisons, Aristodemus returned to Aetolia, leaving a sizeable force in the Pelopponese. Aristodemus' troops in Aegium helped the city of Dyme eject its garrison. Alexander decided to intervene, he marched on the city and forced his way in, made himself master of it, punishing the inhabitants who had imposed him with death, imprisonment, or exile. Soon after this he was murdered at Sicyon by Alexion, a Sicyonian, leaving the command of his forces to his wife Cratesipolis who proved herself fully adequate to the task.

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Talk:Rural district

Landkreis
The Landkreis is definitely not an equivalent of the rural district - it's more like a shire county! User:Gerry_Lynch] 194.200.241.36 17:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Removed the reference to German Landkreise as not particularly relevant to this article (see previous comment). -- Picapica 22:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Heath Mynd

Heath Mynd is a hill in the English county of Shropshire. At a height of 452 m it is fairly unnotable except for its Marilyn status, a feature caused by the sharp drop on all sides. It is connected to Corndon Hill by a low col, and is only just inside England, being just one mile from the border with Wales. The nearby village is Norbury; nearest towns are Bishop's Castle and Church Stretton. Its nearest neighbour (visible in the photo) is called Cefn Gunthly.

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Honeymoon in Vegas

Honeymoon in Vegas is a 1992 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Andrew Bergman and starring James Caan, Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Plot
Private eye Jack Singer swore to his mother on her deathbed that he would never marry. His girlfriend Betsy wants to get married and start a family, and he proposes a quick Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Bally's Casino Resort.

Before the wedding, however, a wealthy professional gambler, Tommy Korman, notices Betsy's striking resemblance to his beloved late wife, Donna. He arranges a crooked poker game that prompts Jack to borrow $65,000 after being dealt a straight flush (7-8-9-10-Jack of clubs), only to lose to the gambler's higher straight flush (8-9-10-Jack-Queen of hearts); Tommy offers to erase the debt in exchange for spending the weekend with Betsy.

After Tommy states he will be a perfect gentleman, the desperate couple consents. Jack discovers that Tommy has taken Betsy to his vacation home in Kauai. The gambler asks his taxi driver friend, Mahi Mahi, to keep Jack as far as possible from him and Betsy. Jack discovers this and steals the taxi. He sees Betsy outside the Kauai Club where he is attacked by Tommy and arrested. Jack's dentist friend, Sally Molars, bails Jack out of jail. Mahi Mahi meets Jack outside and admits that Tommy left for Las Vegas with Betsy and has convinced her to marry him. Mahi races Jack to the airport. Betsy decides she cannot go through with the wedding and escapes from Tommy.

Meanwhile, after changing many planes and finding himself stuck in San Jose, Jack tries frantically to find a flight to Las Vegas. He joins a group about to depart for Las Vegas but discovers mid-flight that they are the Utah chapter of the "Flying Elvises" – a skydiving team of Elvis impersonators. Jack realizes he has to skydive from 3,000 feet to get to Betsy. Jack overcomes his fear. He lands and spots Betsy, ruining Tommy's plans.

Jack and Betsy are married in a small Las Vegas chapel with the Flying Elvises as guests. Jack is wearing a white illuminated jumpsuit and Betsy is in a stolen showgirl outfit.

Production
Director and writer Andrew Bergman said about the film, "It wasn't based on anything. I wanted to do a boy-girl story, and in my perverse fashion, it turned out to be this." The film's budget was $25 million.

Filming began in August 1991, and was underway in Las Vegas by that September. Bally's Casino Resort was among the filming locations in Las Vegas. Las Vegas' Chapel of the Bells wedding chapel was also used for filming. Other filming locations included New York, and Culver Studios in California.

Filming in Kauai was concluded in November 1991. Among the filming locations in Kauai was the Inn on the Cliffs restaurant, located at the Westin Kauai Hotel. Filming also took place at Kauai's National Tropical Botanical Garden. A house on Anini Beach was used as Tommy Korman's Hawaiian residence. The film was initially rated R for language, and was edited to instead receive a PG-13 rating.

Release
A premiere event was held for the film at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on August 25, 1992. The film was released theatrically on August 28, 1992.

Box office
In the United States and Canada, Honeymoon in Vegas grossed $35.2million at the box office, against a budget of $25million It opened at Number 1, and spent its first five weeks in the Top 10 at the domestic box office.

Awards and nominations
At the 50th Golden Globe Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, while Nicolas Cage was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed mainly of covers of Elvis Presley songs performed by country and pop/rock artists. The film is scored by David Newman.

Track listing

 * 1) "All Shook Up" – Billy Joel
 * 2) "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" – Ricky Van Shelton
 * 3) "Love Me Tender" – Amy Grant
 * 4) "Burning Love" – Travis Tritt
 * 5) "Heartbreak Hotel" – Billy Joel
 * 6) "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" – Bryan Ferry
 * 7) "Suspicious Minds" – Dwight Yoakam
 * 8) "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" – Trisha Yearwood
 * 9) "Hound Dog" – Jeff Beck and Jed Leiber
 * 10) "That's All Right" – Vince Gill
 * 11) "Jailhouse Rock" – John Mellencamp
 * 12) "Blue Hawaii" – Willie Nelson
 * 13) "Can't Help Falling in Love" – Bono

Certifications
Other tracks featured in the film but not included on the soundtrack include "Viva Las Vegas" by Bruce Springsteen, "Jailhouse Rock", "That's All Right", "It's Now or Never" by Elvis Presley, and "La Donna è Mobile" by Franco Bonisolli.

Stage adaptation
Bergman says when he finished the film he thought it might make a good musical. He was distracted making movies but then had open heart surgery in 2001. "When you have open-heart surgery, you say, what do I really want to do? What haven't I done? I thought it'd be great to do a musical."

Jason Robert Brown, a composer, had always wanted to do Honeymoon as a musical and wrote some songs on spec. He and Bergman agreed to collaborate. "We certainly were looking to do a real book musical that isn't really done much anymore," said Bergman. We wanted the sound to be of the '60s and '70s—not that it's a throwback, but we wanted that sound. We wanted to be brassy, come and love us kind of show."

A big change from the movie was the character of the mother was kept alive. "Having her recur is a great thing for the show," said Bergman. "It keeps her spirit alive and it keeps his mishigas alive. That was a real change."

A musical stage version of the movie was written by Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) and Andrew Bergman (book). A Broadway-bound production was expected to debut in Toronto in November 2012, starring Tony Danza as Tommy Korman. However, the Toronto premiere was canceled, and production was transferred to the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey instead with Danza remaining. The Paper Mill production opened on September 26, 2013, and ran through October 27. The musical began previews on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on November 18, 2014, and opened officially on January 15, 2015. Direction was by Gary Griffin with choreography by Denis Jones. The cast featured Tony Danza, Rob McClure, and Brynn O'Malley, who were also in the Paper Mill production.

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User:E-zab

Is there something about me you must know?
Frankly, I don't know.

 * I am a mundane homo-erectus or homo-sapiens? Or a distant chimpanzee's cousin?

 * I left my cavern quite sometimes ago and I live in a smial that has a rectangular door and a rectangular window. Yes, just one of each.

 * I don’t have internet at home.

 * I work a lot.

 * I just learn to write in English, so I thought: Why not exerting myself to something useful? Instead of just homeworks? So I was hovering around and editing anonymously articles when I had the knowledge to do so.

 * I am a details freak!

 * I read English, Italian, French, Spanish. But I never dare writing but in my mother French.

What do I want my contribution here to be?

 * My idea in contribution I can provide is more complementing the other works than starting one of my own.

 * I have strength in deep research.

Something you won’t see here?
I am keeping myself from my fantasy prone nature.

And my knack of trying to put a word for each things.

Like, right now, for myself, I am trying to find a real applicable name for EACH websafe color, instead of calling them #9966CC. Or White2.

But I am perfectly real about this, no matter how hard I work on this, it will never get no where.

Why do I came here?
Just in case I can help.

I don't have professional aspiration to fulfill.

And nothing is said I will really be active, after all...there is so many thing to do in a day!

Especially since it has only 24h.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wikiwoohoo

 * ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

Wikiwoohoo
Closed (1/10/3) ended 8:00 12th October 2005 (UTC)

– I would like to nominate myself. I am not trying to be big headed ;) but would love to be able to help out with the project in a greater capacity. I have loved editting and want to be an admin to do more and have the extra powers to make a positive difference. Although this account is new, I am not to Wikipedia. I gave up with an old account some time ago (I forgot the password) and only recently created this.Wikiwoohoo 17:43, 6 October 2005 (UTC) In my time as Wikiwoohoo I have created two UK specific stubs - UK-bank-stub and UK-retail-stub and made edits to some already in existence, such as bank-stub. My main interests are in UK television, hence why I joined the British TV channels WikiProject (mentioned in my answers to questions). Wikiwoohoo 12:52, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept.Wikiwoohoo 17:57, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support. By AGF, I should assume that this user's claim as having an old abandoned account as true. De ryc  k C.  17:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Sorry, you really need a lot more edits and you haven't really been here long enough. Fir  e  Fo  x  18:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, you need about an order of magnitude more experience. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:34, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose per FireFox and Rick Block. Maybe in about four months' time. --Angr/undefined 19:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose Astrotrain 19:52, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. Its very good that you want to become an admin to help Wikipedia, but Im afraid that you dont have enough experience. Please continue to be a dedicated and contientious editor, and come back when you have amassed over 1000 valuable edits, and have shown yourself capable of handling admin tools. Good luck. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  20:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose because of reasons given above. Private Butcher 22:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Strong Oppose and Delist too few edits --JAranda'' | yeah 00:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Oppose. User is on a good road to being a strong contributor.  --Merovingian (t) (c) 00:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Oppose Sorry Wikiwoo, but you have fewer edits than me, & I don't have a lot. You are a great editor however, but you need more edits. Re request after you have at least 2000 edits, (Which is the norm for admins). Spawn Man 01:11, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Extreme les... sorry. Oppose, too little experience, as the low edit count and previous malformed nomination show. — J I P | Talk 09:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) * Oppose till user enables his emailid. =Nichalp «Talk»=  10:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) **Thanks for enabling it. =Nichalp «Talk»=  12:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral Comments
 * 1) Neutral: The first seven votes on this RfA under oppose are all about editcountitis. This nominee has been on Wikipedia before, and took a long break. His contributions since his return, while light, have all been in good faith. He has been courteous to users, and shows no sign of losing his cool under pressure. I think he can be trusted with the tools of adminship. I have no reason to oppose him based on edit counts. My only reasons for opposing are his activity level per day being lower than I normally find acceptable, and his edit summary usage is lower than I like to see. If someone is going to delist this RfA, I suggest coming up with better grounds than editcountitis for doing so. An RfA is useful for instructing a nominee on how they should improve to become a better nominee in the future. So far, the oppose votes are speaking just one lesson. Let this RfA stand. If Wikiwoohoo wants to delist it, he can withdraw the nomination on his own. --Durin 00:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) *The nomination really ought not be delisted, as those should be reserved for bad faith nominations. Wikiwoohoo is a good user, and I will be happy to support him at a later date.  --Merovingian (t) (c) 00:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) As of now, I am neutral to this nomination. I have kept my options open for some future time when I shall be able to form an opinion based on his /her activities with the present user name, as I do not have any clue to his /her earlier edits. I also welcome him /her back to wikipedia. --Bhadani 14:37, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Granted Grant his correct sex [[Image:Smiley.png|14px]], which I learnt from his immediate message on my talk page in response to my vote to his present nomination. I am sure Grant was a good editor and shall prove that again. --Bhadani 15:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Neutral. I won't oppose of do anything like that. Your contributions show that you're a good user, but the thing is, we need to know how you've helped around here in order to consider you for adminship. Your edits appear to be in good faith, but without the rest of your contributions, I can't know how you'll behave with the mop and the flamethrower. I can't know if it is true that you did in fact have another account, but I'm believing you because I assume good faith. That said, keep up the good work a few more months and you'll have no problem rounding up support. Tito xd (?!?) 23:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This comment was added in above via IP address 88.105.47.233. "I gave up with an old account some time ago (I forgot the password) and only recently created this." If this is the case, please could you tell me what your 'old' username is? Fir  e  Fo  x  18:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Kate's tool says: 148 edits, first edit on August 7, 2005. android  79  19:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Replied to Firefox here Wikiwoohoo 19:11, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Email ID added to account on 8th September 2005. Wikiwoohoo 12:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

(Journalist below is responding to Durin's neutral vote above and Merovingian's response)
 * Doesnt his low per-day activity level links to his low total edits? I have not opposed solely on edit counts, Ive said that the user needs experience... While focusing on edit count can be a bad thing, it still shows a person's involvement and assiduity (ie. experience). If an editor who has been on Wikipedia for over a year has 1000 edits, then he would be delisted for being uninvolved and lethargic. Therefore, if someone has a high edit count, it usually points to the fact that he/she has devoted a lot of time and attention to the project. They only way persons can become known in the community, and the only way others can vote, Support, seen him around is if he has been 'far and wide' on wikipedia, editing and conversing. The result of such actions is exteriorized in his edit count. Edit count really isnt as bad as how people make it out to be. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  03:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This user was involved in Wikipedia before, left for two years, and came back. He's not just a new user. People are judging him solely based on his edits and time on Wikipedia under this account name. # of edits per day and total edits are related, but are rather different. A high edit count is not indicative of being devoted to the project. Average # of edits per day mutes the objectivity somewhat, but not entirely. As I've said here on RfA multiple times, it's just one tool of many. As many have noted, edit counting does nothing to evaluate how much effort is being made with each edit. In the time that it takes for me to write this commentary, I could record many new edits by stub-sorting. Does the stub-sorting have more value? Does this commentary? I've spent more than an hour before working on a single edit to USN ship articles. Since I know it's not likely someone else will be editing the articles there in question, I can be casual and hit "Show preview" many times to get the format the way I want. In that hour, I could rack up a hundred stub-sorts. I could rack up 50 or more votes on AfD, CfD, and TfD. Edit counts are an objective measure of something that is subjective. You can not gauge the value of a contributor or their contributions by the # of edits they have made. Such a route is inherently perilous in evaluating a nominee.  If edit counts really were an effective way to evaluate people, then we'd automatically give people admin status as soon as they crossed, say, 1,000 edits. But, we don't. Neither do we grade people on their value to Wikipedia based on their # of edits. I have more edits than you. Does that mean I am better than you? Of course not. Neither does a low edit count for a user automatically mean they are ill qualified to be an admin. The qualities that make a nominee a good candidate do not magically become imbued within them once they cross some magical threshold number of edits. They had those qualities before they came to Wikipedia. --Durin 04:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * People are "judging him solely based on his edit and time on Wikipedia under this account name" because that is all we have to work with... it would make sense to consider the history of another account if there was any way to examine that. --Tabor 22:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * --Edit conflict with Tabor:) Durin, I really understand where you are coming from. And I concur with most of your above points. What you are saying is that you could edit one article and hit "show preview" many times, making major punctilious contributions in one edit, while another can rack up 50 or more edits 'VFDing', stub sorting etc. The fact of the matter is that a person who devotes himself to "casually" hitting the "Show preview" botton does not necessarily need sysop powers if all they do is make major edits. A person has to show that they are already doing admin type work to be a good admin. Such things include making major edits, interacting, voting on AfD, CfD, and TfD, participating in discussions, and especially reverting vandalism and warning unconscionable editors —all of which will contribute to a high edit count. And if someone is causually hitting the preview button, and spends all day on one edit, what time will he/she have to familiarize himself with Wikipolicy, interact with others, handle disputes with other members, and edit a large cross section of namespaces so we can know that he is not just limited to writing one area. Its like you are saying that a great writer shoud automatically be given sysop powers. As stated, I agree with most of your points, but I though that it is implied that the edits of the candidate would be studied. And if it is, and there is little variety to go on, other persons are going to be skeptical. Its just fact. You said "The qualities that make a nominee a good candidate do not magically become imbued within them once they cross some magical threshold number of edits. They had those qualities before they came to Wikipedia", but how can we know this unless he is participative? I know that having 1000 edits does not automatically make you a good admin, but being a great writer and meticulous editor does not mean that you will be one either. As I have already stated, edit count can be a bad thing, but its not always, and if I didnt make it completely clear, edit counts should also be reviewed.  →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  22:55, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And what I've been saying is nobody in the 10 oppose votes has come up with any reason to oppose this nominee except on grounds of edit counts and time on Wikipedia. I'm not saying this person should be an admin; I did not vote support. But, we have a number of admins here who had similar edit counts when they were given admin priviledges. We have corrupted the process so much that now a nominee needs >2000 edits to have a solid chance to become an admin. 2000! So, I challenge the oppose voters to come up with something negative about this nominee other than low number of edits and time on Wikipedia. At least take the time to review the edits (after all, there aren't that many) and come up with some feedback on how this nominee could be better for the next time they run for admin. --Durin 02:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, Ill do that :). And wow, I really cant believe that the standard is now 2000 edits! Thats kind of a stretch (I have to admit it even though it goes back on what Ive been saying). Oh, and lastly, maybe may reasons for oppose were a bit ambiguous, but doesnt 1000 valuable edits mean that the edits themselves would be meticulously studied? →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  03:01, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Just a quick comment: Wikiwoohoo, if you can remember what your user name started with, you can go to Special:Listusers and look at all the accounts ever registered, and attempt to identify your long-lost account. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk |  WS 00:10, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Or, if you can remember any article that you edited under the old name, maybe you can find it in that article's edit history. BD2412  talk 01:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've totally forgotten my old user name other than it began with Grant, well at least that's what I thought but it seems it wasn't now. Thanks to Durin for his fantastic efforts to help but I think I'll just have to give up digging about in my mind. It's giving me a headache ;)! I looked at all the edit histories of the BBC related articles and none of the user names on those ring a bell. It's annoying for me to have seemingly completely forgotten something as simple yet important as a user name but I like the name Wikiwoohoo, it has a air of mystery in a way but an over-riding sense of fun. That's my thought anyway ;)Wikiwoohoo 15:35, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. I would help the project by checking for errors, fixing broken links, deleting articles and images that are copyright violations or that have been marked for deletion for justifiable reasons.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. My favourites articles are those that I have helped with regarding BBC television channels and programmes, of which I have a great interest. I am a member of the British TV Channels WikiProject which is a group where we combine efforts to enhance the articles of Britsh television channels.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I do not and have not. There has been one recent occasion with a new user recently that could have descended into a conflict but we both acted well and calmly and it has not.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Fire engine red

Articles for Deletion debate
This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash talk 17:43, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Song
I moved the article on the song "Fire Engine Red (song)" to a seperate article (thought it's very short (I've never heard of it)).Rt66lt 22:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Country-specific?
Is this valid for all countries? All English-speaking countries? Or what? Where did the term originate? More info required. —DIV (128.250.247.158 (talk) 03:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC))
 * I searched in Google images for "Japanese fire engines", "French fire engines", "British fire engines" and "South African fire engines". Nearly every picture showed a red fire engine.  That original research doesn't count as a third party source for Wikipedia of course but neither do I see any evidence that this article is American-centric.RevelationDirect (talk) 23:14, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You may have missed the point. This article is about a specific shade of red. That shade is the one used in the US. While red is used elsewhere, it's not the same red. Compare the UK colour I gave to the US one you're familiar with. It's a bit like saying that orange is used as the safety colour without differentiating between international orange, as used in Space Shuttle launch and entry suits, and safety orange, used in road signs. I doubt that anyone would disagree with a claim that fire engines are usually red, but that's not quite what this article is about. Jamesday (talk) [added: 4 November 2010]
 * I think the point is that there are various shades of red which may be specified from place to place and time to time (though not before colour standards were introduced), but are widely called "fire-engine red". A Google search for this term finds that it is widely used (half a million hits); here is a "fire engine red coffee machine". Pol098 (talk) 12:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Better specificatons
This article really needs RGB specifications for the colour used and better references. Anyone? Jamesday (talk) 10:31, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

It would be useful to add a picture of an old red fire engine
A picture of an old fire engine either showing or stating its colour would be useful to show that red has long been used. I've seen some on a Google image search, but don't have any copyright-free images. An old photograph will not show, but might state, the colour; a painting will; and a modern photograph of an old engine would ideally state that the colour is original. Here is one example from 1913, although a pre-motor-vehicle one would be even better.Pol098 (talk) 12:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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Luis Amaranto Perea

Luis Amaranto Perea Mosquera (born 30 January 1979) is a Colombian former footballer, currently assistant manager of the Colombia national team. Gifted with incredible stamina and pace, the central defender could also be adapted at right-back.

He spent most of his senior career with Atlético Madrid, appearing in 314 competitive matches over eight La Liga seasons. In 2012, he signed with Cruz Azul.

Perea earned 72 caps for the Colombia national team in more than one decade.

Club career
Perea was born in Turbo. He began his professional career with Independiente Medellín, moving in 2003 to Argentina with Boca Juniors, with whom he won that year's Intercontinental Cup.

In June 2004, Perea signed for Atlético Madrid on a four-year deal, as another centre-back, Pablo Ibáñez, also arrived that season. Both were the starters as the Colchoneros returned to the UEFA Champions League in 2008–09 after a 12-year absence, with Perea appearing in 30 La Liga matches; after the campaign kicked off, he received his Spanish passport.

After the signing of ACF Fiorentina's Tomáš Ujfaluši for the 2008–09, Perea saw some additional time at right-back, but eventually lost that place to another newly signed, John Heitinga. From 2009 to 2011, with the latter departed to Everton, he managed to total 56 league games, with qualification for the UEFA Europa League in his second season after a seventh-place finish.

On 29 September 2011, following a Europa League fixture against Stade Rennais FC, Perea became the foreign player with most competitive appearances for Atlético Madrid with 289, surpassing Argentine Jorge Griffa. He left the club at the end of the 2011–12 campaign at the age of 33, after having contributed 34 official games and won the Europa League.

Perea joined Mexico's Cruz Azul in June 2012 as a free agent, winning the following year's Copa MX and the 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League. In December 2015, after one year out of football due to injury, the 36-year-old chose to retire, settling in Madrid and focusing on becoming a coach.

In late August 2018, following a brief spell in Atlético's youth academy, Perea was appointed at Leones F.C. in his country's Categoría Primera A for his first head coach experience. on 28 May 2019, with the team back in the Primera B after relegation, he resigned.

International career
A Colombia international since 20 November 2002, in a 1–0 friendly loss with Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Perea appeared at the 2007 and 2011 Copa América tournaments. He was named team captain before the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Bolivia in La Paz, in a first-ever win in that country (2–1), and represented his nation for 12 years.

Perea joined the national team's coaching staff in June 2022.

Honours
Independiente Medellín
 * Categoría Primera A: 2002-II

Boca Juniors
 * Argentine Primera División: 2003–04
 * Intercontinental Cup: 2003

Atlético Madrid
 * UEFA Europa League: 2009–10, 2011–12
 * UEFA Super Cup: 2010
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2007
 * Copa del Rey runner-up: 2009–10

Cruz Azul
 * Copa MX: Clausura 2013
 * CONCACAF Champions League: 2013–14

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User:Beacharn

Hello!

I'm Beacharn. You will find me in Sweden.

This page might be expanded in the far future.

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Oxidase test

The oxidase test is used to determine whether an organism possesses the cytochrome c oxidase enzyme. The test is used as an aid for the differentiation of Neisseria, Moraxella, Campylobacter and Pasteurella species (oxidase positive). It is also used to differentiate pseudomonads from related species.

Classification
Strains may be either oxidase-positive (OX+) or oxidase-negative (OX-).

OX+
OX+ normally means the bacterium contains cytochrome c oxidase (also known as Complex IV) and can therefore use oxygen for energy production by converting O2 to H2O2 or H2O with an electron transfer chain.

The Pseudomonadaceae are typically OX+.

The Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria and Moraxella are oxidase-positive.

Many Gram-negative, spiral curved rods are also oxidase-positive, which includes Helicobacter pylori, Vibrio cholerae, and Campylobacter jejuni.

Oxidase variable
Legionella pneumophila may be oxidase-positive.

OX−
OX− normally means the bacterium does not contain cytochrome c oxidase and, therefore, either cannot use oxygen for energy production with an electron transfer chain or employs a different cytochrome for transferring electrons to oxygen.

Enterobacteriaceae are typically OX−.

Mechanism

The test uses disks impregnated with a reagent such as N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine, TMPD (or N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine, DMPD, which is also a redox indicator). The reagent is a dark-blue to maroon color when oxidized, and colorless when reduced. Oxidase-positive bacteria possess cytochrome oxidase or indophenol oxidase (an iron-containing hemoprotein). These both catalyze the transport of electrons from donor compounds (NADH) to electron acceptors (usually oxygen). The test reagent TMPD acts as an artificial electron donor for the enzyme oxidase. The oxidized reagent forms the colored compound indophenol blue. The cytochrome system is usually only present in aerobic organisms that are capable of using oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. The end-product of this metabolism is either water or hydrogen peroxide (broken down by catalase).

Procedures

 * 1) Wet each disk with about four inoculating loops of deionized water.
 * 2) Use a loop to aseptically transfer a large mass of pure bacteria to the disk.
 * 3) Observe the disk for up to three minutes. If the area of inoculation turns dark-blue to maroon to almost black, then the result is positive. If a color change does not occur within three minutes, the result is negative.

In alternative manner, live bacteria cultivated on trypticase soy agar plates may be prepared using sterile technique with a single-line streak inoculation. The inoculated plates are incubated at 37 °C for 24–48 hours to establish colonies. Fresh bacterial preparations should be used. After colonies have grown on the medium, 2-3 drops of the reagent DMPD are added to the surface of each organism to be tested.
 * A positive test (OX+) will result in a color change violet to purple, within 10–30 seconds.
 * A negative test (OX-) will result in a light-pink or absence of coloration.

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