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Ivan Agayants

Ivan Ivanovich Agayants (Иван Иванович Агаянц) (28 August 1911 – 12 May 1968) was a leading Soviet NKVD/KGB intelligence officer of Armenian origin.

Early life
Born the son of Hovhanes Agayants, priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, in the town of Elizavetpol, in modern day Azerbaijan on 28 August 1911, he followed two elder brothers into the secret police. In 1930, he moved to Moscow to begin work in the OGPU economic department.

Career
In 1936, as purges decimated secret police ranks, he was transferred into foreign intelligence, helped by his knowledge of foreign languages (which included Turkish, Persian, French, Spanish and English).

In 1937, he was sent to Paris, under cover first of the trade mission, then of the consular section of the Soviet embassy. After the fall of the Second Spanish Republic, he took part in the operation to remove the leaders of the Communist Party of Spain, José Díaz and Dolores Ibárruri, to Moscow.

He returned to Moscow in 1940, but was sent to Teheran in August 1941 as resident. On 1 August 1943, on Stalin's personal instructions, he flew to French Algeria to establish contact with the French general Charles de Gaulle. The task was completed, and soon de Gaulle met with Stalin in Moscow. He reportedly helped prevent a German operation to attack the three allied leaders meeting at the 1943 Teheran Conference. He returned to Moscow later that year.

In 1946, he managed to acquire the receipt of the Marshall Plan for the postwar policy of the United States and its allies in Europe. The secret version of this Plan was handed over to the members of the Soviet delegation. He then returned to the USSR in 1947.

From 1947 to 1949, he was again in Paris, this time as resident under the alias "Avalov". There he is said to have recruited numerous spies for the Soviet Union. However, his health was affected by tuberculosis he had acquired in the 1930s.

On his return to Moscow Agayants was appointed to head the Western European Department of what would become the KGB. After working on forgeries of memoirs sponsored by the Soviet secret police to further the leadership's political goals, and, as part of Operation Seat 12, helping to produce a play The Deputy that maligned Pius XII, he was appointed the first head of Department D (disinformation) of the KGB First Chief Directorate.

In 1967, Agayants was appointed deputy head of the First Chief Directorate, but died on 12 May 1968. He is buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

During his lifetime he was given many awards by the Soviet government, including the Order of Lenin, and his name is engraved in gold on the wall of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service headquarters in Moscow among the seventy or so leading intelligence officers.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waldergame

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

The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 08:46, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Waldergame

 * here's the condition, if you delete this article, then empower me to delete all of your surnames. i think would be fair, right? so what that waldergame is played on an open field without restriction? yes, the consequence of this pure adulterated folly does lead to some nonsense, but that is not what the game is about. anyway, i've said pretty much all i have to to say at this juncture. --Camilla Walderhaug 14:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Not notable. And created by User:Waldermaster. DJ Clayworth 14:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn, load of rubbish CLW 15:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 01:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I read an article about waldergame in the times newspaper a few weeks ago. It appears to have a dedicated following and is quite popular. Perhaps it should stay. or perhaps not:)

is what they term 'meat and potatoes'. As of 2005/October/06, if over 3 internet users in every 1 million over a 3 month average was reached by waldergame, and the general trend in popularity has been exponential since its begininning, is it 'not-notable'? Tough call. I think it's a wait and see. --Charliebobtonysteve 12:31, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Despite the fact that the article is poorly written, I believe the intrinsic intellectual merit of the game itself has some value. The second point I'd like to make is that Amazon.com's Alexa claims to monitor 12million sites and that by their calculations, considering the current trends in the distribution of internet traffic, anything that consistently scores within the top 100,000 ranked sites
 * September 30th was an exceptionally busy AfD day. So this debate among several got almost no attention. Relisting in hope of some tender, loving debate this time around. -Splash talk 00:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. NN.  It's not a tough call.  If and when it becomes notable, it gets an article.  Right now, it has no claims to notability.  --A D Monroe III 02:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete until it becomes notable. -- Kjkolb 02:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Google gives 9 unique hits for "waldergame", indicating that whatever publicity this might have received hasn't really gained traction. Bunchofgrapes (talk) 04:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Nonsense at the moment. Ban  e  s  09:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Tessy Antony de Nassau

Tessy Antony de Nassau (born 28 October 1985), formerly Princess Tessy of Luxembourg, is a Luxembourgish businesswoman and non-profit executive. She is a former member of the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg as the ex-wife of Prince Louis of Luxembourg, the third son of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

The couple married in 2006 and had two sons. In January 2017, they announced their separation and intent to divorce, with divorce proceedings occurring in London. Their divorce was finalized on 4 April 2019. Upon their divorce, Antony de Nassau lost her titles of princess of Luxembourg, Bourbon-Parma, and of Nassau.

Early life
Tessy Antony was born on 28 October 1985 in Luxembourg City, the daughter of François Antony and Régine Anne Heidemann. She has one older sister and three brothers. One of her older brothers died shortly after his birth.

After attending a technical high school in Pétange, (south of Luxembourg City), Antony and her twin brother Ronny joined the Luxembourg Army at the age of 18, eventually rising to the rank of Corporal. From March to July 2004, she took part in a mission in Yugoslavia, as Sdt 1cl Chauffeur C2, in Mitrovica within KFOR, the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo. She is fluent in Luxembourgish, French, English, and German. She took lessons at a music school in Differdange and plays the alto saxophone.

Further education
Antony de Nassau studied at Richmond, The American International University in London in 2011 where she obtained a BA (Hons) degree in International Relations in 2014. She wrote her thesis on the rise of nationalism in Europe, using the example of the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn. Additionally, from 2005 to 2009, Antony de Nassau attended several trainings and lectures relating to the topics of "Education and psychology." She earned her MA degree in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London in 2015. She further has a Doctorate in Integrative Medicine (IMD) and is a PhD candidate at Quantum University, an institution offering online degrees in pseudoscience and alternative medicine.

Career
In 2016, Antony de Nassau co-founded Professors Without Borders, an NGO specializing in international educational efforts, and is currently its Director of Logistics. She currently works as founder and partner for Finding Butterflies Consulting, a consulting service focused on corporate social responsibility projects in education and female empowerment.

Marriage to Prince Louis of Luxembourg
Antony met Prince Louis for the first time while he was a member of the army.

On 12 March 2006, Antony gave birth to a boy, christened Gabriel Michael Louis Ronny de Nassau, who was born at a private Swiss hospital, Clinic des Grangettes, in Geneva. The baby was the first grandchild for Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa.

The couple married on 29 September 2006 at a parish church in Gilsdorf. Upon their marriage, Prince Louis gave up succession rights for himself and his descendants, but retained the title of Prince of Luxembourg and the style of Royal Highness. The couple's second son, Noah Etienne Guillaume Gabriel Matthias Xavier de Nassau, was born on 21 September 2007 at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital. The couple's sons were initially given the surname de Nassau with no titles.

On Luxembourg's National Day on 23 June 2009, a decree was issued granting Tessy the title of Princess of Luxembourg and Princess of Bourbon-Parma with the style Her Royal Highness. The same decree gave the title Prince of Nassau and style Royal Highness to her and Louis' sons Gabriel and Noah and possible future children. In 2012, Princess Tessy received the Order of Civil and Military Merit of Adolph of Nassau. The decree granting Tessy de Nassau the rank of Princess of Luxembourg was, however, unlike previous decrees conferring titles, not made transparent to the public.

On 18 January 2017, the Grand Ducal Court announced the separation of the Prince and Princess, and their intention to divorce, whereupon Princess Tessy lost her Grand Ducal titles. However, Articles 1 and 4 of the 1995 Grand Ducal Decree (as amended) state: "Article 1. In the public and private acts which concern them, the Princes and Princesses born in the first degree of descent from the Sovereign shall bear the style of 'Royal Highness' before their given name and the surname '(de) Nassau' and shall bear the title of 'Prince or Princess of Luxembourg' following their given and surnames. Children of the heir presumptive shall be designated in the same manner... Article 4. In the event of separation of bed and board, of divorce or remarriage after spousal death, the titles enjoyed by consorts of the Princes of Our House in accordance with the present decree shall be lost forthwith."

The divorce proceedings occurred in London, and the divorce was finalized on 4 April 2019.

Marriage to Frank Floessel
On 31 December 2020, Antony de Nassau announced her engagement to Swiss businessman Frank Floessel on social media. They married on 23 July 2021 in Zürich, Switzerland. She gave birth to a son, Theodor Frank on 26 August 2021. He is Antony de Nassau's third and Floessel's second child.

Activities
In April 2016, Antony de Nassau was awarded the Mrongovius Medal for humanitarian involvement.

Antony de Nassau is currently UNAIDS Global Advocate for Young Women and Adolescent Girls. She is involved in charities and NGOs acting in favour of people with specific needs. She actively takes part in charitable events in Luxembourg as well as in London. She has been an active member of the Luxembourg "Groupe de Support Psychologique" (GSP) for the past five years.

Antony de Nassau became an ambassador for Shongolulu. The company, based in San Diego, California, donates a percentage of their profit to support Wildlife Alliance.

Hobbies
A keen sportsperson, Antony de Nassau regularly practises the following sports: swimming, spinning, hiking, pilates, scuba diving, spinning, skiing and hunting. She is a member of the Niederkorn Fanfare. She likes classic and contemporary music and is particularly interested in jazz. She regularly attends conferences and seminars on psychology and social development, topics she also enjoys reading about most.

National honours

 * Luxembourg:
 * Grand Cross of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau (2012).

Foreign honours

 * Knight of the Order of Lafayette (21 September 2019).
 * Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Drum (23 October 2019).

Awards

 * Honorary degrees
 * Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) from the Paris College of Art (16 May 2019).

 * Others
 * Luxembourg Leadership Academy's Leader of the Year Award (9 September 2019).

 * 2024 Sino-Phil Asia International Peace Award (16 February 2024).

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User talk:Jaybob

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Talk:Bank of India

Perhaps
Perhaps I will have to ascertain the correctness of the latest addition. --Bhadani 16:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Another version
In view of the unreference tag, I propose to reduce the article to few words;

Bank of India (BoI), established on 7 September, 1906 with headquarters in Mumbai.

Bank Guarantee
I want to know about Bank Guarantee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.172.160.206 (talk) 05:27, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

NPOV citation location in The current bank
Citation location should be moved to the end of the sentence, required after each religious group or removed. Requiring only one religious group to prove participation via citation goes against RNPOV. Mordalf (talk) 23:36, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

 * ✅ I've removed it as the entire section is unsourced. I think the banner at the top of the article is good enough. — DaxServer (talk to me) 08:22, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

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Evolutionary grade

A grade is a taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity. The term was coined by British biologist Julian Huxley, to contrast with clade, a strictly phylogenetic unit.

Phylogenetics
In order to fully understand evolutionary grades, one must first get a better understanding of phylogenetics: the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms. These relationships are determined by phylogenetic inference methods that focus on observed heritable traits, such as DNA sequences, protein amino acid sequences, or morphology. The result of such an analysis is a phylogenetic tree—a diagram containing a hypothesis of relationships that reflects the evolutionary history of a group of organisms.

Definition of an evolutionary grade
An evolutionary grade is a group of species united by morphological or physiological traits, that has given rise to another group that has major differences from the ancestral group's condition, and is thus not considered part of the ancestral group, while still having enough similarities that we can group them under the same clade. The ancestral group will not be phylogenetically complete (i.e. is not a clade), and so will represent a paraphyletic taxon.

The most commonly cited example is that of reptiles. In the early 19th century, the French naturalist Latreille was the first to divide tetrapods into the four familiar classes of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. In this system, reptiles are characterized by traits such as laying membranous or shelled eggs, having skin covered in scales or scutes, and having a 'cold-blooded' metabolism. However, the ancestors of mammals and birds also had these traits and so birds and mammals can be said to "have evolved from reptiles", making the reptiles, when defined by these traits, a grade rather than a clade. In microbiology, taxa that are thus seen as excluded from their evolutionary grade parent group are called taxa in disguise.

Paraphyletic taxa will often, but not always, represent evolutionary grades. In some cases paraphyletic taxa are united simply by not being part of any other groups, and give rise to so-called wastebasket taxa which may even be polyphyletic.

Grades in systematics
The traditional Linnaean way of defining taxa is through the use of anatomical traits. When the actual phylogenetic relationship is unknown, well defined groups sometimes turn out to be defined by traits that are primitive rather than derived. In Linnaean systematics, evolutionary grades are accepted in higher taxonomic ranks, though generally avoided at family level and below. In phylogenetic nomenclature evolutionary grades (or any other form of paraphyly) are not accepted.

Where information about phylogenetic relationships is available, organisms are preferentially grouped into clades. Where data is lacking, or groups of uncertain relationship are to be compared, the cladistic method is limited and grade provides a useful tool for comparing organisms. This is particularly common in palaeontology, where fossils are often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. Thus, traditional palaeontological works are often using evolutionary grades as formal or informal taxa, including examples such as labyrinthodonts, anapsids, synapsids, dinosaurs, ammonites, eurypterids, lobopodians and many of the more well known taxa of human evolution. Organizing organisms into grades rather than strict clades can also be very useful to understand the evolutionary sequence behind major diversification of both animals and plants.

Evolutionary grades, being united by gross morphological traits, are often eminently recognizable in the field. While taxonomy seeks to eliminate paraphyletic taxa, such grades are sometimes kept as formal or informal groups on the basis of their usefulness for laymen and field researchers. In bacteriology, the renaming of species or groups that turn out to be evolutionary grades is kept to a minimum to avoid misunderstanding, which in the case of pathogens could have fatal consequences. When referring to a group of organisms, the term "grade" is usually enclosed in quotation marks to denote its status as a paraphyletic term.

Grades and phylogenetic nomenclature
With the rise of phylogenetic nomenclature, the use of evolutionary grades as formal taxa has come under debate. Under a strict phylogenetic approach, only monophyletic taxa are recognized. This differs from the more traditional approach of evolutionary taxonomy. The difference in approach has led to a vigorous debate between proponents of the two approaches to taxonomy, particularly in well established fields like vertebrate palaeontology and botany. The difference between the statement "B is part of A" (phylogenetic approach) and "B has evolved from A" (evolutionary approach) is, however, one of semantics rather than of phylogeny. Both express the same phylogeny, but the former emphasizes the phylogenetic continuum while the latter emphasizes a distinct shift in anatomy or ecology in B relative to A.

Examples

 * Fish represent a grade, in as much as they have given rise to the land vertebrates. In turn, the three traditional classes of fish (Agnatha, Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) all represent evolutionary grades.
 * Amphibians in the biological sense (including the extinct Labyrinthodonts) represent a grade, since they are also the ancestors of the amniotes.
 * Reptiles represent a grade composed of the cold-blooded amniotes; this excludes birds and mammals.
 * Dinosaurs were proposed to be the ancestors of birds as early as the 1860s. Yet the term sees popular use as an evolutionary grade excluding birds, though most scientists use a monophyletic Dinosauria.
 * Lizards represent an evolutionary grade, defined by their retention of limbs relative to snakes and amphisbaenians. However, defining lizards by the presence of limbs is incorrect, as there are many species of legless lizards, which are considered true lizards.
 * Green algae represent a grade, since they are the ancestors of land plants.
 * Prokaryotes, which include cellular organisms lacking a nucleus, represent a grade, since they are the ancestors of eukaryotes, which includes animals, plants, fungi, and protists; and the last of these four groups also represents a grade, since it excludes the previous three groups.
 * Crustaceans represent a grade, since they are the ancestors of hexapods, which includes insects and related taxa.
 * Monkeys represent a grade, since they include the ancestors of apes (including humans).
 * Likewise, apes represent a grade in common usage, but are a clade if humans are included.

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DMB

DMB may refer to:

 * "D.M.B.", a song by ASAP Rocky
 * DMB Development, a Limited Liability Corporation based in Scottsdale, Arizona
 * DaMarcus Beasley, nicknamed DMB, an American soccer player
 * Dave Matthews Band, a U.S. rock band
 * Del McCoury Band, a U.S. bluegrass band
 * Delaware Memorial Bridge, a set of twin suspension bridges on the Delaware River
 * Diamond Mind Baseball, a computer baseball simulation game
 * Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, a digital radio transmission technology
 * Dimethylbutane (disambiguation)
 * Dimethylbutanol
 * Dry Matter Basis, a technique of measuring animal feed contents

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Morvan

The Morvan (historically Morvand from the Latin Murvinnum c. 590) is a mountainous massif lying just to the west of the Côte d'Or escarpment in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. It is a northerly extension of the Massif Central and is of Variscan age. It is composed of granites and basalts and formed a promontory extending northwards into the Jurassic sea.

It is the smallest mountain area in France in terms of landmass covered, as well as the lowest, with a maximum altitude of 901 metres (2,956 feet) at Haut-Folin.

Geography
The Morvan is located across the Côte-d'Or, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire and Yonne departments in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central-east France.

At its heart nowadays is the protected area of Morvan Regional Natural Park (French: Parc naturel régional du Morvan).

Its main town is Château-Chinon, Nièvre on the D978 road between Nevers and Autun. Several of its valleys have been dammed to form reservoirs.

Music
The Morvan has a strong musical tradition. It uses musical ideas from many other cultures and combines them to make its own.

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Joe David Brown

Joe David Brown (May 12, 1915 – April 22, 1976) was an American novelist and journalist from Birmingham, Alabama. He drew memorably from his own life to compose his fiction: his grandfather's role as a minister, his own knowledge of confidence games from his work as a reporter, his World War II experiences, and his residence on journalistic assignment in India. He is particularly remembered for the title character of his novel Addie Pray, the young "Mistress of the Con Game" during the Great Depression in the Deep South; an adaptation of the story later became the film Paper Moon.

Biography
Brown was born in Birmingham, the son of William Samuel Brown, a newspaper publisher, and Lucille Lokey Brown. At age 20, he became a police reporter for the Birmingham Post and in the same year (1935) married Mildred Harbour, with whom he had two sons, David (named Joe David Brown after his father, and also a journalist) and Ted. At age 21, Brown became city editor of the Dothan Eagle. From 1935 to 1939, he worked for newspapers in Atlanta, Georgia; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and St. Louis, Missouri.

In 1939, he began working for the New York Daily News, but his time there was interrupted in 1942 by World War II, in which he served in the United States Army with the 460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (460th PFAB). Brown was one of the first men to parachute into Southern France, in August 1944. He received a battlefield commission as second lieutenant and was awarded the Purple Heart and Croix de Guerre with Palm.

His first marriage ended in 1943 while he was still in the service. In 1945, while recovering from combat injuries, he met and married his second wife, Frances O'Reilly, with whom he had one daughter, Gilbreth. Brown returned to the Daily News, then from 1949 to 1957 was a foreign correspondent for Time and Life, serving in New Delhi, India; Paris, France; London and Moscow. In 1957, he became a freelance writer. In the sixties he returned to work for Time as a contributing editor; he also edited several books for Time-Life.

Filmed novels
Three of Brown's better-known novels became the basis of movies. Stars in My Crown (1947) was based on his childhood experiences with his minister grandfather and was made into a movie by the same name in 1949. Kings Go Forth was made into a movie in 1958. His final novel, Addie Pray (1971), the story of 11-year-old con artist Addie and her older partner Long Boy, was made into the movie Paper Moon (1973), starring Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatum; the film then served as the basis for a TV series of the same name, starring Jodie Foster. Brown's other, earlier novels are less known. The Freeholder (1949) is about an indentured servant's quest for freedom in the American South. Kings Go Forth (1956) draws upon Brown's military experiences (and also was made into a movie released in 1958), and Glimpse of a Stranger (1968) highlights the contrast between the cultures of India and the United States.

Brown died on April 26, 1976, at his home in Georgia.

Works
Novels Short stories
 * Stars In My Crown (1947)
 * The Freeholder (1949)
 * Kings Go Forth (1956)
 * Glimpse of a Stranger (1968)
 * Addie Pray (aka Paper Moon) (1971)
 * "Grandpa and the Miracle Grindstone" (1956; Curtis Publishing Company)

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Talk:Elevator levitation

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In summary... What?

My sentiments also. I think this article should be deleted.

I agree. I also think it's one thing to reveal magic secrets that are hundreds of years old (like cups and balls), but to reveal the secret of a modern magic effect that is still on sale by the original inventor is kind of walking a thin edge. At most, a link should be provided to the inventor's home page. Or just delete it, as you said.

And anyway it's poorly written. The layman has no idea what "clean" means.

DAMN YOU!
Think of the people that make a living from the things you decide to post on your site.

Several anon IPs have been recently deleting this article, claiming copyright violations[]. I've looked into all the claims and think theyre all quite erroneous. Unless the exact text of the article was stolen from another source (that is, the wording, not the concept), there is no violation. Magic trick methods are not copyrightable, and although they can be patented, a patent only prevents an unlicensed party from performing the trick, not describing its methods. For more information, please see Intellectual rights to magic methods. I think any further blanking of this article without a legitimant claim should be considered vandalism. -Lanoitarus (talk) .:. 01:42, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That's simply not true - the covert choreography within a magic creation can not be patented, just as little as a musical tune can, unless it contain a new scientific discovery. And there's no point even mentioning the copyright laws because they are irrelevant in this context, as covert choreography is undefined there. By copyright you are neither prohibited nor allowed to take a creators realised expression of art within this particular field. --TStone 04:24, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * TStone has been making up legal precedent recently on Wikipedia. Please note that his legal arguments hold no weight. Talk:Out_of_This_World_(card_trick)--Muchosucko 19:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That might be so, but I'm also illustrating that all other's legal arguments are likewise without weight, and that you are attempting to confuse the issues. What in "Out of this World" could have been patented? And where in copyright is a magician's realised expressions of art mentioned at all? That seems like two rather simple questions for someone who so forcefully claim that all magic creations can be patented, and that you are allowed by copyright to take material from creators against their will. For someone who are almost an expert, it seems that you are using almost acrobatic skill to avoid those two simple questions. Could "Out of this World" have been patented? A simple yes or no works just fine --TStone 21:57, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * TStone has been making up legal precedent recently on Wikipedia. Please note that his legal arguments hold no weight. Talk:Out_of_This_World_(card_trick)--Muchosucko 19:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Dear Muchosucko, I have no idea on what you are doing, but your appearance doesn't get better, I'm afraid. And it's a bit unpolite to talk about me as if I wasn't here. Or to reply in equal terms: Muchosucko has been making up legal precedent recently on Wikipedia. Please note that his legal arguments hold no weight. Talk:Out_of_This_World_(card_trick) --TStone 09:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Why giving this clone it's own heading?
I don't get it? I merged this small variation into the original "Balducci levitation" where it should be. Why attempting to do research more difficult by reverting this little clone back to a separate page?

Had covert choreography been defined in the copyright laws, this creation would have been deemed an infringement, as it clearly builds on variations by other creators published in "Pallbearers review" soon after Balducci levitation were published there.

Check the sources yourself! Compare it with others variants if you want, and you'll see the lineage clearly. Let me know your opinions after you've checked. --TStone 04:33, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

AON: I don't know whether you are a magician, but this is very different from the balducci.

 * If you still think it noteworthy after checking sources, then at least, add proper crediting so it doesn't contanin false information about its lineage. Also, you might want to check out Crass commercialism... --TStone 04:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, the second external link goes to one of the biggest rip-off sites on the net. They stole a creation of a friend of mine in 2003, stipped his name from his creation AND described it wrong to really make sure to mess it up for everyone in all directions. Had to fight with their weird legal department for almost three months before they complied with my demands (which was "Put back Stefan's name on his creation or take it down" ). They went on for ever with irrelevant things about copyright laws, patents etc. And I asked them to quote the passage in their law books where it said that a creator didn't have the right to have his name attached to his work... finally they gave in. Strangely, they choosed to remove the piece rather then put Stefan's name back on it. Then the nuts repeated it again in 2004, when they stole a creation of another friend of mine. It took just two weeks that time, and once again they chose to remove it rather to put back the name. I can not for my life understand why it is so extremely important for everyone to misrepresent the origin of the works they want to steal...
 * Question: Is it necessary for the wiki to have external links to known rip-off sites? --TStone 07:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Can you supply a source that verifies the site or company is in dispute? I know you have personal knowledge, but can you find something public that others could look at?  If I saw such a thing, that would probably be enough for me to concur that the site was "not credible".  Elonka 11:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Offensive behaviour by user TStone
User TStone: Please stop destroying information from Wikipedia. There have been too many "offended magicians" (or impersonators) on these pages already. You can put "unverified" notices if you wish and add parenting. Nobody cares about "history" or "origins" for tricks, really. We want to know the details. The Elevator levitation page has been explicitely voted "keep" by everyone involved. 80.11.211.154 12:09, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm really sorry, but unfortunally, it is you who are responsible for offensive behaviour. No information has been destroyed, but moved to talk page of Balducci levitation - and from there, it should be possible to move relevant details (properly sourced) out on the Balducci page.
 * Your statement is nonsens. "We want to know the details"? Well, you are certainly making sure to make it more impossible to "know the details", by falsifying origins and history. And I'm quite sure that none of the people really involved in the origins were a part of this vote. Likewise, I assume that the "keep"-vote was to keep correct information - not false information.
 * Or do you have a personal stake in claiming that the material from Pallbearer's Review and The Chronicles should be misattributed to someone else? If you insist on having this derivative clone under a false title - then at least add verifications to the page to support that remarkable decision - unless you simply are a vandal who want the wikipedia to be yet another rip-off site, and not a reliable source of information. So, please, if you have knowledge on the matter that contradict established knowledge, you would do everyone a favour by adding that to the page.

 * Or try to be useful instead. If you've read the talk pages, you are already aware that some of the information here really comes from The Chronicles - so feel free to look up the proper names of the people and add to the page.

 * There are perhaps 15 small derivative versions in USA. About 8 in Europe. I have no idea about Asia, but it's certainly more than 10. Then there's a whole bunch that has appeared and faded away since the 70's. How do you suppose it will be possible to properly track history when each and one of all those derivative variations has got its own page?

 * I'll leave this page alone, and let you decide what is best and according to wiki-spirit.--TStone 15:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

There needs to be an article on elevator 2 as well...

Method removed
I have removed the method from the article as it is unsourced. This is following the guidelines laid out in WikiProject_Magic. If the method can be properly sourced, then it can be re-added. StephenBuxton (talk) 13:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

NB: The material was removed in this diff and contained the following information:

/==Method==

The Elevator Levitation uses a length of PVC pipe (alternatively: a block of wood) that the magician stands on with the heel of his foot and lifts himself into the air. The illusion is identical to a variation of the Balducci levitation as published in Pallbearer's Review in the 1970s. Balancing on the pipe and setting it in position requires considerable practice.

The gimmick, which the performer balances on, is initially attached to the performer's belt by a reel. When the performer is ready to perform the illusion, he triggers the gimmick to lower, and then, after he "returns to earth", the gimmick is reeled back up.

Another variation, suggested in The Chronicles in the late 1970s, is called "Elevator 2". In this version, the gimmick is metal, has mirrors on three sides, is spring-loaded, and folds up flat so it can be carried in pockets more easily. The mirrors make it possible for spectators to look under the feet of the magician while he levitates. The rest of the effect is virtually the same.

Editors are encouraged to restore the material when they find appropriate sources, or to restore the content if the original removal of the material was in error, and to correct any errors in the method described. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 21:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Secrets removed (again!)
As the method was unsourced, I have removed it in accordance with WP:OR and these guidelines. Stephen! Coming... 17:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

 * The proper procedure in cases like this is to leave the questionable content in place (unless in a BLP) and add a "fact" tag to it. This alerts other editors to the need for proper citations and gives them a chance to provide reliable sources. Usually the info is allowed to remain 1 - 3 months after being tagged, to provide time to find the references and include them. Only in a BLP is it considered "urgent" to remove questionable content immediately; otherwise editors need a chance to provide refs. I'll take care of replacing the info and adding the tag; if you have any questions or concerns, I'll keep this page on my Watchlist and we can discuss them here; thanks! Doc  Tropics  18:11, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Update: I didn't initially realize that the entire article had been tagged for nearly 18 months, however it seems a bit disingenous to remove some parts but not others since there are no valid refs for any of the article. Also, the reasons given for removal didn't seem quite right; there's no indication that this is OR, just that it's unsourced, and Project guidelines never take precedence over general policy. But after looking at the article and this talkpage more, I have a larger concern:
 * Why does this page exist?
 * From what I can see this is much too small a sub-topic to justify its own article and possibly exists only as self-promotion for the magician that claims credit for it. I'd like to suggest that the small amount of info this article contains be merged back into Balducci levitation, which is where it seems to have come from. Doc   Tropics  20:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks for letting me know about the restoration, Doc. Sorry I haven't been able to comment till now; was a bit busy.  The guidelines for removing/keeping secrets were agreed on the project page a long time before I got involved with the project.  As I understand it, the stance taken is a compromise between magicians who do not want secrets readily available (I freely admit that I am one of these) and editors who believe that Wikipedia should be as complete as possible.  In a nutshell: rather than tagging secrets for citations, remove them.  The reasoning is that Wikipedia should not be seen as the primary source, but if it is referencing another source, then it is not Wikipedia that is exposing the secret.  This is also in line with WP:OR.
 * I am happy to go along with that stance; I would rather not have the secrets on there at all (referenced or otherwise), but I will go along with the compromise guidelines. If references are provided, then the method may remain on the article; otherwise it should be removed.  I'll leave them on there for now, as I don't want to start an edit war (and besides, healthy discussions can be fun!) and when I get a minute or two, I'll invite others from the Project to come and join in the debate, as you suggested on my talk page.
 * As for the point about the merger: Yes, I agree it is a good idea. Stephen! Coming... 10:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Actaully, incorrect or unsourced material can be deleted immediately. There is no requirement to tag it and leave it there for a month or two.  If I think something is wrong and should be removed, if it doesn't have a source, I can delete it.  While generally, people will often add a fact tag and ask for a citation, that is not always the case nor is it always desirable---it depends on the subject and the actual content.  BLP is an obvious case where information is required to be removed immediately.  Original research is one of the core policies on WP and held just as sacrosant as BLP.  Any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by a reliable source. Magic methods are likely to be challenged.  There are people who deliberately post incorrect methods, there are people who hypothesize without really knowing the correct method, and there are people who decry the correct method as false/incorrect.  As these are "secrets" finding reliable sources for some is difficult and most methods do constitute original research.  Thus, in order to avoid original research and the various controversies surrounding the issue, the Magic Project came up with their guideline on the subject... which in light of the subject, makes sense to me.  (Of course, I helped shaped the compromise.)  Basically, the compromise is that if the material doesn't have a reliable source, then it shouldn't be on the article, because it would then be Original Research.  The project agreed that if material is removed, then it should be moved to the talk pages where people can try to find a source (as TenofALLtrades did above.)  If there is a reliable source, then it can be on the main article.  If a person wants to speculate on the "secret" or needs help finding a source, then that can go on the Talk pages.  The article talk pages are expliticly intended to have a lower threshold for inclusion and for reliability.  Still, the template was created to remind people that they cannot rely upon any unsourced secret.  (NOTE: my only involvement in the Magic Project was when I helped mediate this dispute last year.)--- I'm Spartacus!  NO! I'm Spartacus! 17:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi, and thanks to both of you for responding! You both brought up several points and I have only a few minutes right now, so I can't answer everything immediately. Maybe it's best to focus on our initial point of agreement which could lead to some productive changes. There doesn't seem to be much question that this article is so short it might reasonably be merged back into the main. I've never initiated an "official" merger discussion before, so I need to look up details of how to post it, but that seems like a good place to start. In the event of a merge I'm fairly certain that the unsourced material would be removed anyway, so I don't have an issue with reverting myself and restoring the last version by Stephen. Thanks again, and I'll follow up on this fairly soon. Doc  Tropics  18:16, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

 * On the question of the removal (or otherwise) of secrets in magic-related articles, there are specific guidelines that have been established for some time (see WP:WikiProject_Magic). These guidelines are essentially re-statements of passages from Wikipedia's general policies and have been in place for two years, so it seems they are stable and have pretty good consensus.
 * On the question of the future of this article, I'll comment below.
 * Circusandmagicfan (talk) 16:11, 12 May 2009 (UTC)Circusandmgaicfan

 * For Wikipedia, it's more of a sourcing issue. If there's a reliable source that explains an illusion (as, for example, there is for Houdini vanishing an elephant), the info probably should go in the article.  On the other hand, for, say, Blaney's ladder levitation, which is in current production and use, there doesn't seem to be a published source.  (Although, if you want to understand it, find the video of the illusion on the Johnny Carson show.  The mechanism is fairly obvious when you can look at the video as many times as you want. Things were easier to get away with before everyone had slow motion.) --John Nagle (talk) 05:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
This article is extremely brief, and contains no useful references (I removed 2 that didn't qualify, then spent an hour searching for RS but found none). Under the circumstances, it seems like a good idea to simply merge this into Balducci levitation as a line-item in the "Variations" section of that article. Thanks for your consideration and participation, Doc  Tropics  18:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree that merging this is a good idea. Stephen!''' Coming... 09:22, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree. Given the similarities, it is better to have a single article on the Balducci levitation and variations.Circusandmagicfan (talk) 16:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan
 * Agree --John Nagle (talk) 05:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree 202.124.88.73 (talk) 02:51, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sable Holiday

 * 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 NO CONSENSUS. -Splash talk 22:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Sable Holiday
This is a vanity advertisement for a non-notable. Melanchthon 14:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - she may be grotesque, but Google gives enough hits to suggest to me that, although she may not be particularly notable (in my opinion) she may be well known in certain circles. But the last couple of sentences need to go - advertising. CLW 15:36, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete seems of at best marginal notability to me. i have removed the specifically promotional content from the article. DES (talk) 16:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable within her genre (no less so than Tawny Peaks, Pandora Peaks, etc etc.) 23skidoo 18:38, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable enough. Kappa 23:06, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Would like to see this individual's name, etc., as part of the research.  I am not sure of the appropriate cat or stub, either.  >:  Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 00:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Notable for what? Denni ☯ 23:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * For the number of people interested in her. Kappa 23:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * *Sigh* - They're not interested in her, Kappa, they're interested in her tits. And have you any evidence, other than your own opinion, of the number of people interested in her? The article, like too many others you vote to keep, is frighteningly short on details. Denni ☯ 00:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If no-one was interested in her, there would not be so many websites using her name. Kappa 01:10, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A local stripper, apparently. I have no objection to that, of course, but this is not encyclopedic. Gamaliel 03:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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error messages currently of unknown origin or meaning
 * “The resource is too heavy to be fetched” - we suspect this is when the patron or librarian tires to retrieve an especially large PDF, but we aren’t sure what “especially large” means yet.
 * “Error in reading from socket.”
 * “eGPS Internal Server Error” - this MAY be the error generated in Science Direct if the patron enters a search term from the initial popup search screen. RETEST.

patron’s popup blockers
 * patron cannot change popup blocker status mid-session; it will knock patron out of chat. If popup blocker is enabled, patron will have to end chat, close all popup blockers, then re-initiate chat.

co-browse normal behavior
 * use TAB to send the patron the text of your search before executing the search (TAB between fields)
 * often databases will popup over patron’s chat screen even though you can see the database page in your cobrowse window. When you enter a search and execute it (hit Enter, Search, etc.), this sometimes brings the database search screen into the patron’s chat window.  In such situations, the patron won’t have seen the initial search strategy the librarian used.

co-browse troubleshooting
 * librarian has white patron window - bad sign. may be a memory issue.  Send a Google page to patron to see if they get that, if not, check your settings to see if JavaSun has been enabled by accident
 * patron isn’t getting web page you’re sending - librarian’s cursor must be inside the “Web Address or file” box, hit ENTER
 * if patron uses “back” button in their chat window, they may be kicked out of the database entirely and have to re-authenticate. Sometimes “back” takes the patron back to the authentication screen, sometimes back to the 24/7 welcome screen, and sometimes it ends the session completely.

co-browse & JSTOR normal behavior - a new browser pops up over the patron’s chat window - patron enters logon, librarian gets search screen - patron unable to see text of article in testing 24/7 recommends we search in a separate window and send the patron a screen shot (“I don’t make the news, I just report it”)

co-browse & Academic Search Premier normal behavior
 * librarian must copy and paste EBSCO database address from another window into 24/7 web address window -- cannot navigate web pages to get to Ebsco dbs
 * warn patrons beforehand to come back to you, because after patron authenticates, the initial Ebsco search screen will pop up over patron’s chat screen
 * if patron is viewing a PDF, at the top of their screen is a blue link “Result List” -- that is currently the only known way that the patron can exit the PDF and come back to the search results with success. Back will dump the patron out of Academic Search Premier and possible out of the session entirely.

co-browse & Science Direct normal behavior
 * many buttons appear as broken image links
 * after patron authenticates, initial search screen opens over chat window. If patron enters a search in this popup window, it will generate a bizarre error message (I believe “eGPS Internal Server Error”).  If librarian enters search terms and TABs, patron will not see text.  When librarian enters search terms and performs search, patron will see results screen inside the main chat screen.  From this point, the patron can enter searches and click on links as much as the librarian.

SCRIPTS NEEDED

title : database open on top of chat language: ''“After you authenticate (enter your Cougars logon and password), the database will open on top of our chat window. Please click back into our chat window to continue our conversation.”''

title: remote authentication logon language: ''“Use your Edisto or Cougars logon and password. For example, if your ID is shakespeare@edisto.cofc.edu, your logon is shakespeare and your password is the one you use to access your campus email.”''

title: ILL language: ''“You can request this item through Interlibrary Loan. It is a free service and we will locate the item for you in a nearby library. If you haven’t used ILL before, you’ll have to create a username and password. You can do this by following the “submit a request” link from the Interlibrary Loan web page. Interlibrary Loan is under “borrowing and ordering” on the library hmepage.''

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reza Mashayekhi

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further 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 Speedied. android 79  17:10, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Reza Mashayekhi
Non notable, as near as I can make out Mallocks 14:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per nomination. - Mallocks 14:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - vanity. NN - starts off by saying he is "aspiring" (i.e. "not there yet"). Ends up reading like a lonely hearts ad. CLW 15:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete under WP:CSD A7 and so tagged. If for some reason not speedy deleted, delete as non-notable. DES (talk) 16:38, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Albanian Homeland Party

The Albanian Homeland Party (Partia Shqiptare Atdheu) is a political party in Albania. It is led by Kreshnik Osmani.

Politics
The main point of the party is as follows: "'Albania will gradually become the modern state of law, where life and property are guaranteed by law, the integrated natural way pan democratic in space, a bridge between East and West through traditional Adriatic-Ionian corridor, connecting factor between Europe and Mediterranean countries, an important factor of peace, stability and progress in the Balkans and integrated with great dignity in the family of Euro-Atlantic area.'"

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List of software that supports OpenDocument

This is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format, an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.

The list here is not exhaustive.

Current support
A number of applications support the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications; listed alphabetically they include:

Word processors

 * AbiWord 2.4+ (import from 2.4.0, export from 2.4.2; used to require separate download and installation of plugins – up to version 2.6.8).
 * Adobe Creative Cloud
 * Atlantis Word Processor 1.6.5+ can import ODT documents.
 * Calligra Words uses ODT as its native file format.
 * Collabora Office Writer for Mobile and Desktop apps uses ODT as its native file format.
 * Collabora Online Writer uses ODT as its native file format.
 * eyeOS Cloud computing operating system with eyeDocs Word Processor has basic support for ODF text documents.
 * EasiWriter (for RISC OS) Version 9.1 can import/save ODT files on RISC OS.
 * FileApp allows viewing OpenDocument files on iPhone and iPad.
 * FocusWriter, a distraction-free word processor.
 * Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet application derived from the application Writely.
 * Gwennel, a WYSIWYG word processor written in assembly language, under 200 KB.
 * IBM Lotus Notes 8.0+ includes an office suite for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation files.
 * IBM Lotus Symphony Viewer allows viewing OpenDocument texts, spreadsheets and presentations on iPad and iPhone.
 * JustSystems Ichitaro (Japanese), read/write support via plug-in from version 2006, full built-in support from 2007.
 * LibreOffice Writer (an OpenOffice.org fork) uses ODT as its native file format.
 * Go-oo, an OpenOffice.org fork which was later merged with Libreoffice (Development discontinued).
 * Microsoft Office 2021 supports ODF 1.3 (Windows and MacOS)
 * Microsoft Word native support since Office 2007 SP2 (support for previous versions are available through several plugins).
 * Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office.
 * Microsoft OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office.
 * Currently no ODF support on the Mac OS X version of Microsoft Office.
 * Mobile Office, an office package for Symbian mobile phones.
 * Microsoft WordPad included with Windows 7 has limited support for opening and saving in the ODT format.
 * Nisus Writer Pro 1.2+ for Mac OS X.
 * OnlyOffice online and desktop editors, both online and offline suites support ODT for opening, editing and exporting.
 * OpenDocument Viewer, a free Android app for reading ODT, released under GPLv3 (also available from F-Droid).
 * OpenOffice Writer – full support from 2.0, import-only in 1.1.5.
 * IBM Lotus Symphony Documents 1.0+ (OpenOffice.org 1.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * NeoOffice Writer – full support from 2.0 (OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 derivative), import only in 1.2.2 (OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 derivative).
 * StarOffice 8+ Writer (OpenOffice.org 2.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * RomanianOffice, a proprietary word processor based on OpenOffice.org.
 * Open Word Processor allows editing OpenDocument text files (.odt) on iPad.
 * ownCloud Documents, a plugin for ownCloud, allows creation and collaborative editing of ODT files stored in ownCloud.
 * TechWriter (for RISC OS) Version 9.1 of TechWriter can import/save ODT files on RISC OS.
 * TextEdit, (In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) can read/write ODT format but does not retain all formatting.
 * Bean 1.1.0+, basic word processor with limited ODT support implemented in Mac OS X.
 * TextMaker starting with version 2008.
 * Visioo Writer 0.6.1 (in development) — document viewer, incomplete support.
 * WordPerfect Office (import-only in X4).
 * Zoho Writer, an online word processor, allows reading and writing of ODT.

Other applications

 * Apple Inc.'s Quick Look, the built-in quick preview feature of Mac OS X, supports OpenDocument format files starting with Mac OS X v10.5. Support is limited to basic ODF implementation in Mac OS X.
 * Oxygen XML Editor 9.3+ allows users to extract, validate, edit, transform (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats, compare and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files. Validation uses the latest ODF Documents version 1.1 Relax NG Schemas.
 * IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODT files as HTML documents.
 * IBM Lotus Domino 8.0+ KeyView (10.4.0.0) filter supports ODT, ODS, ODP for viewing files.
 * FreeViewer ODT File Viewer, can read/write ODT files, can convert ODT files to HTML documents.

Data management

 * phpMyAdmin 2.9.0+ – database manager, exports to ODT.

Text management

 * Dokuwiki — wiki software, exports to ODT with the odt plugin.
 * Drupal ODF Import – a Drupal module allows importing ODT files into CMS nodes.
 * eZ publish — content management system, supports import and export of writer documents via extension.
 * Scribus 1.2.2+ — desktop publishing suite, imports ODT.

Translation support

 * OmegaT — computer-assisted translation tool, can import ODF files.
 * Translate Toolkit — converts OpenDocument into XLIFF 1.2 for localisation in any XLIFF aware CAT tool.

Bibliographic

 * RefWorks – Web-based commercial citation manager, supports uploading ODT files for citation formatting.

Spreadsheets

 * Calligra Sheets uses ODS as default file format.
 * Collabora Office Calc for Mobile and Desktop apps uses ODS as its native file format.
 * Collabora Online Calc uses ODS as its native file format.
 * EditGrid, a web-based (online) spreadsheet service – full support.
 * FileApp allows viewing OpenDocument files on iPhone and iPad.
 * Gnumeric can both open and save files in this format and plans to continue to support this format in the future.
 * Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet application which can read and save OpenDocument files.
 * IBM Lotus Notes 8.0+ includes an office suite for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation files.
 * IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets 1.0+ (OpenOffice.org 1.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * IBM Lotus Symphony Viewer allows viewing OpenDocument texts, spreadsheets and presentations on iPad and iPhone.
 * JustSystems JUST Suite 2009 Sanshiro (Japanese).
 * LibreOffice Calc (an OpenOffice.org fork) uses ODS as its native file format.
 * Microsoft Office 2021 supports ODF 1.3 (Windows and MacOS)
 * Microsoft Excel has native support for ODF since Excel 2007 Service Pack 2. When writing formulas Excel uses the spreadsheet formula language specified in ISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML) which differs from the draft OpenFormula format used in other ODF implementations.
 * Earlier versions of Microsoft Excel support OpenDocument with Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office.
 * Partial support also with Microsoft OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office.
 * OnlyOffice online and desktop editors, both online and offline suites support ODF for opening, editing and exporting.
 * OpenOffice Calc – full support from 2.0, import-only in 1.1.5.
 * NeoOffice – native support from 2.0 (OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 derivative), import only in 1.2.2 (OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 derivative).
 * StarOffice 8+ Calc (OpenOffice 2.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * Zoho Sheet, an online spreadsheet application, can import and export ODS format.

Other applications

 * Oxygen XML Editor 9.3+ allows users to extract, validate, edit, transform (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats, compare and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files. Validation uses the latest ODF Documents version 1.1 Relax NG Schemas.
 * IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODS files as HTML documents.
 * odsgenerator v1.8.0+ allows generation of ODS files from JSON or YAML files.

Data management

 * phpMyAdmin 2.9.0+ – database manager, exports to ODS, exports to system32\windows.

Knowledge management

 * Knomos 1.0 – Law office management application.
 * EndNote X 1.0.1 – Reference management software.

Statistics

 * gretl 1.7.0 – Statistical analysis software (import only).

Translation support

 * OmegaT — Allows translation of comments and sheet names.

Presentation

 * Calligra Stage uses ODP as default file format.
 * Collabora Office Impress for Mobile and Desktop apps uses ODP as its native file format.
 * Collabora Online Impress uses ODP as its native file format.
 * FileApp allows viewing OpenDocument files on iPhone and iPad.
 * IBM Lotus Notes 8.0+ includes an office suite for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation files.
 * IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations 1.0+ (OpenOffice.org 1.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * IBM Lotus Symphony Viewer allows viewing OpenDocument texts, spreadsheets and presentations on iPad and iPhone.
 * JustSystems JUST Suite 2009 Agree (Japanese).
 * LibreOffice Impress uses ODP as its native file format.
 * LibreOffice Online Impress uses ODP as its native file format.
 * Microsoft Office 2021 supports ODF 1.3 (Windows and MacOS)
 * Microsoft PowerPoint native support since Office 2007 SP2 (support for previous versions is available through several plugins).
 * OnlyOffice online and desktop editors, where both online and offline suites support ODF for opening, editing and exporting.
 * OpenOffice Impress – native support from 2.0, import-only in 1.1.5.
 * NeoOffice 1.2 Impress (OpenOffice 1.1.5 derivative).
 * NeoOffice 2.0 Impress (OpenOffice 2.0.3 derivative).
 * StarOffice 8 Impress (OpenOffice 2.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * WPS Office WPS Presentation support ppt, pot, pps, dps, dpt, pptx, potx, ppsx, pptm, potm, ppsm, dpss.
 * Zoho Show, an online presentation program, can import/export ODP format files.

Other applications

 * Oxygen XML Editor 9.3+ allows users to extract, validate, edit, transform (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats, compare and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files. Validation uses the latest ODF Documents version 1.1 Relax NG Schemas.
 * IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODP files as HTML documents.

Database

 * LibreOffice Base (an OpenOffice.org fork)

Graphics documents (.odg)

 * Collabora Office Draw allows read/write of ODG files.
 * Collabora Online Draw can read/write ODG files.
 * Karbon, vector graphics editor, part of Calligra Suite — OpenDocument support since 1.5+ (import and export).
 * LibreOffice Draw uses ODG as its native file format.
 * JustSystems JUST Suite 2008+ Hanako (Japanese).
 * OpenOffice Draw – full support from 2.0, import-only in 1.1.5.
 * NeoOffice Draw – full support from 2.0 (OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 derivative), import only in 1.2.2 (OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 derivative).
 * StarOffice 8 Draw (OpenOffice 2.0 derivative; Development discontinued).
 * Scribus 1.2.2+ (import only) — Desktop publishing application.
 * Inkscape 0.44+ (export only) — vector graphics editor.

Other applications

 * IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODG files as HTML documents.

Formula documents (.odf)

 * KFormula 1.5+ (full native support).
 * LibreOffice Math — Allows read/write of ODF files.
 * Collabora Office for Desktop apps uses ODF as its native file format.
 * Math uses ODF as its native file format.
 * OpenOffice Math (full support from 2.0).
 * NeoOffice 2.0 Math (OpenOffice 2.0.3 derivative).

Search tools

 * Google supports searching in content of ODT, ODS, and ODP files and also searching for these filetypes. Found files can be viewed directly in a converted HTML view.
 * Beagle, Linux desktop search engine. Indexes and searches multiple file formats, including OpenDocument files.
 * Google Desktop Search has an unofficial OpenDocument plug-in available, supporting ODT, OTT, ODG, OTG, ODP, OTP, ODS, OTS, and ODF OpenDocument formats. The plug-in does not correctly handle Unicode characters.
 * Apple Spotlight (built into OS X 10.4 and later) supports indexed searching of OpenDocument files using a third-party plug-in from the NeoOffice team.
 * Copernic Desktop Search (Windows).

Other planned support

 * Ability Office developers declared planned ODF support for the next major version of their office suite.
 * Evermore Integrated Office – EIOffice 2009 will support ODF in the update. As stated on Evermore Software website: "Work is underway to both read and write to this new format as well as *.pdf and *.odf file formats in the update." Last version of EIOffice 2009 (5.0.1272.101EN.L1) cannot open or save ODF files.
 * Haansoft's Hangul Word Processor will support OpenDocument format documents in its next version for Windows, which is planned for the end of 2009.
 * An extension for Mozilla Firefox has been proposed by a developer named Tallinn, according to Mozilla hacker Gervase Markham (source); it has since been further modified by Alex Hudson. and was hosted in the official Firefox extension repository.
 * Wikipedia announced that it will use ODF for printing wikis.
 * BlackBerry smartphones are going to support ODF in their embedded office suites, starting mid-2009.
 * The WordPad editor in Windows 7 includes support for ODF.

Programmatic support, filters, converters
There are OpenDocument-oriented libraries available for languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, C++ and C#. OpenDoc Society maintains an extensive list of ODF software libraries for OpenDocument Format.

OpenDocument packages are ordinary zip files. There is an OpenDocument format which is just a single XML file, but most applications use the package format. Thus, any of the vast number of tools for handling zip files and XML data can be used to handle OpenDocument. Nearly all programming languages have libraries (built-in or available) for processing XML files and zip files.

Microsoft
Microsoft has been offering native support for ODF since Office 2007 Service Pack 2. Microsoft is hosting the 8th ODF Plugfest in Brussels in 2012.

In October 2005, one year before the Microsoft Office 2007 suite was released, Microsoft declared that there is not sufficient demand from Microsoft customers for international standard OpenDocument format support and therefore it will not be included in Microsoft Office 2007. This statement was repeated also in next months. As an answer, on 20 October 2005 an online petition was created to demand ODF support from Microsoft. The petition was signed by circa 12000 people.

In May 2006, ODF plugin for Microsoft Office was released by OpenDocument Foundation. Microsoft declared that the company did not work with the developers of the plug-in.

In July 2006 Microsoft announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project—tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of project is not to implement ODF direct to Microsoft Office, but only to create plugin and external tools. In February 2007, this project released first version of ODF plug-in for Microsoft Word.

In February 2007 SUN released initial version of SUN ODF plugin for Microsoft Office. Version 1.0 was released in July 2007.

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released on 28 April 2009. It added native support of OpenDocument 1.1 as well as other formats like XPS and PDF.

In April 2012, Microsoft announced support for ODF 1.2 in Microsoft Office 2013. Microsoft Office 2021 supports ODF 1.3 (Windows and MacOS).

Microsoft has financed the creation of an Open XML translator, to enable the conversion of documents between Office Open XML and OpenDocument. The project, hosted on SourceForge, is an effort by several of Microsoft's partners to create a plugin for Microsoft Office that will be freely available under a BSD license. By December 2007, plugins had been released for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Independent analysis has, however, reported several concerns with these plugins, including lack of support for Office 2007.

Third party support: Plug-ins for Microsoft Office
Sun Microsystems' ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office users (download link no longer available as of 30 March 2013)— was a plugin that allowed users to read and edit ISO-standard Open Document Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office. It works with Microsoft Office 2007 (with service pack 1 or higher), Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and even Microsoft Office 2000.

ooo-word-filter was a plugin that allowed users to open ODF files in Microsoft Office 2003.

OpenOpenOffice (O3), is apparently inactive. OpenOpenOffice was developed by Phase-n, a free and open source software plug-in to enable Microsoft Office to read and write OpenDocument files (and any other formats supported by OpenOffice.org). Instead of installing a complete office application or even a large plug-in, O3 intended to install a tiny plug-in to the Microsoft Office system. This tiny plug-in intended to automatically send the file to some server, which would then do the conversion, returning the converted file. The server could be local to an organization (so private information doesn't go over the Internet) or accessed via the Internet (for those who do not want to set up a server). A beta of the server half has been completed, and further expected announcements have not occurred. Phase-n argued that the main advantage of their approach is simplicity. Their website announces that O3 "requires no new concepts to be explored, no significant development, and leverages the huge existing body of work already created by the OpenOffice developers, the CPAN module authors, and the Microsoft .NET and Office teams. They also argue that this approach significantly simplifies maintenance; when a new version of OpenOffice is released, only the server needs to be upgraded.

The OpenDocument Foundation announced plans to develop a plugin for Microsoft Office in May 2006 but development was stopped in October 2007.

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 support controversy
Microsoft supports OpenDocument format in Office 2007 SP2. The current implementation faces criticism for not supporting encrypted documents and formula format in the same way as other OpenDocument compatible software, as well as for stripping out formulas in imported spreadsheets created by other OpenDocument compatible software. Critics say that with this conflict of standards Microsoft actually managed to reduce interoperability between office productivity software. The company had previously reportedly stated that "where ODF 1.1 is ambiguous or incomplete, the Office implementation can be guided by current practice in OpenOffice.org, mainly, and other implementations including KOffice and AbiWord. Peter Amstein and the Microsoft Office team are reluctant to make liberal use of extension mechanisms, even though provided in ODF 1.1. They want to avoid all appearance of an embrace-extend attempt." However, according to the ODF Alliance, "ODF spreadsheets created in Excel 2007 SP2 do not in fact conform to ODF 1.1 because Excel 2007 incorrectly encodes formulas with cell addresses. Section 8.3.1 of ODF 1.1 says that addresses in formulas "start with a "[" and end with a "]"." In Excel 2007, cell addresses were not enclosed with the necessary square brackets, which could be easily corrected." This however has been contested as the ISO/IEC 26300 specification states that the semantics and the syntax is dependent on the used namespace which is implementation dependent leaving the syntax implementation defined as well.

Before SP2, Microsoft had sponsored the creation of the Open XML translator project to allow the conversion of documents between OOXML and OpenDocument. As a result of this project, Microsoft financed the ODF add-in for Word project on SourceForge. This project is an effort by several of Microsoft's partners to create a plugin for Microsoft Office that will be freely available under a BSD license. The project released version 1.0 for Microsoft Word of this software in January 2007 followed by versions for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint in December of the same year. Sun Microsystems has created the competing OpenDocument plugin for Microsoft Office 2007 (Service Pack 1 or higher), 2000, XP, and 2003 that supports Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. The ODF Alliance has claimed that third-party plug-ins "provide better support for ODF than the recently released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2".

Accessibility
One important issue raised in the discussion of OpenDocument is whether the format is accessible to those with disabilities. There are two issues: does the specification support accessibility, and are implementations accessible?

Specification
While the specification of OpenDocument is going through an extensive accessibility review, many of the components it is built on (such as SMIL for audio and multimedia and SVG for vector graphics) have already gone through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative processes.

There are already applications that currently read/write OpenDocument that export Tagged PDF files (to support PDF accessibility); this suggests that much or all of the necessary data for accessibility is already included in the OpenDocument format.

The OASIS OpenDocument technical committee released a draft of OpenDocument 1.1 on 27 July 2006, for public comment through 25 September 2006. This is a minor update to the specification to add accessibility information, mainly soft page break markings, table header markings, presentation navigation markings, alternative text and captions, and specifically stating that spreadsheets may be embedded in presentations. Peter Korn (an accessibility expert) reviewed version 1.1 "to satisfy myself that all of our accessibility concerns have been addressed", and declared "I am so satisfied."

Implementations
Peter Korn gave an in-depth report on OpenDocument accessibility. He noted that there are many kinds of impairments, including visual (minor, major, or blind), physical (minor, major with vocal control, major without vocal control), auditory, and cognitive. He then noted that the situation varies, depending on the specific disability. For a vast number of disabilities, there are no known problems, though.

 * OpenOffice is expected to work well with existing solutions in MS Windows' on-screen keyboards (etc.) when driven by single-switch access, head-mouse, and eye-gaze systems. On Unix-like systems, GNOME's "On-screen Keyboard" can be used. Also available on both Linux and Windows systems is Dasher, a text-entry alternative released under the GPL for head-mouse and eye-gaze users (35+ word-per-minute typing speeds using nothing but eye movement are possible).
 * If those with disabilities are already using Microsoft Office, then a plug-in enabling them to load and save OpenDocument files using Microsoft Office may give them the same capabilities they already have (assuming the opening/saving cycle is accessible). So from that perspective, OpenDocument is at least as accessible as Microsoft Office.
 * For users using alternatives to Microsoft Office there may be problems, not necessarily due to the ODF file format but rather due to the lower investment to date by assistive technology vendors on these platforms, though there is ongoing work. For example, IBM has stated that its "Workplace productivity tools available through Workplace Managed Client including word processing, spreadsheet and presentation editors are currently planned to be fully accessible on a Windows platform by 2007. Additionally, these productivity tools are currently planned to be fully accessible on a Linux platform by 2008" (Sutor, 10 November 2005).

Since OpenDocument is an Open Standard file format, there is no need for everyone to use the same program to read and write OpenDocument files; someone with a disability is free to use whatever program works best for them.


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Tattva (Ayyavazhi)

Tatvas are the 96 qualities or properties of human body according to Akilattirattu Ammanai, the religious book of Ayyavazhi. They are as follows:

Jñānendriya - 5
The organs of sense

Hearing, Feeling by Touch, Seeing, Tasting and Smelling are the Soul's Powers of Perceptual Knowledge and extensions of the Lower Mind, whereby the Soul experiences the multitude of sense perceptions that constitute the external World.
 * 1) The eye (chakshu-tattva) - the organ of sight having visible formes as its object.
 * 2) The ear (srotra-tattva) - the organ of hearing, having sound as its object.
 * 3) The nose (ghrana-tattva) - the organ of smelling, having smell (odors) as its object.
 * 4) The tongue (rasana-tattva) - the organ of tasting, having flavors as its object.
 * 5) The skin (tvak-tattva) – the organ of feeling, having touch (contact) as its object.

Karmendriya - 5
The organs of actions

Speaking, Grasping, Moving About, Excreting and Sexual Activities are the Soul’s Powers of responding to and interacting with, the external World.
 * 1) The mouth (vak-tattva) - organ for speech (voice)
 * 2) The feet (pada-tattva) - organ for walking (feet)
 * 3) The hands (pani-tattva) - organ for grasping (hands)
 * 4) The anus (payu-tattva) - organ for excretion (anus)
 * 5) The genitals (upastha-tattva) - organ for procreation (genitals)

Tanmatras - 5
The archetypes or subtle rudiments of elementary matter, the five elements being resolved into the rudimentary elements of the five senses.

Sound, Touch, Colour, Flavour and Odour constitute the Soul's sense data that together form his external experiences.
 * 1) The light/form (rupa-tattva)
 * 2) The sound (sabdha-tattva)
 * 3) The taste (rasa-tattva)
 * 4) The smell (gandha-tattva)
 * 5) The consciousness/feel/palpation (sparsha-tattva)

Antahkarana - 4
The intellectual powers

 * 1) Mana – the organ of thought
 * 2) Buddhi – the organ of understanding.
 * 3) Aham – the power of mind which leads to the accomplishment of objectives, and eventually toward identifications and attachments.
 * 4) Chitta – the organ where Sanskaras are stored, and from where all the vikaras of mind originate.

Naadi - 10
The ten nerves:

 * 1) Suzhi munai – the nerve passing through six ataras
 * 2) Idakalai – the nerve beginning from the great toe of the right foot and passing up to the left nostril.
 * 3) Pinkalai - the nerve beginning from the great toe of the left foot and passing up to the right nostril.
 * 4) Kanthari – the nerve beginning at the navel and passing to the neck, where it assumes a sevenfold form, being the source of the seven musical tones of the human voice.
 * 5) Atthi
 * 6) Siguvai – situated in the region of the eyes forming ten branches, as optical nerves.
 * 7) Alambudai
 * 8) Purudan – in the region of the ears forming 120 branches or auditory nerves
 * 9) Guru – beginning at the naval and reaching to the verenda.
 * 10) Sangini – situated in the verenda.

Chakras - 7
There are seven Chakras

 * 1) Moolaadhaara
 * 2) Swaadhisthaana
 * 3) Manippoora
 * 4) Anaahata
 * 5) Vishuddhi
 * 6) Aajnaa
 * 7) Sahasraara

Dhatus - 7
The seven constituents of the body:

 * 1) The Serum
 * 2) The Blood
 * 3) The Semen
 * 4) The bone marrow
 * 5) The Flesh
 * 6) The Bone
 * 7) The Skin

Vayu - 10
The ten vital airs of the body

 * 1) Praana – situated in the heart
 * 2) Apaana - situated in the top of the head and passing downwards
 * 3) Samaana - situated in the pit of the throat
 * 4) Vyaana – pervading the whole body
 * 5) Udaana - situated in the navel
 * 6) Naaga – which effects the motions and speech
 * 7) Koorma – causing horripilation
 * 8) Krikara - seated in the face
 * 9) Devadatta – that which is exhaled in yawning
 * 10) Dhananjaya – that which remains in the body after the death and escapes by splitting the head.

Kosa - 5
There are five Kosa

 * 1) Annamaya - The food body
 * 2) Pranamaya - The force vitalizes and holds together the body and the mind
 * 3) Manomaya - The body composed of mind
 * 4) Vijnanamaya - The body composed of intellect
 * 5) Anandamaya - The body composed of bliss

Navadwaram - 9
The apertures to the body

 * 1) Two eyes
 * 2) Two ears
 * 3) Two nostrils
 * 4) The mouth
 * 5) The anus
 * 6) Urinary orifice

Vikaara - 8
(Kaama[desire], Krodha[anger], Lobha[greed], Moha[attachment], Mada[arrogance] and Maatsarya[hatred](Jealousy is also a kind of hatred) are the original Vikaaras mentioned in Gita)

The eight vices

 * 1) Lust
 * 2) Penuriousness
 * 3) Wrath
 * 4) Fierce, ungovernable lust
 * 5) Recklessness
 * 6) Ostentation
 * 7) Arrogance
 * 8) Envy

Mandala - 3
The three regions of the human body

 * 1) Agni mandala – that of fire in lower abdomen
 * 2) Aaditya mandala – of the sun in the stomach
 * 3) Chandra mandala – of the moon in the head and shoulders

Pini - 3
The three kinds of temperaments - tri doshas

 * 1) Vaata - Flatulency – inducing melancholy.
 * 2) Pitta - Bile – bilious distempers.
 * 3) Kapha - Phlegm – a phlegmatic temper.

Gunas - 3
The three attributes. (The 3 original Powers causing the creation)

 * 1) Sattva guna(Jnaana Shakti)
 * 2) Rajas guna (Kriyaa Shakti)
 * 3) Tamo guna (power of ignorance and obstruction causing darkness)

Mala - 3
The three evil passions inherent in the soul

 * 1) Pride
 * 2) Moral actions
 * 3) Maya

Avasthaa - 5
These are 5 states of consciousness in human forms.

 * 1) Jaagarita - Waking
 * 2) Swapna - copping
 * 3) Sushupti - Deep Sleep (slumber)
 * 4) Tureeya - Underlying state in all the above states
 * 5) Unmani or Tureeyateeta - State of enlightened beings where the cosmos is experienced as oneness.

title: Tattva (Ayyavazhi)