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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2015 February 4

= February 4 =

Blocking an IP user whose IP address continually changes?
Is there any way for an IP user to be blocked if their IP address continually changes? An IP user with a non-static IP address has been making disruptive edits to one particular article for over a month now. I've tried requesting for the page to be semi-protected but my request was denied on the grounds that there was not a sufficient enough amount of disruptive editing to justify protection. This IP user has also been making similar disruptive edits to other pages, so I was wondering if there was a way to block them? JayJ47 (talk) 02:29, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * When I look for disruptive editing, I'm looking for edit summaries that link to WP:BRD, invite to article talk, etc. I don't see any of that in that article, which leaves the possibility that the user is simply clueless about correct editing process. We all start out that way, and new editors generally don't learn about things like BRD until someone points them out, either in editsums or on their user talk page. I would at least establish a history of that; if the user ignores hostility-free attempts to educate them, you could consider going to AN/I with an article link and a list of IP addresses. And, of course, it's important to be sure your own house is in order regarding editing process. ― Mandruss  ☎  02:51, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The last edit to the article talk page was nine months ago. The editing by unregistered editors doesn't appear to be persistent enough to be where admins will typically semi-protect.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:59, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Page Pointer
How do I add an additional pointer to an existing page?

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_Phenom_300 New pointer: E55P (E five five P)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nastybahb (talk • contribs) 03:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * If you mean a redirect then see Help:Redirect. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:49, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Not a redirect. An alias? An alternate search argument for the same URL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nastybahb (talk • contribs) 21:21, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * That sounds a lot like a redirect. I have made a redirect at E55P. If you wanted something else then please explain the difference. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:36, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Karsan
Dear Authorities, We're, as Bound Communication Consultancy (www.bound-pr.com), responsible for Karsan's PR activities in Turkey. We realised that the content on the Karsan page has some wrong information. We would like to get in contact with you and provide the right and up to date info/data regarding Karsan and it's activites. Looking forward to hear back. Thank you for your cooporation. Best, Burcu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burcuozkutan (talk • contribs) 09:43, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Hello, . Thank you for coming here and asking, rather than just going ahead and making edits. Wikipedia is keen that the information in its articles is correct and up to date - but it is even more keen that articles are based on reliable published information, and almost all based on what other people have written about a subject. If you represent Karsan, then you have a conflict of interest, in that it may be difficult for you to write in a suitably neutral way. The best thing for you to do is to start a new section on Talk:Karsan, detailing exactly what changes you would like to see made in the article, with citations to reliable published sources (and as far as possible, to source unconnected with Karsan or yourselves, such as major newspapers). Then, because that article has not many watchers, I suggest you add edit request to the new section of the talk page; and an independent editor will come along in a bit and decide how far to implement your suggestions. (The page is sadly lacking in independent sources, so if you can suggest any more, that would be helpful as well). --ColinFine (talk) 10:26, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

"EUCXBOG" file extensions
My all file types has been changed to EUCXBOG and all file extension is showing with this Ex. .doc.eucxbog. I am troubling with this and getting the error the file has been corrected. Can any one help me??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jainam08 (talk • contribs) 11:22, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol_move_vote.svg Have you tried the section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia.  For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: [ click here] . I hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Delhi Ganesh
Hi,

This is regarding an update on the page of Tamil actor Delhi Ganesh on page "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Ganesh". On his previous career before movies, he had worked with the Indian Air Force. I know this personally as he was my father's collegue in IAF and also have a photto support the same.

Can you please add the same info.

Regards, Dayal — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:31, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Hello, Dayal, and thanks for the suggestion. I'm afraid that personal knowledge is not enough for Wikipedia articles, especially about living people. If you have a published source for this, you are welcome to add it to the article, or to suggest on the talk page Talk:Delhi Ganesh that it be added. (In fact, you could make the suggestion on the talk page anyway, and perhaps somebody else watching the page could help you find a published source). --ColinFine (talk) 14:23, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Help with editing page. Christina Katrakis
I want to ask for help in esiting page of artist Christina Katrakis. She give me new updated information and i add it to her page on Wiki but now i see this massage/

'''This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard. If you are connected to one of the subjects of this article and need help, please see this page.'''

Who can help me to solve this problem? Im bad in english so sorry for my mistakes. MariSoltus (talk) 12:26, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

And if someone help me to create page for her husband I will be very grateful MariSoltus (talk) 12:33, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Hello, . Please see the answer I gave to Dayal in the section just about, about Delhi Ganesh. --ColinFine (talk) 14:24, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Replicating and article in Portuguese to the English Wikipedia Version?
Hi There,

How can I publish in the English Wikipedia Version the following article?

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_economy

Thanks in advance.

Reinaldo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reinaldopamponet (talk • contribs) 13:06, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Hello, . Translating articles from other language Wikipedias is welcome: see WP:translation for how to go about it. Do note that different Wikipedias have their own rules and policies, and it is possible that an article in one would not be acceptable in another (if the standard of 'notability' happen to be different). --ColinFine (talk) 14:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Uncontroversial_technical_requests - Moving a page in Wikipedia German version
Hello Wikipedia We represent the artist S. Meller who has an article under her name in the Deutsch version of Wikipedia. Her name is currently spelled wrong. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivan_Meller We would like to submit an uncontroversial technical request to move the page and change the title. But we cannot find how to do so because the site is all written in German. How do we use the subst:Requested move command in the German version?

We can provide proof of representation the artist. Would be grateful for your help,

Thank you so much

iSOCIA — Preceding unsigned comment added by ISOCIA (talk • contribs) 13:49, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * This is a help page for the English Wikipedia and Requested move is a template for us with no German equivalent under "Languages" in the left pane. The German Wikipedia operates independently and you have to contact them. I don't work there and don't know their policies but I see de:Hilfe:Seite verschieben has a link to de:Wikipedia:Verschiebewünsche. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:06, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I think the best way would be just writing that in German Wikipedia talk page, associated with the article: de:Diskussion:Sivan Meller. Just follow the link and click the 'plus' link there. --CiaPan (talk) 14:17, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * de:Wikipedia:Namenskonventionen is possibly of interest as well, describing the German Wiki naming conventions for article titles. GermanJoe (talk) 14:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * See, User:ISOCIA apparently does not speak German... --CiaPan (talk) 14:31, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for catching my error. Everyone speaking German would make things so much easier :). GermanJoe (talk) 14:37, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I couldn't find anything about placing a move request at the cited help page. However, if User:ISOCIA would be so kind as to tell us exactly which name the article should have, I could ask the German Wikipedia how to make a request, or even move the page myself. J I P  | Talk 15:12, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * You only need to understand about three words of German to make the move – I could even do it myself. But I don't know the de:WP policy on naming articles, and I certainly don't know enough German to find and understand the relevant policy page. (And you have not told us what name you would prefer for the article. For all I know, her stage name and real name may be different). Maproom (talk) 15:19, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * As I wrote above, the simplest way is probably to go directly to de:Talk:Sivan Meller and put the request there. Hopefully some people watch the page and at least some of them understand English. Or just tell us what the proper name is and ask User:GermanJoe to translate the request for de-wiki. ;) --CiaPan (talk) 16:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I undid their initial request made here. Based on that, I assume that they want to replace the full first name with just the initial "S." I don't know whether German policies require that "S." be more commonly used in reliable sources than "Sivan" or not. Interesting to see that the German Wikipedia has what appears to be a more primitive mechanism for requesting moves. I hadn't really looked at how moves are requested in other languages before. – Wbm1058 (talk) 17:57, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I just posted a cross-link to here on the German talk page, and noticed that the name in the article lead is Petite Syvan Meller – spelled with a "y" rather than an "i". And that some of the reference sources linked to from the German article are actually in English, and from those the common name seems to be Petite Meller. I see that title has been deleted three times from English Wikipedia. See this for example. Wbm1058 (talk) 18:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

arranging tables in a tabular arrangement
How can I get this to line up as a nice 3×3 table of 3×3 tables? (It's intended to mimic the effect of a 4D table, which obviously I cannot display.) Double sharp (talk) 15:46, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I think you might try tables in table...

 * --CiaPan (talk) 19:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * (edit conflict) Is [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Double_sharp/sandbox&diff=645645172&oldid=645614689] OK? It uses a large 3x3 table. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:49, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks much better! But is there a way to get the row height to be constant between tables? I'd like the rows to all line up perfectly, like the bottom one already does. Double sharp (talk) 05:52, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added  items 80px high to cells to align tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=645716308 You'll probably need to add align attributes to cells ('valign' attribute or 'vertical-align' style property) to push  Schläfli symbols down. I tried also to use File:Empty.png, alas it's not square, so when I made rows aligned properly, the colums got too wide. --CiaPan (talk) 07:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I added "valign"s and now it works exactly as I wanted. It now exists at and appears at List of regular polytopes and compounds. Double sharp (talk) 07:52, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Page Title - How to edit?
How to edit the title of this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay_Kanmani) from Okay Kanmani to Ok Kanmani? The movie is recently renamed as Ok Kanmani. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karthiswam (talk • contribs) 15:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Karthiswam, welcome to Wikipedia! You can edit a title page by moving the article. See here on how to move a page. Eurodyne (talk) 16:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors David Wetzel30 Problem with Templates
Bad news: a) I can’t change my title there is another DW, so I want to call mine DW—Historian;		   b) I don’t know how to add reference the citations. All are web based—and here I am a complete neophyte. What do I do? after Last name; first name? Title? URL? Website? Publisher? Access Date? Ref? Ref name? Ref group?

As you can see, one ref follows Series). www.amazon.com/David-Wetzel/e/B001K8ZF4M/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1422836904&sr=1-2-ent

And a second—three articles following (United) States:

http://www.dailycal.org/tag/davidwetzel/http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/11/29_schol.html. http://www.dailycal.org/2014/04/11/office-hours-david-wetzel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogD3g3TYUi0

Editing Draft:David Wetzel Note: There is a Wikipedia article named David Wetzel. Find sources: "David Wetzel" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions. BoldItalicSignature and timestampLinkEmbedded fileReferenceAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpCite TemplatesNamed referencesError check On Feb 3, 2015, at

Dwetzel30 (talk) 18:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I have removed from this page the text of the draft, with the tag which mistakenly put this help page into an AFC category. Here is a link to the draft: Draft:David Wetzel --David Biddulph (talk) 20:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I have moved the draft to Draft:David Wetzel (historian). I'll have a look at the references, but I'm not promising anything. Maproom (talk) 20:08, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I have the broken reference tag which was giving the 2 errors reported, but there is still much work to be done on the draft. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:11, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I have removed raw urls which were to non-reliable sources, and those which gave 404s. I have deleted the references to the subject's own book, as a non-independent source. This leaves the url of a video, which may be acceptable as a reference, but I don't have the patience to listen to it, so I don't know if it supports any of the statements in the article. Maproom (talk) 20:30, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I think the 404s were because there were 2 URLS concatenated together, as in the original question above.
 * http://www.dailycal.org/tag/davidwetzel/http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/11/29_schol.html was presumably intended to be 2 separate URLs:
 * http://www.dailycal.org/tag/davidwetzel/ and http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/11/29_schol.html ? --David Biddulph (talk) 12:26, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ... of which the first still fails, but the second seems to work. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:28, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Move Hard Labor Creek Reservoir to Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir
'Hard Labor Creek Reservoir' article's title needs to be changed to: Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir 2602:304:AF40:3149:A43F:8C5C:5CCB:E8C6 (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Ruslik_ Zero 20:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Why was vixx filmography deleted?
Hi,

It wasn't a post created by me but it was a very useful post to me (and I know a lot of other starlights). It takes a long time to compile a whole list of everything a group has been on. It isn't anywhere else. I made an edit to it. A lot of people have contributed to that post and I don't know why it has been deleted. Is there any way to get it back? Or just get the information from it?

Thank You, Zara — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zahash22 (talk • contribs) 21:59, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * See Articles for deletion/VIXX filmography - Wikipedia is not a directory, or a collection of indiscriminate information. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Edits to Gus Gordon page
Hi, my name is Gus Gordon. I was recently left a message by a Wikipedia editor regarding an article about me on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Gordon). The message was in relation to citations and editing my own article. As I have previously explained to another Wikipedia editor, some years ago a friend informed me that a Wikipedia page about me (now since deleted) had been published by someone on Wikipedia. This page was so inaccurate that I decided to start a new page. I now realise I should not have done so as, apart from anything, it violates Wikipedia's policies of self promotion etc. I only intended to correct a badly researched article/page and, to be honest, I would rather I wasn't listed at all on Wikipedia than have this previous article defining my name.

Now I see that a Wikipedia editor has placed an 'issue' notice on the article which reads:

'This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or an institution related to the subject. It may need editing to conform to Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. There may be relevant discussion on the talk page. (February 2015)'

Obviously this is quite embarrassing. Especially knowing that those who read my books could read it. I have no intention of editing the article again. I was hoping to have either the issue notice removed or the page deleted entirely. I'd much prefer the page was removed than have the issue notice read by all. It is not the kind of 'promotion' I need. What do I need to do in this situation?

Thanks in advance,

Gus — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gusillustrator (talk • contribs) 22:16, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * @Gusillustrator: The notice is there to get other editors to review the article for tone and content. If it's written neutrally, then an independent editor should take the tag down. If it's not, they should correct it and then remove the tag. I don't have time right this minute, or I'd take a look at it myself. —C.Fred (talk) 22:31, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

 * ...And taking a look, I see that has already reviewed the text and removed the maintenance tag. —C.Fred (talk) 22:32, 4 February 2015 (UTC)


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Talk:Navasota, Texas

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 07:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Improvements needed
There appears to be a lot of copy & pasted information in this article, including a news story and info probably from some city promotional materials. Very little of it is sourced. I may remove some of the egregious portions but if others will add references feel free to add back. Amplifiedlight (talk) 23:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Being a relatively new resident of Navasota, I have to say I find most of this information troubling. There are MANY great points about Navasota, and it is absolutely NOT the gunslinging, drug riddled town depicted by the facts listed. There are some crimes here periodically, but no more so than other towns with a diverse group of citizens and income levels. There are a huge number of community activities, such as the annual Texas Birthday Bash; annual Home for the Holidays Christmas celebration including ice skating, human snow globe, lighted parade; vast growth and economic development; City sponsored mailbox replacement program; an active citizens group of Keep Navasota Beautiful that sponsors cleanups and activities throughout the year; a Citizens University; City sponsored activities offered through the Navasota Center including yoga, cooking classes, art classes; and much more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kseabythec (talk • contribs) 15:47, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Talk:Poteet, Texas

Untitled
Added NPOV marker based on Car Club section, needs revision to make less personal, also contact information should be taken out —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Mosaic?
In the article Steve Canyon, it says "A mosaic of Steve Canyon's ward, Poteet Canyon, stands in front of the city fire station in the town of Poteet, Texas." Is this true? I haven't found any evidence that it is true. I also don't have a ref that she was named after the town, although I assume that this is probably true. Herostratus (talk) 18:13, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Nevmind, found a source (for the mosiac, not the source of the name). Not a Reliable Source but probably accurate for all that. Herostratus (talk) 18:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Philip Anschutz

Fundamentalist Christian
The way the article is written as a piece of propaganda. The angry tone is remarkable to the point of being slanderous. Hawkseye 22:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello Angella101 (talk) 21:39, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Criticism?
Why is the article so stiff and laudatory? This is a guy who Fortune Magazine (yeah, FORTUNE) called "the greediest executive" on the planet! His phony "Media Research Council" were responsible for over half of the complaints the FCC received last year for "indecency" on television. I mean, come on...the guy is a right-wing apocalyptic evangelical who uses his inherited businesses to further his hateful, brainless variety of Christianity. Not to mention his hatred of reason and science which he furthers by funding the completely bogus creationist "Discovery Institute". His fundamentalism has been widely reported on in the press so why is it not at least documented in the article here? Inoculatedcities 16:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

The comments above deserve a point-by-point response. The Fortune Magazine article which branded Phil Anschutz at the "Greediest executive" failed to provide the full set of facts for the very basis of this outrageous descriptor. As the founder of Qwest and the person who invested hundreds of million dollar in the company, Anschutz was given a certain amount of "founders stock" when Qwest went public. In 1999 Anschutz sold a portion of his Qwest stock through three sales that amounted to approximately 20% of hia Qwest portfolio. The largest of the three was a $1.6 billion sale to Bell South, to which Fortune writer Mark Gimein took strong exception. What Gimein didn't report was the stock sale was required by Bell South because its officials wanted to decrease Anschutz's ownership in Qwest as a predicate to Bell Sounth entering into joint ventures with Qwest and perhaps even a merger. Anschutz held onto the remaining 80% of his original stock for years ... as its value contined to decline. Anschutz didn't sell the remaining stock until he got off the Qwest board.

The above description of Anschutz's beliefs as "brainless" and "hateful" does a disservice to everyone who takes Wikipedia seriously. (1) The Media Research Council is not "his" - Anschutz simply contributes to the organization. And if "decency" is a negative trait of conservatives ... is "indecency" the currency of liberals? (2) Anschutz did not inherit his businesses. He took the risks necessary and made the investments needed to create success and jobs. (3) The commentator claims that Anschutz has a hatred of reason and science because of he contributed to the Discovery Institute. The facts are, the Anschutz Foundation made a $70,000 grant to the Institute in 2003 for the express purpose of supporting the work of telecom guru George Gilder. The grant had nothing to do with evolution and creationism. In fact, Institute President Bruce Chapman wrote a letter-to-the-editor (Rocky Mountain News) in 2006 citing the fact that Anschutz had not given "one nickle" to their program dealing with evolution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jem303 (talk • contribs) 18:31, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Why is there no mention of his philanthropy to the Denver Art Museum, the CU Medical School and University Hospital, and other benevolent causes ? I understand not liking the guy or his political views, but the world is not so simple that holding critical conservative views negates all other benevolence. His intro notes "businessman and supporter of conservative Christian causes". Why should he be noted for only these two items, and not his philanthropy ?Miles.obediah (talk) 15:47, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Another point of criticism is that "Anschutz is a frequent donor (usually through his family foundation) to corporate front groups and think tanks involved in climate denial, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, the Pacific Research Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Mercatus Center, America's Future Foundation, the Claremont Institute, DonorsTrust, the National Chamber Foundation and The Philanthropy Foundation.", and that he "supported the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which backs legislation designed to undermine unions and the Discovery Institute which promotes creationism as an acceptable "scientific" view, in public schools." Not a single mention of that, too. The whole wiki page reads like an advertisement for Anschutz. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:57, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

 * According to the 7th edition of "Profit Without Honor" (Rosoff and Pontell), Anschutz made 1.5 billion dumping Qwest stock (page 285). Historian932 (talk) 15:55, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

 * The following paragraph below reads as if it were written by someone on a crusade against Anschutz and uses questionable sources to do so. I have removed that paragraph as per WP BLP policy and WP's expectation to use only "high-quality sources" for BLPs. WP:BLP. Furthermore, the paragraph uses negatively-loaded, value-laden language (e.g."corporate front groups" and "climate change denial" which should be tempered with a more encyclopedic, NPOV approach that sticks to the facts. WP:SUPER, WP: LABEL. It is also poorly-sourced using (1) an article written by an opinion writer who uses attack language including labeling Anschutz a "right wing extremist" WP:SOURCES and (2) directly copy-and-pasting copy from PR Watch, which violates two WP editing standards: (i) "As a general rule, do not copy text from other sources." and (ii) the use of a questionable source WP:NOTRELIABLE.

He is a frequent donor to think tanks and corporate front groups that promote climate change denial, such as the Discovery Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Heritage Foundation, the Pacific Research Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Mercatus Center, America's Future Foundation, the Claremont Institute, DonorsTrust, the National Chamber Foundation and The Philanthropy Foundation.[59][60].Writethisway (talk) 21:27, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Both Sprint and the fiber optic cable laying company that Phil Anschutz owns (can't recall name of fiber company) should be added. I worked in telecom in 1990's and the industry story about the birth of Sprint was that originally, Southern Pacific Railroad installed fiber-optic cable with a 1 to 1 ratio of the existing copper cable along its railroad right of ways, using an Anschutz-owned installation company. Obviously that resulted in huge excess capacity. There was a map of the fiber optic cable installed and someone (who understood telecom) saw the map and recognized that was the backbone of a long-distance telecom company. Sprint = Southern Pacific Railroad INTernational. That's why the early Sprint commercials were about hearing a pin drop, because they had a fiber optic network (while AT&T and MCI relied heavily on copper). Denver locals (one who worked for Southern Pacific during Anschutz's tenure) have shared that whenever Anschutz sold off companies, he always kept the cable laying company. Amidetx (talk) 02:25, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

"researches"
Someone removed the quotes I put around the word "researches" in the sentence about the Discovery Institute. The Discovery Institute certainly funds people of various levels of education and professional experience to write about and promote their patently un-scientific ideas, however, it must be stated that they do not conduct scientific research. They are an activist and proselytizing front for religious anti-evolutionists. To call their propagandizing (which is done under the guise of objectivity and isn't always explicitly religious) "research" is to grossly misunderstand and mislabel them - and to denigrate the word "research". The quotes around the word "researches" have been added back and should not be removed. If you need more information, please see the article about them (Discovery Institute) and it's talk page. Inoculatedcities 23:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

 * The quotes indicate a particular POV by Wikipedia, so I've removed them. Please do not try to insert your POV into articles in this manner.  "Researches" is a perfectly good word that encompasses many scholarly activities, most of which are not scientific.  --C S (Talk) 22:20, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the entire sentence about the Discovery Institute is a POV, and an extremist one at that. For example, it does not "deny evolution", is not Christian (although like just about all organizations, some members are Christians), and has published thousands of pages of scientific research, which the writers of this wiki page could not begin to understand. And, by the way (common myth), it is not "Creationist" either.

For that matter, what is the point in having hypertext links to other Wikipedia pages, if someone is going to reduce an entire organization to a few words of their characterization ? The idea of the hyperlink is to allow people to go to the wikipedia page for Discovery Institute, and make up their own mind (if they are interested), rather than having one person's propaganda be a substitute.

By the way, if you don't think the sentence (and the paragraph about Discovery Institute by the writer in the discussion above) is a slanted POV, then you should look the difference between "anti-Darwinist" and "anti-evolutionist". Discovery Institute is the former and not the latter, which shows the POV.

 * The difference between 'anti-Darwinist' and 'anti-evolutionist' is, frankly, only visible to anti-Darwinists and anti-evolutionists. And the difference between the Discovery Institute and a fundamentalist Christian organization is that the latter is honest about its goals and the former is not, as one can see if one examines their proposed textbooks for grade-school science.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:56, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Amen, brother.

BTW, I've decided not to edit the page in order to preserve it an example of why Wikipedia is a great example of the destructive side of technology. There will always be a prevailing slant in Wikipedia towards the viewpoint of uncreative and unproductive people - because they are the only people who could possibly be bothered to "monitor" Wikipedia pages - creative and productive people don't have the time. Once before, I got involved in "changing back" a page that had been changed by an uniformed person whose "facts" came on a daily email from his "side", and I gave up because that uninformed person had far more time to be constantly changing it back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:13, July 4, 2007

fundamentalist-themed films ?
this needs to be specified (with sources) or deleted. What fundamentalism? What themes? Are those themes exclusively fundamentalist? Very vague, OR and POV as it stands now. Northfox 12:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Golden Boy Promotions
Anschutz Entertainment recently purchased a significant (but not majority) share of Oscar De La Hoya's "Golden Boy Promotions.

23:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Somewhat related, I'd like to see a cite on Anschultz's ownerships. I am pretty sure that AEG owns the Staples Center, where the Lakers play, neither Anschultz nor AEG have a stake in the Lakers.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:02, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal
if the foundation for a better life is totally funded by Anshutz, and the page is mostly cites from their site, and it fits right in with all his other funding operations, I think we should merge it into this. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

 * No to merger, they're not selling anything nore is the article The Foundation for a Better Life selling anything. It's a non profit.--IncidentFlux [ TalkBack 16:54, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Philanthropy
Saw Philip Anschutz's profile on facesofphilanthropy.com, noticed his wiki page lacked a philanthropy section, so I added one. Sir. Somerset (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Comment How is the source of funds relative to an article about The Foundation for a Better Life? They work in 200 countries around the world promoting generosity, hope, integrity, peace, and the like- shouldn't that be the focus rather than who funds them? Maybe funds deserves mention but it should not be the focus of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Forbetterlife (talk • contribs) 20:01, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Don't merge While you can have a section about the foundation on his page, it is best to leave the articles seperate. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I removed the merge proposal from the article because there is no support for the merger. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:26, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

This section should be titled "Political Advocacy," since that is precisely what it is, and calling it "philanthropy" is as absurd as it is insulting. Arcanicus (talk) 19:45, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Can anyone tell if The Anschutz Family Foundation and The Anschutz Foundation are the same entity or different entities? I had linked to this page from Man Therapy and then found this bit of confusion. Kirby777 (talk) 03:06, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Let's don't editorialize. Facts will do.
"The payment was roughly equal to his profit from the practice of IPO "spinning"." C'mon. The contrast is interesting, and entertaining. But let's not go there. GcT (talk) 11:45, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

For instance, calling that amendment in Colorado "notorious" - a word which implies it is sinister and evil. Proper for an encyclopedic entry?!?!<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:33, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

some of the chokecherry (wyoming wind energy project) and other info is three years out of date, discussing things expected to happen in 2013 or 2011. - robbin stewart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:29, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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The lede for this BLP is poorly-sourced. For example, "Anschutz has been described as a Christian conservative, who has donated to openly antigay, anti-transgender, and anti-abortion causes" is asserted without references. When dealing with a BLP, precision is required, which means, we, as editors, must be very firm about the use of high-quality sources" Writethisway (talk) 19:10, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * "The lead must conform to verifiability, biographies of living persons, and other policies. The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and direct quotations, should be supported by an inline citation. Any statements about living persons that are challenged or likely to be challenged must have an inline citation every time they are mentioned, including within the lead." MOS:LEADCITE Writethisway (talk) 22:55, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Just because a topic is touched upon later in the article, doesn't mean it is noteworthy enough to include in the lede. The lede should establish notability which is achieved through a rigorous evaluation of multiple, high-quality sources supporting that notability. When material is both verifiable and noteworthy, it will have appeared in more reliable sources.WP:BLPR. The sentence in the lede's first paragraph: "Anschutz has been described as a Christian conservative, who has donated to openly antigay, anti-transgender, and anti-abortion causes." although true, seems to give undue weight to the topic in the lede, and should also use more reliable sources than just the one papermag.com piece cited later in the article where the same statement is found.Writethisway (talk) 15:48, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Political and Religious activisim
The following sentence violates WP style guidelines pertaining to "contentious labels" (e.g. pseudo-) WP:LABEL "Anschutz funds groups that advocate pseudoscientific concepts and viewpoints."Writethisway (talk) 22:38, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

 * The "political and social activism" section needs a major update as much of the information in it is 10 or more years old. There is also some WP:OR in it, in this sentence, "He is also a major donor to the American Enterprise Institute, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, conservative think tanks.  I clicked through on one of those tax returns (from 12 years ago) and had to spend a lot of time even finding the amounts contributed to the three named organizations and to one of them, the donation size was $25,000 that year. That doesn't seem major. However, what is or isn't considered a major or notable contribution should be determined by WP:RS not by linking to tax returns. Novellasyes (talk) 13:31, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with this comment. I recommend the sentence specify the Foundation makes the grants, not Anschutz himself. Wording should be 'the Anschutz Foundation makes grants to conservative think tanks, including [show names]'. Delete "major" unless RS can support it. DonFB (talk) 20:23, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I made that change. Also, thanks for making the conceptual clarification between what Anschutz gives as an individual (like to political parties and candidates) versus what is given through his foundation. Great distinction. Deserves two separate paragraphs and I will work on that also. Novellasyes (talk) 15:31, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

art collector
See the Summer 2005 ARTnews magazine, ARTnews (archive.org), cited from Internet archive server, List The world's top 200 collectors. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 06:42, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

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As a film enthusiast and employee of Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, I hope to update, correct and provide current information about our film library.

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Portal:Graph theory

Part of the Division of Computer Science and the Division of Pure Mathematics

Since there is already a separate division for combinatorics, the pre-requisite combinatorics necessary to study this subject can be introduced as necessary or shared with that division. Graph theory is one of the largest areas of modern mathematics, and also has interesting applications in the physical, life, and computing sciences. The area is so broad that learning materials may vary from the level of a high-school student (the introduction below) to that of a mathematics graduate.

Department news

 * Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - Department founded!

Learning materials and learning projects
Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.

Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!

 * Introduction to Graph Theory
 * Spectral Graph Theory

With video lectures

 * 1) Graph Theory (notes), L. Sunil Chandran, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
 * 2) Mathematics for Computer Science (lectures 6 to 10), Tom Leighton and Marten van Dijk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2010.
 * 3) Math107 Graph Theory, Open Course Library

Without video lectures

 * 1) Graph and Network Theory, Ilesanmi Adeboye, University of California Santa Barbara, Winter 2011.
 * 2) Graph Theory I (Math 345),  Luis Goddyn, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2011.
 * 3) Graph Theory II (Math 445), Luis Goddyn, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2013. (Earlier versions: Fall 2006)
 * 4) Graph Theory (Math 820), Luis Goddyn, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2010. (Earlier versions: Spring 2004)
 * 5) Introduction to Graph Theory, Douglas West and Stephen Hartke, University of Illinois, Spring 2005
 * 6) Graph Theory, S.A. Choudum, IIT Madras.
 * 7) Graph Theory, Oliver Riordan, University of Oxford, Spring 2014
 * 8) Introduction to Graph Theory, Mike Zabrocki, York University, Spring 2003
 * 9) Graph Theory, Mia Minnes, UC San Diego, Fall 2012.
 * 10) Combinatorics and Graph Theory, David E Speyer, University of Michigan, Fall 2013
 * 11) Graph Theory, John Mackey, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2013
 * 12) Graph Theory & Combinatorics, D. L. White, Kent State University, Fall 2009
 * 13) Graph Theory, Taje Ramsamujh, Florida International University, Spring 2015.
 * 14) Graph Theory, Jim Nastos, University of Alberta, Summer 2008.
 * 15) Graph Theory, Terry Loring, University of New Mexico, Spring 2009. (Earlier versions: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2002)

Discrete math courses containing graph theory

 * 1) Discrete Math, Michael Damron, New York University, Fall 2008. (Earlier versions: Spring 2007)
 * 2) Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics, Larry Bowen, University of Alabama.
 * 3) Discrete Structures, Margaret Fleck and Eric Shaffer, Spring 2009

Offsite Learning Materials

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 * Douglas B. West's Home Page
 * Links to open problems - West, Goddyn
 * Category:Graph theory on Wikipedia
 * Information System on Graph Classes and their Inclusions
 * Twenty Proofs of Euler's Formula: V-E+F=2

Recommended Reading Material
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 * Bollobas, Bela. (2002). Modern Graph Theory Springer. ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>

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Learning to program with Alice

Meet Alice! Alice is an incredibly fun program that has been made freely available as a public service by Carnegie Melon University.

The great part about Alice is that you'll start learning the basics of computer programming without even knowing it! Just have fun exploring and creating your own virtual world!

Getting Started
You can freely download the Alice program from http://alice.org/, but it's quite large (over 100Mb) so if you're in a class then you may want to check whether someone else has already downloaded it!

Once it's downloaded, unzip the file into a location on your computer (such as the C:\Temp). Now if you look inside the Alice folder that's been created for you (ie. C:\Temp\Alice) you'll see a file called Alice.exe - just double-click on it to get started!

Tutorial 1: Ice skater
When Alice loads up, click on the big "Start the Tutorial" button and you'll be taken step-by-step through a fun activity... just watch that skater dance!

Activity 1: After finishing the first tutorial, see if you can get your ice-skater to skate out a square!

Tutorial 2: Crushing the phone
You might want to take a break or go on directly to the second tutorial.

Activity 2: When you finish the second tutorial, come back to tutorial 1 (the Ice Skater), and have a go at adding a new method for the skater called Do Square. Whenever your skater's Do Square method is called, she should do exactly that!

Now might be a good time to think a bit about what you've learned so far. If you keep a blog for your own thoughts/learning/fun, why not take 5mins now to summarise what you've learned so far, then ask someone you know to comment on your blog with some feedback!

Tutorial 3: A sing-a-long
After completing tutorial 3, you're ready to create your first computer game! Can you believe it?! Activity 3: Come back again to tutorial 1 (the Ice Skater), and try adding some events so that when you press the arrow keys your skater skates in that direction. You could even add the spacebar as a jump button!

Hint: You might need to create two new methods: Turn Left and Turn Right.

Make sure you save your Ice Skater example world in your own folder as we'll build on this later.

Tutorial 4: Creating your own Beach scene
The fourth tutorial will show you how you can create your own scenes, using all the great 3D models that come for free with Alice!

Activity 4: When you finish this tutorial, you'll be ready to start your own project! Start creating your own world and having a look at all the different available objects!

Activity 5: Learning about Variables
Opening up your own Ice Skater example world again:
 * If you haven't already done so, add an event so that when the space bar is pressed your skater jumps.
 * Test your program to make sure that this works.

We're going to get our ice skater to remember how many times she's jumped during her performance! But to do this, we'll first need to create a variable. Just think of a variable as a container where you can store things.
 * Click on the Iceskater object in the object browser and select the Properties tab of the IceSkaters details.
 * Click on the Create New Variable button.
 * Give your variable the name howmanyjumps. By creating this variable for our IceSkater, we can get her to remember how many jumps she's done. Set the type of the variable to Number and set it's initial value to 0 (as she hasn't jumped yet!)

Next we need to make sure that whenever our Ice Skater jumps, she adds 1 to our variable howmanyjumps:
 * Click on the Methods tab of the IceSkaters details.
 * Click on the Edit button next to the Jump method, as we want to change what happens whenever she jumps
 * You'll then see a lot of code (that's the code to make her jump). If it worries you, click on the '-' next to "Do Together" at the top to minimize all the code.
 * Click back on the Properties tab of the IceSkater details and drag your howmanyjumps variable over to the end of the Jump code (it should be just after the last "IceSkater Set Pose" command.)
 * When you drop your variable their, you'll be able to tell Alice what you want to do with it. Choose the option to increment your variable by 1.

Try running your world again... notice any difference?

That's right, it doesn't seem any different yet! Even though our new bit of code is working, we haven't done anything to help us see what's going on! To do so, we'll need to use an if statement!

Activity 6: Using IF-Statements in ALICE
If-statements are one of the most useful tools of computer programmers, as they allow your programs to make decisions!

We're going to modify our IceSkaters Jump method so that if she's jumped twice already, the next time we press the space bar she'll just say "I'm too tired to jump anymore!".

Here's the steps:
 * Click on the Edit button of your Iceskaters Jump method,
 * From the bottom of the screen, drag in the If/Else statement and drop it at the top of your Jump method. When you let go of the mouse button, you will be asked to choose the condition for your If statement... just choose "true" for the moment.

Now, we want to do something special when our IceSkater has jumped twice, ie. when our howmanyjumps variable is equal to 2. To make this happen:
 * Look at your Iceskaters Properties, and drag your howmanyjumps variable into your if statement (where it currently says "true").
 * When you drop your variable in the right spot, you will be asked what you want to set as the condition. We want to say something like "If howmanyjumps is equal to 2". See if you can make this happen (Hint: in computer programming "is equal to" is often represented by two equal signs ==.)

At this point, you'll notice that your If statement says: If howmanyjumps == 2 then Do Nothing, Else Do Nothing

We can now choose what we will do when she's jumped twice, and what she'll do otherwise:
 * Looking back at the methods for your IceSkater, you'll find there a method called Say. Drag this method and drop it onto the first "Do Nothing" of your If Statement. You'll be prompted as to what you want to say, choose Other and set the text to "I'm too tired to jump any more. Sorry."
 * If our IceSkater hasn't yet jumped twice, we just want her to do her normal thing, so drag all the statements that are below your If statement into the Else section of your If statement (where the remaining "Do Nothing" is).

Now test your program! You should find that your IceSkater will jump twice, but after that will tell you she's too tired.

Practice: To practice creating variables and using IF statements, we're going to modify our program so that our IceSkater gets dizzy if she spins too much! Here's some tips to get started:

 * Add a new event so that when the 'S' key is pressed, your skater spins (and test to make sure it works).
 * Create a new variable for your IceSkater called howmanyspins (set to 0 initially).
 * Edit your Iceskaters Spin method so that after all the other code, your new variable is incremented by 1.
 * Add an IF statement to your Spin method so that if your IceSkater has already done two spins she says "I'm feeling dizzy. Sorry.", otherwise she should do her normal Spin.

Test to make sure it works and get someone else to take a look at your work!

Activity 7: Using While-loops in ALICE
To be completed.

A design project
Now the fun begins... Let your imagination run wild and create your own interactive world!

Your situation is this: A recruiter at KidzWorks - a company that designs interactive computer experiences for toddlers - has heard some good reports about your creative abilities with computers (through your facilitator of course!). Her name is Janet and she's keen to see your creative flair in action. Janet's asked you to build a small interactive environment for 3-5 year olds. Here's what Janet's written:

Hi! Thanks for taking up this challenge! I hope it will be a rewarding experience for you too! Basically, we're keen to create small interactive worlds that young kids can play with - similar to the singing penguins that you should have already seen when you were learning Alice, but something of your own! Feel free to be creative, but be careful not to make your project too complicated... You might choose an activity that helps with counting or spelling or another idea of your own!

1. Deciding on your activity
The first decision you'll need make is how your users (remember, they're 3-5 years old!) will interact with your world. Most of our environments simply involve the user clicking on different objects - but don't let that restrict you! The objects can make sounds when clicked on, or change colour, or disappear... that's up to you. You may want to run your idea past your classmates or facilitator to get additional ideas too.

2. Designing your world
You'll then need to create your world, importing and arranging the 3D objects that will decorate your world! Note, you can grab lots of pre-designed objects from the Alice Gallery online

3. Creating your interaction
Once your world is ready you can begin adding interaction through mouse or keyboard events. You can have objects that change or make noises when your users click on them, or you might allow your users to control the movement of an object using the keyboard or mouse.

4. Creating your introduction
It's useful for your users to see what your world is about when it first starts - just like the brief song of the singing penguins in the third tutorial that helps you to see that the penguins each sing a note! Design and create a brief animated introduction (10-30secs) for your own world that is played whenever your world first starts. This intro should help your users see how they can interact with your world.

Checklist
Once your world is finished, you should find that you have:
 * imported objects into your world
 * used the methods and properties of different objects within your world
 * created your own methods for some objects within your world
 * added your own events to your world so that your world reacts to user interaction
 * had some fun learning the basics of computer programming!

In addition, you should have also
 * used a variable or two in your program to count something (or add functionality in some way!)
 * used an IF-statement or two to make decisions in your program

If you were really tricky, you may have also
 * used a While-loop to repeat a few things in your program!

I hope you enjoy creating your first interactive world, and if we like what we see, we might have a development position becoming available at Kidzworks shortly!

- Janet.

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I’m looking for a 1970s or very early 80s David Groh movie. In it he played a husband trying to help his wife figure out something to do with devil worshippers or witches possessing people, at the end he goes missing and his wife sees him in a park as a mounted policeman and he does not acknowledge her, because he has been possessed <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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Integer

 * This may need some disambiguation information to deal with the computer programming data type.

The integers are a very fundamental mathematical set on which arithmetic is based. They are the familiar "whole numbers"; that is, they do not include fractional quantities. They include zero and negative whole numbers—the natural numbers are the set that includes only positive whole numbers. That is, the integers are the set $$\dots -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, \dots$$.

Mathematicians denote the set of integers with an ornate capital letter: $$\mathbb{I}$$. They are the 2nd item in this hierarchy of types of numbers:

 * The "natural numbers"—$$\mathbb{N}$$, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...
 * The "integers"—$$\mathbb{I}$$, positive, negative, and zero
 * The "rational numbers"—$$\mathbb{Q}$$, or fractions, like 355/113
 * The "real numbers"—$$\mathbb{R}$$, including irrational numbers
 * The "complex numbers"—$$\mathbb{C}$$, which give solutions to polynomial equations

Definition of the integers
Integer represents a set of signed numbers namely Negative numbers, Zero and Positive numbers. Integer is denoted as I. So Negative number is -I and Positive number is +I

 * $$I = {-I,0,+I}$$

Where
 * $$I$$ . Integer
 * $$-I$$ . Negative integer
 * $$+I$$ . Positive integer

Negative number is defined as a number has value less than zero
 * $$-I < 0$$

Positive number is defined as a number has value greater zero
 * $$+I > 0$$

Example Integers of octal base
 * $$I = {-9,-8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6,+7,+8,+9}$$

Differfent integers

 * $$(-I) + 0 = -I$$
 * $$(+I) + 0 = +I$$
 * $$(+I) + (-I) = 0$$
 * $$(-I) + (+I) = 0$$

Like positive integer

 * $$(+I) + (+I) = +2I$$
 * $$(+I) - (+I) = 0$$
 * $$(+I) \times (+I) = I^2$$
 * $$(+I) / (+I) = 1$$

Like negative integer

 * $$(-I) + (-I) = -2I$$
 * $$(-I) - (-I) = 0$$
 * $$(-I) \times (-I) = I^2$$
 * $$(-I) / (-I) = 1$$

Addition
For all positive x and y, we extend addition to all integers as follows. The value of x+(-y) depends on which is larger, x or y.
 * If $$x > y$$, $$x+(-y) = x-y$$
 * If $$x < y$$, $$x+(-y) = -(y-x)$$
 * Also, $$(-y)+x$$ = $$x+(-y)$$, and $$(-x)+(-y) = -(x+y)$$
 * Finally, $$x+0 = 0+x = x$$ for all x, positive, negative, or zero.

Negation
This operator, written "-x", has already been defined for positive numbers. For negative numbers, we define
 * $$ -(-x) = x$$. Also, $$-0 = 0$$.

Subtraction
We define subtraction for all numbers, positive, negative, or zero, in terms of negation and addition
 * $$x-y = x+(-y)$$

Multiplication
For negative numbers, we define
 * $$x \times (-y) = -(x \times y)$$
 * $$(-x)\times y = -(x \times y)$$
 * $$0 \times x = x \times 0 = 0$$

 * Ordering: If x and y are both positive numbers:
 * $$-x < -y$$ if and only if $$x > y$$
 * $$-x < 0$$, $$-x < y$$
 * $$0 > -y$$, $$x > -y$$
 * In all cases,
 * $$x x

From these definitions, we can then prove all the various commutativity, associativity, and distributivity properties, and the trichotomy law. This is left as an exercise.

Group and ring properties
The integers, with their property of addition, constitute a group. Groups are extremely important objects in mathematics. A group requires a set (the integers), an operation (addition), an "inverse" operation (negation—the natural numbers don't have this, so they are not a group), and an "identity" operation (zero). To be a group, the operation must be associative, a property which the integers satisfy. Also, since addition

Furthermore, the integers have a multiplication operator, satisfying the distributive law, and having a multiplicative identity (1). This makes the integers a ring.

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Senator Libby

Senator Libby may refer to:

 * Charles Libby (1844–1915), Maine State Senate
 * Nate Libby (born 1985), Maine State Senate

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Set theory

Basic Definition
The term "set" can be thought as a well-defined collection of objects. In set theory, These objects are often called "elements". (Example)    $$x \in \mathbb{R}$$. In this case, $$x$$ is the element and $$\mathbb{R}$$ is the set of all real numbers.
 * We usually use capital letters for the sets, and lowercase letters for the elements.
 * If an element $$a$$ belongs to a set $$A$$, we can say that "$$a$$ is a member of the set $$A$$", or that "$$a$$ is in $$A$$", or simply write $$ a \in A $$.
 * Similarly, if $$a$$ is not in $$A$$, we would write $$a \notin A$$.

Notation
Example of a common notation style for the definition of a set: $$A = \{ x \in S \mid P(x) \}$$
 * $$S$$ is a set
 * $$P(x)$$ is a property (The elements of $$S$$ may or may not satisfy this property)
 * Set $$A$$ can be defined by writing:

This would read as "the set of all $$x$$ in $$S$$, such that $$P$$ of $$x$$."

Elements
There are two ways that we could show which elements are members of a set: by listing all the elements, or by specifying a rule which leaves no room for misinterpretation. In both ways we will use curly braces to enclose the elements of a set. Say we have a set $$A$$ that contains all the positive integers that are smaller than ten. In this case we would write $$A = \{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9\}$$. We could also use a rule to show the elements of this set, as in $$A = \{a:\text{ }a\text{ positive integer less than 10}\}$$.

In a set, the order of the elements is irrelevant, as is the possibility of duplicate elements. For example, we write $$X = \{ 1, 2, 3 \}$$ to denote a set $$X$$ containing the numbers 1, 2 and 3. Or,$$X = \{ 1, 2, 3 \} = \{3,2,1 \} = \{1,1,2,3,3\}$$.

Subsets
Formal universal conditional statement: "set A is a subset of a set B" Negation: If and only if: for all $$x$$: If: ($$x$$ is an element of A)        then: ($$x$$ is an element of B) then: set A is a subset of set B Truth Table Example:
 * $$A \subseteq B \Leftrightarrow \forall x$$, if $$x \in A$$, then $$x \in B. $$
 * $$A \nsubseteq B \Leftrightarrow \exists x$$ such that $$x \in A$$ and $$x \notin B. $$

A proper subset of a set is a subset that is not equal to its containing set. Thus

A is a proper subset of B $$\iff$$

Set Identities
Let all sets referred to below be subsets of a universal set U.

(a) A ∪ ∅ = A and (b) A ∩ U = A.

5. Complement Laws:

(a) A ∪ A c = U and (b) A ∩ A c = ∅.

6. Double Complement Law:

(A c ) c = A.

7. Idempotent Laws:

(a) A ∪ A = A and (b) A ∩ A = A.

8. Universal Bound Laws:

(a) A ∪ U = U and

(b) A ∩ ∅ = ∅.

{| class="wikitable" !Identity !For all sets A ! $$A \cup \emptyset = A$$
 * Identity Laws:
 * Identity Laws:

$$A \cup A^c = U$$ $$A \cap A^c =\emptyset$$ $$A \cap A = A$$
 * Complement Laws:
 * Complement Laws:
 * Double Complement Law:
 * $$\left( A^c \right)^c = A$$
 * Idempotent Laws:
 * $$A \cup A =A$$
 * Idempotent Laws:
 * $$A \cup A =A$$
 * Idempotent Laws:
 * $$A \cup A =A$$
 * Universal Bound Laws:
 * }
 * Universal Bound Laws:
 * }
 * }
 * }

2. Associative Laws: For all sets A, B, and C,

(a) (A ∪ B) ∪ C = A ∪ (B ∪ C) and

(b) (A ∩ B) ∩ C = A ∩ (B ∩ C).

3. Distributive Laws: For all sets, A, B, and C,

(a) A ∪ (B ∩ C) = (A ∪ B) ∩ (A ∪ C) and

(b) A ∩ (B ∪ C) = (A ∩ B) ∪ (A ∩ C).

For all sets A and B,

De Morgan’s Laws:

(a) (A ∪ B) c = A c ∩ B c and (b) (A ∩ B) c = A c ∪ B c.

Absorption Laws:

(a) A ∪ (A ∩ B) = A and (b) A ∩ (A ∪ B) = A.

Set Difference Law:
 * A − B = A ∩ B c.

Complements of U and ∅:
 * $$U^c= \empty$$
 * $$\empty^c = U$$

Cardinality
The cardinality of a set is the number of elements in the set. The cardinality of a set $$ A $$ is denoted $$ |A| $$.

Types of Sets by Cardinality
A set can be classified as finite, countable, or uncountable.
 * Finite Sets are sets that have finitely many elements, $$ A = \{1,2,3\} $$ is a finite set of cardinality 3. More formally, a set $$A$$ is finite if a bijection exists between $$A$$ and a set $$\{1,\ldots,n\} $$ for some natural number $$n$$. $$n$$ is the said set's cardinality.
 * Countable Sets are sets that have as many elements as the set of natural numbers. As since $$ |\mathbb{Q}| = |\mathbb{N}|$$, the set of rational numbers is countable.
 * Uncountable Sets are sets that have more elements than the set of natural numbers. As since $$ |\mathbb{R}| > |\mathbb{N}|$$, the set of real numbers is uncountable.

Common Sets of Numbers

 * $$\mathbb{N}$$ is the set of Naturals
 * $$\mathbb{Z}$$ is the set of Integers
 * $$\mathbb{Q}$$ is the set of Rationals
 * $$\mathbb{R}$$ is the set of Reals
 * $$\mathbb{C}$$ is the set of Complex Numbers

Comparison of Sets
2 sets $$A$$ and $$B$$ have the same cardinality (i.e. $$|A| = |B|$$), if there exists a bijection from $$A$$ to $$B$$. In the case of $$ |\mathbb{Q}| = |\mathbb{N}|$$, they are the same cardinality as there exists a bijection from $$\mathbb{Q}$$ to $$\mathbb{N}$$.

Partitions of Sets
In many applications of set theory, sets are divided up into non-overlapping (or disjoint) pieces. Such a division is called a partition.

Two sets are called disjoint if, and only if, they have no elements in common."A and B are disjoint ⇔ A ∩ B = ∅."

Sets $$A_{1}, A_{2} , A_{3}, \ldots$$ are mutually disjoint (or pairwise disjoint or nonoverlapping)

if, and only if, no two sets $$A_{i}$$ and $$ A_{j}$$ with distinct subscripts have any elements in

common. More precisely, for all $$i, j = 1,2,3,\ldots $$

$$A_{i} \cap A_{j} = \emptyset$$ whenever $$i \not= j$$.

Power Sets
The power set of a set A is all possible subsets of A, including A itself and the empty set. Which can be represented: $$P_{(A)} = \{ \emptyset, \{ 1 \}, \{ 2 \}, \ldots \}$$

For the set $$ A = \{1,2,3\}$$

$$P_{(A)} = \{\emptyset,\{1\},\{2\},\{3\},\{1,2\},\{1,3\},\{2,3\},\{1,2,3\}\}$$

Wikiversity

 * Introduction_to_set_theory/Lecture_1

Wikipedia

 * Set theory category

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Frankie Owen

Francesca "Frankie" Owen (born 27 March 1988) is an Australian synchronized swimmer. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in synchronized swimming.

Personal
Nicknamed Frankie, Owen was born on 27 March 1988 in Chester, United Kingdom. She moved to Australia with her Welsh father and English mother when she was a baby, though some members of her family continued to live in the area. She attended a primary school in Kimberley Park before going to Indooroopilly State High School. At Kimberley Park, future Olympic teammate Samantha Reid was one of her classmates. She later earned a Bachelor of Mass Communication in Marketing and Photography. , she works as a Social Photographer for b105 and Triple M radio. She also works as a model for the Brisbane-based Dallys Models. , she lives in Pullenvale, Queensland

Owen is 157 cm tall and weighs 53 kg.

Synchronized swimming
Owen is a synchronized swimmer, and has been coached by Marina Kholod and Anna Nepotcheva since 2011.

Owen has several honors. For 1998-1999 and 1999-2000, she was awarded the 12 Years and Under Solo Champion Trophy by Queensland Synchronized Swimming. In March 2002, she was awarded the 13 14 15 Years Solo Champion Trophy by Queensland Synchronized Swimming. In 2005-2006, she was award the Junior Figure Champion Trophy by Queensland Synchronized Swimming. She retired from the sport despite being only eighteen years old at the time only to unretire later.

Owen represented Australia at the 2005 World Championship in the team event. She competed at the 2006 Oceania Championships in the Combination Team and Junior Solo events. The FINA World Championships held in Shanghai, China served as the 2012 Olympic qualifying event for the team. In the technical team portion, her team finished 18th and in the Free Team event, her team finished 17th. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in synchronized swimming. The London Games were her first. She was 23 years old at the Games. She performed one of the team's solo performances in front of her extended family.

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User:Boud

see.

i may try wikiversity:

GR/GR course northern "summer" semester feb-jun 2011

 * university wiki page: http://cosmo.torun.pl/foswiki/bin/view/Cosmo/SRandGR
 * projector presentation pdf: TODO
 * exercises: TODO
 * but maybe too longwinded for a 1 or 2 lecture presentation of SR?
 * some problems, but not too bad as a textbook, emphasises geometrical approach
 * various articles from
 * - how to create a pdf from wikipedia or wikibooks material - link in left column after logging in
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Questions

 * What are the practical possibilities for using WM resources and for contributing to them?
 * pdf presentation
 * wims exercises
 * probably through the WIMS distribution of sources under the GPL
 * should be multi-licensed (e.g. GPL for WIMS data set, plus GFDL + CC-BY-SA-3.0 in order to sastisfy WMF licensing as of 2011)
 * Is there any point in using/helping Wikiversity?
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Talk:Ken Price (South Australian)

Proposed deletion
 This article should be kept because:  a) it is part of a series of articles, all of which have been reviewed, b) these politicians are more than just that, they are all known for another key detail, c)others have been proposed for deletion and have been kept, setting precedent, d) they have survived for several months without issue, e) other uses have reviewed and therefore  approved the content of the pages, leading to a conclusion that they  should not  be deleted, and f) a deficit of information on South Australian politicians exists and needs to be expanded on Wikipedia. Many other counties have pages just for mayors; why is that any different to these ones? SpaceFox99 (talk) 23:42, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

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User:Reggiezhu

Reggie Zhu

A human factor specialist based in Shanghai, China. I majored in Sociology. I am working with organizations who cares about their users. I love observing and listening to people's stories.

I am a music fan, a runner and a bike rider.

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Talk:gam

Gam vs. gamb. I can't find any citation for gam as leg. However, gamb from gamba does show up. So, if nobody objects, I will delete gam as leg, find some quotes, and start a page for gamb. Ben 17:25, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

RFV discussion: February–March 2015
RFV-sense "alternative spelling of gom: silly, foolish person". I managed to cite the whaling senses of gam, and I managed to cite this sense in the spelling gom, but I can't find this sense in this spelling. - -sche (discuss) 06:39, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * RFV-failed. Had only one citation:

- -sche (discuss) 20:45, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 1992, Kenneth Darwin, Familia 1992: Ulster Geneological Review: Number 8 ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>:
 * At some stage some gam of an official decided that Guihen should be translated to the English name Wynne.

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Brainfuck

Etymology
, implying that it is confusing to use.

Proper noun

 * 1) A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.

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Kumar Barve

Kumar Prabhakar Barve (कुमार बर्वे; born September 8, 1958) is an American Democratic Party politician. He is a member of the Maryland Public Service Commission, to which he was appointed by Governor Wes Moore in May 2023. He was previously a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing district 17 in Montgomery County, from 1991 to 2023. He was the first Indian-American to be elected to a state legislature in the United States. From 2002 to 2015, Barve served as Majority Leader of the House of Delegates.

His legislative work focused largely on protecting the environment, improving health care, and the promotion of the high-tech industry in Maryland. In 2015, he was appointed to chair the House Environment and Transportation Committee, which oversees transportation, the environment, agriculture, ethics, and housing and real property law. He sponsored both the 1995 Health Access Act that place limits on HMOs for the first time and legislation that created the Technology Development Corporation of Maryland.

He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 in Maryland's 8th congressional district, losing the Democratic Primary to the eventual winner, State Senator Jamie Raskin.

Personal life
Barve was born on September 8, 1958, in Schenectady, New York, to Indian-American parents. The family later moved to Maryland, where he attended Paint Branch High School in Silver Spring. In 1980, Barve graduated from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business with a B.S. degree in Accounting.

Legislative career
Barve was first elected to the House of Delegates in 1990, finishing third in the contest for district 17's three seats behind incumbents Jennie M. Forehand and Mike Gordon but ahead of four other challengers. As a result of his victory, Barve became the first Indian-American to serve in a state legislature. He took office in January, 1991, and was appointed to the House Economic Matters Committee, which considers legislation related to business and labor policy and regulation.

After his first re-election in 1994, Barve rose in leadership with his appointment as chair of a subcommittee, first the Real Property subcommittee in 1995 and 1996, and later the Science and Technology Subcommittee from 1997 to 2003. Also in 1995, he was elected to chair the Montgomery County Delegation to Annapolis. Barve was re-elected in 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010.

Following the election of a new Speaker, Michael E. Busch, in 2003, Barve was appointed to serve as majority leader, the leader of the Democratic majority and second in command to the Speaker. He served for two years on the Environmental Matters Committee before moving again to the Ways and Means Committee, where he oversaw tax policy as Chair of the Revenues Subcommittee from 2007 to 2010. In additional, he serves on a number of major joint committees, including the Legislative Policy Committee, Spending Affordability Committee, as chair of the Joint Information Technology and Biotechnology Committee, and as house chair of the Joint Committee on Transparency and Open Government.

In 2015, Barve left his post as majority leader to become chair of the renamed Environment and Transportation Committee. His appointment coincided with the election of a new Republican Governor, Larry Hogan and debate over a number of significant environmental issues. Among the significant pieces of legislation Barve's committee worked on in the first year of the new term were a moratorium and public health study on fracking, a major reform to the state's stormwater protection fee, and debate over regulations which will require farms to severely limit the phosphorus that runs from their lands into the Chesapeake Bay.

Barve's work as a legislator over the length of his career has focused on a broad range of issues. In 1995, he successfully sponsored the first state bill in the nation to regulate HMOs, the Maryland Health Access Act of 1995. The act allows health care patients to see doctors outside of the network of HMO providers, ensures that HMOs can't bar providers from sharing information if it jeopardizes patient care, and prohibits the use of financial incentives by HMOs that curtail and compromise care. He later co-sponsored the law that bars insurance companies based in Maryland from using pre-existing conditions to deny coverage.

Barve has also worked extensively on the promotion of technology and of high tech businesses. He authored Maryland's version of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). The Act both affirms the intellectual-property rights of software developers and provides unprecedented consumer protections to purchasers of computer equipment. He sponsored legislation that created the Technology Development Corporation of Maryland, which promotes high-technology business development in Maryland. In 1999, Barve's bill to define the powers of corporations in making certain gifts passed both houses and was signed by the governor.

In the 2008 presidential election, Barve endorsed Barack Obama for president.

On April 6, 2023, Governor Wes Moore announced he would appoint Barve to the Maryland Public Service Commission. He resigned from the Maryland House of Delegates on May 1, 2023.

Controversies
In November 2007, Barve was cited by Gaithersburg Police for driving under the influence of alcohol while operating a vehicle. On July 17, 2008, Barve pleaded guilty and received a probation before judgement, and suspension of all but $200 of a $1,000 fine.

In 2008, it was reported that Barve and his wife were inappropriately receiving a Homestead Property Tax Credit on two properties that they had owned separately prior to their marriage. Barve indicated that he had assumed Anne Arundel County would delete the tax credit on the property his wife had owned prior to their marriage once the couple declared his residence in Gaithersburg to be their primary joint residence. While early reports were critical of Barve, the Associate Director of Assessments and Taxation for Maryland later told reporters than nothing improper had taken place, and that such errors had occurred repeatedly in cases where individuals owned homes and then later married. Barve pledged that he would re-pay any money that the couple did not pay earlier due to the error.

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Upper Boat power station

Upper Boat power station supplied electricity to the town of Pontypridd and the wider area from 1904 to 1972. The power station was developed in several stages firstly in 1902, then from 1924 to 1942. It was owned and operated by the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company until the nationalisation of the electricity supply industry in 1948. The station was decommissioned in 1972 and was demolished in 1976.

History
Upper Boat power station was built by the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company from 1902. The company was established by Parliament through the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. cclxxxii). The legal authority to undertake redevelopment was given by local acts of Parliament: the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. vi) and the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. lxvii). The company also owned and operated Llynfi power station and generating stations at Abercarn, Caerphilly, Cowbridge, Llantwit Fardre, Panteg, and St. Mellons.

The power station at Upper Boat (51°34'34"N 3°18'07"W) was adjacent to the Great Western Railway and the generating station had sidings for the delivery of coal. The site was also adjacent to the River Taff which provided water for cooling.

The foundation stone was laid on 30 April 1902. Electricity was first generated in 1904.

Equipment specification
The new (1924-42) plant at Upper Boat power station was installed in several phases:

 * 18 MW (low pressure) in 1924,
 * 20 MW (low pressure) in 1925,
 * 25 MW (low pressure) in 1929,
 * 3 × 30 MW (high pressure) in 1939, 1940 and 1942

The plant comprised:

 * Boilers:
 * 8 × Babcock and Wilcox 60,000 lb/h (7.56 kg/s) stoker fired boilers operating at 350 psi and 650/750°F (24.1 bar and 343/399 °C),
 * 4 × Babcock and Wilcox 182,000 lb/h (22.93 kg/s) pulverised fuel boilers operating at 650 psi and 850°F (44.8 bar and 454°C),
 * 1 × Babcock and Wilcox 364,000 lb/h (45.86 kg/s) pulverised fuel boiler operating at 650 psi and 850°F (44.8 bar and 454°C),
 * 1 × Mitchell 182,000 lb/h (22.93 kg/s) chain grate/ pulverised fuel boiler operating at 650 psi and 850°F (44.8 bar and 454°C),

The total evaporative capacity of the boilers was 1,754,000 lb/h (221 kg/s).

 * Coaling equipment:
 * Pulverising mills, 'Lopulco' 13.5 tons/h on 2 boilers, 27 tons/h on 1 boiler, Babcock & Wilcox ‘E’ type 10.8 tons/h on 2 boilers, 'Atritor' 5.4 tons/h on 1 boiler.

 * Generating sets:
 * 1 × 18 MW Parsons, Mirrlees-Watson condenser,
 * 1 × 25 MW Parsons,
 * 1 × 20 MW English Electric, Hick-Hargreaves condenser,
 * 3 × 30 MW English Electric, 1 generating at 11 kV, 2 at 33 kV, the first machine was the two-cylinder impulse-reaction type, with double-flow exhaust, 3,000 rpm.
 * 2 × 1 MW Allen-GEC auxiliary sets, 400 V.

The total installed generating capacity was 155 MW, and the output capacity was 144 MW.

Condensing water was taken from River Taff at 6.42 million gallons per hour (8.11 m3/s); there was 1 Film reinforced concrete cooling tower with a capacity of 2.25 million gallons per hour (2.84 m3/s).

There was a 132 kV substation south east of the power station that provided the electricity connection to the national grid. Later a 275 kV substation was built south of the power station.

Operations
By 1923 the station had a generating capacity of 14 MW, and sold 49 GWh of electricity.

Soon after the commissioning of the new plant at Upper Boat power station the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 (16-17 Geo. 5 c. 51) was enacted. This established the Central Electricity Board (CEB) with a duty to identify high efficiency ‘selected’ power stations that would supply electricity most effectively; Upper Boat was designated a selected station. The CEB also constructed the national grid (1927–33) to connect power stations within a region.

From about 1937 steam from the station was used to provide process and space heating to the nearby Treforest trading estate.

The British electricity supply industry was nationalised in 1948 under the provisions of the Electricity Act 1947 (10-11 Geo. 6 c. 54). The South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company was abolished, ownership of Upper Boat power station was vested in the British Electricity Authority, and subsequently the Central Electricity Authority and the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). At the same time the electricity distribution and sales responsibilities of the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company were transferred to the South Wales Electricity Board (SWALEB).

Operating data
Operating data for the period 1946–72 is shown in the table: The less intensive use of the ‘low pressure’ plant between 1954 and 1958 is evident.

Closure and aftermath
Upper Boat power station was decommissioned in 1972. The buildings subsequently demolished in 1976 and the area has been redeveloped with industrial and commercial units. The 132 kV and 275 kV substations are extant (2020).

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Top-rated United States television programs of 1965–66

This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1965–66 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research.


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benedizione

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  blessing
 * 2)  praise, commendation
 * 3)  blessing
 * 4)  a wish of good fortune
 * 5)  good fortune, good luck
 * 6)  a consecrated item, thought to bring good luck
 * 7)  charity

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Majoran

Etymology
From, from Late , from.

Noun

 * 1) marjoram,

Etymology
From, from Late , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) marjoram

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Luis Alberti (actor)

Luis Alberti (born 30 October 1981) is a Mexican actor. He studied acting at La Casa del Teatro, and stood out in the film Eisenstein in Guanajuato, and later in the Mexican film Encarnación. On television it was highlighted by series as Rosario Tijeras (2016–2017), and El César (2017), and more recently for playing the Mexican singer José Guadalupe Esparza, in the biographical series Bronco: The Series.

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World on Fire (Daughtry song)

"World on Fire" is a song by American rock band Daughtry. Written by lead singer Chris Daughtry, it is the first single from their sixth studio album Dearly Beloved. It was released on August 13, 2020, via Dogtree Records as the album's lead single.

Composition
"World on Fire" is a song written by Chris Daughtry. The song is about how the world was, literally and figuratively, "on fire" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd protests and the bushfires during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season during the year 2020.

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Hail to the Hills of Westwood

"Hail to the Hills of Westwood" is the school song or alma mater of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was written by Jeane Margaret Emerson a 1929 graduate of UCLA, and adopted by the school in 1960. The current arrangement performed by the UCLA Marching Band was written by band member Dwayne S. Milburn for the 1985 football season.

Until 1925, UCLA shared the University of California alma mater, "Hail to California!" "Hail Blue and Gold", written by a UCLA student in 1925, preceded "Hail to the Hills of Westwood", and was the school song until 1960.

Other UCLA school songs

 * "Mighty Bruins" - UCLA touchdown song written by Bill Conti in 1984
 * "Rover" - UCLA victory song
 * "Sons of Westwood"
 * "Strike Up The Band (song)" - UCLA official song
 * "The Bruin Warriors" - a version of "Big C" created in 2014

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Reticulate evolution

Reticulate evolution, or network evolution is the origination of a lineage through the partial merging of two ancestor lineages, leading to relationships better described by a phylogenetic network than a bifurcating tree. Reticulate patterns can be found in the phylogenetic reconstructions of biodiversity lineages obtained by comparing the characteristics of organisms. Reticulation processes can potentially be convergent and divergent at the same time. Reticulate evolution indicates the lack of independence between two evolutionary lineages. Reticulation affects survival, fitness and speciation rates of species.

Reticulate evolution can happen between lineages separated only for a short time, for example through hybrid speciation in a species complex. Nevertheless, it also takes place over larger evolutionary distances, as exemplified by the presence of organelles of bacterial origin in eukaryotic cells.

Reticulation occurs at various levels: at a chromosomal level, meiotic recombination causes evolution to be reticulate; at a species level, reticulation arises through hybrid speciation and horizontal gene transfer; and at a population level, sexual recombination causes reticulation.

The adjective reticulate stems from the Latin words reticulatus, "having a net-like pattern" from reticulum, "little net."

Underlying mechanisms and processes
Since the nineteenth century, scientists from different disciplines have studied how reticulate evolution occurs. Researchers have increasingly succeeded in identifying these mechanisms and processes. It has been found to be driven by symbiosis, symbiogenesis (endosymbiosis), lateral gene transfer, hybridization and infectious heredity.

Symbiosis
Symbiosis is a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms. Often, both of the organisms involved develop new features upon the interaction with the other organism. This may lead to the development of new, distinct organisms. The alterations in genetic material upon symbiosis can occur via germline transmission or lateral transmission. Therefore, the interaction between different organisms can drive evolution of one or both organisms.

Symbiogenesis
Symbiogenesis (endosymbiosis) is a special form of symbiosis whereby an organism lives inside another, different organism. Symbiogenesis is thought to be very important in the origin and evolution of eukaryotes. Eukaryotic organelles, such as mitochondria, have been theorized to have been originated from cell-invaded bacteria living inside another cell.

Lateral gene transfer
Lateral gene transfer, or horizontal gene transfer, is the movement of genetic material between unicellular and/or multicellular organisms without a parent-offspring relationship. The horizontal transfer of genes results in new genes, which could give new functions to the recipient and thus could drive evolution.

Hybridization
In the neo-Darwinian paradigm, one of the assumed definition of a species is that of Mayr's, which defines species based upon sexual compatibility. Mayr's definition therefore suggests that individuals that can produce fertile offspring must belong to the same species. However, in hybridization, two organisms produce offspring while being distinct species. During hybridization the characteristics of these two different species are combined yielding a new organism, called a hybrid, thus driving evolution.

Infectious heredity
Infectious agents, such as viruses, can infect the cells of host organisms. Viruses infect cells of other organisms in order to enable their own reproduction. Hereto, many viruses can insert copies of their genetic material into the host genome, potentially altering the phenotype of the host cell. When these viruses insert their genetic material in the genome of germ line cells, the modified host genome will be passed onto the offspring, yielding genetically differentiated organisms. Therefore, infectious heredity plays an important role in evolution, for example in the formation of the female placenta.

Models
Reticulate evolution has played a key role in the evolution of some organisms such as bacteria and flowering plants. However, most methods for studying cladistics have been based on a model of strictly branching cladogeny, without assessing the importance of reticulate evolution. Reticulation at chromosomal, genomic and species levels fails to be modelled by a bifurcating tree.

According to Ford Doolittle, an evolutionary and molecular biologist: “Molecular phylogeneticists will have failed to find the “true tree,” not because their methods are inadequate or because they have chosen the wrong genes, but because the history of life cannot properly be represented as a tree”.

Reticulate evolution refers to evolutionary processes which cannot be successfully represented using a classical phylogenetic tree model, as it gives rise to rapid evolutionary change with horizontal crossings and mergings often preceding a pattern of vertical descent with modification. Reconstructing phylogenetic relationships under reticulate evolution requires adapted analytical methods. Reticulate evolution dynamics contradict the neo-Darwininan theory, compiled in the Modern Synthesis, by which the evolution of life occurs through natural selection and is displayed with a bifurcating or branching pattern. Frequent hybridisation between species in natural populations challenges the assumption that species have evolved from a common ancestor by simple branching, in which branches are genetically isolated. The study of reticulate evolution is said to have been largely excluded from the modern synthesis. The urgent need for new models which take reticulate evolution into account has been stressed by many evolutionary biologists, such as Nathalie Gontier who has stated "reticulate evolution today is a vernacular concept for evolutionary change induced by mechanisms and processes of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization, or divergence with gene flow, and infectious heredity". She calls for an extended evolutionary synthesis that integrates these mechanisms and processes of evolution.

Applications
Reticulate evolution has been extensively applied to plant hybridization in agriculture and gardening. The first commercial hybrids appeared in the early 1920s. Since then, many protoplast fusion experiments have been carried out, some of which were aimed at improvement of crop species. Wild types possessing desirable agronomic traits are selected and fused in order to yield novel, improved species. The newly generated plant will be improved for traits such as better yield, greater uniformity, improved color, and disease resistance.

Examples
Reticulate evolution is regarded as a process that has shaped the histories of many organisms. There is evidence of reticulation events in flowering plants, as the variation patterns between angiosperm families strongly suggests there has been widespread hybridisation. Grant states that phylogenetic networks, instead of phylogenetic trees, arise in all major groups of higher plants. Stable speciation events due to hybridisation between angiosperm species supports the occurrence of reticulate evolution and highlights the key role of reticulation in the evolution of plants.

Genetic transfer can occur across wide taxonomic levels in microorganisms and become stably integrated into the new microbial populations, as has been observed through protein sequencing. Reticulation in bacteria usually only involves the transfer of only a few genes or parts of these. Reticulate evolution driven by lateral gene transfer has also been observed in marine life. Lateral genetic transfer of photo-response genes between planktonic bacteria and Archaea has been evidenced in some groups, showing an associated increase in environmental adaptability in organisms inhabiting photic zones.

Moreover, in the well-studied Darwin finches signs of reticulate evolution can be observed. Peter and Rosemary Grant, who carried out extensive research on the evolutionary processes of the Geospiza genus, found that hybridization occurs between some species of Darwin finches, yielding hybrid forms. This event could explain the origin of intermediate species. Jonathan Weiner commented on the observations of the Grants, suggesting the existence of reticulate evolution: "To the Grants, the whole tree of life now looks different from a year ago. The set of young twigs and shoots they study seems to be growing together in some seasons, apart in others. The same forces that created these lines are moving them toward fusion and then back toward fission."; and "The Grants are looking at a pattern that was once dismissed as insignificant in the tree of life. The pattern is known as reticulate evolution, from the Latin reticulum, diminutive for net. The finches' lines are not so much lines or branches at all. They are more like twiggy thickets, full of little networks and delicate webbings."

title: Reticulate evolution