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Poker/Expected value

Expected Value (EV) is the average return on each dollar invested into a pot. If a player can expect, given probability to make more money than he or she bets, the action is said to have a positive expectation (+EV). Conversely if a bet or a call will, according to probability, likely result in less money being returned the action is said to be negative (-EV).

An example may assist in the understanding of this concept. In Texas Holdem it is quite common for someone to flop 4 to a flush. The person should only draw to that flush if to do so would be +EV. In order to calculate the EV it is necessary to compare the size of the bet with the size of the pot. A flopped flush draw will come in approximately 1 in 3 times by the river, thus in order for a call to be +EV the final pot must be larger than 3 times the call. This is a complicated issue so it may be useful to elaborate with a specific example.

Say you are playing 5-10 limit poker on the button, there are 3 limpers to you and you call with A4 diamonds. Both Blinds call so there is $30 in the pot. You flop the nut flush draw. The player in the small Blind bets $5 and there are four callers. Should you call, raise or fold?

Well, there is now $55 in the pot and it will cost you $5 to call so the pot is giving you 11:1 odds (i.e. you must pay $5 to win $55). We already know that the flush draw will get there 1 time in every 3 (2 to 1) so making the call is +EV. However, calling is not necessarily the best play in this situation. If you raise and the other 5 people in the pot decide to call your raise then you will be adding $5 to the pot whilst they will collectively be adding $25. This ratio is 5:1 but the chance of making your flush is only 2 losses to 1 win, so on average in the long run you are making money from every extra bet from all 6 of you that goes into the pot. Notice that even though you have only a 33% chance to win the pot, the correct thing to do is actually to bet, despite knowing that you will probably not win that particular single hand: you will win about 1 in 3 such hands in the long run, minus the few percent of the time when someone beats your flush with a full house or quads or straight flush.

Notice that all that has been done so far is compare the current pot with the bet size needed to call to calculate EV. However it is important to also compare the expected pot size by the end of the hand with the current bet. For example say you are playing no limit holdem and have a gutshot straight draw (giving you 4 outs to complete - approximately 1:12 against). If the pot is $30 and you are faced with a $10 bet the pot is not giving you the correct odds to call (it would need to be $120 total, plus your $10 call). However you also need to take into account the amount of money you may be able to extract from your opponents if you make your hand. If you expect your opponent to call a $100 bet if you make your hand, then the pot is really offering you 13:1 odds (the $30 pot at the time plus the $100 added on later streets) Therefore in this situation the +EV play would be to call. Thus when making decisions about whether to call a bet it is crucial to take into account both the stack sizes of yourself and your opponents and how willing they are likely to be to call big bets if you make your hand.

To make it easier to understand why this move is correct even though it usually loses, suppose you have a six-sided die. If you correctly guess what side it lands on, you will win $50. If you are wrong, you lose $5. You will be wrong five times out of six, but you stand to gain a lot over the long run! This is because the probability of guessing correctly is 1/6, sometimes expressed as odds, "5:1 against" (five losing possibilities, one winning possibility). However, the payoff odds are 50:5 ($50 won for a $5 bet), which can be reduced to 10:1, and 10:1 is twice as large as 5:1. The payoff odds are called pot odds in a poker game. Comparing the odds of winning to the pot odds is how you can estimate your expected value.

Ideally, you want to avoid all situations where you have a negative expectation. Even slightly negative situations can pile up and bleed away your bankroll. Casinos worldwide make MILLIONS of dollars lost by players against a 0.6% craps dice game house edge: even 0.1% is enough of an edge to wipe out all the billions of dollars of the richest man on earth, over time in the long run, which is why Bill Gates wisely bets only $5/hand for fun at blackjack!

Calculating expected value
You cannot always get a good idea of the chances of winning your hand & calculate the pot odds: at least, not without knowing what your opponents have, and they're not going to tell you! However, you will often have a draw which, if you hit, you will very likely win the pot. The exact arithmetic involved varies from game to game. In Texas hold'em and ../Omaha/, once you see the flop, the percent chance of making your hand within one card is generally your number of outs (cards that will make your hand) multiplied by two, and the odds of making your hand within two cards is your number of outs multiplied by four. For example, if you have four hearts and you need one more for a flush, you have nine outs, because there are thirteen hearts in the deck, and subtracting the four hearts you already have gives nine. 9 × 2 is 18, so you have about an 18% chance of making the hand in the next card, and 9 × 4 is 36, so you have about a 36% chance of making it in two cards.

To make this easy, you want to turn this percent chance into odds, like 5:1 against. Fortunately, they are easy enough to memorize:

50% = 1:1 33% =  2:1 25% =  3:1 20% =  4:1 16% =  5:1 14% =  6:1 12% =  7:1 11% =  8:1 10% =  9:1  9% = 10:1  8% = 11:1  7% = 13:1  5% = 20:1  4% = 25:1

The odds in bold are the most important to commit to memory; the others can be easily estimated.

Now, take the x in the x:1 figure and multiply it by the bet size. For example, if the odds of making your hand are roughly 4:1, and the next bet costs $5, multiply 5 × 4 = 20. That means you want there to be at least $20 in the pot (be sure to include bets that have not been added to the pot proper yet!), preferably a bit more just in case unless you're certain to win if you hit your draw. If there is not at least $20 in the pot you will lay down your hand, unless you can check instead. If the table is really loose, and a lot of players are in the hand and are likely to stay in, and the pot will get really big, you may even want to raise. Normally, however, checking or calling is the correct move.

Notice we did not calculate the exact expected value. This is not necessary or indeed practical for most people. If it is negative, you get out, and if it is positive, you call. If you're a favorite to win the pot, you raise. However, as has been shown you can usually figure out if the value is only barely positive, for instance, the size of the pot is a dollar more than the odds of making your hand (and this dollar is small in proportion to the pot size). When faced with this situation, you might want to lay down your hand sometimes: you may be losing just a little money in the long run, but you keep your bankroll from taking big swings. But if you don't mind taking a gamble, by all means go for it!

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User:Mayuravsv

Mayur A Vasava, better known online as mayuravsv (or just mayur), is an gamer and editor, most popularly known for his "PUBG Mobile" Skills.

PROFILE - Mayuravsv STYLE - Gamer, Editor DATE JOINED - 29/04/2004 Instagram - @mayuravsv Other Social media -Discord Server SCHEDULE - Unscheduled STATUS - Active ASSOCIATES - PUBG Mobile • Mav Editz

• Childhood

Though living in Gujarat, Ankleshwar is of Gujarati origin, and likes to visit his place of origin, Selvas, very often.

During his childhood, he used to be a "monstrous kid". According to him, his mother would fail controlling him and he himself too, was restless. He used to play Hide And Seek with his friends, and even got beaten up for cheating several times. He used to listen to cartoonic songs on plastic carnival mobile phones. He was an average student, and did not like studies. He thought "We worry if we will get AWM in PUBG and they are on to their Pythagoras Theorem". He didn't like Mathematics either. He did not excel at sports either, but he was confident that some day, even he would not remain terrible in Football.

• Childhood Ambitions

At first, he wanted to be an astronaut. But later on, he realized that it was too high for him to ever touch. Then he thought of being an Automobile engineer. But later on, he realized that he was not capable of working on cars all day. Then he thought of becoming a Chartered Accountant. But later on, he quit the dream realizing that he doesn't even excel in Maths, so he would not be able to be a CA. After that, he kept on with his final passion, VFX. He was good at his job, but after his YouTube career went well and he received his Silver play Button, he took YouTube as his full-time job.

• Current Choices

He likes himself better as a live-streamer than a pro offline gamer. Since he takes everything for fun, he thinks it's no use sitting up for international tournaments and having fun online. He has noticed that everyone plays just to win, and not have fun, and he wants to promote the fact that we should play games not just with the ambition of success, but with the ambition of positive time productivity.

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Manning.com

Specifically, www.manning.com/books/ejb-3-in-action which is a book cited by the Plain old Java object page. Urhixidur (talk) 14:04, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

 * . There's no requirement for references to be online, particularly for books. Also you can cite Google books if you want: https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo8pmwEACAAJ ~Anachronist (talk) 18:46, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Northern Transmissions

I'm trying to figure out why the website Northern Transmissions has been blocked. It seems like a perfectly legitimate music criticism site as best I can tell. Mbroderick271 (talk) 04:10, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

 * This was spammed by several IPs in 2012, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2012 Archive Oct 1.  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 04:29, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * So does this mean I can use it now or is it still on the bad boys list? Mbroderick271 (talk) 04:37, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * You can use this specific link, no other documents on the same site. There has been multiple-IP spamming of this, I am not comfortable with removing such sites before we really see whitescale, general use.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:25, 20 July 2017 (UTC) (reping:   --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:25, 20 July 2017 (UTC))

change.org petition re iYogi
Article iYogi would benefit from a link to www.change.org/p/ministry-of-labour-and-employment-iyogi-technical-services-pvt-ltd-hasn-t-paid-us-salary-since-april-2016

This is a company which seems to be closing down without paying its employees. There is much information in forums and the like by employees seeking redress, but I haven't found more formal information. The petition I link was started by an employee, and lists a number of issues that are not well-sourced elsewhere. The purpose of the link is to establish the existence of a petition, and to report on claims. The text I have drafted is

Thanks and best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 10:55, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

 * did you read /Common requests? --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:04, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for response. Yes, I had read the section on change.org carefully, which is why I said "The purpose of the link is to establish the existence of a petition, and to report on claims", rather than any of the we don't allows. Perhaps I should rather say that the petition is a source to support that specific claims have been made against the company.
 * we don't allow users to add links to Wikipedia to get people to visit and perhaps sign their petition, whatever it is. Clearly not the purpose of the text I have drafted. It's also not my petition; I have no connection whatsoever beyond having contributed to the technical support scam and related articles.
 * We also don't allow links to petition sites to demonstrate how many people have signed the petition While I mention the number of responses, it's simply a piece of information not vital to the issues, rather than something I want to demonstrate; I have no objection to not mentioning it. The problem with information on this company is that very little is actually happening, so there is no news to report: there are pending lawsuits and so on, but the company simply seems to be vanishing. In addition to this petition, searching finds many complaints by employees of iYogi trying to gain redress; but the petition seems a somewhat better source. Pol098 (talk) 13:16, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

 * So this is a primary source, where you have no independent sourcing that this is actually encyclopedic material. I mean, you have no evidence for the point that they did not pay salary, for the made promises, .. except for this petition?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:38, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

 * "you have no evidence for the point that they did not pay salary?". (1) I do; it's documented elsewhere in the article, though not in the proposed text. (2) My draft says that an online petition exists making these claims; it does not state them as simple fact. This is one of the many cases where there is ample information, in the form typically of complaints sites where large numbers of employees claim, with name and employee number, about their salaries and pension contributions not being paid, without this having been picked up much by news sites. See for example:
 * https://www.complaintboard.in/?search=iyogi
 * https://www.consumercomplaints.in/?search=iyogi
 * http://www.beindian.org/complaint-against-iyogi/
 * http://www.consumerredressal.com/complaints/categoryID/18/Provident-Fund
 * Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 14:53, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I misunderstood that. There are just no independent sources for the existence of the petition.  Then the question remains: why does Wikipedia have to report that.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:15, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
 * What I mean here is, is that I have problems with having a primary source on that, without secondary sources to back it up, on a petition that has, you say, 343 votes. That number is unreliable, it has not been vetted, there could be 250 fake votes in it.  Anyone can write a petition on change.org.  Why is this petition important (to Wikipedia readers, I understand that it is to the people itself, but that argument is a WP:SOAPBOX violation).  I just have been looking a bit, and all I see is the primary source.  Nothing else.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:30, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

 * "Anyone can write a petition on change.org." I suppose that's the critical point; I don't know anything about the site. I'll leave it there, failing other sources. Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 19:24, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Whitelist articles on Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE)

The Library of Economics and Liberty (www.econlib.org ) website has been globally blacklisted because of problems in the past. However, these problems do not involve the CEE which is hosted on that site. I request that all articles from the CEE be whitelisted, i.e. all links beginning with address www.econlib.org/library/Enc* should be whitelisted. LK (talk) 07:42, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

 * I have added some full trees and biographies/title lists to the request - would that all be sufficient (the links requested here are whitelisting the tree, anything can be after the last '/' - htts://econlib.org/library/Enc/articlename will work). This is rather strictly CEE only.  Just to confirm, the 2nd edition from 2008 is (for now) definitely the last edition, right?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:00, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

 * I believe that is sufficient. As far as I know, there are no plans for a third edition. If this ever changes, I'll make a further request here. Thanks, --LK (talk) 08:09, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:11, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Fairmax Law

These links are blocked because airmax.co is blocked. Fairmaxlaw.com itself doesn't directly go against Wikipedia's terms. These links are necessary to the Michael Jaafar wikipedia page that I'm trying to post. One link goes to his biography page on his firm's website, the second to a book he has authored, and the third to an archive of his news appearances. Estefthelemur (talk) 21:38, 7 August 2017 (UTC) estefthelemur Estefthelemur (talk) 21:38, 7 August 2017 (UTC) Has anyone come to a decision about these links? Thank you.

 * I can't really speak to the need for those links, but this is indeed a false positive. There's a very aggressive regex targeting every possible permutation of "airmax" on the global blacklist; I can probably guess why. Kuru   (talk)  22:02, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Of the three requested links, only the first seems remotely useful, and that only for an "external links" section, not as a reference. Given that Draft:Michael Jaafar currently does not establish that he's notable enough to be the subject of an encyclopedia article, my advice would be to do nothing for now and re-visit the issue when (if) there's a live article. I don't usually deal with the spam whitelist, so I'll leave the decision to people more familiar with it. Huon (talk) 21:32, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

ezinearticles.com/?The-Acer-D2D-Erecovery-101&id=1160163
Wish to use this as a reference for Acer entry under Partition type.

Ivan Pozdeev (talk) 20:02, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * This is the only article I found that clearly and explicitly links the partition type ID with the product.
 * Since there's no official docs on the matter and the article is well-researched and well-written, it qualifies as a reliable source specifically to confirm a specific use of the partition type code.
 * It mentions 2 more partition types used by the software package, so some other table entries could benefit from it as well.
 * Of all the online copies of this article, this link does seem to be the original one: the earliest by date; the best formatting and attribution; the fullest in content.


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Sai Wan Ho (constituency)

Sai Wan Ho is one of 35 constituencies in the Eastern District of Hong Kong.

The constituency elects one district councillor to the Eastern District Council every four years. It was created in the first District Board election in 1982 and was last held by Mak Tak-ching of the Labour Party.

Sai Wan Ho constituency is loosely based on the central area of Sai Wan Ho, with an estimated population of 20,013.

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Unidad Anti-Terrorista

The Chilean Counter-Terrorism Unit (Spanish: Unidad Anti-Terrorista) or UAT is a tactical unit of the Chilean Air Force designated to handle terrorist threats.

The team is composed of Air Force officers experienced in close combat and terrorist situations (i.e.: hostage situations, bomb situations) and specially airplane kidnapping.

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Talk:Technical analysis

 * This term technical analysis may mean many different things in many different fields. I suggest to change the name to something like Technical analysis of markets.
 * This page need a category.--Hillgentleman|User talk 21:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

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Kala, Derbentsky District, Republic of Dagestan

Kala (Кала; Гала, Qala) is a rural locality (a selo) in Derbentsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 1,752 as of 2010. There are 42 streets.

Geography
Kala is located 157 km southwest of Derbent (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shinaz and Kina are the nearest rural localities.

Nationalities
Azerbaijanis, Tabasarans and Dargins live there.


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UNITECH International

UNITECH International is a leadership development program for talented STEM students ran by a society of distinguished technical universities and multinational companies across Europe.

History
UNITECH was founded in 1999 by ETH Zürich's former rector Konrad Osterwalder and Hilti's former CEO Pius Baschera.

After 23 years, the UNITECH network has more than 1'500 alumni from 12 different universities, and 64 multinational corporate firms have been a part of this network. As of 2023, the network comprises 8 European universities and 15 corporate partners across Europe.

Partner universities
The universities are to guarantee academic excellence and have committed themselves to build a network with UNITECH International, which goes beyond traditional programs.
 * Chalmers University, Sweden
 * ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 * Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * RWTH Aachen, Germany
 * Loughborough University, United Kingdom
 * Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
 * Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
 * Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon, France

Corporate partners
The participating companies are not only seen as sponsors but as active partners who take on a role in the training and further development of the students. According to UNITECH International, the partners should fulfill a demanding profile in terms of international presence and market position.

 * ABB Group
 * Accelleron
 * Airbus
 * Buhler Group
 * Danfoss
 * Evonik Industries
 * Geberit
 * Hilti
 * Infineon Technologies
 * IWC Schaffhausen
 * Nouryon
 * Roche Diagnostics
 * Wella Company

Former industrial partners include bioMérieux, Caterpillar, Covestro, Lonza, Nokia or ZF Friedrichshafen.

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Mustafa Çakır

Mustafa Çakır (born December 15, 1986, in Sinop, Turkey) is a Turkish yacht racer competing in the Laser class. The 1.83 m tall athlete at 85 kg is a member of Heybeliada Aquatics Club in Istanbul, where he is coached by Saruhan Çınay.

He qualified for participation at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in 39th place.

He won the Laser-Europacup 2012 held in Martigues, France.

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Sarandon (band)

Sarandon are an English indie rock group, formed in London in 2003, who have so far released two albums.

History
Initially formed by singer/guitarist Simon Williams (aka Crayola), drummer James Higgott (formerly of HOST) and bass player Joe Morris (also of The Reverse), the group played their debut show in central London after having rehearsed only once before going into the studio to record their first record, The Miniest Album.

Much was made of the debut record being a 7" vinyl single containing 7 songs and so the band decided to release a series of such records. After the second release, The Big Flame (named in honour of their favourite band), James was replaced on drums by Simon Poole, a longtime musical colleague of Crayola. The new line-up recorded two further 7 track 7" records, The Feminist Third and The June Bride, before having all four records compiled into a single CD release entitled The Completist's Library by the record label Wrath in the UK and HHBTM in the US. All four records were produced by Anthony Chapman, formerly of Collapsed Lung, who has also produced Bis, Spearmint, Ten Benson, Klaxons, The Keatons and Crazy Gods of Endless Noise. The June Bride takes its name from another of the band's favourite bands and featured guest appearances from Big Flame's Alan Brown and The June Brides' Phil Wilson. The collection has been described as "an awful lot of fun".

In October 2006 the band were joined by Stephen Gilchrist, replacing Simon Poole on drums - Stephen is best known as Graham Coxon's drummer. He also performs in his own group, Stuffy & the Fuses, as well as working as a drum tutor.

In January 2007 Joe decided to take a sabbatical and was replaced by Alan Brown - a founder member of Big Flame and The Great Leap Forward, who has played drums with A Witness and more recently performed as one third of Marshall Smith.

Stephen got too busy for his own good and in September 2007 was replaced by Tom Greenhalgh on drums. The new line-up immediately recorded a cover version of an old June Brides song, "Every Conversation" and a new studio album entitled Kill Twee Pop!, which was released early in 2008 on Slumberland Records. The album was positively received by critics, and has been described as "a campaign ad to return to the avant punk rock intonations of the late 70’s and early 80’s.", "outlandish, concise and exuberant enough to attract many lovers of rhythmically and lyrically sharp rock", and "like an XTC album played by bonkers Ritalin unachievers", with SoundsXP saying "both for restoring the reputation of a certain strand of 80s indiepop and in making refreshingly askew new music with a wicked sense of humour, Sarandon ought to be applauded".

Sarandon have recorded sessions for BBC Radio 1's One Music show and Marc Riley’s BBC 6 Music show, Rocket Science.

In October 2009 John Robb's book Death To Trad Rock was published by Cherry Red Books. It includes a whole chapter devoted to Crayola and Sarandon and their place in the history of the UK independent music scene. As a celebration of the book a 7" single was released by Slumberland Records, a split between Sarandon and Robb's former band The Membranes.

August 2010 saw the band go into the new studio complex at Bucks University, again with Anthony Chapman producing, to record a new album. Entitled Sarandon's Age Of Reason, the album is something of a concept album with narration provided by The Shend of The Cravats and The Very Things. They were joined on piano by Rhodri Marsden and the album is introduced by Robert Lloyd of The Nightingales. The album was released in early 2011 by Slumberland Records in the USA and Odd Box Records in the UK.

Sarandon continue to record and perform sporadically.

Current members

 * Simon Williams - Vocals/guitar (2003 – present)
 * Alan Brown - Bass (2007 – present)
 * Tom Greenhalgh - Drums (2007 – present)

Past members

 * Joe Morris (2003–2007)
 * Stephen Gilchrist (2006–2007)
 * Simon Poole (2004–2006)
 * James Higgott (2003–2004)

Singles

 * The Miniest Album (Jul 2004, Run Out, RUN001 [7"])
 * The Big Flame (June 2005, Banazan, BAN20 [7"])
 * The Feminist Third (Dec 2005, Wrath, WRATH32 [7"])
 * The June Bride (May 2006, Wrath, WRATH38 [7"])
 * "Joe's Record" (October 2007, Slumberland, SLR072 [7"])
 * "Every Conversation" (split with Phil Wilson) (December 2007, Every Conversation, March 2008 [7"])
 * "Other People's Records" (December 2008, Little Car Records, MINI01 [7"])
 * "Spike Milligan's Tape Recorder" (split with The Membranes) (October 2009, Slumberland, SLR109 [7"])

Albums

 * The Completist’s Library (Aug 2006, Wrath, WRATH40CD [CD]; Jan 2007, HHBTM, HHBTM083 [CD])
 * Kill Twee Pop! (April 2008, Slumberland [10"], [CD])
 * Sarandon's Age Of Reason (January 2011, Slumberland [12"], Odd Box Records [CD])

Interviews

 * Diskant interview
 * "Now Hear This: Sarandon: No Cardigans Please, Twee is Simply Awful", Sentimentalist

Reviews

 * Sendra, Tim "[ Kill Twee pop! Review]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
 * PopMatters review of The Completist's Library
 * Dunn, Jim (2008) "Sarandon | Kill Twee Pop! (Slumberland)" (review), Playback:stl
 * Padilla, Sean (2008) "Sarandon Kill Twee Pop!" (review), PopMatters

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Tell Rad Shaqrah

Tell Rad Shaqrah (Tell Rad Shaqra, Tell Rad Shaqurah) was a fortified rural settlement in Syria, in ancient Upper Mesopotamia. It is located on the northern bank of the Khabur River, about 15 kilometers from Hassake (Al-Hasaka).

Archaeological research
Tell Rad Shaqrah covers an area of about 1 hectare and rises to 6 meters above the plain. The site was excavated in 1991–1995 as part of the Western Hassake Dam Project, an international salvage project organized by the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums. The expedition from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw was directed by Piotr Bieliński. Earlier in the framework of the same project, Polish archaeologists conducted research at the sites of Tell Djassa and Tell Abu Hafur.

The tell measures 140 by 120 meters and is 8 meters high. Nine settlement layers were identified during the excavations. The oldest remains date to the Halaf period; the settlement expanded in the Early Dynastic III period (mid-3rd millennium BC); the youngest phases date to the Neo-Assyrian period. The settlement was encircled by a 4-meter-thick wall built of mud-brick, with thick (more than 6 meters) buttresses faced with basalt blocks. This type of fortification is called glacis. Thirty-four graves of children and adults, as well as infants, were uncovered. They included pit graves, graves in stone setting, and infant burials in kitchen vessels. The child burials yielded the richest and most diverse grave furnishings, consisting of vessels as well as jewelry made of bronze, stone, shells, and other materials. The finds included zoomorphic beads and pendants. Finds also included 19 Third-millennium BC clay figurines (9 anthropomorphic and 10 zoomorphic).

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Standard atomic weight, infobox element, isotopes of element.

Data source

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Talk:Alan Longmuir

birth
BAY CITY BABYLON books lists his birth as 1949? Bawtyshouse 14:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Alan Longmuir.gif
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User:Sky Harbor/Letters to the press

Sometimes, when something needs to be notified, this is where the letters to the press come in. In cooperation with Tambayan Philippines/In the press, I have decided to write some letters to the press that uses Wikipedia content without proper recognition. Take a peek!

If you want to propose changes or leave comments, you can do so on the the talk page.

Letter to Inquirer Publications, Inc.
Inquirer Publications, Inc. C/O Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. P.O. Box 2353, Makati Central Post Office 1263 Makati City Metro Manila, Philippines

To whom it may concern,

As contributors to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we are delighted that your company uses Wikipedia content to highlight and illustrate information pertinent to the news content your newspaper, the Cebu Daily Times, is printing and disseminating to the Philippine populace, especially in Cebu. As per the free, open nature of Wikipedia, this is the type of application that this encyclopedia, as well as its contributors, wish to promote.

However, as per the policies of Wikipedia, please be advised that when Wikipedia works are published in a printed medium or when shown on a website, you are asked to place a link back to where the content used was taken, as well as a notice citing that the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL. A verbatim of this license is as follows:

You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.

Please be advised as well that when adding a GFDL notice, you are also asked to link back to the full version of the GFDL, which is available through this website: http://gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.

We hope that as your company continues to use Wikipedia content, the source(s) that you have used be acknowledged in your work(s). We hope that this be achieved through this request.

Sincerely,

Wikipedia contributors

Letter to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation Sgt. E.A. Esguerra Ave. corner Mother Ignacia St. 1103 Quezon City Metro Manila, Philippines

To whom it may concern,

As contributors to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we are delighted that your company uses Wikipedia content to highlight and illustrate information pertinent to the news content your news programs, such as Bandila, Magandang Umaga, Pilipinas and TV Patrol, are broadcasting to the Philippine populace and to the world at large. As per the free, open nature of Wikipedia, this is the type of application that this encyclopedia, as well as its contributors, wish to promote.

However, as per the policies of Wikipedia, please be advised that when Wikipedia works are published in a printed medium or when shown on a website, you are asked to place a link back to where the content used was taken, as well as a notice citing that the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL. A verbatim of this license is as follows:

You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.

Please be advised as well that when adding a GFDL notice, you are also asked to link back to the full version of the GFDL, which is available through this website: http://gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.

We hope that as your company continues to use Wikipedia content, the source(s) that you have used be acknowledged in your work(s). We hope that this be achieved through this request.

Sincerely,

Wikipedia contributors

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La Ràpita

La Ràpita is a town in the area of the Montsià in Catalonia, Spain. The town covers a portion of the south-west of the Ebro Delta, including el Trabucador isthmus and la Banya peninsula, which close off a salt water lagoon known as the Port dels Alfacs. The town of La Ràpita is situated on the coast near the mouth of the lagoon. It was founded by Charles III of Spain as a port to serve trade with the Spanish colonies, and constructed in the neoclassical style of the period. However, much of the town remained uncompleted after Charles' death.

La Ràpita is part of the Taula del Sénia free association of municipalities. It is known for the production of rice and salt, and is also an important fishing port, particularly for shellfish and prawns, and a tourist centre. In the early years of the present century, the town experienced a huge urban development due to the construction of many apartments and residential buildings.

Demography
The town now hosts two large marinas, a beach, a market and many shops and restaurants. It is attractive and draws an increasing number of tourists each summer.

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Highway H05 (Ukraine)

H05 is a regional road (H-Highway) in Crimea, Ukraine. It runs north-south and connects Krasnoperekopsk with Simferopol. Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the route was given another code 35K-001.

Main route
Main route and connections to/intersections with other highways in Ukraine.

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K. G. Shankar

K. G. Shankar (26 August 1950 – 17 January 2021) was an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Shankar was a member of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly from 3 June 2017 till his death on 17 January 2021 as he was nominated by the Central Government of India. He was a nominated MLA, named by the Government of India. He was Treasurer of the BJP's Puducherry unit.

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Reparation Commission

The Reparation Commission, also Inter-Allied Reparation Commission (sometimes "Reparations Commission"), was established by the Treaty of Versailles to determine the level of World War I reparations which Germany should pay the victorious Allies. Its remit was soon broadened to reparations by other central powers, namely Austria (by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye), Bulgaria (treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine), and Hungary (Treaty of Trianon).

The Commission relied on a General Secretariat and on General Services, both headquartered in Paris. It was restructured and downsized in late 1924 as a consequence of the Dawes Plan, and eventually disbanded in 1930 following the adoption of the Young Plan and the establishment of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The BIS took over the residual activity of the Agent General for Reparation Payments, until the reparations themselves effectively ended by the mid-1930s.

Membership
Seven nations were represented at the Reparation Commission, namely Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since the U.S. had not ratified the Treaty of Versailles, however, their representatives had no official status. Each of the seven nations appointed a delegate and a deputy delegate. Only Belgium, France, Italy and the UK had an unconditional vote.

Leadership
The Commission elected a chair among the delegates for a renewable one-year term. The first chair elected in 1920 was France's Raymond Poincaré.

Arthur Salter was appointed the first Secretary General to the commission, a position he held from 1920 to 1922. He was succeeded by Andrew McFadyean from 1922 to 1924.

Agent General for Reparation Payments
Owen D. Young was the first Agent General for Reparation Payments tasked with overseeing Germany's payments, and was succeeded in October 1924 by Seymour Parker Gilbert who held the role until 1930. Gilbert's Paris office was initially hosted by the investment bank Morgan, Harjes & Co. From early 1925 onwards, he worked from two offices, respectively in Paris (18, rue de Tilsitt) and Berlin (Luisenstrasse 33).

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User:Alexbl

Alexbl is interested in working on history texts, and is trying to get a good European_History text started. he also has interests in World History and Art History texts.

Contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>AIM: DraXVAZ

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Swiss Leaks

Swiss Leaks (or SwissLeaks) is a journalistic investigation, released in February 2015, of a giant tax evasion scheme allegedly operated with the knowledge and encouragement of the British multinational bank HSBC via its Swiss subsidiary, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse). Triggered by leaked information from French computer analyst Hervé Falciani on accounts held by over 100,000 clients and 20,000 offshore companies with HSBC in Geneva, the disclosed information was then called "the biggest leak in Swiss banking history".

Investigation
Investigators allege that 180.6 billion euros passed through HSBC accounts held in Geneva by over 100,000 clients and 20,000 offshore companies between November 2006 and March 2007. The data for this period comes from files removed from HSBC Private Bank by a former staffer, software engineer Hervé Falciani, who fled to Lebanon with the attempt to sell it. Later he handed it to French authorities in late 2008.

Investigation in France
In December 2008, Falciani was detained by Swiss authorities, who questioned him concerning suspected data theft. Released "overnight" by Swiss police, he fled with his family and the data files to France. On 20 January 2009, authorities in Nice initiated the search of the home Falciani's father, where he had been living.

On January 20, 2009, the prosecutor’s office in Nice, responding to a request from Swiss authorities, ordered a search of Falciani's father's home, where he had been staying. The Nice prosecutors began examining the files Falciani and decided that they were of relevance to France's interest, and refused the Swiss extradition request.

The data, some 600 files with a total size over 100 GB, took time to analyze, but French authorities were assisted by Falciani. By early 2010, French tax authorities had begun notifying other countries' tax officials about the files.

In April 2015, Nina Ricci's heir, Arlette Ricci, was convicted of tax evasion in a Paris court on the basis of the Swiss Leaks files. Ricci was given a three-year prison sentence, two of them suspended, and had real estate in Paris and Corsica seized. She was also assessed a million-euro fine, for showing a "particularly determined willingness" to hide money (some €18m) with the help of HSBC. Some 50 other wealthy French individuals were expected to be brought to court for similar activities (several others having settled out of court, of the 72 originally up for prosecution).

Five days earlier, HSBC itself had been charged in France for complicity in concealing fiscal fraud and illegal selling via its Swiss branch.

Investigation in Morocco
According to the International Consortium of Investigation Journalists (ICIJ), which treated the data of the Swiss Leaks, Morocco is concerned by $1.6 billion of tax evasion and stands at thirty-seventh place of the affected countries. Morocco stands at twenty-third place for the number of clients (1068). The maximal amount of tax evasion for one client was $74.1 million and the average was $1.5 million. As stated in the Moroccan law, it is strictly forbidden to have a foreign bank account. But the documents revealed that the royal family were part of the HSBC clients. Prince Moulay Rachid was touched by this scandal, the princess Lalla Meryem and the current king Mohammed VI with an amount $9.1 million hidden in the HSBC bank.

International investigation
Given the scale of the investigation, Le Monde called upon 154 journalists affiliated with 47 different media outlets including: The Guardian, CBS, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and The Indian Express, among others, to help analyze the data. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has been coordinating this international collaborative effort.

In February 2015, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) website released information about bank accounts in Switzerland under the title Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy, which involves the Swiss Leaks Project, a website containing almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on over 100,000 HSBC clients and their bank accounts.

Involvement
The Swiss Leaks Project's  investigations revealed that HSBC's Geneva branch, ignoring these rules, helped people accused of drug-running, corruption, money-laundering or arms-dealing conceal billions of dollars in Switzerland.

Among the 66 names revealed by the Swiss Leaks investigation are:
 * Rami Makhlouf, whose cousin and close associate, Syrian President Bashar al Assad
 * Katex Mines Guinee, a company fingered by the United Nations as a "possible provider of weapons" in Liberia's civil war
 * Erez Daleyot, a Belgian-Israeli diamond tycoon, connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and bribery
 * Jeffrey Tesler, a lawyer and key participant in the $182-million Halliburton Bribery Scandal
 * Rachid Mohamed Rachid, the former Egyptian trade minister who fled Cairo in February 2011 amid the uprising against Hosni Mubarak. Rachid was convicted in absentia for alleged profiteering and squandering public funds.
 * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov, a Russian banker accused of looting £400m from the Lithuanian Snoras bank

The top 10 countries involved, in terms of dollar amounts and number of clients in leaked Swiss files, are shown in the tables below.

By July 2021, the Government of India identified undeclared assets worth of about inr<PHONE_NUMBER>0 following the investigation and levied inr<PHONE_NUMBER>0 in tax penalty.

HSBC trial
In March 2015, the French financial state prosecutor has requested that HSBC's Swiss private bank be sent to criminal trial over the suspected tax-dodging scheme for wealthy customers. The recommendation follows a lengthy investigation by local magistrates into alleged tax fraud involving 3,000 French taxpayers and is a procedural step that brings the Swiss banking arm one step closer to a possible trial in France.

In November 2017, HSBC has agreed to pay 300 million euros ($352 million) to avoid going to trial in France for enabling tax fraud. The deal struck between the financial crime prosecutor's office and the bank is a first in France under a new procedure that allows companies under suspicion of corruption or dissimulation of tax fraud to negotiate a fine to stop a case from going to trial.

French prosecutors have now dropped the case against HSBC Holdings.

Media coverage
BBC reported that HSBC had put pressure on media not to report about the controversy, with British newspaper The Guardian claiming HSBC advertising had been put "on pause" after The Guardian's coverage of the matter. Peter Oborne, chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph resigned from the paper; in an open letter he claimed the Daily Telegraph suppressed negative stories and dropped investigations into HSBC because of the bank's advertising. CBS published a story about the leaks in its news program 60 Minutes.

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Toto Makgolokwe

Toto Makgolokwe was the paramount chief (kgosi) of the Batlharo tribe of South Africa, dubbed the Freedom Warrior and an icon of the land whose resistance to colonization galvanized the freedom struggle. In 1897, he became the hero of The Langeberg Rebellion (1896–97) after defeating the British military. The British subsequently brought in reinforcements which defeated the Batlharo (Batswana tribe) and captured both Makgolokwe and Kgosi Galeshewe. Kgosi Toto's eldest son Robanyane Toto was also arrested with him at Robben Island. Toto was convicted for protecting and sheltering Galeshewe. Toto died at Robben Island and Kgosi Galeshewe died at Magogong, Phokwane, Taung in 1927 after over 20 years in prison at different intervals.

Most of the Batlharo tribe reside in and around Kuruman, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality. The other Batlharo people live in Namibia, after vacating when the Langenberg war began.

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disubbidire

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to disobey
 * 2)  to disobey (an order, one's parents, etc.)
 * 1)  to disobey (an order, one's parents, etc.)

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User:CryptidZilla912/be bold

My name is CryptidZilla (Braydan) and I'm here to participate in ANTH 473's Wikipedia projects. I hope to be of help in the coming months. Let's do this!

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Marguerite de Sassenage

Marguerite de Sassenage (1424–1470) was a French noblewoman. She was a mistress to Louis XI of France before his accession as King of France. She had three daughters with Louis XI, who were all acknowledged by him.

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User:IndianaBibLib317260/sandbox

Welcome to the Sandbox!!

Notes on Editing Wikipedia
The "Be bold!" guideline states that you should fix what you think you should fix.

Examples of Citations
"Indigenous communities are also embracing digital storytelling as a means to revitalize their cultures and languages."

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/escortgurgaon.in

Links

 * escortgurgaon.in resolves to [//<IP_ADDRESS> <IP_ADDRESS>]
 * Link is not on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the domainredlist.
 * Link is not on the Monitorlist.
 * None of the mentioned users is on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
 * Link is not on the monitor list.
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User:Doug Weller/IPv6

You do the block on the actual contributions page. See

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Blocking policy and IPv6 ranges

I am usually an idiot about this, treating IPv6 addresses as though they are IP addresses and only blocking the one. Once in a blue moon I remember. We don't seem to say anything about this in our blocking policy. We'd also need to spell out how to identify the appropriate range, etc. I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy and then realised people don't seem to read that page. Blocking IP addresses also needs updating. Credit to Bish for this by the way who reminded me about it recently. Doug Weller talk 14:18, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I wonder if a technical change would be feasible (and a good idea), to automatically offer the /64 range as an option when blocking an IPv6 address? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:23, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * A technical change (as suggested by Boing) or at the very least some wording changes would be greatly appreciated. I think it's fair to say the number of IPv6s editing has increased year on year ( 75% of all percentages are made up on the spot ), so this is probably more of an exposure thing -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:16, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This is more complicated than people make it out to be. Generally, blocking the /64 is the right thing to do, but not always. A /64 could represent a large number of customers in certain unusual situations. I don't see any reason to deviate from our usual practice. If you see them using more than one IP address, block the range from the start. Otherwise, just do one IP. If you see them come back, then it justifies a range block. ~ Rob 13 Talk 18:26, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * What I'm suggesting is that we have a section in the blocking policy with advice on how to deal with IPv6 editors. I agree that there are times when blocking the range would be a bad idea, but wouldn't that show up if you check the contributions from the range? Doug Weller  talk 18:29, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * As you almost suggested above, this would probably be an idea on the WP:IPB page, but I don't think it's good for a policy page. And I can give a handy example for not using /64 blocks (and indefinite blocks): Special:Contributions/2600:387:*. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:52, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * for you information the above IP6 search is not a /64 subnet; it is a /32 subnet. as such is could represent as many as 4,294,967,296 different /64 connections.  --Jules  (Mrjulesd) 21:47, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, please pick any subnet within it. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:53, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Well you could pick Special:Contributions/2600:387:0:802:*, a /64 subnet, and it looks like a single user. --Jules  (Mrjulesd) 21:56, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Any subnet except that lone example. -- zzuuzz (talk) 22:05, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Phabricator tasks of interest: RFC: IPv6 contributions and talk pages, Should block IPv6 addresses at /64 instead of /128, and Have one aggregated talk page for ipv6 /64. — JJMC89  (T·C) 20:13, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

 * I think we're seeing more and more IPv6 addresses editing the 'pedia and, yes, it would be helpful to incorporate some advice in the blocking guidance. mw:Help:Range blocks/IPv6 has some useful information. Typically, an IPv6 /64 subnet is allocated to a household or a location and we would block a /64 subnet as we would a single IPv4 address but only after checking the range, satisfying ourself that it is stable and that a single user is using that range. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:56, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Any admin worried about blocking /64 subnets should not be overtly worried: it's roughly equivalent to blocking a single static IPv4 address. If you look at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5375 at The Internet Engineering Task Force it quite clearly explains the reasons why:

So any ISPs worth their salt are going to allocate /64 subnets for connections, as allocating any larger subnet could cause all sorts of end-user problems. Of course this doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be blocking a single user, but neither did blocking a single static IPv4 address necessarily imply this either. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 16:41, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, by this definition of "worth their salt", many ISP's, especially in Asia and Africa, are not. I've seen IP-hopping throughout much greater ranges (e.g. Sockpuppet investigations/N R Pavan Kumar). One of our incentives for enabling IPv6 was to allow more granular targeting of a single user not possible with IPv4 - we shouldn't impose IPv4's limitation here.--Jasper Deng (talk) 17:42, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry but can you explain how Sockpuppet investigations/N R Pavan Kumar demonstrates this? I can't understand how it does, there are no IPv6 socks at all listed. --Jules  (Mrjulesd) 17:51, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I should've been more clear. Look at the investigation on June 13 where a CheckUser says a rangeblock won't be feasible. I linked the contributions page of an IPv6 sock during that investigation.--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:13, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced that that indicates a greater than /64 subnet, there could be other explanations such as a mix of Ipv4 and IpV6 addresses, or uncertainty about Ipv6 rangeblocks. I'm not sure this is a good place to discuss it, but you can on my talk page if yo so wish. --Jules  (Mrjulesd) 18:49, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There are many ISPs that fail to live up to your expectations of how things should work. Although many ISPs allocate a /64 for each customer, others allocate customer IP addresses from a very wide pool, typically a /40 or /42, though I've seen them range anywhere from a /60 to a /36.  These are a pain to deal with.  User:NinjaRobotPirate/Animation hoaxer is one particularly frustrating example.  There are many others. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:57, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * NinjaRobotPirate Looking at User:NinjaRobotPirate/Animation hoaxer, these less than /64 (i.e. wider) ranges seem to be for wireless broadband. Now wireless broadband suppliers can use many /64 connections for the supply: the end result is that the range is far greater (or/<64). The reason for this is because in these circumstances radio towers (or combination of radio towers) will have access to many /64 connections; just like a wireless radio tower IPv4 would use a large variety of dynamic IPv4 addresses. Basically this is analogous to using several dynamic IPv4 connections, it implies nothing about connection subnets.
 * I see no particular evidence that ranges with a greater than /64 subnet are active; but even these can be explained by router alllocations giving a bigger than /64 (or narrower range) which is well within protocols; routers have no compulsion to use entire /64 ranges when allocating /128 addresses, only the connection itself must be at least /64. All this gives the impression of non-/64 connections which is simply not true.
 * Another way of looking at this: let's say I had a router with a /64 connection which allocated the same IPv6 address each time to my laptop. Now as far as my editing goes it would look like I was using a /128 subnet (i.e. a single IPv6 connection). While this would be true, nevertheless my connection to the ISP would be /64. --Jules  (Mrjulesd) 17:34, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The theoretical role of /64's is subordinate to their roles in practice, which is that since they don't necessarily represent single users and we want to utilize the finer granularity of IPv6 to reduce collateral damage, we can't treat /64's the same way we have been treating single IPv4 addresses.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:08, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That's true in theory but in practice Wikipedia has to be defended from brain-numbing nonsense that will eventually wear down the most dedicated editors. My suggestion would be to block IPv6 /64 when that is shown to be needed after blocking one or two individual IPs. Anyone adversely affected would have to make their case. Or, any concerned registered editor could point to a case where blocking a /64 resulted in a loss of encyclopedic content. Johnuniq (talk) 08:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

 * If I may try to summarise the above - would most people agree that if after directly blocking a single disruptive IPv6, another IPv6 from the /64 continues being disruptive, a /64 rangeblock would be the next step (as opposed to how we deal with IPv4s)? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:22, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Imo the best practice would be:
 * Check for collateral as a /64 block could definitely cause this (e.g. a corporation). Use the Gadget-contribsrange.js gadget to do so, and other whois services.
 * Check it's not a public mobile wireless connection: blocking these is like blocking dynamic IPv4 addresses, a bit pointless with the capability of causing collateral.
 * If you do these two steps then it should be OK to use /64 rangeblocks; appeals can be made on talkpages if users suffer significant collateral, just like Ipv4 blocks. --Jules  (Mrjulesd) 10:57, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * FYI native support for range contributions (T163562) is going out on this week's MediaWiki train. It is already on mediawiki.org (example). If all goes well, later this week you'll be able to query for IP ranges at Special:Contribs here on the English Wikipedia without the need for a gadget or wildcards. It will take a while for the data to backfill, so don't count on it working at Thursday's normal deploy time. I'll make a proper announcement once it finishes :) See also T145912 which is like a power user range contributions tool. It's a long ways away but feel free to follow that task for progress updates — MusikAnimal  talk  22:54, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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I will block an IPv6 /64 range without a qualm, as it is practically always assigned to a single user. A block on such a range won't inconvenience anybody else. If you look at the three IPs in question, you'll see that their first four groups of figures are the same, 2a02:c7d:5d47:f900. That's the sign of a /64 range, and I have therefore, as I mentioned above, blocked the 2a02:c7d:5d47:f900::/64 range. Not just the three separate IPs, which would be like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. If disruption from the range continues after the block expires, I'll be glad to re-block it for longer. (I made the first block pretty short so as to respect the block time Ian Thomson had applied to the Zjec account.) The new IP, <IP_ADDRESS>, from Thailand, is something else. Darkknight, <IP_ADDRESS> has been blocked, and if Zjec comes back from yet another open proxy (which I suspect <IP_ADDRESS> is, because I don't think his ass is in Thailand; the IPv6 range he originally used geolocates to Suffolk), I suggest that should be the breaking point for semi.

You cut off the IP you have after the fourth group and add ::/64. So, block this:

2605:E000:99D5:B800::/64

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Sure. We don't currently have an IPv6 range contribs tool, but it's really not that complex. This is a very basic, generalized statement so don't hammer me too hard on it, but the first hexadecimal block of an IPv6 address is a continent code (think ARIN or RIPE), the second is an ISP, and the third is an organization. If the /64 is the same (the first four blocks of hexadecimals), it's really, really, really, really likely we're dealing with one end user, even though there are still thousands of possible addresses in that /64 block. It can be broken down further into a /128, but that's not done very often and only under special circumstances. The CheckUser tool gives more information than just the IP address, though, and that will be very helpful in deciding when and how to place larger IPv6 rangeblocks. We don't have to do a lot of IPv6 rangeblocks larger than a /64 – I think I did a /47 once, which is an organization-level block, and I'm pretty sure that was the largest I've made. As to the collateral damage question for IPv4 ranges, I usually take a look at the last 30 to 45 days, sometimes a little less. If I see that 80-85% of the edits from that range are disruptive, I'll place the block. There are other factors I consider, including the history of the problem (there's a particularly troublesome LTA case that drives MILHIST crazy, and I've made a pretty big block for a pretty long period for that guy), how big the range is, and what kind of disruption it is (LTA vs. simple annoying vandalism vs BLP violations vs something else). Katietalk 2:05 pm, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1)

but the answer to my question wasn't exactly what I was looking for. "/64 implies same user" is not true as often as one would think it is, because webhosts, offices, mobile networks, and schools may have large number of hosts under the same /64 prefix (due to physical proximity) - these have to be handled on a case by case basis by checking WHOIS. Also, not every organization receives their allocation from an ISP (the US Department of Defense has an aggregate equivalent to roughly one /13!) and one should be ready to make large rangeblocks (on the order of /32) for webhosts. The largest non-webhost IPv6 rangeblock I've seen is a /38 currently in place against some mobile ranges. CheckUsers are permitted to check up to /32 for a reason.

'm only so familiar with the CheckUser tool (screenshots, etc), so should I be granted checkuser rights I would have a better answer for you. Based on what I do know, I think the current functionality should in many (most?) cases offer sufficient technical evidence, but for me anyway more weight is given to behavourial evidence, even if the technical evidence contradicts it. For instance, we may be dealing with a sock operating from multiple unique ranges while spoofing user agents. This surely is less common but it could happen, and in that case we have only behavioural evidence to go by. I'm not sure how much the planned overhaul would help in that scenario, but I believe we would still favour behavioural evidence given it is something we fundamentally need before doing checks — MusikAnimal t

Describe how much expertise you have with IPv6, especially as it pertains to how you would determine collateral damage.--Jasper Deng (talk) 5:45 am, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1) I've done a lot of reading about the advantages of IPv6 over IPv4, which I find very interesting, but for the purposes of range blocks I have a sufficient understanding. mw:Help:Range blocks/IPv6 is of some help, showing /64 range blocks and others that would generally safely belong to one customer of an ISP, but I believe this may vary provider to provider. This seems to hold true with the major ones however, such as Comcast, AT&T/U-verse, etc. Let's assume this isn't the case, or that we are unsure; Then you really have no idea the extent of collateral damage that may occur, especially at the organizational level, as there is no easy way to check the contributions. Hopefully we will soon have a solution, see phab:T145912. Full disclosure: I'll likely be a primary author of this tool. Being able to compute IPv6 ranges, assert collateral damage is minimal, etc, are currently important skills but I don't believe this should be a prerequisite for admins to issue range blocks, given the increasing prominence of IPv6 means your day to day patrolling at AIV (or as a checkuser) might require one to be effective. I could blab on about how the new tool will make this process easy for everyone, but in short, you won't find me issuing any range blocks unless I'm certain only the target end user is being affected (broadly speaking). See also phab:T5233 which means for your average end user a simple block will prevent further disruption without the need for a range block. In conjunction with the abuse filter we should be able to gauge how effective it is, but as you could imagine it will not work for our more prolific and tech-savvy LTAs — MusikAnimal talk

Describe how you would deal with IPv6 differently from IPv4.--Jasper Deng (talk) 6:12 am, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1) @Jasper Deng: Can you be more precise? I don't know what exactly you mean. Can you give some example? Vanjagenije (talk) 5:40 pm, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1) @Vanjagenije: In terms of assessing collateral damage, doing rangeblocks, determining identicalness of users, and the like.--Jasper Deng (talk) 5:50 pm, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1) I'm still not sure what exactly you mean, but I'll try to give an answer. As far as I know, IPv4 address has 32 bits, while IPv6 address has 128 bits. Address is made of two parts: first part identifies the network (range of addresses), while the second part identifies unique device. The range is denoted as, for example, "/24" which means that first 24 bits identify the network, while the rest identifies the host. Thus, in IPv4, a /24 network has 28 addresses, while in IPv6, a /24 network has 2104 addresses available. In IPv6, whole /64 subnetwork is usually assigned to the same user (single person or an organization), while in IPv4 it depends. A single user often has only one address assigned to them all the time (in IPv4), but sometimes the user gets a new address from the same network assigned to them every time they connect. Thus, in IPv6, a "/64" range of addresses (264 addresses) usually belongs to the same person, while in IPv4, a "/24" range (28 addresses) may belong to hundreds of users who share them. So, greater attention should be paid when blocking IPv4 ranges because of potential collateral damage. Also, in IPv4 it is harder to identify unique user by their IP address because a small range or even a single address may be shared by several users, while in IPv6, it is easier as the whole /64 range is usually used by one person. Vanjagenije (talk) 6:21 pm, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1)

Experienced SPI clerk, but not impressed by the answer to my question. The answer to "is this one user?" in IPv6 is also "it depends", it just depends on different things from IPv4. Despite the recommendation that each enduser receive a /64, this must be taken with a grain of salt. For example, mobile hotspots may each use a single /64 despite there being many users in close proximity. Use of WHOIS to find out the ISP and their allocation policy is very important.--Jasper Deng (talk) 6:26 pm, 29 September 2016, last Thursday (4 days ago) (UTC+1)

I can give you the technical description of the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 without having to look this up in the Wikipedia. This sort of thing was covered in my GSEC course (listed above). I can tell you, for example, that IPv6 addresses often contain the MAC address and that the MAC address is "guaranteed" to uniquely identify a network card (and therefore useful for checkuser investigations), though this guarantee is fairly easy to violate. I do want to be clear, though; my professional expertise with IPv4 is significantly stronger. IPv6 uptake in North America is significantly less than in other areas of the world, so I have not had to spend as much time with it. --Yamla

IPv6 users invariably use operating systems that enable privacy extensions, so as far as I know, few of the addresses can be relied upon to be the exact MAC address, and CheckUsers probably wouldn't find it that useful.--Jasper Deng

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Algorithms

An algorithm is, in layman's terms, a method to go about achieving a particular task. Usually, this task is meant to be performed by a computer or other machine, like calculations and data analysis; however, its definition can be easily extended to tasks in everyday life and other situations.

Resources and readings

 * /Overview/
 * Introduction to Algorithms

Wikipedia

 * Algorithm

Wikibooks

 * Algorithms

Full Video Lecture Series
Each of these is a full series of lectures on algorithms, as well as some other course materials. These are designed as roughly third-year courses in computer science.
 * MIT
 * ArsDigita University
 * IIT Bombay

Open source software

 * Algorithmic projects at Sourceforge
 * jSVR - GPL'd Java program that creates 3D models out of 2D images.
 * Fast Genetic Algorithm Library 1.0.2
 * Multicore Swarm - Libs for writing code for multi-core chips.

Data compression

 * QUAD
 * File-transfer
 * ZZIPlib Library
 * Dot 100 Audio Compression (1/100th)
 * KGB Archiver

Document formats

 * DjVuLibre

Related news

 * March 30, 2007 - Better algorithms for image labeling created.

Miscellaneous

 * Some papers on genetic algorithms

Learning videos

 * The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time (Fast Fourier Transform)

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Sarmaya Arts Foundation

Sarmaya Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit curated repository of art, artefacts and living traditions from the Indian subcontinent, run by the Sarmaya Trust. Founded by former IndusInd Bank COO Paul Abraham in 2015, Sarmaya is based in Mumbai, India. Sarmaya is a digital museum with a physical collection that represents the diverse histories and artistic traditions of the Subcontinent. Objects in the collection fall into the categories of numismatics, cartography, photography, engravings, modern art, living traditions and rare books.

Collections
The Sarmaya collection ranges from coins of the Gandhara age to Emperor Akbar’s gold mohur, a detailed map of the ancient dynasties that ruled India in 1022 AD, a selection of 19th century photographs presenting the first-ever portraits of India and triptych engraving of Tipu Sultan fighting the British army.

The genres in the collection are a mix of tribal and folk, including works by widely regarded genius of Gond art Jangarh Singh Shyam, as well as names like Phad painter Shrilal Joshi and Warli artist Jivya Soma Mhase. It also includes the works of Indian Modern masters like MF Husain, FN Souza and KH Ara, and an extensive body of works by Badri Narayan, AX Trindade and Jamini Roy.

A special project undertaken by Sarmaya founder Abraham has been the commission of Issa-nama : a miniature painting project depicting the life of Jesus Christ. The project has been undertaken in collaboration with miniature-painting artist Manish Soni in the Mughal painting style.

Special exhibitions
Sarmaya's debut exhibition opened in January 2018 with Portrait of a Nation, a collection of rare 19th century photography from the Indian subcontinent. The show was curated by photographer Madhavan Pillai and designed by conservationist Abha Narain Lamba highlighted connections between the evolution of photography and the political landscape in India. Photographers featured included Raja Deen Dayal, Samuel Bourne, Felice Beato and Thomas Biggs.

In August 2021, Sarmaya partnered with TARQ art gallery to stage the show Shifting Selves - Between meaning, mythology & mirage in Colaba, Mumbai. It centred around the themes of identity and self contained in the works of artists Saju Kunhan, Saubiya Chasmawala and Rithika Merchant. Their art was accompanied by other objects from Sarmaya's collection of 19th-century photography, numismatics and indigenous and contemporary Indian art. The exhibition also included a digital art installation by Gaurav Ogale and Farah Mulla.

In November 2022, Sarmaya partnered with Ojas Art in Delhi to stage the show Echoes of the Land - Art bears witness to a changing planet in Mehrauli. The exhibition featured contemporary Indian artists, most of whom practice traditional arts related to Mithila, Gond, Warli, Bhil and other indigenous communities. The paintings, all part of the Sarmaya collection, included works by Ram Singh Urveti, Krishnanand Jha, Mayur and Tushar Vayeda, Zarina Hashmi, Gopa Trivedi and Sanjay Chitara. The exhibition explored themes like climate-change, pollution, species extinction and other issues of the Anthropocene, through Indian art.

Films
Sarmaya has produced two short films on living art traditions in India. Tholu Bommalaata – Dance of the Shadow Puppets documented the work of National Award-winning artist Sindhe Chithambara Rao and his family in Dharmavaram, Andhra Pradesh. The documentary won 3rd place at the Chitra Bharati Film Festival, 2022. Another film Madhubani - Art from a Sacred Land focused on the family of Moti Karn and Jyoti Karn, representing two generations of traditional Madhubani artists from Jitwarpur, Bihar.

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Mozaffarabad, Nishapur

Mozaffarabad (, also Romanized as Moz̧affarābād) is a village in Rivand Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 144, in 43 families.

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Hannah Collin

Hannah Collin (born 18 February 1982) is an English former professional tennis player.

Collin competed at her home Grand Slam, Wimbledon, on three consecutive occasions from 2000 to 2002 and also for Great Britain in the Europe/Africa Zone at the 2000 edition of the Fed Cup.

Considered to be one of Britain's most promising young players in the 1990s, at a time when British tennis was doing particularly poorly, she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon juniors' tournament, and was the national 14, 16 and 18 year old age group champion.

She played her first match on the ITF Women's Circuit in 1997 and her final professional match at the Wimbledon qualifying event in 2005. During her career, she reached a total of seven ITF singles finals (winning three) and managed to notch up a victory over former British number one, Sam Smith. She also managed to beat Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters.

Post-retirement life
After retiring, Collin became a tennis coach. She is currently a coach at the All England Club at Wimbledon.

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tressaillir

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) to thrill, shiver, quiver
 * 2) to vibrate
 * 3) to twitch, start, shudder, jump

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) to jump over or jump across
 * 2) to jump for joy

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Phillip Luxton

Phillip Luxton (b 1959) is a New Zealand ceramicist. He is self-taught and has been producing large scale works by hand since his early 20s. He is on the board of Ngā Taonga a Hineteiwaiwa A Treasury of New Zealand Craft Resources.

In 1988 he received a significant QEII Arts Council Grant and in the early 1990s Luxton collaborated with New Zealand painter Max Gimblett. In 2002 he exhibited with Barry Brickell at the Grantham Galleries in Auckland. The following year Luxton exhibited alongside Paratene Matchitt, David Trubridge and Jeff Thompson at the Art Out There exhibition held at the Ellerslie Flower Show.

He has work in the James Wallace Art collection and in 2001 won the Manukau Sculpture and Vessel Award.

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Commissioner of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department

The Police Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Department – City of St. Louis (SLMPD) is the Police Commissioner of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

The post is currently held by Commissioner Robert J. Tracy who was appointed on December 14, 2022 and assumed office on January 9, 2023.