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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mena Capital

The result was   delete. Black Kite (talk) 09:50, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Mena Capital

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Non-notable company. The Fortune magazine "profile of MENA" is actually not a profile of this company; it is a review of investment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa, a region known by the acronym MENA. The MENA company is mentioned, once, briefly, as the source of a single quote. Other references show similarly sketchy coverage. This investment firm does not appear to be anything by run of the mill. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

We should fix the reference then, but the notability of the company is that it's an influential private equity firm operating in the Middle East during a time of economic unrest associated with the Arab Spring. Their current AUM is low ($28 million), but that's down from over $100 million just a year ago - again, making them of interest and relevant. There aren't adequate Arab private equity firms investing in the MENA region represented in the private equity firm space on Wikipedia and this is a good candidate to help address that information gap. The firm is notable for being out front in encouraging investment in countries like Tunisia and Egypt during this period of political transition <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment If there are better references to be found, please bring them forth. Confusion may arise from the fact that there is an unrelated real estate development company named MENA Capital in Lebanon, and that fact that the term "MENA capital" is a common term used in articles about the general capital funds market in the Middle East/North Africa region, but unrelated to this company. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:08, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I included this profile after seeing them referenced in the Fortune article. My intention was to add them as an influential private equity firm for their work in the Middle East region investing in new Arab democracies while balancing the sharia-related challenges of Muslim "investing" - the firm appeared to me to meet the qualifications for inclusion based on other private equity firms listed, their formal reporting and coverage in high visibility mainstream news reporting (like Fortune). I characterized the Fortune reference as such because it included an interview with the firm's CEO, which I thought was the relevant link for those interested in the article and didn't mean to mischaracterize or present the information inappropriately. I intended this as a stub, for which additional work would be done by myself and others in the private equity working group recognizing that additional references and details would need to be provided.  It is noted as a start class profile in need of additional input and work.  As such, I hope it won't be deleted. AliceStanley11 (talk) 19:30, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Keep. There are lots of obscure topics on Wikipedia. Don't see why this can't be one. Also agree with the IP on the niche here. TheSoundAndTheFury (talk) 14:41, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 20:50, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Delete There may be obscure topics on WP, but that doesn't justify having more. For the record, there isn't enough secondary sources to make this company notable. The website for the company sure mentions itself, mission, staff, etc. But no secondary coverage, no independent sources to make this notable enough. If in fact it is an "influential" company a plethora (or at least a few) secondary sources would support this. As it is, that isn't the case.Jimsteele9999 (talk) 23:49, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The Fortune article describes them, as " a small London-based hedge fund" & I see no information to indicate that the firm is significant. We have always held that just being one of the people interviewed by a journalist in connection with a single article on a topic is not evidence of notability. Being frequently interviewed as a major source on a topic can be another matter. If we were to have a criterion for funds of the sort, the monetary value would be the obvious demarcation: this firm is apparently worth only $12 million.      DGG ( talk ) 04:31, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete as lacking indepth independent coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:15, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:David Selby

"Dark Shadows" (2012)
Perhaps this is more trivia than important, but , David Selby , along with Jonathan Frid , Lara Parker and Kathryn Leigh Scott , had cameos in the Tim Burton film. ( Greeted as guests at the Collinwood party. ). <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Unsourced awards
The actual nominations and winning need sourcing. The notable career turns need sourcing.

This article is problematic as written. That'sHedley (talk) 18:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

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Genealogy/Authors

This book initiated on 02/14/04 by Bwood. Getting Started material by Diana Grzelak Needham.

KirbyMeister is also working on this project. Bob Fornal from http://bob.fornal.org is also working on this project.

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John Bell (field hockey)

John H. Bell (born 26 February 1933) is a British field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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Talk:Deborah Carroll

Biography
The biography in this article is a disgrace. Loghead1 23:40, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

 * The article's inclusion in Wikipedia in the first place is a disgrace. Claim to fame? Being spoofed once on a 'webcomic' (wow!) and appearing in an obscure American reality TV programme. That's about it. Should be deleted for lack of notability. I've left the 'People from Bangor, Gwynedd' category for now - it's how I found this non-article - but I suspect we are merely talking of an accident of birth ("Nanny Deb as a child had moved 16 times by the age of 12", apparently...). I'm seriously inclined to nominate this for deletion. Enaidmawr (talk) 20:16, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

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User:Mohamed Mahil/be bold

Being bold is important on Wikipedia. It's important to get topics that are not getting enough attention and bring it into the limelight.

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Tadhg Barry

Tadhg Barry (1880 – 15 November 1921) was a veteran Irish republican, leading trade unionist, journalist, poet, Gaelic Athletic Association official, and alderman on Cork Corporation who was actively involved in, and eventually was killed during, the Irish revolutionary period.

Background
Tadhg Barry was born in 1880 to a working-class family in Cork, Ireland. He was schooled at the Blarney Street National School and later the North Monastery. After school, Barry worked for four years at Our Lady's Asylum until 1909, when his interest in journalism led to him becoming a staff writer at the newly founded Cork Accent. Between 1910 and 1916, he worked at the Cork Free Press, a paper which competed with the Redmondite (Home Rule advocating) Cork Examiner.

Barry had an interest in the Gaelic Athletic Association and reported upon the sports of hurling and camogie under the penname "An Ciotóg" (meaning the "left-hander" or "clumsy one"). He was also a delegate to both county and national GAA boards, a referee, and he trained the first camogie team in Cork. In 1916, Barry wrote the first book on the subject of hurling, entitled Hurling and how to play it.

Entry into politics
In the 1900s, Barry began to be drawn into the world of politics. In c. 1906 he became a founding member and secretary of the Cork Branch of Sinn Féin as well becoming a leading member of the Cork Branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU). In 1911, alongside fellow prominent nationalists in Cork Tomas MacCurtain and Sean O’Hegarty, he had become part of Fianna Éireann, a Boy Scout organisation with an Irish nationalist political outlook. Taking his Fianna experience forward, In 1913 he helped found the Cork Corps of the Irish Volunteers, an armed Irish nationalist organised primary founded to fight the Ulster Volunteers should they have attempted to resist Home Rule in Ireland. In 1914, when the Volunteers split into two factions, Barry aligned with rump Volunteers who vowed not to fight for the British Empire during World War I but instead remain in Ireland.

Tadgh shared a platform with James Connolly in Cork on two separate occasions and was on active service during the 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up in rebellion in Dublin. In 1917, Barry was selected as a Cork delegate to the historic October Sinn Féin convention in the Mansion House, a meeting which attempted to unify all elements of the now surging nationalist movement into one force which would advocate (and fight) for an independent Irish Republic free of control from the British Empire. That same year, Barry was arrested by British authorities on the ground he had delivered a "seditious speech" and was imprisoned for a time until he was freed following a hunger strike.

Barry was arrested on 30 January 1918 in the city council chamber of Cork and charged with being a conspirator in the so-called German Plot, which British authorities alleged was a plan by members of Sinn Féin to collude with the German Empire to bring firearms to Ireland.

Upon his release in 1919, he became the full-time Branch Secretary to the ITGWU in Cork and was involved with the Irish soviets, a series of strikes by rural Irish workers mainly across Munster. In 1920, Barry was elected to the position of Alderman in Cork, placing him in a position of power alongside the now Lord Mayor Tomas MacCurtain and newly elected MP Terence MacSwiney.

1920 was a tumultuous year all around in Cork. The Irish War of Independence had erupted and Munster was a particular hotbed of activity. On 20 March 1920, Tomás Mac Curtain, whom had become an officer in the newly formed Irish Republican Army, was killed in front of his wife and children in an assassination by members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British controlled police force in Ireland. This incident caused widespread unrest in Cork. Terence MacSwiney succeeded Mac Curtain as Lord Mayor of Cork, only to die in October following a hunger striker protesting his own arrest. MacSwiney's death was a matter not just of national but also of international news, particularly in the United States of America. Not much longer after MacSwiney's death, Cork was devastated by the Burning of Cork in December, when members of the Black and Tans torched the city in act of arson born out of anger from loses to the IRA. Amongst the many buildings damaged or destroyed in the fire was ITGWU's Connolly Memorial Hall, the headquarters of the Labour Movement in Cork.

Imprisonment and death
In the wake of MacSwiney's death, Cork's municipal bodies once again gathered to elect a new Lord Mayor. Barry and eight other councillors were arrested. Barry was transported to Ballykinlar internment camp in County Down, where he was placed with 2000 other arrested Irish Nationalists including Seán Lemass and Peadar Kearney. Barry attempted to keep busy while incarcerated. He taught Irish to his fellow prisoners as well as preaching Socialism. He kept a Red flag flown over his quarters, much to his jailers' chagrin.

On 15 November 1921 Barry was conversing with fellow inmates at the edge of the camp and bidding them farewell. What exactly followed is unknown, but the result is not: Barry was shot dead by a young sentry guard, Private A. Barrett, who later claimed Barry had been making an attempt to escape the camp. An eyewitness account of Barry's death was provided by another inmate, Seán D. MacLochlainn, who by his own account was standing next to Barry when he was shot. According to MacLochlainn's account Barry was standing in a line of inmates waving farewell to those leaving when they were asked to move back, when the group refused Barry was shot dead. The statement also describes the shooting of two other prisoners named as Tormey and Sloane. A coroner's inquest into his death was inconclusive, and a trial held on his death resulted in a jury unable to agree on a verdict. The British authorities failed to produce either the sentry or his superiors for cross-examination. A secret report on Barry's death, created by the army's 6th Division for the inquest, recalled him memorably as ‘a mischievous socialist, Bolshevist, or Sinn Féiner, as the occasion demanded’, and as an ‘utter disloyalist’.

Thousands turned out in every town to view the funeral cortege en route to Dublin where, on 19 November, 30,000 marched with the coffin. As the train bringing his body home to Cork passed through Kilmallock, County Limerick, 300 creamery strikers and supporters paraded through the town under the red flag. Barry's subsequent funeral drew an enormous crowd with 30,000 in attendance, chief amongst them Cork's own Michael Collins, who had left the on-going Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in order to attend. Barry's death was one of the last during the Irish War of Independence, peace talks led to the ratifying of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (6 December 1921). Tadgh Barry is buried in St. Finbarr's Cemetery, Cork.

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User:Mr. Md. Touhidul Islam

Md. Touhidul Islam, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Business Administration. NPI University of Banagladesh

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Emma Nedov

Emma Jane Nedov (born 11 March 1996 in Sydney) is an Australian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2014 and 2018 World Championships. She is the 2013 and 2019 Australian National Champion on beam.

Early life
Emma Jane Nedov was born on 11 March 1996 in Sydney. She began gymnastics when she was six years old at Epping YMCA. In 2004, Nedov developed a virus that caused "severe neck pain, headaches, and constant aching muscle pain" which forced her to temporarily quit gymnastics, but she recovered after four weeks of treatment.

Junior career
Nedov competed at her first Junior National Championships in 2010 where she won a silver on beam and a bronze with her team. At the 2011 Junior National Championships, Nedov won gold on uneven bars and balance beam, and she won bronze in the all-around and on floor exercise. The 2011 season was also successful for Nedov internationally; she won the all-around at a friendly meet against Great Britain. She also won gold at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games on balance beam.

2012–2013
Nedov became age-eligible for senior elite in 2012, but she missed the season due to injury. She returned at the 2013 National Championships and won the gold medal on balance beam. She made her senior international debut at the 2013 Dityatin Cup in St. Petersburg where she won the silver on balance beam behind Ekaterina Kramarenko and finished seventh on floor exercise.

2014
Nedov began the 2014 season at the WOGA Classic where she finished ninth on balance beam. At the National Championships, Nedov won a silver on balance beam and finished fifth in the all-around and on vault. Nedov was selected to compete for Australia at the World Championships. In the qualification round, she scored a 14.266 on beam and was the first reserve for the final. The Australian team finished seventh in the team final, and Nedov contributed a 14.066 on beam. Nedov ended her season at the Élite Gym Massilia where she only competed beam, but she did not qualify for the event final.

2015
Nedov began her season with a sixth place finish on beam at the City of Jesolo Trophy. She also placed sixth on beam at the National Championships. At the Summer Universiade, Nedov finished eighth in the all-around final and fifth in the team final and the balance beam final. Nedov won a silver medal in the all-around and a bronze medal on beam at a friendly meet against China. This competition was Nedov's last of the season due to an injury.

2016
Nedov won a bronze medal with the Australian team at the Pacific Rim Championships. Nedov competed at the Olympic Test Event to help Australia in their attempt to qualify as a full team to the 2016 Olympic Games. The Australian team finished fifth and thus did not qualify. Nedov then competed at the National Championships where she won the bronze medal on beam, but ultimately Australia's sole Olympic spot went to Larrissa Miller. Nedov later remarked that Australia's failure to qualify as a team was extremely disappointing and she "actually considered retiring then." In the end, Nedov decided that she would continue compete and planned on retiring after the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

2017–2018
In February and March, Nedov competed at World Cup events in Melbourne, Baku and Doha where she placed fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, on balance beam. Early in 2017, Nedov tore her Achilles tendon in training. Afterwards, Nedov retired, but she later decided to comeback. On her decision to make a comeback, Nedov stated, "After having the time off, experiencing life without gymnastics and getting a proper job, I decided that I’d give my all and go for it one last time." Nedov returned to competition in September 2018 at the Australian Classic where she finished fourth in the all-around and won the gold on balance beam. Then, Nedov was selected to compete at the 2018 World Championships where she helped the Australian team finish fifteenth.

2019
Nedov competed at the 2019 Melbourne World Cup where she won a silver on balance beam and finished fourth on floor exercise. In March 2019, Nedov starred in an advertisement for activewear brand Running Bare as a part of their "This One’s For Me" campaign. Nedov won the gold medal on beam at the Baku World Cup. At the National Championships, Nedov won the gold medal on balance beam and won the bronze medal in the all-around.

2023–2024
Nedov returned to training in late 2023. She competed at the National Championships on the Gold Coast in May 2024, where she finished fourth in the all around. In June Nedov was named to the Australian team to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Kate McDonald, Ruby Pass, Breanna Scott, and Emily Whitehead.

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Web Design/Emerging Technologies

As a developing technology, there's always a bunch of tools and techniques that are emerging into the world of Web Standards. Here's your chance to find an emerging technology that interests you, and start playing with it!

eXtensible Markup Language
Currently this is a stub. Activities:
 * XML Challenges will get you started creating your own SVG, rolling your own RSS feed, displaying maths in your browser.

AJAX (a.k.a. XMLHTTPRequest)
Experiment with those fancy dynamic widgets in your site! Get started learning AJAX with the Javascript AJAX Challenges. For the true power of AJAX, familiarise yourself with dynamic server side scripting as well.

Activities

 * Web Design/Emerging Technologies Research Activities

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Dalabon people

The Dalabon or Dangbon are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.

Name
Traditionally the people now called Dalabon had no collective name for themselves, and the term itself derives from the language which members of the community speak.

Language
The Dalabon language is classified among the far East Arnhem Land language group, and as belonging to the Gunwinyguan language family. It is under severe threat of extinction. One feature of its linguistic culture, the relative absence of nouns for emotions, combined with its rich repertoire (160 lexemes) of emotional verbs and adjectives.

Country
At the time of European colonialisation, the tribal territory of the Dalabon is thought to have covered some 2,000 mi2, in south-western Arnhem Land. The anthropologist, Norman Tindale, placed their northern boundary at the upper Goyder River, and their heartland around the headwaters of the Phelp, Rose and Hart rivers. Linguistics scholar, Maïa Ponsonnet, states that, before the colonial period, the Dalbon people were located in Central Arnhem Land, with clan estates extending further north in the direction of the Arafura Sea.

Their immediate tribal environment consisted of several peoples: the Jawoyn to their southwest, Kune and Mayali speakers of the Bininj Kunwok dialect chain on their west-north western boundaries, the Ngalakgan on their southern frontier, and the Rembarrnga beyond their eastern limits.

Lifestyle
The Dalabon were semi-nomadic hunter gatherers, with access to abundant food resources culled throughout a mixed savannah and forest area which experienced three seasonal changes: a humid wet monsoonal period from December to April, followed by three cool dry months (May to July), and closing with the gradual onset of warming from August to November as a prelude to the return of the rainy summer season.

Social organization
Dalabon society had 8 subsections, each of which had a male and female name, and which can be analysed in terms of three dichotomies. The first taxonomy identifies people in terms of patrimoieties of the Dua/Yirritja type. A second division of descent is matrilineal; the intersection of these two forms 4 sections. A third system has subsections to elicit the ideal father-and-son pairs.

The structure of these moieties and semi-moieties affects the ritual choreography of two major ceremonies, Gunabibi and Yabuduruwa, held on alternating years by the Dalabon and some contiguous tribes.

Mythology
In the earliest times, according to Dalabon cosmology, men passed the night-time under water, and had stumps for legs. The crocodile was master of the secret of fire. This changed when the kingfisher managed to filch a firebrand from the crocodile, and set fire to the landscape, and men were burnt, leading them to learn the art of cooking and also acquire the legs they now have. Two pairs of immemorial, ancestral people (Nayunghyungkig), the Yirritja men Bulanj and Kodjok, and the Duwa women Kalidjan and Kamanj, -collectively referred to as the Nakoorkko - wandered the earth, laying down the law (walu-no) inscribed in the nature of the Dalabon landscape and its reflex in Dalabon social customs.

Modern times
The Dalabon today mainly live in an area east of Katherine, in Wugularr (formerly Beswick), Barunga (formerly Bamyili), Bulman and Weemol.

Customs
Kenneth Maddock found the Dalabon still preserved a custom, which they called magard, which had been briefly noted earlier among the Yolngu and the Burarra, and called Mirriri, according to which a man whose classificatory sister had been subject to obscene abuse implying she was engaged in sexual improprieties, was obliged to assault her, armed with a spear, boomerang or sticks. W. Lloyd Warner took the practice as a ritual expression of displeasure performed to allay the outbreak of hostilities between the respective clans of husband and wife; Lester Hiatt thought his material suggested rather a brother's disavowal of incestuous interest in his sister; Maddock took the Dalabon custom as a predictable ceremonial affirmation of a social relation forming part of a larger body of tribal etiquette.

Ethnographic studies
Kenneth Maddock did the first comprehensive studies of the Dalabon.

Alternative names

 * Buan, Bu:wan, Boun
 * Ngalkbon

Tindale's Dangbon
Norman Tindale posited the existence of a 'tribe', the Dangbon whom he considered distinct from the Dalabon, but was unable to furnish an estimate for their tribal lands, other than locating these Dangbon to the east of the Liverpool River's headwaters and at those of the Cadell and Mann rivers. He also provided a list of alternative names for this group:
 * Gundangbon
 * Dangbun
 * Dangbar (typo)
 * Gumauwurk

Contemporary scholarship now regards Dangbon as an alternative name for the Dalabon.

Some words
Nicholas Evans notes that the Dalabon root √men, with more or less the general sense of 'social conscience /awareness', emerges in an adjectival compound form like men-djabalarrk (obedient) that is applied also to non-human beings like a dog.

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Why Should I Care

Why Should I Care may refer to:

 * "Why Should I Care", a song recorded by Toni Braxton from the album Secrets (Toni Braxton album)
 * "Why Should I Care", a song recorded by Diana Krall from the album When I Look in Your Eyes
 * "Why Should I Care", a song recorded by Sara Evans from the album Born to Fly

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María Pilar Alonso

María Pilar Alonso López, known as Piluca Alonso (born October 8, 1968) is a former Spanish basketball player, member of the Spanish team at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal at the 1993 European Championship.

Club career
Born and raised in León, she started playing basketball with school club Dominicos, and later in nearby Casa Galicia Baloncesto. She transferred to one of the top teams of the time, the Celta Citroën in 1983. At 1.95m, she was the tallest player in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto. Being only 16, she won her first title, the 1984 Copa de la Reina. She played at Celta Citroën until the team disappeared for financial reasons. After one season at Amanecer Alcorcón, she signed for Dorna Godella / Costa Naranja, where she won FIBA European Champions Cup 1993.

National team
She made her debut with Spain women's national basketball team at the age of 19. She played with the senior team for 11 years, from 1987 to 1998, with a total of 171 caps and 5.3 PPG. As one of the most promising young players of her time, she was offered the chance to join the Caja Toledo - BEX Banco Exterior project in 1988, with other young Spanish prospects in order to prepare for the 1992 Summer Olympics, but she refused for personal reasons. She was later called up for the Olympic squad due to Yolanda Moliné's injury, but head coach Chema Buceta didn't give her the chance to play because of her denial to join the team in 1988.

She participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, two World Championships and four European Championships:
 * 7th 1985 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women (youth)
 * 6th 1987 Eurobasket
 * 5th 1992 Summer Olympics
 * Gold_medal_europe.svg 1993 Eurobasket
 * 8th 1994 World Championship
 * 9th 1995 Eurobasket
 * 5th 1997 Eurobasket
 * 5th 1998 World Championship

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Joseph el-Ruzzi

Joseph el-Ruzzi, in Arabic Yusuf al-Ruzzi, was the Patriarch of the Maronite Church in 1597–1608. He promulgated several measures bringing the Maronite Church in concert with Rome. Among the changes was the Church's switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, making the Maronites the first Eastern Church to make the move.

Origins
Ruzzi was from Bkoufa near Ehden in northern Mount Lebanon. He belonged to the Ruzzi family. His uncle Mikha'il served as patriarch of the Maronite Church from 1567 until his death in 1597.

Patriarchate
Ruzzi succeeded his uncle as patriarch after being elected in 1597. His election occurred during the visit of the papal emissary Girolamo Dandini who was sent to keep tabs on the Maronite Church's implementation of Roman Catholic reforms after reports that Mikha'il had Jacobite tendencies. According to the historian William Harris, Ruzzi ardently pursued papal practices, and the historian Pierre Dib considers him "a daring and resourceful man ... an inconsiderate Latinizer". In a council he held in the village of Moussa in 1598, he set out measures toward the Latinization of the Maronite Church. The following year Pope Clement VIII instructed Ruzzi to promulgate Latin marital rules in the Maronite Church; the marital rules relating to consanguinity, affinity, public honesty and spiritual relationship, did not take into effect until the late 19th century. Among the Latinization measures he implemented, Ruzzi revised fasting periods in accordance with Rome and removed a degree of Syriac from Maronite liturgy and ritual.

Despite opposition from a significant proportion of the Maronites, he implemented the church's switch to the Gregorian calendar in 1606. The change was implemented successfully in Syria, but the Cypriot Maronites continued using the Julian calendar. Ruzzi's act made the Maronites the first Eastern Church to adopt the Gregorian calendar; the Syriacs and Chaldeans followed in 1836, the Melkites in 1857 and the Armenians in 1911. Not long after Ruzzi's act, in the 1600s, the Maronites discontinued counting the years from the Seleucid era in favor of the Christian era.

Ruzzi died in March 1608. According to Dib, the measures implemented by Ruzzi were "harsh vexations" for the Maronites which prevented the election of a new patriarch until 16 October. Ruzzi's successor John Makhlouf criticized Ruzzi's reforms and expressed to Pope Paul V his desire to reestablish the ancient practices of the Maronite Church which were changed by Ruzzi to placate his religious subjects. Despite initial opposition, Ruzzi's changes became a permanent aspect of the Church.

Ruzzi was influential with the Ottoman governor of Tripoli and Sunni Muslim local chieftain Yusuf Sayfa Pasha (intermittent (r. 1579 – 1625)), whose jurisdiction spanned the predominantly Maronite districts of Byblos, Bsharri and Batroun in northern Mount Lebanon. The Patriarch frequently obtained orders of safe conduct from the Governor, who strove to win the support of his distrusting Maronite peasant subjects.

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List of universities and colleges in the State of Palestine

This is a list of universities and colleges in the State of Palestine, which comprises both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The West Bank and Gaza together had 14 universities, an open university for distance learning, 18 university colleges and 20 community colleges.

All universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. See "Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza" for more.

West Bank

 * Al-Quds University
 * Al-Quds Open University
 * An-Najah National University
 * Arab American University
 * Bethlehem Bible College
 * Bethlehem University
 * Birzeit University
 * Dar Al-Kalima University
 * Edward Said National Conservatory of Music
 * Hebron University
 * Ibrahimieh College
 * Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie
 * Palestine Ahliya University
 * Palestine Polytechnic University
 * International Academy of Art, Palestine
 * Ariel University in the illegal settlement of Ariel. The upgrade of its status from a college to a university was highly controversial within Israel itself (see Ariel University for details).

Gaza Strip

 * Al-Aqsa University
 * Al-Azhar University – Gaza
 * Al-Quds Open University
 * Gaza University (Gaza)
 * Islamic University of Gaza
 * Israa University
 * Palestine Technical College
 * University College of Applied Sciences
 * University of Palestine
 * Gaza Community/Training Center
 * Hassan University

Other education and research institutions

 * Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
 * Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute
 * Palestinian Academic Network
 * Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
 * Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education

Education and research organizations outside Palestine

 * Durham Palestine Educational Trust
 * Institute for Middle East Understanding
 * Institute for Palestine Studies
 * Scientists 4 Palestine
 * PEACE Programme - under the auspices of UNESCO


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moshe Abutbul (politician)

The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Meatsgains (talk) 20:54, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Moshe Abutbul (politician)

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Non-notable mayor. Meatsgains (talk) 17:53, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) all of the 120 members have articles in multiple langaudges. Also was in a very well known mayoral race and am astonished you put up this afd. IsraeliIdan (talk) 17:55, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per IsraeliIdan. Mccapra (talk) 18:03, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:NPOL as a member of the Knesset. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 18:12, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep Just been elected to the Knesset. Nominator needs a good trouting. Number   5  7  18:26, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:29, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:29, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Keep as above. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:21, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep as described above. --Enos733 (talk) 20:10, 21 September 2019 (UTC)


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Talk:David Wheater

Infobox Pic
Does a better picture exist that is free use? If so, please put it in the infobox, as seeing the person's head has move EV than seeing his bald spot. User:Nezzadar (speak) 21:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * A new image has since been added, but free use images of footballers are quite hard to come by and for future reference I recommend using flickr to find some. And apologies for Wheater being busy signing autographs when I took the picture, but I thought having some glimpse of the player had more EV than nothing at all. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:44, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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Electoral results for the district of Botany

Botany, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1894 and abolished in 1950.


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Ῥόδος

Etymology
Three possibilities are:
 * name - see 🇨🇬, a reference to the serpents that had supposedly inhabited the land in ancient times.
 * From.
 * From.

Proper noun

 * 1) Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece

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Talk:Niels of Aarhus

Translation
Someone should translate this source and add it to the article.--The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 21:14, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Hello. I have added it as a source now. I am fluent in Danish and will perhaps incorporate more details from it later on. RhinoMind (talk) 20:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

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MediaWiki/Introduction

Welcome to the Department! Part of the Engineering and Technology Welcome to the Wikiversity content development project for MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is written in PHP and requires the MySQL relational database management system (although it has some PostgreSQL support). Historically, MediaWiki was developed to serve the needs of Wikipedia, a free wiki-based encyclopedia, but it has since become one of the most popular general wiki solutions. Today, it is used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other popular and large wikis. It has also been deployed by companies as an internal knowledge management solution, and as a content management system. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites, which are not editable by the general public.

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active editor for MediaWiki-related pages, you can list your name here (this can help the community of MediaWiki editors grow and help these editors communicate better).

School news

 * August 16, 2006 - School founded!
 * November 1, 2006 - Wiki 101 expanded to sit between Introduction to Wiki and Topic:MediaWiki
 * February 23, 2007 - Topic:Scripting MediaWiki started
 * March 15, 2007 - Summer of Code 2007 - list of project ideas
 * February 9 2011 - Coalition of the Willing -> Wikiversity camp
 * November 9, 2023 - WikimediaCourse Launched - a tuition-based credit-bearing university course offered by SUNY Polytechnic Institute
 * November 9, 2023 - WikimediaCourse Launched - a tuition-based credit-bearing university course offered by SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Lessons
Get to work writing lessons! Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!
 * Introduction to Wiki - for new Wikiversity editors
 * Learning project: Wiki 101 - a guide that draws upon the MediaWiki Handbook for advancing Wikiversity editors
 * Wikipedia service-learning courses explores several features and policies of Mediawiki projects
 * Templates - A Guide to creating, perfecting, deploying and documenting templates used at Wikiversity.
 * Generating dynamic content with MediaWiki - A look at MediaWiki dynamics using Help:Variables, ParserFunctions and other dynamic elements in MediaWiki.
 * creating a new MediaWiki variable - mw:manual:variable

Research projects
This feature of Wikiversity will be implemented later pending further discussion.
 * MediaWiki Project - guides participants from introductory HTML to advanced MediaWiki hacking.... participants develop new MediaWiki features for the Wikiversity community
 * Proposed Learning project: Citing Sources - Introduction to finding high quality, verifiable sources and citing them in WikiMedia projects.
 * Proposed Learning project: Wikimedia Garbage Detail - Wikiversity's sister projects such as Wikipedia discard articles that do not conform to the narrow mission of the various Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Garbage Detail will be a Wikiversity project devoted to learning how to efficiently capture discarded content from other Wikimedia projects that is suitable for Wikiversity.
 * Topic:MediaWiki/Codebase: an ongoing investigation of the Mediawiki codebase designed to be a Wikiversity convergence of School:Computer Science and Meta's old How to become a MediaWiki hacker.
 * Topic:MediaWiki/Engine: an exploration of how MediaWiki uses PHP to access and modify records in its MySQL database. See also Topic:Databases and Topic:Object-relational databases

Diagrams
Some participants studying Computer Science are contemplating using MediaWiki as a subject for a study in UML (Unified Modeling Language) producing a set of UML diagrams that may help to visualize how the MediaWiki backend works. - Discuss

Resources
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here! Hacking start points (How to become a MediaWiki hacker [- useful but a little too vague for beginners])
 * First thing first: You cannot hack without a wiki! mw:manual:installation
 * wiki on a stick (- step-by-step guide (for windows) to setting up a small (< 50Mb) wiki, which can sit on your USB drive, a good way to start hacking
 * It is very convenient to install the wos on windows, which comes with mediawiki, and also other options like moodle, joomla, wordpress, and a lot more.
 * Developer Hub at MediaWiki.org
 * MediaWiki Developer's Handbook
 * Subversion index and files, online (ViewVC)
 * Generated documentation, online
 * MediaWiki files, SourceForge
 * send2wiki.com convert external HTML pages and PDFs to MediaWiki pages
 * mw:manual:varaible - information on variables and hooks
 * ...add a link...

Extending MediaWiki

 * Semantic MediaWiki (see also this list of Semantic wiki projects
 * liquidThreads - Extension:liquidThreads

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dov

Etymology
Related to. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  muffled, deadened
 * 2)  of very low frequency
 * 3)  dull, not sharp or acute

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Web Design/XML challenges

The following challenges will help you familiarise yourself with a few other applications of XML (other than the XHTML that you've already been doing!)

Challenge 1: Getting to know SVG
Copy the following file into your editor of choice and save it as myfirstsvg.svg, then open up the file in a browser (Internet Explorer with the Adobe SVG plugin, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari 3+, or Chrome):

Assuming this is the first time you've seen an SVG file, you might notice that it looks very similar to an HTML file, but with some obvious differences!
 * 1) Change the rectangle so that it's filled with yellow
 * 2) Make the rectangle's border a bit bigger and modify the color of the border (let's say, green!)
 * 3) Any ideas what the fill-opacity might do? Test it out.
 * 4) See if you can turn your rectangle into a square
 * 5) Finally, can you modify the position of your rectangle?

Easy?!

Challenge 2: More SVG elements
Still using the same SVG file (myfirstsvg.svg), add the following element to your SVG:

Test it out and see if it does what you expect! Looks a bit boring though! Add some plain old CSS style, so that Note, you can also use CSS pseudo selectors, like :hover to change your shapes when the mouse hovers over them! (for eg: circle:hover {fill-opacity:0.3} )
 * 1) your circle is filled with the color Blue,
 * 2) your circle has a stroke similar to your rectangle
 * 3) your circle has an opacity of 0.7

Finally, see how you go arranging the Olympics logo:
 * 1) Add another 4 circles to your file (you might want to 'translate' them so that they aren't all on top of each other)
 * 2) Give each circle an id, just like you would an HTML element, then use this ID to make each circle a different colour.
 * 3) Arrange the colours and the positions of your circles to form the Olympic logo

Challenge 3: Animating the Olympics with SVG!
Animating shapes in SVG is really easy! There's actually a tag called animateTransform to help us out, but unfortunately it's not yet supported by Firefox's native SVG, so we'll need to install the Adobe SVG plugin or Opera 9+.

Note that the animateTransform element goes inside the circle element! (Watch out for this, make sure that you don't close your circle element before your animateTransform element).

Modify one of your circles as follows:

Now,
 * 1) Try playing with the 'from', 'to', 'begin' and 'dur' attributes, testing to see what they do.
 * 2) When you feel ready, have a go at creating an animation where 5 circles animate to form the Olympic logo! Your circles should all begin at the side of the page, and then animate to form the Olympic logo!

Challenge 4: Roll your own RSS feed
RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news Web sites, weblogs and podcasting. No one can really decide what it stands for (either Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary)

Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS, in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator. (see the Wikipedia RSS article for more information.)

You've probably already been using newsfeeds to keep up-to-date with the world of web design, using Bloglines or another news reader.

In this activity, you'll follow a tutorial to create your own RSS news feed for your site! The article Really Simple Syndication will help you familiarise with the basic tags that are used with RSS as well as step you through creating your own RSS file.

After reading through the article in overview,
 * 1) Create a new blank RSS file of your own and save it as feed.xml
 * 2) Work through the "Building a personal RSS Feed, step-by-step" section of the article Really Simple Syndication to create your own RSS feed for your own site. Try to make sure you've got 3 or 4 items in your feed. They might point to different sections of your site.
 * 3) Once you're happy with your file you'll want to validate your file to make sure you haven't forgotten any closing tags etc. RSS feeds can be validated just like web pages using the feed validator. Copy and paste the text of your rss feed into the validator and see what happens!
 * 4) Upload your feed onto your websites main folder
 * 5) Finally, verify that your feed works by adding it to your Bloglines account (or other feed reader).

While we're on the subject: For fun, try and get a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to display RSS-feeds.

Challenge 5: Adding some maths to your pages
Just to see how easy it is to combine XML languages, create a new file with the following code, and save it as mathmltest.xml (Note the .xml extension, not .html). Open the file in Firefox and test the result.

(Note, the following example is simplified a little, for the full details visit the W3 specification).

Unfortunately MathML gets a bit too complicated to do anything too flash yet, so the following challenges just help apply the above example. Try adding an extra section to your file for each of the challenges below:

A more complicated fraction

$$x = -\frac{b}{2a} \ $$

An advanced equation (hard)

$$x_ = \frac{-b + (b^2-4ac)}{2a}. $$

Here is a site which generates Math ML using simple computer symbols to make the equation and then translates it. MathML Central

What is a Sitemap for?
First we need to find out what a Google sitemap is for. In summary, What is a Sitemap and why should I have one? from Google says:

A Sitemap file lets you tell us about all the pages on your site, and optionally, information about those pages, such as which are most important and how often they change. By submitting a Sitemap file, you can take control of the first part of the crawling/indexing processes: our discovery of the pages.

What does the XML Sitemap file look like?
Then find out what the XML file should look like: Using the sitemap protocol (This page also has an example of a Google sitemap).

Now you may be ready to:
 * Create a Google sitemap for a small site of yours (perhaps your portfolio site)
 * Validate your sitemap using smart-it-consulting's free validator.

How do I submit my google sitemap?
Once you've created your sitemap, you can follow the instructions on About Google Sitemaps to learn where abouts your file needs to go on your server and how to submit it with Google.

Challenge 7: An XML file to store CD's (or Movies, or Model airplanes)
So far we've created XML files where the format of the XML has already been specified by someone else. For example, when we created our SVG file, someone else had already specified that  and   are valid elements (but   is not!). Take a minute now to go back and see what elements were allowed for:
 * RSS.
 * MathML.
 * your Google site map.
 * XHTML. (You should be able to name lots of valid elements for XHTML!)

Now it's time to create your own XML file, where you make up your own descriptive elements! Here's an example of an XML document describing a school class:

Your challenge is to create an XML file to describe the relevant information from one of the following:
 * A CD album
 * A DVD library (just include the info from 2 or 3 DVD's)
 * A product catalogue from a shop of your choice. (again, just include the info from 2 or 3 products)
 * Something of your own choice (check with your facilitator)

The key problem that you will face is deciding the best way to structure your XML file (as there will be many ways you can do it!) When you've finished, it will be very helpful to get together with others and discuss your decisions.

Interlude: Well-formed XML versus valid XML
Question: What are the key rules that you need to follow when creating any XML document (such as the XHTML we've been creating since day one!):
 * 1) Every element must have an opening and closing tag.
 * 2) Each document must have one and only one root element.
 * 3) Attributes must have either single or double quotes around the text.
 * 4) Special characters must be escaped (<, >, &, " and ').

These requirements actually ensure that the XML document is well-formed. If you didn't manage to identify five or six requirements (or even if you did), do a bit of research to find out what the requirements for a well-formed xml (or xhtml) document are. Hopefully you'll find that you've been doing these since you started to learn XHTML!

But does it mean that your document is valid? Here's an example snippet of some XHTML that uses mixed content:

Now here's a snippet of XHTML that is well-formed and uses mixed content.

OK, so that example might be very obvious, here's another snippet of XHTML that is well-formed but also uses mixed content.

A file is valid if it passes validation with an XML Schema.

Challenge 8: Editing an XML Doctype
For a long time, you've added the following line to your XHTML files: but do you know what it actually does? We're going to find out in this challenge! It's called a Document Type Declaration (or DTD for short).

W3Schools have a great introduction to DTD's that provides an example with an explanation. Read through this introduction and then:
 * Copy-n-paste the w3schools example XML file with the embedded DTD into the W3Schools XML validator and check that it validates (Note: You'll need to use Internet Explorer).
 * Now change the <from> element to <sender> (both the opening and closing tags). Try validating now... even though your XML file is well-formed, does it validate?

Now, consider the following XML file:

Challenges:
 * Create a DTD for this XML file and test that it works (using the validator).
 * Make a copy of your file, and using the info from the W3Schools intro to modify your file so that it uses an external DTD. Upload your XML file and DTD to your hosting and validate it (again using the W3Schools XML validator).

Extra challenges (for the keen!)
 * Improved the way Date's are stored in the XML file, and update the DTD accordingly
 * Create a DTD for your XML file that you created in Challenge 7. You can use the W3Schools validator to validate your own file too!

Challenge 9: (Optional) Creating an XML Schema
XML Schemas allow you to validate the structure of XML documents. Unlike DTDs, XML Schemas also have data types that can be associated with each of the "leaves" of your document tree. XML Schemas are usually created with graphical modeling tools but advanced users can also enter them using a text editor.

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The result of the discussion was:  speedy delete per WP:G11. (non-admin closure) Nathan2055talk - contribs 20:12, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

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This is a personal profile with no claim to notability. The author has said he wanted to write it as a page about himself. Pi (Talk to me!)  14:42, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete bio of a private person with no notability claims at this stage,imv Atlantic306 (talk) 18:48, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 09:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per everyone above - non-notable autobio. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:54, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as something that didn't need to have existed. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:54, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as self-promotion and not really a user page (not here to build encyclopedia). AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 15:24, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Non-notable autobiography. Nathan2055talk - contribs 18:26, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per WP:G11. Why take a draft to MfD when the user has clearly expressed that they wish to promote themselves there?  Java Hurricane  11:39, 21 August 2020 (UTC)


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The Walworth Farce

The Walworth Farce is a 2006 play by Enda Walsh.

Plot
A council flat on the Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle, London. Dinny is exiled from his native Cork City with his two sons Blake and Sean. Every day, holed up in the flat, they endlessly perform a play which depicts, in extremely garbled form, their last day in Ireland, which featured the death of Dinny's mother, followed by Dinny murdering his brother and sister-in-law. Blake plays all the female roles in a variety of wigs, while Sean plays the male roles. They also perform as younger versions of themselves, in which they bully other children and kill a dog. As they repeat the play (to an audience of nobody), it becomes apparent that this is a script that is constantly revised and modified, and features many bizarre events (such as Dinny's mother and neighbour dying in an accident involving a horse and a speedboat). Sean has some memory of the real events, and tells Blake (who has no memory of them) that the boys were in reality quiet children who planned to become astronauts and bus drivers when they grew up, and that their depiction as young sadists is their father's invention.

Only Sean is permitted to leave the flat, walking down fifteen flights of stairs to go to the local Tesco supermarket for "supplies". One day he accidentally brings back the wrong shopping, and the cashier, Hayley, who has developed a connection to Sean, goes to the flat to give him his groceries. The first act ends with her entrance into the flat, as the present day and reality intrude on Dinny's recreation of an imagined past.

The family struggle to integrate Hayley into the performance as she struggles to escape, and to bring Sean with her.

Performance history
The Walworth Farce premiered at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway on 20 March 2006, commissioned by the Druid Theatre Company. This first production starred Denis Conway as Dinny, Garrett Lombard as Blake, Aaron Monaghan as Sean and Syan Blake as Hayley. A 2008 run at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse saw Tadhg Murphy and Mercy Ojelade as Blake and Hayley, respectively, while a 2015 revival, produced by Landmark Productions at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin starred real-life father and sons Brendan Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson as Dinny, Blake and Sean respectively; Leona Allen played Hayley.

In January 2023, the play was announced as the opening show for the new home of the Southwark Playhouse at Highpoint in Elephant and Castle.

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Pyramid of Khentkaus I

The pyramid of Khentkaus I or step tomb of Khentkaus I is a Fourth Dynasty two-stepped tomb built for the Queen Mother Khentkaus I in Giza. The tomb, built in two phases coinciding with its two steps, was originally known as the fourth pyramid of Giza. In the first phase, a nearly square block of bedrock, around which the stone had been quarried for the Giza pyramids, was utilised to construct her tomb and encased with fine white Tura limestone. In the second phase, most likely in the Fifth Dynasty, her tomb was enlarged with a large limestone structure built on top of the bedrock block. The Egyptologist Miroslav Verner suggests that this may have been intended to convert her tomb into a pyramid, but was abandoned as a result of stability concerns. South-west of the tomb was a long boat pit, which housed the Night boat of Re. A companion day boat has not been found. A chapel was built into the tomb superstructure, with a large granite entrance bearing the queen's name and titles. One of her titles was of particular interest because it had not been known of prior to its discovery at her tomb.

The chapel connected to a three-niched statuary room to its west, and a long hall to its north. The hall to the north housed two pink granite false doors, below one of which was a sloped passage into the tomb substructure comprising an antechamber and a bisected burial chamber. In the east half of the burial chamber were entrances to six storage magazines, and two more pink granite false doors in its west wall. The west half of the chamber was once occupied by a large alabaster sarcophagus, fragments of which constituted the only significant finds by Selim Hassan. Carved into the north wall was a shelf which once stored the canopic jars of the burial. A small square niche had been cut into the south wall.

A settlement was built around Khentkaus' tomb, and probably occupied by priests of her mortuary cult until the end of the Sixth Dynasty. The settlement was bounded to the north and south by long perimeter walls running east then south. Along a causeway leading from the chapel through the town, ten carefully planned homes were built, suggesting that the town was designed and not the result of natural urban development. The town was further outfitted with granaries and a large water tank. To the south-west were Menkaure's valley temple, and an annex described by Hassan as Khentkaus' valley temple.

Location and excavation
The tomb, located on the Giza Plateau, was originally believed by some Egyptologists to be a "fourth pyramid of Giza". It was identified as a pyramid by John Shae Perring and Colonel Howard Vyse who visited the site in 1837–1838. The site was visited the following year by Karl Richard Lepsius, on sponsorship from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. He believed the tomb was a private one, and designated it 100 on his map. In 1912, Uvo Hölscher identified the structure as "the unfinished pyramid of Shepseskaf". George Andrew Reisner identified it as a king's pyramid, believing it to be an incomplete construction of Shepseskaf, in Mycerinus, the temples of the third pyramid at Giza (1931). In 1932, Selim Hassan was able to demonstrate that the tomb belonged to Khentkaus I. The name and titles of the queen were found inscribed on blocks of red granite from the doorjambs of the chapel. Hers was the last royal monument built on the plateau.

Superstructure
The tomb has a two-stepped superstructure, which can not properly be classified either as a mastaba or as a pyramid. Selim Hassan compared it to Djoser's step pyramid, which had a square base in its early development, to favour a pyramid designation.

The lower step is nearly square in shape and has dimensions 45.8 x with a height of 10 m. This step had a north-south orientation, and was cut into bedrock – reserved for the tomb whilst the stone around it was quarried for the Giza Pyramids – and encased in fine white Tura limestone with a given slope of about 74°. The casing was well preserved on the west and north faces, but near totally destroyed on the south face. At this time, it had the appearance of a truncated pyramid, and was adorned on all four sides with niches resembling false doors, in the motif of the palace façade. Most likely in the first half of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, Khentkaus' tomb was significantly altered and a second step, constructed entirely of limestone, built over the west half of the superstructure. The structure was composed of seven courses of locally quarried limestone, with blocks larger than those used in the construction of Khufu's pyramid, but becoming gradually smaller towards the top. The displacement was intentional, as the structure's weight might have collapsed the tomb altogether had it been centred. The step is mastaba-like having dimensions of 28.5 x with a height of 7 m, and was slightly vaulted, in a fashion similar to Shepseskaf's mastaba. Overall, the structure was 17.5 m tall, and was fully encased in white Tura limestone. The Egyptologist Miroslav Verner believes this expansion was intended to convert the tomb into a full pyramid, possibly up to three steps high, but that concern over the tomb's stability prevented its construction.

The tomb was enclosed on three sides – north, west, and south – by a 2.75 m thick, whitewashed mudbrick perimeter wall. The south wall starts with a bend at the edge of the solar boat pit, runs for 61 m along the entire east wall, and then along the north wall for 4 m terminating at the southern jamb of the courtyard entrance. The east side had a high wall cut into the rock, which formed a chamber with the pyramid where the queen was embalmed.

The expansion project appears to coincide with an elevation in the status of Khentkaus I. She had a title that had not previously been found anywhere else in ancient Egypt, which has been interpreted as either "Mother of two kings of Upper and Lower Egypt" or "King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt". An inscription bearing that title was uncovered at the pyramid of Khentkaus I along with an image that depicts Khentkaus I wearing the Vulture crown, ritual beard, and wielding a scepter, indicators of possible kingship. However, her name does not appear in cartouche, nor in any king list, indicating against a reign. It appears that her monument was constructed by her sons, speculatively proposed to be Shepseskaf and Userkaf.

nswt-bỉty mwt nswt-bỉty sꜣ.t-nṯr ḏd.t ḫt nb.t nfr.t ỉr.t n.s. Ḫnt-kꜣw.s'The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, every good thing which she orders is done for her, Khent-kawes' —as translated by Selim Hassan

Causeway
A covered causeway, composed of three parallel walls, led from the valley to a chapel, situated on the south-east side of the tomb. Originally, the north causeway wall and the south perimeter wall left a passage 5-5.2 m wide. This was later split into two with the construction of a southern causeway wall which left a causeway passage around 1.6 m wide and a southern street passage around 2.2 m wide. The southern perimeter wall was dismantled, either naturally or from human interference, and later rebuilt. The original construction was made of large mudbrick brick of dark silt, the rebuild was made of small mudbricks of sandy silt, cased with limestone chips.

Chapel
The chapel has a paved courtyard in front of it, and is entered through a large pink granite gate – its southern jamb measured 1.25 m wide by 2 m tall – which bear Khentkaus I's name and titles. Although both jambs were severely damaged by stone thieves, their inscription and the image of the queen have been preserved. The entrance, recessed 2.85 m deep into the superstructure bedrock, led into the chapel, 2.6 m by 2.7 m, paved and lined with fine white Tura limestone. To the west was a three-niched statuary room, lined with fine white limestone and decorated with bas-relief scenes and inscriptions. To the north was a second chamber, 11.8 m by 4.5 m, entered through a black granite doorway. It housed two pink granite false doors in its west wall, below one was a shaft which led into the substructure.

Substructure
The substructure of the tomb bears semblance to both a private and a royal tomb. It was accessed though a 5.6 m long, 0.9 m wide, granite paved and lined, down-sloped passage terminating at an antechamber. The burial chamber was split into two halves. The eastern chamber was 7.85 m long, 2.7 m wide, and 3.7 m high. In its east and south walls were six storage rooms, with entrance passages generally 1 m by 0.5 m, and cells between 1.5 m and 1.6 m deep, 1 m wide, and 1.4 m high. On the west wall of the chamber are two more false doors, 3.3 m tall and 0.95 m wide, that had been cut into the wall, and probably cased in high quality stone. The western chamber, 4.60 m by 3.96 m, contained the sarcophagus of the queen, along with a square niche to the south and a rock-carved shelf, which probably stored canopic jars, to the north. Most of the western chamber was occupied by a 3.6 m by 3 m depression cut into the ground. The only significant remains of the burial that Selim Hassan discovered were fragments of an alabaster sarcophagus, along with a brown limestone scarab from the Twelfth Dynasty.

Solar barque
Situated at the south-west corner of the tomb, is an east-west oriented, 30.25 m long and 4.25 m deep boat pit. The walls of this pit were built of mortared rubble. It contained a vessel with an upraised prow and stern. Based on findings of white limestone and black granite blocks, Hassan concluded that the ship was roofed, and therefore the night boat of Re for passage through the Duat. A corresponding day barque was not found, but may be located on the west side of the tomb.

Pyramid town
An L-shaped settlement of mudbrick houses was built in a linear fashion east and south of the tomb, and enclosed by a perimeter wall. The south perimeter wall runs east for 104 m from the courtyard doorjamb, turns south for 43 m, before bending back to the east after which the wall is lost under a cemetery. The north wall starts from the other courtyard doorjamb, runs east for 97 m, turns south for 5 m, continues east for a further 51 m, before a final turn south where it too is lost under the cemetery. The two walls form the boundary of the pyramid town of Khentkaus' complex.

The pyramid town was carefully planned by architects for Khentkaus I's complex, rather than resulting from natural urban development, and was built entirely from mudbrick. Ten houses were lined eastwards against the causeway, and split into two groups. The first six homes each had two entrances – north leading to a street, and south leading to the causeway – a porter's lobby, a reception, a living room, two bedrooms, an open court, a kitchen, a water reservoir and a domestic office. Minor deviations existed between homes, such as a granary occupying the kitchen of one house and the reception area of another, but they otherwise conformed to this standard plan. The remaining four have a similar plan, but omit the porter's lobby and reception room, and the last of these homes is separated from the preceding three by an intersecting, north-south oriented street. In Hassan's opinion, the priests of the queen's mortuary cult occupied the lodgings, tending to the cult until the end of the Sixth Dynasty. Lehner et al. (2011) suggest that, although concrete evidence is lacking, the occupants of the southern homes of the town may have served either or both Khentkaus' and Menkaure's mortuary cults. Despite this, the layout and orientation of Menkaure's and Khentkaus' structures suggest a separation between their monuments and estates.

There was originally a limestone double-leaved door where the street intersected with the perimeter wall, and it was outfitted with a subway passing under the causeway. The subway was cut into the bedrock to a maximum depth of 2.47 m and had a passageway 0.9 m wide. Thirteen steps were cut into the north side, but the less steep south side was left smooth. The passage was not completed, as evidenced by 0.5 m bulges left at the bottom of the subway, and may have had limited utility to the town dwellers. The street, 2 m wide, continues south for 17 m to an intersection with an east-west running street. Here another double-leaved door originally stood. To the west, a staircase led to the granaries, and separated by a mudbrick wall to the north, a massive 29 m by 8.5 m water tank. The granaries were tucked behind a thin retaining wall, beyond which was a courtyard and two long narrow rooms. From the granary courtyard a passage leads south to a T-shaped court with two storage rooms, and further south to a large home, probably the abode of the official in charge of the granaries.

Near the west end of the southern lodgings was a house with thicker walls, suggesting that it held some particular significance, possibly even as a token palace. Due south-west of it, merged into Menkaure's valley temple and pyramid town, was a building labelled by Hassan as Khentkaus I's valley temple.

Valley temple
According to Hassan, Khentkaus' valley temple was accessed by a long "wide, brick-paved causeway" which passed between the south perimeter wall of the pyramid town and the north wall of the temple, and continued along the entirety of the east face of Menkaure's valley temple. The archaeologist Barry Kemp identifies the temple as an annex of Menkaure's valley temple, and the vestibule as a second gatehouse. Inside a storage room, Hassan uncovered a fragment of an alabaster offering table which bore the partial inscription "... her father, king's daughter", and hieroglyphs which Hassan interpreted as being the triple Ka hieroglyph of Khentkaus' name. The Egyptologist Mark Lehner concedes that this is a very plausible reading, but not entirely certain, and does not prove that the temple itself was built for Khentkaus. During excavations between 2005 and 2009, Hassan's "wide, brick-paved causeway" was revealed to be an ascending ramp. The ramp does not appear to interface with Khentkaus' causeway, which itself traverses east-west and has no identifiable deviation to the south. The most direct identifiable path from her pyramid town to this ramp would be via an exit in the south-east corner of her town, an area which has not yet been cleared.

The main entrance to the temple is on the north side – highly atypical, as a valley temple is usually entered from the east, but this may have been impractical owing the possible presence of buildings on that side – underneath a portico supported by twin columns. The portico had a limestone paved floor, whitewashed walls, and limestone bases which held the two columns. The bases have been retained, but the columns themselves – possibly manufactured from wood – have not been preserved. The remains of a diorite statue of Khafre were found near the doorway of the temple, brought here at some later time.

Through the doorway lay a vestibule with a roof supported by four columns. The column's bases built of alabaster were found in situ, but the columns they held have been lost. The walls were given simple colour washes: whitewash in the upper section, and black for the dado with a red upper trim. A limestone incense burner, and fragments of two schist statuettes, one belonging to a king and the other in the form of a sphinx, were found inside the vestibule, along with several other objects. To the south, a doorway led into the court.

The court, measuring 10.5 m by 9.9 m, was paved with mudbrick save for a limestone pathway leading south-west from the doorway, under the wall, and into the vestibule of Menkaure's temple. There was originally a doorway into the temple, but this was bricked up during the construction of Khentkaus' temple. North-west of the courtyard was an elongated storage room, and to the east a long corridor with two, later three, entrances. The corridor was converted into a set of three dwellings, as was the southern half of the temple beyond the court.

North-west of the valley temple was a rectangular 6.05 m by 3.1 m mudbrick building, called the "Washing-tent" by Hassan. The building was used in the purification process before Khentkaus' corpse was transported through the necropolis to the embalming house. The chamber was found filled with debris, containing copious fragments of stone vessels, potsherds, and flint instruments. A covered, sloped white limestone drain was carved into the floor of the chamber, leading north for 7.2 m where it terminated into a large, rectangular stepped-basin. The first two steps of the basin were constructed from rubble with plaster, with the top step measuring 9.68 m by 1.6 m. The third, and bottom, step was built from limestone and measured 8.8 m by 0.8 m.

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Contributions to Organized Crime in America
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Philadelphia crime family

 * Frank Monte (1931 – 1982), first consigliere for Nicodemo Scarfo. Murdered during the Riccobene War.
 * Joseph Ida (1890 – ?), 4th boss of the Philadelphia crime family. 1st non Sicilian boss of the family.
 * John Avena, former boss of the Philly Mob
 * Antonio Pollina (1892 – 1993), boss whose life was spared by Angelo Bruno even after Bruno heard Pollina wanted him dead.
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 * Nicholas "Nicky The Crow" Caramandi, hitman under the Scarfo faction; turned Government Witness and put his boss away for life.
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 * Anthony "Tony Buck" Piccolo (? – 2004), soft spoken mobster who was a former acting boss for the family.
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Gambino crime family

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Genovese crime family

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Andromeda is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Located north of the celestial equator, it is named for the princess in the Greek legend, who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus. Its brightest star, Alpha Andromedae, is a binary star, as is bright Gamma Andromedae, a colorful binary and a popular target for amateur astronomers. The constellation's most obvious deep-sky object is the naked-eye Andromeda Galaxy (M31, also called the Great Galaxy of Andromeda), the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and one of the brightest Messier objects. In Chinese astronomy, the stars that make up Andromeda were members of four different constellations that had astrological and mythological significance; a constellation related to Andromeda also exists in Hindu mythology. Andromeda is the location of the radiant for the Andromedids, a weak meteor shower that occurs in November. (more...)

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Cheewhat Giant

Cheewhat Giant, also known as the Cheewhat Lake Cedar, is a large western red cedar (Thuja plicata) tree located within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest living Western redcedar, the largest known tree in Canada and one of the largest in the world.

History
The tree was discovered in 1988 within the already established Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. It was named after nearby Cheewhat Lake. With the death of the (17650 ft3) Quinault Lake Cedar in 2016, the Cheewhat Lake tree became the world's largest living Western redcedar.

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Gyanam Hazarika (born October 9th, 1983) is the current de-facto leader of DISHA, the Indian Student's Association at Drexel University.

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Elaine Davidson

Elaine Davidson is a Brazilian-Scottish former nurse, based in Edinburgh who Guinness World Records has certified as the "Most Pierced Woman".

Guinness World Records
When examined by a Guinness World Record official in May 2000, Davidson had 462 piercings, with 192 in her face alone. By 9 August 2001 when she was re-examined she was found to have 720 piercings. Performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, The Guardian reported that she now had 3,950 body piercings. As of 2003, she had more piercings in her genitalia than in any other part of the body – 500 in all, externally and internally.

Because of her dedication to the art form, Guinness World Records recognised her with a lifetime record of 4225 piercings for the title of "Most Piercings in a lifetime (female)." The total weight of her internal piercings is estimated to be about 3 kilograms. As of February 2009 her piercings totaled 6,005. In a 2023 interview on ITV's This Morning with Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond, Davidson shared her goal to one day reach 20,000 piercings in total. Davidson was also featured in 'Guinness World Records: The Board Game.'

Divination
Since the late 1990s, Elaine has been engaged in the practice of divination and clairvoyance. She is available for hire for private tarot card readings, crystal ball readings, palmistry, rune stone readings and the study of patterns found in tea leaves, a practice known as 'tasseography'.

Books
Davidson has appeared in several Guinness World Record books including; 2003, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 'The Stories Behind The Records: Amazing Body Records'. She was also featured in the 2005 'Planet Eccentric' and 2015 'Impossibly Amazing' Ripley’s Believe It or Not! books.

In 2024 she teamed up with Johnny Strange to release an official biography, the book is titled 'Elaine Davidson: Holier Than Thou' and talks all about her life and career as a performer.

TV shows
Davidson has featured in many documentaries and TV shows such as Guinness World Records, Lo Show Dei Record, MTV’s Senseless, Ripley’s believe It or Not!, PIERCED, and National Geographic’s Taboo. She has also featured on many videos by YouTube personalities such as The Sidemen, That’s Interesting and The Young Turks.

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Could someone explain to me how to use IRC? Every time I attempt to follow a link, I am met with some sort of error. Thanks, Νεοπτόλεμος 02:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, 4 years too late but it may help others. In most cases you will need a program like miRC to use the IRC.  If you use the Opera web browser then you can simply click on the link because IRC is included within the web browser.--ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 13:09, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics_(Advancing_Physics)/The_Standard_Model/Worked_Solutions
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics_(Advancing_Physics)/The_Standard_Model/Worked_Solutions 5. The antiparticle of the electron (e-) is the positron. What is the charge and rest mass of a positron?

Charge: +1.6 x 10-19C

Mass: 0.511 MeV = 8.176 x 10-14 kg

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Hi User:QuiteUnusual! I’m writing you because we want to translate into English a cooperative book that we put in Viquillibres, the Catalan version of Wikibooks. The Youth Guide is a toolbox for professionals who work with youths to promote participation through motivating young people. It consists of a set of sections to facilitate possible lines of work in keeping with the needs or challenges in question. The content of the Guide includes themes related to young people’s participation, planning socio-educational projects and the use of the intervention area, such as centres or public spaces. Currently, we are working for translate this Guide, but we need some help to move the content into Wikibooks, mainly for the codes and templates. In Catalunya we had Xavi Dengra like our referent. Nowadays, we are working with Morza in a Spanish version of the Guide. Could you help us for the English version? Thanks, --Mlopezpa (discuss • contribs) 12:11, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
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IRC
Most of our movement seems to have moved on from Freenode. Can you confirm this is still a relevant contact channel? If not, you may want to update this page :) Effeietsanders (discuss • contribs) 15:57, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

 * Came to report this as well. @MarcGarver, @Minorax, is Wikibooks still using freenode? If not, can the page be updated? Thanks, -- MarcoAurelio (discuss • contribs) 16:55, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

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Norwegian/Numbers

The norm in Norwegian is to write numbers from one to twelve using letters and the numbers from 13 and above using numbers. It is recommended not to mix letters and numbers within the same sentence (or even within the same paragraph or the same document), so it would be better to write “from one to fifty cars” or “from 1 to 50 cars” than “from one to 50 cars”. When spelt with letters, they are either spelt in one word (hundreogtrettito) or separately (hundre og tretti to).

The decimal mark in Norwegian is the comma and the thousands separator is a blank space, so 987654 divided by 100 equals 9 876,54. Not all Norwegians follow these rules, so pay attention when a website prompt you for a number as the website will usually tell you what decimal mark to use (or even prompt for the decimals in a separate field).

In Old Norse, numbers one through four were all inflected in three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) and four cases (nominative, accusative, dative and genitive). In modern Norwegian, most of the inflection is gone. The official orthography only contains inflected forms of one, but some dialects have kept a larger portion. However, the case inflection is gone everywhere. The early Nynorsk orthography kept the gender inflection of all four numbers, but the forms gradually merged.

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Christian Büchting

Christian Büchting (born 23 January 1937) is a German former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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Requested move 27 September 2020

The result of the move request was: No consensus  (t · c)  buidhe  19:47, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Ronald A. Weinberg → Ronald Weinberg – I don't think that disambiguation is needed, but I wanted community input. Jax 0677 (talk) 18:48, 27 September 2020 (UTC) —Relisting.  SITH   (talk)   12:53, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 * Support. Disambiguation is not exactly at issue, since there is only one person with this name in the encyclopedia, but the proposed more concise title also appears to be commonly used for the subject. BD2412  T 05:05, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Support, the inclusion of his middle initial isn't warranted, at least not at this time.  PK  T (alk)  12:26, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose. This is not a matter of the middle initial being used for disambiguation. Subject's professional name is "Ronald A. Weinberg", not "Ronald Weinberg", in the same manner as David O. Selznick or Darryl F. Zanuck were the professional names of those producers. Weinberg has hundreds of credits listed at IMDb as well as at other databases, virtually all of which list him as "Ronald A." Many of his films and TV episodes are on YouTube and can be consulted as to his credited name. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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Elliot Meyerowitz

Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an American biologist.

Career
Meyerowitz did his undergraduate work at Columbia University (A.B. in biology, 1973), where he worked part-time in the laboratory of Cyrus Levinthal on combined microscopic and computational methods for tracing axons and dendritic trees in the nervous systems of fish. His graduate work was in the Department of Biology at Yale University (Ph.D. 1977), where he worked in the laboratory of Douglas Kankel on the interaction of eye and brain development in Drosophila, by use of genetic mosaics. From 1977 to 1979 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David Hogness in the Biochemistry Department at the Stanford University School of Medicine, developing and using methods for the molecular cloning of genes in the early days of gene cloning and genomics. Since 1980 he has been a faculty member in the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, where he served as division chair from 2000 to 2010, and where he is now George W. Beadle Professor of Biology. Between 2011 and 2013, he was appointed as inaugural director of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and elected into a professorship in the university, and a professorial fellow at Trinity College, while on leave from the California Institute of Technology.

Meyerowitz was a Drosophila melanogaster expert before he became a pioneer of Arabidopsis thaliana research. Dr. Meyerowitz is well known for his contributions on the genetic and molecular basis of plant hormone reception, and on the molecular mechanisms of pattern formation during flower and shoot apical meristem development. More recently, he has turned his attention to physical models of shoot morphogenesis. Many leaders in plant biology trained in his laboratory, including Xuemei Chen, Steven E. Jacobsen, Martin F. Yanofsky, John L. Bowman, and Detlef Weigel.

Meyerowitz is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1995), and the American Philosophical Society (1998), and is a foreign member of the French Académie des Sciences (2002) and the Royal Society (2004).

Among the awards he has received are the Genetics Society of America Medal in 1996, the International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1997, the Richard Lounsbery Award from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1999, the Wilbur Cross Medal of Yale University in 2001, the Harrison Prize of the International Society of Developmental Biologists in 2005 and the Balzan Prize for "Plant Molecular Genetics" in 2006 (with Chris R. Somerville). In 2024 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

He is a member of the editorial board of eight leading journals in genetics, genomics, and developmental biology, and has served as president of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (1995–1997), the Genetics Society of America (1999) and the Society for Developmental Biology (2005–2006).

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confirmatory

Adjective

 * 1) Serving to confirm something.
 * 2) * 1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43,
 * The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis.
 * 1) * 1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43,
 * The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis.

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Pepper X

Pepper X is a cultivar of Capsicum chili pepper bred by the American chili breeder Ed Currie, the creator of the Carolina Reaper. In 2023, Guinness World Records recognized it as the world's hottest chili pepper.

Breeding
The exceptional pungency of the chili was developed over 10 years of cultivation for desired traits to emerge through selective plant breeding, and 10 or more generations for the hybrid chilis to stabilize with the desired intense pungency. The breeder, Ed Currie, produced 100 hybrid crosses per year with the intent that one or two would succeed for the 10-year development cycle.

Pungency
Pepper X resulted from several cross breedings that produced an exceptionally high content of capsaicin in the locules – the plant tissue holding the seeds. The extensive curves and ridges of a Pepper X chili create more surface area for the plant placenta and locules to grow and retain capsaicin, adding to the intensity of heat experienced when a Pepper X is eaten. Ingestion of a Pepper X chili causes intense abdominal cramps and heartburn.

Guinness World Record
On August 23, 2023, Guinness World Records recognized Pepper X as the world's hottest chili pepper, measuring 2.69 million SHU, beating the previous world record of 1.64 million SHU held by the Carolina Reaper, also bred by Currie.

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Talk:Joseph T. Salerno

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This article reads like a puff piece about an economist whose notability seems very dubious. Can we cut the stuff about his childhood views and include something concrete about major publications, contributions to the field and so on? JQ 20:26, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I added a couple of items yesterday that better indicate his notability and area of influence. A Google Scholar search for "Joseph T. Salerno" returns 133 results, which of course is a number that is smaller than, say, what you get for "John Quiggan." :) I think Salerno is notable enough to be included in the encyclopedia, though, because his work has been cited by numerous other notable economists, including Nobel laureates like Buchanan, and because there are reliable, verifiable sources on which to base the article. If you or anyone else care to beat me to the punch in sifting through those Google Scholar results, I won't gripe too much. As for the childhood stuff, it is verifiable, and seemingly uncontroversial stuff. As I pointed out in an edit summary yesterday, the Notability guideline clearly states that notability guidelines do not directly limit article content. I agree that the article is lacking when it comes to serious examination of Salerno's contributions, and should be improved. I don't think the way to make that improvement is to remove verifiable biographical information. DickClarkMises 14:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Contributions to economics?
If Salerno is going to have a page as a notable "economist", I think some academic work (i.e. publications in peer-reviewed journals) reflecting his work/contributions in this regard should be cited and paraphrased. Right now, the article reads like a collection of his armchair musings on politics, philosophy, etc; this has nothing to do with work as an academic economist, for which he has been deemed notable. Steeletrap (talk) 02:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * This may be a candidate for AfD.  I don't see any evidence that he is functioning as a notable economist per the WP criteria.  SPECIFICO  talk  02:48, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid it may be a candidate for AfD if editors cannot find academically-respectable contributions to economics, made in peer-reviewed journals embracing mainstream (scientific) methodologies. Now, it is true that Salerno has published prolifically in "Mises Academy", "Mises.org", "Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics" (published by Mises Institute), "Journal of Libertarian Studies" (published by Mises institute), and LewRockwell.com (published by Mises Institute founder Lew Rockwell), but so also -- and far more prolifically -- has "Y2K economist" Gary North. Steeletrap (talk) 03:01, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:Joseph T. Salerno