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List of unmade episodes of The X-Files

During the nine-year original run of the American science fiction television program The X-Files, a number of stories were proposed but, for a variety of reasons, never fully produced. Below is a list of unmade episodes which were submitted by recognized professional writers, but were not filmed or aired.

Abandoned episode scripts have been discovered from eight of the series' eleven seasons, while several others have been documented that were intended for unspecified seasons. The reasons for the episodes' stagnation include the Fox network rejecting ideas, budget-related problems and stories evolving into later-made episodes. In addition, several episode ideas were developed but were completely scrapped after the show's producers did not show any interest.

The plots of the unmade episodes vary, with many of the proposed entries involving a theme of ghosts. In many cases, according to executive producer Frank Spotnitz, elements of unmade episodes were adapted, or were moved from one episode—or in one case, franchise—to another. For example, a fifth season episode involving an atheist hearing the voice of God was developed into "Kitsunegari", and the proposed story "Flight 180", written by Jeffrey Reddick was re-written and released as the popular 2000 horror film Final Destination.

Season 1

 * "Dark He Was and Golden-Eyed"

After the success of the series' first monster-of-the-week episode, "Squeeze", Doug Hutchison, who portrayed the episode's antagonist Eugene Victor Tooms, wrote a prequel to the episode entitled "Dark He Was and Golden-Eyed" and sent it to series creator Chris Carter. Hutchison reportedly loved his role and admitted that “I was adamant about coming back on the show". However, the script was returned unread for legal reasons. Hutchison’s version of Tooms differed significantly from episode writers Glen Morgan and James Wong’s character. Hutchison later explained that he envisioned Tooms as "an experiment to find out how I could remain so young and immortal; he was infused with a drug that backfired and ended up escaping the asylum. So now he’s eating livers like M&Ms – he’s on a rampage!" He further explained that the abandoned script revealed that Tooms was the incarnation of "a ravenous, liver-eating Central American Indian God". Furthermore, his script featured "a lot of flashbacks" as well as a confrontation between Tooms and Dana Scully near the end.

Season 2

 * Alternative "Little Green Men" story

Originally, the season two premiere "Little Green Men" was supposed to be written by Chris Carter. In the rough draft of this version, Fox Mulder would have been sent to Moscow. However, Carter ran out of time to create his episode and, instead, assigned Morgan and Wong the task of writing the season opener.

Season 4

 * Untitled story about Abraham Lincoln's ghost

During the middle of season four, Morgan and Wong started to write their fourth and final episode for the season before moving on to helm the show's sister series, Millennium. The story the two developed was a “sort of Abraham Lincoln’s ghost in the White House type of thing”. Both writers had desired to write a story where Lincoln's ghost haunts the White House and Mulder and Scully investigate. Morgan explained that he had "done a lot of research and I had always wanted to write a feature about Lincoln’s ghost". However, due to the massive amounts of rewrites the two were forced to do for "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", both Morgan and Wong lost interest in the story. Morgan explained, "I felt they didn’t want my heart and soul anymore, so I wouldn’t give this one to them". The two later crafted "Never Again" in its place. Years later, Frank Spotnitz said that he "always wondered about" the story and what the finished product would have been like.

Season 5

 * Original version of "Christmas Carol"

During the second week of October 1997, David Duchovny was scheduled to be away from Vancouver for promotional purposes for the movie Playing God. The producers decided to develop a Scully-centric episode that would be filmed the week Duchovny would be away. With the episode scheduled to air during December, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz decided to craft a Christmas episode and put Dana Scully into a situation similar to that of Scrooge in the 1951 British version of A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim. The episode was later completely re-written.

 * Untitled religion story

Tim Minear pitched an idea for an episode that involved a convicted criminal who happened to be an atheist. While in prison, he would have heard the voice of God, commanding him to kill a truly evil man, and then he would have suddenly found himself mystically transferred out of the prison. Although the police would be after him, only Mulder would believe he was working for the greater good. Minear noted that "I pitched it and I was going to do it, eventually, until we found ourselves at a point in the year where we needed a script really fast". Executive producer Frank Spotnitz suggested to Minear that the "convicted atheist" should actually be Robert Modell from the third season episode "Pusher". The script was completely re-written, and became "Kitsunegari".

 * "Unsolved Mysteries" episode

Vince Gilligan developed a cross-over idea while writing an episode during the fifth season; the script would have involved a story being presented by Robert Stack of the NBC show Unsolved Mysteries, with unknown actors playing Mulder and Scully. This script was later aborted, and Gilligan directed his attention towards writing the episode "Bad Blood".

Season 6

 * Untitled Tilt-A-Whirl story

Vince Gilligan proposed a story idea featuring a man holding an individual hostage on a Tilt-A-Whirl. Gilligan pitched this idea at several meetings and it soon became a recurring joke. Most of the comments Gilligan received noted that his premise lacked an explicit mystery to investigate and so Gilligan decided that after the ride was shut off, the man's head would explode. This idea later evolved into "Drive".

 * Untitled gold mine story

David Amann, after writing his first episode "Terms of Endearment", proposed a story that involved a monster loose in an abandoned gold mine. Frank Spotnitz, the show's executive producer, did not particularly like the idea of a gold mine, but he enjoyed the concept of a monster loose in an enclosed space. The episode was soon completely re-written into "Agua Mala"

 * Untitled dog stories

Jeffrey Bell developed two separate stories that eventually developed into one single entry: "Alpha". The first was going to be a "reversal" of 1963 movie The Incredible Journey, featuring "a desperate family [that] moves three thousand miles to get away from their killer pet—who's waiting for them at their new house, really pissed". The second story idea would feature a child who released his anger through the dogs at a local animal shelter. In this version, the dogs functioned as a manifestation of the child's id. Bell scrapped both of these ideas because they lacked "really cool visuals".

Season 7

 * Night of the Living Dead remake

Reportedly, Stephen King, who had penned season five’s "Chinga", wished to write an episode based on George Romero's cult 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead. In addition, Romero was slated to direct the episode. According to Spotnitz, the staff of The X-Files met with both King and Romero and the two showed an interest in producing the episode. Initially, the episode was slated for the seventh season, but it never came to fruition. The season's fourth episode, "Millennium", did however, deal with the idea of zombies.

 * Untitled time story

Chip Johannessen, who had formerly been an executive producer on the Carter-created television series Millennium, wrote a draft for The X-Files in which the episode's main antagonist was a prisoner with the ability to stop time. Executive producers Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and John Shiban found the episode's premise promising. However, Carter enjoyed the story because it bore stylistic similarities to the first season episode "Beyond the Sea". The concept was eventually re-written completely differently into "Orison".

Season 8

 * Untitled Mulder abduction story

After the partial departure of Duchovny, Carter decided to focus almost solely on the character of John Doggett during the first half of the season. Duchovny was unhappy because the show never fully examined Mulder's abduction properly. Reportedly, Duchovny offered to write and direct an episode based around the concept of Mulder being trapped in the alien spaceship, as seen in the season opener "Within" and "Without". Carter, however, nixed the idea because "it was not about Doggett."

Unspecified season

 * Untitled tomb story

James Wong, during an interview to promote The LAX-Files book, revealed that the writers for The X-Files had an idea for "a story about tombs", but Fox "refused [to consider] the [idea]."

 * Untitled abortion story

James Wong, during an interview to promote The LAX-Files book, revealed that staff writers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa had an idea for a story involving abortion, but Fox "refused [to consider] the [idea]", much like the tomb story. Carter, in a separate interview with Newsweek later claimed that the show was not "looking to press the limits of anything that is a more hot-button topic, for example, abortion".

 * "The Song of the Sun"

Law & Order cameraman D.W. Paone, a fan of the series from its first broadcast, wrote and submitted a freelance script during its early seasons, co-written with author Frank Scoblete. Paone and Scoblete's script dealt with the ancient astronaut theory, and was concerned with the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, who, in their script, was presented as an alien who returned to Earth once again in the year 1995. Paone had chosen to focus on Akhenaton due to his own interest in Egyptology, and was confident that Scoblete's dialogue was true to the series' characters. Although they were able to submit the script due to an acquaintance with producer Daniel Sackheim, it was later refused after being read by several producers and writers, including John Shiban, and deemed to be too expensive to produce on an episodic television budget.

 * "Flight 180"

Screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick wrote a spec script for The X-files in order to get an agent in 1994. He said, "I was actually flying home to Kentucky and I read this story about a woman who was on vacation and her mom called her and said 'Don't take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it'. She switched flights and the plane that she would have been on crashed. I thought, that’s creepy—what if she was supposed to die on that flight?" Reddick's script featured Scully's younger brother, Charles, having a premonition of his flight crashing, which prompts Mulder and Scully to investigate the event. While Reddick never submitted the spec script to The X-Files, it was revamped by Reddick as a feature, and coincidentally, X-Files vets James Wong and Glen Morgan were brought on as writers/director and the project became the 2000 horror film Final Destination. Reddick later presented the script to horror website Bloody Disgusting, which uploaded it onto their website on June 16, 2015.

 * "Crampton"

In 1998, Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz submitted a script in which an FBI agent is assassinated by a man who transforms into a mannequin, leading Mulder and Scully to follow a trail of clues to the sinister backwater town of Crampton. The script culminates in the agents witnessing a roaring black void behind a curtain at a magic performance.

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Andrew J. Barchfeld

Andrew Jackson Barchfeld (May 18, 1863 – January 28, 1922) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Barchfeld was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to German immigrants from Prussia. He attended Pittsburgh Central High School and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1884. He was a physician, hospital executive, and member of the common council of Pittsburgh from 1886 to 1887. He was a member of the Republican State committee. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Congress in 1902.

Barchfeld was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916. He was a delegate to the peace congress at Brussels in 1905. He was a member of the commission to the Philippine Islands in 1910, and a member of the Panama Canal Commission in 1912.

Barchfeld died on January 28, 1922, in the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theater in Washington, D.C. He is buried in South Side Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

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Talk:Dolza

Article de-merged
This article has been de-merged from Boddole Zer, as it is (IMHO) distinct enough to warrant its own, unique article. If you disagree, please feel free to propose a merger and we can gather a consensus on the issue. --Kralizec! | talk 05:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This article should remain separate.(Hyperionsteel (talk) 07:27, 5 July 2008 (UTC))

First Robotech War's Aftermath
Episode 27 of Robotech has these lines:

 * Lieutenant: Damage estimate is seventy percent to all sections.
 * Admiral: Thank you, lieutenant. Did the Grand Cannon survive the attack?
 * Lieutenant: Yes, sir. It will function.

The lieutenant never said he was referring to Earth. That's because that line was referring to Alaska Base, not the entire world, in the original Macross.

Episode 35 of Robotech has this line:
 * Narration: The Amazon region of South America is the first area to recover from the full-scale Zentraedi attack that devastated ninety-five percent of the Earth's surface.

Unlike the other episode's dialogue, this line names the percentage of devastation for Earth specifically. 1-54-24 01:02, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The Robotech.com website states that the "the fleet begins their devastating attack resulting in the destruction of over 70% of the planet's surface" (http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/timeline/viewevents.php?seriescode=MAC) in the timeline for the first Robotech Saga. Is this source a higher authority? Or does "over 70%" mean that the figure of 95% is possible? (Hyperionsteel (talk) 07:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC))

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Crab on its Back

Crab on its Back
Voting period ends on 19 Feb 2015  at 01:55:29 (UTC)
 * Reason:This is not what you think of when you hear "van Gogh", and yet here it is. Honestly, it's a very original idea for a still life (even if it may have been derived from a Hokusai print)
 * Articles in which this image appears:Crab on its Back +1
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Vincent van Gogh

 * Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support ALT - This is nice to know: the van Gogh museum has changed their setup. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:21, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * And the downloads are the same as their maximum zoom! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose original – The colors of this scan are inaccurate (too green) and the image is cropped unnecessarily; I prefer the version on the website of the Van Gogh Museum: . – Editør (talk) 08:14, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose original as above- it does seem that this version has been cropped. J Milburn (talk) 18:43, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: I have added the version from the Van Gogh Museum as an alt- I have no opinion right now. J Milburn (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support alt 1 – Editør (talk) 20:34, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support alt 1 – Hafspajen (talk) 10:38, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support alt 1 Marvellous scan. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:32, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support alt 1 - CorinneSD (talk) 00:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Ruby Programming/Installing Ruby

The first step to get started in Ruby development is setting up your local environment. Due to differences between various operating systems we will cover multiple of them. If you are already able to use a terminal emulator and know how to install Ruby yourself, you can skip this chapter (after you installed Ruby). Otherwise we will guide you through the process of installing Ruby on your computer.

Terminal emulators
Knowing how to use a terminal emulator is very useful if you are programming. Usually it will provide the most straightforward access to commands and applications instead of hiding it behind graphical interfaces. On the other hand they are often daunting to beginners since they are often perceived to require a deep understanding of a computer when in fact often only knowing the very basics is already enough to get started.

Unix-like operating systems

One of the most commonly used shells in the Unix-like operating systems (i.e. macOS, GNU/Linux, BSD) is the Bash shell, in fact it is very often the default shell. To start a session you will often use a terminal emulator, which allow you to use a terminal session at the same time as other graphical applications. It doesn't really matter, which terminal emulator you use, generally you want one that has color and Unicode support. In macOS you can use Terminal.app which you can find under Applications > Utilities. A popular alternative is iTerm. On most Linux distributions you will usually be provided with at least one terminal emulator by default, otherwise you might want to try Terminator, Konsole, rxvt-unicode or something different.

When you open a new window or tab in your terminal emulator of choice you will be shown your prompt. What it looks like exactly depends a lot on configuration, which can vary greatly from OS to OS (you can configure everything to your likings, however this exceeds the scope of this short introduction). Generally it will indicate your current working directory, username and hostname. When working in the shell your session always has current working directory. Commands that accept relative filenames will use that directory as the base directory to look for files. By default you are in your user's home folder, which is often abbreviated with a tilde.

To execute a command you just type it into the shell and press enter.

At first we want to look at the command  . If you type it in just like that it will print the files and directories in your current working directory. You can also provide a relative path to a directory you want to list, e.g. . If you want more detailed information about the files you can use , if you instead want to also include invisible entries (i.e. names starting with a dot) use. Of course it is possible to combine them both by running  or the short form. Note that this kind of concatenating multiple arguments into one is only possible with single character parameters. Parameters can also come in long form, for example the equivalent of  is. Which forms are available depends on the individual command.

Now you might be thinking how to remember all parameters for every command you will ever use. Thankfully you only want to remember the most important ones, which are the ones you use most frequently, otherwise there is a nice way to look them up. You can either use the   command. For example run  to find more information about the   command. Oftentimes you can find a more concise summary by trying to run the command in question followed by the parameter, however this is not something you can expect to work well with every command, whereas manual pages should be always available.

Back to the topic of current working directories. If you want to change your directory you can use   followed by the directory you want to change to. There are two special virtual directories '.' and '..'. The single dot refers to the current directory while the double dot refers to a dir's parent directory. So executing  changes into the parent directory of the current working directory.

A very brief summary of other useful commands:

System-wide installation
A common and easy way to install Ruby is to perform a system-wide installation. Depending on the operating system installation procedures will be different (if required at all).

Windows
Windows Operating System did not have Ruby programing language pre-installed (unlike other platforms listed here). To install Ruby programming language, it is highly recommended to install it from here:  https://rubyinstaller.org/ .

Refer to right side bar: WHICH VERSION TO DOWNLOAD? for guide to download which version to download. Usually it will recommend the  latest stable version  to be downloaded.

You might see the options of Ruby+Devkit installer version as a selectable component. This option is important as to build native C/C++ extensions for Ruby and is necessary for Ruby on Rails. Moreover it allows the download and usage of hundreds of Open Source libraries which Ruby gems (packages) often depend on.

Download it and double click the file to be installed on the local PC.

Once install it, double click of Ruby Installer to start installing it on Windows

Step 1 : Select "I accept the license" and click "Next" button

Step 2: Select the directory that you wanted to install to and below, select the "Add Ruby executables to your PATH" and "Associate .rb and .rbw files with the Ruby installation". Click "Next" buttons"

Step 3: Select all the checkboxes inside the setup files. Click "Next"

Step 4: Click "ridk install" and click "Next" button to proceed

Once finished installing, type cmd into Window search bar and type  sto see which version of ruby that are installed. If it is showing, congrats, you successfully installed Ruby language in the system.

MacOS_logo_(2017).svg macOS
Ruby comes preinstalled on macOS. To check which version is installed on your system, execute  inside a shell session.

If you want to install a more recent version of Ruby, you can:
 * Update to a newer version of macOS, which may have a more recent version of Ruby.
 * Use RVM or RBEnv tools specifically for managing multiple ruby versions (This is the most popular way because you can manage many Ruby versions and associate them with projects)
 * Use Fink, MacPorts, Homebrew general purpose packaging systems for mac.

Monochrome_Tux.svg Linux
On many Linux distributions Ruby is installed by default. To check if Ruby is installed on your system, run  in a shell session.

Where this is not the case, or you want to update the installed version, you should use your distribution's package manager. Here we will provide information for some popular Linux distributions here, however it is recommended to users of all distributions to familiarize themselves with their distribution's package manager, since this will allow for the most efficient software management. Whether this is a command-line or graphical application depends on the offerings of the distribution and personal preference of the user.

Debian / Ubuntu
The package manager Synaptic provides graphical package management. It is installed by default under Ubuntu and has to be installed manually on Debian (by running  from the command line).

Instead of using Synaptic you can also use apt directly from the command-line (you can find further information in the Debian Wiki's article on Package Management). Execute  from the command line to install Ruby.

Fedora
From the command-line you can install Ruby with DNF by executing.

Arch Linux
Use pacman to install Ruby by executing  as root.

Mandriva Linux
On Mandriva Linux, install Ruby using the command-line tool urpmi.

PCLinuxOS
On PCLinuxOS, install Ruby using either the graphical tool Synaptic or the command-line tool apt.

Red Hat Linux
On Red Hat Linux, install Ruby using the command-line tool RPM.

Per-user Installation
Per-user installations allow each user of the system to utilize their own particular version of Ruby without impact to other users.

Guix
To install the latest available version of Ruby, run:.

Setup Ruby in Windows
Ruby does not come preinstalled with any version of Microsoft Windows. However, there are several ways to install Ruby on Windows.

 * Download and install one of the compiled Ruby binaries from the Ruby web site.
 * Download and run the one click RubyInstaller.
 * Install Cygwin, a collection of free software tools available for Windows. During the install, make sure that you select the "ruby" package, located in the "Devel, Interpreters" category.

Setup Ruby in Windows with Notepad++
In latest version of Ruby and Window 10, it is much more easier to setup Ruby now more than ever.

We will be using to start setup Ruby in Windows.

Once install Notepad++ in Windows, open up the programs and click on Plugins > Plugins Admin

At Plugins Admin, select Plugins , NppExec to install

Once installed, you can run NppExec by pressing F6

Building from Source
If your distro doesn't come with a ruby package or you want to build a specific version of ruby from scratch, please install it by following the directions here. Download from here.

Building with debug symbols
If you want to install it with debug symbols built in (and are using gcc--so either Linux, cygwin, or mingw).

./configure --enable-shared optflags="-O0" debugflags="-g3 -ggdb"

Optimizations
Note that with 1.9 you can pass it  to have it build faster.

To set the GC to not run as frequently (which tends to provide a faster experience for larger programs, like rdoc and rails), precede your build with $ export CCFLAGS=-DGC_MALLOC_LIMIT=80000000 though you might be able to alternately put those in as opt or debug flags, as well.

Testing Installation
The installation can be tested easily by executing:

$ ruby -v

This should produce an output similar to:

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]

If this shows up, then you have successfully installed Ruby. However if you get an error similar to:

-bash: ruby: command not found

then you did not successfully install Ruby.

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Combined Services cricket team

The Combined Services cricket team represents the British Armed Forces. The team played at first-class level in England for more than forty years in the mid-twentieth century. Their first first-class match was against Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1920, while their last was against Oxford University at Aldershot in 1964. Combined Services have continued to play cricket thereafter, albeit at minor level.

History
They played only six first-class matches prior to World War II, but a further 57 afterwards, when the individual services had ceased to play at first-class level (apart from two matches by the Royal Air Force immediately after the War). Of these 63 matches, they won 7 (5 of them between 1946 and 1949), lost 34 and drew 22.

In the 1950s, most young men had to do two years National Service in one of the armed forces, so that Combined Services was able to field some reasonably strong sides. For example, in the 1951 match against the touring South Africans the side included Brian Close, who had already played for England, and Jim Parks, Fred Titmus and Alan Moss, who would all go on to do so. In one of the later matches against Warwickshire at the Mitchells and Butlers' Ground in Birmingham, the county fast-medium bowler Jack Bannister took all 10 Services wickets in an innings for 41 runs.

The Combined Services team continues to play at sub-first-class level.

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Talk:Molly Daniels

Suggestions for improvement
I see that a student has been expanding the article, which is great - but it now needs quite a lot of copyediting to ensure that her name is correctly used throughout (Daniels, not Molly Daniels or Daniel), excess detail trimmed, removal of words such as "moreover", italics for names of series, etc. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:44, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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LTE in unlicensed spectrum

LTE in unlicensed spectrum (LTE-Unlicensed, LTE-U) is an extension of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless standard that allows cellular network operators to offload some of their data traffic by accessing the unlicensed 5 GHz frequency band. LTE-Unlicensed is a proposal, originally developed by Qualcomm, for the use of the 4G LTE radio communications technology in unlicensed spectrum, such as the 5 GHz band used by 802.11a and 802.11ac compliant Wi-Fi equipment. It would serve as an alternative to carrier-owned Wi-Fi hotspots. Currently, there are a number of variants of LTE operation in the unlicensed band, namely LTE-U, License Assisted Access (LAA), MulteFire, sXGP and CBRS.

LTE in Unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U)
The first version of LTE-Unlicensed is called LTE-U and is developed by the LTE-U Forum to work with the existing 3GPP Releases 10/11/12. LTE-U was designed for quick launch in countries, such as the United States and China, that do not mandate implementing the listen-before-talk (LBT) technique. LTE-U would allow cellphone carriers to boost coverage in their cellular networks, by using the unlicensed 5 GHz band already populated by Wi-Fi devices.

LTE-U is intended to let cell networks boost data speeds over short distances, without requiring the user to use a separate Wi-Fi network as they normally would. It differs from Wi-Fi calling; there remains a control channel using LTE, but all data (not just phone calls) flows over the unlicensed 5 GHz band, instead of the carrier's frequencies.

In 2014, the LTE-U Forum was created by Verizon, in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Samsung as members. The forum collaborates and creates technical specifications for base stations and consumer devices passing LTE-U on the unlicensed 5 GHz band, as well as coexistence specs to handle traffic contention with existing Wi-Fi devices.

T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless have indicated early interest in deploying such a system as soon as 2016. While cell providers ordinarily rely on the radio spectrum to which they have exclusive licenses, LTE-U would share space with Wi-Fi equipment already inhabiting that band – smartphones, laptops and tablets connecting to home broadband networks, free hotspots provided by businesses, and so on.

As of late January 2019, there were three LTE-U deployed/launched networks in three countries; eight further operators are investing in the technology in the form of trials or pilots in seven countries.

License Assisted Access (LAA)
The second variant of LTE-Unlicensed is Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) and has been standardized by the 3GPP in Rel-13. LAA adheres to the requirements of the LBT protocol, which is mandated in Europe and Japan. It promises to provide a unified global framework that complies with the regulatory requirements in the different regions of the world.
 * 3GPP Rel-13 defines LAA only for the downlink (DL).
 * 3GPP Rel-14 defines enhanced-Licensed Assisted Access (eLAA), which includes uplink (UL) operation in the unlicensed channel.
 * 3GPP Rel-15 The technology continued to be developed in 3GPP's release 15 under the title Further Enhanced LAA (feLAA).

Ericsson uses the term License Assisted Access (LAA) to describe similar technology. LAA is the 3rd Generation Partnership Project's (3GPP) effort to standardize operation of LTE in the Wi-Fi bands. It uses a contention protocol known as listen-before-talk (LBT), mandated in some European countries, to coexist with other Wi-Fi devices on the same band.

MulteFire
MulteFire is another variant of LTE in unlicensed bands and has been proposed as a standalone version of LTE for small cells. This variant will use only the unlicensed spectrum as the primary and only carrier, and it will provide an opportunity for neutral hosts to deploy LTE in the future. The idea of standalone operation of LTE in unlicensed bands was originally proposed by a small minority of vendors in 3GPP but rejected by the network operators who wanted the technology to be reliant on their licensed spectrum holdings. This technology is now developed by the MuLTEfire Alliance.

Controversy
The proposed use of LTE-U by mobile phone network operators is the subject of controversy in the telecommunications industry. In June 2015, Google sent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States a 25-page protest, making an argument against LTE-U in highly technical detail. Since Google's study did not use actual LTE-U equipment in the tests, some industry experts have called its conclusions into question, with one commenter calling the study "utterly artificial and speculative" and "embarrassing".

In August 2015, the Wi-Fi Alliance and National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) also voiced opposition to LTE-U approval before more testing can be done, citing concerns that it would severely degrade performance of other Wi-Fi devices. Also in August 2015, Qualcomm responded to the allegations made in Google's whitepaper in a detailed filing with the FCC. Qualcomm stated that it conducted tests that were "specifically designed to replicate (to the fullest extent possible) the test scenarios cited in Google’s FCC filing, in particular", and that they "collectively showed that LTE-U coexists very well with Wi-Fi when LTE-U is operating either above or below Wi-Fi’s Energy Detect ('ED') level." Qualcomm explained that the divergence in results was caused by the fact that "the testing the opposing parties conducted for LTE-U/Wi-Fi coexistence below the ED level utilized extremely pessimistic and impractical technical assumptions", whereas Qualcomm's tests were conducted "using a far more realistic setup", including actual LTE-U equipment (versus signal generators in Google's study).

In May 2016, the New York City Mayor's Office sent a letter to the FCC, 3GPP, Wi-Fi Alliance, and IEEE, expressing concern over LTE-U interference with Wi-Fi, given the City's broad investment in the technology. These concerns were discussed at a public event.

In June 2016 the Wi-Fi Alliance announced its co-existence test plan would be ready in August. In FCC filings, Qualcomm, Verizon and T-Mobile said they plan to use this plan, some with the aim of full implementation before the end of 2016. However, in August 2016, Qualcomm demurred. “The latest version of the test plan released by the Wi-Fi Alliance lacks technical merit, is fundamentally biased against LTE-U, and rejects virtually all the input that Qualcomm provided for the last year, even on points that were not controversial,” said Dean Brenner, senior vice president of government affairs. Qualcomm asserts that the plan biased in favor of Wi-Fi, and also that the testing regimen is extended to cover not just LTE-U, but also LAA, despite it already being a 3GPP standard. Verizon also opposed the test plan, saying it was "fundamentally unfair and biased".

Research from the University of Chicago in 2021 also showed a marked decrease in Wi-FI performance when LAA was in active use.

Deployments
In November 2016 Verizon, separate to the Wi-Fi Alliance coexistence plan, filed a Special Temporary Authority (STA) application with the FCC to test 40 small cells in the 5Ghz band. According to a separate filing, Verizon will conduct the tests in Oklahoma City, Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, and Irving, Texas.

In February 2017, the FCC approved the use of LTE-U on base stations manufactured by Ericsson and Nokia.

As of June 26, 2017, T-Mobile declared that they have successfully launched LTE-U in Bellevue, Washington; Brooklyn, New York; Dearborn, Michigan; Las Vegas, Nevada; Richardson, Texas; and Simi Valley, California.

In January 2019, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association reported that 32 operators are investing in LAA across 21 countries; this had increased to 37 operators in 21 countries by July 2019. Eight of these have announced LAA network launches in six countries, while 29 operators are trialling or deploying the technology in 18 countries. The GSA also identified 21 chipsets containing modems that support one or more of LTE-U, LAA, LWA or CBRS from vendors including GCT, Intel, Mediatek, Qualcomm, and Samsung.

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Hamilton United

Hamilton United is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Hamilton, Ontario that plays in the League1 Ontario men's and women's divisions.

History
The club was founded in 2013 by local clubs Saltfleet-Stoney Creek SC, Mount Hamilton Youth SC, and Ancaster SC to foster youth development.

The club's first team entered the League1 Ontario women's division in 2018. They played their inaugural match against West Ottawa SC on April 28.

In 2020, they added a team in the men's division, although their debut was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As preparation for the top division, they fielded a team in the L1O men's Reserve division in 2019. After once again fielding only a team in the reserve division in 2021 due to the pandemic, Hamilton's men's team finally made their debut in the main division in 2022, on April 26, defeating Burlington SC 2–0.

In 2023, they became an official youth development club of professional Canadian Premier League club Forge FC, updating their club badge and colours to match Forge's orange, grey, and white.

Seasons
Men

Women

Notable former players
The following players have either played at the professional or international level, either before or after playing for the League1 Ontario team:

Men
• 🇨🇦 Obrad Bejatović

• 🇨🇦 Antony Caceres

• Moussa Limane

• 🇬🇭 Gideon Waja

Women
• 🇨🇦 Paige Culver

title: Hamilton United


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reship

Verb

 * 1)  To ship something again.
 * 2)  To engage oneself again for service on board a vessel after having been discharged.

Translations

 * French:

 * Italian: reimbarcarsi
 * Manx: aachur er boayrd

title: reship


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Algorithms/Hill Climbing

Hill climbing is a technique for certain classes of optimization problems. The idea is to start with a sub-optimal solution to a problem (i.e., start at the base of a hill) and then repeatedly improve the solution (walk up the hill) until some condition is maximized (the top of the hill is reached).

One of the most popular hill-climbing problems is the network flow problem. Although network flow may sound somewhat specific it is important because it has high expressive power: for example, many algorithmic problems encountered in practice can actually be considered special cases of network flow. After covering a simple example of the hill-climbing approach for a numerical problem we cover network flow and then present examples of applications of network flow.

Newton's Root Finding Method
Newton's Root Finding Method is a three-centuries-old algorithm for finding numerical approximations to roots of a function (that is a point $$x$$ where the function $$f(x)$$ becomes zero), starting from an initial guess. You need to know the function $$f(x)\,$$ and its first derivative $$f'(x)\,$$ for this algorithm. The idea is the following: In the vicinity of the initial guess $$x_0$$ we can form the Taylor expansion of the function

 * $$f(x)=f(x_0+\epsilon)\,$$$$\approx f(x_0)+\epsilon f'(x_0)$$$$+\frac{\epsilon^2}{2} f''(x_0)+...$$

which gives a good approximation to the function near $$x_0$$. Taking only the first two terms on the right hand side, setting them equal to zero, and solving for $$\epsilon$$, we obtain

 * $$\epsilon=-\frac{f(x_0)}{f'(x_0)}$$

which we can use to construct a better solution

 * $$x_1=x_0+\epsilon=x_0-\frac{f(x_0)}{f'(x_0)}.$$

This new solution can be the starting point for applying the same procedure again. Thus, in general a better approximation can be constructed by repeatedly applying

 * $$x_{n+1}=x_n-\frac{f(x_n)}{f'(x_n)}.$$

As shown in the illustration, this is nothing else but the construction of the zero from the tangent at the initial guessing point. In general, Newton's root finding method converges quadratically, except when the first derivative of the solution $$f'(x)=0\,$$ vanishes at the root.

Coming back to the "Hill climbing" analogy, we could apply Newton's root finding method not to the function $$f(x)\,$$, but to its first derivative $$f'(x)\,$$, that is look for $$x$$ such that $$f'(x)=0\,$$. This would give the extremal positions of the function, its maxima and minima. Starting Newton's method close enough to a maximum this way, we climb the hill.

Example application of Newton's method
The net present value function is a function of time, an interest rate, and a series of cash flows. A related function is Internal Rate of Return. The formula for each period is (CFi x (1+ i/100) t, and this will give a polynomial function which is the total cash flow, and equals zero when the interest rate equals the IRR. In using Newton's method, x is the interest rate, and y is the total cash flow, and the method will use the derivative function of the polynomial to find the slope of the graph at a given interest rate (x-value), which will give the xn+1 , or a better interest rate to try in the next iteration to find the target x where y ( the total returns) is zero.

Instead of regarding continuous functions, the hill-climbing method can also be applied to discrete networks.

Network Flow
Suppose you have a directed graph (possibly with cycles) with one vertex labeled as the source and another vertex labeled as the destination or the "sink". The source vertex only has edges coming out of it, with no edges going into it. Similarly, the destination vertex only has edges going into it, with no edges coming out of it. We can assume that the graph is fully connected with no dead-ends; i.e., for every vertex (except the source and the sink), there is at least one edge going into the vertex and one edge going out of it.

We assign a "capacity" to each edge, and initially we'll consider only integral-valued capacities. The following graph meets our requirements, where "s" is the source and "t" is the destination:

We'd like now to imagine that we have some series of inputs arriving at the source that we want to carry on the edges over to the sink. The number of units we can send on an edge at a time must be less than or equal to the edge's capacity. You can think of the vertices as cities and the edges as roads between the cities and we want to send as many cars from the source city to the destination city as possible. The constraint is that we cannot send more cars down a road than its capacity can handle.

The goal of network flow is to send as much traffic from $$s$$ to $$t$$ as each street can bear.

To organize the traffic routes, we can build a list of different paths from city $$s$$ to city $$t$$. Each path has a carrying capacity equal to the smallest capacity value for any edge on the path; for example, consider the following path $$p$$:

Even though the final edge of $$p$$ has a capacity of 8, that edge only has one car traveling on it because the edge before it only has a capacity of 1 (thus, that edge is at full capacity). After using this path, we can compute the residual graph by subtracting 1 from the capacity of each edge:

(We subtracted 1 from the capacity of each edge in $$p$$ because 1 was the carrying capacity of $$p$$.) We can say that path $$p$$ has a flow of 1. Formally, a flow is an assignment $$f(e)$$ of values to the set of edges in the graph $$G = (V, E)$$ such that:
 * 1. $$\forall e\in E: f(e)\in\R$$
 * 2. $$\forall (u,v)\in E: f((u,v)) = -f((v,u))$$
 * 3. $$\forall u\in V, u\ne s,t: \sum_{v\in V}f(u,v) = 0$$
 * 4. $$\forall e\in E: f(e)\le c(e)$$

Where $$s$$ is the source node and $$t$$ is the sink node, and $$c(e)\ge 0$$ is the capacity of edge $$e$$. We define the value of a flow $$f$$ to be:
 * $$\textrm{Value}(f) = \sum_{v\in V} f((s, v))$$

The goal of network flow is to find an $$f$$ such that $$\textrm{Value}(f)$$ is maximal. To be maximal means that there is no other flow assignment that obeys the constraints 1-4 that would have a higher value. The traffic example can describe what the four flow constraints mean:

 * 1) $$\forall e\in E: f(e)\in\R$$. This rule simply defines a flow to be a function from edges in the graph to real numbers. The function is defined for every edge in the graph. You could also consider the "function" to simply be a mapping: Every edge can be an index into an array and the value of the array at an edge is the value of the flow function at that edge.
 * 2) $$\forall (u,v)\in E: f((u,v)) = -f((v,u))$$. This rule says that if there is some traffic flowing from node u to node v then there should be considered negative that amount flowing from v to u. For example, if two cars are flowing from city u to city v, then negative two cars are going in the other direction. Similarly, if three cars are going from city u to city v and two cars are going city v to city u then the net effect is the same as if one car was going from city u to city v and no cars are going from city v to city u.
 * 3) $$\forall u\in V, u\ne s,t: \sum_{v\in V}f(u,v) = 0$$. This rule says that the net flow (except for the source and the destination) should be neutral. That is, you won't ever have more cars going into a city than you would have coming out of the city. New cars can only come from the source, and cars can only be stored in the destination. Similarly, whatever flows out of s must eventually flow into t. Note that if a city has three cars coming into it, it could send two cars to one city and the remaining car to a different city. Also, a city might have cars coming into it from multiple sources (although all are ultimately from city s).
 * 4) $$\forall e\in E: f(e)\le c(e)$$.

The Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm
The following algorithm computes the maximal flow for a given graph with non-negative capacities. What the algorithm does can be easy to understand, but it's non-trivial to show that it terminates and provides an optimal solution.

function net-flow(graph (V, E), node s, node t, cost c): flow initialize f(e) := 0 for all e in E loop while not done for all e in E:                        // compute residual capacities let cf(e) := c(e) - f(e) repeat let Gf := (V, {e : e in E and cf(e) > 0}) find a path p from s to t in Gf        // e.g., use depth first search if no path p exists: signal done let path-capacities := map(p, cf)      // a path is a set of edges let m := min-val-of(path-capacities)   // smallest residual capacity of p for all (u, v) in p:                   // maintain flow constraints f((u, v)) := f((u, v)) + m f((v, u)) := f((v, u)) - m repeat repeat end

The Ford-Fulkerson algorithm uses repeated calls to Breadth-First Search ( use a queue to schedule the children of a node to become the current node). Breadth-First Search increments the length of each path +1 so that the first path to get to the destination, the shortest path, will be the first off the queue. This is in contrast with using a Stack, which is Depth-First Search, and will come up with *any* path to the target, with the "descendants" of current node examined, but not necessarily the shortest.
 * In one search, a path from source to target is found. All nodes are made unmarked at the beginning of a new search. Seen nodes are "marked", and not searched again if encountered again. Eventually, all reachable nodes will have been scheduled on the queue , and no more unmarked nodes can be reached off the last the node on the queue.
 * During the search, nodes scheduled have the finding "edge" (consisting of the current node, the found node, a current flow, and a total capacity in the direction first to second node), recorded.
 * This allows finding a reverse path from the target node once reached, to the start node. Once a path is found, the edges are examined to find the edge with the minimum remaining capacity, and this becomes the flow that will result along this path, and this quantity is removed from the remaining capacity of each edge along the path. At the "bottleneck" edge with the minimum remaining capacity, no more flow will be possible, in the forward direction, but still possible in the backward direction.
 * This process of BFS for a path to the target node, filling up the path to the bottleneck edge's residual capacity, is repeated, until BFS cannot find a path to the target node ( the node is not reached because all sequences of edges leading to the target have had their bottleneck edges filled). Hence memory of the side effects of previous paths found, is recorded in the flows of the edges, and affect the results of future searches.
 * An important property of maximal flow is that flow can occur in the backward direction of an edge, and the residual capacity in the backward direction is the current flow in the foward direction. Normally, the residual capacity in the forward direction of an edge is the initial capacity less forward flow. Intuitively, this allows more options for maximizing flow as earlier augmenting paths block off shorter paths.
 * On termination, the algorithm will retain the marked and unmarked states of the results of the last BFS.
 * the minimum cut state is the two sets of marked and unmarked nodes formed from the last unsuccessful BFS starting from the start node, and not marking the target the node. The start node belongs to one side of the cut, and the target node belongs to the other. Arbitrarily, being "in Cut" means being on the start side, or being a marked node. Recall how are a node comes to be marked, given an edge with a flow and a residual capacity.

Example application of Ford-Fulkerson maximum flow/ minimum cut
An example of application of Ford-Fulkerson is in baseball season elimination. The question is whether the team can possibly win the whole season by exceeding some combination of wins of the other teams.

The idea is that a flow graph is set up with teams not being able to exceed the number of total wins which a target team can maximally win for the entire season. There are game nodes whose edges represent the number of remaining matches between two teams, and each game node outflows to two team nodes, via edges that will not limit forward flow; team nodes receive edges from all games they participate. Then outflow edges with win limiting capacity flow to the virtual target node. In a maximal flow state where the target node's total wins will exceed some combination of wins of the other teams, the penultimate depth-first search will cutoff the start node from the rest of the graph, because no flow will be possible to any of the game nodes, as a result of the penultimate depth-first search (recall what happens to the flow, in the second part of the algorithm after finding the path). This is because in seeking the maximal flow of each path, the game edges' capacities will be maximally drained by the win-limit edges further along the path, and any residual game capacity means there are more games to be played that will make at least one team overtake the target teams' maximal wins. If a team node is in the minimum cut, then there is an edge with residual capacity leading to the team, which means what, given the previous statements? What do the set of teams found in a minimum cut represent ( hint: consider the game node edge) ?

Example Maximum bipartite matching ( intern matching )
This matching problem doesn't include preference weightings. A set of companies offers jobs which are made into one big set, and interns apply to companies for specific jobs. The applications are edges with a weight of 1. To convert the bipartite matching problem to a maximum flow problem, virtual vertexes s and t are created, which have weighted 1 edges from s to all interns, and from all jobs to t. Then the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm is used to sequentially saturate 1 capacity edges from the graph, by augmenting found paths. It may happen that a intermediate state is reached where left over interns and jobs are unmatched, but backtracking along reverse edges which have residual capacity = forward flow = 1, along longer paths that occur later during breadth-first search, will negate previous suboptimal augmenting paths, and provide further search options for matching, and will terminate only when maximal flow or maximum matching is reached.

title: Algorithms/Hill Climbing


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2017 European Youth Weightlifting Championships

The 2017 European Youth Weightlifting Championships took place in Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina, Kosovo from 23 September to 30 September 2017.

Team ranking
Boys Under-15

Girls Under-15

Boys Youth

Girls Youth

Medal table
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals

Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


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Musikförläggarnas pris

Musikförläggarnas pris is an annual award given to Swedish songwriters, producers and lyricists. The award was created in 2003 by the Musikförläggarna music organisation in Sweden and meants to highlight Swedish music and its creators. The award ceremony is held every year at Berns Salonger in Stockholm and the prizes are made by designer Bertil Vallien.

Categories

 * Composer of the Year
 * International Success of the Year
 * Breakthrough of the Year
 * Song of the Year
 * Art Music Award of the Year - Large Ensemble/Opera
 * Art Music Award of the Year - Small Ensemble/Chamber Music
 * Scholarship Award
 * Special Award of the Year
 * Most Played Song of the Year

title: Musikförläggarnas pris


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Biblical Studies/New Testament Commentaries/The Gospel of John/Chapter 1

Prologue, John 1:1-18

Verses 1-18 are a prologue to the book of John. It is sometimes suggested that this section, with the exception of verses 6-8 and 15, which talk about John the Baptist, may have existed prior to its appearance in the Gospel as a hymn used in the early church. These verses serve as an introduction to the author's understanding of Jesus, and parallel the creation account of Genesis at several key points. John never says that Jesus is the Word of God "become flesh", but he says the Word was in the beginning. So we must determine who is the Word. The Jewish Encyclopedia says the Word, logos (Memra) is an angel, an elohim, the Word that was present and active in every aspect of the Creation since the beginning of the world.

This introduction also, aside from paralleling the creation account in Genesis, is divided into three parts. They include the role that the Word played in creation (the angel architect), and how it appeared throughout history as "the angel of the Lord", and as a third part, the role the angel played by indwelling Jesus and its benefits. Out of all three parts, the third is the most different, most separated by authorship and the way the account is given. It seems to be of a more personal nature than the rest.

This passage is often one that is confusing for those who are reading the Bible for the first time. The language is different than the language most people use in daily conversation. Therefore, this passage requires the reader to really work to understand the message. The complexities of the passage definitely make the passage one that you cannot just gloss over. Therefore, it not wise to build too much theology on this obscure opening.

It is important to note, however, that the translation of "logos" to "word" in the first several verses is only one of several possibilities as to the contextual meaning of the word and is still a point of discussion among scholars. Other translations include reason and wisdom, plan, message, and even Torah. However, if any of the equally good words are used in place of the current translation, the introduction takes on a different connotation. If one believes that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one in the same but in different states, (much like water)it seems superfluous to say that the "word," meaning Jesus, was with God in the beginning. So we can see that John is not trying to establish a doctrine of the Trinity. The text makes no allusion to a trinity, and it definitely does not say Jesus was with God. It says the word (Memara/angel) was with God, -the angel of Wisdom.

Throughout the Gospel, John uses symbols and metaphors to represent Jesus in an abstract and somewhat mysterious way. He says the Memra/angel was in the beginning, but he does not say Jesus was. Nor does he say the word was made flesh. The Greek clearly says the logos made all thing. The logos made flesh and then tented among us in the body/temple of Jesus. Jesus is never called "God the son" but beginning in verse 14, from which point on the language of "Son of God" is used.  The Word  The Word was with Eloah and was an elohim " a God" in the beginning. All angels are elohim. Some humans are also called elohim. Jesus reminded the Jews that they had been called to be the Father's elohim to the nations. "Ye are Gods all of you and sons of the most high". God worked through his elohim/angel of Wisdom/Word in the Creation of the world. This Word was a conduit of life and the light of humanity. This light shines in the darkness, which represents a world which does not recognize God. The attributes of the Word in this passage parallel not only the way Jewish authors such as Philo of Alexandria wrote about the Word he called it the "archangel", but also the Jewish tradition regarding Wisdom's role in creation and in other aspects of God's interaction with the world.

 Light  John uses light and darkness as symbols of good versus evil. The light of God fights against the darkness of sin. Jesus is the conduit of the angel who is a coduit of the light. It is called "the angel of God's presence. It is not God, but God only deals with humans through mediators. No one has ever seen God nor heard his voice.

The entire world was caped in darkness, and the Father sent his angel/elohim/logos/memra into this world to bring true light (verse 9).

What has come into being in him was life and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. (Versus 4-5). The author is relating the beginning of life to a life that cannot be stifled by darkness or death.

John the Baptist appears briefly as a messenger who gave testimony to the light, sent by God to prepare the way for Jesus (verses 6-8). John the Baptist was not to be confused with the light itself, rather as one sent to help others believe in the light that was the Word. It was always made especially clear that he was the prophet who's "sole mission is to bear witness or testimony to the Father who sends the light to indwell Jesus. That was the reason he was born here on earth, to bear witness to the Light giver.

In verses 10-11 John writes that although (the Word) came into a world made through him, his own people did not recognize or receive him. In contrast, John assures that the people who do receive and believe will become sons of God. "his own people" refers to Jews in as they were, at that time, God's chosen people.

The one who is the Word (the Angel of Wisdom) tented in the tent (body) of Jesus and lived among us. The prologue does not teach the incarnation when properly translated "sarx egeneto" Flesh it made, not "it was made flesh".

John and his companions saw Jesus' glory the indwelling angel of God's presence -the shokeyn (mistranslated as shekinah) (verse 14). In the same verse John affirms that Jesus was God's one and only uniquely birthed human son (God is the father of myriads of spirits who are his elohim sons and daughters), and describes him as full of love and truth (the completed Torah). In different passages of the book, these two characteristics are emphasized. This is also the first time in the prologue that Jesus is referred to as God's son. At this point, John begins to use language that reflects the true human relationship: Father-Son. John the Baptist is mentioned a second time affirming Jesus' importance, and saying that Jesus was before him in rank although he was born after him.

The Word/angel tabernacled in Jesus for a reason (so that we could become children of God) and He made his dwelling with us. The consequence for us is that we have the fullness of grace and He has given us the grace of the New completed Torah to replace the grace of the old Torah. In verses 16-18 the author states that a greater gift came through Jesus than through Moses, as Moses gave the law (defective Torah) but Jesus brought love and truth (the completed and perfect Torah). Although no one has seen God (so that eliminates Jesus as being God), Jesus (the uniquely birthed human Son), who has intimate communion with God, has brought John, and the Christians in his audience, to know God. In John 17:20 John says he wrote his Gospel so that people could know the father, the only true God, and his messiah, Jesus.

The Prologue although wrapped in ancient poetry and often sounding like a riddle, does exactly that. It shows us God the Father sending his angel of wisdom to dwell in the body of Jesus his uniquely begotten and birthed human son: the first man to experience the spirit birth so that the complete Wisdom (torah) of God could be made available to humans and many could become his beloved children.

Verses 19-34, John the Baptist gives testimony about Jesus
In this section, John the Baptist is confronted "priests and Levites" sent by the Jews of Jerusalem concerning his identity. The Levites and priests were greedy men who made a lucrative business in the maintenance and function of the Jewish temple. Though the story concerns many Jews (John the Baptist and Jesus were both Jewish) John's reference to the "Jews of Jerusalem" is done deliberately. The author uses the word Ioudaioi, meaning Judeans as a literary device to describe the heads of Jewish institutions that opposed Jesus and his teachings. The priests and Levites ask if John the Baptist is the Messiah that was expected to come. They also inquire if he is Elijah or The Prophet. The question of John being the Prophet refers back to Deuteronomy 18:15, where Moses describes how God will provide another prophet, like Moses, who is a part of their people. John the Baptist answers that he is one sent "as a voice that shouts in the desert: Make wide the path for the Lord," quoting Isaiah 40:3. In denying the title of Messiah, Prophet, or Elijah, John the Baptist is honoring the Lord. The titles of Messiah and Prophet are obviously reserved for Jesus. John the Baptist does not claim to be Elijah because he is not a reincarnation of Elijah, but the same spirit that rested on Elijah is in John. John only claims to be a prophetic voice that bears witness to the coming of the Lord. He goes on to explain that although he baptizes with water, he as a person is nothing compared to Jesus. (There is no record in scripture that Baptism was used by the Jews as a traditional cleansing rite although it was used by other marginal Jewish sects such as the Essenes)

John's answers to the religious leaders' questions proved to be difficult for them to use effectively. The leaders appear to be trying to trick John into saying he is the Messiah or one of the major prophets from the Old Testament so that they can refute what John is saying and ruin his credibility. John's answers to their questions, however, make it impossible for them to trap him in a statement that would discredit his message with the people.

When John the Baptist sees Jesus, he declares "Look, this is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!"and explains that Jesus is the one that he has been preaching about. John saw Jesus as the one who would make the true atonement for sin. The only problem is that in the atonement ritual it was a goat. Jesus was anti goats. He compared those going into the fire of hell to goats. He also taught that God did not want sacrifices. So John got it wrong. As we'll see John got other things wrong.

At the river the next day, John the Baptist explains how he saw the Holy Spirit descend on Jesus like a dove, and the God had told him that Jesus would baptize with that same Holy Spirit. So the water baptism of John would cease and be replaced by the Spirit Baptism.

John the Baptist also claims to be a witness to the fact that Jesus was the Son of God. John the Baptist is very clear about who Jesus is: although he describes Jesus as a man who comes after him, which is usually a sign of discipleship, the Baptist mentions that Jesus ranks ahead of him.

It is important to note that John the Baptist does not actually baptize Jesus in John's Gospel; yet he gives an account of seeing "the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him" (John 1:32). This was the born again being baptized by the spirit moment for Jesus. He was the first man to be spirit-born.

This was when the Elohim/angel of wisdom indwelled the temple/body of Jesus. Now he could truly say as he did "The Father is in me."

Now since God only interacts with people through a mediator, how could the father be in him? He was in him via "the angel of his presence." The angel of wisdom was the conduit through which God dealt with Jesus and Jesus was the human conduit to humans -the chosen vessel -the messiah.

It is also important to note that although John is quoted in ways that suggests his belief that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah and his devotion to him, he appears to have not become a disciple of Jesus, but rather continued his own independent ministry. In Matthew and Luke, John is even reported to have sent his own disciples to Jesus to confirm or deny his messianic ambitions (Matt 11:4, Luke 7:22). That's why the least member of the Kingdom is greater than John.

Verse 32, "Then John gave his testimony: 'I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him'" has three interpretations, one of which was eventually rejected from Orthodox Christian doctrine. This view takes 1:32 to refer to the same event as 1:14, thus indicating that for this author the baptism is the moment of the Incarnation. In this interpretation, the terms "Word" and "Spirit" are thought to refer to the same thing, as they clearly did in the Judaism of this period, and also seem to have even into the early Patristic period within Christianity.

The classic orthodox viewpoint is that the incarnation takes place at the moment of Jesus' miraculous conception. It is worth noting that John, who alone emphasizes the incarnation, includes no story about Jesus' conception, while those Gospels that contain stories about Jesus' miraculous conception do not depict him as the Word incarnate. Indeed, the Gospel of Luke, which contains an account of the virginal conception, has a Christology that seems to be at the opposite end of the spectrum from John, viewing Jesus as a man empowered by God's Spirit, whom "God has made both Lord and Christ".

If the Spirit remaining on Jesus and the Word becoming flesh refer to the same event, this might explain the reference in 1 John to the Christ having come "not by water only, but by water and blood", as well as the fact that, when read chronologically, John's testimony to the light in the Prologue occurs both before and after the incarnation. This interpretation can be found in later Jewish Christian writings such as the Pseudo-Clementine literature, and is supported by contemporary scholars such as Charles Talbert and Francis Watson.

The third view is that Jesus was thought by the Father into Mary's womb as a human sperm and he was fully human and never existed prior to his conception. But in The Father's plan this human was chosen before the world began to be the messiah. So he was born as the messiah and at the Jordan River the Spirit that entered him was the angel of God's presence, the angel of Wisdom who was with God at the beginning as his architect. He was called the logos. Jesus said I heal you by the logos and he said they rejected him because they had never found room in their hearts for the logos. The angel of Wisdom -the angel of the Father's presence stayed with Jesus until his final moments on the cross, then it departed and Jesus cried "Why have you forsaken me?"

The significance of this story is to show how John was imperfect, he misunderstood that Jesus was not to be an atoment, he tried to stop the baptism, and he never followed Jesus. He continued on baptizing with water even though he knew the spirit baptism was the true and only baptism that matters. In the end he was in prison doubting Jesus.

On the positive side, John was the legal heir to the high priesthood and this encounter is a transfer of power. John was the last prophet of the old Testament and he says with all the prophets, "Jesus is the Messiah, he must increase and I must decrease."

On a practical level Jesus says we must all be born again. God's angel must indwell each believer.

Verses 35-51 Jesus calls his first disciples
John the Baptist had followers, and in verses 35-42 describe how two of these men, Simon Peter and his brother Andrew, leave John the Baptist's side to follow Jesus. Andrew encountered Jesus first, and in one of the first recorded examples of Christian evangelism, runs to tell his brother that they had found the Messiah. When Jesus saw Peter, he gave him his semi-ironic but prophetic nickname, The Rock (v 42). Jesus then invites them to his home to spend the afternoon.

The next day, Jesus went to another area and called more people to follow him, Phillip and Nathaniel. Although Nathaniel at first responds with disbelief, "Nazareth, can anything good come from there?", when Jesus reveals a bit about him he quickly comes to faith and declares that Jesus is the Messiah (the Son of God and the King of Israel.)

Finishing the section, Jesus declares that they will one day see heaven open and angels going up and down over the Son of Man. This is a reference to Jacob's dream of Genesis 28:10-17, where angels climbed up and down a ladder to heaven. "Son of Man" is a term with multiple meanings in the Jewish tradition. In many places throughout the Hebrew Scriptures it is simply used to refer a human being. For example, Ezekiel is referred to as "son of man" by God in many of his visions (Ezekiel 2:1, Ezekiel 7:2, etc.). When used by Jesus in the Gospels, though, Son of Man" is probably a reference to Daniel 7:13 which was understood at the time to speak of the Messiah. This picture of the "son of man" receiving authority and an everlasting kingdom links this title with John's expression of Jesus as the Word. Thus, by calling himself the Son of Man, Jesus was understood by John's original audience to be declaring himself to be the Messiah awaited by the Jews.

John 1:19-51 develops one of the major themes. The theme is testimony and it is written in four scenes. The first is John's negative testimony about himself; the second is his positive testimony about Jesus; the third is the revelation of Jesus to Peter and Andrew; and the fourth is the revelation of Jesus to Nathanael and Philip. The revelation of Jesus’ glory takes place in two phases. John, the Baptist recognizes that the Spirit's descent upon Jesus at his baptism is what allows him to recognize Jesus (1:32-33), but the incident itself is not recounted. The emphasis is on the Baptist's testimony arising from this incident (1:34). It is when the Baptist identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God in the hearing of some of his disciples that they become his first followers (1:35-37). John, the Baptist is a witness to Jesus and a model of true discipleship.

The second phase is the gathering of disciples around Jesus, beginning with two of the Baptist's own disciples. This section offers many insights into the nature of discipleship. It is also astonishing for the number of titles given to Jesus right from the beginning, including Son of God (1:34, 49). These titles are part of the preparation for the glory, though the characters in the narrative do not yet understand their true significance. The section closes with Jesus' promise that they will "see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man" (1:51), which prepares us for the revelation of God's glory that follows.

This chapter of John begins with the rhetoric of the word being with God from the beginning, and then there is the story of John the Baptist denying he is the Christ. These two stories alone set the tone for the book of John by asserting the eternal existence of God and by determining the identity of Jesus. It is also important that Jesus begins to choose his disciples in this chapter since these are the devoted men that will follow Jesus through his crucifixion and resurrection.

Another point of note found in the first chapter of the Fourth Gospel is John's first reference to an "Israelite" found in verse 47 in which Jesus makes reference to Nathanael as, "an Israelite in whom there is no deceit." This reference is most significant because of the reputation that John's Gospel would later receive for its portrayal of "the Jews." Most have viewed John's Gospel as being rather disparaging towards Judaism, and it is true that there is certainly a good degree of tension present in John's description of the relationship between the Early Christians and the Jewish community. However, that being said, as we can see from the introductory portion of his Gospel, his view on this matter was not as completely clear as has sometimes been suggested. While it is understandable that tension would exist between two rivaling religious groups in the same geographical area, it is unfair to generalize about John's feelings as they are certainly more complex than would be allowed by such a broad stroke.


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Wing area?
Got two different values here, 14.80 and 14.27 m², seemingly from the same ref. Also (marginal,rounding error) differences in the Rotax hp. I did not change them, not having the source, but think they should agree. Given 75 kW, I could make rounding arguments for either 100 or 101 hp, but the area difference is significant.TSRL (talk) 20:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Thanks fort pointing those out - it should read better than that for numbers. I'll clarify the wing area. The hp is a template rounding off error, which I'll fix too, by re-arranging the numbers in the templates. - Ahunt (talk) 20:48, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

zenith comment
Hi, the comment that zenith made is false. I am the official G1 America representative and our G1 is not a Zenith copy! (it is a originally based on the Yuma design in Italy...) This may be critical for our market and we strongly advice you to remove this comment! Or you leave us the chance to explain why it is not a copy! — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:01, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

 * Thank you for bringing this to the talk page. As far as you editing this article, you are in a clear conflict of interest as as explained in that link. So you should stop editing the article and make requests for changes here on the talk page, where they can be evaluated by other editors

 * The information from Zenith is sourced. As that ref notes Zenith considers the Yuma too an unauthorized copy. We are happy to add text that shows that there is a controversy over this issue, so if G1 Aviation wants to make a public counter-statement, perhaps on their website, then that can be quoted in the article as well, but we need a source to quote and not just original research. - Ahunt (talk) 17:35, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

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User:Kumar shivaram and anjali/sandbox

Our Story

"Kumar and Anjali grew up in Mumbai, India, just a few miles apart, but they did not meet until they moved to the United States. They arrived in the U.S. in the same year, Kumar to pursue his master’s degree in computer engineering, and Anjali to attend her sister’s wedding. Kumar found a job as a computer consultant, and Anjali stayed on to develop a career in the travel field. “We were totally oblivious to what lay ahead,” says Kumar, “But, here I was, only a couple of years into my career, picking up major momentum in my on software consulting business, and already in the top 5% income bracket in the U.S. And there she was, furthering her career as a travel consultant, when Manipal Reddy appeared in my life to talk about a part-time business opportunity…” Kumar did not even see this as a business at first; he was just interested in the health insurance offered to IBOs. Kumar signed up, but did not do much with the business for several months. Little did he know, that not only would his attitude change from mild interest, to skepticism, to curiosity, to excitement, to total commitment, but that his dreams would upgrade from health insurance to include supporting his family back in India, a better living standard, and complete financial freedom (June 17,1994). ”My little ’yes’ to Manipal gave me all that! But the best gift I got is my wife, Anjali.” Kumar sponsored Anjali’s sister and brother-in-law, Ajay and Alka Ohri, now Diamonds, who in turn sponsored Anjali. “Kumar was already an Emerald when we got married,” says Anjali, “but thanks to the Britt support system and the mentorship of our upline, I was able to come up to speed quickly. Within six months of getting married, I quit my job. Six months later, Kumar became a free man. We worked hard, and within a year, we went Diamond.” Today, they live in a beautiful 7500-square-foot home in New Jersey, a far cry from the condo where Kumar was living when they got married. They have also been blessed with three adorable daughters. “What is most important to us,” adds Anjali, “is the security and peace of mind this business provides, and the time with our girls. We wanted them to attend private schools, which is what they do now.”

“We grew up with a very strong value system,” says Kumar. “Prior to this business, we felt that we had to choose between a jet-set life in the U.S. and some of those values. Now, we believe that the Britt system actually allows us to enhance these values and live them, and at the same time, enjoy the number-one lifestyle in the world! You can have your cake and eat it, too! So, why not?!” Kumar and Anjali have an organization of leaders all over the United States and Canada, and have a huge organization in India. Kumar declares, “To earn and keep the respect of Anjali and the kids, our sponsors, our upline EDCs Kanti and Lata, all the way to Bill and Peggy Britt and the Britt Diamond team – that is everything to me!”

Kumar went Emerald as as single in 1993; then married Anjali and was the first Indian to qualify Diamond(1995) in the BWW system. They went Founders EDC in 2002. The Kumar’s qualified Double Diamond(USA) in 2005 with their 12th qualifying leg(in India) being Kumar’s Mom & Dad. The Kumars qualified Diamond in India during 2004 and have huge business in Singapore, UK and Australia. Most of their close family members are building the business. Alka(Anjali’s Sister) & Ajay Ohri are Diamonds in the USA. Shanta(Kumar’s oldest sister) and her husband Narasimhan are founders Platinum in Mumbai, India. Shamala(Kumar’s other older sister) and her husband Subramanian are Emerralds in Chennai, India. Kumar’s cousin Shankar and Sangeeta Devraj and Dr. Ram & Usha, his uncle and aunt are both founders Emeralds in Mumbai, India. India Achievers trips to Malaysia, Australia and Switzerland have all been family reunion events for the kumar family.

More Details BWW shivaram kumar and anjali (talk) 05:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)http://www.kumarandanjali.com/

Success Story

Follow your heart - Shivaram & Anjali Kumar, New Jersey Talk to any successful business leader and they’ll no doubt share how their busy schedules and long hours have kept them away from their families. CEOs, professional athletes, government officials, and sales reps all make a huge sacrifice by giving up time with their children. And it seems like the more successful they become, the greater the sacrifice.

Like many others, Shivaram and Anjali Kumar were headed toward the top of the elusive corporate ladder where family time is a rarity. But thanks to the Quixtar business, they not only found each other, but they also found an opportunity that enhanced their lives in more ways than one.

Today they lead a balanced life, with plenty of time for each other and their three daughters (Devika, 8, Tarika, 6 and Ritika, 4), a thriving and growing Quixtar business, and the room to pursue other passions, too.

“I’m very ambitious,” says Shivaram (who goes by Kumar), “and if I had stayed in corporate America, I would have been forced to miss most, if not all, of our children’s activities.”

Private tutors and a full-time nanny make it possible for the children to pursue piano, swimming lessons, soccer, and art. As Anjali explains, “The extra help and flexibility we have means we don’t go into the other extreme of having to attend every one of our children’s activities. We have a growing business and a great team of people who are counting on us for our guidance and support. So we have struck a great balance!”

“We have our time back,” adds Kumar. “That’s the beauty of the Quixtar business. We are so grateful.”

Grateful. It’s a word the Kumars use repeatedly. About finding the Quixtar business opportunity. The people in their organization. Their newfound freedom of time. Finding each other.

And although it was the business that brought them together, how they entered into it, and their backgrounds, are very different.

Searching for something better

Back in India, Anjali’s father had a hugely successful business, and Anjali and her family enjoyed a lavish lifestyle: cooks, housekeepers, and even personal tailors. Kumar grew up a mere 10 miles away, but it might as well been 1,000. He was raised in a middle-class family with a solid foundation of values, but without much material luxury.

When Anjali was attending her sister’s wedding in the United States, her father’s business was in the midst of some really tough years. So her family encouraged her to stay until he was able to recover from the business setback.

At about the same time, Kumar came to the States to pursue a master’s in computer engineering. After graduation, he quickly found a job as a computer consultant and, a couple of years later, started his own consulting business.

Soon after that he was introduced to the Quixtar opportunity. “I was skeptical, but not negative. Logically, I should never have been in this business – it’s a far cry from what I was trained to do,” says Kumar. After signing up, he wouldn’t listen to the CDs or read the books. And the first 17 or so people he showed the Plan to said, “No!”

“The noes made me even more determined to succeed,” he explains.

The decisive moment came when Kumar heard a leader in the business speak. This IBO had a serious physical disability, yet he clearly had a large, successful Quixtar business.

“His Quixtar business was seemingly unaffected by his disability,” Kumar remembers. “It was amazing. It was then that I realized the value of making a commitment to this business. Despite my initial skepticism, I listened to my heart more than to my logic, and fell in love with the people in the business. I followed my heart!”

As Kumar explains his change in attitude, he strides from one end of his kitchen to the other. He speaks quickly, animatedly – filled with seemingly boundless energy. And he says he feels the same way about the business now as he did when he started. “I love the people, and I love the business,” he explains. “And I love the promise of this opportunity. Quixtar gives you the ability to say to others, ‘I can show you a way out.’”

New Jersey meets New York

Kumar settled in New Jersey – not far from Anjali, who was living in New York City and working as a travel agent. Her sister and brother-in-law, IBOs sponsored by Kumar, needed someone to watch their children when they attended functions. Anjali volunteered to help.

It was at one of those functions that Kumar and Anjali finally met – and that was quickly followed by romancing and serenading. Kumar sang songs for Anjali at holiday parties and even wrote a poem for her, entitled, “Chances are …” I believe in dreams. And they will come true. You have your dreams And I have mine. And chances are …

Even though Anjali and Kumar shared similar values and priorities with respect to family and culture, their roots were from different parts of India, their spoken languages in their respective homes were different, and so were their social practices. Their chances of meeting and getting together back in India were very small. Yet here in the States, the story took a different turn. When the business brought them together, they simply threw out logic and followed their hearts.

“I’m so grateful to this business for bringing us together,” says Kumar.

Reaching their goals

After their wedding, the couple set very aggressive goals together and stayed focused on their business. As a result, it expanded rapidly, and they qualified for new pin levels almost yearly. “We have always shown the (Quixtar IBO Compensation) Plan very consistently,” says Kumar.

As new Double Diamonds, the Kumars were recently honored by Quixtar and its headquarters to celebrate their Double Diamond Day. First, the family spent several relaxing days on Peter Island. They then flew to Quixtar headquarters in Ada. After a rousing greeting, they met with Quixtar execs, toured the facilities, and enjoyed a wonderful dinner and overnight stay at the renowned Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.

One of their biggest dreams-come-true was flying in a private jet, part of their Double Diamond Day recognition. “Flying in the corporate jet was incredible,” Kumar explains. “It’s something everyone should experience.”

Kumar and Anjali say they share the same strategies for building a successful business, especially the importance of written goals, and the power of speaking effectively. But they also bring different strengths to the business.

“Kumar is a dreamer,” says Anjali “It’s a trait that has created a lot of success for us and many others. And it’s made life a wonderful adventure for us.”

Says Kumar: “Anjali always expects the very best. She’s determined and confident. That strength is a positive element.” She’s also poised, graceful, and articulate. Perched on a stool at the kitchen island, she looks directly at her guest, considers the question, then answers in rapid-fire fashion.

With three young children, their home is abuzz with activity, and the couple is in constant motion, catering to the needs of the girls, taking and making phone calls, and doing meetings.

“Spending time with our children is a priority for us,” says Anjali. She and Kumar explain that this balance of home and work is what attracts many Indian-Americans – one of the fastest-growing demographic groups in Quixtar – to this business.

Kumar points out that the Indian culture lends itself well to participating in a business like this. “The company shares the family values we all grew up with in India,” he explains. “We are well educated, and many of us come from professional backgrounds.”

He adds that Indian-Americans, like many immigrants, have a very strong work ethic. “We all come to America, expecting more. We are willing to work hard, and won’t accept handouts.”

He says that many immigrants come to this country with a goal of being in business for themselves. “I don’t think either of us would have done very well reporting to others. The best people in this business are fiercely independent and fiercely loyal team players.”

A business anyone can build

The Kumars believe, however, that no matter what a person’s upbringing or background, anyone can succeed in this business. According to Kumar and Anjali, there are two initial requirements to make it in this business – one, a strong dream, and two, a willingness to learn and change.

They also believe in the importance of being accountable – and loyal – to your upline, downline, and the overall team. And they recommend that all new IBOs make a four-month commitment to the business. “Do everything your upline asks you to do for four months,” Kumar advises. “You’re not going to risk your job, but you may risk some TV time.”

He stresses the importance of not giving up after disappointment, because “success is just failure, plus one more time.”

“We encourage people to dream at every level,” says Anjali. “You don’t have to settle for where you are now.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it,” adds Kumar.

Sponsoring others is a critical element to the business, as is self-consumption and retailing products. The couple prides themselves on the ability to meet customers’ needs for supplementation, fitness products, and skin care products.

In addition to the Nutrilite® products, Kumar and Anjali are enthusiastic about the Personalized Health program, especially the Gensona™ Genetic Tests. (Their customized-packet dispensers sit within easy reach on their kitchen counter.) They’re also excited about the new line of Artistry® Time Defiance® products.

“We’re so grateful for these wonderful products,” says Anjali.

A balanced life

The Kumars have enjoyed the rewards that come with hard work and sacrifice. Their well-appointed home sits among the rolling green hills of central New Jersey. The in-ground pool is ringed with children’s toys. A bright yellow Hummer sits in the driveway. (The license plate, CAMHUMM, reminds them of their goal of reaching the Crown Ambassador level.) But they believe that success is not just about money.

“It’s more about having a balanced life,” explains Anjali. “We don’t compete with anyone else. We have our own hopes and dreams. To have a balanced life, to have choices, that’s what’s important.”

The couple prides themselves on being able to be home when the children return from school. And the fun begins as soon as the girls run into their parents’ arms. Later that day, the family drives to a nearby park, where a spirited game of tag barely registers on the faces of Kumar and Anjali, who seem to be inexhaustible.

“My favorite hobby is to be home with my family,” says Kumar.

It’s the ability to spend many hours a day with their children that Anjali says exemplifies a balanced life. “When I got into this business, I wanted to have a good relationship with my husband. But I also want to spend as much time as possible with our children. I meet people all the time who watch their children grow up in pictures. We get to travel with our children and instill in them the values that we so cherish. We want them to know they can accomplish anything they set their hearts on.”

It’s a life that also gives them the opportunity to travel as a family. Their favorite nearby haunt is New York City, but they’ve also been to France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa, Peter Island, and India. Their business in India has enabled them to spend quality time with their parents and sisters.

Rewards also come in the form of watching others grow and improve their lives. Says Kumar: “It gives us such peace of mind when we see others succeed. You win by helping others.”

Their balanced life has also allowed Kumar to pursue his passion for poetry, writing nonfiction books, songwriting, and filmmaking. Anjali keeps a binder filled with his poetry. “Kumar is so talented, I feel it is now time for him to share that aspect of his life with the rest of the world,” says Anjali.

After reaching Double Diamond, Kumar has finally embarked on his book-writing project – one that would tell a story of their experiences in life that brought them into a reality that they never knew existed.

Kumar explains that he’s always been on stage, singing and acting in Indian musicals and plays. But his dream has been to produce a film. He’s working on a movie project – a story about overcoming challenges, being persistent, and following your heart.

With their zest for life, loving home environment, and passion for helping others, it’s no wonder the couple calls their Quixtar business “absolute excitement.”

As Kumar puts it, “It’s been very close to a fairy tale.”

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Stuart Baker

Stuart Baker may refer to:

 * E. C. Stuart Baker (1864–1944), British ornithologist and police officer
 * Stuart Daniel Baker or Unknown Hinson (born 1954), American musician, comedian, and actor
 * Stuart P. Baker, United States Navy officer
 * Stuart Baker (Australian actor), portrayed "Richo" in the Australian TV series Blue Heelers

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Rewrite required
This article needs a complete rewrite as it does not appear to be NPV. Too little coverage has been given to the Homes for Votes scandal and too much to other minor events. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:09, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I have added the template also - this article reads like a bluffer's CV, with plenty of airy claims of "influence" etc. but not a single reliable source that agrees. Apart from Homes for Votes, there is also no mention of the Mill Hill/East Finchley/Hanwell fiasco. As Peter Bradley put it: "Shirley Porter will go down in history as the woman who sold three council cemeteries for 5 pence each, and David Weeks will go down in history as the man who bought them back for £4.25 million." Not if this article in its present state is all that future students of local politics have to go by, Peter.  Blackberry  Sorbet  22:43, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Cemetery
Congratulations to whoever added the sentence that Weeks was not buried in a Westminster cemetery. It made me laugh out loud. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:44, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Mariticides

Mariticides, killings of husbands by their wives (killings by wives that include their husbands along with other members of their families are under Category:Familicides)

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