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The Earls of Leicester (band)

The Earls of Leicester is an American bluegrass group, assembled by Jerry Douglas in 2013 to present the music of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their band the Foggy Mountain Boys to a contemporary audience. Their eponymous debut album earned a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2015.

The band's name is a play on words: The English city Leicester is pronounced "Lester", the same as Flatt's first name, and Scruggs' first name is "Earl".

Current

 * Jerry Douglas - Dobro
 * Shawn Camp - lead vocals and guitar
 * Charlie Cushman - banjo and guitars
 * Johnny Warren - vocals and fiddle
 * Daniel Kimbro - vocals and bass
 * Jeff White - mandolin and vocals

Former

 * Tim O'Brien
 * Barry Bales

Awards
The Earls and their engineer/mixer, Bil Vorndick, received a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Bluegrass Album for their album The Earls of Leicester.

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Eudendrium ramosum

Eudendrium ramosum, sometimes known as the tree hydroid, is a marine species of cnidaria, a hydroid (Hydrozoa) in the family Eudendriidae of the order Anthoathecata.

Description
This is a colonial hydroid with a branching, tree-like form growing to a height of about 12 cm. The main branches divide into rather longer but narrower branches which bear single cup-shaped, feeding polyps known as hydranths near their tips. Each hydranth has about twenty tentacles but no nematophores. These hydranths are connected with the rest of the colony by hollow tubelike hydrocauli. Nearer the base of these stems are the male or female reproductive polyps, the gonophores, with each colony being either male or female. The male sporosacs grow on unreduced hydranths, there being up to five per hydranth, each with two chambers. The female gonophores grow on slightly reduced or normal sized hydranths, each gonozoid consisting of up to seven gonophores. There may be some encapsulated embryos attached to the lower stem. The hydranths and the spadix of the male sporosacs are red while the female gonophores are more orange.

Distribution
Eudendrium ramosum is present in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. In the western Atlantic, its range extends from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean to Florida and Texas. In the eastern Atlantic its range extends from the Arctic along the coasts of Europe to North Africa. It is common in the Mediterranean Sea. It has also been recorded from South Africa and Australia, however there is a very similar species, Eudendrium rameum with which it can be confused. Specimens from Arctic waters are very similar to the Mediterranean populations, but the southern hemisphere populations differ in the size and structure of the discharged mastigophore (stinging cell) capsules.

Ecology
The hydroid colonies grow on a variety of hard substrates; they are more robust in shallow water and more lanky in deeper habitats. In the Mediterranean Sea, the colonies are present all year long with the exception of June, the breeding period being from July to February.

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Henry Martyn Noel

Henry Martyn Noel Jr. was a former American citizen who moved to Allied-occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II and voluntarily made himself stateless in order to protest "a climax of nationalism" he saw rising around him in the United States. His actions inspired Garry Davis to follow a similar course.

Early life
Noel was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Henry Martyn Noel and Dorothy (née Lawson) Noel. Henry Sr. was a native of Missouri, and served with the 103rd Infantry Division in World War I. He later became a chemical engineer at Standard Oil's Bayway Refinery in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Henry Noel Jr. attended the New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire, followed by Harvard University (beginning 1940), where he studied philosophy. His major influences there included professors such as Alfred North Whitehead and Raphael Demos. However, after the outbreak of World War II, Noel and his friends became increasingly disturbed over what was happening in the world; Noel's unease culminated with his withdrawal from the school in 1943. He was living in East Andover, New Hampshire at the time of his enlistment.

Travels and renunciation
After his withdrawal from Harvard, Noel, unable to enlist in the Army due to his poor eyesight, joined the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) as an ambulance driver, in which capacity he served in India and Italy. Noel arrived in Germany in September 1947 after working for American Aid to France, Inc., in Paris and in the field. He found work with a German construction firm at Kassel. He earned a wage of 25 marks per week, and lived in a tiny room with no electric light. He subsisted on German rations of 1550 calories per day. In February 1948, he renounced his U.S. citizenship. By October, he had successfully integrated into his new home, and stated he felt "accepted" by the community there. However the following month, Noel was arrested by the French army in Neustadt, Baden.

Reactions to renunciation
The Montreal Gazette described Noel's action as "a gesture bound to be in vain ... his personal error is in supposing that an individual protest of this nature can be effective".

Paul Gallico described Noel as part of a trend of "youthful U.S. citizens with bleeding hearts who renounce family ties, our way of life, and depart these shores to snuggle up to a gang of brutes".

In contrast, The Christian Science Monitor wrote a largely supportive editorial.

Garry Davis also described Noel as one of his inspirations for his own renunciation of citizenship and subsequent creation of the World Service Authority. Soon after Noel and Davis' renunciations, Arthur W. Taylor, an African-American from Chicago, also renounced his citizenship at the United States Embassy in Paris, making him the third former American to become stateless that year.

Marriage
In 1961, he married Cecile Francoise Gillet De Thorey (born September 24, 1921, Paris – died March 20, 2008, Evreux, Eure, France).

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Talk:Trough (meteorology)

(concerning the merge tag) Just my two cents, but I think troughs have enough importance to keep their own article, and should not be merged with Surface weather analysis. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 05:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Pictures, Additional Troughs
Perhaps we could get some graphical representations of each kind. Also, we can't forget surface troughs! ~ Triberocker (talk) 21:37, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Nice diagram of a trough but the axes need labeling -TF —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:45, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Weather newbie here. In looking at the first illustration I *think* I am looking at a cross section of the atmosphere facing north somewhere above the equator. But if that's true, it's really not easy to discern. It would benefit from some additional "context" like compass markings, altitude markings, maybe something like "the ground". Just a thought, but I think it'd make the thing quite substantially easier to understand. SVDasein (talk) 16:34, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think its supposed to be a top-down view, i.e. as would be depicted on a weather chart (with north at the top of the image). The long, sinuous line is (I think) meant to represent an isobar (ridges and troughs are so-called because when charted, the isobars around them resemble the contour lines around physical ridges and valley on a topographic map).  That really needs to be said in the article (if someone can find a cite for it), and the graphic needs to be better labled (or replaced entierly). Wardog (talk) 14:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I have not used a talk page before, so apologies for any technical gaffs here. I would like to suggest to expert authors/editors in the field of meteorology that - quite in general (i.e., not just for the present article) - it would be very helpful to non-experts to always find, in all diagrams of physical phenomena, an indication of the relevant 2- or 3-D coordinate system. There are many interesting evolutions that could be happening in either the horizontal or vertical directions (or both); I often find myself confused without coordinates. Thank you. DrTLesterThomas (talk) 20:37, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

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Wording: "crosses" or "lies/stretches across"?
In the article, part of the caption under a satellite picture reads: "A very large trough (about 8000 km or more) crosses the North Atlantic Ocean from north east to south west." The verb "to cross" suggests (at least to me; and refer to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cross#English) a movement, and according to the suggestion in the caption, in this case it would be a motion from northeast to southwest.

As far as I know, such a direction of motion for troughs in the Northern Hemisphere is rather rare, and even more so along an 8,000 km long feature (as indicated in the caption). Therefore, I suppose what the author really meant to say: "A very large trough (about 8000 km or more) lies across the North Atlantic Ocean from northeast to southwest." The wording "stretches across" would also do, I suppose. Could the author comment to this and state the intended message?Redav (talk) 10:53, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

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Yoshiyuki Kōno (victim)

Yoshiyuki Kōno (河野 義行, born February 3, 1950) is a survivor of the Matsumoto incident, a sarin attack that killed eight people and sickened many more in Matsumoto, Japan, on the evening of June 27, 1994 and the following morning.

Kōno, a machinery salesman, lived next-door to the site where Aum Shinrikyo members parked the customised vehicle carrying the deadly nerve agent. Despite the fact that his wife, Sumiko, was one of the people who had been gassed and was comatose at the time, the investigating police considered Kōno a prime suspect in the crime, considering his property to have been the point of origin of the sarin. Further, it was discovered that Kōno had twenty chemicals stored at his residence, which he had purchased for photo processing and pottery, along with pesticides. Despite the fact that sarin could not be synthesised from any combination of these chemicals, and Kōno lacked any of the qualifications or considerable knowledge of and experience in chemistry necessary to produce it, historian Keiichi Tsuneishi erroneously claimed in The Asahi Shimbun (the second most circulated newspaper out of the five national newspapers in Japan) that it was possible to synthesise the nerve agent from organophosphorus pesticides. Due to a deliberate leak from the local Nagano police force, he was subjected to a "trial by media" where the Japanese media treated Kōno as the perpetrator, dubbing him the "Poison Gas Man", causing him to receive hate mail and death threats.

After the much larger attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Kōno was cleared of blame and Aum Shinrikyo was deemed responsible. The head of National Public Safety Commission Hiromu Nonaka and media publicly apologised to Kōno. However, Nagano police did not directly apologise to Kōno until 2002.

Kōno later participated in many media events in defence of Aum, arguing that since the time he was wrongly accused in connection to the incident, he realised how vulnerable innocent victims are to media hate campaigns. Pointing to his own personal experience with the media industry and police, he drew parallels to innocent Aum members who suffered public alienation and unceremonious intrusion into their private life justified mostly by fears generated by the sensationalistic media rather than any proof of actual guilt.

Together with Yoshihiro Yasuda, a veteran attorney arrested during his defence of Aum's founder Shoko Asahara, he also campaigned against the death penalty and delivered speeches and lectures explaining the impact of Japan's judicial system on suspects and wrongly accused, as well as the social impact on relatives and associates.

Kōno's wife Sumiko, who had previously been an electronic organ teacher, remained unconscious until her death on August 5, 2008 at the age of 60, survived by her husband and their son and two daughters.

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Portal talk:Human physiology

potential resource. I just think it's reall cool. The Jade Knight 03:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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flojo

Etymology
, inherited form of. . Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) loose
 * 2) lazy
 * 3) weak not potent
 * 1) lazy
 * 2) weak not potent
 * 1) weak not potent
 * 1) weak not potent

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Alice Embleton

Alice Laura Embleton (1876 – 1960) was one of the first women to study sciences at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and among the first group of women to be appointed Fellows of the Linnean Society in 1905. A biologist and zoologist, Embleton developed work on pesticides to improve crop production. She was also a noted suffragist.

Education and early life
Embleton was born in Epsom, Surrey, and attended Sutton High School for Girls. She enrolled at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, now Cardiff University, in 1895, and graduated in 1899 with a Baccalaureus Scientia, first class.

Career and research
In 1900, she won the 1851 Exhibition Memorial Scholarship, which annually awards a three-year research scholarship to '"young scientists or engineers of exceptional promise".

She used the £150 scholarship to work at the Balfour Laboratory at Newnham College, Cambridge, followed by a further period of study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is considered the second woman to publish on the topic of copepodology, after Edith Mary Pratt.

In 1903, she was appointed honorary zoologist to the Board of Agriculture, and won the Royal Society's Mackinnon studentship for research into Biological Sciences.

She was one of the first woman to speak at the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London. Her paper, delivered on 4 June 1903, was entitled: "Anatomy and Development of a Hymeropterous Parasite of a Scaly Insect (Lecanium Hemisphoericum)". Among with fifteen other women, she was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1905. The Linnean Society archives hold Embleton's correspondence with the Society, of which she remained a Fellow until 1917.

In 1906 she co-published the papers, "On the synapsis in amphibia" and "On the origin of the sertoli". In later life she conducted cancer research at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington.

Personal and non-academic life
Embleton was connected with a number of noted suffragists, including Evelina Haverfield, Vera Holme, and Celia Wray. The 1911 census shows that Embleton was visiting Wray at Fairfield House, Barnsley on the day of the census. Like many suffragists, the two women defaced the census paper by recording their occupation as "Getting votes for women".

The four women set up the private 'Foosack League' between themselves, the membership of which was restricted to women and suffragists. Evidence suggests the Foosack League was a lesbian secret society. The Women's Library holds correspondence between the women during World War I, in which Embleton is referred to as 'Alick', and Wray as 'Mr Wary'. In her later years, Embleton lived with Wray at The Elms in Saxmundham in Suffolk.

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Tropic of Capricorn (disambiguation)

The Tropic of Capricorn is the more southerly circle of latitude of the Earth's tropics region.

Tropic of Capricorn may also refer to:

 * Tropic of Capricorn (novel), Henry Miller novel
 * Tropic of Capricorn (TV series), BBC TV series
 * Tropic of Capricorn (album)

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Talk:The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

In four-volume editions, the names of the volumes are kept, except that "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" are pushed down from second and third to third and fourth, with "Ten Years Later" becoming the second volume. AND WHICH IS THE FIRST VOLUME? THE "VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Raoul and the Crusade
I changed this:

In the meantime, Raoul, Athos' adopted son, is recruited to fight a war against the Arabs, and after his departure Athos sinks into a deep depression, rapidly becoming old and feeble. When he learns Raoul has died in the war, Athos succumbs to his grief and dies, with Dumas providing a touching and unforgettable description of Athos' decline and final moments.

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In the meantime, Raoul, Athos' adopted son, devastated by his fiancée's love affair with the French king, volunteers to fight a war against the Arabs, and after his departure Athos sinks into a deep depression, rapidly becoming old and feeble. When he learns Raoul has died in the war, Athos succumbs to his grief and dies, with Dumas providing a touching and unforgettable description of Athos' decline and final moments.

All in all, I think this is a poor wiki on Dumas' best book. As for the plot, it's not about the musketeers, it's about Louis and his court. The musketeers are irrelevant to the story. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:58, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Completely agree, it deserves better. As mentioned briefly in the introduction, the book is a portrait of Louis XIV and his court, and a devastatingly clever one at that.//erik.bramsen.copenhagen — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:42, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Notability
It's a classic, but somewhat niche, and I can't find any reviews or significant scholarly analysis which suggest this may fail WP:GNG and WP:NBOOK. Can anyone find some good sources discussing this work? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:04, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Reception
Hasn't anybody written about the revelation of Athos as the chronicler and his apotheosis, or the emergence of Aramis as the key to French war or peace? In fact Bragelonne is so long because it deals evenhandedly with all four characters from the original novel. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:12, 28 August 2022 (UTC)


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Hamid Manssour

Hamid Manssour (born 29 April 1992) is a Syrian male discus thrower, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.

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Talk:C Source Code/Basics

Ark 16:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)I disagree with the use of non-standard libraries in the examples. The use of conio for example. Standard libraries should be used so that the examples can be copied directly into the editors.

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User:Waindim.philip

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David Thomson (physicist)

Prof David Thomson (1817–1880) was a 19th-century Scottish physicist. He was known as Davie Thomson or later Auld Dauvit.

Life
He was born on 27 November 1817 the son of David Thomson a merchant in Leghorn in Italy. He was educated in Italy and Switzerland then sent to Glasgow University in 1832. In 1836 he won a place at Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained a BA in 1839 (and was granted MA in 1845).

From 1840 he acted as substitute Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in place of William Meikleham at Glasgow University. His most notable student was William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. In 1845 he got a permanent position at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1854 he became Sub-Principal of the college. When King's and Marischal College merged in 1860 to create the University of Aberdeen he was kept on as Professor (in preference to the younger James Clerk Maxwell, professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College) but was no longer Sub-Principal. His students included George Slessor and George Pirie.

In 1863 he and a very young David Gill (then a young student) restored the university clock and also set up a fine telescope in the Cromwell Tower Observatory. It was Thomson who introduced Gill to astronomy.

He died in his lodgings at Kings College on 31 January 1880. He is buried in the churchyard of St Machar's Cathedral. The grave lies east of the church.

Publications

 * Acoustics - article in 9th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
 * Caledonia Romana (1852)

Artistic recognition
A marble bust of Thomson by John Hutchison RSA is held by Aberdeen University.

Family
He was outlived by his wife, one son and three daughters.

At least five of his children died in infancy.

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Thurston

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from the  given name Þorsteinn, brought to England by Vikings.
 * , occasional transferred use of the surname.

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Backfield in Motion (song)

"Backfield in Motion" is a 1969 song by the vocal duo Mel & Tim. It uses American football terminology to describe the nature of a relationship between a man and woman. It made the Cash Box and Billboard charts that same year.

Background
"Backfield in Motion" bw "Do it Right Baby" was released in the US on Bamboo 107, it was reviewed in the September 20 issue of Cash Box. The football terminology was noted with the reviewer saying that the "football imagery was given a strange and novel twist". The top forty probability was also noted.

This song has nothing to do with the 1964 song "Backfield in Motion" by Girl Group, The Angelos which appeared on Tollie Records and Vee Jay Records. Elzie Bynem who was the brother of the lead singer Linda Martell composed it for them. A Cash Box Newcomer Pick for March 14, 1964, the single did have some potential.

Airplay
According to Cash Box in the magazine's September 20 issue, the song was reportedly making noise in Chicago. Also in the same week, Cash Box noted that it had been added to the playlist of New Orleans Top 40 station WTIX. It was also in the R&B section of Stan's Juke Box Picks of the Week. It was added to the playlist of WQXI in Atlanta on the week ending October 4, 1969. On the week ending October 11, it was added to the playlist of WCAO in Baltimore. Also that week, 8% of key radio stations in the US had added the song to their playlists.

Cash Box
On the week ending September 27, 1969, "Backfield in Motion" made its debut at no. 43 in the Cash Box Top 50 In R & B Locations chart. It peaked at no. 1 on the week ending November 8. It would hold that position for an additional two weeks  with "Someday We'll Be Together" by Diana Ross & the Supremes taking the no. 1 spot on the week ending November 29. On the week ending October 25, it debuted in the Cash Box Top 100 chart. It would reach the peak position of no. 12 on the week ending December 6. It would drop down to no. 13 the following week but regain the no. 12 position one more time on the week ending December 20.
 * Top 50 In R & B Locations
 * Top 100

Billboard
It was noted by Billboard for the week ending October 18, 1969 that "Backfield in Motion" was a national breakout. It debuted at no. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on that week. At week 9, on the week ending December 13, it peaked at no. 10. At week seven, it peaked at no. 3 on the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart on the week ending November 29.
 * Hot 100
 * Best Selling Soul Singles

Canada
It debuted on the Canada 's Top Singles chart at no. 18 as shown by Billboard in the December 6 issue.

United Kingdom
"Backfield in Motion" debuted in the UK chart on January 26, 1974. It was noted as a "Breaker" by Record Mirror in the magazine's February 9 and 16 issues. It peaked at no. 52.

Other versions
The Mills Brothers recorded a version which appeared on their 1969 The Mills Brothers in Motion album.

Anthony Swete recorded a version of "Backfield in Motion". Backed with the Wayne Carson composition, "Soul Deep", it was released on RCA Victor 1905 in the UK. It was released in New Zealand on Allied International PPX 302 with Swete's version backed with "Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday" by Pip Bravo, and in Australia on RCA 101882 on a two-artist single release with Mark Juhns covering "Make Believe". It was actually released there before Mel & Tim's version was picked up. James Hamilton of Record Mirror reviewed Swete's version. Calling it a "Nicely dated beater with Sam & Dave-ish vocal touches", he also said it was quite good and gave it a two star rating.

JB's Allstars recorded a version which made the UK charts in 1984. It spent four weeks in the charts and peaked at no. 48.

Parker Scott recorded a version which appeared on his Company of Strangers album which was released in 2000 / 2001.

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User:Efredricke

Hello, I'm 'Efredricke'. I am from Des Moines, Iowa. I am working towards bachelor degrees in Economics and History, but I'm really a big fan of any social science. I enjoy video games with just enough violence, NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and feminist rants. I am working towards becoming a secondary education social studies teacher. I am excited to collaborate on pages with other zealous fact-checkers who want to increase in quantity and quality the knowledge people have at their fingertips.

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Talk:Dennis Delderfield

Ropey maths
"On February 24, 1977, Delderfield ran for office in the City of London and Westminster South by-election. Peter Brooke was elected with 11,962 votes and a majority of nearly 8,000. Delderfield polled 306 votes, losing the election by 143 votes." If he polled 306, and the winner polled 11,962, then I make that a very narrow loss by Delderfield by just 11,656 votes, rather than 143?

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Kivi-Tex

Kivi-Tex is a services company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the holding company of the textile services company De Forenede Dampvaskerier (DFD) and Elite Miljø.

History
De Forenede Dampvaskerier was founded by Kristian Peter Thorgaard when he Lunds Lunds Kitteldepot in 1958. In 1961, he acquired another company, Kivi. The name of his company was changed to Kivi Kittel and later to Kivi-Tex.

Kivi-Tex acquired Danish service company Elite Miljø in 2004. In 2017, it acquired Swedish textile services company Textilia from Accent Equity.

Operations
De Forenede Dampvaskerier operates 20 laundries in Scandinavia.

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Gexa Energy

Gexa Energy, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a retail electricity provider which sells electricity service to residential and commercial customers in all deregulated markets in Texas.

The company is a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources. Based in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy Resources is a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc.

Overview
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved Gexa Energy as a retail electric provider in 2001.

Gexa Energy entered the Texas deregulated electricity market in 2002. The company services residential and commercial customers in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, Midland, Harlingen, Odessa, Lubbock, Waco and all Texas markets where electricity service has been deregulated. Gexa Energy was acquired by NextEra Energy, Inc. formerly FPL Group, in 2005. Gexa operates as a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources. NextEra markets under the NextEra Energy Services brand in Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.

In August 2019, Gexa Energy announced that all of its residential plans will be powered by 100% renewable energy.

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User:Wbm1058/Analysis of merging processes on Wikipedia

Evolution of merging, analysis preliminary to merging Project Merge
The backlog at WikiProject Merge remains a tough nut to crack. One problem is that the WikiProject itself isn't setting a good example, as we have pages that themselves need to be merged. Merge-related discussions are ongoing at four venues:
 * 1) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Merge
 * 2) * WikiProject Merge was started 25 February 2012
 * 3) Wikipedia talk:Merging
 * 4) * Merging began as a redirect to Duplicate articles at 08:32, 5 October 2004, and became a content page at 00:43, 10 June 2009
 * 5) Help talk:Merging
 * 6) * Merge began as a redirect to Duplicate articles at 08:33, 5 October 2004, i.e., a redirect to this page, and became a content page 23 May 2005
 * 7) * At 21:00, 21 July 2005, Merge moved to Merging and moving pages (not just about mergers)
 * 8) * At 10:39, 30 May 2007, Merging and moving pages moved to Help:Merging and moving pages: how-to page
 * 9) * At 06:03, 10 June 2009, Help:Merging and moving pages moved to Help:Merging over redirect, per technical requested move
 * 10) Wikipedia talk:Proposed mergers
 * 11) * Duplicate articles was started 31 July 2002, and at 21:02, 25 December 2005 moved to Proposed mergers: Per the talk page discussion, user:David Levy refactored this largely superseded page into something potentially useful

Take a look back to the very beginning, to see where things went off the rails. This is the first step towards getting the WikiProject back on track.

2002–03: Birth of merging, as a listing page for "Duplicate articles"
The concept of merging was born July 31, 2002 on Wikipedia. A new link Duplicate articles, which is what Wikipedia:Proposed mergers was originally called, was added to the To Do Lists section of Utilities— which was later moved to Topical index (diff). Note the many red links on that diff. At the time, apparently much of project namespace was still in mainspace. I believe these items were later moved to project space without leaving a redirect. The first version of Wikipedia:Duplicate articles had just a single merge item on it. You need to go back to Nostalgia Wikipedia to find the item's origins. Crimean war was created 13:13, 10 December 2001. User:Conversion script logged its phase II conversion edit at 15:51, 25 February 2002. The article was rewritten and expanded 09:38, 6 March 2002, just prior to the introduction of perhaps the first unintentional content fork—or at least the first reported content fork, Crimean War at 15:51, 30 March 2002. This fork went unreported for four months, but then was merged by a different editor just an hour and a half after it was reported, without attribution – which is understandable since the only guidance given was Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Canonization.

A couple weeks later, someone listed a merger item over at Pages needing attention, under Articles that have good information, but need work for some reason: (diff) – Black Metal and Black metal music. This was either half a cut-and-paste move or an intentional content fork (it's not clear which), as the creator of Black Metal had just edited Black metal music the day before. In any event, three days later Black Metal was redirected to Black metal music. Eventually Black metal music moved to Black metal.

At 09:48, 20 September 2002 and 09:58, 20 September 2002, Duplicate articles became a "subpage" of Pages needing attention, which in turn was a subpage of Wikipedia utilities.

By the end of September, after its first two months of operation, the list had grown to five items, when the first talk page discussion decided to remove merged items from the list rather than mark them as "DONE" (diff). But a few weeks later, another editor said "I would be in favor of making a list of fixed issues at the bottom of the article. Good for follow-up purposes. If the list grows too long, it can be moved to an archives page."

By the end of November, there were 13 items listed, and a short discussion had spontaneously developed around one of them.

At 16:59, 14 January 2003, the first suggestion to tag articles with "boilerplate text" is made, but no templates yet. 16 items on the list.

At 20:34, 25 January 2003, three items are spun off into a new Some other articles that were duplicates and still need consolidation: section. It's unclear what this means, but it seems that some of these needed a history merge. (db-histmerge). Or an editor just dumped text from one article to the bottom of another article (diff), asking someone else to "please merge". As yet, it seems there is still no official guidance on how to merge.

At 15:15, 7 February 2003, Some other articles that were duplicates and still need consolidation was renamed Merged articles that need work. At the time the list had been emptied, so the items reported two weeks prior had been promptly tended to. An important insight was added: ''"The creation of duplicate articles, and the wasted effort this causes, can be avoided by creating lots of redirects." Also, when creating new articles, search for existing articles on the same subject.''

At 05:30, 25 February 2003, a new item was added to the Merged articles that need work section. Plot and brief characterisation of Richard II was concatenated to (appended to the end of) Richard II (play), and needed "merging" or "to be edited". Three weeks passed before any copyediting of the appended content began. I just put template copied on the talk pages, but that template wasn't created until 6 July 2009.

At 02:28, 27 April 2003, an editor removes an item from the list and initiates a discussion about it on the talk page. At 03:02, 27 April 2003, the item returned to the list, with edit summary "there is a dispute about merging. Consult (one of the articles' talk page) about merging.; Agree?" The Duplicate articles talk page won't be edited again until August. There are 29 Articles to be Merged and four Merged articles that would benefit from further editing.

At 13:16, 14 August 2003, an editor puts the list in alphabetical order. The list has grown to 54 Articles to be Merged and 10 Merged articles that would benefit from further editing. At 06:29, 20 October 2003, an editor comments on the talk page, "Actually I liked the previous order, time-based order. What happened??"

At 12:05, 16 September 2003, the list was grouped into alphabetical sections. There are 64 items in the list.

At 12:57, 17 September 2003, the Merged articles that would benefit from further editing section, now with 15 items, is moved and merged to Pages needing attention (diff).

On December 6, 2003, the MediaWiki namespace is introduced.

At year-end 2003, there are 95 items on the list. Note that a few of them seem to be "merged articles that would benefit from further editing", but now rather than appended in a special section at the end, these are co-mingled with yet-to-be merged articles, e.g.,
 * A (includes two versions) – as of 12:28, 27 December 2003
 * Domain name registry (article includes two versions) – large section moved from Registry article - needs merging
 * Hop (plant) with itself – Data from "hops" moved here; 1881 stuff not yet reduced; as of 12:43, 12 December 2003
 * Huldrych Zwingli (article includes two versions) – as of 7:49, 22 September 2003 (note the "Text to integrate from Schaff-Herzog Encyc of Religion" and, further down, "Text to integrate from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia")

2004: Birth of merge, and expansion of scope—it's not just for duplicates (content forks)
At 01:18, 29 February 2004, (MediaWiki:Merge) is created, and at 1:36, 29 February 2004, it replaced the boilerplate text. The implementation was clunky. Were parameters supported yet?

At 16:33, 3 March 2004, a talk-page suggestion to change policy: "... in the opening couple of paragraphs, I think we should distinguish another valid fix for duplicate pages: leaving the two pages as distinct, but rewriting the pages so they no longer duplicate information."

At 1:56, 9 March 2004, an editor "took a leap" and "Made the policy clearer and (hopefully) more friendly for newbies." 86 items on the list.

At 21:04, 12 May 2004, "See also: Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Merge" is added to the instructions, perhaps in recognition that not all templated articles are added to the list.

At 4:49, 4 June 2004, Template namespace initialisation script moved from the MediaWiki namespace to Merge, in the new Template namespace. At 2:35, 6 June 2004, "MediaWiki"->"template". Rm "msg:"

At 22:37, 25 June 2004, MergeDisputed became the second member of the merge template family. At 22:46, 25 June 2004, a new instruction is added: "If you disagree with a 'merge' indication then change the template from to  and discuss it on this page until concensus is reached."

At 02:12, 18 July 2004, Summary style is created as an alternative to writing articles in news style.

At 15:14, 31 July 2004, merge was modified to pupulate Category:Articles to be merged and at 15:15, 31 July 2004, Category:Articles to be merged was created as a sub-category of Category:Wikipedia maintenance. At 11:44, 6 August 2004, a category link was added to Duplicate articles.

At 13:35, 5 August 2004, Mergefrom became the third member of the merge template family, and the second populating Category:Articles to be merged. At 13:43, 5 August 2004, the instructions were modified to include use of this new template. The template adds the hatnote: This article should include material from, which seems to leave the door open for copying (moving) a portion of the content while preserving both articles.

At 03:20, 16 August 2004, an editor refactored the talk page to group all procedure discussions to date into a single section.

At 17:41, 17 August 2004, an editor briefly adds the first parameter to merge, but quickly realizes this is incompatible with existing usage and opens discussion at template talk:Merge. At the time, there were 93 items on the list, and an unknown number of pages possibly transcluding one of the three merge templates, but not listed at Duplicate articles.

In late August 2004, a discussion listing new candidates: Q: After inserting the merge tags in each article, do we need to add them to the list on the project page, or are they automagically added? In other words, how is the list updated? A: Articles need to be added to this page manually. Reply: Perhaps this should be noted in the "Mark current duplicates" section — Done 17:39, 28 August 2004 Gosh, we have a bot for that. And the need for it was apparent back at the end of August '04.

At 11:00, 8 October 2004, the instructions were changed to say that those disagreeing with a merge indication could just remove it, rather than replace Merge with MergeDisputed, and pleaded with editors to "Consider using these tags sparingly, and use the discussion page to discuss how to merge articles where it's not obvious whether or how the article should be merged", after concerns were expressed on the talk page that merge tags were being overused. At the time, merge was just a simple hatnote saying This article should be merged with, and merge/doc did not exist—in fact, documentation for the merge template would not be created for another two years. So, while Duplicate articles leads with "Below is a list of duplicate articles that have been created mostly by mistake. They have to be merged into a single piece of work", an editor had tagged Federal Assault Weapons Ban, a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, to merge with Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Comments were left on each talk page; paraphrasing: "It was suggested that these articles be merged. I deleted the merge tag from each article because I think the appropriate place to suggest merging articles is on the talk page, where the pros and cons can be discussed, rather than in the articles themselves. While some content is duplicated, it's not obvious to me whether or not the articles should be merged, and I take no strong view either way." As of 2014, Federal Assault Weapons Ban and Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act are still separate articles.

At 03:34, 9 October 2004, Merging became the fourth member of the merge template family. At 21:00, 9 October 2004, the instructions were modified to include use of this new template, at 6:05, 10 October 2004, the Duplicate articles content was "clarified" a little, and at 06:13, 10 October 2004 Merging became the third template to populate Category:Articles to be merged.

An early October 2004 talk page conversation: Q: How long does it take before a pair that gets mentioned on this article can actually be merged?? Feel free to include what it can depend on. A: It can be merged anytime. It only depends on who is willing to put the effort to merge the articles involved, and that can take time.

2005–09
At 19:10, 3 April 2005, Content forking is created. While its initial focus was on POV forking, it evolved to include redundant content forks which were unintentionally created.

At 23:41, 4 December 2005, Merge-section is created: "The following section overlaps with other sections and should be merged with the rest of the article."

At 16:13, 29 December 2005, Merge-section was moved to Cleanup-merge.

At 02:27, 12 March 2006, Category:Articles in need of internal merging, populated by Cleanup-merge, was created as a sub-category of Category:Wikipedia cleanup categories.

At 18:00, 5 December 2006, Cleanup-merge was moved to Cleanup-combine.

At 17:35, 5 October 2009, Category:Duplicate articles, populated by Duplication, was created as a sub-category of Category:Wikipedia maintenance.


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Glenn Anderson (Washington politician)

Edwin Glenn Anderson (born March 24, 1958) from Fall City, Washington is an American politician of the Republican Party. He was a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 5th district.

Personal life
Anderson's wife is Elisabeth Anderson. Anderson and his family live in Fall City, Washington.

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User:Vuara/IS THERE AN IDEAL ALPHABET

SPADING UP ANCIENT WORDS ©1984 by Erich A. von Fange    http://www.creationism.org/vonfange/ Chapter 9: IS THERE AN IDEAL ALPHABET?

 * http://www.creationism.org/vonfange/vonFangeSpadingChap09.htm

All would agree that the ideal alphabet would have one and only one letter for each speech sound, with perhaps a few concessions made for common compound sounds to be represented by a single symbol. For example, the long "i" sound in English is clearly a combination of two separate vowel sounds, and we would find it awkward to use two symbols to represent that familiar sound today. Accepting the genius of the invention of the alphabet, it is more than a little strange that no alphabet in common use in the world has ever reached this goal (Sturtevant, 1947, p. 24). It is of course somewhat arbitrary which sounds uttered by the human voice are to be recognized and dignified with a symbol. Yet strangely, all alphabets omit symbols for some common vocal sounds, and all contain redundant letters, that is, letters that represent sounds already provided for by other symbols. We can illustrate the idea of redundant letters by looking at ways one might spell out the sound of -ks as in "marks." One might spell it -CS as in lilacs, or -X as in box or -Q's, -CKS, -KES, or -CHS. On the surface this may appear simply as another case of human stupidity or as a consequence of borrowing from different languages. Those who have attempted to reform the alphabet for the best of reasons have all failed. Our alphabet seems to be tamper-proof. We know that ancient Egypt had an alphabet of 24 symbols and chose not to develop its communication system by this means. The Chinese also in the most ancient times had an alphabet but elected to develop its present complex system instead. From these odd facts one can only conclude that some other very compelling factor entered into the formation of the ancient alphabet (Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., Macrop., 1:627).

According to Moran (1969, p. 13, 28), religion is the only imaginable organizing principle behind the alphabet. Although some kinds of worship may well have sprung up independently, e.g., sun worship, the slaughter of a bull at the time of the spring equinox on both the altars of Ur and in the Valley of the Man in China shows common roots in a common culture. The 12 signs of the zodiac (the twelve constellations), the 12 months known throughout the ancient world of Europe, Asia, and North Africa point to a common source. The 52-year cycle was used both in the Orient and in pre-Columbian American cultures with 13 days of houses in a quarter. Lunar and solar calendars were brought into correspondence by the cycle of 52. The 52-card deck with 13 cards to a suit faithfully reproduces ancient calendrical knowledge. Even the Joker serves a calendrical function for leap years. The twelve signs of the solar zodiac may be in some way derived from the lunar zodiac of 27-28 signs. The relationship of the two is very unclear, but many of the same stars are involved in both sets of signs. From this well of astronomical and astrological knowledge, the alphabet was drawn.

To establish the source for the alphabet, one must show its great antiquity, wide diffusion, and some powerful cohesive principle outside itself in order to hold the signs in established order despite circumstances, time, and geography.

Gustavus Seyffarth, a 19th century scholar and rival of Champollion on the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics, served for a time in the 1850's on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. He understood two things clearly in our context which he expressed in his many writings. He was one of the first to grasp the idea that much actual history was concealed in myth and legend. Further he realized the overwhelming importance of the heavens in the life and culture of ancient man. Although Seyffarth is wrong in some of his conclusions, and though some of his work is necessarily conjectural, his voluminous works deserve careful study and reworking. He saw the connection between the alphabet and the skies about 150 years before this principle was rediscovered by  Moran  and Kelley (1969). Seyffarth states:

It is said and believed that our alphabet was invented by Cadmus in 1500 B.C., but this cannot be considered a historical fact. In the New Testament we read of a book that was written by Enoch 900 years prior to the Deluge. Pliny said that man always had literature. The Vedas and Avesta tell us that prior to the Deluge sacred books existed and that, in consequence of their loss, the human race became so wicked that the Creator resolved to destroy it.

The Koran (Sura 57) mentions that Noah was the author of a book... It is true that Cadmus invented the alphabet, but Cadmus means "ancestor," i.e., Noah. Cadmus was, like the latter, the first planter of the vineyard.

All these and similar traditions concur in demonstrating that the alphabet existed prior to the Deluge... The Noachian alphabet was a representation of the zodiac.

Seyffarth held that our alphabet is a reproduction of the zodiac with the constellation of the planets at a point in time of 3446 B.C., Septuagint chronology, apparently at the end of the Flood, probably according to the observation of Noah himself. Seyffarth translates Phoenician, Chinese, Chaldean, Greek, and Roman myths which clearly related the formulation of the alphabet to the zodiac (Seyffarth, 1886, p. 53-54).

An idea explored by both Seyffarth and Wadler much later focuses on the peculiar placement of the vowels in the alphabet. There is no logical sense in their location in our present alphabet, nor in any other alphabet where they are included: Abcd Efgh Ijklmn Opqrst Uv(W)x(Y)z. Wadler noted that the ancients associated the vowels as follows with the "7" planets: ao-Sun. i-Moon, a-Mars, e-Mercury, o-Jupiter, aw-Venus, oo-Saturn (Wadler, 1948. p. 103). Thus the intriguing notion has arisen that vowels and unneeded letters in some ancient alphabets may represent the position of the planets among the houses of the lunar zodiac, that is, the consonants, at a critical point in human history. Perhaps one reason Seyffarth's discussions have not been studied seriously is the common belief that any use of the concept of the zodiac involves astrology. In the ancient world there was no necessary connection. The above discussion is in no way connected with what we understand today as astrology. Unfortunately, Seyffarth was less than clear on just which alphabet he had in mind in ancient times that included vowels and apparently "useless" letters to indicate the location of the planets within the lunar zodiac at a crucial moment in history.

Moran's theory is that the alphabet was derived from 28-30 lunar signs, and that some of the signs are the actual appearance of a given constellation. Moran argues that the lunar zodiac is older than the solar zodiac. In support of his theory, he notes that there are startling correspondences between the lunar and the alphabetical signs (Moran, 1969, p. xiv-xviii).

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Talk:Introduction to Philosophy

any volunteer to make a progress in this page. i really need a tutor about philosophy. i'm trying to be systematic while i'm learning about it but i'm just lost. help! i need somebody (: --Quinlan Vos 13:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

There's an introduction to philosophy (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Philosophy) on wikibooks.. it's unfinished, though. There's also an introduction to philosophical logic (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Philosophical_Logic) there. Should any of those be in the texts section? <IP_ADDRESS> 19:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Please list them at Introduction to Philosophy. --JWSchmidt 19:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I just added a link to Wikisource's Gorgias dialog in the references for the first lesson. It seems that a primary source is needed. This is my first edit here, although I did some Wikipedia edits a few years ago. I thought I'd add something minor first. I have to say that this page seems a little disorganized, but I have no idea if anyone is currently following it. Whitecphil (talk) 20:52, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

opinion
This was moved from here to this page. Erkan Yilmaz ( my talk page, wiki blog ) 17:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC) I think Osho's teaching's more than enough to know about philosophy. -Suresh Gottimukkala.

Making the TOC more compact
This page begins with what looks like a plan to make a long list of link using the asterisk at the beginning of each line. At the moment there are no links. I replaced Replaced * by    |     to allow readers to better see the whole page. In source edit mode this is easily reversed by making the backward replacement. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 03:24, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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Jamkhed

Jamkhed is a census town in Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Jamkhed is in between the Ahmednagar and Beed. Jamkhed is very well known for its comprehensive rural health project CRHP. It also has Jamkhed homeopathic college, nursing college.

Geography
Jamkhed is located at 18.72°N, 75.32°W. It has an Area of 1935 Sq feet.

Demographics
India census, Jamkhed had a population of 16. Males constituted 52.7% of the population and females 47.3%. Jamkhed had an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 76%, and female literacy was 63%. In Jamkhed, 14% of the population was under 6 years of age.

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The lead for the article does include a informative introductory sentence, describing what an AP World History course is about. The lead does not describe the different sections that will be discussed in the article, however there is a table of contents with each of the major sections listed in there occurring order. Information that is covered in the lead section, is covered in the article itself, although there are parts of the article that wasn't included in the lead. The lead is concise, but could use more detail to tie it in with the full article.

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