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Liu, H., et al. (2006)
The article references this study for many claims, but there is no link or DOI and I cannot find a journal "Endocrine Society meeting"; I think it was just some conference. Upon a google search, the article appears to be published in Ann Intern Med. 2007 Jan 16;146(2):104-15. The study was purely bibliometric and that makes me fairly uncomfortable, especially given the range of claims made. For instance, the Wikipedia article claims HGH causes gynecomastia, because this bibliometric study combined 3 small studies to find 6 total people observed with gyno. But this sounds like an apples to oranges comparison as gyno is often hidden under body fat. You'd have to put all the subjects on a diet to see who really has gyno or not. Otherwise you could just be observing a side effect of ordinary fat loss.

I'd be more comfortable if the article referenced more focused studies that were not bibliometric hodgepodges.CHF (talk) 16:26, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Rambo
Sylvester Stallone indicates that everyone over 40 should check into it and that it significantly improves quality of life for older males here:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325767,00.html - AbstractClass (talk) 22:04, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Creutzfeldt Jakob
Nothing about Creutzfeldt Jakob disease ? In the article about the C-JD, it's written "The defective protein can be transmitted by human growth hormone (hGH) products". talk 18:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

This is only relevant for human growth hormone manufactured from human pituitaries, as it was prior to 1985. Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease has not been described after growth hormone made by recombinant DNA technology. Pustelnik (talk) 23:04, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Citation 3
Citation 3 is not reliable because it is related to a low dosage (2/3 mg per day, athletes use about 4/10 mg) and also the duration is very low (21 days). For that reasons I request its deletion —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.65.44 (talk) 13:37, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorce 4
Source 4 is also non reliable, it is related to pills and other non GH products (GH is for parenteral use only) and non scientific claims —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.65.44 (talk) 13:40, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Request of complete deletion
This article is absolutely misleading and false, there are NO controversies on GH use (at least from a scientific point of view). GH is very efficient to recover osteoporosis, chronic renal and heart failure, baldness and so on, because GH increases IGF/I which give that effects.

According to the new scientific article there are NO links between cancer and GH treatment, moreover GH (due to its immunogenic action) may play a role in CANCER PREVENTION because many cancers are caused by viruses (i.e. papillomavirus, leukemia...) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.65.44 (talk) 09:43, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

I removed the article for its complete lack of reliability. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.67.40 (talk) 14:38, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Deletion is accomplished via community discussion at WP:AfD. I have reverted your blanking. 66.57.4.150 (talk) 16:45, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Our anonymous IP "contributor" is either badly misinformed or dishonest. alteripse (talk) 19:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Can you cite some scientific article (peer review only) about such controversies??? GH is a cure to be used in nanism, osteoporosis, hair loss, but it has also side/effect (not cancer of course, otherwise young people should take cancer and old ones should be protected). You are disones ok Alteripse? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.67.40 (talk) 16:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I suppose the third possible explanation besides being dishonest or misinformed is that we are not both using the same English language. The articles provided immediately above state that cancer risk is still unsettled: that is exactly what a controversy is. I have seen no credible evidence that GH is a treatment for hair loss. While people with GH deficiency have poor bone density that improves with GH treatment, the ordinary meaning of your assertion is the that GH is a good treatment for ordinary osteoporosis: it is not and you cannot provide such a citation. I stand by my assertion that cancer concerns have not been laid to rest by current evidence, and that GH is not a treatment of well-proven efficacy for the body changes of ordinary aging. Controversy in fact is far too generous a word for much of the downright dishonesty and quackery with which some commercial products and services are marketed. alteripse (talk) 03:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

GH treatment does not cause cancer, no reviews say that! GH treatment does not cause cancer, since people treated with it have no higher cancer risk (according to your citation too), therefore the claims of the articles must be removed, GH treatment is absolutely safe if well performed. There are many scientific reviews stating the effectiveness (then I will insert them, now I have no time) against ORDINARY osteoporosis, hair loss, renal or hearth failure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.67.40 (talk) 14:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Although the data are currently incomplete, you should read the literature. To quote two reviews, Jenkins et. al. 2006 - "Extensive epidemiological data exist that also support a link between GH/IGF-1 status and cancer risk." and Ogilvy-Stuart et al. 2004 "A recent follow-up of pituitary GH recipients has suggested an increase in colorectal cancer. In addition, follow-up of oncology patients has suggested an increase in second neoplasms in those who also received GH therapy." Tim Vickers (talk) 17:50, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Slight increase of colorectal cancer (not with other kinds of cancer), GH deficiency is related with high increase of cancer risk, since this patology is conneted with strong immunodepression and therefore viral cancers (ie HPVs,leukemia...) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.67.40 (talk) 10:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. There is no published research that backs up your claims. alteripse (talk) 11:46, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I think we're done here. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You don't think I should offer it any more troll food? You are probably right. alteripse (talk) 18:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

False and POV article
I've inserted the articles, nevertheless I hope this article will be removed--250GP (talk) 15:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The original version of this article explained how quacks fraudulently misuse research articles on the benefits of GH therapy for deficient adults and misrepresent them as evidence of benefit for non-deficient adults. The shoe is exactly your size, I believe, and the claim of "no side effects" is the quack's signature. alteripse (talk) 00:51, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I do not know why it is not possible to put citations, the citations prove what I say, of course it is necessary to use GH when it occurs a deficiency (usually enderly men HAS a GH/IGF-I deficiency). The current article is false and extremely POV.--250GP (talk) 08:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

GP250, there are numerous problems with your recent contributions: 1. You misrepresent your citations. They do not support your assertions. 2. You do not seem to understand that an encyclopedia is not the place to push nonstandard medical treatments. 3. Either your ideas and writing are sloppy, or you are intellectually dishonest when you equate "safe when used properly" with "no side effects". 4. There are several GH-related articles, carefully designed to deal with different topics. When you insert the same stuff in several of them it defeats the purpose. Combining them would make too large an article. This is the article that addresses the use of GH as an anti-aging treatment. As this seems to be your agenda, can we please confine the argument here. 5. Accusing anyone of rejecting your drug pushing of speaking for the pharmaceutical industry is truly baffling. I assure you that I am not. Let's drop that nonsense.

This article is about the gap between current standard medical understanding and use of GH (e.g., as described in these publications by the Endocrine Society and the Am Assoc of Clinical Endocrinologists ) and the claims for the anti-aging benefits of GH treatment. Everything you have inserted suggests you either do not understand the distinction or are deliberately attempting to erase the distinction. Instead, why dont you help us write a good article about the controversy? alteripse (talk) 14:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Alteripe...what you say it is absolutely false:

1) Where the citations are mispresented??? Say me what I wrote which is not in accordance to the citations.

2) The citations confirm what I've written, if you are not agree I can copy the sentences of the articles.

3) I'm perfectly agree that it is necessary to use GH just when GH deficiency occurs (I wrote it even in the articles), but keep in mind that GH/IGF-I DEFICIENCY IS VERY COMMON (especially in old men and in people with diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, erectile disfunction, dementia, baldness, short height and so on)

4) The current wiki article is false and misleading, it seems that GH treatment has severe side effects (FALSE!!!If used properly. Read the articles instead than say false things...) and with no positive effect (FALSE! According to the scientific articles and to the experience of the people who take it)

5) There are too many wiki articles related to GH with highly redundant material and sentences, therefore I do the same, in order to make the articles less false and POV

6) Wikipedia should not endorse the fully accepted medical therapies (read the most remunerative therapies for pharmaceutical industries), but should present the full knowledge of the topics (in this case with scientific articles)

7) It is not possible to partecipate to wikipedia.en if there are people like you that remove citations and putting false claims. I would recommend you to read better the artcles

DO NOT CHANGE MY SENTENCES AND DON'T CHANGE THE NAME PF THE SECTION!!!!--250GP (talk) 16:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Your citations confirm what I wrote: improvemnts on body composition, bone mineralization and low risks (according to other citations no side effect) if the treatment is administrated properly. This is not what the wiki article says--250GP (talk) 16:39, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

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百年の孤独
The article text lists the Shûji Terayama work with this title as a play, but IMDB has a 1981 film with that title by that director. The IMDB page has very little information. Does anyone know what's going on here? Personman (talk) 20:51, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Lack of balance
The main thrust of this article is the apparent popularity or importance of the novel. However, it should be stated that the work is a compilation of unbelievable events written in a barely coherent story. The coherence is not helped by various characters having almost identical names. Living in a world with many fairy tale characteristics, many of the actors live extraordinary long and defy death or reappear as ghosts. The book is inventive but is it a work of genius? Some alternative views should be included. Timmytimtimmy (talk) 01:50, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

 * Sure, just find published critiques of the novel that coincide with your opinion and cite them. Bkatcher (talk) 01:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Gypsy vs. Romani
Someone changed all the references of Gypsies to Romani. While that is the preferred term now, if you used that word in 19th century Colombia, no one would know what you were talking about. Let's stick with the author's phrasing. Bkatcher (talk) 01:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

 * If you used that word in 19th century Colombia, they would not know what you're talking about. But that's because they speak Spanish in Colombia.
 * If you're concerned with the "author's phrasing," shouldn't we change all the references to "gitano" instead? Jtbwikiman (talk) 20:32, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Only on the Spanish version of Wikipedia. Bkatcher (talk) 20:49, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Symbol of the Gold Fish
I've always felt that Aureliano's Gold Fishes represent a significant symbol in the novel. Would someone with a greater literary acumen please add a short piece on this to the Symbolism section? Jtbwikiman (talk) 20:45, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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USS Benham (DD-49)

USS Benham (Destroyer No. 49/DD-49) was an Aylwin-class destroyer built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the first U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham.

Benham was laid down by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in March 1912 and launched in March 1913. The ship was a little more than 305 ft in length, just over 30 ft abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1036 LT. She was armed with four 4 in guns and had eight 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. Benham was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29.5 kn.

After her January 1914 commissioning, she assisted her sister ship USS Aylwin (DD-47) when that ship suffered an explosion in one of her fire rooms in April. After a period in reserve, Benham served on Neutrality Patrol duty. As a part of that duty in October 1916, she was one of several U.S. destroyers sent to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine SMU U-53 off the Lightship Nantucket. She picked up officers and crew from a Dutch cargo ship before the U-boat sank it. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Benham was sent overseas to patrol the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland. Benham made several unsuccessful attacks on U-boats. During her overseas service, Benham was rammed by HMS Zinnia (1915) and nearly sunk.

Upon returning to the United States after the war in January 1919, Benham was placed in reduced commission. After alternating periods of activity and time in reserve, Benham was decommissioned at Philadelphia in July 1922. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in March 1935 and ordered scrapped in April.

Design and construction
Benham was authorized in March 1911 as the third of four ships of the Aylwin-class destroyer, which was almost identical to the Cassin-class destroyers authorized at the same time. Construction of the vessel—like her three sister ships—was awarded to William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia which laid down her keel on 14 March 1912. On 22 March 1913, Benham was launched by sponsor Edith Wallace Benham, daughter of the ship's namesake, Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham. The ship was the first U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of the American admiral. As built, the destroyer was 305 ft in length, 30 ft abeam, and drew 9 ft. The ship had a standard displacement of 1036 LT and displaced 1235 LT when fully loaded.

Benham had two steam turbines that drove her two screw propellers, and an additional pair triple-expansion steam engines, each connected to one of the propeller shafts, for cruising purposes. Four oil-burning boilers powered the engines, which could generate 16000 shp, moving the ship at the design speed of 29.5 kn; Benham exceeded her contracted speed in her trials in December 1913, when she averaged 29.81 kn over five runs off the Delaware Breakwater.

Benhams main battery consisted of four 4 in/50 caliber Mark 9 guns, with each gun weighing in excess of 6100 lb. The guns fired 33 lb armor-piercing projectiles at 2900 ft/s. At an elevation of 20°, the guns had a range of 15920 yd. In early 1917, Benhams single 4 in guns were replaced with twin 4 in guns on an experimental basis. However, before Benham departed for overseas service during World War I, her original single gun mounts had been restored. Benham was also equipped with four twin mount 18 in torpedo tubes.

Pre-World War I
USS Benham was commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 20 January 1914. In February and March, Benham conducted a shakedown cruise to the West Indies and, in April, began operations out of Hampton Roads, Virginia. On 6 April, Benham and sister ships USS Aylwin (DD-47) and USS Parker (DD-48) were exercising off the North Carolina coast, about 15 nmi off the Diamond Shoals lightship. An explosion ripped through the forward fire room on Aylwin, injuring three men. Benham loaded the three wounded sailors and sped to the naval hospital at Norfolk, Virginia, while Parker took on the remainder of Aylwin's crew. One of the injured men died on Benham before landfall was made in Virginia; another died a short time later. Aylwin remained afloat but, unmanned, was towed into Norfolk by Parker and U.S. Navy tug USS Sonoma (AT-12). The crews of all three destroyers raised $250 to help defray funeral expenses for the widow of one of the men. In July, the Benham went into reserve at the New York Navy Yard. She came back into active service on 21 December 1914.

In August 1916, the U.S. Navy conducted what The New York Times called the "greatest war game undertaken by the American Navy." In the scenario, a 'Blue' force defended the East Coast of the United States against a 'Red' force attempting an amphibious landing. Benham, scouting for the Blue force, was the first to spot the inbound Red transports and their escorts, but an attack on the transports by the Red force was repulsed, leading to a Blue victory.

Prior to the entrance of the United States into World War I, she served on Neutrality Patrol duty, trying to protect American and neutral-flagged merchant ships from interference by British or German warships and U-boats. In the course of performing those duties, Benham was at Newport, Rhode Island, in early October 1916. At 05:30 on 8 October, wireless reports came in of a German submarine stopping ships near the Lightship Nantucket, off the eastern end of Long Island. After an SOS from the British steamship West Point was received at about 12:30, Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves ordered Benham and other destroyers at Newport to attend to survivors. The American destroyers arrived on the scene about 17:00 when the U-boat, SMU U-53 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans Rose, was in the process of stopping the Holland America Line cargo ship SS Blommersdijk. Shortly after, U-53 stopped the British passenger ship SS Stephano. As Rose had done with three other ships U-53 had sunk earlier in the day, he gave passengers and crew aboard Blommersdijk and Stephano adequate time to abandon the ships before sinking the pair. In total, 226 survivors from U-53's five victims were rescued by the destroyer flotilla. Benham picked up the captain of and crewmen from Blommersdijk for transport to Newport.

World War I
After the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917, Benham was one of the first group of destroyers chosen for anti-submarine duty in European waters. She departed Tompkinsville, New York on 17 May and arrived in Queenstown, Ireland on 24 May. Four days later, the destroyer began the first of many tours of duty at sea hunting U-boats and shepherding convoys to their destinations.

Her first encounter with U-boats came on 13 July when she was apparently attacked by two submarines. They launched a total of three torpedoes at Benham, but she and her convoy evaded them. The destroyer then drove them away with a depth charge attack. On 30 July, while she was on her way to Queenstown, the destroyer spied the wake of another torpedo some 1500 yd from her. Immediately, she charged to the attack with guns and depth charges. Later, her crew sighted air bubbles and oil on the surface. The British Admiralty commended her for probable damage to a German U-boat. The destroyer continued her patrols out of Queenstown until June 1918 when she moved to Brest, France, her base of operations through the end of the war.

In September 1917, during her European wartime service, Benham was rammed by the British Azalea-class sloop HMS Zinnia. The event is not mentioned in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; the extent of the damage to both ships is unknown. A photograph from the U.S. Navy's Naval History & Heritage Command website shows a nearly sunken Benham moored between two ships.

Postwar
On 21 December 1918, Benham put to sea from Brest for the last time and began the voyage back to the United States. Rejoining the Atlantic Fleet at the beginning of 1919, the warship participated in the annual fleet maneuvers held in Cuban waters and then made a cruise to the Azores in May. Upon her return to the United States that summer, she was placed in ordinary at Norfolk on 28 June. Active again in 1921, she patrolled the eastern seaboard until assigned duty as plane guard and tender to the Atlantic Fleet Air Squadrons. That duty terminated in May 1922, and she stood into Philadelphia on 12 May to prepare for inactivation.

Benham was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 7 July 1922. The ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 March 1935, and, on 23 April, was ordered scrapped at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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Bargen

Bargen may refer to:

In Germany

 * Helmstadt-Bargen, in the Rhein-Neckar district, Baden-Württemberg
 * Rehm-Flehde-Bargen, in the Dithmarschen district, Schleswig-Holstein
 * Bargen, Hegau, in the Konstanz district, Baden-Württemberg
 * Bargen, Schleswig, in Erfde, in the Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein

in Switzerland

 * Bargen, Berne, in the canton of Bern
 * Bargen, Schaffhausen, in the canton of Schaffhausen

in the Netherlands

 * Bargen, Netherlands, on the island of Texel

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Justin King (businessman)

Justin Matthew King, CBE (born 17 May 1961) is an English businessman. King served as the CEO of J Sainsbury plc, parent company of the supermarket chain Sainsbury's, for ten years before stepping down in July 2014.

King was previously Director of Food at Marks and Spencer and has held senior positions at Asda. King was involved in the introduction of Häagen-Dazs ice cream to the UK and has worked for Pepsi-Cola International and Mars.

Early life
Raised in Dorridge just outside Solihull, the son of a petrochemical company salesman, he was schooled at Tudor Grange Grammar School (grammar school which became a comprehensive whilst he attended) in Solihull.

King undertook a degree in Business Administration at the University of Bath, graduating in 1983.

In 2009, he was also awarded an Honorary DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) from the University of Bath.

Career
After graduating, King went to work for Mars, becoming production shift manager on Galaxy chocolate.

King joined PepsiCo from 1989, being based in the Middle East, then moved to Grand Metropolitan in 1990, where he helped launch Häagen-Dazs ice-cream in the UK as managing director. He moved to Asda in 1994 and became managing director of the hypermarkets division. King moved to Marks & Spencer in 2001, where he managed the M & S food division.

Sainsbury's
King joined Sainsbury's on 29 March 2004, and was seen as the company's last chance to win back market share from its rivals and remain independent – the previous CEO, Sir Peter Davis, failed to halt the supermarket's slide in market position despite a £3 billion investment in infrastructure. He was offered £675,000 a year salary. King's annual salary at Sainsbury's was £900,000, coupled with a bonus package between £3-£6million annually.

Shortly after joining Sainsbury's, King authorised the removal of the Colleague Christmas Bonus award. The Guardian reported: "The new chief executive of ailing supermarket chain J Sainsbury ran into his first controversy yesterday as it emerged that he has been awarded free shares worth more than £500,000 in the same week as he has axed the £100 Christmas bonus paid to staff." The removal of the bonus was a contentious issue, given its consistent payment for 25 years and also given that this was the year Sir Peter Davis received disputed bonus payments.

In October 2004, King launched his recovery programme for the company under the banner "Making Sainsbury's Great Again". In January 2008 Sainsbury's announced twelve consecutive quarters of sales growth and achieved its target to grow sales by £2.5 billion, 3 months ahead of schedule.

In September 2005, in an interview with The Guardian King discussed the dominance of principal rival Tesco. While steering clear of calls for a Competition Commission inquiry into the No.1 UK supermarket, King did call for changes in planning laws to prevent Tesco from achieving a 40% market share. As of 2005 Tesco had more potential development projects than that of Sainsbury, Asda and Morrisons combined. King also criticised Tesco CEO Terry Leahy for questioning the accuracy of Taylor Nelson Sofres market data. Leahy has argued that TNS overestimates the size of his company's market share.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to the retail industry.

King announced in January 2014 that he would be leaving his post as CEO in July 2014, with the company's Group Commercial Director Mike Coupe being announced as his successor.

Manor Racing
In March 2015, King was appointed interim chairman of the Manor Marussia F1 Team later Manor Racing.

Personal life
He lives in the village of Harbury, just south of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. A self-admitted petrol-head, King traded his Maserati Quattroporte for a Lexus LS600h L in March 2008 on environmental grounds.

King is an ambassador for The Scout Association. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from Bournemouth University.

In April 2011, King gave half his shares in Sainsbury's to his wife Claire for "financial planning purposes". She divorced him three months later, after 21 years of marriage.

Their son Jordan King is a racing driver, who competed in Formula Three and in Formula 2 until moving to the IndyCar Series for 2018.

News items

 * Profile: Sainsbury's chief Justin King, by Jorn Madslien, BBC News, January 4 2005
 * Times article June 25 2006
 * Spectator January 17 2007 article
 * Lexus hybrid woos Sainsbury's chief, by Jorn Madslien, BBC News, March 18 2008

Video clips

 * Jenny Scott talks to him on HARDtalk in January 2007

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Hammersley

Hammersley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Ben Hammersley (born 1976), British photojournalist
 * Charles E. Hammersley (died 1957), American politician
 * Frederick Hammersley (1824–1901), Major-General and the first Inspector of Gymnasia in the British Army
 * Frederick Hammersley (1858-1924), British Army officer, commanded the Landing at Suvla Bay by his division during the Gallipoli Campaign
 * Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009), American abstract painter
 * James Astbury Hammersley (1815–1869), English painter, and teacher of art and design
 * John Hammersley (1920–2004), British mathematician
 * Martyn Hammersley (born 1949) British sociologist
 * Peter Hammersley (1928–2020), British admiral
 * Rachel Hammersley (born 1974) British historian
 * Rodolfo Hammersley (born 1889, date of death unknown), Chilean track and field athlete
 * Samuel Hammersley (1892–1965), Conservative Party politician in England
 * William Hammersley (1826–1886), sports journalist in Australia
 * Jon Hammersley

Other uses

 * Hammersley Inlet, part of Puget Sound in Washington, USA
 * Hammersley Wild Area, in Pennsylvania, USA
 * Hammersley Fork, also in Pennsylvania, USA

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Tektronix

Tektronix, historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. Originally an independent company, it is now a subsidiary of Fortive, a spinoff from Danaher Corporation.

History
(see also History of the oscilloscope)

1946–1954
The company traces its roots to the electronics revolution that immediately followed World War II. It was founded in December 1945 as Tekrad. The name was similar to that of a California company, Techrad, so in 1946, the four partners, Howard Vollum, Jack Murdock and Miles Tippery, who had both served in the Coast Guard, and accountant Glenn McDowell, formed Tektronix, Inc. Each contributed an initial $2,600 for equal shares.

Howard Vollum had graduated in 1936 from Reed College with a degree in physics and a keen interest in oscilloscopes, then worked as a radio technician at Jack Murdock's Murdock Radio and Appliance Company (M.J. Murdock Company) prior to the outbreak of war, during which he served in the Signal Corps. Following the founding of Tektronix, Vollum invented the world's first triggered oscilloscope in 1946, a significant technological breakthrough. This oscilloscope—refined and developed by Tektronix—was the model 511 produced from 1947 to 1953. The model 511 was a triggered-sweep oscilloscope. The first oscilloscope with a true time-base was the Tektronix Model 513.

The leading oscilloscope manufacturer at the time was DuMont Laboratories. DuMont pioneered the frequency-synch trigger and sweep. Allen DuMont personally tried the 511 at an electronics show and was impressed, but when he saw the price of $795 (equivalent to $ today), which was about twice as much as his equivalent model, he told Howard Vollum at the show that they would have a hard time selling many.

Tektronix was incorporated in 1946 with its headquarters at SE Foster Road and SE 59th Avenue in Portland, Oregon, just six blocks from Murdock's first family home. In 1947 there were 12 employees. Four years later, in 1951, Tektronix had 250 employees. Murdock and Vollum were known humanitarians and sought to operate their business as one might run a large and caring family. In 1978, Tektronix was named by authors Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz, et al., as among The 100 best companies to work for in America in their book of the same name.

By 1950, the company began building a manufacturing facility in Washington County, Oregon, at Barnes Road and the Sunset Highway and, by 1956, had expanded the facility to 80000 sqft. The company then moved its headquarters to this site, following an employee vote.

A detailed story of Howard Vollum and Jack Murdock along with the products that made Tektronix a leader in oscilloscopes can be found at the Museum of Vintage Tektronix Equipment.

1955–1969
In 1956, a large property in Beaverton became available, and the company's employee retirement trust purchased the land and leased it back to the company. Construction began in 1957 and on May 1, 1959, Tektronix moved into its new Beaverton headquarters campus, on a 313 acre site which came to be called the Tektronix Industrial Park.

In the late 1950s (1957–58), Tektronix set a new trend in oscilloscope applications that would continue into the 1980s. This was the introduction of the plug-in oscilloscope. Starting with the 530 and 540 series oscilloscopes, the operator could switch in different horizontal sweep or vertical input plug-ins. This allowed the oscilloscope to be an adaptable test instrument. Later Tektronix added plug-ins to have the scope operate as a spectrum analyzer, waveform sampler, cable tester and transistor curve tracer. The 530 and 540 series also ushered in the delayed trigger, allowing to trigger between a sweep rather than at the beginning. This allows more stable triggering and better waveform reproduction.

In 1961, Tektronix sold its first (possibly the world's first practical) completely portable oscilloscope, the model 321. This oscilloscope could run on AC line (power mains) or on rechargeable batteries. It also brought the oscilloscope into the transistor age (only a Nuvistor ceramic tube was used for the vertical amp input). A year and a half later, the all-transistor model 321A came out. The 560 series introduced the rectangular CRT to oscilloscopes. In 1964 Tektronix made an oscilloscope breakthrough: the world's first mass-produced analog storage oscilloscope, the model 564. Hughes Aircraft Company is credited with the first working storage oscilloscope (the model 104D) but it was made in very small numbers and is extremely rare today.

In 1966, Tektronix brought out a line of high-frequency full-function oscilloscopes called the 400 series. The oscilloscopes were packed with features for field work applications. These scopes were outstanding performers often preferred over their laboratory bench models. The first models were the 422, a 16 MHz bandwidth and the 453, a 50 MHz bandwidth model. The following year the 454, a 150 MHz portable. These models put Tektronix well ahead of their competitors for years. The US military contracted with Tektronix for a model 453 "ruggedized" for field servicing. The 400 series models would continue to be popular choices in the 1970s and '80s. In addition the styling of the 400 series would be copied by Tektronix's competitors. 400 series oscilloscopes were still being used as of 2013.

1970–1985
The company's initial public offering, when it publicly sold its first shares of stock, was on September 11, 1963. In 1974, the company acquired 256 acre in Wilsonville, Oregon where it built a facility for its imaging group. By 1976, the company employed nearly 10,000, and was the state's largest employer. Tektronix's 1956 expansion and, in 1962, Electro Scientific Industries' similar move to Washington County and expansion are credited with fostering the development of a large high-tech industry in Washington County, a number of firms which collectively are often referred to as the "Silicon Forest".

For many years, Tektronix was the major electronics manufacturer in Oregon, and in 1981, its U.S. payroll peaked at over 24,000 employees. Tektronix also had operations in Europe, South America and Asia. European factories were located in Saint Peter's, Guernsey (then in the European Free Trade Association) until 1990, Hoddesdon (Hertfordshire, UK) and Heerenveen, Netherlands (then in the European Common Market). Some oscilloscopes marketed in Europe and the UK were sold under the brand name Telequipment but many in the UK used the Tektronix brand name in the 1960s and '70s.

For many years, Tektronix operated in Japan as Sony-Tektronix, a 50-50 joint venture of Sony Corporation and Tektronix, Inc; this was due to Japanese trade restrictions at the time. Since then, Tektronix has bought out Sony's share and is now the sole owner of the Japanese operation. Under the Sony-Tektronix name, the 300 series oscilloscopes were lightweight and totally portable. They replaced the model 321/321A oscilloscopes. Examples of the Sony/Tektronix models were 314, 323, 335 and 370.

During the early 1970s, Tektronix made a major design change to their oscilloscopes. The 5000 and 7000 series oscilloscopes maintained the plug-in capabilities that originally started with the 530 and 540 series; however, the choice of plug-ins was even greater. These scopes used custom designed integrated circuits fabricated by Tektronix. The CRTs were all rectangular and were all fabricated by Tektronix. These oscilloscopes provided on screen controls setting. The 5000 series was the general purpose line while the 7000 series were capable of a wide variety of applications and could accept as many as 4 plug-ins. One model, the 7104 (introduced 1978), was a true 1 GHz bandwidth oscilloscope. Beginning with the firm's first cathode ray oscilloscopes, Tektronix has enjoyed a leading position in the test and measurement market. Although its equipment was expensive, it had performance, quality, and stability. Most test equipment manufacturers built their oscilloscopes with off-the-shelf, generally available components. But Tektronix, in order to gain an extra measure of performance, used many custom-designed or specially-selected components. They even had their own factory for making ultra-bright and sharp CRT tubes. Later on, they built their own integrated circuit manufacturing facility in order to make custom ICs for their equipment.

Tektronix instruments contributed significantly to the development of computers, test, and telecommunications equipment and to the advancement of research and development in the high-technology electronics industry generally.

As time went on, Tektronix fabricated more and more of their electronic parts. This led to very specialized skills and talents which in time led to employees forming new businesses. Some former Tektronix employees left to create other successful "Silicon Forest" companies. Spin-offs include Mentor Graphics, Planar Systems, Floating Point Systems, Cascade Microtech, Merix Corporation, Anthro Corporation and Northwest Instrument Systems (NWIS) – later renamed to MicroCase. Even some of the spin-offs have created spin-offs, such as InFocus. As Tektronix fabricated more specialized parts, they spread out their product base to include logic analyzers, digital multimeters and signal generators. The TM500 and TM5000 rack mount series was born featuring custom designed test instruments chosen by the buyer.

During this period, Tektronix acquired what were sold as the 8000 and 8002 Microprocessor Development System (MDS), the 8000 being a software development system running editors and cross-compilers with twin floppy disk storage, while the 8002 could be fitted with real-time emulators for several processors including the 8080, Z80 and 6502. These were later replaced by the 8540/8550/8560. The 8550 was a standalone development system capable of being fitted with real time emulation hardware for several different processors. The 8560 emerged just after Bell Labs were able to sell UNIX commercially, and ran a mildly modified version of Version 7 UNIX, called TNIX, supporting 4 or 8 (depending on how many I/O processor cards were fitted) serial terminals, with a special High-Speed Input/Output, based on RS-422, to connect to a remote 8540. There was a hard drive of about 34MB, later increased, and a variable amount of RAM depending on the processor card fitted, which was either a DEC LSI11-23+ or a LSI11-73, which had a wider address bus as well as a higher clock speed. The final upgraded variant was the 8562. The 8540, of which several could be connected to the 8560, contained emulation hardware similar to that available for the 8550, including RAM cards, Trigger Trace Analyser, 1 or 2 processor emulator cards, each with external probe, etc. The 8540 had no software development capability, but worked with the 8560, or other systems such as a VAX, which would provide the software development environment. It was unique in its day, in that the serial terminal could be connected to the 8540, on the bench, or to the 8560, and would pass UNIX commands automatically to the 8560, which passed emulator commands back to the 8540 for execution, completely transparently. Thus a complete compile, link, load and emulate session could be run from a UNIX shell script, a facility probably not seen on any development system since. The 8540/8550/8560 supported many 8-bit and 16-bit microprocessor types, with a change of emulator cards and probes, and installation of assembler and possibly compiler software, and did not require any particular code to be linked in to the user's code to facilitate register tracing at breakpoints, a shortcoming of the only real alternative multi-manufacturer MDS of that era, by HP. However, an impressive feature was that by including a special instruction sequence, typically a double NOP followed by a call to a specific address, the emulator would generate a "Service Call" to take whatever action the user required, and continue execution. This for example could allow UNIX to write variables to a log file as commanded by the running program on the emulated microprocessor.

It is not clear at present why Tektronix eventually withdrew from the MDS business, as their products were highly regarded.

1986–2006
Tektronix began to face big challenges to its business structure. In the 1980s, Tektronix found itself distracted with too many divisions in too many markets. This led to decreasing earnings in almost every quarter. A period of layoffs, top management changes and sell-offs followed. In 1994, Tektronix spun off its printed circuit board manufacturing operation as a separate company, Merix Corp., headquartered in Forest Grove, Oregon. Eventually, Tektronix was left with its original test and measurement equipment. Upon his promotion in 2000, the current CEO, Richard H. "Rick" Wills, carefully limited corporate spending in the face of the collapsing high-tech bubble. This led the way for Tektronix to emerge as one of the largest companies in its product niche, with a market capitalization of $3 billion as of April 2006. However, this failed to prevent it from becoming an acquisition target, and Tektronix was acquired by Danaher Corporation in 2007.

Major Product Changes—Digital Sampling Scopes. With the advancement in signal sampling techniques and digital processing, oscilloscope manufacturers found a new horizon in the market. The ability to sample the signal and digitize it for real time viewing or digitally store it for future use and maintain the integrity of the waveform. In addition a computer can be integrated with the scope to store many waveforms or instruct the scope to do further analysis. Color-enhanced waveforms can be produced for ease in identification.

Tektronix was heavily involved with designing digital sampling oscilloscopes. In the mid-1980s, they quickly replaced their analog oscilloscopes. Their 400, 5000 and 7000 series oscilloscopes were replaced with a new generation of digital oscilloscopes with storage capability, the 11000 and TDS series. The 11000 series were large rack mount laboratory models with large a flat CRT face and had touch screen, multiple color, and multiwaveform display capability. They were still plug-in units and could accept the older 7000 series 7- plug-ins and the new 11000 series 11A- plug-ins. The TDS series replaced the 300 and 400 series portable line. They had the same panel layout but with enhanced storage and measuring capabilities. During this period Tektronix would also expand its test equipment line to logic analyzers, signal generators etc.

By the mid-1990s the use of the CRT was dropped and Tektronix started using LCD panels for display. The 11000 series would be replaced by the MSO (Mixed Signal Oscilloscope) which featured a color active matrix LCD. The TDS continued but with LCD panels starting with the TDS-210. In the TDS models, the lower priced models replaced the last of the 2000 series analog scopes and featured monochrome display while the higher end models were color LCD models which were more like the older 400 series scopes in performance. Spinoffs of the TDS was the TBS storage scope series. Later Tektronix would replace the 200 mini oscilloscopes with the TH series hand held digital oscilloscopes. All TDS and spinoff series with LCD display are totally portable (light weight and can run AC or on batteries).

2007–present
On November 21, 2007, Tektronix was acquired by Danaher Corporation for US$2.85 billion. Prior to the acquisition, Tektronix traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TEK, the nickname by which Tektronix is known to its employees, customers, and neighbors. On October 15, 2007, Danaher Corporation tendered an offer to acquire Tektronix for US$38 cash a share, which equated to a valuation of approximately US$2.8 billion. The deal closed five and a half weeks later, with 90 percent of TEK shares being sold in the tender offer. Also, as part of its acquisition by Danaher, the Communications Business division of Tektronix was spun off into a separate business entity under Danaher, Tektronix Communications.

The digital oscilloscope line that was introduced in the 1990s (MSO, TDS, TH series) are still being manufactured in some form.

On February 1, 2016, Tektronix introduced a new logo design, replacing a logo that had been in use since 1992, and indicated a shift in strategy to offer measurement products tailored for specific fields such as computing, communications and automotive. Danaher spun off several subsidiaries, including Tektronix, in 2016 to create Fortive.

Tektronix Video, commonly known for their waveform monitors, was merged with Telestream via an agreement with Fortive on April 25, 2019.

Production of oscilloscopes has moved to China in recent years.

Early oscilloscope models
(see also Tektronix analog oscilloscopes)

For individual model history, Tektronix and Tektronix Collectors has complete details. Just go click to the reference number next to the Tek Product Series. You will be directed to the latest link.

 * 1) 7000 series oscilloscopes and plug-ins 1970–1985
 * 2) 5000 series oscilloscopes and plug-ins 1970–1985
 * 3) 2000 series portable oscilloscopes (1978–?)
 * 4) 500 series oscilloscopes and plug-ins 1946–1970
 * 5) 400 series portable oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers 1966–1989
 * 6) 300 series portable oscilloscopes 1952–1969?
 * 7) 200 series portable oscilloscopes (1975–?)

'Non test' products
Some important non-test equipment Tektronix created and sold include:
 * Tektronix 4014 computer terminal
 * Tektronix 405x graphical microcomputers
 * Tektronix 408x graphical minicomputers (original DRADIS of Battlestar Galactica)
 * Tektronix FEM181 Finite Element Modeling software system
 * Tektronix 4115 color raster scan graphics or the TGRAPH emulator
 * Tektronix 6130 NS32016 workstation series running UTek, a 4.2BSD clone
 * Tektronix 4300 Motorola 68020 graphic workstation series running UTek, a 4.2BSD clone
 * Tektronix XD88 Motorola 88000 graphic workstation running Utek V, another Tektronix Unix based on Unix System V Release 3
 * Flatbed plotters used with Tektronix computers
 * TekXPress X terminals, later sold to Network Computing Devices
 * Phaser-branded color computer printers, including their pioneering Solid Ink models, sold to Xerox in 1999
 * Television studio and video production equipment manufactured by onetime Tek subsidiary Grass Valley Group, which was spun off as an independent company (and later bought by Thomson SA). The Grass Valley is now owned by Black Dragon Capital.

Notable employees
The following notable individuals currently work for Tektronix, or have previously worked for Tektronix in some capacity. This list includes persons who are notable for reasons unrelated to their Tektronix careers.

 * Howard Vollum: founder, former president and chairman of the board, recipient of the Legion of Merit award for work on radar for England in WWII, noted philanthropist. (See Howard Vollum Award)
 * Moncef Chellouf: Technical writer, engineer, former CEO of quality for European market
 * Jean Auel: technical writer; author of Children of Earth novels
 * Kent Beck: engineer; Extreme Programming developer
 * Tom Bruggere: engineer; later founded Mentor Graphics in 1981; 1996 candidate for United States Senate
 * James B. Castles: General Counsel; one of three original Trustees of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
 * Ward Cunningham: engineer; Extreme Programming developer, inventor of the wiki
 * Miller M. Duris: politician who served as mayor and county commissioner
 * Barrie Gilbert: popularized the Gilbert cell, a type of electronic mixer
 * Robert W. Lundeen: Director, CEO
 * Vivek Maddala: composer and musician
 * Steven McGeady: engineer; later Intel Vice-president and co-founder of Intel Architecture Labs
 * Merrill A. McPeak: Director; former US Air Force chief of staff
 * Keith Packard: engineer; X Window System developer
 * Randal L. Schwartz: Perl and computer security expert, author
 * Earl Wantland: started in Test Department, 1955; elected president, 1971, succeeding Howard Vollum; became CEO, 1974
 * Norm Winningstad: engineer; founder of Floating Point Systems, author
 * Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: engineer; technical lead for the first commercial Smalltalk implementation; author of books on object-oriented programming
 * Delbert Yocam: former president, COO; former COO of Apple Computer
 * Craig Ryan: Technical writer, author of non-fiction Sonic Wind and film of same title.
 * William D. Walker: former president, COO; former President of Electro Scientific Industries, former President of Planar Systems, former chair of Tek Foundation, former board of Oregon Graduate Center.
 * Randall Woodfield: American serial killer.

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Subgraph

The term subgraph can refer to:

 * The security-focused Linux-based Subgraph operating system, see Subgraph (operating system)
 * Subgraph of a function, see Hypograph (mathematics)
 * In graph theory, see Glossary of graph theory

title: Subgraph


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Corcelles

Corcelles is the name or part of the name of several places:

Switzerland

 * Corcelles, Bern, in the canton of Bern
 * Corcelles-Cormondrèche, in the canton of Neuchâtel
 * Corcelles-le-Jorat, in the canton of Vaud
 * Corcelles-près-Concise, in the canton of Vaud
 * Corcelles-près-Payerne, in the canton of Vaud
 * Corcelles-sur-Chavornay, in the canton of Vaud

France

 * Corcelles, Ain, in the Ain département
 * Corcelles-en-Beaujolais, in the Rhône département
 * Corcelles-Ferrières, in the Doubs département
 * Corcelles-les-Arts, in the Côte-d'Or département
 * Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux, in the Côte-d'Or département
 * Corcelles-les-Monts, in the Côte-d'Or département

title: Corcelles


text:
Birthday Party

A birthday party is a party to celebrate the anniversary of someone's birth.

Birthday Party or The Birthday Party may also refer to:

Theatre, film, and television

 * The Birthday Party (1931 film), a Mickey Mouse cartoon
 * The Birthday Party (play), a 1958 play by Harold Pinter
 * The Birthday Party (1968 film), a 1968 film adaptation
 * "The Birthday Party" (My Name Is Earl), an episode of My Name Is Earl
 * "The Birthday Party" (Dynasty 1981), a 1981 episode of Dynasty
 * "The Birthday Party" (Dynasty 2017), a 2021 episode of the Dynasty reboot series
 * "The Birthday Party", a 2015 episode of Blood & Oil
 * King Cole's Birthday Party or Birthday Party, a 1947-49 American TV series

Music

 * The Birthday Party (band), a 1977–1983 Australian post-punk band
 * The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album), 1980
 * The Birthday Party (The Idle Race album), 1968
 * Birthday Party, an album by Dave Pegg, 1998
 * The Birthday Party (video), a 1985 concert video by Motörhead
 * "Birthday Party" (song), by AJR, 2019
 * "The Birthday Party" (song), by the 1975, 2020
 * "Birthday Party", a song by the Pixies Three, 1963

Other uses

 * The Birthday Party (novel), a 2007 novel by Panos Karnezis
 * Birthday Party, the political party that was formed as part of Kanye West's 2020 presidential campaign

title: Birthday Party


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USS Crane

USS Crane (DD-109) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for naval officer William M. Crane.

Crane was launched on 4 July 1918 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California; sponsored by Mrs. M. McGuire; and commissioned on 18 April 1919.

Service history
Clearing San Francisco 21 April 1919, Crane arrived at Newport, Rhode Island, 13 May. She sailed for duty in European waters on 5 June, visiting ports in England and France and joining the escort for USS George Washington (1908) carrying President Woodrow Wilson to the peace conference. Returning to New York on 27 July, Crane was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, and arrived at San Francisco on 1 September. Here she participated in the naval review, during which she was visited by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels on 4 September. After operations off the coast of Washington, Crane was placed in reserve at San Diego 26 January 1920, participating in occasional maneuvers until decommissioned on 7 June 1922, at San Diego.

Recommissioned on 18 December 1939, Crane joined the Neutrality Patrol in the Pacific Ocean. She continued patrols and provided training for naval reservists and armed guard crews until the outbreak of World War II.

World War II
Crane remained on the west coast on anti-submarine patrol, local escort duty, training exercises, and screening duty for amphibious exercises until 22 April 1944, when she was assigned to the West Coast Sound Training School. After the war she departed San Diego on 2 October 1945, arrived at Philadelphia on 19 October; was decommissioned on 14 November 1945; and sold on 1 November 1946.

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User talk:Abqwildcat

HGH
I was surprised by your addition to HGH quackery. I have been expanding the growth hormone treatment article for the last couple of weeks. It was getting too big and I put the HGH quackery article up in preparation for moving stuff there and filling it out. I didn't expect anyone to notice or mess with it. Nothing wrong with what's there. I'll be adding more in. I think it's a perfectly NPOV title myself.Alteripse 19:47, 16 May 2004 (UTC) At long last, I filled out the article. Let me know if you think I've left anything out. alteripse 04:18, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry if my editing comment offended you, as it was just meant to be a brief, shorthand comment. I did not intend to put down anyone in any way. Thank you for notifying me about it, however, and i will try to fix my way of editing in the future. --Thirteen 13 22:57, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

You seem to have some wicked timing. I just put the Serializing tokens page up and was just posting quite a bit more when your stub msg completeely borked it! I guess that the wikipedia needs to work on it's own serialization methods wouldn't you say?

--MJA

Not like it matters apparently! Another user has done a fantastic job of providing information that I'd have fumbled for a week to find the words for! Once pages get noticed, things seem to get fixed up pretty quickly around here. Thanks alot for the pointers BTW. I am still fairly new to this.

--MJA

Northgate Shopping Centre
There was a resolution on Votes for Deletion for a disambiguation page for Northgate Shopping Centre.. I'm not sure whether it was a good idea, but its probably not a good idea to go against it this quickly. -Aaron Hill 00:31, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Phone numbers of faculties of osmania university
I noticed that you put this article up for VFD a while back. Was there a vote? I was about to nominate it myself, then saw that you had already done so. Joyous 23:02, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Propaganda
I put The O'Reilly Factor in the category for two reasons. The first and more important one was practical -- to try to get any O'Reilly partisans involved in the debate at Category talk:Propaganda, because the discussion there might result in the tag being legitimzed for this article, so they should participate. The second was that, if Michael Moore is considered to be a propagandist, then so is O'Reilly. To answer your question, however, my preference is that the inflammatory category Propaganda should not include Moore, should not include O' Reilly, should not include their works, and should not include similar subjects (Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Ann Coulter, etc.). One can make a colorable case for including all these people, and many more, in the category, but I think it would be better to exclude them all. Nevertheless, I would certainly oppose a "solution" in which polemicists of the left are included in Propaganda while polemicists of the right are not. If there's a reason to identify such people, maybe Category:Polemics should be established. JamesMLane 06:25, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Anglo-America
Hi. I think your wording sounds fine. Anglo-America isn't a common term by any means, but it probably is helpful for people who don't speak English as their first language or whose parents didn't. Cheers, Fire Star 01:24, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Dis-ambiguation message
You wrote "move template to top for clarity". Please explain in detail what you mean. 66.245.29.166 01:03, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Richard Carmona on the Tucson article
Thanks for your note on my discussion page regarding Richard Carmona on the Tucson article. I put a response there for you. - Eisnel 23:59, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

University of Arizona
Abqwildcat you need to stop revrting the page, all other University on Wikipedia has the Notable Alumni as a list, See University of California(s), The Ivy Leagues. Infact it would be hard to find a handful that doesn't do it. It's obviously the standards. I know you put a lot of hard work into this page, but you have to yeal to standards. If you feel your way should be the standards, please bring it up in the WikiProject_Universities. Regarding Orginization, that is standardized based on the link i mention above. U of A is a university first and formost, the orginization information is more important than the mesuem and future plans. If anything those two topic should come at the end of the artical. When people look for the U of A they want to know about the university not the mesuem. If the mesuem has such importance it should have it's sperate page. Please understand that these are standards preset and inplace at almost all university pages. Asian Animal 18:57, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Show me the standards in writing. Do they say alumni should be only listed.  No.  Do they describe EXACTLY how to lay out a page?  No.  Are they even standards?  NO.  They're guidelines.  Democracy gets better results than reversions and arbitrary deletion of organization.  --ABQCat 22:10, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I like your re-edit of the AIBF page
Nice way of rewording the Kodak part. I did not even think about re-wording it. I was just recently out there for the Fiesta because I am a balloon pilot. I was my first time and I think it's wonderful place. BTW, since you are from ABQ have you been to or heard of Sky City, New Mexico. It's an Acoma Indian Res. about 60 miles out from the city. I was wondering because I noticed that there wasn't anything on Wikipedia yet about it or the Acoma people. Thannk You. Hoekenheef 06:47, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Dan Rather
Hi, I've changed the POV tag slightly. You evidently have researched the man, however. Please feel free to add material you feel is missing from the article. Be bold! - Ta bu shi da yu 21:55, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

As a newbie, I appreciate a chronological balance in a biography. Thank you for you input into biographies in general. weide 02:11, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
 * As I've never contributed a pure article, this is meaningless. And annoying.  And obnoxious.  Ram-Man just put himself on my list.  My shit list.  --ABQCat 23:56, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Well I am quite sorry that a single message from me is enough to annoy you that much. If we can't talk here at Wikipedia, what good is it?  For what its worth, I did make a response on my talk page, if you care.    – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   00:06, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * We CAN talk, but there are limits on good behavior and ettiquette here on Wikipedia. You know that, and must have had some qualms about messenging 2000 members of the community.  This would have been well suited for a discussion page rather than 2000 individual comments.  I would have objected less to a short comment + link to the page where you discuss it.  The length is an issue separate from my disagreement with multiple licenses.  It's annoying and bad form to do what you have - which is not exactly winning over converts if it's your desire to multiply-license wikipedia material.  I'd say I'm diametrically opposed to such a plan - the problems far outweigh any benefit you perceive.  --ABQCat 01:02, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * In the interests of peace, I should probably mention that my previous bad mood was at least partially due to lack of sleep, excess caffeine, and a final exam schedule from hell. I'm opposed to dual licensing unless Jimbo and the foundation move the whole kit 'n' kaboodle over (which sounds problematic, also).  Hopefully this raises awareness and can actually lead to a definitive policy rather than this divisive and problematic initiative.  --ABQCat 23:56, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The initiative is not meant to be devisive, although some people find it to be so. I personally discussed the issue with Jimbo at the WikiMeet in NYC in order to clarify his stance on the issue.  It is quite clear that he is working hard to get a GFDL 2.0 that is "more free" and closer in spirit to the CC-by-sa, which he would have probably used had it been around when Wikipedia was founded.  Since we are stuck with GFDL, the best step is to try to reform it.  This is not incompatible with my initiative, as my goal has always been to hope for an improved GFDL 2.0.  He supports my drive to have users give permission under the CC-by-sa so our articles can be freely shared and acknowledges an inherent contradiction:  copyleft is supposed to allow for free sharing for everyone, but in the end it only allows free sharing to those who use the GFDL, not all open/free licenses.  In any respect, we won't be relicensing Wikipedia.  Try to separate (1) the issues with Wikipedia and the GFDL from (2) the fact that other projects don't use the GFDL.  Please let me know on my talk page if you have any other questions.  Sorry about the spam.  I have been taking in the advice and don't plan on continuing the spamming process as I was.  If I do start asking people, I will probably give them a single paragraph that asks them to look at a separate page with information and explanation.  Hopefully that will work better.  Amazingly, converts have been won anyway.     – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   01:39, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Hi!
ABQCat,

I got the picture of the Bible and Book of Mormon off of this link. While I'm not exactly sure how it is you wish for me to cite it, I'm also not sure if this is against a copyright rule. I thought that if it were simply on a website that didn't state a copyright that meant it was okay to use. If I am wrong, please feel free to delete it. Otherwise, please leave a note on my talk page telling me how to cite the link and I will be happy to do it. Thank you for your help! God bless,

Drew roe 05:58, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Mesa/Tucson edits
Yeah, AW, the issue of the Pima names for Tucson and Mesa (and where in the article they would go) was discussed at length on their talk pages, and the consensus was clear. The anon editor who now keeps trying to put the Pima back in up top is User:Node_ue, a home-schooled pre-teen in Paradise Valley who was part of those discussions, but is now having a little trouble accepting that the decision went against his position. I'm somewhat sympathetic, even as an old(er) guy, but consensus is consensus. These two pages are on my watchlist, and I will help you man the revert station. --Gary D 05:58, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

 * This is incorrect. The consensus for both pages was that if the towns were founded with that name by Native Americans, or if that was the name in an official language, it would be OK, and these conditions are met by both pages.
 * I'm attributing the bulleted edit above to User:Node ue as he didn't bother to sign his name. I just want it clear that it wasn't me responding to Gary D., but rather Node was responding. --ABQCat 22:05, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!
ABQCat,

Thanks for informing me about that. I had had trouble finding the copyright information page before. Also though, considering this new information you have given me, it would probably be best for you look at the other images I have uploaded to this site and consider taking some of if not all of them out, as I obtained them about the same way not knowing of how this rule works. However, I can assure you I will be more careful from now on and only post pictures that I personally have taken! As for whether or not I could post a similar picture that I take, I don't think it will be possible in this situation, as I am not LDS and thus do not have a copy of the Book of Mormon or a Mormon edition of the Bible. However, if you want me to post some pictures of Southern Baptist images I'm sure I could come up with plenty of those! I just enjoy talking and learning about different religions and thus was adding the little bit that I could to the Mormon pages. Anyway, if you need any help with the pictures I have posted that I shouldn't have, I will try to help you locate them for deletion. Thanks for the information!

Drew roe 06:21, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re: Acoma Pueblo
You said: ''Yeah, I noticed Acoma was pointing to the wrong place too, but forgot to change it. I'm curious - were most pages which referred to Acoma referring to the Pueblo itself, or were nearby villages included in the link context? I ask because according to what I have read, about 50 people live in the Pueblo proper, but nearly 3000 people live on the federal trust land surrounding the pueblo. I'm considering creating the article for Acoma Pueblo, but if you feel strongly and would like to, I found quite good information from Encyclopedia Britannica (subscription only), New Mexico Magazine (www.nmmagazine.com/NMGUIDE/acoma.html), and the US Census Bureau (here).''

 * I noticed the problem because I was going to put a satellite photo of the mesa on the Acoma Pueblo page (which doesn't exist). It looked like most or all of the links were talking about the pueblo, not about the surrounding land (and definitely not about the city in MN).  You can start a page if you want to; I'm not particularly good at encyclopedic writing.  If you do create a page, add this template in for some cool picture links:  --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 22:03, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

34.89641°N, -107.58158°W

Added several more pics and sources to the Acoma Pueblo talk page. --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 00:30, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Bill Maher edits
Why the hell do you keep messing with the Maher article. The edits Judson and myself made are completely reasonable, accurate, and unbiased. Could you please stop f*cking those usefull edits up. -- Crevaner 18:06, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * And now you've won me over. Such convincing arguments. See the talk page at Talk:Bill Maher if you have more venom to spew at Maher. Please don't spew it at me - but you're new at this, maybe you don't realize that there's a high standard of community conduct on Wikipedia which is enforced by the community.  Since this is the first experience I've had with you, I'm not planning on referring you to a RfC (Request for Comment) or anything, but please do try to be more civil in the future.  See wikilove if you have questions about what's expected of you.  We would all value your continued contributions to the project, but in a mature manner please.  I look forward to working with you to improve the article.  Thanks!  --ABQCat 18:33, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Heather Wilson edits
Sorry if you felt that was POV. Stern IS a talk radio giant, that doesn't mean I support him or hate Heather Wilson, or that I support Wilson and hate Howard Stern. The "Nipplegate" thing wasn't POV at all, that was what they called the scandal. It's like saying if you use the word "Watergate" you are biased. You seemed to take out a lot of stuff and then claimed it was all POV, when most of it was based on what actually happened. What else do you think is left that was overuse of POV? --JamesB3 15:38, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Target Stores
Very intelligent and interesting responses to my comments on the neutrality of the Target Stores page. Thank you for your insight. I will be joining soon. Anon User

Please see additional information added to this talk page.

Baptists
ABQ, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this! Yes, I think you present a good point; there are too many links on the Baptists page. I will be perfectly happy to get back to you with more details on trimming some of these down, but I'm currently rushed as I'm in Colorado and kind of doing lots at the moment! So, when I get back home (Illinois), I'll be happy to look through some of these with you and decide which ones should be deleted and which ones are good to go.--Drew R 04:54, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mesa, Arizona
Sorry yes I'll add the caption, it's the temple. Any thoughts about a better pic for Mesa? Ollieplatt 08:49, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

thanks, I see you've done a lot on the article, it's great. Ollieplatt 09:04, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Target Corporation
Please see the new Target Corporation page. I know you were not totally sold on a merger, but I think you may be happy with the end result of the merger with Target Stores. Any bias issues I had with Salvation Army are now resolved (I think the page is more balanced with additional information...much of it was redundant on two pages). The Talk:Target Stores page was redirected to Talk:Target Corporation, and all past comments from Talk:Target Stores were retained on the new talk page.

Wikipedians who blog
Hi! if you have a moment, could you please see Wikinews and blogs to comment? We're interested in learning how Wikinews can work with bloggers; what they might be interested in, how they can take advantage of Wikinews, how they can contribute through their blogs, etc. Thanks! Amgine/ talk

Talk:heaven
Hi. Thanks for your reply. From the bit you quotes it appears that Jesus said that no one would enter heaven except through his involvement in some way. So it doesn't really confirm or deny the 144,000 number, it merely adds a further requirement! --Rebroad 12:21, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hohokam
Thank you for your note on yesterday's addition to the Hohokam article -- yes, I put the same material on the Anasazi and the Mogollon pages as well. I have considered a Southwestern Peoples page, but that would be a really big project. I suppose a page linked to archaeology called "Cultural divisions" would also be a possibility. The paragraphs are based on the source I placed at the base of the article, but only the last paragraph contains some verbatim material (see reference note). I intend to boil this down a little more (in each article) for general consumption and then beef it up for a Southwestern archaeology/peoples project (if and when). Feel free to edit, if needed. WBardwin 02:10, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Reagan
I should have been clearer. I changed the text written by the author of the section for NPOV reasons ("One of the most loathsome things for him about Soviet communism was its atheism and denial of its people's chances to know Christ" with no qualifier like "Reagan thought that..."); I shortened the quote because I didn't think the first half was very relevant. Thanks for the input. Dave 08:44, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Apologies to ABQWildCat
Apologies for making assumptions about your POV.

NM-Style Food in AZ
Have you ever been to Los Dos Molinos? I think they only have locations in the Phoenix Metro, but if you get a chance, definitely drop by. The location I've been to is just south of Baseline on Central, but I believe there is another location in Mesa, too. I haven't experienced better New Mexican food anywhere else (so far), even in New Mexico.

America West
Feel free to re-add the drunk flying thing on America West. We came to a consensus on Northwest Airlines that NWA's drunk-flying incident should be moved to air safety, so I was trying to be consistent. I for one think that the drunk-flying thing should be on the NWA article, but I was overruled. Rhobite 05:30, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

America West Express
FYI, when the RJ 700's and 900's first went into service they had first class seats. They were removed due to strong coach sales and weak first class sales. They were operated by Freedom Airlines as I recall. Vegaswikian 07:26, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hey there!

I just added some stuff to Albuquerque%2C_New_Mexico. I added a bunch of new "notables", websites, and a nice table (w/seal, flag, map, etc.).

I will be adding more history and other items, but I wanted you to double check it for me.

I also feel like taking out the "Professional Schools" section, no other cities have that section, there is no information (page created) about them to link to. Are those schools important in the big picture?

Okay, let me know! WikiDon 07:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Howdy! Well, what if every city put in these schools, doesn't every city have them? Is there something special about these? What is next, beauty schools, truck driver training, driver's ed, New Horizon's? WikiDon

Kirtland Air Force Base
I trimmed up the History on the Kirtland AFB. Please let me know if of it looks less disorganized. I'm attempting to clean up all the Air Force Base stubs, and sometimes the only source I can find is what the Base's official website has (which isn't always the best). I'm not actually from the area, and it is nice to have someone from that area editing. Muj0 19:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back
Welcome back, Abqwildcat, after your two month absence! Wikipedianinthehouse 21:29, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

UNM Page
Thanks for the improvement on the pics formatting. I noted when I put them up that the look needed work. The recent edition of a seal, then a bigger seal, made it even more awkward. Looks much better now. - Laszlo Panaflex 06:37, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Sister Cities: List or Paragraph...???
Howdy!

RE: "consistancy amongst other city articles"

I went and looked at 40 cities with "sister cities" entries in them. 8 out of 10 are in list format, not in paragraph form like User:Derek.cashman is trying to make me believe. Most of those in paragraph form have been converted by one person, User:Derek.cashman.

Read what I have put here:

 * User:Derek.cashman wants to change, and thinks, that all “Sister cities” lists in articles should be converted/changed to “paragraph” form. I don’t want to. Can you imagine a lists of 26 sister cities, like for Istanbul, and trying to read it in paragraph form? Please read my opinion and vote. WikiDon 08:00, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

NM stuff
Ah, so you wrote the Acoma Pueblo article. Good pictures. I was wondering, do you think Sandia Pueblo is sufficiently close to ABQ to warrant inclusion in Albuquerque?

editing of Gelnhausen
why did you remove a valid birth from the page?

Path integral
I don't know if you watch this anymore, but I made a response to a rather old comment of yours on the talk page. Please respond there, thanks! --C S (Talk) 11:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

TVI to CNM
I've moved your TVI Community College article to Central New Mexico Community College, as you suggested. The name change took effect June 2.

Rankine Cycle
I've just checked the equation and they are correct! I've also added the required citation! ;)--Dric dolphin 02:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * We're looking for some input on List of cities in New Mexico and List of cities, towns, and villages in New Mexico, if you wouldn't mind dropping by Talk:List of cities in New Mexico. Thanks. Camerafiend 23:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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Academy of the Hebrew Language

The Academy of the Hebrew Language (הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, ha-akademyah la-lashon ha-ivrit) was established by the Israeli government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem of Givat Ram campus."

Its stated aims are to assemble and research the Hebrew language in all its layers throughout the ages; to investigate the origin and development of the Hebrew tongue; and to direct the course of development of Hebrew, in all areas, including vocabulary, grammar, writing, spelling, and transliteration.

Since 2022, the Academy has been headed by Moshe Bar-Asher. It is composed of 42 members, in addition to having members who serve as academic advisors, as well as honorary members. Every person is entitled to query the Academy on language matters and to receive a formal reply.

History
The Academy replaced the Hebrew Language Committee (Vaʻad ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit) established in 1890 by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who was its first president. As Hebrew became the spoken language in Palestine and was adopted by the educational system, the Hebrew Language Committee published bulletins and dictionaries. It coined thousands of words that are in everyday use today.

Its successor, the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has continued this mission of creating new Hebrew words to keep up modern usage.

Although the academy's business is creating new words from Hebrew roots and structures to replace loanwords derived from other languages, its own name is a loanword, "akademya." It addresses this irony on its English website.

The Academy's mission, as defined in its constitution, is "to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature". The Academy sets standards for modern Hebrew grammar, orthography, transliteration, and punctuation based on the historical development of the language. It also writes a Hebrew Historical Dictionary.

Organization
The plenum consists of 42 members. In addition, the Academy employs 8 academic advisors, among them respected scholars of language, linguistics, Judaic studies, and Bible. It also has 9 honorary members. The Academy's decisions are binding on all governmental agencies, including the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

title: Academy of the Hebrew Language


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title: User talk:129.44.239.140