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Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles
I noticed that you have revised either Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.

I intend to revise those articles following the WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.

Thank you.

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Turner's Arena

Turner's Arena was the name given to a 1,800 seat arena, located at 1341 W Street, near the northeast corner of 14th and W Streets, NW in Washington, DC, and originally owned by local wrestling promoter Joe Turner. One of the popular events were bouts featuring local wrestler Swift Eagle and Chief Thunderbird as detailed in the House History Man blog. A photograph and advertisement for the arena appears on page 69 of the book Greater U Street by Paul K. Williams. This venue was an early home to the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a precursor to WWE, which was started by Vincent J. McMahon in January 1953. McMahon took over the territory from Gabe Menendez, who had succeeded Turner after his death in 1947. In addition, the arena hosted top professional boxing matches promoted by Goldie Ahearn featuring fighters such as Lou Gevinson, Lew Hanbury, and Jimmy Cooper. It was also the birthplace of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association annual basketball tournament, as well as the host to top country music acts and Jazz performances. It was renamed Capitol Arena in 1956 once Capitol Wrestling Corporation began broadcasting a syndicated weekly wrestling show from the arena every Thursday night. The arena was closed and demolished in 1965.

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Talk:WCW World Heavyweight Championship

May 2004
This page seems like a huge mess. Named the WCW World Heavyweight Title, yet people have added information and bits about the ECW, USWA, and others... they don't belong here, do they? This is suppose to be about the WCW World Heavyweight Title. If someone wants to mix them all together, which seems like a bad idea to me, this page should be redirected to something like Wrestling World Titles or something like that. Eric42 19:47, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Now that I look at the page again, I've noticed that it may have started off as a page about NWA or has been changed to reflect the lienage of the NWA Title Histories. I just hope that whoever realizes that the WCW World Heavyweight Title and the NWA Title are two completely seperate titles.  I suggest reading this message board thread for more information about the titles. Eric42 19:52, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Just wanted to add, almost two years later, that this article is terribly short for such a great title (back before Bischoff/Nash/Russo.) I will attempt to make it better, but I don't know a lot about the title to expand it. Come on, someone help make this article better! Doesn't the WCW title deserve better? Eric42 01:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Error/Contradiction
This article contradicts itself. The top paragraph claims the phyical WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt is still in use today by the WWE as the World Heavyweight Title (which is false; the WWE is using a similar-looking but different belt), while the final paragraph states that the WWE's current World Heavyweight Championship is a completely different title with a different belt.
 * Wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.170.35.126 (talk) 07:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Sport vs. scripted entertainment
Why is this and other wrestling articles written as though dealing with a skill-based sport and not the scripted entertainment it is?
 * Because it takes away from the effect the entertainment has on the fans, or even observers, when one says, "Hulk Hogan jobbed to Ultimate Warrior cleanly," as opposed to "Hogan and Warrior gave it their all, but the Warrior truimphed." It's like a soap opera - you know Susan Lucci didn't get married 150,000 times, Erica Kane did. 64.241.230.3 15:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Merging Pages
They are virtually the same title design and do not over-run into one and another - therefore I am proposing this. Davnel03 18:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Opinions Here...
I feel that this page should be merged with WWE's World Heavyweight Championship page on wikipedia due to WWE's statement yesterday of the WCW title being a continuation of the World Heavyweight Championship. Big Boss 0 15:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I would be for it as long as the history of the title reigns and all that are not merged together as well. TonyFreakinAlmeida 18:24, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I think the reigns can be merged as long as there is some kind of separation or indication of the Title’s name changes. For example, there should be a break between the Rock’s last "WCW" reign and Jericho’s “Undisputed" reign and a break between Lesner’s reign and Triple H’s first reign.--Prince Patrick 18:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Even though the WCW title was unified with the WWE title to create the Undisputed title, that doesn't make Lesnar's reign as Undisputed champion a WCW title reign, because it isn't one, it's a WWE title reign. If we're going to do this, it will have to be by WWE standards and what the WWE recognizes, we'd merge the pages, and keep the title reigns in separate pages. TonyFreakinAlmeida 19:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I thought, because of the “Undisputed” name, that all of the “Undisputed” Champions (from Jericho to Brock) were all considered “WCW” Champions and then the linage would continue to Triple H when the titles were “split”. I’m putting quotes around the word SPLIT for those of you who STILL believe that the belt Mr. Batista is holding is an “ALL NEW, ALL DIFFERENT” title from the WCW Title.--Prince Patrick 19:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Well you have to look at it this way, the WWF belt and WCW belt represented the Undisputed title for about 4 months or so before the new belt was introduced. All Japan Pro Wrestling unified 3 titles to create their Triple Crown Championship, which is a single title, represented by 3 belts. WWE did the same thing pretty much with the Undisputed championship in the beginning. In my opinion, if the WWE says that the World Heavyweight Championship's lineage is connected to NWA and WCW titles, then the Undisputed title was "split" by Eric Bischoff. TonyFreakinAlmeida 19:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the Undisputed Title holders (Y2J, HHH, Hogan, Taker, Rock & Lesnar) held BOTH titles. Jericho and HHH (at wrestlemania) held both physical title belts and just because BOTH belts were replaced by a singular different physical title belt, that doesn't mean that the Undisputed Title only represented the WWE Title. If only one title was to be represented then it should logically have been the World Title; it was the World(WCW) champ Jericho that defeated WWE Champ Austin to unify the titles, so wouldn't it make more sense then that the WWE Title would be the one disapearing and absorbed into the World title and not the other way around? I mean that would be as if when I-C champ RVD defeated Tommy Dreamer to unify the I-C and Hardcore Titles, the Hardcore Title continued on instead of the I-C Title. I know WWE.com doesn't officially go along with this (yet) but it does make sense.Pretzolio@yahoo.com 19:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes but this isn't about your opinion or what you think makes sense, this is about what the WWE recognizes, and they do not recognize any of the Undisputed title reigns as WCW title reigns, because the WCW title was merged into the WWE title to create the Undisputed title. Why would the WWE throw away their own original championship in favor of another promotion's? That doesn't make sense, there have been other cases where the holder of the title that was discontinued after a unification held the title he had won, because it is simply how it's done. Another case, the WCW International World title was unified into the WCW World Championship, but guess which belt they kept as the WCW world title? The big gold, that at the time represented the International title. But once again, this is Wikipedia, and we have to go by what the WWE recognizes and not our personal opinions, and you also have to recognize that there is a difference between the term "title" and "belt" in professional wrestling.TonyFreakinAlmeida 20:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Pretzolio makes sense as far as what title should be used, but I think they recognized the WWE Title, as oppose to the World Title at the time of making it one physical belt, simply because that’s the company’s name. In the case of the IC title merging with the US, Hardcore and European Titles, I agree with you totally, but in the case of the World Titles, it’s just in the WWE best interest that the highest ranking, “most prestigious” title, would be there own. I think that may be the reason why they switched Cena and Bastita during that one draft and took their respective titles with them. They could have just easily given Batista the “Undisputed” version of the WWE Title when he went to Smackdown and call Cena’s spinning belt the World Heavyweight Championship. I feel the WWE had to put the WWE Title on their “flagship” program. The WWE is just as indecisive and probably can’t come to an agreement, just as much as we all can’t come to an agreement here on Wikipedia.--Prince Patrick 20:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes yes, I know what you mean with the brand switching of titles as all the original WWE titles are on Raw and the either new, or WCW(or NWA in the case of the World and US Championships)-era championships are on SmackDown, but if you look at it this way, if you're still going by belts, they kept the WCW belt active as representing the Undisputed title along with the WWF belt, and also I believe the tournament in 2001 to unify the titles was being referred to as the Undisputed WWF Championship, or WWF undisputed etc etc. I'm just saying that if you were in their situation, you'd keep your original championship in the spotlight too. The WCW title lost a lot of credibility in WCW's last couple of years with the many vacancies and titles drops and of course David Arquette and Vince Russo winning the title, the WWE wouldn't want to use a title with such an embarassing history as one of their own, this is also why I believe they didn't directly connect this title to their current World Heavyweight Championship. TonyFreakinAlmeida 21:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

You’re right. When it comes down to it, it’s whatever the WWE says it is, regardless of opinion, and in the case of all of these title disputes (lineage, unification, Triple Crown, Grand Slam, etc.), logic. I agree to disagree on opinions. At least we agree on what's logical. Oh well!!--Prince Patrick 16:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

This shouldn't be merged with the WWE World Heavyweight Title unless WWE combines their title histories. As it stands on their site, they still have separate title history pages for the two belts, therefore they should be recognised as 2 separate titles. Lynx Raven Raide 11:20, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Nope. I think this page is still wrong, listing WCW Champions as Jericho and The Rock etc. They werent wrestling IN WCW, ON WCW TV, werent CONTRACTED BY WCW, and the belt was owned by the WWE. As far as I am concerned, and I know Im not alone, the last WCW Champ was Booker T. That was booked by WCW, on WCW TV, by WCW Contracted Wrestlers wrestling on tv in a WCW Sanctioned match. All other matches thereafter March 26th 2001, are not Official WCW Matches, so they cant be WCW World Heavyweight Champs. PLUS, adding to the fact, the article even says the WCW World Title was simply referred to as the "WCW Championship" which ISNT the WCW World Heavyweight Chapionship. Even the WWE werent recognising it by its TRUE title, so why is everyone else? User:he6rt6gr6m 01:35, 31 January 2008 (GMT)
 * When a company owns a title, they have the right to do whatever they want with it. They can unify it, they can deactivate it, or they can continue to use it for as long they want. When the WWF bought WCW they instantly became the owners of the title. Regardless of what you wish to believe, The Rock and Jericho ARE former WCW World Heavyweight Champions. I'm afraid this debate is pointless, as the sources have contradicted every word you've said. -- bullet proof  3:16 03:04, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

According to the WWE DVD "The History of the World Heavyweight Championship" the WCW World and WHC titles are indeed one and the same. Including the months in which the WWF/E and (WCW) World titles were unified as the Undisputed Championship. There is no break in the linage. This is the official WWE historical film and thus should be followed. TheBoss1022

1991 post-Flair belt
According to various sources (including Wikipedia's article on The Great American Bash), after Flair jumped to the WWF with the Big Gold Belt, WCW used Dusty Rhode's Florida Heavyweight Championship belt to represent the title, replated (poorly) to remove the references to Florida. It would be beneficial to this article to find an image of this belt--either the replated version or the pre-replated version. Obviously the replated version would be more helpful, though I don't imagine any pictures of decent quality exist (if somebody has a tape of The Great American Bash 1991, maybe they could provide a vidcap?). As a last resort, an image of the Florida Heavyweight Championship belt without the new plating would suffice. Jeff Silvers 07:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I just realized that the belt is mentioned in this article, too. Hmm. Jeff Silvers 14:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

If I remember correctly there used to be a picture of the belt here, and I remember it just had a square plate over the main one that said WCW World Heavyweight Championship, don't know where that picture went though. TonyFreakinAlmeida 23:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Why does everyone say that Flair was paid the $25,000 by WCW and gave the title back? THIS NEVER HAPPEN!! HE STILL HAS THE BELT! NO MONEY WAS PAID TO HIM!! In the WWE DVD: Nature Boy Ric Flair - The Definitive Collection which was released in 2008. Flair said he was never NEVER paid the money plus intrest. Thus he ketp the title belt. Also the actual belt was given to Triple H by Ric Flair as a gift. Which they also talk about in the DVD. WCW however did try to sue so WWF stop showing it and did a fuzzy over the title. After Flair won the 1993 Royal Rumble. The Angle with the real world's champion was dropped. WCW did however make a new WCW Big Gold title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pres Burns (talk • contribs) 02:33, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I haven't seen the DVD and so don't know the context Flair was speaking in but he WAS repaid his deposit plus interest which is why he returned the Belt. The Belt he gave to Triple H was the "Vegas" Big Gold - A similar belt that the WWF had made for Flair during the lawsuit over the original. The original went back to WCW. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.120.137.173 (talk) 15:19, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

The World Title(WWE)
Is this the same thing as the WCW World Heavyweight Championship? If so, the statistics need adjusting, and perhpas some sort of merger may be preferable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.245.136.217 (talk • contribs)

 * The World Heavyweight Championship currently defended on SmackDown! is not the same title as the WCW or NWA Championships. So no.-- bullet proof  3:16 18:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

According to WWE's "The History of the WOrld Heavyweight Championship" DVD the titles are indeed one and the same. TheBoss1022 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.68.116.17 (talk) 00:11, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Free photograph of the other WCW World Title belt?
This article would really benefit from a (free) image of the other WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt (the one featuring the six stars on the middle plate). If anybody owns a replica of that belt and can take a photograph for the article, it would be greatly appreciated. Jeff Silvers 13:17, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ask and ye shall receive.Bmf 51 05:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Major errors
After Flair no-showed several shows in 1991, WCW stripped him of the World Title. However, the NWA 9such as they were) continued to recognise Flair, so WCW made Luger-Windham for the WCW World Title. That is the creation of the separate belt right there. The diea that Flair was a double-world champion in early 1991 is fiction. 41.245.190.156 (talk) 13:55, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

True beginning and true first WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
Sting in 1990

This link:

http://members.chello.at/dietmar.kienboeck/title.htm

shows the true beginnings of the WCW World Heavyweight Title. It was written contemporaneously, unlike the current so-called "reliable" sources which were written much more recently and espouse WWE revisionist history. Bring Back The F (talk) 15:43, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Merge with WCW International World Heavyweight Championship
This should really be merged with the article on the regular WCW International World Heavyweight Championship that was borne out of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The information between the pages is nearly identical.

One article that explains the origins of the title, the spin off of the International championship due to Flair leaving/the separation from the NWA, and the separate short lived 6 star WCW World Heavyweight Championship would be a lot more fluid. JasonOT (talk) 06:32, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No, this title and the International title were two separate World titles that splintered off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship under two separate sets of circumstances in 1991 and 1993 respectively. They both co-existed together for several months in WCW during 1993-1994 and were eventually unified at Clash of the Champions XXVII on June 23 1994 when Ric Flair pinned Sting.2.24.71.58 (talk) 00:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

shortest reign
I noticed for the intercontinental championship section... that unifying a title isn't classified as a shortest reign so therefore chris jericho shouldn't have the shortest reign for the wcw world heavyweight championship... so who is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.252.32.154 (talk) 16:15, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * WCW had quite a few less than-a-day champions, but I'm fairly sure Hollywood Hogan's reign at Bash at the Beach 2000 was the shortest. Russo stripped him of the title within minutes. Can't recall an exact time, but I'll look into it and make the change. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:34, 14 January 2013 (UTC) Seems to be about 15 minutes between Hogan pinning Jarrett and Russo's rant. If anyone has a more precise time, feel free. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Nevermind what I said. Brainfart. Jericho won it from The Rock, then held it throughout the match with Austin. Also about 15 minutes. If Austin had won the match, his reign would have been 0 seconds. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:50, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

This article does not belong in Wikipedia
The very first sentence should make it clear that the article is about scripted entertainment. The second sentence should explain who decides who will "win" any given match. A naive reader could read the whole article and think it was about a fair athletic contest. Wikipedia has no business perpetuating that particular illusion. If fans of professional wrestling don't want to know the truth, they shouldn't look up the subject in Wikipedia. HowardMorland (talk) 04:04, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The very first sentence has a shiny blue professional wrestling link. That should clear things up, if anyone's still in the dark. Every article does the same. All in the Family is a sitcom. Gold is a chemical element. The forest raven is the largest member of Corvus in Australia.

 * If you know it's a show, why wouldn't most readers? InedibleHulk (talk) 04:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Starrcade '90 first WCW title match?
According to some accounts, this title was actually created at Starrcade '90 when Sting pinned the Black Scorpion in what was billed as the "first ever WCW World Title match" as well as an NWA World title defence. (In kayfabe theory, had Scorpion won by countout or DQ, then Sting would have still been NWA champion but Scorpion would have been WCW champion and the titles would have been split at this point.) Sting won and so became double-crown NWA/WCW champion, which he then lost to Ric Flair. The two titles were separated temporarily during Tatsumi Fujinami's reign (recognised by the NWA but not WCW) and then permanently when Ric Flair was stripped of the WCW title for leaving the company, but still recognised by the NWA as champion. If the sources can be found for this version of events, then this should be incorporated into the article. 2.24.71.58 (talk) 00:59, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * If it wasn't for WP:VNT I would happily paste the following text (with some tidying for encyclopedic style) into this article:
 * "Technically, the WCW World title was created at Starrcade '90. The Sting vs "Black Scorpion" (Ric Flair) bout, in addition to being an NWA World title match, was also to crown the newly created WCW title (hence the occasional mentions of "first ever WCW World title match" on commentary at the time.)  Sting won the match and succesfully defended the NWA title while becoming first WCW champion and defended the title as a double-crown for the next few weeks, losing it as a double crown to Ric Flair in January.  Except for a few days in the Spring where Tatsumi Fujinami had the NWA title while Ric Flair had the WCW title, the two titles remained a double crown until Flair left WCW on July 1st.

 * "The NWA doggedly continued to recognise Flair as champion unitl Sept 8th, two days before his first WWF match took place.  Once it became apparrent that the title was going to be used as a gimmick in an outlaw promotion, the NWA stripped Ric Flair.  The NWA toyed with the idea of awarding the title to WCW champion Lex Luger but instead kept it dormant until the following year when Masa Chono won a tournament in New Japan.  Early in 1993 NWA champion the Great Muta visited the WCW territory and dropped his title to local top contender Barry Windham and thus the NWA title was once more based in the WCW territory until WCW went renegade in late '93.  Between Sting's win over the Black Scoprion at Starrcade '90 and Rick Rude's win over Ric Flair, the NWA regarded the WCW title as WCW's top regional title (superceding the US title just as it in turn had superceded the old Mid Atlantic title as JCP's top title upon creation in 1975) irrespective of whether the title was held by the same wrestler or two different wrestlers.

 * "Incidentally, when the WWWF/WWF was an NWA member between 1972 and 1983, the NWA took exactly the same attitude to the WWWF/WWF title - it was regarded as the top regional title of the WWWF/WWF territory. Pedro Morales, Stan Stasiak, Bruno Sammartino, Superstar Graham and Bob Backlund were all regarded as the Northeastern opposite numbers of the holder of the US title in Mid Atlantic, the National title in Georgia, the Southern title in Florida etc etc etc, while the WWWF/WWF "World" tag team title was regarded as A.N.Other regional version of the NWA World Tag Team title - the JCP version only truly became  the only NWA World tag team title.  The WWF "World" title after August 1983 and the WCW "World" and "WCW International" "World" titles from fall 1993 onwards are all regarded by the NWA as three illegal outlaw "World" titles that have all been unified since late 2001." Romomusicfan (talk) 16:09, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Rename the article to WCW World Championship
WWE officially recognizes the WCW World Heavyweight Championship as the WCW World Championship. WWE owns World Championship Wrestling and all of it's property and trademarks. WWE has chosen to give the name WCW World Championship to the championship so Wikipedia needs to adjust and change the name of the article to "WCW World Championship" or else we are just simply misinforming the readers. The same would go for the article for the list of title reigns. Epicneter (talk) 20:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * That is a pretty affirmative statement and not how things work on wikipedia. You can propose a new name and attempt to get a consensus, but things are not demanded or else. -  Galatz Talk  20:57, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Rename the article to WCW World Championship?
I think we should rename the article to "WCW World Championship," my reasoning are as followed:

1.WWE officially recognizes this title as the "WCW World Championship".

2.If we were to not make this change, I believe we would be misinforming our readers as that is not the title's official name and that has not been the championship's name for over 16 years.

3. Most people refer to it as the "Big Gold Belt" or the "WCW World Championship" as it is. Epicneter (talk) 01:13, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Based on the main article, we have the following history of the title So it included the word World the entire time it was under WCW. In my opinion, WP:COMMONNAME would indicate we should stick with the current name, since that was the name that applied while it lived under WCW, rather than the shorter lived period of time during the WWE. -  Galatz Talk  01:22, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * WCW World Heavyweight Championship (January 11, 1991 – March 26, 2001)
 * WCW Championship (June 24, 2001 – November 19, 2001)
 * World Championship (November 19, 2001 – December 9, 2001)
 * WCW World Championship (as the official name listed in WWE's website)

I agree with Galatz and I don't support a name change. Chris "WarMachineWildThing" Talk to me 02:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

On the beginning of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
January 11 1991? Nope. During 1990, Sting was unambiguously referred to as the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. But, the "Apter mags" made an issue about still using the name "NWA". As a New Year's Resolution, as of January 1 1991 the London Publishing magazines started referring to Sting as the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. However, as Flair defeated Sting just 10 days later, the monthly magazines made it appear that the Apter publications' change of name recognition was only after Flair won the title. Title? Yes, in the singular. Flair was only "WCW" Champion. And articles pointed out that some people in Japan were recognizing Tatsumi Fujinami as WCW Champion. Flair was listed as being a 7-time NWA/WCW Champion(of course because the 84 "switches" with Race are 90s revisionist fiction). Flair was stripped of the WCW Title in July 1991,but still had possession of the physical belt. But it was just a belt, not a title recognition at all. The vacant WCW Championship was won by Luger, then Sting won his SECOND WCW Championship, then Vader, then Simmons. At this point New Japan announced they were crowning a new "NWA" Champion. The Apter mags pointed out that that was a terrible idea, as the title then held by Simmons was the same linear title held by Thesz, Race etc. In 1994, after legal proceedings, it was ruled that WCW had the right to refer to a single linear title, and title lineage and heritage, running from Orville Brown through to Hulk Hogan(at the time). So, who was the first WCW World Heavyweight Champion? Legally, WCW had every right to say it was Orville Brown in 1948. But the first person referred to as "WCW" Champion was Sting, not Flair. Saying "after Flair won the NWA Title on January 11 1991, he was also recognized as the first WCW Champion" is wrong on so many different levels.

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The Stock Exchange (book)

The Stock Exchange (in German: Die Börse) is an 1896 book written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.

During the 1890s the stock exchange had become the symbol of capitalism in Germany. During 1894–1896 Weber wrote a number of essays about stock exchange, in which he argued against the popular view that the stock exchange was a fraudulent enterprise designed to abuse "the honest working people."

Weber in his research on the stock exchange concentrated on two subjects. First, he showed that commercialization could help create or destroy cultural values, sometimes doing both at the same time - it had destroyed the values of patriarchalism, but created the opportunities for farm workers. The stock exchange itself has facilitated the expansion of trade, but at the same time it did allow for new ways of crime and abuse. Second, Weber showed that economic conduct was an integral part of ideas related to pursuing economic interests, but those ideas have to be viewed separately.

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Ryan McNeil

Ryan McNeil is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Created by William J. Bell, the character was portrayed by Scott Reeves, who made his first appearance on June 26, 1991, as a businessman who wanted to "work his way to the top of the corporation ladder". The character gained popularity upon his relationship with Victoria Newman (Heather Tom), which initially received criticism due to the characters' age gap. He was also involved with Nina Webster (Tricia Cast) and the insane Tricia Dennison (Sabryn Genet).

Reeves, who described Ryan as a "go-getter" who was "shrewd" and a "charmer", found his seduction storyline with Victoria hard to "play out", considering her age. In October 2001, the actor announced his exit from The Young and the Restless, stating that it was to pursue other projects. The producers kept quiet about the storyline surrounding his exit, although confirmed that he would depart "in a big way". Within the story, Ryan prepared to remarry Victoria but Tricia Dennison, his ex-wife, attempted to shoot her and Ryan took two bullets and died from the injury. Throughout his time on the soap opera, Reeves became popular with fans as one of the genre's leading men, garnering multiple awards and nominations.

Casting
Reeves first appeared as Ryan in May 1991, on contract. In March 2000, it was announced Reeves had signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures, which would have furthered his portrayal until 2003. However, by August 2001, reports began to surface that Reeves had been released from his contract and would be exiting in a "storyline-dictated" departure, during the November sweeps period. In October, Reeves officially announced his exit from the soap opera, stating that it was to pursue other projects. The producers kept quiet about his exit storyline, but stated that he would leave "in a big way". His character died on the episode dated November 27, 2001.

Character development
Upon Ryan's introduction to the series, arch-villain David Kimble was on his way out, leaving the manipulative character of Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) "mellowing". This is why Reeves was brought in, to fill the void, and portray a character which he best described as "s". A businessman, Ryan wanted to work his way to the top of the corporation ladder. While Reeves is a family man, The Toronto Star characterized Ryan as "rake" and a "soap seducer". While he was still a newcomer on the series, Reeves stated he was having a "great time" playing the role. He described Ryan as a "go-getter" who was "very shrewd—and a real charmer". "He gets what he wants", the actor explained to the Daily News of Los Angeles.

Months into the character's duration on the series, he manipulatively seduced businessman Victor Newman's (Eric Braeden) teenage daughter Victoria (Heather Tom). Reeves found it challenging to play out this storyline. He stated, "You have to make up something, a situation in your mind, and play off that. I try to remember people I've known, or stories that I've heard about people who've been like [Ryan]". Eventually, Ryan and Victoria were married. Their marriage ended after Victoria refused to consummate it due to her fear of sex, resulting in Ryan beginning an affair with Nina Webster (Tricia Cast). The series' creator William J. Bell said that Victoria knew Nina still loved Ryan and suspected that the marriage would not last, and that "in Victoria's mind, the threat is still there". Of Victoria's refusal to consummate her marriage, yet desperateness to get her husband back, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said: "She's divorced, rich and hates sex. And now she wants her husband back. As soap operas go, Victoria Newman's plight [...] is standard daytime fare. But Victoria has one characteristic that many of her counterparts don't – she is only 17".

Storylines
While working in the mail room at Newman Enterprises, 19-year-old Ryan meets 15-year-old Victoria Newman (Heather Tom), the daughter of the company's founder and CEO, Victor Newman. The two fall in love and marry, to Victor's dismay; however, Victoria refuses to consummate their relationship and Ryan cheats on her with Nina Webster. Victoria divorces him, and he then moves in with Nina and her son, Phillip Chancellor IV (Thomas Dekker), and he later marries Nina out of obligation. He eventually develops genuine feelings for Nina; however, she has fallen in love with novelist Cole Howard (J. Eddie Peck). After Cole rejects Nina, she has a nervous breakdown causing Ryan to sleep with Tricia Dennison (Sabryn Genet). Nina then tries to commit suicide and shoots herself in a struggle with Ryan; he is arrested for the shooting. Nina suffers short-term amnesia, and although she regains her memory and exonerates Ryan, they divorce. Ryan then ends up marrying Tricia, much to the disapproval of her father Keith Dennison (David Allen Brooks). However, Tricia is very jealous of Ryan's relationship with Phillip, who accuses her of breaking apart his family. In desperation, Tricia stops taking her birth control pills and they conceive a child; Ryan is against the idea, though he warms up to it. When she eventually miscarries, Tricia sees it as her punishment for having deceived her husband.

Tricia then becomes obsessed with destroying her sister Megan Dennison's (Ashley Jones) relationship with Tony Viscardi (Nick Scotti). She runs Tony down in Megan's driveway, and is suspected of having done so intentionally. Eventually, all the Dennisons leave town, including Tricia, who leaves Ryan to move to London, England. Six months later, Tricia returns to Genoa City and asks Ryan to take her back; he refuses, as Victoria has become interested in him again. Tricia turns to Carter Mills, who is really rapist Matt Clark (Rick Hearst). He uses her, leading Tricia to attempt suicide, but Ryan is able to stop her. After Ryan and Victoria reunite, Victor has Tricia move in with him to keep her away from them. They decide to remarry, and on their wedding day Tricia arrives in a wedding dress identical to Victoria's, locks her in a closet and takes her place at the altar, where she holds Ryan at gunpoint to remarry her instead. Victor breaks Victoria free, who enters the chapel; Tricia shoots twice at her, but Ryan jumps in front to save her life. Eventually, Ryan dies from the gunshot wounds, leaving Victoria devastated and alone. Shortly after, Ryan appears to Victoria in a dream where they say their vows, and she awakes with a ring on her finger.

Reception
A syndicated article that appeared in The Fort Oglethorpe Press described Ryan's attempts to seduce Victoria as "a path that's fraught with peril and which forces the good-natured actor to search hard for inspiration". Over his duration on The Young and the Restless, Reeves became popular with fans, and his performance was met with acclaim from his peers. In 1994, he garnered a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Actor. In 1997 and 1998, he earned Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor. The following year, he received a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Upon learning of the actor's decision to quit following ten years on the soap opera, the Herald Journal said it was "hard to believe" that one of "daytime's most popular young leading men are leaving the fold". Fans of Reeves hoped that the show's writers would play "the ghost card" for him to return to the series.

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Category talk:People

order by family name?
Should we order it by family name? instead of in the Meryl Streep article? I prefer first name ordering, but that doesn't seem like something an encyclopedia would do. - Jeandré, 2004-05-31t20:00z
 * Yes, by family name. More specifically, in the order discussed in Talk:List of people by name --Amillar 05:00, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Ideas for broader subcategories
How about splitting off Category:People by profession? Another that comes to mind is Category:Prizewinners, or something similar, to hold the various prizewinner and honor recipient categories. Bryan 09:02, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree about Category:People by profession, altho we can quibble about the exact category. Since this suggestion has not been followed up, let's discuss the name issue, and do it, once there's agreement. --Jerzy(t) 20:36, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)

Category Title: Professions or its Alternatives

 * My misgivings abt Category:People by profession are two:
 * Profession (or whatever) can do double duty, and perhaps might as well, since no one but people have professions. If there were a Category:Professions, it could be a subcat of Category:People and of, say, Category:Fields of knowledge and/or Category:Useful arts (or an alternative).  (Useful arts is a (perhaps poorly named) Dewey Decimal category; i admit to vagueness about its breadth, but i think it excludes Lit and Science and Biog.)
 * "Profession" has a several meanings, including those used in labor law and probably liability law. (Is teaching a profession, if you can't be sued for malpractice of it?)  So does "occupation" (boondoggle arts-and-crafts is part of occupational therapy; both housemaid's knee and tennis elbow are occupational diseases, tho neither housemaid nor amateur tennis are usually thought of as professions).  IMO, "Occupations" or "Human activities" (or something else) could have "Professions" or "Livelihoods" as a subcategory, and also "Sports", "Music", "Arts", and maybe "Sexual behaviors".
 * --Jerzy(t) 20:36, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)

Category Title: Prizewinners or its Alternatives
Category:Laureates? Category:Honorees? These seem to me capable of embracing both prizes and prizeless formal honors. --Jerzy(t) 20:36, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)

Types of people

 * The articles pilgrim and raver are not about people but about types of people. Should these articles be removed from this category? anthony (see warning) 14:41, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Categorization of people - general discussion
see also: categorization of people and its discussion page - maybe I was too fast in creating that new article, and the discussion should have been out here first (as suggested by user:Beland on CfD page), sorry if having caused inconvenience... --Francis Schonken 13:30, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for lending a hand. Everyone should definitely follow the above link to learn more about and participate in the people-classification controversy. -- Beland 04:48, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Main page cat
Now that People is a main page category (replacing Personal life=life), would it all right if we were to add a link to that category? It could go under Did You Know, currently a red link. Or it could go in place of that red link. Ancheta Wis 09:30, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Avoiding loop between Category:People and Category:Humans
Category:Humans is in Category:People and vice-versa. Since in general we are to avoid cycles in the category system, and since Category:People is in Category:Fundamental, it looks like the thing to do is to take Category:People out of Category:Humans. I'm going to go ahead and make that change; if someone disputes it, feel free to revert and discuss. Jdavidb 19:54, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * You remembered to put colons at the start of your category links except in the heading - those links work the same way. Brian Jason Drake 03:39, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the fix. Sorry about that.  I think I was cutting and pasting an edit summary from the same comment which I put on Category talk:Humans. Jdavidb (talk) 04:44, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Nature?
Category:Humans is under Category:Nature (if you go upwards through Category:Apes, you eventually get there). Shouldn't this go there too? Brian Jason Drake 03:39, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Fictional people
I would also suggest putting this into another category to reflect the fact that there are fictional people in here - Category:Fiction? Brian Jason Drake 03:39, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

"Humans" a subcategory of "People"?
Currently, there is a root-category "People" (with specific people), which contains, among others, the category "Humans" (with all very general terms). Shouldn't those two categories be the other way around, with Humans a root category, and People a subcat of it? Peter S. 22:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)1

 * No - it sends an arrogant message about humans and presumedly violates NPOV. Brian Jason Drake 03:43, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know about NPOV, but People is a root category because People, who are users of the encyclopedia, are more interested in People than in Humans. That is, categories are fundamentally a navigation device to help people find things, not the "one true way", since there is no one true way in a category system. For that matter, I don't know why "loops are to be avoided", we are not computers likely to be stuck in a "do loop", we are trying to help People find things, in this case, links to other People. dml 03:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * People is a root category because users of the encyclopedia are more interested in it than something else? By that logic, every category is a root category! People is a main page category. A root category is one that cannot be placed under other categories according to a particular categorisation scheme. According to the categorisation scheme that currently falls under "Fundamental", people should be under "Nature" and "Fiction", in my opinion. Brian Jason Drake 04:19, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't get that, Brian. A root category should be as-general-as-possible, something that cannot be included in any other category. In this case, I doubt that the category "People", which contains John Cumming, Adam Watson etc. directly, should be a top category. It's not very general. Additionally, "People" fits very well inside "Humans", which is a more general category, and therefore should be more close to root, imho. Can you give a different argument? Peter S. 15:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think that "Humans" should be a subcategory of "People". This leaves open the possibility that there are other human-like species that we can call "people".

 * Your idea is to put "People" under "Humans". This does seem to make sense based on current observations, but I reject it, because of what I said above, and because I don't want to create a circular reference. Also, this could be seen as implying that only some humans are worthy of being called "people", although this is probably not a significant issue.

 * Perhaps part of the problem is that nobody seems to have defined "people". Brian Jason Drake 07:13, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * When I was searching before, I somehow missed the person article. Based on a glance at that article, maybe Category:Humans and Category:People should be left at the same level (neither one should be inside the other), at least until we can see a consensus, and I can't see one yet. Brian Jason Drake 07:16, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Well is there actually a human-like species that we can call "people" but is not actually human? Can you give me an example? Or is there a significant chance that we will discover such a species in the next few years? I'm sorry, i don't follow you here, people refers to human people by definition, doesn't it? So it's a subset of humans, no? I see no reason why "people" shouldn't be placed inside "humans" so far, sorry. Peter S. 14:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia must acknowledge the beliefs of those who don't follow the scientific method (NPOV). Some people believe there are intelligent aliens, and presumedly these would qualify as "people". Brian Jason Drake 06:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Philosophical People
I commented out the containing Category:Philosophy for this Cat, as I cannot understand the rationale. Please add a comment here to justify its inclusion in the Philosophy Category. True, People can be Philosophers, but not all People are Philosophers. Hence it is not a categorical statement. Ancheta Wis 14:19, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Note about lists
Since we are removing the various ways we are indexing Biographies from the browse UI's, I note that we should have: here in the cats. -- Fplay 19:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Lists of people
 * People by nationality
 * People by occupation
 * People by religion
 * Births by year
 * Deaths by year

individuals?
Should an individual ever be listed in this category? Shouldn't a given person always be listed in some more specific category? -- Mikeblas 16:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Moving many subcats to be subcats of Category:Customary categories of people
54 subcategories is way too many. As a means of further dividing these, I think many of the more specific subcats should be moved to be subcats of Category:Customary categories of people. That category's description says "This category is for terms used to classify people by traits other than major categories, such as ethnicity, occupation, religion, social groups etc." I think the following cats would fit in there. If this gets no comments in a week, I request that the next person to read it make it so, following WP:BRD. JesseW, the juggling janitor 23:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:Autodidacts
 * Category:Biblical people
 * Category:Centenarians
 * Category:Children
 * Category:Defectors
 * Category:Disappeared people
 * Category:Innovators
 * Category:Leap day births
 * Category:Mysterious people
 * Category:Political people
 * Category:Prize winners
 * Category:Revolutionaries
 * Category:Shriners
 * Category:Teetotalers
 * Category:World record holders

 * Merged back according to Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 18
 * --William Allen Simpson 02:26, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Religion sub-categories
The religion catagories are messed up. If I want to find Roman Catholics, Calvinists, Muslims, or Bahai I have to look in the People by religion subcat. But if you want Buddhists, Atheists, Taoists, or Satanists you need to go to People known in connection with religion or philosophy. Saints and exorcists can be found under Religious people. Then there's Religious leaders which are found under People by occupations (this one's probably ok, but Religious workers needs to go there too).

I think that all the subcats of people by their religion need to be merged under People by religion. But do we want to change its name to People by belief to include atheists and agnostics? Or possibly People by religion or philosophy so as to include most of the entries from People known in connection with religion or philosophy? Categories that cut across religions like saints and exorcists could be sorted to the beginning or they could be given their own category by keeping Religious people?

Is this a project that needs to be done all at once, or could we proceed one category at a time? If I don't get any comments in a week I'll start the process myself. --JeffW 20:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the best way to start the discussion is to figure out what categories need to be renamed and merged, mention the changes on the talk pages for the major categories, and then nominate them all at WP:CFD. Then, if there is consensus, much of the process can be automated. -- Samuel Wantman 21:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Already done. See Categories for deletion/Log/2006 March 1.  It isn't getting a very good reception.  --JeffW 22:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm removing the cleancat template from this category, because the problem you discuss is not a problem with this category, but with the religion subcategories. -- Samuel Wantman 20:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Common names
We have disambiguation pages for human names. We have pages that list birth/death years. We also have categories for people by birth/death year. What would you think of categorizing people by common given name? The category will be called simply "Name". Example- the category for people named Jimmy:  --User:Carie 18:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Categorisation Top 10
Why did you make this category part of the Top 10 category but with an inicial space: It doesn't look so good to me, mainly because it isn't sorted in the P block but instead, in a no initial block. jοτομικρόν | Talk 13:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Fictional people
Wondering what we can do to try to clean this category up. I was going through this earlier and noticed that there were categories of fictional people in here. For instance, Category:Fictional kings is under Category:kings and so therefore has fictional characters from LOTR in a super-category of Category:People? Shouldn't it be real people in this category only? plange 04:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. I think only real people should be in this category and its subcategories. Reyk  YO!  00:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Descendants of Famous People?
... Descendants of Mayflower Passengers, with subcategories: Descendant of William Bradford, etc etc.? Thoughts? -- Sholom 14:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

notable traits of people...
currently there is a discussion going on here at the CFDeletion and it's taken an interesting turn, regarding the fact that there are categories for people that risk being used inappropriately so the thought is to remove them... that's a weak summation, but i'm asking if anyone else can post their thoughts. -Zappernapper 11:21, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Ill defined..."American writers by state"

 * (Cross posting from: Category talk:American writers by state)

Who goes in each of these categories? People who write about a state? People who were born in that state? What about a person who happened to live in California for 2 years in the early 80s?

A clearly spelled out definition of who goes in these categories is definitely needed. Someone recently added Orson Scott Card to Category:North Carolina writers... card just happens to live thier currently, but it plays a very minor part in his life.

Anyway, some clarification would be appreciated. ---J.S (T/C) 20:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems no one has posted here for quite a while. I would think the obvious as in state eg New York. Phgao 11:43, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Ethnicity, etc.
What is the distinction between Category:People by ethnic or national descent, Category:People by ethnic or national origin, and Category:People by race or ethnicity? --Paul A (talk) 02:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * According to the categories, "ethnic or national origin" is: "This includes people who (or whose ancestors) immigrated to the country in the category name from a different country. In other words, these people or their ancestors were immigrants." Descent is "This category includes articles on people who (or whose ancestors) emigrated from the country in the category name to another country. In other words, these people or their ancestors were emigrants. For the opposite, see Category:People by ethnic or national origin".  "Race or ethnicity" groups both of those and some other categories too. --Lquilter (talk) 05:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Biography
biography · n. (pl. biographies) an account of someone’s life written by someone else. – DERIVATIVES biographer n. biographic adj. biographical adj. biographically adv. – ORIGIN C17: from Fr. biographie or mod. L. biographia, from med. Gk, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.

I have no problems with your interpretations above and that biography really doesn't mean human biographies. But confusion will continue because most people are taught the dictionary version of Biography that I list above. And will continue to list such articles as biographies. And the bots will continue to remove the category biography from such articles.

May I suggest a category of Biography-Human with a search sub-catergory B-H-last name, first name, birth year with the birth year even if it is estimated? I am a novice with Wikipedia, but might this solve the problem? And it would be easy for computers to search. Or maybe something similar?

John R. Carpenter Jrcrin001 (talk) 00:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

people, apes and humans loop
I replaced humans and ape by human nature for prevent the loops. Furthermore, you can't say that people is a subcat of homo sapiens (humans category concerns the homo sapiens field) cause homo sapiens concerns prehistory. Homo sapiens is less broad than people. Same for apes. It's a very serious subject, we have to find a solution.Zipodu (talk) 15:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

 * Category:Humans is the main category for our species, including subcategories about our biology, culture, history, etc. Category:People is a container for all the articles on individual people. People are humans, therefore Category:People should be a subcategory of Category:Humans. Humans are apes, which is why Category:Humans is ultimately a subcategory of Category:Apes, and Category:People (individual humans) is a subcategory of Category:Individual apes. Category:Human nature is a subtopic of Category:Humans – it doesn't make sense the other way around. What loops are there? MClay1 (talk) 08:48, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
 * There is a loop with Category:Humans through Category:Biology through Category:Education, which is in Category:Human activities. They're so far removed though that it's not really an issue. All the steps are logical and removing useful parent categories just for the sake of preventing a loop would be unhelpful to navigation and counterproductive. MClay1 (talk) 09:10, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

"List of everyone" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_everyone&redirect=no List of everyone] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:03, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

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Tesco Ireland

Tesco Ireland Limited is the Irish subsidiary of supermarket group Tesco. Tesco Ireland was formed by Tesco plc's 1997 purchase of the Irish retailing operations of Associated British Foods, namely Powers' Supermarkets Limited and its subsidiaries, trading as "Quinnsworth" and "Crazy Prices". There are 152 Tesco stores in operation in Ireland as of August 2018. Tesco had approximately 21% of the Irish grocery market in 2019 and its main competitors are Dunnes Stores and SuperValu.

Tesco operates full-sized supermarkets under the main "Tesco" brand, smaller urban stores under the "Tesco Metro" banner, hypermarkets as "Tesco Extra", a small number of convenience stores as "Tesco Express" as well as an internet shopping service, Tesco.ie. It previously operated several petrol stations, which were divested in 2019 to DCC plc. In 2007, the company launched its mobile telephone service, "Tesco Mobile". Tesco Ireland operated a number of 24-hour stores but have abandoned 24-hour opening as of 2014 with all stores closed from 00:00-06:00.

Quinnsworth era
The company was founded as "Quinnsworth" by Pat Quinn in 1966, and was later sold to Power Supermarkets. During the 1970s the slogan used was "Let's get it all together at Quinnsworth". Power Supermarkets Ltd. became the parent company but used Quinnsworth as its marketing name. The company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods plc.

Quinnsworth is remembered for its choice of store sites, its most memorable act was the addition of the phrase Yellow Pack to the retailing lexicon. Towards the end of Quinnsworth's life, Yellow Pack was replaced by K.V.I. label as the low-cost generic grocery brand, and a high quality generic line called Premium Choice modeled after Loblaws President's Choice (Loblaws being owned by another branch of the Weston family). Quinnsworth was also remembered for its advertising campaigns featuring its marketing director (and later chief executive) Maurice Pratt, who would personally introduce new product promotions, ending each advert with the company slogan, "That's Real Value".

Crazy Prices (occasionally Super Crazy Prices) was a brand used by Quinnsworth on some of its larger outlets. These were known for their cheap prices. Crazy Prices was one of the first retailers in Ireland to introduce late night opening (until 9pm) on Wednesdays, dubbing this night "Crazy Night" and running special in-store promotions. Until the mid-1990s, most Irish retailers only opened late one night a week, usually Thursday (in Dublin city) or Friday. KVI branding was Crazy Prices equivalent to the Quinnsworth Yellow pack. It came in blue red and white striped packaging. K.V.I. stood for "Keen Value Item" and was the equivalent of the previous Quinnsworth Yellow Pack, except perhaps even further downmarket.

Tesco era
On 6 May 1997, Tesco acquired the retailing and supply chain operations of Associated British Foods - with the sole exception of Primark - for £643 million.

The grocery businesses acquired were those held by Comar Limited in the Republic of Ireland and Stewarts Supermarkets Limited in Northern Ireland. Comar was the parent company of Powers Supermarkets Ltd (trading as Quinnsworth) and Crazy Prices in the Republic of Ireland. Stewarts Supermarkets included Crazy Prices in Northern Ireland.

Other businesses acquired were the Stewarts Wine Barrel off-licence chain, the sports goods retailer Lifestyle Sports, the meat processing and packing business Kingsway Fresh Foods Ltd. and the Fresh fruit and vegetable distributor Daily Wrap Produce Ltd.

The Northern Ireland operations were folded into Tesco's core UK business, while the Republic of Ireland operations became Tesco Ireland. Lifestyle Sports was demerged in 1997 via a management buy-out of seven directors and the venture capital company, ACT. Stewarts Wine Barrel was sold to United Wine Merchants.

After the acquisition of Power Supermarkets (PSL) by Tesco, the company name changed to "Tesco Ireland Limited". The first signs of the new regime was the almost immediate introduction of the Tesco own-brand (with advertising stating "Tesco at Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices"), with the completion of the phasing out of Yellow Pack and the other PSL own-brands such as KVI and Premium Choice. Maurice Pratt stayed on as chief executive of the Irish operations.

Over the next few years, the Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices chains were rebranded as Tesco Ireland, using a white-on-blue variation of the familiar Tesco logo. The first store to open under the Tesco name was in Athlone in 1997. The changeover was at first relatively slow, with the Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices names continuing to appear on adverts for some time after the launch of the new company identity. Tesco's initial policy was not to change the name over the door until the store had been upgraded to Tesco's standards, in some older stores this meant a significant rebuild of the premises. The first fully rebuilt store opened in Maynooth in 2000, which has since been redeveloped again as a Tesco Extra. Some older stores continued to trade under the Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices name until the early 2000s.

In 2001, Maurice Pratt, who had been the public face of Quinnsworth, left the company to become chief executive of C&C, later taking up a post as chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland). He was replaced by Gordon Fryett. In the late 2000s, Tesco Ireland gradually rebranded as simply "Tesco", using the regular red-on-white Tesco logo.

The company opened its first Irish "Tesco Extra" hypermarket at the Clare Hall Shopping Centre in Coolock, north Dublin in 2004, and has also branched into filling stations. Many stores are now also open 24 hours. The company has also moved into the convenience store market, with the first a converted Quinnsworth (then the smallest store in the chain) in Drumcondra, opened as a "Tesco Local". This was the only store to use this brand in Ireland with one store in Northern Ireland using the name aswell, as subsequent new convenience stores use the "Tesco Express" brand instead.

Tesco has also expanded its product range in Ireland. The Tesco Extra hypermarkets, as well as larger Tesco stores, now stock a range of clothing, electrical goods, music, DVDs and video games, as well as newspapers, magazines, and toys. The Naas, County Kildare store is the first in Ireland to have a Tesco Pharmacy.

Tesco.ie
In October 2000, Tesco Ireland launched its Tesco.ie online shopping service for the Dublin area. The service expanded and by the end of the decade it was available nationwide.

Operations
Tesco Ireland has come in for increased criticism for apparently high prices in its Irish stores. However, there have been general criticisms of the similar pricing between Irish supermarkets, and economic reports noting the high prices in Ireland generally. Research from Forfas, concluded that only a five per cent difference in the cost of goods between North and South was justifiable. Despite claims from Tesco that it matched prices in the Republic of Ireland with prices in Northern Ireland, a November 2009 survey by Consumers Choice magazine has claimed that, on average, prices are still 18% more expensive in the Republic In June 2012, Eurostat blamed "overly dominant supermarkets" as a factor why Ireland is the fifth most expensive nation in the EU in terms of supermarket prices. Tesco increased the prices of some well-known products significantly just weeks into 2011 before reducing them as part of a 1,000-product price promotion launched in March 2011.

Tesco Ireland was one of seven shops fined for failing to display prices properly by the National Consumer Agency in July 2008.

Tesco Ireland decided in 2019 not to make home deliveries in Tallaght due to a anti-social behaviour incidents in the area.

Tesco apologised for selling anti-Jewish literature to customers in Ireland. Sheikh Dr Shaheed Satardien, head of the Muslim Council of Ireland, said this was effectively "polluting the minds of impressionable young [Islamic] people with hate and anger towards the Jewish community".

The supermarket refused in 2002 to stock any of the million postcards which were aimed at closing the controversial nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, in England. Competing retailers did sell the postcards.

Tesco tried to hide its policy of buying directly from UK suppliers. An internal document said that ensuring its policy of taking deliveries directly from UK suppliers went unnoticed and "invisible to the Irish customer" was a key objective. At the same time the Irish Farmers' Association president said there was deep anger about Tesco's decision to displace local produce with imports "will inevitably lead to thousands of job losses and will put Irish producers of local, fresh produce out of business,"

In 2008 The Irish Independent reported that roles in Tesco Ireland's head office in Dún Laoghaire were being redeployed to the UK and outsourced to India. The Irish Times commented in April 2011 that "Increasingly, Ireland is being viewed as a provincial backwater by the parent company – albeit a very profitable little backwater – and all the strategic decisions are being taken in the UK.

Tesco used the slogan "Change for Good" as advertising, which is trademarked by Unicef for charity usage but is not trademarked for commercial or retail use which prompted the agency to say "it is the first time in Unicef's history that a commercial entity has purposely set out to capitalise on one of our campaigns and subsequently damage an income stream which several of our programmes for children are dependent on". They went on to call on the public "who have children’s welfare at heart, to consider carefully who they support when making consumer choices".

Large supermarket chains were accused by Fine Gael of putting up to 100,000 Irish jobs at risk by forcing suppliers to pay €160 million a year in "hello money". The company was the subject of claims in February 2010 of demanding up to €500,000 per supplier for stocking goods. The leader of the Labour Party described the practice as "outrageous extortion" and was "like the kind of thing you expect to see in The Sopranos."

In early 2011, Tesco warned Irish publishers that it would ban their books from its shelves if they did not comply with its rules. A bestseller, which sparked the controversy over the revelation about Sean FitzPatrick's golf meeting with Taoiseach Brian Cowen, was published in secret and distributed directly to Easons and selected bookstores—but not to Tesco or other supermarkets. The secret last-minute delivery was organised to avoid any legal complications that might have prevented publication. Tesco said "if we find evidence of this happening (again), the offending publisher will have all their titles removed from sale and returned". One publisher pointed out that Tesco sometimes implements exclusive deals itself.

Tesco was convicted of a breach of consumer law for not displaying the right price of goods in October 2011.

In January 2012, a former Tesco employee was awarded damages at the Employment Appeals Tribunal where he claimed there was a link between his dismissal and his HIV status. Tesco stated that he was dismissed for gross misconduct, i.e. consuming a product without paying for it.

In February 2013 it was reported that staff at a Tesco warehouse were made to wear digital arm-band devices that monitor their performance.

Tesco was branded "hypocritical" by Irish poultry farmers for its commitment to source all UK-sold fresh poultry from the UK, but not doing the same in Ireland. This is putting pressure on prices in Ireland as surplus poultry meat from the UK is being dumped on the market.

Marketing and advertising
The Irish Advertising Standards Authority in January 2009 found that Tesco Ireland advertising was misleading.

Britain's Advertising Standards Authority said a leaflet produced by Tesco Ireland Ltd, was ‘‘irresponsible’’ and breached clauses in the advertising code on substantiation and weight control in May 2010.

Tesco pleaded guilty and was fined, after sending unsolicited marketing emails to a number of customers and for having a problem with the email "opt-out" option.

Food safety
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland, has on a number of occasions ordered the recall of Tesco branded products, including a case of glass contamination. Environmental Health Officers served a closure order on Tesco's store in Prussia Street, Dublin, the day after they inspected it, for a number of breaches of Food Hygiene Regulations. Most food is imported from Britain, where the BBC's Whistleblower programme showed undercover footage showing the sale of products after their sell-by date; allegations that the company illegally sold 'back-labelled' products after their use by date; falsification of temperature records; and the sale of partially-cooked mince mixed with uncooked mince.

In May 2012 it pleaded guilty to selling "gone off" (decayed or rotten) meat and the next month was prosecuted and fined for breaches of consumer law.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland found horse meat, consumption of which is considered taboo in Ireland, accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content in beef burger products from Tesco in January 2013.

Financial performance
Tesco's Irish profit margin was 9.3 per cent in 2008, making the Irish operation Tesco's most successful worldwide in margin terms.

Tesco Mobile
On 26 October 2007, Tesco Ireland announced that 'An extensive range of Tesco Mobile prepay handsets will be rolled out to 48 Tesco stores from Monday 29 October'. Tesco Mobile launched as a MVNO piggy-backing on the O2 Network in Ireland. It has also outsourced the running of Tesco Mobile to Fujitsu Ireland. The network uses the 089 prefix.

Up to March 2015, Tesco Mobile Ireland operated as a MVNO on the O2 Ireland network. O2 Ireland has since been purchased and merged with Three Ireland and as a result, Tesco Mobile now operates as a MVNO on the Three Ireland Network with 99.6% coverage.

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The Hughleys

The Hughleys is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 22, 1998 to April 28, 2000 and on UPN from September 11, 2000 to May 20, 2002. It starred comedian D. L. Hughley as the main character, Darryl Hughley, and Elise Neal as Yvonne, his hard-working wife, who move their family from the inner city to suburban Los Angeles.

Plot summary
The show starred D. L. Hughley as the main character, vending machine salesman Darryl Hughley. Elise Neal portrayed Darryl's wife Yvonne. Former Living Single co-star John Henton portrayed the couple's best friend Milsap from the "old neighborhood", who often visited the family and helped them out (much resemblance to Willona visiting James and Florida on Good Times). Ashley Monique Clark portrayed Darryl and Yvonne's 12-year-old daughter Sydney, and Dee Jay Daniels portrayed their 10-year-old son Michael; both children sometimes acted out and sometimes caused complete chaos. Michael's best friends included Ronnie (Preston Wamsley), Otto (played by Connor Matheus in Seasons 1 and 2, then Ian Meltzer in Seasons 3 and 4), and Miles (Martin Spanjers).

The show's initial plot involved successful vending-machine business owner Darryl Hughley moving his family from a South Los Angeles ghetto to West Hills, a predominantly white neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley and move on up wealthy neighborhood. Darryl and his family try to adjust to living in an all-white area while trying not to forget who they are and where they came from. Darryl and Yvonne befriend their new neighbors, Sally and Dave, who are Darryl's polar opposites. The story has many racial themes that are usually comedic as Darryl makes fun of other races, especially his white and Korean neighbors.

Cast and characters
Marietta DePrima and Eric Allan Kramer played Dave and Sally Rogers, a friendly, wholesome suburban white couple. Marla Gibbs played Darryl's happy-go-lucky mother Hattie Mae opposite Ellis Williams as his father Henry. Telma Hopkins portrayed Yvonne's mother, Paulette Williams, and Sherman Hemsley portrayed Yvonne's father, James Williams, who thought of Darryl as a "jackass". Patricia Belcher appeared as Aunt Jessie Mae Hughley, and Adele Givens portrayed Yvonne's older sister Shari Williams, Darryl's wisecracking, backtalking, evil sister-in-law.

The show spent two seasons on ABC. In its first season, it followed Home Improvement, but was canceled when ABC decided to revamp its TGIF lineup. UPN picked up the show in the fall of 2000 and it aired in the Monday night lineup along Moesha, The Parkers and Girlfriends. While The Parkers and Girlfriends had improved ratings, The Hughleys aired its series finale after its fourth season.

The series had many guest stars including Ashley Tisdale, Billy Dee Williams, as Darryl's biological father, Kelly Rowland, Lil' Romeo, Gary Coleman,       Vivica A. Fox, Mo'Nique, Tyra Banks, and Rose Marie.

Main characters

 * Darryl Hughley (D. L. Hughley): a thirty-five-year-old successful salesman and business owner. His wife is Yvonne, and they have two children, Sydney and Michael. He moved from his old black neighborhood into a white suburban neighborhood. He is the son of Henry and Hattie Mae Hughley. Upon the show's move from ABC to UPN, the character was featured in a crossover appearance on the UPN series The Parkers in the Season 2 episode "Who's Your Mama?". He is best friends with Milsap (his sales manager), and later his white neighbour Dave Rogers.
 * Yvonne Williams-Hughley (Elise Neal): Darryl's wife, the mother of their two children, and best friend of Sally. She does not get along with Darryl's mother Hattie, who constantly criticizes everything she does. Darryl calls her "Vonnie", as does Milsap sometimes.
 * Sydney (Ashley Monique Clark) and Michael Hughley (Dee Jay Daniels): Darryl and Yvonne's 12-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.
 * Dave (Eric Allan Kramer) and Sally Rogers (Marietta DePrima): the Hughley family's Caucasian neighbors and close friends. They often hang out and travel together. Initially, Darryl was unwilling to befriend them out of fear that they were racists. Dave can be described as a "jolly giant". He owns a sporting goods store, and is very knowledgeable about sports, vehicles, and extreme activities. Sally and Darryl have a sort of brother/sister-like friendship, as sometimes he'll turn to her for advice or jokingly tease her. Dave and Sally have two children: son Otto and daughter Gretchen. Sydney and Michael often address Dave and Sally as "Uncle Dave" and "Aunt Sally".
 * Milsap Morris (John Henton), Darryl's lifelong best friend, the sales manager of his company. He frequently visits the Hughley household, and provides much comic relief throughout the series. Unlike Darryl, Milsap is unmarried with no children which sometimes saddens him. Early in the series, Dave becomes Milsap's second-best friend after the two form a strong friendship - which Darryl was jealous of at first until he learned to be friends with both men. Darryl, Yvonne, and Dave often refer to him by his nickname "Sap", whereas Sydney and Michael address him as "Uncle Sap" or "Uncle Milsap".

Recurring characters

 * Hattie Mae Hughley (Marla Gibbs), Darryl's somewhat aggressive mother, who made her first appearance in "The Thanksgiving Episode". She criticizes Yvonne, from her cooking habits to everything else she finds wrong with her. She also appears to have a firm handle on Darryl as the no-nonsense mother who refuses to let him get away with anything, despite his adulthood. This is shown in many episodes, one example being Sydney and Michael failing to "punish" Daryl for drugs from his past, in which they get their grandmother to do it instead. She made her last appearance on "How Hattie Got Her Groove Back".
 * Henry Hughley (Ellis Williams), Darryl's "father", who made his first appearance in "The Thanksgiving Episode". In the 2nd-season episode, Darryl discovers that Henry isn't his biological father; but still Darryl sees him as more of a father for raising him. He made his last appearance in "Bored of the Rings".
 * Jessie Mae (Patricia Belcher), Darryl's maternal aunt. She made her first appearance in "The Thanksgiving Episode", where the Hughley women attempt to Thanksgiving cooking. In a few other appearances, she is shown more confrontational than Hattie Mae, but still may have her moments.
 * Hazel/M'Dear (Virginia Capers), Darryl's maternal grandmother. She makes her first appearance in "The Thanksgiving Episode", where the Hughley women attempt to take over Thanksgiving cooking. She appears to be less insulting than Hattie Mae.
 * JoJo (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.), Darryl's older brother, who worked at an airport.
 * James Williams (Sherman Hemsley), Yvonne's father who still doesn't approve of Darryl; the two never get along with each other.
 * Paulette Williams (Telma Hopkins), Yvonne's mother, who is less confrontational with Darryl.
 * Shari Williams (Adele Givens), Yvonne's older sister. Like her father, she doesn't get along with Darryl.

Series finale
The Hughleys ended with a two-part series finale entitled "It's a Girl!" (aired on May 13 and May 20, 2002). In this episode, Darryl Hughley's niece, Carly (guest star Kelly Rowland) is preparing for college (the college was unknown), with peace, tranquility and no expectation of her relatives coming to annoy her (implying the entire Hughleys clan). Carly then receives an unexpected visit from her cousins Sydney and Michael. Darryl and Milsap go to their twentieth high school reunion and Milsap learns that his "old" girlfriend, Shandra, has a child, and he is the father.

Syndication
Reruns of The Hughleys started airing in syndication in mid-September 2002 to 2003, such as WWOR-TV who reran the show at 6:30pm weeknights, replacing reruns of Sister, Sister from 2002–03. The series aired on FXX from 2013–2017 in a widescreen form. Since January 5, 2015, Bounce TV began airing reruns currently on weekdays mornings at 8am and 8:30am eastern. Since August 2017 Aspire currently airs reruns weekdays at 12:00pm and 2:00pm eastern.

The series will be streaming on Netflix and Hulu starting September 2024.

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In differential geometry, Riemannian geometry is the study of smooth manifolds with Riemannian metrics; i.e. a choice of positive-definite quadratic form on a manifold's tangent spaces which varies smoothly from point to point. This gives in particular local ideas of angle, length of curves, and volume. From those some other global quantities can be derived, by integrating local contributions.

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Renee Olstead

Rebecca Renee Olstead (born June 18, 1989) is an American actress, singer, and marriage and family therapist. Active since childhood as an actress, she is best known for her roles on the CBS sitcom Still Standing and on the ABC Family drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Madison Cooperstein. In addition, she has recorded four studio albums, primarily of jazz music.

Early life
Olstead was born in Kingwood, Texas, to Christopher Eric Olstead and Rebecca Lynn Jeffries. Olstead is of Norwegian ancestry. She also attended Centre Stage theatrical school and is mentioned on their website's list of alumni.

Career
As a child actress, she made films and commercials from age eight onwards. From 2002 to 2006, she appeared in the TV sitcom Still Standing as middle sister Lauren Miller. Olstead was presented with the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy) - Supporting Young Actress for Still Standing in 2002. She also had a small part in the 2004 film 13 Going on 30. She co-starred in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, about fifteen-year-old Amy Juergens's struggle through her unexpected pregnancy and how it affected her peers. Olstead played the character Madison Cooperstein, one of Amy's best friends.

In 2004, Olstead released a self-titled album of jazz songs and pop standards for Warner Bros. Records to good reviews. Since her previous releases had limited distribution, this album was considered her official debut. She subsequently performed in Berlin during the Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005.

Olstead also recorded with trumpeter Chris Botti on his 2005 album To Love Again: The Duets and appeared on the 2006 DVD Chris Botti Live with Orchestra and Special Guests. Her singing style is influenced by such great jazz vocalists as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Reportedly, her musical talent was discovered by composer David Foster, who produced her 2004 album. She later performed with him on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

A follow-up album entitled Skylark, also produced by Foster, was originally announced for release in 2005, but it was subsequently pushed back several times, with release dates in the summer of 2006 and early 2007 being mentioned on online retailers such as Amazon.com. It was then scheduled for a June 2008 release, but was delayed once again. It was finally released on January 27, 2009, nearly four years after it was originally announced.

Olstead most recently starred as Kaitlan in the 2013 supernatural thriller The Midnight Game and as Jess Felton in the 2014 technology-themed thriller film Unfriended.

On November 30, 2020, Renee announced that she was launching an OnlyFans page. Her introductory subscription fee was set at $9.99 per month. She was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 2023 and maintains a five-star rating on wikiFeet. Since April 12, 2023 she is an associate marriage and family therapist specializing in sex therapy. She is a sex therapist for the adult industry mental health support network Pineapple Support.

Personal life
Renee was married to pianist Tommy King, and legally took his last name. The two divorced in 2020. As Renee King, she was crowned Ms. West Coast at the Miss West Coast pageant in 2016.

Olstead is a vegan. She appeared in a PETA ad, Fish Are Friends Not Food, urging her fans to become vegan themselves.

On September 14, 2011, as the result of a criminal complaint initially made by actress Scarlett Johansson, the FBI announced it was investigating the alleged hacking of celebrity cellphone and email accounts and the dissemination of explicit nude photographs of Johansson and approximately 50 other celebrities, including Olstead. As a result of the investigation, 35-year-old Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Florida, was arrested in October 2011. During the trial, Olstead testified that she attempted suicide after the nude photographs were leaked, adding that she had never before considered suicide before the hacking. Chaney was sentenced to 10 years in prison in December 2012.

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