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Alexander Macfarlane

Alexander Macfarlane FRSE LLD (21 April 1851 – 28 August 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician.

Life
Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, to Daniel MacFarlane (Shoemaker, Blairgowrie) and Ann Small. He studied at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis "The disruptive discharge of electricity" reported on experimental results from the laboratory of Peter Guthrie Tait.

In 1878 Macfarlane spoke at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on algebraic logic as introduced by George Boole. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland, Alexander Crum Brown, and John Hutton Balfour. The next year he published Principles of the Algebra of Logic which interpreted Boolean variable expressions with algebraic manipulation.

During his life, Macfarlane played a prominent role in research and education. He taught at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, was physics professor at the University of Texas (1885–1894), professor of Advanced Electricity, and later of mathematical physics, at Lehigh University. In 1896 Macfarlane encouraged the association of quaternion students to promote the algebra. He became the Secretary of the Quaternion Society, and in 1909 its president. He edited the Bibliography of Quaternions that the Society published in 1904.

Macfarlane was also the author of a popular 1916 collection of mathematical biographies (Ten British Mathematicians), a similar work on physicists (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, 1919). Macfarlane was caught up in the revolution in geometry during his lifetime, in particular through the influence of G. B. Halsted who was mathematics professor at the University of Texas. Macfarlane originated an Algebra of Physics, which was his adaptation of quaternions to physical science. His first publication on Space Analysis preceded the presentation of Minkowski Space by seventeen years.

Macfarlane actively participated in several International Congresses of Mathematicians including the primordial meeting in Chicago, 1893, and the Paris meeting of 1900 where he spoke on "Application of space analysis to curvilinear coordinates".

Macfarlane retired to Chatham, Ontario, where he died in 1913.

Space analysis
Alexander Macfarlane stylized his work as "Space Analysis". In 1894 he published his five earlier papers and a book review of Alexander McAulay's Utility of Quaternions in Physics. Page numbers are carried from previous publications, and the reader is presumed familiar with quaternions. The first paper is "Principles of the Algebra of Physics" where he first proposes the hyperbolic quaternion algebra, since "a student of physics finds a difficulty in principle of quaternions which makes the square of a vector negative." The second paper is "The Imaginary of the Algebra". Similar to Homersham Cox (1882/83), Macfarlane uses the hyperbolic versor as the hyperbolic quaternion corresponding to the versor of Hamilton. The presentation is encumbered by the notation
 * $$h \alpha ^ A = \cosh A + \sinh A \ \alpha ^{\pi/2}.$$

Later he conformed to the notation exp(A α) used by Euler and Sophus Lie. The expression $$\alpha ^{\pi/2}$$ is meant to emphasize that α is a right versor, where π/2 is the measure of a right angle in radians. The π/2 in the exponent is, in fact, superfluous.

Paper three is "Fundamental Theorems of Analysis Generalized for Space". At the 1893 mathematical congress Macfarlane read his paper "On the definition of the trigonometric functions" where he proposed that the radian be defined as a ratio of areas rather than of lengths: "the true analytical argument for the circular ratios is not the ratio of the arc to the radius, but the ratio of twice the area of a sector to the square on the radius." The paper was withdrawn from the published proceedings of mathematical congress (acknowledged at page 167), and privately published in his Papers on Space Analysis (1894). Macfarlane reached this idea or ratios of areas while considering the basis for hyperbolic angle which is analogously defined.

The fifth paper is "Elliptic and Hyperbolic Analysis" which considers the spherical law of cosines as the fundamental theorem of the sphere, and proceeds to analogues for the ellipsoid of revolution, general ellipsoid, and equilateral hyperboloids of one and two sheets, where he provides the hyperbolic law of cosines.

In 1900 Alexander published "Hyperbolic Quaternions" with the Royal Society in Edinburgh, and included a sheet of nine figures, two of which display conjugate hyperbolas. Having been stung in the Great Vector Debate over the non-associativity of his Algebra of Physics, he restored associativity by reverting to biquaternions, an algebra used by students of Hamilton since 1853.

Works

 * 1879: Principles of the Algebra of Logic from Internet Archive.
 * 1885: Physical Arithmetic from Internet Archive.
 * 1887: The Logical Form of Geometrical Theorems from Annals of Mathematics 3: 154,5.
 * 1894: Papers on Space Analysis.
 * 1898: Book Review: “La Mathematique; philosophie et enseignement” by C.A. Laissant in Science 8: 51–3.
 * 1899 The Pythagorean Theorem from Science 34: 181,2.
 * 1899: The Fundamental Principles of Algebra from Science 10: 345–364.
 * 1906: Vector Analysis and Quaternions.
 * 1910: Unification and Development of the Principles of the Algebra of Space from Bulletin of the Quaternion Society.
 * 1911: Book Review: Life and Scientific Work of P.G. Tait by C.G. Knott from Science 34: 565,6.
 * 1912: A System of Notation for Vector-Analysis; with a Discussion of the Underlying Principles from Bulletin of the Quaternion Society.
 * 1913: On Vector-Analysis as Generalized Algebra, address to 5th International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, via Internet Archive
 * Publications of Alexander Macfarlane from Bulletin of the Quaternion Society, 1913
 * Publications of Alexander Macfarlane from Bulletin of the Quaternion Society, 1913
 * Publications of Alexander Macfarlane from Bulletin of the Quaternion Society, 1913

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Greatness

Greatness is a concept of a state of superiority affecting a person or object in a particular place or area. Greatness can also be attributed to individuals who possess a natural ability to be better than all others. An example of an expression of the concept in a qualified sense would be "Hector is the definition of greatness" or "Napoleon was one of the greatest wartime leaders". In the unqualified sense it might be stated "George Washington achieved greatness within his own lifetime", thus implying that "greatness" is a definite and identifiable quality. Application of the terms "great" and "greatness" is dependent on the perspective and subjective judgements of those who apply them. Whereas in some cases the perceived greatness of a person, place or object might be agreed upon by many, this is not necessarily the case, and the perception of greatness may be both fiercely contested and highly idiosyncratic.

Historically, in Europe, rulers were sometimes given the attribute "the Great", as in Alexander the Great, Frederick the Great, Alfred the Great and Catherine the Great. Starting with the Roman consul and general Pompey, the Latin equivalent Magnus was also used, as in Pompeius Magnus, Albertus Magnus, and Carolus Magnus. The English language uses the Latin term magnum opus, (literally "great work") to describe certain works of art and literature.

Since the publication of Francis Galton's Hereditary Genius in 1869, and especially with the accelerated development of intelligence tests in the early 1900s, there has been a vast amount of social scientific research published relative to the question of greatness. Much of this research does not actually use the term great in describing itself, preferring terms such as eminence, genius, exceptional achievement, etc. Historically the major intellectual battles over this topic have focused around the questions of nature versus nurture or person versus context. Today the importance of both dimensions is accepted by all, but disagreements over the relative importance of each are still reflected in variations in research emphases.

Genetic approaches
The early research had a strong genetic emphasis and focused on intelligence as the driving force behind greatness.

Hereditary Genius – Galton (1869)
The earliest such research, Hereditary Genius by Francis Galton (1869), argued that people vary hugely in "natural ability" which is inherited biologically. Those at the very top end of the range, i.e., geniuses, become the leaders and great achievers of their generation. To prove this thesis Galton collected data showing that genius clusters in what he termed "Notable Family Lines", such as those of Bernoulli, Cassini, Darwin, Herschel, and Jussieu in science, or Bach in music.

Galton then calculated the odds of eminent people having eminent relations, taking into account the closeness of the biological connection (e.g., son vs grandson), and the magnitude of achievement of the eminent parent. His findings were as anticipated: the more famous the parent (i.e., the greater level of presumed "natural ability"), the greater likelihood there would be illustrious relatives; and the closer the blood tie, the greater those odds.

Early Mental Traits of 300 Geniuses – Cox (1926)
Catharine Cox's book on The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses (1926), was similar to Galton's in its orientation. Using the method that her mentor, Stanford Psychology Professor Lewis Terman, had developed for differentiating children in terms of intelligence, Cox coded records of childhood and adolescent achievements of 301 historic eminent leaders and creators to estimate what their IQs would have been on the basis of intellectual level of such achievements relative to the age at which they were accomplished. For example, John Stuart Mill reportedly studied Greek at 3, read Plato at 7, and learned calculus at 11. As such, what he was doing at 5, the average person couldn't do until 9 years, 6 months of age, giving Mill an estimated IQ of 190.

Cox found that the perceived eminence of those with the highest IQs was higher than that of those attaining lower IQ estimates, and that those with higher IQs also exhibited more versatility in their achievements. For example, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, and others with IQs in the mid 160s or above were superior in their versatility to those attaining lower scores, such as George Washington, Palestrina, or Philip Sheridan.

Both Cox and Galton have been criticized for failing to take account of the role of nurture, or more specifically socio-economic and educational advantage, in the achievements of these historical greats.

Cultural approach
There was one major anthropological study of genius, and it was triggered specifically by the author's contentions with Galton's work.

Configurations of Cultural Growth – Kroeber (1944)
Alfred Kroeber's Configurations of Cultural Growth (1944) looked at many of the same historic greats as did Galton and Cox, but from a completely different orientation. As a cultural anthropologist, Kroeber maintained that, in Simonton's words, "culture takes primacy over the individual in any account of human (behavior), and that historic geniuses are no exception..."

To prove his thesis, Kroeber collected "long lists of notable figures from several nationalities and historic eras", and then grouped them within a field and a shared cultural context, e.g., "Configuration for American Literature". Then within these groupings he listed his notables in "strict chronological order", identifying the most eminent figures by using capital letters for their surnames (e.g. EMERSON, LONGFELLOW, POE, WHITMAN, etc. in above configuration).

Kroeber found that genius never appeared in isolation, but rather, in Simonton's words, that "one genius cluster(ed) with others of greater and lesser fame in adjacent generations". He also found that there were historical "crests" and "troughs" in every field. These fluctuations in the appearance of genius were much too rapid to be explained by the simple mechanism of genetic inheritance along family lines.

Kroeber argued, in Simonton's words, that his "configurations" were due to "emulations":  "Geniuses cluster in history because the key figures of one generation emulate those in the immediately preceding generations... (until) it attains a high point of perfection that stymies further growth". At this point the "tradition degenerates into empty imitation, as most creative minds move on to greener pastures".

Recent research is consistent with these explanations; but many aspects of the developmental process from birth to the attainment of greatness remain unaccounted for by Kroeber's anthropological approach.

Developmental approaches
Retrospective studies, involving extensive interviews with individuals who have attained eminence, or at least exceptional levels of achievement, have added much to our understanding of the developmental process. Two studies in particular stand out.

Scientific Elite – Zuckerman (1977)
Harriet Zuckerman's Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States, is based on many sources of research evidence, including a series of forty-one extended interviews with American winners of the Nobel Prize for science.

Zuckerman reported her results around two main topics: How the Prize is Awarded, and Career Development of the Scientific Elite. Her findings on the first topic are briefly overviewed in the Wikipedia article regarding the Nobel Prize

In relation to the question of the career development of the scientific elite Zuckerman uses the phrase "accumulation of advantage" to describe her findings. In her words: "Scientists who show promise early in their careers (are) given greater opportunities in the way of research training and facilities. To the extent that these scientists are as competent as the rest or more so, they ultimately will do far better in terms of both role performance and reward... rewards (which) can be transformed into resources for further work... (and hence over time) scientists who are initially advantaged gain even greater opportunities for further achievement and rewards."

To see if 'accumulation of advantage' was operating in the career development of the scientific elite, Zuckerman compared the careers of future laureates with those of "members of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the scientific rank and file" along a number of dimensions including socioeconomic origins, status of undergraduate and graduate education, the process of moving into the scientific elite, and first jobs and professorships.

She also interviewed forty-one Nobel laureates extensively about their "apprenticeships" to "master" scientists while they were doing their doctoral research, and other aspects of their career development related to the above topics.

Zuckerman concluded that evidence of "accumulative of advantage" was clearly present over the course of development, with result that her research "... cast(s) considerable doubt on the conclusion that marked differences in performance between the ultra-elite and other scientists reflect equally marked differences in their initial capacities to do scientific work".

Developing Talent in Young People – Bloom (1985)
Benjamin Bloom and five colleagues conducted extensive interviews with 120 "young men and women (as well as their parents and influential teachers)... who had reached the highest levels of accomplishment" in six fields – Olympic sprint swimmers, Top 10 rated professional tennis players, concert pianists, accomplished sculptors, exceptional mathematicians, and outstanding research neurologists.

They report many findings relevant to the "talent development process", including:
 * Development was tied throughout to the values, interests, resources, and personal investments of the family of origin. In most families "introduction to the field and initial... skill development occurred" because the "(p)arents (or other family members), in pursuing their own interests, created situations that intrigued, interested, or involved the child... The child's interest was rewarded or encouraged..." and the parents then provided other ways to extend this interest.
 * The "work ethic" is central to talent development. It is developed by "the home environment" and "...directly related to learning and participation in the chosen talent field".
 * "Each group of parents strongly encouraged their children's development in a particularly highly approved talent field (related to the parents' own "special interests") and gave much less support to other possible talent fields and activities."
 * "Families and teachers were crucial at every point along the way to excellence... what families and teachers do at different times and how they do it clearly sets the stage for exceptional learning in each talent field".
 * "Few... (of the) individuals (included in this study) were regarded as child prodigies"; and, as a result, this research "raises (serious) questions about earlier views of special gifts and innate abilities as necessary prerequisites of talent development".

Recent approaches
A 1995 book by Hans Eysenck argues that a "personality trait" called Psychoticism is central to becoming a creative genius; and a more recent book by Bill Dorris (2009) looks at the influence of "everything from genetics to cultural crises", including chance, over the course of development of those who attain greatness. See – Hans Eysenck, Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (1995), "construct(s)... a model of genius and creativity" whose "novelty lies in (its) attempt to make personality differences central to the argument".

In particular Eysenck is interested in a personality trait called "psychoticism ... chief among (whose) cognitive features is a tendency to over-inclusiveness, i.e., an inclination not to limit one's associations to relevant ideas, memories, images, etc."

He considers a massive range of experimental psychological research in order to establish the underlying genetic, neuro-chemical mechanisms which may be operating to influence levels of creativity associated with fluctuations in "the tendency towards over-inclusiveness indicative of psychoticism..."

Eysenck's assessment of his overall argument is as follows: "There is no hint that the theory is more than a suggestion of how many disparate facts and hypotheses can be pulled together into a causal chain, explaining... the apogee of human endeavour – genius. If the theory has one point in its favour it is that every step can be tested experimentally, and that many steps have already received positive support from such testing."

 * The Arrival of The Fittest

Bill Dorris's book, The Arrival of The Fittest: How The Great Become Great (2009), attempts to address a number of issues which remain unanswered on the subject. These include the role of chance over the course of development, the importance of the development of unique personal characteristics to achieving greatness, and the influence of changes in the wider worlds surrounding the person – from interpersonal to societal - on the course of an individual's development.

Dorris argues that those who attain 'greatness' are credited with solving a key generational problem in a field and/or society (e.g., Albert Einstein resolving the conflict between Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell in physics at the outset of the 20th century; or Woody Guthrie providing a voice for the outcasts of the Great Depression of the 1930s).

Dorris's core argument is that those who become 'great' start out with sufficient genetic potential and then are able, over two or more decades, to obtain matches/fits with "the right kind of problems" to extend the development of these genetic biases into what Dorris terms, "key characteristics". These are the intellectual, personality, and self characteristics which eventually turn out to be required to solve a key generational problem in their field and/or society.

Dorris argues that there are four types of matching processes which occur over the course of such development. These refer to matches between the developmental needs of the person and the opportunities and resources essential to engaging in problem solving activities that stimulate further development of those aspects of intelligence, personality, and self which eventually become key characteristics.

Two of these matching processes are covered extensively in the existing research literature: continuous matching and cumulative matching.

The other two of the matching processes described by Dorris are completely new to this book: catalytic matching and chaotic matching.

Dorris's argument in relation to catalytic matching is that anyone who eventually becomes a 'great' will have experienced one or more sustained periods of exceptionally accelerated development of their key characteristics, accelerations which serve massively to differentiate them from their former peers in terms of both development and visibility within the field.

This acceleration occurs because the person becomes the focal point (star) of a self-reinforcing system of expertise and resources (catalytic system) which thrives off this person's accelerated development and visibility.

Dorris's argument in relation to chaotic matching is that access to the resources and learning opportunities essential to the development of key characteristics of an eventual 'great' often occurs not due to the efforts/planning of the individual, but simply due to chance events in the interpersonal, institutional or societal worlds around the person, who (unlike perhaps millions of equally capable peers) becomes the beneficiary of these chance events – events which Dorris argues can change a person's entire future in much the same way as a lottery jackpot or a Titanic ticket.

Dorris documents his theoretical arguments with extensive case studies of a wide range of individuals, including Einstein, Elvis, Monet, Mozart, da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Watson and Crick, basketball great Bill Russell, Louis Armstrong, Bill Gates, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Guthrie, and Norma Jeane/Marilyn Monroe.

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Great

Great may refer to:

Descriptions or measurements

 * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size
 * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent

People

 * List of people known as "the Great"
 * Artel Great (born 1981), American actor
 * Great Osobor (born 2002), Spanish-born British basketball player

Other uses

 * Great (1975 film), a British animated short about Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * Great (2013 film), a German short film
 * Great (supermarket), a supermarket in Hong Kong
 * GReAT, Graph Rewriting and Transformation, a Model Transformation Language
 * Gang Resistance Education and Training, or GREAT, a school-based and police officer-instructed program
 * Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), a cybersecurity team at Kaspersky Lab
 * Great!, a 2018 EP by Momoland
 * Great! TV, British TV channel group
 * The Great (TV series), an American comedy-drama

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Greatest

Greatest may refer to:

 * Greatest!, a 1959 album by Johnny Cash
 * Bee Gees Greatest, a 1979 album by Bee Gees
 * Greatest (The Go-Go's album), 1990
 * Greatest (Duran Duran album), 1998
 * Greatest (Raspberries album), 2005
 * Greatest (song), a song by Eminem
 * "Greatest", a song by NEFFEX
 * Greatist, a fitness and health website

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USS Kleinsmith

USS Kleinsmith (APD-134), ex-DE-718, was a Crosley-class high speed transport for the United States Navy. She was named for Chief Watertender Charles Kleinsmith (1904–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism during the Battle of Midway.

Namesake
Charles Kleinsmith was born on 28 September 1904 in Zionsville, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the United States Navy on 26 October 1922 as an apprentice seaman. Until honorably discharged on 5 October 1926 as fireman second class, he served on board several ships, including the battleships USS Wyoming (BB-32) and USS Maryland (BB-46).

Kleinsmith reenlisted in the Navy on 20 December 1928, and during the next 11 years he had duty on board the light cruisers USS Milwaukee (CL-5) and USS Cincinnati (CL-6), the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33) and the light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48). He reported aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) on 27 December 1939 and transferred to the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 31 October 1940. He achieved the rank of chief watertender.

During the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942, Chief Watertender Kleinsmith maintained auxiliary power on Yorktown after an intense Imperial Japanese Navy bombing attack extinguished the fires in all of her boilers but one. At the end of the attack, Kleinsmith was missing and presumed dead. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

Construction and commissioning
Originally a Rudderow-class destroyer escort designated DE-718, Kleinsmith was re-designated as APD-134 on 17 July 1944, even before being laid down on 30 August 1944 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan. She was launched on 27 January 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Mary Agnes Kleinsmith. Builders trials before her pre-commissioning cruise were done in Lake Huron.

After completion, Kleinsmith sailed from the builder's yard at Bay City to Chicago, Illinois. From there, they went through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and down the Chicago River to Joliet, Illinois, where pontoons were attached to the ship so it could be pushed down the Des Plaines River, Illinois River, and Mississippi River as part of a barge train. After arriving at the Todd Johnson Shipyard in Algiers, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi at New Orleans, the rest of the crew reported aboard, and Kleinsmith was commissioned at New Orleans on 12 June 1945.

1945–1951
As an APD, her primary role was to land raiding parties on enemy beaches and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) personnel on beach obstacle clearance operations. APDs also retained the sound gear and some anti-submarine weapons of destroyer escorts, and served as escorts to amphibious groups. Because they could take on extra personnel, they were often designated as rescue ships if a transport went down.

After shakedown out of Guantanamo Bay, Kleinsmith arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 21 July. Departing on 4 August for the Pacific, the high-speed transport steamed via the Panama Canal, San Diego, and Pearl Harbor, and reached Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 1 October. She operated between Okinawa and the Japanese home islands until 21 February 1946. She then sailed from Sasebo via the Marshall Islands and Pearl Harbor, arriving at San Francisco on 24 March with 118 returning veterans embarked. Departing on 10 April, she proceeded via the Panama Canal to the East Coast, arriving at Norfolk on 1 May 1946.

Based at Norfolk and NAB Little Creek, during the next six years, Kleinsmith operated along the Atlantic coast from Labrador to Venezuela while conducting amphibious and anti-submarine operations. She served primarily as an amphibious command ship; many of her cruises carried her into the Caribbean, where she operated out of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guantanamo Bay.

1951–1960
During January 1951, the Kleinsmith embarked an Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) at Little Creek to participate in the filming of The Frogmen, a Hollywood film chronicling the adventures of the Navy's UDT divers in the Pacific during World War II. Departing Norfolk on 3 January 1951, the warship stopped at Key West, Florida, and Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, before commencing ten days of filming between 15 January and 6 February. According to the command historian, "Dana Andrews and Richard Widmark helped make the old 'klinker-dinker' a movie star."

Returning from the Caribbean on 13 February 1951, Kleinsmith departed Little Creek on 5 March on the first of four deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. Arriving at Gibraltar on 15 March with UDT personnel embarked, she deployed with the 6th Fleet and participated in amphibious operations that ranged from Oran, Algeria, to Phaleron Bay, Greece. After serving as an amphibious control ship, she departed Gibraltar on 26 June for the United States, arriving at Little Creek on 6 July. On 19 July 1952, she departed for another four-month deployment with the 6th Fleet, and supported its important peace-keeping activities off the troubled lands of the Mediterranean.

Returning to Little Creek on 29 January 1955, Kleinsmith resumed operations along the eastern seaboard to the Caribbean. On 9 January 1957, she again departed for duty with the 6th Fleet, and for almost three months operated in the Eastern Mediterranean. In response to an urgent request from King Hussein of Jordan, whose government was threatened with leftist-oriented, Egyptian-supported subversion, Kleinsmith departed La Spezia, Italy, on 25 April for the Levantine Coast. Arriving off Beirut, Lebanon, on 30 April, she joined ships of the 6th Fleet in a formidable display of seapower, designed to show U.S. determination that the integrity and independence of nations in the Middle East would be guaranteed against Communist subversion or aggression. Remaining on station until 3 May, she then departed Rhodes, Greece, on 18 May, and returned to Little Creek on 1 June.

Less than three months later, Kleinsmith sailed once again for the Mediterranean, arriving at Palermo, Sicily, on 15 September. During the previous August, a pro-Soviet takeover of the Syrian Army had threatened the stability of the Middle East. The high-speed transport proceeded to the Eastern Mediterranean on 19 September, and operated there to prevent aggression and to preserve peace. She departed Barcelona, Spain, on 4 November, and arrived back at Little Creek on 17 November.

In 1958, Kleinsmith continued her activities along the Atlantic coast. While operating out of Guantanamo Bay on 24 October, she rescued 56 U.S. citizens and 3 foreign nationals at Nicaro, Cuba, where they were endangered by military operations between the Cuban Army and the Fidel Castro's rebels. From 27 May to 3 August 1959, she cruised to the Great Lakes via the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway. On 1 April 1960, Kleinsmith departed Little Creek for the Pacific. Steaming via the Panama Canal, San Diego, Pearl Harbor, and Guam, she arrived Tsoying, Taiwan, on 15 May. Kleinsmith was decommissioned on 16 May 1960, and was transferred the same day to the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China.

ROCS Tien Shan
The ship served in the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Tien Shan (APD-315), (later renumbered 215, 615, and 815). In the early 1970s, Tien Shan was fitted with a second 5-inch/38 mount aft, a Sea Chaparral surface-to-air missile launcher, and ASW torpedo tubes. At this time, she was re-rated as a patrol frigate. In the 1980s, Tien Shan, and other surviving ships of her class which were also transferred to Taiwan, were assigned to the Customs Service Coastal Patrol command, where they patrolled the economic exclusion zone. In this role, their armament was reduced to just one twin 40 mm mount in front of the bridge. She was still active in this role in 1995. Her decommissioning year is variously reported as 1997 or 1998.

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Greater

Greater may refer to:

 * Greatness, the state of being great
 * Greater than, in inequality
 * Greater (film), a 2016 American film
 * Greater (flamingo), the oldest flamingo on record
 * "Greater" (song), by MercyMe, 2014
 * Greater Bank, an Australian bank
 * Greater Media, an American media company

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Talk:Antifundamental representation

issues
first of all, fundamental representations, according to the definition you gave in the article are highly nonunique. Secondly, fundamental representations are not non self-dual in general. Thirdly, the term "fundamental rep" as it's used by physicists seems to me to boil down to: for each specific simple Lie algebra, let's pick by an arbitrary convention (which is agreed upon by all physicists) a particular irrep and call it the fundamental rep. Phys 22:06, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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BRST

BRST may refer to:
 * BRST Films, a Serbian video production company
 * BRST algorithm, an optimization algorithm suitable for finding the global optimum of black box functions
 * BRST quantization in Yang-Mills theories, a way to quantize a gauge-symmetric field theory
 * Brasília Summer Time
 * Burst.com, from its stock ticker, now Democrasoft

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Talk:Mayor

Tennessee county mayors
In Tennessee, the chief executive of each county is also referred to as a "mayor". This has been the case for several decades in Nashville, which is a consolidated city-county {"Metropolitan Government"), but also in Memphis-Shelby County, which is not -- the mayor of Memphis and the Mayor of Shelby County are separate people. The two small consolidated city-counties, Lynchburg-Moore County and Hartsville-Trousdale County, have also had this styling since they adopted this form of government. A couple of years ago it was decided to adopt this styling for the heads of all of the other counties, also, replacing the cumbersome "county executive" which was seldom used, perhaps in an attempt to end the use of "county judge" and "county judge-executive", which have had no legal standing since 1978 but which continued to be used.  Before adding it to this article, I would really like to know if that is used in other states for the chief executive of a county, and if so which ones.

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Americentrism
WHAT THE HELL? I thought this page once contained lists of mayors from various cities from around the world. Where did they go? Has it become the official policy of Wikipedia to be blatantly American biased? SD6-Agent 02:28, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I too took umbrage. We have 65.124.105.40 to thank for that bias, which I have now corrected. I can't believe I didn't notice earlier. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, --Cyberjunkie | Talk 08:43, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Finland
The section is somewhat contradicted by Politics of Helsinki. -- Docu — Preceding undated comment added 11:20, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Italy
We say very confidently that in the larger Italian towns mayors are selected by the council and that in smaller ones they are appointed by the central government. The Italian article it:sindaco, albeit a bit of a stub, says very confidently that mayors are appointed in each comune by direct election, for a term of five years which can be renewed once. Total disagreement here. Anyone know which is correct? —Ian Spackman 01:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Mayor's spouse
If the mayor is male, his wife is called the mayoress. If the mayor is female, what is her husband called? --Dunkankan 19:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

 * In the UK, the husband of a female Mayor is usually called the Mayor's Consort —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.153.5.200 (talk) 14:53, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

 * At Cambridge, England, the mayor (for 2007-08), Jenny Bailey, is a male-to-female transsexual—and a lesbian. Her partner, Jennifer Liddle, also a transsexual, is the mayoress. 66.234.222.96 (talk) 04:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Term Limits?
What are the term limits for mayors in the United States? I'm interested particularly in the mayors of major U.S. cities, New York for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.185.59 (talk) 00:25, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * In California, term limits are determined by local option, and many cities and counties do not even have term limits. Where term limits exist, each city or county determines the number of terms or the number of consecutive terms.  DERoss (talk) 00:55, 5 August 2014 (UTC)  David Ross.

etymology
Does anyone know of if the etymology was influenced by the old scottish term mormaer, which was in essence the chief or regional king of the post-pictish era? This is probably well on the way to WP:SYN or WP:NOR, but out of sheer curiosity, does anyone know? I will ask on the other articles talk page also. Paul Roberton (talk) 16:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Mayor of London
Shouldn't the modern London Mayors be included here? The two London Mayors since the new system came into practice are the former Mayor Ken Livingstone and the current Mayor Boris Johnson. Zestos (talk) 17:49, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Scotland
Anyone knowledgeable to write about what I came here to find out? Are there Mayors in Scotland? If not, why not? Is yes, where? etc.194.73.131.18 (talk) 15:57, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Sweden
'Borgmästare' is obsolete. The title of the leader of a municipal administration nowadays is 'kommunalråd' or 'Municipal Councillor'. There may be several councillors in bigger cities; in that case the councillor for finance is the leader. However, the highest rank - somewhat like the rank of king in a constitutional monarchy - belongs to the chairman of the municipal board. Some of these translate their title as 'mayor' when receiving foreign guests.

It is also somewhat incorrect that the 'borgmästare' was appointed by the government, or at least it will give wrong impressions. The title was during its last time - from the 1830s to the 1960s - a title for the chairman of the city court, i.e. a title of a lawyer, and not a political/administrative one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janwiklund (talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Historical Russian so-called synonym?
In :ru there is the article without no interwikis (ru:Городской голова)--Bioneer1 (talk) 09:12, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Canada
The main article says: "In rural municipalities(RM) in the province of Manitoba, the elected head of the RM is still referred to as a "reeve"." The province of Saskatchewan also has RMs (rural municipalities), and the RMs have an official known as the reeve. I do not know if a reeve in Saskatchewan has the same authority as a reeve in Manitoba. DERoss (talk) 00:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC) David Ross

 * In British Columbia the term "reeve" was also used until quite recently in smaller/(formerly-)rural municipalities, e.g. The Rerve of Saanich (part of Greater Victoria). Sorry can't follow this up right now, but it might be of interest. --D Anthony Patriarche, BSc (talk) 14:54, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

India
Mayor cites "Local Government Act" 1989, which is a British act. It seems rather unlikely! Batternut (talk) 10:15, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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List of Catholic priests

This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.

Roman Catholic Church

 * Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña – Jesuit explorer
 * Alger of Liège – History
 * Abraham Armand – Missionary to Hawaii
 * Alexis Bachelot – Missionary to Hawaii
 * Antonio Vivaldi – Italian baroque composer
 * Erasmus of Rotterdam – Dutch priest and philosopher
 * Nicolas Aubry – French priest
 * Tissa Balasuriya – Sri Lankan Sinhala theologian
 * Mary Bastian – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka
 * David Bauer – Hockey player turned priest
 * Josef Bisig – Formerly of the Society of St. Pius X, currently of the recognized Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
 * Martin Adolf Bormann – Son of Nazi Martin Bormann who works against Holocaust denial
 * Jim Borst – Dutch Missionary in India since 1960
 * Martin Stanislaus Brennan – Astronomer and author
 * Vincent Robert Capodanno – U.S. Navy chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Francisco Fernández Carvajal – Author and Opus Dei priest.
 * Solanus Casey – Declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.
 * William Joseph Chaminade – Faced persecution for being a priest during the French Revolution
 * Daniele Comboni – Missionary to Africa, canonized
 * John M. Corridan – Anti-corruption activist
 * Horacio de la Costa – Filipino Jesuit and writer
 * Les Costello – A founder of the Flying Fathers exhibition hockey team
 * Peter Coudrin – Faced persecution during French Revolution, later became a missionary to Hawaii
 * James Coyle – Murdered Catholic priest
 * Johannes Czerski – German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism
 * Jozef De Veuster – Canonized, worked with lepers
 * Chandra Fernando – Murdered human rights activist
 * Piero Folli – Italian antifascist parish priest
 * Joseph Freinademetz – Missionary to China, canonized
 * Mariano Gagnon – Franciscan friar and author who helped indigenous people resist the Shining Path in Peru
 * Georg Gänswein – Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI
 * Augustine Geve – Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician, murdered in 2002
 * Lionel Groulx – French Canadian Nationalist
 * Jacques Hamel – Priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack.
 * Elmer Heindl – American WWII chaplain
 * Ignatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus
 * Itō Mancio – First official Japanese emissary to Europe, after that he became a Jesuit priest
 * Saint Arnold Janssen – Missionary
 * Marcelline Jayakody, Sri Lankan Sinhala author, composer of hymns, author, journalist
 * Mychal F. Judge – Chaplain, 9-11 victim
 * Georg Joseph Kamel – Jesuit botanist of whom the Camellia is named after. Compiled works on Philippine medicinal plants, which is well known in pharmacology
 * Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) – President of Brooklyn College
 * Georges Lemaître – Physicist and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
 * Georges-Henri Lévesque – Sociologist
 * Gerard Timoner III – The current master of the Dominican Order
 * Eustáquio van Lieshout – Did work in Brazil
 * Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus
 * Heinrich Maier – Head of an important resistance group against Nazi Germany
 * Columba Murphy – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration for Hawaiian Catholics
 * Hugh O'Flaherty – World War II hero
 * Nemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure there
 * Peter Pernin – Survivor and memoirist of the Peshtigo fire
 * Wolfgang Rösch – Vicar general of Limburg
 * Jean-Baptiste de La Salle – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
 * Abraham a Sancta Clara – Catholic preacher in Austria
 * Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to Japan
 * Vinkenti Peev – Bulgarian Capuchin friar
 * Thomas Byles – English priest who stayed on board the sinking RMS Titanic hearing confessions
 * Michael Nazir-Ali – Former prominent Anglican bishop who became Catholic and was ordained a priest on the 30th of October, 2021
 * Eugine Mattioli – Longest serving Catholic missionary in Arabia
 * Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić – Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first Croatian arithmetic textbook Arithmatika Horvatzka (published in Zagreb, 1758)
 * David Michael Moses – American priest and musician
 * Edward Stanger – Pastor at Holy Infant Catholic Church, Ballwin

Eastern Catholic Churches

 * Ghevont Alishan – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church who designed Armenia's first modern flag.
 * Walter Ciszek – Byzantine Rite member of the Society of Jesus who was imprisoned at Lubyanka (KGB).
 * Eddie Doherty – Ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
 * Ed Evanko – Actor who became a Ukrainian Catholic priest.
 * Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini – Catholic saint.
 * Louis Massignon – Scholar of Islam who transferred to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church after converting to Catholicism and later became a priest.
 * Alphonse Mingana – Chaldean Catholic Church priest and Orientalist.
 * Youakim Moubarac – Maronite Church – priest and scholar.
 * Joseph Raya – Melkite Greek Catholic priest (later archbishop) active in the U.S. civil rights movement and advocate of Israeli Christian Arabs.

Catholic exorcists

 * Father Ernst Alt
 * Father Candido Amantini
 * Gabriele Amorth – Founder of the International Association of Exorcists
 * Father Raymond J. Bishop
 * William S. Bowdern – Participated in an exorcism of Roland Doe in 1949. The incident became the basis of William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist.
 * Jeremy Davies
 * Father Angelo Fantoni
 * Father Jose Antonio Fortea
 * Giancarlo Gramolazzo – President of the International Association of Exorcists until his death in 2010
 * Father Alfred Kunz
 * Father Matteo La Grua
 * James J. LeBar – New York exorcist consulted with regards to films
 * Malachi Martin – Writer on unusual subjects as well as an exorcist
 * Father Theophilus Riesinger
 * Father Rosario Stroscio

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Hartlepool (UK Parliament constituency)

Hartlepool  is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Jonathan Brash of the Labour Party from 2024. The constituency covers the town of Hartlepool plus nearby settlements.

Labour won every contest for the seat since the first at the February 1974 election (and mostly won the predecessor constituency of The Hartlepools from the 1945 election onward) until Jill Mortimer won the 2021 by-election, becoming the first Conservative MP to represent Hartlepool since 1959. However, she lost her seat back to Labour three years later.

1974–1983
The County Borough of Hartlepool.

Before 1974 the seat was known as The Hartlepools (reflecting the representation of both old Hartlepool and West Hartlepool). The name was changed following the merger in 1967 of the County Borough of West Hartlepool and the Municipal Borough of Hartlepool to form the County Borough of Hartlepool.

1983–present
The Borough of Hartlepool.

''As a result of major local government boundary changes in 1974 arising from the Local Government Act 1972, the Borough of Hartlepool was incorporated into the new county of Cleveland. As a consequence, a small part of the pre-1983 Easington constituency was added to the seat.''

Hartlepool was one of the constituencies which remained unchanged by 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.

The seat is currently coterminous with the borough of Hartlepool, which has close to the average population for a UK parliamentary constituency. The seat includes the town of Hartlepool itself and the nearby villages of Hart, Elwick, Greatham, Newton Bewley and Dalton Piercy.

History
The constituency had previously substantially been in the constituency of The Hartlepools. It became the constituency of Hartlepool in 1974.

Hartlepool was a Labour constituency from its creation until 2021, although its predecessor did have Conservative MPs both in the early 1960s and during the Second World War. At the 1992 general election, Edward Leadbitter stood down and was succeeded by the former Labour Director of Communications Peter Mandelson. Mandelson's pivotal role in the reshaping of the Labour Party into New Labour attracted much attention, and he became a prominent target.

During the first term of the Labour government led by Tony Blair, Mandelson was twice appointed to the Cabinet and twice forced to resign amid minor but controversial scandals. At the 2001 general election there was a notable contest when Arthur Scargill, former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and the leader of the Socialist Labour Party, stood for election in the hope of exploiting uneasiness about New Labour in "traditional" Labour heartlands. In the event, Mandelson retained his seat, while Scargill polled only 912 votes. Mandelson shocked many with a triumphalist victory speech in which he declared "They underestimated Hartlepool, and they underestimated me, because I am a fighter and not a quitter!".

The following year, the town's first direct Mayoral election generated surprise when the mascot of Hartlepool United F.C., H'Angus the Monkey (real name Stuart Drummond) was elected on a platform that included free bananas for schoolchildren.

Mandelson resigned as MP for Hartlepool when he was appointed as a European Commissioner in the summer of 2004. This triggered a by-election that took place on 30 September. The Hartlepool by-election – the last held prior to the 2005 general election – saw Iain Wright retain the seat for Labour with a majority of 2,033 votes. That by-election marked the first time that the United Kingdom Independence Party had ever finished in third place at a by-election.

The Labour Party has continued to hold the seat since the by-election, with a dwindling majority and falling share of the vote, and at the three most recent general elections, three parties have finished in second place: the Liberal Democrats in 2005 (following their strong performance at the by-election the previous year), the Conservative Party in 2010, and UKIP, going one better than its by-election showing, in 2015.

In May 2010, the Conservatives gained their largest percentage vote increase in the country in Hartlepool, reducing the Labour majority to just over 5,500, whilst in 2015, UKIP recorded their eleventh-highest vote share in the United Kingdom, taking 28% and reducing the Labour majority to just over 3,000 votes.

2010 general election
Both the 2010 and 2015 general elections (in addition to several local elections) took place against the backdrop of concerns regarding the potential closure of Hartlepool and Stockton hospitals and their replacement with a new "super hospital" in out of town Wynyard. This precipitated the closure of several departments, and the removal of services from Hartlepool. The move was initially supported by Hartlepool MP Iain Wright, and opposed by Stockton South candidate James Wharton at the 2010 general election. A substantial protest group was formed opposing Wynyard, and calling on services to remain at Hartlepool, backed by a campaign by the Hartlepool Mail, a local newspaper.

Following the recession of 2008, the incoming coalition government announced it would scrap the Wynyard proposals, although no guarantees were made regarding the future of Hartlepool hospital. This issue continued to dominate politics in Hartlepool at both general elections and local council elections, which dented support for Iain Wright and Labour, who had backed the Wynyard plans, whilst many independent candidates gained traction.

At the 2010 general election, the Conservative Party approached Alan Wright, a regional broadcaster for the BBC and columnist for the Hartlepool Mail, to stand as its candidate, despite his lack of political and campaigning experience, hoping that his high-profile would help. It was also noted that the similarity of his name to that of the town's MP, and the fact he would feature above him on the ballot paper, might result in additional votes. The Conservative Party gained a swing of 16.7%, the largest in the country, taking second place from the Liberal Democrats, and garnering it a vote share far exceeding their traditional local support.

2015 general election
Sitting MP Iain Wright was the only candidate from 2010 to remain on the much-extended ballot paper in 2015, in which the three main parties faced competition from UKIP, the Green Party, and three independent candidates, each standing primarily on healthcare-related platforms.

Popular local taxi driver and charity fundraiser Stephen Picton put himself forward as the voice of the hospital campaigners, although this was challenged by the last-minute candidacy of Sandra Allison, who stood under the banner of 'Your Vote Could Save Our Hospital'. John Hobbs, an 80 year old autism campaigner stood under the tagline 'Tell it like it is'.

UKIP earmarked Hartlepool as a potential gain, and the seat became one of its top ten national targets as well as its main target in the north-east, attracting significant party funding, visits from leader Nigel Farage, and the regional party conference. It selected Philip Broughton, a former Stockton Conservative Councillor and wrestling entrepreneur, as its candidate. The Conservative Party selected public affairs consultant and competitive swimmer, Richard Royal, as its candidate.

The Conservative Party's national '40/40 strategy' meant that much of its regional resources were directed towards the marginal seats of Stockton South and Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, forcing candidates to campaign outside of their selected seats. The Green Party selected local member Michael Holt, who had been arrested the previous year for obstructing a police officer at a protest in London, although charges were subsequently dropped. Just days before the nomination deadline, the Liberal Democrats selected Darlington-based Hilary Allen as its candidate.

On Valentines Day in 2015, a 'We Love Our Hospital' rally was organised by Save Our Hospital and the Teesside Peoples' Assembly Against Austerity, attracting large crowds in Hartlepool town centre. Candidates Iain Wright, Richard Royal, Philip Broughton, Stephen Picton and Michael Holt each gave speeches alongside other selected speakers. It was reported that Wright was booed and heckled by the crowd.

One day prior to the general election, local football club Hartlepool United F.C. took the unprecedented step of openly criticising Wright, and seemingly encouraging fans to support either Royal or Broughton, both of whom had met the club's leadership and shown support for its interests. The club had been under pressure, facing relegation and had an ongoing land dispute with the Labour council.

Throughout the campaign, both Phillip Broughton and Richard Royal sought to portray themselves as the only viable alternative to Iain Wright, with Broughton distributing leaflets claiming that the Hartlepool election was a 'two horse race', and Royal referring to the close 2010 result, with his slogan "Wright for your town? Wrong for your future. Turn Hartlepool Royal Blue". As a result, much of the anti Labour vote was split, with UKIP and the Conservatives gaining a combined 48.9% compared to Iain Wright's 35.6%, but neither taking enough votes individually to defeat Labour. At one point during election night itself, the vote looked so close that a recount was reported to be due, but this proved to be unnecessary after the inclusion of postal votes.

2017 general election
Following the 2015 general election result, Hartlepool became the 35th most vulnerable Labour seat in the country. At the EU referendum in 2016 Hartlepool voted to 'Leave' by 69.5%, making it one of the highest Leave-voting Labour-held seats in the UK. Despite this intense Euroscepticism in the area making it perceived as a vulnerable seat for Labour, at the 2017 general election Labour's new candidate Mike Hill retained the seat, with UKIP's vote falling by 17 points and Labour's rising by 17 points. This gave Labour their biggest total vote and popular vote majority in Hartlepool since 2001.

Following an allegation of sexual assault made against him in September 2019, Hill sat as an Independent. However, three weeks later, the allegation was withdrawn, and he had the Labour whip restored.

2021 by-election
On 16 March 2021 Mike Hill resigned as the MP for Hartlepool, triggering a by-election. The election was won by Jill Mortimer of the Conservative Party. It is the first time the Conservatives have held the seat.

Elections in the 2020s
The result was the biggest swing towards an incumbent governing party in a by-election in the post war era; the record was formerly the 1945 Bournemouth by-election.

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User:DownTown

I just 'discovered' Wikipedia, but I definitely want to start contributing myself because I think it's an amazing idea. I'm a student from a European country - and that's all I'm going to reveal about myself here since I like the idea of the internet as a somewhat anonymous space.

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Talk:Dean Radin

Not a biography
I wanted to gain an impression of Dean Radin's life and work to date but, as it now is, this bio appears to be little more than a chance to put forward criticism of Radin and his career.

Criticism has its place but this page does seem to be unable to state anything positive at all and is therefore rendered one-sided, inadequate and, regrettably, unworthy of publication by Wikipedia.

BarryNL1 (talk) 13:23, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

 * I agree that the article is unbalanced in the negative direction. NPOV? ---Dagme (talk) 20:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has to use the reliable sources that exist. If they are uniformly critical, what do you suggest we should do? Sweep the criticism under the carpet? Use unreliable sources praising him? Invent fake sources praising him?
 * Your understanding of NPOV is faulty. --Hob Gadling (talk) 15:52, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

July 2020 edit
Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "does not appear to be more neutral". For example, the review in Journal of Scientific Exploration is not suitable. It's published by Society for Scientific Exploration, which, according to its Wiki article, embraces views that are "are often at odds with those of mainstream science". --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:36, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , it's al;so basically a SPS as far as Radin is concerned. Guy (help!) 15:44, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello. Not neccessary to revert the whole thing to an earlier version. My main addition was references to Nobel laureate Brian Josephson's website at Cambridge University, where he supports Radin's book and also supports Radin's point of view in his debate in Nature. We might not share Josephson's view, but definitely a Nobel laureate shoould be listened to. So I have now reverted to the earlier version, but taken your objection to heart and removed the reference you did not approve of. D'Espagnat

 * As a new Wikipedian, you need to read our WP:FRINGE guidelines. The bulk of your edits are aimed at introducing a false balance, portraying the fringe view and the mainstream view as equally credible. Note that our articles on such concepts as parapsychology, psi and dream telepathy clearly state the lack of scientific support for such claims. Biographies of living persons should not be written so as to argue against scientific consensus on these matters, or to attempt to add praise for them by citing some supporters credentials. Also please note that adding superlatives like "inspired author" is considered WP:PUFFERY. - LuckyLouie (talk) 02:41, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

 * JSE does in fact undertake the same processes as do the major journals, in particular having submissions refereed by experts, and it is indexed in Scopus and Elsevier Abstracts, which should indicate that some conventional institutions consider it of high standard. And while its Wiki article may assert that it 'embraces views that are "are often at odds with those of mainstream science", what the journal's web site actually says is that its aim is 'to provide a professional forum for critical discussion of topics that are for various  reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science', and I can't see why JSE should be considered a bad source, given that it subscribes to the same careful admission procedures as any other journal does.  'Embracing' is a loaded word that misrepresents the journal's attitude, and its wiki page could do with being amended accordingly. --Brian Josephson (talk) 16:22, 14 July 2020 (UTC) And since you are so keen on quoting wiki, let me note what the wiki article about Scopus says about it: "All journals covered in the Scopus database, regardless of who they are published under, are reviewed each year to ensure high quality standards are maintained."--Brian Josephson (talk) 16:29, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * And can Guy explain what he means when he says JSE is an SPS (self-published source) as far as Radin is concerned?--Brian Josephson (talk) 16:36, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , it means that his wibble gets effectively no critical peer-review in that "journal". JSE is not a scientific journal in any meaningful sense. It's more of a fanzine. Guy (help!) 08:14, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Your comment above seems to derive much more from preconceptions on your part than from the factual information that I have provided. Please check out what I said in regard to Scopus.  Enlarging on the referring aspect, the JSE website says specifically: "All articles are peer reviewed by 2 JSE editors (the Editor-in -Chief and at least one Associate Editor) and at least 2 outside reviewers who are experts in the field and not on the Journal staff or Board".  Your allegation in this regard falls hardly short of being libellous in character, and I would kindly suggest that you withdraw it. --Brian Josephson (talk) 09:27, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The claim that parapsychology is "inadequately studied" in the mainstream is an editorial bent which is intellectually bereft and corrupt to an extent that JSE is almost always excised from Wikipedia and will continue to be. The WP:MAINSTREAM may not be nice to people who believe in ESP, ghosts, and so forth, but, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, that's a battle you must fight somewhere else. jps (talk) 14:24, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I feel that the only thing to say on this point jps, is hear hear. -Roxy the elfin dog . wooF 15:36, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * We also have a well-sourced and interesting article on the Editor-in-Chief mentioned above by professor Josephson: Stephen E. Braude. I recommend it for an overview of Braude's claims and publications. Seriously, the JSE can't by any stretch of the imagination be called a reliable source. Bishonen | tålk 16:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC).
 * A typically biased WP article, that goes without saying. Wikipedia should not be considered a definitive source in and of itself.--Brian Josephson (talk) 16:18, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Surely you know how this subject is looked upon in the wider world. We are not making up this bias against those who believe in the paranormal. It's the way things are. If you don't like it, you should try to convince your colleagues rather than mucking around on a website that is merely trying to document the status quo. jps (talk) 16:35, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , that’s not peer review, it#'s "appear-reviewed". It's like the woo journals specialising in homeopathy and like bollocks: the nonsense is reviewed by credulous people, often with a vested interest in the validity of an invalid claim, and they review it for scienceyness, not actual science. As to the below, so what? The majority of people believe that the world was created by one of a number of mutually contradictory deities. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong. As of this date, not one single psychic phenomenon has been demonstrated in a repeatable way through controlled experiments yielding objective results that are demonstrably inconsistent with the null hypothesis. And - as I think you know - the Sheldrakes and Radins of this world would not be in the position of constantly arguing for Wikipedia to reflect their delusions as truth if they were indeed demonstrable truth, rather than what they are. See also WP:LUNATIC. Guy (help!) 19:36, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That is just not the case! A survey by Ipsos MORI shows that the majority of people in Great Britain believe telepathy/ESP is real.  Similar surveys among scientists are suspect, as many may be reluctant to disclose their true beliefs in case doing do might harm their reputation. --Brian Josephson (talk) 17:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Public opinion is no basis on which to write an encyclopedia. We rely on expert evaluation, and if you think the scientists are all scared to share their true feelings, go ahead and work to create reliable sources which expose that phenomenon. However, until you have such sources, we are stuck listening to those experts who secretly believe in magic but refuse to respond to opinion surveys in kind. jps (talk) 19:44, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

 * , you have been a Wikipedia editor for many years now, you're not a newbie. Please indent your posts correctly to make the discussion more readable. Bishonen | tålk 21:56, 15 July 2020 (UTC).

Quackwatch link
 But at least it made me look it up, and it turns out the link does not belong in the Dean Radin article because it does not mention Dean Radin. It does not even mention Mitchell.
 * "Removed quackwatch ref in the first paragraph. Biased. Quackwatch itself is questionable." That is really bad reasoning. Quackwatch is not questionable, so of course I reverted that without even looking.
 * "Removed again biased observation regarding IONS. Time to stop the skeptic guerrilla in wikipedia" That is simple ad hominem. Also bad reason. Reverted without looking again.
 * "Not consistent policy; Edgar Mitchell's article has no added explanations of the sort." Also a bad reason because of WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.

So, removing it was right, but the edit summaries were shit. Learn how to write better edit summaries, IP. Even better: learn how to think like a serious Wikipedia editor instead of like a PROFRINGE POV warrior. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:03, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Even had it mentioned the subject, any material by Barrett on Quackwatch is a self-published source, and thus banned from here per WP:BLPSPS. See \:RSNP for confirmation on this. I have once again deleted the material. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:53, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

More biographical information needed
I agree with the above comment that says this article is not a biography, and think more biographical information would do more justice to this man. The article available in the online parapsychology encyclopedia of the Society for Psychical Research, available at:

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/dean-radin

is quite strong on the life of Dean Radin. If one reads this article, one will see that he trained as a classical violinist. The article also tells us the university from which he got his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering -  the University of Massachusetts. Rollo August (talk) 21:10, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , Wikipedia works from reliable independent secondary sources. Most of them ignore Radin. That's not our problem to fix, sadly. a "psi encyclopaedia" is canonically unreliable if it is user-editable or proceeds from the assumption that psi is real. Guy (help! - typo?) 23:08, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

The Psi Encyclopedia is not "user-editable", it is written by members of the Society for Psychical Research. Rollo August (talk) 07:07, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Seems like a polemical blog to me: - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:58, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Right. A site spouting the usual fringe believers' disapproval of Wikipedia's refusal to accept every random piece of bullshit. --Hob Gadling (talk) 14:50, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , Ah, members of the SPR. Wikipedia prefers reality-based sources, though. Guy (help! - typo?) 16:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

The Impartiality Of This Page is Extremely Questionable
It is like this page has been written by some angry "skeptics", to undermine scientific facts. Another hopeless attempt to bury the truth. Welcome to old world. Take a look at it. It won't last. People are creating organizations and helping the law enforcements by using psychic abilities even though so called skeptics (they are more like cynics) ignore. Wikipedia allows angry and radical editors occupy this website. The history will be a witness that Wikipedia has been vandalized by cynics who made an oath to bury the truth. I wish them good luck. They will be the ones who'll be forgetten. 159.146.121.8 (talk) 12:38, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Indeed so. Just look at the way these people have been blocking links to the valuable information source Psi Encyclopedia. Brian Josephson (talk) 14:25, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

 * See WP:TRUTH. Wikipedia is supposed to write what you consider true, but to echo reliable sources. Usually, reliable sources do not believe in magic, so Wikipedia embraces that position too. --Hob Gadling (talk) 11:05, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia at it again
This article exemplifies how dogmatic Wikipedia is about dismissing all contributions from scientists who have provided experimental evidence for the paranormal. This man has done experimental research suggesting that there is such a thing as presentiment - i.e. having feelings about what's going to happen in the future. He has done experiments where participants have their arousal assessed, through measurements of electrodermal responses, before presentation of pictures selected at random by a computer. The data he obtained do suggest that their arousal is greater before presentation of arousing pictures then relaxing ones, even by as long as fifteen seconds. I did not see any record of these data in the article. YTKJ (talk) 21:11, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Have those results been received positively outside the psi-believer subculture? --Hob Gadling (talk) 15:01, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kohar University of Science and Technology

Kohar University of Science and Technology was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep

From Cleanup since July 6. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 17:42, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

NOTE: This nomination was listed incorrectly by User:Poccil at the top of the VfD page and moved down by me. Neither I nor Peter O. have voted (yet, anyway) on this submission. Salasks 22:27, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Keep - Just because it was on Cleanup for a while doesn't mean it should be deleted. [[User:Mike Storm|Mike ∞ Storm]] 01:44, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I have wikified what was there, corrected some grammar, and added an external link to the University's homepage. Given that new development, I do think it merits staying, although the name needs to be corrected to read "Kohat" rather than "Kohar". I also removed the cleanup tag and added a stub tag. My vote: Keep, but correct name. Skyler 15:33, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:Clonazepam

CYP2C19
In 2011, this page was edited to note that clonazepam is metabolized by CYP2C19 as well as by CYP3A4. However, I've been unable to find any reliable non-Wikipedia sources for the claim that clonazepam is a CYP2C19 substrate. Conversely, several sources claim that clonazepam is primarily/exclusively a 3A4 substrate (Medscape, Drugbank), or that it is not affected by 2C19 inhibitors (Drugs.com).

The closest I've been able to find is an article in IJPBS called Genetic polymorphism of CYP2C19 in a sample of Iraqi population. However, this article was published in 2015 (long after this edit), and the journal does not seem particularly reputable. Further, the article's source for this claim is a 2001 article called Clinical relevance of genetic polymorphisms in the human CYP2C subfamily in BJCP, which does *not* list clonazepam as one of the CYP2C19-metabolized drugs. In other words, the authors might have been referring to Wikipedia when they wrote this sentence.

Does anyone have a good source for the existence of this metabolic pathway, that was clearly published _before_ Wikipedia was edited? If not, I think we should remove this claim. SashaMarievskaya (talk) 00:55, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay, problem solved. Someone got "clobazam" and "clonazepam" confused. The questionable Wikipedia text is word-for-word identical to text from the Medscape article on clobazam.

I'm deleting the false claim. SashaMarievskaya (talk) 01:02, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Actually, I spoke too quickly. The wording is not quite identical. However, I still think that the problem is a confusion between these two drugs, since clobazam is widely attested to be metabolized by CYP2C19, and clonazepam (the subject of this article) is not. If no one has any concerns in the next day or so, I'll remove the claim. SashaMarievskaya (talk) 01:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Added ref to one Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 07:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Repetition
We say that it is used to treat seizures and panic disorder and movement disorders thus this "Clonazepam has anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, and muscle relaxant properties. " is not really needed. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:38, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Moved from article
I have moved the following content here because it lacks context/explanation. If anyone wants to use it to improve the article, here it is. -- Ed (Edgar181) 20:23, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ==Synthesis==

Chronic pain
I think it would be helpful to add off-label use of clonazepam in chronic pain (neuroplastic pain) syndromes. It has some robust analgetic properties when used acutely in atypical facial pain, fibromyalgia, TMD and simillar disorders of central senzitization. Šaholjubac (talk) 22:11, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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