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Taiwan Notice Board
Hello,

Just for your information, I am comming to advertise the Taiwan-related topics notice board that I have just created in the hope that contributers on Taiwan related topics can have a place to discuss on different proposals.

I also made a page List of Taiwan-related topics (by category) so that we can keep track on the topics by category. I hope this would be useful for us. Mababa 05:43, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Scope of the Taiwan article
Hello. There's another poll on the scope of the Taiwan article here. The proposal is to include " the geographical and cultural features of the lands controlled by the Republic of China (Taiwan) " into the article. — Instantnood 14:05, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

Taiwan Article and Nation
Hey. I saw that you've been helping out with the Taiwan article. Would you continue to keep your eye on the article and try to suggest something that is a good compromise? Jiang doesn't understand the difference between nation and state, and he keeps saying everyone is so muddled about it that we shouldn't use it. I think something like nation but expanding on the meaning to prevent even the rare confusion that Jiang is, of course, just so unbiasedly worried about. What's really funny is that Jiang doesn't realize if he's going to challenge the use of nation on Taiwan's article, then China's article's use of nation competely doesn't fit either, haha. Take a look. Thanks.--160.39.195.88 03:52, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Jimmyvanthach

There is an edit war currently in progress on Nguyen Dynasty between Jimmyvanthach and an anonymous user; see Talk:Nguyen Dynasty. There are facts in dispute, for which Jimmyvanthach is listing his own (or Tran Van Ba's own) website as the only reference. ←Hob 22:40, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC)

And similarly see Talk:Bao Dai. There is a consistent pattern of non-response (or irrelevant response) to factual disputes. ←Hob 19:37, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)

On Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Tran Van Ba I've added the text of the mystery E-mail that relates to the charges of impersonation. As far as I know, neither "Tran Van Ba" nor "Jimmyvanthach" has either accepted or denied responsibility for this. ←Hob 19:50, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)

 * Never mind, I've copied the above with more details to the Evidence page.  ←Hob 22:11, 2004 Oct 1 (UTC)


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America's Space Prize

America's Space Prize was a US$50 million space competition in orbital spaceflight established and funded in 2004 by hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow. The prize would have been awarded to the first US-based privately funded team to design and build a reusable crewed capsule capable of flying 5 astronauts to a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space module. The criteria also required the capsule be recovered and flown again in 60 days. The prize expired January 10, 2010, without a winner or any test flights attempted. The teams were required to have been based in the United States.

History
The prize was announced by Bigelow on 17 December 2003—the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers first powered aircraft flight.

Prize rules
A set of ten criteria were set up in order for a contestant to win the prize.
 * 1) The spacecraft must reach  a minimum altitude of 400 kilometers (approximately 250 miles);
 * 2) The spacecraft must reach a minimum velocity sufficient to complete two (2) full orbits at altitude before returning to Earth;
 * 3) The spacecraft must carry no less than a crew of five (5) people;
 * 4) The spacecraft must dock or demonstrate its ability to dock with a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space habitat, and be capable of remaining on station at least six (6) months;
 * 5) The spacecraft must perform two (2) consecutive, safe and successful orbital missions within a period of sixty (60) calendar days, subject to Government regulations;
 * 6) No more than twenty percent (20%) of the spacecraft may be composed of expendable hardware;
 * 7) The contestant must be domiciled in the United States of America.
 * 8) The contestant must have its principal place of business in the United States of America;
 * 9) The Competitor must not accept or utilize government development funding related to this contest of any kind, nor shall there be any government ownership of the competitor. Use in government test facilities shall be permitted; and
 * 10) The spacecraft must complete its two (2) missions safely and successfully, with all five (5) crew members aboard for the second qualifying flight, before the competition's deadline of Jan. 10, 2010

Contestants
Since the launch of the prize, 40 companies had expressed interest, but either did not have the money which would apparently be needed, or, in the case of SpaceX, were ineligible due to having accepted government funding. Despite the lack of interest, Bigelow did not revise the prize rules, planning instead to seek transportation to space other ways.

A few contestants have been:

 * Interorbital Systems
 * JP Aerospace
 * SpaceDev
 * SpaceX

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Williams Baptist University

Williams Baptist University is a private Baptist university in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Founded in 1941, this institution began as a two-year school. It began granting bachelor's degrees in 1984 and master's degrees in 2017. The name of the school was changed in 1991 from Southern Baptist College to Williams Baptist College in honor of its founder and first president, H. E. Williams. In 2018, its name was changed to Williams Baptist University.

Williams has been accredited since 1963 by the Higher Learning Commission. The university is owned and operated by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

LGBT prohibition
WBU has been granted a partial exemption to Title IX that allows it to discriminate against LGBT students for religious reasons. The school does not allow same-sex dating or any type of sex outside of a heterosexual marriage.

Athletics
The Williams Baptist athletic teams are called the Eagles. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the American Midwest Conference (AMC) since the 2001–02 academic year. The Eagles previously competed in the TranSouth Athletic Conference (TranSouth or TSAC) from 1995–96 to 2000–01, and in the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) from about 1990–91 to 1994–95.

Williams Baptist competes in 18 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, track & field, wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, track & field and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading.

Notable alumni

 * Jack Ladyman, mechanical engineer from Jonesboro and Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for a portion of Craighead County

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Gas syringe

A gas syringe is a piece of laboratory glassware used to insert or withdraw a volume of a gas from a closed system, or to measure the volume of gas evolved from a chemical reaction. A gas syringe can also be used to measure and dispense liquids, especially where these liquids need to be kept free from air.

A gas syringe has an inner syringe chamber which has a ground glass surface. The syringe barrel also has a ground glass surface. The ground surface of the barrel moves freely within the ground glass surface of the syringe chamber with very little friction. The close mating of these ground glass surfaces also gives a reasonably gas-tight seal. Like a ground glass stopcock, the two parts of a gas syringe should preferably not be interchanged with another gas syringe of the same volume, unless told otherwise by the distributor. Gas syringes come in various sizes from 500 ml to 0.25 ml and tend to be accurate to between 0.01 and 1 ml, depending on the size of the syringe.

Gas syringe use
A gas syringe can be used to measure gaseous products from a reaction.

When using a gas syringe to measure gases it is important to keep the syringe free from liquids. As gases can dissolve in liquids, especially under any resulting pressure, this may result in inaccurate measurements (Henry's law).

The amount of gas in moles formed in a reaction can be measured by measuring the volume of gas evolved at standard (or known) pressure conditions (gas law, PV=nRT).

Accordingly, it is important that the syringe barrel should move freely within the syringe chamber, if one assumes that the measured gas is at standard temperature and pressure. Any friction would result in a pressure build-up in the syringe and would lead to an inaccurate measurement, that is, a lower amount of gas would be determined, than really obtained.

Liquid use
Glass syringes are also conveniently used to measure and dispense solvents and other liquids. They are often used in air-free techniques to take solvents after they have been purified in stills, or from containers sealed with septa, to prevent gas entering the solution. They can also be use for transportation of substances that react spontaneously with air (pyrophoric reagents).

Liquids drawn up into a gas syringes can optionally be sparged with inert gas before dispensing into a reaction vessel such as a Schlenk flask. This is done by drawing the liquid into the syringe via a needle, inserting the needle into the septum sealing a flask under a positive pressure of an inert gas, removing the glass plunger, and allowing the gas to bubble through the liquid in the syringe for several minutes. The glass plunger is then re-inserted and the liquid is added to the reaction flask. Other techniques such as cannulation can also be used to transfer liquids instead.

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Pat Hare

Auburn "Pat" Hare (December 20, 1930 – September 26, 1980) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. His heavily distorted, power chord–driven electric guitar performances in the early 1950s is considered an important precursor of heavy metal music. His guitar work with Little Junior's Blue Flames had a major influence on the rockabilly style, and his guitar playing on blues records by artists such as Muddy Waters was influential among 1960s British Invasion blues rock bands such as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.

Biography
Hare, who was African-American, was born in Cherry Valley, Arkansas. He recorded at the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, serving as a sideman for Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and other artists. Hare was one of the first guitarists to purposely use the effects of distortion in his playing.

In 1951, he joined a blues band formed by Junior Parker, called Little Junior's Blue Flames. He played the electric guitar solo on "Love My Baby" (1953), which later inspired the rockabilly style. One of their biggest hits was "Next Time You See Me", which in 1957 reached number 5 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.

His guitar solo on James Cotton's electric blues record "Cotton Crop Blues" (1954) was the first recorded use of heavily distorted power chords, later an element of heavy metal music. According to Robert Palmer, "Rarely has a grittier, nastier, more ferocious electric guitar sound been captured on record, before or since, and Hare's repeated use of a rapid series of two downward-modulating power chords, the second of which is allowed to hang menacingly in the air, is a kind of hook or structural glue. [...] The first heavy metal record? I'd say yes, with tongue only slightly in cheek." The other side of the single was "Hold Me in Your Arms"; both songs "featured a guitar sound so overdriven that with the historical distance of several decades, it now sounds like a direct line to the coarse, distorted tones favored by modern rock players." According to Allmusic, "what is now easily attainable by 16-year-old kids on modern-day effects pedals just by stomping on a switch, Hare was accomplishing with his fingers and turning the volume knob on his Sears & Roebuck cereal-box-sized amp all the way to the right until the speaker was screaming."

Hare was reported to have been introverted when sober (once married to Dorothy Mae Good, with whom he had a son and two daughters), but he had a serious problem with alcohol abuse. Shortly after the "Cotton Crop Blues" recording, he recorded a version of the early 1940s Doctor Clayton song "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" on May 14, 1954, which has since been released on the 1990 Rhino Records compilation album Blue Flames: A Sun Blues Collection. The record also features power chords, which remains "most fundamental in modern rock" as "the basic structure for riff-building in heavy metal bands." According to Robert Palmer, the song is "as heavy metal as it gets." According to the album liner notes, "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" is "doubly morbid because he did just that". In December 1963, Hare shot his girlfriend dead in Minneapolis and also shot a policeman who came to investigate. At the time of his arrest, he was playing in the blues band of Muddy Waters. He was replaced in the band by the guitarist James "Pee Wee" Madison. Hare pleaded guilty to murder and spent the last 16 years of his life in prison, where he formed a band named Sounds Incarcerated. He developed lung cancer in prison and died in 1980 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Katalla, Alaska

Katalla (pronounced KA-tell-ah) is a ghost town in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, 76 km southeast of Cordova. The name of this town was sometimes spelled Catalla. It is now abandoned.

Geography
Katalla is located within the Chugach National Forest near Controller Bay and the Bering River.

History
Katalla was at the center of the now-abandoned Katalla oil field. This was the first discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Alaska (1902). The town reportedly had a population of 5,000 in 1907-1908.

This was the result of the announcement that the Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) was going to use the town's location as its access to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering River coal fields. Violent storms in the fall of 1907 destroyed the jetty being built and it was decided to move the railroad's terminus to nearby Cordova.

The famous "ship of gold" SS Portland, ran aground and sank at Katalla in November 1910, during one of these autumn storms. The town's population continued to depend on the small oil field for income until December 25, 1933, when fire damaged its refinery and operations ceased. The town's post office closed in 1943 and the town site was abandoned.

The oil and gas extraction rights for the Katalla area were granted to the Chugach Alaska Corporation by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Before that, however, at least some of the rights to the field were owned by the California-Mexican-Alaska Holding Company, which dissolved and sold its assets to the Alaska Coal, Oil & By-Products Company in 1929.

A Korean coal mining consortium resurrected potential interest in Katalla after they did coal exploration in the Bering River coal fields in the early 1980s. Interest waned as the coal reserves did not appear economically viable, and a haul route to Katalla would by necessity have to cross areas subject to slope instability and periodic glacial dam outbursts from Bering Lake.

Demographics
Katalla first appeared on the 1910 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village. It continued to report until 1940, after which it was abandoned.

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Hal McRae

Harold Abraham McRae (born July 10, 1945) is an American former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1968, 1970–72) and Kansas City Royals (1973–87). Utilized as a designated hitter for most of his career, McRae batted and threw right-handed. He is the father of former major league outfielder Brian McRae.

Playing career
McRae was selected by the Reds in the 6th round of the 1965 draft with the 117th overall pick. In the pre-1969 offseason, playing winter ball in Puerto Rico, McRae suffered a multiple leg fracture sliding on the basepaths. In the words of Bill James in The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, "Before the accident, McRae was a burner, a center fielder who could fly...after the accident, his speed was major league average." He was considered a below-average outfielder with the Reds.

In spring training 1969, McRae came to the Reds' camp with his leg still in a cast from the fracture. The same offseason, St. Louis Cardinals announcer Harry Caray had suffered multiple fractures being struck by a car while on foot. During a Reds-Cardinals preseason game where Caray was interviewing ballplayers on the field while still on crutches, Reds Manager Dave Bristol pointed in Caray's direction and said to McRae, "Look at that. There's an old man. Broke two legs. Broke his shoulder. Broke his everything. And here he is walking around doing his job, doing anything he wants. Here you are, all you did was break your leg sliding into second base, and you can't get your leg out of your goddam cast! You ought to be ashamed of yourself."

McRae later mentioned to Caray that it was "one of the best motivational speeches he'd ever heard. He learned that he had to want to recover before he'd really be able to." Later in his career, Royals teammate Dan Quisenberry recalled, whenever a Royals player took time off because of injury, "McRae gets dressed like a commando, hides in a trash can in the clubhouse, and then jumps out and 'shoots' the guy...McRae believes that if a guy is hurt and can't play, he's dead to the club, so McRae shoots him and kills him."

McRae was traded along with Wayne Simpson to the Royals for Roger Nelson and Richie Scheinblum on December 1, 1972. McRae developed as a consistent designated hitter in the American League (AL). His playing career spanned 23 years, including 14 seasons with Kansas City. He was selected a three-time All-Star, he hit over .300 six times for the Royals and was named Designated Hitter of the Year three times both by The Sporting News and the Associated Press.

McRae led the AL batting title race entering the final game of the 1976 regular season which was a 5–3 loss to the Minnesota Twins at Royals Stadium on October 3. He lost out to teammate George Brett .3333 to .3326, with the race decided in the ninth inning when he grounded out to the shortstop immediately after Brett hit an inside-the-park home run to left field. He confronted Twins manager Gene Mauch on the field, with both being restrained by players and umpires. McRae accused Mauch of racism for allegedly ordering left fielder Steve Brye to let Brett's fly ball drop in front of him. His claim was declared unsubstantiated by a post-season league investigation. Oddly, the other two of the top four finishers that season, the Minnesota Twins' Rod Carew and Lyman Bostock, played in that same game. McRae did end up leading the AL with a .407 on-base percentage. The following season, he led the majors with 54 doubles.

After his recovery from the leg fracture, McRae became known as "the most aggressive baserunner of the 1970s," as quoted by James, "a man who left home plate thinking 'double' every time he hit the ball...he taught the younger players and reminded the veterans to take nothing for granted, and to take no prisoners on the bases." In game four of the 1980 World Series, McRae twice turned a seemingly routine single to center field into a two-base hit. McRae played hard—so hard, in fact, that the rule requiring a runner to slide into second base when breaking up a double play is still referred to as the Hal McRae Rule in honor of the man whose cross-body blocks into second base broke up a lot of double plays and second basemen at the same time.

In 1982, McRae had another outstanding year as he led the majors with 46 doubles and 133 RBI. He finished fourth in AL MVP voting.

In a 19-year major league career, McRae posted a .290 batting average (2091-for-7218) with 191 home runs, 1097 RBI, 484 doubles, 65 triples and 109 stolen bases in 2084 games played. He added a .351 on-base percentage and a .454 slugging average for a combined .805 OPS.

Managerial career
Following his playing retirement, McRae managed the Royals (1991–94) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2001–02). He also served as hitting coach for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals. McRae, who won a World Series ring playing for Kansas City against the Cardinals in 1985, won a ring as a coach for the Cardinals when they defeated the Detroit Tigers in the 2006 World Series, four games to one.

McRae is perhaps well known for a profanity-laced tirade he went on as Royals' manager early in the 1993 season while being interviewed by reporters after a Royals loss. The tantrum included throwing numerous objects around his office, including a cup of Coke and his office phone, and one reporter left McRae's office with a bloodied face. The tirade was captured on video and widely disseminated at the time. A video of the meltdown was later uploaded to YouTube and has 1.5 million views as of July 2024. McRae was not fired and continued to manage after the incident.

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Talk:Abdülmecid II

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The link from the table at the bottom from "Ottoman Caliphs" to "Ottoman Sultans" is wrong; from the article, Abdul Mejid was Caliph of Islam, but not Sultan of the Turks. We need a separate line for Caliphs.--iFaqeer 22:55, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Discrepancy
There seems to be a discrepancy with the parentage of Durruhsehvar. An extremely reputable source: http://www.4dw.net/royalark/India/hyder11.htm states that she was "the only daughter of H.I.M. Sultan Abdu'l-Majid Khan II, Caliph of the Faithful, by his third wife H.H. Atiya Mihisti, 3rd Kadin Effendi," - i.e. not from Hair un-nisa kadin Effendi. G.-M. Cupertino 19:12, December 5, 2008

Caliph and Sultan
What was the relationship between the positions of Caliph and Sultan? The article seems to imply that Caliph was the highest position in the Ottoman Empire, since he was "Head of the Ottoman Imperial House." Is this true? The article as it stands now is not clear.Sylvain1972 (talk) 14:28, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. Caliph is a religious title. Sultan was the highest secular/political title. --Againme (talk) 05:47, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Many (most? all?) Ottoman Sultans were also the caliph. My understanding is the position was fused. The Sultanate collapsed after WWI, but the caliphate struggled on for a couple more years (29 June 2014) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.84.247 (talk) 01:15, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Name

 * Caliph Abdülmecid -Llc 205
 * Caliph + "Abdul Mejid" -Llc 314
 * Caliph + "Abdülmecid II" -Llc 36
 * Caliph "Abdul Mejid II" -Llc 27
 * "last Caliph" + "Abdul Mejid" -Llc 19
 * Abdülmecid + "last Caliph" -Llc 18

-- Takabeg (talk) 00:08, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Brittannica 1911
How does that version of the encyclopedia know what came after 1911? Or am I saying something stupid? 94.211.60.77 (talk) 17:24, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

his beard?
"It is said that his impressive beard was a source of great personal pride."

What is that doing in the section about him as an artist?--23.119.205.88 (talk) 22:44, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Not a general
He was given the honorary title of general. He was not a soldier. Accordingly the statement that "Abdülmecid was given the title of General in the Ottoman Army, but did not in fact have strong military inclinations, and his more significant role was as Chairman of the Ottoman Artists' Society" is misleading. He was not a general who neglected his duties, he had none. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Royalcourtier (talk • contribs) 20:45, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:06, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Death of his son
Why Şehzade Ömer Faruk has as year of death 1969/1971? Did he die twice? --Manfariel (talk) 01:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Sam Brown

Would explodingdog.com be classified as fame? Alexa ranking of only 80,000 approx. I would suggest this is at least heading towards non-notability ... —Morven 22:59, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

I'm wondering if either of these people could is known to be the author of the quote "Never Offend People with Style when you can offend them with substance"

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Serge Savard

Serge Aubrey Savard (born January 22, 1946) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman, most famously with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously served as Senior Vice President, Hockey Operations, and as general manager of the Montreal Canadiens. He is also a local businessman in Montreal, and is nicknamed "the Senator." In 2017 Savard was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.

Playing career
Savard played minor league hockey with the Montreal Junior Canadiens, then with the Omaha Knights. After playing with the Montreal Jr. Canadiens, he started playing with the Montreal Canadiens in 1966. In 1968–69, his second full NHL season, he led the Canadiens to a second consecutive Stanley Cup win, becoming the first defencemen to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' most valuable player. In fifteen seasons with the Canadiens, Savard played on eight Stanley Cup championship teams: 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. In 1979, he won the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance and dedication to the game. Savard played the last two seasons of his career with the Winnipeg Jets before retiring in 1983. Savard was the second last player of the Original Six era, as Wayne Cashman and his Boston Bruins advanced to the next round of the playoffs, while Winnipeg did not.

The "Savardian Spin-o-rama", which is a quick pivoting turn with the puck done in order to evade opponents, was coined by sportscaster Danny Gallivan and named after Serge Savard, and not Denis Savard (who was adept at the same manoeuvre) as is often thought. However, Serge did say that it was Doug Harvey, a Montreal defenseman whom Savard idolized, who inspired him to mimic the move Harvey had started.

Savard played for Canada in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union. Team Canada was 4-0-1 when Savard was in the starting lineup. He did not play in the opening loss at the Forum in Montreal but was in the starting lineup for games 2 and 3 in Toronto and Winnipeg (a win and tie, respectively). He suffered a hairline fracture in his leg which forced him to sit out Canada's losses in games 4 and 5. He returned to the lineup for games 6, 7, and 8, all wins for Canada.

Post-playing career
After Savard retired as a player, he was named the general manager of the Canadiens, also serving as the general manager of the minor-league Sherbrooke Canadiens. Savard won the Calder Cup with Sherbrooke in 1985. In 1986 and 1993 he was the general manager of the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens.

In 1994 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. He is currently the chairman of the annual Canada Day festivities in Montreal. He lived a few years in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec. His son Marc ran for the Liberal Party in the riding of Saint-Bruno-Saint-Hubert in the 2005 federal election but lost.

In 1998, he was ranked number 81 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.

Since 1993, Savard has been a partner in a firm of real-estate developers, Thibault, Messier, Savard & Associates, based in Montreal.

In September 2004, Savard was arrested in Montreal under suspicion of drunk driving. He pleaded not guilty in November 2004, but would later plead guilty in May 2006.

On November 18, 2006, the Montreal Canadiens retired his jersey number (18) in a special ceremony at the Bell Centre.

In April 2012 after the dismissal of Pierre Gauthier, Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson called upon Savard to assist and advise him in the team's search for a new general manager.

Savard was part-owner in a resort called El Senador located in Cayo Coco, Cuba until it was sold in 2005. The name was a reference to his nickname.

Savard has been a longtime fan of harness racing. He has co-owned many successful horses, including Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Shadow Play and Meadowlands Pace champion Lawless Shadow.

Awards

 * Won Stanley Cup — {8} 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 as a player & {2} 1986, and 1993 as a manager; all with Montreal Canadiens
 * Won Conn Smythe Trophy — 1969
 * Named an NHL Second-Team All-Star — 1979
 * Played in 4 NHL All-Star Games (1970, 1973, 1977, 1978)
 * Played in the 1979 Challenge Cup
 * Won Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy — 1979
 * Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame — 1986
 * In 1998, he was ranked number 81 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.

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Kirsty Gallacher

Kirsty Jane Gallacher (born 20 January 1976) is a British television presenter and model. She began her career at Sky Sports News in 1998 and hosted Kirsty's Home Videos, RI:SE and Simply the Best before returning to Sky Sports News from 2011–2018. From June 2021 until December 2021, Gallacher co-presented The Great British Breakfast on the news channel GB News.

Early life
The daughter of Bernard Gallacher, a professional golfer and Ryder Cup captain, and Lesley Gallacher, Kirsty Gallacher was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. When her father got the job of professional at Wentworth Golf Club, they moved south to Virginia Water, England, when she was 18 months old. Gallacher and her younger brother and sister were raised on the Wentworth Estate, where their close neighbours included Bruce Forsyth. She was educated at Coworth Flexlands and St George's School in Ascot, Berkshire.

Career
Approached by Mark Sharman, then deputy head of sport at Sky, at a Ryder Cup dinner, she began working as a production assistant in 1996, before moving on to the position of editorial assistant on Sky Sports.

She got her presenting break on Sky Sports News in 1998, and since then has been associated with many other sports shows such as 90 Minutes, Soccer Extra, Kirsty and Phil (on BBC Radio 5 Live) and Soccer AM.

From 2000 until 2004, Gallacher hosted the Sky One show Kirsty's Home Videos, a satellite equivalent of ITV's You've Been Framed! in which viewers send in home videos to be screened. In 2002, she presented the morning show RI:SE, and in 2004 began the show Simply the Best. Gallacher presented the All Star Cup on Sky1 in 2005 and on ITV in 2006. She has made guest appearances on They Think It's All Over and A Question of Sport. Gallacher presented Ant vs Dec – the popular strand on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

In 2005, Gallacher won the third series of the popular Channel 4 reality television series The Games. She then presented the following years alongside Jamie Theakston. In December 2005, she released a DVD entitled Body Sculpt with Kirsty Gallacher in which she shows a variety of workouts. In July 2006, she co-presented the BBC reality TV show Only Fools on Horses.

In 2008, Gallacher presented the new version of Gladiators on Sky One alongside Ian Wright. She did not return for the second series.

On 30 August 2008, Gallacher appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Duncan Bannatyne.

She has also guest presented GMTV with Lorraine in August 2010 for two weeks and Lorraine on ITV Breakfast.

In May 2011, Gallacher returned to Sky Sports to present for Sky Sports News.

On 27 August 2015, it was confirmed that Gallacher would be taking part in the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing. On 5 September 2015, it was announced Gallacher would be paired with professional dancer Brendan Cole for the series. The couple were eliminated on week 6; finishing eleventh.

In May 2018, it was announced Gallacher was leaving Sky Sports.

On 29 March 2021, it was announced that Gallacher would be joining GB News to present a breakfast programme on the channel. Gallacher left GB News in December 2021 after discovering she had a benign tumour in her inner ear canal which was causing tinnitus and she said that the early starts for the news channel were exacerbating her symptoms.

On 3 April 2021, she hosted for the first time on Smooth Radio, starting at 4:00 pm BST. In January 2024 Kirsty appeared on a celebrity edition of Beat the Chasers but was eliminated early after answering her first question incorrectly.

Awards and nominations
Gallacher was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Royal Television Society Television Sports Awards in 1998. She won Satellite/Digital TV Personality at the 2002 Television and Radio Industries Club Awards, and Kirsty's Home Videos won her the following year's Satellite/Digital Programme award in 2003. She also won a "Platinum Award" for Best Entertainment Programme at the 2002 Houston International Film Festival.

Personal life
Gallacher is the cousin of golfer Stephen Gallacher. At the end of February 2013 she was named patron of Hibernian Women.

Gallacher married rugby player Paul Sampson in 2010, with whom she has two sons. The couple split in 2015.

Her sister Laura Gallacher is married to Russell Brand.

In April 2023, Gallacher completed the London Marathon in 5 hours, 35 minutes and 35 seconds; she last ran the race in 2019.

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Your accusation on OODA loop discussion page.
You were wrong about asserting that I had plagiarized the text that was originally in OODA Loop and that you replaces. Accusing somebody of plagiarism is serious business. Before making such a charge you should carefully check your facts, and particularly the *dates* when documents were written. P0M (talk) 04:34, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

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Hello. Could you confirm that you are the author of this photo? If this is the case, the simplest and more efficient way would be that you add yourself (when logged in as User:Keno)  to the   field of the information template of the file on Commons.

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User:AdorableRuffian

About me
I'm a troubled electronic engineer from sunny Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. I've been sniffing around Wikipedia for quite a while, doing the odd bit of tidying up here and there, and thought it was high time I got myself a "proper" account. So... here I am.

I suppose I'd class myself as an inclusionist. True, there are some articles which have little merit beyond vanity or purely personal interest - but once you go beyond that, there's clearly a large grey area before you get to subjects that the likes of Britannica would consider notable. I personally think Wikipedia should cover as much of this grey area as possible.

Anyway, that's me! I hope I can make a worthwhile contribution to Wikipedia in the long run, and in the meantime I'll try not to frighten the horses or upset the apple cart too much! AdorableRuffian 23:04, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Addendum
I've been here for three years now, and sadly, a number of developments over the years have made Wikipedia a less fun place to be, especially for less established and less prolific editors. Policy and guideline documents have mushroomed, causing instruction creep, and many editors are spending more time deleting articles than creating them. Moreover, I've noticed an increasing amount of mistrust towards new and anon editors, who are frequently assumed to be sockpuppets or vandals.

I still enjoy contributing to Wikipedia - there's nothing I like more than writing and editing articles about subjects that interest me. However, I feel the community as a whole should make more of an effort to welcome and assimilate new users, and maybe apply the KISS principle to the plethora of guidelines and policies.

I'm still an inclusionist, and intend to keep that grey flag flying for as long as possible! AdorableRuffian 22:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hello, "Pinwheel" and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:

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 * I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian.

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Orca Inlet

Orca Inlet is an arm of Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. The town of Cordova was founded on its coast in 1906. All marine traffic reaches the town through Orca Inlet.

Geography
Orca Inlet lies south and east of Hawkins Island at 60.52361°N, -145.87944°W. The Inlet is about 16 mi long running southwest and about 3 mi wide at its widest point. The south end opens into the Gulf of Alaska while the north end joins with Orca Bay.

The city of Cordova, Alaska is situated on the southeast shore of Orca Inlet.

History
Orca Inlet was listed in the Geographic Dictionary of Alaska in 1906, citing J.F. Moser's report from 1897. The Orca Cannery operated on the south shore of the inlet; there was a post office at that location from 1894. The Odiak Cannery was located 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Orca, at the present location of Cordova.

There were once large Pacific razor clam beds in the intertidal zones of Orca Inlet which were harvested and shipped out of Cordova. Harvests reached 3.5 million pounds (1.6 million kilograms) at its peak. Populations began to decline in the late 1950s. When the 1964 Good Friday earthquake struck the clam beds were uplifted around 6 ft exposing them out of the intertidal zone. This led to moderate mortality and eventually the industry crashed.

Geology and currents
Like other arms of Prince William Sound, Orca Inlet is a fjord. There are large areas on its coast with large rounded rocks as well as many cirques and hanging valleys. Glacial erosion created steep walls on the sides of the fjord. In one area the elevation rises to 1600 ft within 1/2 mi of the coastline. The southern and central areas are filled with sediment making the area very shallow. These deposits resulted from the receded glacier that once filled the fjord as well as current inflow through the seaward end of the inlet from the Copper River and other smaller glacial streams. These deposits drift westward along the coast until they reach the entrance of Orca Inlet. Orca Inlet can serve as an entrance to Prince William Sound from the Gulf of Alaska but the shallow water limits the size of vessels that can use the route. In 1914, the southern two-thirds of the inlet was generally 12 ft deep or less with a few, discontinuous channels, while the north part was 90 to 228 ft deep.

Copper ore has been found in the area around Orca Inlet but there has been little development to mine it.

The tidal current flows southward on the flood and northward on the ebb. Mean velocity at the peak of the flood is 1.5 kn and 0.8 kn at the peak of the ebb.

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William Moody

William Moody may refer to:

 * William Moody (pirate) (died 1719), pirate active in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa
 * William Alvin Moody (1954–2013), professional wrestling manager also known by his ring name Paul Bearer
 * William Henry Moody (1853–1917), U.S. Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of the Navy
 * William Lewis Moody Jr. (1865–1954), founded the American National Insurance Company and built it into a $3 billion powerhouse
 * William Lewis Moody Sr. (1828–1920), colonel in the American Civil War and founder of the Moody financial empire
 * William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910), American dramatist and poet
 * William Moody (Maine politician) (1770–1822), American politician from Maine
 * William J. Moody (1796–1850s), American lawyer, judge, and politician
 * William R. Moody (1900–1985), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington
 * William Moody (footballer). (born 1895), English footballer, played for Rochdale, Mid Rhondda and Cardiff City
 * Bill Moody (detective), detective chief superintendent in London
 * Bill Moody (judge), American judge
 * Bill Moody (author) (1941–2018), American writer and jazz drummer

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Nobutaka Machimura

Nobutaka Machimura (町村 信孝) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the government of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda from 2007 to 2008 and twice Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the cabinets of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzō Abe. He resigned as the Speaker of the House of Representatives on 21 April 2015 after suffering from a stroke.

Early life and education
Machimura was born on 17 October 1944. He attended the University of Tokyo and Wesleyan University in the United States.

Career
Machimura was elected to his first term in the House of Representatives in the December 1983 election, and he was re-elected in each election since. He became Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture on 11 September 1997, as part of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's second cabinet, and became State Secretary for Foreign Affairs on 31 July 1998, in Keizō Obuchi's first cabinet. In March 2000, he became Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, serving under Obuchi and his successor, Yoshirō Mori. On 5 December 2000, he became Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency, before becoming Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on 6 January 2001.

He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi from 27 September 2004 to 31 October 2005. His goals included signing a treaty with Russia relations with China and Korea form leader resolving a border dispute, and investigating the whereabouts of Japanese hostages who were kidnapped by North Korean agents during the 1970s and 1980s. He was replaced by Tarō Asō in the cabinet reshuffle that followed the 11 September 2005 election.

He was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs again by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe on 27 August 2007. In 2006, Machimura became chairman of the Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, the LDP's largest faction. As such, on 14 September 2007, he backed Yasuo Fukuda's bid to become Abe's successor, following Abe's resignation on 12 September. Since 2007, Machimura had co-chaired his faction alongside Hidenao Nakagawa and Shūzen Tanigawa.

In Fukuda's government, sworn in on 16 September 2007, Machimura became Chief Cabinet Secretary and State Minister in charge of abduction issues. He was replaced by Takeo Kawamura in the cabinet of prime minister Taro Aso, which was appointed on 24 September 2008.

He was the vice president of the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' Union.

Personal life
On 18 December 2007, Machimura said at an official press conference that he believed in the existence of UFOs.

On 1 June 2015, he died after a cerebral infarction at an hospital in Tokyo.

Honours

 * Junior Second Rank (1 June 2015; posthumous)

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Burgers' equation

Burgers' equation or Bateman–Burgers equation is a fundamental partial differential equation and convection–diffusion equation occurring in various areas of applied mathematics, such as fluid mechanics, nonlinear acoustics, gas dynamics, and traffic flow. The equation was first introduced by Harry Bateman in 1915 and later studied by Johannes Martinus Burgers in 1948. For a given field $$u(x,t)$$ and diffusion coefficient (or kinematic viscosity, as in the original fluid mechanical context) $$\nu$$, the general form of Burgers' equation (also known as viscous Burgers' equation) in one space dimension is the dissipative system:

 * $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + u \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = \nu\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2}.$$

The term $$u\partial u/\partial x$$ can also rewritten as $$\partial(u^2/2)/\partial x$$. When the diffusion term is absent (i.e. $$\nu=0$$), Burgers' equation becomes the inviscid Burgers' equation:

 * $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + u \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = 0,$$

which is a prototype for conservation equations that can develop discontinuities (shock waves).

The reason for the formation of sharp gradients for small values of $$\nu$$ becomes intuitively clear when one examines the left-hand side of the equation. The term $$\partial/\partial t + u \partial/\partial x$$ is evidently a wave operator describing a wave propagating in the positive $$x$$-direction with a speed $$u$$. Since the wave speed is $$u$$, regions exhibiting large values of $$u$$ will be propagated rightwards quickly than regions exhibiting smaller values of $$u$$; in other words, if $$u$$ is decreasing in the $$x$$-direction, initially, then larger $$u$$'s that lie in the backside will catch up with smaller $$u$$'s that is on the front side. The role of the right-side diffusive term is essentially to stop the gradient becoming infinite.

Inviscid Burgers' equation
The inviscid Burgers' equation is a conservation equation, more generally a first order quasilinear hyperbolic equation. The solution to the equation and along with the initial condition

 * $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + u \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = 0, \quad u(x,0) = f(x)$$

can be constructed by the method of characteristics. Let $$t$$ be the parameter characterising any given characteristics in the $$x$$-$$t$$ plane, then the characteristic equations are given by

 * $$\frac{dx}{dt} = u, \quad \frac{du}{dt}=0.$$

Integration of the second equation tells us that $$u$$ is constant along the characteristic and integration of the first equation shows that the characteristics are straight lines, i.e.,

 * $$u=c, \quad x = ut + \xi $$

where $$\xi$$ is the point (or parameter) on the x-axis (t = 0) of the x-t plane from which the characteristic curve is drawn. Since $$u$$ at $$x$$-axis is known from the initial condition and the fact that $$u$$ is unchanged as we move along the characteristic emanating from each point $$x=\xi$$, we write $$u=c=f(\xi)$$ on each characteristic. Therefore, the family of trajectories of characteristics parametrized by $$\xi$$ is

 * $$x=f(\xi) t+ \xi.$$

Thus, the solution is given by

 * $$u(x,t) = f(\xi) = f(x-ut), \quad \xi = x - f(\xi) t.$$

This is an implicit relation that determines the solution of the inviscid Burgers' equation provided characteristics don't intersect. If the characteristics do intersect, then a classical solution to the PDE does not exist and leads to the formation of a shock wave. Whether characteristics can intersect or not depends on the initial condition. In fact, the breaking time before a shock wave can be formed is given by

 * $$t_b = \frac{-1}{\inf_x \left(f^\prime(x)\right)}.$$

Complete integral of the inviscid Burgers' equation
The implicit solution described above containing an arbitrary function $$f$$ is called the general integral. However, the inviscid Burgers' equation, being a first-order partial differential equation, also has a complete integral which contains two arbitrary constants (for the two independent variables). Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar provided the complete integral in 1943, which is given by

 * $$u(x,t) = \frac{ax+b}{at+1}.$$

where $$a$$ and $$b$$ are arbitrary constants. The complete integral satisfies a linear initial condition, i.e., $$f(x) = ax + b$$. One can also construct the geneal integral using the above complete integral.

Viscous Burgers' equation
The viscous Burgers' equation can be converted to a linear equation by the Cole–Hopf transformation,

 * $$u(x,t) = -2 \nu \frac{\partial}{\partial x}\ln \varphi(x,t),$$

which turns it into the equation

 * $$2 \nu \frac{\partial}{\partial x}\left[\frac{1}{\varphi}\left(\frac{\partial\varphi}{\partial t}- \nu \frac{\partial^2\varphi}{\partial x^2}\right)\right]=0,$$

which can be integrated with respect to $$x$$ to obtain

 * $$\frac{\partial\varphi}{\partial t}- \nu \frac{\partial^2\varphi}{\partial x^2}=\varphi \frac{df(t)}{dt},$$

where $$df/dt$$ is an arbitrary function of time. Introducing the transformation $$\varphi\to \varphi e^f$$ (which does not affect the function $$u(x,t)$$), the required equation reduces to that of the heat equation

 * $$\frac{\partial\varphi}{\partial t}= \nu \frac{\partial^2\varphi}{\partial x^2}.$$

The diffusion equation can be solved. That is, if $$\varphi(x,0)=\varphi_0(x)$$, then

 * $$\varphi(x,t) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi \nu t}}\int_{-\infty}^\infty \varphi_0(x') \exp \left[-\frac{(x-x')^2}{4\nu t}\right]dx'.$$

The initial function $$\varphi_0(x)$$ is related to the initial function $$u(x,0)=f(x)$$ by

 * $$\ln \varphi_0(x) = - \frac{1}{2\nu}\int_0^x f(x') dx',$$

where the lower limit is chosen arbitrarily. Inverting the Cole–Hopf transformation, we have

 * $$u(x,t)=-2\nu\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\ln\left\{\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi \nu t}}\int_{-\infty}^\infty \exp\left[-\frac{(x-x')^2}{4\nu t} - \frac{1}{2\nu}\int_0^{x'}f(x)dx\right]dx'\right\}$$

which simplifies, by getting rid of the time-dependent prefactor in the argument of the logarthim, to

 * $$u(x,t)=-2\nu\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\ln\left\{\int_{-\infty}^\infty \exp\left[-\frac{(x-x')^2}{4\nu t} - \frac{1}{2\nu}\int_0^{x'}f(x)dx\right]dx'\right\}.$$

This solution is derived from the solution of the heat equation for $$\varphi$$ that decays to zero as $$x\to\pm\infty$$; other solutions for $$u$$ can be obtained starting from solutions of $$\varphi$$ that satisfies different boundary conditions.

Some explicit solutions of the viscous Burgers' equation
Explicit expressions for the viscous Burgers' equation are available. Some of the physically relevant solutions are given below:

Steadily propagating traveling wave
If $$u(x,0)=f(x)$$ is such that $$f(-\infty)=f^+$$ and $$f(+\infty)=f^-$$ and $$f'(x)<0$$, then we have a traveling-wave solution (with a constant speed $$c=(f^++f^-)/2$$) given by

 * $$u(x,t) = c - \frac{f^+-f^-}{2}\tanh\left[\frac{f^+-f^-}{4\nu}(x-ct)\right].$$

This solution, that was originally derived by Harry Bateman in 1915, is used to describe the variation of pressure across a weak shock wave. When $$f^+=2$$ and $$f^-=0$$ to

 * $$u(x,t)=\frac{2}{1+e^{\frac{x-t}{\nu}}}$$

with $$c=1$$.

Delta function as an initial condition
If $$u(x,0) = 2\nu Re \delta(x)$$, where $$Re$$ (say, the Reynolds number) is a constant, then we have

 * $$u(x,t)= \sqrt{\frac{\nu}{\pi t}} \left[\frac{(e^{Re}-1)e^{-x^2/4\nu t}}{1 + (e^{Re}-1) \mathrm{erfc}(x/\sqrt{4\nu t})/\sqrt{2}}\right].$$

In the limit $$Re\to 0$$, the limiting behaviour is a diffusional spreading of a source and therefore is given by

 * $$u(x,t) = \frac{2\nu Re}{\sqrt{4\pi \nu t}} \exp\left(-\frac{x^2}{4\nu t}\right).$$

On the other hand, In the limit $$Re\to \infty$$, the solution approaches that of the aforementioned Chandrasekhar's shock-wave solution of the inviscid Burgers' equation and is given by

 * $$u(x,t) = \begin{cases}\frac{x}{t}, \quad 0<x<\sqrt{2\nu Re\,t},\\

0, \quad \text{otherwise}.\end{cases}$$

The shock wave location and its speed are given by $$x=\sqrt{2\nu Re\, t}$$ and $$\sqrt{\nu Re/t}.$$

N-wave solution
The N-wave solution comprises a compression wave followed by a rarafaction wave. A solution of this type is given by

 * $$u(x,t) = \frac{x}{t}\left[1 + \frac{1}{e^{Re_0-1}}\sqrt{\frac{t}{t_0}}\exp\left(-\frac{Re(t)x^2}{4\nu Re_0 t}\right)\right]^{-1}$$

where $$R_0$$ may be regarded as an initial Reynolds number at time $$t=t_0$$ and $$Re(t) = (1/2\nu) \int_0^\infty udx=\ln (1+\sqrt{\tau/t})$$ with $$\tau = t_0 \sqrt{e^{Re_0}-1}$$, may be regarded as the time-varying Reynold number.

Multi-dimensional Burgers' equation
In two or more dimensions, the Burgers' equation becomes

 * $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + u \cdot \nabla u = \nu \nabla^2 u.$$

One can also extend the equation for the vector field $$\mathbf u$$, albeit it is not very useful, as in

 * $$\frac{\partial \mathbf u}{\partial t} + \mathbf u \cdot \nabla \mathbf u = \nu \nabla^2 \mathbf u.$$

Generalized Burgers' equation
The generalized Burgers' equation extends the quasilinear convective to more generalized form, i.e.,

 * $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + c(u) \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = \nu\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2}.$$

where $$c(u)$$ is any arbitrary function of u. The inviscid $$\nu=0$$ equation is still a quasilinear hyperbolic equation for $$c(u)>0$$ and its solution can be constructed using method of characteristics as before.

Stochastic Burgers' equation
Added space-time noise $$\eta(x,t) = \dot W(x,t)$$, where $$W$$ is an $$L^2(\mathbb R)$$ Wiener process, forms a stochastic Burgers' equation

 * $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + u \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = \nu \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2}-\lambda\frac{\partial\eta}{\partial x}.$$

This stochastic PDE is the one-dimensional version of Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation in a field $$h(x,t)$$ upon substituting $$u(x,t)=-\lambda\partial h/\partial x$$.

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Category:Polish tennis players

This category lists tennis players with Wikipedia articles who have notably represented Poland. Note that articles are sub-categorized by whether a player has done so in male or female competition, and also by particular notable competitions.

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Nerang River

The Nerang River is a perennial river in South East Queensland, Australia. Its catchment lies within the Gold Coast local government area and covers an area of 490 km2. The river is approximately 62 km in length.

Course and features
The Nerang River rises in the McPherson Range in the Numinbah Valley on the New South Wales and Queensland border and heads north, then east where it flows through and reaching its mouth in the Gold Coast Broadwater at  on the Gold Coast and emptying into the Coral Sea. The river descends 255 m over its 62 km course. Major crossings of the river occur at Nerang where the river is crossed by the Pacific Motorway and at Southport where the river is crossed by the Gold Coast Highway. The Nerang River catchment is the largest and most significant river system on the Gold Coast. Its upper reaches in the McPherson Range and Springbrook Plateau deliver flows through significant rural areas and also feed into the Hinze Dam, creating Advancetown Lake, the Gold Coast's main water supply, and Little Nerang Dam. These two reservoirs provide a large percentage of potable water for the Gold Coast and are managed by Gold Coast Water. The Hinze Dam has had a significant flood mitigation effect. In the river's lower catchment, multi-branched canal developments and a number of artificial tidal and freshwater lake systems have influenced and altered large aras of the floodplain. These canal developments provide a range of opportunities for many residents including boating and recreational fishing. The canals and lakes provide habitat to a range of aquatic, terrestrial and marine flora and fauna. The canal systems provide for drainage of stormwater and contribute to flood mitigation, but can periodically be subject to contamination via stormwater drainage.

A number of islands are located in the canal region of the river's lower catchment, including the Girung, Paradise, Chevron, Cronin and McIntosh Islands. Two man-made lakes are also located in the lower catchment, including the Lake Rosser and Lake Capabella.

The river's mouth was once located much further south. In the early 1800s it entered the ocean at Broadbeach and by 1930 its mouth was located where Sea World now is. The main driving force for this movement is the northward drift of sand along the coast.

Crossings
A number of river crossings of the Nerang River are named, including the following listed below (from upstream to downstream), together with their location relative to tributaries of the river:

Etymology
The river was initially named the River Barrow by government surveyor Robert Dixon when he charted the Gold Coast in 1840, after Sir John Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty. The surveyor general Thomas Mitchell later changed many places to Aboriginal names, and this included giving the Nerang River its present name. Neerang or neerung are Yugambeh words meaning "little shark" or "shovel-nosed shark". But the local aboriginal people called the river Mogumbin or Been-goor-abee; and the peoples of the Tweed called it Talgai.

History
In June 1967, the development of an east coast low lead to the rising of waters in the river that went on to flood significant lands upriver from Surfers Paradise.

Surfers Riverwalk
The City of Gold Coast council's "Surfers Riverwalk" coastal pathway links Sundale Bridge, Macintosh Island, Budd's Beach, Surfers Central Riverwalk, Cascade Gardens, the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Casino Island and Pacific Fair Shopping Centre.

Boat ramps
Boat ramps that are open to the public are located at Waterways Drive at Main Beach, Budds Beach, Evandale, on the Isle of Capri, TE Peters Drive at Broadbeach Waters (Convention Centre), Carrara Road, Carrara, and at the Nerang River Parklands.

Nerang Riverkeepers Group
Established in 2000, under the Beaches to Bushland Volunteer restoration program, the group works to restore local endemic species along the Nerang River. A major ongoing project is control of the invasive cats claw creeper, registered as a Weed of National Significance. Cat’s claw creeper was introduced to Australia. It is native to Central and South America and the West Indies. It was first reported as naturalised in the 1950s. The seeds spread by wind or water. A woody vine, it invades warm native forests killing native trees and undergrowth. If cut down it can regrow from persistent underground tubers.

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National Enterprise Board

The National Enterprise Board (NEB) was a United Kingdom government body. It was set up in 1975 by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, to support the government's interventionist approach to industry. In 1981 the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, combined the NEB with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) to form the British Technology Group.

Background
The NEB was the brainchild of the economist Stuart Holland and the Shadow Secretary of State for Industry Tony Benn in the early-1970s, and was modelled on the Italian Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI), which was seen to have successfully restructured the Italian economy after World War II. In its original conception, the NEB was intended to extend public control and ownership of the economy, by taking a stake in the UK's leading manufacturing firms, which would then be required to make planning agreements to meet economic targets. Although the leadership of the Labour Party did not fully accept these proposals, they appeared in the Labour Party's manifesto for the February 1974 general election and the October 1974 election.

The Labour Party manifesto for the October 1974 general election stated:

"We shall set up a National Enterprise Board to administer publicly-owned share-holdings: to extend public ownership into profitable manufacturing industry by acquisitions, partly or wholly, of individual firms; to stimulate investment; to create employment in areas of high unemployment; to encourage industrial democracy; to promote industrial efficiency; to increase exports and reduce our dependence on imports; to combat private monopoly; and to prevent British industries from passing into unacceptable foreign control." "A new and urgent Industry Act will provide for a system of Planning Agreements between the Government and key companies to ensure that the plans of those companies are in harmony with national needs and objectives and that Government financial assistance is deployed where it will be most effectively used. Wherever we give direct aid to a company out of public funds we shall reserve the right to take a proportionate share of the ownership of the company; and wherever possible this public support will be channelled through the Planning Agreements System."

History
The plans were outlined in the 1974 White Paper The Regeneration of British Industry and the Industry Act 1975 enacted these measures, establishing the NEB.

Its primary role was that of holding a substantial level of equity in major manufacturing companies. In its final form the NEB was watered down from its original proposals, with planning agreements being made voluntary instead of compulsory. It took equity in various companies including British Leyland, Rolls-Royce, Alfred Herbert, Sinclair Radionics and Ferranti.

Activities
In practice the NEB's main activity became one of rescuing failing companies, with mixed results. It also made efforts to develop Britain's fledgling electronics and computer industries.

One of the first tasks of the NEB was the production of the Ryder Report, named after the NEB's new chairman, Lord Ryder, on the future of British Leyland.

In 1975 the NEB bailed out the struggling electronics firm Ferranti and effectively nationalised it, acquiring a 65% share of the company. This was returned to the private sector in 1980 as a profitable company.

The loss-making Cambridge Instrument Company was acquired by the NEB in 1976, who performed a substantial reorganisation of the business. It was returned to profitability and privatised again in 1979.

In 1977 the NEB rescued Sinclair Radionics from bankruptcy, provided a loan facility and took effective control of the company by acquiring a 73% stake.

The memory and microprocessor company Inmos was set up by the NEB in 1978.

Demise
After the Conservative Party took power in 1979 under Margaret Thatcher's leadership, the NEB's powers began to be eroded. The last Labour-appointed chairman of the NEB was Sir Leslie Murphy, who resigned with his entire board when Sir Keith Joseph (the new industry minister) decided to remove its responsibility for the government's holding in Rolls-Royce later that year.

The next chairman was Sir Arthur Knight who was content to lose a number of companies, but strongly supported the Inmos microchip project. However he eventually became frustrated by the government and resigned in November 1980. The 1980 Industry Act and new Guidelines had restricted the NEB role to a catalytic investment role, nationally and regionally, particularly related to advanced technology and small firms.

Knight was succeeded by his deputy, Sir John King (later Lord King of Wartnaby), who proceeded, with some vigour, to dismantle most of the board's remaining activities.

In 1981, under the chairmanship of Sir Frederick Wood, the NEB was combined with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) to form the British Technology Group (BTG).

In 1992 BTG was transferred to the private sector and in 1995 listed on the London stock exchange as BTG plc, when it became a leading technology transfer company that commercialised intellectual property acquired from research organisations and companies around the world.

List of chairmen

 * 1975–1977: Lord Ryder
 * 1977–1979: Sir Leslie Murphy
 * 1979–1980: Sir Arthur Knight
 * 1980–1981: Sir John King
 * 1981: Sir Frederick Wood

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Talk:Jamaica national football team

Trinidad game squad
Can someone help me out with the squad for the T&T game ?Krayziegunts (talk) 11:11, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

and also, the players who scored during the South East Asian tour

Recent Results
I have added this category to track our results as time go by. Krayziegunts (talk) 00:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

and now some jackass deleted it Krayziegunts (talk) 14:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Fifa
we have to go by fifa's rule, they are the final authority in football. Also, to make it relevant to every other nation's wiki we should go by fifa's standings 07:25, 25 March 2008 Krayziegunts

Hard to find much about the Jamaican national team's record-holders. Based on this site - http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/playerprofile.aspx?id=25&squad=Former-Player, I strongly suspect Brown's got the most. Here's the list I compiled:

durrant brown 132 warren barrett - 121 hector wright - 110 linval dixon - 96 peter cargill - 84

As for goals, I think Onandi Lowe and Walter Boyd both have 19; I bet this is probably the record, but I'm not tremendously confident. Theodore Whitmore has 24 goals and holds the record.

- according to RSSSF: http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/century.html Note that the Jamaican FA includes all matches, even against club sides, youth teams or olympic representations. They have Barrett at 127 and Brown at 111, not sure how recent those numbers are. Maybe just leave Brown there, put Lowe/Boyd at goals and put an * next to each, implying not FIFA official? --Dryazan 02:08, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

--- I think we ought to go by what rsssf says - I'm confident that FIFA isn't counting matches against club sides, Olympics, etc., but I'll leave the decision up to you.

The current team captain is Ricardo Gardener

--- Allien Whittaker was born 19 June 1983 http://nationalfootballteams.com/v2/country.php?id=93

Liioadin 13:17 7 Feb 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.184.153.100 (talk) 18:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Grenada Jamaica Scorer
Both the Jamaica Gleaner and Observer, as well as International Press have reported that Fuller scored the goal. See Gleaner Observer Rasadam (talk) 14:47, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Surely John Barnes should have an English flag next to his name? Just like Marlon King and Deon Burton have a Jamaican flag next to theirs as they're English born but play for the Jamaican national side. The precedent is to use the flag of the country they represent(ed). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.195.210.76 (talk) 13:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Jamaica national football team → Jamaica men's national football team – Due to recent coverage of the Jamaica women’s team, notably recent payment issues (BBC, ESPN, and Goal.) These sources were all found through a search of “Jamaica football.” Additionally, the drama before the World Cup with sources such as AP, The Athletic, and ESPN. I believe that this is significant enough coverage to find the subject on-par of importance levels with the men’s team. Yoblyblob (talk) 16:59, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose. We just went over this with Afghanistan et al; the men's teams are the primary topics.  O.N.R.  (talk) 18:13, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The mass RM resulted in no consensus. It did not establish that all men's teams are primary and does not prejudice individual renominations. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 20:37, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Oppose, men's team is more significant long-term. Short-term coverage because of the WWC is just a blip, else we'd be changing PRIMARYs after every World Cup.--Ortizesp (talk) 19:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above.
 * RavenRTC (talk) 11:20, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 19:48, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose - men's is the clear primary topic. The sources provided by the nominator even say things like 'Jamaica's Women's World Cup squad' (BBC). GiantSnowman 19:51, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose/Speedy close - Per Ortizesp. – 𝙰𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚟™   🗿  13:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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i am searchering for a gendarme named gilles danille delong. il est mon amour pour la vie et l'apres. je l'aime. je fait une grande faute! je l'ecrit tous les ans mais il ne repond pas. je l'aime. il est mon ame! il me manque! je le regrette la situation entre nous. il y a douze ans mais je le conais comme hier! il est mon homme maintenant et toujours et l'apres. il est le sang qui coule a mes veins. donna ton amour

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Donald Kingsbury

Donald MacDonald Kingsbury (born 12 February 1929, in San Francisco) is an American–Canadian science fiction author. Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986.

Books

 * Courtship Rite. New York : Simon and Schuster, July 1982. ISBN 0-671-44033-0. (Nominated for Hugo for Best Novel in 1983) (Compton Crook Award winner) (Prometheus Award Hall of Fame 2016 winner) Published in UK as Geta.
 * The Moon Goddess and the Son. New York : Baen Books, December 1986. ISBN 0-671-55958-3. (Short version nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1980)
 * Psychohistorical Crisis. New York : Tor Books, December 2001. ISBN 0-7653-4195-6. (Winner, 2002 Prometheus Award)
 * The Finger Pointing Solward has been awaited ever since the publication of Courtship Rite. Kingsbury has never finished the story, noting as far back as September 1982 that he was still "polishing" it (see interview with Robert J. Sawyer) and as recently as his self-supplied Readercon biography in July 2006. Artist Donato Giancola placed a copy of the intended cover on his gallery page: this cover was used in 2016 for the Bradley P. Beaulieu collection In the Stars I'll Find You. In 1994, an excerpt was published as "The Cauldron".

Short fiction

 * "The Ghost Town", Astounding Science Fiction, June 1952.
 * "Shipwright", Analog, April 1978.
 * "To Bring in the Steel", Analog, July 1978.
 * "The Moon Goddess and the Son", Analog, December 1979.
 * "The Survivor", Man-Kzin Wars IV, September 1991.
 * "The Heroic Myth of Lieutenant Nora Argamentine", Man-Kzin Wars VI, July 1994.
 * "The Cauldron", Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction, September 1994.
 * "Historical Crisis", Far Futures, December 1995.

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"Guac merchant" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Guac merchant. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 6 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Talk 04:18, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 October 2022
The reference to T. William Fair should be to T. Willard Fair. Tkoco (talk) 14:59, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ RudolfRed (talk) 19:40, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Bio seems biased
...licked clean, controlled, barely any mention of Jeb Bush´s deeply unethical "business" behaviors including lying abouot it (Miguel Recarey Medicare fraud scandal)- or rather covered up with miles of irrelevant text. Wuerzele (talk) 20:47, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 December 2023
2600:100E:B06E:DF32:5946:2955:7426:AAE8 (talk) 23:06, 17 December 2023 (UTC) Need to mention he is known for “low energy”.
 * Says who? Do you have reliable, secondary sources to support such a claim? --Hammersoft (talk) 23:13, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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Hi there IaC. I removed something from The Prodigy that you added, namely the reference to the "legendary Roland T404 synthesizer". As far as I can Google, this legendary machine is actually non extant. Did you mean the Roland W30 (sampling workstation) perhaps? See also Talk:The Prodigy. JFW | T@lk  17:00, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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I just saw the new article/picture you created for Rampage. I appricate you being bold in editing but would like to lend some advise if I can. The article meantioned above had no content. it was just the link to the picture. as that this is not the purpose of wikipedia, it will likly be gone soon. Further, I'm not sure if every charter deserves a seperate article. perhaps we could focus our attention into making Beast Wars a better article and adding chariter sections. In any case, happy editing. feel free to leave me a note in my user talk page if you have comments/questions Cavebear42 23:45, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I didn't mean in any way to say that this was "inappropriate". My opinion is no more important than your’s.  The article now looks much better as that there is content added.  There are few rules here and mostly we just work off of attempting to keep article encyclopedic and working to keep things clean and easy to read.  I’m sure that you see the difference between an article whose entire content is "rampage"and the article on Optimus Prime.  In any case, happy editing.Cavebear42 15:59, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Sam Brown (artist)

Sam Brown, pseudonym of Adam Culbert, is an American illustrator and author most noted for his website, explodingdog. The gimmick of the site is that he draws pictures based on titles that visitors to the site send him via email or Twitter. He has also written two books of art and short stories, Wish For Something Better and Amazing Rain, based on the art of his website.

Most of Sam Brown's art is created in Adobe Photoshop on a Wacom tablet, although recently he has begun doing some drawings on paper. The fact that the art is produced on a computer is not readily apparent from viewing; other than occasional digital filters and transparency effects, the majority of the work is solid color-filled line drawings.

Recurrent themes in Sam Brown's art include dogs, fish, birds, robots, alien visitors, evil (portrayed as a green liquid), clouds, dictators and rockets, although he will never draw monkeys. His people have a distinctive appearance, their faces a plain circle with a line drawn across the middle for the mouth and two scribbled circles for eyes.

In 2007 Sam Brown became a member of the Dumbrella comic collective.

In the news

 * July 2001 Interview with The Morning News
 * Three Imaginary Girls, July 2004
 * gel talk, May 2003
 * Austin Chronicle, March 2005
 * Bostonist, July 2006
 * Wired, Nov 2000
 * Fairfield County Weekly July 21, 2005

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sterling way

Sterling way
Non-notable street, bad capitalization. RickK 23:20, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. We don't need an article for every single street in the world. --Goobergunch 23:49, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. --Ianb 06:14, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. -R. S. Shaw 06:36, 2004 Sep 28 (UTC)


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Lance L. Smith

Lance L. Smith (born September 18, 1946) is a retired United States Air Force general who last served as the Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Virginia, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation from November 10, 2005, to November 9, 2007. A highly decorated combat veteran, the general retired from active duty on January 1, 2008.

Smith entered the United States Air Force in 1970 after graduating from Virginia Tech and completing Officer Training School. He served two tours at The Pentagon and was Commandant of the NATO School at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Commandant of Air War College, and Vice Commander of Air University. He commanded two fighter wings and led two air expeditionary force deployments to Southwest Asia: AEF III and the 4th Air Expeditionary Wing. He flew more than 165 combat missions in Southeast and Southwest Asia in the A-1 Skyraider and the F-15E Strike Eagle. A command pilot, he has more than 3,000 hours in various military aircraft.

Education

 * 1969 Bachelor of Arts degree in business management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia
 * 1978 Master of Arts degree in business management, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
 * 1982 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
 * 1990 Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
 * 1994 Advanced Executive Program, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Assignments

 * June 1970 - June 1971, student, undergraduate pilot training, Columbus AFB, Mississippi
 * June 1971 - September 1971, A-1 combat crew training, Hurlburt Field, Florida
 * October 1971 - October 1972, A-1 pilot, 1st Special Operations Squadron, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai AFB, Thailand
 * October 1972 - July 1973, instructor pilot training, Randolph AFB, Texas
 * July 1973 - September 1977, instructor pilot and chief, check section, 96th Flying Training Squadron, Williams AFB, Arizona
 * September 1977 - January 1979, staff officer, Air Staff Training Program, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
 * January 1979 - August 1981, student, A-7 Corsair conversion training, A-7D aircraft commander, flight commander and assistant operations officer, 76th Tactical Fighter Squadron, England AFB, Louisiana
 * August 1981 - June 1982, student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
 * June 1982 - July 1986, Air Staff officer, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations; Project Checkmate analyst for interdiction, Europe and Southwest Asia; Air Force team chief, Joint Assessment and Initiative Office, and executive officer to the Air Force Director of Operations, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
 * July 1986 - July 1989, Chief of Safety, later, Assistant Deputy Commander for Operations, 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, South Carolina
 * July 1989 - June 1990, student, Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
 * June 1990 - August 1992, Commandant, NATO School, SHAPE, Oberammergau, Germany
 * August 1992 - September 1993, Vice Commander, later, Commander, 27th Fighter Wing, Cannon AFB, New Mexico
 * September 1993 - June 1995, Assistant Director of Operations, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Virginia
 * June 1995 - July 1997, Commander, 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina
 * July 1997 - August 1998, Vice Commander, 7th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Korea, and Chief of Staff, Combined Republic of Korea and U.S. Air Component Command, Osan Air Base, South Korea
 * September 1998 - December 1999, Commandant, Air War College, and Vice Commander, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
 * December 1999 - November 2001, Commander, Air Force Doctrine Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
 * November 2001 - October 2003, Deputy Commander, United Nations Command; Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commander, Air Component Command, Republic of Korea and U.S. Combined Forces Command; and Commander, 7th Air Force, Pacific Air Forces, Osan AB, South Korea
 * October 2003 - November 2005, Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command, MacDill AFB, Florida
 * November 2005 - November 2007, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, Norfolk, Virginia

Flight information

 * Rating: Command pilot
 * Flight hours: More than 3,000
 * Aircraft flown: T-33, T-37, T-38, A-1, A-7, A-10, F-111F, F-15E and F-16

Effective dates of promotion

 * Second Lieutenant May 18, 1970
 * First Lieutenant November 11, 1971
 * Captain October 18, 1973
 * Major December 4, 1978
 * Lieutenant Colonel February 1, 1982
 * Colonel July 1, 1989
 * Brigadier General July 1, 1995
 * Major General April 1, 1998
 * Lieutenant General January 1, 2002
 * General November 7, 2005

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Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan leadership elections

This page shows the results of leadership elections in the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, Canada, (known as the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan until the mid-1940s). The 1994 convention was determined by a "one member, one vote" system of balloting; all previous conventions were determined by delegated conventions.

1905 Provincial Rights leadership convention
(Held on August 23, 1905.)

 * Frederick W. A. G. Haultain acclaimed

1924 Conservative leadership convention
(Held on March 25, 1924.)

 * James T. M. Anderson acclaimed

1936 Conservative leadership convention
(Held on October 28, 1936.)

 * John Diefenbaker acclaimed

1942 Conservative leadership convention
(Held on June 18, 1942.)

 * KEOWN H.E. elected
 * BURROWS, C.H.J.

(Note: The vote totals do not appear to have been announced.)

1944 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on February 15, 1944.)

 * Rupert Ramsay acclaimed

1949 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on October 12, 1949.)

 * Alvin Hamilton
 * HUDSON, Ed

(Note: The vote totals were not announced, although Hamilton is believed to have won in a landslide.)

1958 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on October 28, 1958).

First ballot:

 * Martin Pederson 369
 * Gib Eamer 283
 * M.A. Sandy MacPherson 238

Second ballot:

 * Martin Pederson 536
 * Gib Eamer 313

1970 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on February 28, 1970.)

 * Ed Nasserden
 * Martin Clary

(Note: The vote totals were not released.  250 votes were cast, in total.)

1973 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on March 18, 1973.)

 * Dick Collver
 * Roy Bailey

(Note: The vote totals were not released, and there were wildly conflicting unofficial reports as to the size of Collver's victory (ranging from 67% ballot support to a mere 16-vote difference). A total of 495 ballots were cast in total.)

1979 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on November 9, 1979.)

 * Grant Devine 418
 * Graham Taylor 201
 * Paul Emile Rousseau 74

1994 Progressive Conservative leadership convention
(Held on November 21, 1994.)

 * Bill Boyd 1,985
 * Grant Schmidt 1,313


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Albite

Albite is a plagioclase feldspar mineral. It is the sodium endmember of the plagioclase solid solution series. It represents a plagioclase with less than 10% anorthite content. The pure albite endmember has the formula. It is a tectosilicate. Its color is usually pure white, hence its name from Latin, albus. It is a common constituent in felsic rocks.

Properties
Albite crystallizes with triclinic pinacoidal forms. Its specific gravity is about 2.62 and it has a Mohs hardness of 6 to 6.5. Albite almost always exhibits crystal twinning often as minute parallel striations on the crystal face. Albite often occurs as fine parallel segregations alternating with pink microcline in perthite as a result of exolution on cooling.

There are two variants of albite, which are referred to as 'low albite' and 'high albite'; the latter is also known as 'analbite'. Although both variants are triclinic, they differ in the volume of their unit cell, which is slightly larger for the 'high' form. The 'high' form can be produced from the 'low' form by heating above 750 °C High albite can be found in meteor impact craters such as in Winslow, Arizona. Upon further heating to more than 1050 °C the crystal symmetry changes from triclinic to monoclinic; this variant is also known as 'monalbite'. Albite melts at 1100 - 1120 °C.

Oftentimes, potassium can replace the sodium characteristic in albite at amounts of up to 10%. When this is exceeded the mineral is then considered to be anorthoclase.

Occurrence
It occurs in granitic and pegmatite masses (often as the variety cleavelandite), in some hydrothermal vein deposits, and forms part of the typical greenschist metamorphic facies for rocks of originally basaltic composition. Minerals that albite is often considered associated with in occurrence include biotite, hornblende, orthoclase, muscovite and quartz.

Discovery
Albite was first reported in 1815 for an occurrence in Finnbo, Falun, Dalarna, Sweden.

Use
Albite is used as a gemstone, albeit semiprecious. Albite is also used by geologists as it is identified as an important rock forming mineral. There is some industrial use for the mineral such as the manufacture of glass and ceramics.

One of the iridescent varieties of albite, discovered in 1925 near the White Sea coast by academician Alexander Fersman, became widely known under the trade name belomorite.

title: Albite