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Mike Merlo

Michele "Mike" Merlo (January 4, 1880 – November 9, 1924) was a Chicago political figure and "fixer" associated in his later years with the Torrio-Capone organization. As head of the Unione Siciliana fraternal group, Merlo wielded considerable influence both in Chicago's Democratic Party politics and also within Chicago's criminal underworld during the early years of Prohibition. Although Merlo was able to maintain peace among the city's numerous bootlegging gangs, his death marked the beginning of Chicago's bootleg wars that plagued the city for the rest of the decade.

Biography
Born Michele Merlo to Calogero and Maria Merlo in Sambuca Zabut, Sicily, at the age of nine Merlo immigrated with his family from Palermo to New Orleans and, then, in 1900, to Chicago. In 1902, Merlo's father died of a stroke at the age of 52, leaving the 22-year-old Merlo and his sick mother to fend for themselves. Merlo later became involved in the Chicago chapter of Unione Siciliana, a national organization dedicated to assisting Sicilian immigrants in America. Although Merlo later transformed the Unione into a front for organized crime, he reportedly did have a genuine concern for the welfare of the Sicilian residents of Chicago's Little Italy.

With the passage of Prohibition and the rise of bootlegging in Chicago, Merlo used his position to mediate the frequent territorial disputes between the Chicago bootlegging gangs. These gangs included the predominantly Irish North Side Gang, under boss Dion O'Banion, the Sicilian Genna Brothers gang and the South Side gang, then run by Torrio and Capone. During the early years of Prohibition, Merlo was able to maintain an uneasy peace between these three gangs and the other criminal organizations.

Merlo died of cancer on November 9, 1924. He received one of the most spectacular funerals in Chicago mob history, with $100,000 in floral arrangements and a $5,000 life-size wax statue. Merlo's burial was attended by an estimated 10,000 mourners and curious (including Mayor William E. Dever, State Attorney Robert E. Crowe, Chicago Police Chief Morgan A. Collins and the Cook County Board President and future Mayor, Anton J. Cermak, who all served as pallbearers) as Merlo was buried at St Clement's Church five days later. Merlo's body was later reinterred at Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Hillside, Illinois, in a mausoleum bearing the name, "Michele Merlo."

Two days after Merlo's death, the Chicago gangs broke into open warfare. Torrio men John Scalise and Albert Anselmi arrived at O'Banion's Chicago flower shop on the pretense of picking up flowers for Merlo's funeral and murdered O'Banion. The North Side gang then launched a series of bloody counterstrikes against the Gennas and the South Side gang. This gang war continued until the victory of the South Side Gang (now the Chicago Outfit) at the St Valentine's Day Massacre, in 1929.

Merlo's son, John Merlo (1912–1992), became an alderman of Chicago's 44th Ward and served eight terms in both the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate. A Lakeview branch of the Chicago Public Library was renamed in John Merlo's honor.

In popular culture
In the 1987 film The Untouchables, Mike Merlo was portrayed by actor Vince Viverito.

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Some user on some website, wow!!. Delete. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:00, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Less than 130 hits on Google suggests that the article's claim of 'thousands of fans' may fall a little short of reality. --[[User:BD2412/deletion debates|BD2412] 07:08, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, fancruft. Megan1967 08:01, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of notability. Andrewa 11:31, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete although this nomination is incorrect. He's not a user on a website, he's a Xenogears character: http://www.escaflowneonline.com/xenogears/characters/balthazar.html Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  13:07, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
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Canyon Crest Academy

Canyon Crest Academy (CCA) is a public high school in San Diego, Southern California. Founded in 2004, the school is a member of the San Dieguito Union High School District and is located in Pacific Highlands Ranch (often considered part of Carmel Valley), a residential suburb neighborhood of San Diego.

History
During the first school year (2004–05) at CCA, only first-year students were admitted into the student body, with a new class being added with each subsequent year. As a result, a complete student body did not exist on campus until the fourth year of instruction (2007–08), when the first class were in their final year. During the first school year, the students were instructed in portable trailers located in the school's parking lot. All facilities were open and construction of the original buildings was completed by the end of the second school year (2005–06). The overall cost of building the campus amounted to $103 million. Until 2014, a lottery was held to determine admission to the school, as the number of students who wished to attend exceeded the school's maximum enrollment. However, as of 2014, the lottery is no longer held and all students in the district who wish to attend can do so. A new building, the B building, was added in early 2016, and was opened by August 2017, to alleviate the capacity issues.

The first group of students chose the raven as the school's mascot.

Curriculum
CCA follows a semester class schedule instead of a traditional year-based schedule, which means that students can complete eight classes in a year (four in the fall term and four in the spring term), rather than six year-long courses. Students can choose a free period each semester if they choose: this arrangement has its students taking between 6-8 classes a year.

Athletics
CCA is a member of the Avocado West league in San Diego, along with Torrey Pines High School, La Costa Canyon High School, Carlsbad High School, San Dieguito Academy, and Sage Creek High School. The mascot of Canyon Crest Academy is the raven. Canyon Crest Academy Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located on the school's campus.

Fall sports include Boys Water Polo, Girls Golf, Girls Tennis, Girls Volleyball, Cross Country, Girls Field Hockey, and Girls Flag Football; winter sports include Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Girls Water Polo, and Wrestling. Spring sports include Badminton, Boys Golf, Boys Lacrosse, Boys Tennis, Boys Volleyball, Girls Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Swim & Dive, Track & Field, and Beach Volleyball CCA does not have a football team or cheerleading squad.

Awards and honors
The Envision Music Program has been selected as one of 130 finalists nationwide for the 2008 and 2011 Grammy Signature Schools National Award for Excellence in School Music Programs.

The school's vocal and theater arts performed The Drowsy Chaperone which was nominated for the Ben Vereen Awards in 2016, with the pit orchestra winning an award, along with awards being given for many individual actors and other school shows.

Canyon Crest's average SAT score in 2015 was 1892, with the national average being 1490; the average ACT score was a 28.5 with a national average of 21.0. In 2007, the College Board announced that CCA's class of 2008 led the nation in AP World History scores for schools of its size. The AP World History teacher was Mark Van Over. This accolade was published by the College Board in the 2007 AP Report to the Nation.

In 2012, Newsweek ranked CCA as the 97th best high school in the United States, 20th best west of the Mississippi River, and 10th best in California.

In 2013, Newsweek ranked CCA as the 78th best high school in the United States.

In 2014, Newsweek ranked CCA as the 72nd best high school in the United States.

In 2015, U.S. News ranked CCA as the 89th best public high school in the United States.

In 2018, CCA was ranked #1 in California and #132 nationally; however, private schools were also included in the rankings.

In 2019, CCA was ranked the best public high school in California.

In 2021, CCA was again ranked the best public high school in California.

On February 25, 2015; Canyon Crest Academy broke the world record for the biggest group hug in a school library. The record set was 191, beating the previous record of 74.

Student Body
CCA's demographic is dominated by Whites and Asians from the surrounding neighborhoods of North San Diego County such as Carmel Valley, Torrey Hills, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Solana Beach, and Encinitas. Before 2014, if the number of students who desired to attend CCA after middle school exceeded the number of spaces, a lottery was held. However, as of 2014, the lottery is no longer held and all students in the district who wish to attend can do so.

CCA awards GPAs based on a 4.0 scale, with AP or weighted classes on a 5.0 scale.

Notable alumni

 * Riley Adams, baseball player
 * Matt Dinerman, broadcaster
 * Ryn Weaver, singer
 * Lili Simmons, actress (did not complete)
 * Dylan Mulvaney, actress and transgender rights activist

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Damaris Cudworth Masham

Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham (18 January 1659 – 20 April 1708) was an English writer, philosopher, theologian, and advocate for women's education who is often characterized as a proto-feminist. She overcame some weakness of eyesight and lack of access to formal higher education to win high regard among eminent thinkers of her time. With an extensive correspondence, she published two works, A Discourse Concerning the Love of God (1696) and Thoughts in reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (1705). She is particularly noted for her long, mutually-influential friendship with the philosopher John Locke.

Ralph Cudworth (1617–88)
Damaris Cudworth, born on 18 January 1659, was the daughter of the Reverend Professor Ralph Cudworth and his wife, Damaris Cudworth (née Cradock) (d. 1695), five years after her father became Master of Christ's College in the University of Cambridge (a position he occupied for the rest of his life). A distinguished classicist and Regius Professor of Hebrew, Ralph Cudworth had been educated in the non-conforming environment of Emmanuel College during the 1630s. Both his father (a clergyman and royal chaplain also named Ralph Cudworth) and his stepfather, the clergyman John Stoughton (1593–1639), had previously studied and held Fellowships there, and had successively held the college rectorate of Aller, Somerset (where the younger Ralph had been born). He became a leading figure of the Cambridge Platonist School, and poured immense erudition and originality into his great work, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (only the first very substantial part of which came to readiness by 1671, with publication in 1678). Overtly a refutation of atheistic determinism, his work evolved in critique of aspects of Calvinist theology, in the light of his near-contemporary René Descartes, and in opposition to Thomas Hobbes.

Damaris Cradock Andrewes (d. 1695)
Her mother, Damaris, daughter of Damaris and Mathew Cradock of London (d. 1641), was first married to London merchant citizen Thomas Andrewes (d. 1653) (son of the Commonwealth Lord Mayor of London Sir Thomas Andrewes), by whom there were several half-brothers and sisters. Her mother's stepmother Rebeccah (relict of Mathew Cradock) later married the Emmanuel College Platonist Benjamin Whichcote, whose niece married her father's friend Dr John Worthington (1657). Through her mother's family, Damaris (Lady Masham) was cousin to Zachary Cradock, Provost of Eton (1680–95), and Samuel Cradock, nonconformist tutor of Wickhambrook, Suffolk (both of whom were educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge during the 1640s and 1650s).

Damaris Cudworth's half-sister, Damaris Andrewes (d. 1687), married Edward Abney, a student, graduate, and Fellow of Christ's College (from 1649), who had obtained the higher degree of Doctor of both laws (LL.D) and resigned his Fellowship to marry her (1661). Her half-brother, John Andrewes (d. after 1688), also studied at Christ's College (from 1664) and held a Fellowship there (until c.1675). Her other half-brother, Matthew Andrewes (d. 1674), entered Queens' College, Cambridge (1663/64), and was Fellow there at his death. Whilst her brother, Charles Cudworth, who died in India (1684), and for whom Locke observed her tender affection, may have been educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; her other brothers attended Christ's College: John Cudworth (an undergraduate under John Andrewes, and later Fellow and Lecturer in Greek (1672–84)), and Thomas Cudworth.

Education
Although her early life has left no record of formal schooling, the unusual collegiate context of her family environment (and her acquaintance with her father's Platonist circle) gave her advantages and insights in an age when higher education was not normally accessible to women. The claims that she was taught by her father, or owed the development of her thought especially to John Norris (an early associate with whom she came to differ), are to some extent superfluous: she was an intelligent young woman in a brilliant household of academics embedded in the collegiate life. Damaris herself emphasized the importance of the maternal influence on a child's education.

Her early letters to John Locke show her experienced in philosophical discourse, capable in discussion of her father's Platonist views and having knowledge of many Platonist works. By 1682, she was well-read in contemporary philosophy. This was despite a certain weakness of eyesight which affected her ability to read as copiously as she wished. There is no medical record for this: John Norris referred to her 'blindness' in his Reflections upon the Conduct of Human Life (1690), but this was a statement which she, herself, contradicted and corrected him upon. John Locke also referred to her sight in correspondence with Philip van Limborch. Her scholarly calling, itself unusual for a woman in her time, was achieved in spite of this weakness.

Marriage (1685) and motherhood
In 1685, Damaris Cudworth (aged 26) married Sir Francis Masham, 3rd Baronet (c.1646–1723), of the Manor of Oates in High Laver in the county of Essex (she was thereafter styled Lady Masham). She and Sir Francis (a widower), already (with his previous wife, Mary Scott) the father of eight children, including the courtier Samuel, 1st Lord Masham (1678/9–1758)), had one son: Francis Cudworth Masham (1686–1731). Little is known of their personal relationship: the marriage provided security, if no great social or educational advancement of itself. When her father, Ralph Cudworth, died in 1688: he left her such of the English books from his library as she should choose. Her mother maintained close connections with her daughter's household and, when she died (1695), she made extensive provision for her daughter and appointed John Locke, Edward Clarke and Bishop Edward Fowler (her executor) as trustees for the future welfare of her grandson, Francis Cudworth Masham (who later became Accountant-General to the Court of Chancery).

Correspondence and publications
From her early twenties onwards, she maintained a close personal relationship with John Locke (during the remainder of his life). They were probably brought together by a mutual friend, Edward Clarke. They met sometime before 1682, and exchanged many personal, and often flirtatious, letters. Locke described her admirably in a letter to Phillipp van Limborch: “The lady herself is so well versed in theological and philosophical studies, and of such an original mind that you will not find many men to whom she is not superior in wealth of knowledge and ability to profit by it.” She and Locke were of great importance to one another in their friendship and studies, and Locke took up residence in her household (from 1691 until his death in 1704). He brought with him his library (of nearly 2,000 books), purchased for her a writing desk, ink and quills, and paid for the binding of her works. Much of Locke's last will and testament is devoted to gifts, legacies and arrangements for Damaris, Lady Masham and her son, Francis. An account of Locke's last day (during which Lady Masham attended him), and of his character, was published in 1705.

Constant companions, they exchanged ideas and theories and entertained many other theologians and philosophers (including Sir Isaac Newton and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont). During this time she published her first work, A Discourse Concerning the Love of God (1696), which was a response to John Norris's Practical Discourses. Shortly after Locke's death, she published her best-known work, Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (1705). Both were published anonymously, to avoid prejudice or irrelevant courtesy towards a woman scholar: Pierre Bayle (who easily ascertained her authorship) hastened to amend one of his previous (careless) observations, concerning her father's work, with an elaborate (and probably) sincere compliment upon her Savoir and other perfections. Her correspondence with Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz explored their respective theories including the latter's work on Pre-established harmony, on her father Ralph Cudworth's work, and on the relationship between body and soul.

Death (1708), memorial, and portraits
Near the end of her life Masham, suffering from intense pain due to gallstones, traveled to Bath hoping to improve her condition. Damaris Cudworth Masham died at Otes (20 April 1708), and was buried in the middle aisle of Bath Abbey. Over her grave it was written of 'her Learning, Judgement, Sagacity, and Penetration together with her Candor and Love of Truth (Ballard, 337).

Portraits
No extant portraits of Damaris Cudworth Masham are known. According to an inventory, her mother owned a portrait, and John Locke ordered one from Sir Godfrey Kneller (1704), but both appear to have been lost.

Philosophy and advocacy
Often touted as the "Lockean feminist" by scholars (such as Jaqueline Broad and Lois Frankel), Damaris Cudworth Masham's public works consisted of a mix between her father's Platonism, Lockean theories and arguments, and her own proto-feminist ideals and advocacy. She criticised the double standard of men and women's moralities and women's lack of access to higher education.

In her Occasional Thoughts in reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (1705), Damaris Cudworth Masham makes two important points regarding the inferior education given to women. Firstly, she argues that giving an inferior education to women leaves them unfit to be able to give their children a proper education (since most children, during this period, were given early education by their mothers and education was still mostly reserved for members of the elite). She writes, “The improvements of Reason, however requisite to Ladies for their Accomplishment, as rational Creatures; and however needful to them for the well Educating of their Children, and to their being useful in their Families, yet are rarely any recommendation of them to Men; who foolishly thinking, that Money will answer to all things, do, for the most part, regard nothing else in the Woman they would Marry … Girls, betwixt silly Fathers and ignorant Mothers, are generally so brought up, that traditionary Opinions are to them, all their lives long, instead of Reason." Here, Damaris Cudworth Masham argued that it would be a benefit to all mankind should women be allowed access to higher education since it would allow them to educate better their sons and daughters and advance reason in society.

Secondly, Cudworth argued that women should have access to education for not only their children's spiritual welfare but for their own. She argued that “Women have Souls to be sav’d as well as Men,” and that, by being blessed with rational thinking, it was imperative for women to understand the principles and values behind their own religious beliefs. “They [women] are, perhaps sometimes told in regard of what Religion exacts, They must Believe and Do such and such things, because the Word of God requires it; but they are not put upon searching the Scriptures themselves, to see whether, or no, these things are so." She further argued that a woman's duty and knowledge should not be grounded on the "uncertain and variable Opinions of Men" but that they should, instead, be able to nurture their minds as well as their bodies and form their own opinions about spirituality.

Influence on other philosophers
Damaris Cudworth Masham's work and correspondence with many of the great philosophers of the Enlightenment may be argued to have influenced their resulting published works. Most notably, it is surmised that she influenced Locke's second revision of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Locke worked on various revisions of this treatise (between 1689 until his death in 1704), during which time he resided, with the Mashams, at their manor of Oates, High Laver, Essex. Thus, it is not unlikely that Damaris Cudworth would have had some intellectual influence over aspects of these revisions. In revising the section "Of Power", Locke seems to adopt many of Ralph Cudworth's ideas (and especially those contained in his unpublished manuscripts, which are considered the second and third parts to his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678)). Even though these manuscripts are not believed to have been in Damaris's possession until the death of her elder brother, John Cudworth (1726), the influence of Ralph Cudworth's ideas upon Locke's work cannot be ignored, and has led some historians to believe that it was Damaris Cudworth Masham herself (familiar with her father's works) who may have influenced Locke during this second revision of "Of Power." Damaris Cudworth Masham did make parallels to her father's ideas on free will (contained in his third manuscript), which appear in her publication Occasional Thoughts, "without a capacity in the Creature to act contrary to the Will of the Creator there could be no desert, or self-excellency in any Created Being; contrariety to the Will of God is therefore permitted in the Universe as a necessary result of Creaturely imperfection, under the greatest endowment that a Created Being is capable of having, viz. That of Freedom or Liberty of Action." Thereby indicating that her father was likely to have passed-on many of his ideas, regarding free will and the rejection of determinism, to Damaris (either directly through the reading of his manuscripts or indirectly from her education in philosophical discourse).

Works

 * A discourse concerning the Love of God (A. and J. Churchill at the Black-Swan in Paternoster-Row, London 1696). Earlymoderntexts.com edition
 * Occasional Thoughts in reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black-Swan in Paternoster-Row, London 1705). At Project Gutenberg (accessed 8 December 2014). Earlymoderntexts.com edition
 * Briefwechsel zwischen Leibniz und Lady Masham. 1703–1705. In: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophische Schriften (Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1887), vol. 3, pp. 331–375. [Leibniz writes in French, Lady Masham answers in English. Volume online.]

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Lorie (singer)

Laure Monique Pester, professionally known as Lorie, (born May 2, 1982) is a French singer. She has sold over 8 million albums and singles worldwide as of December 2007. Her first studio album Près de toi was certified triple platinum in France and she followed it with five other certified albums. Lorie is also an actress, who lent her voice for many French versions of international movies including Stuart Little 2. She stars in the TF1 TV film De feu et de glace, and guest-starred as a Parisian model on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. She has also launched a clothing line, "Lorie", only found in the Z stores in France. Her contract with Z ended in early 2009.

2000–2001: First successes
When Lorie heard that producer Axel Brangeon was looking for a young girl that knew how to sing and dance, she immediately auditioned and won the contract. Lorie recorded "Près de moi", written by Johnny Williams and Louis Element, which was rejected by every record label. Williams uploaded the song onto a French website, peoplesound" and the song received 15,000+ downloads in two months. Thereafter Epic Group Project of Sony Music France signed Lorie, who was only eighteen at the time. "Près de moi" was officially released in 2001, accompanied by a highly popular music video. It was certified Platinum in France for over 500,000 copies sold. Its parent album "Près de toi", released on October 30, 2001, became a triple Platinum recording in France with 1,000,000+ copies sold. The next singles "Je serai (ta meilleure amie)" and "Toute seule" were also certified Gold.

2002–2003: More successes
“Tendrement”, Lorie's second album, saw the light in 2002 with three commercially successful singles: “J'ai besoin d'amour”, “À 20 ans” and “Sur un air Latino”.

The album became as successful as “Près de toi” selling over a million copies in Europe. In April 2002, Lorie sung “Oser ses rêves” for the French soundtrack of the Disney animation film Cinderella II: Dreams Come True and lend her voice for the French version of the movie Stuart Little 2; she is the bird Margalo.

After touring for the promotion of her album, Lorie released a book called "Ma tournée" which sold over 200,000 copies, becoming one of the most successful books ever written by a singer in France. Later, her debut album "Près de toi" would come back to the lights after its release in Japan with new tracks (English versions of her songs "Près de moi" and "Toute Seule") including "Dans mes rêves" which was used in the Évian in which Lorie was starring. She also confirmed her relationship with Filipino-American pop-star Billy Crawford.

In late 2003, Lorie's first live album and music DVD come out, both entitled "Lorie Live Tour" which received a great response.

2004–2006: Attitudes and image change
Come early 2004, "Attitudes" was already out and the singles "Week-end", "La positive attitude" and "Ensorcelée" were big hits. The album became Platinum in France because it sold over 600,000 copies. Lorie toured again to promote the album. The song "C’est plus fort que moi", written by Jean-Jacques Goldman, was later released to support the "Week-End Tour". In June, Lorie launched her very own clothing line, simply entitled "Lorie", exclusively sold in the Z stores in France. Her contract with Z was cancelled in early 2009.

In April 2005, Lorie's first compilation album "Best Of" was released, including all her singles plus "Toi et moi", "Les ventres ronds" (which was performed in the Week-End Tour) and the original version of "Quand tu danses". The album was well-received but some critics said that Lorie was way too young to release a "best-of", noting that Lorie was the youngest artist in French history to release a greatest hits album.

In October 2005, Lorie released Rester la même (which means ‘Stay the same’), an album mixing various music influences including Zouk, RnB, pop and dance-pop. Lorie wanted to change her image from squeaky-clean to boogie singer. The title track, featuring rap act Second Degré, was first released to see the reaction which was generally positive, but the song did not perform as well as expected. The following singles "SOS" (reggaeton version), "Parti pour zouker" and "Fashion victim'" (official but promotional single for her Live Tour 2006). This album also received a Platinum certification in France, because it sold over 470,000 copies.

That same year, Lorie voiced the character Violette in the French version of the Academy Award-winning animated film "The Incredibles".

2007–2008: The metamorphosis
On November 26, 2007, Lorie's fifth studio album 2lor en moi? was released; it was the singer's most mature album and it is clear that the album's sound is influenced by Tecktonik, the then-new dance. The first single from the album "Je vais vite" showcases Lorie's musical and personal evolution. Its follow-up "Play", featuring back vocals by her fiancé Garou, was a worldwide minor club hit. On October 3, 2008 Lorie started her "Le Tour 2Lor", which ended in December 2008 to promote the album. The last single from the album, "Un garçon", officially released in December 2008, talks about homosexuality; the song and the video were harshly received from the French audience and in consequence, it "flopped", as it received little coverage. However, the album was certified Gold for selling at least 185,200 copies as of November 2008.

2lor en moi? was also released on August 18, 2008, in Canada under Garou's record label, Wolfgang Entertainment. Lorie also recorded "Heaven's Table", a critically acclaimed duet with Garou for his latest album. In June 2008, she wanted to try something new: acting. She starred as a lonely and lost ice-skater in the TF1 TV movie De feu et de glace. TF1, satisfied with Lorie's performance, asked her to guest-star as a Parisian model in the successful soap opera The Young and the Restless in October. According to Yo-Club, as of March 2009, Lorie has officially sold about 8,000,000 records worldwide.

2011: Return to music
Lorie's album Regardez-moi came out on November 21, 2011, with the first single "Dita" made available to purchase in France via iTunes and Amazon on August 26, 2011. In 2012, she produced a seventh album, Danse, on her own label, LMD2 Production

Tours

 * 2002–2003: Live Tour
 * 2004: Week End Tour 2004
 * 2006: Live Tour 2006
 * 2008: Le Tour 2LOR
 * 2019-2020: Des Choses à se dire

Featured on

 * 2002 : "Tous dans le même bateau" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2003 : "La Foire aux Enfoirés" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2003 : Pluri Elles, a Serge Lama album, on the song Les poètes
 * 2004 : Le cœur des femmes with Combat Combo
 * 2004 : "Les Enfoirés dans l'espace" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2005 : "Le Train des Enfoirés" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2005 : Et puis la terre, with A.S.I.E
 * 2006 : "Le Village des Enfoirés" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2007 : "La Caravane des Enfoirés" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2007 : Lonely, with 2A.M
 * 2008 : "Les Secrets des Enfoirés" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2009 : "Les Enfoirés font leur cinéma" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2010 : "Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs" with Les Enfoirés
 * 2011 : "Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés" with Les Enfoirés

Awards

 * 2003 : Rolf-Marbot Price for her song "J'ai besoin d'amour".
 * 2003 : World Music Award for "Best French Female Pop/Rock Artist".
 * 2003 : Inauguration of the Lorie statue in the Musée Grévin, the French wax museum.

Personal life
She was engaged to French-Canadian singer Garou but he decided to break up before the wedding in 2010, when she started a relationship with the French actor Philippe Bas that ended in 2012.

Philanthropy
Lorie is a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 2002.

Other
In 2012 she was one of the contestants during the third season of Danse avec les stars.

Discography

 * 2001 : Près de Toi
 * 2002 : Tendrement
 * 2004 : Attitudes
 * 2005 : Rester la même
 * 2007 : 2lor en moi ?
 * 2011 : Regarde-moi
 * 2012 : Danse
 * 2017 : Les choses de la vie (as Lorie Pester)

DVDs

 * Je serai (ta meilleure amie)
 * Près de Vous
 * Tendrement Vôtre
 * Live Tour
 * Week End Tour
 * Best Of
 * Live Tour 2006

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canyon Crest Academy

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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, no consensus to delete. The voting is roughly tied between keep/delete. Throwing out votes simply because of an inclusionist campaign is out of the question. Rhobite 07:14, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Canyon Crest Academy
Non-notable high school. Apparently this one just opened. Szyslak 07:11, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gamaliel 07:14, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Carnildo 08:43, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. School.--Centauri 12:17, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, schools are not by definition notable, and this one has nothing to set it apart from the thousands of other schools. Radiant! 12:56, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:02, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Although the discussion is whether we should keep schools for being notable or not. I may have had conflicting votes in the past about this, as Im sure others have. Inter 14:45, 23 Feb 2005
 * Keep. Needs location in article name. "Notability" is not listed in Deletion policy - David Gerard 14:59, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Necessary to coverage of its local area. (Or could be merged there.) Kappa 16:12, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Cookie cutter school. Barring that, merge/redir. Niteowlneils 17:02, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep and allow for organic growth. Passes the Pokémon Comparative Notability Test. GRider\talk 17:07, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. First, that's an argument for consolidation of more Pokemoncruft.  Second, I daresay more people have heard of and been affected by Pokemon than Canyon Crest Academy.  Their reported pupil:teacher ratio of 34 doesn't suggest a particularly impressive institution, either. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 19:30, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Pupil to teacher ratios are not a valid reason for deletion as per Deletion policy. And it has also been established that you need not have "heard of" something in order for it to be encyclopedic.  GRider\talk 21:20, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I saw someone driving 85 mph on Route 128 the other day. Is that an argument that Route 128 should have its speed limit raised to 85 mph? Wikipedia is intrinsically inconsistent. The existence of Pokemon articles that should not be in Wikipedia is not an argument for inclusion of other articles that should not be in Wikipedia. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:22, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Dpbsmith. Actually the entire 'Pokemon test' is an argument out of spite, and thus invalid. It actually seems to mean 'there are certain articles on a well-known subject that I find totally ridiculous, i.e. pokemon, and therefore a certain other article should be kept since I don't find it totally ridiculous'. Whether you like Pokemon or not (and frankly, I hate it), it is very very famous and very influential. Radiant! 09:10, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with Radiant! and Dpbsmith. vlad_mv 03:15, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete There is precedent for deleting non-notable high schools. DaveTheRed 21:39, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Article does not establish notability. Neither does a glance at the school's website. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:22, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Make a mention in San Diego, California and delete - Skysmith 09:34, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * keep this please Yuckfoo 21:22, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This and all school articles. Wincoote 23:49, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Preisler 04:10, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of notability. Jayjg (talk)  17:18, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. (I'm happy that someone likes the school that much, I really am. But it just isn't worth an encylcopedia article.) -Aranel (" Sarah ") 22:26, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Carrp | Talk 16:53, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Jonathunder 21:40, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. --BM 15:42, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability is not a deletion criteria. The Recycling Troll 18:22, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Non-notable topic => not an encyclopedic topic => no potential for the article to become encyclopedic. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:32, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Erm? NO! Convoluted chain of dubious logic => misleading statement => WRONG! The Recycling Troll 12:09, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It is probably a significant part of its local community and is certainly significant to its members. Yes, it's a stub that needs expansion but we're not running out of paper... If not that then create a High Schools in San Diego article and merge.LukeSurl 20:02, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Secondary schools, at least, are notable and relevant to thousands of people in the local area as well as alumni and current students.  And I'm not really quite sure what the age of the school has to do with it - surely that would be all the more reason to allow an article to develop? Drw25 19:58, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable. BEEFSTEW score of 3 (A,D,H), and D is stretching it. —Korath (Talk) 04:30, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * Notice to reviewing administrator: There was an attempt to vote stack on this article. See GRider's contributions.  Votes beyond this point need to be reviewed carefully and considered carefully. -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Users must consider all policies and former consensus before commenting for consensus: Please note, Deletion policy, is not the only policy to consider.
 * Votes for deletion/Precedents
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * What's in, what's out

Considerations should also be made to the following as well:
 * Google test
 * Importance

Users should remember that the Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep but expand.--BaronLarf 19:20, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Spinboy 20:30, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, high schools and beyond are inherently encyclopedic (and I shan't get started on all the video game nano-cruft that lurks around here). Wyss 21:06, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Notice to AllyUnion: Seeing as I'm not a newcomer, bite me. My vote stands and I thank G-Rider for bringing it to my attention!  I almost missed this one.  —RaD Man (talk) 03:18, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I pity the fool who does not keep. RaD Man (talk) 22:37, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable.  --L33tminion | (talk) 22:41, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a decent school stub and has potential to become even more encyclopedic. --Andylkl 23:30, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting school stub, wikipedia is not paper. --ShaunMacPherson 01:44, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I feel it is very notable. -CunningLinguist 02:59, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Google results returned only 236 finds. - Mailer Diablo 12:22, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. JuntungWu 12:53, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. high schools are notable RustyCale 13:30, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think schools are inherently notable. Further, "notability" is not listed in Deletion policy (even though I wish it were, and have tried to include it), so isn't grounds for deletion anyway. Dan100 17:51, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This school is notable, it is a school that is getting much publicity in san diego county for having a revolutionary program in which the school prepares it's students for careeres in the technology and arts field. penguinix 23:12, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * User's third edit. —Korath (Talk) 01:52, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

 *  KEEP  all REAL places -RickK^h^h^h^h^h. Schools are inherantly notable and this belongs on Wiki.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 03:43, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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User:CaptainMike

 * Captain
 * First exposed to wiki at http://www.memory-alpha.org
 * See also:
 * http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/User:Captainmike

Crew

 * Daphne Blake
 * Velma Dinkley
 * Fred Jones
 * Norville Rogers

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Hassan Hattab

Hassan Hattab (حسان حطاب; born 14 January 1967), also known as Abu Hamza (أبو حمزة), is the founder and first leader of the Algerian Jihadist rebel group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) from 1998 to 2003.

Early life and education
Born in Rouiba on 14 January 1967, Hattab received religious education in his hometown. Later, he was trained as a paratrooper in his national service in the Algerian army, in the course of which he met his future lieutenants Amari Saïfi and Abbi Abdelaziz. After leaving the army in 1989, he became a mechanic. He joined the most radical of the Islamist guerrilla movements, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), after the cancellation of the 1992 elections. In 1994, he became "amir", or chief, in charge of what it called the "second zone" (Kabylia and the eastern part of the capital). As such, he notably was the signer of the document announcing that the GIA had assassinated the Kabyle singer Lounes Matoub.

GSPC
Hattab left the GIA in 1996, rejecting its takfirist policy of massacring Algerian civilians en masse and accusing it of being infiltrated by the Algerian secret services. He formed a separate group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the same year. However, there is another report giving the year of foundation as 1998. The main objective of the GSPC, like the GIA, was to establish an Islamic state in Algeria, rejecting the current secular government. Hattab declared that the GSPC would refrain from attacking civilians. This policy enabled the GSPC to build a larger support network than that of the GIA, making it Algeria's most significant Islamist movement. In 2000, the GSPC embraced Al-Qaeda's ideology of global Jihad.

The GSPC was mainly active in the east of the country, notably in the forests of western Kabylie such as Mizrana, Boumehni, Sidi Ali Bounab, and Takhoukht. The GSPC soon eclipsed the GIA as the latter was torn apart by internal purges and army victories. Hattab lost his leadership position and on 23 October 2003, Nabil Sahraoui took over the group. This was as a result of Hattab's view that reconciliation with the government should be encouraged. A "repentant" ex-member reported that Hattab was killed by members of his own organization in summer 2003. However, his successor, the then GSPC leader Sahraoubi reported that Hattab had resigned "of his own accord".

On 9 February 2005, the GSPC announced that it had excluded Hattab entirely from the group and saw him as a "stranger to jihad" and a "suppliant before tyranny", according to El Watan, thus further suggesting that previous rumors of his death were incorrect. In March, he was reported to have called for the GSPC to end their fight.

Surrender
On 22 March 2007, Agence France Presse reported that Hassan Hattab was under a death sentence in Algeria. On 5 October 2007, then-Algerian Minister of Interior Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni confirmed that Hattab had surrendered on 22 September. However, Hattab did not attend the court. In March 2011, then-Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz stated that Hassan Hattab had been put in a safe place, whereas Abderezzak El Para had been imprisoned.

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Talk:Gene pool

Okay, I have to work on this article...
In the same way that David Suzuki had to do some work on Drosophila temperature-sensitive phenotypes...let's see what I can add to the page... Gene S. Poole 04:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Is genetic pool the same than gene pool? If it is, may-be it could link here.--213.35.169.119 19:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Is a gene pool defined by the set of unique genes in a population or by the frequency that those genes appear in the population? If two distinct populations share the exact same genes but the frequency with which specific genes appear varies markedly, do those populations share the same gene pool or have different gene pools? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.15.117.31 (talk) 12:20, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: First Year English Composition 1001
— Assignment last updated by Amaner222 (talk) 18:35, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

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GIS (disambiguation)

GIS (Geographic information system) is a computer-based system to analyse and present spatial data.

GIS or Gis may also refer to:

Business

 * General Mills, an American food manufacturer, NYSE symbol
 * Madhya Pradesh Global Investors' Summit, Indore, India
 * Green investment scheme
 * Grey Island Systems International, a Canadian company
 * Gunawan Iron and Steel, Indonesia

Government

 * Georgian Intelligence Service
 * General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)
 * General Intelligence Service (Sudan)
 * Ghana Immigration Service
 * Gruppo di intervento speciale, Italian Carabinieri unit
 * Government Information Services, Hong Kong
 * Guaranteed Income Supplement, to Canadian pension
 * Integrated Security Unit (French: Groupe intégré de la sécurité), in Canada
 * Special Intervention Group (French: Groupe d'Intervention Spécial), of Algeria

Language

 * Giš, a cuneiform sign
 * GIŠ (wood Sumerogram), a cuneiform determinative prefix for wooden items
 * North Giziga language

Places

 * Gis, Iran
 * Greenland ice sheet

Schools

 * Garden International School, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 * German International School Doha, in Qatar
 * Gippsland Independent Schools, in Victoria, Australia
 * Goshen Intermediate School, in New York, US
 * Grace International School, in Chiang Mai, Thailand
 * Granada Islamic School, in Santa Clara, California, US
 * Greenoak International School, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
 * Global Indian School, in Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Science and technology

 * Gas imaging spectrometer, on Japan's Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
 * Gas-insulated switchgear
 * Generalized iterative scaling
 * Global information system

Other uses

 * Cemetery GIS, Giza Plateau, Egypt
 * G♯ (musical note), German notation Gis
 * Gadigal Information Service, which runs Koori Radio in Sydney, Australia
 * Gateshead International Stadium, in Tyne and Wear, England
 * Gisborne Airport, in New Zealand
 * Gis Gelati, an Italian cycling team
 * Partenope Napoli Basket, an Italian basketball team sponsored as Gis Napoli 1977–1978
 * Guide International Service, of the UK Girl Guides Association

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Spelman

Spelman may refer to:

People with the surname

 * Caroline Spelman, British politician
 * David Spelman (born 1966), American music producer
 * Edward Spelman (died 1767), English translator
 * Elizabeth V. Spelman, American philosopher
 * Henry Spelman, British antiquarian
 * Henry Spelman of Jamestown (1595–1623), English adventurer, soldier, and author
 * Sir John Spelman (historian) (1594–1643), English historian and politician, MP for Worcester
 * Sir John Spelman (judge) (died 1546), English judge
 * John Spelman (MP for Castle Rising) (1606–1663), English politician
 * Laura Spelman Rockefeller (1839–1915), American philanthropist
 * Mick Spelman, English footballer
 * Taffy Spelman (1914–?), English footballer
 * Timothy Mather Spelman (1891–1970), American composer

Other uses

 * Spelman (music), performer of Swedish folk music
 * Spelman College, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

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Talk:AnandTech

Big Boards
I'm not sure what to do with this, but in discussions with Ken "Caesar" Fisher, owner of arstechnica.com he has repeatedly told me the BigBoards is a very unreliable indicator of message board size. Should we consider dropping them as evidence? Kd5mdk 07:20, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The photo
I think the photo should go. This article is about the website, not the individual. RickK 07:27, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

If nobody object, I'm going to delete that picture. RickK 20:24, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

Well - it is his website....

POV
Does anyone else think that perhaps this page reads a bit like marketing material? "the journal that other journalists read" and so on?

Personally, I'm wondering where the unsourced "purported to be one of the largest [forums] on the Internet" line came from. There are plenty of highly active Internet forums that outclass ATOT and the AT forums in general, in terms of number of posts. Also, regarding the previous comment, I tend to see Tom's Hardware Guide and HardOCP being sourced fairly often by journalists too, so that does seems like a bit of marketing spin. HoosTrax 01:50, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

POV
Definetely, this looks like marketing, someone please mod

Removed Similar Pages
Why was the similar page link to Unique Hardware removed? Are both sites not hardware review sites? Dalponis 19:26, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Discussion of AMD motherboards?
There's no articles of AMD motherboards for a few months. Why? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.93.184.110 (talk) 06:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

Problems
Does anyone have a problem to view Anandtech pages? When I connect to any page that belongs to Anandtech all I get is a blank page. Is there something wrong with the Anandtech site or am I missing some flash player, adobe update, service pack or what not ?

NadrrKhan 12:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)NadrrKhan

Delete
Delete this article. It is a simple marketing plug that does not belong on Wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kashk5 (talk • contribs).
 * What's your evidence for it being a marketing ploy? I vote that it should stay: it's one of the most well-known, tech-related sites on the Internet so it's notable enough on that basis, imo. -- Hux 15:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Site's history
Given that the article claims he was 14 years old at the time of founding, can someone explain how he managed to get review samples of hardware? What were his connections? Were his parents engineers, etc.? Without an explanation I find it pretty hard to believe that the information is accurate, or that he was actually running the site (and not his parents). Or is the article saying that he started a personal blog at 14, and it was only after he went to college, work, etc. that it became a well-known site with industry connections? If that's the case, more emphasis should be placed on the history of the website that people actually read, and the stuff about his blog at 14 should be removed. (Perhaps copied to his bio page as a curiosity -- it's really more about him than it is about the current website.) Ham Pastrami (talk) 06:46, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

It was the internet and 1997. I know this is a bit hard to believe in slightly more modern times, but vendors were fast and loose with hardware back then. After he published a few articles with his own gear, he was able to start getting some lower-end hardware and working up from there. Vendors were happy to give out hardware for testing, given the advantage of timing in internet publications over print publications such as Computer Shopper. His parents did help organize the back-end of the business, but as far as I know any connections, writing, etc was his. AnandTech was already a top hardware review site and he was a millionaire from it before he even graduated high school in 2000. ViRGE (talk) 11:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

deleted a paragraph
"Unfortunately, the moderators chosen have not proven to operate in a professional and thoughtful manner and it is causing problems within the forum. You can still find quality information through the website, but it is recommended you avoid the forums if you value freedom of speech. Also, the moderators/admins seem to have a high school clique mentality and are allowed to post abusive and rude comments in the members' threads.  The 'senior' mods allow and support this behavior; thus festering a culture of adolescent attitudes, and bullying people, through the abuse of their power on the forums."

Should be obvious why... 58.174.130.182 (talk) 00:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Apple
Is AnandTech owned by Apple ? 90.192.59.252 (talk) 00:04, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Keep
The article is written about one of the oldest and most recognized websites on the Internet. Check Archive.org and you will see. History goes back to the 90s. It is one of the first of its kind and was begun by a kid. I like to saw logs! (talk) 07:34, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

"About us"
Their page on that currently says only "Work on our site is ongoing - we'll have more info here soon!". Tijfo098 (talk) 08:08, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Hilarious
Probably not citable here except maybe for the forum's atmosphere and participants, but this is certainly hilarious. Tijfo098 (talk) 08:29, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

14 or 15?
Apparently CNN (or rather Fortune) can't make up its mind about that: 14 15. I'm more inclined to believe the longer, more in-depth story, so I've cited that one. Tijfo098 (talk) 11:54, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

 * On his own website is says 14!--79.69.96.179 (talk) 18:07, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it's just an advertisement. — Morsecoder (talk) 22:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

 * I contested the delete. See my comments. The article is about a historically unique and significant website. One of my recollections is the notability of the person and the viewpoints presented on the site, a decade or so before the ubiquity of blogging and similar sites. The press coverage from the 1990s attests to my recollection. I like to saw logs! (talk) 03:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Criticism From Other Sites and Expert Users
AnandTech has often been criticised for being pro-Intel, even to the point of users accusing Anand Lai Shimpi of being on Intel's payroll. While there is no hard evidence of this, it is pretty clear that whenever possible, Intel products are shown in the best possible light while AMD (and other) products are mildly put down, sometimes to the point of using FUD. AnandTech is notorious for comparing AMD products against Intel products that sometimes cost twice as much seemingly to preserve the illusion of "Intel Superiority". In one glaring case, AnandTech reviewed the AMD A8-3500M laptop platform. Instead of comparing it to similarly-priced Intel-based laptops and focusing on the Llano's vastly superior graphics engine which was the centrepoint of Llano's value, AnandTech instead focused on how the CPU part of Llano was inferior to SandyBridge's CPU part. When the inevitable gaming tests were done in the review, only a small number of games were tested and the laptops used to compare mostly had far more costly i5/i7 processors with discrete graphics while the Llano had to make due with its Mobility Radeon HD 6620G IGP. This IGP was intended to face off against Intel's horribly-executed HD 3000 IGP found in almost all Intel-based laptops under $800. Instead, AnandTech used laptops that in at least one case, cost more than double the price of the A8-based laptop and tried to pass it off as a fair test without at least pointing out the huge disparity in price. (Essentially saying that a Honda Civic is crap because it can't outrun a Corvette.) All other review sites such as Tom's Hardware, The Tech Report, Hexus and Hard OCP lauded the Llano's superior graphics and gaming capability leaving AnandTech as the only "review" site that wasn't the least bit impressed with Llano. As a result, AnandTech has become a haven for Intel "fanboys" because most other techies who aren't fanboys tend to not go there anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.228.89.231 (talk) 02:17, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

2013 Redesign
Should we mention the 2013 redesign?--79.69.96.179 (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

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Humbert Balsan

Humbert Jean René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005) was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was known for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films.

In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the offices of his production company, Ognon Pictures, in Paris. He was known to have suffered from depression, and killed himself by hanging.

Early life and career
Born in Arcachon in 1954, Balsan was part of France's upper class as a member of the Wendel family, an industrial dynasty. He received a Jesuit education in Amiens and later studied economics in Paris. In 1973, Balsan's film career began when he was cast as Gawain in Robert Bresson's Lancelot of the Lake (1974).

While Balsan continued to act in small roles in friends' films (he played a pirate in Jacques Rivette's Noroit (1976)), his interest turned to production. He assisted Bresson on The Devil, Probably (1977) in 1976 and lensed a documentary portrait of French music teacher Nadia Boulanger the following year. In 2004 he was a member of the jury at the 26th Moscow International Film Festival.

Role of producer
Balsan became a producer in 1978 with the filming of Pierre Kast's Le Soleil en Face (Face to the Sun) (1980). The same year, he acted in and co-produced Jean-Louis Trintignant's Le Maître-nageur (1979).

During the 1980s, Balsan lent not only his screen presence to Samuel Fuller for the then-expatriated director's French-language film Les Voleurs de la nuit (Thieves After Dark) (1984) but his Paris apartment as well. Fuller, who lived in France with his wife and daughter for 13 years beginning in 1982, would recount this period in his memoir (with Christa Lang Fuller) A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking (ISBN 0-375-40165-2).

As a patron of France's women filmmakers, Balsan facilitated a group that included Claire Denis, Sabine Franel, Brigitte Roüan, and Sandrine Veysset. He financed Roüan's Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1997) on the stipulation that the director, who like Balsan began her film career in front of the camera, play the film's lead role.

Balsan also came to be known as a champion of Arab cinema. He produced Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention (2003), which in 2002 became the first Palestinian film to play at the Cannes Film Festival. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or and eventually won the Grand Jury Prize. The producer returned to Cannes in 2004 with Youssef Chahine's Alexandria... New York (2004), his ninth film with the Egyptian director since 1985's Adieu, Bonaparte. Balsan also presented The Gate of Sun (2004), his second film with Yousry Nasrallah, who adapted the Elias Khoury novel. The 4$1⁄2$-hour epic screened in the Official Selection and depicted the history of Palestine from 1943 to the present. Later that year, Balsan's production Le Grand Voyage (2004) won its director, Moroccan émigré Ismaël Ferroukhi, a best first feature prize at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.

However, the results of Balsan's efforts did not always please everyone. Balsan, who would typically enlist European television and business entities to co-finance Arab region-produced works, was cited by Al-Ahram Weekly's Hani Mustafa for being vulnerable to an investor-friendly system that tends to compromise the stories told in Middle-Eastern films.

Over the course of his career, Balsan played a role in the production of over 60 films, including several for filmmaking pair Merchant-Ivory. Among the last of his films to see a release are Denis's The Intruder (2004) and Lars von Trier's Manderlay (2006), which he co-produced.

Father of My Children
Father of My Children (Le père de mes enfants) is a 2009 French film by Mia Hansen-Løve inspired by the life of Balsan.

Selected filmography

 * Process (2004)
 * Alexandria... New York (2004)
 * The Gate of Sun (2004)
 * Divine Intervention (2003)
 * Martha...Martha (2002)
 * Samia (2001)
 * Rembrandt (1999)
 * Destiny (1998)
 * After Sex (1998)
 * Will It Snow for Christmas? (1996)
 * Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
 * Noroît (1976)

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Zhao Tuo

Zhao Tuo  or Triệu Đà in Vietnamese, was a Qin dynasty Chinese general and first emperor of Nanyue. He participated in the conquest of the Baiyue peoples of Guangdong, Guangxi and Northern Vietnam. After the fall of the Qin, he established the independent kingdom of Nanyue with its capital in Panyu (now Guangzhou) in 204 BCE. Some traditional Vietnamese history scholars considered him an emperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Triệu dynasty while some contemporary historians contest that he was a foreign invader.

Nanyue
Zhao Tuo was born around 240 BC in Zhending in the state of Zhao (within modern Hebei). When the state of Zhao was defeated and annexed by Qin (state) in 222 BC, Zhao Tuo joined the Qin, serving as one of their generals in the conquest of the Baiyue. The territory of those conquered Yues was divided into the three provinces of Guilin, Nanhai, and Xiang. Zhao served as magistrate in the province of Nanhai until his military commander, Ren Xiao, fell ill. Before he died, Ren advised Zhao not to get involved in the affairs of the declining Qin, and instead set up his own independent kingdom centered around the geographically remote and isolated city of Panyu (modern Guangzhou). Ren gave Zhao full authority to act as military commander of Nanhai and died shortly afterwards. Zhao immediately closed off the roads at Hengpu, Yangshan, and Huangqi. Using one excuse or another he eliminated the Qin officials and replaced them with his own appointees. By the time the Qin fell in 206 BC, Zhao had also conquered the provinces of Guilin and Xiang. He declared himself King Wu of Nanyue (Southern Yue).

Conflict with the Han
In June or July 196 BC, Emperor Gaozu of Han dispatched Lu Jia to recognize Zhao Tuo as king of Nanyue. Lu gave Zhao a seal legitimizing him as king of Nanyue in return for his nominal submission to the Han.

In 185 BC, Empress Lü's officials outlawed trade of iron and horses with Nanyue. Zhao Tuo retaliated by proclaiming himself Emperor Wu of Nanyue and attacking the neighboring kingdom of Changsha, taking a few border towns. In 181 BC, Zhou Zao was dispatched by Empress Lü to attack Nanyue, but the heat and dampness caused many of his officers and men to fall ill, and he failed to make it across the mountains into enemy territory. Zhao began to menace the neighboring kingdoms of Minyue, Western Ou, and Luo. After securing their submission he began passing out edicts in a similar manner to the Han emperor.

In late 180 BC, Emperor Wen of Han made efforts to appease Zhao. Learning that Zhao's parents were buried in Zhending, he set aside a town close by just to take care of their graves. Zhao's cousins were appointed to high offices at the Han court. He also withdrew the army stationed in Changsha on the Han-Nanyue border. In response, Zhao rescinded his claims as emperor while communicating with the Han. However, he continued using the title of emperor within his kingdom. Tribute bearing envoys from Nanyue were sent to the Han and thus the iron trade was resumed.

Conquest of Âu Lạc
Having mobilized his armies for war with the Han dynasty, Zhao Tuo found the conquest of Âu Lạc both "tempting and feasible".

Zhao Tuo's early setbacks and eventual victory against King An Dương were mentioned in Records of the Outer Territories of the Jiao province (交州外域記) and Records [about the Era] of Jin Taikang (晉太康記). The Records of the Grand Historian mention neither King An Dương nor Zhao Tuo's military conquest of Âu Lạc; just that after Empress Lü's death (180 BCE), Zhao Tuo used his own troops to menace and used wealth to bribe the Minyue, the Western Ou, and the Luo (Âu Lạc) into submission. The campaign against the Âu Lạc inspired a legend whose theme is the transfer of the turtle claw-triggered crossbow from King An Dương to Zhao Tuo. According to this legend, ownership of the crossbow conferred the political power. As described in one account, Cao Lỗ is quoted as saying:“He who is able to hold this crossbow rules the realm; he who is not able to hold this crossbow will perish.”

Unsuccessful on the battlefield against the supernatural crossbow, Zhao Tuo asked for a truce and sent his son Zhong Shi, to submit to King An Dương to serve him. There, he and King An Dương's daughter, Mỵ Châu, fell in love and were married. A vestige of the matrilocal organization demanded that the husband came to live in the residence of his wife's family. As a result, they resided at An Dương's court until Zhong Shi managed to lay his hands upon the magic crossbow that was the source of King An Dương's power. Meanwhile, King An Dương treated Cao Lỗ disrespectfully, and he abandoned him.

Zhong Shi had Mỵ Châu show him her father's sacred crossbow, at with point he secretly changed its trigger, thus neutralizing its special powers. He stole the turtle claw, rendering the crossbow useless, then returned to his father, who thereupon launched new attack on Âu Lạc and this time defeated King An Dương. History records that, in his defeat, the King jumped into the ocean to commit suicide. In some versions, he was told by the turtle about his daughter's betrayal and killed his own daughter before killing himself. A legend, however, discloses that a golden turtle emerged from the water and guided him into the watery realm.

Zhao Tuo subsequently incorporated the regions into his Nanyue domain, but left the indigenous chiefs in control of the population with the royal court in Cổ Loa. For the first time, the region formed part of a polity headed by a Chinese ruler. He posted two legates to supervise the Âu Lạc lords, one in the Red River Delta, which was named Jiaozhi, and one in the Mã and Cả River, which was named Jiuzhen. Some records suggest that he also invested a king at Cổ Loa who continued to preside over the Âu Lạc lords. The legates established commercial outposts accessible by sea.

Death
Zhao Tuo died in 137 BC at the age of 103, and was succeeded by his grandson, Zhao Mo.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of live appearances by The Smashing Pumpkins

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 DELETE. dbenbenn | talk 14:25, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of live appearances by The Smashing Pumpkins
Trivia that doesn't even belong in the The Smashing Pumpkins article. And what does "US Set Rec" mean? RickK 07:31, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, pointless, incomplete list. Megan1967 08:03, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's a straight copy-and-paste from (that's the Google cache, the site seems to be down atm). "Set" and "Rec" are links in the original, and "US" is something called "United States". sjorford →•← 10:05, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Interested to see whether anyone demands we list this as a copyvio. IMO there's no need for this unless this vote fails to get consensus to delete, in that eventuality we must. But it does mean we have an unflagged copyvio in the meantime. Andrewa 11:25, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless somebody adds complete reviews and setlists for each show... ow! I was just kidding! quit throwing things at me! ow! Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  13:07, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, * Throws things at Andrew * . Inter 14:55, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's not like the Smashing Pumpkins are Ashlee Simpson or anything. Of course, if they were, each concert would have it's own article. -R. fiend 19:33, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that you mean each individual number in each concert. I'd vote Merge if this weren't a copyright violation (and if it were deemed really worth having in The Smashing Pumpkins). Delete. Uncle G 00:39, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)

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Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. Most of the film was filmed at the old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Plot
In 1919, the Chicago White Sox have won the American League pennant and are considered among the greatest baseball teams ever assembled; however, the team's stingy owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), gives little inclination to reward his players for a spectacular season.

Gamblers "Sleepy Bill" Burns (Christopher Lloyd) and Billy Maharg (Richard Edson) get wind of the players' discontent, asking shady player Chick Gandil (Michael Rooker) to convince a select group of Sox—including star knuckleball pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn), who led the majors with a 29–7 win–loss record and an earned run average of 1.82—that they could earn more money by playing badly and throwing the series than they could earn by winning the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Cicotte was motivated because Comiskey refused him a promised $10,000 should he win 30 games for the season. Cicotte was nearing the milestone when Comiskey ordered team manager Kid Gleason (John Mahoney) to bench him for two weeks (missing five starts) with the excuse that the 35-year-old veteran's arm needed a rest before the series.

A number of players, including Gandil, Swede Risberg (Don Harvey), and Lefty Williams (James Read), go along with the scheme. "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (D. B. Sweeney), the team's illiterate superstar, is also invited, but is depicted as not bright nor entirely sure of what is going on. Buck Weaver (John Cusack), meanwhile, insists that he is a winner and wants nothing to do with the fix.

When the best-of-nine series begins, Cicotte (pitching in Game 1) deliberately hits Reds leadoff hitter Morrie Rath in the back with his second pitch in a prearranged signal to gangster Arnold Rothstein (Michael Lerner) that the fix was on. Cicotte then pitches poorly and gives up five runs in four innings—four of them in the fourth, highlighted by a triple from Reds pitcher Walter "Dutch" Ruether. He is then relieved by Gleason, though the Sox lose the first game, 9–1. Williams also pitched poorly in Game 2, while Gandil, Risberg and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen) made glaring mistakes on the field. Several of the players become upset, however, when the various gamblers involved fail to pay their promised money up front.

Chicago journalists Ring Lardner (John Sayles) and Hugh Fullerton (Studs Terkel) grow increasingly suspicious, while Gleason continues to hear rumors of a fix, but he remains confident that his boys will come through in the end.

A third pitcher not in on the scam, rookie Dickie Kerr (Jace Alexander), wins Game 3 for the Sox, making both gamblers and teammates uncomfortable. Other teammates such as catcher Ray Schalk (Gordon Clapp) and second baseman Eddie Collins (Bill Irwin) continue to play hard, while Weaver and Jackson show no visible signs of taking a dive with Weaver continuing to deny participation in the fix. Cicotte loses, again, in Game 4 and the Sox lose Game 5, as well, putting them one loss away from losing the series. With the championship now in jeopardy, the Sox manage to win Game 6 in extra innings. Gleason intends to bench Cicotte from his next start, but Cicotte, feeling guilty over throwing his previous games, begs for another chance. The manager reluctantly agrees and is given an easy Game 7 win. Unpaid by the gamblers, Williams also intends to win, but when his wife's life is threatened, he purposely pitches so badly that he is quickly relieved by "Big Bill" James in the first inning. Jackson hits a home run off Reds pitcher Hod Eller in the third inning, but the team still loses the final game.

Cincinnati wins the Series (five games to three). Fullerton writes an article condemning the White Sox. An investigation begins into the possible fixing of the Series. In 1920, Cicotte and Jackson sign confessions admitting to the fix (though the illiterate Jackson is implied as having been coerced into making his confession). As a result of the revelations, Cicotte, Williams, Gandil, Felsch, Risberg, Fred McMullin (Perry Lang), Jackson, and Weaver are charged with conspiracy. The eight men are acquitted of any wrongdoing. However, newly appointed commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (John Anderson) bans the eight men for life because they either intentionally lost games or (as Weaver did) knew about the fix and didn't report it to team officials.

In 1925, Weaver watches Jackson play a semi-pro game in New Jersey under the assumed name "Brown". Hearing other fans suspecting his true identity, Weaver tells them that Jackson was the best player he ever saw. When asked point-blank if the player is indeed Jackson, Weaver denies it, protecting his former teammate by telling the fans "those guys are gone now", solemnly reminiscing on the 1919 World Series. A title card reveals that the eight players banned from the scandal never returned to the majors. Weaver unsuccessfully attempted to have his ban overturned on several occasions until his death in 1956.

Development
In a 2013 interview, Sayles told MLB Network's Bob Costas, "People said, 'Oh, you’ll never get this made. There’s a curse on it. People have been trying to make it for years.'" Talking about his thoughts for the cast when he first wrote the script, Sayles said "my original dream team had Martin Sheen at third base, and I ended up with Charlie in center field."

Filming
During the late summer and early fall of 1987, news media in Indianapolis reported sightings of the film's actors, including Sheen and Cusack. Sayles told the Chicago Tribune that he hired them not because they were rising stars, but because of their ball-playing talent.

Sweeney remarked on the chilly Indiana temperatures in an interview with Elle. "It got down to 30, 40 degrees, but John [Sayles] would stand there in running shorts, tank tops, sneakers—sometimes without socks—and never look cold." The young actor said Sayles appeared to be focused on an "agenda, and that's all he cared about. Looking at him we thought, 'Well, if he's not cold, then we certainly shouldn't be.'"

Reports from the set location at Bush Stadium indicated that cast members were letting off steam between scenes. "Actors kidded around, rubbing dirt on each other", the Tribune reported. "... Actors trade jokes, smokes and candy" in the dugout. "'Some of them chewed tobacco at first, but,' noted Bill Irwin, 'Even the guys who were really into it started to chew apricots after a while.'" Sheen made his reasons for taking the role clear. "I'm not in this for cash or my career or my performance", Sheen said. "I wanted to take part in this film because I love baseball."

When cloud cover would suddenly change the light during the shooting of a particular baseball scene, Sayles showed "inspirational decisiveness", according to Elle, by changing the scripted game they would be shooting—switching from Game Two of the series to Game Four, for example. "The second assistant director knew nothing about baseball", Sayles said, "and she had to keep track of who was on base. Suddenly we'd change from Game Two to Game Four, and she'd have to shuffle through her papers to learn who was on second, then track the right guys down all over the ballpark."

Right-handed Sweeney told Elle that producers considered using an old Hollywood trick to create the illusion that he was hitting lefty. "We could have done it from the right side, then run to third and switched the negative, like they did in The Pride of the Yankees, but we didn't really have enough money for that", Sweeney said.

Ring Lardner, Jr., Oscar-winning screenwriter of such films as Woman of the Year and M*A*S*H, came to Bush Stadium to visit the set. Lardner's article in American Film reported that Sayles' script depicted much of the story accurately, based on what he knew from his father. But the audience, Lardner wrote, "won't have the satisfaction of knowing exactly why everything worked out the way it did."

Lardner also witnessed how the production crew had to make "a few hundred extras look like a World Series crowd of thousands", which were hampered by the production's inability to entice a substantial number of Indianapolis residents to come to the stadium to act as film extras. Lardner stated, "The producers offer free entertainment, Bingo with cash prizes, and as much of a stipend ($20 a day) as the budget permits..."

Legacy
Several people involved in the film would go on to work on Ken Burns' 1994 miniseries Baseball. Cusack, Lloyd, and Sweeney did voice-overs, recording reminiscences of various personalities connected with the game. Sayles and Terkel were interviewed on the 1919 World Series. Terkel also "reprised his role" by reading Hugh Fullerton's columns during the section on the Black Sox.

Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 87% based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Perhaps less than absorbing for non-baseball fans, but nevertheless underpinned by strong performances from the cast and John Sayles' solid direction." According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 71 out of 100 based on 16 critics, the film received "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Variety wrote: “Perhaps the saddest chapter in the annals of professional American sports is recounted in absorbing fashion in Eight Men Out... The most compelling figures here are pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn), a man nearing the end of his career who feels the twin needs to ensure a financial future for his family and take revenge on his boss, and Buck Weaver (John Cusack), an innocent enthusiast who took no cash for the fix but, like the others, was forever banned from baseball."

Film critic Roger Ebert was underwhelmed, writing, "Eight Men Out is an oddly unfocused movie made of earth tones, sidelong glances and eliptic[sic] conversations. It tells the story of how the stars of the 1919 Chicago White Sox team took payoffs from gamblers to throw the World Series, but if you are not already familiar with that story you're unlikely to understand it after seeing this film."

Ebert's colleague Gene Siskel, on the other hand, said, "Eight Men Out is fascinating if you are a baseball nut... the portrayal of the recruiting of the ball players and the tight fisted rule of Comiskey is fascinating... thumbs up."

In an overall positive review, critic Janet Maslin spoke well of the actors, writing, "Notable in the large and excellent cast of Eight Men Out are D. B. Sweeney, who gives Shoeless Joe Jackson the slow, voluptuous Southern naivete of the young Elvis; Michael Lerner, who plays the formidable gangster Arnold Rothstein with the quietest aplomb; Gordon Clapp as the team's firecracker of a catcher; John Mahoney as the worried manager who senses much more about his players' plans than he would like to, and Michael Rooker as the quintessential bad apple. Charlie Sheen is also good as the team's most suggestible player, the good-natured fellow who isn't sure whether it's worse to be corrupt or be a fool. The story's delightfully colorful villains are played by Christopher Lloyd and Richard Edson (as the halfway-comic duo who make the first assault on the players), Michael Mantell as the chief gangster's extremely undependable right-hand man, and Kevin Tighe as the Bostonian smoothie who coolly declares: 'You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him? Just enough so he knows he's hungry.' For Mr. Sayles, whose idealism has never been more affecting or apparent than it is in this story of boyish enthusiasm gone bad in an all too grown-up world, Eight Men Out represents a home run."

Accolades
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
 * 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10:
 * Nominated Sports Film

Home media
Eight Men Out was released on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment (successor-in-interest to Orion Pictures) in two editions; a standard one on April 1, 2003, and a special edition on May 7, 2013.

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Talk:Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem

Proof incomplete
The proof of the lemma in the case n = 1 is not complete: it assumes that every bounded real sequence has a "peak". This is not true – for example, the bounded sequence $$\left(x_n\right)_{n=1}^\infty$$ where $$a_n=\frac n{n+1}$$ has no "peak". I suggest the following.

Let $$a=\sup_{n\in\mathbb N}\{x_n\}$$. (This exists because the sequence is bounded.) Let $$n_1=1$$ and consider $$x_{n_1}=x_1$$. Either $$x_1=a$$ or $$x_1 < a$$. In the latter case, there exists $$n_2$$ such that $$x_1 < x_{n_2}\leq a$$. Clearly $$n_2 > 1 = n_1$$. Choose $$n_2$$ to be as small as possible. Now either $$x_{n_2}=a$$ or else $$x_{n_2} < x_{n_3}\leq a$$ for some $$n_3$$. By minimality of $$n_2$$, $$n_3 > n_2$$. Again take $$n_3$$ to be as small as possible.

Continuing the process, we get one of two eventualities: either $$x_{n_r}=a$$ for some $$n_r$$, or no such $$n_r$$ exists. In the first case, $$n_r$$ is a "peak" as defined in the article, and the rest of the proof can proceed as in the article. In the latter case, we have $$x_{n_1} < x_{n_2} < x_{n_3} < \cdots$$ with $$n_1 < n_2 < n_3 < \cdots$$, which is a monotone increasing subsequence as desired.

SophieAthena (talk) 13:53, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

 * In the proof of the lemma, let $$N=0$$ when there is no peak, which appears to be handled correctly in the rest of the proof of the lemma. I edited the article to make the "no peak" case explicit Pmokeefe (talk) 15:47, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Generalization to metric spaces
Shouldn't the Theorem's generalization to metric spaces be included in the article?

In a compact metric space (S,d), every infinite set included in S admits at least an accumulation (limit) point. Or in a compact metric space, every sequence admits a convergent subsequence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hearth (talk • contribs) 01:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

That'd be useful ideed: the current formulation seems to imply it only holds for $$\mathbb{R}^n$$. Ceacy (talk) 13:27, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Spelling
Weierstrass/Weierstraß

It is not really my buisness, but I think in English it should be spelled Weierstrass, you know, all these books, and everything. Tosha 07:35, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Agree. Oleg Alexandrov 21:16, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

What's up with the weird dash? Shouldn't it be a hyphen? 67.164.12.169 07:17, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

No, the en dash is correct. See Dash. —Caesura(t) 19:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Equivalent theorems
Regarding this edit: What does it mean for theorems to be equivalent? I understand what it means that propositions A and B are equivalent (namely, A implies B and B implies A), but that does not make sense for theorems which are basically tautologies. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 23:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Alternative Theorems
In my real analysis class, I had two Bolzano-Weierstrass theorems:

one for sets, and one (as is here) for sequences

Is there somewhere where the sets one is taken care of?

Peter Stalin 18:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm not exactly sure what you are asking (but I'm not that smart, so its probably my fault)? What book did you use (if you have a page reference, that would be awesome)? Are you thinking of this formulation?  Smmurphy(Talk) 18:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Applications to Economics
Hi. While the application to economics listed here is interesting, it makes use of technical language that seems out of place in this article. If we had a nice list of a few of the many applications of this theorem in Mathematics, it would be a lot better. We could then include this application as one example. Regardless, this little section needs rewritten to be more understandable by someone with more knowledge of economics than I. Grokmoo 18:24, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Mathematical analysis has practical application..? --131.111.248.243 (talk) 13:25, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Correctness of Theorem
I could be confused, but I think this page has a somewhat serious issue. The Heine-Borel theorem is that a set $$A\subset \mathbb{R}^n$$ is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded. This is equivalent to what is written here. My understanding is that the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem is much more general and deeper, that is, that a subset of a metric space is compact if and only if it is sequentially compact. Any thoughts here? If there are no arguments, I think I will update the page and try to include a proof. This could be very confusing for a beginning student in analysis. John 06:27, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

 * The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem article states that:

 * A subset A of Rn is sequentially compact if and only if it is both closed and bounded.

 * So I guess you are referring to the theorem being generalized to an arbitrary metric space (with "bounded and closed" being replaced by "compact"). I would very much prefer that instead of rewriting the whole article from the more general view of metric spaces, you'd rather work on expanding the "Generalizations" section in the article. How would that sound? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Yeah, that sounds good. I will spend some time doing that when I have some time. John 04:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Beginning of some edits
I removed a short section on generalizations, because neither of the results discussed in this section was in fact a generalization of Bolzano-Weierstrass. I will be making some further edits in the near future, including some content-related additions. Plclark (talk) 06:26, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

I reviewed the article and did some minor cleanup. I think that more is necessary though.

Topology Expert (talk) 03:28, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 01:49, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Definition question
In the definition "The theorem states that each bounded sequence in R^n has a convergent subsequence", should it only be for bounded infinite sequences, since it doesn't seem to hold for finite sequences?  Nik ol ai h ☎📖 02:26, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

 * A sequence as used in this branch of mathematics is, by definition, over the natural numbers. Pmokeefe (talk) 02:38, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Cornelius (musician)

I added some stuff which I don't think anyone would have a problem with, but I also used "Oyamada" instead of "Cornelius" in some of the sentences. He wasn't "Cornelius" when he was with Flipper's Guitar, and I'm pretty sure that he married Takako Minekawa as Keigo Oyamada, not Cornelius. Is this fine with everybody? I guess it would be most ideal if there were two separate entries - one for Oyamada and one for his Cornelius caeer - but I don't think there's enough material here to justfiy that... Poltergeist 07:35, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

at the risk of sounding totaly geeky, but wasn't he also married to model/photographer/musician Kahimi Karie for a short while? i don't know the exact dateline to this, but i can confirm he produced her 1996 album le roi soleil, and added some vocals as well.213.172.234.44 22:16, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

adding a bit on music style
Folks, I'm new to wikipedia, and this will be my first edit attempt, so forgive me if I step on some boundaries. I'm assuming that the editing/community system will correctly intercept my changes, reject or adjust them, etc. Estephan500 19:10, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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Undue weight to accusations of bullying
While I recognize that if it is factual that Oyamada did the things attributed to him in the "Bullying controversy" section, it is worth including a summation of that (not, however, to the point where it comprises nearly half of the content of the article, aside from the discography). But the only "evidence" presented are references by other media outlets to what are claimed to be two interviews from the Japanese music magazines "Rockin'On Japan" and "Quick Japan". Despite considerable searching, I have not been able to find any on-line scans of those two interviews, and none of the media outlets which repeat the allegations provide anything more than characterizations and alleged quotes (rather than scans of the pages). But even if such scans could be found, what a magazine claims in its articles -- whether described as interviews or editorials -- are not the same as something being factual ; magazines distort the facts with great frequency (Cf. Rolling Stone's many recent untruths), and no one holds popular music magazines to the same journalistic standards as they might say, "The Atlantic" or "Time". It is not in any way inconceivable that the interviewer distorted Oyamada's words, or that he had been speaking facetiously, or some combination the two, and in lieu of the original recordings being made available, Oyamada should be given the benefit of the doubt. He now maintains that his words were selectively edited, that he was not given the opportunity to correct this at the time, and that his descriptions were of bullying he observed, not that he perpetrated or participated in. Again, everyone is presumed innocent unless proved guilty, and Oyamada's accusers have never provided such evidence, but he is nevertheless being condemned in the court of public opinion and maligned in this article. The section should be distilled to the minimum and clearly couched in terms that they are allegations, rather than established facts. Bricology (talk) 11:48, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

 * You make a persuasive case — fix it! Popcornfud (talk) 12:12, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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