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Ken Hutcherson

Kenneth Lee Hutcherson (July 14, 1952 – December 18, 2013) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985. His nickname from his NFL days was "the Hutch".

College career
Hutcherson attended Anniston High School. He played linebacker for Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) from 1970 to 1973. He was a starting outside linebacker for the Tigers' 1971 NAIA National Championship team, and was an All-American both his junior and senior seasons.

He was the NAIA National Player of the Week in 1972 when he made 21 tackles against Southern State. Hutcherson was named GSC Defensive Player of the Year in 1972, and was an All-GSC and All-Alabama Small College selection. In 1973, he led his team with 86 tackles.

In 1985, he was inducted into the West Alabama Tigers Athletics Hall of Fame.

Professional career
Hutcherson was selected in the fourth round (97th overall) of the 1974 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys, after dropping because he was seen as an undersized player. He tore cartilage in his knee during rookie orientation practices in the spring. He overcame the surgery to report on time to training camp. He was a backup outside linebacker and a standout on special teams. On September 9, 1975, he was traded to the San Diego Chargers in exchange for a seventh round draft choice (#186-Greg Schaum).

He was released by the Chargers after being hampered with a leg injury during the season and was claimed by the Green Bay Packers, who placed him immediately on the injured reserve list. The Seattle Seahawks selected him from the Packers roster in the 1976 NFL Expansion Draft. On September 7, 1976, he was placed on the injured reserve list with torn knee ligaments. The next year, he couldn't pass the Seahawks physical exam and left the team.

Pastoral career
After ending his football career, Hutcherson conducted theological studies at Cascade Bible College in Bellevue, Washington in 1979. After finishing his studies, he served eight years as director of high school ministries at Westminster Chapel in Bellevue. In 1984, he started the multicultural Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, along with Mark Webster and Dwight Englund. Hutcherson accepted the position of senior pastor in 1985 and was ordained in 1986.

Regarding the modern day Christian church, Hutcherson believed "the greatest need today in the church - which does not seem to be important in the average church - is the training of people in evangelism, discipleship and the responsibility they have for the church and responsibility they have for God."

In early 2010, Hutcherson shot a video for the I Am Second organization, in which he shared his testimony. In the video, Hutcherson talked about his experiences with racism growing up in the Deep South in the 1950s and 60s, and revealed that he grew to hate white people. The hatred, however, left him feeling empty and that's when he "ran into Jesus Christ."

Hutcherson and Rush Limbaugh were close friends, and the two spent a good amount of time together. Publicly, Hutcherson would often call in to The Rush Limbaugh Show around NFL playoff and Super Bowl time. He also officiated at Limbaugh's fourth wedding in June 2010. On his show of December 19, 2013, one day after Hutcherson's death, Limbaugh reflected on what Hutcherson meant to him and on the impact his death would have on others: "He was a man, folks. There was no complaining. There was no bleeding on people. There was none of that. He didn't want his relationship with anybody to be defined, even in what turned out to be the latter months of his life, by his illness. He was a devout Christian. He was a devout practicing Christian.  And, as such, I don't think that he feared death because of that.  But he's gone now, and it's a great, great loss for his congregation and his family because he's a unique individual.  Nobody can be replaced when they're gone, but he's created an especially huge void for a lot of people because he was a counselor to people in trouble, no matter what the problem was."

Hutcherson also made frequent appearances on Glenn Beck's programs. On December 17, 2013, Beck posted a 10-minute video on his website, in which he talked at length about his relationship with Hutcherson. Beck tweeted the same day: "I just spoke to Hutch tonight. He is dying. He promised me that he will wait until I can get there Friday. Pray for his sweet wife and children." Hutcherson would die the next day.

Often a sparring partner of Hutcherson's, gay activist and The Stranger reporter Eli Sanders wrote a blog post one day after Hutcherson's death, entitled: "Ken Hutcherson's Last Goodbye (To Me)". In the post, Sanders revealed that Hutcherson had sent him a New Testament Bible in the mail in April 2011 and had embossed his name on the front. Inside, Hutcherson wrote: "Eli, now you can know what we are talking about! - Dr. Ken Hutcherson, Rom. 12:1-2". In the post, Sanders wrote, "I will miss him."

Death
Hutcherson also told KVI host John Carlson in July 2012, "As a Christian, my perspective about living and dying is totally different from most. I believe in Christ, that he is sovereign; God is in control. And I believe the Bible, which tells me in Romans 8:28-30, there's nothing that comes to me that isn't for my best. There's nothing that can touch me that is not for my best. Everything that makes me more like Christ that comes into my life is for my best."

Hutcherson passed away on December 18, 2013.

Objections to homosexuality becoming a civil right
Hutcherson strongly objected to suggestions that opposition to discrimination based on sexual orientation bore a resemblance to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

On March 2, 2006, Hutcherson and King County Executive Ron Sims, himself a Baptist minister and a supporter of gay marriage, met at Seattle Town Hall to debate publicly the question "Is the gay rights movement the new civil rights movement?" The debate, sponsored by The Stranger, drew around 800 people.

On April 25, 2008, Hutcherson, along with approximately 100 other people, protested at Mount Si High School during the Day of Silence event. They intended upon encircling the school with "prayer warriors" and had invited a number of known hate groups to join in the protest bringing violent hate groups to a high school for political purposes.

Anti-discrimination legislation
Hutcherson was a vocal opponent of state anti-discrimination laws that were based on sexual orientation. On February 9, 2006, Tim Eyman lodged referendum Initiative 65, which sought a public vote to repeal the Murray Anderson Civil Rights Bill before it could take effect on June 7, 2006. Hutcherson supported the initiative and conducted petition signature gathering at his home church. When the June 6, 2006 deadline arrived, the campaign announced they had failed to collect the 112,400 signatures required to qualify for the ballot.

Hutcherson proceeded to lodge his own ballot initiative on January 19, 2007. Initiative 963 proposed removing any reference to sexual orientation from existing anti-discrimination legislation. The initiative required 224,800 valid signatures be collected by the July 6, 2007 deadline in order to qualify for the ballot. On January 27, 2007, The Seattle Times reported that Hutcherson had allied with a network of churches, including Watchmen on the Walls, that were tied to conservative evangelical Slavic communities in Washington State and California that had been active in opposing same-sex marriage.

On June 29, 2007, Hutcherson told The Seattle Times that he had dropped the initiative at the urging of Pastor Joe Fuiten, who argued that the time was not right for the campaign, and asked instead for his help in opposing domestic partnership rights for gay and lesbian couples.

Microsoft
In 2005, the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger reported that Hutcherson persuaded Microsoft to withdraw support for the Washington anti-discrimination bill that would have made it illegal to fire an employee due to their sexual orientation. Hutcherson had reportedly told the Microsoft general counsel that 700 evangelical Microsoft employees attend his church, and all of them opposed the bill. He added that if Microsoft did not withdraw support of the bill, he would organize a national boycott of the software maker. Sometime after the meeting, Microsoft changed its long-held position on the issue from support to neutral stating that anti-discrimination was not a priority for that legislative session.

A few weeks later, after protests from Microsoft employees and advocacy groups, Microsoft's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employee resource group, the company reversed itself and pledged to support future anti-discrimination legislation.

The Anderson Murray Civil Rights Bill was passed in the Washington State House on January 20, 2006, in the Senate on January 27, 2006, and signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire on January 31, 2006. When the bill was passed, Hutcherson again called for a boycott, but no such organized effort emerged.

On January 25, 2006, Hutcherson called for supporters to take action against Microsoft for reinstating its support of the Washington State Anti-Discrimination bill by driving down the company's stock price. Hutcherson asked that supporters purchase one or two Microsoft shares over the following months with the goal of selling them on May 1, 2006. Market experts stated that the "buy-and-dump" plan had no realistic chance of affecting Microsoft stock while legal scholars warned that the plan could be considered illegal market manipulation. Microsoft maintained its support of the bill and on May 1, 2006 Microsoft shares closed up 14 cents on the previous day's close.

On November 13, 2007, Hutcherson addressed the Microsoft Annual Stockholders meeting. During the question and answer session, he referred to previous discussions with Microsoft executives regarding their support for anti-discrimination legislation in Washington State and threatened further action against the company without clearly specifying the policy position or activity he hopes to change. Hutcherson half-jokingly stated "I could work with you, or I could be your worst nightmare, because I am a black man with a righteous cause, with a host of powerful white people behind me...".

After Hutcherson's comments, one attendee asked what shareholders could do to help the company to oppose Hutcherson. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith responded, "As a company, we've had a clear policy with respect to the way we treat our people, and we believe in that policy. It's a policy that's founded on non-discrimination, it's a policy that we believe has served our employees well, it's served our shareholders well, and I think that was reflected last year when all of our shareholders were asked to vote on that policy, and over 97 percent of you and all of our other shareholders stood up and agreed with us. And I think that it is precisely in that form that shareholders have the opportunity to continue to make their views known, and we very much appreciate that support".

On November 16, 2007, an interview appeared in The Daily Telegraph, a UK newspaper, where Hutcherson described his plan to ask millions of evangelical activists, Orthodox religious and other allies, to purchase Microsoft shares and demand a return to 'traditional values'. He described Microsoft as just the first company to be targeted in a larger campaign that would attempt to force American corporations to support only biblically-based social policy positions. In the article, Hutcherson alleged that there were "256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda..." but he did not cite his source for the number.

In a January 12, 2008 radio interview on Sirius OutQ with Michelangelo Signorile, Hutcherson once again claimed that Microsoft was advocating in support of same-sex marriage.

On January 8, 2008, Hutcherson announced details of his "Buy Three, Donate One" campaign which asked supporters to purchase three shares of Microsoft stock, donate one share to the "AGN Financial Network," and prepare to vote on a Shareholder Proposal that would be presented at the next Microsoft Stockholders Annual meeting in November 2008.

Hate crimes legislation
On April 17, 2007, Hutcherson was scheduled to participate in a press conference hosted by Exodus International opposing passage of the federal Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. The event, to be held at the National Press Club, was intended to put pressure on lawmakers to drop the legislation which proposed adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the currently protected classes of race, color, religion and national origin. The press conference was cancelled in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting. The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 passed the House on May 3, 2007, by a vote of 237–180. On June 18, 2007, Hutcherson and 29 other African-American pastors in the High Impact Leadership Coalition publicly opposed the Senate's hate crimes bill, then named the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, on 1st Amendment grounds.

Same-sex marriage
On May 1, 2004, Hutcherson organized a "Mayday for Marriage" rally against same-sex marriage. The highly publicized effort drew an estimated 20,000 supporters from around the Puget Sound region to Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. Later, in October 2004, he organized another "Mayday for Marriage" rally in Washington, D.C.
 * Hutcherson, Ken, "Here Comes the Bride : The Church: What We Are Meant to Be". 2000. ISBN 1-57673-359-9
 * Hutcherson, Ken, "Before All Hell Breaks Loose : Preparing for the Coming Perilous Times", 2001  ISBN 1-57673-793-4
 * Hutcherson, Ken, "Enough Faith: You've Already Got What It Takes to Make a Difference", 2006  ISBN 1-59052-600-7
 * Hutcherson, Ken, "Hope Is Contagious: Trusting God in the Face of Any Obstacle". 2010 ISBN 978-0310327684

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I am a candidate for speedy deletian.

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Blue Panorama Airlines

Blue Panorama Airlines S.p.A. was an Italian airline headquartered in Fiumicino operating scheduled and charter flights mostly to domestic and international leisure destinations. As of late 2021, the airline was in the process to change its brand name to Luke Air also retiring their former Blu-express brand used for domestic and short-haul destinations. Additional business charter flights used to be operated under the name Executive Blue. As of late October 2021, it suspended all operations until further notice and was subsequently liquidated in late 2022.

Blue Panorama Airlines
Blue Panorama is a private Italian airline operating intercontinental, international, and national charter and scheduled flights. It was founded in Rome in 1998 by Franco Pecci, and has been an IATA member since 2002 (IATA code BV). Since 2005, Blue Panorama Airlines' Boeing 737 fleet has operated national and international flights for the Blu-Express low-cost division.

In 2012, Alitalia declared interest in a merger with Blue Panorama, as well as with Wind Jet, another Italian airline,     but decided not to proceed with the acquisitions. In October 2012, Blue Panorama entered bankruptcy protection. This license gave the airline the ability to restructure itself. On 25 November 2013, Blu-express started flights from Italy to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza after Belle Air ceased operations there.

In January 2014, Blue Panorama Airlines requested to be admitted to extraordinary administration procedure and the abandonment of the composition procedure in continuity. The management of the airline is left to the company's founder. Blue Panorama confirmed that company business and flights are fully operational.

In 2018 the airline came under fire as it has been the policy of Blue Panorama Airlines to charge significant fees to passengers for minor name changes.

Luke Air
In October 2019, the airline announced it would be changing its name to Luke Air by the end of 2019, revealing a new yellow-blue livery on an Airbus A330-200 which was then due to be delivered. On 7 March 2020, the first A330-200 was delivered. However, the rebranding had yet to take place. In late 2020, Blue Panorama retired their last Boeing 767-300ER. In January 2021, it was announced that the rebrand will go ahead. As of September 2021, the airline's official website had its content changed to Luke Air operated by Blue Panorama Airlines.

On 27 October 2021, the airline announced the suspension of all flights stating financial difficulties in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Blue Panorama went through recurring restructuring proceedings in recent years. Shortly after, it filed for bankruptcy protection. In June 2022, it has been reported that the grounded airline retired both of their Airbus A330-200s leaving them without long-haul capable aircraft.

In December 2022, it has been announced that the airline will be liquidated and not resume operations.

Destinations
Blue Panorama operated a network of Italian domestic destinations branded as blu-express as well as long-haul leisure flights mainly around the Caribbean.

Codeshare agreements
Blue Panorama Airlines maintained Codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

 * Albawings
 * Cubana de Aviación

Fleet
As of November 2022, the Blue Panorama fleet no longer included any aircraft. The following types have been operated before:

Accidents and incidents

 * On 16 July 2004, a Boeing 767-300ER operating as flight 1504 experienced an uncontained engine failure on takeoff from Rome-Fiumucino Airport. The plane returned and conducted a successful emergency landing. Investigation revealed that a high pressure fuel hose leaked approximately 700 kg of fuel into the engine's nacelle during taxi, which ignited upon takeoff.

 * On 22 September 2018, a Blue Panorama Spanish pilot, Emilio Leone, was arrested by Albanian police as his colleagues reported him for trying to fly the aircraft intoxicated.

In popular culture

 * A Blue Panorama Boeing 757-200 and Boeing 767-300ER appeared in John Legend's music video for "Show Me".

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CAPD

CAPD may refer to:
 * China Association for Promoting Democracy
 * CAPD library (Computer Assisted Proofs in Dynamics), a software library
 * Central auditory processing disorder, a group of disorders impairing the processing of auditory information
 * Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, a form of artificial kidney dialysis

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I don't see "mutated" as implying malevolence - organisms do it all the time without evil intent! Evolved would be OK, though. Steve

"mutated " is a bit of a malevolent, wouldn't "Evolved" sound more natural

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Saltovo-Mayaki

Saltovo-Mayaki or Saltovo-Majaki is the name given by archaeologists to the early medieval culture of the Pontic steppe region roughly between the Don and the Dnieper Rivers, flourishing roughly between the years of 700 and 950. The culture's type sites are Mayatskoye (aka Mayaki) near the Don and Verkhnii Saltiv by the Donets.

History
Saltovo-Mayaki influence was strong in the area of the Volyntsevo culture to the northwest of the main Saltovo-Mayaki territory. There is no consensus as to what ethnicity to assign to this culture, if any at all.

Characteristics
The Saltovo-Mayaki material culture was "fairly uniform" across the various tribes.

Ethnicity
Their culture was a melting pot of Onogur, Khazar, Pecheneg, Magyar, Alan, and Slavic influences.

Genetics
A genetic study published in Nature in May 2018 examined three males of the Saltovo-Mayaki culture buried in Belgorod Oblast, Russia between ca. 700 AD and 900 AD. The sample of Y-DNA extracted belonged to haplogroup R1. The three samples of mtDNA extracted belonged to the haplogroups I, J1b4 and U7a4.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blackamoor

 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. Postdlf 01:33, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Blackamoor
The offensive term "Blackamoor" can never be more than a dictionary definition. The other information here can go elsewhere.
 * Strong keep. A very good article could easily be written on this subject, covering, for example the historic origins of the term during the crusades, and its wide use in heraldry, the theatre and impact on everything from the public imagination to the African slave trade.--Gene_poole 23:13, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * We already cover the heraldic figure in Maure. We already cover the people in Moors and the racial category in Moors (meaning). Uncle G 12:41, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
 * Keep. Check out for the kinds of possibilities. -- Mwanner 23:55, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * See above. Uncle G 12:41, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
 * Comments These are random factoids. No vote yet. Just poking around here. a) AHD4 does characterize the term as "offensive." b) The word has no entry in the Britannica 11th, and apparently (based on 1911encyclopedia.org's search feature) appears only once, in an article about the artist Il Moretto, who was known as "The Blackamoor. c) "Blackamoor" does seem to be the standard name in heraldry. d) An online search of Shakespeare's plays turns up only three instances; I thought it would be in Othello, but it is not. e) A general Google search on "blackamoor" suggests that it can't really be all that offensive; it's used in a wide variety of ways; perhaps it is sufficiently old that the statute of limitations on offensiveness as expired. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comments There is a decent article on Moors. The word blackamoor is a synonym at best. If this article were about the *word* blackamoor that would be one thing, but using the word as a noun to refer to people is not on.
 * An article on the historic origins of the term and its use in the various contexts is exactly the kind of information I would expect to find in a truly excellent unabridged dictionary - not an encyclopedia. Transwiki to Wiktionary which does not yet have this definition.  (Whatever decision is made should also apply to the redirect blackamoor.)  Rossami (talk) 05:36, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * An article on the historic origins of the term and its use in the various contexts is exactly the kind of information I would expect to find in a truly excellent unabridged dictionary ... like blackamoor, you mean? ☺ Uncle G 12:07, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten. And thank you for also adding the Wiktionary article.  Rossami (talk) 23:38, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * We already cover the other things called Blackamoor in other articles. The only remaining thing called Blackamoor is a town.  Keep simply because this is a mess (which I've attempted to tidy up a bit — see Moor, Moors, Moors (meaning), Maure, and Blackamoor), and having an article here stops it from becoming messier. Uncle G 12:41, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable blackness. Klonimus 13:16, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in present form as rewritten by Uncle G. I still don't know how to create a link that will be locked onto the specific revision that is currently the latest 07:28, 22 Apr 2005, but I am referring to the article that is about the town, references Moors and Maure, and links to the very good Wiktionary entry Dpbsmith (talk) 14:30, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The English town is hardly more notable than the heraldic depiction of an African. Perhaps blackamoor should be a disambig page. Shimmin 17:04, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * I felt a little guilty about removing the one sentence about Sardinia from here. So I went and expanded Maure from sources.  It turns out that there's quite a bit to say about the heraldic figure.  So whilst what you say might be true, it's not as damning as you may have thought.  ☺ Uncle G 18:28, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
 * The town should be at Blackamoor, Lancashire. Blackamoor should be a disambig page pointing to Blackamoor, Lancashire, Moors, Maure and Moors (meaning). Any text involving the history of the word "blackamoor" can be included in Moors (meaning). Dsmdgold 20:49, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep this because it is important Yuckfoo 00:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Real village in Lancashire with community of interest. Well done Uncle G. for your work on this article. Capitalistroadster 03:16, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Alissa Czisny

Alissa Czisny (born June 25, 1987) is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Skate Canada champion (2005, 2010), the 2011 Skate America champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2009, 2011). She is also the 2019 and the 2021 U.S. Professional Open Grand Champion.

Personal life
Alissa Czisny was born together with a fraternal twin sister, Amber, on June 25, 1987, in Sylvania, Ohio. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Bowling Green State University where she was on a full academic scholarship while also competing at the international level and majored in international studies. She took some of her classes online due to her skating, training, and traveling schedule. Czisny is a vegetarian. She took ballet lessons from a young age to improve her flexibility and strength.

In August 2022, Czisny married Canadian figure skater Kurt Browning.

Early career
Czisny began skating at age 1½ when she and her sister, Amber, accompanied their mother to the ice skating rink because they did not want to stay at home with the babysitter. Czisny started skating in Bowling Green, Ohio, where Shelly Bressler was Czisny's first skating coach. Julianne Berlin became her coach in 1998. Czisny's first national medal came in 2001 where she finished 2nd in the junior event

Czisny finished 4th in her Grand Prix debut at 2004 Skate America, to which she was invited after Michelle Kwan withdrew.

2005–06 season
Czisny first gained international attention when she won the gold medal at the 2005 Skate Canada International and silver at the 2005 Skate America where she received a standing ovation for her free program. She qualified for the 2005–06 Grand Prix Final and placed sixth. Czisny went on to the 2006 U.S. Championships in St. Louis, where she finished seventh overall. She was one of four figure skaters featured on the 2006 TLC series, Ice Diaries.

2006–07 season
Czisny began the season at the 2006 Skate Canada International where she placed fourth. She also competed at the 2006 Cup of Russia in November. At the 2007 U.S. Championships she was in fifth after the short program, but went on to win the free skate to win the bronze medal and the final U.S. spot to the 2007 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. At the World Championships, she finished 15th.

2008–09 season
Czisny finished third at the 2008 Skate Canada International in the 2008–09 Grand Prix series behind Joannie Rochette and Fumie Suguri. At the 2009 U.S. Championships, she won the short program by over five points. She finished third in the long program but won the gold medal due to her lead from the short. Czisny won her first national title, ahead of Rachael Flatt and Caroline Zhang. She earned her second trip to the Four Continents and the World Championships, in which she finished ninth and eleventh, respectively.

2009–10 season
In the 2009–10 Grand Prix season, Czisny placed fourth at the 2009 Rostelecom Cup and won the silver medal at the 2009 Skate Canada International. Her short program score of 63.52 was the fourth highest of this ISU Grand Prix season, only surpassed by Yuna Kim (two scores) and Joannie Rochette. Czisny placed tenth at the 2010 U.S. Championships; as a result, she did not make the Olympic team and financial support to help cover her mid-five-figure training expenses was cut. She also found out her sister had cancer (in remission as of 2011). Czisny considered retiring but her mentors Brian Boitano and Linda Leaver encouraged her to continue.

In February 2010, she left coach Julianne Berlin, who had coached her for twelve years. In May, she said she would remain at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with new coaches Yuka Sato and Jason Dungjen. She reworked her jump technique with the help of her new coaches, who also helped her with her mental approach. She noted, "I finally realized that my results in skating didn't define who I am as a person."

2010–11 season
Czisny began the 2010–11 season by winning the 2010 Skate Canada International, her first gold medal on the Grand Prix series since winning 2005 Skate Canada. She also won Midwestern Sectionals, qualifying her to compete at US Nationals in 2011. She won bronze at her second Grand Prix event, 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard, which combined with her Skate Canada result qualified her for the Grand Prix Final.

At the 2010–11 Grand Prix Final, Czisny won the short program with 63.76 points and placed third in the long program with a new personal best of 116.99 points. She won her first Grand Prix Final title with a new personal best combined total of 180.75 points. At the 2011 U.S. Championships, Czisny placed second in the short program with 62.50, and then placed first in the free skate with 128.74, giving her a combined total of 191.24 to win the gold. She thus won her second national gold medal, finishing 7.86 points ahead of the defending champion Rachael Flatt. It was the first time since Michelle Kwan's ninth win in 2005 that a ladies' single skater won more than one U.S. national title. She placed fifth at the 2011 World Championships, her best ever result at the event. During the off-season, she skated in a number of shows. In 2011, she also made a brief appearance in a Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler and Detroit and starred in Chrysler's Perseverance video.

2011–12 season
In the 2011–12 season, Czisny was assigned to 2011 Skate America and 2011 Trophée Eric Bompard as her Grand Prix events. She won the gold medal at Skate America and bronze at Trophee Bompard. She was first in the free program at Bompard with 121.90 points, setting a new personal best international free skate score. Czisny qualified for the Grand Prix Final. She sustained a calf injury during a practice session on December 8, explaining "it was the way I picked on a flip jump." After team doctors determined that she would not make the injury worse, Czisny went on to compete and finished 5th at the event. She won the silver medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships. After the 2012 Challenge Cup, where she took bronze, she decided not to include the double axel-triple toe combination in her program at Worlds. Falling twice in the short program and five times in the free skate, she placed 22nd overall at the 2012 World Championships.

Czisny was invited to the World Team Trophy but her coach Jason Dungjen declined and Gracie Gold was selected instead. In May 2012, an MRI revealed that Czisny had a torn labrum in her left hip. Czisny said she would not have competed at Worlds if she had known she was injured. After undergoing surgery on June 6, 2012, in Nashville, she began physical therapy the next day and after a month no longer needed crutches.

2012–13 season
In the 2012–13 season, Czisny received an assignment to the NHK Trophy but withdrew in order to continue her recovery from surgery. She hoped to compete at the 2013 U.S. Championships. On January 12, 2013, at the 2013 Fox Cities Invitational in Appleton, Wisconsin, Czisny dislocated her left hip when she fell on a triple flip. She was taken to hospital where her hip was moved back into alignment. Her withdrawal from the U.S. Championships was confirmed when she had to undergo another hip surgery on her left hip.

In April 2013, Czisny resumed her regular training schedule at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

2013–14 season
In preparation for the 2013–14 season she skated two sessions per day, gradually increasing the difficulty of her jumps and spins and aiming to add a triple-triple jump combination to her long program. She worked regularly with an off-ice trainer and underwent physical therapy daily. With the goal of earning a spot on the 2014 U.S. Olympic team, Czisny made her comeback at the 2014 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Championships and won the gold medal with a total score of 145.12 after placing first in both segments. This qualified her for the Midwestern Sectionals in November but she withdrew and ended her season because she did not feel fully recovered.

Post-competitive career
On June 19, 2014, Czisny decided to retire from competition, due to having had two consecutive surgeries on her left hip, saying she would continue to skate in shows and work as a coach. In June 2016, she underwent hip surgery for a third time, this time due to a torn labrum in her right hip.

Skating technique
Unlike most skaters, Czisny spins and jumps clockwise. She is known for her excellent spins. She said, "When I was younger, my sister and I always practiced our spins together. We would spin for hours, seeing who could hold their spin longer and/or who could spin faster. We also tried to come up with as many variations as possible."

Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

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Talk:Resveratrol

Concerning lack of scientific neutrality
I am hugely concerned with the lack of neutrality in this article. It consistently purports that there is no evidence for any positive health effects which just isn't the view reflected in current literature. This page needs updating to include a more neutral comparison of studies, rather than to push a single perspective.

One of many such examples is Petrovski et al, who states: "Resveratrol, initially used for cancer therapy, has shown beneficial effects against most degenerative and cardiovascular diseases from atherosclerosis, hypertension, ischemia/reperfusion, and heart failure to diabetes, obesity, and aging."

This includes specific biological mechanisms which can't just be ignored in an page supposedly representing an unbiased, informative summary.

I see there has been heavy redaction of edits which again is concerning. I won't waste my time with edits that will be immediately deleted but I whoever is responsible needs to drop their agenda and allow the page to correctly reflect that there is widely conflicting evidence regarding human health implications. 2A00:23C8:2D8D:B01:A981:EF85:580E:8F8D (talk) 15:46, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * If by "Petrovski et al" you mean 21261638 that's a rather old source. It's important that Wikipedia accurately reflects current accepted knowledge on this topic. So if there are any decent sources we're not using it would be good to hear about them. Alexbrn (talk) 16:13, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * To the IP editor: provide one WP:MEDRS review of randomized controlled trials published in the last 5 years showing any clinically-relevant health effect. Resveratrol has been only a topic of lab research - mainly in vitro - too preliminary and unconfirmed to be encyclopedic. Its fate in vivo is impossible to assess, as it is catabolized into fragments and rapidly excreted after digestion. The Petrovski study was from 2011, was out of the mainstream science at the time, and remains so, as there are no rigorous follow-up reviews in reputable clinical publications over the last decade. Zefr (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * You say this is a rather old source, yet the article consists of several sources that are older than the Petrovski study. It was simply an example, anyone that takes time to review the literature can see there are dozens of such studies, as well as ample secondary research that openly state the accepted health benefits as well as the biological mechanism of action in many cases. The review by Galiniak et al (2019) states: "Overall, resveratrol has potential benefits for human health and exhibits protective effects against glycation, free radicals’ production, neurodegeneration, inflammation, and tumor development." and importantly "Many in vitro and in vivo studies suggest that resveratrol has anti-cancer properties due to its wide range of activities, including antioxidant effects and regulating the expression of pro-apoptotic proteins, as well as molecules underlying tumor development.", "In summary, the results indicate that resveratrol may be considered as a beneficial anti-glycation agent in in vitro and in vivo experiments as well as in the treatment of diseases associated with increased glycation.".
 * Berman et al (2017) has a well balanced review stating: "In diabetic patients, resveratrol was able to increase insulin sensitivity, decrease blood glucose levels, and positively regulate several other biomarkers associated with diabetes."
 * Zhang et al (2021) goes as far as to state "it is possible that RV can be considered the best nutritional additive and a complementary drug, especially a therapeutic candidate." and "Consequently, it is possible to recommend RV as a promising agent for treating many human diseases." I tend to think this enthusiasm is premature but it shows a clear conflict of attitudes towards RV in the field.
 * Personally, I find the Ramírez-Garza (2018) review to be most informative as it is well balanced, and describes possible reasoning behind the variation in clinical trials. It also clearly identifies the many studies showing positive clinical effects.
 * At no point do I think RV is something to be recommended to the public, bioavailability, production, and dose-dependant paradoxial effects all need further research. However the only thing there appears no real support for is life-extensive properties, and so the wikipedia article claiming 'no evidence of beneficial effects' is misleading at best and factually false at worst. I don't know if this is just an oversight or whether there is an active agenda to keep the article so negatively biased but I hope that it can be edited to be more reflective of the current literature standing. 2A00:23C8:2D8D:B01:11B3:B607:D931:39 (talk) 11:35, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I looked at your favourite source. It's published in a MDPI journal. So, dodgy and useless for our purposes. Alexbrn (talk) 11:55, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is definitely a problem. WP:DUE weight is not being given to mouse studies etc. RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 22:40, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Effects on cancer and scientific proof
I recently read a book, written by Åhlberg, M., which states multiple scientific sources for resveratrol health effects, including preventing cancer. Here's one source it mentions: Md Alauddin, A. Sultana, Y. Kabir (2021). "Potential of Nutraceutical in Preventing the Risk of Cancer and Metabolic Syndrome: From the Perspective of Nutritional Genomic". It may be worth revisiting this topic, but since there's already discussion on which sources are considered reliable, I'll refrain from changing. Unelsson (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

 * The paper you mention is currently not a reliable source for Wikipedia. The journal  it was published in is not indexed by BIOSIS, Scopus or PubMed. Psychologist Guy (talk) 22:13, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see, but still, a search on PubMed gives several articles on resveratrol cancer prevention and treatment. There are meta-reviews and research articles. Keyword "resveratrol cancer prevention" gives 488 matches for years 2012-2023. I checked a few, and many state that resveratrol has effects on cancer, e.g.: (2015) "Polyphenolic compounds exert an antioxidant protective action against GC.",  (2019) "Resveratrol is a promising agent for colorectal cancer prevention and treatment",  (2021) "...has been shown to...affect the initiation and progression of many diseases, including cancer". Unelsson (talk) 22:50, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * If we are talking about health effects then we need high-quality clinical evidence, those reviews you are citing are not high-quality and the last was an MDPI publication, that is unreliable. The problem is that clinical trials are still lacking in this area. A good balanced review which was cited above by an IP is this review paper which states "From these clinical trials, it is clear that there is still much to learn about the use of resveratrol as a cancer therapeutic. It seems that resveratrol may have specificity for certain types of cancers, but even this is difficult to definitively conclude given the small number of clinical trials that have been conducted". The conclusion is that there is some promising research but not enough to be making any specific statements about health effects on cancer. In 10 years we will probably have more research and a better understanding.

 * The statement on the article there is no "high-quality evidence that resveratrol improves lifespan or has a substantial effect on any human disease" is accurate, it is not saying there is no evidence, just not high-quality evidence from clinical trials. It may change in the future but more clinical data is needed. Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:41, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

How about the statement "As of 2020, there is no evidence of an effect of resveratrol on cancer in humans"? I understand the research so that there is evidence of an effect, even if no high-quality clinical trials. It seems a bit strong wording, should it also say "no high-quality evidence"? Unelsson (talk) 23:55, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I see what you are saying, but this might just boil down to a semantics dispute. If you do a search for the exact words "no high-quality evidence" in the Wikipedia search bar in regard to health effects, this is actually found on many articles including Omega-3 fatty acid (in regards to supplements), Dark chocolate, Isothiocyanate, Cumin, Health effects of tea, Grape therapy, Fenugreek, Verbena, Quercetin, Sea buckthorn oil etc. I don't have a problem with the wording personally because it is accurate. You probably know all this already but if you read Hierarchy of evidence and WP:MEDASSESS it is all explained there. If health effects are going to be stated on Wikipedia then high-quality evidence from systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials must be cited and not just a one off review, the evidence must be consistent and preferably backed by statements from medical organizations. It's clear that on many of these nutritional topics there is evidence but it is not high-quality. Psychologist Guy (talk) 00:20, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

HSV-Alzheimer's & Resveratrol.
1) You may want to keep an eye on research done at Tufts University to gage the effect of chemical compounds on Herpes Simplex Virus-caused Alzheimer's. Resveratrol had a positive effect. I understand that this is a primary research, but it may appear in reviews if it holds up. Keep a weather eye.

'Screening neuroprotective compounds in herpes-induced Alzheimer's disease cell and 3D tissue models', Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Volume 186, June 2022, Pages 76-92, Isabella A. Silveira, et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891584922001770

From the conclusion: "We describe the application of a rapid and robust herpesvirus-induced AD model to screen a panel of medications, supplements, and nutraceuticals for their neuroprotective properties. Our screen identified two promising candidates, green tea catechins and resveratrol, with strong anti-plaque and functional neuroprotective benefits, coupled with minimal neurotoxicity."

2) I know that predatory journals have become a huge problem. (I think that ScienceDirect / Elseveir are supposedly reliable.) Where can I find information of journals considered to be predatory - under the Reliable Sources discussions on Wikipedia?

Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 23:29, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

 * WP:CITEWATCH - see disclaimer. Zefr (talk) 23:44, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

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Power law of practice

The power law of practice states that the logarithm of the reaction time for a particular task decreases linearly with the logarithm of the number of practice trials taken. It is an example of the learning curve effect on performance. It was first proposed as a psychological law by Snoddy (1928), used by Crossman (1959) in his study of a cigar roller in Cuba, and played an important part in the development of Cognitive Engineering by Card, Moran, & Newell (1983). Mechanisms that would explain the power law were popularized by Fitts and Posner (1967), Newell and Rosenbloom (1981), and Anderson (1982).

However, subsequent research by Heathcote, Brown, and Mewhort suggests that the power function observed in learning curves that are averaged across participants is an artifact of aggregation. Heathcote et al. suggest that individual-level data is better fit by an exponential function and the authors demonstrate that the multiple exponential curves will average to produce a curve that is misleadingly well fit by a power function.

The power function is based on the idea that something is slowing down the learning process; at least, this is what the function suggests. Our learning does not occur at a constant rate according to this function; our learning is hindered. The exponential function shows that learning increases at a constant rate in relationship to what is left to be learned. If you know absolutely nothing about a topic, you can learn 50% of the information quickly, but when you have 50% less to learn, it takes more time to learn that final 50%.

Research by Logan suggests that the instance theory of automaticity can be used to explain why the power law is deemed an accurate portrayal of reaction time learning curves. A skill is automatic when there is one step from stimulus to retrieval. For many problem solving tasks (see table below), reaction time is related to how long it takes to discover an answer, but as time goes on, certain answers are stored within the individual's memory and they have to simply recall the information, thus reducing reaction time. This is the first theory that addresses the why of the power law of practice.

Power function:

 * RT = aP−b + c

Exponential function:

 * RT = ae−b(P-1) + c

Where

 * RT = trial completion time
 * P = trial number, starting from 1 (for exponential functions the P-1 argument is used)
 * a, b, and c, are constants

Practice effects are also influenced by latency. Anderson, Fincham, and Douglass looked at the relationship between practice and latency and people's ability to retain what they learned. As the time between trials increases, there is greater decay. The latency function relates to the forgetting curve.

Latency function:

latency = A + B*Td

Where

A = asymptotic latency B = latency that varies T = time between introduction and testing d = decay rate

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User talk:Therayven

Welcome to the Wikipedia
I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

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Talk:Nyquist stability criterion

Writing the Nyquist Criteria Artical
I'm currently an EE student, and I posted this page as I learned the information in class. I feel that considering the highly-graphical nature of the Nyquist technique, this artical would benefit highly from some illustrations. however, i have not been able to find any illustrations that are free from copyright that could be used.

 * Added a much needed image. Musically ut 03:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, somebody posted a small blurb at the bottom when I had not yet completed the page. I certainly appreciate the help, but i worry that some of your information conflicts with my information, and that the quick change in terminology might cause too much confusion. either way, if i have something wrong let me know! -Wknight8111

Feel free to strip out my filler (It wasn't clear to me when you intended to return :-)) - it's many years since I used Nyquist. But isn't it a criteriON. And it's worth considering who is going to use the article - the present article is rather notationally heavy. Might be legit to assume that anyone reading is familar with the concept of or can find out about poles and zeroes of the transfer function? Just my 2p. Linuxlad 20:31, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Good call linuxlad. This artical is a bit "notationally heavy", but I wanted to be complete. this is true, I suppose that people can find out about poles and zeros from the transfer function articals. I will need to do some research on the cross-references, and find out some better places to get the information. -Wknight8111

The article has either been edited by someone who doesn't know or care how to use the formula editor, or it's been hacked - could someone who is expert on these things please check out. Linuxlad 23:24, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

It might be a good idea for someone to discuss Nyquist with poles at the origin. I have an exam tomorrow, so it won't be me. On the lines of the last post, I was able to right click on the formula (red x) and hit "show picture" and the formulas came up. -guest user

Intro
Could someone (more knowledgable in this general field than me at least) please rewrite the intro?? It makes no sense to the non-technical. Thanks.

Zidel333 11:44, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Nyquist Stability Criterion
I am a Student of EE. And there seems to be a mistake in the criterion mentioned. I am looking forward to discussing the statement of the criterion with someone.

The mistake, I believe is here - "Given a Nyquist contour Γs, let P be the number of poles of F(s) encircled by Γs, and Z be the number of zeros of F(s) encircled by Γs -- therefore the number of poles of enclosed by Γs. The resultant contour in the F(s)-plane, ΓF(s) shall, for a stable feedback system, encircle (clock-wise) the point (-1 + j0) N times such that N = Z − P."

For Stability Z,the number of closed loop poles, must be equal to zero. And N = -P. --Haditya 16:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

 * This is a great opportunity to site a reliable source, so we can check you. What source are you using? Dicklyon 16:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The book i am using is Norman Nise, Control Systems Engineering.

Alternately any other book on the subject should provide the same info.

other authors are Ogata, Modern Control Engineering

Kuo, Automatic Control Systems

Haditya 16:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * So fix the article add the citation. Dicklyon 18:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

It was not incorrect, but it was confusing, as $${F}(s)$$ and $$\mathcal{F}(s)$$ sure look similar. I added a paragraph for clarity, and a reference to my controls book. Buffetrand (talk) 03:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Nyquist Contour
The explanation seems complicated and is hard to visualise. Could anyone explain how the Nyquist contour relates say to the plot in the provided example image of a Nyquist plot ? Rod57 (talk) 11:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Mathematical Derivation
I've added this section because I am taking the course now, and there doesn't seem to be any good source on this; even textbooks seem to say "Cauchy's argument principle" and wave their hands as if suddenly all of this means something. Sometimes, you just have to make your own sources.

I plan on enriching this page with some appropriate diagrams (probably matlab), maybe an example problem for good measure. Maybe a bit on how to do this in matlab, even. This page is going places. Sometimes, the best way to study for a midterm is to become an authority on the subject.

We'll see how this develops.

oooh, signature.Bengski68 (talk) 06:17, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Trivia: the joke
Would it be a terribly silly idea to mention this?

Q: Why do Eastern European airlines fly half empty?

A: There must be no poles in the right half-plane

Sources and variations:

http://unclecj.blogspot.com/2009/02/two-very-nerdy-jokes.html

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~invar/links/jokes.html

http://forum.darwincentral.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=34992&start=0#p632962

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/06/defining_dynamical_systems.php#comment-1701610

CarlJohanSveningsson (talk) 09:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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