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Firebrat

The firebrat (Thermobia domestica) is a small insect (typically 1–1.5 cm), in the order Zygentoma.

Habitat
Firebrats prefer relatively warm temperatures (36–39 °C) and require some humidity. They are commonly found indoors near heat sources such as furnaces and boilers. They feed on a wide variety of carbohydrates and starches that are also protein sources such as dog food, flour and book bindings. They are distributed throughout most parts of the world and are normally found outdoors under rocks, plant litter, and in similar environments, but are also often found indoors where they are considered pests. They do not cause major damage, but they can contaminate food, damage paper goods, and stain clothing. Otherwise they are mostly harmless.

Behavior
Firebrats utilize pheromones to lead other firebrats to attract one another and congregate. To maintain a group, firebrats must remain in contact with one another (Tremblay MN & Gries G, 2003).

Breeding
At 1.5 to 4.5 months of age the female firebrat begins laying eggs if the temperature is right (32–41 °C or 90–106 °F). It may lay up to 6000 eggs in a lifetime of about 3–5 years. After incubation (12–13 days), the nymphs hatch. They may reach maturity in as little as 2–4 months, resulting in several generations each year.

Meiosis
The sequential changes occurring during the prophase I stage of meiosis in T. domestica ovaries have been described in detail.

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Restored Apostolic Mission Church

The Restored Apostolic Mission Church (Hersteld Apostolische Zendingkerk - HAZK) was a Bible-believing, chiliastic church society in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa and Australia. It came forth from the Catholic Apostolic Congregation at Hamburg that separated itself from the mother-church in 1863. By 1969-1971 it had divided into three sections.

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Sida cordifolia

Sida cordifolia ('ilima, flannel weed, bala, country mallow or heart-leaf sida) is a perennial subshrub of the mallow family Malvaceae native to India. It has naturalized throughout the world, and is considered an invasive weed in Africa, Australia, the southern United States, Hawaiian Islands, New Guinea, and French Polynesia. The specific name, cordifolia, refers to the heart-shaped leaf.

Description
Sida cordifolia is an erect perennial that reaches 50 to 200 cm tall, with the entire plant covered with soft white felt-like hair that is responsible for one of its common names, "flannel weed". The stems are yellow-green, hairy, long, and slender. The yellow-green leaves are oblong-ovate, covered with hairs, and 3.5 to 7.5 cm long by 2.5 to 6 cm wide. The flowers are dark yellow, sometimes with a darker orange center, with a hairy 5-lobed calyx and 5-lobed corolla.

As a weed, it invades cultivated and overgrazed fields, competing with more desired species and contaminating hay.

Medicinal use
Sida cordifolia is used in Ayurvedic medicine (Sanskrit:-BALA).

Known as "malva branca", it is a plant used in Brazilian folk medicine for the treatment of inflammation of the oral mucosa, blennorrhea, asthmatic bronchitis and nasal congestion, stomatitis, of asthma and nasal congestion and in many parts of Africa for various ailments, particularly for respiratory problems. It has been investigated as an anti-inflammatory, for preventing cell proliferation, and for encouraging liver re-growth. Because of its ephedrine content, it possesses psychostimulant properties, affecting the central nervous system and also the heart.

Phytochemistry
The following alkaloids were reported from S. cordifolia growing in India: β-phenethylamine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, S-(+)-Nb-methyltryptophan methyl ester, hypaphorine, vasicinone, vasicinol, choline, and betaine. No tannin or glycosides have been identified from the plant. The roots and stems contain the alkaloid ephedrine, normally observed in the different varieties of the gymnosperm genus Ephedra. Recent analyses have revealed that ephedrine and pseudoephedrine constitute the major alkaloids from the aerial parts of the plant, which also show traces of sitosterol and palmitic, stearic and hexacosanoic acids. Two flavanones—5,7-dihydroxy-3-isoprenyl flavone and 5-hydroxy-3-isoprenyl flavone—and two phytosterols—β-sitosterol and stigmasterol—have been isolated from the plant. The analgesic alkaloid (5′-Hydroxymethyl-1′-(1,2,3,9-tetrahydro-pyrrolo [2,1-b] quinazolin-1-yl)-heptan-1-one) has also been found. Sterculic acid, malvalic acid, and coronaric acid have been isolated from the seed oil, along with other fatty acids.

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Some information on Wikipedia
Hello, Bragadeesh,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I think it's great that you decided to contribute to The Free Encyclopedia: your article, while perhaps ill-placed in the wiki-community, was very interesting. To avoid further confusion, and so that your articles won't be disturbed by other users, I'd like to introduce some wikipedia conventions to you:

 * 1) Wikipedia entries can be contributed to by anybody who chances along and feels as though they can add to the topic. Therefore, there is no need to sign pages - don't worry, your authorship will still be retrievable in the page history of the article.
 * 2) Wikipedia uses its own markup languages. For hyperlinks to other wikipedia articles, you use Wikimarkup.  For mathematical formulae (for example, set notation), you use TeX markup (see Help on Formulae for specific details).  To learn how to write properly "wikified" entries, please read How to Edit a Page.
 * 3) Sign your comments on pages like Votes for Deletion and Talk pages by adding four tildes in a row (" ~ "). Don't sign wikipedia articles, though, because attributing "authorship" to any one user is inherently contradictory to what Wikipedia is.
 * 4) Lastly, if you're going to add an article to Wikipedia, first make sure that it is not something that Wikipedia Is Not.

Awesome. That should be it; I'm sure you'll be fine from now on. If you have any questions, ask me on my talk page, or go to Help.

Good luck,

jglc | t | c 18:23, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi. Just wanted to say that I saw your Calculating Number Bases article on VfD and I voted to Keep. I think its great that you want to add to the mathematical breadth and depth of Wikipedia and encourage you to continue to do so!

In my opinion, the trick to making a how-to article more encyclopedic is to provide some good context in the lead. This wraps the 'how-to' content within a meaningful framework and helps it to become more consistent with other articles. For example, the binary, hexadecimal and base10 articles have background information explaining the history and purpose of their use. I'm guessing such context would broaden the appeal of your article. It's also great when how-to articles have discussions on practical applications or controversies surrounding their applications. Basically the idea is to stand back from the topic a few steps and take in the bigger picture. What's the bigger picture about "calculating number bases"?

Good luck! Hope to see lots of contributions. :-) Tobycat 06:05, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Trumbull_high_school.jpg
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Category:Rubidium compounds

These are compounds that include rubidium, most possibly in +1 ion form.

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Category:Beryllium compounds

For chemical compounds containing beryllium. For an alternative listing please see Inorganic compounds of Beryllium.

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Nicole Ari Parker

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe (born October 7, 1970) is an American actress and model. She made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and went on to appear in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Parker has starred in a number of movies, including Blue Streak (1999), Remember the Titans (2000), Brown Sugar (2002), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Black Dynamite (2009), and Almost Christmas (2016). On television, Parker played the leading role of attorney Teri Joseph (later Carter) in the Showtime drama series Soul Food (2000–04), for which she received five NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nominations. She also starred in the short-lived UPN romantic comedy Second Time Around (2004–05) and the ABC drama Time After Time (2017). In 2017, she joined the cast of Fox's prime-time soap opera Empire playing Giselle Barker. In 2021, she began starring as Lisa Todd Wexley in the HBO Max comedy-drama series, And Just Like That....

Early years
Parker was born on October 7, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the only child of her divorced parents, health care professional Susan Parker and dentist Donald Parker. After briefly attending a Montessori school, Parker entered Roland Park Country School, where she stayed through high school. At the age of 17, she won Best Actress in the state of Maryland's high school theater competition. She became a member of The Washington Ballet Company before earning an acting degree in 1993 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Career
Parker made her screen debut playing secondary role in the 1993 made-for-television movie Other Women's Children starring Melanie Mayron. Two years later she went to star in the critically acclaimed independent comedy-drama film, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love. Also that year, she starred in the Divas, a made-for-television musical drama film about female singing group. In 1997, she starred in the comedy-drama film Boogie Nights written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The following year, she appeared in the television film Exiled: A Law & Order Movie. Her other film credits include The End of Violence (1997), Spark (1998), the 1999 Sundance Film Festival winner The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Loving Jezebel (1999), A Map of the World (1999) and Blue Streak (1999).

In 2000, Parker played the leading role in the drama film Dancing in September and starred opposite Denzel Washington in the biographical film Remember the Titans, receiving NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture nomination. Also that year, she began starring as Teri Joseph in the Showtime drama series, Soul Food. The series was an adaptation of George Tillman's 1997 drama film, Soul Food, and the role of Teri played Vanessa Williams. The series ended in 2004. For her performance she received five NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nominations. She returned to film, starring in the 2002 romantic comedy Brown Sugar. She later appeared in King's Ransom (2005), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) alongside her Blue Streak co-star Martin Lawrence, Black Dynamite (2009), Imagine That (2009), and Pastor Brown (2009). On television, Parker starred on the short-lived UPN sitcom, Second Time Around from 2004 to 2005. In 2010, she returned to television with starring role in the ABC legal drama, The Deep End, the series was cancelled after one season. In 2012. she made her Broadway debut playing the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2013, Parker was lead actress in the NBC drama pilot Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, and later had a recurring role on Revolution. In 2014, she starred as a series regular in the first season of the TNT crime drama Murder in the First, opposite Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. In 2016, she appeared alongside Kimberly Elise and Mo'Nique in the comedy-drama film Almost Christmas. In 2017, she starred in another short-lived drama series, Time After Time.

In 2017, Parker joined the cast of Fox prime time soap opera, Empire, playing Giselle Barker in a recurring role during the fourth season. She was promoted to a series regular for the fifth season, starring to series finale in 2020. For the 2020-21 television season, Parker had a recurring role on the NBC series, Chicago P.D, and in late 2021 began starring in the HBO Max comedy-drama series, And Just Like That... playing the role of Lisa Todd Wexley. In 2022, she also appeared in the Peacock miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters.

Personal life
Parker is an active member of the Democratic Party. She eloped with actor Joseph Falasca in March 2001. Their marriage, which lasted several months, ended in divorce later that year. Parker married her Soul Food co-star Boris Kodjoe in Gundelfingen, Germany, on May 21, 2005. She gave birth to their first child, Sophie, on March 5, 2005. Sophie has spina bifida, which was diagnosed at birth. Parker gave birth to their son Nicolas in October 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia. The family attends the Cascade United Methodist Church when in Atlanta.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indoeuropean, Turks and Finno-Ugrians in Europe

 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. Golbez 07:36, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Indoeuropean, Turks and Finno-Ugrians in Europe
dubious POV PatGallacher 18:23, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

I will explain my reasons for calling for 'delete a bit further:- 1. This is a version of the Nostratic language theories, which is encyclopedic, but the article notes correctly that these theories are highly controversia. 2. This is a POV peddling of one version of the Nostratic theory. 3. It doesn't even argue its case very well, it's a bit of a ramble. PatGallacher 18:31, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

 * Delete. See also Votes for deletion/Graphic-analytical method, by the same author. - Mustafaa 20:03, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, seems to be entirely speculative and probably total nonsense. Martg76 23:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not a report of anything. --Wetman 23:49, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete original research. JamesBurns 02:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete patently nonsensical original research. --Angr/undefined 06:57, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge (any salvagable NPOV content) into the Eurasiatic languages article, as it seems to address the same basic theory - minus the angle about Noah's arc and Mt. Arat. Blackcats 07:13, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Total nonsense. --Jyril 21:55, Jun 11, 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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Talk:William Sargant

Multiple
Multiple inaccuracies abound in this article. Either delete it and start again, or edit extensively. Sargant was not a brainwasher, and his book on abreactive therapy had nothing to do with the implantation of false memories. The article must be changed to reflect that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.114.20.121 (talk • contribs)

 * Why didn't you sign your posting? Please provide references that contrast with the article.--AI 02:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I recommend reading Darius Rejali's Torture and Democracy for an evaluation of Sargant(Rejali 75-76, 135, etc): I think there's little doubt that Sargant had a strong interest in brainwashing for intelligence work. What Rejali points out, though, is that brainwashing is largely a myth. jackbrown (talk) 12:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Not disputed
Please read "Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control" by Dominic Streatfeild Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (29 Jun 2006) Language English ISBN: 034092103X

According to this book, Sargant was very definitely a consultant to MI5. Stewart Cambridge 19:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Irmgard, I appreciate contributions to the William Sargant article. However, if you dispute contents, then please follow Accuracy dispute instead of just changing things, deleting content and damaging wikilinks.--AI 20:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Founder and Director of the Department of Psychological Medicine
Clarified where he was expert. --Irmgard 09:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Redundancy is not clarification: Psychological Medicine.--AI 20:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

British Secret Intelligence Service
Moved here as no evidence for it. The fact that his literature has been used by the British Intelligence Service does not make him a consultant. --Irmgard 09:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Restored, please see references.--AI 20:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Senate hearing
Put the quote from the senate hearing in correct context. --Irmgard 09:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * And at the same time you damaged the wikilinks. Sneaky vandalism? Reverted.--AI 20:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Quote
Removed - this quote gives a derogatory impression, taken out of context --Irmgard 09:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * "...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern [psychiatric] treatments." - William Sargant

 * Restored. Regardless of the impression, there is no wikipedia policy to support your censorship. Please provide the context, that seems to be your only valid argument.--AI 20:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

e-mail and Disptuted
We've had an email to Wikimedia questioning this article. I think it would be worth carefully reviewing the references and sources used, and ensuring that all facts here are correct. the particluar points in question are:

 * were mind control experiments undertaken at at St Thomas'?
 * was he a consultant to the British Intelligence Service?
 * was he at the 1977 Senate hearing, or was it just that his book was referenced?

-- sannse (talk) 18:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Aberactive Phlegm

 * It is not my habit to remove external links.
 * In this one however we read :  William Sargant describes a technique (...)called Aberactive Therapy...which stands for Abnormal Reaction Theraphy

 * The technique described in "Battle for the Mind" is  abreactive treatment , for which several papers are cited:
 * H.A.Palmer (1945):  Abreactive  techniques -Ether
 * Shorvon and Sargant (1947): Exitatory  Abreaction : Special reference to its Mechanism and the use of Ether.
 * Sargant (1950):Indications and Mechanisms of  Abreaction  and its Relation to the Shock Therapies

 * To do justice to William Sargant it would have been better to refer to his remark on The Prevention of Conversion, Brain-washing and Confessions:
 *  The obstacles that the religious or political proselytizer cannot overcome are indifference or detached, controlled and continued amusement on the part of the subject at the efforts made to break him down (...) The safety of the free world seems therefor to lie in a cultivation not only of courage, moral virtue and logic, but of humour: humour which produces the well-balanced state in which emotional excess is laughed at as ugly and wasteful.
 * in: Battle for the Mind

 * Thus, the link is not merely removed but laughed away as well
 * con gusto,
 * Lunarian (talk) 11:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Mindfield is not a legitimate source.
The links (as of 2/27/2008) to mindfield.com are inactive. I have removed them. In addition, the book itself is not in print, not available from any reputable dealer, and not favorably reviewed by any legitimate literary or scholarly authority. The fact that it was written by a prolific novelist and "close freind" of a man purported to have been murdered in a government consipiracy - along with the generally paranoid and hysterical tone of the book's claims - cause serious doubt as to its factual accuracy. The frequency with which it is used in this article gives pause as to the accuracy and legitimacy of this article.

Dominic Streatfeild Brainwash
Has anyone got a copy of Dominic Streatfeild's Brainwash apparently quite well researched and deals in some detail with Sargant.

Streatfeild contributes to James Maw's documentary on Sargant. Might be useful as an authoritative source. The documentary, which is very good, is available here: Freekra] ([[User talk:Freekra|talk) 11:44, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Mindfield Link is broken
Gordon Thomas, Mindfield (www.http://mindfield.com –about.com)

The link to the Gordon Thomas article is broken so I removed it and placed it here, if someone else wants to track it down. It was the third source given for footnote number 4.Freekra (talk) 11:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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"Reliance on dogma"
The article's introduction currently explains that Sargant is a controversial figure partly because of "his reliance on dogma rather than clinical evidence[2]", citing the introduction to a textbook he co-authored in 1944. Although I do not have this particular edition on hand to check, I highly doubt it says either of (a) "I rely on dogma" or (b) "I am controversial" and so I suggest deleting this claim or finding a proper source. 111.65.37.26 (talk)

I also think that this passage only shows, by itself, an unjustified negative prejudice against Sargant. At the contrary, in his "Battle for the Mind" he tries to give multiple pieces of evidence, and taken from many fields, supporting his insights on how stress and trauma are used to manipulate people's views, and how dogmatic ideas frequently come from that. This is not "relying on dogma", but quite the contrary. I would suggest cutting this passage, or providing the text supporting this statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annabyby (talk • contribs) 17:14, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Darren Gough

Another image

I've got another image (see right), which I'd like to get on the page somehow, but it won't fit at the moment. Anyone want to write a lot more text so it will fit on? :-) Or is there an approved way to link to it?

Trevor?

He has always been listed as "D Gough" in cricketing publications & scorecards, with no middle initial. More site vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.205.49 (talk) 00:37, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

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Counting Up To Ten
Well can he ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.41.113.117 (talk) 09:56, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

How tall??
Is he 6ft 2, as said at the start, or 5ft 11, as stated in the text? Crawiki (talk) 19:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Updated
Didn't think the page reflected a player of his status so did some research and updated. Still more to do, but this was a first stab at it. MaskedSinger (talk) 13:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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William Kent (American politician)

William Kent (March 29, 1864 – March 13, 1928) was an American politician, conservationist and philanthropist from Marin County, California. He served as a U.S. Representative from Northern California between 1911 and 1917, and was instrumental in the creation of Muir Woods National Monument.

Early life
Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 29, 1864. His parents, Adaline Elizabeth Dutton and meatpacking magnate Albert Emmett Kent (A.E. Kent) moved the family to Marin County in California in 1871, where his father had purchased 800 acres of valley land that would later become the town Kentfield, California.

He graduated from Yale University in 1887, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

Following graduation from Yale, Kent returned to Chicago and took up his father's real estate and livestock businesses, where he had inherited, among other interests, a tenement block adjacent to the Hull House settlement. After he was attacked as a slumlord in an 1894 speech by a Hull House resident, Kent donated the tenements to Hull House, which would later raze the property to build one of the first public playgrounds in the United States.

Kent became a donor and volunteer at Hull House, and served on its Board of Trustees, where he would meet Jane Addams and other leading Chicago reformers. Kent subsequently ran successfully for alderman in 1895 and founded the Municipal Voter's League of Chicago in 1896, a group that used publicity to push corrupt politicians from office.

U.S. House of Representatives
In 1907, Kent returned to California from Chicago and entered federal politics by winning election in 1910 as a progressive Republican to the 62nd United States Congress. For the 63rd and 64th Congresses, Kent was re-elected as an Independent. In total, Kent served in Congress from March 4, 1911, to March 4, 1917.

Kent was a vocal proponent of anti-Asian and exclusionary immigration policies throughout his political career. Campaigning in 1910, Kent told the Asiatic Exclusion League that "I have made a large part of my campaign on the Asiatic Exclusion idea, comparing it with the racial troubles brought on by the needless importation of negroes." In Congress, Kent pushed legislation barring Asian immigrants from owning land, becoming U.S. citizens, and entering the United States altogether. Kent also supported legislation instituting a literacy test for prospective immigrants, explaining he would "rather have a test of blood and race, and confine our immigration to northern Europe, but failing that, the literacy test."

Conservationist
In 1916, Kent was the lead sponsor of legislation in the House of Representatives establishing the National Park Service, with companion legislation in the Senate sponsored by Reed Smoot. The legislation passed the House of Representatives on July 1, 1916, passed the Senate on August 5, and was signed by President Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916.

Kent was also responsible for the establishment of Muir Woods National Monument on 611 acres of land along Redwood Creek that Kent and his wife Elizabeth Thacher Kent had originally purchased in 1905 for $45,000 in an effort to preserve the property's groves of old-growth redwoods. After a local water company began condemnation proceedings in 1907 in an effort to create a reservoir on the site, Kent quickly deeded 295 acres of the property to the U.S. Department of the Interior for the establishment of a national monument under the recently passed Antiquities Act. Established as a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt on January 6, 1908, Kent asked the site be named in honor of conservationist John Muir.

Beyond Muir Woods, Kent's efforts to preserve land on Marin County's Mount Tamalpais led to the creation of the Marin Municipal Water District in 1912, which utilized land donated by Kent for its watershed.

Kent's efforts as a conservationist were not exclusive of development and growth. The establishment of Muir Woods as a national monument coincided with the development of the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway as a popular tourist attraction, a business in which both Kent and his father had an interest in. In Congress, Kent was a key proponent of 1913 legislation creating the Hetch-Hetchy Reservoir, a stance that ultimately cost him his personal friendship with John Muir, whom Kent would call "a man entirely without social sense."

Later career
After leaving Congress, Kent was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the United States Tariff Commission in 1917. In lobbying the Wilson administration for his appointment, Kent alluded to a possible run for governor of California, writing Wilson ally Norman Hapgood that "I probably could secure the governorship here if I wanted it, but I do not like the idea of getting down to state matters when my view has been directed at national affairs." Kent served on the Tariff Commission until his resignation in 1920 to make an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate.

Personal life and death
Kent was married to Elizabeth Sherman Thacher on February 26, 1890. Elizabeth Thacher Kent was the daughter of Yale professor and administrator Thomas Anthony Thacher. Together they had seven children including sons Sherman Kent (Yale professor and alumni of the US Central Intelligence Agency) and Roger Kent (US politician). His daughter was prominent artist, Adaline Kent. Sherman Day Thacher was his brother-in-law.

Kent died on March 13, 1928, in Kentfield, California, from pneumonia. His remains were cremated in Oakland, California. He was survived by wife, five sons, two daughters, and ten grandchildren.

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Bohorok

Bahorok or Bohorok is a district of Langkat Regency. Its capital is Bohorok town, and Bukit Lawang is a major local tourist attraction for viewing orangutans.

The Bohorok river, which is a tributary of the Wampu River, joins the Wampu in the district.

History
According to legend, a Karo of marga Peranginangin, submarga Sukatendel was hunting and found a child in some bamboo. The child was given to a childless woman to raise. The area where the child was found eventually became Kuta Buluh. When that child grew older, he married a woman of Sukatendel village.

He had five children, the middle being Dewa Perangin-angin. Dewa Perangin-angin converted to Islam, in order to marry Paga Ruyung of Deli Tua.

They had three children, Sutan Jabar, Sutan Husin and Putri Hijau. Sutan Husin was in a dispute with his brother, Sultan Jabar, so Slutan Jabar went to Malacca, while Sutan Husin following the Wampu river upstream, and stopped to rest where it met another river (the Bohorok). Eventually he built a house at this point. One day, while on a hunting trip, he climbed the hill from the river, and finding an unknown sweet-tasting fruit tree at the top named it Buah Huruk (or fruit that is atop the hill in Karo language).

Bohorok had previously been called Tanjung by the Malays as it was the meeting point of the two rivers.

Bohorok was involved in trade along the Wampu river, buying salt at Pangkalan Brandan from the Kampar Malays there. Tengku Tan Deraman, son of Tengku Djukdin, son of Tengku Panji Sakar, son of Tengku Syahmardan, son of Sutan Husin, was the first to promote the cultivation of land for farming.

The lineage of Bahorok kingdom, from the 16th century is said to be:
 * Raja Sutan Husin
 * Tengku Syahmardan bin Sutan Husin
 * Tengku Panji Sakar bin Tengku Syahmardan
 * Tengku Djukdin bin Panji Sakar
 * Tengku Tan Deraman bin Tengku Djukdin
 * Tengku Basir bin Tengku Djukdin, he fled in 1835 to Kutacane from the Dutch, and was replaced by
 * Tengku Tan Perang bin Tengku Djukdin
 * Tengku Lengkong son of Tengku Tan Perang
 * Tengku Hasyim, founder of Bohorok mosque (1917), died 27 May 1935
 * Tengku Bahagi, younger brother of Tengku Hasyim
 * Tengku Saidi Husni, son-in-law of Tengku Hasyim
 * Tengku Sembab, until Indonesian independence in 1945

Thus Bahorok is a historically Malay-Karo kingdom.

The kingdoms of Bohorok, Stabat and Binjai eventually united to form the kingdom of Langkat, which became Langkat Regency under Dutch rule, and also later under Indonesian rule.

Name change
The name of Bahorok district was officially changed from Bohorok in 1987, due to a forging of the official stamp of Bohorok. Other government departments still use the name Bohorok.

Details
To the south lies Karo Regency, to the west Southeast Aceh province, to the east Salapian district, and to the north Batang Serangan district.

There are 22 desa and luruh within Bahorok district:
 * Batu Jong Jong, comprising 479 square km, larger than the other 21 desa combined.
 * Lau Damak
 * Sampe Raya
 * Perkebunan Bungara
 * Pekan Bahorok (the only kelurahan)
 * Empus
 * Perkebunan Turangi
 * Simpang Pulau Rambung
 * Sematar
 * Perkebunan Pulau Rambung
 * Suka Rakyati
 * Tanjung Lenggang
 * Sumber Jaya
 * Perkebunan Sei Musam
 * Amal Tani
 * Bukit Lawang
 * Timbang Lawan
 * Timbang Jaya
 * Sebertung
 * Pulau Semikat
 * Sei Musam Kendit
 * Musam Pembangunan

The district is mostly Muslim (88%), with 11% Protestant, and negligible others. There are above-average Christian populations in Batu Jong Jong (33%), Lau Damak (30%), Sampe Raya (23%), Sei Musam Kendit (20%), Pekan Bahorok (16%), Simp. Pulau Rambung (13%). There are 65 mosques, 45 mushollas and 13 churches in the area.

In most desa, Javanese are the largest group, with the exception of Lau Damak (Karo), Timbang Lawan, Timbang Jaya, Pekan Bahorok, Tanjung Lenggang, and Empus (Malay).

There are 40 junior schools, 10 middle schools, and 3 high schools (SMA Negeri 1 Bohorok, plus two private schools). There are also 17 (of which 16 private) junior madrasahs, 6 (of which 5 private) middle school madrasahs, and 2 senior school madrasahs (both private).

Notable agricultural production includes wet rice fields (sawah), maize and cassava. There are only cottage industries in the district.

While there is a surfaced road to Medan, other roads tend to be unsurfaced or dirt tracks.

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Redback

Redback, Red Back or Red-back may refer to:

Sports

 * Southern Redbacks, nickname for the West End Redbacks, the South Australia cricket team based in Adelaide
 * Frankfurt Redbacks, Australian rules football club based in Frankfurt, Germany
 * Glasgow Redbacks, Australian rules football club based in Glasgow, Scotland
 * Redbacks, nickname for the Romsey Football Club, Australian rules football club based in Romsey, Victoria, Australia

Finance

 * Texas redbacks, paper money issued between 1839 and 1840 in the Republic of Texas
 * The Australian twenty dollar note, sometimes referred to as a redback
 * The Renminbi, the Chinese currency is sometimes referred to as redback in contrast to US dollar

Other uses

 * Airborne Redback, Australian ultralight trike aircraft
 * Redback, working title of the 2012 Australian film Raven's Claw
 * Redback (armoured vehicle) Australian infantry fighting vehicle, version of the Korean K21
 * Redback (comics), a comic book superhero
 * Redback Aviation, an Australian aircraft manufacturer
 * Redback Boots, Australian footwear manufacturing company
 * Redback Networks, telecommunications equipment company
 * Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti), species of spider found in Australia

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Category:Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire is both a historic county of England and since 1974 a district of the county of Cambridgeshire, covering substantially the same area as the historic county. This category includes articles relating to both entities.

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User:Centurion328

About me
I've used Wikipedia a lot for school projects and such, but I never actually contributed anything to Wikipedia myself. I decided it might be a fun thing to do. The topics I'm interested in include:
 * Astronomy
 * Manned and unmanned spaceflight, including space tourism
 * History of ancient Rome
 * Classical Latin

I'm not much into technology so I've had to spend quite a lot of time figuring out the interface, but I think I've got the hang of it now.

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Swell box

In a pipe organ, the swell box, "Swell" (German: "Schwellwerk;" French: "Récit") is an enclosed space that has adjustable shades (often referred to as "swell shades") that open to the listening space in a similar manner to Venetian window blinds. When open, these shades allow the pipes' sounds to travel freely from the box to the room. When closed, most of the sound is contained in the box; the moveable shades provide a means of adjusting the loudness of the sound, and perhaps more importantly, of gradual crescendo ("swelling") and decrescendo. Operation of the shades is done with a hinged pedal ("swell pedal" or "expression pedal") at the console. In modern organs, this pedal is usually mechanically balanced such that it stays at whatever position the organist moves it to.

Higher frequencies are affected more by the shades than lower frequencies, so opening them not only provides more volume, but more brilliance. This "swelling" is what gives the swell division in an organ its name, although it is common in many organs (especially larger ones) to enclose other divisions in swell boxes as well, sometimes with separate swell pedals for each at the console. Pipes that are enclosed in a swell box are often referred to as "under expression" or "enclosed", whereas ones that are not are called "exposed" or "unenclosed".

This arrangement is necessary because a given pipe only plays at one given loudness. If the wind pressure were varied in an attempt to change the loudness, the pitch, tone quality, attack and decay and other characteristics would also change. In fact, organ builders have to go to a lot of trouble to provide a steady, unchanging wind supply, so the only way to gradually increase or decrease the loudness of a pipe is to enclose it in a swell box, and then to gradually open or close the shades.

This has its drawbacks. No matter how a swell box is designed, the sound of the pipes is compromised by enclosing them. Since much organ repertoire was written before gradual crescendo and decrescendo effects became common, this seems to represent an unnecessary degradation of early music. The kinds of music which are least compatible with enclosed pipes are precisely the kinds where gradual crescendo and diminuendo are not required. On the other hand, building an organ with no swell box – and thus unable to play later music – would also limit the instrument's usefulness.

The usual way of dealing with this problem is to build an organ in which the pipes are divided into several sections or divisions, one or more of which are enclosed in a swell box or boxes, the other divisions remaining unenclosed.

History
The invention of the swell box has been credited to two organ-builders called Abraham Jordan, a father-and-son team which was active in the early eighteenth century (for example at the church of St Magnus the Martyr, London). It took time to be adopted in other countries and therefore some of the best organ music, for example that of Bach, was not written with a swell box in mind.

The Jordans' work can be seen as a development of earlier technology, but its significance was recognized at the time. The Spectator announced that "Whereas Mr. Abraham Jordan, senior and junior, have, with their own hands, joinery excepted, made and erected a very large organ in St Magnus' Church, at the foot of London Bridge, consisting of four sets of keys, one of which is adapted to the art of emitting sounds by swelling notes, which never was in any organ before; this instrument will be publicly opened on Sunday next [14 February 1712], the performance by Mr. John Robinson. The above-said Abraham Jordan gives notice to all masters and performers, that he will attend every day next week at the said Church, to accommodate all those gentlemen who shall have a curiosity to hear it."

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll refined the English swell box by devising a spring-loaded (later balanced) pedal with which the organist could operate the swell shutters.

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The Sham Mirrors

The Sham Mirrors is the third studio album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus. It was released on April 9, 2002.

The Sham Mirrors is a departure from the band's previous albums, featuring a much more modern, space-influenced sound, as opposed to the layered, classical melodies of 1997's La Masquerade Infernale. The album contains elements of trip hop, ambient music and electronica in addition to the band's usual progressive black metal sound. Lyrically, the album deals with abstract science fiction-themed subjects, a stark contrast to the theatrical and Satanic lyrics of the band's earlier work. The album cover depicts a model drawing of the upper part of the Apollo spaceship.

This is the last album to feature Kristoffer Rygg on vocals.

Personnel

 * Arcturus
 * Kristoffer Rygg (credited as "Trickster G. Rex") - vocals, producer, engineer
 * Knut M. Valle - electric guitar, engineer
 * Dag F. Gravem - bass guitar
 * Steinar Sverd Johnsen - keyboards, engineer
 * Jan Axel Blomberg (credited as "Hellhammer") - drums, percussion

 * Additional Musicians

 * Ihsahn - vocals (on "Radical Cut")
 * Mathias Eick - trumpet (on "Ad Absurdum", "Collapse Generation" and "Radical Cut")
 * Hugh Steven James Mingay - low frequentation (on "Radical Cut")

 * Production Staff
 * Phantom FX - co-producer
 * Tore Ylwizaker - mixing
 * Tom La Bomba - mastering

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vince DeMentri

 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 --cesarb 22:28, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vince DeMentri
Delete Person of very little importance Spotteddogsdotorg 18:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Do we need every damn airhead anchor from podunk's bio here? No! Hohokus 23:25, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 28th edit, suspected sockpuppet. Kaibabsquirrel 22:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Local TV guy in small market - not notable! Melvis 17:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 11th edit, suspected sockpuppet. Kaibabsquirrel 22:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Mid-market, but this looks like a dump from the station's website. It is a fact, not an article, and has therefore no content.  When it gets to "you can see him," we're in advertising trouble as well. Geogre 03:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, passes WP:BIO. Kappa 04:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, does not pass WP:BIO. RickK 22:25, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, significant enough. ℬ astique▼ talk 05:19, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, does not pass WP:BIO. Neither a "widely recognized entertainment personality" nor a "well-known entertainment figure". --Smack (talk) 05:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 05:52, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't see a local TV personality as being notable in most cases. --Xcali 05:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 07:20, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep SchmuckyTheCat 16:11, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Never seen him on TV, never heard of him. Not important as only a small amount of people can actually watch him on TV and I know I am not one of him since I don't even get his channel! ConeyCyclone 17:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 17 edit, account created less than an hour before this vote, suspected sockpuppet. Kaibabsquirrel 22:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Jinkleberries 19:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Note: Junkleberries is a new account today and voted 'keep' on 37 articles within a 7-minute period. This user also received a vandalism warning today.  Tobycat 20:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article is still a stub, so it does serve its purpose. AdamTheHun 15:45, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete what purpose does it serve? There is nothing notable about this guy.  Grue  14:52, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The Philadelphia broadcast area is large enough that "notable there" is "notable enough". --Unfocused 16:26, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yet another frivolous VFD courtesy of User:Spotteddogsdotorg and multiple sockpuppet votes. Kaibabsquirrel 22:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable.  Local TV news hacks are generally not notable. Quale 21:02, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I am fairly new here and just stumbled on to these deletion pages (this is my second one!) but he doesn't seem that noteworthy, as most local TV personalities are - not noteworthy that is. They are like tires, very easly swapped and basically identical! UncleFloyd 19:32, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Safe (1995 film)

Safe is a 1995 American psychological horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore. Set in 1987, it follows a suburban housewife in Los Angeles whose monotonous life is abruptly changed when she becomes sick with a mysterious illness which she believes is caused by the environment around her.

The film topped the "best film of the 1990s" poll by The Village Voice, and was described by critics as "the scariest film of the year", "a mesmerizing horror movie", and "a work of feminist counter-cinema". Twenty years after the film's release, Haynes said its themes—disease and immunity in a post-industrial landscape and how recovery is a burden often placed on victims of illness—were even more relevant than they were when the film was released.

Plot
Carol White is a housewife living in an affluent suburb of Los Angeles. She passes her days with activities like gardening, aerobics, and seeing friends. Her marriage and family life appear stable but sterile, and her friends are polite but distant. Following the renovation of the family's home, Carol starts experiencing physical symptoms in everyday situations: She coughs uncontrollably when breathing exhaust fumes from a nearby truck while driving, has breathing difficulties at a baby shower, and suffers from a nosebleed while getting a perm at a hair salon. As her symptoms worsen, she becomes convinced that they are triggered by exposure to chemicals. Finally, she has a complete collapse while at her dry cleaners, which is being fumigated with pesticides.

Doctors have no idea how to cure or help Carol and state that she is physically healthy. She attends some psychotherapy sessions, but her symptoms are not alleviated. She finds that she is very alone with her condition when her community behaves indifferently towards her. Accepting that she can no longer function in her current life, she leaves everything behind and moves to Wrenwood, a new-age desert community for people with environmental illnesses. Wrenwood is led by Peter Dunning, an author who extols self-help to the residents.

Even in a community of people with similar health issues, Carol seems to become more isolated even as she asserts that she is getting better. Lesions appear on her face and she increasingly relies on a breathing apparatus. She moves into an insulated dome separated from the rest of the community, where she looks into a mirror and says "I love you" to herself.

Cast

 * Julianne Moore as Carol White
 * Peter Friedman as Peter Dunning
 * Xander Berkeley as Greg White
 * James LeGros as Chris
 * Martha Velez as Fulvia
 * Susan Norman as Linda
 * Kate McGregor-Stewart as Claire
 * Mary Carver as Nell
 * Steven Gilborn as Dr. Hubbard
 * Peter Crombie as Dr. Reynolds
 * April Grace as Susan
 * Lorna Scott as Marilyn
 * Jodie Markell as Anita
 * Brandon Cruz as Steve
 * Dean Norris as Mover
 * Jessica Harper as Joyce
 * Beth Grant as Becky
 * Rio Hackford as Lester

Production
Haynes first heard about "environmental illness" in 1991 on a TV magazine program that referred to it as "20th Century Disease". He and producer Vachon interviewed organizations that advocate for people who have environmental illness, such as Response Team for the Chemically Injured in Atascadero, California and The Chemical Connection in Wimberley, Texas, and in fact the monologue that Carol gives during her birthday party was based on transcripts of one of the interviews from Wimberley. Haynes also did research into New Age healing practices, and was especially interested in the work of Louise Hay, whose books became popular among gay men during the AIDS epidemic by telling them that self-love would heal their illness. The fictional Wrenwood was inspired by a yoga retreat at Kripalu Center. He also got inspiration from Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.

For the script, Haynes has said that the conceptual origin involved setting up barriers that prevent the audience from getting emotionally close to the character of Carol, which was a concept he explored again in Far from Heaven. He used political red herrings to make the audience trust certain characters at first, such as the leader of Wrenwood being a gay man. Since Haynes himself is gay, he thought the audience would expect the gay character to be trustworthy.

For the role of Carol, Haynes was initially interested in Susan Norman—who was later cast as Linda instead—but Julianne Moore's agent reached out to Vachon and insisted on an interview with her for the role. Moore knew exactly how to play the character of Carol as soon as she read the script: "I wanted the character to not put any weight on her larynx at all", so that's what she did in the audition that won her the part.

Cinematographer Alex Nepomniaschy suggested the look of Red Desert to Haynes after reading the script, and together they decided never to let the camera get very close to any of the characters as a way to keep emotional distance.

Potential investors wanted him to replicate the elements that had worked well in Haynes' previous film Poison, but since this film was different in so many ways, it took a long time to find the funding for it. The budget was around $1 million. Finally, filming began on January 1, 1994, in Los Angeles, and lasted 6 weeks.

For the film's premiere at Sundance, Haynes had removed the shot of Peter's mansion, but put it back in after hearing audience feedback because he wanted to emphasize Peter's hypocrisy.

Ultimately, the film presents no answer for her illness or predicament. Her condition is given no name in the film, but director Haynes confirmed that it is a depiction of multiple chemical sensitivity. He also said that Carol's isolation was both the answer and the problem for her.

Release
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 1995. There were reports of people walking out of the theater because they didn't understand the movie. Vachon has said that critics at the premiere were mixed about the film, but by the end of the decade many had come around to it and placed the film among the decade's best.

Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film and released the film in a limited release on June 23, 1995.

Critical response
Safe received positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports 87% approval based on 62 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Safe's eerie social satire and somewhat sterile stylization is balanced by comedic undertones and an impressive, understated performance from Julianne Moore." The film also holds a score of 76/100 on Metacritic. Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, lauds the first half of the film, but concludes that, as “brilliantly as it begins, Safe eventually succumbs to its own modern malady, as the film maker insists on a chilly ambiguity that breeds more detachment than interest”…. “Mr. Haynes makes fools of …[the film’s] New Agers while possibly embracing some of their views.” Another problem, according to Maslin, is that “the shadow of AIDS implicitly hangs over …[Carol’s] decline, but it doesn't help bring Safe to a conclusion worthy of its inspired beginning”.

The ending of the film is highly ambiguous, and has created considerable debate among critics and audiences as to whether Carol has emancipated herself, or simply traded one form of suffocation for an equally constricting identity as a reclusive invalid. Julie Grossman argues in her article "The Trouble with Carol" that Haynes concludes the film as a challenge to traditional Hollywood film narratives of the heroine taking charge of her life, and that Haynes sets Carol up as the victim both of a male-dominated society, and also of an equally debilitating self-help culture that encourages patients to take sole responsibility for their illness and recovery.

Carol's illness, although unidentified, has been seen as an analogy for the 1980s AIDS crisis, a similarly uncomfortable and largely unspoken "threat" during the Reagan presidency.

Accolades
Safe received seven votes in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films – with five votes from critics and two from directors – ranking it 323rd and 322nd, respectively. They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, a website which gathers critics' polls, has also found Safe to be the 415th most acclaimed movie of all time.

The movie was widely critically acclaimed. It gave Moore her first leading role in a feature film and gave Haynes a measure of mainstream critical recognition.

 * 1996 Independent Spirit Awards - Nominated for Best Director (Todd Haynes), Best Feature, Best Female Lead (Julianne Moore), and Best Screenplay (Todd Haynes)
 * 1995 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Cinematography - Alex Nepomniaschy
 * 1995 Seattle International Film Festival - American Independent Award - Todd Haynes
 * 1996 Rotterdam International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize Special Mention - Todd Haynes
 * 1999 Village Voice Film Poll - Winner VVFP - Award Best Film of the Decade

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Salihli

Salihli is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,359 km2, and its population is 165,113 (2022).

Geography
The city of Salihli, the seat of the district, is located on İzmir-Ankara (E 96) highway and the parallel railway connections. The urban zone is situated on the slopes of Bozdağ mountain chain along the southern alluvial plains of the Gediz River. To the north and northeast of the plain extend two other mountain ranges, respectively those of the mounts Dibek (highest altitude 1120 m) and Üşümüş (highest altitude 1085 m).

The town lies at an altitude of 125 meters from the sea level. Its advantageous location, smooth and busy intercity connections and the fertile soil allowed Salihli to develop extremely well in the recent past.

Four streams, namely Alaşehir, Gümüş, Kurşunlu and Sart cross the district area to join the River Gediz, which flows westward. The climate type is Mediterranean climate. To the 24 km north of the city is Demirköprü Dam, used for irrigation, prevention of overflows, energy production and fishing, and which was built between 1954 and 1960.

The population figures in the 2000 census were 149,150 for the whole district and 83,137 for the urban center of Salihli. (The urban population is 162,782 as of 2019.)

Aside from the city of Salihli, the district counts eight townships with their own municipalities. These are Adala, Durasıllı, Gökeyüp, Mersinli, Poyrazdamları, Sart, Taytan and Yılmaz. Of these, Sart corresponds to the location of ancient Sardes, the capital of Lydia.

The district area is surrounded by the neighboring districts of Ahmetli to the west, Gölmarmara to the northwest, Gördes and Köprübaşı to the north, Demirci to the northeast, Kula to the east, Alaşehir to the southeast and Ödemiş to the south.

The distances from Salihli to the seat of neighboring provinces are as follows:

The distances from Salihli to another cities of Manisa are as follows:

History
Salihli is a city with a long history. The fossil footprints discovered near the villages of Sindel and Çarıklar, Manisa, estimated to be between 10,000 and 26,000 years old, are the first traces of prehistory in the region. However, the region came to foremost importance with the establishment of the city of Sardes, which is located 7 km west of Salihli center and where the most remarkable historical artifacts and remains of the region are found.

Sardes was the capital city of Lydia until 547 B.C., at which date it was captured by the Persian Empire and governed by satraps until 334 B.C.. After the Persians, the region was governed successively by the Macedonian Empire, the Kingdom of the Attalids, Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire. In the beginning of the 14th century, Turks under the Beylik of Saruhan captured the city and the region and ruled it for a century from their base in nearby Manisa. In 1400 the region passed over to the Ottoman Empire under which Manisa preserved its position as a primary regional center. In the beginning of the Ottoman rule, Salihli was a village of the kaza of Sart, depending the province seat of Aydın, situated more to the south, and was called Evlâd-i Salih (meaning 'the children of Salih' in English). In the 19th century, with the construction of İzmir-Uşak-Afyon railway, Salihli demonstrated a much more rapid pace of progress compared to Sart and gained township status in 1872, when it became a kaza of the Sanjak of Saruhan, centred around Manisa. From 1867 until 1922, Salihli was part of the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

During the Greco-Turkish War, the city was taken by Greek forces on 24 July 1920, then re-taken by the Turkish army on 5 September 1922. According to a number of sources, the retreating Greek army carried out a scorched-earth policy while fleeing from Anatolia during the final phase of the war. According to James Loder Park, the U.S. Vice-Consul in Constantinople at the time, who toured much of the devastated area immediately after the Greek evacuation, 65% of Salihli had been destroyed.

After the war, Salihli became one of the biggest and the most important districts of Manisa. It is not always easy to make estimates on Salihli's population before the establishment of the Republic of Turkey due to the lack of adequate sources. However, a population of 500 people was confirmed for Sart during the 1831 census. The city grew quite fast after the construction of the railway until the Turkish War of Independence. In the yearbook of 1891, 3000 people and in the yearbook of 1908, 4400 people were documented to be living in Salihli. In the first Republican census of 1927, 7191 people were recorded. The departure of the town's minority populations in 1923 also caused the population to decrease.

Salihli has always been an attractive destination for immigrants. In the Ottoman era, the region was a favorite stopover for nomad clans (aşiret). Today, it is still possible to trace the names of some of the region's villages to the original aşiret names such as Karayahşi, Araplı, Burhan, Beylikli, Çökelek, Eldelek, Dombaylı, Durasıllı, Sindel etc. Moreover, some aşiret names refer to unsettled localities, such as Sığıralcısı, Bayındırlı, Karatekeli, Kuşdoğanlı, Kacar, Taras, Karakeçili. After the 1890s until the 1950s, Salihli also attracted many immigrants moving into Turkey from the Balkans, from Yugoslavia and Bulgaria particularly. Many Turkic-speaking immigrants from Xinjiang, China chose to live in Salihli during the Chinese revolutionary disturbances.

This part of the population, mainly Kazakhs and known as Türkistanlılar in the city, came to Salihli between 1954 and 1955 in the following years. After the 1970s, some immigration from Eastern Anatolia also came to strengthen the ranks of the previous immigrants. Counter-movements in the population were towards Turkey's big cities and to Europe, especially to Germany and France).

Composition
There are 103 neighbourhoods in Salihli District:

 * Adala
 * Akçaköy
 * Akören
 * Aksoy
 * Akyar
 * Allahdiyen
 * Atatürk
 * Bağcılar
 * Bahçecik
 * Barış
 * Başlıoğlu
 * Beşeylül
 * Beylikli
 * Burhanköy
 * Caferbey
 * Çakaldoğan
 * Çaltılı
 * Çamurhamamı
 * Çapaklı
 * Çavlı
 * Çayköy
 * Çaypınar
 * Çelikli
 * Çökelek
 * Çukuroba
 * Cumhuriyet
 * Damatlı
 * Dedetaşı
 * Delibaşlı
 * Derbent
 * Dombaylı
 * Durasıllı
 * Eldelek
 * Eminbey
 * Emirhacılı
 * Eskicami
 * Gaffar Okkan
 * Gaziler
 * Gökçeköy
 * Gökeyüp
 * Gökköy
 * Gümüş
 * Güneş
 * Hacıbektaşlı
 * Hacıhıdır
 * Hacıköseli
 * Hacılı
 * Hasalan
 * İğdecik
 * Kabazlı
 * Kale
 * Kapancı
 * Kaplanköy
 * Karaağaç
 * Karaoğlanlı
 * Karapınar
 * Karasavcı
 * Karayahşi
 * Keli
 * Kemerdamları
 * Kemerköy
 * Kırdamları
 * Kırveli
 * Kızılavlu
 * Kocaçeşme
 * Kordon
 * Köseali
 * Kurttutan
 * Kurtuluş
 * Mamatlı
 * Mersindere
 * Mersinli
 * Mevlutlu
 * Mitatpaşa
 * Namıkkemal
 * Oraklar
 * Ortaköy
 * Özyurt
 * Pazarköy
 * Poyraz
 * Poyrazdamları
 * Sağlık
 * Sarıpınar
 * Sart
 * Şehitler
 * Seyrantepe
 * Sindel
 * Şirinyer
 * Süleymaniye
 * Taytan
 * Tekelioğlu
 * Torunlu
 * Üçtepe
 * Yağbasan
 * Yağmurlar
 * Yeniköy
 * Yenipazar
 * Yeşilkavak
 * Yeşilova
 * Yeşilyurt
 * Yılmaz
 * Yörük
 * Zafer

Economy
The economy of the city is based on agriculture, agricultural commerce and industry.

Agriculture:

The main agricultural products are seedless sultana grapes, wheat, barley, cotton, tobacco and maize. The fertility of the region's soil also allows for the cultivation of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Cherries known as the Napoleon breed grown especially in the villages of Allahdiyen and Gökköy and the potatoes locally known as Bozdağ potatoes are particularly famous.

Stockbreeding is another source of income for rural inhabitants, of rising importance especially in the last decade.

Industry:

The recent building of Salihli Organized Industrial Zone (in Turkish Salihli Organize Sanayi Bölgesi), extending over an area of 111 hectares in a triangular zone between the close district centers of Salihli, Alaşehir and Kula, became a great opportunity to provide new employment opportunities in the region and accelerate the pace of industrialization.

Smaller industrial enterprises are concentrated in Salihli itself, where there are 32 brickworks and tileries drawing on the region's rich reserves in raw materials for bricks, two flour mills, two valonia oak factories, ten cotton gin factories, two grape operating works, one feed grain factory, one industrial tube factory, one tomato dressing factory, two olive oil mills, two beverage factories, one water bottling factory, one mineral water company and one emery rock factory.

Tourism:

The remains of Sardis, which notably includes the Lydian King named Giges's tomb, the Artemis Temple and a Marble Court with Gymnasium built by the Romans, as well as other historical vestiges are widely visited by tourists, nationally and internationally.

5 km and 14 km south of the town, there are lead and mud baths named Kurşunlu Kaplıcaları, which are famous across the region. These thermal springs are visited especially to treat rheumatic disorders, sciatica, lumbago, arthritis, neuralgia, orthopaedic disorders, several skin diseases, some gynecological conditions and kidney disorders. Moreover, a recent geothermal energy production project intends to use these thermal sources and provide heating for the city of Salihli.

There are also many excursion possibilities around Salihli. Bozdağ summits and the Lake Gölcük located near the top of one of the summits is at a very high altitude. The restaurants and cafes situated on the hills around Bozdağ have views over Salihli.

Culture and sports activities
Sports activities are also quite developed and the city was represented for a long time in the Turkish Second League by Yeni Salihlispor. Today, nearly 1500 licensed athletes compete in various sports activities in Salihli, such as football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, judo, wrestling, oil wrestling, folk dance and chess. There are ten football clubs representing Salihli in Turkey's amateur league and one female volleyball club is in the 2nd league. Under Salihli Municipality's structure, Turkish folk music, Turkish classical music and children's chorus organizations also have a place, and modern ballet and other dance schools, folk dancing, piano, drawing and theater lessons are also supported. Especially in judo, there are several international sporties. The judo team has won gold, silver and bronze medals in world championships and countless medals in national tournaments.

Cuisine
Besides other Turkish dishes, Salihli has a particular köfte variety of its own, named Odun Köfte. Gökeyüp village's güveç stews are also particularly famous in the region. The production of high-quality grapes, especially sultana grapes, is also reflected in the cuisine. In wedding ceremonies held in the villages, dishes like keşkek and topalak are often cooked, and some people make their own rakı with sweet sultana grapes.

Notable people

 * Tasos Athanasiadis (1913-2006), Greek writer
 * Güven Erkaya (1938-2000), Turkish admiral
 * Ramiz Turan, military officer, died during Cyprus Peace Operation
 * Ali İhsan Karayiğit (1928-2014), Football player
 * Ali Tandoğan, ex-football player, manager

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Talk:The Magdalene Sisters

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I've noticed that an article called Magdalen Asylum is a cleaned up version of this one

Rejuvenation of Synopsis
I have taken a little bit of time to write a big chunk of the synopsis. I found the original did little in the way of summerising the actual event of the film and it was quite central on Sister Bridget. I have reworked the Sister Bridget section and written a little on some of the other significant scenes of the film (the humiliation, the escape etc.). I haven't reverted, however, into blow by blow plot summary, which does not seem quite approapriate in the article. I hope others are happy with the changes I have made.

BTW: Is the woman who helps Bernadette and Rose a relative? Clarification anyone? Thanks!

 * She should be her (Bernadette) Dublin's cousine, the one she only saw once before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.12.100.18 (talk) 20:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Change summary
I have deleted the section on the history of Magdalen Asylums. The section was wriiten in an unfropessional manner, and it was not related to the movie itself. Sure, the movie is about the Magdalen Asylums, but if someone is interested in knowing more about the Magdalen Asylums, they will go to its own article, which contains much more information, presented in a more clear format. The section on the history of Magdalen Asylums was useless and duplicate in my opinion.

Made some changes
Changed some sentences for grammar or just bad structuring. I also deleted or altered certain elements that were either unnecessarily cluttering up the character biographies or wrong. This was a great film and I made the edits last night after just watching it for the fourth or so time. Fermentor 09:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:The Magdalene Sisters poster.jpg
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Removed
This is not supported by the source: However, the book on which the film is partly based has been shown to be a fabrication, and the allegations therefore suspect. The author of the book upon which the film is based has misled the public about her education and upbringing, and it is unlikely that she had any contact with the religious order at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs) 02:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Worth noting?
I think that the fact that the Vatican has banned this movie is notable, but I dont know how to put that in. Could someone please add it? List of banned films, and http://www.michigandaily.com/content/controversial-film-sisters-hits-dvd

What does that mean if a film is "banned"? Does that make it illegal to possess the DVD when on Vatican property, like the Holy See or any major basilica? The Vatican no longer publishes an Index of prohibited works, although my copy of the Index lists primarily works of faulty theology to prevent people from being led astray in their studies. Vatican officials denounce plenty of things, like sexy Madonna videos, but banned? What does that mean, exactly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.247.254 (talk) 15:43, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I would also like to know what the basis is for the assertion that the film has been "officially banned" by the Vatican. I am aware of a critical review of the film in the Vatican's semi-official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano; but a bad review in a newspaper hardly constitutes an "official ban" whatever that means. I think either a citation from a Vatican source or some other kind of credible evidence is needed to back up this assertion.Ocyril (talk) 11:50, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Never banned
I concur that it was never banned, and deleted the reference that was in the article. The news article that provided the citation did say "officially", but doesn't state its source for the claim, leaving us with a rather vague assertion. I have another article that refutes the claim. Here is its reference should it be needed for future editing.
 * Greydanus, Steven D. ["The Magdalene Sisters Controversy Revisited"]. Decent Films Guide: film appreciation and criticism informed by Christian faith.  2010.  Accessed September 18, 2011.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Webcast government

 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. Golbez 07:37, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Webcast government
At best this is a neologism. There are 142 hits on Google, almost all of which are simply as a result of this articlebeing on Wikipedia, with the one or two others being not relevant. Delete DS1953 18:37, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Scimitar 19:15, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No such thing. -- BD2412 talk 14:43, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NBC 10 Live at 5

 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 merge with WCAU-TV. Not quite sure which votes should be counted, but whichever way I counted them, I always came to the same "merge" conclusion. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:54, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

NBC 10 Live at 5
Delete Programme of very little importance Spotteddogsdotorg 18:38, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Maybe merge with main article for station? Do we need every podunk TV news show listed here? No! Hohokus 23:21, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 23rd edit, account created 9 Jun. Kaibabsquirrel 22:20, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, no reason to delete. Kappa 15:43, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It is mentioned in the WCAU-TV article. Should not be a stand alone. Melvis
 * User's 13th edit, 6 of which are VFD votes. Kaibabsquirrel 22:20, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with WCAU-TV. --Dachannien 16:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per Dachannien --Xcali 16:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete its in with the WCAU-TV page those intrested can find what they need to know about it there, which is not much but all that is needed and doesn't sound like and ad. ConeyCyclone 18:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created 17:05, 12 Jun 2005 and mostly used to vote on VfD's. Kaibabsquirrel 21:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Amazingly coherent for that sort of account, though. Unlike Jinkleberries down below... -- Jonel 23:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge anything useful with the WCAU article. There are no doubt a number of news programs with this same title, and a local news program is just too generic to warrant a separate article. 23skidoo 19:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Jinkleberries 19:52, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Note: Junkleberries is a new account today and voted 'keep' on 37 articles within a 7-minute period. This user also received a vandalism warning today.  Tobycat 21:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect or merge to WCAU-TV, changing vote to keep as disambig if multiple stations are found to use that title for their 5:00 news. -- Jonel 23:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It's non-notable (except as part of WCAU-TV), and somewhat NPOV (the tabloid television comment certainly isn't dictionary material).   ral  315  00:01, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I don't even see the need for the redirect, but, if, when the votes are counted, it doesn't look like enough consensus, then read this vote as "redirect."  Anything but keep. Geogre 02:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 04:31, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Admittedly these things aren't too easy to google, but it seems to me that NBC is going to be on channel 10 on about 1/12 affiliates. "Live at 5" has become a common phrase used to describe live news (is there any other kind?) that comes on at 5 (quite common). This leads me to believe that we probably have more than 1 NBC 10 Live at 5 programs in the nation. Delete this. Having a stub on every local news show in the country will be incredibly tedious. all news shows are basically the same; they'll just have a different uninteresting people connected to them. -R. fiend 05:59, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with WCAU-TV. Not notable on its own. carmeld1 22:46, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if the WCAU article will grown beyond 30k or so. else, merge and then if there is trouble with some other show, disambiguate SchmuckyTheCat 04:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Local TV news is generally not notable.  These programs are almost completely interchangable.  Quale 21:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Basically the same information is on the WCAU-TV page. It seems useless to have on there, and there is more than one NBC 10, too. Plus its not really notable, its a carbon copy of dozens of other shows with carbon copies of the same hosts. UncleFloyd 22:54, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, since it's already covered in the article for the station. I can't imagine anyone running a search on a local news show on an international encycolpedia. --FuriousFreddy 01:02, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Software maintenance

What about techniques?
Hello all, I included (for now) a list of (one) techniques for software maintenance. In the future if some good souls were to add to the list, perhaps the list of techniques could be broken off into its own page, since the current page treats this subject (as it should) on more of a top-level. A couple more can likely be gleaned from the latest edition of Page-Jones, and maybe a few more from the Best Practices section of the book Rapid Development by Steve McConnell, and maybe from his other book Code Complete. I urge caution, since these practices could more properly fall into the program coding stage, or earlier stages. Vonkje 18:38, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think Pigosk should be spelled with an i as in "Pigoski". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.193.128.85 (talk) 22:23, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Edit request
Please replace the content of the article with User:Buidhe paid/Software maintenace. Reason: rewrite based on better sources, add sections about the development -> maintenance -> obsolescence cycle, change cycles, workforce, etc. The current article is mostly unsourced. Buidhe paid (talk) 01:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: I plan a GAN after this edit request: Buidhe paid (talk) 03:07, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have implemented this, everything is looking good from a cursory overview. Thank you for your work as always. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 03:17, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Wiki99 summary
Summary of changes as a result of the Wiki99 project (before, after, diff): For other editors to consider doing in the future: Buidhe paid (talk) 06:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Complete rewrite of the article based on scholarly sources
 * Added sections about:
 * The process of how software goes from release to different cycles of maintenance and obsolescence
 * How software is changed during maintenance
 * Workforce
 * Research
 * Added information about maintenance of free and open source software
 * Help me get the article to GA status
 * Potentially expand with more content, if more sources can be found
 * Consider a merge with software evolution, since the difference is inconsistently defined, blurry, and many sources are about "software maintenance and evolution"

 * Oh no. You did it again. This is the second article I've found that you have hacked up. How many have you done? Please stop. You are doing the opposite of improving. You seem to have the best intentions, but your resulting work is not good.
 * I take issue with almost every sentence of the intro. I won't go beyond that with examples of your work since my blood pressure is already too high.
 * Software maintenance is often considered lower skilled and less rewarding than new development That's BS ... and depressing. Who considers id lower skilled? And many people complain that they hate their job regardless of what they do.
 * As such, it is a common target for outsourcing or offshoring Foolishness, everything is a target for offshoring.
 * Usually, the team developing the software is different from those who will be maintaining it nope.
 * The developers lack an incentive to write the code to be easily maintained crazy talk.
 * Software is often delivered incomplete and almost always contains some bugs that the maintenance team must fix commonly held thought that is basically BS ... and depressing ... how about we stick to facts
 * Software maintenence often initially includes the development of new functionality, but as the product nears the end of its lifespan maintenence is reduced to the bare minimum and then cut off entirely before the product is withdrawn. more non-factual, depressing, popular thinking BS
 * Each maintenence cycle begins with a change request typically originating from a customer. That request is evaluated and if it is decided to implement it, the programmer studies the existing code to understand how it works before implementing the change. Testing to make sure the existing functionality is retained and the desired new functionality is added often comprises the majority of the maintenance cost. in the dreams of process geeks; not reality
 * software maintenance is not as well studied as other phases of the software life cycle, despite comprising the majority of costs. Understanding has not changed significantly since the 1980s. really? we have studies showing we didn't study that? studies showing we know as much about maintenance today as we did in the 80s? more BS
 * Software maintenance can be categorized into several types depending on whether it is preventative or reactive and whether it is seeking to add functionality or preserve existing functionality. less than interesting or useful.

Thanks for providing the before and after links. That makes is easier for me to see exactly where you "added value". Stevebroshar (talk) 15:22, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Stevebroshar, regardless of who is writing the article it needs to follow what reliable sources say about the subject. Most of the points above are supported by multiple sources and therefore should be included in the article regardless of what Wikipedia contributors think about them, although if you are aware of similarly authoritative sources contradicting those in the article, I would welcome that information. Buidhe paid (talk) 13:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Open source software workforce
I am also part of the Wiki99 project developing this article. Buidhe above did a major rewrite, and I think it looks great. The overall Wiki99 project has a theme of open source software. Buidhe did not readily identify this theme in the wiki literature review to develop this article, so I asked some academic colleagues to suggest a paper. Here is one that I like.

I would like to include content about maintaining open source software. These researchers interviewed people who maintain this kind of content.

Here is my own summary of the paper:
 * 1) The team interviewed 37 developers for an average of an hour each
 * 2) They attempted to recruit diversity in the interviewee pool, both in terms of demographics of the developer and the class of F/OSS project they maintained
 * 3) Many of the interviewees reported that the project they maintained depended on volunteer labor
 * 4) Differences between maintaining open versus closed software include the culture of workers getting paid by paying customers versus volunteer developers in a socio-technical system for non-paying users
 * 5) Developing F/OSS requires significant socializing, trust, giving thanks, and community membership, including in volunteer contexts
 * 6) Recognition can lead to F/OSS projects getting more support; lack of recognition even for popular projects can mean less support
 * 7) Project coordination is a challenge when there are no staff for key elements of an ecosystem

I am posting this here on the talk page because I am paid in this project as described at WikiProject University of Virginia/2023 Wiki99 for open source software, so I am editing more slowly with more discussion than I do with other projects. For now, I am just floating this additional perspective for software outside commercial corporate development.  Bluerasberry  (talk)  21:45, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Although this is an interesting study, I'm not sure about WP:DUE. I've tried to avoid citing primary sources, in part because of concerns about replication and generalizability. Additionally, I did add a couple sentences about FOSS projects that are already in the article. Buidhe paid (talk) 22:17, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

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Boris Kodjoe

Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe (born March 8, 1973) is a German actor and former model best known for his roles as Kelby in the 2002 film Brown Sugar, the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food, Dr. Will Campbell on CBS's Code Black and a recurring character on FOX's The Last Man on Earth. He co-stars on BET's Real Husbands of Hollywood and the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Station 19 as Robert Sullivan.

Early life
Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a German psychologist of Jewish descent, and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician who is of the Nzema people. His namesake is the Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak. Kodjoe's matrilineal great-grandmother was Jewish and was murdered in the Holocaust; his maternal grandmother survived the war in hiding. Kodjoe's parents divorced when he was six years old. He grew up in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He has a brother named Patrick and two sisters named Nadja and Lara.

Career
Kodjoe attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship and graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1996. A four-year letterman on the Rams' men's tennis team, he is currently ninth in school history with 75 career singles wins. Tied for third in doubles victories with 66, he was paired with Jonas Elmblad on 37 of them, also third all-time. His brother Patrick Kodjoe played for VCU's basketball team. A back injury ended Boris' tennis aspirations, but he was quickly signed as a model and, soon after, entered acting. In 1995, he was featured in TLC's music video for "Red Light Special".

Named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People magazine in 2002, Kodjoe is perhaps best known as one of the 7 regular cast members from the Showtime drama Soul Food, which aired from 2000 to 2004. He appeared in the 2002 film Brown Sugar and starred in the short-lived sitcom Second Time Around with his Soul Food co-star Nicole Ari Parker, whom he eventually married. He played the role of David Taylor, the wayward son of Pastor Fred Taylor, in the October 2005 film The Gospel. He performed in a play called Whatever She Wants, starring Vivica A. Fox, and made an appearance on the fifth season of Nip/Tuck. He had a supporting role in the 2009 science fiction film Surrogates. Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw starred as a husband-and-wife secret agent team in 2010 J. J. Abrams-produced the NBC TV series Undercovers, but the show lasted less than one season. That year, he also appeared as Luther in the film Resident Evil: Afterlife. He had a guest appearance on the TV show Franklin & Bash in 2012.

From 2013 to 2016, Kodjoe starred as a fictional version of himself in the BET comedy parody series Real Husbands of Hollywood. In 2014, he was cast as a regular on the ABC primetime soap opera Members Only created by Susannah Grant, but the show never aired. In 2015, Kodjoe began a recurring guest role on Fox's The Last Man on Earth television series. Kodjoe was part of the ensemble cast for all three seasons of the CBS medical drama Code Black playing surgeon Dr. Will Campbell from 2016 to 2018.

In July 2018, Kodjoe landed a recurring role in the second season of the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Station 19. In October, he was promoted to a series regular after his appearance in the season premiere as the new fire captain, Robert Sullivan. In "Eulogy", he is promoted to Battalion Chief.

Personal life
Kodjoe married his Soul Food: The Series co-star Nicole Ari Parker on May 21, 2005, in Gundelfingen, Germany. She gave birth to their first child, a girl, in March 2005. She has spina bifida, which was diagnosed at birth. Parker gave birth to the couple's second child, a boy, in October 2006. Kodjoe and his wife are members of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The family resides in Los Angeles, California. Parker and Kodjoe competed against one another on a February 2019 episode of Lip Sync Battle.

Kodjoe is fluent in German, English, Russian, French, and Italian; he also speaks a little Spanish.

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William Wharton

William Wharton may refer to:
 * William H. Wharton (1802–1839), American colonist, political leader, diplomat, Senator and orator
 * William Wharton (Royal Navy officer) (1843–1905), British admiral and Hydrographer of the Navy 1884-1904
 * William F. Wharton (1847–1919), American attorney who served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State
 * William Wharton (author) (1925–2008), American author, pen name of Albert William Du Aime
 * William P. Wharton (1880–1976), president of the National Parks Association 1935-53
 * William Wharton, the villain from the novel The Green Mile by Stephen King

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tracy Davidson

 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. Mackensen (talk) 22:47, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Tracy Davidson
Delete Person of very little importance Spotteddogsdotorg 18:40, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC) Delete I am fairly new here and just stumbled on to these deletion pages but she doesn't seem that noteworthy, as most local TV personalities are - not noteworthy that is. They are like tires, very easly swapped and basically identical! UncleFloyd 19:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Do we need every damn airhead anchor from podunk's bio here? No! Hohokus 23:19, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created 9 Jun 2005 and mostly used for VfD votes. Kaibabsquirrel 00:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Local TV gal in small market - not notable! Melvis 17:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created 31 May 2005 and mostly used for VfD votes. Kaibabsquirrel 00:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WHO? Not notable! Next! ShureMicGuy 19:07, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created today, all edits are to VfD. RickK 23:00, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. An actual informative article of a large city (Philadelphia is not podunk) tv anchor might earn a weak keep from me as mostly harmless, but the definition-like stublet does not. -- Infrogmation 02:38, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: A fact, not an article. As for the notability of news readers from mid-market cities, I, personally, would not think them tremendously significant, as they change rapidly and move even more rapidly.  A local institution in mid-market media might be alright.  Geogre 03:05, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, passes WP:BIO. Kappa 04:58, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not pass WP:BIO.  RickK 22:27, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, passes WP:BIO. Has "a total audience of 5,000 or more" as an anchor for an NBC affiliate in a city with a metropolitan population of nearly 6,000,000. -- Jonel 23:36, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The person is the consumer alert reporter and is an anchor, not the anchor. At local stations, just about everyone anchors for some amount of time (the weekend anchor, the weekend daytime anchor, etc.). Geogre 02:29, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This person is the anchor of the weekday 5 p.m. newscast.  -- Jonel 03:21, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, significant enough.  ℬ astique ▼ talk 05:21, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, does not pass WP:BIO. She's neither a "widely recognized entertainment personality" nor a "well-known entertainment figure".  Nobody outside Philadelphia is likely to have heard of her, and I'd guess that many residents of the city wouldn't recognize her name. --Smack (talk) 05:33, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Television personalities from major cities are notable enough for mine. Capitalistroadster 05:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Has some notability. JamesBurns 05:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't see a local TV personality as being notable in most cases. --Xcali 06:00, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to be notable enough for me. And she would be "widely recognised" and "well known" in Philadelphia. Leithp 10:24, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Just because someone is on TV in one city on one station doesn't mean that they are "widely recognised" and "well known" even in their own city, let alone their own country. They have done no national TV work, so they are still not notable, which is why I still say Delete! Spotteddogsdotorg 14:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as Kappa Celestianpower  talk, Monday 29th July, 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep SchmuckyTheCat 16:16, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Asa Aarons wannabe in a small city big deal. ConeyCyclone 17:24, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created earlier today and mostly used for VfD votes. Kaibabsquirrel 00:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This is from the same user who writes about many New York City-based tv news personalities and executives, but derides those from "lesser" stations in major markets. And by looking at the nominator's reasoning, I suppose everyone knows who Diane Doctor is. ErikNY 18:58, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * COMMENT What the above user calls "New York City-based tv news personalities and executives" are nationally known people who meet many of the WP:BIO criteria or are seen nationally on programs. If we use ErikNY's reasoning we should just ignore people like Peter Jennings and Roone Arledge would fall into that category. The broadcasts of the various New York televison stations are seen through much of the United States, the Carribean and Latin America, unlike Ms. Davidson, who is only seen in a very small area by comparison. Also, in the case of say Jim Vance or Sue Simmons who are pioneering African-American news anchors, so they would warrant entries, but Ms. Davidson a thirty something airhead blonde cookie cutter anchorette. She doesn't need one until she becomes more notable or moves on to a national broadcast. Spotteddogsdotorg 23:04, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete doesn't meet WP:BIO guidelines. You may argue that she is a "Well known entertainment figure", but being known in one city doesn't seem to do that. Toasthaven 22:47, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, passes WP:BIO. It's the Internet!  Keeping this item costs nothing and may be helpful
 * Keep. Philly is a big market; notable.  Kaibabsquirrel 00:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mike H 02:07, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - Added information about her Mid-Atlantic region Emmy Awards. Maintain my keep vote. -- Jonel 03:43, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Anchor and host in a large city. Notable enough. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:54, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article does not establish sufficent notability. Gamaliel 06:57, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article is still a stub, so it does serve its purpose. AdamTheHun 15:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The Philadelphia broadcast area is large enough that "notable there" is "notable enough". -- Un focused 16:33, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pressure to dilute WP:BIO is sad, but perhaps inevitable.  The size of the Philadelphia market is irrelevant as local TV news hacks are generally not notable.  They change jobs frequently and have no cultural significance.  Typically they are entirely interchangable.  Quale 21:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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