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Hi, Alison,

I've recently stumbled upon your most valuable contributions and I suppose you could include several categories like on your User page. It would make you more visible to those interested in Wiki-Physics counication.

Thanks for your attention. ACrush ?!/©

Alison Chaiken 00:13, 26 September 2005 (UTC): Thanks for your suggestions, ACrush. I have been oblivious of User Categories. I'll follow your advice!

Your user page
Please look at the first two sentences of your user page in source code. --ACrush ?!/© 17:10, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Alison Chaiken 17:54, 20 November 2005 (UTC): actually bioassay is what I intended, although bioarray wouldn't be far from the truth.

you're anonymously famous
Just to let you know, an article you started is referenced in Nature magazine here, and you are referred to as "a physicist". Cheers, BanyanTree 20:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I saw that. Reporter Jim Giles actually interviewed me for the Nature article on science articles in Wikipedia but the only place our conversation showed up was the indirect mention in the editorial. Too bad they didn't link to the article! Alison Chaiken 06:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Gimbal mounts
Thanks for the photos. These are actually kinematic mounts, not gimbal mounts. Gimbal mounts have a very different mechanism, which makes the mount rotate about the center of the mirror, rather than about the center of the ball bearing in the corner. We needed pictures of these, anyway. Would it be possible to change the text that says "gimbal" in Gimbalmount1 to "ball bearing"? --Srleffler 06:19, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done: I uploaded new files called mirrormount1.jpg and mirrormount2.jpg and I also added them to Commons:Category:Optics.   I must confess that if I haven't purchased a particular kind of part myself, I very often don't know what it's called.  This is what you mean?   Alison Chaiken 18:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Yes, the thorlabs photo looks like a gimbal mount, although of course we can't use it for copyright reasons. I have seen gimbal mounts where the way the mechanism works was clearer than these. --Srleffler 20:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand that you can't use images from a catalog, but they are helpful in allowing me to photograph the right part the next time.   Unfortunately most of the gimballed mounts we have are adjusted via set screws on the edges.    These will be more difficult to see in a photo than the knurled handles in the Thor Labs photo.  Alison Chaiken 20:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

EXAFS
You seem like the kind of person who could comment on the above article that has been on dead-end pages since last september. Is this article simply a duplication of others or not? If it is, could you redirect it to the appropriate page. If it is not, would you be willing to kick it into shape? MNewnham 22:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd describe the article as factually correct but confusing.     People who aren't already familiar with EXAFS aren't going to glean much from it.     NEXAFS which I have already written about is in some sense a subset of EXAFS although the experiments are done by different scientists at different beamlines and probe different phenomena (mostly electronic for NEXAFS and mostly structural for EXAFS).     I could certainly take a crack at revising EXAFS although I'm sure you'll sympathize when I say that I have a long list of articles I'd like to revise.   NEXAFS was easy to revise as I've actually done that experiment; to write decently about EXAFS, I'd have to read up on it extensively.    Thanks for calling it to my attention though.    Alison Chaiken 02:53, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for that response. If you don't have the time to look at it, I'd suggest just adding a couple of appropiate categories or stubs, a wikilink or two and an tag. This makes it float up from dead-ends into an area where others of the appropriate expertise can see it, and maybe someone else will take a stab at it. MNewnham 03:34, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I went ahead and rewrote the article a bit and added wikilinks.   That's about all I can do without reading up on the topic and right now I'm trying to finish coercivity!    Alison Chaiken 04:27, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging
Greetings. From the description and use of Image:Spontaneousmagnetization.png, it appears you intended this media to be freely available. I took the liberty of applying a GFDL-presumed tag. Could you confirm this at by replacing my edit with GFDL-self? Regards, Dethomas 16:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Done.   I suppose I should make this change with all my images . . . Thanks for the heads-up.   Alison Chaiken 04:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Rug making
The link already existed under 'Hooking', so it was a dup. Now I look, Kilim is also duplicated, so I've removed that as well. Noisy | Talk 09:07, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Very good -- now I see what you mean. Someday an energetic person will need to lead a cleanup of this whole category, but I'm more busy with physics articles. Alison Chaiken 14:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Nikola Tesla
Great inventor/engineer or great physicist/scientist? I am seeking comments from Ph.D. physicists in Talk:Nikola Tesla. TIA---CH 03:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Total re-write of the main Physics page is in progess
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Mission Peak Regional Preserve
Good idea, I've added to AfD footer a mention that deletion might not be required in a certain cases, such as duplicate articles. JYolkowski // talk 23:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

Clarification
This article requires a lot more clarification. Enzo Aquarius 19:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Alternate names
There is 6 official languages in Vojvodina. The alternate names can not be written only in Hungarian and not in Slovak, Rusyn, Croatian, and Romanian, especially for the villages where these four ethnic groups are in majority. For example, the town of Bački Petrovac have Slovak ethnic majority. The alternate name for this town should be written in Slovak, not in Hungarian. The alternate names in German are not relevant for this article. I will list here all inhabited places of Vojvodina, and I will write alternate names for the places where some of minority ethnic groups are a majority in the languages of these ethnic groups. User:PANONIAN

German and Hungarian names
As I said, it is not appropriate to post these names into article, but if somebody search for these names, he can find them here. User:PANONIAN 20 October 2005

I've now removed the large copy&pasted list from here, as the articles German exonyms (Vojvodina) and List of Hungarian exonyms in Vojvodina have existed for quite a while now. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:07, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

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El Ferdan Railway Bridge

The El Ferdan Railway Bridge is a swing bridge that spans the western shipping lane of the Suez Canal near Ismailia, Egypt. It is the longest swing bridge in the world, with a span of 1100 ft.

The bridge is no longer functional due to the expansion of the Suez Canal completed in 2015 which added a parallel shipping lane just east of the existing bridge, cutting off the railway into Sinai. As of 2021 a second swing bridge spanning the new eastern shipping lane is under construction. When completed, service on the bridge can resume.

History
The first El Ferdan Railway Bridge over the Suez Canal was completed in April 1918 for the Sinai Military Railway. It was considered a hindrance to shipping so after the First World War it was removed. A steel swing bridge was built in 1942 (during the Second World War), but this was damaged by a steamship and removed in 1947. A double swing bridge was completed in 1954 but the 1956 Anglo-Franco-Israeli war with Egypt severed rail traffic across the canal for a third time. A replacement bridge was completed in 1963 which was destroyed in 1967 in the Six-Day War by the Egyptian engineering General Ahmed Hamdy.

In July 1996, a consortium led by German Krupp was awarded a $US70 million contract to design and build the bridge, raised to $80 million to increase the main span from 320 to 340 m. The current bridge was constructed in 2001.

Significant developments in the region
The El Ferdan Railway Bridge was part of a major drive to develop the areas surrounding the Suez Canal, including other projects such as the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel under the Suez Canal (completed in 1983), the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing, and the Suez Canal Bridge (completed in 2001, roughly 12 miles north of the El Ferdan Railway Bridge).

The bridge today: plans for upgrading tracks and building a new bridge
The parallel New Suez Canal was excavated in 2014/2015 a short distance to the east but without a bridge spanning it. Without a second bridge, the railway across El Ferdan bridge is a dead end.

Initially, a plan was in place to construct a new railway tunnel in the Ismailia region (and another near Port Said is planned) in order to reconnect the Sinai to the rest of Egypt's rail network. However, Kamel ElWazir, who was at that time the head of the Egyptian Armed Forces - Engineering corps, announced that due to high costs the plans for a new tunnel would be scrapped and that the Engineering Corps would seek other alternatives including moving the existing bridge to a narrow section of the canal at El-Qantara.

However, the final decision was made in 2017 to keep the existing bridge at its current location and build a new double-track railway bridge (based on the current El Ferdan bridge design) across the new, eastern shipping lane several hundred meters to the east. The existing bridge over the western shipping lane would be converted from a single-track railway to a double-track railway. This was near completion in October 2023.

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Tasmanian Government Railways K class

The Tasmanian Government Railways K class was a class of 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt locomotives operated by the Tasmanian Government Railways from 1909 – the first Garratt locomotives built.

Overview
Although considered the first Garratt locomotives, they did in fact differ in two important details from Herbert William Garratt's original concept. First: they are compound locomotives, with two high-pressure cylinders on the rear engine, and a pipe leading to two larger low-pressure cylinders on the front engine; second: both sets of cylinders were placed facing each other inside their engine units, rather than facing out as in all other Garratts. This was a problem on the rare warm days on the West Coast Range in Tasmania, as one pair of cylinders was under the cab, making the cab uncomfortably hot.

The North East Dundas Tramway on which they worked traversed some of the most rugged terrain in the world served by a railway at the time. It featured long stretches of 1-in-25 grades, high trestle bridges and 30-metre-radius reverse curves.

After the line closed in 1929, the boiler of K1 was sold to a sawmill, and in 1947 K1 was sold to its builder Beyer, Peacock and Company, with the boiler and boiler cradle of K2 attached and repatriated back to England. Beyer, Peacock & Co closed in 1966. K1 was sold to the Ffestiniog Railway for 1500 GBP after an appeal for funds. However, it was too tall and wide for use within the restricted loading gauge, and after ten years of storage at Porthmadog, it was lent to the National Railway Museum (NRM), York where it was cosmetically restored.

As the Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) rebuilding project reached fruition, K1's potential for the line was recognised and in 1995 it left the NRM. A new boiler was found to be required. Parts were restored at various locations, with K1 reassembled at Boston Lodge. After conversion to oil-firing, it steamed again in 2004 and finally received HM Railway Inspectorate approval in September 2006 to haul trains. A conversion back to coal firing was completed in August 2007 together with some other work which allowed it to appear at the Superpower weekend in early September. It entered regular passenger service in October 2007.

In 2014, K1's boiler certificate expired and it was withdrawn for overhaul. A full boiler shell exam is required. However, because the locomotive does not meet the operational requirements of the WHR (it cannot haul the passenger loads required) and with the WHR's workshops fully committed to other overhaul projects, in 2019 it moved to the Statfold Barn Railway for a period of ten years. A boiler overhaul was started in January 2020.

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Talk:Kozani

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university of western macedonia not aristotle university of thessaloniki. Shouldn't that be changed? ΝΟ

Greek place names of slavic origin
Kozani is not the only town whose name is possibly of Slavic origin. There are Greek places outside Macedonia that have names of Slavic origin. The most notable examples are:
 * Χελμός, the ancient Aroania (Αροάνεια), from south slavic хълм = montain
 * Αράχωβα, from south slavic орах = walnut Andreas 17:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Etymology of the name
There are no sources for the various theories of the etymology of the name. Andreas (T) 02:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, you don't need "a source" for something, that is deadly obvious for any Slav. I.E. the Greek famous name "Zagori" means in Greek nothing, but in Slavish languages (even in the very northern Polish) it perfectly fits "that places, which are behind the mountains". And the Zagori region is really behind the mountains, if you look from the North side. /Dimitris, Poland+Greece --46.176.113.214 (talk) 17:03, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Population
So long as we are talking about the city of Kozani, I think we should be looking at the city's population, standing at 38.591 according to the included source, and not the broader municipality, which includes villages and towns altogether outside of the Kozani metropolitan area. If no one objects, I am thinking of changing the stats to reflect this.

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Etymology
In regards to the South Slavic etymology, "Koza" means goat, and "Koža" means skin. It is called "Kožani" in Slavic so I don't believe the reference to goat is correct, although goatskin or just "skin" (as in leather) makes sense. Correct me if I'm wrong. Alex202.10.89.28 08:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Using HNMS instead of Weatherbase as a source for climate data
I just changed the climate table to use Template:Weather box and switched to using the data from the Hellenic National Meteorological Service instead of Weatherbase. I noticed Weatherbase supplies data for extremes and the HNMS does not, but decided not to use Weatherbase as a second source for the extremes. Template:Weather box stresses that "record temperatures should be used sparingly in main city articles, and should only be used when the data period is of the greatest length possible". Weatherbase doesn't mention the years of its extremes measurements so I thought including them was not a good idea. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 14:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

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has removed the link to the Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, saying that it has merged with the University of Western Macedonia, and so only the latter needs to be mentioned as they are now the same thing. The TEI article says nothing about this. It seems to have a separate website still, and continues to call itself in some places the TEI of Western Macedonia. Even if they are legally merged in some way, it seems that they are still not exactly the same thing. The Wikipedia article on University of Western Macedonia doesn't seem to give any information about the TEI. So for now I suggest that it's best to leave the links to both articles, unless and until the articles are merged, rather than simply deleting any mention of the TEI. --IamNotU (talk) 14:07, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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Christopher Gore

Christopher Gore (September 21, 1758 – March 1, 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. diplomat. Born into a family divided by the American Revolution, Gore sided with the victorious Patriots, established a successful law practice in Boston, and built a fortune by purchasing Revolutionary government debts at a discount and receiving full value for them from the government.

Gore entered politics in 1788, serving briefly in the Massachusetts legislature before being appointed U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts. He was then appointed by President George Washington to a diplomatic commission dealing with maritime claims in Great Britain. He returned to Massachusetts in 1804 and reentered state politics, running unsuccessfully for governor several times before winning in 1809. He served one term, losing to Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry in 1810. He was appointed to the US Senate by Governor Caleb Strong in 1813, where he led opposition to the War of 1812.

Gore invested his fortune in a variety of businesses, including important infrastructure projects such as the Middlesex Canal and a bridge across the Charles River. He was a major investor in the early textile industry, funding the Boston Manufacturing Company and the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, whose business established the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. Gore was involved in a variety of charitable causes, and was a major benefactor of Harvard College, where the first library was named in his honor. His palatial mansion in Waltham, Massachusetts, now known as Gore Place, is one of the finest extant examples of Federal architecture, and has been declared a National Historic Landmark.

Early years
Christopher Gore was born in Boston on September 21, 1758, one of many children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan. He was the youngest of their three sons to survive to adulthood. He attended Boston Latin School, and entered Harvard College at the young age of thirteen. At the outset of the American Revolutionary War and the siege of Boston in 1775, Harvard's buildings were occupied by the Continental Army, and Gore temporarily continued his studies in Bradford until Harvard could resume operations in Concord. While at Harvard, Gore participated in a speaking club and formed significant lifelong friendships with Rufus King and John Trumbull.

Gore graduated in 1776, and promptly enlisted in the Continental artillery regiment of his brother-in-law Thomas Crafts, where he served as a clerk until 1778. The Gore family was divided by the war: Gore's father was a Loyalist who left Boston when the British Army evacuated the city in March 1776. Gore was consequently called upon to support his mother and three sisters, who remained in Boston. In 1779, Gore successfully petitioned the state for the remaining family's share of his father's seized assets.

Early legal career
After his military service Gore studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in 1778 after a comparatively brief tutelage. Gore's law practice flourished, in part because many Loyalist lawyers had fled Massachusetts. Gore's clients included Loyalists seeking to recover some of their assets, as well as London-based British merchants with claims to pursue. His briefs were generally well-reasoned, and he was seen as a successful trial lawyer.

Gore grew his fortune by investing carefully in revolutionary currency and bonds. The securities he purchased were paper that had been given to Continental Army soldiers in lieu of pay, which they often sold at a steep discount. One batch of securities he purchased, for instance, cost him about $3,700 but had a face value of $25,000. In 1785 he married Rebecca Amory Payne, daughter of a wealthy merchant, maritime insurer, and director of the Bank of Massachusetts. The couple were known for their social graces and became prominent members of Boston society.

In 1786 Gore became concerned about a rise in anti-lawyer sentiment in Massachusetts. Grievances over harsh policies pursued by Governor James Bowdoin blossomed into Shays' Rebellion, which required militia action to crush in 1787. Gore was one of several high-profile lawyers assigned to defend participants in the rebellion (included in this group were Theodore Sedgwick, Caleb Strong, James Sullivan, Levi Lincoln Sr., and Thomas Dawes). Although many rebels were ultimately convicted, a large number received amnesty. In 1788, Gore was elected a delegate to the 1789 Massachusetts convention that ratified the United States Constitution. His election was contested because Boston, where he lived, was at the time more inclined toward state power. Gore nonetheless was strongly Federalist, urging support of the new Constitution.

Legislator, banker, and speculator
In 1788 Gore was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He took a leading role in adopting the state's rules for actions required of it by the new federal constitution. By his proposal the legislature decided that presidential electors would be chosen by a joint session. He also proposed that the state House and Senate agree by separate votes on choices for the United States Senate, a process that would significantly reduce popular input to the choice. His choice was ultimately rejected in favor of a process whereby the House selected a slate of candidates, from which the Senate would choose one. In 1789 Gore decided to stand for reelection, but lost, owing to strong anti-nationalist fervor in Boston at the time. He managed to win a seat later, when a special election was held after resignations opened several seats.

Gore's financial speculations in the late 1780s significantly multiplied his wealth. In 1788 he and Andrew Craigie, a Boston businessman who had retained Gore for legal services, entered into a secret agreement to purchase Continental securities with a face value of $100,000 in a speculative bid that their value would rise. By late October of that year, the pair had met this goal: Gore had purchased $90,000 worth of paper for about $20,000, and encouraged Craigie to purchase more than the $11,000 he had acquired if his funding would allow for it. Gore also purchased Massachusetts war-related debts, and lobbied Massachusetts Congressmen for the U.S. government to assume those as well.

Gore's windfall was realized when in 1790 the United States Congress, acting on a proposal made by Alexander Hamilton and supported by Gore's friend Rufus King, passed legislation that exchanged Continental and state paper for new U.S. paper at face value. Not only did Gore win on this exchange, but the paper he received appreciated in value before he sold it. The exact amount he made is unclear from the surviving documents: John Quincy Adams wrote that Gore's speculations made him the wealthiest lawyer in the country.

The success of Gore's speculations prompted him to enter a partnership with Craigie, William Duer and Daniel Parker in an attempt to acquire U.S. foreign debt obligations on favorable terms. Parker was a business partner of Craigie's, and Duer was an influential New York businessman and Treasury Department official whose lavish lifestyle impressed Gore. The partnership promoted sales of U.S. lands in Europe, and sought to acquire U.S. obligations to France. Although Gore sank $10,000 into this venture, it failed: more powerful and experienced Dutch bankers outmaneuvered the Americans. Gore also engaged in other ventures with these partners, but apparently carefully stayed with financial speculations, and avoided the partners' less successful land ventures.

Much of Gore's financial activity was mediated through the Bank of Massachusetts, where his father-in-law was a director. Gore himself was elected to its board in 1785, when he also became a shareholder. During his time on the board the bank tightened its regulations on loan repayments, a move that improved the stability of its capital. Gore used the bank for most of his personal deposits, but also drew on lines of credit for as much as several thousand dollars. The bank shares he held paid relatively high dividends until 1791, when the bank received serious competition from the First Bank of the United States.

The Bank of the United States was established by Alexander Hamilton to provide stable banking services on a national scale, and sought to open a branch in Boston. Hamilton recruited heavily in the Bank of Massachusetts, and Gore decided to make the move. He sold his shares in the Massachusetts bank, and became a director of the Boston branch of the U.S. Bank. He also purchased 200 shares in the new bank, a relatively large investment. Gore was influential in making hiring decisions for the branch, and sought to merge state-chartered banks into the organization, arguing that only a nationally chartered bank could provide consistent and stable service. Gore resigned from the board in 1794, citing the demands of his law practice.

Gore's financial successes enabled him to join the elite society of Boston. In 1789 he purchased a large mansion on fashionable Bowdoin Square, and also bought a country estate in Waltham that grew over time to 300 acre. He had a house built on the estate, most of which he operated as a gentleman farmer. He and other similarly situated Federalists formed the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, of which he served as a trustee for several years; the organization was not seen as significantly contributing to advances in agriculture.

District attorney and diplomat
In 1789 President George Washington appointed Gore the first United States Attorney for Massachusetts as a reward for his support. Gore controversially refused to resign from the state legislature, arguing that the state constitution's prohibitions against holding multiple offices did not apply to federal posts. He eventually resigned the legislative seat under protest because of pressure from his fellow legislators.

Gore served as district attorney until 1796. His principal matter of concern was the enforcement of U.S. neutrality with respect to the French Revolutionary Wars. He attempted several times to prosecute the French consul in Boston, Antoine Duplaine, for arming and operating privateers out of the Port of Boston, but he was stymied by local juries that sympathized with the French. Duplaine was eventually expelled on orders from President George Washington based on evidence provided by Gore.

Gore also promoted anti-French sentiment with political writings in Massachusetts newspapers. Writing under the pseudonym "Manlius", he denounced the formation of "Democratic Societies" formed to oppose Federalist policy and support pro-French positions. He suggested to President Washington that someone be sent to England to negotiate with the British. John Jay traveled to London in 1794 and negotiated the Jay Treaty, whose ratification Gore vocally supported. Although Gore was hostile to French policy, he was on friendly terms with individual Frenchmen: he hosted the future French statesman Talleyrand when he visited the U.S.

In 1796 Washington appointed him as a commissioner representing the United States to handle maritime claims under the terms the Jay Treaty. As a result, the Gores moved to England that year, establishing a residence in the fashionable Hyde Park area. The commission was established to arbitrate claims emanating from British seizures of American vessels and cargoes, and from British claims relating to violations of American neutrality in the ongoing French Revolutionary Wars. It consisted of three Americans (Gore, William Pinkney, and John Trumbull) and two British commissioners (John Nicoll and Nicholas Astley); Trumbull was chosen by the other four because he was deemed to sufficiently "fair-minded" to cast deciding votes in the event of disagreements. That year he was also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Although Gore was well received by the British establishment, the work suffered from what Gore called a "tediousness of process", and he considered requesting a transfer in 1798. In 1800 it ground to a halt because another board established by the treaty to resolve outstanding Revolutionary War claims against the United States had not yet met, and the British stopped the claims processing until resolution of the other issues got underway. Gore used this break to briefly return to America and assess the condition of his Waltham estate, where the house had been largely destroyed by fire in 1799. After his return to London, with the commission work still stopped, he and Rebecca embarked on a tour of Europe. They visited the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, and spent six months in Paris. During this trip, and later ones in England and Scotland, they took note of the architecture of country estates, and began planning a new house for their Waltham property.

The commission resumed its work in early 1802, and had resolved all outstanding claims by August 1803. It awarded $110,000 to British claimants and over $6 million to American claimants. The lopsided result is due to the vastly larger number of American claims, but also to some key early decisions that favored American interpretations in the processing of the claims, and by a British administration that sought to remain in America's good graces.

The Gore's social circle in England revolved around his good friend Rufus King, who was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain in 1796, along with other Massachusetts expatriates. When King left his post in May 1803 he named Gore to head the London embassy as chargé d'affaires. Although President Thomas Jefferson never issued a formal appointment, the British government accepted his role for the two-month interval between King's departure and the arrival of James Monroe as King's replacement. The Gores sailed for Boston in the spring of 1804.

Rebecca Gore used their exposure to European country estates to design a lavish new building for their Waltham estate during their English sojourn. Designed with the assistance of French architect Joseph-Guillaume Legrand and probably also influenced by the works of English architect Sir John Soane, the house that was built upon their return to the United States in 1804 (now known as Gore Place) is one of the finest extant examples of Federalist architecture.

Lawyer and state legislator
Soon after his return to the United States, Gore reentered state politics, winning election to the Massachusetts Senate. He was active in the state Federalist Party organization, sitting on its secret central committee. He resumed his law practice, in which he took on as a student Daniel Webster. One of the highest profile cases he took on was the 1807 defense of Thomas Selfridge, accused of murdering Charles Austin. Selfridge, an older Federalist attorney, had been retained to assist in the collection of a debt from Austin's Republican father. In the politically charged atmosphere of the day in Boston, Selfridge, fearing for his own safety, had armed himself with a dueling pistol. The younger Austin had, apparently on his own initiative, sought to beat Selfridge with a cane, and Selfridge fatally shot him in the encounter. Selfridge was prosecuted by Attorney General (and future Gore gubernatorial opponent) James Sullivan, and the defense also included arch-Federalist Harrison Gray Otis. Gore argued Selfridge acted in self-defense; Selfridge was acquitted of murder by a jury whose foreman was Patriot and Federalist Paul Revere after fifteen minutes' deliberation.

Gore also resumed business activities upon his return. He invested in a wide variety of businesses and infrastructure, spurring economic activity in the state. His investments ranged widely, including maritime insurance (where is father-in-law had made his fortune), bridges, locks, canals, and textiles. He was a major investor in the Middlesex Canal, the Craigie Bridge (the first to connect Boston to Cambridge), and the Boston Manufacturing Company, whose factory proving the single-site production of textiles was in Waltham near his estate. Not all of his ventures panned out: the canal was in the long run a financial failure, as were efforts with other collaborators to develop Lechmere Point, the Cambridge side of the Craigie Bridge. The textile mill, however, was a success, and Gore invested in the Merrimack Manufacturing Company. When it decided to locate in what is now Lowell, Massachusetts, Gore purchased shares in the Proprietors of Locks and Canals, which operated (and still owns today) the Lowell canals.

In 1806 Gore won election to the State Senate. That year the Republicans were in the majority, and the election for governor was close enough to require a recount. The legislature scrutinized the ballots in a partisan manner (for example, retaining ballots containing misspelled versions of Republican James Sullivan's name and discarding similar ballots marked for Federalist Caleb Strong). Gore and other Federalists raised a public outcry, and the legislature relented, eventually certifying Strong as the winner.

Gore ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808 against a rising tide of Republicanism in the state, losing both times to moderate Republican James Sullivan. The Federalists gained control of the state legislature in 1808 in a backlash against Republican economic policies, but Gore was criticized for his failure to aggressively support state protests against the Embargo Act of 1807, which had a major negative effect on the state's large merchant fleet. Gore was in 1808 elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he successfully led Federalist efforts to ensure the selection of a Federalist slate of presidential electors. He also spearheaded actions to drive Senator John Quincy Adams from the Federalist Party over his support of Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy. The legislature elected Adams' successor nine months early, and gave Adams sufficiently distasteful instructions that he resigned the post and joined with the Republicans.

Governor
Gore led the Federalists to victory in 1809 against Sullivan's successor, Levi Lincoln Sr., who had taken over as acting governor upon Sullivan's death late in 1808. During Gore's term the principal domestic issue occupying state politics was a banking crisis stimulated by the federal policy of embargoing trade with Great Britain and France, then embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars. Although the crisis caused a number of bank failures in New England, Massachusetts banks largely escaped unscathed.

Foreign policy played a major role in Gore's administration. The legislature passed resolves opposing the federal government's hardline policy against trade and diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom (then embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars), and Gore in early 1810 invited Francis James Jackson, who had been rejected as the UK's ambassador to the US, to visit the state. This pressure may have played a role in President James Madison's decision to renew relations with the UK and accept Jackson's credentials.

The lessening of the war threat, and the choice by the Republicans of the popular Elbridge Gerry as their candidate brought a challenge to Federalist control of Massachusetts in the 1810 elections. The unostentatious Gerry and Republican partisans criticized Gore for his lavish lifestyle, including his palatial Waltham residence and pompous activities he organized as governor, and highlighted his Loyalist family connections while emphasizing Gerry's unimpeachable patriotism. Gerry won the election. Jackson did visit Boston, but he was greeted not by Gore, but Gerry. Gore ran against Gerry again in 1811, but lost in another acrimonious campaign.

Gore was granted an honorary law degree from Harvard in 1809. He served on the college's Board of Overseers from 1810 to 1815 and as a Fellow from 1816 to 1820. Harvard's first library building, a Gothic structure built in 1838 of Quincy granite, was named in his honor, but was demolished when Widener Library was built in its place in 1915. (This structure is found on the seal of the city of Cambridge.) One of the residential Winthrop House's buildings is called Gore Hall in his honor.

United States Senator
In the spring of 1813, he was appointed by Governor Caleb Strong to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Senator James Lloyd. He served from May 5, 1813, to May 30, 1816, winning reelection to the seat in 1814. He opposed the ongoing War of 1812 in these years, with his earlier diplomatic experience providing valuable knowledge to Federalist interests. He expressed approval of the 1814 Hartford Convention in which the New England states aired grievances concerning Republican governance of the country and the conduct of the war.

Gore assented to the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war, but was unhappy that the nation had not gained anything from the war. He resigned in June 1816, unhappy with the politics of Washington and suffering from poor health. Although he was no longer active in politics, he continued to express opinions on the subjects of the day, opposing the 1820 Missouri Compromise and bemoaning the "great moderation & mediocrity" of Federalist Governor John Brooks. He was a presidential elector in 1816.

Later years and legacy
Gore remained active in the administration of Harvard, and was active in a number of organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts Historical Society (whose president he was from 1806 to 1818). He was also elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. Gore spent most of his later years at his country estate in Waltham, suffering from worsening rheumatoid arthritis that made walking increasingly difficult. His declining health and lack of social scene in Waltham led him in 1822 to return to Boston in the winters. He died on March 1, 1827, in Boston, and is buried in its Granary Burying Ground.

Gore's wife died in 1834; the couple had no children. The major beneficiary of the Gore estate was Harvard (which received an estimated $100,000), although bequests were also made to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Waltham estate passed through several hands and was subdivided over time. The mansion was saved from demolition by the Gore Place Society (established for the purpose of preserving it), which now operates it as a museum. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 08:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Faith Clan
This might be notable in....whatever the hell game it's supposed to be in, and that's the only thing that's saving it from a speedy in my eyes. It's super vane, and poorly write. Feel free to speedy it if you'd like. Karmafist 19:25, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. nn gamecruft. "The first rule of Faith Clan is...don't talk about Faith Clan." MCB 20:01, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- nn - Longhair | Talk 21:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Clancruft. By the way, the game is Gunz Online. Al 13:33, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Ryan Delaney talk 04:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Cruftastic! Hamster Sandwich 01:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as well. Thunderbrand 15:00, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
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The Bank (1915 film)

The Bank is a silent slapstick comedy. It was Charlie Chaplin's tenth film for Essanay Films.

Released in 1915, it is a slight departure from the Tramp character, as Charlie Chaplin plays a janitor in a bank. Edna Purviance plays the secretary on whom Charlie has a crush and dreams that she has fallen in love with him. Filmed at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. There doesn't appear to be any evidence that this film was received any differently from the bulk of Chaplin's early work, but today this film is often considered one of his best efforts during his Essanay period.

Synopsis
Charlie, feeling very important, enters the bank where he works. He descends to the vault and works its combination with great panache and opens the door. Charlie hangs his coat inside the vault and brings out his mop and bucket, signifying he is the bank's janitor. He causes typical havoc with his mop and then with his broom. Charlie sweeps one room and the other janitor sweeps the adjacent room. Instead of cleaning, they just sweep the rubbish to and fro from room to room, so it becomes the other's task.

Charlie discovers a package containing a tie with a note attached to it, written by the bank's typist. It is addressed "To Charles with love from Edna." Charlie jumps to the wrong conclusion that Edna is in love with him, not realizing the package is intended for another Charles — the cashier. Charlie gets a bunch of flowers and places them lovingly on Edna's desk with a note "love from Charlie". When Edna is told by Charles the cashier that they are not from him but from Charlie the janitor, she coldly tosses them into the wastebasket. Charlie finds them there and is heartbroken. Charlie then has a dream in which he heroically thwarts a bank robbery, rescuing Edna in the process. He turns to kiss the now-adoring Edna — but then he wakes up. Charlie is kissing his mop — while Edna is kissing her cashier boyfriend.

Reception
In an August 1915 review for Variety, journalist Sime Silverman called it "the most legitimate comedy film Chaplin has played in many a long day, perhaps since he's been in pictures".

Cast

 * Charlie Chaplin — Charlie, a Janitor
 * Edna Purviance — Edna, a Secretary
 * Carl Stockdale — Charles, a Cashier
 * Charles Inslee — President of the bank
 * Leo White — Clerk
 * Billy Armstrong — Another Janitor
 * Fred Goodwins — Bald Cashier/Bank Robber with Derby
 * John Rand — Bank Robber and salesman
 * Lloyd Bacon — Bank Robber
 * Frank Coleman — Bank Robber
 * Paddy McGuire — Cashier in White Coat
 * Wesley Ruggles — Bank Customer
 * Carrie Clark Ward — Bank Customer
 * Lawrence A. Bowes — Bond Salesman

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Kardashev Scale
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Takaaki Yoshimoto

Takaaki Yoshimoto (吉本 隆明), also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a critic, he was at the forefront of a movement to force writers to confront their responsibility as wartime collaborators.

Yoshimoto is the father of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto and of cartoonist Yoiko Haruno.

Early life
Yoshimoto was born in 1924, in Tsukishima, Tokyo, the third son of family of boatmakers who managed a small boatyard. Shortly before his birth, his family had moved to Tokyo from Amakusa, Kumamoto prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu. In his teens, Yoshimoto came under the influence of literature while receiving private tutoring, and began to write poetry. He was influenced by the work of Takamura Kōtarō and Miyazawa Kenji. He was a 'militarist youth' during the war, but experienced the end of the war while mobilized for manual labor, and thereon became fascinated by Marxism.

Yoshimoto attended Tashima Elementary School in the Kyobashi Ward of Tokyo, Yonezawa Engineering School (Now Yamagata University), and graduated in 1947 from the Engineering Division of Tokyo Institute of Technology with a degree in Electrochemistry. During his studies, he became friends with literary critic Takeo Okuno.

After graduation, Yoshimoto moved to industry, became a research student in 1950, and in 1952 took a position at Tokyo Ink Manufacturing Company Ltd. He continued his poetic output, writing his first representative works, Dialogue with Particularity and Ten Works for a Change in Position, and won the Arechi prize for new poets. He published a work of criticism on Takamura Kōtarō.

As a father figure to the New Left
Yoshimoto, who had pursued a theory of war responsibility of the literati, supported the Anpo Protests against the 1960 revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty as an expression of the contradictions of the postwar order fifteen years after the end of the war. Strongly opposing the new treaty, he became an "enthusiastic supporter" and "patron saint" of the Zengakuren student activists. Yoshimoto was invited to give speeches at Zengakuren meetings in December 1959 and January 1960, and he joined the student activists in a sit-in at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo as part of a nationwide general strike against the Treaty on June 4, 1960. On June 15, 1960, at the climax of the protests, he joined the Zengakuren students in crashing into the National Diet compound. Leaping up on top of a truck, he gave an impromptu lecture encouraging the students to continue their resistance. Thereafter a violent clash with police occurred, resulting in the death of Tokyo University student Michiko Kanba. In the aftermath, Yoshimoto was arrested and interrogated for three days by the police, before being released without charges.

The failure of the anti-treaty movement to stop the treaty from being ratified left Yoshimoto angry and disillusioned with "Old Left"-style political activism. In October 1960, he published an essay offering a blistering postmortem of the protests entitled “The End of Fictions” (Gisei no shūen), in which he asserted that the anti-treaty protests had exposed not only the "fictions" of the ruling conservatives, but also the "fictions" of established left-wing political organizations and mainstream left-leaning intellectuals. Yoshimoto concluded that the only path forward was to reject the oppression of existence and pursue absolute individual autonomy (jiritsusei).

In September 1961, Yoshimoto co-founded the magazine Experiment (Shikkō) with like-minded activists Tanigawa Gan and Murakami Ichiro, as a place to publish essays and criticism completely independently of any established organization. The journal published articles by Miura Tsutomu, who had been expelled from the Communist Party after the critique of Stalin, his disciple Takimura Ryuichi, Nango Tsugumasa, and others. Edazawa Shunsuke and others made their debuts as critics in Shikkō.

Over the remainder of the 1960s, Yoshimoto became a hero to the New Left student activists, and came to be known as the “prophet” (kyōso) of the New Left. New Left activists especially appreciated that Yoshimoto was developing a positive theoretical discourse in the midst of the collapse of the Communist Party's heroic status after the failure of the anti-Treaty movement and endless, contentious and dispiriting schisms within the left. Yoshimoto's books became best-sellers, especially his 1962 essay collection The End of Fictions, named after his famous 1960 essay of the same name (which was anthologized within). In these and other essays, Yoshimoto developed an independent theory of the arts in the face of criticisms of the Communist Party and sectarian literary theories, emphasizing the aesthetics of language and psychological phenomena, and his concept of "communal fantasy" (共同幻想, kyōdō gensō), describing how the propaganda and militarism of the wartime era "swept away virtually the entire population in a wave of war frenzy". Yoshimoto's philosophy of radical individualism became a refuge for students and intellectuals exasperated by the then-current sectarian and bureaucratic Marxism.

As a result, Yoshimoto's anti-sectarian philosophy of independence and individualism became a major influence and theoretical resource in the 1960s and 1970s for the Zengakuren, Zenkyoto, and other 'non-sect' New Leftists. He was regarded as required reading for participants in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. This was in spite of his remaining aloof from, and taking a critical stance toward, the student protests of the later 1960s, a stance which was a consequence of his aversion to sectarianism and party-driven movements. Yoshimoto eventually concluded that even the radically egalitarian and highly individualistic New Left protest groups were not individualistic enough, and were still part of the same form of "communal fantasy" (共同幻想, kyōdō gensō) which had led Japan into World War II.

From the 1980s
Beginning in the 1980s, Yoshimoto published a theory of the masses, The Mass Image, and particular a theory of the city in The High Image I-III. At this time, Yoshimoto appeared in the women's magazine AnAn wearing clothing by Comme des Garçons. Criticized by Haniya Yutaka as "wearing capitalism itself", Yoshimoto was criticized for turning right. Indeed, afterwards Yoshimoto did become more politically conservative, becoming a supporter of Ichirō Ozawa.

In the latter part of the 1980s, Yoshimoto criticized the anti-nuclear power and anti-nuclear weapons movements started by intellectual advocates of postwar democracy such as Kenzaburō Ōe as 'Anti-Nuclear Fascism".

In the 1990s, after characterizing the yoga practices of Asahara Shoko of Aum Shinrikyo as expressing the inner core of early Buddhist asceticism, Yoshimoto was criticized along with Nakazawa Shin'ichi as a defender of Aum following the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

In August 1996, Yoshimoto was in critical condition after falling unconscious while swimming in Toicho, Shizuoka Prefecture, but survived. After the mid-1990s, his work tended towards informal essays.

In 2003, he won the Kobayashi Hideo Prize for his book Reading Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石を読む), and his collected works received the Fujimura Memorial prize.

Philosophy and reception
Yoshimoto was a wide-ranging author who wrote on literature, subculture, politics, society, and religion (including Shinran and the New Testament).

Yoshimoto is known as a giant of postwar thought, and had an enormous influence in the 1960s and 1970s in Japan. He published many dialogues with overseas intellectuals visiting Japan, such as Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari, Ivan Illich, and Jean Baudrillard.

Yoshimoto, who did not hold an academic pedigree, supported intellectuals who have devoted themselves to solitary study. He has also engaged in a number of belligerent exchanges. Famous among these have been his dispute with Kiyoteru Hanada, with New Testament scholar Kenzō Tagawa, and with his former friend and critic Yutaka Haniya.

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Gabber (disambiguation)

Gabber is the style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of hardcore techno, as well as the surrounding subculture.

Gabber or gabbers may also refer to:

 * Gabber (instant messaging client), a free software and open-source GNOME client for instant messaging XMPP network.
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In Digimon World, they are indeed Move Points. Not magic. --I remember it being Majic Points.--Dark Lord Revan 03:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:IBM Common User Access

[Ins]
Sorry but who writes this C-R-A-P? Do people just make this stuff up as they go along? Let me quote a sentence I have removed.

'[Ins] sometimes toggled between overtype and inserting characters, but some programs used it for 'paste'.'

1.) Ins always toggled as that was its purpose. Its flag value was read off by programs that then knew how to act. The Ins key had a static value in page zero independent of applications running; a bit of debate was whether this static value should be recognised or whether each app should assume on start that the Ins key was on or off. The former won. As back in the days of MS-DOS there was little else to go on, this key was the de facto insert/overwrite key. Period. It was not just 'sometimes'.

2. 'Some used it for paste'? Who makes up this nonsense? The combination of Ins with other keys lead to deprecated (but always fully supported) key combinations - but not for MS-DOS but for Windows! Hello! Windows recognises Alt+Backspace for Ctrl/Cmd-Z for example. The programming guidelines say these shortcuts should not be displayed on the menus but they should be taken up in the applications' accelerator tables. But most importantly: they pertain to two completely different platforms.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.92.203.237 (talk) 00:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC).

Read the SAA/CUA?
Has anyone here actually read the SAA/CUA? This bit about the CUA attempting to bring order to MS-DOS applications? Hello? HELLO? Who amongst here worked with a 3270? Hello?

OK, 1) get the books; 2) until then: SAA/CUA was started at IBM because they had (themselves, screw WP and 123) too many hardware and software interfaces. DUH. It was too confusing both for their client and their own staff.

The original PC had 10 F keys; later it got 12. If you've used a 3270 you'll immediately know why. And so forth.

Secondly, this bit about being inspired by Apple is just pure rubbish. If you feel it's true, then CITE IT - otherwise remove it.

Finally, the SAA/CUA - if the topic is to be given any respect at all (and it should) should be explained in terms of the 'seven principles' with a description of each. For example, the User in Control Principle and the Recognition Principle. (And someone actually thought these came from Apple - that's ludicrous.)

 * Fully concur with above.

 * Reading the full intro to the article, one sees how deluded things are in this corner. See the section intro here and buy a clue. This is Wikipedia, not a romper room.

Inspiration
Inspiration for the CUA interface came from many places. One of them included Apple's HIG, but more in the sense that having a book was a good idea than the detail of the contents. For the third version the HIG was an inspiration in the sense that we wanted to be better than HIG. Hence a lot of work on the format of the book to make it more usable.

 * See section above. The paragraph immediately above is rubbish.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Magpie5212 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

CUI
Mention of MS using CUA is misleading. MS officially broke with CUA, calling their standard CUI for 'consistent user interface', so as not to be confusing on the issue.

 * True.

Hello
Hello

I am unsure where to raise this issue, so am doing it here under "Common User Access".

The current Wikipedia "skin" disobeys the Common User Access rule in one very important way: It reassigns alt-f as an "access key" to the Wikipedia search function.

alt-f should go to the "File" menu in their browser. So, when a user expects to go the file menu they go to search instead. This is a big problem.

I hope someone can help by disabling the alt-f "access key" in the skin or by reassigning another "access key" for search.

Thanks!

 * Doesn't for me. It still activates the File menu in Firefox on Windows XP. Liam Proven 23:57, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

For me it activates search. Firefox on Win2003. (21 May 2006)

I agree that Alt-F should not have been highjacked; Ctrl-F is a better access key for "find" function. However, a work-around exists: press "Alt" and "F" sequentially instead of concurrently. This works for me in Firefox on Windows XP. (14 August 2006)

 * So everyone uses the same computer hardware and the same OS as you? What a nice world you live in!

(In other words the above discussion is painfully pompous, ignorant, and myopic. Enough said.)

Distinguish OOUI and the Rest
My copy of the CUA describes and promotes OOUI in great detail. Because I use OOUI, I separate OS/2, MacOSX, GNOME, and KDE from Microsoft's desktops. The OOUI article is very vague on its history; so, seeing Microsoft associated with the CUA, the OOUI bible, is very confusing. If the last version of the CUA were separated into OOUI and 'the rest', the article would be much clearer. Geologist (talk) 04:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Unaccessible links to research.ibm.com
All links to http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/273/*.pdf leads to nothing readable. The page says:
 * The IBM Journal of Research and Development (Including IBM Systems Journal) contains peer-reviewed papers on the technology and science of information systems.
 * Orders of individual papers are suspended from this web site.

Are there some other known source of informations? --Hibou57 (talk) 14:29, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

 * Perhaps the internet archive has useful content TEDickey (talk) 14:32, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it don't :( --Hibou57 (talk) 03:02, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The link to IBM Systems Journal 273 can be read as Volume 23, Number 3. There's an index page about that at http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/ibmsysj.html#27(3):1988.
 * Of the articles most relevant to CUA would be: Berry, Richard E. "Common user access—a consistent and usable human-computer interface for the SAA environments." IBM Systems Journal 27, no. 3 (1988): 281-300., https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=362867408900296544.
 * IBM moved custodianship of the IBM Systems Journal over to IEEE, in some leaning years. Daviding (talk) 18:17, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

blatant WP:SYNTH
"...it was part of a larger scheme to bring together, rationalise and harmonise the overall functions of software and hardware across IBM's entire computing range from microcomputers to mainframes. This is perhaps partly why it was not completely successful." blatant violation of WP:SYNTH, removed (after more than 11 years of "citation needed") 208.118.175.250 (talk) 16:42, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

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Salla disease

Salla disease (SD) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease characterized by early physical impairment and intellectual disability. It was first described in 1979, after Salla, a municipality in Finnish Lapland and is one of 40 Finnish heritage diseases.

Approximately ~250 individuals with FSASD have been reported in the literature, of which the majority (> 160 cases) are of Finnish or Swedish ancestry. Individuals with FSASD may go misdiagnosed or undiagnosed, making it difficult to determine the true frequency of the disease in the general population.

Signs and symptoms
Affected infants appear normal at birth but may develop symptoms during the first year of life. Individuals with Salla disease may present with nystagmus as well as hypotonia, and difficulty coordinating voluntary movements (ataxia), reduced muscle tone and strength, and cognitive impairment. The most severely impaired children do not walk or acquire language, but the typical patient learns to walk and speak and has normal life expectancy. The MRI shows arrested or delayed myelination.

Approximately two-thirds of children with mild FSASD eventually learn to walk. Some degree of speech impairment is usually present. Affected infants may learn single words or small sentences, but this ability may be lost as they age. The ability to produce speech is affected more severely than the ability to understand speech. Affected children exhibit some degree of cognitive impairment as well.

Genetics
SD is caused by a mutation in the SLC17A5 gene, located at human chromosome 6q14-15. This gene codes for sialin, a lysosomal membrane protein that transports the charged sugar, N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid), out of lysosomes. The mutation causes sialic acid to build up in the cells.

The disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. This means the defective gene responsible for the disorder is located on an autosome (chromosome 6 is an autosome), and two copies of the defective gene (one inherited from each parent) are required in order to be born with the disorder. The parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive disorder both carry one copy of the defective gene, but usually do not experience any signs or symptoms of the disorder.

Diagnosis
A diagnosis of this disorder can be made by measuring urine to look for elevated levels of free sialic acid. Prenatal testing is also available for known carriers of this disorder.

Treatment
There is no cure for Salla disease. Treatment is limited to controlling the symptoms of this disorder. Anti-convulsant medication may control seizure episodes. Physical therapists can assist an affected individual to build muscle strength and coordination.

Prognosis
Individuals with Salla disease usually survive into adulthood.

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 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was merge and delete. Ingoolemo  talk  19:53, 2005 September 6 (UTC)

Bear Stearns World Headquarters
The firm is notable, but I see no reason why their HQ building is (and I've been in it, to apply for a job, years ago). Not quite a speedy candidate. Delete. DES (talk) 19:27, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge content to Bear Stearns; delete page.   Paul Klenk 20:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete. Capitalistroadster 01:11, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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