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Off the ball

Off the ball (or OTB) is a term used in football in the United Kingdom, usually associated with a player's action when not in possession of the ball, such as a fight or a late challenge.

If a referee does not see an OTB incident but another official, such as the assistant referee, does, the assistant may draw their attention, usually activating a buzzer that the referee has strapped to their upper arm or by waving their flag. The assistant will inform the referee as to what happened, and the referee will act according to the laws of the game. Depending on the severity of the incident, this may involve booking the involved player or sending them off.

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Molly Peters

Molly Peters (15 March 1939 – 30 May 2017), born Vivien Mollie Rudderham, was an English actress and model best known for her role as Bond girl Patricia Fearing in the James Bond film Thunderball.

Career
Molly Peters started out as a model and was discovered by film director Terence Young.

She appeared in several films during the 1960s. Her best-known appearance was the role of Bond girl, Patricia Fearing or Pat, a nurse who takes care of James Bond (Sean Connery) while he is on holiday at her health clinic in Thunderball (1965). Peters was the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen in the Bond series.

Peters appeared in Playboy, in the November 1965 issue. Her appearance was as part of a pictorial essay titled "James Bond's Girls", by Richard Maibaum.

According to the special edition DVD of Thunderball, Peters' short film career was the result of a disagreement between her and her agent. The specifics of the disagreement were not revealed, other than according to Peters, her agent at the time of Thunderball held her to her contract agreement of representation because of the mega-successful box-office hit of the fourth James Bond film in 1965. It was only many years later, when the fame, the glamour and the chaos from the release of Thunderball had faded, that her contractual agreement ended; and so had any modelling and/or film prospects.

Personal life
When she was young, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she gave up for adoption. Peters later married and lived with her husband in Ipswich, Suffolk. She and her husband had a son, who has since died. In 2011, Peters suffered a mild stroke.

Death
Peters died on 29 May 2017, at the age of 78 at Taunton Hospital, Somerset.

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Platinosis

Platinosis is an allergy-like reaction to exposure to soluble salts of platinum.

The symptoms of platinosis may include asthma, dermatitis, dyspnea, conjunctival vasodilatation, and rhinopharyngitis.

The symptoms are progressive, sometimes taking months to years to appear. Platinosis is usually associated with workers in industries related to platinum production. The effects are permanent.

Halogeno-platinum compounds are among the most potent respiratory and skin sensitisers known, therefore it is vital that exposure via the skin and by breathing contaminated air is carefully controlled.

In practice, the compounds mainly responsible for platinum sensitisation are typically the soluble, ionic, platinum-chloro compounds such as ammonium hexachloroplatinate and tetrachloroplatinate, and hexachloroplatinic acid. Other ionic halogeno compounds are also sensitisers, the order of allergenicity being Cl > Br > I.

Neutral compounds such as cis-platin and ammine and nitro complexes such as [Pt(NH3)4]Cl2, K2[Pt(NO2)4] and platinum nitrate are not considered to be allergenic; neither is the metal.

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The Munsters Today

The Munsters Today is an American sitcom and a revival of the original 1964–66 sitcom The Munsters that aired in syndication from October 8, 1988, to May 25, 1991.

Plot
The series concerns the day-to-day life of a family of benign monsters, with married couple Herman Munster and vampire Lily Munster. Lily's Father Grandpa, who is also a vampire, lives with the family. Herman and Lily have a son named Eddie, who is a werewolf, and their niece, Marilyn, whom the family deems as strange, but is the only “normal” member of the family, also lives with them.

This sequel series starts with Grandpa creating "Sleeping Chambers," coffins which make the user fall asleep for a selected amount of time, and insisting the entire family try them out. After Grandpa sets the dial for 30 minutes and shuts the door, a flash of light and a falling beam change the dial to "Forever." 22 years later, a man named Mr. Prescott and his assistant explore the Munsters' house with plans to turn it into a parking lot when they unknowingly awaken the Munsters from their Sleeping Chambers. Finding themselves in the 1980s, the Munsters work to adjust themselves to the current time period.

Main cast

 * John Schuck as Herman Munster
 * Lee Meriwether as Lily Munster
 * Jason Marsden as Edward "Eddie" Wolfgang Munster
 * Hilary Van Dyke as Marilyn Munster
 * Howard Morton as "Grandpa" Vladimir Dracula

Recurring cast

 * Mary Cadorette as Dee Dee Nelson
 * Richard Steven Horvitz as Howie Buchanan
 * Greg Mullavey as Roger Nelson
 * Scott Reeves as Dustin Nelson
 * Tiffany Brissette as Shannon Millhouse
 * Bijou Phillips as August Millhouse

Special guest stars

 * Kaye Ballard as Mother Earth
 * Billy Barty as Genie
 * Shelley Berman as Sam Hawkins
 * Jonathan Brandis as Matt Glover
 * Dr. Joyce Brothers as Mrs. Cousins
 * Ruth Buzzi as Dracula's Mother
 * Gordon Cooper as Himself
 * Bill Daily as Count Strimpkin
 * Dustin Diamond as Rob
 * Moosie Drier as Andy Graves
 * Nancy Dussault as Dr. Sandra Brown
 * Nanette Fabray as Dottie
 * Norman Fell as Mr. Maurice
 * Christopher Fielder as Damien
 * Lucy Lee Flippin as Natasha Jones
 * Kathleen Freeman as Grandma
 * George Furth as Dr. Carver
 * Zsa Zsa Gabor as Herself
 * Kip King as Burt Fearman
 * Dave Madden as Mr. Preston
 * Eddie Mekka as Mr. Sweetzer
 * Richard Moll as Genghis Khan
 * Pat Morita as Mr. Watanabe
 * Don Most as Barney Morley
 * Lois Nettleton as Jessica Brown
 * Daniel Riordan as Headlock Henderson
 * Marcia Wallace as Dr. Susan Evans
 * Jo De Winter as Katja Dracula
 * Yetta as Shirley

Development
This color revival of The Munsters starred John Schuck (Herman), Lee Meriwether (Lily), Howard Morton (Grandpa), Hilary Van Dyke (Marilyn) and Jason Marsden (Eddie), and broadcast 72 episodes from October 8, 1988, to May 25, 1991, giving it more first-run episodes than the original series. The pilot explained the 22-year gap following the original series by showing the family as they were in 1966. They were testing out a machine that Grandpa had created. The machine allows someone to sleep for ages without aging. But then an accident took place; the family then proceeds to sleep for years, only to wake up in 1988.

It was created following a failed attempt to revive the show with most of the original cast (Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis and Yvonne De Carlo) in the 1981 NBC telefilm The Munsters' Revenge.

Season 3 (1990–91)
The Silver Bullet

Reception
The series lasted three seasons in syndication, and proved popular with international audiences.

In the United States, reruns aired on digital subchannel Retro Television Network from August 2008 until their distribution agreement with NBCUniversal expired in June 2011.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hubbertism

 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 delete. Nufy8 22:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Hubbertism
This word is a neologism that is not meritous of having an article. The creator of this article did so as an attempt to push POV at Hubbert peak theory. This is a violation of WP:POINT and WP:NPOV. Johntex 19:47, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Silliness. The is a bit much. -- BD2412  talk 20:08, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Quasipalm 20:18, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Transwiki to Wiktionary; if it has some common usage (which I doubt)DV8 2XL 20:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * That's often an admirable suggestion, but do bear in mind that other Wikis are not AfD's dumping ground. If you were working on Wiktionary, would you aquiesce to keep this? -Splash 23:43, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete trolling. Gazpacho 21:05, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete silliness, bordering on joke article Vandalism. I wouldn't object to a speedy. -Splash 23:43, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete of course, and can I get some help reigning this guy in? He is currently making a mess of Hubbert peak theory. A quick perusal of the talk page will make the problem obvious. - Taxman Talk 18:54, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I didn't invent the term - i found it. But any help reigning in the (other) article is welcome - it looks like we have consensus to rename it and weed out some of the hyperbole and thinly supported pseudoscience. Benjamin Gatti
 * Delete - Bad faith, neologism created in violation of WP:POINT. Dalf | Talk 06:59, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete peak neologism. Klonimus 02:42, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trolling. William M. Connolley 16:48:22, 2005-09-06 (UTC).

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

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Wikipedia is for objective articles, not opinion essays. This page should be deleted or completely reconstrcuted.

I agree. I've added the NPOV template to the page and took a brief stab at cleaning up the first couple sentences of the article. It may be more appropriate though to suggest that this article be completely rewritten. --Btmiller 01:39, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't think this article should be deleted though, as Ahmed Ali's case is of significant enough general interest to be included here, IMO. --Btmiller 01:40, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

And you have a problem with simple facts?????? He is on trial, suspected of being an AQ terrorist, is he not???? So what if he's a suspected terrorist? Does every suspect get a page on wikipedia? Why doesn't Timothy Mcveigh get a page??

 * I don't know why Timothy Mcveigh doesn't have a page, but Timothy McVeigh, the bomber, does have a very large and active page.

 * This talk page is not being used properly gang. Everyone who puts a comment here is supposed to sign it, by appending four tilde characters, like this...  ~  Signing puts a date stamp.

 * You are supposed to prefix each paragraph you type in reply with one or more colon characters. Each colon indents your paragraph.  Your followup should be indented one more level than what you are replying to...  It makes it easier to tell who wrote what.

 * Btmiller, you didn't say why you put a {NPOV} tag. How can anyone tell whether a consensus has been acheived, and the tag can be removed, when you didn't specifically say why you put it there?  --  Geo Swan 14:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the oversight, I put the NPOV tag there since the prior version of the article was clearly biased in favor of Mr. Abu Ali's innocence against the government case. As the article has been reduced to a recitation of the facts of the case, I think that the issue is resolved. If anybody feels that this is in error, feel free to revert my edit removing the tag. Btmiller 10:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Very soon, you'll have to edit this page when he's acquitted...when the truth comes out and the lies are exposed!!!!

Relevance & Article Clean-up
I saw discussion above in relation to the relevance of this persons case, casting him off as merely a 'terror suspect', or as the case may be, a 'terrorist' per the American court in which he was tried. Allow me to touch on the relevance of this article, which seems to not be addressed even slightly.

The ratio decidendi of this case was based on one primary source of evidence, from the little I have read so far in the matter it appears that if the confession video were removed from the evidence put forth in the case, the ratio would have been overturned and he would most likely been found innocent as guilt cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt. If this was a common law court and not a criminal court matter, where one only has to prove reasonable probability, then the ratio decidendi put forth may be in some way legitimate.

We have the following facts; the video is the primary source of evidence short of third party post-actus documentation (cia / intel reports), there was no prima facie case against the individual, there were allegations that the video confession was made whilst the defendant was placed under duress or coerced for evidence through alleged torture and finally the defendant had recanted his confession (I am unsure whether he did, but the act of placing allegations of torture would, to a reasonable judge, indicate that recantation was a definite.).

The fact this case was a whirlwind 3 day trial (when you consider that almost every criminal trial takes in excess of a year) it makes me ponder under what jurisdiction and in what court was this matter tried?

I will gladly attempt to fix up this article as I truly feel that it illustrates a great misjustice and a totally inappropriate knee jerk reaction / judgement on behalf of the court involved. If the video is taken out the coin would have landed on the flipside, therefore if a case is only as strong as one piece of evidence the case is questionable at best.

Perhaps someone can fill in the blanks on the following questions for me?

 * What jurisdiction was this man arrested in? (Was he in the US? The interrogation was carried out in Saudi Arabia, was he flown there from the US?  If so, why?)
 * Did this man have a bail hearing? If so, in what court/country/jurisdiction?
 * If not, was there a presumption against bail? What substantiating reasons were given for the presumption?
 * What court was he tried in (Or part of the judicial heirarchy, to me it sounds like a court martial and not a civil court; further who was the magistrate / judge in the trial?)
 * What other pressing evidence was presented? (Does anyone have a fact-sheet from the case, or a reference I can look at to see the case files and perhaps a transcript?)

Those are the tip of the ice berg, but if someone is willing to take a leap of faith and play devils advocate with me in this matter, it'd be interesting from a legal point of view to illustrate just how malicious and unjust such cases which are becoming more and more common, Australian citizens are being charged under the new 'terrorism' laws because they allow for much more leeway for police to detain / interrogate people, all based on 'suspicion', and I'm talking your average citizen here, if there was a social, racial or religious stereotyping going on (as wrong as that is) you could possibly understand the narrow minded nature of the arresting agent/officer, but we're talking the 'average aussie' being treated like Osama until proven innocent, I personally have had dealings with being arrested under that act but released four days later without charge and I'm a non-threatening looking 'caucasian' 'christian'.

I can't stress enough the importance of this case as it sets a precedence that someone can be convicted in an American court based on one single confession allegedly taken under duress and then recanted. You can tear up your acts and legislation on civil liberties now; they no longer exist as long as this decision by the court is held based on the facts I have read so far. So please, prove me wrong, frankly this whole matter disturbs me greatly. Jachin 04:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Ack, just realised some of the questions above are moot and already answered, ignore that; I blame cold and flu medication. Regardless, links, transcripts, info -please-. Jachin 04:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

We Need to update this wiki, Courts Upheld his conviction, but are pushing for a longer sentence because they think the prior court was to lenient considering the Gravity of his offense. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0643022620080606 "As part of its ruling, the appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia, overturned Ahmed Abu Ali's 30-year prison sentence on the grounds it was unreasonably lenient and sent the case back for resentencing."

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If It's Lovin' that You Want

"If It's Lovin' That You Want" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her debut studio album, Music of the Sun (2005). It was written by Samuel Barnes, Scott La Rock, Makeba Riddick, Jean-Claude Oliver, Lawrence Parker, and produced by Poke & Tone. It was released on August 16, 2005, as the second and final single from the album. The lyrics revolve around "basically telling a guy, 'If it's lovin' that you want, you should make me your girl because I've got what you need".

The song received mixed reviews from music critics, many of whom praised and criticised Rihanna's vocal performance; its composition was also complimented. "If It's Lovin' that You Want" achieved moderate success around the world, reaching the top forty in few European countries, while reaching the top ten in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. In the United States, the song failed to match the commercial success of Rihanna's previous single, "Pon de Replay", peaking at number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It managed, however, to reach number nine on the Pop Songs chart. The song's accompanying music video, directed by Marcus Raboy, was shot on a beach in California, and features the singer enjoying several activities, such as dancing and riding jet skis with her friends.

Background and composition
Following the release and commercial success of "Pon de Replay", the lead single from Music of the Sun and Rihanna's debut in the music industry, "If It's Lovin' that You Want" was released as the second single from the album. In an interview with MTV News, Rihanna explained the lyrical meaning behind the song, saying "The song is basically telling a guy, 'If it's lovin' that you want, you should make me your girl because I've got what you need".

Musically, is a reggae and R&B song, reinforcing Rihanna's "tropical reggae signature". According to the digital music sheet published at musicnotes.com, "If It's Lovin' that You Want" is written in the key of A-flat major and is set in common time with a moderate dance groove with a metronome of 98 beats per minute. Rihanna's vocal range in the song spans from the low note of F3 to the high note of G5. A sequel to the song titled "If It's Lovin' That You Want – Part 2", which features rap vocals by Cory Gunz, was included as a bonus track on Rihanna's sophomore album, A Girl Like Me (2006). The song was written by Samuel Barnes, Scott LaRock, Makeba Riddick, Jean-Claude Oliver, Lawrence Parker and was produced by the latter two under their production name, Poke & Tone of Trackmasters." "If It's Lovin' that You Want" contains interpolations from the composition "The Bridge Is Over", as performed by Boogie Down Productions, and written by Scott La Rock and Lawrence Parker.

Critical reception
The song was met with generally mixed reviews from music critics, who both praised and criticised Rihanna's vocal performance. Bill Lamb of About.com wrote that although the singer provides "simple, pleasant vocals", her voice sounds "too light" and "thin". Lamb continued to comment about the song, writing that although the song is "pleasurable" and "summery" to listen to and is not "offensive", it fails to re-capture the "killer hook of 'Pon de Replay'". However, A. Vishnu of The Hindu had contrasting opinions with regard to Rihanna's vocal performance, writing the song further "exposes her versatility and vocal range". A reviewer for Billboard praised the song's composition and beat, writing "['If It's Lovin' that You Want'] reinforces Rihanna's tropical reggae signature with an itchy hook that, albeit monotonous, cannot miss." A reviewer of Take40 and Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times were brief in their reviews of "If It's Lovin' that You Want", with the former writing that the song is more "low-key" compared to Rihanna's previous release, "Pon de Replay", and the latter simply writing that it is a "pretty good" song.

Chart performance
"If It's Lovin' that You Want" peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, failing to match the commercial success of Rihanna's previous single, "Pon de Replay", only peaking within the top ten of three national charts. In Australia, the song debuted and peaked on the Australian Singles Chart at number 9 on February 6, 2006. The song fell one position the following week to number ten, but managed to peak at number 9 again in its third week. In total, the song spent two non-consecutive weeks at number 9 and fourteen weeks on the chart. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number 12 on the New Zealand Singles Chart on December 19, 2005. During "If It's Lovin' that You Want"'s first four weeks of charting, it fluctuated in the top twenty, but managed to peak at number 9 in its fifth week for one week. In total, the song spent 12 weeks on the chart.

In Europe, "If It's Lovin' that You Want" debuted on the Austrian Singles Chart at number 40 on December 16, 2005. During the song's first five weeks on the chart, it struggled to stay inside the top forty, but in its sixth week, managed to peak at number 31 for one week, and spent a total of 11 weeks on the chart. In Switzerland, the song debuted at number 25 on December 18, 2005, and peaked at number 19. The song spent a total of 12 weeks on the chart. In The Netherlands, the song debuted at number 76 on February 4, 2006, and peaked at number 13 the following week. The song spent a total of 7 weeks on the chart. In the Flanders region of Belgium, the song debuted at number 50 December 31, 2005, but dropped out of the chart the following week, but re-entered the chart at number 38 on January 21, 2006, and peaked at number 25 the following week. The song spent a total of 10 weeks on the chart. In the United Kingdom, the song debuted and peaked on the UK Singles Chart at number 11 on December 10, 2005, and dropped out of the Official UK Top 40 after five weeks on the chart.

Music video
The music video for the song was shot on a stretch of beach on the coast of California in Malibu and directed by Marcus Raboy on August 9, 2005. In an interview with MTV News, Rihanna spoke about the development of the shoot for the video, saying "The water was so cold ... but oh my gosh, we had so much fun ... We were bumping each other off the Jet Skis and just had a ball". During the interview, the singer elaborated further upon the content of the video and the meaning behind it, saying "This video is about having fun, giving off the vibe of the Caribbean ... we did some mermaid-looking stuff down on the sand ...and I'm just [performing] to the camera as if it were my boyfriend. Now we're going to do [some scenes with] the Tiki torches. It's going to be incredible". The dance routines in the video were choreographed by noted choreographer Fatima Robinson.

The video begins with scenes of Rihanna dancing and walking along the beach and riding jet ski's with her friends during the first chorus and continues into the first verse. Halfway through the first verse, a new scene of the singer is introduced, where she is dancing on a platform with four other female dancers, wearing a "short, flowing white skirt and a cropped tee", with the ocean as the backdrop behind her. During the second chorus, the previous scenes are intercut with each other, and continue into the second verse, where a new scene of the singer wearing a different outfit and lying on the beach, whilst also choreographing with some male extras. For the third chorus, which is repeated twice, another new scene of Rihanna is shown with four other female dancers who belly dance in the middle of a Tiki torch circle during the night.

Track listing

 * Digital download
 * 1) "If It's Lovin' That You Want" – 3:50

 * CD single
 * 1) "If It's Lovin' That You Want" (Album Version) – 3:28
 * 2) "If It's Lovin' That You Want" (Instrumental) – 3:20
 * 3) "Pon de Replay" (Pon de Club Play) – 7:32
 * 4) "If It's Lovin' That You Want" (Video) – 3:36

 * Digital EP
 * 1) "If It's Lovin' That You Want" – 3:27
 * 2) "If It's Lovin' That You Want" (Instrumental) – 3:20
 * 3) "Pon de Replay" (Pon de Club Play) – 7:32

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Talk:Nash bargaining game

Merge from Nash bargaining solution
Any objections? --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 00:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

None from me, I think I created it because it was a redlink somewhere and I dug up the references while trying to find a decent source for this in the course of reading through Roughgarden's recent Science paper... It should still go down in the game theory project as a topic in (pretty desperate) need of a good write-up. Cheers, Pete.Hurd 00:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Indeed! Its been on my list of things to do for a long time...  I'll merge the two now. Thanks Pete! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 00:48, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Has this article been merged yet? I ask as - as it stands - it is badly confused: Nash's bargaining solution is an example of cooperative game theory.  Thus, as game forms are a feature of non-cooperative games, and Nash equilibrium their usual solution concept, it is incorrect to attempt to introduce Nash's bargaining solution in these terms.  The Nash project attempts to connect cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, asking what non-cooperative games yield, as their (Nash) equilibria, the solutions of cooperative games.  This has been done in the case of Nash's bargaining solution - q.v. Rubinstein's alternating offers game.  Further, disagreement need not yield zero payoffs, merely the disagreement point.  The basic confusion of this article therefore leaves it worse than the game theory section of the bargaining article.  (As a minor point, I'm not sure why Paul Walker is credited at the outset with telling us about the link found by Harsanyi in 1956: Harsanyi's discovery is relevant to a discussion of the bargaining solution; Walker's mention of it on his website is not.) Colin Rowat (talk) 22:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

nash's 1950 paper
I took a look at Nash's famous 1950 paper, and it doesn't seem to express bargaining in terms of the game used here. In fact there isn't really any notion of the process of bargaining, just a discussion of what the outcomes might be. Is there some other paper in which Nash described the game form shown here?

The most important game associated with the Nash bargaining solution is probably Ariel Rubinstein's, described in 1982 in "Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model".

Check out Nash (1953)"The Two Person Co-Operative Game" Econometrica p. 128-40. It has the full discussion of the relevant material. El_Jogg 18:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Absolute values? / Article emphasis
Two points:

First, the Nash product in the article is currently |u(x) - u(d)||v(y) - v(d)|, which suggests that negative "excesses" are just as valuable as positive ones. Perhaps the notation could be changed to, for example, max(u(x)-u(d),0) or (u(x) - u(d))^+ (the latter is used commonly in engineering literature, at least). This would resolve the ambiguity.

Second, surely the Nash bargaining solution itself is more important than its application to this particular game. NBS is studied extensively in its own right, unconnected to any single game. The game also doesn't appear (as is alleged in the introduction) in the 1950 "The Bargaining Problem". Perhaps the article should be reorganized to present the NBS as the central focus, showing the bargaining game as an application that has gotten recent attention by Skyrms and others. Thoughts?

Mateoee (talk) 20:03, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

"The Bargaining Problem"
In the absence of any feedback, I removed the statement suggesting that the Nash Bargaining Game appears in Nash's 1950 "The Bargaining Problem". I also skimmed through his 1953 Econometrica paper, as was suggested by another user, and I didn't find a specific description of the game, either. Mateoee (talk) 22:43, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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I capitalized "Non-English" in your article edit. Is there a way to be more specific than "many"? Something like a mag article that has made the claim, maybe. I think that would sound a lot better. Psy Guy 19:51, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Rattlesnake Ridge

Rattlesnake Ridge, known as daʔšədabš to the Snoqualmie people, is the ridge of Rattlesnake Mountain located south of North Bend, Washington, United States. The western end is near the intersection of State Route 18 and I-90 in Snoqualmie, Washington, and runs southeast about 7 mi or 11 mi by trail. It is the highest and easternmost of the Issaquah Alps (although Cedar Butte in the gap between Rattlesnake Mountain and the Cascade front at Mount Washington is considered by Harvey Manning to be a quasi-Alp). A maze of abandoned logging roads and constructed trails have been strung together to provide a 10.5 mi footpath from the Snoqualmie Point trailhead at Exit 27 on I-90 all the way to the Rattlesnake Lake trailhead near Exit 32.

Rattlesnake Ledge is a rock outcropping and viewpoint 1160 feet above Rattlesnake Lake. Rattlesnake Ledge is a very popular hike destination. The Rattlesnake Ledge Trail makes up the eastern 2 mile segment of the Rattlesnake Ridge or Rattlesnake Mountain Trail.

Several recreational opportunities exist, including hiking and rock-climbing.

Legal status
Most of the mountain is owned by the state of Washington or King County, and is protected as Rattlesnake Mountain Scenic Area, managed jointly by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and King County Park and Recreation Department. The eastern section of the mountain, including the ledges, is owned by Seattle Public Utilities, while large sections in the western part of the ridge are owned by Weyerhaeuser Corporation, which conducts substantial logging operations there.

Deadly incidents
On May 30, 2009, a 28-year-old man fell one hundred feet to his death from a ledge on Rattlesnake Ridge. Officials say Ruben Maldonado, 28, of Snohomish County, fell from the popular hiking area above Rattlesnake Lake around 12:15 p.m.

On March 9, 2012, a 32-year-old man fell about 300 feet from a ridge. He was found dead by another hiker who saw the fall.

On February 9, 2013, a Redmond man missing near Rattlesnake Ridge was found dead at about 10 a.m. Bove said King County Search and Rescue found the body of Ira Thomas Clodfelter, 28, about three-quarters of a mile from the main trail, and it appeared to be a suicide. The King County Medical Examiner said February 11 that Clodfelter died from a gunshot wound to the head, and ruled it a suicide.

On August 29, 2013, a man in his 20s fell to his death while hiking in the Rattlesnake Ridge area of Snoqualmie near Rattlesnake Lake. King County Sheriffs deputies received a 911 call around 10:55 a.m. from a woman who said someone had fallen off Rattlesnake Ridge. When rescue personnel arrived, a friend of the victim told them she and the man had hiked to the top of the ridge. She was taking pictures of the man, who was near the ledge, when he slipped and fell as he was trying to jump to a rock. Medics found the man's body and determined he had fallen about 150 feet to his death.

On March 3, 2018, a 16-year-old boy died after falling off of Rattlesnake Ridge. He was attempting to take a picture and slipped due to icy conditions at the top of the mountain. Search and Rescue was called at 8:40 a.m. and the body was located at 9:15 a.m.

Climate
Rattlesnake Ridge is located in the marine west coast (Koppen: Csb/Cfb) climate zone of western North America. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel northeast toward the Cascade Mountains. As fronts approach the North Cascades, they are forced upward by the peaks of the Cascade Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the Cascades (Orographic lift). As a result, the west side of the North Cascades experiences high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. During winter months, weather is usually cloudy, but, due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer.

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Flashing Swords!

Flashing Swords! is a series of fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter, and revived under the editorship of Robert M. Price in 2020. It originally showcased the heroic fantasy work of the members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a somewhat informal literary group active from the 1960s to the 1980s, of which Carter was the guiding force. Most of the important sword and sorcery writers at the time of the group’s founding were members; later, membership was extended to other fantasy authors.

Summary
The Flashing Swords! series provides a cross-section of the heroic fantasy of the period. Carter and SAGA also sponsored The Gandalf Award from 1974-1981. With the collapse of Carter’s health in the 1980s the anthology series, the Gandalf award, and likely SAGA itself all went into abeyance.

A revival of the series edited by Carter's literary executor Robert M. Price was projected, with the first volume, ''Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6'' published (briefly) by Pulp Hero Press in July, 2020. Due to an introduction found objectionable by some of the authors whose works were included, the publisher delisted the book a few days after publication. A second edition of the volume, retaining just three of its twelve stories and adding seven more, was eventually issued by Timaios Press in January, 2021. Subsequent volumes of the revived series were issued by different publishers.

Contents
In all, twenty-three stories by fifteen authors were published in the original five-volume series, all of them for the first time. These included two "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories by Fritz Leiber (in #1 and #3), two "Dying Earth" stories by Jack Vance (in #1 and #4), the first two parts of the novel The Merman's Children by Poul Anderson (also in #1 and #4), two "Amalric the Mangod" stories by Lin Carter (in #1 and #3), a "Pusad" tale and the first part of the novel The Incorporated Knight by L. Sprague de Camp (in #2 and #3, respectively), two "Elric of Melniboné" stories by Michael Moorcock (in #2 and #4), two "Witch World" stories by Andre Norton (in #2 and #3), two "Brak the Barbarian" stories by John Jakes (in #2 and #4), one story by Avram Davidson (in #3), a "Deryni" story by Katherine Kurtz (in #4), a "Dilvish" story by Roger Zelazny (in #5), a story by C. J. Cherryh (in #5), a story by Diane Duane (in #5), an "Ebenezum" story by Craig Shaw Gardner (in #5), and a story by Tanith Lee (in #5).

In Price's volumes 6-7 (including both versions of v. 6) forty-one stories by twenty-one authors were published, including three by Glynn Owen Barrass, one by Cliff Biggers, three by Lin Carter, one by Adrian Cole, three by Pierre V. Comtois, one by Jason Ross Cummings, one by Santiago del Dardano Turann, two by Steve Dilks, one by Charles Garofalo, three by Clayton L. Hinkle, one by Mike Jansen, four by Wayne Judge, one by Steve Lines, one by Paul F. McNamee, seven by Robert M. Price, one by D. M. Ritzlin, one by Charles R. Rutledge, one by Frank Schildiner, one by Richard Toogood, one by Michael A. Turton, and five by Glen M. Usher. The pieces by Hinkle are graphic novellas.

Books

 * Flashing Swords! #1 (1973)
 * Flashing Swords! #2 (1973)
 * Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards (1976)
 * Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (1977)
 * Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (1981)
 * Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 (original version) (2020)
 * Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 (revised version) (2021)
 * Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #7 (2023)
 * Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #8 (2023)

Relation to other works
A precursor of the series was Swords Against Tomorrow, edited by Robert Hoskins (Signet Books, 1970), an anthology which included pieces by four of the eight SAGA members of that time.

Before producing the two versions of ''Flashing Swords! #6 Robert M. Price edited a similar Sword and Sorcery anthology, The Mighty Warriors (Ulthar Press, 2018), showcasing some of the same authors whose works appeared in his Flashing Swords!'' volumes.

Of the stories slated for the original version of ''Flashing Swords! #6 that were not carried over into the revised version, D. M. Ritzlin's "A Twisted Branch of Yggdrasil was subsequently published in his collection Necromancy in Nilztiria (DMR Books, 2020), while Adrian Cole's "The Tower in the Crimson Mist" and Steve Dilks's "Tale of the Uncrowned Kings" were subsequently published in the anthology Savage Scrolls, Volume One'' (Pulp Hero Press, 2020).

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Blanche Wiesen Cook

Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941 in New York City) is a historian and professor of history. She is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award.

Books
Cook is the author of a three-volume biography about Eleanor Roosevelt: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884–1933 (published 1992); Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933–1938 (2000); and Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 (2016). Volume One was awarded the 1992 Biography prize from the Los Angeles Times. A New York Times review of the third volume called the entire biography a "rich portrait" of the "monumental and inspirational life of Eleanor Roosevelt." NPR included the third volume in its "Best books of 2016." Notably, the biography details a disputed affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok. (This affair has itself been the subject of other books.)

She edited Toward the Great Change: Crystal and Max Eastman on Feminism, Antimilitarism, and Revolution, published in 1976, and Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution, published in 1978.

Cook is also the author of The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace and Political Warfare, which was listed as a "notable book" in 1981 by '"The New York Times''.

Cook wrote opinion pieces for The New York Times, including "Clearly, Eisenhower Was a 'Militant Liberal'" (1980) and "The Trashing of CUNY" (1994).

Academic career
She is a Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is also a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

An oral history interview with Cook is included in the Living U.S. women's history oral history project, 1999–2005, in which 51 scholars of women's history were interviewed. These oral histories are housed in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History at Smith College.

Cook co-founded the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians, is a former vice president for research at the American Historical Association, and was chair of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability.

In 1988, Cook took part in The History and Consequences of Anticommunism conference, where she argued that “every moment of our era has been touched and diminished by this crusade.”

Honors
Cook received the 2010 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle.

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Talk:Non-cooperative game theory

Definition of a game
Someone should provide the definition of a game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.132.3.9 (talk) 14:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC) Examples? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.95.170.175 (talk) 13:41, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fiona Volpe

 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 to Thunderball. — J I P | Talk 15:14, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

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Delete Shouldn't have its own article PhilipO 19:55, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Thunderball. -- BD2412 talk 20:11, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per above DV8 2XL 20:34, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Nothing to merge really. Thunderball is pretty much maxed out content-wise and I don't think there's anything in this article that isn't essentially said at Thunderball already. If merge, consider S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in the same style as SMERSH. K1Bond007 21:16, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per K1Bond007. 23skidoo 21:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per BD2412. -- DS1953 00:32, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominally merge, though in reality just replace the content with a redirect. Flowerparty 07:30, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
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Peter Blute

Peter Ignatius Blute (born January 28, 1956) is a former American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He served two terms, between January 3, 1993, and January 3, 1997, representing Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district. As of 2024, Blute and colleague Peter G. Torkildsen remain the last Republicans elected to serve in the United States House delegation from Massachusetts.

Early life and career
Blute was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, one of 11 siblings. He grew up and currently lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he attended St. John's High School. He earned his B.A. at Boston College in 1978. He was the owner of a sports promotion and marketing firm, and then a marketing representative for The Burdett School.

Blute was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1986 and served until 1993 when he was elected as a Republican to the 103rd Congress and then reelected to the 104th Congress. A Republican, he defeated 9-term incumbent Joseph Early, who is also a St. John's High School alumnus, in 1992 to become the first Republican to represent this district since 1947. After two terms in the House, Blute was defeated by current Congressman James P. McGovern in 1996 in a reelection bid for the 105th Congress. Since Blute's defeat, no other Massachusetts Republican has been elected to the House.

After Congress
From 1997 to 1999, Blute served as executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority (MassPort). His tenure at MassPort came to an end following revelations of a workday "booze cruise", originally paid for with Massport funds and billed as a "survey" of Boston Harbor, during which a female passenger, actress Gidget Churchill, aboard the vessel with Blute exposed her breasts to a Boston Herald photographer. Questions remain as to why Churchill exposed herself and who notified the local media as to the time and date of the cruise.

Blute was then a radio talk show host for WRKO Boston from 5:30 to 9 am, co-hosting with Andy Moes from 1999 to 2001, John Osterlind from 2001 to 2003, and Scott Allen Miller from 2003 until he left WRKO on October 3, 2005. He moved on to AM 830 WCRN Worcester in early 2006, and hosted the station's 6 to 9 am drive-time program until leaving WCRN on May 27, 2011.

On December 21, 2011, Blute was named deputy chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

Family
Blute is the son of Dr. Robert Blute and Ann-Marie Blute, a Dame of Malta.

Blute is one of eleven siblings. One of his sisters, Paula Ebben, is a news anchor for WBZ-TV.

Blute's grandfather, Paul H. Hines, served as state representative and as an aide to Mayor John Hynes. His uncle, Peter F. Hines, served on the Boston City Council from 1958 to 1968 and was a candidate for Mayor in 1967.

In 2005, Boston magazine ranked the Blute family the 10th out of 50 families "that run [Boston]".

Electoral history

 * 1992 Race for 3rd Massachusetts US Congressional District
 * Rep. Joseph Early (D), 44.3%
 * Peter Blute (R), 50.4%
 * Others, 5.3%
 * 1994 Race for 3rd Massachusetts US Congressional District
 * Rep. Peter Blute (R), 54.6%
 * Kevin O'Sullivan (D), 44.2%
 * Others, 1.2%
 * 1996 Race for 3rd Massachusetts US Congressional District
 * Rep. Peter Blute (R), 45.4%
 * James P. McGovern (D), 52.9%
 * Others, 1.7%

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Talk:Normal-form game

Merge with payoff matrix
Please discuss the possible merger of these two articles here. Thanks! --best, kevin · · · Kzollman | Talk · · · 21:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

This merge seems valid but "Normal Form Game" seems a more appropriate title than "Payoff Matrix". Suggest merging payoff game into this article.

why merge payoff matrix into normal form game? A payoff matrix is indeed a tool that is used in game theory, but not exclusively. It is also used in decision theory, where there may be a payoff matrix with just one decision maker: his possible decisions are on one axis and random events on the other: so, it is a payoff matrix, but not like what is described in this article. I suggest either making separate articles, or making a general aticle under the title "payoff matrix", having "normal form game" as a particular case of pyoff matrices (since it seems to me the latter is a subcategory of the former - I'm not a specialist though, so I might be wrong).62.169.208.134 (talk) 13:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

infinite / continuous game
I took out the bit about continuous games. First, those generally aren't represented as matrices. (I suppose it could be a tensor, but that's certainly not typical), so it doesn't apply to normal form games. Second, it's not true that functional analysis is necessary to solve continuous games.Cretog8 (talk) 06:25, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Cretog8,

 * To my knowledge, a “normal form” game refers to the representation of a game where both players make their moves simultaneously in one turn (although mathematically extensive form and normal form games are equivalent.) The formulation of continuous games given on that page refers to games where each player makes his move simultaneously, as in the discrete case of the normal form game, making the relation between the two quite natural.
 * Matrices are only used to index payoff functions of two-player discrete (normal form) games; they are not needed to define normal form games. I would imagine tensors would be used to describe the payoff functions of 3+ player discrete games, although this is hardly ever used to my knowledge.  The pay-off functions of continuous games will in general be described by multivariate functions.
 * by the definitions given on continuous game and on this page, normal form games (as well as the equivalent extensive form) can formally be considered a subset of continuous games as any finite set of strategies can be considered a compact metric space under the discrete metric, and any function over a discrete metric space will be continuous.
 * Some continuous games do require the use of functional analysis to find mixed-strategy Nash equilibria; for example for games with pure strategy set [0,1] for each player, we sometimes need to consider the set of all possible probability measures over [0,1] to find a mixed strategy equilibrium. --67.86.29.2 (talk) 23:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

 * This might take some hashing out.
 * The continuous game article is effectively brand-new, so it might need a good bit of review itself before I'm willing to take it as the point of reference.
 * To my understanding, the defining feature of a continuous game is the strategy space, not the number of players, simultaneity, or payoff functions.
 * "Normal form game" is to "finite simultaneous game" as "extensive form game" is to "finite dynamic game". They get conflated, but the "form" is about the representation, not strictly about the kind of game. This article shows how "normal form" can be applied to dynamic games (which I suspect is more confusing than helpful, myself, but...). So, since it is not practical to represent a continuous-strategy game in matrix form, I don't see it as being useful to describe them as "normal form". They may indeed be simultaneous.
 * Multiple matrices can (and are) used for payoffs in games of more than 2 players. 3 players usually isn't too bad, more gets pretty ugly.
 * I'm not sure about your point of finite games being a subset of continuous games. It may be that you're formally right, but is it helpful?
 * Sorry. Yes, some continuous game undoubtedly require functional analysis. The text I removed said that they required functional analysis in general, while many don't. Cretog8 (talk) 00:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Possibly the problem is the focus on articles for normal form game and extensive form game. Really, the bulk of the material should probably be in simultaneous game and sequential game, instead, with the "form" articles limited to details of representation. Just a thought, which should probably be brought up at the game theory project page before following through. Cretog8 (talk) 00:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I see. I did not realize that "form" explicitly referred to representation.  Ultimately this is a question of how the newborn article on continuous games will fit into the larger Wikipedia framework on game theory.  67.86.29.2 (talk) 02:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Comprehensive Example?
The Example states: "...if player 1 plays top and player 2 plays left...". I'm new to game theory and this is the first time I've read this page. What is "top"? Are these the bottom, right, top and left of a rectangle? What value does top have? --> 4? What values do the other side have, if they are sides? etc, etc.

After reading this page I'm worse off than before I read it. Like many wiki technical articles, it's been written by someone with an in depth knowledge but lack of ability in passing this knowledge on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.42.125 (talk) 14:58, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Strategic vs normal form game
I think there should be a page "strategic-form game" that links to this page. Many authors use the term strategic form instead of normal form. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.177.67 (talk) 07:02, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

"Gioco in forma normale" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Gioco in forma normale and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 12 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 02:11, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

"Payoff matrix" is used without definition
The term is used first in « The topological space of games with related payoff matrices can also be mapped, with adjacent games having the most similar matrices. » and then in « The payoff matrix facilitates elimination of dominated strategies, and it is usually used to illustrate this concept. » And those sentences are not accompanied by any definition. One may think that the definition is trivial but it is not: for a two-player zero-sum game specifying only one real number for each pair of moves of the 2 players is enough thus the payoff matrix can be real-valued, but when the sum is not 0 (or fixed) one must give 2 values for each entry of the matrix, which is thus not a real-valued matrix -unless one introduces a coding of pairs of real numbers but that is not standard practice.

In the first sentence quoted the expression « the most similar matrices » is similarly undefined. And more generally i find the presentation of this page rather imprecise and in some places wordy. For instance « graphical » in the first sentence of this page links to the "Graph" wiki page, thus "graphical" is implicitly defined as "relating to or in terms of graphs". But "graphical" could well be interpreted in the more habitual sense of "relating to or in the form of a diagram or an image"; and an extensive form of a game is not just a graph so if it is "graphical" then this term rather means "in the form of a diagram". Plm203 (talk) 09:37, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

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Juan Crespí

Juan Crespí (Catalan: Joan Crespí; 1 March 1721 – 1 January 1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias.

Biography
A native of Majorca, Crespí entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. He came to New Spain in 1749, and accompanied explorers Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra. In 1767 he went to the Baja California Peninsula and was placed in charge of the Misión La Purísima Concepción de Cadegomó.

In 1769, Crespí joined the expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá and Junípero Serra (see Timeline of the Portolá expedition). He traveled in the vanguard of the land expedition to San Diego, led by Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada, where a presidio and mission were established. Crespí then continued north with Portolá and Rivera to identify the port of Monterey. Because he was the only one of the Franciscans to make the entire journey by land, Crespí became the first official diarist for the missions. He was one of three diarists to document the first exploration by Europeans of interior areas of Alta California.

Crespí is credited with giving Los Angeles its name, after having named the region's primary river El Río de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, meaning, in Spanish, "the River of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula". The town that later formed nearby took its name from this river.

After reaching Monterey in October 1769, Crespí continued with the expedition that explored as far north as present-day San Francisco, and became one of the first Europeans to see San Francisco Bay. All told, the expedition traveled in the future state of California through the present-day coastal counties of San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and San Francisco.

In 1772, Crespí accompanied Captain Pedro Fages on an exploration of areas to the east of San Francisco Bay. The Fages expedition members were the first Europeans to see the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin Valley.

In 1774, Crespí was chaplain of the expedition to the North Pacific conducted by Juan José Pérez Hernández. His diaries, first published in H. E. Bolton's Fray Juan Crespi (1927, repr. 1971), and published in the original Spanish with facing page translations as A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770 (2001) provided valuable records of these expeditions. One chapel he built, at the Misión San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco in Landa, is reported as still standing.

Recognition
A Catholic boys' school, Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, is named for him, as was a middle school in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. The latter was renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School on her hundredth birthday on 22 September 2021.

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Galactic Empire (1990 video game)

Galactic Empire is a 1990 space flight simulator computer game by Tomahawk where the player is conquering the universe, roaming from planet to planet. It has a sequel: A.G.E..

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CMR

CMR can refer to:

Businesses

 * Cash Money Records, an American record label and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group
 * California Management Review, a management research journal published by the University of California
 * Century Media Records, an independent rock and roll record label
 * Canadian Multicultural Radio or CJSA-FM (CMR Diversity FM 101.3), a Toronto radio station
 * CMR (motorcycle company), also known as CMCR (Centre de montage et de récupération), a French motorcycle manufacturer
 * Country Music Radio, a defunct European radio station
 * Cross Movement Records, Christian hip-hop record label
 * CMR Falabella (Crédito Multi-Rotativo Falabella), a credit card issued by S.A.C.I. Falabella

Concepts

 * Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or toxic to Reproduction (CMR substances), a concept in the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals law of the European Union
 * Civil-military relations, the relationship between civil society and the military organization established to protect it

Entertainment

 * Chad, Matt & Rob, a group of filmmakers known for their prank videos and Choose Your Own Adventure style short films that blend comedy with horror, adventure and sci-fi

Laws and treaties

 * CMR Convention, from the French Convention relative au contrat de transport international de marchandises par route. In English, the United Nations Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road
 * Code of Massachusetts Regulations, a compilation of regulations adopted by government agencies in Massachusetts, United States

Medicine

 * Comprehensive medication review, a type of medication therapy management program
 * Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, a medical imaging technology for non-invasive assessment of the function and structure of the cardiovascular system.

Military organizations

 * Canadian Mounted Rifles (disambiguation), several cavalry and infantry units in the Boer War and the World War I
 * Chief Makhanda Regiment, an infantry regiment of the South African Army

Places

 * CMR, a country code for Cameroon
 * CMR, a code for Colmar Airport, an airport near Colmar, Haut-Rhin department, France

Religious institutions

 * Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer, a Vietnamese Roman Catholic religious order

Schools and research facilities

 * Charles M. Russell High School, a secondary school in Great Falls, Montana
 * Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Facility, a nuclear facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory
 * Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, a military academy in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

Science and technology

 * Carbon-13 NMR, the application of NMR spectroscopy to carbon-13
 * Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, the use of MRI for assessing the function and structure of the heart and cardiovascular system
 * Cellular mobile radiophone, a cellphone (technically speaking)
 * Chayes-Matcha-Redner representation, a graphical representation of Ising spin glass
 * Clinical Microbiology Reviews, an academic journal covering microbiology and immunology
 * Colossal magnetoresistance, an electrical phenomenon
 * Common-mode rejection ratio, a measure of the capability of an instrument to reject a signal that is common to both input leads
 * Conventional Magnetic Recording, a type of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
 * Clear motion rate, an LCD screen technology used by Samsung to display of fast-moving images

Transportation

 * Cooma Monaro Railway, a heritage railway in New South Wales, Australia

Video games

 * Colin McRae Rally, a racing game

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User:Koorb

I am a computer programmer from Peterborough, England, working for an ISP. Just wanted to contribute!

Useful pages

 * ISO paper sizes

Articles I have created

 * Sandi Thom (originally but the wikipedia community removed it on the grounds it was not noteworthy and a vanity page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sandi_Thom)

Planing to contribute to

 * Computer related
 * Programming
 * Web development / design
 * Christianity
 * Music

Pages I have a special interest in

 * Cambridgeshire
 * Peterborough
 * St_Neots
 * Japan
 * Japanese
 * Koine Greek
 * Jesus Christ
 * God
 * Bible

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fichier initialisation

 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 speedy delete. Rob Church Talk 00:45, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Fichier initialisation
There's already an English article on this subject (Initialization file) which is more complete. — A.M. 20:00, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy delete - this French article appears to have been misplaced; by now, it is in the French wikipedia and both English Initialization file and French fr:Fichier initialisation are interwiki-ed. - Introvert   talk  20:11, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, maybe? Grayum 20:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - it is in French, a copy of the existing article in the French wiki (and it is the translation of the existing English article). Please refer to the policy on speedy deletion of such articles - Introvert   talk  21:06, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under WP:CSD A2, and so tagged. DES (talk) 00:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deleted --Henrygb 00:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Joe Schlesinger

Josef Schlesinger,  (May 11, 1928 – February 11, 2019) was a Canadian foreign correspondent, television journalist, and author.

Early life and career
Schlesinger was born to a devout Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, 1928. He was raised in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, where his parents, Emmanuel and Lilli (Fischl) Schlesinger, owned a cleaning supplies shop.

After Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1938, he and his younger brother, Ernest, were sent to England by his parents as part of the kindertransport, organized by Nicholas Winton, that rescued 669 Jewish children. His parents were later killed in the Holocaust. Schlesinger appears in and narrates the 2011 documentary Nicky's Family about Winton and the kindertransport.

Schlesinger pursued a journalism career after the war, first working at the Prague bureau of the Associated Press in 1948 as a translator. He fled Czechoslovakia after its Communist government began arresting journalists, crossing the border into Austria. In 1950, he immigrated to Canada. He arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax and travelled across the country to Vancouver to join his brother, who had immigrated to Canada earlier under the Canadian Jewish War Orphans Project.

After studying at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and editing the student newspaper, he reported for the city's afternoon newspaper, The Province, before moving to the Toronto Daily Star. He then left Canada and edited for UPI in London and the International Herald Tribune in Paris.

Career with the CBC
Schlesinger returned to Canada in 1966 and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as executive producer of The National but soon returned to reporting and served as the CBC's foreign correspondent variously in Hong Kong, Paris, Washington and Berlin, reporting on the Vietnam War, the Cultural Revolution and Ping-pong diplomacy in China, the Iranian Revolution, guerrilla wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and ultimately the fall of the Iron Curtain including the Velvet Revolution in his homeland of Czechoslovakia.

In 1990, he wrote his autobiography, Time Zones: a Journalist in the World, which became a bestseller. Schlesinger described his early career in an interview with Czech public radio Radio Prague, aired on March 21, 2005.

In the early 1990s Schlesinger was promoted to managing editor of CBC News, producing commentaries and documentaries for the short-lived CBC Prime Time News. He retired from full-time employment in 1994, but continued to produce essays and special reports for CBC News. In the last half of the 1990s he became host of a few foreign news magazine programs on CBC Newsworld, including Foreign Assignment (shared with Ian Hanomansing), and Schlesinger. He continued to produce occasional documentaries for the CBC and write commentaries for the CBC News website into his eighties.

Honours
He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994.

He was nominated for 18 Gemini Awards, winning three, for "Best Reportage" (1987 and 1992) and "Best News Magazine Segment" (2004). He was also awarded the John Drainie Award (1997) and "Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist (Gordon Sinclair Award)" (1987).

On June 7, 2010, he received an honorary doctorate of laws from Queen's University in Kingston, and delivered the convocation speech to part of the graduating class of 2010 from Queens' Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

On June 8, 2011, he received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Alberta in Edmonton for his long and distinguished career, and also delivered a speech to part of the U of A's 2011 graduating class of the Faculty of Arts.

He also held honorary doctorates from the University of British Columbia, the Royal Military College of Canada, Dalhousie University and Carleton University.

In 2016, he was inducted to the CBC News Hall of Fame, the second CBC news personality to be inducted after Knowlton Nash in 2015.

Death
Schlesinger died after a prolonged illness on February 11, 2019, at the age of 90, in Toronto.

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Ebbor Gorge

Ebbor Gorge is a limestone gorge in Somerset, England, designated and notified in 1952 as a 63.5 ha biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Mendip Hills. It was donated to the National Trust in 1967 and is now managed by Natural England as a national nature reserve.

The gorge was cut mostly into the Clifton Down Limestone, part of the Lower Carboniferous Pembroke Group, by water. The site was occupied by humans in the Neolithic Era and their tools and flint arrow heads have been discovered, along with pottery from the Bronze Age. There are also fossils of small mammals from the Late Devensian. The nature reserve provides a habitat for a variety of flora and fauna, including flowers, butterflies and bats.

Geology
Ebbor Gorge lies on the southwest-facing slope of the Mendip Hills and consists of a steep-sided ravine cut into 350-million-year-old Carboniferous Limestone of the Dinantian. The gorge was cut into Clifton Down Limestone by meltwater in the Pleistocene Epoch. The lowest part of the gorge is formed in the Namurian Quartzitic Sandstone Group and the South Wales Lower Coal Measures, over which younger limestones have been thrust to the north-east, as demonstrated by the BGS maps (1:50,000 sheet 280, Wells). An example of the rare mineral mendipite was found at the head of the gorge.

A stream issuing to the west of the site runs down the tributary valley of Hope Wood before joining the main gorge. The original watercourse which may have cut the gorge into the limestone became diverted underground and now emerges at Wookey Hole Caves to form the River Axe.

History
Various caves within the gorge were inhabited by neolithic people from which flint tools are held in the Wells and Mendip Museum. One particularly fine flint flake can be seen in the museum at King John's Hunting Lodge in Axbridge. Human and animal bones from the Neolithic were recovered from Outlook Cave in 1907. Bones from the Palaeolithic have been found at Savory's Hole.

Several caves occur within the Gorge, of which Bridged Pot and Gully Cave provide some of the best Late Devensian small-mammal assemblages known from Britain. Most of the deposits remain in situ and include steppe pika, Arctic lemming, Norway lemming, various voles, red deer and reindeer. Bronze Age finds include pottery from the Beaker culture, a stone axe and flint knife.

Current use
A 40 ha area of the gorge is owned by the National Trust, and managed by Natural England as a national nature reserve. The land was donated to the National Trust by Mrs G.W. Hodgkinson, in 1967, in memory of Winston Churchill. The site was purchased in 1931 by Wookey Hole Caves Ltd.

The site is close to Wookey Hole village and caves and offers views across the Somerset Levels to Glastonbury Tor and beyond. There are three marked trails of varying lengths around the steeply wooded gorge, the longest being 3 km long, the shortest of which is suitable for wheelchair users.

Biology and ecology

Because of the ecology of the area 63.5 ha was designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1952. The ground flora is indicative of the calcareous nature of the site, with dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis) being locally dominant. Many of the associated species are characteristic of ancient woodland. Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) and common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) are both locally abundant. The valley of the main gorge is humid and provides ideal conditions for fungi and ferns. It contains a substantial assemblage of bryophytes with over 120 species recorded including the nationally rare Bryum canariense and the very rare Amblystegiella confervoides.

The varied age and canopy structure of woodland encourages a high diversity of butterflies, nationally scarce species including the white-letter hairstreak (Strymonidia walbum) and high brown fritillary (Fabriciana adippe), while species such as the chalkhill blue (Lysandra coridon) and brown argus (Aricia agestis) occur on the limestone grassland. Greater horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and lesser horseshoes (Rhinolophus hipposideros) regularly use sites in the Gorge as hibernacular roosts. The site also supports birds of prey and a few red deer.

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