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Talk:The Horse Whisperer (film)

denies
I have corrected a previous editor's change of the article that falsely gave Monty Roberts credit for inspiring writer Nicholas Evans' concept of the Tom Booker character. On Evans' website faq, he states
 * >I spent many weeks traveling across the West and met three amazing horsemen: Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman. Some of you may have read that someone called Monty Roberts was the model for Tom Booker, The Horse Whisperer in the book, and that he helped me with my research. It's not true. met Mr Roberts once, briefly, in England but have never seen him with a horse or seen him since. He had no involvement whatsoever.

> The false claim keeps popping up, as though repeating it often enough would make the falsehood true. Lil 14:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Monty Roberts says that 70% of the main character was modeled after him and says the author met him and asked him a lot about his work with horses. The documentary on Roberts gets its title from this: it calls roberts "The Real Horse Whisperer".

The author ackwnoledges meeting Roberts but denies "basing" his character on Robrets. Uncle Ed 01:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Claim about inspiration of the main character

 * Other people have called Roberts the "Horse Whisperer" because Roberts was an inspiration to Nicholas Evans, the English author of the book "The Horse Whisperer," from which Robert Redford adapted the movie by the same name.

I think the above claim should be mentioned in the text of the article, but I'm not sure how to do it. Uncle Ed 19:42, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Separate page about the novel
This article is mostly about the film, but the novel doesn't seem to have an article of its own. It ought to have one especially that the book makes the reader think over the life, reassess the values. The book is also worth rereaging to "catch the upstreams". 169.230.94.21 21:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Interesting trivia
A bit of interesting trivia about the movie: Brannaman actually doubled for Redford in several of the horse training scenes; you can tell which is which because Brannaman is right-handed, Redford is left-handed. Also, I had a chance to speak to Tom Dorrance before he passed away about the book and the movie. He was not at all impressed with the fact that the main character was based in part on him. He was most offended that the character 'stepped out' on his wife, something that was not in his character. --AeronM (talk) 20:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Move?
This page could do with moving to "The Horse Whisperer (film)" to make room for an article on the book. Currently the link to the "1995 novel" in the first paragraph leads to a page on novels published in 1995, and the link there leads to here. Are there any objections to this? Swanny18 (talk) 14:55, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Controversy
It says in the Controversy section that the scene where Pilgrim was hobbled “more closely resemble(s) the more gimmick-laden methods of Frank Bell than of a true natural horsemanship model” yet the same process is referred to in the article on the Rarey technique, which also claims to be a source for the film.

And it refers to “basic safety problems in the film (which) include Redford kneeling in front of a horse known to charge humans in one scene”, but the picture at Natural horsemanship depicts just that.

Comments? Swanny18 (talk) 16:18, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Move, again
I suggested a move in July (see above), but there's been no response. Any objections if I go ahead and do it? Swanny18 (talk) 17:34, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, done. Swanny18 (talk) 09:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

References to use
Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erik (talk • contribs) 28 October 2010 18:51 (UTC)
 * Section moved here from Talk:The Horse Whisperer since that is now a dab page. --Mirokado (talk) 18:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Inline references required
Most of this article requires inline references. It is not practicable to add throughout the article, but I have tagged the two most problematical sections and will, in accordance with the tag notice, remove unreferenced material, which is not immediately obvious to anyone, one month later. Here are the detailed reasons for the tags: This section contains apparent original research and opinion, unsourced information and an unsourced quotation. Everything mentioned in a section about controversies must ipso facto be referenced in detail. This section quotes reviews without providing inline references. Mentioning a web site which is alleged to have had some information is not enough. – Mirokado (talk) 01:14, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Horse training methods and controversies:
 * Reception:

 * The tags are there for references to be added. There is no need to randomly delete material just because it's tagged.  You are sort of exaggerating the WP guidelines on this.  A refimprove tag at the top really is all that is needed her, IMHO.   Montanabw (talk) 05:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Har. I have corrected and dated the new tag. My intention was to have knowledgeable editors focus first on the sections which must be updated for the reasons I stated, thus reducing the probability that material must be deleted, so I don't at all think the two tags were overkill. However I am delighted that you are taking an interest in this so let's see how the article looks in a month's time. I won't "randomly delete" anything, but you, as (so it seems) an expert, need to bear in mind that most readers will be, like me, quite unable to tell which parts of the controversies section are accurate descriptions of notable contentious issues and which if any are complete nonsense or an editor's point of view. While I could of course try to find references myself I lack the knowledge to evaluate them, so there is a risk that any changes I made really would be nonsense. This is precisely a situation in which unverifiable material must be deleted. I will though try to look for some well-sourced critics' reviews during the next few weeks. – Mirokado (talk) 09:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I've updated the Reception section: I think there is no longer a serious problem with that. – Mirokado (talk) 21:19, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

 * I can't say this article is high on my list of things to do (I only have about 1500 articles on my watchlist). I actually don't really care a bunch about movie articles, I only have some interest in the actual equestrian stuff and seeing that any complete nonsense gets tossed.  No interest in an overall rewrite. The plot synopsis and such and the general reviews anyone else can edit as far as I'm concerned.  I mostly added that John Lyons paragraph a while back because it seemed a balanced critique, and as I edit the equestrian stuff a ton, I know that the whole natural horsemanship crowd has a lot of competition, (more than one edit war here, too) and a lot of romanticized nonsense out there (that this movie did nothing but fuel, IMHO).  I tried to find a source for one bit of content and could not, so tossed it, and also tossed some stuff that is just a slap at yet another person in that field.   So I guess if you want to run any ideas or sources past me, I'd be glad to provide input, or if you think we need some "dubious" tags to trigger specific discussion, that's fine.  But I just don't see this as a BLP where every sentence must be verified else it's gone...   Montanabw (talk) 22:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC) Follow up The Lyons bit is reffed.  I suggest that instead of complaining, those who care should try to source the rest.   Montanabw (talk) 03:12, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

 * I've added a couple more references. The major remaining problem is "Some argue ... more gimmick-laden methods". Not only does this use weasel words, but I have looked for such arguments and not yet found them. I've tagged this bit explicitly. The Synowski ref supports the phrase it appears after, but may even contradict the rest of that paragraph, so more attention is needed here too. Some of the other comments are basic common sense really, so refs are not so essential but would certainly improve the article if they can be added. --Mirokado (talk) 23:17, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

 * I guess at this point, we shall see if anyone else cares. I have no beef with tossing the two you've tagged.  I suspect the sources were blogs, which is where all the horse gossip goes.   Montanabw (talk) 03:16, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Section moved here from Talk:The Horse Whisperer since that is now a dab page. --Mirokado (talk) 18:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Ran out of room in the edit summary
I need to leave a note about my removal of two EL's with this edit. Neither of these had anything to do with this film so per WP:EL I did not think they belonged with this article. That does not mean that they can't be used on WikiP. The one for the book can go with its article and the one for the person can go with his - if they aren't already there. MarnetteD | Talk 21:53, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Soundtrack
There's no mention here of the original soundtrack by John Barry, which was rejected by Redford and replaced with Thomas Newman's one. (Barry eventually released the material as part of his 1990 album "The Beyondness of Things".) Perhaps someone with more detailed knowledge could add something about this? 87.194.150.80 (talk) 02:55, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

"British novel" category
I would like to discuss the Category:Films based on British novels. I am not certain that a British-born author makes a novel "British," particularly when it is set in the American west and the author was living in the American west (he actually crashed at the home of someone I know) when he wrote the novel. I am willing to look over the criteria we use to designate novels by nationality, but, for example, we cannot think of Lolita as a "Russian" novel even though the author was born in Russia... discuss? Montanabw (talk) 23:37, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Novels in general are categorized by the nationality of the author, not by their setting. Murder on the Orient Express is mostly set in Yugoslavia, but we do not call it a Yugoslavian novel. Dracula is partly set in Transylvania, but we do not call it a Transylvanian, Hungarian, or Romanian novel. Frankenstein is mostly set in Geneva, Switzerland, but we do not call it a Swiss novel. Moll Flanders is partly set in the Colony of Virginia and the Province of Maryland, but we do not call it an American novel.

The nationality of an author and the setting of his/her novel can differ significantly. Dimadick (talk) 04:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

 * Well, the Lolita example has both "Russian novels adapted into films" and "American novels adapted into films." Given that, like Nabokov, Evans was living in the USA at the time he wrote the novel, would a joint categorization be a reasonable solution?  There seems a bit of IAR possible here.  Montanabw (talk) 19:18, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, though I am not certain Nicholas Evans ever gained American citizenship. Dimadick (talk) 19:34, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

 * Good enough. :-)  Montanabw (talk) 22:41, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

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Main bearing

A main bearing is a bearing in a piston engine which holds the crankshaft in place and allows it to rotate within the engine block.

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Number of main bearings
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Some small single-cylinder engines have only one main bearing, in which case it must withstand the bending moment created by the offset distance from the connecting rod to the main bearing.

When describing a crankshaft design, the number of main bearings is generally quoted, as the number of crank pins is determined by the cylinder layout. For example, the Toyota VZ V6 engine is described as having a "four bearing crankshaft" and the Jaguar XK6 straight-six engine has a "seven bearing crankshaft".

Bearing caps
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4 bolt main
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KZZP

KZZP (104.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Mesa, Arizona, and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. The station airs a top 40 (CHR) format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. Studios and offices are on East Van Buren Street in Phoenix near Sky Harbor International Airport.

The transmitter is off Road D in South Mountain Park, amid other towers for Phoenix-area FM and TV stations. KZZP has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, broadcasting from a tower at 472 meters (1,549 ft) in height above average terrain (HAAT).

Programming
KZZP is the flagship station of the syndicated Johnjay and Rich in the Morning show, starring Johnjay Van Es, Rich Berra, Kyle Unfug and Payton Whitmore. Afternoons are hosted by Suzette Rodriguez, a former Johnjay and Rich personality. As of January 2021, KZZP also carries the syndicated show, Tino Cochino Radio in the evenings.

Early years
The station first signed on the air in 1950 as KTYL-FM. It was the FM counterpart to KTYL in Mesa (now KIHP). The two stations simulcast their programming and were owned by Sun Valley Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Harkins Theatres, a movie theater chain. In 1953, a television station was added, NBC affiliate KTYL-TV (now KPNX). (The KTYL-FM call sign is now used by a station in Tyler, Texas.)

In 1958, the radio stations were acquired by Greater Phoenix Broadcasting, under Sherwood R. Gordon, president. The following year, the stations switched call letters to KBUZ-AM-FM with a beautiful music format.

In late 1976, the stations were sold to Southwestern Media, Inc., with the FM splitting from the AM Simulcast on 1/1/1977, changing call letters to KIOG (on air ID was K104-FM) and aired a soft rock syndicated format from TM Programming in Dallas called "Beautiful Rock", originating from studios located at the Thomas Mall in Phoenix.

Top 40 KZZP
Western Cities Broadcasting purchased KIOG in 1980, along with its co-owned AM station. Both stations changed to a Top 40 format as KZZP-AM-FM. During those days, the station was known as "104.7 KZZP."

Morning host Jonathon Brandmeier, also known as Johnny B., later became a star in The Windy City at WLUP-FM in Chicago. While in Phoenix, his KZZP show featured prank phone calls, parody songs which Brandmeier himself usually wrote, sang and recorded, along with a cast of regular characters. When Brandmeier left for Chicago, Western Cities won an injunction to keep him off the air in that market until his contract with KZZP had expired. In 1991, Brandmeier hosted a national late night TV show, "Johnny B. on the Loose," syndicated by Viacom.

KZZP, also known as "Hitmusic 104" or "FM 104" in the 1980s, was considered one of America's leading Top 40 radio stations. It was led by Program Director Guy Zapoleon, and owned by Nationwide Communications. During Zapoleon's era, the station played mass appeal hits along with some adventurous dance and alternative releases. Zapoleon hired morning man Bruce Kelly from Boston in July 1985.

The station also had popular DJs including Valerie Knight, Kevin Weatherly, Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Otto, Kevin Ryder and Gene Baxter (of Kevin and Bean fame), Todd Fisher, Clarke Ingram, John Machay, Nick Sommers, Michelle Santosuosso, William "Bill Stu" Stewart, Carey Edwards, Steve Goddard, Kent Voss, William "Buddy" LaTour, Mike Elliot, John O'Rourke, Steve Grosz, Susan Karis, Dave Ryan, Laurie Michaels, Brandon Scott—both former KQKS “KS104” Denver jocks and Christopher Lee.

In December 1989, Bruce Kelly signed a lucrative five-year contract with the station, but was released just weeks later. Kelly sued for wrongful termination and won. Years later, Kelly went to KKFR and teamed with former WLUP Chicago DJ Maggie Brock to host "Bruce & Maggie in the Morning."

KVRY (1991–96)
On April 28, 1991, at 1 p.m., after playing "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John, KZZP began stunting with a ticking clock. Two days later, on April 30, KZZP changed to Hot Adult Contemporary, branded as "Variety 104.7." The KZZP call letters were retired for KVRY at the time of the change. The first song on "Variety" was "Roll with It" by Steve Winwood. "Variety" was led by Program Director Stef Rybak and Assistant PD/Music Director Jon Zellner, who also hosted afternoon drive.

Return to KZZP (1996–2001)
On March 8, 1996, at 3 p.m., after six hours of stunting with heartbeat sound effects and clips from the television show ER, KZZP returned to Phoenix, this time featuring a Modern AC format, and the "104.7 KZZP" name, making an attempt to capture the audience that grew up listening to the original incarnation. The first song on the relaunched KZZP was "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure.

Brandmeier made a brief return, via syndication, in mornings, in 1996, but ratings were not strong, and after six months, he was replaced with a local morning show. The station returned to #1 in the ratings for a couple of periods during this time. Jacor bought Nationwide's radio stations, including KZZP, in 1997.

Bruce Kelly returned in August 1998 for a brief run in mornings. The new Modern AC KZZP was competing with the similarly-formatted KMXP, and would later become its sister station with the merger of Jacor and Nationwide. KMXP had the better ratings so, in February 1999, KZZP began evolving back to Mainstream Top 40 by including more rhythmic and upbeat tracks in its playlist; the shift was completed that April. In June 1999, KZZP rebranded as "104-7 'ZZP - Arizona's Hit Music Channel." The station made even more changes, including in its air staff and playlist. The station briefly aired Los Angeles-based Rick Dees in syndication for a few months in 2000. With all of these changes, however, KZZP was usually ranked in the mid-2 to low-3 share range of the radio market.

104.7 KISS-FM (2001–present)
On April 20, 2001, at 6 p.m., after playing "Higher" by Creed, KZZP began stunting with a 3-day loop of Prince's Kiss. At Noon on April 23, the station relaunched as "104.7 KISS-FM." It featured an introduction from Destiny's Child, whose song Survivor was the first song played. By this time, Jacor had been merged into Clear Channel Communications. Many Top 40 stations owned by Clear Channel would later call themselves KISS-FM, regardless of their actual call sign, including KIIS-FM Los Angeles, KHKS Dallas and WXKS-FM Boston.

KZZP, under Clear Channel and Program Director Tom Caloccoci, went in a Rhythmic-leaning Top 40 direction that included some dance crossovers. Although KZZP broadened to include mainstream pop songs by 2004, KZZP's playlist still leaned rhythmic, similar to many Top 40 stations in the Southwest. On September 16, 2014, Clear Channel renamed itself iHeartMedia, to bring its corporate name in line with its iHeartRadio internet platform. Around the same time as the corporate name change, KZZP repositioned to a Mainstream Top 40 direction, along with several other leading rhythmic Top 40 stations, such as KYLD San Francisco, WBBM-FM Chicago and XHITZ San Diego.

HD radio
KZZP broadcasts in the HD Radio format. The main signal is a simulcast of KZZP's Top 40 programming. The HD2 subchannel formerly carried Evolution, iHeartRadio's commercial free Dance/EDM station, and was its flagship outlet for the platform.

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Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space

Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (released in Japan as Blinx 2: Battle of Time and Space) is a platform video game developed by Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. Released in 2004, it is the sequel to Blinx: The Time Sweeper and was the second and final installment of the series. Like the previous installment, it is playable on an Xbox 360 using backwards compatibility.

Gameplay
In Blinx 2, the player switches between playing as the Time Sweepers and the Tom Toms. Much of the core gameplay is retained from the first game for the Time Sweepers, with each Time Sweeper equipped with a vacuum that can collect debris, time crystals, and gold crystals. When shooting debris, the player can now lock onto enemies, a feature planned for the original game. The player no longer needs to collect the crystals in any order to receive a time control, but rather just collect three of a particular crystal. Some of these controls can also be combined, allowing the player to use certain effects with each other, such as speeding themselves up with the fast forward while slowing the world down at the same time. Each Time Sweeper level has multiple missions that the player can choose to do, although only one needs to be completed in order to progress. Meanwhile, the Tom Toms control much like a stealth game, with the player aiming to avoid Time Sweepers to collect loot at a location, and then return it to their initial location without being caught. In this mode, the player has several gadgets at their arsenal to control space, distract the Time Sweepers and to assist with their passage through the level, such as decoys and wormholes. They also have guns, which can be used to take out Time Sweepers at risk of attracting attention to themselves. If the player is caught as a Tom Tom, they must hide, as the Time Sweepers will otherwise quickly defeat them. The story mode can be played in both single-player and in co-operative, with a second player able to join the game.

Despite being the game titled after the character of Blinx, he is not playable in this game, being only present during cutscenes. He is instead replaced with two teams of four customisable characters, with a team for the Time Sweepers and a team for the Tom Toms. The player can customise these characters at any time in the hub world for the respective team, with an in-depth set of sliders to scale various different aspects of the character, and various outfits, accessories, emblems, styles and colours to choose from. The player can use these characters in both the story mode and versus mode. Versus mode, a new addition to the game, pits the Tom Toms against the Time Sweepers, with up to four players able to join. The time and space controls from the main game are carried over but serve different functions here, such as the rewind control now turning the targeted character into an "infant state", making them smaller and weaker. The last team standing wins the match.

Plot
The player can choose to play as either members of the Time Sweepers (anthropomorphic cat) or the Tom Toms (pig) on their mission to prevent a threat which will result in a global catastrophe by finding the eight fragments of the all-powerful Big Crystal. Some Tom Tom pigs accidentally destroy the legendary Big Crystal upon discovering it. As a result, the Time Sweepers and the Tom Toms then fight past many time glitch monsters and with each other. Upon completing levels when playing as the Time Sweepers, a short cinematic plays of the mysterious Time Angel, who wants her crystal repaired. At the end of the game, the player's Time Sweepers join with a team which must go to a mysterious part of an alternate universe to defeat the Scissor Demon, a mission from which they cannot return. The team is easily defeated by the demon until a squad of Tom Toms, including the player's custom Tom Toms, arrive. The Tom Toms' leader gives the player's Time Sweeper the other half of the big crystal which enables the player to hurt the Demon. Once the Scissor Demon is defeated, it dissolves. The screen then fades to white, at which point the Angel thanks the Time Sweepers and the Tom-Toms for their efforts.

Development
Blinx: The Time Sweeper was released in 2002 for the Xbox. Microsoft had aimed to create a game that appealed to Japanese gamers and even potentially create a mascot for Japan out of titular character Blinx, but they found the game receiving only mixed-to-positive reviews, with it not selling as well as they had hoped in Japan. Despite this, the game sold over 600,000 copies worldwide as of 2004, causing Microsoft to green light a sequel in hopes of releasing a significantly improved product that would make much more of an impact. Takuya Matsumoto was brought on to co-direct with Naoto Ohshima, director of the original game, due to his significant contributions as main programmer of Blinx and the increased scale of the sequel.

Due to the increased workload of creating two individual stories with unique gameplay styles, the development team was split into two for Blinx 2, with one half working on the Time Sweepers and the other half working on the Tom Toms. Directors Matsumoto and Ohshima aimed to create a game with many new features setting it apart from its predecessor; in an interview with Xbox Japan, Matsumoto joked that they had skipped from the second entry of the series to the third as a result of making so many changes. Oshima, in a developer diary for IGN, stated that the game was an answer to critics of the first game, with it doubling in scope from the original. Microsoft had compiled every review, user comment and piece of feedback on the original Blinx, something the developers constantly referenced while developing the sequel. They increased the movement of the Time Sweepers by 1.6 times, and added lock-on when shooting with the vacuum, something planned for the original game but not completed in time for release. The developers also added customisable characters and multiplayer, two things that were not present in the original game. The character of Blinx was redesigned to give him a more "grown-up" appearance, with Blinx's signature sweeper being redesigned to look more like a guitar due to a conversation about guitars between art designer Masamichi Harada and art director Noriko Omizo; the game's overall art style was changed to accommodate this and as a response to complaints the original game's levels were bland in design.

Artoon found difficulty in balancing Blinx 2 so that there was an even amount of attention given to the Tom Toms and the Time Sweepers, and moreso in balancing the two so that there was an even playing field for both sides during competitive multiplayer. The developers continued to test the game even after the bug-fixing stage, in order to help adjust this balance for the final game. The game was announced in June 2004, with a press announcement calling it "the world's first 5-D game", a play on the previous game's tagline, although this was dropped before release. The game went gold on 4 November of that same year, and released in North America a week and a half later.

Reception
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the game a total score of 33 out of 40. In a review of Blinx 2 for IGN, Douglass Perry called it "a solid, if slightly above ordinary, platform game", but said that nothing in the game had a "must-buy" quality to it. Nick Margos, reviewing for GameSpy, said of the game that "for every improvement it's made over its prequel, Blinx 2 introduces an element that seems designed to frustrate and impede your progress". Duke Ferris of GameRevolution explained that poor implementation of new features, designs and music counteract what should have been some interesting additions to an old genre.

Many reviewers complained that Blinx 2 carried over issues from the first game. Gamespot's Alex Navarro stated that the game was much less restrictive and significantly deeper than its predecessor, praising the addition of competitive and co-operative multiplayer, but lamented that it still lacked "captivating" gameplay, or characters that the players could care about. Sydney Morning Herald's Jason Hill said that while the Time Sweeper sections were improved from the previous game, the Blinx series had failed to capitalise on its potential and the sequel was "another disappointment"; Eurogamer's Ronan Jennings echoed a similar sentiment, stating that while the sequel had improved on the design and controls, the overall game was "just as underwhelming" as the first.

Reviewers noted that, despite the game being titled Blinx 2 and being featured on the box art cover, Blinx himself was only featured on the cover art and in a few cutscenes; custom characters modified through the in-game character creator were playable instead. Gamespot in its review called this the "weirdest thing" about the game. Other reviewers, however, saw this as a positive, with GameZone calling it a "nifty feature", and Eurogamer noting it as "one of a few clever additions" to the game.

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Fisher (electoral district)

Fisher is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created for the 1920 provincial election, and eliminated with the 1969 election. The constituency was located in mid-northern Manitoba, in the Interlake region.

There have long been suggestions that the election results for Fisher in the 1962 provincial election were rigged. New Democratic Party incumbent Peter Wagner was originally declared the winner, but this decision was overturned when a scrutineer from a remote polling station announced, by telephone, that a miscount had occurred.

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Junction Oval

Junction Oval (also known as the St Kilda Cricket Ground, or the CitiPower Centre due to sponsorship reasons) is a historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The oval's location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its name. It is located approximately five kilometres south from the centre of Melbourne and is in the southernmost part of the large Albert Park sporting precinct. The oval is the administrative headquarters of Cricket Victoria, and was redeveloped between 2015 and 2018 for that purpose.

History and description
The St Kilda Cricket Ground was established on its present site in 1856. The first grandstand at the ground was purchased from the old Elsternwick racecourse and erected in 1892 at the southern end of the ground. A new grandstand was built in 1925–26 at a cost of £7000, designed by the architect E J Clark and built by H H Eilenberg. It was originally called the G P Newman Stand but has been renamed the Kevin Murray Stand after one of the Fitzroy Football Club's most famous footballers. A second brick stand designed by E J Clark to complement the Murray Stand was built by H H Eilenberg in 1933–34 at a cost of £7500. It was named the Don Blackie–Bert Ironmonger Stand in honour of the St Kilda Cricket Club and Test cricketers. Both grandstands still stand today and have been restored and are in use. A new £6000 manual scoreboard and kiosk at the northern end of the ground was built in 1956–57, the cricket club's centenary year. The scoreboard is a landmark of the St Kilda Junction area. The remainder of the ground is grass embankments, other than the southern practice wicket area. Older structures were demolished during a rationalisation of the ground, after they were declared a fire hazard by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1988. It is a very picturesque venue, with a top-quality turf playing area and a modern backdrop of tall buildings and parkland. The current capacity of the ground is 7,000.

Cricket great Shane Warne had a long association with the St Kilda Cricket Ground. He made his first class debut at the ground for Victoria in 1991, and played there on numerous occasions between 1989 and 2006 for his club side, St Kilda. In 2010, the club proposed renaming the ground the Shane Warne Oval, but the change never occurred. In 2013, Warne spoke on behalf of the campaign to preserve the ground's suitability as a venue for first-class cricket.

In December 2014, the Victorian government announced it would contribute $25 million to the Oval's redevelopment to allow it to become the administrative and training headquarters of Cricket Victoria. By the end of 2015, Cricket Victoria and Cricket Australia, in combination with the Melbourne Cricket Club, contributed the extra $15 million necessary to allow the redevelopment to proceed. The redevelopment of the venue incorporated several new features such as a national centre for cricket training and programs, on-site accommodation for visiting teams and officials, medical and training facilities including an extensive outdoor turf training area and 10-lane indoor centre and administrative facilities and offices to house Cricket Victoria and be rented to external parties. The redevelopment allowed the oval to become a boutique-size alternative venue for first-class cricket with a capacity for up to 7,000 spectators.

The upgraded venue was unveiled ahead of the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and New South Wales on 3 March 2018. The Melbourne Stars played the first men's Big Bash League match at the venue against the Perth Scorchers on 2 January 2022 as part of their BBL11 Campaign.

Cricket
Junction Oval was founded in tandem with the St Kilda Cricket Club, who have called the ground home since its opening in 1856. The club plays in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition and has a rich history of success at the venue. Prior to the redevelopment in 2015–18, the venue had hosted 28 first-class cricket matches, including 25 Sheffield Shield games. The lack of upgrades to the oval meant that by 2005 the venue failed to meet first-class standards, though in retaining its charm it was compared to the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

The need for a first-class standard cricket ground in Victoria, in addition to the 100,000 seat capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), became increasingly apparent as the state team was forced to host Sheffield Shield finals in interstate locations. Consequently, the redevelopment of the ground in the mid-2010s allowed Victoria and other teams to host matches at an appropriately-sized venue, relieving pressure on the MCG and enabling the oval to become capable of hosting Women's Big Bash League matches and other cricket competitions where necessary, as well as being the administrative headquarters of Cricket Victoria. The venue is referred to as the CitiPower Centre. Prior to redevelopment, Victoria utilised the oval during the 2005–06 season when the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) was being prepared for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In the early 1990s it was used regularly because of the construction of the Great Southern Stand at the MCG. It also played host to the 2008/09 Sheffield Shield final, won by the Bushrangers, due to the unavailability of the MCG, because of the Bushfire relief concert.

The Junction Oval was converted into a full-time cricket venue as of 2015 as part of the redevelopment in 2015 until 2018.

As a result of the redevelopment, the Victorian state team plays many home games in the domestic One-Day Cup and Sheffield Shield competitions at the oval. Success at the redeveloped ground came quickly for the Victorians, who won their sixth One-Day Cup and 32nd Sheffield Shield at the Junction Oval during the 2018–19 season.

Australian rules football
While the redevelopment of Junction Oval ended the 145-year association of Australian rules football with the ground, the venue has a rich football history.

On 28 May 1870, the first ever football match with historical senior premiership status was played at the oval between South Yarra and Albert Park, with Albert Park winning by three goals to one.

After entering senior competition, the St Kilda Football Club played its home matches there in 1874 and in 1875, when the club merged with University for one season to form a combined team, St Kilda cum University, due to a lack of players. As St Kilda moved to Alpaca Paddock in 1876 after returning as a standalone team, and a lack of players and financial problems meant that St Kilda went into recess during 1879, no further matches would be played there until St Kilda returned to senior competition in 1886.

St Kilda subsequently played their home games at the venue until 1964 (except for in 1916–17, when the club was in recess due to World War I, and 1942–43, when the military occupied the ground during World War II). Before the 1944 season, the military vacated the Junction Oval, and because it was closer to South Melbourne's still-occupied home ground, the Lake Oval, than Princes Park was, the Swans started playing their home games at the venue: South Melbourne played 29 home matches for premiership points at the ground between 1944 and 1946. Other clubs who used the venue as a home ground included South Melbourne (1944–1946) and Fitzroy (1970–1984), while the first ever women's footy match was played there in 1921.

St Kilda Football Club played 564 home matches for premiership points at the ground between 1897 and 1964. The Saints' final home game at the venue was on 22 August 1964, a 12-point win against Geelong, 12.18 (90) to 11.12 (78), in front of 37,100 fans. The club also played 16 away games at the venue: 13 against the Fitzroy and three against South Melbourne.

The St Kilda Football Club left the venue after the 1964 season and moved to Moorabbin Oval, motivated by the desire to operate its own venue.

In 1970, the Fitzroy Football Club relocated to the venue and stayed until the end of 1984. Fitzroy played 135 home matches for premiership points at the ground between 1970 and 1984. Fitzroy were evicted from the venue at the end of 1984 after a fifteen-year tenure, and moved their primary training and administrative base to Northcote Park and their home games to Victoria Park, sharing the venue with Collingwood Football Club.

The final VFL game to be played at the Junction Oval was between St Kilda Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in front of a crowd attendance of 15,156 on 1 September 1984 in Round 22 of 1984: Fitzroy defeated St Kilda by 57 points, 24.20 (164) to St Kilda 15.17 (107).

The ground also hosted six VFL finals matches, including three Grand Finals (in 1898–1899 and 1944, all three being won by Fitzroy). Between 1870 and 1984, 845 senior matches in the recognised top level of Victorian football – 12 in the unaffiliated era, 99 in the VFA and 734 in the VFL/AFL – were played at the ground over 93 seasons of competition.

Junction Oval was also a regular venue for Victorian Football Association finals following the Second World War: it staged every top division VFA finals series, including Grand Finals, from 1945 until 1962, in 1966, and then again from 1970 until 1987. The Sandringham Football Club played home games at the ground during the 1966 season.

The Melbourne Football Club used the venue as a training ground and administrative base between 1985 and 2010, having previously trained at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,  and the annual 3RRR Community Cup football match was played there until 2007.

The last football tenant was the Victorian Amateur Football Association's Old Melburnians Football Club from 1992 to 2015, and they took on Old Caulfield Grammarians in the final Australian rules football match to be played at the Junction Oval on 22 July 2015.

Record attendances
The record attendance at the ground is 46,973 on 20 May 1950 to watch St Kilda play Carlton in a VFL match, a bigger crowd than any of the three Grand Finals played at the venue.

The record attendance for a South Melbourne home game at the Junction Oval was 38,000 against Richmond in 1946.

The record attendance for a Fitzroy home game was 27,202 versus Collingwood in the opening round of 1981.

Other sports
On 3 March 1975, one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, "Smokin" Joe Frazier, defeated Jimmy Ellis via technical knockout in the 9th round of their scheduled 12 round fight at the Junction Oval, "to barge squarely back into contention for Muhammad Ali's world heavyweight title." It was the second time Ellis had fought Frazier; Frazier had won their first fight. Other major events that have been held at the ground include the 1898/99 Victorian athletics titles, numerous bicycle meets and two inter-colonial lacrosse matches between Victoria and New South Wales. A pre-season rugby league trial match between Western Suburbs and Manly Warringah was staged at the oval in 1978 notable for being the start of the infamous Fibros vs Silvertails rivalry shared between the two sides.

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Hello Mr R,

Just to let you know that I've just been informed that several (extremely useful and informative) articles on sport (such as FA Premier League 2006-07 goalscorers) that I both update and use for research, have just been needlessly deleted. I am told by the IP editor of this article that a group of objectionable admins are grouping together to purge articles on sport and sports statistics. This is extremely irritating - as a sports journalist such articles are invaluable and easily the best resource of their kind on the web. If Wikipedia is intending to make itself less useful, informative and detailed for the sake of it I can't see the point of me continuing to use it or contribute to it. Somebody has taken it to 'deletion review' (which I don't understand) and I wish them luck. If you can help in any way please let me know. I contribute a lot to WP and have donated in the past but now I'm not getting my reward I feel it would be pointless for me to do so again.

I would like to argue for a separate WikiSport section which would solve the argument once and for all.

Thanks for your time and continued effort, Mjefm 15:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

There is a new project about your WikiSport section. It's virgin, so you can start all the project.  Please, contact with the Administrator of this web to change any setting of the wiki. [mailto:info@i-wikisport.com]

Kind regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.145.148.10 (talk) 18:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

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Hello,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser.

I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

I found your userpage on a list of prolific Wikipedians and thought I’d reach out to you. Prolific editing is always a good story to tell!

If you are interested in participating, please contact me via my email:

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Thank you for your time!

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About me: I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2005. My userpage can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

Football kit editing
Hey Mr. R!!

Looks like you are a great wikipedia editor. I was wondering if you could give this unexperience user some help...I am trying to add some historical kits to the Peru national football team page. I want to creat some new patterns but I dont know how to. I can creat a kit with the existing patterns but I want to creat some specific kits that cannot be replicated with any of the existing patterns. I want to know what software to use and how to upload the information.I hope to hear from you soon. --Critviz (talk) 01:12, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open Alpha

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent 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 by User:Doc glasgow Ryan Norton T 23:27, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Open Alpha
Not notable. Delete. brenneman (t) (c) 01:07, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This is so borderline. Those TV show mentions are legit, and the Alexa rank has improved from the 600000 to the 300000s...I reserve the right to vote later....--CastAStone 01:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Reply. Open Alpha is one of the biggest and most popular technology vidcasts on the web. The host has featured on many other popular technology shows such as the extremely popular podcast This Week in Tech. All technically and gaming interested people know what Open Alpha is and it has received many downloads per episode. Have a look at the backlinks to see how popular the video and site are: here. cheers, Treelovinhippie 02:58, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * To Admins: Please take note that the user who has tagged this article for deletion has surprising done so with many of the other articles I have created/editted. He obviously likes the conflict it causes (as can be seen in the 'dispute box' which is on his user page). Treelovinhippie 05:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - I think it goes without saying that Treelovinhippie's comments here and on his user page (both exhibiting ignorance of wikipedia policy and community norms, and an insulting lack of respect for his fellow wikipedians) warrants more attention from administrators than a perfectly reasonable AfD. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 05:37, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Notable television series.--Nicodemus75 05:45, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Not a TV series. But if it were, how are we gauging notability, so I can verify. Thanks -  brenneman (t) (c)  05:54, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you'll come up with some subjective standard.--Nicodemus75 05:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm left to interpret that as "It's notable because I say so, and I won't present any evidence to support my claim". brenneman (t) (c)  07:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. The only claim of notability seems to be that the host has appeared on This Week In Tech and Call For Help. I don't see any legitimate evidence of popularity or newsworthiness. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 06:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Evidence. For those of you people who don't have a clue as to the popularity of Open Alpha....
 * Now as I have stated before, it is often difficult to state exact figures on the number of downloads per podcast, as often these are distributed via bittorrent (which is very difficult to track) and the podcasts end up all over the net with various other sources distributing it.
 * As I have said, also, the host of this show has featured on TWiT at least once (and in most cases more). TWiT is the number one podcast on the internet and has been at the top of the iTunes charts for a long time. They are a technology podcast and only feature people who are interesting and are well-known (i.e. this podcasts' host). That in itself should be enough to justify its popularity.
 * Another thing I'll post is a link to a post on http://www.digg.com (a social bookmarking site). Basically the number of 'diggs' is how many people have clicked to 'digg' it and is an indication of its popularity. See an example of a digg article posted for this podcast here: http://www.digg.com/technology/OpenAlpha.tv_Episode_1
 * Delete. Encyclopedic notability not established by the article, which looks like advertising. Gamaliel 11:19, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable podcast. android  79  13:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete deja vu. BTW, I'm a "technically and gaming interested person" but have never heard of this. — brighterorange  (talk) 16:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that claim is patently absurd. android  79  16:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I'll admit I was tempted to cut and paste my comments from the CommandN debate here... Only thing I'll add to my statements there is that the "diggs" on this cast are around 300 per episode, making it even less viewed than the non-notable CommandN. As a hardcore gamer who works in IT, I second  brighterorange 's comments.--Isotope23 19:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The number of 'diggs' is a very, very rough guide as to the popularity of this podcast. digg.com is only one site (out of the many hundreds of other sites this podcast is backlinked from) and many people may not have clicked the digg button, but simply gone straight to the link.
 * And so based on your description, digg.com is basically worthless as a measure of this podcast's popularity.--Isotope23 13:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Why is this non-notable? What is the criteria to determine this? I notice that some people write that this podcast doesn't have enough viewers to be notable -- but how many viewers does a podcast need to be notable? And why that number? Please try to come up with substantial reasons for deleting articles. -- llywrch 00:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * See my comments under the AfD for TechPhile... No reason to have this coversation twice :)--Isotope23 13:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. much like self-published authors and public-access TV. -R. fiend 18:06, 8 October 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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Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988. It was the first book published by a black woman from Zimbabwe in English. Nervous Conditions won Best Book of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa section) in 1989.

The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Shona family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s. Nervous Conditions is the first book of a trilogy, with The Book of Not (2006) as the second novel in the series, and This Mournable Body (2020) as the third. Nervous Conditions illustrates the dynamic themes of race, colonialism, and gender during the colonial period of present-day Zimbabwe. The title is taken from the introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

Plot summary
Tambu is the main character of the novel. The novel opens with the news that Tambu’s older brother, Nhamo, had just died. Tambu is not upset about this because Nhamo studied at a missionary school away from home with his uncle Babamukuru and his family. The only thing Tambu desires is to attend school, but her family is very poor and does not have enough money to pay her school fees. Tambu’s uncle, Babamukuru, and his family came to visit the homestead. Because of Babamakuru’s success, he is worshiped whenever he comes to visit. During the visit, Babamukuru suggests that Tambu should take Nhamo's place and attend the missionary school by his house. Upon arriving, she soon becomes close to her cousin Nyasha and completely focuses on her studies. During term break, everyone returns to visit the family back in the homestead. Tambu does not want to go back as she is much more comfortable living with Babamukuru.

Towards the end of the term, there is an exam administered at Tambu’s school. This exam is to test the students and offer them an opportunity to study at a well known missionary school. Tambu excels on the exam and is offered a scholarship to attend this well known school. In the new school Tambu is introduced to many cultural changes; however, she remains resistant to the changes. As always she is fully focused on her studies. Consequently, she remains cautious of her daily situations and nervous of the conditions that surround her.

Characters

 * Tambu: Jeremiah and Ma'Shingayi's daughter. Tambu is the novel's main character and narrator of the story. Her desire for an education and to improve herself seem strong enough to overcome just about anything. She is very hard on herself, and always strives to do her best and make the correct decisions.

 * Nyasha: Tambu's first cousin, Babamukuru and Maiguru's daughter. Her desire to be independent gets her into a lot of trouble, including numerous arguments with her father. Her time in England showed her a different life, and she is having trouble assimilating back into Rhodesian society, suffering from bulimia, an eating disorder.

 * Babamukuru: Tambu's uncle, and the head of her family. He is married to Maiguru and has a daughter, Nyasha, and a son, Chido. His actual name is mentioned in the novel only as Mr Sigauke; he is otherwise referred to by clan names in the Shona language. Tambu always calls him "Babamukuru", which means "father's older brother"; Tambu's father's generation call him "Mukoma", which means "oldest brother". A well-educated man, he is the dean of the missionary school. As head of the family, he feels responsible for the rest of his extended family; he also regards them as insufficiently hard-working, which makes him rather authoritarian towards them. By contrast, he shows subservience to the people who helped him get his education.

 * Maiguru: Nyasha's mother. Maiguru is a well-educated woman who is forced to be reliant on her husband, Babamukuru. She is frustrated because while she has the potential to provide for herself, she is prevented from doing so by patriarchial forces.

 * Chido: Babamukuru and Maiguru's son. Because Chido is Babamukuru's son, he received a good education, but succumbed to the customs of the white colonists.

 * Jeremiah: Babamukuru's brother and Tambu's father. Jeremiah received very little education and is barely able to provide for his family. He acts grateful to Babamukuru for the education he provided his children with.

 * Lucia: Maa'Shingayi's sister. Lucia stays relatively unknown during the course of the novel. She is believed to have had many affairs with wealthy men. She is a very independent woman, and is determined to educate herself and not fall into the normal roles of women in her society.

 * Ma'Shingayi: Tambu's mother. After Nhamo's death, when Tambu goes to the mission, she becomes very resentful of Babamukuru for taking another one of her children to his school.

 * Nhamo: Tambu's brother. As the eldest son in the family, Nhamo is chosen to go to the mission school. After being at the school, he feels he is superior to the rest of his family, and takes no part in their daily tasks. Eventually, he starts going home from the mission less and less until his death.

Major themes
Gender

Gender is one major theme expressed in the novel. The Rhodesian female characters face oppression on the basis of gender, and this is a driving force behind many of the story arcs in the novel.

Colonialism

Colonialism is another major theme in the novel — it is another driving force behind many of the plot points, including the fixation on (Western) education and Nyasha's internal struggles with race and colonialism. Additionally, Tambu's trajectory starting with her early education and ending with her acceptance at the nun's school reveals the colonial nature of that scholarship, since the African students were not treated the same as the white Western students.

Reception
Nervous Conditions has mostly received positive reviews, making it a prominent African and Zimbabwean literary work. The Africa Book Club recommends Nervous Conditions, claiming Dangarembga’s work to be, "a thought-provoking novel that packs a huge number of complicated ideas into a simple and engaging story." Nervous Conditions was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989, and has since been translated into a number of languages. It has been praised both within and outside of Africa as a prominent contribution and advocate of African feminism and post-colonialism. The novel has been described as an "absorbing page-turner" by The Bloomsbury Review, "another example of a bold new national literature" by the African Times and "a unique and valuable book" by Booklist. Finally, Pauline Uwakweh describes how Nervous Conditions emphasizes that "[Racial and colonial problems are explored] as parallel themes to patriarchal dominance because both are doubtless interrelated forms of dominance over a subordinate social group. Dangarembga has, indeed, demonstrated a keen knowledge of the problems of her Rhodesian society in particular, and Africa in general. Her vision as a writer stresses that awareness and courage are the blueprint to exploding its contradictions." Overall, Nervous Conditions is recognized as a major literary contribution to African feminism and postcolonial literature.

In May 2018, the BBC named Nervous Conditions as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. The novel was the 66th book on the list.

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String theory landscape

In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape" of choices of parameters governing compactifications.

The term "landscape" comes from the notion of a fitness landscape in evolutionary biology. It was first applied to cosmology by Lee Smolin in his book The Life of the Cosmos (1997), and was first used in the context of string theory by Leonard Susskind.

Compactified Calabi–Yau manifolds
In string theory the number of flux vacua is commonly thought to be roughly $$10^{500}$$, but could be $$10^{272,000}$$ or higher. The large number of possibilities arises from choices of Calabi–Yau manifolds and choices of generalized magnetic fluxes over various homology cycles, found in F-theory.

If there is no structure in the space of vacua, the problem of finding one with a sufficiently small cosmological constant is NP complete. This is a version of the subset sum problem.

A possible mechanism of string theory vacuum stabilization, now known as the KKLT mechanism, was proposed in 2003 by Shamit Kachru, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Sandip Trivedi.

Fine-tuning by the anthropic principle
Fine-tuning of constants like the cosmological constant or the Higgs boson mass are usually assumed to occur for precise physical reasons as opposed to taking their particular values at random. That is, these values should be uniquely consistent with underlying physical laws.

The number of theoretically allowed configurations has prompted suggestions that this is not the case, and that many different vacua are physically realized. The anthropic principle proposes that fundamental constants may have the values they have because such values are necessary for life (and therefore intelligent observers to measure the constants). The anthropic landscape thus refers to the collection of those portions of the landscape that are suitable for supporting intelligent life.

Weinberg model
In 1987, Steven Weinberg proposed that the observed value of the cosmological constant was so small because it is impossible for life to occur in a universe with a much larger cosmological constant.

Weinberg attempted to predict the magnitude of the cosmological constant based on probabilistic arguments. Other attempts have been made to apply similar reasoning to models of particle physics.

Such attempts are based in the general ideas of Bayesian probability; interpreting probability in a context where it is only possible to draw one sample from a distribution is problematic in frequentist probability but not in Bayesian probability, which is not defined in terms of the frequency of repeated events.

In such a framework, the probability $$P(x)$$ of observing some fundamental parameters $$x$$ is given by,
 * $$P(x)=P_{\mathrm{prior}}(x)\times P_{\mathrm{selection}}(x),$$

where $$P_\mathrm{prior}$$ is the prior probability, from fundamental theory, of the parameters $$x$$ and $$P_\mathrm{selection}$$ is the "anthropic selection function", determined by the number of "observers" that would occur in the universe with parameters $$x$$.

These probabilistic arguments are the most controversial aspect of the landscape. Technical criticisms of these proposals have pointed out that:

 * The function $$P_\mathrm{prior}$$ is completely unknown in string theory and may be impossible to define or interpret in any sensible probabilistic way.
 * The function $$P_\mathrm{selection}$$ is completely unknown, since so little is known about the origin of life. Simplified criteria (such as the number of galaxies) must be used as a proxy for the number of observers. Moreover, it may never be possible to compute it for parameters radically different from those of the observable universe.

Simplified approaches
Tegmark et al. have recently considered these objections and proposed a simplified anthropic scenario for axion dark matter in which they argue that the first two of these problems do not apply.

Vilenkin and collaborators have proposed a consistent way to define the probabilities for a given vacuum.

A problem with many of the simplified approaches people have tried is that they "predict" a cosmological constant that is too large by a factor of 10–1000 orders of magnitude (depending on one's assumptions) and hence suggest that the cosmic acceleration should be much more rapid than is observed.

Interpretation
Few dispute the large number of metastable vacua. The existence, meaning, and scientific relevance of the anthropic landscape, however, remain controversial.

Cosmological constant problem
Andrei Linde, Sir Martin Rees and Leonard Susskind advocate it as a solution to the cosmological constant problem.

Weak scale supersymmetry from the landscape
The string landscape ideas can be applied to the notion of weak scale supersymmetry and the Little Hierarchy problem. For string vacua which include the MSSM (Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model) as the low energy effective field theory, all values of SUSY breaking fields are expected to be equally likely on the landscape. This led Douglas and others to propose that the SUSY breaking scale is distributed as a power law in the landscape $$P_{prior}\sim m_{soft}^{2n_F+n_D-1} $$ where $$n_F$$ is the number of F-breaking fields (distributed as complex numbers) and $$n_D$$ is the number of D-breaking fields (distributed as real numbers). Next, one may impose the Agrawal, Barr, Donoghue, Seckel (ABDS) anthropic requirement that the derived weak scale lie within a factor of a few of our measured value (lest nuclei as needed for life as we know it become unstable (the atomic principle)). Combining these effects with a mild power-law draw to large soft SUSY breaking terms, one may calculate the Higgs boson and superparticle masses expected from the landscape. The Higgs mass probability distribution peaks around 125 GeV while sparticles (with the exception of light higgsinos) tend to lie well beyond current LHC search limits. This approach is an example of the application of stringy naturalness.

Scientific relevance
David Gross suggests that the idea is inherently unscientific, unfalsifiable or premature. A famous debate on the anthropic landscape of string theory is the Smolin–Susskind debate on the merits of the landscape.

Popular reception
There are several popular books about the anthropic principle in cosmology. The authors of two physics blogs, Lubos Motl and Peter Woit, are opposed to this use of the anthropic principle.

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K-10 (Kansas highway)

K-10 is a 36.611 mi state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. It was originally designated in 1929. It is mostly a controlled-access freeway, linking Lawrence to Lenexa. It provides an important toll-free alternate route to Interstate 70 (the Kansas Turnpike). Several scenes for the TV-movie The Day After were filmed on the highway at De Soto in 1982 portraying a mass exodus evacuating the Kansas City area on I-70.

Route description
The highway's western end begins as a two-lane highway (a super-two at I-70 exit 197, just west of Lawrence. It bypasses the city to the south, providing access to Clinton Lake, and also intersects with U.S. Route 59, beginning a four lane freeway after the interchange. K-10 continues to the northeast on the new South Lawrence Trafficway (completed 2016) before interchanging with 23rd Street (Old K-10). After exiting Lawrence eastbound, it passes through the city of Eudora, and then the cities of De Soto and Olathe, suburbs of Kansas City. It then terminates at an interchange with Interstate 435 and Interstate 35 in Lenexa. In Johnson County, the road is called the Governor John Anderson, Jr. Highway.

History
K-10 originally extended west of Lawrence to Herington, via Alta Vista, Alma, and Topeka. In 1956 the portion between Topeka and K-99 near Alma was designated as US-40 in preparation for upgrading this stretch to Interstate standards (for I-70). The segment between Alta Vista and Herington was redesignated as K-4 and K-10 was truncated eastward to Lawrence.

The process of upgrading K-10 to a freeway was begun in 1974. The first section completed was the section from De Soto to the junction with K-7, opening on November 8, 1976. The freeway was finally completed on December 18, 1984, when the stretch from K-7 to I-435 was completed. The old two-lane roadbed of K-10 was turned over to the counties to use as a secondary route. In Douglas County it became CR 442, although many of the locals, especially in Eudora, commonly refer to it as Old K-10.

The portion of K-10 between the Edgerton Road exit and the De Soto interchange at former K-285 (now Lexington Avenue) was used in the movie The Day After and, for the purposes of the film, was temporarily redesignated Interstate 70.

South Lawrence Trafficway
In the early 1970s traffic studies of K-10 determined a bypass around the west and south sides of Lawrence was necessary, and the Kansas Department of Transportation commenced due diligence on the bypass project. The bypass on the west side of Lawrence was completed in November 1996. Prior to the opening of the trafficway, K-10 had ended at the junction of US-40 and US-59 in Lawrence. Completion of the eastern leg of the trafficway was delayed for nearly three decades by lawsuits from environmentalist groups and Haskell University, as the planned route took the highway through the Haskell-Baker Wetlands. In October 2012, the deadline for the plaintiffs of the lawsuits to seek a Supreme Court review of the case passed, and a mitigation plan for the wetlands was added to the trafficway plans. Construction began on November 12, 2013, and was anticipated to be completed by Fall 2016 before Thanksgiving. The ribbon cutting ceremony for the trafficway was held on November 4, 2016, and in attendance were many local and state leaders including Governor Sam Brownback and Senator Pat Roberts. The trafficway officially opened to all traffic on November 9, 2016.

South Lawrence Trafficway
In spring 2020, KDOT announced it was evaluating three alternatives to reconstruct the interchange with K-10 and I-70, and to add a grade separated interchange to the K-10 / Wakarusa Drive intersection (although an interchange at Wakarusa was considered at least as early as 2016). The preferred alternative was to be identified in the fall of 2020. The formal Notice of Availability (NOA) for the project documents was published in the Federal Register on April 1, 2022.

Final design will begin immediately with construction anticipated to begin in 2024.

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Costochondral joint

The costochondral joints are the joints between the ribs and costal cartilage in the front of the rib cage. They are hyaline cartilaginous joints (i.e. synchondrosis or primary cartilagenous joint). Each rib has a depression shaped like a cup that the costal cartilage articulates with. There is normally no movement at these joints. Joints between costal cartilages of the sixth and ninth rib are plane synovial joints. Articulation between costal cartilage of the ninth rib and tenth rib is fibrous.

The lateral end of each costal cartilage is received into a depression in the sternal end of the rib, and the two are held together by the periosteum.

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Institute for Creative Technologies

The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a University Affiliated Research Center at the University of Southern California located in Playa Vista, California. ICT was established in 1999 with funding from the US Army.

Dr. Mike Andrews, chief scientist of the US Army is described as "founder of and inspiration behind" the ICT. He followed up on discussions between US Army leadership (four-star general Paul J. Kern) and Disney Imagineering president Bran Ferren, on how to gain access to Hollywood entertainment industry expertise in high-technology areas such as computer-based Modeling & Simulation, and Virtual Reality. The name was derived from Ferren's title at The Walt Disney Company.

It was created to combine the assets of a major research university with the creative resources of Hollywood and the game industry to advance the state-of-the-art in training and simulation. The institute's research has also led to applications for education, entertainment and rehabilitation, including virtual patients, virtual museum guides and visual effects technologies. Core areas include virtual humans, graphics, mixed-reality, learning sciences, games, storytelling and medical virtual reality.

Honors and awards

 * 2010 - Scientific and Engineering Academy Award
 * 2018 - Second Academy Award for Technical Achievement
 * 2022 - Emmy (Technical Achievement)

Army affiliation
ICT is a DoD-sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) working in collaboration with the U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center. The ICT is one of the Army’s four University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC). UARCs are a strategic United States Department of Defense (DoD) Research Center associated with an American university. UARCs are formally established by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)) to ensure that essential engineering and technology capabilities of particular importance to the DoD are maintained and readily available. The mission of the ICT UARC is to conduct basic, applied, and advanced demonstration research to develop the new tools, methods, and technologies required to improve military training, education, and combat operations. The ICT UARC accomplishes this mission by employing a resident faculty that leverages government research with the research capabilities of academia, private industry, and the commercial entertainment industry (e.g., Hollywood, theme parks, and the commercial gaming industry).

Army program managers include Mr. Mark McAuliffe, Dr. Jim Blake, Dr. Jeff Wilkinson, Dr. John Hart (2008-2022) and Dr. Keith Brawner (2022–present).

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Talk:Arnold Sommerfeld

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This article should metion tachyons. Twilight Realm 01:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, I saw that there are ~20 students listed. Here is 28 students: http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=31357 213.186.255.77 09:32, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Semitism
Although Sommerfeld eventually became a friend and collaborator with Albert Einstein, he was also "among the first to suggest there was something Jewish about Einstein's theoretical approach, a theme later picked up by Anti-Semites. (He claimed that Einstein's approach) lacked due respect for the notion of order and absolutes, and it did not seem solidly grounded." (citation: Einstein by Walter Isaacson, pp.142).

 * I am considering adding this section to this article. I am open to comments from other editors.--Markisgreen 19:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Semites are everywhere, everywhere!!!1! 84.59.59.93 (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

famous
infamous is better word, most were Nazi supporters and enabled genocide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.38.155.134 (talk) 15:25, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Clarifications
In the first paragraph of the "Career" section, the reference to the month of October is not clear as to which year is being discussed. If you then read the second paragraph of that section, the time-line seems to be set to 1894 which means the previous paragraph would have been 1893 or earlier. I think that adding 1893 into the first paragraph would add some clarity, if that is the correct year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjpollard (talk • contribs) 18:56, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

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The section "Reference" is full of large citations. I suggest we move them to the subsection "Notes," like this:

the other fluid dynamics sommerfeld
is he related to multiphase sommerfeld https://www.mps.ovgu.de/mps/en/ 79.198.255.168 (talk) 18:45, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

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