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Wikipedia:Historical archive/New user log/September 2005

John-David Lusan
Hello, My name is John-David Lusan and I am new here at Wikipedia. I look forward to being able to contribute what I know of the island of Jamaica, electromedicine and host of other things. Jdlusan 14:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Egon Spengler
Hello, all!

I've been reading wikipedia for some time now. It's one of my favorite ways to look busy during the work week or when there's few hours left in the day. I'm not sure where I first discovered this site, but I've finally decided to make a name for myself. I've made a couple minor edits here and there before, but nothing big.

I'm interested in all sorts of things including computer science, astronomy, music, geeky humor, movies, you name it. Also, I collect spores, molds and fungus. As I've been bored a lot lately, I've noticed that there are a TON of stubs that I know at least something about that I'd like to work on. So I'll be trying to fix up whatever I find to be lacking in substance.

--Egonspengler 14:53, 1 September 2005 (UTC)egonspengler

Maptishous
Hello Everyone

I am 33 living in Washington DC. I specialties lie geography, remote sensing and geographic information systems. My hobbies include traveling and tinkering on the mechanical object. I am going to have a child soon I figured this was cheaper than purchasing as set of world books encyclopedias.

Maptishous 23:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Aevaughn
Hi! I'm Alex! Alex 04:05, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

POSITRONS CREATION FROM ELECTRONS
'''Bold text' As mentioned in the general aricle on energy, it is readily converted from one form to another. The writer ventures to suggest that the principle is not abused verbally in saying it applies to conversion of electrons to positrons. Because of the equal energies that the two paticles contain, the conversion may be possible. Unless some theoretical principle can be raised that forbids the conversion with small energy outlay, it should be tried. If only because other enegy sources that are available are unequal to future demands. Interaction between positrons economically produced and ambient electrons would provide an inexhaustible energy source.

Pferdkopf

Thomas Ross

From our earlier discussions, I understood you are contemplating a phase shift in the elementary particle which would change its property to antimatter without affecting it's energy. Might this be accomplished by a situtation (current in a crystal structure?). The String theorists might know why or why not.

Ian Paige

Let's all help make Wikipedia better
I have computed for 18 years and written computer articles. I love to study and learn. I know HTML. I am now doing minor editing in Wkipedia. I do need help and would like a mentor. Phil 19:49, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Paul Klenk stops by with a belated 'Hello!'
Hey, folks -- I've been active for two-plus weeks, but haven't learned about this page until a moment ago. So, if you're one of those sociable folks who like to get to know the newcomers, please stop by my talk page and have a drink with me. I also hope you'll enjoy the new article I'm working on, New York's Village Halloween Parade. I think you'll agree the subject's an entertaining one.

Best wishes and happy editing,

 -- paul klenk 06:47, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

A New World Discover-ed...
This is wonderful- a leap to a whole, new, level in my web experience. At last an articulate, intellectual, and intelligent place to share knowledge and ideas. Thank you for building and supporting this site, one and all!

jemjem 21:12, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Hello!
If I had known about this new user log sooner, I probably would have signed it already. Anywho, hello everyone, and thank you Alphax for the welcoming. --Scapegoat pariah 08:46, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

xino
ok... my name is xino i am 17 and i live in UK/London if i knew about this earlier i would have done this anyway i am interested in characters and enterainment which means i edit in them what els...hm.. WELCOME>:D not sure about this tide thing >:D xino><ino 00:34, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Alison Phillips
Hi All. I am a new contributor and enjoy reading and editing electrical articles. You may leave a comment on my user pagePhil 14:10, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Amandil
I have been reading Wikipedia for several months now, although I've only made a few minor edits. I'm interested in just about everything, especially mythology, languages, and science/mathematics. For those of you who are interested, I'm a student in Wisconsin, USA. Amandil 14:59, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Height of men through the ages.
Dear Sir/Madam, I would very much like to know what the scientific findings are regarding the height (growth) of man through the ages. Example What was a man's height say at he time of Christ? During the last 2000 years how much more has man grown? Was there a time during the 2000 years when men were taller? Is there a book on this matter that I could read? Thanks Enver Khorasanee

 * Enver, are you working on an article called Height of Man through the Ages, or Height of Crucifixes through the Ages? I will do some research and get back to you.  Welcome to WP.   paul klenk 04:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello, All I can tell you that when I visited the 'Muiderslot' in the Netherlands and other casstles in Europe I was amazed how small the knight's suit of armour(thier cuirass) were! 5 feet at the most which is smaller than me. Were men that small I asked myself? Even their beds were tiny compared to nowadays.

user: CHITRANI 16.47 9 Sep./05 (GMT+1)

Newbie
Hi and thank you for the warm welcome :)

Khaos
oops

Hi and thank you for the warm welcome :)

UAgent
I'm an aspiring electrical engineer in Phoenix, AZ. I can't really remember how I found out about Wikipedia per se, I just know that I've been coming here for the great info more and more over the past few months, and decided to register to hopefully chip in. --Uagent 06:17, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello
Hi,

My background is in physiology, gastroenterology and neuroscience, and I am editorial director of a medical communications agency based in London. I think that this site is a very important project, and I am looking forward to being involved!

S

Paul Kingsbery
I'm hoping to make some good contributions.

Paul Kingsbery 13:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)CatcherInTheWhy

Treesock
Uh, hi. I've had an account here for a while, but haven't done much with it except clean up a typo here and there. Some friends of mine also do editing here, so I figured now would be a good time to make myself known to the world. Yeah. (I like explaining myself, can't you tell? :D) Treesock 19:40, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Capitalist
Hi there!

I'm Scott, and I'm originally from New England currently living in Tennessee. I am a former civil engineer (1999) as well as a former stockbroker and trading instructor at Fidelity Investments (2003). I'm currently recovering from some financial setbacks and am working my way back toward becoming a full time independent trader.

I use Wikipedia to research and explore all kinds of interests from math to music, aardvarks to zeno! However, I expect my main areas of contribution to be in the areas of mathematics, investing and trading, technical analysis, statistics and probability, logic, Objectivism, Ayn Rand, general philosophy, economic theory and finance.

I really enjoy the rigorous scholarly environment that I see here.

capitalist 09:46, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Lucanos - A Very Late Introduction
Hi All,

I have been a member of WikiPedia (and a few associated projects) for some time now, and only just today took the time to check out my Talk page and found the link to this page... I am an avid supporter of open-contribution projects like these, and I am actually in the process of installing Mediawiki at my workplace to be used as a knowledge bank for my workmates. (Any advice or resources on tweaking/customising/administering it would be appreciated).

Thank you to all my fellow Wikipedians out there for helping create a very dynamic, very reliable, very comprehensive resource such as this site, I hope to be able to do my bit to help continue the good name of this resource.

--Lucanos 22:05, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Brodders
My real name is Martin Brodetsky, and I'm based in Oxford, England (though I'm not an academic or affiliated to the Uni in any way).

My expertise lies in copy-editing, and I've spent the past few weeks browsing Wiki and making minor edits to typos and crap grammar where I find it.

Because the open nature of Wiki fits closely to my socialist ideals I've decided to get more involved, and will hopefully be having a greater input in future.

I look forward to virtually working with you all.

Brodders 17:38, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Henrik Persson
Hi there.

I'm Henrik and I'm from Sweden.

I've been using Wikipedia for quite some time now but I havent really started contributing until now. Subjects I'll most probably write about are computer science, biology, things that are swedish or just genreal geekyness.

--HenrikP 22:36, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

IslandHopper973
Hi de ho! I do this just to upload images, and so I don't get told off (very likely). That's it. As an anon, I created Murderous Maths. Cheerio! IslandHopper973 11:53, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

smurti
I have used Wikipedia for about 18 months now. I stumbled on it while searching out some unfamiliar concepts for my articles. I am unable to recall the sepcifics now. In reviewing a recent book for JAMA I had relied on Wikipedia heavily for understanding socio-linguistic explanations for several new (to me) terms. I felt quite grateful for this ready and willing repository. My other alternatives were Project Muse, Academic Search Premier and other similar scholarly databases. They, too, were helpful but Wikipedia was easier and more succinct for my narrower purposes. I am hoping that I could, in turn, contribute to this worthy project.

With this in mind I have reposited my FIRST Wikiarticle on "Healthcare Delivery," manily from a historical perspective. I have received a few comments on it laready, and surely, these were very constructive.

I am a neurologist and an academic with health indurance experience. I have written scientific and peer-reviewed articles since 1972. I am one of the older users. The name is Saty Satya-Murti. I hope that I could continue to contribute and edit when and where appropriate.

Thanks for reading.

Smurti 18:48, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcoming note, Mysekurity. Alabanza!
I've been contributing to the Howard Zinn page for sometime without really being certain of Wikipedia style. In other words, I've been winging it by imitating what I see. This is horrible because I am a professional editor and writer. Mysekurity sensed there was quite a bit I do not know, and and sent a page full of practical links as to style and customs. I feel like a blind person who has gained eyesight. Alabanza! Skywriter 22:38, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Canadian Folk Music Artists?
Hello, I'm Gene Wilburn, a writer/photographer based in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada. A few years ago I compiled a book entitled Northern Journey: A Guide to Canadian Folk Music (1995). I revised it into a 2nd edition in 1997. I no longer intend to update the book, and would like to add the major entries to Wikipedia. Would this be deemed appropriate?

I'm new to Wikipedia editing and will likely have some beginner's questions.

Thanks, Gene

A.Octavia
Hi All. I've been using Wiki as my first-stop fact resource for about a year and a half and have been doing little edits here and there, and finally decided it was time to create an account. Primarily, I do spelling and grammar corrections, so I don't have a lot of experience with formatting. I've done some de-stubbing prior to the username, but I tend not to contribute in large quantity because I'd much prefer to know 100% what I am talking about rather than be 95% sure and rely on other users to straighten my tangles out. *Shrug* Jack of all trades, master of none.

Now to see if I've figured out this signature creation thing with the tildes...

A.Octavia 19:25, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Caleb
Wikipedia is marvelous. I'm a (once-and-future?) UNIX guru and professional chef; I'm likely to focus on food-related articles.

Pandemix 06:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikicheng
Hi,

I am a network engineer by profession but I like teaching Physics. I like to explain the concepts in simple, easy to understand terms (like teaching to school kids), as I feel that Physics in not taught properly in basic levels.

I think Wikipedia is a wonderful concept.

I normally browse the Wikipedia, find a topic which interests me and if I can, I add some info I believe to be true.

Wikicheng 09:02, 13 September 2005 (UTC)Wikicheng

Scoláire
Hi, my name is Peter. I have just gone through the tutorial, registered and done a teeny bit of editing (to Easter Proclamation). I think it's great that anybody can browse all kinds of topics, add their comments and actually make a contribution if it's merited.

Great site!! - Scolaire 14:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Aaron A. Young (Papayoung) Checking In
Glad to be here. My physical address is in Colorado, USA, but what a great gift the Internet is, that it helps us to work and play with so many other people from so many places. I actually think the Wiki model could/should be used broadly in government, the press, and even private industry; the social and structural learning here may end up being as useful as the content itself.

I have used Wikipedia for a long time, but only recently felt it was time to contribute. Plus, it's a better use for my massive human brain than Sudoku. I'm a rank newbie, and it's nice to be in a space where there's so much skill--technical and social--in use.

Papayoung 03:42, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

logixoul
Hi. I'm 15. I've been contributing to Wikipedia for a while, but I discovered this page just now. I'm interested in I have sufficient knowledge to contribute to articles of various subjects, including: I'd like to do any sorts of improvements, as well as community-based actions such as VfD. I found about Wikipedia from Google, searching about a particular topic. --logixoul 08:41, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * girls
 * programming
 * music
 * nu metal
 * gothic rock
 * rap
 * movies
 * sci-fi
 * comedy
 * action
 * mountain climbing
 * basketball
 * open source
 * web standards
 * deep software configuration
 * logic
 * philosophy
 * mathematics
 * distributed computing
 * open standards
 * conlanging
 * auxlangs
 * linguistics
 * decentralization
 * centralization
 * open content
 * programming
 * music
 * movies
 * open source
 * web standards
 * logic
 * philosophy
 * mathematics (on an elementary level)
 * open standards
 * conlanging
 * auxlangs
 * linguistics.

Kevin R. Golinghorst
I am currently a graduate student at the Royal School of Military Survey in Hermitage, England. The Army Survey Course here is backed by Cranfield University as a Master of Science Degree in Defence Geographic Information. I have been using Wikipedia as a good start point as it seems to summarize general topics really well and provide good links for further research. I hope to add to it based off my instruction and studies when possible. See you on the net! Take care for now.

62.8.126.134 16:27, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

snickersnee
hello to all applicable. i am a blind babe in a dark wood, and know very little about things wiki. please feel free to correct my anticipated blunders. i have no special expertise, but am a bit of a sport, which combined with my innate sense of grammatical propriety may permit me to be of some small service.

my very first contribution was concerned solely with defecation. i am not proud, but slightly amused. i look forward to making new friends, of a higher quality than that to which i am lately accustomed. Snickersnee 01:48, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

yyyyyyoooooooo time to write some muzik articles
ALright I'm going to do some music articles since this site needs to work on stuff like this since some articles are a bit outdated...

I'm going to do articles such as: -URBAN CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD (MUSIC)

Fiona Kelleghan would like to become a contributor
Hey, Wikifolks!

I've admired this encyclopedia for a long time, and I don't think my ambition is to add a WHOLE lot, because I'm already a contributor to the IMDb in my spare time; and my work time includes both a full-time library job and my nights are usually involved in research and writing.

But I was delighted today to find that I was slightly plagiarized by an article about "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" -- delighted, I repeat, not offended. And I've found a couple of sites that I might be able to contribute my expertise to.

My (slightly-out-of-date) website can be found at the University of Miami, where I am the Metadata Librarian:

http://www.library.miami.edu/staff/fkell/vitae.html

My expertise lies in science fiction and fantasy fiction and film (to a lesser extent, in horror), and in animal behavior. I am also a politics junkie, but I come to Wikipedia to learn, rather than to rant. I earned my MLIS [librarian's degree] in 1989 and my Master's in literature in 1996 ... you can check my webpage.

I believe in the scientific method and in solid sources. I believe in getting second opinions, but I also believe in relying on the sources that believe in the scientific method or in scholarly protocols. I consider myself able to judge different sides of an argument based on the merits of the arguments, and not on my personal opinions.

If these beliefs make me unfit for Wikipedia, please let me know, before I set out to edit any pages. As a librarian at a major research university (University of Miami), I consider myself able and willing to help those who seek information on a subject without implanting my personal political views into a topic. The aim is to inform without prejudice, both in Wikipedia and in library science.

Thanks, all, for considering me for inclusion in the Great Wiki Project. Please do check my website before deciding whether I may be considered as a fair contributor.

With great respect, Fiona Kelleghan Book Reviews Editor Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts University of Miami Otto G. Richter Library Room 301D Coral Gables, FL 33124 (home e-address) fkelleghan@aol.com (work e-adress) kelleghan@miami.edu
 * Fionna, sounds like you're a perfect fit. Before you continue, you might like to create your own username.  There are many benefits to creating one, one of which is that folks can reply to you on your talk page.  Depending on how much you've looked around, you may want to start here.  Welcome!  -- Dave C.talk 04:03, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Microx (the nacho)
Hi, I'm microx. It's pronounced mycro-ecks. I like cheese. My website is Rotoclone.com. I also have a blog, and a forum.

Have a nice day! lol

the nacho 22:07, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello, and Help
Hello all. I have just started with Wikipedia today, and have been stumbling my way through adding photographs to articles about places and topics relating to The North Island, New Zealand. I think I've added about twenty photos and I'm not near done.

Anyway, I've been able to figure most things out except: I've uploaded two images that are not used in any article and I would like to delete them from the server. I have been all over the site and can't find any information about that. There's a lot about deleting content from published articles, but nothing I can find about deleting uploaded assets that you want to remove. I'd appreciate a pointer to any info about how I can do asset management of the content I have uploaded.

Thanks.

P.S. I'm a computer graphic artist in my alter ego. You can see some of my work at http://www.jshook.com My name is James M Shook if that's important to you. I live in the northern hemisphere.

Oops, forgot the tildes JShook 23:30, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Brandon39
Checking in. I've been using Wikipedia for a while, and thought I'd join the fun. I'm particularly interested in science fiction, mystery stories, and general American lit. Also interested in Christianity and American politics. I've lived in Iowa most of my life, so I guess I know something about that, too.Brandon39 23:49, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Erin Lakehill
Thank's for the warm welcome. I'm afraid I do not have ample knowledge to be contributing much, but I'll see what I can do. I'm just a kid.

This site is terrific. I like learning (which is why I'm considered wierd), but I don't think I have that much to give back. So don't take to much notice of me. Erie 00:06, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Schenkeli
Hello, My name is Thomas Schenkeli and I am new here at Wikipedia. I'm looking for something like the perfect user-page (General Info, Babel, Interests, Photo, Created and edited pages, etc ..) Is there something like that? If yes, please let me know. Thanx Schenkeli 11:27, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Zorblek
I've been using Wikipedia for a while, but only just recently have I started editing articles. I find this all very fascinating, and I hope I can add to it. Zorblek 07:31, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

looking for long lost friend
Hi my name is amit deep singh, i have been looking for my college friend arvind (Tillu) varshney since last 10 years. I put his name in google search and it redirected it to your website. If you can help me contact arvind by providing his email or phone number it will be great. I will thank Wikipedia all my life for helping me find my friend. Amit ( Munnu)email riat@eth.net
 * Amit, if he's here, we can't give you his e-mail or phone, but if we find him, we can direct you to his "user page," where you can leave a message.
 * To help us do this, please register and log in, then leave another message back here with your selected user name.  Welcome!  paul klenk 08:32, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Carnaptime
Hello... I am a philosophy and neuroscience major, currently working of philosophy of science problems at UMCP. I have contributed to numerous pages, most recently the St. John's College, U.S., which has been repeatedly defaced by a persistent St. John's student imbued with school spirit. I look forward to working with everyone. Carnaptime 17:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi all! I am a new user and I am proud of it. I would appreciate some useful advice. Thanks in advance, Fernando Pedrera Wkhd 20:14, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Vermoskitten
Hey, I'm pretty new at Wikipedia, but I have adopted an article, Adena culture, which I am babying and have brought up from stub status. I would like my baby to be featured someday, so please read it and drop me a comment. See Y'all! -Vermoskitten 02:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

The Minister of War
Hello! Im new here as well, though i have contributed often enough as an anon before. THought id like to get involved structurally for a change (and get a bit of credit perhaps :-) ). Friendly greets, The Minister of War 13:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Pureblade
Hello. I am Evan Armour, and I hope to be able to increase the quality of this incredible online resource. I have used Wikipedia for countless reports, so I thought it was time to start giving something back. Pureblade 23:26, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Jeff McKissock "Keldor"
Hello everyone, I am Keldor, yes I am a He-Man fan. I like Star Wars, He-Man, She-Ra, Lord of the Rings, Phantom of the Opera, vampires (especially Dracula), Batman, and Marvel comics. I hope to have a good time here

--Keldor 23:38, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Rosihan Juara Baharuddin (juara)
Greetings to my fellow Wiki,

My name is Rosihan Juara Baharuddin. I come from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I speak and write in Malay and English. Publishing is my area of expertise while Character Building is my passion. My time is filled with many varied interests such as collecting swiss army knives, computer gaming, youth & leadership trainings, outdoor activities, sports, the movies, poetry, reading and many more. More like a jack of all trade master of none... or am i a master of not mastering anything? :) hmmmmm. I am looking forward to be a proof reader for wikipedia as well as contributing contents especially Malaysiana. If any of you wikis out there need my support, please drop me a line. Looking forward to be a productive and positive contributor to this honourable and important cause. juara 04:37, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Zebranky
Hi, all. I have made the jump from user to registered vandalism reverter! And, in time, probably more than that. Zebranky 20:54, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Mylesclough
My name is Myles Clough (duh!) and I am a retired orthopaedic surgeon in British Columbia (Canada). I have had an interest in the Orthopaedic Internet (whatever that is) since 1996 when I posted my bookmarks as the Orthopaedic Links Page. This morphed into Orthopaedic Web Links (OWL) the largest collection of Orthopaedic Resources in the known universe! I have an academic appointment at the Unversity of British Columbia, Department of Orthopaedics and give courses on finding medical and orthopaedic information on the Internet. The Wikipedia and the Trauma Wiki are important ways to raise the quality of information on the Internet and I look forward to contributing in the fields of Orthopaedics and Trauma. That all sounds quite dull, but I do have a life as well, with interests in travel, photography, natural history and scuba diving. Check out underwater pictures from Fiji --Mylesclough 21:44, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Matthew Dent
Hello all! I've really liked Wikipedia for a while now, I like the fact that it's a 'no-nonsense' source of information and deicided recently to join. I like writing articles and stuff and improving things, so I think I can put that to good use here. And it's something to do when i'm bored! I'm sure i'll enjoy it here... there's tons to look round! --- MatthewDent 19:51, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Reyk
Hello all. I've been poking around Wikipedia for some time now and I really like the idea of a knowledge base that anyone can contribute to. I have a good eye for typos so that'll probably be most of my contributions. --- Reyk 8:02, 23 September 2005

Bill Feingold
Hi,

I've used Wikipedia from time to time and have always been impressed. Although I am a money manager I teach various subjects from time to time (including but not limited to finance) and I come from a family of teachers. My interests include horse racing, Latin poetry, etymologies, Robert Burns, single-malt Scotch whisky, German Expressionism, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I look forward to contributing. Billyf1 22:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Murray Booth
Hi

Doing a PhD in surface chemistry/physics for pharmaceuticals and looking forward to adding articles to the science section. Also quite interested in history

Murray.booth 11:39, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Huldra
Hello, I am a person with an interest in fields as diverse as Scandinavian design, science (human genome, biology, computer science), Africa and the Middle East. Presently mostly occupied with the Middle East and Africa.

An Wikipedia ambition: to write articles on different producers/makers/designers of Scandinavian (particularely Norwegian) design... ( Egersund Fayancefabrik, Porsgrunn Porselen, Figgjo, Stavangerflint, Tostrup, David-Andersen, Grete Prytz Kittelsen (Korsmo), Nora Gulbrandsen, Tone Vigeland, Plus, William Knutzen, etc, etc..) However, as Wikipedia is so tilted towards Western subjects anyway, it is not my first priority. But: if somebody want an article on any of the above subjects -or a related subject- please leave a note on my talk-page.

Also; I have quite a few pictures taken during travels in Africa and the Middle-East, especially of places of historical interest (I never miss visiting a place which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List...if I´m in the vicinity). I hope to upload some of these pictures to the appropriate articles...eventually... Regards, Huldra 05:08, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Jonthegeologist
Hello all,

Jon here - known to the web as jonthegeologist. I'm a moderator over at halfbakery.com and we use wikipedia references constantly so prove science fact from science fiction. It seemed a natural extention to get involved over here.

You'll find me at jonthegeologist@gmail.com and I hail from Bristol, UK.

Srinivasasha
Hi, This is Srinivasa sha from india. I am an engineering student. I like this place.

I am new
Hello there! I just can't get enought of this website! Anyways I am currently working on the ever important research on splitting water to the highest and easiest eff. I am not sure just what I can give back to this site as of rightnow, Other than just my project details. Which I would love to give the gift of free power from water to the world, but on the other hand I also don't want to give it to someone else to sell or tax my information. True I would love to make some money on my research to support my family, and more work for my lab. I feel that I would sell the whole system not the information on how it works. Just to make it complete the way that I feel it should be I am currently working on a copyright act for this line of work. So no one can hold full rights to the information. Because I feel something this great would benifit the world than that of one person or company. Kgyarmati 18:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Hiya
Hiya, my names Darren, though as you might guess I have the nickname "Dash". I live in York in the UK. I love the idea of editing on Wikipedia-a bit like being a researcher for "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"!

User: DarthPlaegis
I'm a new user under the name of DarthPlaegis and I'm often editing articles about the Star Wars Movies or something related to them. I'll hope you sent me comments about my editings or whatever you like to say.````DarthPlaegis; September 25, 2005; 09:15 (UTC)

DarthPlaegis
Hi my name is Eduardo, I'm already in my third year of college. I'm about to finish a bachellor degree in Environmental Sciences. I find your Wikipedia a very useful site for everyone who's looking for references about every topic and all that. I often edit articles of the Star Wars Universe here in this encyclopedia and I'm glad to be a proud user of this site. DarthPlaegis; September 25, 2005; 09:24 (UTC)

You were on C-span
I forgot your name, but you mentioned you had been trading Options. That subject was never detailed in the segment you were being interviewed on. That would have been much more interesting. This Wikipedia stuff seems interesting, but being almost dead and in a diseased condition thanks much!

William J. Merryman
Hi there!

My name is William Merryman, and I hail from Kansas. My knowledge is fairly random, spanning many different topics, such as Films, Books, Video Games, Television and other subjects. I have been told I am fairly articulate and have a good knowledge of grammar.

The Wikipedia has taught me many things I did not previously know, so it finally occurred to me that it was about time to give something back. I look forward to adding to this excellent resource of knowledge.

Willpower 21:26, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Wiki-Worldie
Hey guys! I've been coming here from time to time for about a year to get reference help for school work, but recently someone I met on an online forum talked about being promoted to "Admin" on Wikipedia, and I thought "Wow, so random people really DO run it!" And decided I'd at least have a look. What really captured me and makes me want to help out and contribute is the mantra(I guess ... ) on the Wikimedia Foundation site - " Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help." To me, that's what the Internet SHOULD be about. Between all the Wiki sites, places like deviantARt, resources like All Music Guide, or IMBD, and (some) Weblog/LiveJournal sites, my faith that the Internet IS an opportunity at virtual utopia is strengthened.

A Bit about my name and my history online - I was just a very casual internet browser until around january of 2002, when a school-friend of mine introduced me to the MMO Runescape. I was hooked. My screename for the game was "World 1 Host" which i thought was clever when i was 14 :-P. From runescape, I was drawn to a fan-forum. And I soon decided that I liked the forum better then the game. I spent hours and hours online there, and I was promoted to Moderator only 3 months after joining. On there, some of my closer friends started shortening my Screename from World 1 Host to 'Worldie'. So why do I keep it? I'm not sure ...

My Wiki Plans - Well, Im going to sit back and take it all in for a few days. read the guides and FAQs. Get a feel for how things work here. I'm really looking forward to being involved, and would also like to be involved in multiple Wiki projects. Also hoping to start hanging around in the IRC channel(s ?).

Thanks for reading!

EricaG
Hi all. I'm finally delurking so I can more actively use Wikipedia to help User:Sj plan the Wikimania 06 Boston bid. I occasionally in the past have made some edits, know something but not tons about wikis, etc. I work at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School (where Jimmy Wales is currently a fellow), which is how I got into wikis and Wikimania, but except in specific instances related to the Wikimania Boston proposal I won't be acting in any work-related capacity. There's many loveable Wikipedians in my life, so, yay. I expect I'll still occasionally edit stuff, just now not anonymously, probably not have tons of time for much but but who knows. Sometimes a few hours geeking out on something specific is really relaxing...

Alexie
Hi, I am new, and I have been editing even before becoming a user. I <3 animals (to be exact, dogs), and getting rid of vandals and trolls. Oh, you think only admins can do that? WELL, J00R WRONG! Well, I better visit the dog article, so bye! Alexie 16:13, 27 September 2005 (PTC/PC time zone) Also, here's meh talk page: talkzorz Bye again!

Electrian trys Optics
Hi folks,

I study electrical engineering, actually I am working on a project with optics in Singapore. Also I know a lot of historical things. During the next half year I am going to write a few articles about electrics and optics. English ist not my native language, do not hesitate to correct my mistakes.

--Malte singapore 08:33, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Syed Taqi Haider Rizvi
Hello all im an new here and i want to know more about the field of textile and was unable to a sperate section for it ..so i will be creating 1 my self and i need your help for doing that so post new articals and tell us new research in textiles

Hello, I am new here (Gsandi)
I have been looking at the various Wikis for a while, at first sceptically, but the more I see, the more I like it. I have been involved with the Open Directory Project for a while, so let's see how this is different.

I am Hungarian by birth, Canadian by adoption and an international civil servant living on the French-Swiss border by profession. I am fluent in Hungarian, although - having missed high school in Hungary - I'd be reluctant to write "educated prose" in my native language. My English is pretty good (I hope :) ), and, with decreasing levels of fluency, I know French > Spanish > Other Romance languages > Japanese.

My interests are manyfold, ranging from linguistics (Indo-European and Uralic studies in particular), mathematics, geography, astronomy (SETI is a favourite topic of mine), rail-based transportation (and computer simulations of it), small and large cats (tigers especially), and the card game bridge. I work in the occupational safety and health field, that's another interest.

I am married and have two sons. The older is a computer wizz - he has been encouraging me to join Wiki for months.

Gsandi 20:54, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Cherubino
Hi! Since my first appearance in april 05 i'm very randomly in the english wikipedia, sometimes translating articles to german (The Sun or LexisNexis) In the german wp i use the same nick. But now i did my first new own articel in en: Peekaboo, hope it will survive Vfd ;) My nick is a Breeches role in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, i just liked the sound of the name -- Cherubino 22:05, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

PostKiwi Duncan Macleod
Hi! I'm a New Zealander living as a permanent resident in Australia. I have an interest in New Zealand places, institutions and people, along with their connections with the world. I take an interest in television advertising, postmodernism, generations, Christian institutions, leaders and theology.

I found out about Wikipedia through search engines, through my teenage children, and through conversations with my online colleagues.

Postkiwi 02:19, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Alizera
Hey! I love this site. It's helped me in more ways than I know, so I'm hoping I can give something back to it. Alizera 15:37, 29 September 2005 (UTC)Alizera

David Fay
Hi I'm new to this.

My interests are in the areas of oil exploration and production.

Swapnil
hi all i am a nephrologist and stumbled onto wikipedia from a news article(!)this is a great idea (of course) for now i plan to stick to writing/editing in my area of specialty (dialysis) thanks to spinboy and JFW for the welcome Hswapnil 17:45, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Streamless
hello all. thanks to user:alphax for the welcome. Streamless 18:59, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:1983 congressional page sex scandal

Needs references
Needs fact check and references for entire article. Unref tag added. --FloNight 10:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It would be helpful if you were more specific. All this stuff is very public info. Just Google it. Haiduc 04:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Gingrich affair
What does the Gingrich affair have to do with a House page scandal? Gingrich had an affair with a consenting adult. The problem with the page scandal was that the Conngressmen involved had an affair with minors. I'm removing the reference to the Gingrich affair, since it seems superflous. MKil 16:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)MKil

Foley
Why is there a paragraph on Mark Foley when there is already a whole article on this Mark Foley's scandal? — Linnwood 18:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the idea is that 99% of people visiting this page, as well as 1/2 of the sources used in this article are because of its comparison to the Mark Foley case. Obviously the fact that these two scandals have been popularly compared and have many similarities is relevant. Nonetheless, if people would prefer the "See Also" I think that should do fine.--Bibliophylax 21:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with what you said. I feel that a "See Also" works better, as there surely will be a lengthy article Mark Foley scandal. Also, I've put the link to 2006 Congressional page sex scandal, which is a redirect to Mark Foley scandal, so that the link is clear how the two are related. — Linnwood 00:07, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I've changed the wikilink so that while it appears EXACTLY the same to the user, it actually pointing DIRECTLY to the article.  John Broughton  |  Talk 00:10, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I understand your concern, and agree that the current link is the best. — Linnwood 00:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it is a mischaracterization to call the Mark Foley scandal a "sex scandal" and could potentially be libelous. Remember, we have to follow the rules to avoid such things when talking about Living persons.  The Wikipedia style manual specifically says to add a description when the relevance of the link isn't immediately obvious from the article's title.  I've changed the wikilink to "Mark Foley scandal" so that it accurately describes the article it links to, meets NPOV standards, and doesn't endanger Wikipedia with libel.  I see no justification for changing it to "sex scandal" other than an effort to push a POV, so please do not change it back.--Bibliophylax 15:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There is nothing "libelous" about calling something what it is. It is indeed a sex scandal. More so, the scandal may move beyond Mark Foley. So please do not change it back. — Linnwood 18:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The scandal does not involve any sex at this point, so calling it a sex scandal is disingenous. After a well-populated debate, the Wikipedia community has settled on 'Mark Foley scandal' as the best description and has made that the article title. Your alternative, in suggesting Foley had sex with underage boys, could be libelous.    Since there is no compelling reason to call it a "sex scandal, it's best to err on the side of caution (avoiding libel), neutrality (avoiding loaded words) and simplicity (keeping the name of the article).  I think the current "see also" description best keeps a NPOV. It's also the standard protocol on Wikipedia to use the article name, not a piped link.  I don't see a compelling reason to ignore the consensus and risk libel, and unless you present one the accurate title and description should remain.--Bibliophylax 20:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

The newly-linked TIME magazine article contradicts "Studds, however, stood by the facts of the case and refused to apologize for his behavior." The article describes Studds's speech thusly:

''Last week, in an extraordinary speech on the House floor, he confirmed unapologetically what had long been rumored—that he was a homosexual—and granted that he had made "a very serious error in judgment" in sleeping with the page.

''Studds, who is unmarried, said only that he was wrong to have had sex with a congressional subordinate, no matter what the page's age or sex. "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life," Studds told his rapt colleagues. "But these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as am I, both an elected public official and gay."'' ''

Studds page was of consenting age
I think this should be included in the article if anyone can find a decent reference to that fact. Not condoning what Studds did but I have heard that in fact the boy was of the age of consent.

Contradictory reports
As can now be seen in the article, two newspaper articles 1983 from respectable sources (AP and NYT) give different data about how Crane acted following the conviction. Should the article be left as is or how should it be changed?

Also, I wonder whether it might be too dense as is or whether we should include parallel data about Studds (He sat, grimly, in his seat in the front row, according to the NYT article). Or perhaps the statement above from the Time article where Studds clarified that the reason he felt he made a serious error in judgement was not because the page was 17 years old but because the page was a congressional subordinate.

If anyone has any opinions about these matters, I'd love to hear them or, better yet, simply see them in the article. Thorn 08:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

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Blue Spring

Blue Spring can refer to:

Art and Entertainment

 * Blue Spring (manga), a manga by Taiyō Matsumoto
 * Blue Spring (film), a 2001 film adapted from the above
 * Blue Spring (album), a 1959 album by jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley

Geography

 * Blue Spring (Madison County, Florida), a 1st magnitude spring
 * Blue Spring State Park, a 1st magnitude spring in Volusia County, Florida
 * Blue Spring, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

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Sig Ruman

Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann (October 11, 1884 – February 14, 1967), billed as Sig Ruman and Sig Rumann, was a German-American character actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic officials or villains in more than 100 films.

Early years
Born in Hamburg, German Empire, to Alban Julius Albrecht Ludwig Rumann and his wife, Caroline Margarethe Sophie Rumann on October 11, 1884, he studied electrical engineering, then began working as an actor and musician before serving with the Imperial German Army during World War I. He resumed his acting career after the war. After emigrating to the United States in 1924, his acting career blossomed. Befriending playwright George S. Kaufman and theater critic Alexander Woollcott, he enjoyed success in many Broadway productions. His Broadway credits included Once There Was a Russian (1961), Lily of the Valley (1942), Eight Bells (1933), Alien Corn (1933), Grand Hotel (1930), Half Gods (1929), and The Channel Road (1929).

Film
Ruman made his film debut in Lucky Boy (1929). He became a favorite comic foil of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera (1935), A Day at the Races (1937), and A Night in Casablanca (1946). His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers.

During this period, he also appeared in several films by director Ernst Lubitsch, a fellow German émigré, including Ninotchka (1939), portraying a Russian, and in To Be or Not to Be (1942) as the pompous Nazi Colonel "Concentration-Camp Erhardt". He played the role of Professor Herman Von Reiter in Shining Victory (1941), an adaptation of an A. J. Cronin play. Ruman continued his trend of portraying over-the-top German characters later in his career for Lubitsch's protege Billy Wilder, in his films The Emperor Waltz (1948), and Stalag 17 (1953). Ruman's voice was dubbed over German actor Hubert Von Meyerinck's voice in Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), and he had a cameo role in The Fortune Cookie (1966).

Around 1936, Ruman modified his screen name from Siegfried Rumann to Sig Ruman in an attempt to make it a little less German-sounding, as anti-German prejudice was rising at that time, just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Despite declining health during the 1950s and 1960s, Ruman continued to appear in films and made many guest appearances on television. He guest-starred as pompous Broadway director Eric von Bissell in the memorable 1965 episode of The Addams Family, "My Fair Cousin Itt".

Death
Ruman died of a heart attack on February 14, 1967, at his home in Julian, California, at the age of 82. He was buried in Julian Cemetery, San Diego County, California.

From his first marriage, to Else Rumann, he had a daughter named Senta.

Selected filmography

 * Lucky Boy (1928) as Bit Part (uncredited)
 * The Royal Box (1929) as Bailiff
 * All Quiet On The Western Front (1930, uncredited)
 * The World Moves On (1934) as Baron von Gerhardt
 * Servants' Entrance (1934) as Hans Hansen
 * Marie Galante (1934) as Brogard
 * Under Pressure (1935) as Doctor
 * The Wedding Night (1935) as Mr. Jan Novak
 * Spring Tonic (1935) as Matt Conklin
 * The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) as Blacksmith
 * A Night at the Opera (1935) as Herman Gottlieb
 * East of Java (1935) as Hans Muller
 * The Princess Comes Across (1936) as Detective Steindorf
 * The Bold Cabarello (1936) as Commandante Sebastian Golle
 * On the Avenue (1937) as Herr Hanfstangel
 * Seventh Heaven (1937) as Durand
 * Maytime (1937) as Fanchon
 * Thin Ice (1937) as Prime Minister Ulricht
 * Midnight Taxi (1937) as John B. Rudd
 * The Great Hospital Mystery (1937) as Dr. Taggert
 * This Is My Affair (1937) as Gus
 * A Day at the Races (1937) as Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg
 * Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937) as Nicolas Marloff
 * Love Under Fire (1937) as General Montero
 * Lancer Spy (1937) as Lt. Col. Gottfried Hollen
 * Heidi (1937) as Police Captain
 * Nothing Sacred (1937) as Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer
 * Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) as Colonel Tchernov
 * Paradise for Three (1938) as Mr. Bold
 * The Saint in New York (1938) as Hutch Rellin
 * I'll Give a Million (1938) as Anatole Primerose
 * Suez (1938) as Sergeant Pellerin
 * Girls on Probation (1938) as Roger Heath
 * The Great Waltz (1938) as Wertheimer
 * Honolulu (1939) as Psychiatrist
 * Never Say Die (1939) as Poppa Ingleborg
 * Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as Krogman
 * Only Angels Have Wings (1939) as Dutchy
 * Ninotchka (1939) as Iranoff
 * Remember? (1939) as Dr. Schmidt
 * Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) as Dr. Hans Wolfert
 * Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940) as Van Cleve
 * I Was an Adventuress (1940) as Herr Protz
 * Four Sons (1940) as Newmann
 * Bitter Sweet (1940) as Herr Schlick
 * Comrade X (1940) as Emil Von Hofer
 * Victory (1940) as Mr. Schomberg
 * So Ends Our Night (1941) as Ammers
 * The Man Who Lost Himself (1941) as Dr. Simms
 * That Uncertain Feeling (1941) as Kafka
 * The Wagons Roll at Night (1941) as Hoffman the Great
 * Love Crazy (1941) as Dr. Wuthering
 * Shining Victory (1941) as Professor Herman Von Reiter
 * World Premiere (1941) as Franz von Bushmaster
 * This Woman Is Mine (1941) as John Jacob Astor
 * To Be or Not to Be (1942) as Colonel Ehrhardt
 * Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) as Dirk Van Hoorten
 * Crossroads (1942) as Dr. Alex Dubroc
 * Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942) as Heinrich - Spy Leader
 * Berlin Correspondent (1942) as Dr. Dietrich
 * Desperate Journey (1942) as Preuss
 * China Girl (1942) as Jarubi
 * Tarzan Triumphs (1943) as German Sergeant
 * They Came to Blow Up America (1943) as Dr. Herman Holger
 * Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) as Joe Flugelman
 * Government Girl (1943) as Ambassador
 * The Song of Bernadette (1943) as Louis Bouriette
 * It Happened Tomorrow (1944) as Mr. Beckstein
 * The Hitler Gang (1944) as General von Hindenburg
 * Summer Storm (1944) as Kuzma
 * House of Frankenstein (1944) as Hussman
 * A Royal Scandal (1945) as Gen. Ronsky
 * Men in Her Diary (1945) as Mme. Irene
 * The Dolly Sisters (1945) as Ignatz Tsimmis
 * She Went to the Races (1945) as Dr. Gurke
 * A Night in Casablanca (1946) as Count Pfefferman alias Heinrich Stubel
 * Night and Day (1946) as Wilowski
 * Faithful in My Fashion (1946) as Professor Boris Riminoffsky
 * Mother Wore Tights (1947) as Papa
 * If You Knew Susie (1948) as Count Alexis
 * The Emperor Waltz (1948) as Dr. Zwieback
 * Give My Regards to Broadway (1948) as Arthur Dinkel
 * Border Incident (1949) as Hugo Wolfgang Ulrich
 * Father Is a Bachelor (1950) as Jericho Schlosser
 * On the Riviera (1951) as Gapeaux
 * The World in His Arms (1952) as General Ivan Vorashilov
 * O. Henry's Full House (1952) as Menkie (segment "The Gift of the Magi") (uncredited)
 * Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953) as Cyrus Kraft
 * Stalag 17 (1953) as Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz
 * Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953) as Michael O'Neill
 * Houdini (1953) as Schultz
 * The Glenn Miller Story (1954) as Kranz
 * Living It Up (1954) as Dr. Emile Egelhofer
 * White Christmas (1954) as Landlord (uncredited)
 * 3 Ring Circus (1954) as Colonel Fritz Schlitz
 * Carolina Cannonball (1955) as Stefan
 * Many Rivers to Cross (1955) as Spectacle Man
 * Spy Chasers (1955) as King Rako of Truania
 * The Wings of Eagles (1957) as Manager
 * The Errand Boy (1961) as Baron Elston Carteblanche
 * One, Two, Three (1961) as Count von Droste Schattenburg (voice, uncredited)
 * Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) as Hammacher (uncredited)
 * 36 Hours (1964) as German Guard
 * The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966) as Prof. Werner von Koenig
 * The Fortune Cookie (1966) as Professor Winterhalter
 * Way...Way Out (1966) as Russian Delegate

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List of mobile network operators in the United States

This is a list of mobile network operators (MNOs) in the United States. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), lists approximately 30 facilities-based wireless service providers in the United States as members. Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) has over 100 members. Aside from the facilities-based providers, there are over 50 virtual operators that use the top three networks to provide service.

Largest American wireless providers
The top five wireless telecommunications facilities-based service providers by subscriber count in the United States are:

* Excludes "postpaid other customers" which includes high speed internet customers. Including which the total would be 120.8 million.

Each active SIM card is considered a subscriber. Wholesale customers include users of machine to machine networks and mobile virtual network operators that operate on the host network, but are managed by wholesale partners. The subscriber counts on this page are taken from each provider's quarterly reports.

Technologies used
Four of the top five wireless providers have all standardized on 4G LTE and 5G NR as their wireless communication standards, where as Boost Mobile uses only 5G NR. Of which, LTE has been deployed across their entire coverage area; however, the LTE bands used by each provider remain largely incompatible. Four of the top five carriers have enabled VoLTE and VoNR on their networks, while Boost uses strictly VoNR. AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Boost Mobile, and uscellular also sell SIM cards through their retail channels, both in-store and online.

The top five wireless providers operate nationwide wireless networks which cover most of the population in the United States, while smaller carriers provide native network coverage across selected regions of the United States while supplementing nationwide coverage through roaming agreements with other carriers.

Facilities-based service providers
The following tables lists service providers that own and manage their network equipment and facilities. Unless specified otherwise the subscriber count includes subscribers on the virtual networks hosted.

Defunct, merged and acquired operators
Some operators listed below may still function as a separate brand but they no longer own any infrastructure (towers, network, etc.).


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Talk:Katō (surname)

Could somebody please tell me if any of the "Kato's" listed here have anything to do with the comment Cher gives Josh in Clueless? In one of the early scenes in the film, Josh claims that: "Just because my Mother marries another man doesn't mean he's my Father" to which Cher remarks "Actually Kato that's exactly what it means." This is for an English assiginment where I'm looking up a number of pop culture referencs in the film. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

""Kato" means "Fujiwara in Kaga", commonly said. "   <- What does this mean? Can someone clarify it?

Move to Katō (Japanese surname)
As this surname index article is specifically about the Japanese surname 加藤 and a) there are other people with name Kato list in the Kato (name) index article and b) there are people listed in this article with surname spelled "Kato", I suggest this page be moved to Katō (Japanese surname). This reflects the Anthroponymy standard of using a demonym (see WP:APOTITLE) to differentiate between the page with people with surname Kato who are named 加藤 and people with surname Kato who are not named 加藤. I would also suggest including a hatnote in this article pointing back to (name) article for people named Kato (and not 加藤). Coastside (talk) 23:00, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 1 February 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus (closed by non-admin page mover)  SITH   (talk)   22:13, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Katō (surname) → Katō (Japanese surname) – To differentiate people with surname Kato listed in article Kato (name) who are not named 加藤. Coastside (talk) 23:04, 1 February 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Warm Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 17:44, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Oppose - absolutely no need to separate these per WP:USEENGLISH. Where would the non-Japanese surnames be listed otherwise? -- Netoholic @  02:32, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:USEENGLISH doesn't say you can't have a qualifier for a name page such as "(Japanese surname)". As per WP:APOTITLE demonyms (e.g., "Japanese" in this case) are appropriate to further distinguish titles as necessary. For example, see Chu (Chinese surname).
 * More to the point, though, my intent in suggesting changing the title of the page is to make clear what names are on this page vs. on the Kato (name) page. I'm not arguing that this page SHOULD be a Japanese name page.  I'm arguing that IF it's a Japanese name page, then it should be titled that way to make it clear.   asserted (see discussion at User_talk:Xezbeth) that this particular name page was about the name 加藤 and not the name Kato, believing that the macron over the letter "o" sufficiently distinguished it as a Japanese name.  My problem with the way it is now is that there are people with surname "Kato" on both pages Kato (name) and Kato (surname), and the only way to distinguish them is based on nationality.  If that's the case, then make clear that this page is the Japanese surname. Coastside (talk) 05:19, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Alectrosaurus

Alectrosaurus (meaning "alone lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about some 96 million years ago in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation.

It was a medium-sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, estimated at 5 to 6 m with a body shape similar to its much larger advanced relative, Tyrannosaurus. Alectrosaurus was a very fast running tyrannosauroid as indicated by the elongated hindlimbs that likely filled the niche of a pursuit predator, a trait that seems to be lost by the advanced and robust tyrannosaurids, in adulthood.

Discovery and naming
In 1923, the Third Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, led by chief paleontologist Walter W. Granger, was hunting for dinosaur fossils in Mongolia. On April 25 in the gobi desert, assistant paleontologist George Olsen excavated and recovered the holotype AMNH FARB 6554, a nearly complete right hindlimb. This included a virtually complete right hindlimb with some elements from the left pes and two manual unguals. On May 4, Olsen discovered another specimen approximately 30 m away from his first find, catalogued as AMNH 6368. This specimen included a right humerus, two incomplete manual digits, four fragmentary caudal vertebrae, and other two or three unspecified elements that were discarded due to bad preservation. These discoveries were made at the Iren Dabasu Formation in what is now the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Nei Mongol Zizhiqu) of China.

Both genus and species were formally described and named by the American paleontologist Charles Gilmore in 1933. The generic name, Alectrosaurus, can be translated as "alone lizard" or "mateless lizard", derived from the Greek words ἄλεκτρος (meaning alone or unmarried) and σαῦρος (meaning lizard). The specific name, olseni, is in honor of George Olsen, who discovered the first specimens.

Additional specimens
Since then, more material has been referred to Alectrosaurus. Possible findings of two additional specimens at the Bayan Shireh Formation were reported and described by the Mongolian paleontologist Altangerel Perle in 1977. The specimen IGM 100/50 consists of a partial maxilla, scapulocoracoid and manual ungual, and specimen IGM 100/51 consists of a fragmentary skull with lower jaws and other elements, incomplete ilium, and metatarsals of the right foot. These fossils were found in Outer Mongolia. Iren Dabasu and Bayan Shireh dinosaur faunas are very similar, so it is not surprising that a species of Alectrosaurus would be found there. However, it is possible that these specimens may not be referable to Alectrosaurus, because of some tyrannosaurid traits found in the Mongolian specimens which the holotype does not possess. Alexander Averianov and Hans-Dieter Sues 2012 have estimated that the Iren Dabasu Formation is Santonian in age, correlating the Upper Bayan Shireh Formation. Van Itterbeeck et al. 2005 suggested that the Iren Dabasu Formation is probably Campanian-Maastrichtian in age and possibly correlated with the Nemegt Formation.

Near the holotype, the specimen AMNH FARB 6266 was found in the same strata but at different points also in 1923. It consists of premaxillary and lateral teeth, incomplete left lacrimal, maxillary process of the left jugal, partial right quadratojugal, jugal process of the right ectopterygoid and the quadrate ramus to the right pterygoid. Although the specimen seems to represent a smaller individual. Its affinity to Alectrosaurus is somewhat unresolved since the specimen lacks hindlimb material, making direct comparisons with Alectrosaurus quite complicated.

Description
The lectotype AMNH 6554 is fragmentary, consisting of a nearly complete right hindlimb only lacking the distal tarsal elements; left metatarsals II, III and IV, and a fragmentary distal foot of a pubis, however it is unknown which pubis represents.

It was a medium-sized tyrannosauroid, reaching a length between 5 and 6 m, and a weight ranging from 454 to 907 kg. Overall, the hindlimbs were rather gracile, in contrast to the robust tyrannosaurids. The length of its tibia (shinbone) and femur (thighbone) are very close, in contrast to the majority of other tyrannosauroids, where the tibia is longer. The femur measures 72.7 cm and the tibia 73 cm. The metetarsals are also closer in size to the tibia than in most other tyrannosauroids, where they are usually longer; the third is the largest, measuring 48 cm long. The astragalus and calcaneum are nicely preserved, although the astragalus seems to be slightly damaged. They are strongly attached, but not fused.

Distinguishing anatomical features
Following the original description of Alectrosaurus, it can be distinguished by the following traits: long slender-limbed type of tyrannosauroid; humerus long and slender; ungual and phalanx of digit I robust, laterally compressed and strongly curved; femur and tibia subequal in length; length of astragalus onefourth the combined length of astragalus and tibia.

According to Carr (2022), Alectrosaurus can be distinguished based on unique traits present in the hindlimbs, such as the spike-like process extending from the caudodorsal surface of the medial condyle of the femur, the presence of an abrupt expansion in length of the anterior margin of the joint surface for the tibia on the fibula, tendon pit adjacent to the ventrolateral buttress of the astragalus undercutting the medial surface of the buttress, the dorsal margin of the proximal surface of pedal phalanx II-2 is pointed, reduced pedal digit III, the lateral condyle of pedal phalanx III-1 is significantly deeper than the medial condyle, when in distal view, stocky pedal phalanx IV-2, when examined in proximal view, the dorsal half of the joint surface for metatarsal IV on metatarsal III is dilated anteriorly, and many others.

Classification
In 1933, Charles Gilmore examined the available material and concluded that AMNH 6554 and AMNH 6368 were syntypes belonging to the same genus. He based this on his observation that the manual unguals from both specimens were morphologically similar. Observing similarities with the hindlimbs of specimen AMNH 5664 Gorgosaurus sternbergi, he classified this new genus as a "Deinodont", a term that is now considered equivalent to tyrannosaurid. Due to its fragmentary nature, there is presently very little confidence in restoring its relationships with other tyrannosauroids and many recent cladistic analyses have omitted it altogether. One study recovered Alectrosaurus at no less than eight equally parsimonious positions in a tyrannosauroid cladogram. Some paleontologists have equivocally considered Alectrosaurus olseni to be a species of Albertosaurus.

Alectrosaurus was originally characterized as a long-armed theropod, but Perle 1977 and Mader & Bradley 1989 observed that the forelimbs of the specimen AMNH 6368 did not belong to the genus, as they do not share characteristics with Tyrannosauroidea, and assigned them to the Therizinosauria incertae sedis. The remaining material, AMNH 6554 represents the hind limb with characteristics of a true tyrannosauroid, and were assigned as the lectotype for Alectrosaurus olseni. Additionally, four small caudal vertebrae were associated with the specimen AMNH 6368, the vertebrae were not included in the original description. Nevertheless, in 1984 they were catalogued as AMNH 21784. Mader and Bradley described these vertebrae, and were provisionally identified as caudal vertebrae of a small theropod dinosaur that is not phylogenetically referable to either the Tyrannosauroidea or Therizinosauridae as they show resemblance to the caudal vertebrae of Deinonychus and Plateosaurus.

The Bayan Shireh material may or may not belong to this genus, and needs further study. One cladistic analysis showed that the two sets of specimens group together exclusive of any other taxa, so they are probably at least closely related, if not the same species.

A 2013 study found it to be a sister taxa to Xiongguanlong while Carr 2005 found it to be a Dryptosaurid.

Paleobiology
The hindlimb of the specimen AMNH 6554 is notable for the particular elongated digits and metatarsals, differing from other tyrannosauroids. These traits are found in terrestrial runner birds, suggesting that Alectrosaurus was suited as a fast-running tyrannosauroid dinosaur with well developed hindlimbs; probably a pursuit predator. This interpretation is consistent with the results obtained in the limb proportion analysis performed by Scott Persons IV and Currie in 2016. By comparing the limbs of numerous theropods they noted that most tyrannosauroids were highly cursorial and leggy animals, with the exception of giant and stocky-legged forms such as Tarbosaurus or Tyrannosaurus. Alectrosaurus was recovered with a relatively high CLP (Cursorial-limb-proportion) score at 16.5, higher than most carnosaurs. In 2001, a study conducted by Bruce Rothschild and colleagues, examined 23 foot bones referred to Alectrosaurus for signs of stress fractures, but none were found.

Paleoenvironment
Alectrosaurus was first recovered from the Iren Dabasu Formation, which has been dated to the Cenomanian stage, about 95.8 ± 6.2 million years ago. During the Late Cretaceous, there was a large floodplain with braided fluvial environments in the formation. The floodplain environments had extensive vegetation, evidenced in the palaeosol development and the numerous herbivorous dinosaurs that were found in both the river channel and the floodplain sediments. Contemporaneous paleofauna from this formation included other theropods such as Archaeornithomimus, Caenagnathasia, Erliansaurus, Gigantoraptor and Neimongosaurus; the sauropod Sonidosaurus and the two hadrosauroids Bactrosaurus and Gilmoreosaurus. Alectrosaurus likely preyed on these two. Additional to this, a potential discovery was made on the Bayan Shireh Formation at the Bayshi Tsav locality. The Bayan Shireh Formation is estimated to be Late Cretaceous in age, during the Cenomanian-Santonian stages, about 95.9 ± 6.0 million to 89.6 ± 4.0 million years ago, similar to Iren Dabasu. Here, Alectrosaurus lived alongside a diverse range of theropods such as Achillobator, Garudimimus or Segnosaurus. Ankylosaurs were represented by Talarurus and Tsagantegia, other herbivorous dinosaurs include Graciliceratops, Gobihadros and Erketu.

Alexander Averianov and Hans-Dieter Sues in 2012 estimated that the Upper Bayan Shireh correlated the Iren Dabasu Formation and both had similar environments. This correlation seems to be supported by a large number of ostracods reported in these formations. Further support can be evidenced on the similarities between the dinosaur taxa. As previously mentioned, Alectrosaurus appears to occur in both Iren Dabasu and Bayan Shireh Formations, although this referral to the genus has not been fully confirmed, the tentative specimens show striking resemblance to the Iren Dabasu material. In 2015, a giant caenagnathid was reported from the Bayan Shireh Formation, preserving a partial lower rostrum (beak) that is extremely similar to that of Gigantoraptor. If confirmed by future studies, this represents the first documented occurrence of a taxon in both formations.

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2006 quite outdated bio: ''Hi all. I'm finally delurking so I can more actively use Wikipedia to help User:Sj plan the Wikimania 06 Boston bid. I occasionally in the past have made some edits, know something but not tons about wikis, etc. I work at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School (where Jimmy Wales is currently a fellow), which is how I got into wikis and Wikimania, but except in specific instances related to the Wikimania Boston proposal I won't be acting in any work-related capacity. There's many loveable Wikipedians in my life, so, yay. I expect I'll still occasionally edit stuff, just now not anonymously, probably not have tons of time for much but but who knows. Sometimes a few hours geeking out on something specific is really relaxing...''

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Brandon City (electoral district)

Brandon City is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada.

It was initially created as Brandon in 1881, following the westward expansion of Manitoba's boundaries. It was eliminated through redistribution before the 1886 provincial election, and replaced with Brandon East and Brandon West. The area was further redistributed prior to the 1888 election, and Brandon City was created along with Brandon North and Brandon South.

The constituency was renamed Brandon for the 1958 provincial election. It disappeared from the electoral map with the 1969 provincial election, when the city was once again divided into Brandon East and Brandon West.

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Redwood Valley Railway

The Redwood Valley Railway is a gauge miniature railway in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, California.

History
It was established in 1952 by Erich Thomsen as the Tilden South Gate and Pacific Railway, on a gauge, and has since expanded to 1+1/4 mi of track and carries over 160,000 passengers a year. Thomsen worked in the engineering department for the Western Pacific Railroad and received at least three patents for his work. The railway occupies land near the base of Vollmer Peak that was previously used as an anti-aircraft gun emplacement.

800 now-mature redwood trees were planted when the railroad was initially laid out. In 1968, the railroad was re-gauged to in. The new 15" gauge, 5" scale equipment allowed two adults to ride side by side and is representative of American narrow gauge railroads. Two of Redwood Valley's locomotives have made trips to England, run on several English 15 in gauge railways, including the Ravenglass and Eskdale. After Thomsen died in 1995, his daughter Ellen assumed operations of the Redwood Valley Railway.

Operations
Rides last approximately 12 minutes. As of January 2023, a ticket for anyone 2 or older (adults and children) costs $4.00. Young kids under 2 ride free. A five-ride ticket costs $16.

Schedule
The Redwood Valley Railway operates Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm year-round (11am to sundown in winter - weather permitting).

During the summer (from mid June to Labor Day) the railway operates 7 days a week from 11 am to 5 pm weekdays and 11 am to 6 pm weekends.

Special events
The first full weekend in June is the Anniversary Meet, which is open to the public from 11am to 6pm. Most of the RVRy's locomotives are under steam, and often visiting locomotives and rolling stock appear for the occasion.

RVRy celebrates "Winterfest", usually during the first and second weekends of December. During this time, the railway opens at its normal hours but closes after dark at 7pm. Guests experience the magic of the winter forest after dark complete with Father Solstice on his own train, illuminated themed areas of the railroad pertaining to the stages of water and a warm, holiday atmosphere. Ticket prices are the same as normal operating days.

Locomotives
The railroad has four 15-inch scale steam locomotives, designed by Erich Thomsen and built on location by the railroad's Redwood Valley Shops. Each is designed for service on the RVRy and while they are not based on any full-size prototypes, they share many details with engines built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works built between 1875 and 1910 In addition, RVRy owns a single diesel-hydraulic locomotive, number 2, which only is used for maintenance-of-way.

Cars and other stock
The Redwood Valley Railway maintains a dozen or so wooden gondolas, built similar to those found on 36" narrow-gauge lines in the American West. The gondolas, equipped with seating for up to eight adults, are the mainstay passenger rolling stock for this operation. The RVRy also owns three stock cars which have been specifically built to carry passengers as well. These are often favorites with small children, although a full-sized adult can comfortably fit inside.

Other equipment includes a boxcar, extra convertible gondolas, which can either haul passengers or satisfy maintenance-of-way needs.

The RVRy owns numerous four-wheel maintenance-of-way cars known as "jimmies", which have specialized uses such as welding, tie replacement, or carrying ballast.

The RVRy also rosters a single flatcar, built as a high school shop project by one of the crew in the 1970s. This rugged flatcar has seen thousands of uses, and is one of the most versatile cars on the railroad.

Unique among the roster of cars is a coal gondola, once used to carry extra coal for number 4. Coal was used up until the mid-1970s when number 4 was converted to fuel oil. The coal gondola, with its higher sides, is infrequently used. It currently carries a few dozen metal folding chairs for the annual meet.

A favorite with both young and old is the caboose. Based on a D&RGW 36" gauge prototype, this "short" center cupola caboose has graced the end of most revenue trains for over 30 years.

Future projects
Parts for a 2-4-4 Forney and a 2-6-0 exist, but currently remain unassembled. Plans for a second caboose and a lavish, scale (down to the furniture, wallpaper, and bar with tiny glasses) business car are in the works.

As of mid-2010 the boiler for number 13, the aforementioned 2-6-0 has been manufactured. Not to be confused with a visiting GSP&P 13 from the Glenwood Southpark and Pacific.

Former
Number 1 Cricket, the -gauge 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was first used when service started in 1952, along with a few 12" gauge cars were sold to the Folsom Valley Ry. in Folsom, California

Storage
The RVRy has 3 barns to store cars when not in use. They also have a round house, which has a viewing window to see their other steam engines. There is also a tunnel, which was going to be part of an expansion line, until it collapsed mid-way. The tunnel is now used to hold a few cars.

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Neshaminy Creek

Neshaminy Creek is a 40.7 mi stream that runs entirely through Bucks County, Pennsylvania, rising south of the borough of Chalfont, where its north and west branches join. Neshaminy Creek flows southeast toward Bristol Township and Bensalem Township to its confluence with the Delaware River.

The name "Neshaminy" originates with the Lenni Lenape and is thought to mean "place where we drink twice". This phenomenon refers to a section of the creek known as the Neshaminy Palisades, where the course of the water slows and changes direction at almost a right angle, nearly forcing the water back upon itself. These palisades are located in Dark Hollow Park, operated by the county, and are flanked by Warwick Township to the south and Buckingham Township to the north.

Statistics
The watershed of the Neshaminy Creek covers an area of approximately 236 sqmi, 86 percent of which is located in Bucks County and 14 percent in Montgomery County. It is part of the greater Delaware River watershed. The creek's course runs mostly through suburban areas to the north of Philadelphia. However, the course of the creek does run through a few sections of rural and semi-rural terrain, and some forested areas remain. Neshaminy Creek passes through two state parks, Tyler State Park and Neshaminy State Park. Neshaminy Creek has the distinction of having three tributaries named Mill Creek.

History
The name seems to derive from the Lenape 'Nesha-men-ning', loosely meaning 'the place where we drink twice' or 'two drinking places'. Older names were written as Nishambanach (1671), Nichmink, Nishammis (1679), Nishmines (1680), Neshimineh (1682), Neshamineh (1686), Neshaminia (1688), Neshamenah (1702), and others. This may refer to two springs near a village of the Lenape, since native people drink from a spring whenever available rather than from a stream. The location of the springs is unknown, but may have been two springs extant many years ago, not far from the confluence of the north and west branches. One was known at the time as the 'Great Spring' and the other much smaller about 300 ft away and was said to have been near an old Indian trail. The Neshaminy was the first stream in Bucks County to have been crossed by ferries and bridges.

The Gordon Gazetteer of 1832 called it the Neshaminy River and stated that "over it, there are many fine wooden and stone bridges. The bridge nearest its mouth on the road to New York is a draw bridge-in private property, erected by the Messrs. Bassonet and Johnson, whose heirs and assigns levy tolls by virtue of the Act of Assembly 6th Sept. 1785. The Neshaminy as far as Barnsleys Ford was declared a public highway by Act of 9th March, 1771."

The stream has seen a number of major floods. In the Mina flood of 1833, most of the bridges were washed away and was the highest flood known at that time. Compared to the flood of 16–17 July 1865, the 1833 flood was exceeded by 6 ft, rupturing the Turk Dam and destroying almost all of the bridges downstream. As the waters reached the Delaware River, the flow was so great as to reach the New Jersey shoreline leaving a large pile of debris and preventing shipping from traversing the river. The Neshaminy has been the subject of many artists over the years.

Geology
Beginning at the junction of the West Branch and North Branch Neshaminy Creeks, Neshaminy Creek begins in the Brunswick Formation, formed during the Jurassic and Triassic, which consists of mainly mudstone, shale, and siltstone. Mineralogy includes argillite and hornfels. West of Chalfont it passes into an extension of the Lockatong Formation for a short distance, back into the Brunswick, then again to the Lockatong. The Lockatong Formation was deposited during the Triassic and consists of argillite, shale, and occasionally, a layer of limestone.
 * Appalachian Division, Piedmont Province, Gettysburg-Newark Section

East of Chalfont, the Neshaminy flows into the Stockton Formation, laid during the Triassic, consisting of arkosic sandstone, sandstone, shale, siltstone, and mudstone. It flows generally along the Stockton and Lockatong transition until the Neshaminy palisades, where it turns west, then in a few miles turns south into a region of felsic gneiss, which contains quartz, microcline, pyroxene, and biotite.

After passing Oakford, it passes through a small deposit of mafic gneiss, from the Precambrian, which contains calcic plagioclase, hypersthene or augite, quartz, and hornblende.
 * Appalachian Division, Piedmont Province, Upland Section

Next, the stream passes into the Wissahickon Formation (lower Paleozoic), a schist which has metamorphosed into a facies, containing garnet, staurolite, kyanite, and sillimanite. The Wissahickon also contains oligoclase-mica schist, hornblende and augen gneiss', and some feldspar.
 * Appalachian Division, Piedmont Province, Lowland and Intermediate Upland Section

It then passes through a region of Pensauken and Bridgeton Formations, from the Tertiary, but it has eroded through it to the underlying Wissahickon Formation. Both formations consist of quartz sand.

Finally, the Neshaminy passes through the Trenton gravel formation, from the Quaternary, which is sand and clay-silt where it meets the Delaware River.

Named tributaries

 * Mill Creek
 * Pine Run
 * Ironworks Creek
 * Newtown Creek
 * Mill Creek
 * Robin Run
 * Watson Creek
 * Lahaska Creek
 * Little Neshaminy Creek
 * Park Creek
 * Cooks Run
 * Mill Creek
 * North Branch Neshaminy Creek
 * Pine Run
 * West Branch Neshaminy Creek
 * Reading Creek

Adjacent municipalities

 * Bensalem Township
 * Bristol Township
 * Buckingham Township
 * Chalfont
 * Doylestown
 * Doylestown Township
 * Hatfield
 * Hulmeville
 * Ivyland
 * Langhorne
 * Langhorne Manor
 * Lansdale
 * Lower Southampton Township
 * Middletown Township
 * New Britain
 * New Britain Township
 * Newtown
 * Newtown Township
 * Northampton Township
 * Penndel
 * Plumstead Township
 * Upper Southampton Township
 * Warminster Township
 * Warwick Township
 * Wrightstown Township

Flooding
Like other rivers and streams, the Neshaminy Creek poses a flooding threat to neighboring areas in times of rapid downpours. The waters of the creek have been known to rise more than 10 ft above their normal level during severe storms, such as Hurricane Floyd, which hit the area on September 16, 1999. In 2005, the Natural Resources Conservation Service earmarked $3 million for flood mitigation programs along the Neshaminy Creek. The creek was the site of significant flooding again from June 25 through July 5, 2006 during the Mid-Atlantic United States flood of 2006. In late August through early September 2011, Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee (2011) rose the Neshaminy Creek to levels which had not seen before in 100 years. Repairs cost around $1 million total.

Sources and external links

 * U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations
 * http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/factsheets/neshaminy.html
 * http://fitzpatrick.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=36389
 * Map of the Forks of the Neshaminy (showing the nearly right angle in the creek within Dark Hollow Park)
 * Dark Hollow Park Fact Sheet

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Viktor Kazantsev

Viktor Germanovich Kazantsev (Ви́ктор Ге́рманович Каза́нцев; 26 February 1946 – 14 September 2021) was an envoy of the Russian president to the Southern Federal District from 2000 to 2004. He performed primary negotiations between the Russian government and the Chechen opposition. Decorated with the Hero of the Russian Federation title, he was involved in coordinating the government responses to various violent actions in Chechnya. Kazanstev was also involved in coordinating the rescue attempt during the Moscow theatre hostage situation, which took place in October 2002.

Education
Kazantsev completed the Sverdlovsk Suvorov Military School in 1963, the Saint Petersburg Higher Combined Arms Command School in 1966, the Frunze Military Academy in 1970 and the Soviet General Staff Academy in 1987.

Soviet Union
Kazantsev began his career as a platoon commander in 1966 and served in Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Afghanistan (1979) and with the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia. He commanded the 17th Army Corps (Soviet Union) in 1988-90, located at Frunze, which then became Bishkek in the former Kyrgyz SSR. He was military advisor to the government of Kazakhstan in 1991.

Russia
From 1991 to 1993, Kazantsev was First Deputy Chief of Staff, and then deputy commander of the Transbaikal Military District for combat training. From April 1993 to February 1996 he was Chief of Staff and first deputy commander of the Transbaikal Military District. From February 1996 to July 1997 he was First Deputy Commander of the North Caucasus Military District, and then from July 1997 to May 2000 Commander of the North Caucasus Military District.

From August 1999 to April 2000, Kazantsev was Commander of the Allied Group of Federal Forces in the North Caucasus, while maintaining the post of commander of the North Caucasus Military District. In January 2001, he became a member of the Operational Headquarters for the management of counterterrorism actions in the North Caucasus region, created by decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

Political activity
In May 2000, Kazantsev was appointed the President's representative to Russia's Southern Federal District. On 9 March 2004, he was dismissed from this post and replaced by former Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Yakovlev.

Soviet Union

 * Order of the Red Star
 * Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 2nd and 3rd classes
 * Medal for Battle Merit
 * Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
 * Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
 * Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Medal "For Impeccable Service" 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes

Russian Federation

 * Hero of the Russian Federation
 * Order of Military Merit
 * Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

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Brahmavidya

Brahmavidya (ब्रह्मविद्या) is a branch of Hindu scriptural knowledge derived primarily through a study of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sūtras, and the Bhagavad Gita.

In the Puranas, this is divided into two branches, the first one dealing with the Vedic mantras and is called para-vidya or 'former knowledge', and the latter dealing with the study of the Upanishads and is called the apara-vidya or 'latter knowledge'. Both para- and apara-vidya constitute brahma-vidya. The Mundaka Upanishad says that "Brahma-vidya sarva-vidya pratistha", which means "The Knowledge of Brahman is the foundation of all knowledge."

Etymology
The term brahmavidya is a compound derived from the Sanskrit terms brahman and vidya.

Brahman is the Ultimate Reality in Hinduism.

The word vidyā means "knowledge," and is derived from the Sanskrit verbal root -vid- ("to know"), also seen in the word Veda. Its cognates in other Indo-European languages are the Greek εἶδον for ἐϝιδον ("I saw"), οἶδα for ϝοιδα ("I know"), Latin vidēre ("to see"), Slavic věděti, Gothic ("witan, wait"), Germanic wizzan, wissen ("to know"), and the English ("wisdom, wit").

Mythology
The Shatapatha Brahmana features a legend in which the sage Atharvan was threatened decapitation by Indra if he restored the head of a sacrifical offering, since it would lead to the revelation of esoteric knowledge. The Ashvin twins, eager to acquire this wisdom, promised to replace the head of Atharvan with that of a horse while keeping the real one in safekeeping, after which the head could be restored. Atharvan agreed, restoring the head of the sacrifice, and the knowledge was revealed from the horse-head. When Indra duly carried out this decapitation after the revelation, the Ashvins promptly restored the real head of the sage. The knowledge revealed came to be known as the Brahmavidya.

In the Mundaka Upanishad, Brahma is stated to have revealed the Brahmavidya to his eldest son Atharvan, who passed it down to Angiras, who in turn passed it down to Bharadvaja.

Yama is described to have imparted the knowledge of Brahmavidya to Nachiketa.

Current usage
In modern Hinduism, Brahmavidya is used to mean a spiritual study of Hindu scriptures with the aim of realising the Ultimate Reality. Different modern Hindu leaders have defined it in the context of their own systems of philosophy.

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