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Michael Bloomberg

2007-06-23T19:52:30Z

JohnPeters:

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'''Michael Rubens Bloomberg''' (born 14 February, 1942 in New York City) is a businessman, philanthropist, funder of Bloomberg L.P., and current Mayor of [[New York City]]. Even though he was a life-long registered [[Democrat]], Michael Bloomberg successfully ran for mayor as a [[Republican]] in 2001 due in large part to the support of popular outgoing mayor [[Rudy Giuliani]], and was reelected to a second term in 2005. Michael Bloomberg is also one of the richest people in the world according to ''Forbes'' magazine, with an estimated net worth of $5.3 billion. Michael Bloomberg is currently divorced and has 2 children.

Bloomberg dropped his Republican Party affiliation on June 19, 2007, stating "I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment with how I have led and will continue to lead our city."<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11203856</ref> Bloomberg is traditionally known as a fiscal conservative with social liberal tendencies.
==Education==
Michael Bloomberg holds a Bachelor of Arts & Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. In 2001, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism established the Bloomberg Chair in Journalism with a gift of $1.5 million from Bloomberg L.P.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/05/bloomberg.html</ref>

==References==
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[http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_Michael-Rubens-Bloomberg_C610.html The 400 Richest Americans], ''Forbes magazine'', September 21, 2006.

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Addition

2007-06-23T19:44:18Z

JohnPeters: added more detail

'''Addition''' is the name given to the [[mathematics|mathematical]] function which involves the combination of two values, resulting in a directly related linear increase.The sum a + b can be interpreted as a binary operation that combines a and b, in an algebraic sense, or it can be interpreted as the addition of c more units to b. Under the latter interpretation, the parts of a sum c + a play symmetric roles, and the operation a + c is viewed as applying the unary operation +b to a. Instead of calling both a and b addends, it is more appropriate to call a the augend in this case, since a plays a passive role. The unary view is also useful when discussing subtraction, because each unary addition operation has an inverse unary subtraction operation. and vice versa.

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White lotus

2007-06-23T19:40:53Z

JohnPeters: breif description

White Lotus (白蓮教 Pinyin: báiliánjiào Wade-Giles: Pai-lien chiao) is a type of Buddhist sectarianism that appealed to many Chinese, most notably to women and to the poor, who found solace in worship of the Eternal Mother who was to gather all her children at the millennium into one family. The doctrine of the White Lotus included a forecast of the imminent advent of the future Buddha Maitreya.