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Omega 7

Omega 7 was an anti-Castro Cuban group based in Florida and New York made up of Cuban exiles whose stated goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro. The group had fewer than 20 members. According to the Global Terrorism Database, Omega 7 was responsible for at least 55 known anti-Castro attacks over the span of eight years with a majority of them being bombs. The group also took part in multiple high-profile murders and assassination attempts and has committed four known murders. Among their assassinations was Felix Garcia Rodriguez, a Cuban delegate who was gunned down on the 6th anniversary of the group. The group had conspired to assassinate Fidel Castro during the Cuban leader's visit to the United Nations in 1979.

History
Eduardo Arocena was born in Cuba on February 26, 1943, and was in school until the start of Castro's regime in 1959. Arocena was a gifted amateur wrestler who had considered taking part in the Olympics. Arocena had been collaborating with other Cuban expatriates and exiles and taking part in activities against Castro that included the destruction of many crucial industrial and agricultural locations.

Arocena eventually left to the United States out of fear of his anti-regime actions being exposed. While in the U.S. Arocena resided in New Jersey where he worked in a warehouse and started a family.

Dissatisfied with the political opposition to Fidel Castro at the time, during the 1970s Arocena began to recruit Cuban veterans from the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. In addition to this Arocena would go on to pull members in other anti-Castro exile groups as well, eventually forming his Omega 7 group on September 11, 1974. The New Jersey branch was made up of seven members (for which the group was named) including Arocena himself, Jose Juilio Garcia, Pedro Remon, Andres Garcia, Alberto Perez, Eduardo Ochoa, and Eduardo Losada-Fernandez.

As the tactical commander of the group, Arocena has stated that the CIA trained him in 1967 in bomb making and a variety of other warfare skills and tactics, although the CIA has never directly confirmed this. Pedro Remon took part in most of Omega 7's attacks and had the duty of calling local radio stations after each assassination or bombing. Most of the other members typically participated in more minor roles within the group. It is believed that the number of members in Omega 7 has never exceeded 20.

The group was primarily funded by Cuban businessmen, but received additional funding in the early 1980s from marijuana drug traffickers. Although the group never took part in the selling or buying of narcotics, the group did perform collection tasks as well as other assignments given to them by the drug traffickers. One narcotics supplier in particular, known as Manuel Fernandez, would offer Arocena and the group large quantities of cash in exchange for their services.

One of these tasks included an assassination attempt on Luis Fuentes a rival drug dealer to Fernandez. Fernandez eventually went on to testify against Arocena and Omega 7 claiming that they were paid up to $150,000 for their services despite never receiving his collection money from group, he also stated that he had sold two submachine guns to Omega 7. Eduardo Arocena was arrested in Miami on July 22, 1983, Omega 7 became inactive shortly after his arrest.

Indictment of Eduardo Arocena
On September 22, 1984, Eduardo Arocena was convicted on 26 charges which included murder and bombings, many of which Arocena confessed to prior to his conviction. Arocena was ruled to serve a mandatory life sentence. During Eduardo Arocena's trial, he claimed to have been taken to the FBI offices in New York City where he accused the Bureau of drugging him to the point of unconsciousness to which he found needle marks in his arms when he awoke. According to Arocena, the FBI had tried to coerce him into speaking about a variety of terrorist groups and operations. This story has never been confirmed by the F.B.I. When Eduardo Arocena was put on trial he initially denied being the leader of Omega 7, claiming that he was simply "obsessed with Communism" and had worked alongside the C.I.A. in Cuba in order to look into communist activities in Cuba. Arocena also denied ever taking part in terrorist actives in the United States, but did state that he was trained in the use of explosives by the C.I.A. in Florida. Arocena also stated that he once traveled Cuba, and releasing "germs" in the environment in order to start a chemical war between Cuba and the United States. In 2008, Arocena's wife Miriam led a campaign, which petitioned for the release of her husband. Miriam suggested that the life sentence her husband received was unwarranted given the nature and patriotic reasons of Eduardo Arocena's actions. Arocena was released on June 25, 2021.

Known attacks
On February 1, 1975, the group bombed the Venezuelan consulate in New York City. Arocena confessed to putting a hit out on Eulalio Jose Negrin who had negotiated with Cuba about the release of political prisoners. Arocena did not approve of any diplomatic negotiations with Cuba and therefore ordered Remon to kill Negrin. Remon completed the hit by murdering Negrin with a submachine gun in front of Negrin's teenage son.

On September 11, 1980, an attaché with the Cuban Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Felix Garcia Rodriguez, was fatally shot. He was driving back to the Cuban Mission along the Queens Boulevard service road near 58th Street in Queens, and was killed by a bullet fired from a parked car. Garcia was "the first United Nations official to have been assassinated in New York City since the founding of the world organization" in 1945.

During the indictment of Eduardo Arocena, Omega 7 was found guilty of at least seven bombings in the Miami, Florida area.

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Dextro-Transposition of the great arteries

dextro-Transposition of the great arteries (d-Transposition of the great arteries, dextro-TGA, or d-TGA) is a potentially life-threatening birth defect in the large arteries of the heart. The primary arteries (the aorta and the pulmonary artery) are transposed.

It is called a cyanotic congenital heart defect (CHD) because the newborn infant turns blue from lack of oxygen. In segmental analysis, this condition is described as ventriculoarterial discordance with atrioventricular concordance, or just ventriculoarterial discordance. d-TGA is often referred to simply as transposition of the great arteries (TGA); however, TGA is a more general term which may also refer to levo-transposition of the great arteries (l-TGA).Another term commonly used to refer to both d-TGA and l-TGA is transposition of the great vessels (TGV), although this term might have an even broader meaning than TGA.

Prenatally, a baby with d-TGA experiences no symptoms as the lungs will not be used until after birth, and oxygen is provided by the mother via the placenta and umbilical cord; in order for the red blood to bypass the lungs in utero, the fetal heart has two shunts that begin to close when the newborn starts breathing; these are the foramen ovale and the ductus arteriosus. The foramen ovale is a hole in the atrial septum which allows blood from the right atrium to flow into the left atrium; after birth, the left atrium will be filled with blood returning from the lungs and the foramen ovale will close. The ductus arteriosus is a small, artery-like structure which allows blood to flow from the trunk of the pulmonary artery into the aorta; after birth, the blood in the pulmonary artery will flow into the lungs and the ductus arteriosus will close. Sometimes these shunts will fail to close after birth; these defects are called patent foramen ovale and patent ductus arteriosus, and either may occur independently, or in combination with one another, or with d-TGA or other heart and/or general defects.

Symptoms and signs
Due to the low oxygen saturation of the blood, cyanosis will appear in peripheral areas: around the mouth and lips, fingertips, and toes; these areas are furthest from the heart, and since the circulated blood is not fully oxygenated to begin with, very little oxygen reaches the peripheral arteries. A d-TGA baby will exhibit indrawing beneath the ribcage and "comfortable tachypnea" (rapid breathing); this is likely a homeostatic reflex of the autonomic nervous system in response to hypoxic hypoxia. The infant will be easily fatigued and may experience weakness, particularly during feeding or playing; this interruption to feeding combined with hypoxia can cause failure to thrive. If d-TGA is not diagnosed and corrected early on, the infant may eventually experience syncopic episodes and develop clubbing of the fingers and toes.

Diagnosis
d-TGA can sometimes be diagnosed in utero with an ultrasound after 18 weeks gestation. However, if it is not diagnosed in utero, cyanosis of the newborn (blue baby) should immediately indicate that there is a problem with the cardiovascular system. Normally, the lungs are examined first, then the heart is examined if there are no apparent problems with the lungs. These examinations are typically performed using ultrasound, known as an echocardiogram when performed on the heart. Chest x-rays and electrocardiograms may also be used in reaching or confirming a diagnosis; however, an x-ray may appear normal immediately following birth. If d-TGA is accompanied by both a VSD and pulmonary stenosis, a systolic murmur will be present.

On the rare occasion (when there is a large VSD with no significant left ventricular outflow tract obstruction), initial symptoms may go unnoticed, resulting in the infant being discharged without treatment in the event of a hospital or birthing center birth, or a delay in bringing the infant for diagnosis in the event of a home birth. On these occasions, a layperson is likely not to recognize symptoms until the infant is experiencing moderate to serious congestive heart failure (CHF) as a result of the heart working harder in a futile attempt to increase oxygen flow to the body; this overworking of the heart muscle eventually leads to hypertrophy and may result in cardiac arrest if left untreated.

Description
In a normal heart, oxygen-depleted ("blue") blood is pumped from the right side of the heart, through the pulmonary artery, to the lungs where it is oxygenated. The oxygen-rich ("red") blood then returns to the left heart, via the pulmonary veins, and is pumped through the aorta to the rest of the body, including the heart muscle itself.

With d-TGA, deoxygenated blood from the right heart is pumped immediately through the aorta and circulated to the body and the heart itself, bypassing the lungs altogether, while the left heart pumps oxygenated blood continuously back into the lungs through the pulmonary artery. In effect, two separate "circular" (parallel) circulatory systems are created, rather than the "figure 8" (in series) circulation of a normal cardio-pulmonary system.

Arterial spatial relationships
Differences in the shape of the atrial septum and/or ventricular outflow tracts affect the relative positions of the aorta and pulmonary artery. In the majority of d-TGA cases, the aorta is anterior and to the right of the pulmonary artery, but it can also be directly anterior or anterior and to the left. The aorta and pulmonary artery can also be side by side, with aorta on either side. This is a less common variant, and with this arrangement, an unusual coronary artery pattern is common. There are also some cases with aorta to the right and posterior to the pulmonary artery.

Simple and complex d-TGA
d-TGA is often accompanied by other heart defects, the most common type being intracardiac shunts such as atrial septal defect (ASD) including patent foramen ovale (PFO), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Stenosis of valves or vessels may also be present.

When no other heart defects are present it is called 'simple' d-TGA; when other defects are present it is called 'complex' d-TGA.

Although it may seem counterintuitive, complex d-TGA presents better chance of survival and less developmental risks than simple d-TGA, as well as usually requiring fewer invasive palliative procedures. This is because the left-to-right and bidirectional shunting caused by the defects common to complex d-TGA allow a higher amount of oxygen-rich blood to enter the systemic circulation. However, complex d-TGA may cause a very slight increase to length and risk of the corrective surgery, as most or all other heart defects will normally be repaired at the same time, and the heart becomes "irritated" the more it is manipulated.

Treatment
Life-saving heart surgery is always required. If the diagnosis is made in a standard hospital or other clinical facility, the baby will be transferred to a children's hospital, if such facilities are available, for specialized paediatric treatment and equipment.

The patient will require constant monitoring and care in an intensive care unit (ICU).

Palliative
Palliative treatment is normally administered prior to corrective surgery in order to reduce the symptoms of d-TGA (and any other complications), giving the newborn or infant a better chance of surviving the surgery. Treatment may include any combination of:

Minor

 * Cardiac catheterization
 * Rashkind balloon atrial septostomy
 * Balloon angioplasty
 * Endovascular stenting
 * Angiography

Cardiac catheterization is a minimally invasive procedure which provides a means of performing a number of other procedures.

A balloon atrial septostomy is performed with a balloon catheter, which is inserted into a patent foramen ovale (PFO), or atrial septal defect (ASD) and inflated to enlarge the opening in the atrial septum; this creates a shunt which allows a larger amount of oxygenated ("red") blood to enter the systemic circulation.

Angioplasty also requires a balloon catheter, which is used to stretch open a stenotic vessel; this relieves restricted blood flow, which could otherwise lead to congestive heart failure (CHF).

An endovascular stent is sometimes placed in a stenotic vessel immediately following a balloon angioplasty to maintain the widened passage.

Angiography involves using the catheter to release a contrast medium into the chambers and/or vessels of the heart; this process facilitates examining the flow of blood through the chambers during an echocardiogram, or shows the vessels clearly on a chest x-ray, MRI, or CT scan - this is of particular importance, as the coronary arteries must be carefully examined and "mapped out" prior to the corrective surgery.

It is commonplace for any of these palliations to be performed on a d-TGA patient.

Moderate

 * Left anterior thoracotomy
 * Isolated pulmonary artery banding (PAB)
 * Left lateral thoracotomy
 * PAB (when coarctation or aortic arch repair also required)
 * Right lateral thoracotomy
 * Blalock-Hanlon atrial septectomy

Each of these procedures is performed through an incision between the ribs and visualized by echocardiogram; these are far less common than heart cath procedures.

Pulmonary artery banding is used in a small number of cases of d-TGA, usually when the corrective surgery needs to be delayed, to create an artificial stenosis in order to control pulmonary blood pressure; PAB involves placing a band around the pulmonary trunk, this band can then be quickly and easily adjusted when necessary.

An atrial septectomy is the surgical removal of the atrial septum; this is performed when a patent foramen ovale (PFO), or atrial septal defect (ASD) are not present and additional shunting is required to raise the oxygen saturation of the blood flowing eventually into the aorta.

Major

 * Median sternotomy
 * PAB (when intracardiac procedures also required)
 * Concomitant atrial septectomy

In recent years, it is quite rare for palliative procedures to be done via median sternotomy. However, if a sternotomy is required for a different procedure, in most cases all procedures that are immediately required will be performed at the same time.

Monitoring and maintenance

 * Nasogastric tube (NG tube or simply NG)
 * Intubation, oxygen mask, or nasal cannula
 * Intravenous drip (IV)
 * Arterial line
 * Central venous catheter
 * Fingerprick
 * Sphygmomanometer
 * Pulse oximeter
 * EKG

An NG tube is used to deliver nourishment, and occasionally medication, to the patient. Since the tube extends right into the stomach, it can also be used to monitor how well the patient is digesting their "food". Paediatric units normally provide facilities and equipment for mothers of infant patients to pump their breastmilk, which can then be fed to the infant through the NG tube, and/or stored for later use.

Oxygen therapy is commonplace for hospitalized d-TGA patients. This may range from an oxygen mask resting on the bed nearby their head to intubation. In some cases, patients are intubated as a precaution; the machine can monitor breathing and supplement the patient as much or as little as they need.

IV's are used to deliver medication, blood products, or other fluids to the patient. Arterial lines provide a constant monitor of blood pressure, as well as a method of obtaining samples for blood gas tests; central lines can also monitor blood pressure and provide blood samples, as well as provide a means to deliver medication and nourishment; fingerpricks (or heelpricks on small babies) are used to obtain blood samples for certain tests.

A sphygmomanometer may be used for intermittent blood pressure monitoring even if a patient is being otherwise monitored using a central or arterial line.

A pulse oximeter is attached to a finger or toe and provides constant or intermittent monitoring of the blood's oxygen saturation level.

An EKG creates a visual readout of how well the heart rhythm is functioning.

Medication

 * Prostaglandin (PGE)
 * Antibiotics
 * Diuretics
 * Analgesics
 * Cardiac glycosides
 * Sedatives

When PGE is administered to a newborn, it prevents the ductus arteriosus from closing, therefore providing an additional shunt through which to provide the systemic circulation with a higher level of oxygen.

Antibiotics may be administered preventatively. However, due to the physical strain caused by uncorrected d-TGA, as well as the potential for introduction of bacteria via arterial and central lines, infection is not uncommon in pre-operative patients.

Diuretics aid in flushing excess fluid from the body, thereby easing strain on the heart.

Analgesics normally are not used pre-operatively, but they may be used in certain cases. They are occasionally used partially for their sedative effects.

Cardiac glycosides are used to maintain proper heart rhythm while increasing the strength of each contraction.

Sedatives may be used palliatively to prevent a young child from thrashing about or pulling out any of their lines.

Nikaidoh
Bex who introduced the possibility of aortic translocation in 1980. But Nikaidoh has put the procedure in practice in 1984. It results in an anatomical normal heart, even better than with an ASO, because also the cones are switched instead of only the arteries as with an ASO. The procedure is contra-indicated by certain coronary anomalies.

In 1984, Nikaidoh introduced a surgical approach for the management of TGA, VSD, and pulmonary stenosis (PS), which he called "aortic translocation and biventricular outflow tract reconstruction". The repair consisted of harvesting the aortic root from the right ventricle, with or without the coronary arteries attached, and relieving the LVOTO by dividing the outlet septum and pulmonary valve annulus. The LVOT is then restored by posteriorly translocating the aortic root and closing the VSD. Finally, the right ventricular outflow tract is reconstructed with a pericardial patch. This is a technically challenging procedure, but results in a more "normal" anatomic repair. The main thing is the repositioning of the native aortic root over to the LV cavity, avoiding the creation of a long tortuous intraventricular tunnel. This technique appears to prevent the development of LVOTO, which is a frequent complication of the Rastelli repair. The addition of the Lecompte maneuver may prevent branch pulmonary artery stenosis that may occur secondary to compression of the PA by the posteriorly displaced, translocated aortic root. It creates a direct RV to PA anastomosis and avoiding the use of a conduit, which should decrease the incidence of RVOT reinterventions.

Lecompte
Since 1981 LeCompte has put his LeCompte manoeuvre in use. This is used with the REV (Réparation à l'Etage Ventriculaire). This surgery is like the Rastelli procedure, but with the use of the pulmonary artery without a conduit.

Rastelli
When an arterials switch operation (ASO) is not possible e.g. in case of LVOTO an option is the Rastelli procedure. The pulmonal artery is shifted with help of conduit to the right ventricle. It has been used since 1960s. It has a disadvantage that the conduit does not grow, so re-operation is necessary.

Arterial switch
The Jatene procedure surgery is the preferred, and most frequently used, method of correcting d-TGA. It is ideally performed on an infant between 8–14 days old.

The heart and vessels are accessed via median sternotomy, and a cardiopulmonary bypass machine is used; as this machine needs its "circulation" to be filled with blood, a child will require a blood transfusion for this surgery. The procedure involves transecting both the aorta and pulmonary artery; the coronary arteries are then detached from the aorta and reattached to the neo-aorta, before "swapping" the upper portion of the aorta and pulmonary artery to the opposite arterial root. Including the anaesthesia and immediate post operative recovery, this surgery takes an average of approximately six to eight hours to complete.

Some arterial switch recipients may present with post-operative pulmonary stenosis, which would then be repaired with angioplasty, pulmonary stenting via heart cath or median sternotomy, and/or xenograft.

Atrial switch
In some cases, it is not possible to perform an arterial switch, either because of late diagnosis, sepsis, or a contraindicative coronary artery pattern. In the case of sepsis or late diagnosis, a delayed Arterial Switch can sometimes be made possible by PAB, which may also require a concomitant construction of an aortic-to-pulmonary artery shunt.

When an arterial switch is impossible, an atrial switch will be attempted using either the Senning or Mustard procedure. Both methods involve creating a baffle to redirect red and blue blood flow to the appropriate artery. Since the late 1970s the Mustard procedure has been preferred.

Post-operative
Following corrective surgery, but prior to cessation of anaesthesia, two small incisions are made immediately below the sternotomy incision which provide exit points for chest tubes used to drain fluid from the thoracic cavity, with one tube placed at the front and another at the rear of the heart.

The patient returns to the ICU post-operatively for recovery, maintenance, and close observation; recovery time may vary, but tends to average approximately two weeks, after which the patient may be transferred to a Transitional Care Unit (TCU), and eventually to a cardiac ward.

Post-operative care is very similar to the palliative care received, with the exception that the patient no longer requires PGE or the surgical palliation procedures. Additionally, the patient is kept on a cooling blanket for a period of time to prevent fever, which could cause brain damage. The sternum is not closed immediately which allows extra space in the thoracic cavity, preventing excess pressure on the heart, which swells considerably following the surgery; the sternum and incision are closed after a few days, when swelling is sufficiently reduced.

Follow-up
The infant will continue to see a cardiologist on a regular basis. Although these appointments are required less frequently as time goes on, they will continue throughout the lifetime of the individual, and may increase in the event of complications or as the individual approaches middle age.

The cardiology exam may include an echocardiogram, EKG, and/or cardiac stress test in addition to consultation.

Additionally, some individuals may require ongoing medication therapy at home, which may include diuretics (such as furosemide or spironolactone), analgesics (such as paracetamol), cardiac glycosides (such as digoxin), anticoagulants (such as heparin or aspirin), or other medications. If the individual has undergone stenting, an anticoagulant will be a necessity to prevent build-up around the stent(s), as the body will perceive the foreign body as a wound and attempt to heal it.

Some patients who had alternate corrective surgery, such as the Mustard or Senning procedure, may have issues with SA and VA nodal transmissions in later life. Typical symptoms include palpitations and problems with low heart rates. This is commonly solved with a Pacemaker unit, providing scar tissue from the original operation does not block its functionality.

More recently, ACE inhibitors have been prescribed to patients in the hope of relieving stress on the heart.

Prognosis
With simple d-TGA, if the foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus are allowed to close naturally, the newborn will likely not survive long enough to receive corrective surgery. With complex d-TGA, the infant will fail to thrive and is unlikely to survive longer than a year if corrective surgery is not performed. In most cases, the patient's condition will deteriorate to the point of inoperability if the defect is not corrected in the first year.

While the foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus are open after birth, some mixing of red and blue blood occurs allowing a small amount of oxygen to be delivered to the body; if ASD, VSD, PFO, and/or PDA are present, this will allow a higher amount of the red and blue blood to be mixed, therefore delivering more oxygen to the body, but can complicate and lengthen the corrective surgery and/or be symptomatic.

Modern repair procedures within the ideal timeframe and without additional complications have a very high success rate.

Epidemiology
Heart defects are the most common birth defect, occurring in approximately 1% of live births. 5–7% of these are dextro-transposition of the great arteries. Such defects appear to be more common in men than women. Approximately one million people worldwide are currently living with a CHD.Having a child with a CHD increases an individual's chances of having another child with a CHD from 1% to 3%. Subsequent children born with a CHD increase that individual's chances further.

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User talk:M4-10

Welcome, M4-10! I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

Some links that may be of use:
 * Welcome, newcomers
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Check out the New user log, or here's some stuff you can do, if you want:

By the way, I think you should be a little more bold in editing pages. You seem to have a good head on your shoulders from what I've seen, so don't be afraid to fix text you've mentioned on the talk pages :) If you think that some changes may be rather controversial, you can then explain why on the talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing. Dysprosia 13:30, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

I really appreciate your gentle vocabulary, moron! Rienzo

 * Thanks! You're a pretty gentle and tolerant person as well!  To wit (from Talk:Homophobia):

 * If you've got the slightest criticism against homosexuals and their right to marry each other and to adopt children, then you're instantly branded as a homophobic. This is truly pathetic! The Holy Bible teaches that homosexual acts are a sin. Not a sin that's more severe than any other sin, but STILL A SIN! If every homosexual has the right to say that homosexuality is normal and morally acceptable, then I've got the right to deem it a sin! Rienzo 10:04, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * --M4-10 18:30, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * This makes me assume that you are a "bögjävel"! Rienzo 21:53, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * If "bögjävel" is "someone who understands Swedish", I'm afraid I'm not. --M4-10 21:58, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

AbuGhraib13.jpg
I reverted from blurred because this was unnecessary. It is not Wikipedia policy, and international press is printing the full unblurred picture (wires and national). --OldakQuill 21:29, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

hi M4-10, i sent you an email thru wiki. Could you pass me the source of today's video? Thanks. Xah Lee P0lyglut 23:17, 2004 May 11 (UTC)

 * Email thru wiki? Ahh, there it is, in hotmail's junk mail filter :P .  The url for the Nick Berg decapitation video is http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/ but I believe the site is getting heavy traffic right now, so you might try tomorrow or another day.  If I see another place with the video I will link it.  In case you haven't been warned enough, the video is pretty horrific.

 * Update - I've found another link.
 * --M4-10 23:47, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

"Stevertigo, you've shown you were wrong to come to this thread in an admin capacity, and I hope you refrain from using your status as an admin again for this article." - No, I stepped in where it was appropriate, and made no decision to delete or ban anyone. Instead I forced people to discussion, and only after people got talking did I add my own humble view. You can disagree with it if you like, but it would help if you challenged the claims and the views themselves, without accusing me of running the show. There is no 'running the show' here, if one is out of line with the way the community works together. -Stevertigo 17:10, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

stop censoring condi rice article
The Condi Rice article needs to function as more than just a mouthpiece for Bush and neo-con propaganda. If you look at your contributions, it reads like a laundry list of neo-con edits. Since, the door to the controversial Iraq/9-11 link was opened with a quote that Condi says (yeah I read it again and still think the links are logical...), to not substantiate that topic by linking to other relevant articles in Wikipedia seems like you are purposely sabotaging the content because you do not agree with what they say. Please consider that your POV is not the only one that is relevant to the article. If you have a problem with the names of the articles, or what they contain, please consider renaming them or changing their content. I agree that the Condi article is not the place for this debate, but the pages I linked to are. Thank you and also feel free to write me with your comments if you have any. --Howrealisreal 16:10, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania 2006
In the course of informal discussions at Wikimania in Frankfurt the possibility of having Wikimania 2006 in Vancouver was raised. What makes Canada desirable for such a meeting is the capacity to draw delegates from the United States. For many overseas delegates, however, U.S. visa requirements make that country less attractive. All else being equal, Europeans see Vancouver as a more interesting Canadian city to visit than Toronto, the only other Canadian city to receive significant consideration.

Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005. A short list will be drawn from those bids. Is there enough interest and energy to put together such a conference in Vancouver for August 2006? The people in Frankfurt put on a tremendous gathering, with a core organizational group of about a dozen people. Some 400 people attended from 52 different countries.

I expect that a North American Wikimania could be a little smaller, but we would still need a suitable facility. It would be good to know that such a facility is available for a conference; the type of youth hostel facility that was used in Frankfurt does not exist in North America. What would be the cost of hosting such a conference at UBC?

I'm looking for interest and commitment. To that end I am proposing a Vancouver meetup for Saturday, Sept. 24. If someone has a reasonably accesible place for such a meeting please let me know. (I live in Richmond, but something in the city of Vancouver would be more appropriate.)

I am spammiong this to all Vancouver area Wikipedians that I can find. Please reply to my talk page. Eclecticology 21:50:16, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

User Categorization
You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Canada page as living in or being associated with Canada. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians of British Columbia for instructions. --Doviende 20:09, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

UN sanctioned invasion of Afghanistan
That was bothering me too.

ISAF
you have changed peacekeeping to stabilizing in the ISAF article. is this because they were once peacekeeping, but are now stabilizing? or was ISAF never peacekeeping? Kingturtle 02:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Peacekeeping is when a 3rd party intervenes on behalf of, and with the permission of, two opposing sides who have committed to ceasing hostilities but need a neutral monitor. In Afganistan there are not two opposing sides committed to a ceasefire who have asked for help.  Peacekeepers are neutral.  ISAF has a side (the Afganistan government) and will kill Taliban and al-Qaeda forces wherever possible.  ISAF, oriented on Kabul, does have a more passive role than forces in other parts of Afganistan.  ISAF is there to assist in security (i.e. guard) the capital and the government.  Forces involved in Operation Enduring Freedom are more likely to project force, actively seeking to take the fight to Taliban and al-Qaeda.  Thanks for your interest.  --M4-10 03:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

my follow-up question is not questioning your authority on the issue. i am trying to get to the bottom of a contradiction. Is that the U.N.'s definition of peacekeeping? is it the U.S.'s? These U.S. government documents clearly call ISAF a peacekeeping force:, , , , , , , ,. Is the U.S. misusing the term peacekeeper? If so, why? Kingturtle 03:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I think the answers to these questions are unfortunately a bit muddled. Initially I was going to say that the Public Relations Officers who wrote those articles may have inserted the term without thinking (or knowing).  However one possibility is that since ISAF is a reaction to the Bonn Agreement, it may be considered peacekeeping with the parties including the fledgling national government and the various quasi-legitimate warlords.  But the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are not parties to any agreement.  To my understanding, without an agreement in place between sides, there is no peacekeeping.  "Security Assistance" (the SA in ISAF) to me is a subset of the military term "peace support operations" (peacekeeping is another subset of peace support operations).  In the end, I think the NATO and ISAF webpages must be authoritative, and I have seen no mention of the term "peacekeeping" on any of the main documents I have looked at.  I don't claim to be an authority, and soldiers (and bureaucrats, and politicians) argue about the meaning of words all the time, but to me 'peacekeeping' has a specific meaning that ISAF does not fit.  --M4-10 04:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Mike Frastacky
Who 'dat? Michael Dorosh Talk  22:09, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/07/25/bc-carpenter.html I added him to the Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan page as well (as Glyn Berry is there). --M4-10 22:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Afghanistan friendly fire incident->Tarnak Farm incident
Hi, I noticed that you've recently moved the Afghanistan friendly fire incident to Tarnak Farm incident. Unfourtunatley, it looks as if you may have done this by cutting and pasting the article to the new title. In doing so, we've lost the history for the original article. If you use the "move" button at the top of the page, the article and history will be moved to the new title, and a redirect will be created at the old title. So, I'm going to nominate Tarnak Farm incident for a speedy deletion, so that the Afghanistan friendly fire incident can be moved there. If you need help with the move or future moves, feel free to drop me a line. Have a great day! Mike McGregor (Can) 19:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks! --M4-10 01:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

link to British
Hello, when you want to link to the article about something British, please do not link to British, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as United Kingdom or Great Britain by writing out British or British. Regards, Jeff3000 20:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Canada and Wars of the 20th Century
Wow. You're 100% right. I feel a little foolish. Any suggestions? Canada and Wars of the 20th & 21st Century? Doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? -- TheMightyQuill 07:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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Mountain Home

Mountain Home may refer to:

 * Mountain Home (album), by Owen Temple
 * Mountain Home (magazine), a Pennsylvania magazine

Place names

 * Mountain Home, Arkansas
 * Mountain Home Village, California
 * Mountain Home (Santa Clara County, California)
 * Mountain Home Reservoir, Colorado
 * Mountain Home, Idaho
 * Mountain Home Air Force Base
 * Mountain Home Post Office
 * Mountain Home, North Carolina
 * Mountain Home, Tennessee, home of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Center and National Cemetery
 * Mountain Home, Texas
 * Mountain Home, Utah
 * Mountain Home (Front Royal, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Warren County, Virginia
 * Mountain Home, West Virginia
 * Mountain Home (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia), a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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Mortuary enclosure

A mortuary enclosure is a term given in archaeology and anthropology to an area, surrounded by a wood, stone or earthwork barrier, in which dead bodies are placed for excarnation and to await secondary and/or collective burial. There are some parallels with mortuary houses although the two are the products of different cultural practices and traditions regarding the treatment of the dead.

The mortuary enclosures of the British Neolithic were sub-rectangular banks with external ditches and raised platforms of stone or wood within them, thought to be used for the exposure of corpses prior to burial elsewhere. Remains of mortuary enclosures of this period are often found under long barrows. Evidence from mortuary sites in Britain suggests that in the Neolithic era bodies were often defleshed and disarticulated with specific bones such as skulls or thigh bones separated and relocated apart from the body. There is considerable academic debate on the reason for these practices.

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Deep River (Hikaru Utada album)

Deep River is the fourth studio album by Japanese-American singer Hikaru Utada. It was released via Toshiba EMI on June 19, 2002. The title of the album, as well as its title track, was inspired by the novel Deep River by Shusaku Endo. Utada wrote and co-produced the majority of the record, and unlike her previous album Distance (2001), she worked primarily with Japanese collaborator Akira Miyake and her father Teruzane Utada. Musically, Deep River is widely noted by fans and critics as the transition state from Utada's earlier style, R&B, to ethereal pop.

Music critics praised Deep River's production and Utada's experimental approach to her sound. Because of its glowing critical reviews, Deep River and its content received numerous awards and accolades. Commercially, the album attained meteoric success. In Japan, it debuted at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart and was certified triple million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for selling over three million copies. The album is listed as the eighth highest-selling album in Japanese music history.

To promote the album, Utada released four singles: "Final Distance," "Traveling," "Hikari" and "Sakura Drops / Letters." All four of them performed well in Japan, with the second single "Traveling" becoming the album's most commercially successful track. The album's third single "Hikari" and its English-language version "Simple & Clean" served as the theme song for Square's action role-playing video game Kingdom Hearts (2002), and is her most well-known single in the west. Along with the four singles, the song "Play Ball" was used as a radio single to promote the album, and the album's title track received a music video. To promote the album, Utada went on promotional tours throughout Japan, and a video collection titled Utada Hikaru Single Clip Collection Vol. 3 was released, which included all of the album's music videos.

Background and content
On March 28, 2001, Utada released Distance, her third studio album. It serves as the follow-up to her highly successful major-label debut First Love (1999). Distance was a critical and commercial success in her native Japan, with the highest first-week sales of all time at the time (before Adele's 25), and eventually becoming the fourth best-selling album in the country. It also spawned a conga line of million-selling singles in Japan, with the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis produced "Addicted to You" becoming the most successful of the bunch.

After finishing the record's promotional tour, Utada attended Columbia University for less than a year. During that time, Utada began working on a new album. However, production was temporarily halted when she was diagnosed with a benign ovarian tumour, which she successfully removed; she resumed work after recovering from surgery. Utada wrote and co-produced the majority of Deep River, but unlike Distance, she worked primarily with Japanese producers Akira Miyake and her father Teruzane. The album was produced in about a year, the shortest period of development for an album in her career. In an interview at the time, Utada said, "Maybe it was because I felt that I had to make it in a hurry now. I thought it could only be done by me now. I know I'm changing rapidly, so...."

Akira Miyake, who has been involved in the creation of Utada's music since her debut, attributes the increased pace of songwriting to "her budding professionalism." He also says that this album is like a strong "espresso" album filled with her own "color" because Utada herself even participated fully in the arrangements.

Composition
The musical compositions of Deep River is an evident departure from the templated Americanized R&B sound of Utada's blockbuster Distance album. The album is widely noted as the transition state from Utada's earlier style, R&B, to ethereal sounding pop music.

The album opener "Sakura Drops" is a mid-tempo ballad inspired by the oriental flavor of "cherry blossoms" and the gentle feeling of the season, and the arrangement by Utada herself is particularly noteworthy, blending psychedelic tones naturally with an exotic, sweeping melody. Utada also noted that the "two-step, half-finished" beat is a fine example of the intense emotional ups and downs of the song. The song "Traveling," which Utada says was intended to be "light and easy to understand" and "a cheerful song with a groove," is one of the most unique songs on the album, with its sophisticated house beat and caricature-like lyrics that also quote a famous passage from The Tale of the Heike. The lyrics are known for being difficult to understand, and Yosui Inoue finds "the destructive impulse, nihilism, and momentary moments behind the humor" in the lyrics.

"Shiawase ni Narou" features a western approach to R&B music in its light tempo, with a simple and unrefined piano, and also quotes the melody of Beethoven's "Für Elise" in the latter half of the song. It has also been pointed out that this is "a quotation as a foreshadowing of tragedy" since the background of the composition of "Für Elise" was "a love affair with an aristocratic lady that could not be fulfilled." The album's title track uses a sitar in both the intro and outro; the song was inspired by Shusaku Endo's Deep River, which is about the Ganges River and indigenous beliefs in India. "Letters" features Latin-style rhythms and a melody that spirals upward. It is a "hard-edged romantic" song with a "fierceness" according to Utada, and it brings together Char, Yuji Toriyama, and Hisashi (from the rock band Glay), who Utada describes as "hard-edged guitarists with a manly spirit." "Play Ball" is sung smoothly, comparing the emotions that oscillate between boldness and delicacy to playing baseball. It also features a slightly backward rhythm that emphasizes the third and fourth beats.

"Tokyo Nights" depicts a wanderer in search of a place where he can quench his thirst in the bustling nightless city of Tokyo, with arpeggios of oboe and harpsichord that seem to herald the arrival of night. "A.S.A.P." contains the sampling of bells that continues from the intro and the beat, which is hastened by heavy, thick strings, creating a suspicious cloudiness. "Uso Mitai na I Love You" is a hard rock number with the same melody used in part in "Simple & Clean," the English adaptation of the song "Hikari."

"Final Distance" is the song that inspired the creation of the album Deep River. Utada stated that the meaning of the word "final" for the song "Final Distance" is "most important" rather than "last." "Bridge - Interlude" is a string-driven, one-minute instrumental. "Hikari," which Utada chose to use her real name as the title, is neither a dance song nor a ballad, but a number with a new style that is different from her previous songs, featuring a deep acoustic guitar sound and a sparkling melody. Utada said that when she wrote the lyrics for this song, she dared to use styles and phrases that are not usually used in lyrics, and she also used the first person, "boku" and "watashi," which she had not used before, to give character to the main character of the lyrics.

Title and artwork
The title of the album, as well as the song "Deep River," was inspired by the novel Deep River by Shusaku Endo. In May 2000, Utada revealed on her official website that she liked Endo's The Sea and Poison and that she was in the process of reading Deep River again. The artwork for the album jacket and booklet was done by Kazuaki Kiriya, who also worked on the visuals of Utada's previous album Distance. The entire album's artwork is grayscale, and the booklet is infamous for including a photo of Utada's foot.

Around the time of the album's release, a large exhibition of Utada's photographs taken by Daido Moriyama was held. The photographs were taken in the streets of Shinjuku. All of the photographs were in black and white and show Utada standing alone in a deserted urban alleyway. Utada and Moriyama have never met up with each other since then, and Moriyama recalled their encounter as a "holy once-in-a-lifetime" experience in a 2018 magazine interview. Moriyama said that his impression of Utada at the time was that she was "a very smart girl, very honest and of good character," and that he had photographed Utada's mother, Keiko Fuji, once before, which was one of the reasons he agreed to do the shoot. He also said that it was cute when Utada told him during the shoot, "Please take beautiful pictures of me like my mother." Moriyama added, "When I moved closer to get a close-up of Utada, she really looked like Keiko Fuji in the viewfinder. When I took the camera off, I saw Hikaru Utada, who still looked like a little girl. It was a strange feeling. I remember that feeling."

Singles and other songs
On July 25, 2001, Toshiba EMI released the album's lead single, "Final Distance." The physical version of the single contained both the original recording "Distance" and various mixes of the songs. The song received positive reviews from critics and peaked at number two on the Oricon Singles Chart. After shipping over 400,000 units, the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) certified it platinum. The album's second single, "Traveling," was released on November 28, 2001, along with an additional DVD that included the music video and behind-the-scenes footage. Critics praised the song's danceable sound and production style. It became the album's first chart-topper on the Oricon Singles Chart, and it was certified million by the RIAJ after shipping more than one million copies nationwide.

On March 20, 2002, "Hikari" was released as the album's third single. The song served as the theme song for Square's action role-playing video game Kingdom Hearts (2002), as well as its English version "Simple & Clean" in international markets. It received positive reviews from critics and debuted at the top of the Oricon Singles Chart. The single was certified double platinum by the RIAJ after selling over 800,000 copies in Japan. "Sakura Drops" and "Letters" were released as a double A-side single on May 9, 2002. Both songs received positive feedback and debuted at the top of the Oricon Singles Chart, earning the album's final double platinum certification from the RIAJ. The RIAJ certified "Sakura Drops" gold for exceeding 100,000 digital downloads. The song "Play Ball" was released as a radio single prior to the release of the album for promotion.

To promote the album, the video collection Utada Hikaru Single Clip Collection Vol. 3 was released on home video, which included all of the music videos from the Deep River era as well as behind-the-scenes footage for each one. Toshiba EMI distributed it throughout Japan on September 30, 2002.

Release and reception
Toshiba EMI released Deep River on June 19, 2002. In Japan, it was initially available on CD, picture disc, and double vinyl, each with twelve tracks. EMI Music went on to release the album in several Asian countries, including China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. Deep River was re-released worldwide on January 23, 2019, through digital and streaming services, with a double vinyl edition re-issued in Japan by Universal Music Japan on March 10, 2022.

The Japanese music publication CDJournal gave the album a good review. They praised the album's sound and overall arrangement quality, while also mentioning Utada's "sincere" songwriting and storytelling. From 2002 to 2003, the album and several singles received numerous awards. At the 2002 Japan Gold Disc Awards, Deep River won Rock & Pop Album of the Year, "Travelling" won Music Video of the Year, and "Travelling," "Hikari," and "Sakura Drops" won Songs of the Year. The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC Awards) honoured the album's single "Hikari" with the Foreign Silver Award, while "Travelling" received the Silver Award. In 2002, Utada, the album, and "Travelling" were nominated for Best Female Artist, Album of the Year, and Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan. A year later, "Sakura Drops" was named the Best Female Video. The Television Drama Academy Awards went on to accolade "Sakura Drops" with the best Drama Song Award.

Commercial performance
Deep River achieved great commercial success nationwide. It debuted at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart with 2,350,170 copies sold in its first week, making it the country's fifth-fastest-selling album. It stayed at number one for a second consecutive week with 550,250 copies sold. Overall, Deep River charted for a total of 57 weeks. Deep River was the best-selling album in Japan of 2002, having sold 3,526,780 units by the end of the year. The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) certified the album triple million for selling more than three million copies, with Oricon claiming sales of over 3.604 million in Japan. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) named Deep River the 18th best-selling record in 2002, and it is currently the eighth best-selling album in Japan, and is Utada's third best-selling studio album after Distance and First Love.

Personnel
Personnel details were sourced from the Deep River liner notes booklet.

Musicians

 * Hikaru Utada – lead vocals, backing vocals, arrangement (all tracks)
 * Kawano Kei – arrangement (track 1), additional arrangement (track 8) , keyboards, cembalo (track 7) , guitar sample (track 2) , drums (track 9)
 * Saito Neko – string arrangement (track 10), violin (track 11)
 * Akira Hironori – acoustic guitar (tracks 4-5, 12), electric guitar (tracks 1-6) , electric sitar (track 4)
 * Honda Larry Yuchiro – arrangement, string arrangement, keyboards (track 8), acoustic guitar (track 5) , electric guitar, electric bass (track 9) , guitar sample (track 1)
 * Kon Tsuyoshi – acoustic guitar (track 4)
 * Char – acoustic guitar (track 5)
 * Toriyama Yuji – acoustic guitar (track 5)
 * HISASHI – acoustic guitar (track 5)
 * Utada Sking Teruzane – acoustic guitar (track 5)
 * Kanzo – guitar sample (track 1)
 * Saito Mitsutaka – electric bass (track 2)
 * Great Eida Strings – strings (tracks 7, 10)
 * Abe Masahi Cello Octet – strings (track 8)
 * Ishibashi Masakazu – oboe (track 7)

Technical and production

 * Hikaru Utada – songwriting (all tracks), executive production, programing
 * Utada Sking Teruzane – executive production
 * Miyake Akira – executive production
 * Tad Jensen – mastering
 * Ugajin Masaaki – recording
 * Matsui Atsushi – recording
 * Goh Hotoda – recording, mixing
 * Kawano Kei – programming (all tracks)
 * Honda Larry Yuchiro – programming (track 8)
 * Tsunemi Kazuhide – synthesizer programming (all tracks)

Visuals

 * Kiriya Kazuaki – art direction, photography
 * Cho Kenji – art direction, design
 * Mayama Yuki – styling
 * Inagaki Ryoji – hair, make-up

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Owens Corning

Owens Corning is an American company that develops and produces insulation, roofing, and fiberglas composites and related materials and products. It is the world's largest manufacturer of fiberglass composites. It was formed in 1935 as a partnership between two major American glassworks, Corning Glass Works and Owens-Illinois. The company employs approximately 19,000 people around the world. Owens Corning has been a Fortune 500 company every year since the list was created in 1955. The Pink Panther acts as the company's mascot and appears in most of their advertisements.

1935–1980
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company was formed in 1935 through the merger of Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass Works. It became a separate company in 1938 with its headquarters established in Toledo, Ohio. In 1938, the company sales reached $2.6 million.

The company held its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 1952. In 1955, Owens-Corning purchased land for a research and testing facility near Granville, Ohio. Also in 1955, Owens-Corning made the first Fortune 500 company list. The company has been on the Fortune 500 list every year since its creation.

In 1965, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Europe was formed. In 1966, Owens-Corning established a partnership with Armstrong Rubber Co. to produce fiberglas-reinforced automobile tires. By 1971, Owens-Corning's annual revenue was over $500 million. In 1974, the company opened a temporary plant to produce insulation for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. In 1977, Owens-Corning acquired Frye Roofing and began production of fiberglas mat to replace traditional paper mat used in roofing. Owens-Corning sales surpassed $1 billion in 1976, and sales were over $2 billion by 1979.

In 1980, Owens Corning entered into a long-standing agreement to use the Pink Panther as it's brand mascot. "He has become an important part of our brand," said Christian Nolte, director of strategic marketing for the manufacturer of building materials and fiberglass. "The Pink Panther is as relevant today as he was 25 years ago. He brings our trademark color pink to life."

Asbestos controversy
In 1978, two shipyard workers filed a class action lawsuit against which alleged that Owens-Corning and 14 other manufacturers had known about asbestos-containing products. Over the next three decades, the company was named in hundreds of thousands of asbestos lawsuits. By 2000, it had settled with 440,000 people who claimed Owens Corning's products caused them to develop asbestos-related illnesses such as mesothelioma.

1981–present
In 1985, Owens-Corning acquired Aerospace and Strategic Metals Group in Newport Beach, California for $415 million from Armco Inc. The color PINK was trademarked through Owens-Corning in 1986, making it the first company to trademark a color. By 1990, Owens-Corning was the defendant in about 84,500 asbestos-related lawsuits.

The company opened an Asia/Pacific division in 1993. In May 1994, Owens-Corning acquired UC Industries, which produced Foamular polystyrene insulation, as a wholly owned subsidiary. In 1996, the company changed its name to Owens Corning. In May 1997, Owens Corning acquired Fibreboard Corporation, a vinyl siding and other industrial material manufacturer, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Owens Corning. The company was ordered to pay $5 million to an asbestos victim in 1997, making it the highest jury verdict in the history of the United States for a single non-malignant asbestos case. In 1999, a jury in federal district court in Florida awarded $1.8 million compensatory damages and $31 million punitive damages against the company for asbestos products.

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2000. In 2002, Owens Corning removed its shares from the New York Stock Exchange. In 2006, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange again under ticker "OC." In 2007, Owens Corning announced a joint venture with Saint-Gobain named OCV Reinforcements.

Owens Corning partnered with DuPont in 2011 to create a steel and foam energy reduction (SAFER) barrier around auto racetracks. In July 2015, the company announced it would be moving a manufacturing center for mineral wool insulation into an empty plant west of Joplin, Missouri.

In May 2024 the company completed the acquisition of Masonite International, a provider of interior and exterior door systems, for $3.9B.

Products
In 1939, the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships made Owens-Corning insulation standard in new warship construction. Warship insulation, called Navy Board, was a permanent form-board insulation covered with woven continuous fiber cloth. Owens-Corning produced a prototype boat hull constructed of fiber glass-reinforced plastic in 1944.

In 1945, the company worked with an automaker to produce the first fiberglas-reinforced plastic car body. In 1953, General Motors used this type of body in the Chevrolet Corvette. In 1954, the company invented a process to make centrifugally-spun fiberglas wool, which became the standard process for producing fiberglas insulation.

In 1955, Owens-Corning introduced its Perma-Ply roofing material for built-up room insulation covering. The company created its first all fiber (AF) fiberglas wool in 1956. To distinguish its product, the company dyed their insulation pink by adding red dye to the AF wool. However, considering that the coloring made the insulation look pink, the company was concerned that the color would discourage the predominantly male-oriented market away from the material. As such, they decided to remove the coloring from their insulation, only to receive customer requests for the coloring to be restored. The company resumed the coloring in the face of such customer interest to the point of licensing the United Artists cartoon character the Pink Panther in 1979 as the product's mascot. Furthermore, the company trademarked the coloring in 1987, the first time a color was used for that purpose.

After the January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire which killed three astronauts, NASA worked with Owens-Corning and DuPont to develop beta cloth, a fireproof cloth of woven fiberglas coated with Teflon, as a replacement for the nylon outer layer of the Apollo/Skylab A7L space suit.

In February 2017, Owens Corning received the Asthma and Allergy Friendly certification for its Pure Safety high-performance insulation. "Owens Corning now joins a select group of manufacturers that are focused on product innovation to address people's exposure to allergens and irritants in their homes," said Julian Francis, president of insulation, Owens Corning.

At the TCT Show in Birmingham, the XStrand family of materials was introduced. These composites are used for 3D printing.

Plants

The company has 30 composites facilities, 31 insulation facilities, and 16 roofing facilities.

Environmental work
In the Kansas City metropolitan area, Owens Corning purchases locally sourced recycled glass from Ripple Glass to manufacture fiberglas insulation in its local manufacturing plant. The joint effort between Owens Corning and Ripple Glass is helping to greatly reduce the amount of glass that would have been deposited in local Kansas City landfills. The Owens Corning Roofing and Asphalt Shingle Recycling Program was launched in 2009 to keep shingles out of landfills.

In 2013, Constellation Energy built a 2.7-megawatt solar power system at an Owens Corning insulation plant in Delmar, New York. The power system, which is leased to Owens Corning, can produce 3.3 million kilowatt hours of electrical energy in a year.

The National Safety Council awarded Owens Corning the Green Cross for Safety medal in 2014. Owens Corning received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2015 Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign. Owens Corning has been recognized on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for six consecutive years as of 2015. It is also ranked number 1 in the 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking by Corporate Responsibility Magazine in 2022.

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Talk:Tisza

Retitle
I believe this page should be retitled "River Tisza":
 * 1) Tisza is the name most often used in present-day English-language sources -- see this example
 * 2) the German name is the least appropriate one to use, given that the river flows through no German-speaking countries
 * 3) ... apart from small parts of Germany and Austria where they happen to speak german, actually. :-)) Accidentally its origin happen to be in Germany as well. As a Hungarian I titled my original article "tisza river" but well, let the native english language people decide. --grin ✎ 09:42, 2004 May 11 (UTC)

-- 217.44.142.112 13:51, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Google finds 4,660 English pages for Theiss river, 13,000 English pages for Tisza river, and 5,820 English pages for Tisa river. I wondered if perhaps the name Theiss may have seniority in English, but dict.org can't find it in any of its dictionaries. --Shallot 14:43, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Both Tisza and Theiss are the official English names of the river, I do not know why. Theiss seems to have been prefered in the past. Both can be troven in large (paper) dictionaries. By the way, Google is not the right source to solve such problems (neither in this case, nor in other such cases) - reasons: not representative, not expert texts, one does not know how many of the pages are truly "English", contains many errors etc.... --Juro 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Sure, it's heuristic, but it's indicative enough in this case... I don't think that its false hit rate for English vs. Hungarian etc could ever approach this ratio (2.8), and note that I used the word "river" in the search to help it. Theoretically it's possible that Theiss is universally used by English geographers, but I doubt it. --Shallot 17:50, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Encyclopedia Britannica (Concise) has "Tisza River", with "Tisa River" as alternative, the name Theiss isn't even mentioned. Probably Theiss was more in use in the 19th century. So I guess Tisza is better than Theiss. EB also has "Mures River", "Timis River", "Somes River". Time to make things a bit more consequent, I'll start moving things. Markussep 12:28, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Move Theiss River to Tisza

 * From Village pump (technical)

Could someone please move Theiss River to Tisza? Theiss is the not so current name for the river Tisza, which flows in Romania, Ukraine, Hungary and Serbia. Theiss is the old German name, but for instance in Encyclopedia Britannica the Hungarian name Tisza is used. The reason a simple move doesn't work is that there is already some history on Tisza. Right now it's a redirect to Theiss River, but it used to be a stub saying "this is the Hungarian name of Theiss". --12:40, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * There's been discussion on the talk page, and no-one seems to object, so I've gone and moved Theiss River to Tisza, and changed the (quite numerous) redirects. zoney ♣ talk 22:27, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

control?
I think "control of the Tisza" ("a Tisza szabályozása") should be written as "regulation of the Tisza"
 * So do I. 'Control' is just a bade equivalent for 'szabályozás'. I'll change it to 'regulation'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.24.43.52 (talk) 10:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Length (and other hydrological characteristics) of the Tisza, and the Refimprove tag
The length given in the geobox before my revision, 1358 km, is neither the “old” value of 1419 km nor the “new” value of 966 km. None of these three numbers appear with any specific reference, and one must assume they were taken from one of the two (but we don't know which) Romanian sources listed. I see that there was an attempt, back in 2006, to set the geobox value to 966 km; the edit was promptly reverted on the grounds of failure to cite reliable sources—a complaint that is both odd (since the 966 km figure was given in the article itself) as well as kind of hypocritical (since the reverter did not supply a specific reference either).

Surely, the length of the river in the geobox should be the curent length, which the article itself gives as 966 km; Britannica gives 966 km, too. The book Rivers of Europe gives the length as 965 km. Now we can argue whether it's 966 or 965, but it is definitely 960-970 km, and not 1350-1450 km. Therefore I'm changing the data on the length (as well as on the drainage area and the discharge rate) to reflect the most recent reputable source I found, namely the aforementioned book Rivers of Europe. Incidentally, that book thereby becomes the very first reference in this article. True, there are two “sources” listed, but they are not easily accessible; and are in Romanian; and at least one of them is quite dated, from 1971; and one does not know which information in the article comes from which of the two. Thus the Refimprove tag. Reuqr (talk) 05:58, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Navigability
If someone knows (and can cite a source) on just how much of it is navigable, I think that would be an excellent addition of the article. It was one of the main things I was curious about when I looked it up. Tyrannophobe (talk) 18:55, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no move. Cúchullain t/ c 19:33, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Tisza → Tisa – Tisa is most common name in English. In google search, there are 10,500,000 hits for Tisa and 6,050,000 for Tisza. AstaAsta2012 (talk) 11:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Your Google hits are a bit disingenuous. None of the hits on your first page for "Tisa" are for the river except the one for the Wikipedia article, which of course is currently titled "Tisza".  The story is nearly the same for Google.com hits.  —  AjaxSmack   21:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ per real ghits. Tisa 1,020,000 Tisza 755,000 Next to this, Tisa is common name for this. -- WhiteWriterspeaks 09:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - It is more probably to have more hits with the name Tisa than Tisza because in most common languages for this river (Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Romanian, Slovakian, Ukrainian) this version is being used. Only nation that uses the current name Tisza are the Hungarians. For this reasons I believe this page should be renamed according to the majority of this languages over a singe one.Adrian (talk) 13:39, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The proposal is inherently flawed because raw google searches aren't conclusive - compare about 26,500 book hits for tisa river -tisza and about 181,000 book hits for tisza river -tisa. Since neither name is actually English, I'd say the WP:WikiProject Rivers naming criteria have to be consulted instead. IIRC the length and basin are largest in Hungary, so it makes sense to use their name. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - The user making the proposal has been blocked on grounds of sockpuppetry and harassment (probably due to the fact that it's a sockpuppet of an indefed user), so I think that the proposal has lost its purpose (moreover as per the banning policy this content would even have to be removed), so I propose canceling this vote altogether. -- CoolKoon (talk) 22:20, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * This is true, about a banned user, but arguments are much more important because if this request fails just because of this, any of us may restart this request and count by arguments. Adrian (talk) 20:21, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You're right, the request could be restarted based on the banned user's initiative alone. But arguing with Google search results is VERY bad science, especially in cases like this. You see the river does NOT have a widely accepted/used English name, hence the search has to be appropriately adopted to account for this. Thus I've searched for "Tisza river" and "Tisa river" (yes, both terms encased in quotes), and the result's almost a 50-fold difference (in favor of Tisza). And this is not counting the Google Books search results... -- CoolKoon (talk) 23:49, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You ought not to disparage people who make bad google searches while at the same time demonstrating the same problem yourself :) Your second search has a crapload of excess parameters that affect it, and neither of them have the pws=0 parameter. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:03, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * My Google and Bing searches were performed without logging into my acc --> same as &pws=0 Csendesmark (talk) 18:24, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, be it. This time I've made sure I'm not logged in, appended the pws=0 parameter and even made sure to perform a "separate" search for the second term. The results? ~165k results for "Tisza river" vs. ~33k results for "Tisa river". That's still a 5-fold difference in favor of Tisza..... -- CoolKoon (talk) 17:21, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

 * -- A lot of notable sources names this river as "Tisza" CIA - The World Factbook Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Requesting article rename based on Google hits is really nonsense! Csendesmark (talk) 19:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually per WP:GOOGLE, google hits are quite important. Adrian (talk) 20:19, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, but Google searches should be used very carefully, since they could easily lead to false conclusions. K œrte F  a   { ταλκ }  20:52, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * "Notability
 * Raw "hit" (search result) count is a very crude measure of importance. Some unimportant subjects have many "hits", some notable ones have few or none, for reasons discussed further down this page.

 * Hit count numbers alone can only rarely "prove" anything about notability, without further discussion of the type of hits, what's been searched for, how it was searched, and what interpretation to give the results. On the other hand, examining the types of hit arising (or their lack) often does provide useful information related to notability.

 * Additionally, search engines do not disambiguate, and tend to match partial searches. While Madonna of the Rocks is certainly an encyclopedic and notable entry, it's not a pop culture icon. However, due to Madonna matching as a partial match, as well as other Madonna references not related to the painting, the results of a Google or Bing search result count will be disproportionate as compared to any equally notable Renaissance painting."

 * Bing: +Tisza (also wrote Do you mean "tisza river" -tisza?) -> 38,000 results, +Tisa -> 9,600 results
 * Google: "Tisza river" -tisa -> 172 000 hits, "Tisa river -tisza" -> 27 900 hit

 * K œrte F  a  { ταλκ }, think it again, you have to use the correct words to measure relevant hits. Following WP:GOOGLE, thanx for the link Adrian.

 * Csendesmark (talk) 21:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

 * ✅ with Adrian and WhiteWriter. --Omen1229 (talk) 18:10, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Any reasons WHY you agree with any of them? Any arguments you could present at all? -- CoolKoon (talk) 23:39, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

 * -- simply, because "Tisza" is the most widely used name by English sources, as it was demonstrated by Joy . Simply searching for the word "Tisa" without the word "river" is *very* misleading, since it also gives hits such as "TISA - Tax Incentivised Savings Association", "TISA - Traveller Information Services Association", "TISA - The International School of Azerbaijan" and so on. These have, of course, nothing to do with the river...  K œrte F  a   { ταλκ }  20:46, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Besides the above, I note the "Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan (ITRBM Plan) is based on data provided by... Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia." from the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River. (which I can't figure out how to link to) Rmhermen (talk) 01:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

 * Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. The basic Google search is useless in this case and Wikipedia doesn't base usage on the majority of foreign-language names.  —  AjaxSmack   20:49, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
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Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet

Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (4 March 1778 – 13 April 1860) was a British soldier and historian.

Life
Sir Henry, son of the famous caricaturist, Henry William Bunbury and Catherine Horneck, was educated at Westminster, and served on active service in the army from 1795 to 1809, notably in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799, the Egyptian Campaign 1801, and the campaigns in the Mediterranean, where Bunbury served as Quartermaster-General. He particularly distinguished himself at the Battle of Maida in 1806. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1809 to 1816. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1815, and in the same year was responsible for informing Napoleon of his sentence of deportation to St Helena. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General.

Bunbury succeeded to the baronetcy in 1821 on the death of his uncle, Thomas Charles Bunbury. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1825 and an active Member of Parliament for Suffolk from 1830 to 1832. He died at Barton Hall, Bury, Suffolk.

Works
Bunbury was the author of historical works, the most notable being his military memoirs Narratives of Some Passages in the Great War with France, first published in 1854.

"'Henry Bunbury's Great War with France is perhaps the most valuable record... which any soldier has bequeathed to us of the long struggle that began in 1793 and ended in 1815. and it derives its value from the fact that the author was not only a good soldier, well skilled in his profession, but that he was, as a staff officer, thrown with the best British commanders... of his day; that he had opportunities of discussing with them every point of military policy and the details of many important campaigns; and that further he was a highly educated gentleman, with a seeing eye, a kindly nature, a keen sense of the ridiculous, and a very real literary gift.'"

Family
Bunbury married Louisa Amelia Fox, (daughter of General Henry Edward Fox and Marianne Clayton) on 4 April 1807. They had five children. He remarried Emily Napier (daughter of Lady Sarah Lennox and cousin of the Henry Edward Fox) on 22 September 1830.

The eldest son, Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury inherited his title and was a well known naturalist. His second son, Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, also a member of Parliament, was well known as a geographer and archaeologist, and author of a History of Ancient Geography. Another son Henry William St Pierre Bunbury was an explorer in Western Australia.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interred than a simple grave. Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers could also serve as places for storage of the dead from one family or social group and were often used over long periods for multiple burials.

Most the chamber tombs were constructed from large stones or megaliths and covered by cairns, barrows or earth. Some chamber tombs are rock-cut monuments or wooden-chambered tombs covered with earth barrows. Grave goods are a common characteristic of chamber tomb burials.

In Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, stone-built examples of these burials are known by the generic term of megalithic tombs. Chamber tombs are often distinguished by the layout of their chambers and entrances or the shape and material of the structure that covered them, either an earth barrow or stone cairn. A wide variety of local types has been identified, and some designs appear to have influenced others.

Types and examples
General terms:
 * Chambered cairn
 * Chambered long barrow
 * Cromlechs, dolmens and Hunebedden
 * Simple dolmen
 * Great dolmen
 * Polygonal dolmen
 * Rectangular dolmen
 * Corbelled tomb
 * Chamber tumulus
 * Gallery grave including:
 * Allées couvertes
 * Court cairn
 * Giants' grave
 * Naveta
 * the Peak District tomb group
 * Severn-Cotswold or Cotswold-Severn tomb
 * Transepted gallery grave
 * Wedge-shaped gallery grave
 * Entrance grave such as
 * Portal dolmen
 * Scillonian entrance grave
 * Passage grave including:
 * The tholos tombs of Mycenaean Greece.
 * Mycenaean chamber tomb
 * V-shaped passage grave
 * Cruciform passage grave
 * Clava cairn
 * Other types:
 * Domus de Janas
 * Dysser
 * Medway tomb
 * Shaft and chamber tomb

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Talk:The Beacon Street Collection

Work
I'll be working on this article for the next few weeks and will get it up to GA status. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk to me The mess I've made 22:46, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Nominated. It'll take about two weeks most likely to be reviewed, looking at the backlog at WP:GAN, so hopefully WP:ALBUM will have assessed it by then and I can make improvements. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk Contributions 22:32, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Tragic Kingdom

Keyboards
Didn't Eric Stefani do most of the keyboards on this album?

POV
The information after the track listing is all POV and should be rewitten or removed. 67.187.189.139 07:19, 20 June 2006

Cover art and name
While Disney now uses Magic Kingdom primarily to brand the Orlando park, it was originally used for Disneyland in Anaheim. There's nothing obvious about the cover being an alcoholic beverage label, and there is plenty to indicate that it's a fruit crate label -- particularly the fruit, and the "Sunpist" (ref Sunkist) reference. Patrickbowman (talk) 20:47, 16 February 2008 (UTC) (UTC)

Genre
I listed the genre as "Ska-punk, punk rock, alternative rock." I don't think any of the songs are really "post-grunge." "Don't Speak" and "The Climb" are alternative rock, "Excuse Me Mr." is punk rock, "Sixteen" is the perfect example of ska-punk. I placed the hidden comment for a reason. Is there anyone else with an opinion? Tezkag72 (talk) 18:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * What's there is fine enough with me. Before making the change, I wanted to see what people thought about changing "American rock band" to "American third wave ska band" in the lead.  All of No Doubt's albums have had ska in them, but the term also includes the band's pop and rock styles.  More importantly, it makes the connection between Tragic Kingdom and the 1990s ska revival more apparent.  PiracyFundsTerrorism (talk) 05:32, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'd buy that. Let's go. Tezkag72 (talk) 12:27, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Will do
This article is next on my to-do list. Give me a week to finish my current project and I'll start building this up. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk to me The mess I've made 15:09, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I've started my major revamp. Massive coincidence it being "collaboration of the week". Help is appreciated, although I'm taking my format from No Doubt (No Doubt album) and The Beacon Street Collection and will get grumpy otherwise. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk Contributions 15:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Some links that people working on the article may find helpful:  PiracyFundsTerrorism (talk) 23:31, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Don't Speak
This was released as an air-play only single in the US but was still a single. In Europe, Australia and Japan it was released as a CD in 1997. We even have a copy of its CD cover in the article. Its precise place in the album's single chronology is unsure, but it was definitely a single. I'm putting it in as the third single. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk Contributions 20:12, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Standard
With a bit more work (such as rewriting the lead, which I'm about to do) I think this could make featured article status. There's so much information out there, it seems a shame to leave it at a GA nom. Tezkag72 and PiracyFundsTerrorism, how about we hammer this into shape and make a join-nom at FAN when it's up to scratch? -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk Contributions 19:10, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm listing this at WP:GAN as I think it is GA standard. More than likely it'll take at least two weeks for someone to have a look so, if either of you want/need to make any changes, there is time. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk Contributions 19:55, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it's ready also. PiracyFundsTerrorism, are you up for it? WesleyDodds I think only worked on this because it was the collaboration of the week. But I am willing to put it at the top of my list until it's an FA, or at least a GA. Tezkag72 (talk) 21:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yay! Well, I'm just going to sit on it until its GA review rolls round and edit elsewhere. Then we'll see what needs a polish. -- Escape Artist Swyer Talk Contributions 21:39, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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Review
This is from 34th Street Magazine : link

Clearly, as the writer admits to only being 8 when the album was released, it is a recent review (rather than being written in 1995 and only having being posted on the site recently). I say we include it as a more recent review. If we get a couple of recent reviews, we could hammer out a third paragraph in the "critical reception" section. Tezkag72, input? -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 17:02, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Very true. Helps show the album's significance. Tezkag72 (talk) 15:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm looking for more "recent" reviews. Currently failing. Will keep working at the article though. Good call on the "maintained" banner. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 18:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Another thing, what were the sources you were going to use to expand the currently one-sentence paragraph in Music? Tezkag72 (talk) 18:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I planned to use a lot of quotations from interviews listed on No Doubt's website, such as the one about Gwen writing Just a Girl after her father got annoyed at her driving to Tony Kanal's house late at night. However, all the links at No Doubt's website are broken. I may just use lyrics and hope it isn't labelled original synthesis. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 19:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Too late. I don't know what to do, exactly. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 19:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

He got back to me! Evan Zelig emailed me back! I obviously cannot post the content of the email here, but the basic gist was that: -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 21:58, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've decided to layout the "music" section as per Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. "Musical style" we can take from reviews. I know there will be an issue with dead citations linking to interviews hosted at No Doubt's website but maybe we can find cached versions or the citations will be back up by the time this hits FAC. Lyrical content - comment on how Gwen rather than Eric is writing most songs and the themes (from reviews and interviews). Singles - this section is fine.
 * EA Swyer Talk Contributions 18:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The ref used in the "lyrics" section is a dead link. However, I've found the transcipt of the interview elsewhere, on a fan site here. As I have little choice in the matter, I'm redirecting the ref there. :) -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 19:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that would count. Wikipedia has a big issue with "reliable" sources, as I learned from a failed FAC in April. Tezkag72 (talk) 20:00, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going out on a limb and trying to contact the interviewer to see if a hardcopy of the interview was ever published. In the meantime, I shall continue to polish the "music" section, then expand the lead. If there is any reply, I should have had it by then. I'll look for other comments on the themes online too. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 22:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) The interview was never printed in hard copy.
 * 2) It was published on Zelig's site, Concert Online, which is no longer active.
 * 3) Mirrors exist, but the one that used to be at No Doubt's official site is the only official one.
 * That is unfortunate. What can we do about it now? Tezkag72 (talk) 15:59, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I want to keep it in. After all, the interviewer himself admitted its a mirror rather than a load of made-up BS. Could you find another quotation that summarises the lyrical writing? We'll keep it in until we're told to take it out. In the meantime, the broken references we have are numbers: 5, 6, 21, 24 , 27 , 28 , 42 . The Billboard ones (all but 5 and 6) simply need redirecting. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 17:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Another thing, we need to convert all the references that are just a link with a title to the "cite web" template. I'll try to get them done when I have more time, but if we're just going to remove them anyway... Tezkag72 (talk) 21:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Tell you what, you convert all the refs I haven't listed. I'll fix the ones that I did list. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 19:04, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I tried to format a few of the Billboard refs in Singles, but they are now dead links. I don't really know what page it was before, but would I be able to use this?
 * Way-hay! I've fixed all the dead refs. Could you format all the refs while I'm away (holiday in Edinburgh, Scotland with little internet access) and we'll nominate it in 3 weeks' time? -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 01:15, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. But there were two links that were dead (thanks, Billboard Top 40 Mainstream) so instead of formatting references that didn't exist, I marked them as dead links. Not much is covered by them, so should I just remove them and the stuff that is? Tezkag72 (talk) 16:00, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, remove the info. I really hate Billboard's new layout: it's impossible to find anything! After that, I'm happy to nominate. When did you want to do so? -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 21:36, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Final brush up
Hello from Edinburgh. I've just realised something we're missing from the article. At the bottom we have a "preceded by-succeeded by" box for Billboard number 1. We're going to need boxes like this for every major chart it went to number one at. I'm back in London Friday where I'll have proper internet. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 12:47, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Don't have much time now, but I'll try to get around to it later. Sorry I haven't been on in the past week; some squirrels chewed through a wire through which I get telephone and internet, and it took a few days to get someone to repair it. Tezkag72 (talk) 18:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've fixed those deadlinks. I don't think we need those boxes, although if you could do them, that would be great. I want to nominate it. Will drop you a line at your talk page. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 00:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

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