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Bil Keane

William Aloysius "Bil" Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011) was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane.

Early life and education
Keane was born in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Crescentville, and attended parochial school at St. William Parish and Northeast Catholic High School. While a schoolboy, he taught himself to draw by mimicking the style of the cartoons published in The New Yorker. His first cartoon was published on May 21, 1936, on the amateur page of the Philadelphia Daily News. While in high school, his in-comic signature was spelled "Bill Keane", but early in his career, he omitted the second L from his first name "to be distinctive".

Career
Keane served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, drawing for Yank and creating the "At Ease with the Japanese" feature for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes.

Keane worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin as a staff artist from 1946 to 1959, where he launched his first regular comic strip Silly Philly. His first syndicated strip, Channel Chuckles, a series of jokes related to television, premiered in 1954 and ran until 1977. In 1959, the Keane family moved to Paradise Valley, Arizona. Keane's daily newspaper panel The Family Circus premiered on February 29, 1960. Keane was the president of the National Cartoonists Society from 1981 to 1983 and was the emcee of the Society's annual awards banquet for 16 years.

From 1981 to 1983, Keane published the gag strip Eggheads in collaboration with his son Jeff, who now draws and writes The Family Circus and continues the strip with his own insight and humor. Like his father, Jeff Keane has been president of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS), serving two consecutive terms (four years). The NCS is the organizing body that honors cartoonists with the Reuben Awards.

Personal life and death
While stationed in Australia he met Thelma "Thel" Carne. Bil and Thel were married in Brisbane, Queensland in 1948 and settled in Roslyn, Pennsylvania. Thel, the inspiration for the "Mommy" character in his long-running strip, died on May 23, 2008, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. They had five children: Gayle, Neal, Glen, Christopher and Jeff. Glen is an animator and has most notably worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Jeff is a cartoonist, having taken over his father's comic strip.

Keane and his wife owned a second residence in Laguna Beach, California.

Bil Keane died on November 8, 2011, at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona (near Phoenix), at age 89. The cause of death was given as congestive heart failure. A Catholic, he was buried, alongside his wife, in the Holy Redeemer Cemetery of Phoenix, Arizona.

Awards
Keane was a four-time recipient of the National Cartoonists Society's Award for Best Syndicated Panel, winning in 1967, 1971, 1973 and 1974. In 1981, he was awarded the Inkpot Award. In 1982, Keane was named the Society's Cartoonist of the Year and received its top honor, the Reuben Award. He also received the Elzie Segar Award in 1982 for his unique contribution to the cartooning profession. In 1998, he became the tenth recipient of the Arizona Heritage Award, joining—among others—Barry Goldwater, Sandra Day O'Connor, Mo Udall and Erma Bombeck. Keane was honored with the Silver T-Square Award from the National Cartoonist Society in 2002 for "outstanding dedication" to the Society and the cartooning profession. In 2008, Keane was honored with the Sergio Award from the Comic Art Professional Society.

Friends
Keane had a close friendship with humorist and newspaper columnist Erma Bombeck. Keane provided illustrations for Bombeck's book Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own! (1972), and considered himself instrumental in convincing Bombeck and her family to move to Arizona near his home. In 1996, he was a pall bearer at Bombeck's funeral.

Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, acknowledged he was good friends with Keane and Keane's son, Jeff. Pastis has notably parodied The Family Circus in his own strip a number of times, and Keane wrote a satirical "attack" on these jokes as a foreword for Pastis' Pearls collection Macho Macho Animals.

Keane switched with Scott Adams of Dilbert in the 1997 comic strip switcheroo. Adams said, "Bil was a misunderstood creative genius who knew how to write for his target audience. He was also a great guy. I was a big fan."

Keane also counted fellow cartoonists Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts) and Mell Lazarus (Miss Peach, Momma) as close friends.

In 1994, the characters from The Family Circus made a "guest appearance" in Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead comic strip. Griffith said, "I remembered Bil's affection for Zippy, so I decided to bite the bullet and call him to ask if, instead of me parodying his strip, he'd agree to jam with me..." The characters were drawn into the strip by Keane, but the dialog was written by Griffith. Then, on March 7, 1995, Zippy made an appearance in a Family Circus panel, drawn in by Bill Griffith. Griffith said Family Circus was "the last remaining folk art strip." Griffith said, "It's supposed to be the epitome of squareness, but it turns the corner into a hip zone."

Family Circus collections

 * The Family Circus (1961)
 * The Family Circus Vol. 1 (1965)
 * The Family Circus Vol. 2 (1966)
 * Sunday with the Family Circus (1966)
 * The Family Circus (1967)
 * I Need a Hug. (1968)
 * Peace, Mommy, Peace! (1969)
 * Wanna Be Smiled At? (1970)
 * Peekaboo! I Love You! (1971)
 * Look Who's Here! (1972)
 * Can I Have a Cookie? (1973)
 * Hello, Grandma? (1973)
 * At Home with the Family Circus (1973)
 * I'm Taking a Nap (1974)
 * When's Later, Daddy? (1974)
 * I Can't Untie My Shoes!  (1975)
 *  Dolly Hit Me Back! (1975)
 * Mine: And Yours, Too! (1975)
 * Jeffy's Lookin' at Me (1976)
 * Smile! (1976)
 * Not Me! (1976)
 * Quiet! Mommy's Asleep! (1977)
 * Sunday with the Family Circus (1977)
 * For This I Went to College? (1977)
 * Where's PJ? (1978)
 * Any Children? (1979)
 * Dolly Hit Me Back! (1979)
 * Not Me. (1980)
 * Daddy's Little Helpers (1980)
 * Good Morning, Sunshine!  (1980)
 * On Vacation with the Family Circus (1980)
 * Kittycat's Motor is Running! (1981)
 * Who Invented Rain? (1981)
 * My Turn Next! (1981)
 * Pasghetti and Meat Bulbs!  (1981)
 * That Family Circus Feeling (1982)
 * Go to Your Room! (1982)
 * It's Not Easy Bein' the Littlest (1982)
 * We'll Help You Get Better (1982)
 * Mommy, God's Here (1982)
 * PJ's Barefoot All Over! (1989)
 * I'm Already Tucked In (1983)
 * Pick Up What Things?  (1983)
 * Grandma Was Here (1983)
 * My Turn Next! (1984)
 * Love, The Family Circus (1984)
 * The Family Circus Parade (1984)
 * It's My Birthday Suit (1984)
 * I Dressed Myself! (1984)
 * How Do You Turn It on? (1985)
 * Unquestionably the Family Circus (1985)
 * Wanna Be Smiled at? (1985)
 * PJ's Still Hungry (1986)
 * Heart of the Family Circus (1986)
 * He Followed Me Home (1987)
 * The Family Circus's Colorful Life (1987)
 * We're Home! (1987)
 * Where Did the Summer Go? (1987)
 * I Could Hear Chewing (1988)
 * It's Muddy Out Today (1988)
 * Oops! We're Out of Juice (1988)
 * The Family Circus is Very Keane (1988)
 * Granddad! It's Morning! (1989)
 * We Didn't Do It! (1989)
 * Baby on Board (1989)
 * The Family Circus Memories (1989)
 * Behold the Family Circus (1989)
 * Quiet, Sam! (1990)
 * I Had a Frightmare! (1990)
 * I Just Dropped Grandma! (1990)
 * I'm Wearin' a Zucchini! (1991)
 * The Sky's All Wrinkled (1991)
 * It's Up and Let 'Em at Me (1991)
 * Through the Year with the Family Circus (1992)
 * Look! A Flutterby! (1992)
 * Are You Awake, Daddy? (1992)
 * I'll Shovel the Cards (1992)
 * Sam's Takin' a Catnap! (1992)
 * Enjoy Yourselves! (1993)
 * What Does This Say? (1994)
 * Stay! (1994)
 * Count Your Blessings (1995)
 * Sing Me a Loveaby? (1995)
 * Daddy's Cap Is on Backwards (1996)
 * The Family Circus by Request (1998)

Special compilations

 * The Family Circus Treasury, foreword by Erma Bombeck (1977)
 * The Family Circus Album, foreword by Charles Schulz (1984)
 * The Family Circus is Us (1990)
 * Family Circus Library, Vol. 1 by The Library of American Comics (2009)
 * Family Circus Library, Vol. 2 by The Library of American Comics (2010)

Other cartoon collections

 * Channel Chuckles (1964)
 * Jest in Pun (1966)
 * Pun-Abridged Dictionary (1968)
 * More Channel Chuckles (1971)
 * It's Apparent You're a Parent (1971)
 * Deuce and Don'ts of Tennis (1975)
 * Eggheads written by Bil Keane and Jeff Keane (1983)

Illustrated books

 * Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! written by Erma Bombeck and Bil Keane (1971)
 * Hey, Father! written by Jeanne Marie Lortie, illustrated by Bil Keane (1973)
 * Daddy's Surprise Day written by Gale Wiersum, illustrated by Bil Keane (1980)
 * Ask Any Mother written by Jean B. Boyce, illustrated by Bil Keane (1991)
 * Just Ask Mom written by Jean B. Boyce, illustrated by Bil Keane (1996)
 * Just Like Home written by Jean B. Boyce, illustrated by Bil Keane (2001)

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There is a new article Compaq Portable that differs from the title of your "Compaq portable" article by just the capitalisation of the 'P' in portable. Compaq Portable talks about a specific member of the family of Compaq portables. Perhaps the "Compaq portable" article can be re-named to something else and expanded to talk about the range of portable computers offered by Compaq. This will solve a conflict of articles differing by just the capitalisation of the first letter of the second word. Ae-a 23:00, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Moved Compaq portable to Compaq portable series so that it may be expanded to talk about the entire series (Portable, Portable II, Portable 286, Portable III, etc.) - Tonsofpcs 03:44, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok. Thanks. I've also updated the redirect "Compaq portable" so that it points to "Compaq Portable" instead of "Compaq portable series", as well as add links to "Compaq portable series" from "Compaq" and "Compaq Portable". Make sure than anything of yours that used to link to "Compaq portable" now links to "Compaq portable series" Ae-a 11:34, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

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Microsoft Windows
Welcome to wikipedia, I can can see you are a great contributor. Thanks to your brilliant edit summary, I notcied you moved some info from Microsoft Windows to Microsoft Windows/Versions. Using subpages (ie, the /Versions) is not usually done on wikipedia, unless you are preparing a page, where "Blahblah/temp" might be approriate. But don't worry, I have moved Microsoft Windows/Versions to Microsoft Windows versions. It was definately a needed page. --Commander Keane 05:14, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok, never actually seen that cleared up anywhere (I was also thinking of (Versions) too...) nice fast work :) --tonsofpcs (Talk) 05:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Error
Sorry for the error that I made on the revert to the Windows Vista article. I meant Tonsofpcs, not Lotsofpcs. — Alex 01:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It's ok :) I think people will figure it out. --tonsofpcs (Talk) 03:44, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

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Hi there Tonsofpcs, Im SWD316. I would like for you to join in of the conversation about the above user at Wikipedia talk:Are You a Wikipediholic Test about his possible fake score on the test. I contacted you because you were one of the top scorers on the test, so you could probably tell if the score is fake or not. We would appriciate your input. — M o e   ε  21:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
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Attachmate

Attachmate Corporation is a 1982-founded software company which focused on secure terminal emulation, legacy integration, and managed file transfer software. Citrix-compatibility and Attachment Reflection were enhanced/added offerings.

Attachmate Corporation
Attachmate was founded in 1982 by Frank W. Pritt. It focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, and became a major technology employer in the Seattle area.

KeaTerm
KEAsystems' KEAterm products were PC software packages that emulated some of Digital Equipment Corporation's VT terminals, and facilitated integrating Windows-based PCs with multiple host applications. These included KEAterm VT340 and VT420 terminal emulators, and KEA X X terminal software).

KEA was acquired by Attachmate.

DCA IRMA
Another acquisition was Digital Communications Associates (DCA), makers of IRMA line of terminal emulators, INFOconnect, Crosstalk communications software, and OpenMind collaborative software). DCA was also known for its 3270 IRMA hardware product (used for SDLC), and ISCA SDLC hardware adapters. They also supported driver downloads.

Extra!
The Attachmate Extra! family of terminal emulator packages was built to include 3270, 5250 and VT100.

Acquisition
After buying both WRQ, Inc. and Attachmate, who had been long-time competitors in the host emulation business, a group of private equity firms announced in 2005 that the companies would be merged under the new ownership. It was announced that Attachmate founder and CEO Frank Pritt would retire at the same time.

IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Attachmate, Apache, Cisco, NEC, SAP, Software AG, Adobe Systems, Fujitsu, Oracle, CA Technologies and BonitaSoft, are some of the key players operating in the Global Application Server Market.

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Windows XP
Hi KneeLess,

My suggestion is to be bold and add what you like. If people dispute it: let them! Just be prepared to state your case if it's reverted so it can be sorted out. Incidently, would you like to vote on it at Featured_article_candidates?

Ta bu shi da yu 15:04, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Good work on the Service Pack 2 edit! Well spotted, and good references. I hope you don't mind, but I've modified it and added your links to the reference section. I also took out one of your sentences as it could be misconstrued as POV - apart from this well done! You've certainly helped us make the Windows XP article fuller. - Ta bu shi da yu 16:08, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, I read a lot of online newspapers, and I was constantly reading about XP's SP2 not being good at all, for various reasons, so it seemed silly that the article barely mentioned that it had flaws whatsoever. KneeLess 22:34, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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 * My apologizes. I was surprised to see that your edit caused that, as you seemed like a good user. -- KneeLess 22:37, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

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Tam

TAM may refer to:

Biology

 * Thioacetamide, an organosulfur compound
 * Tumor-associated macrophage, a class of immune cells
 * Transparent Anatomical Manikin, an educational model

Technology

 * Tanque Argentino Mediano, the main battle tank of Argentina
 * Technological Association Malaysia, a learned society
 * Technology acceptance model, an information systems theory
 * Teen Age Message, interstellar radio transmissions
 * Telecom Application Map
 * Telephone answering machine
 * Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, a limited-edition personal computer released by Apple in 1997

Transportation

 * TAM – Transporte Aéreo Militar, Bolivian airline
 * TAM Air, a Georgian airline
 * TAM Airlines, now known as LATAM Brasil
 * Tovarna avtomobilov Maribor, a former Slovenian commercial vehicle manufacturer,
 * Transports de l'Agglomération de Montpellier (TaM), a public transport company in France
 * IATA airport code of General Francisco Javier Mina International Airport, Tampico, Mexico
 * National Rail code of Tamworth railway station, England
 * TAM Management, Georgia
 * Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing, Georgia
 * MTR station code of Tamar station, Hong Kong
 * MRT station abbreviation of Tampines MRT station, Singapore

Characters

 * Tam Lin, in a Scottish Borders ballad
 * Tam Sventon, a private detective in Swedish children's novels
 * River Tam, in the Firefly television series
 * Simon Tam, in the Firefly television series
 * Tấm, in the Vietnamese fairy tale The Story of Tam and Cam
 * Tam Song, in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series

Other uses

 * Tam (name), a list of people with the first name, nickname or last name
 * Tam cap
 * Tam o' shanter (cap), bonnet from Scotland
 * TAM (theatre), a theatre in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
 * TAM Media Research, an Indian television audience measurement company
 * TAM Mild Jalapeño, developed by Texas A&M University
 * Toyota Astra Motor, an Indonesian automotive company
 * Cyclone Tam (2006)
 * The Amaz!ng Meeting, conference on critical thinking
 * Total addressable market, for a product or service
 * Mount Tamalpais, California, known locally as Mount Tam
 * Tainan Art Museum, a museum in Tainan, Taiwan
 * Tamalpais High School, California, United States, often abbreviated as Tam
 * Picul or tam, a traditional Asian unit of weight
 * ISO 639-3 language code of the Tamil language
 * Team Action Management, programme that Albert S. Humphrey was involved with
 * Tense–aspect–mood (or Tense–aspect–mood–evidentiality, abbreviated as ), refers to a group of grammatical categories in the study of linguistics.

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Bye Plot

The Bye Plot of 1603 was a conspiracy, by Roman Catholic priests and Puritans aiming at tolerance for their respective denominations, to kidnap the new English king, James I of England. It is referred to as the "bye" plot, because at the time it was presented as a minor component of a larger plot (the so-called "Main" Plot).

Background
The Anglo-Spanish War had been continuing for nearly two decades, with fighting at sea, in the Netherlands and in Ireland. Elizabeth I of England died at the end of March 1603, and James VI of Scotland claimed the English throne, without overt opposition. In England and Wales, a substantial number of Catholics were subject to fines if they did not attend Church of England services, under a system of Penal Laws. English Catholics protested loyalty to the Crown, and wished the legal constraints on their worship relaxed. They were ministered to by priests, both of the Society of Jesus and other religious orders active in England as a mission, and seminary priests and others not in religious orders (secular priests). The legal position of these priests was unclear.

Divisions among English Catholics
A divisive quarrel and pamphlet war among English Catholics, the Archpriest controversy, had in 1603 been contentious for about five years. The resulting alignment of Catholic priests had a great deal to do with making the plots of 1603 impractical, and also made one side of the argument receptive to the idea of informing the London government.

William Watson took the "appellant" side in the Archpriest Controversy, hostile to George Blackwell who had been appointed by the Holy See. Useful to the English government and church for his polemics, Watson was under the protection of Richard Bancroft, then bishop of London. In September 1601, Watson was resident at Fulham Palace. In 1602 he was confined in The Clink, but kept in close touch with Bancroft.

The plot was initially exposed by the archpriest Blackwell and two Jesuits, John Gerard and Henry Garnet, who were on the other side of the dispute. These three (by independent routes) passed on information they had relating to the conspiracy. They had other reasons besides the ongoing controversy: they feared retribution against Catholics if the plan failed; and entertained suspicions regarding the political motivations of the secular priests.

The plotters
The plot is known also as Watson's Plot, the Catholic Plot, the Surprising Treason, or the Treason of the Priests. Those involved were not in fact exclusively Catholic priests: Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton was a Puritan layman who became drawn in, though the plot never went farther than far-fetched discussion. Another lay conspirator was Sir Griffin Markham.

While they may have had in common a wish for religious toleration, their motivations were varied. Watson wished to have no more fines for recusancy levied. Another plank in the platform of the Bye Plot was the removal of certain ministers of the king. To the extent that these matters can be clarified, the Main Plot that had been laid in parallel wished also for regime change, with James replaced on the throne by Arbella Stuart.

Events of 1603
King James moved south at a leisurely pace, having reached Theobalds House in Hertfordshire on 3 May. The scheme, such as it was, depended on Markham's view in May that there was a "Scottish precedent" for seizing the person of the king for political advantage. It was in late May or early June (on Gerard's own account) that someone (probably Markham) tried to recruit the Jesuit John Gerard. Gerard's reaction was negative, and he wrote to Henry Garnet and George Blackwell asking them to put a spoke in the wheels of the plot.

June
The date set by Watson for the plot to be carried out was 24 June. This was St John Baptist's Day, and a collar day; in the planning of the plot its significance was that courtiers would be at court and regaled ceremonially.

As the date and midsummer approached, Gerard had contacted a Scottish courtier asking that he make the king aware, while also Blackwell, the official head of the English Catholic secular clergy operating from hiding, took roundabout steps. Blackwell's communication outran Gerard's.

Blackwell revealed something of the plot to the government through an intermediary, the recusant John Gage, who had married Margaret, the daughter of Sir Thomas Copley. When Gage wrote to Sir Robert Cecil, on 28 June, Cecil was already aware of plotting. The Catholic returned exile and conspirator Anthony Copley had also written to Blackwell about the Bye Plot; he was Sir Thomas Copley's son and therefore Gage's brother-in-law. Blackwell had written to Gage; Cecil assumed there was something more behind these exchanges, so that he asked Gage to produce Blackwell before the Council. It has been suggested that Copley consciously played the double agent.

In the event, Lord Grey withdrew ahead of the day, and the plotters scattered.

July
A significant arrest was of Sir George Brooke who was in the Tower of London in July. Markham and Brooke wanted to supplant current members of the Privy Council. Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was his brother, and a conspirator in the more serious "Main Plot". Sir George was arraigned on 15 July, and in his eagerness to clear himself, made confessions that clarified to the investigators that two separate groups of plotters had been active. On 16 July a proclamation was issued for Watson's arrest. Bancroft at around this time had good reason to distance himself from Watson, and claimed he had not seen him since before the queen died.

King James's coronation went ahead on 25 July, his name day (for James the Greater), as planned. His ceremonial entry into London, however, was postponed until March 1604, for reasons including the plague; at this time Westminster did not form part of London.

August
Watson was arrested around 5 August in a field by the River Wye near Hay-on-Wye, on the border of England and Wales. He made a confession about the plot, dated 10 August. William Clark, another priest who had been an active organiser, was arrested in Worcester on 13 August.

November
Further details of the Bye Plot were revealed by the Catholic priest Francis Barnaby, in prison. He was another appellant contact of Bancroft, who communicated for him with Christopher Bagshaw, and had worked with the plotter William Clark against English Jesuits.

The Court had moved to Wilton House, near Salisbury in Wiltshire. There it was decided that trials could conveniently be held at the bishop's palace in Winchester, not very far away. These trials took place 15–18 November. John Lingard in his History of England attributed the delay to the continued presence in the country of Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg; Arenburg was there to represent the Spanish Netherlands at James's coronation, and the alleged contacts of the Main Plot with him were potentially embarrassing.

On the 15th the two Catholic priests involved, Sir George Brooke and Sir Griffin Markham, and others, were tried. On the 17th Sir Walter Raleigh was tried, and the prosecution managed to make a case that he had been involved in the Bye Plot. Lord Grey as a baron was tried and found guilty by 31 peers, on 18 November, with Lord Cobham who was implicated in the Main Plot.

Guilty verdicts on the conspirators were reached; the only acquittal on a high treason charge among the Bye Plot defendants was Sir Edward Parham. Sir Edward Coke's prosecution case for Raleigh's involvement in the Bye Plot was tenuous and rhetorical, heavy on personal abuse, but Raleigh's role on the periphery of the Main Plot left him with much to explain.

The two priests, Watson and Clark, were executed for their parts in the scheme, on 29 November.

December
The lay conspirator George Brooke was executed on 5 December. On 10 December Lord Grey with Markham was taken to the scaffold, pardoned, and spent the rest of his life in the Tower of London; Dudley Carleton who witnessed the proceedings, involving also Lord Cobham, took it to be a well-scripted drama of the king's mercy. In particular, Carleton concluded, it was staged for the benefit of Raleigh, who had been caught up in the Bye Plot charges.

Aftermath
By an edict of 22 February 1604, King James ordered all Roman Catholic clergy ("Jesuits, Seminaries and other Priests") to leave his kingdom by 19 March. This edict had been drafted in July 1603 on the discovery of the plots.

Anthony Copley was condemned to death; but he was pardoned on 18 August 1604, having made a full confession on the history of the plot.

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Kordell Stewart

Kordell Stewart (born October 16, 1972), is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nicknamed "Slash", he played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes football and achieved recognition as a senior for the "Miracle at Michigan", a Hail Mary pass he completed to defeat the Michigan Wolverines. He was selected by the Steelers in the second round of the 1995 NFL draft.

Stewart held a variety of roles for the Steelers before becoming their starting quarterback in 1997, which saw him help guide the team to an AFC Championship Game appearance. His most successful season was in 2001 where he led Pittsburgh to the conference's top seed and a return to the conference championship, while earning Pro Bowl and AFC Offensive Player of the Year honors. Stewart's performance declined the following year, resulting in him being released by the Steelers. Afterwards, Stewart played one season for the Chicago Bears and held a backup role during two seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. He ranks fourth in quarterback rushing touchdowns at 38.

Early life
Kordell Stewart was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended John Ehret High School in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

College career
In 1991, Stewart received a scholarship to the University of Colorado. Playing under coach Bill McCartney, he became one of the most prolific quarterbacks in school history, setting several Buffaloes records, including most passes completed, most passing yards, and most touchdown passes.

Stewart led the option-oriented Buffaloes to a pair of top-10 regular-season finishes in the AP and Coaches polls in 1992 and 1994 as well as wins in the 1993 Aloha Bowl and 1995 Fiesta Bowl. He was selected as a second-team All-American his senior year as nationally ranked No. 3 Colorado finished 11–1 in 1994.

One of his greatest moments for the Colorado Buffaloes occurred in the beginning of his college career. On September 5, 1992, Stewart started his first game as a sophomore as Colorado unveiled a pass-oriented offense that lifted the 12th-ranked Buffaloes past in-state rival Colorado State, 37–17. Stewart connected on 21 of 36 passes for a then school-record 409 yards and four touchdowns in the contest.

On September 24, 1994, Stewart threw the game-winning, 64-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass into the end zone to wide receiver Michael Westbrook in the closing seconds to beat the Michigan Wolverines.

1995–1996
Stewart was used sparingly for select plays. In his first season, he had 15 carries with 14 receptions (for a total of two touchdowns) while making a handshake deal with Bill Cowher to be given a chance for the quarterback position, as Neil O'Donnell was the incumbent and also slated to be a free agent after the 1995 season was over. After a few games of brief rushes and catches, he got his first pass attempt against the Cleveland Browns. The attempt resulted in a touchdown. In total, he threw seven passes that year.

In the 1996 playoffs, he was used for a couple of carries (nine combined) in Pittsburgh's run to Super Bowl XXX. Against Buffalo, he was used for a punt, which he kicked 41 yards to the endzone for a touchback. In the AFC Championship against the Indianapolis Colts, he caught two passes for 18 yards and a touchdown that gave Pittsburgh a 10–6 lead at halftime in an eventual win. He ran four times for 15 yards in the Super Bowl loss to the Dallas Cowboys, which proved to be his only trip to the big game. He is the only rookie in NFL history to take a snap at the quarterback position in a Super Bowl; in which he converted a 4th & 1 on a quarterback sneak.

In 1996, Pittsburgh elected to use third-year backup Jim Miller as their week one starter. When he fizzled out in the middle of the game, they went with Mike Tomczak (who had been with Pittsburgh since 1993), with the Steelers being bolstered by their off-season trade acquisition of Jerome Bettis. Stewart played sparingly at quarterback (30 passes) while being more used for catches and runs. He rushed 39 times (his longest play being an 80-yard touchdown run versus Carolina) and caught 17 passes for a combined total of eight touchdowns. In the 1997 playoffs, he ran nine times for 48 yards against the Colts for two touchdowns.

1997
Stewart was named the starting quarterback for the 1997 season. In his first season as a starting quarterback in the NFL, he led the Steelers to an 11–5 record. He was the first quarterback to throw for twenty touchdowns and run for ten in history. The Steelers went to the AFC Championship Game, which they lost to the Denver Broncos. Stewart threw three interceptions (two of which were made in the opposing Denver end zone), and lost a fumble accounting for all four Steeler turnovers in a 24–21 loss.

1998–1999
Prior to the 1998 season, the Steelers lost their offensive coordinator, Chan Gailey as he was signed as the  Cowboys head coach. To replace him, the Steelers brought in Ray Sherman from the Vikings. In addition, Stewart's leading receiver and Pro Bowler Yancey Thigpen also left via free agency after the 1997 season. By mid-season in 1998, the Steelers had lost three of the five starting offensive linemen from the 1997 AFC Championship game and, as a result, Stewart and the Steelers offense struggled and failed to make the playoffs in both seasons.

2000
Coach Bill Cowher named Kent Graham quarterback to start the season, and the team got off to a 1–3 start. When Graham injured his hip, Stewart was tapped to replace him. The team finished 9–7 and missed the playoffs by one game.

2001
As starting quarterback, Stewart led the 2001 Steelers to a 13–3 regular-season record and the top seed in the AFC playoffs. Under the tutelage of new QB coach Tom Clements and new offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey, Stewart had his best year as a pro, throwing for over 3,000 yards, completing 60 percent of his passes, and attaining a passer rating of 81.7. He threw for 14 TDs and ran for five more. Stewart was elected to the Pro Bowl and was named the Steelers MVP.

The Steelers easily defeated the then-defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens in the divisional playoffs. The eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots defeated the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game.

2002
Stewart began the 2002 season as the Steelers' starting quarterback, but after throwing an interception into double coverage in the end zone at home against the Cleveland Browns in the third game of the season, he was replaced by increasingly popular backup Tommy Maddox, and Stewart was released at the end of the season. Stewart did start two games in place of an injured Maddox to keep the team's playoff hopes alive. Maddox returned, and Stewart never played in Pittsburgh again.

Chicago Bears
The following season, Stewart signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bears and was named the starter. After several poor performances in 2003, he was replaced in favor of Chris Chandler. After getting the same results from Chandler, he was reinserted as the starter, before getting benched in favor of rookie Rex Grossman after the Bears were eliminated from the playoffs. Stewart was released at the end of the season.

Baltimore Ravens
Stewart was signed in 2004 by the Ravens to play a backup role to Kyle Boller, and later served as a replacement for the injured Anthony Wright. He did not, however, throw a pass that season. He was unexpectedly successful as an emergency replacement for punter Dave Zastudil, being named NFL Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance. He was released following the 2004 season, but due to an injury to starting quarterback Kyle Boller during Week #1 of the 2005 season, the Ravens once again signed Stewart to be a backup to Anthony Wright.

Nickname
Pittsburgh Steelers color commentator Myron Cope gave Stewart the nickname "Slash". He chose this name under the presumption that Stewart could play multiple positions—quarterback/receiver/rusher (quarterback "slash" receiver "slash" rusher).

After confining him to many utility roles during the 1995 season, when the Steelers made it to Super Bowl XXX only to lose to the Dallas Cowboys, the team gave Stewart the opportunity to compete for the starting quarterback position in 1996. Following a preseason battle, Bill Cowher named Jim Miller as the Steelers' starting quarterback and kept Stewart in his "Slash" role. Miller struggled at Jacksonville on opening day and was replaced by Mike Tomczak for the rest of the season. In a December 1996 game against the Carolina Panthers, Stewart set a then-NFL record for longest touchdown run by a quarterback with an 80-yard rush.

Post-NFL career
Following Boller's reactivation on November 9, 2005, the Ravens cut Stewart instead of keeping him as a third-string player, activating running back Musa Smith instead. Stewart had no comment following the announcement he had been cut from the team.

Stewart made guest appearances on the TV shows Deal or No Deal and Pros vs. Joes.

On April 29, 2008, in an interview on the WCNN "680 The Fan", Stewart expressed interest in returning to the NFL. Also, according to ESPN2's First Take on July 28, 2008, Stewart had not officially retired and had been working out at his home, to attempt a comeback during following pre-season. He later was put into free agency but was never selected by a team.

He appeared in January 2009 as an analyst on ESPN's College Football Live, and then later appeared again in July during the show's "50 States Tour" for the show's episode regarding Colorado athletics.

Stewart was also a sideline reporter for the United Football League and is currently an analyst on various ESPN shows such as NFL Live, NFL 32, Take 2, and Mike and Mike in the Morning.

Stewart officially retired from the NFL in 2012.

Personal life
Stewart has a son, Syre, with his ex-girlfriend Tania Richardson.

Stewart met Porsha Williams in 2009 at downtown Atlanta's Luckie Lounge. On May 21, 2011, they married in a lavish ceremony that was featured on WE tv's Platinum Weddings. Stewart appeared as himself alongside Williams on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Atlanta season 5 and 6. Stewart filed for divorce from Williams on March 22, 2013, on the grounds that the marriage was irretrievably broken. Initial reports stated he was unwilling to pay any spousal support.

In March 2017, Kordell won a $3 million lawsuit against internet personality Andrew Chad Caldwell, who made headlines in 2014 in front of a St. Louis church stating that he was delivered from homosexuality. Andrew Caldwell claimed to have a gay relationship with Kordell. Since the lawsuit, Kordell has still not been paid by Andrew Caldwell. In 2021 on an episode of Tamron Hall, Kordell referenced the incident, which led to Andrew Caldwell going to social media threatening to file a lawsuit against both Tamron Hall and Kordell for mentioning the issue that Andrew Caldwell denies despite evidence that proved he made up the false accusations.

Stewart is an avid golfer and carried a nine handicap when he was an active NFL player.

Stewart was the cover athlete for the 1997 video game NFL Blitz.

On March 23, 1998, Stewart appeared on the first-ever cover of ESPN The Magazine alongside Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez and Eric Lindros.

Stewart later published an essay on The Players' Tribune, detailing the racism and false rumors of homosexuality he faced as the Steelers' quarterback.

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Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. He is best known for his satirical opera The Nose, (based on the story by Gogol) and his cycles of symphonies and string quartets, 15 of each. Since his death in 1975, reports about his true personal opinions about life in the USSR have been controversial. While he outwardly conformed with the state and was a public face for state-crafted propaganda, it is now widely known that he deeply disliked the Soviet regime —a view confirmed by his family, by private letters to Isaak Glikman, and the satirical cantata "Anti-formalist Rayok", which ridiculed the "anti-formalism" campaign in Soviet arts and was known only to his closest friends until after his death. (more...)

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The Type 2 was the second automotive line introduced by German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen in 1950. It was a van initially based on their first model, the "Beetle" sedan, aka "Type 1" and is generally considered to be the forerunner of modern cargo and passenger vans. The Type 2 spawned a number of imitators both in the US and Europe including the Ford Econoline, Dodge B110 and Chevrolet Corvan, the latter even adapting the Type 2's rear-engine configuration. Updated versions of this line are still being actively produced in international markets. (more...)

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Chambéry

Chambéry (,, ; Arpitan: Chambèri) is the prefecture and largest city of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 59,172 as of 2020, while the population of the Chambéry metropolitan area was 255,790. The city is located at the foot of the French Alps between Bauges and Chartreuse mountains, making Chambéry an important railway and highway crossroads.

It has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V, Count of Savoy, made the city his seat of power. The annexation of Savoy merged the city to France in 1860. Together with other alpine towns Chambéry engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achieve sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. Chambéry was awarded Alpine Town of the Year 2006.

Geography
Chambéry was founded at a crossroads of ancient routes through the Dauphiné (Dôfenâ) region of France, Switzerland, and Italy, in a wide valley between the Bauges and the Chartreuse Mountains on the Leysse River. The metropolitan area has more than 125,000 residents, extending from the vineyard slopes of the fr:Combe de Savoie almost to the shores of the Lac du Bourget, the largest natural lake in France. The city is a major railway hub at the midpoint of the Franco-Italian Turin–Lyon high-speed railway (TGV).

Chambéry is situated in southeast France, 523 km from Paris, 326 km from Marseille, 214 km from Turin, 100 km from Lyon and 85 km from Geneva. It is found in a large valley, surrounded by the Massif des Bauges to the east (dominated by Le Nivolet, upon which La Croix du Nivolet is found), Mont Granier (Chartreuse) and the Chaîne de Belledonne to the south, the Chaîne de l'Épine (the most southern mountain of the Jura) to the west and the Lac du Bourget to the north. If seen as the meeting point of the Jura and the Alps, it is the westernmost point of the Swiss plateau which lies between them.

The towns surrounding Chambéry are Barberaz, Bassens, Cognin, Jacob-Bellecombette, La Motte-Servolex, La Ravoire, Saint-Alban-Leysse and Sonnaz.

History
The history of Chambéry is closely linked to the House of Savoy and was the Savoyard capital from 1295 to 1563. During this time, Savoy encompassed a region that stretched from Bourg-en-Bresse in the west, across the Alps to Turin, north to Geneva, and south to Nice. To insulate Savoy from provocations by France, Duke Emmanuel Philibert moved his capital to Turin in 1563, and, consequently, Chambéry declined.

France annexed the regions that formerly constituted the Duchy of Savoy west of the Alps in 1792; however, the former duchy and Chambéry were returned to the rulers of the House of Savoy in Turin in 1815 following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. The need for urban revitalization was met by the establishment of the Société Académique de Savoie in 1820, which was devoted to material and ethical progress, now housed in an apartment of the ducal château. Chambéry and lands of the former duchy, as well as the County of Nice, were ceded to France by Piedmont in 1860, under the reign of Napoleon III.

Toponymy
The town known as Lemencum first changed its name in the Middle Ages during the period that the Duc de Savoie erected his castle. It was called Camefriacum in 1016, Camberiaco in 1029, Cambariacum in 1036, and Cambariaco in 1044. In the next century, Cambariaco changed to Chamberium (1233), finally becoming Chamberi in 1603. The actual name supposedly comes from the Gaulois term camboritos (a ford situated in a curve). The Latin name cambarius, meaning beer brewer, may also explain the name. Another hypothesis is that the Gallo-Roman name Camberiacum suggests the idea of currency changing (cambium) or trade (camerinum : market), or perhaps, a room (camera) where the toll taxes are collected.

Climate
Chambéry is right on the boundary between the humid subtropical (Cfa) and oceanic climates (Cfb) under the Köppen system. In spite of this it is highly influenced by its interior position within France, resulting in quite hot summers and winters with frequent temperatures below freezing, especially at night. Convective rainfall is frequent for much of the year, rendering high precipitation/day quotas.

Château de Chambéry
The first counts of Savoy settled into an existing fortress in 1285 and expanded it in the early-14th century to serve as a residence, seat of power and administration, and as stronghold for the House of Savoy. However, it quickly became obsolete as a serious fortification genuinely capable of resisting a siege. Due to constant French hostilities, Duke Emmanuel Philibert decided to move his capital to Turin.

The château remained purely an administrative centre until Christine Marie of France, Duchess of Savoy, returned to hold court in 1640. It was the site of the 1684 marriage between Victor Amadeus II and Anne Marie d'Orléans, niece of Louis XIV. Victor Amadeus II, having abdicated, lived here with his second wife Anna Canalis di Cumiana before they were imprisoned at the Castle of Rivoli for trying to reclaim the throne.

In 1786, Victor Amadeus III enlarged it, adding a Royal Wing.

Under Napoleon Bonaparte, the Aile du Midi ("South Wing") was rebuilt and redecorated to house the imperial prefecture of the department of Mont-Blanc. Elaborate modification to the structure were made again after Savoy was annexed by France in 1860.

Today, the political administration of the department of Savoie is located in the castle, and it is open for tours and concerts.

Fontaine des Éléphants
The Fontaine des Éléphants ("Elephants Fountain") is the most famous landmark in Chambéry. It was built in 1838 to honour Benoît de Boigne's feats when he was in India. The monumental fountain has realistic sculptures of the head and forelimbs of four lifesize elephants truncated into the base of a tall column in the shape of the savoyan (savoyarde) cross, topped by a statue of de Boigne. At first, the landmark was mocked by the local residents who were annoyed by it, but it now is accepted as one of the city's symbols. Since the early controversy, the statue kept its nickname of les quatre sans culs, ("the four without arses", which sounds in French similar to the title of the best-known movie by nouvelle vague director François Truffaut: Les quatre cents coups, "The 400 Blows"). A total restoration was done between December 2014 and July 2015.

Others

The Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, founded in 1135, is one of the burial places of the rulers of the House of Savoy. Saint Francis de Sales officiated at Notre-Dame de Myans (established before the 12th century). Francis I of France went to Notre-Dame de l'Aumône at Rumilly in the 13th century as a pilgrim. The Sisters of St Joseph, an order founded at Chambéry in 1812, devotes itself to teaching and charitable work, and today, its members are now spread worldwide.

Chambéry is also the administrative headquarters of the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie.

Education
The Savoy Mont Blanc University (a.k.a. Chambéry University) is a university founded in 1979 with one campus in Annecy and two around Chambéry. It has about 15,000 students.

Chambéry has a campus of the Arts et Métiers ParisTech (ENSAM) engineering graduate school, which created a research institute in 1994 there. It offers doctoral and master programs in the field of mechanical and industrial engineering.

Chambéry is also home to the INSEEC Business School, a French business school which offers Master in Management – Grande école program educational system.

Transport

The city is an important railway and highway crossroads.

Chambéry Airport serves Chambéry in the winter. The Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux station provides rail connections, including a nonstop TGV service to Paris-Gare de Lyon. High-speed rail service also continues east along the Maurienne Valley and through the Fréjus Rail Tunnel to Turin and Milan, Italy.

Synchro Bus is the local bus system.

From 1892 to 1932, the Chambéry tramway, a narrow-gauge steam tram network, connected the town with its surroundings.

Military
Chambéry is home to the 13th Battalion of the Chasseurs Alpins.

Demographics
In 2020, 59,172 people lived in the city, while its metropolitan area had a population of 255,790.

Vermouth
Chambéry is an AOC region for Chambéry vermouth, where the Dolin and Routin brands are made.

Sport
Chambéry is home to Chambéry Savoie Mont-Blanc Handball, Chambéry SF and to Stade Olympique Chambérien Rugby.

Notable people
Chambéry was the birthplace of (chronological order):
 * Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178-1233), who buys the city, with the exception of the castle, to Viscount Berlion de Chambéry, 15 March 1230.
 * Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (ca.1252 - 1323), who buys in 1295 the castle of Chambéry, which will become the main county residence of the House of Savoy.
 * François de Candie (ca.1314–1360), 1st Viscount of Geneva, nobleman and military commander of the Royal Guard of Savoy, Lord of the Chateau of Rumilly, and Salagine.
 * Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383–1451), Pope Felix V from 1439 to 1449.
 * Joseph Colon Trabotto (c. 1420-1480), Jewish scholar, talmudist, and rabbi.
 * Gauvain de Candie, count of Berruyre, novelist and poet of the House of Candia, who in 1475 at age 28 he composed the famous "Chason d'Amoure" recited poems to the ducal couple of Marguerite of Austria and Philibert II, Duke of Savoy.
 * César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692), novelist.
 * Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773), engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer
 * Benoît de Boigne (1751–1830), military adventurer in India.
 * Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), conservative political philosopher and critic of the French Revolution.
 * Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852), soldier and author.
 * Luigi Federico, conte Menabrea (1809–1896), Italian prime minister and general.
 * Simone Antonio Saint-Bon (1828–1892), admiral of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy).
 * Pierre Lanfrey (1828–1877), historian and politician.
 * Pierre Pendaries (1893-??), World War I flying ace
 * Michel de Certeau (1925–1986), Jesuit and scholar
 * Jean-Michel Roddaz (born 1948), historian
 * brothers Renaud Capuçon (born 1976) and Gautier Capuçon (born 1981); violinist & cellist
 * Grégory Lemarchal (1983-2007), French singer and winner from the reality TV programme Star Academy in 2004
 * Pierre-Jules Ginet (born 1985), pastry chef at Fauchon
 * Olivier Giroud (born 1986), French international footballer and striker for Italian Serie A club A.C. Milan
 * Michaël Rossi (born 1988), racing driver
 * Marion Allemoz (born 1989), captain of the France women's national ice hockey team and first French player to play professional women's hockey in North America

International relations
Chambéry is twinned with:

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 * 🇨🇦 Blainville, Canada
 * 🇧🇫 Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso
 * 🇨🇦 Shawinigan, Canada
 * 🇮🇹 Turin, Italy
 * 🇨🇳 Zhangjiakou, China

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Neologism coined by an "as-yet unpublished" author. SWAdair | Talk 05:55, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. Has little to no potential to grow if the supposed works in this subgenre don't exist yet in published form. --Slowking Man 09:13, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. Andrewa 11:17, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * If you think about it, a lot of sci-fi probably falls under this definition, but, it's an unheard-of neologism, so Delete I say. TPK 11:43, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: It's a good neologism or critical observation, and I hope its creator writes a serious article on the subject for one of the literary Science Fiction magazines. However, it does not seem to have currency.  Geogre 12:10, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism.    — Chameleon Main/Talk/Images 13:43, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Google returns 4,100 hits, some of which deal with a record label of that name. Goobergunch 17:43, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism and simply unnecessary. Skyler 03:15, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neutrality 00:20, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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World War I lasted from 1914 to 1918. It set the violent 20th century in motion. Chemical weapons were used for the first time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and the century's first genocide took place during the war. No previous conflict had mobilised so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of battle. Never before had casualties been so high. World War I was also a war of change, a last blow to the old order in Europe to pave way for the new. Dynasties such as the Habsburgs, Romanovs, and Hohenzollerns all fell after the 4-year war. (more...)

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The beverage tea is an infusion made by steeping the dried leaves or buds of the shrub Camellia sinensis in hot water. Tea may also include other herbs, spices, or fruit flavors. The word "tea" is also used, by extension, for any fruit or herb infusion; for example, "rosehip tea" or "camomile tea". In cases where they contain no tea leaves, some people prefer to call these beverages "infusions" or "tisanes" to avoid confusion. (more...)

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The Foundation Series is an epic science fiction series written by Isaac Asimov over the span of forty-nine years. The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon has spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, which can be used to predict the future. Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way. He also predicts that there will be a thirty-thousand-year dark age before the next great empire rises. To prevent this, he decides to create a small haven of technology in a corner of the galaxy (on the planet Terminus) called the Foundation, whose job it will be to preserve knowledge from the collapse. (more...)

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Talk:Project Gemini

Duplicate article
Some good content here, but note Gemini program already exists, plus we have articles for each individual mission too. (At 320,000+ articles, there's virtually no chance that an article on a well-known topic doesn't exist already.) Stan 05:57, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Depending on your definitions of "virtually no chance" and "well-known topic", that's debatable. I'm often amazed at the subjects that lack a stub or even a substub, including those that I assume are "well-known" to mainstream society, and those "well-known" to geekdom. Regardless, I'm making an attempt at a merger. Tverbeek 00:27, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

When did Gemini start?
I placed a "when?" tag in the program history. We need to put (at least a year) on this. This might help place the Apollo Block I / Block II design decision in context. It doesn't seem logical that NASA would design the Block I Apollo for earth orbit only, and end up only making two planned flights (later reduced to just the ill-fated Apollo 1.) But if Gemini didn't exist at the time of this decision, it would make more sense that they would have planned for more Block I flights which would have accomplished most of Gemini's objectives. JustinTime55 (talk) 14:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

I found it! The start dates were actually in the article as of April 25, 2008, when some a*hole vandalized it by replacing the "Announcement" section with a single-word obscenity. Some well-meaning soul fixed it by removing the obscene word, instead of by undoing the a*hole's update. I'm going to replace the dates in "Program objectives" where they belong. JustinTime55 (talk) 15:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Is it worthy to note that the entire manned Gemini flight roster took place during a pause of only 25 months in the Soviet manned space program? (Gemini 3 launched four days after Voskhod 2 landed.) In other words, while the Soviets were developing Soyuz, the US perfected the techniques for getting Apollo to the moon.

 * Subsequently, only Soyuz 1 flew, then a year and a half later, Apollo 7, the land of which was followed only four days later by Soyuz 3. I created a very interesting chart of these flights using Excel. GBC (talk) 03:11, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Meaning of ironic
Yes, it was ironic that See and Bassett crashed into the campus where their Gemini 9 spacecraft was housed, in one sense of the word. According to Merriam-Webster, one meaning of irony is " (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity." It was not expected that they would be killed while visiting the manufacturer to consult on their spacecraft. ITRW, the word doesn't have to refer only to the literary device (sarcasm or humor), despite the lack of such usage in Irony. Ironies can be tragic, as well as funny. JustinTime55 (talk) 14:22, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Given that whether this particular incident qualifies as irony is a matter of judgment, I think it would be better to leave it out. It doesn't add anything to the basic mission of providing information.  Let the reader decide for herself whether it is ironic.  We don't need to characterize it. TJRC (talk) 22:19, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes or rephrase it to say like, *Citation source from where you got the information* said it was ironic that this event occurred. MaximusEditor (talk) 23:45, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Gemini-VII
Gemini 7 is not in the list of fights! We need to fix that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esb5415 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅, marking as done to avoid confusion. Gemini 7 is mentioned MaximusEditor (talk) 00:55, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Gemini 9, Gemini-IX
Gemini 9 is not in the list of flights. It's the "angry alligator" flight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReedScarce (talk • contribs) 10:49, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Class upgrade
Although the article could more, it has just enough high quality references cited to push it over the line to B class. More reference support will be necessary to reach Good Article level, but it would otherwise satisfy GA criteria. Folklore1 (talk) 01:32, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Origins
The article states:

''After the existing Apollo program was chartered by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, to land men on the Moon, it became evident to NASA officials that a follow-on to the Mercury program was required to develop certain spaceflight capabilities in support of Apollo. Specifically, Jim Chamberlin, the head of engineering at the Space Task Group (STG), was already assigned to start working on a bridge program between Mercury and Apollo in February 1961.''

The opening word “After” is contradicted later by the date of February 1961.

If Gemini was only conceived to build towards Apollo and Apollo was started as a result of Kennedy’s speech, how can Gemini have been started before the speech was made?

PointOfPresence (talk) 17:16, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

 * Who says Gemini was "only conceived to build towards Apollo"? The article says that it was originally conceived as "Mercury Mark II", its original name, and it was announced as Gemini after Apollo had started (which was before Kennedy's May 25 "man on the Moon" declaration). Does this need to be made clearer?
 * Acually, on second reading, it probably could be improved. There were actually two motivations behind Gemini. The first was to extend the capabilities of Mercury (to compete with the Soviet's Vostok flights); the support for Apollo came later after Kennedy's "man on the Moon". JustinTime55 (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Gemini spacecraft - Adapter module etc
Article gives a mass for the space craft, but does not seem to break it down into the reentry-module/capsule and Adapter module(retro & equipment). No description/specification/numbers for the capsule or parts of the Adapter module ? From early comments above ("metrics") it looks like there was a specs section in 2006/2008. - Rod57 (talk) 13:36, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Pas 207.236.72.58 (talk) 13:19, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Adapter module wording
The wording of the Adapter module section appears to be referencing something with the words ¨ in turn ¨ Does anybody know what this is referencing? Andpug1 (talk) 16:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 11, 2004

Bullfighting involves professional performers (matadores) taunting bulls at close range and often slowly killing them. It is a controversial but popular spectacle staged principally in Spain (where there are over 400 arenas) but also in Portugal, some countries in Latin America, California and in the south of France. Bullfighting goes back to Crete where youths jumped over bulls and ancient Rome, when many people-versus-animal events were held as a warm-up for gladiatorial sports. Many supporters of bullfighting regard it as a deeply ingrained integral part of their national cultures. Animal rights campaigners object strongly to bullfighting because they think that the bull suffers a slow, painful death. Bullfighting is banned in many countries. (more...)

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Talk:List of United States Presidents by height order

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In this day of style over substance, it's said that the taller candidate always wins. Is there someway we can discuss this and see if it's true? RickK 05:58, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * For a simple counterexample, Al Gore is unofficially 6'1" (source: some random web site), whereas Bush is listed as 5'11". -- Cyrius|✎ 06:15, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Exactly, and Gore received more votes numerically. Not True! Any other example? —Gabbe 15:14, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, continuing to dig... Google Answers to the rescue. Elections where the shorter candidate won: 1972 Nixon vs McGovern and 1976 Carter vs Ford. There's also quite a few where the winner's height advantage was negligible. Clinton, Nixon and Eisenhower were all only a half-inch taller than their opponents. -- Cyrius|✎ 17:05, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * 5' 5 1/2" George W. Bush defeated 6' 11 1/2" John Kerry in the 2004 presidential elections.

 * I think you have your inches backwards.  GWB is 5' 11" and Kerry is 6' 5 1/2".  Kerry has a 6.5" advantage on Bush, not a 16 inch one ... IdahoEv 05:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I thought this was interesting as well, especially looking at the first presidents, it seems notable that Washington was a demigod of his time despite only moderate performance as a general in the War of Independence, and comparitively modest role in the shaping of the early nation. --141.212.142.247 16:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Comparison to list of Candidate heights
It seems that many of the heights given on this list conflict with many of the heights given on the list of "candidate heights" from each election. Something should be done to bring these articles into concurrence.

Centimeters or millimeters?
Aren't centimeters (or centimetres as i would more naturally call them) deprecated in SI? Shouldn't SI normally use meters or millimeters? --rossb 00:07, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, yes, we 'murricans deprecate them metric numbers all the time. Wha-haha. :P Um, anyway, if you say so, absolutely, but I think they teach us in school that centimeters are closest to inches, and that's what's marked out on the opposite sides of our rulers (inch markings on side [divided by 8 or 16], centimeters on the other [divided by 10]), so I think that's what 'murricans gravitate to when converting to metric. Anyway, forgive my total stupidity on this, but would Lincoln's 192 cm be 1.92 meters? If so, shouldn't be to hard to swap over. jengod 01:12, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Centimeters are most definitely not deprecated in SI - any prefixed value of meters is perfectly acceptable. In common usage, of course, some are less used than others (dekameters or hectometers, for example), but they are still allowed. Centimeters is very commonly used for measuring people's height - and, as jengod points out, converting between cm and m is trivial... So, IMO, quoting their heights in m or cm is both equally good. — QuantumEleven | (talk) 09:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Chart
The accompanying chart has a couple of issues. First, it seems inappropriate to list only metric units, when the US clearly does not widely use them in this context (don't worry, I'm pro-metric, but I'm also pro-context on Wikipedia). Listing by centimeters also seems a bit dodgy if we don't have top-notch sources for historical metric heights, whereas using inches at least conforms us in WP:V. Second, the chart does not conform with the official presidential numbering, where Grover Cleveland is both 22nd and 24th. It's widely known that Bush is "43" to his dad's "41", so having them as 42 and 40 is potentially confusing. (Wikipedia conforms with the official numbering, although some reference works do not.) Finally, the chart can't be right if the numbers in the article are correct, as the chart shows an upward progression from Reagan to Bush to Clinton, but Clinton was between his two predecessors' heights. --Dhartung | Talk 02:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Moreover, if the information in this article is correct then the chart is incorrect (or vice versa). The article lists presidents #23-25 (Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley) as having heights of 173, 180, and 170 centimeters, respectively. But the columns for those three president numbers in the chart appear to have heights about 168, 170, and 178 centimeters. I.E. the chart claims McKinley was 8 cm taller than Cleveland, while this article claims Cleveland was 10 cm taller than McKinley. Someone ought to generate a new chart. IdahoEv 05:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Weird list
This list is weird. Why do we need to sort presidents by height? How useful is this information? Should we sort them by weight too? Actually, if we were to make a List of Finnish Presidents by weight order then Martti Ahtisaari would be number 1 by a long shot. J I P | Talk 07:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

JFK 5'10"?
I'm pretty sure he was over 6 feet tall. 04:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


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South Bank railway station, Brisbane

South Bank railway station is located on the Gold Coast line in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of two stations serving the South Brisbane area, the other being South Brisbane station. It was formerly known as Vulture Street station due to being located on Vulture Street.

History
South Bank station opened as Vulture Street, after the adjoining street. The station provides access to the park and cinemas, and the Grey Street retail and dining precinct.

In September 1930, the standard gauge New South Wales North Coast line opened to the west of the station. In 1995, as part of the construction of the Gold Coast line, the standard gauge line was converted to dual gauge.

On 27 April 2001, the station was renamed South Bank (Vulture Street), later being simplified to South Bank in reference to its proximity to the South Bank Parklands. At the same time a platform face was added on the dual gauge line.

In December 2013, work commenced on a transit oriented development at South Bank, which will see the station covered with office and apartment buildings. The new apartments are called Southpoint. The proposal was announced by the Queensland Government in November 2007.

Services
South Bank station is served by Beenleigh, Cleveland and Gold Coast line services.

Transport links
Adjacent to the station lies the South Bank busway station that is served by Transport for Brisbane bus services.

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Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi was a versatile Islamic philosopher who made fundamental and lasting contributions to the fields of medicine, chemistry (alchemy) and philosophy. He is credited with, among other things, the discovery of sulfuric acid, the "work horse" of modern chemistry and chemical engineering; and also of alcohol and its use in medicine. Razi was a prolific writer, having produced 184 books and articles, in several fields of science. According to historian Ibn an-Nadim, Razi distinguished himself as the best physician of his time who had fully absorbed Greek medical learning. As a medical educator, he attracted many students of all levels. (more...)

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from Talk:John Kerry
"Hemanshu, just be aware that in editing this article, you're entering the Wikipedia equivalent of the Mekong Delta on a dark night in 1969." - JamesMLane 04:01, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * "Alone. In a Viet Cong-controlled area." - Neutrality 04:19, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

from WP:VFD/Template:Insane
Keep. Templates don't kill people, Cabalists kill people. --Eequor 20:14, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

from IRC
[11:15pm]  apparently some guy in Queensland has recently declared his property to be a micronation and is refusing to pay taxes [11:15pm]  quick, create an article on it [11:15pm]  I don't understand why the government doesn't just recognise its sovereignty, then invade it

from Votes for deletion/Oliver Robinson
Delete. But here's to you, Mr. Robinson. Jesus loves you more than you will know (Wo wo wo). -- orthogonal 09:19, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

from Votes_for_deletion/Poponia
Delete. Geogre, you are a sorry deletionist! This is clearly from the game "Pokemon from Middle Earth meet Duke Nukem in Yoknapatawpha County", a game avidly played by as many as three men not in a boat and one dog! How dare you consider this unworthy of Wikipedia when such meaningless articles as Lenin, Catholic Church, and Periodic Table continue to waste space? By the way, I consider any refutation of my screed a personal attack and will refactor any response to make it look like you wrote, "orthogonal is the True Pope". -- orthogonal 19:50, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

from IRC
[10:44] why do they need rectal probes to get to anthony's brain--oh!

[8:38pm] IRC is where good intentions go to die. :-)

from Talk:List of transgendered people
'I'd appreciate a constructive debate, if necessary, and not one that does not bother with any arguments except "I am too stupid to use Google"'. -- AlexR

from Requests for adminship/Sam Spade

 * No, no, no, a THOUSAND times no. Sam Spade is a troll with a hair trigger. RickK 21:32, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this vote? -- Netoholic @ 22:02, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
 * I do. RickK should be de-sysopped for this. --lst27 22:50, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I should be de-sysopped for voting No on an admin nomination? RickK 23:01, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * How about for being consistantly rude and regularly biting newbies? Sam Spade 23:04, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Pot. Kettle. Black. RickK 23:32, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

from Votes for deletion/Antidisrevisionmentarianism

 * Delete. Possible attempt to cheat at scrabble. Average Earthman 11:56, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

from IRC
[4:15pm] FennecFoxen: olene: Wikipedia does not negotiate with terrorists.

[7:55pm] VagueRant: In Hell, they have you on Windows, with RealAudio running, and you're on Internet Explorer at Neopets. [7:55pm] VagueRant: All the damn time.

a neat dig at the ArbCom
Be wary, next they'll ban you from editing on octopus-related topics (and then later Australian ones). VeryVerily 22:29, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oops...
Oops...User:RickK cuts User:Vague_Rant's comment in half, and declares that the first half is by an anon, and therefore invalid.

RickK strikes back
I have no problem with keeping the current version, so long as it no longer says that Lil Jon is a little Swedish boy who, with his recording partner Ol' Dirty Bastard, rescued somebody who had been hit by an asteroid in Prince Edward Island. RickK 23:44, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

More IRC
rvalles goes Urban Terror rvalles: later Arminius: peace out Vague_Rant: See ya. Arminius: I really hope that's a video game.

Raul's Top Four Mediawiki Quotes
Ok, first, please forgive me to compare handling a girl's mind with jerking off a dog. The principle is the same. -- Wikibooks, 82.82.160.93

Beep! Beep! Here comes the banmobile -- Silsor

All sysops can communicate with each other using a back channel consisting of an unrelated web page and encrypted, predefined signals. - Plautus satire

On Wikipedia, there is a giant conspiracy attempting to have articles agree with reality. -- Plautus satire

from IRC
 reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

 "DDOS attacks are like network bukkake"  "when a mummy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a daddy love each other very much, and the daddies decide mummy needs some very special moisturiser ..."

from Votes for undeletion

 * Undelete. Ban the deletionist cabal. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * Ban namecallers. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:08, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Ban feeders of trolls ;-) Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 06:30, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Ban the bomb. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 06:35, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Can I interest y'all in a kettle? ‣ ᓛᖁ  [[Image:Venus symbol (blue).gif|♀]] [ ᑐ ]Randompage 07:28, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Only if there's tea being made. Mackensen (talk) 07:52, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

from IRC
homer: who the hell cares about shakespear homer: he can't write for crap homer: I write better him

from a Google translation of a de.wikipedia message about Willy on Wheels
"This user became closed."

from IRC (again)
[9:39pm] do not change $wgScript or $wgScriptPath or rabid crabs will eat you in the night

Anthere, IRC and sex
[17:29] * Submarine notes that Anthere comes whenever one discusses sex [17:30]  no [17:30]  you discuss sex ALL THE TIME

DavidGerard humor
[from wikien-l, to User:Enviroknot) "You are ElKabong and I claim my 5p"

[from IRC] "Everyone on Wikipedia is either gay, transsexual or both."

RickK humor
"Imagine me, defending Everyking!"

Ambi, The Red Queen
Ambi is the Red Queen of arbcom - running around like a complete fat fool, screaming "Orf Wiv is 'ead" whenever a case comes before her. -- Anon E Mouse, wikien-l troll

DavidGerard again
"If you're an admin, then I'm Enviroknot. As it happens, you are. Back to moderation you go." to Anon E Mouse on wikien-l

"This is Calvinball. We are Calvin. You are the ball." [DavidGerard again, referring to a blocked sockpuppeteer]

Courtesy of Redwolf24

 * Antandrus blocked "User:ALL YOUR YELLOWCAKE ARE BELONG TO US" with an expiry time of indefinite (ALL YOU SOCKPUPPET ARE BLOCK BY US)

 * From User talk:Johnwilkesbooth: I have blocked you for shooting Lincoln. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 03:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Wise words
[01:03] arbcom is not your mother

from the meta talk page for WP:DICK
[amidst a rename discussion]

I suggest that, in the interests of political correctness, this page be moved to We sincerely hope that you will refrain from being a penis. Thanks, The Management. - node_ue

When Babelfish Goes...Odd...
[04:53] hehe, according to google translation, the workers in Slovenia today marched "in a demonstration against the planned restaurant and social reforms of the government."

The return of the kettle
"When the arbitrators find themselves disagreeing with such a large portion of the community, they should perhaps consider that they are out of touch." - Everyking, a candidate for the arbitration committee at the present time

Not a quote but...
Adam Carr is funny

Ouch
[23:45] brenneman: well looks like he called Tony the antichrist, which might violate NPOV

we miss you, RickK
[12:57]  sean_black: In the original election, Finlay McWalter commented that his favorite slate would be the RickK and Hephaestos wikideathsquad

crankery
Which encyclopaedic sources have identified these as 'circumcision fetish websites', Dan? If none, please explain the difference between your position and that of a person who presents a photo of the moon and a photo of a similarly-coloured piece of blue cheese as a 'source' that the moon is made of blue cheese. Jakew 22:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

IANAL...and I have no idea what I'm talking about
[he brought up the Freedom of Information Act after being told by the arbitrators that they wouldn't tell him the exact results of a CheckUser search]

Um, but it does require it to be released. Its covered by the Freedom of Information Act, and is law. It also applies to the internet. The only question is whether or not it is to be released publicly. I can look up the applicable law as it applies to the United States, but I am pretty confident that its basically identical to Australia's. It is a law that exists in all "western" countries, and is a part of Freedom of Speech. Ergo, they don't have a choice about releasing it. They are forced to. And yes, they really are. In fact, they'd be forced to no matter what their privacy policy said. They privacy policy is merely reflecting what the law is. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 19:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

more IRC fun
[12:38]  ok, I'm still not clear on what CoolFox calls the difference between gender and sex [12:39] sex is more fun than gender

Golbez on Wikipedia Review
"I've never seen a revisionist up close like this. Do they bite? Can I pet him?"

Snowspinner on Wikipedia Review
"I take kind of a broadly spiritual approach towards duct tape. Everything is duct tape. Nothing is duct tape. There is no spoon."

Did the Australian aboriginals arrived from Africa by air?
I am basically interested in India and Hinduism. The mention in the article of the older than 30,000 years (the more conservative dating) human occupation of Australia and similar old dating only in Africa intrugues me. Did humans passed through India, etc. on their way from Africa to Australia, or they travelled by air? If not by air, then many lands should have a dating older than 30,000 years, it is just that these have not been found? Aupmanyav 08:55, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * What the christ? Trjn 10:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they flew by pterodactyl. Adam 10:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Penal... (from Talk:Australia)
I know I'm being really picky here, but the word 'penal' is mentioned twice in one paragraph in the introduction. This is enough to put me off the article at large, and I'm sure some other people have noticed it. Can someone please rectify this? Because I CBF. Black-Velvet 12:07, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It's used in two linked phrases which really wouldn't convey the same meaning otherwise. Out of curiosity, why does it put you off? --bainer (talk) 13:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The first three letters, and it sounds like an adjective for something not censored for minors. 124.178.27.241 13:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It does seem a bit odd to say it was a penal colony as well as it was settled through penal transportation, but to object to the word itself because it sounds like something else is completely ridiculous. JPD (talk) 13:48, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

A solution may be to have a dictionary on hand when you read an article. Xtra 14:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I am just imagining someone reading the article and being very confused about Australia's early history with all these "penile colonies" we had. I guess that explains the origins of the Mardi Gras! -- Chuq 23:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

On the younger generation of Wikipedians
[16:24]  it's not a situation of wanting to own the articles [16:24]  it's a situation of watching the babysitter beat my baby =p

On consultancy
[14:43]  I'm a conslutant.. I make shit up and get paid for it! [14:43]  er, conSULTant... [14:43]  that was a freudian slip, honest [14:44] oh, how apt.

Heh
how do I do a recent chnages thing for a cat? geniice: i've never known a cat that had change logging enabled. my experience is that change logging does not work well on living organisms.

Wikipedia Metaphors, Pt. 4
[22:11] some people read the lord of the flies as a fucking user manual

Yet more IRC
[20:08]  Blacksmith2: #wikipedia-social does not exist. [20:09] <Blacksmith2> #wikipedia-social does excist [20:09] <Lubaf> Blacksmith2: In the same sense that Santa Claus does, I'll grant you that.