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Yeah, I imagine I goofed. I didn't check the process for adding something to vfd; I figured that much at least was automated. I'll take another look when I'm actually awake. Sorry about the confusion. --JohnRDaily 09:32, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Re: DS Article
The guy before me had edited to add a sentence that included "basically [does this]...". That bugged me enough I couldn't let it stand. :p --Tubedogg 07:18, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Battle of Tampa

The Battle of Tampa, also known as the "Yankee Outrage at Tampa", was a minor engagement of the American Civil War fought June 30 – July 1, 1862, between the United States Navy and a Confederate artillery company charged with "protecting" the village of Tampa, Florida. Although small, Tampa's port was a key hub of trade for Central Florida, and several blockade runners from Tampa regularly slipped past the Union naval blockade that extended down the Atlantic coast around to Florida's west coast.

On June 30, 1862, the Union gunboat USS Sagamore steamed into Tampa Bay to demand the surrender of the small Confederate (CSA) garrison at Fort Brooke. This demand was rebuffed by Captain John William Pearson, to which Captain A.J. Drake of the Sagamore responded with a warning that his ship would open fire at 6:00 p.m. that same day. The gunboat began a long-range bombardment of the fort and town that evening as scheduled, to which the fort responded by returning fire with its three larger canons. Neither side inflicted real damage or suffered any casualties, and after firing several more rounds the next morning from beyond the range of the fort's guns, the Sagamore returned to its blockade station near the mouth of Tampa Bay.

Later, more aggressive Union attacks resulted in the destruction of several moored blockade runners during the Battle of Fort Brooke in October 1862 and a brief occupation of Fort Brooke by Union forces in May 1864.

Background
On April 13, 1862, at 11 a.m., the alarm went up when a Union schooner anchored behind an island two miles from Tampa. Confederate pickets were posted on all the roads into town to sound the alarm because it was feared the ship was a decoy. According to the diary of Robert Watson, a member of the “Key West Avengers” (Captain H. Mulrennan's company of Florida volunteers), “[W]e are of opinion that the Yankees have landed men below us and came in the schooner to draw our attention while they march up in our rear.” After an hour the schooner launched a boat under a flag of truce. It was met by two Confederate boats. The Federals demanded the surrender of Tampa. According to Watson, “Major Thomas told them that he would not surrender it. The Yankee officer then gave him twenty-four hours to take the women and children out of the town as they would attack the place at the end of that time. Our men gave three cheers at the prospect of having a fight which made the men in the Yankee boat look down in the mouth as they expected to see us all look frightened and ready to surrender. Capt. Smith told us to take all of our clothing and carry them up the river as the enemy might come too strong for us and should we have to retreat it would be impossible to carry anything with us. A strong picket guard on all day and night.” On April 14 Watson wrote, “No sign of the enemy but there is a bright lookout for them.”

By the summer of 1862, plans were in place in Washington to further tighten this blockade by capturing major ports throughout the Confederacy, à la New Orleans, which was captured in April 1862, as well as other towns along the Mississippi River (most notably Vicksburg). It was common knowledge among the Union's chief military strategists that the sooner the blockade could effectively seal off the Confederacy from any level of commerce, the sooner the import-dependent Confederates would be forced to surrender, lacking the materiel necessary to sustain a war of attrition, as the Union infantry would ultimately have to attempt to put on the Confederacy at various points in the war.

Battle action
On June 30, USS Sagamore, a Union gunboat, came into Tampa Bay, opened her ports, and turned her broadside on the town. The gunboat then launched a boat with 20 men flying a flag of truce. In his post-action report, Captain John William Pearson, CSA, reported to Gen. Joseph Finegan, CSA, what transpired. “I immediately manned one of my boats with 18 men met them in the bay, determined that they should not land on my shore, and on meeting the boat the lieutenant in command reported he had been sent by Captain Drake to demand an unconditional surrender of the town. My reply to him was that we did not understand the meaning of the word surrender; there was no such letter in our book; we don’t surrender. He then said they would commence shelling the town at 6 o’clock, and I told him to pitch in. We then gave three hearty cheers for the Southern Confederacy and the Federal boat crew said nothing…. At 6 o’clock they promptly opened fire on us with heavy shell and shot, and after two from them we opened from our batteries, consisting of three 24-pounder cannon. Both parties then kept up a regular fire until 7 p.m.” At that point, U.S.S. Sagamore withdrew. On July 1, between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., the gunboat fired from beyond the range of the Confederate cannon. After a two-hour break for lunch, USS Sagamore fired two more rounds, weighed anchor, and sailed away. There were no Confederate casualties.

Capt. Pearson’s after-action report singled out Capt. James Gettis of Hillsborough County and originally from Pennsylvania for his decisive leadership of one of the Confederate batteries.

Aftermath
The Battle of Fort Brooke was a more significant action fought in Tampa the following October. In this engagement, a Union gunboat again bombarded Fort Brooke while secretly landing a small raiding force. The raiding party was able to find and destroy several Confederate blockade runners hidden up the Hillsborough River before departing.

Union forces returned to Tampa once more in May 1864. By this time, the Confederate war effort was faltering, and Fort Brooke's defenders had been transferred to more pressing stations. Troops from the USS Adela landed in Tampa without opposition, destroyed or took remaining supplies in unoccupied Fort Brooke, and left town after two days. Two cannons from Fort Brooke that were dumped in the Hillsborough River during this raid were found and restored and are now on display in Plant Park on the University of Tampa campus.

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Savusavu

Savusavu is a town in the Fijian Province of Cakaudrove. The town is located on the south coast of Vanua Levu Island and had a population of 3,372 in the 2007 census.

Savusavu is known as "the hidden paradise of Fiji."

Geography
Savusavu is located on Fiji's northern island of Vanua Levu. It can be reached by plane from Nadi (one hour) or by ferry from Suva or Lautoka (approx 12-hour trip).

It's famous for its hot springs, located mostly opposite the Hot Springs Hotel – although at low tide you can see the steam from numerous smaller outlets all along the foreshore. In late 19th century, these hot springs turned into 12 – 18 m tall geysers for a period of two months.

The old Copra Shed Marina, built in the 19th century, is a major landmark in Savusavu. Renovated in recent years by geologist and Savusavu resident Geoff Taylor, it now houses the Savusavu Yacht Club. Fiji Air offices, Pacific Sun reservations (Formerly Sunflower Air) offices, a chandlery shop, a geologist's office, a gift shop, a travel agency and two rental apartments. There are also moorings for yachts, along with shower and toilet facilities.

Another significant landmark is the Savarekareka Mission, 10 kilometres north of Savusavu. The chapel, the first Roman Catholic mission on Vanua Levu, was built around 1870 and is still functioning.

Economic activities
Savusavu was originally established as a trading centre for sandalwood, beche-de-mer, and copra, and is the site of a major copra mill. Tourism is growing in importance, owing to its SCUBA diving and yachting facilities.

Savusavu hosts a number of resorts, some of which have interesting specialities. Namale Resort hosts regular seminars in the Tony Robbins Life Mastery programme; the Jean Michel Cousteau Resort is one of the few 5 star resorts to offer a children's camp; Daku Resort runs a programme of learning holidays in art, yoga, singing snorkelling and birdwatching throughout the year. The birdwatching tour visits the rare silktail which is only found in the island of Vanua Levu, in a habitat about an hour and a half from Savusavu. The silktail is one of the species listed by Birdlife International as being under threat.

Geothermal energy is a resource waiting to be tapped. A geological survey has found that Savusavu's hot springs could generate enough electricity to power the entire island of Vanua Levu. Known locally as Nakama hot springs water from the geothermally heated pools which can reaches close to 100 degrees Celsius, have been used by local villagers for centuries to cook taro, breadfruit and other local foods.

On 2 August 2022, the geothermal pools become an official tourist attraction. A F$75,000 project orchestrated by the Blue Town Committee and promoted by the Savusavu Tourism Association refurbished Nakama hot spring with landscaping, stone walls, signage, steps and drains around the springs. Locals are still permitted to cook their food on the premises and even sell prepared dishes.

Most land in Fiji is owned by native land owners – the mataqali (extended family unit). Savusavu and surrounding areas has a large amount of freehold land, much of it once used for coconut plantations. Increasingly this land has been subdivided and sold, often to expats seeking a retirement or holiday home. As a result, Savusavu is now home to a small but significant community of Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and Europeans which has helped fuel its economic development.

Politics
Incorporated as a town in 1969, Savusavu is governed by a 9-member town council, elected for a three-year term. The councillors elect a mayor from among themselves for a one-year term, which may be renewed any number of times. Following the victory of the Savusavu Ratepayers and Citizens Party in the municipal elections held on 22 October 2005, Ram Pillay was chosen as mayor, succeeding Peni Naulu of the Lighthouse Party.

In 2009, the Military-backed interim government dismissed all municipal governments throughout Fiji and appointed special administrators to run the urban areas. As of 2015, elected municipal government has not been restored. The special administrator of Savusavu, along with nearby Labasa, is Vijay Chand.

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Joseph Rucker Lamar

Joseph Rucker Lamar (October 14, 1857 – January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft. A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until his death in 1916.

Biography
Born in Ruckersville, Elbert County, Georgia, Lamar was the son of a minister and attended the Academy of Richmond County in Augusta, Georgia and the Martin Institute in Jefferson, Georgia. During his time in Augusta, he lived next door to and was the "closest friend" of future president Woodrow Wilson, whose father was the local Presbyterian minister. They both also attended Joseph T. Derry's school for boys in a local warehouse, a school whose other students would also become a future Congressman, major newspaper owner/ambassador and the dean of Columbia Law School. After Lamar graduated from the Penn Lucy School near Baltimore, Maryland, he attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. After his family moved he completed his degree at Bethany College in 1877, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. After attending law school at Washington and Lee University School of Law, he left and completed his legal education by reading law with a prominent Augusta attorney, then returned to Bethany College to teach Latin for a year, afterward practicing law in Augusta.

From 1886 to 1889, he served in the Georgia House of Representatives, and then was appointed by the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1893 as a member of the Commission to Recodify the Laws of Georgia, which prepared a code of laws for the state. Two years later, that code was adopted by the state General Assembly.

On January 1, 1901, Lamar was appointed to fill an unexpired term of Justice William A. Little in the Supreme Court of Georgia, then was re-elected in 1903. He wrote more than 200 opinions before resigning in 1905 to again practice law, defending railroads and many other large corporations.

On December 12, 1910, Lamar was nominated by President William Howard Taft as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, to a seat vacated by William H. Moody. Lamar was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 1910, and was sworn into office on January 3, 1911.

At a reception after Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913, the two friends were able to meet again and swapped stories of their Georgia youth. They remained in contact while they were in Washington. In 1915, Lamar wrote two short individual opinions in the famed Leo Frank case. He declined to grant a petition for habeas corpus brought by Frank to challenge the fairness of his trial, but subsequently granted a writ of error allowing Frank to bring his claims before the court. The full Court went on to reject Frank's claim in Frank v. Mangum; Lamar voted with the majority but did not write a separate opinion.

Lamar, together with Frederick W. Lehmann, was selected in 1914 to represent the United States at the ABC Powers Conference convened to avert a war over the Veracruz Incident. In the fall of 1915, Lamar suffered a paralytic stroke. Legislation was proposed to allow Lamar to retire with full pay, but his death just months later made the issue a moot point.

He died in Washington, D.C., on January 2, 1916.

Legacy and honors
Lamar's professional papers, including correspondence concerning his years as a Justice, are archived at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and available for research. The Joseph Rucker Lamar Boyhood Home in Augusta, Georgia is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

During World War II the Liberty ship SS Joseph R. Lamar was built in Brunswick, Georgia, and named in his honor.

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Martha Byrne

Mary Martha Byrne (born December 23, 1969) is an American actress, singer and television writer. She played the role of Lily Walsh Snyder on the soap opera As the World Turns from 1985 to 1989, then again from 1993 to 2008; as well as, from 2000 to 2003, Lily's twin sister, Rose D'Angelo. Byrne has also appeared in other stage, television and movie roles, including the title role in the 1983 film Anna to the Infinite Power. She is currently executive producer of the digital drama series Anacostia, where she has played the role of Alexis Jordan since 2011. Byrne has won three Daytime Emmy Awards for acting.

Early life
Byrne was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, the daughter of Terrence Joseph and Mary Adele (née TuMulty) Byrne.

Featured roles
Byrne began acting at a young age when she joined the cast of the Broadway musical Annie, where she played the role of July.

She was a featured actor on a number of prime time episodic television programs, including Kate and Allie, Murder, She Wrote, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jake and the Fatman, In the Heat of the Night, and Hearts are Wild. Byrne also appeared in several television movies, with featured roles in When the Cradle Falls and Pink Lightning.

Byrne's best known film role was as the title character in the 1983 film Anna to the Infinite Power. In 2010 she provided the commentary for the film's DVD release.

Daytime television
Byrne is best known for portraying Lily Walsh Snyder on the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns. She started in May 1985 at age 15, taking over from another teenage actress. Byrne soon became part of a "supercouple" when then-head writer Douglas Marland paired "poor little rich girl" Lily with hard-luck farmhand Holden Snyder, played by Jon Hensley. The show attracted controversy in 1987 when Byrne—months shy of her 18th birthday—and equally underage actor Brian Bloom played out a storyline in which they lost their virginity to each other.

Byrne won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1987. She left As the World Turns in 1989, and returned in April 1993. From 2000 until 2003, Byrne also played a second role, Lily's long-lost twin, Rose D'Angelo. She won another Daytime Emmy in 2001, this time as Outstanding Lead Actress.

Byrne left As the World Turns again in April 2008. The show's executive producer Christopher Goutman stated, "We made Martha an incredibly generous offer in hopes that she would remain a valuable member of the ATWT cast. Unfortunately, Martha has decided to leave despite our best efforts to keep her." Byrne later asserted that the contract negotiations fell through because the show refused to guarantee her the same number of episodes of work she had previously been guaranteed. She added that a casting call was made for her successor during her contract negotiations, which fueled her drive to leave. Byrne's last airdate on the show was April 22, 2008; her successor, Noelle Beck, appeared in the role of Lily from May 2008 until the series' end in 2010.

Byrne was hired as a script writer by Bradley Bell for The Bold and the Beautiful in early 2009. From June 17 though September 9, 2009, she portrayed Andrea Floyd on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.

Byrne began portraying Alexis Jordan (née Joanne Edwards) on the soap opera web series Anacostia in 2011, winning a 2012 Indie Series Award for Best Guest Appearance (Drama), and a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series. The entire cast won a 2015 Indie Series Award for Best Ensemble (Drama). Byrne served as a co-executive producer, director and writer for the series from 2012-2016, and was promoted to Executive Producer in the show's 2017 fifth season. As a producer, Byrne was also nominated for the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series in 2015.

Music
Byrne is also a singer. She contributed a Christmas medley to the 1994 RCA release, A Soap Opera Christmas. She released her self-titled album Martha Byrne in 1996.

She has also released a second album, Woman Thing Music. Byrne again was the subject of controversy, as the sponsor of the second album was Philip Morris. The CD could only be purchased in conjunction with the purchase of cigarettes, or at one of the "Woman Music Thing" concerts that Philip Morris sponsored. Byrne eventually withdrew endorsement from the music label, as she did not want to be associated with a product that could encourage underage smoking.

In 2006 Byrne released a third album, The Other Side.

Awards and recognition
Byrne is a ten-time Daytime Emmy Award-nominee as actress and producer, winning Outstanding Younger Actress in 1987, Outstanding Lead Actress in 2001, and Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series in 2015.

Personal life
Byrne married Michael McMahon, a former undercover officer in the New York City Police Department, on November 12, 1994. She grew up in Waldwick, New Jersey and lives in nearby Ridgewood.

Their first child, Michael Terrence McMahon, was born on May 29, 1998. An episode of the TLC series A Baby Story chronicled her second pregnancy and the birth of her son, Maxwell Vincent McMahon, on September 3, 2002. Their third child and first daughter, Annmarie, was born June 12, 2006.

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User talk:Joel Russ

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Hi Joel,

There's a lot of work coming up w.r.t. the Whole Earth Catalog. I hope you will be able to help with it! +sj + 06:23, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Just ran into Stewart Brand at MIT today, thanked him for releasing copyright on the original texts. The imaegs are still mighty hard to run OCR on...

Aldous Huxley
Hi, saw you have been making a series of improvements to the Aldous Huxley entry. I'd be interested in hearing what you think of the pair of comments I made down the bottom of Talk:Aldous Huxley. I think the article gives the wrong impression in a couple points but don't really consider myself qualified to make that judgement definitively. Rkundalini

Pellet stove
Hi Joel,

I saw you put in the link to Pellet stove. I've raised a question about low-cost variations on Talk:Pellet_stove - in case you have anything to contribute. Cheers --Singkong2005 02:12, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Shoghi Effendi
Hi Joel Russ,

You recently contributed to the Shoghi Effendi article and added a statement about his connection with Richard St. Barbe Baker. Could you please add some kind of reference for the statement? I don't doubt that it's true, but it will likely be deleted without a reference, even if the reference is just an off-site link, or a book title. Cuñado  -  Talk  16:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Joel, I must thank you instead. You did the brunt of the work improving the R. St. Barbe Baker article. He was indeed a great person. I definitely know that you were not trying to leave out the Baha'i Faith, as it still is a relatively obscure religion to most, so no worries.

It's wonderful that you are so active in trying to better the world we live in. I really wish we had more people who were more concerned with the environment. While, I'm not an environmentalist by profession, I do try to do my small part in helping the environment. I think, generally most Baha'is, are concerned with the environment and see the exploitation of our planetary natural resources as one of the symptoms of an overly materialistic society, that only considers short-term economic growth, and does not benefit all of humanity, and cannot concern itself with the long-term viability of life on earth.

Anwyas, thanks again for your great expansion of the article -- Jeff3000 18:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sustainable Fisheries
Hi Joel. Regarding sustainable fisheries, there are few good examples in the world to point to and industrial fishing, with sein purse nets and long-lines are particularly damaging to the environment. The Australian government has been particularly concerned with the poaching of Patagonian tooth fish (see article at http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=11981) and also with the taking of sharks fins, trochus shells and beche la mer (Sea cucumbers) by Indonesian craft, operating for Chinese syndicates in the north.

See the attached UPI article - Australia detains 200 Indonesian fishermen

PERTH, Australia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Australia has detained more than 200 Indonesian fishermen caught poaching for shark fins for Chinese-owned companies, The Australian reported Thursday.

The fishermen are being held in a makeshift detention camp at the northwest port of Broome, the report said.

In the latest incident Tuesday, Australian Customs officers battled fishermen wielding knives and machetes, who set fire to their boat in an attempt to prevent the officers from boarding it. The officers found two holds full of shark fins and the carcasses of about 50 sharks.

The fishermen are paid around $45 a month by Chinese-owned fishing syndicates, and will likely have to pay for their lost boats on top of the fines they must pay Australia, a lawyer who is defending 15 fishermen told a Perth court Wednesday.

Legal Aid lawyer David McKenzie said each of his clients was their family's breadwinner, with up to seven children to support.

The men were fined between $1,500 and $5,000 by the court.

Australia initiated a crackdown on foreign fishing boats after news reports that they were coming closer to the northern coast, raising fears of disease as some crews were said to be setting up camp and bringing animals ashore. -

To deal with these issues the Australian government have just tightened up the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) which means that the Australian Government can now play a stronger role in promoting ecologically sustainable management of fisheries and assessing their environmental performance. We have one of the few remaining sustainable fisheries on the planet.

This is partly due to the work in Australia of the very active Australian Marine Fisheries Conservation Society that play a very important role.

As for what is happening elsewhere I can remember reading that 17 of the 19 major world fisheries are collapsing through overfishing. Pretty grim.

Hope this helps

John D. Croft 16:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Userbox
According to policy, we should move userboxes that did not say about language capabilities to User: namespace. I'm happy to see, that this solution has been copied from German Wikipedia, because I found it faster than other English Wikipedia users, and created my userboxes in Polish Wikipedia in User: namespace. It is good to us to not using Template: namespace, because it should not be used for POV templates. Hołek ҉ 16:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Environment
Hi Joel, Welcome to WikiProject Environment. --Alex 13:53, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the info Joel, I hope you enjoyed your trip to Scotland. I have recently come back from a weekend up in Aberdeen, there's some beautiful scenery up there. --Alex 13:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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Reference/endnote how-to
Ask me whenever you need help. This includes asking a (nearly) unlimited number of silly questions :). For a start, read Footnotes (as CesarB replied to you on the Village pump). --Ligulem 16:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Renewable Energy Sites
What sort of information are you looking for? Basic research (5-10 years to fielding), piloting efforts (3-5 years to fielding), or full scale development renewable energy products? The field changes so fast right now that it's difficult to find one source of links. Are you interesting solar, biofuels, wind,...? Do you want information at a layman's level or engineer's? Assuming the former, here are some places to start, the first being narrative and general, and the second being a trove of places to look for more information; http://www.azsolarcenter.com/education/renewable011199.html http://www.uwsp.edu/CNR/wcee/keep/Renewable_Energy_Education/

Cheers! Skyemoor 21:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Home Power magazine is a good source for determining how to power your home with solar, wind, micro-hydro, etc.

WikiProject Environment
I have created a barnstar for WikiProject Environment. Please visit the talk page to vote for the barnstar since there are no votes for 2 months. OhanaUnited  20:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Assessment Scale
Do you think WikiProject Environment should start working on assessment scale? It would be better to do now than wait for backlog to accmuluate. OhanaUnited  07:00, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

A new task force that could use your help!
Hi, Joel! A few editors are getting together to create a task force with the goal of making sure environmental records of corporations and politicians are accurately and efficiently represented in relevant entries. Given your interests, I thought I'd bring your attention to this project. If you think it's a good idea, please consider chiming in on the discussion page. We hope to have a task force page up soon and of course would love to have you involved!Benzocane 23:14, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Joel, for your thoughts. We've made some progress getting the Task Force page up. We are more geared towards record keeping than the particulars of new technologies, but you might take a look all the same and see if it interests you. If you have any thoughts or advice at any point, of course it would be most welcome. Benzocane 20:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Peak oil

 * TRUE Scary isn't it? Fifty years ago the world was consuming 4 billion barrels of oil per year and the average discovery was around 30 billion. Today we consume 30 billion barrels per year (84 million barrels of oil per day) and the discovery rate is now approaching 4 billion barrels of crude oil per year (11 million barrels of oil per day). 84/11 = 7.6  Kjell Aleklett The oil supply tsunami alert Energy Bulletin, April 25, 2005.  The difference is being made up from draining known reserves (since production = consumption right now).

This is well oil - "crude". Unconventional oil is often in the form of tar sands and shale and to date still very difficult to extract. Consumption continues to go up because of developing nations and discovery of new oil is going down fast every year. Find some sources to disprove it.Kgrr 14:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Footnotes/Refernces
Hello Joel. A rather belated reply on referencing. I cannot give any definitive answer to your questions. It is difficult to juggle layout for best appearance with how to accurately give sources of info. In the article in question I went for appearance over accurate placement of references. I think that as long as the references are there and accurately quoted and analysed the job is done. I suspect the majority of WP readers want the info itself rather than the refs so I edit pages for the readers who are not chasing refs. Apparently there will be a Wikimedia revision that allows blocks of text to be easily referenced. It looks like something that would be impossible to achieve in printed material. -- Alan Liefting talk 06:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

re:CQ
Hi Joel Russ. Sorry about that, I rarely check email so I didn't see your message (my talk page is the best place to contact me). I'll respond to your questions here. By all means, restore any parts of the article that can be sourced- it would be greatly appreciated. My goal was to clean up these articles which contained a great deal of unsourced information. Thanks for your work on these pages. -Classicfilms (talk) 17:29, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Jack Schwarz
You wrote .... Hi. After quite a few years now as a contributor to, and user of, Wikipedia, I decided to plug in the name Jack Schwarz. I participated a seminar of several days with him, in Vancouver many years ago. Anyhow, I enjoyed and learned from your article about Jack. Did you know him? Joel Russ (talk) 05:14, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I met him only a few times with Bennet Wong and Jock McKeen.  Ben and Jock had a warm relationship with him, and I was with them at conferences on a couple of occasions where I witnessed Jack's respect for them, and their enjoyment of him.  He was an old-world European gentleman with a very open mind.  I liked him a lot.  William Meyer (talk) 17:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. I came upon the name of a child called Bobby de Ropp as part of a study I was doing, and was intrigued when I found the Wiki article which had to be about the same person - which then referred only to his later writings on human potential. Further surprise when I discovered a completely different angle in his academic career and work which was not then included in the article. I was puzzled because he disappeared off the radar inexplicably between childhood and his academic career. Add to that the mysterious Baron de Ropp who seemed to be the most likely candidate to be his father. Had I sent off for Warriors Way instead of The Master Game, all would have been explained. However by digging around I have come up with some independent corroboration of his autobio. So I am most grateful to you for bringing WW to my attention and I now have a copy. And remain astounded by his fascinating life. Ironical that he nearly committed suicide in Australia by trying to drown in the harbour, and eventually did die by drowning. Regards Motmit (talk) 19:21, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, I know you're a big wheel on that page. But it's always suffered a little from underciting.

I have never gone through the log to identify who precisely hadn't done his citations fully.

Anyway, your latest add matches the existing citation on that paragraph, eh?

There's some good stuff in that article; I don't want to see a member of the can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees battalion blowing away half the article cuz it lacks a footnote.

Yours in mental health, Varlaam (talk) 20:13, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Fisheries management
Yes, you're right, it is not clear so I've reworded it. What is meant is something like the maximum sustainable yield. If fisheries are run down by harvesting too many, you come to a point of diminishing returns where the amount you can continue to harvest at a steady rate has become much less than it need be. This is one definition of overfishing, and it turns out that many of the global fisheries have now been overfished. The solution is simple for the most part, curtail fishing for a while until the fisheries recover and then resume fishing. The current fishing fleet is a separate matter, and has a gross overcapacity. --Epipelagic (talk) 01:08, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Semiperimeter

In geometry, the semiperimeter of a polygon is half its perimeter. Although it has such a simple derivation from the perimeter, the semiperimeter appears frequently enough in formulas for triangles and other figures that it is given a separate name. When the semiperimeter occurs as part of a formula, it is typically denoted by the letter $s$.

Motivation: triangles

The semiperimeter is used most often for triangles; the formula for the semiperimeter of a triangle with side lengths $a, b, c$
 * $$s = \frac{a+b+c}{2}.$$

Properties
In any triangle, any vertex and the point where the opposite excircle touches the triangle partition the triangle's perimeter into two equal lengths, thus creating two paths each of which has a length equal to the semiperimeter. If $A, B, B', C'$ are as shown in the figure, then the segments connecting a vertex with the opposite excircle tangency ($\overline{AA'}, \overline{BB'}, \overline{CC'}$, shown in red in the diagram) are known as splitters, and

 * $$\begin{align}

s &= |AB|+|A'B|=|AB|+|AB'|=|AC|+|A'C| \\ &= |AC|+|AC'|=|BC|+|B'C|=|BC|+|BC'|. \end{align}$$

The three splitters concur at the Nagel point of the triangle.

A cleaver of a triangle is a line segment that bisects the perimeter of the triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the three sides. So any cleaver, like any splitter, divides the triangle into two paths each of whose length equals the semiperimeter. The three cleavers concur at the center of the Spieker circle, which is the incircle of the medial triangle; the Spieker center is the center of mass of all the points on the triangle's edges.

A line through the triangle's incenter bisects the perimeter if and only if it also bisects the area.

A triangle's semiperimeter equals the perimeter of its medial triangle.

By the triangle inequality, the longest side length of a triangle is less than the semiperimeter.

For triangles
The area $A$ of any triangle is the product of its inradius (the radius of its inscribed circle) and its semiperimeter:

 * $$ A = rs.$$

The area of a triangle can also be calculated from its semiperimeter and side lengths $a, b, c$ using Heron's formula:

 * $$A = \sqrt{s\left(s-a\right)\left(s-b\right)\left(s-c\right)}.$$

The circumradius $R$ of a triangle can also be calculated from the semiperimeter and side lengths:
 * $$R = \frac{abc} {4\sqrt{s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}}.$$

This formula can be derived from the law of sines.

The inradius is

 * $$r = \sqrt{\frac{(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}{s}}. $$

The law of cotangents gives the cotangents of the half-angles at the vertices of a triangle in terms of the semiperimeter, the sides, and the inradius.

The length of the internal bisector of the angle opposite the side of length $a$ is

 * $$t_a= \frac{2 \sqrt{bcs(s-a)}}{b+c}.$$

In a right triangle, the radius of the excircle on the hypotenuse equals the semiperimeter. The semiperimeter is the sum of the inradius and twice the circumradius. The area of the right triangle is $$(s-a)(s-b)$$ where $a, b$ are the legs.

For quadrilaterals
The formula for the semiperimeter of a quadrilateral with side lengths $a, b, c, d$ is
 * $$s = \frac{a+b+c+d}{2}.$$

One of the triangle area formulas involving the semiperimeter also applies to tangential quadrilaterals, which have an incircle and in which (according to Pitot's theorem) pairs of opposite sides have lengths summing to the semiperimeter—namely, the area is the product of the inradius and the semiperimeter:

 * $$ K = rs.$$

The simplest form of Brahmagupta's formula for the area of a cyclic quadrilateral has a form similar to that of Heron's formula for the triangle area:

 * $$K = \sqrt{\left(s-a\right)\left(s-b\right)\left(s-c\right)\left(s-d\right)}.$$

Bretschneider's formula generalizes this to all convex quadrilaterals:

 * $$ K = \sqrt {(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)(s-d) - abcd \cdot \cos^2 \left(\frac{\alpha + \gamma}{2}\right)},$$

in which $α$ and $γ$ are two opposite angles.

The four sides of a bicentric quadrilateral are the four solutions of a quartic equation parametrized by the semiperimeter, the inradius, and the circumradius.

Regular polygons
The area of a convex regular polygon is the product of its semiperimeter and its apothem.

Circles
The semiperimeter of a circle, also called the semicircumference, is directly proportional to its radius $r$:

 * $$s = \pi \cdot r.\!$$

The constant of proportionality is the number pi, $\pi$.

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