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White Trash Beautiful

White Trash Beautiful is the fourth solo studio album by American recording artist Everlast. It was released internationally on May 25, 2004 and a day later in the United States via Island Records. It has sold about 124,000 copies in the U.S.

The record peaked at number 12 on German music charts, at number 21 on the Swiss music charts, at number 32 on Ö3 Austria Top 40, at number 56 on the US Billboard 200, and at number 124 on French music charts. The lead single of the album, "White Trash Beautiful", was dropped in March 2004 and also has been charted, but only in three major European charts: number 42 in Switzerland, number 59 in Germany, and number 64 in Austria. The official music video features American actor Aaron Paul.

Music and lyrics
White Trash Beautiful primarily mixes hip-hop tropes with arrangements built on bluesy strumming. Musically, Everlast and producer Dante Ross marry his gruff delivery with spare acoustic guitar layered in subdued hip-hop rhythms. The album features hip-hop references, including lyrical quotes, turntable scratches and explicit lines and bravado.

The album mainly blends country and blues into lyrical narratives of loneliness. Everlast uses a haggard voice for singing grim songs. He occasionally engages in rap clichés, with verses expressing street bravado and cynicism in addition to relationship issues and heartbreak.

Personnel
Vocalists

 * Erik Francis Schrody - vocals
 * Jeni Fujita - backing vocals (tracks: 4-5, 9, 11)
 * Carlos Rigas - backing vocals (tracks: 3, 6, 10)
 * Sheree Brown - backing vocals (track 1)
 * Derek Murphy - backing vocals (track 5)
 * Louis Freese - backing vocals (track 14)

Instrumentalists

 * Justin Premino - bass (tracks: 4-5, 9, 13, 15)
 * Dorian Heartsong - bass (tracks: 1-2, 6, 10)
 * Chris Thomas - bass (tracks: 3, 7, 11)
 * Tobias Ralph - drums (tracks: 4, 9)
 * Johnathan Moouer - drums (tracks: 6, 13)
 * Joshua Lopez - guitar (tracks: 3, 7)
 * Rob Hill - guitar (track 6)
 * John Vercessi - keyboards (tracks: 4-5, 9, 11, 13, 15)
 * Keefus Ciancia - keyboards (tracks: 1, 3, 14)
 * Zac Rae - keyboards (tracks: 1-3, 6-7)
 * Dante Ross - keyboards (track 12)
 * Al Pahanish - percussion (track: 6, 10)
 * Miles Tackett - cello (track 2)
 * Angelo Moore - theremin (track 2)
 * Alma Cielo - violin (track 10)

Technicals

 * Erik Francis Schrody - producer (tracks: 1-3, 6-7, 10, 14), co-producer (tracks: 4-5, 9, 11, 13, 15) , executive producer
 * Dante Ross - producer (tracks: 3-5, 9, 11-13, 15), co-producer (tracks: 1-2, 6-7, 10, 14 ), executive producer, recording (tracks: 4-5, 9, 11-13, 15)
 * Rob Hill - producer (tracks: 3, 6), co-producer (tracks: 1-2, 7, 10, 14) , recording (tracks: 1-3, 6-7, 14)
 * Emile Haynie - producer (track 8)
 * John Gamble - recording (tracks: 4-5, 9, 11-13, 15)
 * Brian Gardner - mastering
 * Robert Power - mixing
 * Ari Raskin - assistant engineer
 * David Campbell - string arrangement (tracks: 7, 15)

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Harold Masursky

Harold (Hal) Masursky (December 23, 1922* – August 24, 1990) was an American astrogeologist.

After leaving Yale University without defending his dissertation, he started his career in the early 1950s as a field geologist in Wyoming and Colorado working for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). In the early 1960s, he moved to the Astrogeology division of the USGS and began working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In the mid-1960s, he moved to Flagstaff, Arizona as a founding planetary geologist at the newly constructed USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Throughout his professional career with the USGS, his work contributed to the mission of NASA in the areas of economic, structural, and planetary geology.

He was responsible for the investigation of planetary and lunar surfaces, especially in finding scientifically valuable landing places. This included for the Apollo program, where, in the 1960s, he played a major role in choosing landing sites and assisted in training astronauts in the basics of geology so they would know what to look for on the surface of the Moon. In the 1970s, he headed the team that mapped the surface of Mars and was once again involved in choosing landing sites, this time for the Mars Viking missions. In the 1980s, he worked with the Voyager program to explore the surfaces of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Masursky was a strong advocate for the exploration of Venus and he was a key member of Pioneer Venus Orbiter team. He worked on numerous other space missions and programs, including, for Moon exploration, Ranger, Surveyor, the Lunar Orbiter, and the mapping of Mars by Mariner 9, as well as contributing to the missions of the Galileo and Magellan spacecraft. He was often interviewed on television as his enthusiasm for the planetary discoveries of the space missions was both edifying and infectious

An especially key role was his work as the president of the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He created a small stir in 1986, when he was required to reject a popular suggestion that new moons of Uranus, discovered earlier that year, be named for the seven astronauts lost in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion - the IAU has strict guidelines that prohibit major bodies being named in honor of persons from a particular country.

In 1985, Masursky was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, which is the highest honorary recognition an employee can receive within the Department of the Interior. Quoting from the award, the 1985 USGS Yearbook states: “Harold Masursky, Geologist, for his imaginative leadership in the field of astrogeology which has influenced almost every facet of lunar and planetary exploration since the beginning of the nation's space program.”

The Masursky crater on Mars was chosen because it is effluvial, meaning "flow" (it looks like water ran through it), to honor his fervent belief that Mars once had flowing water on the surface. In 1981, the asteroid 2685 Masursky was discovered and named in his honor. The Masursky Award for Meritorius Service to Planetary Science, first awarded to Carl Sagan in 1991, and the Masursky Lecture, originating in 1992 and given during the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), are named for him as well.

Upon his death in Flagstaff, Arizona, he was buried in the city's Citizens Cemetery.

* Note there is some confusion about the year of Harold Masursky's birth; in some places it is reported as 1922 and in some places is reported as 1923.

Awards

 * 1972 NASA Honor Award:  Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal; Johnson Space Center
 * 1973 NASA Honor Award:  Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal; Johnson Space Center
 * 1977 NASA Honor Award:  Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal; Johnson Space Center
 * 1980 NASA Honor Award:  Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal; Johnson Space Center
 * 1981 Honorary D.Sc. degree conferred by Northern Arizona University
 * 1985  (gold medal).
 * 1988  Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievements in Lunar and Planetary Exploration (in 2020 renamed “The Michael Collins Trophy”)
 * 1990 G. K. Gilbert Award from the Geological Society of America for outstanding contributions to the solution of fundamental problems in planetary geology
 * 1990 JPL-NASA Magellan Mission Award Plaque For Exceptional Contributions in the Exploration of Venus (posthumous award presented by Jet Propulsion Lab)

Legacy

 * Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science, usually called the Masursky Award, is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society.
 * The Harold Masursky Lecture Series began in 1992, as a tribute to his work, and is sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Selected publications

 * Masursky, Harold, J. M. Boyce, A. L. Dial, G. G. Schaber, and M. E. Strobell. "Classification and time of formation of Martian channels based on Viking data." Journal of Geophysical Research 82, no. 28 (1977): 4016–4038.
 * Masursky, Harold, George Willis Colton, and Farouk El-Baz. "Apollo over the Moon: a view from orbit". Vol. 362. Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978.
 * Masursky, Harold, Eric Eliason, Peter G. Ford, George E. McGill, Gordon H. Pettengill, Gerald G. Schaber, and Gerald Schubert. "Pioneer Venus radar results: Geology from images and altimetry." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 85, no. A13 (1980): 8232–8260.
 * Smith, Bradford A., Laurence Soderblom, Reta Beebe, Joseph Boyce, Geoffery Briggs, Anne Bunker, Stewart A. Collins et al. "Encounter with Saturn: Voyager 1 imaging science results." Science 212, no. 4491 (1981): 163–191.
 * Smith, Bradford A., Laurence Soderblom, Raymond Batson, Patricia Bridges, J. A. Y. Inge, Harold Masursky, Eugene Shoemaker et al. "A new look at the Saturn system: The Voyager 2 images." Science 215, no. 4532 (1982): 504–537.

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Hälsinge Regiment

The Hälsinge Regiment (Hälsinge regemente), designations I 14, I 14/Fo 49 and I 14/Fo 21, was a Swedish Army infantry regiment that traced its origins back to the 16th century. It was disbanded in 1997. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the provinces of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, and it was later garrisoned in Gästrikland.

History
The regiment has its origins in fänikor (companies) raised in Hälsingland and Gästrikland in the 1550s and 1560s. In 1615, these units—along with fänikor from the nearby provinces of Medelpad, Ångermanland and Västerbotten—were organised by Gustav II Adolf into Norrlands storregemente, of which eleven of the total 24 companies were recruited in Hälsingland and Gästrikland. Norrlands storregemente consisted of three field regiments, of which Hälsinge Regiment was one. Sometime around 1624, the grand regiment was permanently split into three smaller regiments, of which Hälsinge Regiment was one.

The regiment was officially raised in 1630 although it had existed since 1624. Hälsinge Regiment was one of the original 20 Swedish infantry regiments mentioned in the Swedish constitution of 1634. The regiment was also called Joakim Brahe's Regiment after its first commander Joakim Brahe. It was allotted in 1682 as the second Swedish regiment to be so, after Dalarna Regiment.

The regiment was given the designation I 14 (14th Infantry Regiment) in a general order in 1816. Hälsinge Regiment was garrisoned in Gävle from 1909. In 1973, the regiment gained the new designation I 14/Fo 49 as a consequence of a merge with the local defence area Fo 49. When the local defence area changed designation to Fo 21 in 1982, the designation changed to I 14/Fo 21. The regiment was disbanded in 1997, and the barracks that had been refurbished in 1995–1996 were turned into a college campus for the University College of Gävle.

Campaigns

 * The Swedish War of Liberation (1521–1523)
 * The Northern Seven Years' War (1563–1570)
 * The War against Russia (1590–1595)
 * The Polish War (1600–1629)
 * The Thirty Years' War (1630–1648)
 * The Torstenson War (1643–1645)
 * The Northern Wars (1655–1661)
 * The Scanian War (1674–1679)
 * The Great Northern War (1700–1721)
 * The Hats' Russian War (1741–1743)
 * The Seven Years' War (1757–1762)
 * The Gustav III's Russian War (1788–1790)
 * The Finnish War (1808–1809)
 * The Campaign against Norway (1814)

Organisation

 * 1634(?)
 * Livkompaniet
 * Överstelöjtnantens kompani
 * Majorens kompani
 * Alfta kompani
 * Delsbo kompani
 * Ovansjö kompani
 * Arbrå kompani
 * Jervsö kompani

 * 1814(?)
 * Livkompaniet
 * Forssa kompani
 * Järvsö kompani
 * Delsbo kompani
 * Färnebo kompani
 * Arbrå kompani
 * Alfta kompani
 * Ovansjö kompani

Colours, standards and guidons
The regiment have carried a number of colour over the years. In 1897, King Oscar II presented a new colour to the two battalions of the regiment, which then replaced the 1850 colour. On 29 September 1952, the 1897 colour was replaced when the regiment was presented with a new colour in Gävle by His Majesty the King Gustaf VI Adolf. It was used as regimental colour by I 14/Fo 21 until 1 January 1998. The new colour was similar to the 1850 colour. It was white and black, which is also the regimental colour, and taken from Hälsingland (black) and Gästrikland (white). The colour is drawn by Brita Grep. It has not been possible to discover who has manufactured the colour. It is embroidered by hand in insertion technique. Blazon: "On cloth per saltire black and white the provincial badge of Hälsingland; a rampant yellow buck, armed red. On a yellow border at the upper side of the colour, battle honours (Novgorod 1611, Warszawa 1656, Fredriksodde 1657, Tåget över Bält 1658, Lund 1676, Landskrona 1677, Narva 1700, Düna 1701, Jakobstadt 1704, Gemäuerthof 1705, Malatitze 1708, Gadebusch 1712) in black".

Coat of arms
The coat of the arms of the Hälsinge Regiment (I 14/Fo 21) 1977–1997 and the Gävleborg Group (Gävleborgsgruppen) since 1997. Blazon: The provincial badge of Hälsingland, saltire sable and argent, a buck rampant or, armed and langued gules. The shield surmounted two muskets in saltire or".

Medals
In 1959, the Hälsinge regementes (I 14) förtjänstmedalj ("Hälsinge Regiment (I 14) Medal of Merit") in gold (HälsregGM) of the 8th size was established. The same year, the ''Kungl. Hälsinge regementes belöningsmedalj'' ("Royal Hälsinge Regiment Medal of Reward") in gold (HälsregGM) was established. In 1959 and 1985, the Hälsinge regementes förtjänstmedalj ("Hälsinge Regiment Medal of Merit") in silver (HälsregSM) were established. The medals from 1959 and 1982 are of the 8th size. In 1992, the medals were reinstated as a Jeton, but then of the 12th size. The medal ribbons are divided in black and white moiré.

Heritage
In connection with the disbandment of the regiment, its traditions came from 1 January 1998 onwards to be continued by Gävleborg Group (Gävleborgsgruppen). From 1 July 2013 the Gävleborg Battalion, within the Gävleborg Group.

Commanding officers
Regimental commanders active at the regiment during the years 1627–1997.

Commanders

 * 1630–1360: Joachim Brahe
 * 1630–1638: Åke Ulfsparre
 * 1638–1645: Johan Oxenstierna
 * 1645–1645: Johan Strijk
 * 1645–1654: Gustaf Saabel
 * 1654–1655: Gustaf Oxenstierna
 * 1655–1660: Carl Larsson Sparre
 * 1660–1669: Henrik Johan Taube
 * 1670–1673: Anders Månsson Arenfeldt
 * 1673–1683: Gustaf Karl von Wulffen
 * 1683–1698: Ludvig Wilhelm Taube
 * 1698–1700: Carl Gustaf Frölich
 * 1700–1708: Jöran von Knorring
 * 1708–1723: Gideon Fock
 * 1710–1717: Reinhold Henrik Otto Horn
 * 1717–1724: Lorentz von Nummers
 * 1723–1738: Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock
 * 1739–1750: Johan Karl Silversparre
 * 1750–1762: Reinhold Otto Fock
 * 1762–1772: Anders Rudolf Du Rietz
 * 1772–1776: Fredrik Gyllenswan
 * 1776–1782: Arvid Nils Stenbock
 * 1782–1809: Gustaf Wilhelm von Kaulbars
 * 1809–1815: Fredrik Christian von Platen
 * 1815–1847: Adolf Ludvig von Post
 * 1847–1856: Charles Emil Rudbeck
 * 1856–1860: Alexander Reuterskiöld
 * 1860–1861: Sven Peter Bergman
 * 1861–1864: Nils Henrik Hägerflycht
 * 1864–1868: Axel Krister Gregersson Leijonhuvud
 * 1868–1874: Ernst von Vegesack
 * 1874–1882: Johan Gottlieb Wilhelm von Rehausen
 * 1882–1893: Carl Bror Munck af Fulkila
 * 1893–1901: Knut Robert Fabian Reuterskiöld
 * 1901–1902: Johan Kasimir De la Gardie
 * 1902–1909: Wilhelm Ernst von Krusenstjerna
 * 1909–1915: Carl Alexander Fock
 * 1915–1923: Georg Nyström
 * 1923–1932: Henning Stålhane
 * 1932–1933: Ernst Hortelius
 * 1933–1934: Colonel Ernst af Klercker
 * 1934–1940: Casper Ehrnborg
 * 1941–1946: Carl Hamnström
 * 1946–1955: Hans Berggren
 * 1955–1957: Colonel Curt Göransson
 * 1957–1967: Axel Henriksson
 * 1967–1968: Colonel Nils Sköld
 * 1968–1971: Jan Smedler
 * 1968–1969: Carl-Henrik Gåsste (acting)
 * 1971–1973: Carl-Henrik Gåsste
 * 1973–1975: Allan Månsson
 * 1975–1977: Colonel Robert Lugn (acting)
 * 1975–1982: Senior colonel Carl-Henrik Gåsste
 * 1982–1987: Ingmar Arnhall
 * 1987–1991: Karl-Evert Englund
 * 1991–1992: Folke Ekstedt
 * 1993–1994: Senior colonel Hans Berndtson
 * 1994–1994: Lars-Erik Ljungkvist (acting)
 * 1994–1997: Tomas Bornestaf

Deputy commanders

 * 1979–????: Colonel Paul Strömberg

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HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01)

HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01) was the lead ship of the Adelaide-class frigate of guided missile frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), based on the United States Navy's Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates. She was built in the United States and commissioned into the RAN in 1980.

During her career, Adelaide was part of Australian responses or contributions to the 1987 Fijian coups d'état, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, the Indonesian riots of May 1998, the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, the War in Afghanistan, and the United States-led invasion of Iraq. In 1997, the frigate rescued two competitors in the 1996–97 Vendée Globe solo, round-the-world yacht race. In 2001, a boat carrying suspected illegal immigrants was intercepted by Adelaide; the events of this interception became the centre of the Children overboard affair.

In 2008, Adelaide was the second ship of the class to be decommissioned, in order to offset the cost of an upgrade to the other four vessels. This ship was to be sunk off Avoca Beach, New South Wales as a dive wreck on 27 March 2010, until an appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal by protest groups led to a postponement of the scuttling until additional cleanup work was completed. Despite further attempts to delay or cancel the scuttling, Adelaide was sunk off Avoca on 13 April 2011.

Design and construction
Following the cancellation of the Australian light destroyer project in 1973, the British Type 42 destroyer and the American Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate were identified as alternatives to replace the cancelled light destroyers and the Daring-class destroyers. Although the Oliver Hazard Perry class was still at the design stage, the difficulty of fitting the Type 42 with the SM-1 missile, and the success of the Perth-class destroyer acquisition (a derivative of the American Charles F. Adams-class destroyer) compared to equivalent British designs led the Australian government to approve the purchase of two US-built Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates (including Adelaide) in 1976. A third was ordered in 1977, followed by a fourth, with all four ships integrated into the USN's shipbuilding program. A further two ships were ordered in 1980, and were constructed in Australia.

As designed, the ship had a full load displacement of 3,605 tons, a length overall of 135.6 m, a beam of 13.7 m, and a draught of 24.5 m. Early in the ship's career, she was modified from the Oliver Hazard Perry Flight I design to Flight III, requiring a lengthening of the helicopter deck for the RAST helicopter recovery system, increasing the displacement to 4,100 tons and pushing the overall length to 138.1 m. Propulsion machinery consisted of two General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, which provided a combined 41000 hp to the single propeller shaft. Top speed was 29 kn, with a range of 4,500 nmi at 20 kn. Two 650 hp electric auxiliary propulsors were used for close manoeuvring, with a top speed of 4 kn. The standard ship's company was 184, including 15 officers, but excluding the flight crew for the embarked helicopters.

The original armament for the ship consisted of a Mark 13 missile launcher configured to fire RIM-66 Standard and RGM-84 Harpoon missiles, supplemented by an OTO Melara 76 mm gun and a Vulcan Phalanx point-defence system. For anti-submarine warfare, two Mark 32 torpedo tube sets were fitted; originally firing the Mark 44 torpedo, the Adelaides later carried the Mark 46 torpedoes. Up to six 12.7 mm machine guns were carried for close-in defence, and beginning in 2005, two M2HB .50 calibre machine guns in Mini Typhoon mounts were installed when needed for Persian Gulf deployments. The sensor suite included an AN/SPS-49 air search radar, AN/SPS-55 surface search and navigation radar, SPG-60 fire control radar connected to a Mark 92 fire control system, and an AN/SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar. Two helicopters could be embarked: either two S-70B Seahawk or one Seahawk and one AS350B Squirrel.

Adelaide was laid down to the Oliver Hazard Perry class' Flight I design at Todd Pacific Shipyards at Seattle on 29 July 1977, launched on 21 June 1978 by Lady Ann Synnot (wife of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot), and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 15 November 1980. During construction, she was identified with the United States Navy hull number FFG-17. A total of four Adelaide-class ships were constructed by Todd Pacific, with a further two built by Australian shipbuilder AMECON.

Operational history
After commissioning, Adelaide and Canberra remained in the United States to work up; during this time both ships were attached to the United States Navy's Destroyer Squadron 9. The frigate ran aground off Seattle in early 1981, during post-commissioning trials, but was freed with only minor damage.

Following the decommissioning of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (R21) in 1982 and the disbandment of fixed-wing aviation squadrons in 1984, the RAN Fleet Air Arm became focused on helicopter operations, but had minimal experience flying helicopters from small ships. To remedy this, a Bell Kiowa was embarked aboard Adelaide during 1984. Adelaide was awarded the Gloucester Cup for being the most efficient ship in the RAN during 1984.

In May 1987, Adelaide visited Fiji, and was alongside in Lautoka when the first of the 1987 Fijian coups d'état occurred on 14 May. Adelaide and sister ship HMAS Sydney (FFG 03), alongside in Suva, were instructed to remain off Fiji to aid in any necessary evacuation of Australian citizens; the first component of what became Operation Morris Dance. Adelaide remained on station until at least 29 May, when a phased withdrawal began.

On 3 July 1990, Adelaide became the first Australian warship to visit Tahiti since 1970. On 10 August, Adelaide, sister ship HMAS Darwin (FFG 04), and the replenishment ship HMAS Success (AOR 304) were deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Damask, Australia's participation in the international coalition enforcing sanctions against Iraq following that nation's invasion of Kuwait. Adelaide and Darwin remained in the area until 3 December, and was used for surveillance and boarding operations. In October 1992, Adelaide home port was changed to HMAS Stirling, making her the first ship of the class homeported in Western Australia under the Two-Ocean Policy.

In January 1997, the yachts of Thierry Dubois and Tony Bullimore (competitors in the 1996–97 Vendée Globe solo, round-the-world yacht race), capsized while attempting to cross the Southern Ocean. Adelaide successfully found and rescued the sailors after seven days of searching by ships and aircraft. During late May and early June, the frigate was deployed to the Philippines, and represented Australia at the Philippines Centenary International Naval Review.

Between 17 and 27 May 1998, Adelaide was one of four RAN ships placed on standby, in case Australian citizens required evacuation if the Indonesian riots of May 1998 escalated. The ships were not used. Starting in September, the frigate accompanied the destroyers HMAS Hobart (D 39) and HMAS Brisbane (D 41) on a cruise through South East Asia. During this deployment, the ships were present at a naval review by Indonesian president B. J. Habibie.

In February 1999, Adelaide was awarded the Duke of Gloucester Cup awarded to the most efficient ship in the RAN during the previous year. The frigate was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 19 September to 19 October.

On 6 October 2001, Adelaide was the ship which intercepted SIEV 4, the event which sparked the Children overboard affair. Under orders to prevent SIEVs from entering Australian waters, Adelaide attempted to warn the craft, carrying over 200 passengers (including children), against crossing from international waters during the night and into 7 October. When the SIEV failed to heed these warnings, Adelaide fired warning shots and initiated a RHIB boarding action, with the boarding party took control of the craft that afternoon. Between this time and when the craft was manoeuvred from Australian territory late the next morning, several attempts were made to sabotage the craft, and some adult passengers jumped or were thrown overboard while others threatened to do so; the fourteen people that entered the water were recovered by the frigate's RHIB and taken back to the SIEV. Adelaide observed the craft as it headed towards Indonesia, and moved in to provide further assistance a few hours later, after systematic sabotage immobilised the small vessel. Adelaide was instructed to take the vessel in tow and head for Christmas Island. The SIEV began to take on water during the afternoon of 8 October, and despite the appearance that the problem had been rectified, the craft sank without warning at 17:00. All aboard were forced into the water, and were rescued by personnel from Adelaide. Reports of the sinking were conflated with information about those who jumped or were thrown overboard the day previous to give the impression that the threat of throwing children overboard had been made or carried out, a story that was later proven false but taken up at the time by the Howard government during the lead-up to the 2001 election to support their campaign promises to tighten border controls and immigration.

From November 2001 to March 2002, Adelaide and the amphibious warfare ship HMAS Kanimbla (L 51) were deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Slipper, the Australian contribution to the War in Afghanistan. The ships also contributed to the continuing enforcement of the Iraq sanctions. Adelaide was deployed on border protection operations on multiple occasions until 2004.

Adelaide returned to the Middle East from July 2004 to January 2005 as part of Operation Catalyst, the Australian contribution to the reconstruction of Iraq following the United States-led invasion in 2003. During this deployment, in December 2004, several gunboats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard attempted to capture a boarding party after it had inspected the freighter MV Sham, which had grounded near the Iraq-Iran maritime boundary. After completing their inspection, the boarding party returned to their two RHIBs, but were approached by an Iranian gunboat. The boarding party climbed back aboard Sham, took up defensive positions, and, according to BBC reporter Frank Gardner, "warned [the Iranians] to back off, using what was said to be 'highly colourful language'." During the next 45 minutes, four more gunboats arrived, and the stand-off lasted for four hours before the Australians were evacuated by Adelaide's Seahawk helicopter. No shots were fired during the incident, and two of the Australians were later awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for their conduct during the stand-off. The Australian Defence Force did not immediately report the incident to the media, as they felt no need to highlight it, and the attempted capture did not come to light until July 2007, when Gardner wrote about it following the capture of 15 British personnel during a similar incident in March 2007.

A March 2010 reorganisation of battle honours awarded to RAN ships saw Adelaide retroactively honoured for her service with INTERFET ("East Timor 1999") and during the War in Afghanistan ("Persian Gulf 2001–02").

Decommissioning and fate
Adelaide was originally scheduled to be paid off in November 2006, but delays with the project to upgrade four of Adelaide's sister ships required that she be kept in service for another fourteen months to minimise the impact on the fleet. Adelaide was decommissioned on 19 January 2008 at HMAS Stirling, before she was towed to Sydney and given to the New South Wales Government, which planned to sink her as a dive wreck off the coast near Terrigal: the first military ship dive wreck in New South Wales. After spending time alongside at HMAS Kuttabul (naval base), Adelaide was towed to White Bay at a point prior to November 2009.

The ship was prepared for scuttling during late 2009 and early 2010: her mast (which would have become a navigational hazard once the ship was scuttled) was removed, dangerous materials and toxins were removed, and access holes were cut in the ship's flanks. The ship was scheduled to be sunk on 27 March, 1.7 km offshore from Avoca Beach, New South Wales, in 32 m of water. Local resident action groups campaigned to prevent the scuttling, claiming that the wreck would affect tides and littoral sand drift, and that the removal of chemicals and hazardous materials in the ship had not been thorough enough, with the chance that marine life and people could be poisoned.

An appeal by the protest groups to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal three days before the sinking saw the project placed on hold until the case could be heard in full: supporters and opponents of the dive wreck agreed to participate in mediation in the meantime. The case was to be heard on 5 May, but was later postponed to July. On 15 September, the Tribunal ruled that scuttling of the ship could go ahead after the removal of any remaining wiring, which may contain polychlorinated biphenyls, canvas, insulation, and exfoliating red lead paint. The delays caused by the tribunal hearing meant that the original $5.8 million assigned to the scuttling project was expended, and the tribunal hearing, additional cleanup, and berthing fees brought the cost of the scuttling project to $8.5 million.

A new scuttling date was announced on 24 February 2011 by NSW Lands Minister Tony Kelly, with Adelaide scheduled to be sunk on 13 April 2011, after the additional cleaning ordered by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal was completed in March. Adelaide was towed from Sydney Harbour on the morning of 11 April for the voyage north. The action group attempted to cancel or further delay the sinking of the warship, requesting that the New South Wales Ombudsman investigate the government's handling of the artificial reef project, filing a summons in the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales on the afternoon of 12 April, and asking an Aboriginal 'whale caller' to summon humpback whales to the planned wreck site. Despite this, the sinking went ahead just before midday on 13 April, after being delayed by over an hour by a pod of dolphins inside the 1 km exclusion zone. After the scuttling charges were fired, Adelaide submerged within two minutes.

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Ijiraq

In the Inuit religion, an ijiraq ( or  ) is a shapeshifting creature said to kidnap children, hide them away and abandon them. The inuksuk (or inukshuk) of stone allow these children to find their way back if they can convince the ijiraq to let them go.

Description
In North Baffin dialects ijiraq means Shape Shifter. While Tariaksuq appear like a half-man-half-caribou monster, an ijiraq can appear in any form it chooses, making it particularly deceptive. Their eyes will always stay red, no matter what they shapeshift into. Their real form is just like a human, but their eyes and mouth are sideways. (The book of Dutch writer Floortje Zwigtman says only the shaman knows the real form of the Ijiraq). When you are hunting somewhere that Ijirait (plural) inhabit, you will see them in the corner of your eye for a fleeting moment (like tariaksuq, shadow people) (following another reference, you see a strange caribou in the corner of your eye instead of a normal shadow). If you try to observe them directly however, they are completely elusive. They are sometimes helpful, sometimes fatally deceptive.

Freeman's Cove
One of the most noted places in the Arctic for sightings of these shape shifters (and tariaksuq) is the Freeman's Cove area of Tuktusirvik (place to hunt caribou), Bathurst Island. This rich oasis is surrounded in a horseshoe pattern by dormant volcanic mountains. Historically, Freeman's Cove is most notable as a stopover for the ship the Intrepid on an Arctic expedition with Edward Belcher.

Story
The Ijirait are said to inhabit a place between two worlds; not quite inside this one, nor quite out of it. Inuit further south than the North Baffin group used to hold to a belief that some Inuit went too far north in the chase for game, and became trapped between the world of the dead and the world of the living, and thus became the Ijirait. According to the small handful of surviving elders in the South Baffin Region that knew these beliefs, the Inuit that are settled in Resolute and Grise Fiord are these shape shifters or shadow people, because they went too far north. Some elders will avoid being in presence of extreme-northern Inuit, fearing they are evil Ijirait or Tariaksuq.

The home of the Ijirait is said to be cursed, and one will lose their way, no matter how skilled or familiar with the land.

Scientific understanding
One plausible explanation for this unusual phenomenon is likely related to large deposits of sour gas, of which can be disturbed by simply walking over top of the pockets, causing them to expel the toxic gas hydrogen sulphide. Exposure to hydrogen sulphide is known to cause hallucinations and memory loss. Gas and sulphur smoke have been reported in the area as well as hot water springs discovered by the Amarualik (meaning wolf-like) family; all of which could cause a "mirage" causing the traveller to see things such as Ijirait and Tariaksuq. The gas vapour or pockets low in oxygen could also account for hallucinations/sensations of being watched.

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Please don't edit inside quotes
Regarding this edit to Russell's teapot: please do not edit content inside quotes. Even if the grammar appears wrong to you, don't touch it. If you think there is a problem, leave a note on the article's talk page and let other editors investigate and reach consensus. In this case, the previous grammar was correct, and even if it were wrong, it's a quote and should be left as is. Thank you. — coe l acan t a lk  — 05:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I apologize for my tone. I did not intend to give offense or overemphasize the issue. I've been involved in a fair number of disputes lately and I guess I let other frustrations seep over. You surely didn't deserve it. Regarding the "of" to "off", I was actually correcting another editor's decision that "off" really ought to be "of". Anyway, your own edit history is rather of quality, and I am sorry for biting you over this small thing. — coe l acan t a lk  — 06:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Apostrophes
Question: Are apostrophes supposed to be part of links? Should I link Robert (possessive) like Robert's or Robert's? Also if you could point to the part of Wikipedia help that mentions this rule that'd be great. Thanks.
 * Depends on the title of the page you're linking to. If it has the apostrohphe, use it. If not, don't. Otherwise you're giving a wrong picture of what you're linking to. Xiner (talk, email) 00:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Editing_FAQ has links to other useful pages on the topic. Xiner (talk, email) 00:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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 * The problem is that for short articles the speedy deletion tag previously added comes up as just "nn" or "nn-bio", leading to the suggestion that the deletion is requested because the person is non-notable. For longer articles the comment space is blank, and I now cut-and-paste a longer comment making it clear that it is evidence of notability that is missing.  Jimfbleak . talk .08:16, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Good fellow, I thank you for the removal of vandalism and such on the Dalton article. Its always quite amusing when I hear that the entirety of Horace Mann has been blocked from editing WP. --Osbus 02:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Good stuff, I know. Will 21:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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User:Gj~enwiki

Well, I don't know if there's a set amount of details that are supposed to be present in a page such as this, but perhaps the rest of the community can feedback to help! :)

Real Name:Graham James Campbell

Occupation:Full-time geek. Studied at the Strathclyde_University gaining a Bachelor_of_science with Honours there in Computer Science. Completed a Post Graduate diploma at Glasgow_Caledonian_University

Date of Birth:November 7, 1981

Star sign:Scorpio

My interest in Wikipedia stems from the influence of my geek genes, and my use of the MediaWiki software in personal projects as well. As a reader, I enjoy any place that makes learning as useful and open as Wikipedia does.

As an editor, my involvement in Wikipedia comes from my love of knowledge in general, and the ever pedantic quality of not being able to leave one book on a bookshelf sitting askew!

With that in mind, and in no particular order, my interests are Philosophy (particularly Greek_philosophy), Scottish_clans and the history of Scotland generally, and of course Computer Science.

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Aug 11 17:40:41 je serais partisan d'un mois, avec reconduction si de nouveaux pb apparaissent après ce moi

Aug 11 17:40:59  raisonnable

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Advanced Intelligent Tape

Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) is a discontinued high-speed, high-capacity magnetic tape data storage format developed and controlled by Sony. It was introduced in 1996 to utilise Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) technology. It competed mainly against the DLT, LTO, DAT/DDS, and VXA formats. AIT uses 8mm tape in a cassette similar to Video8. Super AIT (SAIT) is a higher capacity variant using wider half inch (1/2") tape in a larger, single-spool cartridge. Both AIT and SAIT use the helical scan method of reading and writing to the tape.

Form factors
AIT technology was available in two form factors.

 * AIT – 8 mm, dual reel cartridge, similar to Sony's 8 mm videotape products and Exabyte's 8 mm data tape products.
 * SAIT – 1/2", single reel cartridge, similar to DLT and LTO.

In March 2010, Sony announced the discontinuation of the AIT product line, and renewed collaboration with Hewlett-Packard on further development of the DDS tape format,

Compatibility
One of the most compelling features of the AIT format is that many generations are both backwards and forwards compatible. This allows multiple generations of tape drives to both read and write to multiple generations of tape media.

AIT-1

 * Original specification's data capacity up to 25 GB native and up to 65 GB compressed, with a data transfer speed of 3 MB/s.
 * Extended length tape, introduced in 1999 gave additional capacity, 35 GB.
 * Speed increased to 4 MB/s in 2001.
 * Turbo variant, introduced in 2004, is 50% faster (6 MB/s) and holds 40 GB.
 * A budget version, AIT-E Turbo, was also introduced in 2004 to compete with DDS.
 * SATA version of AIT-1 Turbo available in 2006.

AIT-2

 * Doubled capacity and transfer speed
 * WORM technology introduced
 * Turbo variant is 100% higher capacity, 100% faster (same speed as AIT-3)
 * Turbo variant introduced R-MIC technology
 * SATA version of AIT-2 Turbo available in 2006
 * Higher capacity TAIT2-80N (Turbo) 80Gb native.

AIT-3

 * Doubled capacity and transfer speed
 * Ex variant is 50% higher capacity, 50% faster

AIT-4

 * Doubled capacity and transfer speed
 * New tape formulation, AME-2
 * Not compatible with previous generations

AIT-5

 * Available September 27, 2006
 * Announced July 2006, hardware and media expected "in the fall."
 * Doubled capacity (via halved tracked pitch to 2.2 μm), maintained transfer speed.
 * Backwards compatible with AIT-3, AIT-3Ex, AIT-4
 * New tape formulation, AME-3, which uses finer Cobalt particles resulting in SNR gain of 1 dB compared with AIT-4/AME-2.
 * A switch to GMR head technology (Flux Guide GMR).

SAIT-1
The AIT format was developed and is controlled by Sony.
 * Highest capacity tape cartridge from 2003 to 2006. Displaced by DLT-S4 (800 GB).

SAIT-2
Released in 2006 by Sony, available only in libraries, 800 GB native and 45 MB/s sustained transfer rate.

AME
Advanced Metal Evaporated is a different formulation of tape media.

MIC
Memory-in-Cassette is a 16-64KB memory chip in the cartridge that keeps relevant information about the data on the tape to allow quicker access. The drive did not have to read the whole tape until it came across the file required like a file index.

R-MIC
Remote - Memory in Cassette Like MIC except it does not require physical contact.

WORM
Write Once Read Many functionality, useful for archive keeping.

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Talk:Tautology

Some old discussion
it's funny cause "due to superfluous qualification" adds redundancy
 * I disagree; I think it specifies a certain type, but feel free to rewrite if you can get across the same meaning more elegantly.  —Triskaideka 16:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In my opinion, "LCD display," "PIN number," and "ATM machine" are redundancies, not tautologies. Not all redundancies are tautologies. If I said "She is very, very attractive," I would be making a redundency (for emphasis), not a tautology. If I said "I'm a man-man," I'd sound ignorant, but the redundancy wouldn't be a tautology. In these cases, I would call them "repititions due to ignorance," not true tautologies (which attempt to elucidate, vainly.) Quadell (talk) 15:28, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * That was my understanding as well. However, much to my chagrin, I discovered that dictionary.com  and m-w.com  both give definitions that would seem to include the "linguistic tautologies" mentioned here.  I've edited the opening paragraphs of the article to more clearly indicate the distinction.

 * "Boys will be boys" and "Business is business" are surely logical tautologies, since they're statements. Are they really linguistic tautologies as well?  What makes them so -- the fact that they're cliches?  In my opinion, they're actually not redundancies.

 * While I'm asking questions, how does "Really existing socialism" mean that there is no socialism? It seems like we're missing some context that would help readers understand this example.    —Triskaideka 21:09, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Since it's been a while and nobody's answered or objected to these concerns, I've rewritten those parts of the article. In particular, I rewrote the sentence about "really existing socialism", which I think was confused as it stood, to something that was more like what I thought it meant to say.   —Triskaideka 16:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I am unhappy with the assertion that "the opposite of a tautology is a contradiction, which is a statement that is always false." Given the definition of a tautology ("A logical tautology is a statement that is true regardless of the truth values of its parts") this is not true. The opposite can either be a statement which is always false regardless of the truth values of its parts, or a statement which is always false regardless of the false values of its parts.

 * I think you're getting hung up on the wording. A tautology is a statement that is necessarily true, and a contradiction is a statement that is necessarily false.  We can (but, IMO, need not) elaborate on these definitions by saying that tautologies are always true, and contradictions are always false, regardless of the truth values of their parts; the meaning is the same.

 * In any case, I've added this clarification to the article; feel free to revise if you think more is needed. —Triskaideka 16:17, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Linguistic examples
I deleted a recent addition from the article, for several reasons. Here is the text in case anyone disagrees.

 * Gun advocates such as NRA commonly used the slogan "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". This is no doubt true by its words, but the user may argue that it's not exactly redundant, for his usage is actually stating "Once guns are outlawed, those who commonly commit crime (bad guys) today will still hold the existing guns and use them against those (good guys) who intend to protect themselves" in other words "Bad guys remain bad, good guys become victims for abiding the law".

For one thing, it's more of a logical tautology, but it was placed in the linguistic examples section (although that's only a reason to move it). More importantly, I worry that might be interpreted by readers as an attempt to push a certain POV regarding the issue of gun laws. The paragraph's point is more concerned with the issue of gun control than with the semantics of the slogan, and therefore I think it would be more appropriate for an article on gun control/laws/etc. than for this article.

Further, I worry that we're getting carried away with examples. It seems to me that the number of examples already present in the article is more than sufficient. A few representative cases should be fine; if the reader is interested, there are plenty more at List of redundant expressions, which is in this article's "See also" section. —Triskaideka 17:01, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Is the redundant expressions page the ideal place to catalog tautologies? I wanted to post the example "All copyrights are the property of their respective owners," but it seems to me more relevant to this topic than to redundancies. A separate section or page that collects tautology examples would be word-nerd fun and perhaps of some value in refining one's sense of what is and isn't a tautology. --Stanky 12:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * How about we make a page for tautologies? -- ʀ6ʍ ɑ  ʏ89  21:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Many of the linguistic tautology examples are very weak. It is completely acceptable to talk about the La Brea tar pits, or the Sierra Nevada moountains, or an ATM machine, while there is something wrong with "three part trilogy" (outside the context of a 6 parter). Does linguistic tautology mean "superficially redundant" or does it mean something more than that? It seems to mean superficially, but that's not what the article says. Also, recursive acronyms pre-date Dilbert: "ZWEI" the text editor is one example, though I didn't check the jargon file to see if it was the first.

Tautology and analytic statement
Can somebody tell me what is the difference? It would be worth to make this difference clear in the article as well.

--Seingalt 12:22, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand...
...that example of subtle tautology with the senators. Please could someone explain, and perhaps consider reworking that part of the article for thickies like me! [UserID:Promsan|Promsan]144.178.184.77 09:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I think the point centers on the use of the word "mainstream", meaning that if one was in the mainstream, one would be voting with the majority. So further describing a Senator as being out of the mainstream because he was not voting with the majority would be a redundancy. However, there may be an issue with terminology -- the members of the House of Representatives are not called Senators. Though it is possible for a Senator to have an opinion about a House bill, the statement may cause some confusion. Still 23:20, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments from my talk page
From User talk:Chalst: Your comment for the revert made little sense. First, the article starts off with "In logic, a tautology is a statement which is true by its own definition" with emphasis on 'logic'--so a more rigorous and precise notion involving interpretations (or valuations) is required. Second the word stems from Wittgenstein wrt to logistic systems. Third, statements true by definition are called 'analytic', not tautologous.

The next sentence reads "All true statements of logic and mathematics are tautologies" which is incorrect unless it means that they are true under every interpretation. If we leave it as is then every contingent and actual truth is a tautology since they are true (but not in general logically) in logic (under some interpretation). There are other issues as well.

The word 'interpretation' is not necessarily wedded to model-theoretic notions. In fact, it is more "fundamental" than 'tautology'!

I hope the page is edited appropriately soon. Nortexoid 17:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't recall seeing this page before--I have to say that I have some issues as well. The claim that "all true statements of mathematics are tautologies" seems to me practically the defining belief of logicism, a foundational school that has fallen into severe disfavor (but it would be a POV assertion even if logicism were the dominant school).
 * On a pickier note, the page currently claims that the mathematical symbol is $$\Vdash$$. I think you want $$\models$$; the former symbol is more often used for the forcing relation. --Trovatore 18:46, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * That was changed by me but reverted. To be fair, it is used for validity in some texts (e.g. Mendelsohn and Fitting's "First-order Model Logic"), but this usage is far from standard; hence my change.Nortexoid 21:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Quick-and-dirty fix in place for these issues. I still think the page needs some serious work. I tend to think of a "tautology" as being a validity of the propositional calculus; statements of quantified predicate calculus can be true in every interpretation without being tautologies in my usage. --Trovatore 19:12, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you are among most people when tending to think that. Aside from that, the rest of the introduction is abhorrent--e.g. "useless tautology"; "all statements are informative in some context"; "a tautology...is true regardless of the truth of its parts" (which wrongly suggests non-truth-functional); etc. Nortexoid 21:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that, before my rv, I don't believe I ever edited this page: it wasn't even on my usual watchlist, but only User:Chalst/watchlist. I rved the edit not becuase I thought there were no improvements in Nortexoid's edit, but because (i) on balance there was more harm than good in the edit, (ii) sorting out the good from the bad was N's job, and (iii) I didn't have time. Please feel free to edit the article, just don't try to impose modern preconceptions on ancient topics. Aristotle's "All As are A" is a tautology not of propositional logic, but of syllogistic. --- Charles Stewart 21:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC) There's plenty mentioned in the above that needs fixing here. --- Charles Stewart 20:05, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

"The late comedian Alan King used to tell this story"

Is the "used" in this sentence in the article itself a tautology? It would be strange if a late comedian continues to tell the story...

Angeles and Angels
I do not believe that "The Los Angeles Angels" should be considered a grammatical tautology, because, unlike "The La Brea Tar Pits", the two instances of the word "Angels" do not refer to the same thing.

"Angeles" is part of the name of the city, where "Angels" refers to the players of the baseball team. Thus "Los Angeles" is a necessary descriptor for the baseball players, distinguishing them from some other group of angels. This is not redundant in any way.

As a side note, the team now resides in Anaheim and it's official name is "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim". Though this is a recent change from "The Anaheim Angels" and is under legal dispute by the city of Anaheim. —preceding unsigned comment by Headybrew   (talk • contribs) 01:03, 30 November 2005

Separate out logical tautology
I really think it's a bit incongruous to have the logical concept discussed on the same page as these endless remarks about PIN numbers and so on; the two senses of the word have little to do with each other. How about two pages, tautology (logic) and tautology (linguistics), with tautology turned into a dab page? (I would be against making the linguistic meaning primary; the logical meaning is taught to ninth graders in geometry class, and is probably the first meaning a lot of people encounter.) --Trovatore 17:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm ok with the dab suggestion. But I don't think 'linguistics' is the right word.. is should be something like speech, or writing, or grammar. Zargulon 17:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You're right, "linguistics" isn't quite right. "Grammar" might be OK, but doesn't strike me as precise. "Speech" or "writing" would be fine except that there are two of them, and the subject matter is the same. How about "language"? (Language in the sense of verbal expression, not in the sense of Greek or Urdu.) --Trovatore 17:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

JA: The classical distinction is Tautology (logic) and Tautology (rhetoric). Jon Awbrey 18:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * (Rhetoric) sounds good enough to me.Zargulon 18:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with Trovatore's suggestion that the two concepts should have separate pages, and with Jon Awbrey's suggestion that these should be Tautology (logic) and Tautology (rhetoric).  dbtfz talk 01:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Both articles could probably use some cleanup. --Trovatore 02:34, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

So I started halfheartedly sorting out the pages linking here, and I ran into trouble on the second one, which was anthropic principle, which asserts that some find the "weak anthropic principle" to be a tautology. This is clearly not in the "PIN number" sense, but neither is it a tautology in the technical sense of mathematical logic. Which article should we expand to include this meaning, which comes from the discipline I sometimes call "rhetorical logic"? Or does it need a third article? --Trovatore 02:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * On reflection I'm pretty sure I don't want it in the current tautology (logic) article. Let's keep that one clean, even if it needs to be moved to tautology (mathematical logic) or some such. --Trovatore 03:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I think Truism may be the "third article" you're suggesting.  dbtfz talk 03:03, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Isn't the definition of the rhetorical form redundant?
This is how the rhetorical form is currently defined:

Tautology (rhetoric), use of redundant language that adds no information

Isn't the phrase "redundant language that adds no information" redunant? After all, if the language added further information, it would not be redundant.

Perhaps a change to either:

Tautology (rhetoric), use of redundant language

or

Tautology (rhetoric), use of redundant language (language that adds no information)

would be better.

 * Very ironic, C5ybr. I'm OK with it as it stands, but would have no problem with anyone changing it to your second example. BTW, you can sign your contibs with four "tilde"s (the "~" symbol). Durty Willy 01:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

In Physics
I've heard the word "tautology" used in physics to describe a method of predicting or simulating a complex system without accurately taking into account the actual causes of change within the system. For example, the method may accurately predict or chart behaviour within a system, but for all the wrong reasons (the math works, but the basis for its validity is unknown or mistaken. For example, non-heliocentric models of the movements of the solar system). I've seen the word used in SciAm in regards to "Grey Matter" and "Dark Matter" theories with promising (but currently unprovable) data, and i.r.t. other statistically accurate yet disputed theories. It seems to be in use within the physics and mathematics crowd, but I don't have any background to start a new article (Tautology (physics) or Tautology (mathematics)), and it's been a bitch finding reference on Google. I could be misinterpreting the word, but I'd be glad to make a new article if anyone can corroborate my understanding of it in this context. Otherwise, I'll "be bold" and blindly make a new stub ;) Durty Willy 02:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Is this a joke ?
"Tautology (example), an example of tautology". ☭ мдснєтє тдлкЅТЦФФ 21:40, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Probably a reference to  (although maybe not...) R Green —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.32.32 (talk) 21:52, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Funny thing is that's what brought me here. ☭   мдснєтє тдлкЅТЦФФ 22:01, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

It is a joke, but not appropriate for an encyclopedia. It has to be considered vandalism now. If it persists, let's semi-protect the page. -Phoenixrod (talk) 06:06, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Notified User talk:97.118.208.170 using uw-3rr for repeated attempts to insert the redlink. — MrDolomite • Talk 03:57, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

 * IMHO it is within the degree of humour that an encyclopedia can carry. I would prefer something a bit less abstract, but in general I like the idea. Pitty it is gone. --Sascha.leib (talk) 09:08, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree with Sascha.leib. The portal portal is an example of a page obviously meant to be humorous and it doesn't really contribute anything.  It just seems inconsistent to remove this. Meh.  What's done's done.  --Steven Weston (talk) 14:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

 * The above page is now at Wikipedia:Portal:Portal; maybe that namespace would be a suitable place for the version of this page being discussed. GreenReaper (talk) 22:15, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

woah, could someone merge some of these?
I watned to look up what is tautology, but there's 4 pages and that seems like a tad much — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.250.1.179 (talk) 01:22, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Tautonym
In the explanation of tautonym, "both identical" is a pleonasm. I have corrected & clarified. Steve8394 (talk) 21:06, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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QIC

QIC may refer to:

 * QIC-United Evangelical Church (Qua Iboe Church), a Christian denomination in Nigeria
 * Quarter-inch cartridge, a magnetic tape data storage format
 * Queensland Investment Corporation, an investment fund operated by the state government of Queensland
 * Qatar Insurance Company, a Qatari insurance company

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Lajos Bárdos

Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Kodály. His younger brother, György Deák-Bárdos, was also a composer.

Together with Kodály, Bárdos laid the foundations of 20th-century Hungarian choral music. From 1928 to 1967 he was a professor at the Academy, where he reformed the syllabus––emphasizing the training of choral conductors, the teaching of church music history, and instruction in music theory and prosody. In 1931, along with György Kerényi and Gyula Kertész, he founded the publishing company Magyar Kórus (Hungarian Chorus), publishing 2,000 works of old masters and modern composers over the next 20 years, before being shut down by the communist regime in 1950. As the most active disseminator of sacred music in Hungary, Bárdos was targeted at the time with threatening criticism. (For example, one writer in the new journal Éneklö Nép (Singing People) proclaimed, "We must take care to eradicate men such as Lajos Bárdos as soon as possible!") The irony is that the rich supply of music provided by Magyar Kórus had allowed schools across Hungary to organize concerts based on those works. That same group of works also served as the basis for the "Singing Youth" movement, which Bárdos founded in 1934, and which encouraged young people across Hungary to join choral groups and learn the basics of music. And the impetus to promote choral music in the first place came largely from Kodály's observation––made when both he and Bárdos were young musicians––that whereas only a few of the elite had the privilege of having an education in instrumental music, on the other hand, "everybody has a voice".

Through his work as a conductor Bárdos raised the standards of Hungarian choral singing to the highest international level within decades. He directed several choirs and encouraged the development of choral activity in remote areas of the country. His repertory was pioneering: he included choral music from before Palestrina––especially that of Josquin––while also promoting new music (for instance, he directed the Palestrina Choir's performance of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in 1932, to great success––and praises from Stravinsky). He also promoted new music in other ways. For example, in 1947 he invited Olivier Messiaen to Budapest, where he both lectured and performed for two weeks.

Bárdos' own compositions draw on Renaissance polyphony and Hungarian folk music, following in the tradition of Bartók and Kodály. In all, he composed some 800 pieces––including folk song arrangements, choral masses, motets, secular pieces based on poems, theatrical accompaniments, songs, and instrumental music.

Bárdos' work as a musicologist included major studies of Gregorian melody, modal and Romantic harmony, and the analysis of works by Liszt, Bartók, and Kodály. Well known papers include "The Modal Harmony in Liszt's Work", and "Heptatonia Secunda" (which is considered by some to be the best study of Kodály in all of musical literature). When the first essay of the volume Folk Rhythm in Bartók's Music was published, it inspired a younger generation to research Bartók further.

His lectures at the Academy were famous for their clarity and liveliness, and he had a full house at all times, regardless of the subject matter. His pupils at the Academy included György Kurtág, who decades later dedicated two compositions to him (Op. 11, song #2, and Op. 12). György Ligeti took the unusual step of regularly attending Bárdos' lectures while they were both teaching at the Academy. He later credited Bárdos' lectures with having an influence on his own early compositions.

Between the wars (for almost 20 years, until 1944) Bárdos composed the music for several large-scale "movement dramas" produced by the pioneering Hungarian modern dancer Valéria Dienes (herself a former student––and only authorized translator into Hungarian––of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, as well as being the founder of the first school of eurhythmics in Hungary).

The teaching methods that Bárdos developed contributed to what has since come to be known as the Kodály Method of musical training.

"Lajos Bárdos Music Week" has been an annual festival in Hungary since 1977.

Filmography
Dalolva szép az élet (1950), directed by Márton Keleti.

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DDS

DDS may refer to:

Arts and media

 * Digimon Data Squad, season 5 of the anime Digimon
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, a 2004 video game spun off from the Shin Megami Tensei series
 * Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Russian composer
 * Death's Dynamic Shroud, American electronic and vaporwave trio

Government agencies

 * Disability Determination Service, a state agency in the United States that determines eligibility for federal disability benefits
 * Department of Driver Services, also known as Department of Motor Vehicles
 * Due Diligence System

Private organizations

 * Davao Death Squad, a vigilante group in Davao City, Philippines
 * Davidson Day School, a pre-K–12 school in Davidson, North Carolina, United States
 * De Danske Skytteforeninger, a Danish sports organization
 * Diehard Duterte Supporters, supporters of Rodrigo Duterte, 16th president of the Philippines
 * Donovan Data Systems, a software and computer services company
 * Dutchess Day School, private pre-K through 8th grade school in Millbrook, New York, United States

Chemistry

 * Dimethyldichlorosilane, an organosilicon compound
 * Dammarenediol II synthase, an enzyme

Computing and information technology

 * Data Design System, a CAD software system
 * Direct Digital Synthesis / Direct digital synthesizer, a method for generation of periodic digital signals and used for creating arbitrary waveforms from a reference clock
 * Data Definition Specification, in software data management
 * Data Description Specifications, in AS/400 programming
 * Data Distribution Service, an Object Management Group standard for publish/subscribe middleware for distributed systems
 * Data dictionary system of ICL's VME operating system; see ICL VME
 * Dataphone Digital Service or Digital Data System, types of leased line
 * Digital Data Storage, a storage tape format related to Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
 * Dimensional Data Storage
 * DirectDraw Surface, .dds texture files
 * Dynamic digital signage

Medicine

 * Dapsone, also known as diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS), an antibiotic commonly used for the treatment of leprosy
 * Doctor of Dental Surgery, an academic degree
 * Dopamine dysregulation syndrome, a condition connected with treatment for Parkinson's disease
 * Drug delivery systems, how drugs are delivered to relevant areas or tissues

Other uses in science and technology

 * Dark dune spot, a feature of the Martian landscape
 * Deflation Detection System, on motor vehicle tires
 * Dry deck shelter, a module that allows divers easy exit and entrance while a submarine is submerged

Other uses

 * Dewey Decimal Classification, often called the Dewey Decimal System
 * Direct Delivery Scheme, of the Society of Independent Brewers

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User talk:Harshmellow

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hi
Hi. I found you in categories of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 19:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Industrial design and Design Portal
I recently posted the following text on Wikipedia regarding the creation of a new Visual arts/Technology-related project in Wikipedia:

WikiProject Industrial design is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to Industrial design (also called Product design).
 * If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 1850 articles on Industrial design in Wikipedia...
 * At least, it's more than for Typography, and there IS a Typography WikiProject...
 * And it's more than the Fashion WikiProject with 482 articles...
 * There is also an Urban studies and planning project and a Video games portal so...
 * Now you can also see a proposal for the Design Portal. (that portal would be for Industrial design AND Graphic design/Interior design)

Please  support this initiative, --   Alain R 3 4 5   Techno-Wiki-Geek    19:47, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

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Cosima

Cosima is a feminine given name, the feminine version of the name Cosimo. It is derived from the Greek Κοσμᾶς (Kosmâs), meaning 'order', 'decency'. Cosmo was a fourth-century saint who was martyred with his brother Damian. They are the patron saints of medical doctors. An Italian male version of the name is Cosimo.

Masculine variants

 * Côme (French)
 * Cosimo (Italian)
 * Cosma (Italian)
 * Cosme (French), (Portuguese), (Spanish)
 * Cosmin (Romanian)
 * Cosmo (English), (German), (Italian)
 * Kuzma (Russian)
 * Kosma (Polish)

Feminine variants

 * Cosmina (Romanian)
 * Cosma
 * Cosme
 * Kosma

People

 * Cosima De Vito (born 1976), Australian singer-songwriter
 * Cosima Littlewood, actress who played Adèle in the 2006 miniseries Jane Eyre
 * Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli (born 1967), British socialite and philanthropist
 * Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), diarist and director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner
 * Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 2003), German social media influencer
 * Lady Cosima Windsor (born 2010), daughter of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster

Fictional characters

 * Cosima Niehaus, one of the clones played by Tatiana Maslany in the television series Orphan Black

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Doug Mientkiewicz

Douglas Andrew Mientkiewicz (born June 19, 1974) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1998 to 2009, most prominently as a member of the Minnesota Twins where he was a Gold Glove Award winner. Mientkiewicz was also a member of the 2004 World Series winning Boston Red Sox team. He is one of five players to win both an Olympic gold medal and a World Series championship.

After his playing career, Mientkiewicz briefly worked as a television sports analyst before serving as a minor league manager in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers organizations.

Amateur career
Mientkiewicz attended Westminster Christian School in Palmetto Bay, Florida, where he was a teammate of Alex Rodriguez and Dan Perkins. Mientkiewicz had a batting cage in his backyard which his high school teammates would use as they pleased. He also played tight end while Rodriguez played quarterback on the school's football team.

Upon graduation, the Toronto Blue Jays selected Mientkiewicz in the 12th round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft, but he chose instead to attend Florida State University to play college baseball for the Florida State Seminoles. In his third season with the Seminoles, Mientkiewicz led the team with a .371 batting average, 19 home runs and 80 runs batted in (RBIs). Florida State earned their first Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, and Mientkiewicz was named Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic I Regional Most Valuable Player. After the season, Mientkiewicz was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the fifth round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft. Mientkiewicz was elected to the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.

Minor league career
In 1998, he batted .323, with a .432 on-base percentage and .508 slugging percentage in 509 at-bats for the New Britain Rock Cats to earn Eastern League (Double-A) All-Star honors, and a September call-up to the Twins. He batted .200 with two runs batted in in 25 at-bats for the Twins.

Mientkiewicz earned a roster spot with the Twins the following spring without having playing in Triple-A, and batted .229 with two home runs and 32 runs batted in sharing playing time with Ron Coomer at first base in 1999. After a full season in the majors, Mientkiewicz spent the 2000 season with the Twins' Triple-A affiliate, the Salt Lake Buzz. He was the Triple-A All-Star first baseman, and Pacific Coast League All-Star designated hitter. He batted .334, with a .446 on-base percentage and a .524 slugging percentage in 485 at-bats for Salt Lake, while both scoring and driving in 96 runs.

After the Triple-A season, Mientkiewicz joined the U.S. Olympic team at the 2000 games in Sydney. Mientkiewicz hit the go-ahead grand slam against South Korea in the semi-finals to help the U.S. capture its first-ever gold medal in baseball. After dealing with doubts about his future as a ball player, he credits this experience for saving his career. Following the Olympics, he spent three games with the Twins, collecting six hits in fourteen at-bats.

In LVBP he played one season with Navegantes del Magallanes in the 1999-2000 season batting for .268 with 2 homers and 10 RBI.

Minnesota Twins
In 2001, Mientkiewicz was awarded the starting first base job for the Twins, and responded by batting .306 with fifteen home runs and 74 runs batted in (all career highs) while earning the American League Gold Glove award for top defensive first baseman.

His numbers dipped in 2002; however, he reached the post-season for the first time in his career, and hit two home runs in the 2002 American League Division Series against the Oakland Athletics. The Twins battled the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals for the division crown all season long in 2003.

Mientkiewicz drew the ire of the Chicago White Sox and their fans by suggesting that the All-Star Game, scheduled to be played at U.S. Cellular Field on July 15, should be moved to a different venue after a fan attacked umpire Laz Diaz during an April 15 game between the White Sox and Royals. Chicago White Sox General Manager Kenny Williams shot back that Mientkiewicz should not worry about the game's location because he would not be there.

The fans booed Mientkiewicz the first time he and the Twins came to U.S. Cellular Field on April 25, and cheered White Sox starter Mark Buehrle for hitting Mientkiewicz with a pitch during his first at-bat.

Following a mid-September three-game sweep over the White Sox at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome that gave the Twins a $3 1/2$ game lead in the American League Central, Mientkiewicz again got himself in the crosshairs by commenting in a postgame television interview, "They're done," about his Central Division rivals. The Twins won the division by four games over the Chicago White Sox, but were eliminated by the New York Yankees in the 2003 American League Division Series.

Boston Red Sox
As the trade deadline approached, the 2004 Boston Red Sox found themselves $8 1/2$ games in back of the New York Yankees in the American League East, and one game in back of the Texas Rangers in the wild card race. With infield defense proving to be their Achilles' heel, they made a four-team trade deadline deal on July 31 that landed Mientkiewicz and Montreal Expos shortstop Orlando Cabrera with the Boston Red Sox, and sent Justin Jones to the Twins. The Red Sox also sent Nomar Garciaparra and Matt Murton to the Chicago Cubs, and the Cubs sent Francis Beltrán, Alex Gonzalez and Brendan Harris to the Expos as part of this trade. Coincidentally, the Twins were playing a home series against the Red Sox at the time. On July 30, 2004, Mientkiewicz went 2-4, scoring one run as a member of the Minnesota Twins. The next day, July 31, 2004, Mientkiewicz was in the visiting dugout as a member of the Boston Red Sox, and started at first base and hit sixth in the lineup.

Mientkiewicz and Cabrera proved valuable additions to their new franchise as the Red Sox surged to within three games of the Yankees by the end of the season, and took the A.L. wild card by seven games over the Oakland A's. On August 16, Mientkiewicz made an emergency start at second base, a position he had only ever played four times in the minor leagues, and never in the majors.

Mientkiewicz went 4-for-10 in the post-season. He did not appear in any of the first three games of the 2004 American League Championship Series that the Red Sox lost to the New York Yankees; however, he appeared in all of the final four that they won in their come-from-behind series win. In the final game of the 2004 World Series, Mientkiewicz was playing first when St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Édgar Rentería grounded back to pitcher Keith Foulke. When he threw the ball to first to complete Boston's four-game sweep of the World Series, Mientkiewicz kept the ball, as dictated by baseball tradition. As Boston had not won a World Series in 86 years, the ball symbolized the end of the so-called "Curse of the Bambino", and was of considerable interest to memorabilia collectors.

Controversy resulted when Mientkiewicz joked to a reporter that he would sell the ball. The Red Sox then asked for the ball's return so it could be displayed in a museum, and Mientkiewicz refused to give it back. He talked directly with team president Larry Lucchino and principal owner John Henry about the ball. Years later, Mientkiewicz said he suggested that a portion of the admissions should go to charity, but Lucchino refused. Shortly after his January 27 trade to the New York Mets, Mientkiewicz and the Red Sox reached an agreement that the Red Sox would hold the ball temporarily and could display it across New England, along with the World Series trophy. The agreement called for Mientkiewicz to get the ball back at the end of 2005 unless the ultimate issue of ownership has been otherwise resolved. In the controversy that followed, Mientkiewicz received death threats against himself and his wife.

On November 30, 2005, lawyers for the Red Sox filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court asking the court to place the ball in a secure location until ownership was decided. The club's legal team said that Mientkiewicz had gained possession of the ball only because he was a Red Sox employee and that the ball remained the team's property. The organization soon after dropped the case in order to grieve the issue in arbitration. On April 23, 2006, it was announced that he had reached an agreement with the Red Sox, and the ball would go to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

New York Mets
In January 2005, Mientkiewicz was traded to the Mets for minor league first baseman Ian Bladergroen and cash. He began the 2005 season as the Mets' everyday first baseman, but lost his starting job to prospect Mike Jacobs by the end of the season after missing time due to multiple injury.

Kansas City Royals
Mientkiewicz signed a one-year deal with the Kansas City Royals. During the following season with the Kansas City Royals, he compiled a .283 batting average and 43 runs batted in, his most since playing with Minnesota. He was not offered a contract by the Royals, and on January 5, 2007, he signed a one-year deal with the New York Yankees.

New York Yankees
On June 2, 2007, Mientkiewicz collided with Mike Lowell of the Boston Red Sox while trying to field a throw from shortstop Derek Jeter. He suffered a mild concussion and a fractured scaphoid bone in his right wrist and was placed on the disabled list. Mientkiewicz missed three months of the season, and did not return until September 4. He made his first start since the injury on September 16, and went two-for-three in the Yankees' 4–3 victory over the Red Sox. Mientkiewicz was injured in an on-field incident when a cameraman collided with him before Game 1 of the ALDS.

For the season, he batted .277 with five home runs and 24 runs batted in. He made the post-season for the fourth time in his career, and was hitless in six at-bats.

Pittsburgh Pirates
On February 11, 2008, Mientkiewicz signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In his only season in Pittsburgh, he batted .277 with two home runs and 30 runs batted in, mostly backing up Adam LaRoche at first base. He also made 33 appearances at third base and ten in right field. He briefly left the team during the season while his wife, Jodi, had heart surgery.

Los Angeles Dodgers
On February 26, 2009, Mientkiewicz signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He made the Major League roster as a pinch hitter and appeared in seven games for the Dodgers in April before dislocating his shoulder sliding into second base and being placed on the 60-day disabled list. After a brief rehab stint with the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes from July 28 to August 17, Mientkiewicz rejoined the Dodgers in September, seeing sporadic action as a pinch hitter down the stretch. He collected six hits in eighteen at-bats, only one of which was for extra bases, and had three runs batted in.

Mientkiewicz signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers for the 2010 season, and came to camp to compete for the left-handed pinch hitter role. He was offered a coaching position with the team when he did not make the club out of spring training, but opted instead to keep playing and become a free agent.

Florida Marlins
On May 5, 2010, he signed a minor league contract with the Florida Marlins, but was released just nine days later after playing four games for the Marlins' Triple A affiliate, the New Orleans Zephyrs. Mientkiewicz's deal included a one-day out clause for May 16, and the Marlins chose to cut him loose before he could exercise it.

Following his release, Mientkiewicz chose to retire from baseball.

Broadcasting
After retirement, Mientkiewicz worked as an analyst for the 2010 MLB post-season for CBSSports.com. He was hired in 2020 as an on-air personality for ESPN's ACC Network alongside Gaby Sanchez, Javier Lopez, Adam Greenberg.

Mientkiewicz has been a frequent and outspoken guest on former teammate A.J. Pierzynski's podcast Foul Territory. During his appearances, he has spoken out against the Red Sox organization's handling of the final out ball from the 2004 World Series. Mientkiewicz also voiced his displeasure with his former high school teammate Alex Rodriguez, saying he will "die a lonely man." Soon after, he also criticized the Twins organization for the way it handled its top prospect Byron Buxton during his time as a manager in the minors.

Coaching/managing
Mientkiewicz made his coaching debut in 2012 in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization as the hitting coach of the rookie league Ogden Raptors in the Pioneer League. After 2012, he was hired by the Minnesota Twins organization as the Manager of the high-Class A Fort Myers Miracle, the team he played for in 1995–96 to start his baseball career. Mientkiewicz got the Miracle off to a fast start in 2013 as the team tied a franchise record by winning their first 14 games of the season (equaling the mark set in 1995 and tied in 2007) and ended April with a Minor League best 21 wins (21-4).

In October 2014, Mientkiewicz was a finalist to become the manager of the Minnesota Twins. Ultimately, Paul Molitor was selected as Twins manager, and Mientkiewicz managed the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts in 2015–16 before returning to Fort Myers for a second term as the Miracle's skipper. In 2017, Mientkiewicz won Coach of the Year honors and made the Florida State League All-Star roster. He was fired after the 2017 season.

On November 16, 2017, Mientkiewicz was named the manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, the Detroit Tigers' Triple-A affiliate. On October 31, 2019, he was fired by the Mud Hens.

Mientkiewicz has served as a team manager for MLB's and USA Baseball's Prospect Development Pipeline League since 2022.

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