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Bank of Finland

The Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki, Finlands Bank) is the Finnish member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Finland from 1812 to 1998, issuing the markka since 1860. It views itself as the fourth oldest surviving central bank in the world, after Sweden's Riksbank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France. Unlike the latter two and many other longstanding central banks, it has always been government-owned.

Russian Empire
In 1809, the Russian Empire annexed Finland and made it a Grand Duchy with its own administrative structure. One aim of the new authorities was to sever Finland's previous economic integration with Sweden, including the use of the Swedish riksdaler as currency. To that effect, the Exchange, Loan and Deposit Office of the Grand Duchy of Finland (Waihetus-, Laina- ja Depositioni-Contori Suomen Suuren-ruhtinaanmaassa) was chartered on 1811/12/12 and established on 1812/03/01 in Turku by Alexander I of Russia, partly modeled on the Bank of Sweden. It issued banknotes denominated in rubles and kopecks and provided credit to local landowners and merchants.

In 1819 the institution relocated to Helsinki. Its efforts to displace the Swedish currency were only partly successful, however, until 1840 when the remaining riksdaler banknotes were forcibly withdrawn from circulation. That same year, the institution was formally renamed Bank of Finland, and opened its first branches in Turku and Vaasa. From then on, its Russian currency-denominated notes became the dominant means of payment in the Grand Duchy. Consequently, Finland suffered from the Russian monetary disorder in the wake of the disastrous Crimean War in the late 1850s, when the ruble was de-anchored from the silver standard.

Requests for greater protection from Russian monetary vagaries were addressed in 1860, the same year as the State Bank of the Russian Empire was established, when the Bank of Finland was authorized to issue its own denomination, the Finnish markka, defined as a quarter of the Russian paper ruble. In 1865, a major step towards monetary autonomy was achieved as Finnish Senator Johan Vilhelm Snellman obtained from Alexander II the right to keep the markka linked to the silver standard irrespective of the ruble's situation. From then on, the Bank of Finland effectively set its own monetary policy, making the Grand Duchy a separate currency zone from the rest of the Russian Empire, even though this only became evident when Russia again debased the ruble during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).

In 1868, the ownership and oversight of the Bank was transferred from Finland's executive Senate to its legislative Diet (from 1906, the Parliament of Finland), thus strengthening its independence and accountability along the lines adopted by Sweden. In 1878, the Bank of Finland shifted from silver to the gold standard by unilaterally joining the Latin Monetary Union, a stance it kept until the outbreak of World War I.

Independent Finland
Following the independence of Finland in 1917, the Bank of Finland initially faced civil war turmoil and high inflation but managed to stabilize the markka in 1923, at about ten percent of its prewar gold value. It returned to the gold standard in 1926, but floated again in the wake the European banking crisis of 1931. In the spring of 1933, it pegged the markka to the pound sterling. During the interwar period, the Bank acquired great prestige in the new country, linked to the leadership of its longstanding governor Risto Ryti who became Prime Minister of Finland in December 1939 and President a year later in the midst of the Interim Peace. After World War II and a renewed inflationary episode until the early 1950s, the Bank of Finland managed the country's regime of financial repression, then liberalization in the 1980s. The markka was devalued on multiple occasions until finally floating in September 1992.

New practices and technologies led the Bank of Finland to phase out its local branch network, starting with closing the Hämeenlinna branch in 1963. In the years 1991–1994, eight other branches were closed, leaving only Turku, Tampere, Kuopio, Oulu and Vantaa in operation. The Turku branch was closed in 2007, those in Tampere and Kuopio in 2012, and the Oulu branch in 2019.

Following the 1990s Finnish banking crisis, financial supervision was reorganized in Finland with the creation of the Rahoitustarkastus (Rata) in 1993, an independent banking supervisor which is part of the Bank of Finland albeit with its own separate governance. In 2009, the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority was formed by merging Rata with the previously separate insurance supervisor.

At the start of Economic and Monetary Union, Bank of Finland Governor Sirkka Hämäläinen joined the inaugural Executive Board of the European Central Bank on 1998/06/01, becoming its first female member.

Mandate, ownership and organization
The Bank of Finland is Finland's central bank and a member of the European System of Central Banks and of the Eurosystem. It is Finland's monetary authority, and is responsible for the country's currency supply and foreign exchange reserves.

The Bank of Finland is owned by the Republic of Finland, and governed by the Finnish Parliament through the Parliamentary Supervisory Council and the Board of the bank. The Board is responsible for the administration of the bank, and the Parliamentary Supervisory Council for supervising the administration and activities of the bank and for other statutory tasks. The bank is governed under the provisions of the Act on the Bank of Finland, passed in 1998.

The bank had a staff of about 380 persons in 2017.

The highest official in the bank is the Governor who also chairs the board. Members of the Board were Olli Rehn (Governor), Marja Nykänen (Deputy Governor) and Tuomas Välimäki.

BOFIT
BOFIT is an internal think tank of the Bank of Finland, which has historically been driven by the imperative for Finland to gain a granular understanding of the economic situation of Russia. It was created in 1991 and drives its name from the Finnish name of the department from which it originated, namely BOF for Bank of Finland and IT for idäntutkimus or research in bilateral [Finnish-Russian] trade. The full name has changed over the years, until 2021 as "Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition" and since November 2021 as "Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies". Since 2009, BOFIT has been led by Iikka Korhonen, who joined it in 1995.

Governors of the Bank of Finland

 * Claes Johan Sacklén 1812–1816
 * Carl Johan Idman 1817–1820
 * Otto Herman Lode 1820–1827
 * Johan Gustaf Winter 1827–1841
 * Carl Wilhelm Trapp 1841–1853
 * Axel Ludvig Born 1853–1856
 * Alex Federley 1853–1854
 * Robert Trapp 1854–1856
 * Frans Ivar Edelheim 1856–1858
 * Wilhelm Blidberg 1858–1861
 * Carl Isak Björkman 1862–1866
 * Victor von Haartman 1866–1870
 * August Florin 1870–1875
 * Gustaf Samuel von Troil 1875–1884
 * Alfred Charpentier 1884–1897
 * Theodor Wegelius 1898–1906
 * Clas Herman von Collan 1907–1918
 * Otto Stenroth 1918–1923
 * August Ramsay 1923–1924
 * Risto Ryti 1923–1940
 * Johan Wilhelm Rangell 1943–1944
 * Risto Ryti 1944–1945
 * Sakari Tuomioja 1945–1955
 * Rainer von Fieandt 1955–1957
 * Klaus Waris 1957–1967
 * Mauno Koivisto 1968–1982
 * Ahti Karjalainen 1982–1983
 * Rolf Kullberg 1983–1992
 * Sirkka Hämäläinen 1992–1998
 * Matti Vanhala 1998–2004 (retired early due to illness)
 * Erkki Liikanen 2004–2018
 * Olli Rehn 2018–

Chairmen of the Parliamentary Supervisory Council

 * Erik von Frenckell
 * Juho Niukkanen
 * Veikko Kokkola
 * Juha Rihtniemi (−1971)
 * Harri Holkeri (1971–1979)
 * Matti Jaatinen (1979–1987)
 * Mauri Miettinen (1987–1990)
 * Erkki Pystynen (1990–1991)
 * Pentti Mäki-Hakola (1991–1995)
 * Sauli Niinistö (1995)
 * Ilkka Kanerva (1995–2003)
 * Mauri Pekkarinen (2003)
 * Olavi Ala-Nissilä (2003–2006)
 * Mari Kiviniemi (2006–2007)
 * Seppo Kääriäinen (2007–2008)
 * Timo Kalli (2008–2011)
 * Ben Zyskowicz (2011–2015)
 * Matti Vanhanen (2015–2019)
 * Antti Lindtman (2019–present)

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Balder the Brave

Balder the Brave is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is based on the deity Baldr from Norse mythology.

Publication history
Created by editor-plotter Stan Lee and penciller Jack Kirby, Balder first appeared in Journey into Mystery #85 (October 1962).

Fictional character biography
Balder is the son of Odin, the ruler of the Norse gods of Asgard, and the half-brother of Thor. He is companion to the Warriors Three and often aids Thor against his foes, which include Loki, their adopted brother, the Executioner and Enchantress, the Enchanters Three, the Wrecker and Mangog. At the request of Heimdall, Balder warns Thor when the Storm Giant Skagg and the fire demon Surtur are released by Loki in a plot to kill Odin. Balder is also briefly named ruler of Asgard during Thor's quest to find a then-missing Odin.

Balder is beloved by most who know him. When he is threatened with execution for ignoring the call of battle for the sake of a fallen bird, his men beg Odin to take one of their lives instead.

As in mythology, the death of the Marvel version of Balder is the catalyst for Ragnarök and the destruction of Asgard. To prevent this, Odin casts a spell to make Balder vulnerable again. Ragnarök is nearly triggered when Loki has the blind god Hoder accidentally kill Balder with a mistletoe arrow but is averted by Odin, who creates a shield around Balder's pyre. Odin later restores Balder to life when the Asgardians, after being slain in a battle with the Celestials, are resurrected by Thor using portions of energy donated by other gods. On a second occasion, Balder is traumatized by a near-death experience as he sees the souls of those he has slain in battle. He then renounces killing. It is later revealed that to escape Hel, Balder was forced by Hela to again kill all of those "tens of thousands" he had previously slain in battle. This epic confrontation lasts so long that Balder's hair has turned white when he finally emerges victorious. Volstagg of the Warriors Three takes it upon himself to become Balder's boon friend in an attempt to lift him out of his long depression. While Balder treasures the friendship, Volstagg's efforts do little to soothe him.

Balder also has a love-hate relationship with Karnilla, the Queen of the Norns, who aids both Loki and Asgard at times. On one occasion, Karnilla forces Balder to renounce Odin and serve her, whilst on another she joins forces with Asgard against Surtur at Balder's request. Her emotions are roused by Balder's deep depression as she feels Loki has ruined a unique member of the Asgardians. Karnilla's lust for Balder inadvertently causes the death of Balder's love, Nanna—an act that Balder does not forget.

Balder later accepts his warrior aspect and saves Karnilla's people from a rogue giant's spell. Balder and the other Asgardians (with the exception of Thor) eventually perish during the final Ragnarok, though Balder is later found inhabiting the armor of the Destroyer.

Loki reveals that Balder is the son of Odin and Frigga and the half-brother of Thor, making him a prince of Asgard. When Thor is forced to kill his reborn grandfather, Bor, Loki coerces Balder—now a royal prince—to exile the Thunder God. Balder then assumes the throne of Asgard. When Loki has the Asgardians moved to Latveria, he is shown at a banquet held by Doctor Doom. Balder asks why they could not invite Thor since the Asgardians were now in Latveria. Loki calmed Balder down to prevent Doctor Doom from reacting to the comment.

Balder meets a diner owner named Bill (who fell in love with Kelda and followed her to Latveria) and gives him a cloak to keep warm. Balder later witnesses Bill's assault by Loki's henchmen due to Bill's discovery of the evil nature of Loki's scheme with Doctor Doom. After fending them off, Bill dies in Balder's arms after revealing Loki's plot and asking Balder to tell Kelda that he loves her. Balder and the other Asgardians retaliate even after Doctor Doom kills Kelda. Balder and the other Asgardians are forced to fight Endrik (who has been modified with technological implants) and many other mutilated Asgardians. Balder and the other Asgardians continue their fight with the mutilated Asgardians while Thor battles Doctor Doom. Balder kills the mutilated Asgardians to get to Kelda's heart. After Loki restores Kelda to life and Thor defeats Doctor Doom's Destroyer armor, Balder leads the Asgardians back to Broxton, Oklahoma. Back in Asgard, Balder is concerned about his foolishness over allowing what transpired in Latveria. Loki assures him he is a fine king.

During the Siege storyline, Loki warns Balder that Norman Osborn is rallying an army to invade Asgard following the incident with Volstagg and the U-Foes at Soldier Field. Balder is later informed about the situation with Volstagg by Hogun and Fandral. When Captain America arrives with the New Avengers and the Secret Warriors, Balder is pleased that Thor's allies have joined the battle. Balder remains King of Asgard after the failed Siege but is stricken with great guilt, believing his rule has led to nothing but ruin. However, Thor persuades him to remain monarch and accept him as his new Chief Advisor.

Balder attends the Council of Godheads convened to counter the imminent universal threat of the Chaos King and his impending Chaos War to decide which mortal paragon they would choose to combat Mikaboshi. Vali Halfling later appears to the Council and challenges them to disprove their impotence by stopping him before he attains godhood. Balder tells Anansi that Halfling was the son of Loki and banished to Midgard long ago. When the Chaos War eventually nears Earth, the Council summons Hercules, Amadeus Cho and Delphyne Gorgon before them and commands them to bow before the Council's authority. In return, the newly restored and empowered Hercules fights and easily bests most of them, including Balder.

After Mikaboshi overthrows the Underworld, and Hela and Pluto are overwhelmed by his devastating forces, Balder calls for the Council to fight alongside him against the Chaos King. The Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu seals the throne room of the Celestial Axis, claiming that if he went now, Mikaboshi would be able to trace him back to the Axis and subsequently invade all their realms. However, Mikaboshi breaks into the Celestial Axis after Hercules pierces the veil shielding it and launches an assault on all of Earth's pantheons, seemingly slaying all of them with brutal ease and slaughtering many deities, although Balder is one of the survivors.

Powers and abilities
Balder is said to be the fastest and most agile of all the Asgardian warriors, his speed rivaled only by Hermod. Thor notes that Balder can move faster than the "speed of light" and is too fast to strike, so Thor must use his lightning to disarm him (and break the spell three troll witches had cast upon him). Balder possesses superhuman strength superior to the average Asgardian male and, like all Asgardians, superhuman endurance and longevity (via the Golden Apples of Idunn). He is immune to all Earthly diseases and has some resistance to magic. Courtesy of a spell cast by his mother and Asgardian goddess Frigga to try to avert Ragnarök, Balder is almost invulnerable while within the Asgardian dimension, unable to suffer harm from virtually any living or non-living being. Any projectile hurled at Balder which is capable of killing or injuring an Asgardian is magically deflected from its path before it can strike him; only weapons made of mistletoe wood can harm or cause fatal injury to him, or he can will himself to be vulnerable. Balder can also die in the Asgardian dimension through means that do not involve weaponry: for example, he could starve to death or be asphyxiated. It is unknown whether Balder also becomes vulnerable when he is in dimensions other than Asgard or Earth.

Being the Asgardian god of light, Balder could, after a period of intense training, also generate low light as well as heat strong enough to melt the entire fortress of Utgard-Loki and reduce him and his fellow Frost Giants to a tiny size. He is shown to retain this ability even on Midgard after many months, as shown in the events of Siege, albeit possibly with the aid of his enchanted blade. He can communicate with animals, and has also demonstrated minor magical talents on rare occasions, such as shielding himself from mortal eyesight while flying to Earth on Odin's steed in one instance when he sensed that Thor was in danger on Earth while Balder was in Asgard, or teleporting himself and Sif (without the use of the latter's enchanted sword) to Earth from Asgard in another. Though Balder can project some degree of energy, unlike most of his brethren, his ability to do so is far less than that of the other gods of light in other pantheons (namely Apollo, who can control at least double the amount of energy as Balder). He is also a highly skilled weapons master, wielding the enchanted sword of Frey, capable of fighting of its own accord, with millennia of extensive experience and training, and is a proficient tactician and master horseman, having been entrusted with several special missions by Odin.

Balder becomes a member of Earth's Council of Godheads following Thor's banishment.

Reception

 * In 2022, Screen Rant included Balder the Brave in their "10 Marvel Comics Gods Who Should Join The MCU Next" list.

Earth X
In the alternate Earth X reality, the Asgardians were aliens that were manipulated by the Celestials into believing they were the Gods of Norse myth. When the lie was revealed, "Balder" and the other Asgardians briefly resumed their alien form but later returned to their Asgardian records. Thor and Loki plotted to overthrow Odin through the legendary Ragnarok, which foretold that Balder would fall in battle against the Midgard Serpent. However, Odin foiled their plot and kept Balder alive.

Marvel Zombies
In the Marvel Zombies alternate universe, Balder is one of many heroes who attends Nick Fury's briefing on how to deal with the zombie plague.

MC2
An older version of Balder existed in the MC2 universe, who died to protect Thor in his battle against Galactus.

Ultimate Marvel
Balder first appears in the Ultimate Marvel Universe in the prequel limited series Ultimate Comics: Thor issue 2. Balder Odinson is one of the three sons of Odin who helped end the war between Asgard and Jotunheim alongside his brothers, Loki and Thor. Of the three, Balder was the better fighter. Loki killed him when he tried to stop his brother from stealing the Norn Stones out of Odin's chamber. He was later resurrected in human form by Odin. As a human, Balder lives under the name of Donald Blake and is later seen helping Thor in the European Defense Initiative by convincing the scientists that Thor's claims to be a God are genuine. He convinces Thor to take up the technology that simulates his godlike powers and use it to fulfill his role as a hero. He is later killed in Ultimate Comics: Ultimates, along with most other Asgardians.

Television

 * Balder appears in "The Mighty Thor" segment of The Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by Chris Wiggins.
 * Balder made a cameo appearance in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "The Vengeance of Loki!".
 * Balder appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, voiced by Nolan North.
 * Balder appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Lo, How the Mighty Hath Abdicated", voiced by Travis Willingham.
 * Balder appears in the M.O.D.O.K. episode "Tales from the Great Bar-Mitzvah War!", in which he is accidentally killed by M.O.D.O.K. via a shredder.

Film
Balder appears in Hulk vs. Thor, voiced by Michael Adamthwaite.

Video games
Balder appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, voiced by Dave Wittenberg.

Merchandise
Balder received a figurine in The Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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New Democratic Party Shadow Cabinet of the 40th Parliament of Canada

This is a list of members of the New Democratic Party Shadow Cabinet of the 40th Canadian parliament. Positions in the shadow cabinet were announced on November 17, 2008, and include all 37 members of the New Democratic Party caucus in the House of Commons of Canada except Joe Comartin who was running for election as Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada when the shadow cabinet was appointed.

The NDP does not have a leader in the Senate of Canada since it opposes the existence of that body.


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User:Raul654/Anthony evidence

Anthony DiPierro
Since the previous arbcom ruling on User:Anthony DiPierro, Anthony has moved to other pages with much the same methodology that got him banned from VfD, namely voting without seeming regard for "established Wikipedia customs and common practices." Furthermore, he has been generally abusive and uncooperative when confronted regarding his failure to apprehend said customs and practices. As such, Anthony qualifies as a "a highly disruptive influence on the community" which in the past has led to arbcom intervention.

For a small accounting of his most recent transgressions: On July 6, 2004, Anthony engaged in a revert war on Featured article candidates seeking to repeatedly list 13 colonies, which obviously not featured article quality, as seen at. User:Raul654, who typically manages FAC, removed the nomination in an attempt to clear up the page, which is generally overloaded. Anthony relisted it four times, violating the three revert rule:

Note that in one of those edits, he also removed a comment made by Raul while relisting the page. He similarly removed an objection by Snowspinner at. When this came up in IRC, he became extremely abusive, making comments such as "fuck you raul, you don't run FAC".

Note also that, as shown above, the page is obviously not featured quality, as the number of objections that existed prior to it being deleted shows. and show these objections. Note in the latter Anthony’s seeming refusal to work to fix objections that are not "easy to fix."

His behavior in the various deletion pages is not much better. Anthony was previously instructed by the Arbcom to "refrain from playing around and making provocative edits on VfD and associated pages. The arbitration committee does not object to which way Anthony voted, only the manner in which he voted.". Apparently, he has decided not to abide by this.

He removes nominations altogether if he opposes them, and his opposition frequently seems motivated by revenge rather than by any content-based grounds. See. Note that this and his deletion of my (Snowspinner's) comment from FAC above both came following my removal of 13 colonies from FAC, and appear to be simple retaliation. Similar incidents can be found at and, though these do not seem to be motivated by any revenge.

He also continues to vote to include nominations in seeming disregard for policy. For instance, despite general policy against including middle and high schools that are not exceptionally notable. Similarly,, and , which is, as with the edits he was previously reprimanded for by this committee, needlessly flippant and hostile. Similarly, his vote at demonstrates a lack of awareness of the consensus reached regarding people who died in the 9/11 attacks. Although there is not, to my knowledge, a policy on articles regarding bloggers, shows the same attitudes.

He similarly seems to have a lack of willingness to accept or respect the policies regarding vanity pages, as with votes such as, at he similarly supports maintaining an article on a company that sells no products, agreeing with the anonymous user who created the vandalism page.

Anthony’s attitude on this matter is well summarized by his edit at. Again, this is simply not in accordance with the standard conventions regarding vanity and non-noteworthy articles.

Recent Main page vandalism
Generally, fair use images on wikipedia are discouraged but not prohibited - the same policy applies to the main page. Anthony has a declared a personal war on fair use images on the main page, and has disrupted wikipedia operations in the process.

The featured article for July 19 was Jim Henson. The image used is an "obvious case of fair use" (--Jamesday). Anthony took it upon himself to remove the image, thus precipitating a (predictable) edit war during which he was reverted by Raul654 and DavidGerard.  .

Unable to edit the template, Anthony decided to vandalize the image itself. He uploaded an 8 kilobyte blank picture to replace the picture of Jim Henson, with the mislead upload summary "PD replacement" so as to prevent people from knowing it was vandalism. The then reverted all attempts to restore the original. The image page has been cleaned up, but from Upload log archive/July 2004 (2):

 * 00:46, 16 Jul 2004 Gerald Farinas uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Template:Fairuse Official image of Jim Henson from the Jim Henson Foundation, established by Jim Henson in 1982 to promote puppetry as an art form)
 * 18:52, 19 Jul 2004 Anthony DiPierro uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (PD replacement)
 * 19:46, 19 Jul 2004 Hemanshu uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Reverted to earlier revision)
 * 19:46, 19 Jul 2004 Anthony DiPierro uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Reverted to earlier revision)
 * 19:52, Jul 19, 2004 Raul654 uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Reverted to earlier revision)
 * 19:59, 19 Jul 2004 Anthony DiPierro uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Reverted to earlier revision)
 * 20:02, Jul 19, 2004 Raul654 uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Reverted to earlier revision)
 * 20:06, 19 Jul 2004 Anthony DiPierro uploaded "Jimhensonmug.jpg" (Reverted to earlier revision)

That night, Raul654 cycled the featured article and unprotected the page. Anthony then took it upon himself [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Feature&oldid=4743961 to change the featurd article], violating (1) the prohibition on cycling it more than once every 24 hours and (2) the long-standing-but-unwritten rule that Raul654 should do it (this has since been formalized). A wholly-predictable edit war ensued, during which Anthony reverted the template 5 times (he was reverted by Danny and Blankfaze). Ultimately, Danny banned him for 24 hours.

The main page is the most visible part of Wikipedia (possibly the entire wikimedia project). Edit warring here is absolutely prohibited. Yet, Anthony showed no qualms about doing it - he started one knowing full well what would happen. Jimbo himself has said as much.

Users who endorse the above evidence

 * →Raul654
 * Snowspinner
 * Blankfaze
 * David Gerard

Response
It is unclear to me what remedies the above users are requesting to resolve this dispute. Once again there has been no mediation, and Raul has flat out rejected mediation. Apparently he wants me permanently banned from all pages except articles, article talk pages, and user talk pages.

Edit wars/vandalism
My block following the edit war on the template page, combined with my subsequent private email discussion with Jimbo regarding edit wars has convinced me that the three revert rule is indeed valid policy. I have therefore decided to voluntarily submit myself to a one-revert rule, so that I am not tempted to break it again in the future. I would have no problem with the arbitration committee making this official for up to three months.

I'd like the arbitration committee to consider the actions of others in the edit war on the template page. I'd like them to decide if there is indeed valid policy instituting Raul as dictator on that page, whether or not the actions of Raul and Danny in protecting the page violated policy, whether or not any users violated policy on use of the rollback button, and whether or not Blankfaze violated policy by breaking the three revert rule.

Featured articles candidates
Most of the allegations here are related to violation of the revert rule. The rest seem rather minor to me. I made a nomination in good faith and Raul insisted on removing it before it was given a chance.

VfD
It is my understanding that the previous arbitration ruling did not prohibit me from voting on VfD, even to express an opinion held by a small minority. On the contrary, I continued to vote on VfD through the arbitration ruling, yet the ruling said that my inappropriate behavior on VfD had ceased, and said that it was not opposed to the way I voted but with the manner I voted. The two votes that I removed from VfD were done for legitimate reasons. In one case there was no reason given and no VfD tag, and in the other case the reason for listing was resolved.

anthony (see warning) 03:50, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Previous statement from mediation committee
From Requests for mediation/Archive 7:

Concerning the mediation requested by the Arbitration Committee regarding User:Anthony DiPierro and a number of other users:

Although the members of the Mediation Committee have been willing to conduct a mediation and have solicited possible participants, to date no one has stepped forward to be a second party. As it has been the committee's experience that attempting to conduct a mediation discussion with only one party has not been successful, it seems best to wait until there are additional parties willing to participate. Anthony has demonstrated his willingness to mediate; but his adversaries have not. Until they do, we must consider Anthony a Wikipedian in good standing, and any comments to the contrary a demonstration of incivility.

The Mediation Committee is more than willing to mediate this case if and when anyone comes forward with specific concerns.

BCorr & sannse, Co-chairs On behalf of the Mediation Committee Copied to User talk:Anthony DiPierro and Requests for arbitration/Anthony DiPierro

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Nouveau Flamenco (album)

Nouveau Flamenco is Ottmar Liebert's first album, released in May 1990, written in a subgenre of flamenco known as new flamenco, fusing pop music forms and call-response structure together with flamenco elements.

A digitally remastered edition entitled Nouveau Flamenco: 1990-2000 Special Tenth Anniversary Edition was released in 2000.

Production

 * Produced By Ottmar Liebert & Randy Rand
 * Engineered By Randy Rand & Tim Stroh
 * Mastered By William Aura
 * Executive Producer: Matt Marshall

Personnel

 * Ottmar Liebert: Guitars
 * Stefan Liebert: Keyboards
 * Jon Gagan: Bass
 * Jeff Sussmann: Drums, Percussion

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David M. Kennedy (politician)

David Matthew Kennedy (July 21, 1905 – May 1, 1996) was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 60th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and later as the 8th U.S. Ambassador to NATO, both under U.S. President Richard Nixon. He was Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of Continental Illinois during the 1950s and 1960s.

Early life
Kennedy was born on July 21, 1905, in Randolph, Utah, to George and Katherine Kennedy (née Johnson). His father was a rancher and served in Utah state government. His mother was ill for much of his childhood and the family grew up in Kaysville and later Ogden. His grandparents John Kennedy and Peter Johnson formed the Bank of Randolph.

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Kennedy married Lenora Margaret Bingham in the church's Salt Lake Temple in November 1925. Shortly thereafter he served as a missionary for the church in Liverpool, England. His mission presidents were James E. Talmage and John A. Widtsoe.

Kennedy attended public schools and received a bachelor's degree from Weber State University, graduating in 1928. His first government job was as a staff member for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. During this time he built up his financial experience and later became assistant to then-Fed Chairman Marriner Eccles. Kennedy was also attending George Washington University and received master's and law degrees from there in 1935 and 1937. He completed the Stonier Graduate School of Banking program, then housed at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in 1939.

Chicago years
He left the Federal Reserve and joined Continental of Illinois in 1946, starting in their bond department. By 1951, he was a bank President and later served as Chairman of the Board and CEO from 1959 to 1969. At the time of his appointment as Treasury Secretary in 1969, Continental Illinois ranked as the 15th largest bank in the world.

Kennedy served as counselor to John K. Edmunds in the presidency of the LDS Church's Chicago Stake. He was also a member of the board of Nauvoo Restoration from its founding in 1962, and advised David O. McKay, Harold B. Lee and other LDS Church leaders on banking matters. It was in part due to the advice of Kennedy that McKay restructured the management of Zions First National Bank so that the church's president no longer held the title of bank president, with Orval Adams assuming that title.

During these same years, Kennedy also served as chairman of Mayor Richard J. Daley's Mayor's Committee for Economic and Cultural Growth in Chicago. In 1957, Kennedy became a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago. While serving in this post, he was involved in fundraising. In 1966, he was asked to head a fundraising drive for Brigham Young University (BYU). He worked on this project until becoming the US Treasury Secretary.

From 1961 until January 1969, Kennedy was a member of the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution. In 1963, he commissioned a house in Winnetka, Illinois.

Government service
Kennedy served as a special assistant on debt management to Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey. He also served on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system from 1930 to 1946, ending up assistant to the Chairman.

In October 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy (no relation) appointed him a member of a private corporation (COMSAT) to own and operate the United States' share of a global satellite communications system. He was elected to the permanent board of directors in 1964.

In 1967, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Kennedy as chairman of the Commission on Budgetary Concepts, whose recommendations were adopted as standard government budgetary practice.

Kennedy was nominated by Nixon to be the 60th Secretary of the Treasury. He served from 1969 until 1971. Nixon, who had little interest in economics and expected his top economic advisers to run that portfolio, fairly quickly concluded that Kennedy was not up to the task, being weak both on policy-making and as a lead economics spokesman for the administration. Nixon concluded Kennedy was a "cipher" and by April 1970 told aide John Ehrlichman that Kennedy was to be replaced.

Kennedy served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from March 1972 to February 1973.

He founded the US-Taiwan Business Council in 1976, and served as its Chairman for fourteen years, until 1990.

Church service
He also served as a special representative of the LDS Church's First Presidency. This assignment required him to represent the church around the world, meeting with government and ecclesiastical leaders.

In 1985, the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU opened and is named in his honor.

His wife, Lenora Bingham, died on August 24, 1995. Kennedy himself died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 1, 1996, from cardiovascular disease and congestive heart failure, at the age of 90. He was interred in Randolph City Cemetery, near to his birthplace in Randolph, Utah.

title: David M. Kennedy (politician)


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Home Rule Party

Home Rule Party may refer to:
 * Home Rule Party (Burma)
 * Home Rule Party (Faroe Islands)
 * Home Rule Party of Hawaii
 * Home Rule Party (Iceland)
 * Home Rule League (Ireland)
 * British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party (Trinidad and Tobago)

title: Home Rule Party


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darin Hunzeker

 * Vanity, a CV. RickK 21:53, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * A c&p from this US congress candidate's website (copyvio?). I can't tell whether he's actually a candidate or running from the nomination or whatever. Delete, reinstate if elected. I don't want to see entries for otherwise non-notable candidates for political office any more than I do on 14 year old would-be musicians. Ianb 22:05, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Yup, this is advertising pure and simple and should be removed. Wikipedia does not endorse any brand of cornflakes, kilts or candidates for Congress. -- Derek Ross |  Talk 22:11, 2004 Jul 22 (UTC)

 * Good candidate, running for Congress. There is no reason for deletion. -- Jasonjanofsky

 * Yes there is.

 * 1) Wikipedia is not an advertising medium. We have a policy of deleting advertisements such as this article. We do not endorse products in the way that this article does.

 * 2) Wikipedia has an international readership. Actual members of the US Congress may be of some encyclopaedic interest to us. Wannabe members are not.  And if it's not encyclopaedic it should be deleted. -- Derek Ross |  Talk 22:21, 2004 Jul 22 (UTC)

 * This is definately propaganda and should be deleted. Indrian | Talk 22:41, July 22, 2004
 * Keep, lack of neutrality is a reason for Cleanup, not deletion. More troubling is whether it is a copyvio. - SimonP 23:28, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Subject is not notable.  If he is elected or otherwise becomes notable, a properly encyclopedic article could be considered. Rossami 23:43, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete: Running for office is not notable.  Each election, from city board of alderman to President, will have multiple candidates.  Geogre 00:16, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * We created dozens of articles for candidates in the recent Canadian election (e.g. David Chernushenko, Alan Riddell, Monia Mazigh). I would say that anyone who can get a major party nomination is encyclopedic. - SimonP 02:19, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep with cleanup. I think an endorsed major party candidate for a House election is just notable enough for an article, though this one is less notable as it appears to be a very safe seat for the incumbent.  Still, there is likely to be a substantial amount written about the challenger in the press over the next few months.  If this article is to be kept, the current content is an unacceptable (and should be stubbed until somebody writes a better, non-NPOV article).  --Robert Merkel 02:49, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * I think this is very legit because its a United States Congressional Candidate from a Major party. His information is valid because he won a Primary election in March. Running for congress is no small task. We should give it its due respect by allowing it to be a part of our history. Knowing who this guy is will add to the wealth of knowledge of wikipedia.
 * Who are you? Please identify yourself by signing your comments like the rest of us do.  Anonymous comments on Vfd are not useful.  --Robert Merkel 03:32, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - we've got enough articles on US Representatives just limiting ourselves to the ones who actually have been elected. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:18, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. When he wins, he can have an article. Til then it's just an advert. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:23, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Campaign websites are copyrighted. But I would like to take issue with the notion that Congressional candidates are not encyclopedic. They're public figures, voted on by hundreds of thousands of people. I believe all legitimate articles on Congressional candidates should be kept. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 13:13, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
 * To clarify--major parties only. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 15:11, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. I think that the candidates of specific parties are a viable encyclopedia topic. Now, I'd prefer to see a page like Defeated candidates in PA8, 1992-2004, just listing them, but I understand the logic. Lyellin 13:27, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. I do not support articles on every candidate in every election but this is a candidate for US congress from one of two main parties. He will likely get hundreds of thousands of votes, even if he loses. Andris 15:10, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Additionally, didn't this bloke have to win a primary amongst the local Republicans to get the endorsement? Doesn't that take thousands of votes and a big campaign anyway? --Robert Merkel 23:54, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment - the current article is a complete advert, and needs massive pruning. Also a question - does this bloke have any chance of being elected? He's running against the incumbent, and given the polarisation of US politics, for all I know this is in a district where the Democrats could literally nominate a donkey and still win the vote.  Average Earthman 19:54, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * It's a safe Democrat district AFAICT, the incumbent won the last election 63-37, and she's running again. --Robert Merkel 23:54, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Then he's a candidate put up in the full expectation of defeat, and not significant. Delete. Average Earthman 14:14, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. Bacchiad 21:51, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. Postdlf 03:39, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)


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User talk:Secretlondon/Archive 3

I don't know about you but when i read something on my user talk page i delete it, whats wrong with that?--CoolDude 15:26, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Very clever at User talk:Wik Lir, Caroline...almost convinced me that User:Wik Lir isn't your own sockpuppet, which it so obviously is!!! ;-) Jwrosenzweig 21:03, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * (Sorry, the attempts to discover who is whose sock puppet around here amuse me to great extent.) :-) Jwrosenzweig

Hi. Rebranding went fine. ;) How's you? Morwen 15:38, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

I rebranded our product with consort's logo. ;) Morwen 15:46, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

See you Sunday. Morwen 16:50, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

Why did you get rid of the Fidel Castro Bangkok quote? - Jeff Pak

What to do about Zviad Gamsakhurdia edit war?
I see Levzur is up to his usual tricks on Zviad Gamsakhurdia yet again. Hephaestos has suggested mediation followed by arbitration, which I'm sure Levzur will decline, but it's a step which clearly needs to be taken. Otherwise I see no end in sight to the edit war, given that even a temp ban hasn't deterred Levzur. Do you agree with this and given your involvement with the article, would you wish to be one of the parties requesting mediation? -- ChrisO 10:38, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

London churches & cathedrals
Hi Secretlondon,

I've added a List of churches and cathedrals of London - if you do any more articles on this topic could you please list them on that page and add a link to the list? Thanks! -- ChrisO 12:03, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Tok Pisin Wikipedia
Hi! Thanks to all the tpi domain is now set up. How can we get Tok Pisin added in the language list in the (English) main page? Best --Milaiklainim 07:36, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * COOL! It was done in about five minutes! Thanks! --Milaiklainim 08:18, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

trowel
thanx for the assist. Sam Spade 22:31, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you! :-) I am sexy 22:29, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Quickpoll
Caroline, it appears that the quickpool you started about my hasty action against I am s*** could -- technically -- be archived according to the rules. The proposal got 7 AYES to 29 NAYS, which is less than 60% of the 36 votes.

However, out of both personal respect for you and a desire to "get with the program" I'm going to leave the disposition of this matter up to you. --Uncle Ed 16:25, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

-- Would you be interested in protecting United States? This seems to be another edit war going no where with the "Fox News crowd." 172 19:37, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Admin Nomination
Hello, I would appreciate your help by earning your vote as an admin. I have been here about 5 months now and have been nominated. I have made many contributions and have improved on my editing and behavior. I take this seriously, that is why I have gotten into it with Anthony so much. You can look at my user page yourself and see my contribtions. I would appreciate a vote in the yes column if you agree. Again, thanks for your time and help. ChrisDJackson 02:34, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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treecat
Secret,

I have essentially run out of anything more to add at treecat that won't give everything away. As an early contributor, you might want to cast an eye over it to see if there's anything I've missed.

ww 19:07, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
The arbitration committee has referred the issues of Anthony's reverts and alleged trolling to the mediation committee. If you would like to be involved in mediation on these issues please leave a message at Requests for mediation. I am cross-posting this message to all those who commented at Requests for arbitration/Anthony DiPierro and to Anthony. Regards -- sannse (talk) 21:43, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC) (mediation committee).

Timeout
I was just getting worried as you weren't editing for some time. Hope you're OK and will be back soon. I certainly miss you here. --Wik 18:04, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)

I also hope a break will find you refreshed and back here soon. Though we don't edit the same articles very often, I have enjoyed reading your contributions. —Morven 18:22, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I don't know, who you are and what you are. But, I remember, I have seen your username often. So, please come back soon. Let the world be benefitted more out of your work/service. Thanks. --Rrjanbiah 18:34, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You are of great benefit and worth here, and I'm sorry that so often we forget to say these things until an editor gets "pushed over the edge". I have been in different articles than you for some time and hadn't noticed an increased problem with Americentrism. When you return, if there's anything I (an American, admittedly) can do to help you or to help a specific article, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks very much for all your hard work, Jwrosenzweig 20:53, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I hope that you'll come back soon. We'll miss you. Dori | Talk 22:49, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)

I hope your time out gives you the break you need, and we'll find you back on here soon. Perhaps see you at the meet-up in London? Warofdreams 17:22, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I agree with much of what you said on the mailing list, Wikipedia seems to favor a MDC/Western/American/anti-socialist bias towards the LDC/Southern/Eastern/socialist world. You will be missed, hope to see you back here in good time. --H C HENEY 01:49, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Please don't come back. There is already enough anti-Americanism here. anthony (see warning) 01:52, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Please don't be so immature Anthony. Secretlondon was an extremely valuable contributor, certainly not "anti-American". -- user:zanimum

It has been nice getting some guidance from you... --Palapala 18:17, 2004 Apr 28 (UTC) (another European :)

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Hello Secretlondon I was wondering if you could protect Gloucestershire because 80.255 is up to his usual tricks again, and you are neutral G-Man 11:48, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Crown Copyright and Wikipedia
Hi. I've found this from the Ministry of Defence link and link which appears to show that it is okay for some things and not for others.

Permission for those under waiver scheme which covers:
 * Press Notices
 * Forms
 * Consultative documents
 * Documents featured on official MoD websites (unless notice to the contrary appears)
 * Published papers of a scientific, technical or medical nature (although some restrictions apply)
 * Headline statistics
 * Texts of ministerial speeches and articles
 * Unpublished public records
 * Typographical arrangements

Not permission for:
 * Crests, e.g. Regimental crests. Some photographs will cost £50 to reproduce.

Hope that helps, Duncharris 14:11, May 2, 2004 (UTC)

edit wars
There has been an edit war over Cambodia related pages, especially Khmer Rouge, but also Pol Pot, Democratic Kampuchea, History of Cambodia, and Cambodia. I'm accused of being a denier of this or that, and they can't even get their own sources straight (they say 2 million people died between 1975-1979 - the popular 2 million figure, which comes from the anti-CPK Ponchaud, does not start at 1975 though but earlier - in other words, they're misquoting what an anti-Khmer Rouge source said, I'm sure more out of ignorance than malice since they know little about the topic it seems). Khmer Rouge had the longest tug-of-war so I suggested discussion of all five pages go there since they're mostly on the same issue (number of deaths etc.) Anyhow perhaps you may want to look at this page and perhaps the other four and see what you think if you want to. Hanpuk 00:05, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

please stay message
I saw your distressing message to Wik. You are a valuable contributor to wikipedia and will be sorely missed should you go. Do not let trolls or American males (like myself) drive you off. The trend which you seem to be a part of is very disheartening. Without people like you the project will deteroriate (or continue to do so) and all that will be left will be morons and trolls or a combination of the two. Please stay and help wiki grow more so that the opinions you feel dominate wikipedia will not succeed or at least be more balanced (or counter-balanced). Remember allot of other people from around the world will view the wiki and use it as a source to gather knowledge. thanks. ;) GrazingshipIV 01:09, May 8, 2004 (UTC)

I too hope your departure will only be temporary. Taking a break is good, but you will be sorely missed by many, including myself :) Dysprosia 01:17, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

goodbye message
Nah, you're probably right to leave. I totally get what you're talking about. Wikip(a)edia is an American project and always will be. The rest of us will just be ground down by the bastards until we give up. We might as well give up now. — Chameleon 09:33, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
 * OK, I've cheered up. — Chameleon 09:53, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Secret — It saddens me to hear that you have such low opinions of us Americans. I'm sorry that you are choosing to leave, and I hope someday you'll come back to us. I wish you all the best. →Raul654 15:27, May 13, 2004 (UTC)

--- Please come back. If you do, I'll try to back you up much more promptly from now on. I'm sorry for being too slow to respond in the past. 172 17:38, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

I hope you feel able to come back. Its worth having the arguments, because people do regard Wikipedia as an NPOV — or even a leftist(!) site - and it's not guaranteed that right-wingers will always dominate. Where there are debates going on, please tell me — and a much broader range of contributors - I'll be happy to jump in. All the best, Warofdreams 17:44, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

You're missed. I hope you feel you can return. As always, please consider the services of this American at your disposal, if it will help at all -- I try not to be US-centric, and am willing to learn. We need more editors like you: I hope you can return from your vacation soon. Jwrosenzweig 18:20, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Great! Welcome back and happy editing! 172 18:22, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

It is good that you've decided to stay with us, evem if you won't be editing in quite the same way as before. It is so hard to know what to do when one sees a systematic bias in Wikipedia, in any direction. Still, oher encyclopedias are biased too, and that does not make them worthless. One keeps adding facts, I guess, in the hope that eventually facts overwhelm the weasel words and barely disguised opinions. Martin 21:07, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Re: user:Jimbo_Wales/2004-06-05, I presume you don't want me around. That's ok. Morwen 21:17, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

Because of what you said last time we spoke. This is probably not the best place for this discussion. Morwen 22:17, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

Do you want to make some comments at Talk:Augusto Pinochet? 172 15:14, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Re: "Secretlondon - I had no idea people still disputed this." on Talk:Augusto Pinochet. People will sill dispute this until it's admitted on Fox News (which, of course, will never happen); Colin Powell isn't good enough for them. 172 13:49, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

In need of community support
I'm in need of community support.

Right now, I am on the verge of being driven away from Wikipedia through the relentless efforts of a single problem user on Requests for comment/172, Requests for arbitration, and Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/172 vs VeryVerily.

The same user who refuses to accept the results of the Augusto Pinochet poll (see also ) goes through my user history every time he logs on and then starts reverting things that I've written arbitrary. He manages to divert attention away from the articles onto ad hominem attacks, thus poisoning the well against me.

He has been doing nothing else for the past couple of months, other than making some minor changes to pages that he finds through the random page feature. Meanwhile, I've been working on articles such as Empire of Brazil, Dollar Diplomacy, and Franco-U.S. relations. I'm tired of letting a problem user define my contributions to the encyclopedia, as opposed to my work.

I may have said some regrettable things in the past, but my editing practices are scholarly and methodical. When I make an edit, my choice is based on a consideration of the quality of the encyclopedia. Unlike the user who avowedly admits to trying to escalate a personal feud (see, e.g., ), I do not decide which pages to edit and what changes to make on the basis of personality feuds, emotional POV whims, or a desire to get attention.

Although this user shows little evidence that he understands the content of the articles, I have shown considerable restraint, given my professional expertise. . Only through community support (i.e. lobbying the arbitration committee)will this user be stopped. Otherwise, Wikipedia will die unless we stop vandals and clueless POV-pushers from running rampant and driving away valued contributors.

Please feel free to direct questions and comments to my talk page or e-mail at sokolov47@yahoo.com.

Sincerely,

172 01:43, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

book
Banana Republicans: Great title, don't you think? -- Viajero 18:37, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll take a look at Kirchner. As for Peronism, it is an incredibly complex topic; even Argentines can be at a loss to describe it adequately, partly because it evolved in such bizarre ways since the death of Peron. Yep, I am still here, but I did get burned out battling the forces of reaction, hence I keep a low profile and work, for the most part, on other stuff, which isn't necessarily a completely satisfying arrangement. -- Viajero 18:52, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

article on VfD
Hi again, I don't know whether you still have the stomach for controversy, but I stumbled across this article tonight: Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is by far the worst thing I have ever seen here; truly shameful. I added it to VfD? Care to weigh in? -- Viajero 22:47, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

article on Zhuang
You wrote that Zhuang was the name of two Tai languages, one in China and one in Vietnam. I've never heard of a language called Zhuang being spoken in Vietnam. The Tày and Nùng of Vietnam live just across the border and I've read that Nùng is similar to Zhuang (but many Tai languages are similar); there is a minority called Bố Y - they are Bouyei who came from China, some of them in Vietnam (in Lào Cai) even don't speak Bouyei but Chinese.

The terms you use - Northern Zhuang and Southern Zhuang - seem rather confusing to me. Does "Northern Zhuang" include Bouyei? And what is actually "Southern Zhuang"? Babelfisch, June 11th 2004

Lord Scarman
Hi, you wrote on Lord Scarman that he was a "crossbench member". Not to be the dirty American, but would you mind explaining that term in the article? I looked at House of Lords but it wasn't all that helpful. Thanks, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:43, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks very much--if you ever need my work clarified, please let me know. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:50, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism in progress
I have no idea what your comment meant. RickK 23:59, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * You said it was Wik - and it wasn't - Wik is in Germany, the vandal bot is in the US. Perhaps you should leave Wik alone? Secretlondon 00:01, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * In other words if I were to use a German proxy I'd be just fine? - Hephaestos|§ 00:04, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Caroline, I just want to mention that it's wonderful to see you back here. Rick may be hasty, but you have to admit that, if Wik threatens to attack us with proxies, he can't complain much if an attack ensues and he is blamed.  I have no idea if it's possible for him to use US proxies from Germany -- you may well be absolutely correct that it isn't him.  The only thing I'd say is that someone who threatens violent actions is going to make themselves a likely suspect.  Once again, very good to see your name in RC (a shame it has to be under such odd circumstances). Jwrosenzweig 00:06, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * In the email RickK quoted, Wik explicitly said "I'll start a script which does everything automatically including changing proxies as needed" (emphasis mine), so the fact that he is in Germany and the vandalism is happening from a US IP address hardly seems like evidence of his innocence. I'm not saying it is Wik (I've never had any contact with him, don't really know anything about him), but I figured I should point this out. —Stormie 04:11, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)

I have never seen a single comment indicating that Wik is in Germany. Can you prove that? RickK 04:24, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * IRC IP address was in Germany. Secretlondon 04:29, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Categories About Politicians
I just noticed the categories yesterday, so I am still getting used to how they work, but I think that the election results category would be a good place to list articles about elections (for example Malawi general election, 2004). For actual politicians, there could be a Category: Politicians, but there are so many politicians that it would be too big. It could be separated by country (for example, Category: Politicians from Belgium). The big problem with listing the biographies under election results is that not all politicians are elected! Most kings and military dictators could not go there. Academic Challenger 02:56, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry
That you don't feel you can edit here because of witch-hunts. Certainly there are things about this place that get under my skin, but I've found that it's still satisfying for me to contribute knowledge to the little corners of this site that remain unfilled. I hope you are finding similar happiness somwhere, but confess a selfish hope (on behalf of this site) that you will continue to find your way back to us here. We don't have enough sensible editors and admins that we can afford to lose them willy-nilly, and we need respectable voices of dissent also -- I always thought of you as perhaps the best of these. I hope to see you around on occasion, Jwrosenzweig 15:49, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Category:British politicians
Hi. I started filling this category out, but quickly realised it will be insane when all done (I guess we have well over a thousand articles that could go there.) Any suggestions on how I should split it into subcategories? Morwen - Talk 19:28, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Arghh.
Hi, Secret. An anon just recreated the article of the woman who lodged the rape complaint against that philandering basketball player. I think this has been discussed before, and I thought there was a decision not to do this, but [1] I'm not sure, and [2] not sure what to do if that's the case. I also seem to remember that you were involved with the discussion earlier. Any thoughts? - Nunh-huh 22:34, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Oops, the location of the discussion was pointed out to me and it seems you weren't a participant, and the matter has been resolved. Sorry to have unnecessarily bothered you. - Nunh-huh 22:55, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC) (P.S. feel free to burn this note)

Request for AMA assistance
We have received an anonymous request for AMA assistance from an IP address, I have directed that individual to contact me if they wish not to create a Wikipedia account. If you are interested in helping please let me know and if I hear from this individual I will try and put you in contact. See AMA Requests for Assistance. Thank you. — ©   Alex756   03:13, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

"Spam protection filter" blocking users who add categories
I appear to be auto-blocked from editing articles after adding a batch of "category" messages in appropriate articles. I get a "Spam protection filter" message (apparently something automated that blocks users who add the same text on a certain number of articles in a row?).

I can't do anything while logged in (nor apparently on my usual isp), and on this unlogged in alternative account I don't seem to be able to edit "Village Pump" or other usual places to ask about it. If you could either check on this or bring this up somewhere appropriate to get folks attention I would much appreciate it. -- 4.230.234.30 20:58, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi S.L.
I'm sorry you are worried. I read meticulously all contributions at Avoid Copyright Paranoia. No problem. Any item can be retired is neccesary or to change to another resource. Please let me know what do you think about it and I'll make any corrections. Thanks for your nice advice. 8-) MusiCitizen 10:27, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

Photos
I hope you do not mind that I fiddled with two of your photos in Salvation Army to try and fish out a little more detail. If you hate it please say so and I will apologise prettily! :) --Fanger 14:13, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * You're most welcome. --Fanger 21:35, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Wrecking amendment
Does this article look ok to you? I'm especially worried about NPOV of the last bit - maybe I should have chosen a different example. Morwen - Talk 19:05, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I think they amend them to not ban fox hunting and send it back, or just sit on it - I'd not categorise that as bad faith. Wrecking would be more like amending it to ban Yeti-hunting or something. ;) Morwen - Talk 19:12, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. Morwen - Talk 19:18, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

RfC Action
Secretlondon, I frankly don't understand your motivation in bringing an action against me on a point I had already conceded being a misunderstanding, and said I would leave be, which should have been considered a resolution of the dispute, if there was any. I not that as Bureaucrat, you mistakenly promoted OldakQuill a full day early. Have you made an attempt to resolve that? -- Cecropia | Talk 02:13, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes I have - but it looks like only a developer can undo the flag - however he has promised not to use them until the appropriate time - all coming from a mistake on IRC. Secretlondon 02:19, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I second that, mote and beam, he who is without sin throws rocks at glass houses, etc... Sam [Spade] 02:16, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were here to handle that Holocaust denial guy! :) Adam Bishop 03:29, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Boring Liberal MPs
Errr, right. Very silly of me to leave it out. moink 03:31, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Nice pics
A couple of hints (by a very amateur "photographer" who just started using a camera): Love the pictures Dori | Talk 17:21, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * I would use the viewfinder (instead of the LCD) as that makes it easier to have the images line up horizontally
 * Fiddle with the ISO and exposure settings (if it's possible with your camera) when it's too dark or too bright so you get better lighting
 * Try not to get too close (so they're not cropped) to buildings or too far (so you won't have to use the zoom).
 * On close up of small items, (if your camera supports it) I would use the burst mode and move up and down with the manual focus so that you can get a clear image of the item.

Thanks
Thank you, I'm pretty new and am not familiar with such things as, #REDIRECT , though I luckily do know some HTML!. But now, thankfully, I do know about the redirect thing, so thank you.

Images
Do you remember if RESPECT were one of the groups you asked for permission to use images from? Morwen - Talk 14:19, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Food not Bombs and Mark Serwotka
Sorry, I've only vaguely heard of them, so I won't be able to NPOV the article any better than anyone else. I've added a little more on Mark Serwotka, but I do know people who know him and may be able to add more. Warofdreams 18:57, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

VfD page
Hi - Something is puzzling me: Every time I take a look at VfD I find quite a percentage of red links there, e.g. Superlevure (how is one to vote on something which is empty / has already been emptied). Would you have a ready explanation for that? --Palapala 19:26, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)
 * Assume then, that the discussion taking place there is amongst admins only? --Palapala 20:53, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

Orphaned pages
Another one (I know I'm curious): How does a page turn up on the list of orphaned pages, what's the criterion? Some of them look quite innocent to me, e.g. pilot (disamb page), rider on the rain (redirect page), Joyce Summers (regular page), etc. -Palapala 09:27, 2004 Jul 1 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your detailed help. Appreciated. --Palapala 10:47, 2004 Jul 2 (UTC)

Nice to see you...
Although apparently you've been back for a while, I just noticed -- so I wanted to let you know that it's good to have you back around. :-) BCorr | Брайен 14:43, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Bcorr is not wrong. Your return is a good thing. -Stevertigo
 * Youre welcome. I was simply going to write: "Back you good," but I remembered that tender nerves and silly neanderthal humour don't necessarily jive with each other. ;) -Stevertigo

Denni

So before we had people going days without getting promoted. Now we have dueling bureaucrats. OK, I'm game! How about paperclips at 20 paces? I choose Meelar as my second. -- Cecropia | Talk 15:45, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Unsigned votes
Please trouble yourself to read what you are about to revert. I removed no signed votes. - Hephaestos|§ 23:35, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Thought Jmabel's was a comment, the formatting threw me. My mistake, sorry. - Hephaestos|§ 00:04, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Chillin
Aw, shucks. Do I have to? ;) -Stevertigo
 * I had edits in the cue, which if trends continue should get another really quick and hasty response. Thanks for calling the sanity time out. Im going back to meatspace for a while. :[ -Stevertigo

Thanks for your comment
As I read you are interested in Lesser used languages in Europe, I would like to invite you to join my learning project, which is mainly about languages, among them catalan - more widely spoken than some official EU languages. The project is discussed on my talk page. I also saw that someone congratulated you for getting "libdem" pictures here. Do you have any idea of how to get pictures of war victims? I find it disgusting that we have pictures of the toppling of the Saddam statue and of so much from the military and even a terrorist propaganda beheading but nothing of those most affected by the wars, such as those crippled in wars or those kept in Guantanamo. Get-back-world-respect 00:11, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Pixelquelle pictures
Thanks for the nice message. Certainly glad I can contribute some of my time to the W again. Yes, the pixelquelle license situation needs to be clarified, I'll look into it. - snoyes 00:20, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Excellent. Had forgotten about those pages; I was already contemplating going through my edit history to find the (missing) pictures. - snoyes 00:26, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
As a matter of interest, why did you remove the Google link from the Sisters article? I put it in because it seemed the easiest way of generating links to all the local chapters and there doesn't appear to be such a link on the Sisters' main site. No big deal either way, just wondered if it's policy not to have links to Google searches, even when they might actually be useful. :o) — OwenBlacker 10:43, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

Socialist vs Trotskyist party Categories
I get your point, but doesn't this subdivision suggest that Trotskyist parties are not Socialist? A lot of people won't be familiar with the concept of Trotskyism. I find it also a bit problematic to define (left wing) parties that are neither Communist nor Social Democratic as "socialist".Maybe it would be better to make "socialist" one large category and then define trotskyist, social-democratic, maoist, marxist-leninist etc subcategories - thanks god anarchists don't form parties... Sorry, maybe I just haven't got my head around the categorisation stuff, and it's a bit difficult with the whole ecosystem of far-left sects in this country...(in which category would you put the SLP? ML, communist, socialist?) pir 21:44, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Also, category:Trotskyist organisations is not a sub-category of category:Political parties by ideology, which means people aren't going to find them if they start with that latter category. pir 21:53, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Shaver sockets
Since I'm not in the UK, and you seem to like taking photos, could you perhaps take one of a UK shaver socket?

Ta. — Chameleon My page/My talk 15:26, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
I just wanted to thank you for your support in my recent nomination to become an administrator. I really appreciate it. blankfaze | •• | •• 14:46, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed your vote in the previous VfD on Poland's betrayal by the Western Allies and wanted to let you know that I have reopened the issue and wish for you to please cast your vote at VfD--naryathegreat 23:41, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

Cody Posey article
Hey Secret: Thanks for reading the article I originated. It always flatters me to know people are reading the articles I begin.

I think it is an encyclopedic article because, as I explained on the talk page, being that the deaths ocurred in the home of a celebrity, it could (and probably will) become a big case.

Keep up the good work. By the way, my dad says hi.

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio London Life Rules, Baby! Martin"

Categories in Tree of Life articles
You might want to check out Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life. Although the discussion has staled, we're pretty much in serious disagreement as to (a) use categories at all and (b) implement them along taxonomic lines, common grouping lines, or both. So your addition of Category:Penguins is a bit premature. - UtherSRG 22:00, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Actually I'm pro-category now... however, I'm very interested in being methodical about it. There are too many unanswred questions about how to implement categories for ToL articles, a I pointed out on the Project talk page. I'm going to post there again soon, outlining my current thoughts. - UtherSRG 22:58, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for intervening. I'm glad to see that the discussion has been de-politicized at Category talk:Cold War people. 172 07:32, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

felix draeseke pages
hi - i see you black listed the draeseke entry. i am also the webmaster for the draeseke society; could you please provide the evidence you would like to see? thanks

Hello, I'm FWBOarticle
Hi, are you the AMA for FWBO entry?

Oh, i.c. Anyway, can you advice me how I should respond to Mr. Nobody who keep deleting my section? I don't have problem with mahalabba any more.

Isn't anal intercourse a form of sexual intercourse?
That's how I originally meant to deal with that section of Sexual slang, but in my latest edit(s) I forgot, since 'Anal intercourse' was not a subtopic of 'Sexual intercourse'. I suppose we should do it this way:
 * Sexual intercourse
 * brief preamble here
 * Vaginal intercourse
 * all current 'Sexual intercourse' terms here
 * Anal intercourse
 *  ' Anal intercourse' terms here

Whadya think? - dcljr 04:38, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Dr. Ani Jones
Please see my comments on the above page. I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything, you and Andrewa just have me totally, completely confused. I don't understand what you mean by saying that false information can't be deleted. RickK 05:47, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

Neutrality admin poll
Hi Secretlondon, I didn't see all that fuss about my vote in Neutrality's admin nomination until just now. Since the poll is closed now, I have now explained my reasons for voting against Neutrality here ; and here. Thanks a lot for defending me against the "troll" accusation! I'm pretty amazed by how people use that term to abuse anyone they disagree with, and I really hope admins' power won't increase in the future and that they will become more accountable.pir 11:02, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Photo copyright status
Thanks for fixingall the tags. I'll be more careful in the future. BTW, I claimed a stamp as fair use: Image:Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi.jpg. Would you suggest another tag? If so, just edit the image, it's on my watchlist. Thanks -- Chris 73 | Talk 10:40, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Photo copyrights - Nevilley
Hi, I see you have been having a sort-out, for example Barbican-tube-from-road-bri.jpg and City-road-former-tube-stn.jpg. Thanks. Unfortunately I will not be around much, indeed probably not at all, so I am not going to be able to update the status of all the photos I have taken. I was delighted to see that for one photo you assumed GFDL - in fact, please feel free to add this license to any photo uploaded by me if you ever come across any. I wouldn't like them to be deleted becase of this uncertainty, if they are potentially of use to the encyclopaedia. I have left a note on my user page specifically licensing these images under the GFDL and I hope this helps. Thanks, best wishes, and goodbye. Neville --Nevilley 11:10, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your kind comments. Neville --Nevilley 12:37, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Unrecognized Countries
Hi, Secretlondon. I noticed you had made contributions to Abkhazia. If you're interested in Abkhazia and similar places, why don't you drop by the WikiProject Unrecognized countries and help add some more depth to Wikipedia's coverage of these?

Be sure to visit the Project talk page, and if you are interested, you can become a member. Ambivalenthysteria 12:10, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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KETC

KETC (channel 9) is a PBS member television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, owned by St. Louis Regional Public Media. The station's studios are located at the Dana Brown Communications Center on Olive Street in St. Louis' Grand Center neighborhood, and its transmitter is located in South St. Louis County.

History
The station first signed on the air on September 20, 1954. It was the first community-licensed educational television station in the United States. The station's first general manager was Charles Guggenheim, who hired the technical staff and first group of producer/director/writers, five in all. While waiting for the broadcasting tower to be completed, a number of programs were recorded using kinescope recording technology (the same as used for The Honeymooners). Once on the air, there were a number of award-winning programs produced by Mayo Simon, Bill Hartzell, Ran Lincoln and Guggenheim. They included the first live broadcast of the St. Louis City Council. Another featured the St. Louis Post-Dispatch nature columnist Leonard Hall of Possum Trot Farm. Among the taped program series was a pioneering science program intended for sixth graders to see in their classrooms, Science in Sight, produced by Martin L. Schneider. Film making was encouraged, and with Len Hall's collaboration a documentary film about the rare beauty of the relatively unprotected Current River was produced. It was later used by the National Audubon Society in the successful effort to make Current River the first National Scenic River under the protection of the National Park Service.

Soon after the station went live, its emphasis on current affairs and local politics, fostered by Guggenheim, rattled the political leaders. Following a public controversy, covered by the Post-Dispatch, and under the influence of the well-connected local public relations firm Fleishman and Hillard (now FleishmanHillard), Guggenheim was replaced by Martin Quigley, who had no experience in broadcasting. A few months later, Shelby Storck was hired. An experienced broadcaster recommended by Guggenheim, he emceed the station's first evening of broadcasting.

KETC originally broadcast from temporary studios in McMillan Hall on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, with transmitting facilities atop the former Boatmen's Bank Building (now the Marquette Building) in downtown St. Louis. In 1955, it moved to the Julius and Freda Baer Memorial Building, also on the Washington University campus. It was the first facility specifically built for an educational television station. It activated its current tower in South County in 1970, allowing it to begin color broadcasts a year later. In 1998, the station moved its studios from the Washington University campus to the Dana Brown Communications Center in the Grand Center district.

During the 2004 elections, KETC partnered with area NBC affiliate KSDK (channel 5) to provide St. Louisans with comprehensive and up-to-date local and national election results. This partnership was first utilized to simulcast a gubernatorial debate between Republican candidate Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt and Democratic candidate State Auditor Claire McCaskill. On election night (November 2), KSDK aired NBC's prime time election coverage with Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert as well as segments of local results. KETC, meanwhile, ran three hours of local election results hosted by KSDK anchors Mike Bush and Karen Foss. Viewers could also watch election results online on the websites of both stations.

The successful KETC/KSDK partnership was used again in September 2005 when, along with radio partners KYKY (98.1 FM) and KEZK-FM (102.5 FM), a telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief was simulcast that raised more than $5 million. The telethon featured an appearance by Affton native John Goodman, who now calls New Orleans home and whose family went missing for a time during the storm's peak. Kennett native Sheryl Crow and her then fiancé Lance Armstrong urged viewers to call when they were interviewed by phone from the region.

In May 2008, E! contracted with KETC to film two episodes of the cable network's weekly pop culture series The Soup at the KETC studios to accommodate host Joel McHale's filming of The Informant! in the St. Louis area. After being known for most of its history as "KETC 9," the station rebranded itself as "The Nine Network" in 2010. On October 13, 2010, the station partnered with the St. Louis Beacon, an online-only, non-profit news publication, to form the Public Insight Network, a citizen journalism initiative created in conjunction with American Public Media. On January 10, 2021, the station rebranded as Nine PBS, adopting the current PBS corporate logo.

Programming
KETC is known among viewers in St. Louis for preempting PBS programs to air library program content or less controversial pledge drive programs, such as WQED-produced doo-wop specials, using the default network feed in late night to premiere those PBS programs instead, though St. Louis has traditionally had stations, commercial and non-commercial, preempt programming from their networks due to content. KETC has given some leeway as far as some preemptions, such as a case where St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Eric Mink wrote an editorial complaining about the station's scheduling of a pledge drive ice skating show instead of a PBS documentary on the September 11 attacks; KETC announced the next day that it would instead air the 9/11 documentary as nationally scheduled.

Some of the programs produced by KETC for national distribution include selected episodes of Inside/Out. The station also produced The Letter People, an instructional program about reading, which was seen on many PBS and educational television stations in the mid-1970s, as well as A Time for Champions, an hour-long documentary chronicling the Saint Louis University soccer dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s; and Homeland, a miniseries examining the topic of immigration in the United States.

Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
KETC shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using virtual channel 9.

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Earth 2150: The Moon Project

Earth 2150: The Moon Project is a sequel to the real time strategy game Earth 2150. While the game is in fact a stand-alone game, many consider it an expansion pack because it does little more than provide new missions, and weapons. The story takes place alongside the original game's story. The Moon Project was released in 2000 by Strategic Simulations, Inc.

Story
Earth's final war is in full swing. The United Civilized States, Eurasian Dynasty, and the Lunar Corporation fight over what is left of the world's resources in order to escape the blue planet before it is destroyed. Meanwhile, on the Moon, the Lunar Corporation discovers the remnants of an alien tunnel system. In it, they find the plans for an orbital super weapon, with the power to attack the Earth from the Moon. While beginning the process of building the weapon, code named "Sunlight", a United Civilized States army appears ready to try to stop them. It is up to the player to decide how it will play out, and who will win.

Gameplay
The Moon Project is a war strategy game. Full three-dimensional play sets it apart from other games in the genre. Players can rotate their cameras to view the battlefield from just about any angle. It also includes an experience system for the units, indicated by a green and black line under the health bar. Higher levels means higher damage, health, and armor. The player must mine resources in order to build units and structures, and must create power plants to keep structures working. The game includes a 10 level campaign for each faction, and multiplayer support is provided.

Factions
The game includes three playable factions. Each has its own unique style and army:

United Civilized States: UCS for short, consists of the American continents. Their society relies heavily on machinery and robotics, and is ruled by an artificial intelligence. Machines do all tasks for the humans and as a result the population is lazy and hedonistic. Their army consists of mecha without human pilots. When playing as the UCS, the player takes the role of a commander working for the President but more directly to GOLAN and another AI called NEO. The UCS has long been at war with the Eurasian Dynasty. The main weapon of the UCS is the plasma cannon and the larger heavy plasma cannons. While powerful, shields can stop plasma before it can make it to the hull of target vehicles, but enough plasma (does not take much) will eat through the shields quickly and allow quick destruction of everything.

Eurasian Dynasty: ED for short, controls Europe and Asia are the most populous of the factions. They are ruled by a descendant of Genghis Khan and follow old Soviet ideology of mass numbers and superior firepower. They are somewhat technologically primitive (by 22nd century standards) relying on 21st century vehicles and weapons, such as tanks, helicopters and large caliber cannons. They do however have some advanced technology in the form of the laser cannon and the ion cannon. The ED dual 120 mm cannons are powerful and can also punch through shields, a useful property in the late game. The ED lack maneuverability compared to the other factions but make up for it by being a slow moving and tough hitting juggernaut that can equip some of its units with tactical nuclear weaponry in the end game.

Lunar Corporation: LC for short, are descendants of lunar colonists. Since 2084, they severed contact with the Earth when it became apparent that a full-scale nuclear war was about to occur. Since then they have lived peacefully on the Moon. Because of their isolation from the wars of Earth, their society has evolved into a pacifist form. The technology of the LC are far more advanced than that of the other two factions. The main weapon platform of the LC is the hovercraft. Not having been at war for many years, the LC military machine is almost non-existent. They catch on quickly and build some of the more exotic weapons of the game including the electro-cannon, which emits electricity, much like lightning, to destroy targets (the units do not need power like buildings; they recharge themselves and are purely self-sufficient). The sonic-cannon, which emits a moderately powerful radial effect that damages all enemies around it. Another thing to note is that the LC mostly consists of females.

The game
The game plays nearly the same as Earth 2150 with a few key differences:

1. Both LC and UCS campaigns take place on the Moon, with the exception of the first UCS level.

2. Several new vehicles and weapons have been added to the game including mobile transports, artillery, antimissile systems which fire automatically in order to take down incoming enemy missiles and "anti-air" weapons (ED: AA Gun, UCS: AA Plasma Cannon, LC: AA Rocket Launcher), which do heavy amounts of damage to aircraft.

3. The ED campaign introduces an "Advancement system" which allows the player to gain rank (and a cut-scene) upon earning a certain number of points, which are received when objectives are met in missions.

4. The shield system has been changed to even out the defense capabilities of the 3 factions. The power of the shields has been halved.

5. The campaign no longer revolves around sending resources to the player's home base for the construction of an evacuation fleet. Instead, all the resources on the map are added to home base funds when the player successfully destroys all enemy units in the mission and returns to base. Unlike the first game, which required careful conservation of resources to complete a mission and the game, funds are nearly unlimited on each mission.

6. Compared to the original game, all factions have received new additions to their respective arsenals, namely, the new anti-air weapons, which cannot attack ground units but are extremely effective against aerial ones. These new weapons are: the ED's AA Gun, similar to WW2-era anti-air weapons; the UCS' AA Plasma Cannon, which now explains why aircraft should be equipped with shields; and the LC AA Rocket, the one with the longest range of all.

7. New artillery weaponry also appears for the ED and UCS. These are most suitable for destroying structures from a very long distance. Although ED had monopoly over long-range nuclear ballistic missiles, they now also have a rapid firing artillery cannon, added in the most recent patch. In addition, both the ED and the UCS now possess submarine units armed with ballistic missiles (nuclear for ED, plasma for UCS). To counter this, the SDI Defense Center building has been upgraded in the patch: it now shoots down not only nuclear missiles, but the UCS Plasma Control Center's plasma bolts as well, resulting in the LC Weather Control Center remaining as the only truly unstoppable superweapon.

8. Five new chassis types were added: the ED Stealth tank, which is invisible unless its lights are on; the UCS Cargo Salamander, a treaded unit with heavy armor but with the ability to carry the AA Plasma Cannon; the LC Super Fighter, an effective air superiority fighter armed with AA missiles; the LC Fat Girl, a moderately armored unit with four weapon hardpoints; and the LC Tunnel Gouger which removes the factions disadvantage over their inability to modify the terrain without a builder unit. The 2.1 patch also adds a sixth newcomer, the unarmed and silent Scout helicopter for the ED. This eliminates the disadvantage that ED players could not spy on enemy bases because their flying units are all helicopters, which means they are loud compared to the other factions' aircraft and bound to be noticed by the other player.

9. Previously, only the ED and the UCS possessed Repairers capable of capturing enemy units and buildings, but only the ED and LC could disable these objects to be captured. The new Grabber is a rebalancing addition, which gives each side a method of capturing enemy buildings without the need to disable them, but the player can only use a captured production building if it is on the same faction. This means it is impossible, for example, to be with ED and capture an LC Main Base then begin unit production. Finally, each side can now sell buildings and recycle units to receive half of the original price in credits. This way, the player can evacuate/recycle all units and sell every building except the Landing Zone at the end of each mission for maximum resource gain. Coupled with the Grabber, it is actually more beneficial now to leave enemy structures intact, but capture and sell them.

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1871 in art

Events from the year 1871 in art.

Events

 * March – Edward Lear settles at his villa in Sanremo.
 * Spring – James McNeill Whistler publishes Sixteen etchings of scenes on the Thames and paints his first "moonlights" (later called "nocturnes") of the river.
 * March 18–May 28 – Paris Commune:
 * April 5 – Federation of Artists, organized by Gustave Courbet, holds its first meeting in Paris. Membership includes Jules Dalou, Honoré Daumier, André Gill and Eugène Pottier; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet are also members but do not actively participate.
 * May 16 – Napoleonic column in the Place Vendôme is pulled down according to a suggestion by Courbet, one of the events photographed by Bruno Braquehais.
 * May – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri photographs dead Communards.
 * c. May – James Tissot flees Paris for London.
 * June 14 – Camille Pissarro marries his mistress Julie Vellay in the London borough of Croydon and moves to Pontoise.
 * August 14 – Courbet is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine for his participation in the Paris Commune; during his time in prison he produces a series of still life paintings of fruit and flowers.
 * Summer – Claude Monet visits Zaandam.
 * December – Monet and his wife Camille move to Argenteuil.
 * William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti become tenants of Kelmscott Manor, which they share with Jane Morris.
 * Marie Spartali marries William James Stillman.
 * Edwin B. Crocker establishes the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.

Works

 * Frederic Edwin Church – The Parthenon
 * Antonio Ciseri – Ecce Homo
 * Confederate Monument (Liberty, Mississippi)
 * Edgar Degas – Count Lepic and His Daughters
 * Friedrich Drake – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Philadelphia)
 * Thomas Eakins – Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
 * Martin Johnson Heade – Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds
 * Frank Holl – No Tidings from the Sea
 * Daniel Huntington – The Narrows, Lake George
 * Eastman Johnson – The Old Stagecoach
 * Ivan Kramskoi – The Mermaids
 * Édouard Manet
 * The Harbour at Bordeaux (E.G. Bührle collection, Zürich)
 * The Barricade (Civil War) (Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest))
 * John Everett Millais – Victory O Lord!
 * Claude Monet – A Windmill at Zaandam
 * Albert Joseph Moore – Sea Gulls
 * Camille Pissarro – Lordship Lane Station, Upper Norwood
 * Vinnie Ream – Abraham Lincoln (marble, United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.)
 * Randolph Rogers – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Philadelphia)
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 * Dante's Dream
 * Pandora
 * Amanda Sidwall – Self-portrait
 * George Blackall Simonds – The Falconer sculpture
 * Vasily Vereshchagin
 * At the city wall: "Let them in!"
 * The Apotheosis of War
 * Heinrich von Angeli – Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia
 * George Frederic Watts – Portrait of Frederic Leighton
 * Alfred Waud – A Home on the Mississippi
 * James McNeill Whistler
 * Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ("Whistler's Mother")
 * Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea
 * Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames
 * Variations in Pink And Grey – Chelsea
 * Variations in Violet and Green – Chelsea

Births

 * January 27 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (died 1935)
 * March 2 – Albert Herter, American painter (died 1950)
 * March 9 – Granville Redmond, American painter (died 1935)
 * April 11 – Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter (died 1956)
 * May ? – Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, Irish-born engraver and portrait painter (died 1954)
 * May 1 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (died 1944)
 * May 11 – Mariano Fortuny, Spanish-born fashion designer (died 1949)
 * May 27 – Georges Rouault, French Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (died 1958)
 * June 12 – Victor David Brenner, Lithuanian-born American medalist, sculptor and engraver (died 1924)
 * July 24 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (died 1958)
 * August 22 – Émile André, French architect and designer (died 1933)
 * October 26 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-born photographer (died 1941)
 * date unknown – Peter Moog, German outsider artist (died 1930)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Alexander Munro, Scottish-born Pre-Raphaelite sculptor (born 1825)
 * January 14 – Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, Spanish painter (born 1841)
 * January 18 – Sir George Hayter, English painter, specialising in portraits (born 1792)
 * January 19 – Henri Regnault, French painter (born 1843)
 * February 8 – Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (born 1804)
 * February 20 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (born 1810)
 * February 26 – Sophia Hawthorne, American painter and illustrator (born 1809)
 * March 3 – Michael Thonet, German-Austrian furniture designer (born 1796)
 * March – Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (born 1802)
 * April 6 – Emma Eleonora Kendrick, English miniature painter (born 1788)
 * April 24 – Karl Girardet, French painter (born 1813)
 * June 9 – Anna Atkins, English botanist and pioneer photographer (born 1799)
 * June 19 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre arts (born 1797)
 * July 30 – Edwin Wilkins Field, English lawyer and painter (born 1804)
 * October 14 – Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer (born 1797)
 * December 9 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (born 1820)
 * December 21 – Paul Guigou, French painter (born 1834)

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Oljato-Monument Valley

Oljato-Monument Valley is a double community on the border of the U.S. states of Arizona and Utah. It includes the following census-designated places:
 * Oljato-Monument Valley, Arizona
 * Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah

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1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election

The 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election was held on 25 November 1999 after the member of Parliament for the constituency, Alan Clark (Conservative), died of a brain tumour on 5 September 1999.

This was the first safe Conservative seat to have a by-election in the 1997–2001 UK Parliament. There was immediate speculation that Michael Portillo, the most high-profile casualty of the 1997 general election, would use it to return to frontline politics. Portillo immediately confirmed his interest in the seat, but was then confronted with the publication of an interview he had given previously that summer in which he had confirmed that while at Peterhouse, Cambridge he had had homosexual affairs.

Portillo was selected as Conservative candidate but faced demonstrations organised by gay rights group OutRage! and its principal campaigner Peter Tatchell who protested against his vote for an unequal age of consent for gay and straight sex, and support for the ban on homosexuality in the UK armed forces while Secretary of State for Defence. Tatchell continued to try to confront Portillo throughout the election, not assuaged by Portillo saying that he had changed his mind on the age of consent.

The Labour Party selected Robert Atkinson, who had fought the 1997 election and was a local councillor. The Liberal Democrats also renominated their general election candidate, Robert Woodthorpe Browne. Because of the prominence of the by-election in central London and the big political name, there were a wide variety of fringe and minor party candidates. Polling day was 25 November. Portillo was returned safely to Parliament.

title: 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election