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Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal is a 1993 American erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Amy Holden Jones. It is based on the 1988 novel by Jack Engelhard, in which a couple's marriage is disrupted by a stranger's offer of a million dollars for the wife to spend the night with him. It stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson.

It received a mostly negative response from critics for the contrivances and implausibilities of its story. It also sparked controversy, with feminists arguing the film's premise promotes prostitution and the treatment of women as property. Despite this, the film was a box office success and grossed nearly $267 million worldwide on a $38 million budget, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 1993.

Plot
David and Diana Murphy are married high school sweethearts living in California. Diana works as a real estate agent, while David hopes to establish himself as an architect by designing their dream home. The couple invest everything they have in David's project, purchasing beachfront property in Santa Monica and beginning construction, but the recession leaves Diana without houses to sell and David without a job. In desperate need of $50,000 to save their land from being repossessed, they travel to Las Vegas, determined to win the money.

At a casino, Diana catches the eye of billionaire John Gage, while David wins over $25,000 at craps. Reveling in their winnings, Diana assures David that she loves him regardless of the money. The next day, they lose everything at roulette; leaving the casino, they notice a crowd gathered to watch Gage play baccarat. Gage asks Diana to join him for good luck, and she makes a winning craps roll on his $1 million bet. As thanks, Gage insists on paying for the Murphys' stay, giving them a lavish hotel suite and a dress he saw Diana admire. After an enjoyable evening together, Gage offers the couple $1 million to allow him to spend a night with Diana, but she and David refuse.

Diana works very hard to convince David to let it go but they ultimately agree to Gage's proposal. David contacts his lawyer, who prepares a contract for the arrangement. Leaving Diana with Gage, David has a change of heart and races to stop them, but arrives just as they depart by helicopter. Gage flies Diana to his private yacht, and offers her a chance to void their deal and return to her husband if he loses a toss of his lucky coin. He wins the toss, and Diana spends the night with him.

Agreeing to forget the incident, the Murphys return home, and learn their property was foreclosed and resold. Overcome with jealousy, David accuses Diana of continuing to see Gage after finding his business card in her wallet, which she denies knowing about. Discovering that it was Gage who bought out their land, Diana angrily confronts him, and rejects his attempts to pursue her. When she informs David, their tension reaches a breaking point and they separate; Diana later tells him to keep all the money.

Weeks later, Gage visits Diana at work and renews his advances. Initially resistant, she eventually consents to spending time with him, and a romance develops between them. Haunted by happy memories of his wife, David hits rock bottom, leading to a public confrontation with Gage and Diana. He pulls his life back together and finds a teaching position, and Diana files for divorce. Finding her at a zoo benefit with Gage, David donates the entire $1 million in a charity auction bid, then makes his peace with Diana and signs their divorce papers.

Realizing that Diana will never love him the way she loves David, Gage lies to her that she is merely the latest member of his "million-dollar club" of women. Seeing through his deception, she gratefully ends their relationship; before parting ways, he gives her his lucky coin, which she realizes is double-headed. Diana returns to the pier where David proposed to her seven years earlier, finding him there. Repeating their unique declaration of love, they join hands.

Cast

 * Robert Redford as John Gage
 * Demi Moore as Diana Murphy
 * Woody Harrelson as David Murphy
 * Seymour Cassel as Mr. Shackleford, Gage's chauffeur
 * Oliver Platt as Jeremy Green
 * Billy Bob Thornton as Day Tripper
 * Rip Taylor as Mr. Langford
 * Billy Connolly as auction MC
 * Pamela Holt as David's girlfriend
 * Tommy Bush as Mr. Murphy
 * Sheena Easton as herself
 * Herbie Hancock as himself

Development
Paramount Pictures bought the rights to Jack Engelhard's 1988 novel Indecent Proposal for $120,000. Adrian Lyne signed on to direct, reuniting with producer Sherry Lansing, with whom he had worked on Fatal Attraction. Lyne had a falling out with past collaborator Stanley Jaffe, who wanted the film to be released by Christmas season of 1992 and thus allotted for limited post-production time.

The film was originally planned as a vehicle for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, with Warren Beatty as John Gage. Kidman and Isabelle Adjani screen tested for the role of Diana. Cruise backed out amidst speculation that the film's morals conflicted with his new involvement in the Church of Scientology. Robert Redford accepted the part of Gage on the condition that his character be adjusted to be less of a villain. He turned down the $4 million salary initially offered to him in exchange for gross profit participation from the film's box office.

Johnny Depp, Tim Robbins, and William Baldwin were among the actors considered for the role of David Murphy. Woody Harrelson dropped out of the film Benny & Joon to commit to the role, resulting in a lawsuit from MGM-Pathe Entertainment that was settled out of court.

Writing
Of the script, screenwriter Amy Holden Jones said there were multiple third-act changes to the script, made primarily by men. Jones initially wrote the ending with Diana leaving Gage of her own accord, without prompting from Gage.

Jones said, "I always had a lot of trouble with the movie after [David and Diana] split up. The men in charge, and particularly Redford, decided to make [Gage] very sympathetic. In the original script, it was a clear journey where she came to realize that she was his next acquisition. There were four or five people that Redford cycled through to work on his character. In my draft, what she said to him was that you can’t buy love, and then she left him. He had that changed, because Robert Redford couldn’t be left."

Jones added, "I thought [Diana] should leave both men at the end. I brought it up several times [in studio meetings], including once the movie was greenlit. And that was basically laughed at. No one would consider it, really."

William Goldman says he was brought in to work on the script after John Cusack had turned it down. "They couldn’t get anyone to do it," he said. "I wrote a draft and I don’t think they changed anything. I don’t know why the actors decided to do it or didn’t do it, but it was an enormous success so that’s good for me."

Filming
Filming began in Las Vegas in June 1992. The casino scenes were filmed at the Westgate Las Vegas. After a month in Las Vegas, the production moved to southern California, where locations included the Echo Park neighborhood and a Santa Barbara mansion that stood in for Gage’s home.

Lyne decided to feature the novel Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women in a scene because author Susan Faludi had notably criticized Lyne’s film Fatal Attraction.

Lyne completed post-production work on the film roughly two weeks before its opening in April 1993.

Differences between novel and film
Engelhard's novel contained cultural friction that the screenwriter left out of the movie: the main character, named Joshua, is Jewish, and his billionaire foil is Arab. In a review of the novel, The New York Times summarized its themes as "the sanctity of marriage versus the love of money, the Jew versus significant non-Jews such as shiksas and sheiks, skill versus luck, materialism versus spirituality, Israel versus the Arab countries, the past versus the future, and the religious world versus the secular one."

Box office
Indecent Proposal was a box office success, grossing $106,614,059 in the US and Canada and $159,985,941 internationally for a worldwide total of $266,600,000.

The film opened on 1,694 screens in the United States and Canada on April 7, 1993, and grossed $18,387,632 in its opening weekend to top the US box office, the biggest opening at the time for an April release. It was number one for four weeks and became the sixth highest-grossing film of 1993. Some journalists attributed the audience turnout to Paramount’s strong marketing campaign, as well as the film's sensational premise that made for heated debates.

It entered international release on April 23, 1993, previewing on 66 screens in Australia for the weekend. Despite only playing for three days, it topped the Australian box office for the week with a three-day gross of $0.8 million (A$1.16 million). It officially opened in Australia on April 29 and remained at number one for four more weeks. In the UK, it also benefited from previews in topping the UK box office with an opening weekend gross of $2.4 million (£1.5 million) including previews. It remained number one in the UK for three weeks. In Italy it was Paramount/United International Pictures' second biggest ever opening with an opening weekend gross of $1.6 million.

Critical response
The film received negative reviews from critics, who cited the contrivances of the film's script and its underdeveloped characters. Critics noted that the film was the latest of a string of movies that involved women being treated as property, such as Pretty Woman, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Mad Dog and Glory. A major criticism was that the film did not fully explore its potentially enticing premise. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "For all its ostensible daring, 'Indecent Proposal' is much too cautious. None of the three principals really change as a consequence of the story. None of the frankness that might make matters interesting is allowed to sully the romantic mood. None of the characters have lives outside the confines of the story, although the lonely Gage, when celebrating a big gambling win, suddenly gives a party for 200 anonymous, soigne-looking friends."

In The Telegraph, Anthony Brett said that despite its packaging as a steamy thriller, "Indecent Proposal is in fact a largely distasteful and bizarrely plodding romantic drama, one that gently pokes at lofty ideas about power and marriage and the American dream but scurries away before it hits on anything too dicey." In Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman wrote, "'Indecent Proposal' starts out kinky and turns into a languid — and shockingly banal — domestic soap opera. Like '9 1/2 Weeks', the movie is all tease, all come-on. Next time Lyne should try for something a little more indecent."

Critics generally praised Redford's performance, but some lamented that the character of John Gage was given too much of a sympathetic edge, and that the role was merely a chance for Redford to once again play Jay Gatsby. Gleiberman wrote, "Like Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko, he has that aura of money that’s almost tactile — even in his dark suit, he glows — and he speaks with the dry enticement of someone who has had too much of what he wants and now gets his kicks by testing people, living through their experiences."

Of Moore, Maslin wrote, she "pours all of her effort into going through such motions smolderingly, and none into whatever sense may lie behind them. That's fine for the role; she falters only when the screenplay turns mute or turns up howlers." Todd McCarthy wrote, "What emotional legitimacy the film does possess stems from Moore's performance, which is lively, heartfelt and believable until the script ceases to permit it." Several critics found Harrelson to be the weak link of the cast, with McCarthy writing the actor is not given much to do except display "puppydog love in the first section and standard-issue jealousy in the second". However, multiple critics were complimentary of the film's supporting cast, particularly Oliver Platt as the Murphys' wisecracking, sleazy lawyer.

Multiple critics opined that the film loses its narrative steam after the climactic deal takes place. In a 2014 review, Nathan Rabin wrote, "Indecent Proposal suffers from a distinct lack of stakes. The second [Diana returns from her night with Gage], the million dollars that just moments ago was going to change her and her husband's lives ceases to matter. Diana doesn’t want it. David doesn’t want it...Money ultimately doesn’t matter in the sleazy fairy-tale world of Indecent Proposal, only love, and when money threatens to soil that love, then it must be openly rejected."

The film also sparked significant backlash from feminists and critics for its depiction of a woman bartering with her body for the benefit of her husband. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film "sexist propaganda." Activist Betty Friedan and filmmaker Callie Khouri argued the film promotes the idea of prostitution, with Friedan saying, "What does it say? Thirteen-year-old girls will see that movie and be told you don’t need to bother to do your homework or to get an MBA, all you need to do is diet enough to be anorexic, get some silicone and look for that lonely billionaire." Feminist writer Susan Faludi likened Gage's actions in the film to "essentially...raping a woman with money." Producer Denise Di Novi suggested the film could be characterized as a women in prison film, because it has a woman in a "submissive, controlled situation." Camille Paglia dissented, saying "What is it about this picture that moviegoers are in sync with? (Is it) women’s sexuality in ways feminist rhetoric is unable to define?"

Amy Holden Jones wrote a defense of the film in the Los Angeles Times, arguing that Diana had agency in her choice and that much of the criticism levied against the film came from male critics. Jones later said, "When the film was released, it caused a great deal of controversy, because, you know, how could I write this thing about a woman spending the night with this guy for a million dollars? The idea that a woman should not be tempted by any of those things, or she should be so pure that you can’t make a movie about her feeling that way — I mean, go watch some French cinema! It's more complicated than that. I’m as big a feminist as you’ll find, but part of feminism for me is that women can be portrayed not as visions of perfection on-screen, but as whole human beings with choices."

Among the few critics to review the film positively was Roger Ebert. Ebert gave the film a thumbs up on Siskel & Ebert, while his colleague Gene Siskel gave it a thumbs down. In his print review, Ebert admitted there "are large challenges to logic" and the plot is "manipulative", but said "there is a genuine romantic spirit at work here", concluding that a necessary suspension of disbelief is "why we line up at the ticket window: We want to leave the real world, for a couple of hours, anyway". He also described the film's decision to keep the actual night of adultery offscreen as wise.

Caryn James of The New York Times also gave a positive review, writing that while Honeymoon in Vegas and Mad Dog and Glory "dance around the issue of buying and bartering people, 'Indecent Proposal' embraces it. It isn't aways a good film; it employs lazy voice-overs to express sappy sentiments about the Murphys' eternal love. But it turns an inflammatory plot into a surprisingly honest and entertaining movie." Her colleague Janet Maslin gave a similarly mixed response, saying the film "calls for grudging admiration. Working with a ridiculous premise and...[a] badly underwritten script...the director of 'Flashdance' and 'Fatal Attraction' has still come up with the sort of sexy pop parable that is his specialty. Mr. Lyne's films may not cast any new light on the human condition, but they do keep you glued to the screen."

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Indecent Proposal has a 34% "rotten" rating based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The consensus reads: "Lurid but acted with gusto, Indecent Proposal has difficulty keeping it up beyond its initial titillating premise." Audience response was less negative, with those polled by CinemaScore giving an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the "100 most enjoyably worst movies ever made".

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was released on April 6, 1993, by MCA Records. "In All the Right Places" by Lisa Stansfield was released as the album's lead single on May 24, 1993, and is the film's theme song. Sheena Easton makes a cameo appearance in the movie performing "The Nearness of You" at a pivotal part of the movie. The length of the soundtrack is 60 minutes and 37 seconds. "No Ordinary Love" by English band Sade was also prominently featured in the film, though it was not included on its soundtrack album.

In 2015, Intrada Records released an album of John Barry's score.

Remake
On July 30, 2018, Paramount Players announced that a remake of the film was in development, with the screenplay being written by Erin Cressida Wilson.

In popular culture
The animation series The Simpsons's 2002 episode "Half-Decent Proposal" parodies the movie's premise.

In the television series Mad About You episode, "A Pair of Hearts", during the end credits, the married couple Paul and Jamie Buchman are approached by a man who offers a million dollars to sleep with Jamie. They immediately reply "Sure!", and, after a quick smooch, Jamie leaves with the man (to the laughter of the audience).

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Briggs

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Carmine DeSapio

Carmine Gerard DeSapio (December 10, 1908 – July 27, 2004) was an American politician from New York City. He was the last head of the Tammany Hall political machine to dominate municipal politics.

Early life and career
DeSapio was born in lower Manhattan. His father was an Italian immigrant from Campania (Monteforte Irpino), while his mother was a second generation Italian American. DeSapio's father operated a trucking business. DeSapio graduated from Fordham University in 1931.

He started his career in the Tammany Hall organization as an errand boy and messenger for precinct captains. DeSapio earned a reputation during his deliveries of coal and turkey on behalf of the local Tammany club by thanking recipients for their acceptance of Tammany handouts. Tammany Hall had dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 until the election of Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1933. DeSapio was first elected a district captain in 1939, but was rejected by the leadership in the struggle between Irish and Italian interests for control of the organization. In 1943 he was accepted as district leader for lower Greenwich Village.

Tammany Hall boss
In 1949, DeSapio became the youngest "boss" in the history of Tammany Hall, succeeding Hugo Rogers.

DeSapio's Italian heritage signaled the end of Tammany's longtime dominance by Irish-American politicians, and he became the first nationally prominent Italian-American political leader.

Unlike many previous Tammany Hall bosses, DeSapio always made his decisions known to the public and promoted himself as a reformer. As boss of Tammany, he demonstrated liberal credentials when he diversified Tammany's leadership by naming the first Puerto Rican Manhattan district leader, Anthony Mandez, and backed Hulan Jack as Manhattan's first African-American Borough President. His ties with Frank Costello also failed to halt his rise to power in the local political scene. DeSapio reformed Tammany Hall's traditional sale of judgeships early in his role as Boss, reducing the cost of a position of a judge from $75,000 to $25,000. This money was used to offset the cost of campaign expenses.

Public image
DeSapio always seemed a personally modest man. Even though he operated out of four lavish offices, he lived for fifty years in a middle-class apartment on Washington Square with his wife Theresa Natale ("Natalie") and daughter Geraldine. As leader of Tammany Hall, DeSapio reveled in the limelight, attending charitable fund-raising events, making himself available to the press, and delivering speeches in highbrow venues that were thought off-limits to political bosses. In wielding his enormous political clout, he usually preferred extensive consultations and consensus-building to unilateral decision-making. His 16- to-18-hour workday began with pre-breakfast phone calls at home where, still dressed in pajamas and bathrobe, he received a stream of political associates. DeSapio would then visit his various offices for further meetings, and cram in a half-dozen public functions, including radio and television appearances and a late-night political dinner.

DeSapio succeeded in shucking Tammany's notoriety and fashioning himself as a sophisticated, enlightened and modern political boss. He favored well-tailored dark suits and striped ties and always looked as if he had just stepped out of a barber's chair. The only incongruity was the dark glasses he was forced to always wear because of chronic iritis.

Involvement with organized crime
Throughout his political life, DeSapio was noted for alleged involvement with organized crime, even though he fought to distance the organization from the unsavory days of Boss Tweed, and allegations of corruption. In 1951, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee concluded that DeSapio was assisting the activities of New York's most powerful mobster Frank Costello, and that Costello had become influential in decisions made by the Tammany Hall council. DeSapio admitted to having met Costello several times, but insisted that "politics was never discussed". These connections were examined by the Kefauver Commission.

However, it later became apparent that he was also selling out to benefit local mobsters such as Costello. DeSapio was accused of staffing New York City's government with clubhouse hacks. He steered valuable city contracts for streetlights and parking meters to the Broadway Maintenance Corporation, a company that, according to the State Investigation Commission, cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars.

1953 mayoral election
In 1953, he earned new respect and public admiration when he turned against the other Democratic leaders in New York City and used the power of Tammany Hall to help ensure that the highly-unpopular incumbent mayor, Vincent R. Impellitteri, was defeated in the Democratic Party primary by Robert F. Wagner Jr., an outspoken pro-reform Democrat, and then helped assure Wagner's victory in the general election. Following Wagner's success, DeSapio became a powerful and well-respected kingmaker in the New York political scene.

1958 U.S. Senate race
In 1958, DeSapio's image was severely damaged after he successfully manoeuvred to have his own candidate for Senate, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, placed on the Democratic and Liberal ticket. New Yorkers now saw DeSapio as an old-time Tammany Hall boss and Hogan lost the Senate election to Republican Kenneth Keating. Republican Nelson Rockefeller was elected Governor the same year as well. Democrats who had once praised DeSapio now found it expedient to excoriate him. In 1961, Wagner won re-election by running a reformist campaign that denounced his former patron, DeSapio, as an undemocratic practitioner of Tammany machine politics. The same year, DeSapio lost the district leadership of his native Greenwich Village, a post he had held for two decades, to an upstart reform Democrat, James Lanigan, who was backed by nationally known liberal Democrats such as Wagner, Eleanor Roosevelt and former Senator Herbert H. Lehman.

Ouster
His leadership ended in 1961, and with it the dynasty that was Tammany Hall. It took several years of work by Eleanor Roosevelt to bring this about. She told local journalist Murray Kempton, who published her remarks many years later in 1991 when he was a columnist for Newsday, "I told Carmine I would get him for what he did to Franklin, and get him I did." She had vowed revenge because she felt DeSapio had derailed her son's (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.) political ambitions by persuading him to abandon his run for Governor of New York in 1954 and instead run for New York Attorney General. After Roosevelt dropped out, DeSapio then got the local Democratic Party officials to accept former banker and diplomat W. Averell Harriman as the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in the New York state election. Harriman barely managed to secure victory as Governor of New York and Roosevelt lost his bid to become the New York Attorney General. Following Harriman's victory, DeSapio served in Harriman's cabinet as Secretary of State of New York.

Later career
In 1963 and 1965, after Lanigan stepped down, DeSapio tried to retake his position as Greenwich Village district leader, but was twice defeated by another reform candidate, Edward I. Koch, who became mayor in 1977. DeSapio reached a low point in 1969 when he was convicted in a federal court of conspiracy and bribery after it was acknowledged that he conspired to bribe the New York City water commissioner, James L. Marcus, and extort contracts from Consolidated Edison that would result in kickbacks. He served two years in federal prison (1971–1973). After his release, he never re-entered politics, although he supported many community, charitable, and civic causes. He regained some of his former popularity through his skill as a speaker. In 1992, former Mayor Ed Koch, his opponent in 1963 and 1965, whom DeSapio had later befriended and met with on occasions, said of him, "He is a crook, but I like him ... Most politicians still like DeSapio. He always gets the most applause when he is introduced at Democratic dinners".

Among DeSapio's accomplishments were support of the Fair Employment Practices Law, the New York City rent control laws, and the lowering of the voting age to 18.

Death
DeSapio died at age 95 on July 27, 2004, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was interred in a private mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens. He was survived by his daughter Geraldine A. DeSapio.

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Russian/Ruthenian
Hi, I would like to discuss an article about Kiyevian Rus and meanings of names: Russian and Ruthenian. According to me the article is very misleading. As a Russian, you know very well what is difference between names of Rus and Rossiya (sorry, I do not have cyrrilic script). Unfortunatelly, the persons withot knowledge of Slavic languages do not. The article about Kiyevian Rus is written from the point of view of Russian historiography. Considering Russia as a direct continuation of Kiyevian Rus (as in the article) is ridicoulus and derogatory for many Ukrainians, Belarusians (maybe not for electors of Lukaszenka) and other people of Ruthenian origin. It is true that in the Middle Ages there were used the terms of Russia, Rossia etc. But it was a transliteration of the name of Rus. The term of Russia in the modern sense has different meaning: Russia as a state and a country, not the historical Rus - this name also exists in Russian language, isn't it? The term of Ruthenia was commonly used for Rus through centuries. I think that using it is much more precise than Russia in the same meaning. I supose that non Slavic readers of the Wikipedia have got the right to get the full and honest picture of the situation without nationalistic mithology.

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User:Yeti

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Thank you for your answer.

I agree with you that primary target of encyclopedia is to contain as clear and as truthful information as possible. Unfortunately, I can’t agree with some of your arguments.

1. Obviously, Ruthenia is not a Latin word for Russia. It is a Latin word for Rus. The difference is very clear for me (speaker of three Slavic languages) and, as I belive for you – native speaker of Russian. The English word Russia has two different meanings: Rus and Rossiya. I hope that we agree that the term Rus is more general than Rossiya. It is why tradition of Rus include not only Russia but other states and ethnic groups that have nothing to do with Russian state. The word Ruthenia was commonly used not only in Papal documents but in Latin language in all around Europe. In Central Europe the word Russia (in the meaning of Rus) wasn’t used almost all, at least from the end of 15th century (Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, Hungary). In western part of Europe were used both Russia and Ruthenia. I can’t agree with you that the word Russia is less as ambiguous then Ruthenia. The word Russia has two meanings. Ruthenia always the only one: Rus. You know very well that Ruthenia (in the meaning of Carpathian Rus) also is not nothing more than literary translation of Rus. It is why in Slavic languages WE call this region Karpatskaya Rus, not just Rus. Similarly, the other English name for this region is Carpathian Ruthenia. And I don’t think that use of Russia in context of Rus is more natural. Latin is not Russian. Usage of the word “ancient” before Russian doesn’t solve the problem.

2. You should understand that usage of the word Russia may be "derogatory for any valuable quantity of Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Poles" as far as it is used in context of legacy of these nations. Russians through centuries tried to make them Russians by force and usage of Russian in the sens of Rus could appear a some kind of continuation of this policy. I was born on territory of historical Rus. Amongst my ancestrors were people belonging to many ethnic groups inlcluding Ruthenians. My wife is 100% Ruthenian. The problem is that our roots are in Rus, not in Rossiya. Should you visit London you can find a monument of first Christian ruler of Rus funded by Ukrainian emigrants. The inscription beneath is: "Volodymyr the Great, ruler of Ukraine". Guess why? It is not just nationalism.

In modern English the usage of Ruthenia and Russia (Rus) is not consequent. For example for former Rus is usually called Russia. But Rus included in G.D. of Lithuania is usually called Ruthenia, irrespectively of the fact that both are translation of the same word.

The problem is not usage of a noun Russia for Rus but also context of use. Have a look on the page about Kiyevian Rus. For someone without knowledge of Eastern European history it would be obvious that Russia (Rus) and Russia state are the same thing. But this is nonsens. Muscovite state (later Russia – Rossiya) was just one of a few succesor states. If you write about Novgorod, don’t forget that it’s population was virtually annihilated by Muscovite troops and populated by quite new settlers from Moscov area. Republic of Novgorod was not united with Moscov – was destroyed together with it’s inhabitans. It is ridiculous that modern Russian regard themselve succesors of this ancient city. Another succesor state of ancient Rus was Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus and Samgotia. The official language of this state was Ruthenian (Russian if you prefer) and its governing class was of Rus origins. The Ruthenian states was united deliberatery under the Lithuanian governing family for protection against Tatars and Moscov agression. The modern succesors of traditions of Rus are Ukraine (untill 19th century known as Rus - translated as Ruthenia, not Russia) and Belarus.

The only argument I agree is traditional use of the noun Russia in context of ancient Rus in English language. But it should be clearly explained the difference between both meanings of this word. There should be also clarified that in English exsists alternative terms for Rus. Sole "Russian" is not acceptable.

I have written my first post as a some kind of provocation. I hope that Wikipedia would be an excellent tool to find an agreement between diferent points of view. But you have to understand that your views are a Russian (in modern sense) view of history, not history itself.

Regards,

User:Yeti

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Philip Burton Moon

Philip Burton Moon FRS (17 May 1907 – 9 October 1994) was a British nuclear physicist. He is most remembered for his research work in atomic physics and nuclear physics. He is one of the British scientists who participated in the United States' Manhattan Project, Britain's Tube Alloys, and was involved in nuclear weapon development. Moon made outstanding and original experimental contributions which stimulated the development of whole fields of research involving neutrons, gamma rays and novel methods of studying chemical reactions ('Mechanically propelled molecular beams: techniques and opportunities', Moon, P.B. Ralls, M.P., Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 423, 361 371, 1989).

Early life and education
Philip Burton Moon was born in 1907, attended Leyton Sixth Form College, and in 1925 entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He became a research student in the Cavendish Laboratory under Ernest Rutherford. From 1928 to 1931 he worked with Mark Oliphant on the collision of atoms with solids. Rutherford called him "Oliphant's satellite" and that influence remained with him for decades.

Cavendish Laboratory
He worked at Cavendish Laboratory in the mid-1930s, where he shared a room with Australian physicist Mark Oliphant. Both later joined the University of Birmingham; Moon in 1938.

Tube Alloys and Manhattan Project
During World War II Moon was part of the MAUD Committee that confirmed the feasibility of an atomic bomb and then became part of the British delegation to the Manhattan Project, where amongst other things he did work on designing instrumentation for measuring the eventual bomb test.

His wife, Winifred Moon, was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Career at Birmingham University
After the war he was made Poynting Professor of Physics at Birmingham in 1946, succeeding Oliphant but receiving the appointment only after the first choice (Cecil Powell) had been rejected at the last minute for being a communist. He held the position until 1973.

In 1950 Moon was the first person to detect gamma ray fluorescence; however his results were not considered statistically significant enough and it would be several years before they were proven.

Moon was invited to become the honorary life president of the Poynting Physical Society, at the University of Birmingham, in 1975.

In 1991, Moon was the recipient of the Hughes Medal from the Royal Society.

His papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

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Ezetimibe

Ezetimibe is a medication used to treat high blood cholesterol and certain other lipid abnormalities. Generally it is used together with dietary changes and a statin. Alone, it is less preferred than a statin. It is taken by mouth. It is also available in the fixed combinations ezetimibe/simvastatin, ezetimibe/atorvastatin, ezetimibe/rosuvastatin, and ezetimibe/bempedoic acid.

The most commonly reported adverse events include upper respiratory tract infections, joint pain, diarrhea, and tiredness. Serious side effects may include anaphylaxis, liver problems, depression, and muscle breakdown. Use in pregnancy and breastfeeding is of unclear safety. Ezetimibe works by decreasing cholesterol absorption in the intestines.

Ezetimibe was approved for medical use in the United States in 2002. It is available as a generic medication. In 2021, it was the 92nd most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 7million prescriptions.

Medical uses
Adding ezetimibe to statin treatment of high blood cholesterol has no effect on overall mortality or cardiovascular mortality, although it significantly reduces the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. Combining ezetimibe with simvastatin had no effect on overall mortality but did lower the risk of heart attack or stroke in people with prior heart attack. Several treatment guidelines recommend adding ezetimibe in select high risk persons in whom LDL goals cannot be achieved by maximally tolerated statin alone.

Initiation of ezetimibe along with high-intensity statin therapy at the time of an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) event was associated with significantly better cholesterol reduction at day-7, 1-month, 3-months and 1-year post ACS event; which translated into significantly lower recurrent cardiovascular events (death from any cause, major ACS, non-fatal stroke, non-fatal myocardial infarction, and ischemic stroke) post the index event of ACS.

Ezetimibe is indicated in the United States as an add-on to dietary measures to reduce levels of certain lipids in people with:
 * Primary hyperlipidemia, alone or with a statin
 * Mixed hyperlipidemia, in combination with fenofibrate
 * Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, in combination with specific statins
 * Homozygous sitosterolemia

A 2018 review found that ezetimibe used as sole treatment slightly lowered plasma levels of lipoprotein(a), but the effect was not large enough to be important.

Ezetimibe improves the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease activity score but the available evidence indicates it does not improve outcomes of hepatic steatosis.

Contraindications
The two contraindications to taking ezetimibe are a previous allergic reaction to it, including symptoms of rash, angioedema, and anaphylaxis, and severe liver disease, especially when taken with a statin.

Ezetimibe may have significant medication interactions with ciclosporin and with fibrates other than fenofibrate.

Adverse effects
Common adverse drug reactions (≥1% of patients) associated with ezetimibe therapy include headache and/or diarrhea (steatorrhea). Infrequent adverse effects (0.1–1% of patients) include myalgia and/or raised liver function test (ALT/AST) results. Rarely (<0.1% of patients), hypersensitivity reactions (rash, angioedema) or myopathy may occur. Cases of muscle problems (myalgia and rhabdomyolysis) have been reported and are included as warnings on the label for ezetimibe.

Since NPC1L1 also regulates vitamin K uptake, the use of ezetimibe can lead to side effects in warfarin therapy.

Overdose
The incidence of overdose with ezetimibe is rare; subsequently, few data exist on the effects of overdose. However, an acute overdose of ezetimibe is expected to produce an exaggeration of its usual effects, leading to loose stools, abdominal pain, and fatigue.

Mechanism of action
Ezetimibe inhibits the absorption of cholesterol from the small intestine and decreases the amount of cholesterol normally available to liver cells. The lower levels of cholesterol in the liver cells leads them to absorb more cholesterol from circulation and thus lowering the levels of circulating cholesterol. It blocks the critical mediator of cholesterol absorption, the Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) protein on the gastrointestinal tract epithelial cells, as well as in hepatocytes; it blocks aminopeptidase N and interrupts a caveolin 1–annexin A2 complex involved in trafficking cholesterol.

Pharmacokinetics
Within 4–12 hours of the oral administration of a 10-mg dose to fasting adults, the attained mean ezetimibe peak plasma concentration (Cmax) was 3.4–5.5 ng/ml. Following oral administration, ezetimibe is absorbed and extensively conjugated to a phenolic glucuronide (active metabolite). Mean Cmax (45–71 ng/ml) of ezetimibe-glucuronide is attained within 1–2 hours. The concomitant administration of food (high-fat vs. nonfat meals) has no effect on the extent of absorption of ezetimibe. However, coadministration with a high-fat meal increases its Cmax by 38%. The absolute bioavailability cannot be determined, since ezetimibe is insoluble in aqueous media suitable for injection. Ezetimibe and its active metabolites are highly bound to human plasma proteins (90%).

Ezetimibe is primarily metabolized in the liver and the small intestine via glucuronide conjugation with subsequent renal and biliary excretion. Both the parent compound and its active metabolite are eliminated from plasma with a half-life around 22 hours, allowing for once-daily dosing. Ezetimibe lacks significant inhibitor or inducer effects on cytochrome P450 isoenzymes, which explains its limited number of drug interactions. No dose adjustment is needed in patients with chronic kidney disease or mild hepatic dysfunction (Child-Pugh score 5–6). Due to insufficient data, the manufacturer does not recommend ezetimibe for patients with moderate to severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh score 7–15). In patients with mild, moderate, or severe hepatic impairment, the mean AUC values for total ezetimibe are increased about 1.7-fold, 3-to-4-fold, and 5-to-6-fold, respectively, compared to healthy subjects.

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User:Hans1732

Bio Type Stuff
Name: James Hansen

Location: The Metro Area of Minnesota in the Unites States

Ocupation: Primarily I'm a student at the University of Minnesota but I am also a Research Assistant at the LCSE which is a research laboratory at the University. In short, our lab is interested in high performace computing. I've mainly been working on refining the implementation of our own global-database-driven filesystem. Student-wise, if you haven't already guessed, I'm a computer science student. As a student, I'm more interested in the data side of computer science than the systems side. Mainly, I'm fascinated with data structures, databases, and artificial intelligence.

Interests: Like I said before, I'm really interested in data structures, databases, and artificial intelligence as a computer scientist. Outside of that, I like to read books on a lot of varying topics, from fiction to fact.

Programming Projects: Starting with my first real program GasLaws in late 2001 (I'm not going to count the little TI-BASIC programs I wrote before that), I've kind of drifted around as my skills improved and imagination wandered. I've primarily written a lot of utilities for myself (text-parsers, text translators (mostly in changing from one format to another, but I did write a rudimentary language translator that died with a computer crash), news-feed readers and the like). Recently, I've been working on two projects that I think are extremely useful. One, Projekt Physik, was inspired as I was taking physics as well as a computer science course on data structures. Mainly my intention with it is to create a framework from which applications can be based, and then use that framework to write a program to do my homework (I get really tired really fast with repetitive busy work), and anyone else that would be willing to shell out five bucks for the software (A few people bought the extremely early version of the software and enjoyed it). The second project is one I'm developing based on inspiration from my job and from the headache of trying to manage the data on five seperate computers (the things you can get a surplus store). I say inspired by my job since it is a completely different approach to the problem as well as a completely different design for the global file system. I'm implementing the design in C# since I've found it relatively simple to do so, and the connections for database access (I'm using MySQL for my database server) are easy (I found it a major headache to get Java to connect to any database, and the MySQL C++ connector isn't so hot) to use and readily available. I've got it mostly working, but I'm still testing and expanding the functionality of the system, and I never release anything to the outside world unless I'm happy with it. Right now, I'm calling it Heron for Hero of Alexandria since he could be called the first programmer and was big into automation, which is the purpose of this project.

Computer Languages: I'm comfortable with a range of languages:
 * C
 * C++
 * C#
 * Java
 * MIT Scheme
 * PHP

This is about all I can think of for now. Other than that listend above, I tend to trawl through the tech-related stuff here making occasional corrections but mainly just reading through and learning things I didn't know before.

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Benjamin Briggs

Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced American seaman and master mariner. He was the captain of the merchant ship Mary Celeste, which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal on December 4, 1872. The lifeboat was missing, yet the Mary Celeste was still under sail. Briggs, his wife Sarah and their two-year-old daughter Sophia Matilda were never found and were presumed lost, along with the crew of Mary Celeste.

Maritime career
The Briggs family of Massachusetts had a long maritime connection, and Benjamin Briggs himself spent most of his life at sea. He was an experienced, hardy, and able seaman. He reportedly was respected by those who served under him because of his fairness and ability. He worked his way to eventually become a master mariner. Briggs captained the brigantine Sea Foam, and in 1862 became master of the three-masted schooner Forest King. When he took command of the bark Arthur in 1865, he turned over command of the Forest King to his brother, Oliver Briggs. Oliver Briggs was a frequent business partner and sailor with his brother.

Family
Briggs was devoutly religious and a believer in abstinence. In 1862, he married Sarah Elizabeth Cobb, daughter of the reverend Leander Cobb. The newlyweds sailed to Europe in Briggs' schooner Forest King. Their son Arthur S. Briggs was born in 1865 at the family home at Rose Cottage, Marion, Massachusetts. The following year, the family travelled to Marseilles, France, returning in time for the birth of their daughter Sophia Matilda on October 31, 1870.

Mary Celeste
In 1871 Briggs and his brother considered purchasing a hardware store in New Bedford. However, in 1872, he purchased a share in the brigantine Mary Celeste, owned by James Winchester, and modified the cabin to house his family. In late 1872, his wife and daughter accompanied him on the ill-fated voyage from Staten Island, New York to Genoa, Italy. Briggs' son Arthur stayed with his grandmother at Rose Cottage in Marion, Massachusetts in order to attend school.

The following month, Briggs' ship was found abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean near the Straits of Gibraltar. Briggs, his wife, his daughter and the crew of the Mary Celeste were never found and their fate remains a mystery.

Legacy
A cenotaph memorializing the family stands in the Evergreen Cemetery in Marion, Massachusetts. The inscription reads: "Capt. Benj S. Briggs born Apr 24, 1835, Sarah E Cobb his wife born Apr 20 1841, Sophia M, their daughter, born Oct 31, 1870. Lost in Brig Mary Celeste Nov 1872".

Briggs is the main protagonist in the game Limbo of the Lost, in which he is caught within a battle between Destiny and Fate. In the game, Briggs is heavily fictionalized, with no mention of his wife, child or the crew of Mary Celeste.

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Grotte Chauvet
Thanks for your advice on the Grotte Chauvet article. Angela. 17:56, Jan 25, 2004 (UTC)

 * You're welcome of course! Drbug 21:05, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Translation
I'm interested in helping with translating any pages from or to Russian. I'm going to add myself to the translators page, but I thought I would also contact you as Ambassador.

Press Release
I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum MooseDigits 16:37, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Request, if you have time enough
Hello Drbug, I found your name in Ambassador page. Can I ask your help? I wrote Nikolai of Japan, a russian Orthodox monk, bishop and saint who introdued the Orthodox into Japan. If you would like to help me, please consider to this article to translate in Russian. We would like to express our respect and appliciation for him to Russian People. KIZU 02:53, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi! Can you please translate the election notice * into Russian and post it prominently on the Recent Changes page of the Russian Wikipedia. Once you have done that, please let me know, and leave me a link where I can find it. Thanks. User:Danny on en.

Discussion style request
Hi Drbug. Thanks for your contributions on Talk:Kosovo. Would it be possible not to comment within the text of another user (see ) but after the text of another user? I know it is the easiest way to comment on some things other people said, but it makes the text harder to read. And if somebody adds a comment to your comments then nobody knows anymore who wrote what. I am not sure if this is a Wikipedia rule, but I feel that this is easier to understand. Thanks! -- Chris 73 | Talk 14:57, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Answer in Chris 73's page. In short: I know this, it's a bad habit, I will pay more attention to this issue. Drbug 22:17, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your understanding -- Chris 73 | Talk 01:03, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Wild Weasel

Actually
Actually, the follow-on to the F-100 Wild Weasel was the F-105F with some modifications. The F-105F (originally a trainer) Wild Weasel was subsequently heavily modified into the -G model which came later. 15.252.0.75 (talk) 19:11, 28 July 2004

External Link Removal
Rebelguys2 - you deleted the link to the only period technical analysis of the F-4G Weasel now available on the web. In fact I think it is the only analysis of its kind altogether.

The party who put the link up complained to me about this.

I understand that you labelled my very fine work on this topic as spam, which candidly, I find rather offensive. Are you a former Weasel EWO?

Having read the WP guidelines on what constitutes appropriate material, the link qualifies.

I would like you to reinstate the link ASAP.

Regards

C —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ckopp (talk • contribs) 13:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

Big upgrade to page
In responce to a request at Wikiproject Aircraft. Guapovia 08:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

The "mission tactics" portion is full of "conventional wisdom," much of it incomplete and inaccurate, and to my thinking unacceptable in quality. It requires a major overhaul, with sources.--Buckboard 08:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Mission Tactics
From the article: "... Failure to visually see them coming at three times fighter cruise speed results in mission failure."
 * Is this a "mission failure" because the crews could not identify the location of the SAM launch site, or a "mission failure" because the crew is now dead?
 * Most likely due to the crew being dead due to not seeing (and thus, not avoiding) the incoming missile. It is a bit unclear, so I'll change the wording. --Raguleader 04:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Wild Weasels in media?
Does anybody think this section would be worth adding? The only example I can think of off the top of my head would be Flight of the Intruder. --Raguleader 04:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

WW tail code
The statement that Wild Weasel aircraft can be identified by the WW tail code is true but misleading. WW is the tail code for the 35th Fighter Wing based at Misawa AB, Japan; currently flying the F-16CJ. Other units flying the F-16CJ in the Wild Weasel/SEAD role include the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB, SC (tail code SW), the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem AB, Germany (SP), the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home AFB, ID (MO), and the 27th Fighter Wing at Cannon AFB, NM (CC)... just to name a few.

 * Was that always the case? All Vietnam-era Thuds and all F-4Gs I've ever seen had the WW tail code. Was this because they all belonged to the 35th FW? - Emt147 Burninate!  15:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Taken care of. The 35th became a dedicated WW wing after Vietnam War, but it was not the sole SEAD unit. (The F-105Gs had a variety of tail codes just in 1972 alone. The 388th's 17th WWS used JB [a re-coding from ZB of the 6010th Wild Weasel Squadron, which had previously been part of the 12TFS, 18th TFW at Kadena--"J" being the base code for the 388th, Z for the 18th]. The 561st TFS of the 23rd TFW at McConnell AFB sent a Weasel detachment to Korat in April 1972 where they changed their tail codes from MD to WW--but the 17th did not change. During Linebacker and Linebacker II the Weasels carried the tail markings of both. The F-4C Weasel 4's were also at Korat in the fall of 72, and their tail code was ZG .) The WW became the standard markings for the 37th TFW's F-105Gs after the war when the 561st was attached to it at George AFB as the Wild Weasel training school. When it was inactivated to resurface in a few years as the F-117 wing) the codes were inherited by its operational sister wing, the 35th (which had been using GA ) and later to the F-4Gs that replaced the Thuds. In addition to the 52nd TFW, the 90th TFS of the 3rd TFW at Clark AFB was the WW unit for PACAF after the 67th went to F-15s and bore the tail code PN .--Buckboard 07:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

The actual number of F-4E Airframes converted to F-4G Standard is higher than stated in the article
I am trying to find an article which stated that there were in fact 134 F-4G Wild Weasels in total, not 116. 18 extra F-4E's were converted due to attrition. Does anyone know this? NiceDoggie 12:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Globalize?
Before I tag this article with globalize template, were there any similar planes used by non-US armies? British, French, Russian... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 10:12, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Equipment: current
Your information regarding the current role of the F-16CJ is inaccurate. You need to research it. The USAF does not employ weapons systems officers in the back seat of F-16Ds. There are many reasons that the F-16CJ can do the SEAD mission better than the F-4G, employing in a 4 ship is not one of them. Check out www.F-16.net for links to F-16 information.

61.37.245.198 (talk) 02:18, 14 March 2009 (UTC)Jim

561st Tactical Fighter Squadron in Vietnam
One of my old outfits was the 561st TFS, flying the F-105's. We had a mobility alert at something like the a.m. and showed up on the flightline ready to fly to Vietnam. The Colonel had already told me to keep my motorcycles off base and I was ready for some action. The 561st participated in Linebacker I, in which Giap's Easter Offensive was stopped. Giap lost 40,000 troops from his invading army of 200,000. Giap was fired and was never allowed to be a General again. The 561st received the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" for valor. Giap had been the General who had defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu. Later, in Linebacker II, the North Vietnamese were soundly defeated and compelled to sign the Paris Peace Accords. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.230.156 (talk) 09:34, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Possible Source Addition
Interested son of a Weasel, I'm curious whether a link or mention to the History Channel's feature of the Vietnam Era Wild Weasel missions may be an appropriate addition. They were shown in an episode of Suicide Missions, and while touchy as a memory, the episode highlights just how dangerous their hard work really was (something I feel the article does not quite capture as fully as it could in its current state, imo), which was of course very dangerous. Also, it's interesting to note that many viewers/visitors out there would likely have had family members or friends featured in the show.

It happens to not be on record at all, anywhere, on the History Channel's website, something I have made a strong complaint to them about. It is still able to be cited on Amazon as well as briefly mentioned in the Tv guide of its time, but as a source, certainly, it would not want to be seen as simply making a sale. However, the casualty reports and reasons why were well-covered in a respectful way in the show, a very thorough presentation, and so I'm 50/50 as to its relevance. Should any notes on that or the topics it contains be added to this article?

Here is the Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Missions-Weasels-History-Channel/dp/B000F6ZCLG

WillJonassen (talk) 12:57, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

 * It is not a source unless it is cited, so I added as further reading. Glrx (talk) 21:27, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit request
WILD WEASEL: Sentence concerning 16 Crew under WW I should appear in the following paragraph under WW III;  the sixteen were: Brand, Davis, Newsom, Pemberton, Rock, Singer, Gilroy, Hartzell, Larson, Maier, Martin, Marts, Metcalf, Pyle, Reinbold, Sanvick

....source is Metcalf76.7.106.210 (talk) 13:39, 23 May 2014 (UTC)plumalley

C CLASS
If the issue is historical ACCURACY I point out that actual audio recordings of the 1967 missions appear nine pages down noted as "Audio Recordings" ....see WW. Source: combat recordings Plumalley (talk) 23:01, 1 June 2014 (UTC)plumalley

F-35 claims unsourced
There is a section which seems to consist of all manner of unsourced claims that the F-35 will be the next SEAD aircraft:

In fact, the one reference quoted tends to work against this claim. I can find almost nothing which shows that the F-35 will be performing SEAD missions at any time in the future. It can carry the AGM-88 but not internally, which would kind of defeat the purpose, IMHO. Flanker235 (talk) 06:06, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

The F-35 will actually be doing more DEAD (destruction of enemy air defences) than traditional SEAD. Some consider DEAD to be a subset of SEAD. Scottgwalker83 (talk) 09:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Wild Weasel Society
I would like to add a small section for the Society of the Wild Weasels, the Charitable Veterans' Organization for current and former Weasels. The Website is at: www.wildweasels.org I'll hold off a couple weeks to determine consensus. Jlr3001 (talk) 17:16, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

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