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Moist von Lipwig

Moist von Lipwig is a fictional character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. A "reformed con-man" who is one of the major characters of the series, von Lipwig is the protagonist of the novels Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam.

Background
Pratchett does not provide an extensive backstory for von Lipwig, born in the town of Lipwig in Überwald, where he lost his parents at an early age. In Going Postal, he is described as being bullied at school, and running away to become a traveling conman. Being an unreliable narrator, the reader is unsure of whether parts of his backstory are true, for example, he is unclear on his age and his living through the breakup of the unholy empire.

He is also descried as having no notable physical traits, and so characters forget him easily. Descriptions of his height, appearance and age vary between different characters in the novel, which he uses to his advantage, by wearing disguises such as fake glasses and ear hair wigs. Before his eventual capture, he uses a variety of different aliases, and becomes an expert forger of handwriting.

Civil service
In Going Postal, Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork arranged to have Lipwig survive his hanging. When Lipwig woke up, Vetinari offered him a job as Ankh-Morpork's Postmaster General which Lipwig could take or reject of his own free will (the alternative being, essentially, death, again of his own free will). At that time, the city's postal service had long since ceased operation, the remaining two employees doing useless things punctiliously every day. The task of restoring it had claimed the lives of four of Vetinari's clerks, and the competing and mercilessly corporate Clacks network, the Grand Trunk Clacks Company, was being run by a conman, Reacher Gilt. Lipwig nonetheless manages to revive the postal service by applying the principles of the con to honest work, introduces the postage stamp and causes the downfall of the Grand Trunk Clacks Company by exposing the fraudulent practices introduced by Gilt. By the beginning of Making Money, the Clacks network is run by the Ankh-Morpork Postal Service.

Moist, and the Post Office, has a very minor cameo in Thud!. Commander Vimes notices that the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has issued two different sets of stamps commemorating the Battle of Koom Valley, one in which the Dwarfs are winning the battle, the other the Trolls, and he makes an angry remark about "that pea-brain at the Post Office" (probably referring to Stanley, the Head of Stamps Dept, who's known to have been raised by peas). He also mentions the cabbage stamp with the potentially explosive cabbage scented glue, of which Corporal Nobbs has stolen the Watch's confiscated examples.

In Making Money, Moist is very respectable and is up for many rewards and seats due to his efforts. He also breaks into his own office just to keep things interesting. The Patrician offers Moist the additional job of running the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Royal Mint just behind it. He refuses this offer. Vetinari does not force him to take the job as he did in Going Postal, because he knows that Moist will eventually accept. Moist denies this despite Vetinari's accusations that he is bored of working at the post office. However, the chairwoman of the bank leaves all her shares to her dog Mr. Fusspot when she dies (thereby making the dog the new chair of the bank), and leaves the dog to Moist. The Assassin's Guild is alerted to the situation and contracted to kill Moist should he refuse the job or should Mr. Fusspot be killed. Therefore, he becomes responsible for the bank. Moist becomes the Master of the Royal Mint, introduces paper money to Ankh-Morpork, and revolutionizes the bank, while keeping it out of the hands of the greedy Lavish family who sit on the board of directors. At the end of the novel, it was suggested that Moist would be appointed to the position of Chief Tax Collector.

In Raising Steam, steam locomotives are invented and plans are made by Lord Vetinari and the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway Company to construct railway lines ultimately to as far away as Genua. Moist is first tasked with negotiating the purchase or acquisition of lands needed for railway construction, first throughout the Sto Plains, and later Quirm. Following a palace coup against the Low King of the Dwarves, Rhys Rhysson, Moist is required to fulfil the logistically difficult task of constructing a railway line to Schmaltzberg. Despite Moist's own protestations regarding the impossibility of the task, he nevertheless succeeds and the Low King is restored to power with little resistance. At the Wilinus Pass, it is suggested that Moist secretly, and without authorization, used Ankh-Morpork's Umian golems (brought to the city in Making Money) to somehow convey a train over the ravine. While everyone else involved with the journey are given honours and medals, Moist's reward is being allowed to continue living.

Personal life
Moist von Lipwig meets and begins courting Adora Belle Dearheart in Going Postal. By Making Money, the two are engaged. Dearheart plays an important role in Lipwig's life, in that dating her provides him with the dangerous thrill he needs in his life. When she is away, he needs to perform various dangerous activities, such as climbing high buildings and extreme sneezing.

Lipwig is not a follower of a particular god. However, a con he perpetrated in Going Postal led to a massive increase in the popularity of the goddess Anoia. In Making Money, he takes up praying to her, on the basis that she owes him for her newfound popularity.

In "Raising Steam", it is revealed that Moist and Adora Belle have since married and now live in a mansion on Scoone Avenue, in Ankh (the same area where the Duke and Duchess of Ankh, Sam and Sybil Vimes, live). While Moist continues to run both the Royal Ankh-Morpork Post Office and the Royal Mint and Bank, Adora Belle runs the Clacks and has made it an equal opportunities employer, also hiring golems and Goblins.

TV adaptation
In the Sky TV adaptation of Going Postal, von Lipwig was portrayed by actor Richard Coyle. Coyle is also set to narrate the Moist von Lipwig series of Discworld novels, adapted by Audible.

Reception
The character was included in a list of the top ten Discworld characters by The Daily Telegraph in 2013; Tim Martin states that the character "gives Pratchett the opportunity for some of his finest satiric stabs at modern culture". In a review of Making Money for The Guardian, Patrick Ness describes von Lipwig as "a fresh new character" written "to poke serious fun at City institutions". Jim Shanahan, in a chapter on Pratchett's works, describes the character as a "reformed con-man" who "drives technological change". Amy Lea Clemons, in a chapter on Discworld, describes von Lipwig as a "complicating character"; she comments on his use of language to deceive his audience and states that the character presents a contrast with the "more rigid ethical rhetorics" of Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes and Carrot Ironfoundersson. Michelle West, in a review of Going Postal for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, describes von Lipwig as "the anti-Vimes; he's not a man who believes, and hates believing in a world that gives him so little purchase; he's a man who  doesn't  believe. In  anything./ Which  is  part  of  what  makes the book so satisfying". Kirkus Reviews, in a review of Making Money, describes von Lipwig as a "brilliant scalawag of a hero".

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Jadwiga

Jadwiga (diminutives: Jadzia, Iga) is a Polish feminine given name. It originated from the old German feminine given name Hedwig (variants of which include Hedwiga), which is compounded from hadu ("battle") and wig ("fight").

Jadwiga may refer to:

 * Jadwiga (wife of Władysław Odonic) (died 1249), Duchess consort of Greater Poland
 * Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266–1339), Queen of Poland and mother of Casimir III of Poland
 * Jadwiga of Żagań (before 1350–1390), Queen of Poland, wife of Casimir III of Poland (daughter-in-law of previous)
 * Jadwiga of Poland (1374–1399), female monarch of Poland, named after Saint Hedwig of Andechs
 * Jadwiga Lenartowicz-Rylko (1910–2010), Polish Catholic physician imprisoned in Ravensbruck.
 * Jadwiga Dzido (1918–1985), Polish survivor of Ravensbrück concentration camp
 * Jadwiga Jagiellon (disambiguation), several Polish princesses of that name

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Festung

Festung is a generic German word for a fortress. Although it is not in common usage in English, it is used in a number of historical contexts involving German speakers:

 * For historical fortresses in Austria, Germany or Switzerland
 * As part of the reasoning given by the German Army (Heer) for the slow progress of the Siege of Warsaw
 * For German WWII strongholds which were to be held at all costs, especially towards the end of the war:
 * Alpine Fortress or Alpenfestung
 * Atlantic wall or Festung Europa — a military propaganda term from the Second World War which referred to the areas of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany.
 * Stalingrad (see Battle of Stalingrad)
 * Warsaw (Festung Warschau) see also the Warsaw Uprising
 * Poznań (Battle of Posen)
 * Kolobrzeg (Battle of Kolberg)
 * Piła (Festung Schneidemühl)
 * Wrocław (Festung Breslau)
 * Budapest (Battle of Budapest)
 * Kaliningrad (Festung Königsberg)
 * For entire countries such as Norway which were heavily fortified in World War II. See Festung Norwegen.
 * For proposed post war German enclaves (festungen, literally "strongholds") in places such as Brest and Trondheim (see )
 * For planned national redoubts such as Switzerland's National Redoubt (Schweizer Alpenfestung).

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Now (newspaper)

Now (styled as NOW), also known as NOW Magazine is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Through most of its existence, Now was a free alternative weekly newspaper. Physical publication of Now was suspended in August 2022, amid the bankruptcy of its former owner Media Central Corporation, although some new content was still published to its website.

In January 2023, it was announced that the publication will be acquired by journalist Brandon Gonez.

Publication history
Now was first published on September 10, 1981, by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein. NOW is an alternative weekly that covers news, culture, arts, and entertainment. In its printed incarnation, NOW was published 52 times a year and could be picked up in Toronto subway stations, cafes, variety stores, clothing outlets, restaurants, alternative movie venues, and in its green and red newspaper boxes. NOW was published every Thursday for a period of over 40 years, from 1981 to 2022. In March 2022, NOW Magazine switched to monthly publication in an effort to save money. By August, the printed magazine was abandoned entirely.

NOW has been online since 1993, first as now.com and then as nowtoronto.com since 2000.

It is also a central sponsor and its owners held an ownership stake in North by Northeast, a major annual music festival in Toronto.

NOW was privately owned by Hollett and Klein until 2016, when Hollett sold his share of the company to Klein and left the newspaper to focus on North by Northeast as the festival's president and founder. Hollett became sole owner of NXNE when he sold his shares in NOW. Hollett started a new national music and arts print publication, NEXT Magazine, in 2020, publishing in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary,

In 2019, Klein's NOW Communications sold NOW to Media Central Corporation for $2 million. Klein remained with the newspaper as "Chief Editorial Strategist". A few weeks later, Media Central Corporation also announced a deal to acquire the similar Vancouver publication The Georgia Straight.

In April 2022, Media Central Corp Inc., of which NOW Central Communications Inc. is a subsidiary of, that owns and publishes NOW Magazine, filed for bankruptcy. Soon afterward, several of its longtime staff members left, notably film critic Norman Wilner leaving to take a job as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival.

In August, film critic and acting editor Radheyan Simonpillai stated on Twitter that the August 18 issue would be the publication's "last masthead"; in an interview on CBC's Metro Morning the following day, he clarified that the publication was not necessarily going out of business entirely, but would not be releasing print issues for the foreseeable future and many of its remaining staff were owed weeks of back pay.

Content
Syndicated content in NOW included Dan Savage's "Savage Love" sex advice column, Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic and Rob Brezsny's "Real Astrology". Notable writers and editors have included Matt Galloway, Naomi Klein, Cameron Bailey, Susan G. Cole, Jon Kaplan, Adria Vasil, Glenn Sumi, Norman Wilner, Radheyan Simonpillai, Kevin Hegge, John Sewell and David Suzuki.

''NOW published several comprehensive guide issues every year. Some of these include: '' • Love Your Body

• The Best of Toronto Guide

• The Binge Issue

• The Hot Docs Film Festival Guide

• The Hot Summer Guide

• The Love & Sex Guide

• The NYE Planner

• The Patio Guide

• The Restaurant Guide

• The TIFF Issue

• The Toronto Pride Guide

• The Year In Review

In September 2021, Media Central Corporation announced that the company would be selling nine NFTs made from previous covers published by NOW Magazine and Georgia Straight. The NFTs are still listed as open for bidding.

In March 2022, NOW Magazine cut back on printing weekly issues in an effort to save money and grow its online audience. In August, the printed magazine was abandoned entirely.

Green efforts
Some of these efforts include the construction of the Green Roof in 2006. The roof helps to keep the building temperature regulated while using less energy which aids in keeping pollution low. The plant life, which is a sedum species, helps to purify the air. The green roof also reduces stormwater runoff – which can cause sewage backup during periods of deluge. NOW implements a 100% recycled paper policy and uses only vegetable-based dyes for print. This effort, each year, saves over 28,000 living trees, reduces greenhouse gases – the equivalent given off by 534 cars, eliminates 7 swimming pools of waste water and saves 79 garbage trucks worth of solid waste. Now also partners with Green Enterprise Toronto (GET) and Canopy (formerly Markets Initiative). Both companies are dedicated to responsible business and green initiatives.

NOW is a certified B Corporation.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fluffer

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was - kept

Currently in an edit war between two users about whether a paragraph break should be inserted in the midst of its three sentences. Wouldn't be surprised of my VfD header is erased in the next edit too. Anyway, this is nothing that couldn't be included in Pornographic movie. Garrett Albright 21:24, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep or redirect to pornographic movie. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:34, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

 * HISTORY: Someone put a very crude version of it up a few days ago, it was CfD'd, and I objected to it on the CfD page, but not fast enough. So, in fairness — although this isn't the kind of crap I have on my own site — since the word has some currency and there is some vague use to it, I rewrote it as genteelly as I know how, but with . That got removed, no explanation — I don't understand what the  procedure is — then the next thing I know, as you say, a revert duel. Careful though, Garrett: not about a paragraph break but about "Its usually a guy" or whatever the phrase was. Anyway I'm heartily fed up with it, and am not going to spend any more energy defending this article: my sense of fairness all used up; and the Haydes seems to be a notorious troll, don't want to be tarred by association. Delete. — Bill 21:35, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep and improve. The Recycling Troll 21:35, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * merge into pornographic movie and redirect. Whosyourjudas (talk) 21:38, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * keep. Legitimate substub that needs cleanup.  Could be an interesting article.--Tomheaton 21:40, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Maybe improve and expand, if it can be done tastefully. It's a legitimate subject, as far as I can tell. It could be merged and redirected to pornographic movie, but I'm of the opinion that redirects should generally be used for things which are closer to being synonyms (unless it's part of a list). Someone would probably have to read pretty far down a somewhat lengthy article to find out what a fluffer is, and this article defines it pretty well. One could argue it's a dicdef, I suppose, but with a little work it could be an article as much as many others we have. -R. fiend 21:50, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Spelling, spelling! You mean dickdef, of course. — Bill 22:05, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I'll admit it, I snickered. That's no excuse, however. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 06:34, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep if improved, otherwise delete. A potentially good article isn't enough reason to keep a near-nonsense article. andy 21:53, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. --Daniel C. Boyer 19:07, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I saw the same thing that Bill did, and I thought it was moronic. I may have even been the first speed deleter, because of that "it is usually a guy" thing.  That's foolish, wrong, and worthless.  Since the whole content before that line had been a substub, there was no point in saving it.  Bill worked to save it.  Well, it isn't usually a guy.  If there is going to be an edit war over that, we're better off deleting it.  Therefore, merge and redirect to prevent the noisome from having a bauble to bat around. Geogre 22:15, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to pornographic movie. Andrewa 23:48, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Edit wars are not legitimate reasons for deletion.  -Sean Curtin 04:01, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. If someone can write a fuller article then it can always be split back out. —No-One Jones (m) 04:02, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Kee[. Valid topic.  RickK 06:33, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * Merge and redirect to pornographic movie. Seems exhaustive. Mashford 02:57, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. Gamaliel 05:50, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Merge and redirect to pornographic movie. It can't be expanded without getting graphic, so it will always be a stub otherwise. If possible, the same info should be in the Wiktionary. gK 13:24, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. -Seth Mahoney 18:53, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Just because the article is short doesn't mean it has to be part of the dictionary. Encyclopedia is about all-encompassing, not just major articles of interest. Otherwise it will degenerate into nothing more than mass media. Oct 13, 2004.

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Talk:Academic honor code

BYU
I included the comments on BYU because I thought that it applied to the article, as it is quite different from most of the other Honor codes, and it is fairly well known. -tito2000 9:51, Aug 25, 2006 Should this include specific examples of honor codes, or should this remain an article that only discusses honor codes in broad terms? I write this based on editing conflicts between myself and Meelar. --L33tminion 21:25, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Issue resolved. Specific example moved to article for Olin College.  --L33tminion 21:39, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Limited Entry
This entry seems unnecessarily limted to the idea of academic honor codes -- the idea of an honor code may have much broader implications both interms of the ethical principles and the behaviors that are expected to come from the code. It would be nice to see this discussion expanded.

Zutano99 (talk) 16:59, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Photo really needed?
That newspaper story seems out of place.

Colleges with Honor Codes
List is based on a google search of Wikipedia, and thus may not be complete. --L33tminion 20:36, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * Nearly every college in the United States (and elsewhere) has an Honor Code; and definitely every law school does. What's the point in having the list? Peyna 00:39, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. There are, however, a handful of schools where an honor code is essential to the operation of the institution. These schools should be listed.

That is not entirely accurate. Many schools have something they call an honor code, but the academic literature is surprisingly detailed in what they consider to be an actual honor code in the style of old W&M or Haverford. According to academics studying these things, an honor code must have most if not all of the following elements: 1)a written pledge of honesty that the student signs, 2)a student controlled judiciary (not just a dean or a board that has a few students on it) that hears alleged violations, 3) unproctored examinations, and 4) an obligation for all students to help enforce the code. I'll tell you right now that most schools don't do half of these things. Redzuny 21:05, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you have direct cites for that? If so, perhaps that should be cited on the page and then examples of a "traditional" honor code (ie W&M, Haverford, Davidson) should be given and examples of a "titular" or "non-student" honor code (ie... I don't know, I guess those other schools) should be given? There are large differences in these codes and those should be mentioned in the article.LKAdriaan 01:02, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

 * The Academic Integrity Center does a reasonable job at defining an honor code at http://www.academicintegrity.org/educational_resources/honor_code_101.php, although their definition purposefully paints them as outdated since they have their own agenda they are trying to push. Redzuny 05:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Removed the list
I went ahead and removed the list, it was getting too large and per my comment above, really pointless. You'd be better off with a list of universities that don't have an honor code. (Since there would be very few of them). Peyna 13:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Honor Codes in England ?
Is there anything equivalent to an honor code (or in Commonwealth spelling, "honour code") in British universities ? What about in other non-English-speaking countries ?
 * Well, not anymore, but traditionally European (both Continental and British) universities had vast independence and considerable power over their students. In some cases, regular civil authorities were even unable to arrest or prosecute university students or academics, because they belonged to the "jurisdiction" of the university. Instead, a bedel (or Pedell in German areas) was a university official tasked to supervise the students, hand out punishments and generally uphold the code of conduct at the university. Offenders could be fined, detained in Karzer (university prison) or expelled from the university. University of Paris already had the office of bedel in the 13th century. Nowadays university bedels perform only ceremonial roles. JJohannes (talk) 21:04, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

W&M
Why does this have the William and Mary box? If anything, the content of the article would seem to indicate that this should NOT be the case. ..
 * Actually, the very first honor system/honor code (whatever you want to call it) was created at W&M by Thomas Jefferson. It even mentions it in the article. As such, W&M has a claim to be the originator of a now widely used practice of academic honor systems. Therefore, a W&M template is appropriate, especially considering it is a major aspect of the College. -Jrcla2 (talk) 18:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I buy this. I know the concept of an honor code originated at W&M but it feels strange to put the box on the article. Honor codes are major factors at many colleges now, and claiming such a broad concept as part of a "school box" seems inappropriate. Should the article on Artificial Intelligence or the BASIC programming language have a Dartmouth College box at the bottom? Both were "invented" at Dartmouth, but a box seems to imply that the "boxed" topic is fully contained within the topic of the box, and it is clearly not the case in this case or in the two examples I gave. But maybe I'm misunderstanding "boxness" :) -dgp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.170.212.237 (talk) 06:38, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I would entirely agree that the W&M school box has no place in this article. The article does not belong to W&M exclusively (like the Omohundro Institute does) and therefore should not be cited in the references like it is.  The normal wiki markup in the Academic honor codes section should provide sufficent reference for the school. Bgautrea (talk) 21:18, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Code of honor
I simply cannot believe this doesn't fall under a Code of Honor WikiProject... It could included Bushido, chivalry, dueling... TREKphiler 15:02, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Texas Law
Can anyone explain the reference to Texas law being unique as it regards U. Texas's reporting of violations? I don't get it. Is there a LAW that requires the school to broadcast violations to other states where students will be taking the bar exam? Or is this a suggestion that only Texas cares to receive such comments from its law schools? In South Carolina, our supreme court requires all law schools for bar applicants to submit forms detailing any brushes with any sort of honor code. It is not required by STATUTE, but the court requires it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProfReader (talk • contribs) 03:25, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

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UVA is no longer single sanction
https://news.virginia.edu/content/honor-vote-restores-expulsion-option-new-multi-sanction-system 199.111.227.48 (talk) 18:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kringle

Kringle was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP

I smelled not flaky golden pastry with delicious gourmet fillings, but advertising. At the same time, for all I know, kringles are quite real; but I'm in a bad mood so NPOV'd the text as much as I could and simultaneously offered it to your deleting pleasure; maybe instead I'll learn something. Better safe than sorry, though. — Bill 21:25, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Seems to be a legitimate pastry:   The first Google hit for "kringle pastry" is a non-advertisement recipe:  You were right to make it read less like an ad, though. Odd-looking thing, but sounds pretty tasty.Garrett Albright 21:33, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, recipes/description of food in and of itself are not, IMO, encyclopedic. Something must show that it is notable or is special because of something.  Hundreds of thousands of different types of food is out there, one is not more notable than the other.  -Vina 21:35, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep: doesn't fulfil any of the criteria for deletion.--Tomheaton 21:37, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. recipes/description of food in and of itself are, IMO, encyclopedic. YMMV --Tagishsimon
 * Keep. Interesting, encyclopedic, and lots of room for growth. Andrewa 23:43, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep but needs to be toned down even further. Either the link needs to be removed or others need to be added. Borderline notability, I think. My wife grew up in (southwest) Wisconsin and never heard of them. I spent ten years at University of Wisconsin in Madison and never heard of them. I suspect they really are limited to the Racine area. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:02, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Couldn't just be limited to Racine, I've eaten them in Illinois. - RedWordSmith 01:10, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: Three independent shops near my home in Sydney make them, see the talk page. Andrewa 01:13, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Kinda thought so, I learned something. (I'm on the side of "Food is inherently encyclopedic", by the way.) Withdraw motion to delete. Comment: the apparent fact that they may be peculiar to a very small area makes them more notable, not less.... but would agree with DpbSmith, we can add two or three more producers of them and zero out the promo factor. I live in Chicager and have been to Racine, always on the alert for interesting food, never heard of them; more fool me! — Bill 01:16, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Food is not notable. --Improv 03:39, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - Food is an important part of a cultural tradition and thus encyclopedic providing it isn't merely a recipe. Capitalistroadster 08:27, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep But remove the link. Perhaps the page can be fleshed out with a pic / more info.  hiadam 04:38, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Six Mile Lake (Alaska)

Six Mile Lake is a lake in southern Alaska between Lake Clark and Iliamna Lake. The Newhalen River drains Six Mile Lake into Iliamna Lake. The lake is about 5 km long and about 1 km (3/4 mile) wide. The city of Nondalton lies on the lake's western shores.

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Rustie Lee

Rustie Lee (born 22 May 1949 ) is a British-Jamaican television personality, television chef, actress and singer. She participated on the Channel 5 reality-television show Celebrity Super Spa in 2013; ITV's Who's Doing the Dishes?, hosted by Brian McFadden, in 2016; and Celebrity Coach Trip in 2020. Between 2015 and 2017 Rustie also appeared on children's BBC TV programme Twirlywoos.

Early life
She attended the girls' grammar school King Edward VI Handsworth School.

Broadcasting career
Lee first came to public attention for her appearances during the 1980s on the morning television station TV-am. Following her initial successful period as a chef on TV-am in 1983, Lee took over from Sarah Kennedy on the second incarnation of the ITV gameshow Game for a Laugh.

In 2004, Lee appeared on Livings I'm Famous and Frightened! 2, a reality show featuring a number of celebrities staying in a castle over a weekend, taking part in various challenges and looking for paranormal activity, guided by a medium. Viewers voted for their favourite star, and the celebrities were voted off one by one. Lee won the series showing a keen interest in the tasks and occasional emotional involvement, giving detailed and varied accounts of how she felt at certain points.

In recent years, she has made occasional appearances on This Morning, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Daily Cooks/Saturday Cooks. She has also made appearances on That Antony Cotton Show, The Wright Stuff, Loose Women, and Channel 5's Big Brother's Bit on the Side, a spin-off chat show for Big Brother. She also appeared on the Channel 5 reality show Celebrity Super Spa.

Politics
In 2004, Lee joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and was adopted as their candidate for the Wyre Forest constituency in the 2005 general election. She also appeared in the party's election broadcast that year. On polling day, she came fifth, with 1,074 votes (2.3% of the total).

Lee stood for UKIP for the 2009 European Elections in the West Midlands constituency in June 2009, but was not elected.

Other activities
Lee has written several cookbooks, including Rustie Lee's Caribbean Cookbook (1985) and A Taste of the Caribbean (2007).

In 2008, Lee briefly joined the cast of EastEnders as Gus Smith's aunt Opal Smith. She also appeared briefly in Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice. She appeared in the last episode of Benidorm Series 6 as Queenie. She also narrated children's stories for BBC Radio in Birmingham.

Lee has recorded as a singer. In 1985, she released the album Invitation to Party, including her cover versions of "Barbados" and "My Toot Toot". In 1994, she released a further single, "You'd Better Phone", paired with a B side cover of Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) by The Outhere Brothers She also sang on a number of her appearances on Big Brother's Bit on the Side.

Lee has appeared in several pantomime productions including Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan among others.

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Richard Johnston (Ontario politician)

Richard Frank Johnston (born August 8, 1946) is a retired Canadian provincial politician, educator and administrator.

Background
Johnston was born in Pembroke, Ontario and grew up in Peterborough. As a young man he was active in the Anglican church and at one point considered becoming a priest. In 1964, Johnston enrolled at Trent University being the second person to register at the opening year of the university. He also worked at Trent as an administrator and counsellor. In 1967 he moved to Montreal to write fiction and poetry because as he said, "I couldn't afford Paris." After that he moved to Whitby where he became a social worker specializing in the elderly. He was the founding executive director of Community Care in Durham Region.

Johnston and his wife operate a vineyard and winery in Prince Edward County.

Politics
Johnston's first association with politics was in the 1970s when he worked as a campaign organizer for Stephen Lewis in Scarborough West. He was the campaign manager for the 1977 election.

When Lewis left politics, Johnston ran to succeed him as the NDP Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Scarborough West, winning election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1979 by-election. Johnston was re-elected three times before he retired in 1990. The only time he faced a serious challenge was in 1981, when he defeated Progressive Conservative John Adams by 375 votes.

He crusaded for improved benefits to the poor and disabled by attempting to live for a month on a "welfare diet" in 1982, limiting his food budget to that of the average person on welfare.

Johnston ran in the 1982 NDP leadership convention to succeed Michael Cassidy. He characterized himself as a 'rank-and-file' candidate who was more in tune with the grassroots of the party in contrast with Bob Rae who had the support of leaders in the party and the trade union movement. Johnston received support from the left wing of the party including MPPs Floyd Laughren, Jim Renwick and Ross McClellan. Johnston promoted a strong anti-nuclear stand and was proponent of nationalizing key industries such as the banks, Bell Canada and natural resource companies such as Inco's mining and smelting operations. On February 7, 1982, Rae won on the first ballot with 64.5% of the vote beating Johnston by 844 votes. Johnston was magnanimous in defeat saying of Rae, "a leader with an unparalleled capacity to turn a phrase and turn on a crowd. I will be proud to serve in the Legislature with Bob Rae as my leader."

In the legislature, Johnston served as chair of the NDP caucus and chair of the social development committee during the 1985 to 1987 minority legislature in which the NDP held the balance of power. Johnston, unlike Rae, had originally supported a coalition government with the Liberal Party following the election of 1985.

In 1983, Johnston moved a resolution to declare Ontario a nuclear weapons-free zone but it was defeated, a decision that moved him to tears. In 1987 he introduced a private members bill on the same issue and it was passed with support of all three parties. Only 2 Liberals and 7 Conservatives opposed it. He travelled to Nicaragua to help build a school and medical facility. In 1987, he presented a report to the legislature, Toward a New Ontario, which recommended an overhaul of the existing social assistance system.

In 1990, Johnston decided to retire from politics. He said that after suffering a heart attack in 1984 he wanted to pursue a career that was easier on his health.

After politics
Following his departure from politics, Johnston returned to academia serving as chair of the Ontario Council of Regents for the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology from 1991 to 1995. He then served as president of the First Nations Technical Institute on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory from 1995 until 1998 as well as a member of Trent University's board of directors. Johnston served as president of Centennial College in Scarborough from 1998 until 2004.

In 1995 Johnston and his spouse purchased a farm 5 km West of Wellington in Prince Edward County, Ontario. They started By Chadsey's Cairns, one of the original wineries founded in "The County" in the 1990s, and continue to run the operation to this day.

In 2006, he was appointed to the board of trustees for OPSEU's pension trust.

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Imperiali quota

The Imperiali quota or pseudoquota is an inadmissible electoral quota used to calculate the number of votes needed to earn a seat in single transferable vote or largest remainder elections. It is named after Belgian senator Pierre Imperiali.

The Czech Republic is the only country that currently uses this allocation system, while Italy and Ecuador used it in the past.

It is possible for elections using the Imperiali quota to have more candidates win quota than there are vacancies to fill. If this occurs, the result needs to be recalculated with a higher quota (usually the Droop quota). If this does not happen, Imperiali distributes seats in a way that is a hybrid between majoritarian and proportional representation.

Formula
The Imperiali quota may be given as:

 * $$\frac{\mbox{votes}}{\mbox{seats}+2}$$

However, Imperiali violates the inequality for a valid quota:
 * votes = the number of valid (unspoiled) votes cast in an election.
 * seats = the number of seats on the legislature or committee.

$$\frac{\mbox{votes}}{\mbox{seats}+1} \leq \mbox{electoral quota} \leq \frac{\mbox{votes}}{\mbox{seats}-1}$$

This can lead to impossible allocations that assign parties more seats than actually exist.

An example of use in STV
To see how the Imperiali quota works in an STV election imagine an election in which there are two seats to be filled and three candidates: Andrea, Carter and Brad. There are 100 voters as follows:

There are 100 voters and 2 seats. The Imperiali quota is therefore:

 * $$ \frac{100}{2+2} = 25 $$

To begin the count the first preferences cast for each candidate are tallied and are as follows:

 * Andrea: 65
 * Carter: 15
 * Brad: 20

Andrea has more than 25 votes. She therefore has reached the quota and is declared elected. She has 40 votes more than the quota so these votes are transferred to Carter. The tallies therefore become:

 * Carter: 55
 * Brad: 20

Carter has now reached the quota so he is declared elected. The winners are therefore Andrea and Carter.

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Lennart Daléus

Lennart Daléus (born 25 June 1946) is a Swedish politician, who was the leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1998 to 2001.

Born in Stockholm, Daléus was the leader of the Option 3 campaign for the 1980 referendum on nuclear power in Sweden. Following his stint as Centre Party leader, he was the general secretary of Greenpeace Sweden and the CEO of Greenpeace Scandinavia from 2002 until August 2008. In 2006 he disclosed that he was no longer a member of the Centre Party, as he did not believe that his work for Greenpeace was congruent with being active in a political party. He also criticised the party for its decreased interest in environmental issues.

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Talk:Volkswagen Phaeton

End of the Road for Phaeton?
A blog is reporting that the Phaeton will not be making a return for 2007. . Also, VW doesn't list the car as an available model. Perhaps the article needs to be updated? (I would do this, but I'm short for time right now sorry!) Raj Fra 02:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I added this in the American Market section of the article, but I didn't add the reference link you provided. I'm short on time as well so I'm not able to do it. Leofan7, January 11, 2007

Shame this car wasn't well received in the U.S.
I love this car. I also love my Phaeton. My lease is up in Dec 06 and I can't find a comparable car:~(

I forgot that I posted this last year. Turns out that I did find the perfect replacement, another Phaeton. On November of 06 I had a new white Phaeton delivered from Chicago to California. At that time there were only 13 new Phaetons left in the US. The 06 is much nicer than my 04 because of the upgraded audio and seating etc.

This is by far one of the best cars flying under the radar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.130.20.245 (talk) 05:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I love the Phaeton, but VW also makes the Audi A8 which is even better. --Aizuku (talk) 12:00, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Internal Competition
I've often wondered what the point of this car was. Didn't anyone at VW point out that Audi make the A8? It's not even as if the Phaeton could have used A8 tooling as the Audi is aluminium. VAG already had a car in the 7-series/ S-Class Merc segment so why bother with the expense of another one? Or, why didn't VW just restyle an A8 and preserve most of the pressings (a la Golf/A3 etc)?

LewisR 18:03, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Other crap
I doubt the numbers:~( for the electronically limited maximum speed. How would you sell such an expensive car if it only makes a lousy 208 km/h (130 mph). That needs to be clarified.

 * All VW products sold in North America are limited to 210 km/h (130 MPH) - the Phaeton is no exception. I added a note to the body text of the main article mentioning the lower speed governor setting for NAR.  PanEuropean, Sept 2006

 * I just checked the Volkswagen Website it states 250 kph (156 mph) for the V8 and W12 version. Even the budget Diesel engine accelerates this car to 230 kph.

This article is written from a UK standpoint.

It says "by way of the phaeton auto body style" -- The phaeton auto body style is a convertable, and this is not a convertable. So this statement is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.23.40.194 (talk) 21:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

pronunciation
the typical german pronunciation of the word phaeton usually is ['fæ:ton]; so two syllables

Reliability
The newly added US Market section says Customers have been slow to accept a luxury Volkswagen, due to their historical perception of the brand as well as a reputation for poor reliability and unfriendly dealerships. Does the reputation for poor reliability refer to the VW brand, or the Phaeton specifically? I'm not aware of a reputation of poor reliability for the VW brand, but of course this doesn't mean it does not exist. Friday (talk) 15:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * There have been some major reliablity issues with VWs of late. Most notable is the "sludge" issue on the 1.8T version of the Passat.  This has not been the only one.  The New Beetle also has a bad reputation. Consumer Reports has them ranked pretty low.  Nmpls 10:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This survey refers to the VW brand I am concerned however about the biased sounding nature of the "US Market" section. Also, it doesn't sound professional with words like "flop" and "gas guzzler" used. I think this section should be amended to sound more professional and less biased. vw12 - 08:22 15 November 2005 (UTC)

In the US, "gas-guzzler" tax is an accepted term. It is used rather frequently by the media and individuals. It applies to vehicles with very poor gas mileage for their class (usually supercars or large SUVs). Also, VW has developed a repution in the last 10 years or so for poor reliability and over-pricing in such core models as the Jetta and Passat. I am sure these factors have contributed to the failure of the Phaeton in the USDM Chris
 * Agreed. "Gas-guzzler" is a legal term in the US.  Much like "lemon." Nmpls 10:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I think the first section is...leading the reader a bit, I mean, Wikipedia is not the place for conjecture about why a car has such a dismal sales record. Simply state the sales, potential comparisons to other factual sales numbers, and let the reader decide what is or is not self-evident. Also, the language does seem a bit "colored" by automotive press...  I suspect it will be easier to clean this article up (in a few years?) when the Phaeton is no longer sold anywhere and everyone has written her obituary, but for the time being, we should just stick with the simple facts, in a neutral, straightforward way.  By they way, I'd love to drive one of these, they sound fantastic. --Sirimiri 04:46, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

The language is somewhat inflammatory, but the problems are pretty much as laid out.

VW's reputation for reliability took a severe hit when they had problems with their coil packs which led to predictable failure between 25,000 and 50,000 miles. The same coil packs were used in more upscale Audi vehicles and Audi did a voluntary recall to replace all the defective parts. VW chose to replace the parts as they failed, leaving many VW drivers stranded on the road, and those drivers "lucky" enough to have their coils outlast the vehicle's warranty left holding the bag for expensive repairs.

Since then, VW has been well down on all objective measures of reliability.

Dealerships vary widely, but one common thread with the Phaeton is that luxury car buyers are used to being treated with deference and offered perks, and the VW dealerships don't generally do this.
 * VW only allowed the Phaeton to be sold in certain-- Termed "Class A" dealers. Some dealers were required to build new buildings for the Phaeton (Example, WestSide VW in the greater MSP area) Nmpls 10:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The only statement I take issue with is this "Customers have been slow to accept a luxury Volkswagen, perhaps due to their historical perception of VW as being an "economy" marque." This is conjecture, not fact. I don't think it should be placed there. I agree with Sirimiri, just state the facts and let the reader decide what is obvious or not. I won't touch it until we reach a consensus about it.--vw12 10:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that the word "perhaps" makes it clear that this is conjecture, not absolute fact. If we only wrote facts that could be absolutely proven we wouldn't write much worth reading. Reading other automotive entries, it doesn't seem to be a problem to use conjecture to illustrate why various cars are popular. Why is it such a concern when discussing a rather obvious negative?

Honestly, if you were a wealthy auto buyer, would you rather buy this car with a big VW emblem on the front, or a Bentley emblem?
 * Heck, I know people who this was an issue for. I know someone who owns a variety of dealerships and he says this is exactly why.  Numerous magazines/newspapers have said it too.Nmpls 10:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I completely agree with your reasoning, but the problem here is that the WikiPedia isn't an outlet for original research or conjecture. If the other auto articles have such things, then they are wrong, and will eventually be sussed out. As it is, the statement:
 * "Customers have been slow to accept a luxury Volkswagen, perhaps due to their historical perception of Volkswagen as being an "economy" marque."
 * Should be thus:
 * "Customers have been slow to accept the luxury Volkswagen."
 * Since the second is a statement of fact, not conjecture. However, if you find information on the 'net which states that customer hesitation is the leading factor in the failure of the Phaeton, then add it, and cite the source. --DarrenBaker 16:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

moved article to US section
Moved Car and Driver statement to the US part.--VWphaetonfan 11:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Name Origin
I highly doubt that its name comes from mythology, as a phaeton can mean:

1. A light, four-wheeled open carriage, usually drawn by a pair of horses. 2. A touring car.

81.86.76.6 17:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * More specifically, a phaeton was a 1930's four-door car with convertible roof that did NOT have a solid bulkhead between the front and rear seats. As the solid roof designs gained popularity, the phaeton style faded from production, leaving the 'drop top' mainly to two seat roadsters. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 03:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

Am I the only person who thinks it's pretty retarded to name a car after a guy who hijacked a chariot and crashed it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 00:23, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the name quite definately came from mythology since it's mentioned in the UK brochure for the car (along with the carriage body) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bewibble (talk • contribs) 15:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Phaeton in past sense
The first article seems to depict the car in the past sense as in: ... was a large luxury sedan ... ... It served as the flagship ... This is not the case since the car is still being manufactured, and the next generation model is being developed.

Also, to go some way to establish the origins of the name, the UK Phaeton Universe website (point 990) quotes "Helios, the Sun god". http://www.thephaeton.co.uk/universe/index.php

Diesel engine size
The article says 4.9L V10 diesel on the right pane, and then 5.0L at the bottom table. Whichever one is wrong should be fixed... Craigblock (talk) 16:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The V10 diesel engine is, without question, a 5.0L engine. PanEuropean (talk) 06:33, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Original work?
The article is well-written but highly under-sourced and essentially of a tone more fitting an advertisment than a reference article. The big statements in the article, one after the other, are un-sourced. Anyone? 842U (talk) 01:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

It's awfully difficult to provide web-link, clickable citations for many of the facts given in this article. I have a whole collection of Volkswagen technical specifications for this vehicle, maintenance manuals, automobile magazine reviews, etc., but how do I go about using an official document (technical specification) published by Volkswagen as a citation? There's no facility within Wikipedia for me to scan the document and attach it for others to examine. PanEuropean (talk) 06:33, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

 * It's quite acceptable to cite non-web sources in WP. See the documentation for the details on how to do this. Letdorf (talk) 22:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC).

Sales section
Something needs to be done about it as it deals entirely with the US.(86.31.187.246 (talk) 01:38, 7 September 2008 (UTC))

I do strongly suspect that the sales figure given for the United States market in MY 2004 (1,433 vehicles) is incorrect, and the actual sales in Canada and the USA of MY 2004 vehicles is closer to about 3,000. But - I don't have any way of substantiating this. PanEuropean (talk) 06:33, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Haiders accident car
Wouldn't be nice to add the exact type of car "v6, v8..." "The far right Austrian politician Jörg Haider drove a Phaeton and famously crashed it and was killed on October 11th 2008." without the car version its boring, if we add he is far right I think we should also mention which version he drove.

N00bh4ck3r (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 20:11, 13 October 2008 (UTC).

English Language Phaeton Owner Forum
I added an external link at the bottom of the article to the English language Phaeton Owner forum that is hosted at the VW Vortex discussion forum. Although VW Vortex is a commercial venture(there is advertising present at the top of forum pages), all of the content within the Phaeton forum is non-commercial, and all of the participants and moderators (of which I am one) are volunteers. I added this same link a few years ago and it was deleted, perhaps because someone was concerned that VW Vortex is a commercial venture. I think, though, that it is in the best interests of "knowledge dissemination" that this link to the Phaeton owner forum remain, simply because it is the single largest source of documented and substantiated factual information about this rather uncommon car. For example, have a look at the Table of Contents (list of frequently asked questions) on the Phaeton owner forum - it is at this link: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1652232 and note the substantiation (by way of photos, scanned technical documents, etc.) of the factual information that is presented there. PanEuropean (talk) 06:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

 * The WP guidelines on external links can be found at WP:EL. If you think your VW Vortex link complies, feel free to add it again. Letdorf (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2009 (UTC).

Recent edits
With regard to this series of edits, I would invite the IP editor to justify their actions. And to be fair, let Mr Choppers have a say as well - I note from his editing history that he does shy away from edit summaries sometimes.

The page has become awash with images - far too many for the accompanying text and it looks excessively cluttered. I also ask for clarification on their edit summary - I am not Mr Choppers, and I provided a valid edit summary for my actions.

As per discussion protocol - please leave the page in its current state while the discussion is carried out. Further reversion may well be seen as both disruptive, and as hitting the 3RR wall. Chaheel Riens (talk) 15:31, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

 * Yes, sorry, having spent something like sixty percent of my recent editing time on reverting the additions of this particular ip I have given up on adding editing summaries. They swap ip's with an alarming regularity and so after a few weeks I have simply stopped attempting to explain to them what is going on. See here for instance, where I have been reverting the same editor (from various IPs) numerous times. On five occasions I added a comment but it obviously has no effect and I am getting a little bit tired of having to behave better than people who obviously do not care at all. I believe that ip's should no longer be able to edit freely on wp, as the current stream of confused and vandalistic edits is stealing all of my available time on here, meaning that I now rarely add content but instead spend most of my time reverting ip nonsense. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.  Mr.choppers |   ✎  21:20, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I also did add a (perhaps rude, I admit to getting a bit tired of this editor) message at Pham's talk page, suggesting they read WP:CARPIX. They also edit as Myuser89 and as myriad ip addresses, with a steady habit of adding dozens of pictures, often chosen seemingly at random. See Maserati Ghibli for another example, where he was using - I contacted him on that talk page as well and never got a response.   Mr.choppers |   ✎  21:29, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

The replacemt in north america is the VW CC
i work at a vw dealer and the VW CC replaced the Phaeton A8v (talk) 11:52, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Don't believe everything your "vw dealer" tells you 2600:1012:B028:202E:4C02:37B0:C66E:A366 (talk) 21:28, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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Gaius Asinius Gallus

Gaius Asinius Gallus (before 38 BC – AD 33) was a Roman senator, son of Gaius Asinius Pollio and Quinctia. He was the second husband of Vipsania, whose first husband Tiberius ultimately imprisoned him.

Biography
In 11 BC he married Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his first wife Caecilia Attica, and the former wife of Tiberius. Their union proved fruitful and produced at least six children. Gallus also claimed true paternity of Drusus Julius Caesar, earning him Tiberius' animosity. If Gallus' claim was true, he might also have been the father of the child Vipsania was expecting on her divorce.

He is mentioned among the speakers at the senate meeting discussing Augustus' funeral in AD 14; on the subject of last honours he proposed that the funeral train should pass under a triumphal gateway. When the senate met to discuss the transfer of power, Gallus made a joke at Tiberius' expense; when Tiberius made a formulaic protest against the total power the Senate had proposed to award him and said that he would instead take charge of whichever department was assigned to him (a demurral, the sources imply, that he expected the Senate to reject), Gallus responded by asking him to choose whichever he wished. This embarrassed Tiberius publicly, and although Gallus attempted to quell the emperor's anger, he was unsuccessful.

In 30, he was arrested on Tiberius' orders. At Tiberius' instigation, the Senate declared Gallus a public enemy, and he was held in conditions of solitary confinement: "He had no companion or servant with him, spoke to no one, and saw no one, except when he was compelled to take food. And the food was of such quality and amount as neither to afford him any satisfaction or strength nor yet to allow him to die."

He died in prison of starvation in the year 33. When Agrippina died in October of that same year, Tiberius accused her of "having had Asinius Gallus as a paramour and being driven by his death to loathe existence". His name was erased from public monuments (a practice known as damnatio memoriae), although this was reversed after Tiberius' death.

Marriage and children
Asinius Gallus' marriage to Vipsania (11 BC) led to the following known children:

 * Gaius Asinius Pollio
 * He was consul in 23; exiled as an accuser of a conspiracy and later put to death on orders from Empress Valeria Messalina.
 * Marcus Asinius Agrippa
 * He was consul in 25 and died in 26.
 * Gnaeus Asinius Saloninus, or simply Asinius Saloninus
 * Tacitus describes him as an ‘eminent’ person. Saloninus was intended to marry one of the granddaughters of Emperor Tiberius. He died in 22.
 * Servius Asinius Celer
 * He was consul suffectus in 38. From Emperor Caligula he purchased a fish at an enormous price. He is mentioned in Seneca's satire The Pumpkinification of Claudius, where he is listed among the many people killed by that emperor. His death probably occurred sometime before mid-47. Asinius Celer seems to have had a daughter by the name of Asinia Agrippina, though her existence is obscure.
 * Lucius Asinius Gallus (sometimes wrongly called Gallo)
 * In 46 he conspired with Titus Statilius Taurus Corvinus against Claudius and was forced to go into exile. Cassius Dio describes him as being "very small and ugly". Later rehabilitated, he became Consul in 62.
 * Gnaeus Asinius
 * His existence is recorded by the townsfolk of Puteoli, whose patron he was. He may have been identical with Asinius Saloninus or the foregoing Asinius Gallus. Since the Asinius Gallus seems to have been the Lucius Asinius Gallus who became a Consul in 60, by exclusion of parts the Gnaeus Asinius must be the Asinius Saloninus.

In fiction
In the BBC television series I, Claudius, Gallus is portrayed by Charles Kay.

In Lloyd C Douglas's novel The Robe, Gallus is furnished with a fictional daughter, Diana, the love interest of the story.

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Clarksburg, New Jersey

Clarksburg is an unincorporated community located within Millstone Township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP code 08510.

As of the 2000 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 08510 was 2,128.

Clarksburg is located 187 feet (57 m) above sea level.

Historic sites
Clarksburg Methodist Episcopal Church (added in 1999 as Building #99000084) and Clarksburg School (also added in 1999, as Building #99001316) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Clarksburg include:
 * J. R. Smith (born 1985), National Basketball Association player with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
 * Darrin Winston (1966–2008), Major League Baseball player who played two seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Nearby historic communities

 * Adelphia in Howell Township
 * The Cassville Crossroads Historic District in Jackson Township
 * Cookstown in North Hanover Township
 * Dutch Neck in West Windsor Township
 * Imlaystown in Upper Freehold Township
 * Jerseyville in Howell Township
 * Lawrenceville in Lawrence Township (Mercer County)
 * Leisure Village West in Manchester Township
 * Marlboro in Marlboro Township
 * Monmouth Junction in South Brunswick
 * The Monmouth Battlefield Historic District in Freehold Township and Manalapan Township
 * Kingston in Franklin Township and South Brunswick
 * New Egypt in Plumsted Township
 * Old Bridge in East Brunswick
 * Perrineville in Millstone Township
 * Plainsboro Center in Plainsboro Township
 * The Princeton Battlefield Historic District in Princeton
 * Princeton Junction in West Windsor Township
 * Tennent in Manalapan Township
 * West Freehold in Freehold Township

title: Clarksburg, New Jersey