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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Reithy/Evidence

Chuck_F's Stalking and Rule Breaching
Pages need protecting from him, acknowledged by many..

Please also consider the Arthur Farnsworth massacre

Intial problems with Reithy
please refer to Requests for comment/Reithy and Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Reithy for intial problems with Reithy, he has since stopped his overt vandlism of Wikipedia and made it much more subtle while stalking and harrasing me.

Reithy's Response
For sure, I initially was foolish with some of my edits. Now, under various different accounts (to avoid being trolled by Chuck), I am contributing usefully. I hope so anyway. As I have proved elsewhere on the Libertarian Party page he actually deleted my entry before reading it, later read it and realised it was positive to his POV and restored it. Very disappointing. Reithy 13:53, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Reith is excellent at trolling
Why some of his trolls are interesting, obvious humerous flamebait he sure does like to troll. Which makes it kinda difficult to deal with him and impossible to use talk: Examples: [] [] - heh, he really likes trying to piss people off.

This Arthur Farnsworth page Reithy created is obviously a pov trying to use wikipedia as a tool to defame libertarians (this is his old edit, notice how he mentions libertarians three times in one sentence, his series of articles where he stresses the libertarian connection then goes and tells you about the awful things person has done) [] Rhobite has some more down there and I will add more up here later

Reithy Stalking
Reithy has been posting my personal information over Wikipedia in a way that could only be called threatening and stalking. At first he mistakenly believed I was in Australia(asia pacfic domain's resolve to apnic in australia) []. He then used that information to try and seemingly intimidate me on my user page[]. He then found out how to properly use whois services and posted this [] on the requests for comment page. and this on my user page [], there was absoluty no reason to post anything like that besides to try and frighten me/troll me.(especially as he spends time in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Roppongi_Hills&diff=6805371&oldid=6805127).

He then went and posted My personal information on a variety of other pages that there was utterly no reason to post it at [] and even after an admin told him to stop [], he still continues posting personal information to this day []. and continued posting it on my user page even after I told him to stop vandalizing my user page(and removing the personal information), and the admin told him to stop. [] [].

Addition: even after I added this section and he responded to it, he continues to engage in posting of personal information to try and troll me more: [], [] and still more he continues []

This is merely just the stalking problem.. I will add more to the harassment problem and his gutting of articles just to try and troll/harass me later..

Note: Reithy continued to delete things from the above section and put his responses in there, please check edit history, I'm moving his responses to down here, so that I won't be deleting them.

Reithy's Response

 * "seemingly intimidate" oh puh-lease, grow up.Reithy 13:32, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes I spend time in Japan. I won't be visiting Chucky anytime soon. Reithy 13:32, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * You have stalked and trolled the only page you are aware me writing. So please, just give it up. Your spin is feeble.Reithy 13:32, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Reithy and Sockpuppets Have Added Value, Knowledge and Research to Wikipedia
Reithy and his legal defense team will provide links and background information.

[Demonstrates adding useful data to article] - I'm still writing out my evidence here, arbitrators please give me time.. but let me just respond to this. I love that you use that article as a history of your good edits... Let's just take a look and show that Reithy is trying inserting pov, insert inaccurate info(some of which I belive might be vandalizism out-right lies), spin the truth and generally what he considering is best edits to be:

 * "Outright lies" terms like this give you some indication of the temper of Chuck_F's contribution. He throws insults around very freely. Reithy 08:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Here is one of his edits [], and then [] (which is factually inaccurate info)

Reithy after these edits then added in info that even the most basic fact checking should have caught, [] (notice Reithy didn't add anything in after these edits were proven untrue, about the fact he Ron Paul was running unopposed and cite something like the lp saying this is because they believe it is too expensive to mount a campaign against Ron Paul).
 * I made a genuine mistake in relation to 2004 elections and corrected it as soon as I realized. Given Chuck_F's demeanour I wasn't willing to take his word for it. Reithy 08:50, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

After these edits Reithy went and added in this [] Using a quote by his staff members taken out of context and putting it under a subheading Ron Paul's views on race.

Here is the quote: he cited reports that 85 percent of all black men in Washington, D.C., are arrested at some point: "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." that is the full quote from the article.

Reithy only put this part of that quote in: "I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." and said that ron Paul wrote. (and keep in mind the article he refrenced the quote from actually states that this wasn't even writen by him):

 * The line about him not writing the article personally was put in by me and a good example of me wanting to tell both sides of the story. Fact is what was published under his name is as above. He didn't deny initially only some years later. I didn't even point out the long delay between publication and denial. Reithy 08:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Also the page Reiyh used as a reference was filled up with far more interesting facts about Paul, but I notice Reithy only put in the negative.

 * There are two interesting things about Ron Paul, which are both worthy of mention. One is that he is a Libertarian in the Congress and two that he has published remarks on race that would cause most Congressman to resign. IMHO, anyway. I will leave it for others to judgeReithy 08:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Again, Arbitrators This is nowhere near the more grevious of Reithy's actions, I'm just responding here and showing that this is what Reithy belives is one of the good examples of his work.

Posted by Chuck_F, who didn't put his name to it. Reithy 08:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Users Chuck_F, 203.112.19.195 and 210.142.29.125
Chuck_F, 203.112.19.195 and 210.142.29.125 have repeatedly broken the 3 revert rule, engaged in repeated personal attacks, multiple edit wars, unjustified, unexplained reverts, large-scale deletions of relevant material, inappropriate language etc. He has refused to negotiate, or to use Talk productively even when given the opportunity from others keen to engage him. There is currently a request for comment on Chuck_F. Comments to Reithy 00:30, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)

Rhobite's Continuing Abuse of Power as Administrator
Stung by criticism, Rhobite is now on a rampage of "evidence" collection with bizarre concocted claims against me, including:

 * Attempting to engage Chuck in a postive manner to achieve compromise on articles

 * Spelling "nitpicking" when that's all Rhobite actually seems to do

Rhobite is guilty of:

 * Waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation on this page in order to punish me for exposing his misuse of his new administrator powers

 * Continuing personal attacks, even on this page, with his assertion about my sincerity

 * Failing to assume good faith as required of every administrator

 * Vandalising my Talk page and this page with his personal attacks.

Reithy 15:16, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)

Rhobite's section
Due to the edit-warring on this very page, I have no choice but to put evidence in my own section. Please don't revert this. Rhobite

10/27

 * 19:13, Oct 27, 2004
 * Reithy threatens arbitration against me because I told him that "every word you type is oozing with sarcasm and insincerity:", , especially
 * A personal attack some might think and a reversal of the presumption of good faith. My contributions speak for themselves. Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

10/30

 * 21:01, Oct 30, 2004
 * Harassing and making personal attacks on my talk page:, , especially and , , , ,
 * Responding to some scathing attacks by Rhobite and pointing out his persistent abuse of administrator power. Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

10/31

 * 05:31, Oct 31, 2004
 * "Me too" posts whenever someone makes a suggestion to Chuck F: ,

11/1

 * 12:57, Nov 1, 2004
 * Reithy posts a sarcastic comment, then deletes the entire thread from a talk page: ,
 * This was unintentional and clearly so. Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

11/2

 * 03:55, Nov 2, 2004
 * Continuing to intimidate Chuck by posting his alleged real life location:
 * Rhobite first pointed out Chuck's location on a Request for Comment page Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * 08:02, Nov 2, 2004
 * Another "me too" post:

11/3

 * 02:22, Nov 3, 2004
 * Harasses Chuck F on his talk page. Interesting note, Reithy has edited Chuck's talk page more than Chuck has., , , especially
 * It would follow that Chuck would not leave messages to himself. I have tried to communicate positively with Chuck many times.Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * 07:57, Nov 3, 2004
 * Spelling nitpick:
 * Helping him learn how to spell, entirely reasonable, although hasn't worked ! Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * 08:19, Nov 3, 2004
 * Trolling on Talk:2004 U.S. election in progress: ,
 * Not sure I understand that, I contributed quite a lot to that article as events unfolded. What is Rhobite going on about ? Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * 20:47, Nov 3, 2004
 * Removed a comment by me from Talk:Michael Badnarik on November 3:
 * Unintentionally due to edit conflict, check the times. Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * 22:02, Nov 3, 2004
 * Mucking around and removing text from his own RFAr: ,
 * Removed Rhobite's commentary from the RFA which was clearly not meant to be there according to the clear guidelines. He is not a participant in the arbitration although perhaps should be the way he is acting. Reithy 23:18, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

11/5

 * 04:27, Nov 5, 2004
 * Vandalized my user page:, , ,
 * Again, a misrepresentation from someone who needs to take time out from Wikipedia for a week or so. I removed provocative remarks from the User page in the interests of civility. Stand by my changes, they certainly don't rank as vandalism, more like graffiti cleaning...Reithy 04:35, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

11/7

 * 18:06, Nov 7, 2004
 * This needs to be verified by someone with developer access. I believe Reithy created an account User:Rhobile for the purpose of impersonating me and confusing people on pages which I edit. The account's user page is clearly an imitation of my user page. Rhobite 18:06, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * An absolute fabrication and invention. He's already apologised for this allegation I gather. Reithy 21:20, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

11/8

 * 19:14, Nov 8, 2004
 * Reithy went on a vandalism spree on Ron Paul on November 8. See edit history, the diffs are too numerous to list. Here are a few:, , . The article at its worst: Rhobite 21:09, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * What vandalism? There is not a single example of vandalism as validly defined. If I write something Rhobile doesn't like, it's vandalism. That's a bit unfair I think. But no more than one has come to expect from him. Reithy 21:20, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

11/16

 * 14:38, Nov 16, 2004
 * Reithy sockpuppet User:Ijijujijijijijijijijjijjj edits in main namespace, violating temporary injunction.
 * 15:31, Nov 16, 2004
 * Reithy is creating accounts by the minute, reverting to his old POV version of Ron Paul, altering comments on talk pages, and blanking his RFAR., , , ,

General

 * Reithy is a habitual liar
 * I said: "I don't usually edit libertarian articles around here. I don't want to." (emphasis added) Reithy believes that this one statement indicates I made a solemn pledge "not to edit Libertarian articles," and my violation of this purported pledge is somehow actionable against me.
 * Personal attacks are not allowed, and now Rhobite, an administrator no less, calls me an 'habitual liar.' How extraordinary. For someone who doesn't want to edit Libertarian articles, Rhobite is amazingly busy doing just that. It certainly constitutes a pledge not to do so, in the context of his urging of me to "branch out" to other areas. I find it extraordinary. Reithy 23:49, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Reithy said: "Now I'm a vandal, something not even Chuck accuses me of." Quoting this RFAr and its evidence page, written by Chuck: "User:Reithy has a request for comments open: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Reithy detailing his vandalism spree and his attack on other users," "continued posting it on my user page even after I told him to stop vandalizing my user page," "Reithy is trying inserting pov, insert inaccurate info(some of which I belive might be vandalizism out-right lies), spin the truth,"
 * More personal attacks, an administrator throwing around hateful tags like liar and vandal. I know he's a new appointment but it really is extraordinary. Reithy 23:49, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Reithy said: "Chuck has added an unusual and useful piece on placentagraphy." He is referring to placentophagy, an article he has now reverted and submitted a frivolous copyvio note about.
 * It is unusual, certainly more interesting than anything I've seen you contribute, Rhobite. The copyvio is clearly not frivolous and has not been responded to. No provenance for the image has been offered other than a "friend" gave it to me. Notice you too failed to explain the basis of a fair use copyright claim contrary to Wikipedia guidelines. Maybe the rules just don't apply to you admins. Reithy 23:49, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Reithy said: "Rhobite feels the need to misuse his Administrator powers to change a highly contentious protected article to suit his own requirements," The extent of 'my own requirements' was changing the tense of two verbs: "is" to "was," and "has" to "had."  I suspect that no edit this minor has ever caused whining this major. Reithy has been pestering me in every imaginable talk page about this horrible perceived violation.
 * Please note many others have criticized this conduct. Not just me. If you think it's appropriate to misuse your administrator privileges in that way you have a different perception of your duties than most. Reithy 23:49, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * In regards to adding election results to Michael Badnarik Reithy said: "Worth noting, Rhobite insisted on making the change himself initially until he was reminded it was another abuse of power in his new administration. Rhobite is unfit to administer Wikipedia." This is an outright lie, I did not "insist" on anything. In reality, I said "I'd like to put in the election results but I have qualms about editing a protected page. Maybe we can agree on a neutral passage here and get another admin to insert it."
 * You are editing protected pages Rhobite. This is clearly outside the proper exercise of your authority. You can spin it all you like but you've already admitted to making changes and actually did make the changes yourself ultimately. You requested assistance and no-one was interested in assisting you in your ultra vires conduct. I don't blame them. Reithy 23:49, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

Against Chuck F

 * Chuck F removes links to a poll because he doesn't like the results. In the process he reverts to a very old version and re-introduces grammar errors and unrelated changes:, ,

 * On the morning of November 11, Chuck reverted Ron Paul about 10 times. He was blocked for habitual violations of the 3 revert rule. Chuck then evaded the block by using two open HTTP proxies, 210.178.220.65 and 202.78.94.101 . Rhobite 15:27, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

11/16

 * 00:46, Nov 16, 2004
 * Chuck F violated his new temporary injunction, returning main namespace articles to previous versions he has supported in revert wars. Some of the edits had the summary "revert 178 on his temp injuction." He probably means 172.188.140.92 (an AOL IP), who he did revert. 172.188's edits were also problematic. However Chuck's injunction violation is more troublesome than some anonymous edits. There is no current injunction against an AOL IP address, although it's possible that 172.188 could be Reithy., , , ,
 * 01:30, Nov 16, 2004
 * Chuck F again violated his injunction, this time by abusing an open HTTP proxy. In addition he put a protected notice on Libertarianism even though it's not protected. This marks at least three times Chuck has edited from an open proxy to hide his identity., ,
 * 01:39, Nov 16, 2004
 * This time from his user account, Chuck F reverted main namespace articles., , , , ,
 * 01:49, Nov 16, 2004
 * I have been forced to block Chuck F for 24 hours due to his repeated violations of the temporary injunction. Rhobite 01:49, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * 03:13, Nov 16, 2004
 * Chuck F continues to evade the temporary injunction and block using open HTTP proxies such as 80.58.23.235 and 80.58.3.235. Rhobite 03:15, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

11/17

 * 06:19, Nov 17, 2004
 * Chuck F again edits in the main namespace from an open HTTP proxy, violating his injunction:, ,

11/19

 * 16:08, Nov 19, 2004
 * Chuck F edits in the main namespace: . He is blocked for 24 hours.

11/23

 * 08:14, Nov 23, 2004
 * Chuck F edits Wal-Mart in the main namespace:

11/25

 * 02:57, Nov 25, 2004
 * After being reverted by RadicalSubversiv, Chuck F reverts Wal-Mart in the main namespace, even accusing RadicalSubversiv of trolling in his edit summary:
 * 03:05, Nov 25, 2004
 * Chuck F deletes evidence off this evidence page:

 * I really didn't mean to delete that evidence, I'm not quite sure how that ended up happening, sorry about that Chuck F 08:58, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Against Rhobite
Why a section against myself? It's because I'm confident my actions will be viewed as reasonable, and I have nothing to hide here.

 * With the greatest respect, Rhobite has much to explain. His conduct has been odd in light of the following:

 * Administrator status is granted to known and trusted members of the community who are familiar with Wikipedia policies. Administrators have no special authority on Wikipedia, but are held to higher standards, because they are perceived by many, particularly new, users as the official face of Wikipedia. Therefore they should take care to be courteous, and exercise good judgment and patience in dealing with other users.

 * Rhobit has abused the special trust bestowed upon him. He has failed to adhere to "higher standards" or even the normal standards expected of all of us. He has failed to be courteous, failed to exercise good judgment and failed to be patient. He has launched hateful personal attacks, threatened to use his IP blocking powers etc.

 * He has made many dozens of criticisms of me here and elsewhere, in the most flaming and hateful of terms. He is unfit to be an Administrator. Reithy 01:16, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * ==Principles of Wikipedia etiquette==

 * Assume good faith. Wikipedia has worked remarkably well so far based on a policy of nearly complete freedom to edit. People come here to collaborate and write good articles.
 * Avoid reverts and deletions whenever possible, and stay within the three-revert rule except in cases of clear vandalism. Explain reversions in the edit summary box.
 * Amend, edit, discuss.
 * Be polite.
 * People can't see you or know for sure your mood. Irony isn't always obvious, and blunt, raw text can easily appear rude. Be careful of the words you choose — what you intended might not be what others think.
 * Sign and date your posts to talk pages (not articles!).
 * Work towards agreement
 * Don't ignore questions.
 * If another disagrees with your edit, provide good reasons why you think it's appropriate.
 * Concede a point, when you have no response to it; or admit when you disagree based on intuition or taste.
 * Don't make people debate positions you don't really hold.
 * Be prepared to apologize.
 * In animated discussions, we often say things we later wish we hadn't. Say so.
 * Forgive and forget.
 * Recognize your own biases and keep them in check.
 * Give praise when due. Everybody likes to feel appreciated, especially in an environment that often requires compromise. Drop a friendly note on user's talk pages, or list them at Great editing in progress
 * Remove or summarize resolved disputes that you initiated.
 * Help mediate disagreements between others.
 * If polite discussion fails, take a break if you're arguing or recommend a break if you're mediating.
 * Come back after a week or two. If no one is mediating, and you think mediation is needed, enlist someone.
 * Walk away or find another Wikipedia article to distract yourself — there are on Wikipedia! Take up a Wikiproject or WikiReader, or lend your much-needed services at pages needing attention and Cleanup. Or write a new article.
 * Remember what Wikipedia is not.
 * Review the list of faux pas.
 * Be Civil.

 * Wikipedia etiquette seems to be held in the lowest possible regard by Rhobite. As I review it, I see that he has breached almost every precept of the etiquette guidelines. And he is an Administrator.Reithy 01:42, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * I told Reithy his comments were "oozing with sarcasm and insincerity." While my comment was inflammatory, this is an accurate portrayal of his purpose here. Regardless, I have retracted the remark as needlessly confrontational. ,

 * Even on this page, Rhobite has thrown around personal attacks including:

 * * "Habitual liar"
 * * "Vandal"
 * * "Frivolous"
 * * "Harassment"
 * etc.
 * Will anyone be holding Rhobite to account. He is clearly losing it. Reithy 23:54, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * I removed the text "Pot calling kettle black" from one of Reithy's section headers on my talk page. In response to Reithy's repeated harassment and vandalism of my talk page, I removed his comments, which pestered me about such things as "Rhobitegate." Due to his repeated reinstatement of these comments, I threatened to block him. At no point have I used admin powers against Reithy. Reithy continued to harass me after I made it clear that personal attacks and vandalism are not welcome on my talk page.

 * OK, so you admit editing my comments to suit yourself. Strike One. You admit deleting my comments, arguably also a breach of Wikipedia custom and practice. Strike Two. You throw around personal attacks like harassment even on this page, a page designed to resolve disputes. Strike Three. You're out. How you continue as an Administrator in these circumstances is beyond me. Reithy 23:54, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * I wrote a detailed assessment of Rhobite's conduct and posted it to his Talk page for his response and his reponse is here. As he might put it, it oozes with insincerity and sarcasm.

Rhobite's Revenge
Rhobite believes in hanging a lantern on his own PR problem. Great tactics though do not disguise venal conduct and blatant abuse of power. As he reiterates his Personal Attack that he at one stage withdrew we can see his own sarcasm and insincerity are unimpeachable.

FACT: Rhobite THREATENED to use his administrator's powers in order to force a win about the content of his Talk page.

FACT: Rhobite EDITED my comments on his Talk page.

FACT: While Chuck and I have occasional revert wars, we do not pretend to be anything other than two dudes having some fun and contributing hopefully something useful.

There is nothing preachy about Chuck's approach, he is just a little stubborn. I think a serious analysis of my History shows I've contributed quite a lot of useful material, including insights into an article written by User:Rhobite who mistakenly assumed Dick_Morris was in business as a campaign consultant in the US. Chuck has added an unusual and useful piece on placentagraphy. But neither of us have pretended to be superior in tone, as Rhobite has. Rhobite's whole attitude has been arrogant in the extreme and contemptuous of the contributions of others. Appointing someone who contributes nothing but nit-picking edits as an administrator has clearly been a mistake. We get to see that play out here. As time goes on you can be sure Rhobite will have many other victims.

Background
It is appropriate to point out the following:

Reithy 00:18, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * Rhobite made scathing remarks about me
 * I responded with some mild criticism of him
 * Rhobite edited my comments and deleted most of them
 * I criticized this action
 * He threatened to use admin powers to block me so as to control the content of his Talk page!
 * He then modified some of the original remarks
 * I believe he is unfit to be an administrator and certainly unfit to present evidence in a fashion some might presume to be unbiased.
 * Rhobite has clearly been embarassed about being called to account for threatening an improper use of his Admin powers. His motives can be challenged in the circumstances in light of our dispute.

Scenes of Chuck's Crimes
Temple University [] - Breaches of 3 revert rule. Personal attacks. Unjustified reverts. Deletion of sourced material. Disagrements with two users other than Reithy. Requests for page protection.

Roppongi Hills [] - Breaches of 3 revert rule. Failure to use Talk. Large scale repeated deletions of sourced material. Page protection requested.

General Motors [] Breaches of 3 revert rule. Unjustified reverts. Deletion of several relevant and sourced paras on GM's finances. Disagreements with other users. Page protected.

Michael Badnarik

Libertarian Party

Libertarianism

Placentophagy

Hexaform Rotary Surface Compression Unit

Chuck's Reponse
Reithy's people that he is saying I'm having disagreements with besides him, are him!

Might I show you one [] which I quote him from up there as saying "Disagrements with two users other than Reithy. " This is obviously reithy, Considering later: []

Reithy is claiming that i'm having disagreements with other users, but he is creating tons of sockpuppets to make it seem like there is a large concenus against me, and then one other user might come and revert saying they are following the concenus, when it's all just lone reithy and his sockpuppets. Chuck F 13:29, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

and if you look at the edit historys for all the page Reithy is listed, you can see that he breaks every rule(and more) that he claims I break

Radicalsubversiv's evidence against Chuck F
Reithy's insanely unacceptable behavior has obscured the fact that Chuck has a constant habit of removing material he doesn't like with little or no explanation. He often presents this as a revert of Reithy, even if he's removing material added by others. He also makes limited-to-no use of talk, and rarely gives actual justifications in edit summaries (often just "revert to last version by me"). Much of this is well-documented on Requests for comment/Chuck F; here's a few more instances (generally I've taken just one edit, though he rarely stops there). Some of these don't involve Reithy at all, but ArbCom seems to have decided to deal with Chuck's behavior here.

McJob:

Liberal theory of economics:

Michael Badnarik:

Ron Paul: (particularly outrageous: a consensus/compromise version of the text was fairly well-developed. Reithy sweeps in to vandalize the page: Rhobite reverts him, at which point Chuck uses it as an excuse to remove agreed-upon material which might portray Paul in an unfavorable light),, , ,

Libertarianism:

FahrenHYPE 9/11:

Dred Scott v. Sanford:

Temple University:

United States Libertarian Party:

Libertarian socialism:

Libertarian capitalism:

That's Because I've provided my reasons on the talk page. Okay so many of these things you've pointed out now, I've provided long-winded rants on the talk pages of thoese particular pages as to the reason for my changes. Chuck F 11:50, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Appendum: Radical - some of that evidence is unfair... You say it was a concenus - I just reverted back to the last non-reithy edit Before the page was protected(the page had only been protected for a day, I re-added the edits done on that day). Also you listed things that both me and Rhobite had problems with your edits as being somehow that I didn't use talk Chuck F 08:08, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The words flow like sweet honey flowing down her back
Citoyens, I rise before you on this day with defiance whirling around us.

And the motion will become a movement.

And the movement shall verily change the entire world.

Some say I indulge in insane ranting, well now is the time.

Now is the time to tell it how it is, regardless of consequences.

This is the time to declare Wikipedia the last, best refuge of the Loon, the Nutcase, the Fanatic, the Freak and the Ideologue.

Again and again we have seen them win battles here.

I ask you citizens what encyclopedia worthy of the name lets someone called "Hershellkrustowsky" edit LaRouchite pages and pages about the Jewish people in a way so dripping with hatred and bile as to make one ill.

I ask you what encyclopedia worthy of the name lets confessed libertarian supporters describe the United States Libertarian Party and all its adherents.

I ask you what happened to the ideals of Jimbo Wales, I ask you where did the idealism go. And where indeed was the love lost?

My heart breaks for what might have been. A free-form resource built by all, with standards and passion and values. I am happy to rant about these things but deep down I know that as blind as I am, there is no one here who seems to be willing the shine the light of freedom in these dark warrens of intolerance, ideological obsession and bigotry.

Reithy 13:26, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Johnleemk's evidence against Reithy
I originally wrote a short intro, but I decided it's not worth my time doing such things for childish trolls like Reithy.
 * Reithy makes a personal attack, calling Rhobite a "loser" in his edit summary

Okay, there's only one, but I digress. You're a childish troublemaking troll, Reithy, and ChuckF is probably one too, albeit to a lesser degree. The two of you had better not edit any of this, as policy dictates that only arbitrators may refactor discussion. You're free to trot out your old "ABUSE OF ADMINISTRATOR POWER" bullshit in "response", though. Johnleemk | Talk 14:15, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I am disappointed by the profanity and hope you can keep it to a minimum. I wish you well.Reithy 14:25, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Evercat's evidence against Reithy
In an totally unrelated mailing list thread I was publicly flip-flopping over whether some IP address should be banned.

Someone claiming to be Reithy emailed me to write:

 * I suggest making up your mind you fuckin idiot.
 * LOve Reithy

I'd never even heard of the guy up to this point. Not knowing whether this actually came from Reithy, and perhaps being slightly annoyed, I just blocked the email's originating IP address (144.132.89.151 - contributions) with the comment "Trolling via private email; also on Wikipedia. Probably User:Reithy".

I then got an email which was indeed sent from Reithy via the Wikipedia email system:

 * I am not "trolling" by private email, although now you've given me the idea, I think I will. Starting with you, cunt.
 * Reithy

So, there you go. Evercat 15:03, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Temporary block of Reithy
Reithy has deleted evidence from this case several times. I warned him about it the first time, but since he continued, I blocked him for 24 hours. The arbitrators may decide whether my action was improper. —No-One Jones (m) 00:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Reithy is now using sockpuppets to evade the block:, , . RadicalSubversiv E 01:40, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Some time after I blocked Reithy he posted the following on my talk page:

 * Mirv for the record, as my edits show, I was attempting to restore my contribution to the evidence page, not delete anything. In fact by the time you had blocked me, banned me whatever, you had cruelly denied me the chance to restore what I'd inadvertently deleted. I am perfectly familiar with the rules and your trigger happy stupidity means I am blocked. Big deal. I can still call you a POS to my heart's content from whichever IP I can hack my way into but I choose not to anymore. I won't be back, not as Reithy anyway. Reithy is no more, please block him permanently and his IP numbers. If you can keep track of the hundreds of IP addresses I have sneaky access to then you'll deserve to be ushered into MI6. Best of luck, if you look objectively at my edits, except for a vandalising few in the beginning they were pretty fair. My future ones won't be, that I promise. Goodbye. Reithysbestbuddy 16:19, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

—No-One Jones (m) 19:03, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * well then, I'm done and out with evidence about reithy then... now it's just about defeding myself I guess. Chuck F 16:37, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Temporary block of Chuck F
Chuck has been blocked by User:Infrogmation for an edit war on Ron Paul. He continued to edit the article with uregistered ip address 61.121.224.11 202.78.94.101  and 210.178.220.65. Ron Paul was subsequently protected, making it the seventh page currently protected from editing due to edit wars involving Chuck.

Chuck may also be editing from the ip 221.186.113.226:

You know... this evidence agianst me would go a lot better if it wasn't this anon ip was the reason that all of these pages were protected.... It's like he's just trying to provoke me to go and gather evidence about protection... when he's the other half of the equation (also notice this is this only anon ip's edit) Chuck F 06:43, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * If NPOV and factual corrections are "provoking" Chuck, what hope is there? Chuck, several people have tried to explain to you that Wikipedia is not your personal plaything. And the other half of the equation appears to be at least four users.

Though I'm not technically savvy enough to trace IP addresses with enough certainty to imply the involvement of any particular individual, I think the ArbCom may be interested to know that there has been a couple of previously unseen IPs, 203.185.130.44 and 200.141.76.227 reverting Liberal Democratic Party of Australia without comment back to Chuck's preferred version. See: and. Going by their contributions pages ( and ), they have also been editing other articles at issue in this arbitration, at the exclusion of any other topics. J.K. 07:23, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Both IP addresses are open proxies so I blocked them for 90 days. They're probably Chuck but there's no way to be sure. Rhobite 02:23, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Password shenanigans?
I just received a new password e-mail which I had not requested. The request came from IP address 144.132.89.151, which looks like suspiciously like Reithy. RadicalSubversiv E 19:00, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * This has also occured to "Ta bu shi da yu" and myself. Martin 01:27, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Me too. →Raul654 02:11, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

 * And me. Rhobite 03:44, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

 * Just so you guys don't feel bad, I got it too Chuck F 09:10, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Offer to buy my Wikipedia account by e-mail
Correct me if I'm doing this wrong - I haven't ever submitted evidence to an Arbitration Committee case before. I've never had any dealings with Reithy, but I recently received the following e-mail, according to the headers via the Wikipedia e-mail function:

From: Reithy  To: Andrevan  Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:27:25 GMT Subject: Wikipedia e-mail

I wish to purchase your wikipedia account. Please name your price.

I'm not sure if this breaks any rules or is anything of note, but I think someone ought to know about it. I'll forward it to anyone who wants.  Andre  ( talk )A| 23:55, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
Looking at how the proposed decision is going, I think I need to state here that I attempted mediation with Chuck F and Rhobite and that that mediation was unsuccessful. -- sannse (talk) 18:53, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) (mediation committee)

??? This is my arbitraton case I brought against Reithy Chuck F 03:05, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Chuck continuing to violate temporary injunction
While trying to appear contrite here, Chuck is continuing to violate the temporary injunction. RadicalSubversiv E 23:10, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)


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Why this category?
Could someone make the intent of this article more clear? — David Remahl 03:23, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) I really don't think Serial ATA, overclocking, northbridge and some of the other articles belong in this category. They're not exclusive to "IBM PC compatibles". Further, "IBM PC compatible" is a dated term, which according to its article is falling into disuse. I don't see the point of the category. It may be useful if its scope is less broadly defined. — David Remahl 03:36, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * The reason I established the category was to find a logical, clear (and hopefully, enlightening) way of dividing articles related to PC compatibles, or as we all know them today, "PCs", from more general articles on personal computers, which of course are very different things. Also, even if the articles you mention above aren't exclusively related to PCs, the huge majority of today's computer users know them from that area, so I see nothing wrong in grouping said articles into this as well as in more general categories.  I only aim to please  :-) --Wernher 04:54, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Ok. We'll see how it turns out. I agree that one category too many is better than one too few. I just hope that people do not think that Serial ATA is a PC-only peripheral interface, just because it is in an IBM compatible category but not a Apple Macintosh or IBM POWER based categories. The solution may be to create those too. — David Remahl 05:12, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Category:Futures studies

Futurology (also called futures studies and futurism) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History studies the past, while futurology considers the future. Futurology seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.

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Bongwater (film)

Bongwater is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Richard Sears and starring Luke Wilson, Alicia Witt, Amy Locane, Brittany Murphy, Jack Black and Andy Dick. Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Michael Hornburg, the film is set in Portland, Oregon, and follows an aspiring artist and marijuana dealer and his relationship with a tempestuous woman he meets through a client.

Plot
David is a stoner living in Portland, Oregon. After having previously sold marijuana to a woman named Jennifer, he is introduced to her friend, the tempestuous Serena, who is immediately disliked by his friends, Robert and Tony, a gay couple.

Serena develops a liking to David after seeing the artwork he does in his spare time, and encourages him to make a career for himself. After moving into his house, she introduces him to Mary Weiss, the daughter of a local gallery owner who falsely claims to be an art curator.

Serena becomes frustrated with David's lack of ambition, and decides to move to New York City with Tommy, a punk rocker and paranoid heroin addict. Before she leaves, she and David get into a fight, which ends in her burning down his house.

In New York, Serena becomes increasingly frustrated with Tommy's paranoid antics. She meets Bobby one afternoon in a diner, and he invites her to move in with him in his apartment, which she discovers is actually a squat in the East Village.

In Portland, David begins a romance with Mary, and moves in with Robert, Tony, and Jennifer. While hiking with Mary, David runs into his friend Devlin, who is running a spiritual retreat in the woods, where they partake in LSD. While Mary marches through the woods with Devlin, David has a hallucination in which his deceased mother brings him lunch.

In New York, Serena and Jennifer attend a party, where Serena is date raped. The following day, she confesses to Jennifer she wants to return to Portland. They return the next day, but Serena is disheartened soon after when she discovers David and Jennifer having sex.

Several days later, David attends a 1980s-themed party with Jennifer, Robert, and Tony, which is busted by police. He flees to the rooftop, where he finds Serena sitting alone. She confronts him about him having sex with Jennifer, and he asks her if she's planning on staying in Portland. She tells him she isn't sure, and that she doesn't want to become too comfortable there again. She apologizes for the fire she set at David's house. They kiss, and then witness a UFO floating above them in the sky.

Production
The screenplay for the film was adapted from Michael Hornburg's 1995 novel of the same name, which was based on his experience living in Portland in the mid-1980s; the Serena character in the film (originally named Courtney in the novel) is based on Courtney Love, whom Hornburg knew in Portland.

The film was shot on location in Portland, Oregon and New York City on a budget of $1,000,000.

Release
The film was released at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival on April 19, 1998. It was later released on DVD on July 13, 2001.

Critical reception
The film has mostly received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 17% of six critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.7/10.

Lael Loewenstein, film critic for Variety magazine, gave the film a mixed review, writing: "The latest entry in the growing field of indie youth ensemble films, Bongwater is an uneven, intermittently likable movie about a group of Portland residents for whom getting high is a way of life. While its fresh-faced but largely unknown cast members frequently rise above the material, pic isn't distinctive enough to suggest it will yield more than a limited run in specialized markets."

Ann Limpert of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B rating, writing: "The title notwithstanding, this drug-laden laugh trip is more Reality Bites than Up in Smoke...Though [Wilson and Witt's] lack of real chemistry makes the cuddly ending feel tacked on, the hysterical drug-buddy performances of Brittany Murphy, Andy Dick, and Jack Black really make this joint roll."

TV Guide's Robert Pardi gave the film a negative review, writing: "This smoke-dream love story gives aimlessness a bad name: It's hard to concur with the screenplay's insistence that there's both pathos and humor to be found in the bong-inhaling, bed-hopping lives of these indolent characters."

Accolades
Nominations
 * DVD Exclusive Awards (Video Business Magazine): Video Premiere Award, Best Supporting Actress, Brittany Murphy; 2001.

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Queen's Royal Hussars

The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) (QRH) is a British armoured regiment. It was formed on 1 September 1993 from the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. The regiment and its antecedents have been awarded 172 Battle Honours and eight Victoria Crosses. The regiment was based in Sennelager, Germany, until 2019 when it was relocated to Tidworth Camp, England. It is the armoured regiment for 20th Armoured Brigade Combat Team.

History
The Queen's Royal Hussars was formed in Fallingbostel on 1 September 1993 from the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. Home Headquarters was formed shortly thereafter at Regent's Park Barracks in London where it remains today. After the amalgamation, the regiment became the cavalry of the following areas: Northern Ireland, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, West Midlands, Surrey, and Sussex. For a short time the regiment maintained a regimental band formed by the amalgamation of the two former regiment's bands, designated as the Band of the Queen's Royal Hussars. However, following a reorganisation of the Army Music, the band was amalgamated with the Bands of the King's Royal Hussars and Light Dragoons to form the Band of the Hussars and Light Dragoons on 1 September 1994, part of the new Corps of Army Music.

The Queen's Own Hussars, normally referred to by the abbreviation QOH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed from the amalgamation of 3rd The King's Own Hussars and the 7th Queen's Own Hussars at Candahar Barracks, Tidworth in 1958.

The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, abbreviated as QRIH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in Hohne, West Germany in 1958.

The regiment, in January 1996, became the first to be deployed in Challenger 1 tanks to Bosnia with NATO's British-led Implementation Force IFOR. The regiment received the Canadian Forces' Unit Commendation for its actions in Bosnia on 15 June 1996.

In August 1997 the regiment deployed to Northern Ireland on Operation Banner and on their return moved in March 1998 to Athlone Barracks at Sennelager as armoured regiment for 20th Armoured Brigade. In 1999 the regiment converted to Challenger 2 tanks in which B Squadron deployed to Kosovo with 1PWRR Battle Group in August 2000. The regiment deployed to Kosovo in the dismounted role the following year from October 2001-April 2002.

December 2003 saw the regiment deploy once again, this time to Iraq on Operation Telic 3. The regiment saw its first Military Cross awarded to Lance Corporal Christopher Balmforth of B Squadron for his actions during an ambush in Basra.

April 2006 saw the regiment deploy once again to Iraq on Operation Telic 8 and December 2008 saw the regiment deployed to Iraq on Operation Telic 13. As the final Operation Telic The Queen's Royal Hussars were intimately involved in the drawdown from the main British base and spent many hours escorting convoys to and from Kuwait. In 2011 the regiment deployed on Operation Herrick 15 as a ground holding Battle Group to Afghanistan in the infantry role: they worked with the Afghan National Police handing over control of checkpoints.

On return from Afghanistan in 2012 the regiment was called on to support the security for the London Olympic Games. The remainder of the year was used to return to the armoured role. 2013 saw C Squadron training with 5 Rifles on Exercise Bavarian Charger, mounted on Challenger 2. The Queen's Royal Hussars Battlegroup, comprising sub-units from 5 Rifles and 1 PWRR deployed on Exercise Prairie Thunder 2 between July and August 2013.

In June 2014, the regiment deployed C Squadron to Operation Herrick 20 in Afghanistan, as the Warthog Group. This role involved crewing Warthog armoured tracked vehicles and operating with dismounted infantry from 5 RIFLES to disrupt insurgents in Helmand during the draw down of British troops from Camp Bastion. They were the last British combat units on the ground in Helmand.

The regiment moved to Tidworth with 20 Armoured Infantry Brigade, forming the senior of three Type 56 heavy armoured regiments of British Army's Reactive Force, in 2019.

Organisation
The regiment is equipped with 56 Challenger 2 tanks.

 * HQ Squadron
 * A Squadron (The Devil's Children)
 * B (Balaklava) Squadron (reformed as a command and reconnaissance squadron in October 2020, previously an armoured squadron)
 * C Squadron (Fighting C)
 * D Squadron (The Black Pig)

Victoria Cross
Holders of the Victoria Cross included:
 * James Champion (8th King's Royal Irish Hussars)
 * Samuel Parkes (4th Queen's Own Light Dragoons)
 * Clement Walker Heneage (8th King's Royal Irish Hussars)
 * George Hollis (8th King's Royal Irish Hussars)
 * John Pearson (8th King's Royal Irish Hussars)
 * Joseph Ward (8th King's Royal Irish Hussars)
 * Cornet William Bankes (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
 * Major Charles Fraser (7th Queen's Own Hussars)

Colonels-in-Chief

 * 1993–2002: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
 * 2002–2021: Field Marshal The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
 * 2023–present: The Duke of Edinburgh,

Deputy Colonel-in-Chief

 * 1993–2002: Field Marshal The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,

Regimental Colonels
Colonels of the regiment have been:
 * 1993–1999: Maj-Gen. Richard Edward Barron CB
 * 1999–2004: Maj-Gen. David John Malcolm Jenkins CBE
 * 2004–2009: Maj-Gen. Arthur Denaro CBE
 * 2009–2014: Brig Andrew Bellamy
 * 2014–2023: Lt-Gen Sir Tom Beckett KCB CBE
 * 2023–present: Brig Nicholas David Guise Cowley

Commanding Officers
Regimental Commanding Officers included:

 * 1993–1994: Lieutenant Colonel Andrew N. Bellamy
 * 1994–1996: Lt Col Nigel Q. W. Beer
 * 1996–1998: Lt Col Nicholas G. Smith
 * 1998–2000: Lt Col Christopher H. Vernon
 * 2000–2002: Lt Col David J. L. Swann
 * 2002–2004: Lt Col Andrew C. Cuthbert
 * 2004–2007: Lt Col David H. Labouchere
 * 2007–2009: Lt Col Christopher M. B. Coles
 * 2009–2012: Lt Col Ian S. Mortimer
 * 2012–2014: Lt Col James R. Howard
 * 2014–2017: Lt Col Alexander J. H. Porter
 * 2017–2019: Lt Col Nicholas D. G. Cowley
 * 2019–2022: Lt Col James T. Shann
 * 2022–present: Lt Col Stephen Wilson

Museums
The Museum of The Queen's Royal Hussars is located at Trinity Mews, Priory Road, Warwick CV34 4NA.

The museum opened in 2022 and replaced the two previous museums:
 * The Queen's Own Hussars Museum was located at Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick until it closed.
 * The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Museum was located at The Redoubt Fortress in Eastbourne until it closed.

The Regimental Crest & Cap Badge
The crest and cap badge are as follows:
 * The Regimental Crest is made up from the Angel Harp of the 8th Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, which is placed above the White Horse of Hanover of the 3rd Hussars and The Queen's Own Hussars. These are encircled by the Garter Belt, above which is placed the Queen's Crown.
 * The Regimental Cap Badge is made up from the Angel Harp of the 8th Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, superimposed on the Regimental cypher of The Queen's Own Hussars, originally bestowed on the 7th Hussars in 1727; the whole is surmounted by the Queen's crown and a lion, with a scroll underneath giving the Regiment's title in blue and gold.

Privileges & traditions
The regiment has gained a number of unique privileges and traditions:

Loyal Toast: Officers dining in the Regimental Officers’ Mess have the privilege of not drinking the loyal toast and ignoring the National Anthem when it is played at dinner. This originates from the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 when all Army officers were required to drink to the health of the Sovereign in their messes after dinner as a token of loyalty. The King, however, absolved the Regiment (3H) from this, saying their loyalty was always beyond question. This privilege was re-affirmed by the Sovereign prior to amalgamation.

The White Horse of Hanover: Ranking second, after the Crown, among the regiment's military badges, it was bestowed by the first three Georges to certain regiments for their part in suppressing the Jacobites. It was first granted, as a special head-dress badge, by King George I to The 3rd The King's Own Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 for their part in defeating James Francis Edward Stuart (The Old Pretender).
 * Badges and Symbols

Crossbelts: At the Battle of Almenar in 1710 the 8th Dragoons pursued the Spanish Cavalry Corps and, equipping themselves with the crossbelts of the enemy, cut down the Spaniards with their own swords. The crossbelts were worn with distinction for many years, and the nickname 'St Georges Crossbelts' was given to the regiment. Although the crossbelt worn today is based on the original 4th Hussar pattern, the continuing tradition of titling the regimental journal The Crossbelts is in recognition of this famous action.

The Maid of Warsaw: Every member of the regiment wears the Maid of Warsaw, the coat of arms of the City of Warsaw, on the left sleeve of his No. 2 (Service) Dress. This honour was awarded to the 7th Hussars by the Commander of the Second Polish Corps in recognition of their valour in support of the Polish forces during the Italian campaign in World War II. Traditionally the original crest presented to the regiment is placed in front of the commanding officer on Dinner Nights.

The Fern Leaf: All vehicles in the regiment display the emblem of New Zealand, the fern leaf, to commemorate the association of The 3rd Hussars with the 2nd New Zealand Division at the Battle of El Alamein where the regiment lost all but five tanks breaching the German line. This honour was granted by General Lord Freyberg VC.

Kettle Drums: By command of King George II the silver kettle drums captured by The King's Own Regiment of Dragoons, later The 3rd Hussars, at Dettingen are borne by a drum horse ridden by a sergeant kettledrummer - both being additional to the regimental establishment. The drums are always carried at the head of the regiment on ceremonial parades and are, uniquely amongst cavalry regiments, never covered by drum banners, the battle honours being engraved directly onto the sides of the drums. In 1772 when Lord Southampton commanded the regiment, his wife gave a silver collar to be worn by the kettledrummer, which is still worn today when parading in full dress with the drums. The present drum horse is named Alamein and its nickname is Dudley.

 * Other traditions

Winston Churchill: Winston Churchill, who has been described as 'the greatest Hussar of them all', was commissioned into the 4th Hussars in 1895, and later became the colonel of the regiment from 1941, until the 4th Queen's Own Hussars was amalgamated with the 8th Hussars in 1958, after which he became colonel of the new regiment, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, remaining so until his death in 1965. In recognition of this, the Churchill Cup is awarded to the top-scoring troop in the regiment's annual gunnery competition. The commanding officer's tank is also named 'Churchill'.

The colours are as follows:
 * Regimental Colours
 * Garter Blue: The primary colour of the regiment is garter blue. This dates from when the Queen Consort's Regiment of Dragoons, later the 3rd Hussars, wore the queen's livery with garter blue feathered hats. It has been in continuous use ever since.
 * Green: The use of green dates from 1748 when it was the facing colour of Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons, later the 4th Hussars. It has an association with Ireland, which remains a recruiting area for the regiment. Officers and senior ranks wear green jumpers and all ranks wear green berets. Officers can be distinguished by their distinctive tent hats (the only item of army headdress worn without a cap badge other than with combat uniforms).
 * Yellow: The traditional Light Cavalry colour is yellow, which has been used by all of the regiment's predecessors.

The lyrics of the song go:
 * Regimental song

I'm a soldier in the King's Army.

I'm a galloping Queen's Hussar.

I've sailed the ocean wide and blue.

I'm a chap who knows a thing or two.

Been in many a tight corner.

Shown the enemy who we are.

I can ride a horse.

Go on a spree, or sing a comic song.

And that denotes a Queen's Hussar.

The Regimental Pipes and Drums
The Pipes and Drums were inherited from the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. There has been no formal adoption of pipe music by the regiment, but the pipe tunes have become very much a part of regimental parades, the following tunes have become part of the regiment's music.

 * Killaloe Composed by Robert Martin in 1887 as part of the show "Miss Esmeralda".
 * The Minstrel Boy The original words were composed by Thomas Moore, set to an old traditional Irish air originally named "The Moreen".
 * Highland Cathedral A modern slow melody composed by M Korb for bagpipes, it is a haunting tune used as a slow march.
 * St Patrick's Day Played by the Irish Pipes at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745, though it has long been a popular patriotic Irish song.

Regimental days
The following are celebrated as battle honour days:

 * Dettingen 27 June
 * Balaclava 25 October
 * El Alamein 2 November

St Patrick's Day is also celebrated.

Alliances
Commonwealth
 * 🇨🇦 – The Sherbrooke Hussars
 * 🇨🇦 – Royal Canadian Hussars
 * 🇨🇦 – 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
 * 🇦🇺 – 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry)
 * 🇦🇺 – 3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australian Mounted Rifles)
 * 🇦🇺 – 4th/19th Prince of Wales Light Horse Regiment
 * 🇦🇺 – 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
 * 🇳🇿 – Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles
 * – Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles
 * – Umvoti Mounted Rifles
 * – Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment

Non-Commonwealth
 * 🇧🇪 – 2/4 Regiment Lansiers
 * 🇫🇷 – 7eme Regiment de Chasseurs
 * 🇩🇪 – ArmdBn 203 (Bonds of Friendship)

Affiliated Yeomanry

 * The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
 * The North Irish Horse

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Bongwater (band)

Bongwater was an American psychedelic rock band, which formed in 1987 and dissolved in 1992. The group was founded by Ann Magnuson and Mark Kramer (who was also the founder of the Shimmy Disc record label), who had worked together previously in Pulsallama. The group also featured drummer David Licht and guitarists Dave Rick and later Randolph A. Hudson III. Guests included Fred Frith, Peter Stampfel and Fred Schneider.

Overview
Earlier recordings consisted of psychedelic-era cover songs, sound collages and originals in an abrasive and/or abstract, dense and sludgy experimental style with often dreamy and cacophonous vocals by Magnuson on the songs "Frank" (a sardonic "tribute" to Frank Sinatra) and "Dazed and Chinese" (Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused", sung in Cantonese). The band's style ultimately evolved into a more poppy, sexy approach which still retained an experimental edge as well as retaining the surreal and wicked, often self-deprecating wit which had distinguished the group's earlier releases. Lengthy sound collages would often terminate or begin the songs and without warning, a spoken word monologue (often taken from Magnuson's dream journal excerpts) might cut into the music.

They distinguished themselves as interpreters of songs by other artists and in particular of 1960s psychedelic rock songs, although they also covered occasional oddities like "Bedazzled" by Dudley Moore. They made "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" by The Weavers, "The Drum" by Slapp Happy and "You Don't Love Me Yet" by Roky Erickson into virtual signature tunes. The former was made into a tribute to Bobby, Magnuson's late brother, and others lost to AIDS. A number of their other songs made reference to this. This included their arguably biggest college radio hit "Folk Song".

The group created a number of arty low budget home movie-style music videos, three directed by Magnuson's then-boyfriend, Brad Dunning. However a more slick and polished example, "The Power of Pussy", strangely, aired on the Playboy Channel, which also financed its production.

Bongwater had two major college radio hits, "The Power of Pussy" and the nine-minute "Folk Song", and some college radio chart success. Personality clashes and money issues caused the duo to split up with much acrimony.

Select discography
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Singles

 * "You Don't Love Me Yet" b/w "The Porpoise Song" (7" Vinyl) (1988)

EPs

 * Breaking No New Ground! (1987)
 * The Peel Session (1992; Dutch East India Trading Records)

Albums

 * Double Bummer (1988)
 * Too Much Sleep (1989)
 * The Power of Pussy (1990)
 * The Big Sell-Out (1992)

 * Compilations:
 * Double Bummer/Breaking No New Ground
 * Box of Bongwater (contains their entire discography) (1998)

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Warner Center, Los Angeles

Warner Center is a master-planned neighborhood and business district development in the Canoga Park and Woodland Hills neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California.

Warner Center, which began as a master-planned area, is designated as a Regional Center within the City's Canoga Park-West Hills-Winnetka-Woodland Hills Community Plan. Historically, Warner Center is generally bounded by Vanowen Street to the north, the Ventura Freeway to the south, De Soto Avenue to the east, and Topanga Canyon Boulevard on the west. The Warner Center 2035 Plan (adopted in December 2013) added the area between Vanowen and the LA River to the plan area, which comprises approximately 1,100 acres or 1.7 square miles.

The area was originally planned to relieve traffic to and from downtown Los Angeles, as well as generate jobs in the San Fernando Valley. It was first envisioned in the late 1960s.

History
Warner Center is named for Harry Warner, the eldest of the Warner Brothers, who owned the land since the 1940s, which he used as a horse ranch. His family donated 20 acres of land in 1967 that became the Warner Center Park (also known as the Warner Ranch Park), situated east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard between Califa Street and Marylee Street.

In 1968, Robert Allison, then the manager for the San Fernando Valley office of Coldwell Banker, arranged the sale of 630 acres of the land to Aetna Life and Casualty for $30 million. Aetna acquired the land for long-term investment and development purposes, and later brought in Kaiser as a joint venture partner. Mr. Allison spearheaded the early land planning, subdivision and development efforts on behalf of Kaiser Aetna.

Initially, large tracts of the Warner Ranch land were developed in the Canoga Park portion, between Victory Boulevard and Vanowen Avenue. Topanga Plaza was first, followed by engineering facilities and headquarter offices for the aerospace companies Rocketdyne and Litton Industries.

With the sale of the land to Aetna, the pace of development in Warner Center accelerated. Kaiser Aetna acted as a master developer, offering land for sale or lease, buildings for sale or lease, and leased buildings built to owner's specifications. Development sites from very small parcels up to 100 or more acres were offered.

In the ensuing 20 years, much of the build-out of Warner Center occurred, including approximately 4,300 multi-family dwelling units, and millions of square feet of commercial and office space. Notable developments include:

 * The 34 acres Promenade Mall which opened in 1973.
 * Kaiser Permanente Hospital, which opened in 1986.
 * The 1.1 million square foot Warner Center Business Park built in the mid to late 1970s, consisting of low and mid-rise office and industrial buildings.
 * The 1.8 million square foot Warner Center Plaza built out from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, with its signature high-rise office buildings that feature reflective glass exteriors and give Warner Center its distinct skyline. The complex includes Warner Center Plaza I (constructed in 1980, completed in 1982, and opened in 1983), Warner Center Plaza VI (constructed in 1986, completed in 1988, and opened in 1989), and Warner Center Plaza III (constructed in 1988, completed in 1990, and opened in 1991).
 * The Trillium office project, consisting of twin 17-story office towers totaling 600,000 square feet, built in the late 1980s.

Real estate developer Robert Voit, in partnerships with Robert Allison and New England Life Insurance Company, developed the Warner Center Business Park and Warner Center Plaza. The partnerships were wound down in the early 1990s and since that time the ownership of the properties has become fragmented.

During the 1990s following the completion of the Warner Center Plaza project, relatively little new development occurred. The economic slowdown of the early 1990s, combined with the damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, served to put the brakes on new development for the rest of the decade.

The next major project was LNR Warner Center, which was built at the site of the former Prudential Life Insurance Company buildings between 2001 and 2005, totaling over 1.4 million square feet of primarily office space.

Also, in the early 2000s, a flurry of new multifamily housing projects were built. This burst of residential building created concerns in the community about issues such as traffic. In reaction to these concerns, City Councilmember Dennis Zine initiated a restudy of the Warner Center Specific Plan in 2005.

The Warner Center 2035 Plan (WC 2035 Plan) is a development blueprint for Warner Center that emphasizes mixed-use and transit-oriented development, walkability, and sustainability.

A Citizen's Advisory Committee was established in 2005, consisting of members of the local neighborhood councils including the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council and the Canoga Park Neighborhood Council as well as business and property owners, which worked with city planning staff and its consultants to develop the plan. In December 2013 the plan was adopted by the Los Angeles City Council.

By 2035, the plan anticipates an additional:
 * 14 million square feet of nonresidential building area
 * 20,000 residential dwelling units
 * 49,000 jobs

In 2011, the Los Angeles Daily News quoted City Planner Ken Bernstein as describing a new vision for Warner Center as more "cosmopolitan, 21st century." The paper added: "The plan would allow 40-story skyscrapers. Small retail shops — where locals could walk to buy basics — would be encouraged, in an area now dominated by national chains and big malls. The long superblocks and six-lane thoroughfares would be 'cut up' by adding paseos and crosswalks to create a more intimate feel for pedestrians."

In 2012 the City Council approved the Village at Westfield Topanga - which included a new Costco, as well as a massive retail, dining, and entertainment development that would combine with two existing Westfield Warner Center malls (Westfield Topanga Mall and Westfield Promenade Mall).

The 34 acre, The Promenade, was sold in March 2022 to sports owner and real estate developer Stan Kroenke for approximately $150 million. The combined 65 acre was expected to be developed into a permanent team headquarters and practice facility for the Los Angeles Rams. The Westfield shopping center called The Village was purchased in January 2023 for $325-million bringing the total property ownership to 100 acres. The center will continue to operate as an open-air lifestyle and retail destination.

Economy
Warner Center contains a mix of companies and industries, with a concentration in healthcare, financial services and professional services. Aerospace and manufacturing uses have declined significantly during its history, primarily attributable to regional business climate factors that favor moving production out of California. Approximately 40,000 employees worked within the Warner Center area as of 2013.

Transit
In October 2005, the Orange Line was established creating an east–west link across the San Fernando Valley linking Warner Center with North Hollywood and the Metro Red Line. In June 2012, the Orange Line was expanded to include a north–south line connecting Warner Center with Chatsworth and the Metrolink system. The G Line (name changed in 2020) no longer serves Warner Center and is replaced with Metro Route 601 which runs between the Canoga station and Warner Center.

Fire service
Los Angeles Fire Department Station 84 (Woodland Hills) and Station 72 (Canoga Park) serve Warner Center.

Police service
Security officers employed by Allied Universal Security Services continuously monitor and patrol all buildings, parking structures, and loading docks. Los Angeles Police Department operates the nearby Topanga Community Police Station.

Hospital
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center is a general medical and surgical hospital in Warner Center. Kaiser Permanente Medical Center consists of a 175-bed hospital and serves 2 million residents of the San Fernando Valley. Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Hospital, a non-profit general medical and surgical facility, is operated by Kaiser Foundation Hospital.

The hospital had 12,600 admissions in the latest year for which data are available. It performed 4,055 annual inpatient and 5,197 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 38,131 visits. Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Hospital is the highest ranked hospital in the San Fernando Valley, and ranked 13th highest hospital among Los Angeles-area hospitals because of its strength in specialties such as cancer, diabetes, endocrinology, gynecology, orthopedics and urology."

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I Remember Larry
Billy Joel? Are you kidding? It's pretty clearly a style parody of the Hilly Michael song "Calling All Girls", at least the verses are. And if you haven't heard that song, then I send you to the Ask All archives:

Ask Al

The artists that Iíve style-parodied range from the extremely popular (Bob Dylan, Nine Inch Nails, James Taylor, etc.) to the semi-obscure (Tonio K, The Rugburns, Hilly Michaels, etc.) but they're all favorites of mine, and my homages to them are always done with great affection and attention to detail.

Clearly at least one of his style parodies is of Hilly Michaels, and if it isn't this one then I'd love to know which one it is. - Kargach, 10:18 PM EDT, 23 Oct 2006
 * Listen to "Good Old Days" on Even Worse. There's your answer. 24.205.96.182 (talk) 01:37, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Addendum: For those who want to compare the two, YouTube has a video of "Calling All Girls" taken from Al TV of all places: Calling All Girls

I agree...there are no obvious Billy Joel parodies in I Remember Larry at all...lyrically or musically. The production is about as far from Billy Joel as possible. ZimZimmah 20:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Anyone know where i can find an MP3 of the backwards message?--Vfdtyler 22:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Hilly Michaels has confirmed the style parody on his FaceBook page, so I added the attribution in: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hilly-Michaels/50431923545 --Jere7my (talk) 07:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

The Night Santa Went Crazy
I've always thought this song sounded more like "Black Gold" by Soul Asylum than Ozzy. Anyone else? --JT706 19:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Only the very beginning sounds like Ozzy to me. It's clearly a style parody of "Black Gold" though. --Elvis 23:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's such a spot-on rendering of Soul Asylum's "Black Gold" that if Al hasn't come out and said it's a parody, it sure makes it obvious. I can see where people would confuse it for "Mama I'm Comin' Home" in the first four measures, but the rest of the song clears that up. 24.205.96.182 (talk) 01:36, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I think it is fair to say that the opening/main riff is Ozzy's "Mama, I'm Coming Home," but the rest does sound like Soul Asylum. PrinceTyke (talk) 03:06, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Amish Paradise fact
I find the line "Al did not get permission from Coolio to make this parody, but he made it anyway." under "Amish Paradise" a little strange and a little incorrect. Al DID get permission from Coolio's label and he was under the impression that Coolio granted permission also. The current wording puts across that he went out of his way to go against Coolio's wishes. You can read Al's answer to a fan's question on this matter on his FAQ archive (second question). I suggest changing the wording to a more correct statement, such as "Al had received permission from Coolio's label to write the parody and was under the impression that Coolio had granted it also. In reality Coolio had not given permission and was upset over Al's parody but did not take legal action." Or something along those lines. :) -- Zenith 19:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * How about this: "Al had received permission from Coolio's label to write the parody and was under the impression that the label was speaking for Coolio. In reality Coolio had not authorized his label to give permission and was upset over Al's parody but due to his label's actions was not able to take legal action." - EmiOfBrie 21:23, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Yep, that sounds good to me :) -- Zenith 00:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It's still flawed, as Coolio can take no legal action, I think due to freedom of speech since he did not take credit for anyone else's work. I'll fix it.Mr.hotkeys 20:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm So Sick of You
It sounds like Elvis Costello, alright. In fact, it sounds very close to "Pump It Up", particularly the bassline. - Ndrly 11:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Style Parodies
Unless there's actually a source for specific songs... I know he lists parodies but not style parodies in the liners... there shouldn't be listings in this article uncited - it's just personal opinion - anyone can hear any song in any parody. I don't hear ANY Monkees in Larry - I suggest all songs should be wiped of this info unless citable. TheHYPO —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 05:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree. It's just speculation, and doesn't belong here. --Marcg106 (talk) 18:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

What is this on everything you know is wrong, I don't see how a comedy troop having an album by that name has any relevance. There are also several books by that name, its not that uncommon of phrase. -- Kraftlos  (Talk | Contrib) 05:38, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Genres
Do you really need to list so many on the template? 83.148.246.254 (talk) 14:45, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Merging Songs
There is no reason at all for each individual song to have it's own page, especially when they are all so short and lack useful, verifiable, information. They should all be merged back to this page. I'll let it sit for a bit, but I will eventually redirect them all back here. Spman (talk) 01:37, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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SUBGENIUS has existed in the Public Domain since the 1980's.

SUBGENIUS is used in the trademark 'SubGenius Networks' ( subgenius.net), by SubGenius Networks™ in addition to the title of a "religion" ( subgenius.com) in use by The SubGenius Foundations 'Church of the SubGenius™'.

SubGenius Networks is NOT a 'church' related Slack institute. We're NOT faith based at all. It's NOT about "Bob" in the slightest. "Bob" is a trademark of the SubGenius Foundation, Inc.

That is why I insist on the [disambig] entry for SUBGENIUS and not auto forwarding to 'Church of the' SubGenius. 'The Church of the SubGenius' has a whole category.

We only wish to clarify the distinction between organizations.

SUBGENIUS is a Public Domain ideology based on Slack and "Bob" is a privately held and trademarked diety owned by another organization who DOES NOT REPRESENT SubGenius Networks. 24.254.56.98 03:37, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Perhaps, but regardless, putting outside links on a disambig page is in bad taste. As well, it appears that your organization's page will not survive VFD. Given these facts, I don't think it's worthwhile to have it as a disambiguation page. I do, however, think that it may be a good idea to add the trademark issue to the church's article. -- [[User:Bobdoe| Bob Doe ]] 03:43, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Keech
Keech 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 a consensus to delete the article.

non-notable. substub listed on cleanup since July. --Jiang 03:40, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete: Not his real name, not a biography, not an explanation. Geogre 03:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. utcursch 07:28, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * D Wolfman 15:35, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't find anything on skunk rock on google (not saying it doesn't exist) and I certainly can't find anything about "Keech" either. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:59, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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WPXA-TV

WPXA-TV (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Rome, Georgia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Atlanta area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and maintains offices on North Cobb Parkway (US 41) in Marietta; its transmitter is located on Bear Mountain, near the Cherokee–Bartow county line. Despite Rome being WPXA-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.

The station's broadcast range extends into parts of Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and even the southwest corner of North Carolina. However, terrain shielding not accounted for in radio propagation models prevents this from regularly occurring, due to the north Georgia mountains.

History
The station was issued a construction permit in 1984 on Channel 14 as WZGA, but never made it to air. The station went on-air February 29, 1988, as WAWA, with studios on Shorter Avenue in Rome and transmitter on nearby Mount Alto. The station was owned by Sudbrink Broadcasting of West Palm Beach, Florida, and had a general entertainment format of low-budget shows, public domain movies, and local newscasts. It also aired several ABC, CBS and NBC shows that WSB-TV (channel 2), WAGA-TV (channel 5) and WXIA-TV (channel 11) turned down.

In 1990, the station changed its calls to WTLK-TV and moved its studios to Marietta and transmitter to Bear Mountain (west of Canton). Rebranding as "Talk TV", it featured national talk shows like Phil Donahue and Sally Jessy Raphael. It also aired local shows (with TV studio audiences) with WSB's Neal Boortz, former Miss America Suzette Charles, Hosea Williams, Michael Young, WVEE's Mike Roberts, WGST's Brian Wilson and others, while also continuing to air some preempted network programs. However, the station never took off in metro Atlanta during the days before the must-carry rules for cable systems. The other independent on the fringe of the market, Athens-licensed WNGM-TV (channel 34, now WUVG), had the same problem. Later in the 1990s, WTLK ran blocks of country music videos along with infomercials.

In 1996, the station was sold to Paxson Communications. The must-carry rules for cable systems took effect about the same time. WTLK, WNGM and WATC would be added to most metro cable systems immediately. The station's format consisted of infomercials by day and the Worship Network at night. Pax TV was launched in 1998 and WTLK became WPXA as a charter affiliate. Pax TV later became i: Independent Television and is now Ion Television. During the Pax era, WPXA aired a late-night replay of WXIA's 11 p.m. newscast. Most Pax stations had similar arrangements with the NBC affiliates in their markets.

The station's broadcast tower on Bear Mountain was also the first location for WCHK-FM (105.5), now WBZY (105.7 FM) on Sweat Mountain.

Rome also had a previous full-power TV station, WROM-TV (channel 9), from 1953 to 1957. This station later moved to Chattanooga and became what is now WTVC.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

The Worship Network was originally on 14.4 until the end of January 2010, when it was dropped from all Ion stations.

The station had selected 14 as its permanent digital channel in the digital channel election, but had to remain on 51 due to a co-channel RF interference conflict.

In August 2013, the station contracted with local Telemundo affiliate WKTB-CD (channel 47) to provide a full-market signal for the low-power station, along with probable retransmission consent to fold it in with WPXA's negotiations. This precluded WPXA from Ion's agreement to carry the over-the-air signal of Home Shopping Network on its DT6 subchannel later in the year, though HSN already was carried by W45DX-D (channel 45) over-the-air in the market.

On July 6, 2015, WPXA-TV was licensed by the FCC to shift their digital signal from channel 51 to channel 31 to allow T-Mobile to use the adjacent channel 52 frequency for LTE data and voice services without interference, requiring a tuner re-scan for viewers to continue to receive the station.

In September 2019, WPXA-TV moved from physical channel 31 (583.31MHz) to 16 (493.31MHz) as a result of the spectrum incentive auction, which revoked channels 38 to 51 from the UHF TV bandplan, repacking those stations into channels 2 to 36 and forcing some stations already in the lower band to move around to accommodate them. This change was expected to occur by 12 a.m. on September 6, which was ATSC tuner "rescan day" for most stations in the Atlanta media market. However for WPXA this was delayed to the 11th for unknown reasons, in turn preventing WPCH-TV 17.x from changing from RF channel 20 to 31 until then.

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Leonard Marchand

Leonard Stephen "Len" Marchand (16 November 1933 – 3 June 2016) was a Canadian politician. He was the first person of First Nations status to serve in the federal cabinet, after being the first Status Indian elected and serving as a Member of Parliament. He was also the first First Nations person to serve as a Parliamentarian. He served as Parliamentary Secretary, Minister of State, Minister of the Environment and Senator.

Early life
Marchand was born in Vernon, British Columbia on November 16, 1933. A member of the Okanagan Indian Band, he attended school at the Okanagan Indian Day School, the Kamloops Indian Residential School and Vernon high school. He went on to graduate from the University of British Columbia in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture. In 1964 Marchand later completed a master's degree in range management from the University of Idaho. After pursuing a career as an agronomist, he left the field in the mid-1960s to work with the North American Indian Brotherhood. His work in native affairs took him to Ottawa to lobby on Aboriginal issues. He was hired as a special assistant to two successive Cabinet ministers.

Career
Marchand entered politics and was elected to the House of Commons in the 1968 election as a Liberal Party candidate for the British Columbia riding of Kamloops-Cariboo. He defeated high-profile Progressive Conservative candidate E. Davie Fulton. He was the first Status Indian to be elected as an MP.

He became parliamentary secretary to Jean Chrétien, who was the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, helping persuade Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to begin land settlement negotiations between the federal government and the First Nations.

In 1976, Marchand was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of State for small business. He was the first Status Indian to be appointed to a cabinet position. In 1977, he was promoted to Minister of the Environment, and held the post until his and the government's defeat in the 1979 election.

Marchand returned to British Columbia where he became administrator for the Nicola Valley Indian Administration. In 1984, he was appointed to the Senate, the second First Nations Canadian to be appointed (the first was officially James Gladstone, but in reality was Guy Williams). Marchand persuaded the Upper House to establish the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, on which he served as chairman.

Marchand retired from the Senate in 1998 at the age of 64, eleven years ahead of the mandatory retirement age, in order to spend more time in British Columbia. He died on June 3, 2016.

Member of Parliament Robert Falcon Ouellette gave a tribute to Len Marchand in the House of Commons on June 9, 2016.

Family
Marchard is the father of Leonard Marchand Jr., who was appointed Chief Justice of British Columbia and the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Yukon in December 2023. and of Lori Marchand, who is the first Managing Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre (NAC). Steadfast in her approach, she has been in the role in April 2018, where her work focusses on ensuring First Nations, Métis and Inuit stories are brought to the national stage.

Legacy and honours

 * In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
 * In 2000, Caitlin Press published his autobiography, Breaking Trail.
 * In 2014, Marchand received the Order of British Columbia.

 * Marchand was sworn in as a Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on 15 September 1976, giving him the accordant style "The Honourable" and the post-nominal letters "PC" for life.
 * In 1999, Marchand was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Thompson Rivers University.

Archives
There is a Leonard Marchand fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

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Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York is the governing board of Columbia University in New York City. Founded in 1754, it is sometimes referred to as the Columbia Corporation. The Trustees of Columbia University is a 501(c)3 and the owner of the property and real assets of the university. They are legally distinct from affiliates of the university, which include Barnard College, Jewish Theological Seminary, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary, which are themselves separate legal entities.

The board of trustees was originally composed of ex officio members including officials from the New York colonial government, crown officials, and various Protestant ministers from the city. Following the college's resuscitation following the American Revolutionary War, it was placed under the control of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, and the university would finally come under the control of a private board of trustees in 1787. The board is notable for having administered the Pulitzer Prize from the prize's establishment until 1975.

As of 2024, the trustees consists of 21 members and is co-chaired by David Greenwald and Claire Shipman.

Structure and function
The board is governed by a maximum of 24 trustees, including the president of the university, who serves ex officio. Six of the 24 candidates are nominated from a pool of candidates selected by the Columbia Alumni Association. Another six are nominated by the board in consultation with the University Senate. The remaining 12 are nominated by the trustees through an internal process. The board elects its own chair; the first woman to serve as chair, and the first to chair the governing board of any Ivy League university, was Gertrude Michelson, elected in 1989. The term of office for the trustees is six years and trustees serve for no more than two consecutive terms.

The trustees have met in dedicated room in Low Memorial Library since 1897. They select the President, oversee all faculty and senior administrative appointments, monitor the budget, supervise the endowment, and protect university property. The board of trustees holds the exclusive power to grant degrees, including, by memoranda of understanding, to the affiliated institutions of Barnard College and Teachers College. The trustees also oversaw the Pulitzer Prizes until 1975, when authority over the prizes was devolved to a separate board.

Early history
The board of trustees was originally established in 1754 as the board of governors of King's College with 41 members, replacing the ten-member Lottery Commission appointed by the New York Assembly to oversee lottery funds allocated to the establishment of the college. The board of governors originally included several ex officio members, including, crown officials, members of the colonial government, and ministers of various Protestant denominations:

• the Archbishop of Canterbury

• the First Lord of Trade

• the Governor of the Province of New York

• the senior member of the Governor's Council

• the five justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York

• the Secretary of the Province of New York

• the Attorney General of the Province of New York

• the Speaker of the General Assembly of New York

• the Treasurer of the Province of New York

• the Mayor of New York City

• the Rector of Trinity Church

• the Senior Minister of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

• the Minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew

• the Minister of the Église Française du Saint-Esprit

• the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church

• the President of King's CollegeA further twenty-four individuals were named in the charter, serving without terms with their successors to be selected by subsequent governors. College faculty were not provided seats ex officio on the board of governors, at variance with contemporary practice at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where the faculty was engaged in the governance of their colleges, but was very much in line with practice of other colonial colleges governed by external boards.

The charter permitted Protestants to serve as governors but excluded Roman Catholics and Jews. Only three members would be Anglicans: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the rector of Trinity Church, and the President of Columbia University, and they were offset by four ex officio members selected from New York's Dutch Reformed Church, French Protestant church, Lutheran Church, and Presbyterian Church. In practice, the board was dominated by Anglicans, members of the Trinity Church, and the Dutch Reformed Church. Of the fifty-nine men who served as governors, only three ex officio members were not from the Anglican or Dutch Reformed churches.

More than half of the fifty-nine New Yorkers who served as governor made their livings as merchants. The next most common occupation among the governors was law (20 percent), followed by ministers (16 percent), and there was only one doctor. The governors met 102 times in 22 years and most meetings were attended by around fifteen governors. A quarter of the governors attended fewer than ten meetings, and another half were absent, leaving a core of sixteen governors. Academic matters such as faculty appointments, the curriculum, and admissions requirements were overseen by degree-bearing ministers, while governors drawing from the city's mercantile and legal ranks oversaw financial matters such as construction of collegiate buildings or the salary of the college steward. This informal division of duties survived the reorganization of the King's College into Columbia College and persisted into the 1960s.

In terms of politics, the ratio of Loyalists to Patriots during the American Revolution among the governors was more than eight to one. The college was severely affected by the revolutionary war, which forced the college to shut down for eight years and a number of governors fled to Canada and the West Indies.

In 1784, it became the Board of Regents of Columbia College after the former King's College was reinstated. The 1784 charter also stipulated that eight of the seats on the board should be held by ranking state officials ex officio, with the remaining 24 regents to be appointed, two each, from the state's 12 counties, with only three places reserved for New York City residents. The number of regents was subsequently expanded to 33 by the New York State Legislature, with 20 of them residents of New York City, including a mix of prominent politicians and clergymen such as John Jay, Samuel Provoost, Leonard Lispenard, Gershom Mendes Seixas, and John Daniel Gros.

It was renamed in a new 1787 charter as the Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York, and the college was relieved of its duties as a state institution, returning to earlier status as a privately governed college serving the city. None of the college's trustees were to be state officials, and all replacements were to be elected by incumbent board members. Only until 1908 did the board start accepting alumni nominations.

The board arrived at its final name of The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York by an order from the Supreme Court of New York in 1912, 16 years after Columbia College was renamed as Columbia University.

Controversies
Although the trustees usually approve faculty recommendations for hiring and dismissal of Columbia faculty, in some cases they have taken a more direct role. Notably, in 1917 they fired psychologist James McKeen Cattell for his anti-war and anti-conscription views, a case significant in the history of academic freedom.

The trustees' oversight of the Pulitzer Prizes, which ended in 1975, was not without controversy. An early example of this occurred in 1921, when the trustees overruled the jury recommendation and awarded the fiction prize to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence instead of the recommendation of Sinclair Lewis for Main Street. A similar controversy ensued in 1962, when the trustees overruled the jury's choice of a biography of William Randolph Hearst by W. A. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst, instead choosing to give no award in that category.

The trustees have been blamed for the violent suppression of protestors in the Columbia University protests of 1968, after they instructed the university administration to call in the police against the protestors and later lauded the police for their efforts.

In 2001, the trustees were accused of pressuring the university to water down its sexual misconduct policy, and the director of the Office of Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Education resigned in protest, claiming that the trustees had directed her not to discuss the policy changes.

As with most governing boards of private universities, the deliberations of the trustees are confidential, and despite any internal disagreements the trustees generally present a unified front to the public on the decisions they have taken. A notable exception to this occurred in 2012, when trustee José A. Cabranes published a dissenting opinion on the status of Columbia College and its core curriculum within the university, in a column in Columbia's student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator.

During the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation a group of 21 members of the United States House of Representatives suggested that the trustees resign if they were unwilling to call in the NYPD to arrest student protestors.

Current trustees
The board consists of the following 21 members as of April 2024, according to Columbia University's official website and the biographies of the trustees:

Notable past trustees
According to the university website and Columbia Daily Spectator archives, the following people have served as trustees in the past: