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Vittorio Brambilla

Vittorio Brambilla (11 November 1937 – 26 May 2001) was a Formula One driver from Italy who raced for the March, Surtees and Alfa Romeo teams. Particularly adept at driving in wet conditions, his nickname was "The Monza Gorilla", due to his often overly aggressive driving style and sense of machismo. He won one Formula One race during his career, the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix, held in the wet.

Career
Born in the town of Monza itself, Brambilla began racing motorcycles in 1957 and won the Italian national 175cc title in 1958. He continued to race motorcycles on a casual basis throughout his career, finishing 12th in a guest appearance at the 1969 Italian 500cc motorcycle Grand Prix riding a Paton. Before becoming a mechanic he also raced go-karts. His older brother, Ernesto ("Tino"), was also a racing driver.

Formula Three, Formula Two, Sports cars
He returned to racing in 1968, in Formula 3 and won the Italian championship in 1972, by which time he was already racing Formula 2. Brambilla was 2nd to Jacky Ickx in a 1970 2-heat Formula Two race at the Salzburg Ring in Salzburg, Austria. He drove a March BMW to 4th place in Hockenheim, in a 1973 Formula Two race. There were two 10-lap heats covering 271.5 km. Brambilla won the City of Enna Cup, the 5th 1973 event in the European automaker's championship for 2,000 cc cars. He averaged 195 km/h over 290 km. He drove an Abarth-Osella. Brambilla captured the pole for the Monza 4-hour auto race in a BMW 3.5 CSL.

March 1974–1976

In his first year of Formula One, Brambilla was as quick as his teammate Stuck, although more accident-prone. In the Swedish GP he ran in fifth until an engine problem. Brambilla finished tied for 18th, last, in the Formula One World Championship standings. In 1975 he amazed many at the Belgian GP, where he led until encountering brakes problems after 54 laps, and at the 1975 Swedish Grand Prix, where he secured pole position until a transmission failure forced him to retire after 36 laps. His great day came at the Österreichring in 1975, when he won a wet Austrian Grand Prix. He spun off and wrecked the nose of his car as he took the chequered flag, and completed his slowing down lap with the front of the car destroyed while waving to the crowd. As the race was shortened, with 60% of it completed, he only received 4.5 points instead of 9 for the win. A more serious accident occurred that season when Brambilla crashed his March through a new curve at Watkins Glen during qualifying for the 1975 United States Grand Prix. He backed into a guard rail afterwards but was unhurt. The session ended at that point with Niki Lauda leading. Before his accident Brambilla was second fastest with a lap of 190.24 km/h. During 1976 he suffered several accidents and mechanical retirements, collecting only one point at the 1976 Dutch Grand Prix. He qualified his March in 8th position for the 1976 United States Grand Prix West. In the race Brambilla was tapped from behind by Carlos Reutemann before they reached the first turn. He lost the right rear wheel on his March on the 35th lap of the 1976 United States Grand Prix after holding fifth place for a time.

Surtees (1977–1978)

In 1977, Brambilla moved to the Surtees team, where he scored six points. At the same time he also drove for the Alfa Romeo sports car team, achieving the World Championship for the team. Brambilla finished 8th in the 1977 Monaco Grand Prix.

Brambilla continued with Surtees in 1978. At the 1978 United States Grand Prix West he placed 17th in qualifying, with a time of 1:23.212. His #19 Beta Surtees TS 19 finished 14th after experiencing engine failure on lap 50.

In a multiple pileup at Monza in the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, Brambilla suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a flying wheel during a multiple car collision on the opening lap. In reaction to that race, in which Ronnie Peterson sustained fatal injuries, it was announced in October 1978 that the Italian Grand Prix would move to the Autodromo Dino Ferrari circuit in Imola for the next three years although this did not actually happen until 1980. The 1979 Italian Grand Prix was at Monza again, and Brambilla recovered and returned to participate in that race.

Alfa Romeo (1979–1980)
Brambilla drove briefly for the Alfa Romeo Formula One team in 1979 and 1980. On the first day of qualifying for the 1979 United States Grand Prix Brambilla was timed at 134.98 km/h. Heavy rain caused a slick track and slower times. In December 1979 Alfa Romeo revealed its Formula One race car for the 1980 season. The company named Patrick Depailler, Brambilla, and Bruno Giacomelli as its drivers. The racer was nearly identical to one driven by Giacomelli in the 1979 Italian Grand Prix. It was a wing car design with a V-12 engine that generated more than 520 hp. Alfa Romeo announced that it was working on a 1,500 cubic centimeter turbocharged engine which was to begin track testing in a Formula One car in the summer of 1980.

Retirement and death
Brambilla retired at the end of the 1980 season. In the early 1990s he opened a Formula One memorabilia shop in Milan, occasionally driving the safety car during the Italian Grand Prix. He died at Lesmo, near Milan, of a heart attack at the age of 63 while gardening at his home. He reportedly collapsed while mowing the lawn.

Complete European Formula Two Championship results
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Complete Formula One results
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Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior

Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior (25 December 1943 – 23 February 2024) was a Brazilian racing driver and Formula One team owner. He participated in 38 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 1 May 1972, scoring a total of three championship points. He ran the Fittipaldi Formula One team between 1974 and 1982. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.

Personal life
Born on Christmas Day 1943, Wilson Fittipaldi Jr was the elder son of prominent motorsports journalist and radio commentator Wilson Sr and his wife Juzy, who both raced production cars shortly after the Second World War. Wilson Sr was also responsible for the first Mil Milhas race in 1956, in São Paulo, having been inspired by the 1949 Italian Mille Miglia. Wilson Jr is often referred to as 'Wilsinho' ("Little Wilson", cf. Rubens Barrichello's occasional nickname of Rubinho or footballer Ronaldinho) or 'Tigrão'. He unsurprisingly became a keen motorsports enthusiast from an early age.

Wilson Fittipaldi was the older brother of CART champion and double Formula One world champion Emerson Fittipaldi. Like Jimmy Stewart and Ian Scheckter he remained in the shadow of his younger and more illustrious sibling in top-level motorsport. He married Suzy. He was the father of former CART, Formula One and NASCAR driver Christian Fittipaldi and has a daughter, Roberta.

Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior suffered a cardiac arrest on 25 December 2023, his 80th birthday. According to his wife, during dinner he choked on a piece of food and the resulting lack of oxygen resulted in the cardiac arrest. He was resuscitated and subsequently admitted to a hospital where he was sedated and intubated. He died in São Paulo on 23 February 2024.

Racing career

Wilson Fittipaldi started racing the karts that he and his brother built in Brazil in the 1960s, before moving on to Formula Vee.

Fittipaldi made a brief trip to Europe in 1966 to race in Formula Three, but the opportunity fell through due to conflicts with the team he drove for in Brazil. He did not return to England until 1970, following his brother's success in Formula Two. That year he raced a Jim Russell Driving School entered Lotus 59 in British Formula Three, beating Carlos Pace and works Lotus driver Dave Walker, among others, to a victory at a BARC Championship round at Silverstone. At various times during the year he was also competing with future Formula One champions Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Combined with some other good results, particularly in the latter part of the year, including wins in two non-championship rounds, this enabled him to move up to the European Formula Two championship for 1971.

Here he scored several more good results racing alongside his brother for Team Bardahl-Fittipaldi in Lotus and March chassis, including a podium at Hockenheim and fourth places at Rouen and Mantorp Park. These results were sufficient to gain him a deal with the Brabham Formula One team for the 1972 season as a pay driver.

His Formula One career started with a podium at the 1972 Brazilian Grand Prix; however, this was a non-championship race and he was unable to repeat the performance in the world championship. He was a moderately competitive midfield runner for Brabham in 1972 and 1973. He scored no points in the 1972 championship, but in 1973 he scored his only Formula One World Championship points with a sixth place in Buenos Aires and a fifth place at the Nürburgring. His best qualifying results were ninth in Monaco and tenth at Mosport also in 1973.

Fittipaldi, tired of both being a paying driver and being a second driver on the team, without being able to challenge the team's first driver Carlos Reutemann under the boss's orders Bernie Ecclestone, took a break from driving at the beginning of 1974 to set up a Brazilian Formula One team (although he took part in the Grande Premio Presidente Emilio Medici non-championship Formula One race that year with Brabham). The team, initially known as Copersucar-Fittipaldi, did not have great success in their first racing season in 1975. Wilson was the sole driver and managed only six finishes, the highest of which was 10th, and last, place at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, and failed to qualify several times. Wilson stepped down from driving to look after the management of the team in 1976 when his brother, Emerson, joined the team from McLaren. His career total of three points, scored in 1972 and 1973 with Brabham, made him the most successful sibling of a Formula One World Champion until the arrival of Ralf Schumacher in 1997.

Fittipaldi occasionally returned to competitive driving. In the 1980s and early 1990s he drove in the Brazilian Stock Car championship, winning several rounds. In 1994 and 1995 he was victorious for Porsche in the classic Mil Milhas race founded by his father, on the former occasion sharing the car with his son Christian. In February 1998 he announced his return to competitive driving in the Brazilian Stock Car championship. In 2000 he was a guest driver for Mercedes-Benz at the Nürburgring round of the FIA European Truck Racing Cup, finishing 8th and 11th. In 2008, Wilson and Emerson entered the Brazilian GT3 Championship, driving a Porsche 997 GT3 for the WB Motorsports team.

Complete Formula One World Championship results
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Complete Non-Championship Formula One results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Formula One records
Before the Fittipaldis, three pairs of brothers had raced in Formula One: Jimmy and Jackie Stewart, Pedro and Ricardo Rodríguez, and Ernesto and Vittorio Brambilla. However, none of the siblings had competed in the same race. The Fittipaldi brothers were the first to compete in the same race, and also the first to score points in the same race: Wilson Fittipaldi only scored points in two Formula One races, (the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix and 1973 German Grand Prix), but on both occasions his younger brother, Emerson, also scored points (a win in Argentina and 6th in Germany).
 * As Fittipaldi brothers

Since the Fittipaldis, another six sets of brothers have competed in Formula One. Ian and Jody Scheckter, Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve Sr., Manfred and Joachim Winkelhock, Teo and Corrado Fabi, and Gary and David Brabham all failed to score points in the same race. Michael and Ralf Schumacher were the next to do so at the 1997 French Grand Prix.

Fittipaldi's son, Christian, made his debut in Formula One in and took his first point at the 1992 Japanese Grand Prix, making Wilson and Christian Fittipaldi the first parent and child to both score points in Formula One. They have since been followed by Graham and Damon Hill, Mario and Michael Andretti, Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve, Keke and Nico Rosberg, Satoru and Kazuki Nakajima, Nelson Piquet and Nelson Piquet Jr., Jan and Kevin Magnussen, Jos and Max Verstappen, Jonathan, Jolyon Palmer and Michael and Mick Schumacher.
 * As the father of a Formula One driver

Career in management and business
Although their father was reluctant to fund racing careers for them, the Fittipaldi brothers were able to finance their early racing careers by setting up a successful custom car accessory business while still in their teens, and then businesses building karts and Formula Vee cars. There was also a Fittipaldi-Porsche project - a one-off sports car chassis with Porsche mechanicals that the brothers built and raced in 1968.

In mid-1974 Wilson had persuaded Brazilian sugar and alcohol conglomerate Copersucar to sponsor his Formula One team, and from 1976 he had retired from driving and to concentrate on the management of the team, which ran with occasional flashes of success in Formula One from 1975 until it shut down in 1982.

After then he involved himself with the family's business interests, including a Mercedes-Benz dealership. He also carried out some television work, and was involved in the racing career of his son, Christian, managing him from 1996. In 2004 he became technical director of the WB motorsport team in Brazilian V8 stock cars. This led to the younger Fittipaldi testing one of the cars in 2004 before taking part in the championship in 2005 with a different team.

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Te Atatū

Te Atatū may refer to:
 * Te Atatū Peninsula, a suburb of Auckland
 * Te Atatū South, a suburb of Auckland
 * Te Atatū (New Zealand electorate), a parliamentary electorate in West Auckland

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Ernest George Horlock

Ernest George Horlock VC (also known as Ernest George Harlock) (24 October 1885 – 30 December 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Born 24 October 1885 to John and Emily Horlock in Beech near Alton, Hampshire. Horlock was 28 years old, married to Ethel, and a Bombardier in the 113th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, British Army during the First World War.

Gallantry in battle
On 15 September 1914 at Vendresse, France, Horlock performed the service for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

"For conspicuous gallantry on 15th September, near Vendresse, when his Battery was in action under a heavy shell fire, in that, although twice wounded, he persisted on each occasion in returning to lay his gun after his wound had been dressed."

- London Gazette

Horlock was reprimanded by his officers for not obeying orders to go to the hospital after both his first and second wounds had been dressed as well as being recommended for the V.C. He stuck by his gun until the evening, despite a third wound. He was mentioned in despatches by Sir John French on 8 October 1914.

The award was presented by King George V on 3 December 1914 at Merris, France while his unit was refitting, by this time Horlock had been promoted to Sergeant. He later was promoted to Battery Sergeant Major.

Horlock joined the Royal Field Artillery as a regular soldier before the First World War and for an unknown reason served as Harlock, possibly due to a clerical error on enlistment papers and subsequent records. His Victoria Cross was actually correctly engraved Horlock. His grave at Hadra Military Cemetery, Alexandria, bore the name Harlock until corrected by the Commonwealth Graves Commission in the late 1970s.

Death at sea
In December 1917 Horlock was one of 2,500 troops who sailed from Marseille aboard the troop ship HMT Aragon to join the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Southern Palestine Offensive against the Ottoman Empire. On the morning of 30 December Aragon was no more than 10 mi from her destination at the Port of Alexandria in Egypt when the German submarine SMU UC-34 torpedoed her, sinking her within 20 minutes. Aragon's escort, the destroyer HMS Attack (1911), rescued 300 to 400 survivors, but then UC-34 sank her as well.

Horlock was one of 610 personnel killed in the attack. His body was recovered and buried in Hadra War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria.

Monument in Hampshire
On 24 May 2001 (previously called Empire Day) a memorial to E.G. Horlock, VC was unveiled in St John's parish church, Langrish, Hampshire. The event was attended by Horlock descendants from all over the World. A contingent from 10 (Assaye) Battery (the successor of 113th Battery and the holders of the medal) was also present, in addition to members of Portsmouth Branch of the RAA and the RA Artificers' Association. During the ceremony a tribute was given by the General Secretary, Lieutenant Colonel MG Felton, and the memorial was unveiled by Dame Mary Fagan, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.

Memorial Paving Stone in Alton
On 15 September 2014 a memorial paving stone was unveiled near the War Memorial in Alton, Hampshire, to Bombardier Ernest Horlock (sic) on the hundredth anniversary of his VC service. There was a display in the nearby Assembly Rooms and, later in the day, the firing of an 18pdr field gun (similar to the type Horlock would have served with) in Anstey Park.

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Broken link to honey image
Hi Shoefly, I looked for the image in this and the German wikipedia and could not find it. I suspect the image has been deleted, possibly for coypright problems, or maybe the uploader was just mad about something (as s ometimes happens). My understanding is that images cannot be restored after deletion, so probably the best thing is to find another image. If you were the uploader, it must have glitched at uploading, or the link is misspelled. Pollinat or 21:32, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I actually found out that the problem was the use of .JPG instead of .jpg.

toxicity to bees
Hey shoefly, your article on pesticides and bees is great! Can you please contribute some to the Pesti cide article? You seem to know a ton about the chemical classifications of pesticides, and we could really use some information about that on the Pesticide page. Thanks! Bonus Onus 04:03, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

cool, thanks for the edit. looks good. Bonus Onus 16:49, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

Mite and Acarology
Hi. Are you planning on building the Acarology article? If yes, then I'll not touch the wikilink you set up for this term in the Mite article. If you aren't planning on this, then I'd like to remove the wikilink as it creates a self-reference, linking through the redirect from this term back to the Mite article.

Thanks for the information.

Courtland 12:55, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion: Gigantour
If you're going to nominate an article as a candidate for speedy deletion, it might be a good idea to read the Talk page first. The article is not self-promotion or advertisement, and the Gigantour is a legitimate event much like Big Day Out or Lollapalooza which all deserve articles. It might also be an idea to read this discussion. plattopusis this thing on? 15:50, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * For your information, I have requested assistance to get this article undeleted. [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|30px|]] plattopusis this thing on? 16:16, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Dadant hybrid bees
Hi,

Do you happen to know whether any bee supply companies are currently providing artificially inseminated queens, advertising their queens as "hybrid" (actually I guess it would be the progeny that are hybrids)? I used to get hybrid queens from A. I. Root in Medina, Ohio. I believe they are out of business now, no? Thanks. P0M 04:30, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I didn't actually want any, I just found it interesting that the old-time commercial suppliers seem to have left the field.

I visited A.I. Root's plant in the mid 50s and found one thing quite interesting. The ladies who inserted the sheets of tissue paper between the sheets of wax did it entirely by feel, it seemed. Most of them had a paperback novel suspended in front of them which they read while they chatted and their hands moved on what seemed to be complete auto-pilot. They had quite a business in those days supplying artificially inseminated queens. Later I went to college and lost contact with the business. I never was sure that the Root queens produced workers that were as gentle as advertised. They stung me plenty. P0M 01:24, 7 September 2005 (UTC)e

Stingers
Could I ask why you deleted the section on stingers from the honeybee article? DS 01:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

It is not deleted just made a new article "bee sting". Shoefly 01:11, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Speedy delete on Data pages for chemical compounds
Hi,

I noticed that you moved all of the supplementary data on toluene on to the main page, and posted a speedy delete for the data page. I have reverted this, after noting that the page was incorrectly named; I have moved it to the correct new name of toluene (data page). The data page for chemical compounds is a standard part of the infobox, this is our way at WP:Chem of keeping less important data available but out of the main article (the article on toluene gets a lot of users, I believe). By moving the data tables to the main article space the article begins to look like a set of data tables rather than an encyclopedia. This policy (data pages) was the result of about one month of extensive peer review at the WikiProject, so please don't speedy delete such pages without first posting something on the relevant talk page. If you think the policy on data pages is wrong, please raise the subject with the relevant WikiProjects. Walkerma 04:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for yesterday's reply on my talk page. Hey, that's an interesting idea you're trying out on acetone, adding the data page to the "see also" section! We had a long debate about making the link to it obvious without it spoiling the look of the page. Now we'll see if one of my colleagues from WP:Chem reverts it....! Cheers, Walkerma 05:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Buffer overflow peer-review
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It would be great to have lots of input from different sources. - Tompsci 19:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary
Thank you for your contributions. And I have a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries more often when you contribute. An edit summary helps others understand what you changed when checking the watchlist or the recent changes, and often times complements studying the diff. Think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. I hope you don't mind. :) Cheers – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:45, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Bees, bees and more bees
Hi Shoefly!

Please have a look at Queen bee and try not to be cross! I haven't lost any of the copy at all, but I've put all the rellevant material under one heading, because this is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. I figured that if someone (me, perhaps) wants to know about bees, then they don't want to have to look up four different articles just to find out about one topic, namely queen bees.

I think that if all the articles on Honey bee were put together, it would probably be much too long as there is a lot of information there. On the other hand, I think that possibly three articles on Honeybees, plus another on honey and another on beeswax would be preferable to about twenty seperate articles, some of which are only a few lines long. At this point in time, I haven't deleted the material from the other articles, just copied it all to Queen bee. Can you take a look?

--Amandajm 09:34, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

And more bees...
Hi - I've just set up WikiProject Beekeeping, and was wondering if you'd like to join. It is, of course, open to anybody - feel free to list your name on the project page! Thanks, M a rtinp23 12:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Haplodiploid sex determination table
I'm sorry, but I got it from my lecture notes at uni - and I can't really reference those in Wikipedia. :( -Malkinann 07:43, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Personal Sustainability Practice
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Static electricity
Hi Shoefly,

I like the reorganization you've been doing on the Static electricity article. I notice you recently rewrote the introductory paragraph and I feel there are some drawbacks to the way it now reads. I have posted my thoughts on the talk page to stimulate discussion of this issue and I'd appreciate your thoughts on what I've said.--DJIndica (talk) 19:49, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Biomass (ecology)
Hi Shoefly. I see you added a table to biomass (ecology). Can you provide authoritative sources and state what measure you are using for the biomass? The biomass figures used in this article are currently a mess (my fault since I wrote most of it). Like you, I've added biomass figures for which I haven't yet found convincing sources. I've used mostly figures used elsewhere in Wikipedia. When I've approached the editors who added in those figures, they haven't been able to source them adequately either. Many of the figures quoted around the web vary in wild ways. As a group, bacteria probably form the greatest biomass, but estimates also vary hugely. Your table compares 100 million tons of humans (dry weight) with 500 million tons of Antarctic krill. But krill biomass is usually a fisheries measure, which is wet weight. Moreover, I've seen other estimates for Antarctic krill ranging between 150 and 650 million tons. Copepod estimates vary just as wildly. These problems seem to apply just about everywhere for global estimates - they vary widely, they are often uncited, and what is meant by "biomass" is often not stated. Even the seemingly more rigorous estimates of "global primary production" in the second to last paragraph are suspect. They are the up-to-date figures from a reputable source, but other sources give very different estimates. So at the moment I've thrown my hands up. --Geronimo20 (talk) 07:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh the 30lb "dry weight" per person was already in the article - but that would be about right. Be good if you can find more authoritative and consistent global figures than I was able to. --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Flammability Limits
You have been adding numerous entries to a table of examples in the Flammability Limit article. I note that none of these examples (yours and those from before) have source citations. That makes them somewhat problematical in Wikipedia, which seems to prefer citations for any assertion of fact that is not obvious to all. Can you add some?

I also note that the list of examples now far exceeds in legnth all the rest of the article. This seems to me to be an undesireable imballance in an artilce that is supposed to describe and explain Flammability Limits. That table began as a few examples to illustrate the text, but seems to have becom an extensive list of limits. Do you think it might be time to split most of that out as a separate article titled "List of Flammability Limits" and reference it from the main article by a wikilink? Pzavon (talk) 19:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

January 2010
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European_dark_bee
In the European dark bee article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_dark_bee ,listed among the bees' qualities was “careful, maritime brood cycle”.

It has been suggested that this may be a translation error.

Jstaffwk (talk) 13:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Polyurethane foam
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Gwine
Archaic dicdef. I don't see how this could be expanded. Joyous 11:56, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete -- I'm also concerned that the contributor may be purposefully adding racist comments and articles to stir up trouble. I'm going to go tag another contribution, maybe a couple of us should check up on the submitter's other changes as they happen. DreamGuy 12:27, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd like to bump this up to speedy delete, as Geogre recommends. Another article this submitter posted and I marked has already been speedily deleted, so this one makes a good candidate too. I'm not sure how that's proper to handle though since it's currently being voted on. I'll be tacking a third one of his articles as speedy delete potential. The racism doesn't appear to be accidental but calculated to disrupt. DreamGuy 19:57, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete', a word used in a dialect isn't notable. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:01, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * NPOV and transwiki to wiktionary --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway Talk]] 16:04, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete: "Gwine" is used by Mark Twain and Stephen Foster, both, as well as Joel Chandler Harris, but the contents of this are a racist insult.  I don't believe it's worth the effort to do anything with this except kill it.  Wiktionary can develop the term on its own, or not, but I don't want to reward the jackass who wrote this or take the slightest chance that he or she will un-NPOV it over and over again.  Geogre 16:43, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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 * Speedy delete nothing worth saving. A good definition would have to start from scratch.ike9898 22:58, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Racism on that page.  --Idont Havaname 00:45, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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 * Speedy deleted by me. Normally, if something like this happens (a VfD nom that I believe should be a speedy), I wait 24 hours to see if anyone has dissent before acting.  24 hours is long enough for junk like this to stay.  Geogre 03:57, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Charity non-profits face many of the same challenges of corporate governance which face large, publicly traded corporations. Fundamentally, the challenges arise from the "agency problem" - the fact that the management which controls the charity is necessarily different from the people who the charity is designed to benefit. In a non-profit corporation, the "agency problem" is even more difficult than in the for-profit sector, because the management of a non-profit is not even theoretically subject to removal by the charitable beneficiaries. The board of directors of most charities is self-perpetuating, with new members chosen by vote of the existing members.

Business ethics in non-profits
Non-profit organizations are presented with the same complex challenges that would be found in any other business. The organizations must maintain an image, and they do this by managing stakeholder relationships to retaining donors, particularly during times of environmental change. This places a premium on knowing which stakeholders really matter if an effective relationship marketing strategy is to be developed, according to the Journal of Business Ethics.

Marketing strategies within non-profit organizations differ from commercial businesses. For example, non-profits will often pursue multiple, non-financial marketing objectives; they market for social change, which Liao et al. (2001) referred to as a ‘societal orientation’; and they garner more public attention, both positive and negative, than the average business (Shapiro, 1973). Thus, appealing more towards the public opinion.

There are two fundamental tasks which senior management teams address prior to articulating any new marketing strategy. These fundamental strategies are:

• Develop a rigorous approach to determining and agreeing on stakeholder saliencies across the organization.

• Auditing their current marketing practices across each of these stakeholders and assess their ability to produce the desired result.

Charitable fraud prevention
In the United States, prevention of charitable fraud is mostly a function of state governments, and laws vary widely from state to state. Approximately 45 states have laws regulating charities and require registration before soliciting donations.

The Journal of Business Ethics reports that fraud losses affect not only small, local charities run by volunteers but also large, well-known charities with thousands of employees. Examples include $1.5 million of employee theft at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, $43 million of improper payments to grantees at The Global Fund, and a $26 million endowment write-off at New York University due to a fraudulent investment manager.

Many charities prefer to handle cases of fraud quietly because public disclosure can be costly. In addition to the direct cost of the diverted assets, disclosing a fraud may cause the charity to lose future donations or volunteers. Moreover, other charities and society at large can suffer from the spillover effects of diminished trust in the nonprofit sector as a whole (Bradley 2015).


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Sorry; I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that. However, while the article wasn't quite on the level of an 'attack page', it was against a person who is very much alive... Stochastic (talk) 07:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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Balaena

Balaena is a genus of cetacean (whale) in the family Balaenidae. Balaena is considered a monotypic genus, as it has only a single extant species, the bowhead whale (B. mysticetus). It was named in 1758 by Linnaeus, who at the time considered all of the right whales (and the bowhead) as a single species. Historically, both the family Balaenidae and genus Balaena were known by the common name, "right whales", however Balaena are now known as bowhead whales. Throughout history, the family Balaenidae has been the subject of great taxonomic debate. Authorities have repeatedly recategorized the three populations of right whale plus the bowhead whale, as one, two, three or four species, either in a single genus or in two separate genera. In the early whaling days, they were all thought to be a single species, Balaena mysticetus. Eventually, it was recognized that bowheads and right whales were in fact different. Later, morphological factors such as differences in the skull shape of northern and southern right whales indicated at least two species of right whale—one in the Northern Hemisphere, the other in the Southern Ocean. As recently as 1998, Dale Rice, in his comprehensive and otherwise authoritative classification, Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution, listed just two species: Balaena glacialis (the right whales) and Balaena mysticetus (the bowheads).

A DNA study by Rosenbaum in 2000, and another study by Churchill in 2007 finally provided clear evidence to conclude that the three living right whale species do comprise a phylogenetic lineage, distinct from the bowhead, and that the bowhead and the right whales are rightly classified into two separate genera. The right whales, therefore, are now officially in the genus Eubalaena.

The fossil record of Balaena, dating to the late Miocene, encompasses ten species known from finds in Europe, North America, and South America. Balena, described by Scopoli in 1777, and Leiobalaena, described by Eschricht in 1849, are junior synonyms of Balaena.

Taxonomy

 * Balaena Bowhead whales
 * † Balaena affinis (Pliocene; Red Crag Formation, UK)
 * † Balaena montalionis (Piacenzian; Casina, Italy).
 * Balaena mysticetus, Bowhead whale (Late Pleistocene to Modern)
 * † Balaena ricei (Piacenzian; Rice's Pit, Yorktown Formation, Virginia, USA).

Dubious species

 * † Balaena arcuata (Miocene/Pliocene; Belgium)
 * † Balaena forsythmajori (Zanclean; Case il Poggio. Italy)
 * † Balaena larteti (Neogene; Landes, France)
 * † Balaena macrocephalus (Langhian; Sos, France)
 * † Balaena simpsoni (Miocene/Pliocene; Ancud, Chile) (possibly a member of Neobalaenidae )

Species inquirenda
† = extinct species
 * † Balaena pampaea (Calabrian; Pampeana Formation, Bahía Blanca, Argentina)

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