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table markup arcana
In the standard infobox, {| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="margin-left:5px" . . . !align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics !align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"| . ..
 * align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:IIH.png|300px|INSERT CAPTION HERE]] Insert caption here

 * the is unnecessary, because the initial < ! > makes them captions, which are automatically centered. But what---if anything---does the < no-repeat scroll top left; > do? I've tried taking it out, without apparent effect (in my browser).

 * Why is the ensign-placeholder sized at 44 pixels, when the header strip is only 30?
 * —wwoods 03:57, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Because ensigns are usually wider than they are high? Something to watch our for if a square jack is used.--J Clear 20:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Table width?
Is there any reason why the table width is 300? I have found that 360 is a better width. With 300, I have found some wrap in a few lines, and usually it is just a couple of letters which causes the word to wrap. With 360, most of the lines do not wrap.

I would like to change these table widths to 360. Anybody have any comments on this? 147.240.236.9 22:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * [I responded to this earlier at User talk:Malo, but in case you didn't see it,]
 * I've also felt cramped by the 300-pixel width, particularly for the propulsion and armaments. But there's only so much width available, and between the general Wiki-link column on the left, and the infobox on the right, the column of text is already squeezed. Remember that boxes, templates, etc. are supposed to embellish the text, not replace it. For detailed descriptions of the types and arrangements of weapons, we can put them on the ship class pages, outside the box.
 * —wwoods 00:40, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Class Motto
Are there any ship classes with a Motto? Or was that just a cut and paste error when creating the ship class template?--J Clear 21:01, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Displacement
Which displacement are we listing in the table? For an APA, I've got "light displacement", "full displacement" and "deadweight" in the NVR. --J Clear 22:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Do you think it would be helpful to explain to explain to readers that displacement is normally either written in long tons (2240 lb) or metric tons ((2204.62 lb). Even in the US the standard is to use either long tons or metric tons - see NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office, definition of full displacement.--Toddy1 (talk) 04:58, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Class
what about an infobox for an entire class or type of ship? how about that? please help. Any ideas, please send em in to here, or to my talk page. Thanks v. much, Anonymous Dissident 00:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Infobox for a civilian ship converted to military use
What is the approrpiate use of an infobox for a ship commissioned (and used) for civilian service, and then converted to a warship (and maybe back)? PaladinWhite 22:27, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Define each term used in ships table for us nautically-challenged types?
I'm trying to build a page out for a ship my father served on -- USS Garcia (FF-1040) -- be gentle, it's my first creation of a ship page and only my second creation of a wiki page ever]], and after slogging through learning about the 1975 USN ship reclassification and WP:NC-S (use most identifiable name, which I take to mean the one in longest usage if in no other way notable)... anyway after surviving all that and finding the updated ship infobox, I have to wander over here to try to figure out what type of data belongs in each field, eg. struck vs. fate=scrapped, reclassified vs. recommissioned, in/out of service versus launched/refit or decomissioned, etc. And I thought the hard part would be draft vs. draught, but at least that kind of thing makes more sense to this addled brain! (Also, the sample template codes in show OR hide mode on this article cover up the example of what gets rendered when using the template. Makes it challenging to decipher some things... at least in Firefox.) - Ageekgal 13:06, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Is this document necessary?
Is this document necessary? It seems to be a collection of stuff taken from other documents.

 * §Choose an ensign or jack: content available in the Usage guide.

 * §Table of statistics for a ship: transclusion of Template:Infobox ship begin/doc.

 * §Table of statistics for a ship class: duplicates portions of §Table of statistics for a ship (already transcluded from Template:Infobox ship begin/doc).

So, there being nothing unique or novel in this document, is the document necessary? I suggest that it is not and that it should be deprecated, removed from the Sidebar and any other WP:SHIPS document that link to it.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:45, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

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Peine forte et dure contains similar information.

So does crushing, including the same witch trials reference. Some sort of merger is probably due. -- Wisq 05:11, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)

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Cristobal Huet

Cristobal Huet (born September 3, 1975) is a French former professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently a goalie coach for Lausanne HC of the National League (NL). He previously played for HC Lugano and HC Fribourg-Gottéron and within the Chicago Blackhawks, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals organizations in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is the first French netminder and second French-trained player overall (after Philippe Bozon) to play in the NHL. He currently co-hosts hockey TV show, Le Repas d'équipe, with fellow French-born Swiss former player Laurent Meunier on MySports.

Huet won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks during the 2009–10 NHL season, and became the first Frenchman to win the Stanley Cup as a player. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2023.

Amateur
As a youth, Huet played in the 1988 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Grenoble.

HC Lugano
Huet played for HC Lugano from the 1998–99 season to 2001–02. His career took a significant turn in these years. He won the National League A Championship in his first year, and reached the European Hockey League final four the next year.

Los Angeles Kings
Huet was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings as their seventh-round pick, 214th overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. He played for the Kings in the 2002–2003 and 2003–2004 seasons. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in a three-team deal that sent Mathieu Garon to Los Angeles and Radek Bonk from Ottawa to Montreal. During the 2004–05 lockout Huet played for the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He led the team to the finals, where the Eagles lost in three straight games to Eisbären Berlin.

Montreal Canadiens
During the 2005–06 season, Huet eventually won the starting job in goal for the Canadiens at the expense of José Théodore, who was subsequently traded to Colorado in exchange for goaltender David Aebischer. He also won the Molson Cup in February 2006. He won the Best Defensive Player award from the NHL during the first week of March, ousting goaltenders such as the Ottawa Senators' Ray Emery and the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur, with a 3–0–0 record and a 1.67 GAA. For the second time of the year, he was named NHL Best Defensive Player on April 3 with a 3–0–0 record, a 0.65 GAA and 0.979 SV%, ousting goaltenders Martin Brodeur, Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff and Detroit's Manny Legace.

On April 23, in his first NHL playoff start, Huet starred in a 6–1 win against the 2nd seeded and eventual Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes. Huet stopped 42 of 43 shots in the contest to put the Canadiens up 1–0 in the seven-game series. Two days later, Huet recorded his first overtime playoff win, when the Canadiens beat the Hurricanes 6–5 in double overtime to take the lead 2–0 in the series. However, Huet and the Canadiens lost the next four games and the series in goaltender duels with rookie Cam Ward, who had taken Martin Gerber's starting spot in the series, and who would later go on to win the Conn Smythe Trophy.

The Canadiens re-signed Huet in the 2006 off-season to a two-year deal at $5.75 million total, earning $3 million the first season and $2.75 million in the second year.

On January 13, 2007, Huet was announced as one of the three goalies of the Eastern Conference All-Star Team in the 55th NHL All-Star Game in Dallas. A month later, however, he suffered a left hamstring injury that caused him to miss most of the final two months of the season. In his absence, the Canadiens struggled, and the team missed the postseason.

Washington Capitals
On February 26, 2008 Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey traded the French netminder to the Washington Capitals for a 2009 second-round draft pick. The Canadiens decided to trade Huet because of highly touted prospect, Carey Price. In Washington, he took over the starting position from Olaf Kölzig, pushing incumbent backup Brent Johnson to the pressbox, and his exceptional play helped lead Washington to secure a playoff berth, where they lost the opening round series against the Philadelphia Flyers in seven games.

Chicago Blackhawks
On July 1, 2008, the first day of unrestricted free-agency, Huet agreed to terms on a new 4-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks worth a total of $22.4 million or $5.625 million per season.

Following the signing, Blackhawks general manager Dale Tallon announced the team would enter the season with a tandem of Huet and Nikolai Khabibulin. Unable to win the starting job over Khabibulin to start the season, Huet found himself on the bench more often than not. Gradually, he earned back his playing time and both alternated every game for almost 3 months until Khabibulin went down with a groin injury in early February. The tandem, however, earned praise around the NHL. A second Khabibulin injury in early February thrust Huet in the spotlight once again, and he was named the NHL's 3rd star of the week for Feb 15–21, posting a 3–0–0 record and allowing just five goals on 72 shots. In the end however, Khabibulin was named the playoff starter for the Blackhawks, and they defeated the Calgary Flames in the first round as well as the Vancouver Canucks in the second round.

Huet made his next appearance for the Blackhawks during game three of the 2009 Western Conference Finals, where he was called to replace an injured Khabibulin. He made six saves, and allowed the Blackhawks to collect an overtime win. With Khabibulin still recovering from a lower body injury, Joel Quenneville named Huet the team's starting goalie for the fourth game against Detroit. Huet allowed five goals on 21 shots, and was temporarily replaced by Corey Crawford. During the final game of the series, Huet stopped 44 shots en route to a 2–1 overtime loss.

For the first time in his career, Huet started a season as the undisputed number one goaltender, but as the 2009–10 campaign wore on, Antti Niemi eventually replaced Huet as Chicago's starter going into the playoffs. Huet played only twenty minutes in the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs, which the Blackhawks won with Niemi in net and with an overall playoff record of 16–6. With the Hawks victory, Huet became the first native of France to get his name engraved on the Stanley Cup.

On September 27, 2010, Chicago loaned Huet to HC Fribourg-Gotteron of the Swiss National League A in order to stay within the salary cap.

Fribourg-Gotteron
In his first year with Fribourg-Gotteron, Huet played in 41 games but struggled in the second half of the season, accumulating a 2.84 goals against average as the team finished 8th. Fribourg qualified for the playoffs only to be swept by HC Davos. The following season he improved to a goals against average of 1.99 in 39 games, third best in the league that year. The team defeated HC Lugano in the quarterfinals in 6 games but lost to SC Bern in the semifinals in 5 games. Huet's loan and his contract with the Blackhawks expired when the playoffs ended, thus making him a free agent.

Lausanne HC
Failing to sign with an NHL team, he returned to the National League and signed a 4-year deal with Lausanne HC of the National League B. His first season in Lausanne was a success, as the team won the National League B title and went on to win promotion to the National League by defeating SC Langnau in the qualification round.

Retirement from the French national team
In May 2017, Huet played at the 2017 IIHF World Championship, in Paris, representing France. He played his last game at the final round robin game of France, against Slovenia, with a win, and ended with a standing ovation, retiring with France's Team Captain Laurent Meunier. Team France (Les Bleus) did not advance to the medal round, but was not relegated.

Honours

 * French Elite League Champion with the Brûleurs de loups of Grenoble, 1997/98
 * Albert Hassler Trophy (Most Valuable Domestic Player in the French Elite League), 1997/98
 * Jean Ferrand Trophy (Most Valuable Goaltender in the French Elite League), 1996/97 and 1997/98
 * Swiss National A League Champion with HC Lugano, 1998/99
 * European Hockey League Final Four with HC Lugano, 1999/00
 * Jacques Plante Trophy (Best GAA in the Swiss National A League), 1999/00 and 2000/01
 * Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award (Best Save% in the NHL – National Hockey League), 2005/06
 * Nominee for Bill Masterton Trophy (Awarded to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey.), 2005/2006
 * NHL Defensive Player of the Week 3–5–06
 * NHL All Star Team roster – 2007
 * Nominee for NHL All Star team – 2008
 * NHL 3rd star for January 2008
 * NHL 3rd star of the week (Feb 15–21 2009)
 * NHL 1st star of the week (Dec 14–21 2009)
 * NHL 2010 Stanley Cup Champion (Season 2009–2010)
 * Inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2023

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Music of Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands. Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population.

The musical culture is changing rapidly in Prince Edward Island at this time as traditional Celtic musicians, while in some ways more prominent than ever, are not as common in small rural communities as they once were. Celtic music is still very much around and can be heard at festivals, ceilidhs and pubs throughout the island, especially in the summer. That being said traditional Scottish ceilidhs are rarely frequented by young people and the younger generation has been diverging along an urban rural divide, in that young people in rural parts of the island now tend to follow Country and Western music, almost assuming it is an extension of local tradition, due to the similarities, when it is in fact an American import. Before the introduction of radio to the island, Country and Western music was unheard of and in most places traditional Celtic or Acadian music dominated. Due to the rural farming traditions of the Island and the similarities between Country Music and Celtic Music, Country Music quickly became popular in the 1930s. It was an easy adoption, considering that the Bluegrass/Mountain Music which spawned Country and Western Music, is closely related to the Celtic and Maritime musical tradition. Even the Ceilidh itself is suffering. With fewer young people attending them, they are becoming more of a tourist attraction than an actual living form of culture. While Celtic music on the island may appear to some to be stronger than ever due to the promotion of many world class island musicians, its place in the rural, local culture has been somewhat diminished.

That being said, there is a strong effort to revive Celtic culture on the island, from the PEI Fiddle Camp held every July, to the availability of Gaelic classes at Colonel Gray High School in Charlottetown. Other festivities, events and locations promoting local traditional music culture include: Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival which was created to preserve Prince Edward Island's tradition of music, Close to the Ground concert series hosted by Fiddler's Sons, The International PEI Shellfish Festival hosted by Liam Dolan, The Festival of Small Halls, the College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts concert series (Highland Storm), The Benevolent Irish Society Ceilis, The Orwell Corner ceilidhs, the Summerside Highland Gathering, the Belfast (PEI) Highland Games, the Indian River Festival and more. The summer time is the best time of the year to experience PEI traditional music and despite the concerns noted above, if you were to tour the island in the Summer, you would leave with the impression that the traditional Celtic and Acadian cultures brought the island over 300 years ago were remarkably intact.

Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra
The Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra (PEISO) is a community orchestra based in Charlottetown and founded in 1967. It consists of professional, amateur, and student musicians, and is currently led by conductor Mark Shapiro. The PEISO's annual concert season consists of four programs, which are performed at the Confederation Centre of the Arts or at Zion Presbyterian Church.

Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city on the island. Its documented music history begins in the 19th century, with religious music, some written by local pump and block maker, and organ-importer, Watson Duchemin. Several big bands including the Sons of Temperance Band and the Charlottetown Brass Band, were active.

By the end of the century, Charlottetown had its own opera house, performing comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Prince Edward Island Music Festival was first held in 1946, inaugurated by the Women's Institute of Prince Edward Island. Fiddler Don Messer moved to Charlottetown in 1939 where he joined CFCY as music director. He formed the "Islanders" and by 1944 the group was airing a show nationally on CBC Radio, becoming established as the most popular on Canadian radio from the 1940s to the 1960s and later on television.

The Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra is also well-known. Other well-known famous performers from Charlottetown have included Haywire, Teresa Doyle, Tara MacLean, Nancy White, Walter MacNutt, UIGG, William Keith Rogers and ECMA winners The Saddle River Stringband. The Charlottetown Festival is a seasonal musical theatre festival which runs from late May to mid-October every year since 1965. It includes a summer musical theatre training program called the "Young Company", whose shows are freely available to the public and feature Canadian-themed content.

Fiddle culture
The province is known for its old and vibrant fiddling tradition. Fiddle music came to Prince Edward Island in the late 18th century with its early Scottish settlers. Further immigration from the fiddle hotbeds of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands strengthened the tradition, which gradually spread in all communities, including the Evangeline region with a sizeable Acadian population. Although the role of community fiddlers has declined due to advancements in technology, the tradition is still part of cultural life of the province.

Notable musicians

 * Lennie Gallant
 * Stompin' Tom Connors
 * Cynthia MacLeod
 * Gene MacLellan
 * Tim Chaisson
 * Angèle Arsenault
 * Tara MacLean
 * Nancy White
 * Walter MacNutt

Notable music bands

 * Two Hours Traffic
 * Boxer the Horse
 * Paper Lions
 * Saddle River String Band
 * Haywire
 * Death Valley Driver
 * Alvvays
 * The East Pointers
 * Barachois
 * Strawberry
 * Ten Strings and a Goat Skin
 * Vishtèn
 * The Danks
 * Eklektikos

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Coyote portrait

Given that we seem to be back to doing dogs...

From Commons, uploaded by Ed; originally from ; the licence is cc-by-2.0; illustrates Coyote nicely.

 * Nominate and support. - James F. (talk) 03:59, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Beautiful detail. ed g2s  •  talk  04:04, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Stunning. Autiger 03:49, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Great detail and shot. I wonder if it cropping a little of right would make it even better? Janderk 09:10, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support -- I wouldn't crop, since the picture as it now stands centers (or nearly so) on the eye of the coyote, and I like it that way. :-) But I leave it to wiser photographical minds than mine to make the final decision. Jwrosenzweig 21:21, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 22:09, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Would be featured picture material if the ears hadn't been cut off. I must oppose. Denni ☯ 00:28, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)
 * Support. I have new wallpaper. Mark1 02:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support.--Eloquence* 02:09, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Brilliant shot. Very detailed and well focused. --Fir0002 04:28, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Enochlau 15:07, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Poor photography. --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 19:37, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Just out of interest, why do you think so? Enochlau 19:19, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support Oppose, I need to be consistent with my concern about just including the head of an animal as a featured picture. - Bevo 23:29, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose, regretfully, due to ear being cut off. -- Chris 73 Talk 23:59, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose - need that eartop. - Trick 18:16, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Don't care that much about the ear. Truly stunning shot. Look at the full-sized version, seriously. grendel|khan 05:51, 2004 Dec 21 (UTC)
 * Oppose Darkone 17:35, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support - it would probably be better with the tips of the ears and the harsh change in background tone is a little distracting, but the intent look and square on profile make up for it. -- Solipsist 23:51, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. -Lommer | talk 08:59, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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rather a mess than just a stub!
This article is rather a mess than just a stub! A lot of name droppings, mostly still "red". A reader gets the wrong impression, that music life on P.E.I. is mainly made out of local country and folk oldtimers, some indie rock bands and some opera house that is gone. Well, I don't think that's a correct encyclopedic report of facts! - There is nearly no structure (history, traditional, classic, rock, jazz...) in this text yet. There is no reliable information about festivals, venues, music media, dancing, community centers. - You read of "renowned" Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and Prince Edward Island music festival not filled. You do not find anything about the P.E.I. Jazz and Blues Festival which is a week long annually and certainly in the same degree important than the above classic "music festival''. Even if there are current news about the menaced culture funding by cost cut politicians. Well, I'm living way too far from P.E.I. to perceive more than rough outlines that are reflected by some media covering. So native canadian wiki-authors have to fill the many gaps. -- Justus Nussbaum (talk) 13:50, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

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Cover for album I Can't Be New by Susan Werner.

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Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba

The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a turboprop engine design developed in the late 1940s of around 3000-4000 hp. It was used mostly on the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft developed for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.

Design and development
The Double Mamba (rarely known as the Twin Mamba) was a development of the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba with two Mambas driving contra-rotating propellers through a combining gearbox.

Engine starting was by cartridge, however, forced air restart was achieved in flight. One engine could be shut down in flight to conserve fuel. Shutting down one engine also stopped one of the propellers.

Variants

 * ASMD.1:2,950 shp (2 x ASMa.3) used on Fairey Gannet A.S. Mk.1 and Blackburn B-88
 * ASMD.3:3145 shp (2 x ASMa.5) used on Fairey Gannet A.S. Mk.4
 * ASMD.4:3875 hp (2 x ASMa.6) used on Fairey Gannet AEW Mk.3
 * ASMD.8:3875 hp (2 x ASMa.6) used on Fairey Gannet AEW Mk.3

Applications
The Double Mamba engine was also proposed for the Westland Westminster, a 30-seat helicopter that was later built as a prototype powered by a pair of Napier Eland E220 turboshaft engines.
 * Blackburn B-88
 * Fairey Gannet

Engines on display
Preserved Double Mamba engines are on public display at the:
 * Australian National Aviation Museum
 * Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim
 * Gatwick Aviation Museum
 * South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum
 * Imperial War Museum Duxford
 * Midland Air Museum
 * Queensland Air Museum
 * East Midlands Aeropark
 * Museum of Berkshire Aviation

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Edgebrook

Edgebrook can refer to:
 * Edgebrook section of Forest Glen, Chicago, Illinois
 * Edgebrook, Mercer County, New Jersey
 * Edgebrook, Middlesex County, New Jersey

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Icebreaker (novel)

Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape (cover design by Bill Botten) and is the first Bond novel to be published in the United States by Putnam, beginning a long-standing association. Part of the book takes place in Northern Europe, including Finland; to make his book as authentic as possible, Gardner even visited Finland.

Plot summary
Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the United States (CIA), the Soviet Union (KGB) and Israel (Mossad). The team, dubbed "Icebreaker", waste no time double-crossing each other. Ostensibly their job is to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army (NSAA), Count Konrad von Glöda. The Count, who leads this secret neo-Nazi organisation in northern Finland at its secret headquarters known as the "Ice Palace", used to be known as Arne Tudeer, a one-time Nazi SS officer who now perceives himself as the new Adolf Hitler. The National Socialist Action Army is essentially a new wave of fascism as a means to wipe out communist leaders and supporters around the world.

The novel is full of double-crosses and even triple-crosses, where the agents and agencies go without sharing their true loyalties with one another. The American agent, for instance, first appears to be a good guy then later is in cahoots with Glöda, and then still even later is a good guy once again. Things become even more complicated when the Israeli agent, Rivke, is revealed to be the daughter of Glöda/Tudeer and her allegiance, although appearing to be legitimate, is doubtful. The Russian agent also double-crosses Bond in the hope of capturing him for KGB interrogation.

Bond gets several weeks of driving training from Erik Carlsson as preparation for this Arctic assignment.

Characters

 * James Bond
 * M
 * Paula Vacker: is a frequent love interest of James Bond that he visits while he is in Helsinki. During the course of the novel, her loyalty to him is questioned, initially appearing totally innocent, then in league with von Glöda, and finally discovered to be a deep under cover agent for Supo.
 * Brad Tirpitz: is a member of the Icebreaker team and an agent from the CIA. He is later discovered by Bond to be in league with the National Socialist Action Army and to have killed the real agent Tirpitz and taken his place; he claims his name is actually Hans Buchtman and is described as von Glöda's Heinrich Himmler. Buchtman, however, turns out to be an alias of Brad Tirpitz, who created this back-story as a way to gain entry into von Glöda's organisation; indeed, he actually works for and is loyal to the CIA.
 * Kolya Mosolov: is a KGB agent who is a member of the Icebreaker team. He is discovered to have planned the entire Icebreaker team in coordination with von Glöda. The two have a deal in which Mosolov would betray his country and sell arms to von Glöda in exchange for the capture of secret agent 007. Mosolov is not only an agent of the KGB, but also an agent working within "Department V", a department formerly known as SMERSH; Bond's main nemesis throughout the Ian Fleming novels. Mosolov believes that von Glöda will not succeed and is merely going along with the deal for the time being in order to capture Bond for the Soviets.
 * Rivke Ingber: is a member of the Icebreaker team and an agent working for the Mossad. She is discovered to actually be Anni Tudeer, the daughter of Count von Glöda (aka Aarne Tudeer). Rivke plays both sides, initially acting like she is disgusted with her father's past, but later actually being discovered to be in league with him, thinking of herself as a future Führer.
 * Count Konrad von Glöda: is the mastermind behind the National Socialist Action Army and self-declared Führer. His real name is Aarne Tudeer, a low-level SS officer wanted by the Allies for crimes during the Second World War. He attempts to bring back fascism by targeting communist leaders and supporters around the world.

Publication history
Gardner reveals that his publisher originally rejected the title Icebreaker, only to come back to it after rejecting "turkey after turkey" in terms of alternate titles.

Icebreaker was released in Finland under a title Tehtävä Suomessa, James Bond (Mission in Finland, James Bond), as part of the book takes place in Finland.
 * UK first hardback edition: 7 July 1983 Jonathan Cape
 * U.S. first hardback edition: April 1983 Putnam
 * UK first paperback edition: 1984 Coronet Books
 * U.S. first paperback edition: May 1984 Berkley Books

Reviews
The New York Times critic Anatole Broyard believed that John Gardner was underqualified to write Bond. "His book strikes me as deficient in many of the basic requirements. Mr. Gardner is all awkwardness. Every time I try to enter into his latest conspiracy we bump heads. It's one thing to accept an improbable plot and quite another to accept an improbable style. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, but not my affection for the English language. I don't see why, when Mr. Gardner can learn all about the various weapons, machines and intelligence procedures he describes, he can't do a bit of basic research in ordinary narrative technique. A man who has no talent for describing women, for example, should let them alone." Broyard cited numerous examples of clichéd writing and dismissed the plot as "a muddle".

T. J. Binyon, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, believed the book was "full of good action; his torture scenes are splendidly painful; his villain is adequately megalomaniac, though perhaps not sufficiently outre; his girls are pretty, sexy, and available, and the courting routines as embarrassingly obvious as anything in the original. But in the end Gardner's Bond doesn't really measure up to Fleming's. There isn't that maniacal snobbery about trivial and useless detail which the original so endearingly manifests. And, further, Gardner simply hasn't grasped Bond's most important trait: he only takes assignments where his creator would like to take a holiday. And who on earth would want to holiday in the 'desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland'? Certainly not the luxurious Bond."

People Magazine's anonymous reviewer said that "the action in Icebreaker is fitful at best" and that the book was "not at all up to Gardner's (first) 007 outing, License Renewed. The Russian villain, however, is an original and sometimes interesting menace."

The Globe and Mail crime critic Derrick Murdoch believed Icebreaker was Gardner's best Bond novel thus far. "In most technical respects (writing, plotting and minor-character sketching), he is more skilful and more painstaking than Fleming even attempted to be. On the other hand, nobody since the Grimm brothers could equal Fleming's gift for improvising such audaciously grotesque adversaries as Dr. No, Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger and his henchman, Oddjob. To make up for the lack of gnomes or behemoths, Gardner offers a plot of labyrinthine complexity, subtler than any of Fleming's. In short, he has taken more risks in Icebreaker to display his own talents, and it has paid off.".

Mel Watkins, writing in The New York Times Book Review, praised Gardner for adding "a touch of the plot subtlety of less insistently action-oriented thrillers." He also applauded Gardner's updating of Bond. "Although Mr. Gardner's Bond is less raffishly macho and arrogant than previously depicted," observed Watkins, "the spirit of the 007 series remains intact, and few Fleming admirers are likely to object. There is, in fact, something appealing about a James Bond who can react to women with some sympathy and confusion at a crucial moment."

Long-time Gardner admirer and Listener crime critic Marghanita Laski believed Icebreaker "is one of his best yet in his 007 mode." She especially admired the book's Finnish setting which she said "has been good thriller value since Gavin Lyall introduced it."

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I Can't Be New

I Can't Be New is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter Susan Werner, released in 2004.

Track listing
all songs written by Susan Werner, except where noted

 * 1) "I Can't Be New" (Jane Paul, Werner) – 2:54
 * 2) "Late for the Dance" – 3:36
 * 3) "Seeing You Again" – 2:41
 * 4) "I'm Not Sure" – 4:15
 * 5) "Much at All" – 4:08
 * 6) "Tall Drink of Water" – 3:01
 * 7) "You Come Through" – 3:13
 * 8) "No One Needs to Know" – 2:58
 * 9) "Let's Regret This in Advance" – 2:45
 * 10) "Don't I Know You" – 3:05
 * 11) "Philanthropy" – 2:53
 * 12) "Stay on Your Side of Town" – 2:54
 * 13) "Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter (Coda)" – 1:46

Personnel

 * Susan Werner – piano, rhythm guitar, ukulele, vocals, background vocals, Wurlitzer, nylon string guitar
 * Eugene Friesen – cello
 * Crit Harmon – percussion, handclapping, snaps
 * Hatfield Five – string quartet
 * Brad Hatfield – piano, Hammond organ, vibraphone, Fender Rhodes
 * John Lockwood – upright bass
 * Dave Mattacks – drums
 * Billy Novick – clarinet, woodwind
 * Stephen Sadler – banjo, dobro, mandolin, ukulele, baritone ukulele
 * Mike Turk – chromatic harmonica

Production

 * Producer: Crit Harmon
 * Engineer: Crit Harmon, John Lupfer
 * Mixing: John Lupfer
 * Mastering: Paul Angelli
 * A&R: David Wilkes
 * Digital editing: Matt Beaudoin
 * Arranger: Billy Novick
 * Product manager: Dan O'Leary
 * Design: Jeff Gilligan
 * Caricatures: Adam Belmares

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Talk:History of Bermuda

Needs more content
This is still woefully short of material. Needing to be covered in detail are the years under the Somers Island Company, the growth of trade, the British military building boom after the Revolutionary War, etc. Then we get to the civil rights movement in Bermuda and the political changes of the 1960s. Etc, etc.... Noel (talk) 04:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Parish names
For St. George's, see Talk:St. George's, Bermuda. For Smith's, Smith's is the common form used by Bermudians when speaking (although I suppose one can't be sure if its "Smiths" or "Smith's" that is being said); however it is also given as "Smith's" in most books (e.g. Terry Tucker, Bermuda: Today and Yesterday, etc). Noel (talk) 02:52, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Possessives in Bermudian Place Names
The use of possessives in Bermudian place names is not only the tradition in Bermuda, but is grammatically correct. The Parish is the Parish of Smith, Smith being the person for whom it was named, hence, literally, Smith's Parish. The same is true of St. George's, which non-Bermudians are always trying to convert to St. George (though nobody ever writes St. David, curiously). The Town of St. George is St. George's Town, not St. George, himself, and the same is true of St. George's Island and St. George's Parish. Unfortunately, Bermudians have to contend not only with the habits of non-Bermudians, today, to re-name their places, but also must contend with the fact that most historical maps and texts dealing with Bermuda were produced by non-Bermudians, who often had never set foot on the islands (note Captain John Smith's General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles).

Aodhdubh 02:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Sir Richard Sharples
Added in the link to the page on Richard Sharples along with a brief description of the assassination.--Vannin 01:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

natives
Is it right to assume that Bermuda was uninhabited prior to European discovery? --86.135.216.24 17:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, something should be in the article either way! If there were its a really bad attitude that they don't even warrant a mention 79.64.24.161 (talk) 15:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

No Indigineous Population
No, Bermuda had no population prior to its discovery by Spaniards around 1512. Despite numerous visits by passing vessels, and many seafarers being wrecked on (and subsequently being rescued, or affecting their escapes, from) the archipelago during the course of the following century, no attempt was made to settle the islands until the wreck of the Sea Venture, which began Bermuda's permanent and continuous settlement in 1609. Although often thought of as part of the Americas, Bermuda is an Atlantic archipelago, formed in the same way, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, as other Atlantic islands (such as the Azores). Although the nearest land mass to it is North Carolina, Bermuda is quite remote from North America. Given that remoteness, the small size of the archipelago, the storminess of this part of the Atlantic, the level of Pre-Columbian North Americans' (the likeliest source of a hypothetical aboriginal population) seafaring technology, and the sophistication of their overwater navigational skills, the settlement of Bermuda by North American natives prior to European settlement would have been highly unlikely. In any case, there is no written or archaelogical record of any indigenous human population at any time prior to the arrival of Europeans.

Aodhdubh (talk) 19:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Um... okay. Don't you think we should at least mention that it was originally uninhabited SOMEWHERE in the article, rather than leave it to the reader to assume it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.172.155 (talk) 08:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

"So-called slaves"?
This phrase is repeated over and over in the article, and I find it... odd.

Either these people were or were not slaves. If they were, then "so-called" should be removed. If they were not slaves, then they should not be referred to as slaves. 70.171.113.214 (talk) 17:21, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Indigenous peoples of North America
Since Bermuda was uninhabited prior to its discovery by Europeans, I am puzzled by the category placed in the article calling it an unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America article. Perhaps somone can explain, or else can remove the category. --DThomsen8 (talk) 03:10, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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Propagation delay

Propagation delay is the time duration taken for a signal to reach its destination. It can relate to networking, electronics or physics.

Networking
In computer networks, propagation delay is the amount of time it takes for the head of the signal to travel from the sender to the receiver. It can be computed as the ratio between the link length and the propagation speed over the specific medium.

Propagation delay is equal to d / s where d is the distance and s is the wave propagation speed. In wireless communication, s=c, i.e. the speed of light. In copper wire, the speed s generally ranges from .59c to .77c. This delay is the major obstacle in the development of high-speed computers and is called the interconnect bottleneck in IC systems.

Electronics

In electronics, digital circuits and digital electronics, the propagation delay, or gate delay, is the length of time which starts when the input to a logic gate becomes stable and valid to change, to the time that the output of that logic gate is stable and valid to change. Often on manufacturers' datasheets this refers to the time required for the output to reach 50% of its final output level from when the input changes to 50% of its final input level. This may depend on the direction of the level change, in which case separate fall and rise delays tPHL and tPLH or tf and tr are given. Reducing gate delays in digital circuits allows them to process data at a faster rate and improve overall performance. The determination of the propagation delay of a combined circuit requires identifying the longest path of propagation delays from input to output and by adding each propagation delay along this path.

The difference in propagation delays of logic elements is the major contributor to glitches in asynchronous circuits as a result of race conditions.

The principle of logical effort utilizes propagation delays to compare designs implementing the same logical statement.

Propagation delay increases with operating temperature, as resistance of conductive materials tends to increase with temperature. Marginal increases in supply voltage can increase propagation delay since the upper switching threshold voltage, VIH (often expressed as a percentage of the high-voltage supply rail), naturally increases proportionately. Increases in output load capacitance, often from placing increased fan-out loads on a wire, will also increase propagation delay. All of these factors influence each other through an RC time constant: any increase in load capacitance increases C, heat-induced resistance the R factor, and supply threshold voltage increases will affect whether more than one time constants are required to reach the threshold. If the output of a logic gate is connected to a long trace or used to drive many other gates (high fanout) the propagation delay increases substantially.

Wires have an approximate propagation delay of 1 ns for every 6 in of length. Logic gates can have propagation delays ranging from more than 10 ns down to the picosecond range, depending on the technology being used.

Physics
In physics, particularly in the electromagnetic field, the propagation delay is the length of time it takes for a signal to travel to its destination. For example, in the case of an electric signal, it is the time taken for the signal to travel through a wire. See also velocity factor and radio propagation.

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See Morgan-Keenan spectral classification.

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User talk:Eric Pement

Dear Mr. Pement, I've read an article Escape from "Godhead" authored by E. Pement with reference to Chicago, IL: Jesus people USA, 1982 about story of Ed Sennesy (read in Russian, possibly back-transliteration wrong), former editor of ISKCON's "Back to Godhead" who had converted to Christianity. Since I'm interested in cults - if this is your article, could you say whether the original article and possibly other stories by E. Sennesy about his life in the cult and quitting it are available on the net (I couldn't find the article in English)? Yours, 89.201.105.23 (talk) 21:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Eric - I've noticed that you have quite a bit of knowledge regarding "Vain Glory," the film by Tony Cox. Let me know if you have any info as to where I could find it. I have experience with TLWF and would appreciate if you could send me an e-mail. Thanks much.

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Talk:Illinois Territory

Merger Proposal
Was looking for info on Illinois congressional districts and came across the pages Illinois' At-large congressional district and Illinois Territory's At-large congressional district. Kind-of redundant, and both would seem better-placed in a general article about Illinois Territory. Thought about the main Illinois article, but the territory covered more than what is now Illinois. . . Soulful scholar (talk) 17:34, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Illinois' At-large congressional district should under no circumstances be merged into the territory article as it is about at-large districts after statehood. As for Illinois Territory's At-large congressional district, I'm inclined to leave it as a standalone article for the sake of symmetry. But I wouldn't complain if it were merged. At the least, it should be linked in the Territory article. older ≠ wiser 18:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes, in hind-sight, that seems a bit of a silly oversight on my part. I'm wondering why these are separate articles, though.  Looking through the list of US Congressional Districts, I see that there are similar pages for all states and territories.  It seems cluttered to me, though, that these articles are not sub-headings within the appropriate state/territory pages. . .  I'm not really keen on making over fifty nominations, though. . . Soulful scholar (talk) 04:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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What was the name the English gave their portion of the territory?
Under what governmental authority was the area which became the Illinois Territory before there was a USA? You give the name the French gave it, but not the name the English gave the territory they acquired after they won the French and Indian War. 76.218.100.214 (talk) 19:35, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

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AT&T Computer Systems

AT&T Computer Systems is the generic name for American Telephone & Telegraph's unsuccessful attempt to compete in the computer business. In return for divesting the local Bell Operating Companies (Baby Bells), AT&T was allowed to have an unregulated division to sell computer hardware and software. The company made the 3B series computers.

Background
In the early 1980s, the Bell Labs Processor Division had developed several computer ranges, primarily for internal Bell System use: the 3B20D ("D" for Duplex); the commercial simplex version 3B20S, which competed with the DEC VAX; and the 3B5 and 3B15 computers for billing and telecom switching control applications, which used the world's first 32-bit microprocessor, the Bellmac 32A.

Formation post-divestiture
After divestiture of the Bell System on January 1, 1984, AT&T was required to put its computer business into a fully separated subsidiary called AT&T Information Systems (ATTIS, without the ampersand or hyphen). Software was developed in New Jersey (at Murray Hill, Summit, Holmdel, and Piscataway), and software, hardware, and system solutions were developed in Naperville and Lisle, Illinois. After a couple of years of court hearings, AT&T was allowed to pull the business back into the mainstream corporate organization, and it was renamed AT&T Data Systems Group, which had three divisions: Computer, Terminals (the Teletype Corporation of Skokie, Illinois), and Printers. AT&T Data Systems Group was announced to the public in 1991. In 1992 the Terminals division was sold to Memorex-Telex, and the Printer division, which had only bought OEM equipment from Genicom, was phased out. By the mid-1990s, this left only AT&T Computer Systems.

AT&T Computer Systems (abbreviated AT&T-CS) was the home of the UNIX System V operating system, originally developed in the Bell Labs Research Division. The important System V Interface Definition (SVID) was written, attempting to standardize the various flavors of Unix, and define the official interfaces which made up a Unix operating system. In 1988, AT&T announced its intent to buy up to a 20% stake in Sun Microsystems, a company then best known for making high-end Unix workstations. Upset at their academic-minded supplier (Bell Labs) now turned competitor (AT&T-CS), the "Gang of Seven" Unix system vendors founded the Open Software Foundation (OSF), each contributing source code from their UNIX SVR3 versions. AT&T founded the UNIX International organization as a response to the OSF. But by the late 1980s, AT&T had almost given up, sold most of its stake in Sun, spun the Unix business off as Unix System Laboratories (which was later bought by Novell), canceled its WE 32000 (aka BELLMAC) and CRISP (C Reduced Instruction Set Processor) microprocessor product lines, and just concentrated on networked server computer systems. See also Unix wars.

3B series computers
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, AT&T-CS produced many "firsts" in the computer world, besides the UNIX operating system itself. The 3B5 and 3B15 were the first computers to be designed with the 32-bit WE 32000 microprocessor, and the 3B15 was the first computer to run a demand-paging version of Unix. There was a project, codenamed "Alice", to develop the 3B5 into an asymmetric multiprocessor with 3 CPUs, but this was canceled in favor of the demand paging 3B15 project, and a few of the "Alice" participants left the company and went to Sequent Computer Systems.

The 3B5, 3B15, 3B20S and 3B20D line, begun in 1982, was aimed at the former AT&T subsidiaries the RBOCs. Around 70,000 units were made before production ceased at the Oklahoma City Works (a former Western Electric factory) in 1993.

Starting with ATTIS in 1984, development of a commercial version of the 3B hardware commenced. The Motorola 68010-based UNIX PC (aka the 3B1) was released in 1985, developed externally by Convergent Technologies. This product was not a success, in part due to the high margin on the machines; AT&T sold the machine for $8,000 although their cost was approximately $4,000.

The next product was the 3B2 product line, which ranged from a 3B2/200 desktop unit, to a 3B2/1000 data center system. These machines were sold with System V Release 2, and later System V Release 3. The 3B2 was the reference platform for SVR3.

Desktops
The 3B2 was the first desktop supermicrocomputer (1983) with a 32-bit microprocessor and UNIX. The model 300 and 400 series were uniprocessors. The 3B2 became the official "porting base" for UNIX System V Release 3. Later versions were the first to introduce UNIX asymmetric multiprocessing (3B2/600 Falcon) and nearly symmetrical multiprocessing (3B2/1000 Galactica). The Falcon won the highly touted US Air Force Office Automation contract, initially estimated at $1.7 billion, and the largest single computer contract the Federal government had awarded at that time. It was also the first supermicrocomputer to use a first-level cache memory based on virtual addresses instead of physical addresses, which made it 80% faster than the original requirements called for.

Because the 3B5/3B15 was a large minicomputer with only 1 CPU, it was sometimes referred to as "the body without a brain". The small 3B2 had a desktop design with (supposedly) less expansion capability, but had capacity available for up to 4 CPUs, it was thus also at times referred to as "the brain without a body".

The "Companion" was developed, the first "laptop" computer to have a 32-bit CPU and UNIX. The "Alexander" system measured about 14 inches on each side square, and about 5 inches high, featured a unique stacking I/O bus for up to 8 cards, featured compressed Unix filesystems on pluggable ROM cartridges like modern gaming consoles, and used the WE 32100 microprocessor running UNIX SVR3. Both were so outrageous and ahead of their time, they were never marketed.

Servers
On the large side, the 3B4000 (1986) was the first "snugly coupled" multiprocessor (the "network in a box"), containing the A-BUS which supported 16 large single-board computer (SBC) circuit panels, and featured the first SVR4 distributed UNIX kernel (codenamed "Apache", nothing to do with the open source project started in the 1990s). Although the SBCs did not share address space, the UNIX kernel was distributed across all SBCs in a single virtual image.

The StarServer E ("Enterprise" or SSE) was an Intel-based symmetric multiprocessor (SMP), introduced just after the Sequent system, making the SSE the world's second SMP UNIX system, and the first to run System V.4. It featured 4 Intel i486 CPUs. A later design (codenamed "Bigfoot") was to feature 10 Pentium CPUs, but this was never released because of the NCR deal.

AT&T-CS also introduced the world's first "PC&C" (personal computer and communication), the famous AT&T Safari laptop, the first to have a built-in modem and networking. This system used an Intel x86 microprocessor, and ran Microsoft software instead of Unix. AT&T-CS also marketed a line of desktop PCs, first using Olivetti as an OEM, later designing its own product line (codename Cascade) using OEM mainboards from Intel.

Other innovative designs which were never released included the "Starburst", a distributed Unix kernel message-passing multiprocessor with a fiber-optic switching core, and "Intercept", a unique High-Availability multiprocessor.

Partners
AT&T-CS also bought OEM systems from Tandem Computers and Pyramid Technology. The Tandem Integrity S2 was renamed the StarServer FT and sold only internally to other AT&T divisions. The Pyramid "System 7000" was a large symmetric multiprocessor, containing 12 CPUs, and saw its first large-scale application at the AT&T Universal Cards credit-card billing center, the first enterprise-scale replacement of mainframes by a UNIX server within AT&T. Both these systems used the MIPS R-series RISC microprocessors. After the WE 32000 microprocessors were canceled, the 3B2 follow-on (codenamed "Phoenix") was also to use a MIPS CPU. The entire MIPS-based product line was to be renamed the System 9000, and to feature "scalavailability" - from normal commercial availability (NCA) choices, to fault-tolerant (FT), to high performance SMP.

The System 9000 strategy was canceled when AT&T's board of directors decided to close down AT&T-CS, and buy the NCR Corporation, announced in 1991, and implemented January 1, 1992. NCR management tried to cancel all further development of AT&T-CS systems, though some refused to allow this for a few years, and backlash from AT&T Network Systems (later to be spun off as Lucent Technologies) precipitated a purge of NCR upper management by the AT&T Board. NCR had just developed and suddenly canceled its Motorola 88000-based systems, and then started the NCR 3000 series, developed using Intel x86 microprocessors. The AT&T StarServer E could still beat the comparably equipped NCR 3450 by 11% in the TPC Benchmark B test, and some of the SSE's 7 patented innovations were then adapted and retrofitted into the NCR 3000 design.

NCR was renamed AT&T Global Information Solutions (AT&T-GIS) in 1994, and some of the top NCR management was purged. The Naperville, IL operation provided LifeKeeper Fault Resilient System software (a failover high-availability software cluster product), the Distributed lock manager for Oracle Parallel Server, and the Vistium computer-telephony integrated (CTI) on-line hardware-assisted networked meeting product. Only about 400 employees remained in the Naperville location by the beginning of 1995. In the mid-1980s, there had been something like 30,000 employees associated with AT&T-CS, including marketing, customer support, factories, and development.

In 1994 a high powered team from AT&T Naperville transferred to NCR San Diego in the midst of developing a Micro Channel architecture based four channel SCSI adapter based on a custom ASIC. This host bus adapter went on to great success in NCR and served as a connection point for over a billion dollars worth of peripherals attached to NCR minicomputers and database servers.

On September 20, 1995, Bob Allen, AT&T Chairman of the Board and CEO, announced the "trivestiture" - the 3-way split of AT&T into the new service-oriented AT&T, a newly independent NCR, and the new telecom equipment business which would later be named Lucent Technologies. On December 15, the former AT&T-CS operations were shut down, signaling the end of AT&T's involvement in designing computer systems. Three AT&T-CS employees went into the new NCR, 25 stayed with AT&T, and the rest (about 200) went to Lucent. Many former AT&T-CS employees have been employed by Schaumburg, IL-based Motorola.

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Stamps-Baxter Music Company

The Stamps-Baxter Music Company was an influential publishing company in the shape note Southern gospel music field. The company issued several paperback publications each year with cheap binding and printed on cheap paper. Thus, the older books are now in delicate condition. These songbooks were used in church singing events, called "conventions," as well as at other church events, although they did not take the place of regular hymnals. Among the country music and bluegrass "standards" that were first published by Stamps-Baxter are "Rank Strangers to Me", "Just a Little Talk with Jesus", "Precious Memories", "Farther Along", "If We Never Meet Again", "Victory in Jesus", and "I Won't Have to Cross Jordan Alone".

Stamps and Baxter operated a music school which was the primary source of the thousands of gospel songs they published. Another major part of the corporation was its sponsorship of gospel quartets who sang the company's music in churches throughout the southern United States. At the end of World War II they were sponsoring 35 such quartets. The company also had a quartet who sang on radio station KRLD in Dallas, beginning in 1936. This station would boost its transmitting power at midnight, so that it could be heard across the nation. An additional part of the Stamps-Baxter music empire was a magazine, Gospel Music News. Each part of the corporation supported every other part, giving strength to the entire organization.

History
Virgil Oliver Stamps founded the company in 1924 and J. R. Baxter Jr. joined him to form the Stamps-Baxter Music Company, which was based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Pangburn, Arkansas. Stamps got his start working for the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company from which he got many of his business ideas.

In 1945, Frank Stamps, younger brother of V. O. Stamps, left the organization to form the rival Stamps Quartet Music Company. At the same time a number of quartets left Stamps-Baxter resulting in the end of the company’s quartet sponsorship coinciding with the end of the war. Frank’s defection did not hurt the Stamps-Baxter company in the long run, although it did lead to some confusion among the public. The Stamps-Baxter School of Music declined after World War II, but its successor continues to this day as an annual two-week singing school under the leadership of Ben Speer.

Stamps died in 1940, leaving the company to J. R. Baxter. After Baxter died in 1960, his widow, Clarice Howard "Ma" Baxter, ran the company until her death in 1972. In 1974, the company was sold to Zondervan, which became part of the Benson Company in 1986, and is now part of Universal Music Group. The choral publishing arm was subsequently sold to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-associated Celebrating Grace, Inc. in 2023.

Songbooks
The "convention" song books typically included 140 songs. The first song would be on the inside front cover, numbered 00 with the first song inside the book being numbered 1-A, and the rest of the songs were numbered 1 through 138. Each book included four or five older public domain songs such as John Newton's "Amazing Grace", Mackay's "Revive Us Again", Stennett’s "I Am Bound for the Promised Land", and Smith’s "America". In addition, one or two songs from earlier Stamps-Baxter publications might be included. The other 134 songs would consist of new material that had never been published before. The authors and composers of these songs were paid as much as $7.00 for each song, which would be the only monetary compensation that they would get.

Copyrights
The Stamps-Baxter company was careful to renew its copyrights under United States copyright law. The collections, not the individual songs, were copyrighted, so that anyone looking up records for the songs must know in which collection it was first published. Under current U. S. copyright law, works published between 1922 and 1963 will not enter public domain until 95 years after their initial year of copyright if the copyright was renewed. Thus, a Stamps-Baxter song last copyrighted in 1929 will enter public domain in 2024.

There is also a claim to copyright on these songs. On October 16, 1998, three corporations, Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc., Stamps-Baxter Music, and Bridge Building Music, Inc., filed for copyright on "Glory Special" & 19,618 other titles. This large collection includes all of the Stamps-Baxter convention songs. Universal Music Publishing International MGB Limited now owns Stamps-Baxter Music and Bridge Building Music. Therefore, the copyright is maintained by Universal Music Publishing International MGB Limited.

Titles
Stamps-Baxter titles and copyright dates

Crystal Rays (1929)

Priceless Pearls (1929)

Glory Gleaner (1930)

Cheerful Chimes (1931)

Tuneful Praise (1931)

Singers Choice (1932)

Harbor Bells Number Two (1933)

Boundless Joy (1933?)

Harbor Bells Number Three (1934)

Stamps-Baxter of Zondervan titles and copyright dates

New Gospel Songs (1975)

Golden Songs of Glory (1976)

Gospel Songs of Cheer (1976)

Gospel Songs of Cheer (1977)

Songs of Rejoicing (1977)

New Songs of Praise (1977)

Songs of Victory (1978)

Songs of Jubilation (1978)

Praising Him (1979)

Stamps-Baxter of Universal Music (fka Zondervan/Benson Company) titles and copyright dates

A Time to Sing (1987)

Divine Joy (1988)

Master's Voice (1988)

Calvary’s Song (1989)

Joyous Praise (1989)

Matchless Love (1990)

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Role of Honour

Role of Honour, first published in 1984, was the fourth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Putnam.

Plot summary
After receiving a large inheritance, James Bond 007 is accused of improprieties and drummed out of the British Secret Service. Disgusted with his former employers, Bond places his services on the open market, where he later attracts the attention of representatives of SPECTRE who are quite willing to put their one-time enemy on their payroll. But the whole thing was a hoax, just a plan to get Bond inside the enemy's organization.

Prior to joining up, Bond spends a month in Monte Carlo with Miss 'Percy' Proud, a CIA agent who teaches him everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general. This background allows Bond to attract Jay Autem Holy, an agent of SPECTRE who left the Pentagon, faked his death, and later started a computer game company that creates simulations based on real-life battles and wars.

Bond's allegiance to SPECTRE is periodically questioned throughout the novel, even at one point going so far as to send Bond to a terrorist training camp (known as "Erewhon") to see if he has 'the right stuff'. Proving his worth, Bond becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and the United States, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons.

What SPECTRE leaders Tamil Rahani and Dr. Jay Autem Holy suspect, but never fully realise is that Bond's resignation is false. Along with Bond, the Secret Service plays a vital role in foiling SPECTRE; however, Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE is able to escape Bond's clutches by parachuting out of an airship over Switzerland.

Characters

 * James Bond
 * M
 * Bill Tanner
 * Q
 * Persephone 'Percy' Proud: Formerly Mrs. Jay Autem Holy. Percy is a CIA agent who went deep undercover by marrying Holy. After Holy's faked death, she teams with Bond to teach him everything she knows about Holy and everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general.
 * Jay Autem Holy: supposedly died in a plane crash, prior to the events in Role of Honour. He now goes under the name Jason St. John Finnes and is secretly an agent of SPECTRE. Holy is an elite computer programmer once working for The Pentagon; he now owns and manages a software company that develops computer game simulations based on real-life wars and battles. He is the former husband of Percy Proud and current husband to Dazzle. Holy is killed by Rahani after finding out he was betrayed.
 * General Rolling Joe Zwingli: is an accomplice Jay Autem Holy and long-time friend. He also was supposedly killed in the plane crash. Zwingli is killed by one of Rahani's personnel after finding out he was double-crossed.
 * Tamil Rahani:Part American, part Lebanese, he is the chairman and principal shareholder of Rahani Electronics and secretly the head of SPECTRE. He manages the Erewhon terrorist training camp along with his right-hand man, Simon. Unlike most of the villains in a James Bond novel or film, Rahani actually lives and flees from capture. Bond is later informed that Rahani was secretly having a love affair with Dazzle, Holy's second wife.
 * Freddie Fortune: is an informant for Bond that he uses to get closer to Holy.
 * Cindy Chalmer: is a programmer who works for Holy at Endor. She is in league with Percy and an informant for her and the CIA.
 * Peter Amadeus: is a programmer who works for Holy at Endor. He later escapes with the help of Bond and is used by the British Secret Service to one-up SPECTRE. He later takes a job within the Secret Service as a computer programmer.

Cars
Bond purchases a brand new British racing green Bentley Mulsanne Turbo with magnolia interior. Likewise with the Silver Beast, Bond had CCS outfit the car with a long-range telephone and a hidden weapon compartment. Bentley had apparently requested that Gardner not outfit the car with any gadgets other than the telephone.

Publication history

 * UK first hardback edition: October 1984 Jonathan Cape
 * U.S. first hardback edition: September 1984 Putnam
 * UK first paperback edition: 1985 Coronet Books
 * U.S. first paperback edition: May 1985 Berkley Books

Reviews
Kirkus Reviews dismissed the book as "a ragged quickie that's cartoon caper/sleuth action most of the way through (like an old episode of TV's The Avengers). Virtually no humor, virtually no suspense, and virtually no charm or sexiness in old 007 - making this by far the weakest of Gardner's somewhat pre-sold fabrications, with some extra appeal only for computer fans."

The West Coast Review of Books said that "John Gardner does a good job of work in picking up the torch from the late Ian Fleming, but the freshness of the early Bond books is missing; also, 007's predictable heroics have begun to bore. One can accept a charmed - and charming - character just so long."

The Globe and Mail crime critic Derrick Murdoch wrote that although Gardner "could outperform Fleming easily in most technical respects he lacked Fleming's gift for simple-minded razzle-dazzle extravaganzas and Penthouse-style dream girls." He called Role of Honour "something of a disappointment, although some of Bond's old admirers may welcome it." He complained that the novel was both familiar and confusing.

Long-time Gardner admirer and Listener crime critic Marghanita Laski said "John Gardner has gradually worked himself into his own role as owner-creator of James Bond, but his Bond is more intelligent, more sensitive than the original."

Novelist Jessica Mann, writing for British Book News, said Role of Honour "hits the spot and will give great pleasure to fans both on the page, and, presumably, on the screen."

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Talk:Real wages

Misleading graphs
I would like to see a graph considering worldwide real wage, longer then 1964. Perhaps one also factoring employment benefits for comparison. This article otherwise seems to give a misleading impression of things getting worst for the average worker. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J1812 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

This article reads like it was written by a 14-year old British schoolboy writing a report about some topic assigned to him. -- Cogent 04:15, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I think the article is quite good. It is important that slightly hard to understand economic concepts are explained clearly. If you think it is writen in a poor way - improve it. Wright123 19:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

-completly unsourced as well.

Replaced by real compensation per hour. Now we have a true picture.EasternClock (talk) 16:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

-- I was intrigued about chart showing real wages going down in the US so I did the calculations myself using the wages from http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html and the consumer price index from ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt. I can't post the chart due to being a new user, but overall the trend was upward. Anyone know where the chart in the article from the blog post got their data? John215 (talk) 01:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

---The ellipses at the end of the caption seem to border way more on editorial than factual, I haven't done enough research to check the rest of the article but I think that's a bit over the top. Patthew (talk) 05:55, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

See discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Income_inequality_in_the_United_States#Productivity_chart for problems with the productivity vs. real wages chart. Also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ Barnhorst (talk) 01:05, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Biased, ignores real total compensation matching productivity gains
Article is very biased, only argues that things have got worse for the average worker, which ignores the fact that real total compensation has roughly matched productivity gains. 131.111.184.91 (talk) 03:10, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Please provide sources and concrete suggestions for improvement to the article. Jonpatterns (talk) 08:13, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I have included a source about measurement error. More could certainly be done. Perhaps some from this source:https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ ?Barnhorst (talk) 00:35, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Since 2008, Nonfarm Business Sector: Real Compensation Per Hour has had an average annual growth rate 0.2 percentage points less than the annual growth rate of real hourly wage for all private workers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=oiS6. soibangla (talk) 00:55, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Mathematical nonsense?
The first sentence (and much of the rest) mathematically sounds like nonsense:

''Real wages are wages adjusted for inflation, or, equivalently, wages in terms of the amount of goods and services that can be bought. ''

Inflation includes a time dimension, whereas an "amount of goods" does not. Hence the two cannot be equivalent. And this conceptual error continues in the subsequent statements. Comments please? 81.131.172.24 (talk) 09:57, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

 * Not an error at all. What inflation measures over time is the amount of goods and services that a nominal dollar can buy. 107.213.194.59 (talk) 12:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

 * The amount of goods have to brought at a moment in time. Therefore, if Stating the wage in terms of the amount of goods and services that can be bought - the at a moment in time is implied. Jonpatterns (talk) 13:04, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

"it tells one side of the story"
says

so if it's disputable then present the other side of the story. soibangla (talk) 01:21, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

 * No, that's not how sourcing works in Wikipedia. Think tanks are NOT RS's.  Note that at WP:RSP there are no think-tanks listed; that's because they fall under Self-Published Sources WP:SPS. Biased sources like think-tanks are NOT academic sources. Their goal is to advocate for their policy positions, and they do this by generating and publishing "research" which supports their positions. They don't objectively report on a situation; they publish only information/research which supports their position(s); they'll never publish research with findings contrary to their policy position; using such sources DIRECTLY risks UNDUEly WP:UNDUE representing their positions in OPINION situations, rather than taking their position in proper balance with others as presented by Independent Sources WP:IS. And they are practically never valid for statements of fact about causes they advocate for or against; it doesn't matter what political lean they have, this is true for conservative as well as liberal think-tanks. --- Avatar317 (talk) 01:27, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Then present what, say, AEI says by contrast. soibangla (talk) 01:29, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Did you even read my reply? Discussions don't work if you just repeat what you previously said and ignore what others say. --- Avatar317 (talk) 01:41, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * yes, I read what you wrote. I continue to disagree with it and emphasized my position. maybe others can opine here. soibangla (talk) 01:47, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

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Patterns (film)

Patterns, also known as Patterns of Power, is a 1956 American "boardroom drama" film starring Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, and Ed Begley; and directed by Fielder Cook. The screenplay was by Rod Serling, who adapted it from his teleplay of the same name, which was originally broadcast January 12, 1955 on the Kraft Television Theatre with Sloane, Begley and Richard Kiley.

Plot
Ruthless Walter Ramsey runs Ramsey & Co., a Manhattan-based industrial empire he inherited from his father. He brings Fred Staples, a youthful industrial engineer whose performance at a company Ramsey has recently acquired has impressed him, in for a top executive job at the headquarters. Though Staples is initially clueless, Ramsey is grooming him to replace the aging Bill Briggs as the second in command at the company.

Briggs has been with the firm for decades, having worked for and admired the company's founder, Ramsey's father. His concern for the employees clashes repeatedly with Ramsey's ruthless methods. Ramsey will not fire Briggs outright but does everything in his power to sabotage and humiliate him into resigning. The old man stubbornly refuses to give in. Staples is torn by the messy situation, his ambition conflicting with his sympathy for Briggs.

The stress gets to Briggs, who collapses after a confrontation with Ramsey and later dies. This causes a heated showdown between Ramsey and Staples, in which Staples announces he is quitting. Staples initially went up to kill Ramsey but the fact that his wife refused to go home and 'pack' everything, insisting on waiting for him during his confrontation with Ramsey shows another side of the story--the American woman, just as ambitious as the Corporate Man. Ramsey rebukes him, asserting only men with his talent have what it takes to make a corporation like Ramsey & Company succeed. He offers Briggs' job to Staples at double his present salary, double his stock options and an unlimited expense account. Staples resists and Ramsey increases the fever of his pitch, adding that Staples will never be able to reach his full potential anywhere else. Staples counters that he would have to have more than Vice Presidency of the company, effectively another 'whipping boy' for Ramsey. He states that he wants equal footing, implying a partnership - adding that he will do all he can to replace him, and as a 'bonus', the right to break Ramsey’s jaw if he feels so inclined. Ramsey enthusiastically agrees to all of the conditions with a rider that he reserves the right to reciprocate the final condition.

Cast

 * Van Heflin as Fred Staples
 * Everett Sloane as Walter Ramsey
 * Ed Begley as William Briggs
 * Beatrice Straight as Nancy Staples, Fred's wife
 * Elizabeth Wilson as Marge Fleming, Briggs' loyal secretary, who is reassigned to Staples
 * Joanna Roos as Miss Margaret Lanier, Ramsey's secretary
 * Valerie Cossart as Miss Stevens
 * Eleni Kiamos as Sylvia Trammel
 * Ronnie Welsh as Paul Briggs, William's teenage son
 * Shirley Standlee as Miss Hill
 * Andrew Duggan as Mr. Jameson
 * Jack Livesey as Mr. Vanderventer
 * John Seymour as Mr. Gordon
 * James Kelly as Mr. Latham
 * John Shelly as Mr. Grannigan

Critical response
Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film an A and highly praised it in his 2002 Ozus review:
 * "Patterns is based on the teleplay of Rod Serling which was aired live on TV in January of 1955 on Kraft Television Theater, and was so-well received that it was repeated four weeks later. That was something not done during that period. This brilliant script by the creator of the Twilight Zone, Rod Serling, is considered by many as the finest piece of writing he has ever done and brought him instant acclaim. It is ably directed by Fielder Cook ... The ensemble cast is superb, with special kudos to Van Heflin, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight and Everett Sloane. This is Van Heflin's finest role since Shane (1953)."

Added Schwartz:
 * "It's a forceful melodrama, that takes the viewer into the pits of a big corporation's board room politics, backstabbing, and the tough way of doing business. Things have changed since the 1950s which make some things outdated, but the film still has its finger on the savage nature of the business world. Even when a company is not as corrupt as an Enron, people are still perceived as secondary to making a profit no matter what."

In the April 27, 2008, edition of TV Week, the television critic Tom Shales compared the movie unfavorably to the live TV production:
 * Some people thought live TV was the beginning of a truly new storytelling medium—one uniquely suited to intimate, unadorned, psychological dramas—but it turned out to be a beginning with a tiny middle and a rushed end... Patterns was so well-received that Kraft mounted a live repeat of the show a month later, and the intimate TV show was turned into a less intimate (and somehow less satisfying) movie in 1956. Except for the use of terms like “mimeographed” and “teletype,” little about the drama seems dated, unless one is of the opinion that corporate politics and boardroom bloodletting no longer exist... With minimally judicious scene-setting (shots of clocks, a building directory, a switchboard) and a rapid introduction of characters, Serling pulls a viewer almost immediately into his story, a tale of corporate morality—or the lack of it—and such everyday battles as the ones waged between conscience and ambition.

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Armstrong Siddeley Mamba

The Armstrong Siddeley Mamba was a British turboprop engine produced by Armstrong Siddeley in the late 1940s and 1950s, producing around 1,500 effective horsepower (1,100 kW).

Armstrong Siddeley gas turbine engines were named after snakes.

Design and development
The Mamba was a compact engine with a 10-stage axial compressor, six combustion chambers and a two-stage power turbine. The epicyclic reduction gearbox was incorporated in the propeller spinner. Engine starting was by cartridge. The Ministry of Supply designation was ASMa (Armstrong Siddeley Mamba). The ASMa.3 gave 1,475 ehp and the ASMa.6 was rated at 1,770 ehp. A 500-hour test was undertaken in 1948 and the Mamba was the first turboprop engine to power the Douglas DC-3, when in 1949, a Dakota testbed was converted to take two Mambas.

The Mamba was also developed into the form of the Double Mamba, which was used to power the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft for the Royal Navy. This was essentially two Mambas lying side-by-side and driving contra-rotating propellers separately through a common gearbox.

A turbojet version of the Mamba was developed as the Armstrong Siddeley Adder, by removing the reduction gearbox.

Variants and applications

 * ASMa.3 Mamba:
 * Armstrong Whitworth Apollo
 * Avro Athena
 * Boulton Paul Balliol
 * Breguet Vultur
 * Miles M.69 Marathon II
 * Douglas C-47 Dakota
 * Short SB.3

 * ASMa.5 Mamba:Development engine for Armstrong Siddeley ASMD.3 Double Mamba
 * ASMa.6 Mamba:
 * Short Seamew

 * ASMa.7 Mamba:A version for civil applications
 * Swiss-Mamba SM-1 (aft turbofan variant)
 * EFW N-20

 * Mamba 112: (ASMa.6)

Engines on display
An Armstrong Siddeley Mamba is on static display at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire, at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford and at the East Midlands Aeropark.

A Mamba is also on display at the Aviation Heritage Museum (Western Australia).

A Swiss-Mamba SM-1 is on display at the Flieger-Flab-Museum Dübendorf.

A Mamba is also on display at the Hertha Ayrton STEM Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ten commandments

Ten commandments
Somebody with an axe to grind grinding it in the Wikipedia namespace. BJAODN at best (although I didn't find it that humorous). [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 04:18, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 04:36, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Nonsense from a vandal. Delete. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 04:53, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, deleting it only fuels the cabal fire for the tin-foil hat crowd. Let it stay and people can judge how seriously to take them for themselves. Shane King 07:05, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, it does pretend to be "Wikipedia Official Policy" (according to its category listing at least), and has the potential to scare off newbies who don't know what Stalin's face looks like, and maybe some who do. [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 07:13, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * This is decidedly not official policy; everyone knows that we of the Cabal don't ever write these rules down. Seriously though: transwiki to meta. —No-One Jones 07:15, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Improve, make it interesting and transwiki to meta. utcursch 09:00, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or turn it into a rant so obnoxious that no one outside the patological paranoid commmunity will take it seriously :-7 - Skysmith 09:35, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Troll. Delete. Kosebamse 11:22, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * This pretends to be policy, delete or move to some obvious joke page, here or on meta. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:05, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trolling. Meta already has the Cabal article so I don't think we should bother to transwiki this. jni 12:58, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Gee, someone's very unhappy.  Trollery. Geogre 14:56, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete rant by a sock puppet. Rossami (talk) 16:35, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Does the green rooster smoke cubebs in Provence? Lauren Caball 16:40, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, when the subway tokens rise against the yen. Inner Cycloid 16:42, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * QBOUX PQMCU PWSGU MEUQS PZNWH Cryptozoan 16:44, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Shhh... double secret Delete it and don't let anybody find out that it's gone. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 17:22, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * We don't tolerate it around here when someone impersonates another individual user and puts words in their mouth to make them look bad. Why should we be obligated to do differently when someone's impersonating other users collectively by using the "Wikipedia:" namespace in bad faith?  Sure, it's clearly satirical.  I don't see that as much of a defense. -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:13, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, borderline vandal Wyss 22:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd rather just push it further into the realm of absurdity, myself. I've done my part... -- Jmabel | Talk 07:22, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unfunny troll. (IMHO the worst kind of troll!)  P Ingerson 11:50, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Move to a subpage of the author's user page. - Andre Engels 10:27, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or move to BJAODN or meta. Andris 10:30, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm too new here to to make an informed decision, but User:Mirv and User:Jmabel made edits that did a lot to take the harsh edge off. Maybe more of the same would show the author how trivial he/she is around here. [[User:Hydnjo|Hydnjo\talk]] 00:21, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 'Delete Funny, though. Move text to meta or to sub user page.--Zappaz 04:15, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Would be funny, except that I think the creator of the article was serious. Jayjg 23:57, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Farmer's Joint Stock Bank

The Farmer's Joint Stock Bank was a bank that operated in Upper Canada, and later in the Province of Canada, from 1834 to 1854.

History
Following the 1821 legalization of small notes and bills of exchange in Upper Canada, the Bank was formed in 1834 as a private bank by George Truscott and John Cleveland Green in Toronto, Upper Canada. Francis Hincks, a journalist and colonial administrator, was invited to become its first cashier. In 1835, it was taken over by a group of Reformers and constituted as a joint-stock company called the Farmers' Joint Stock Banking Company by deed of settlement. The first board of directors appointed John Elmsley, a member of the Family Compact, to be its first president, which forced Hincks and other Reform investors to leave and found the Bank of the People in December 1835. When Upper Canada moved in 1837 to restrict the ability of institutions other than incorporated banks to issue their own banknotes, the Bank was exempted.

A financial crisis that affected Upper Canada in 1837 resulted in a suspension of the Bank's activities for two months at the end of that year. In 1838, it was barred from issuing banknotes that were not payable on demand.

Economic conditions, together with poor management and political intrigue, led to a move by the board to wind up the Bank in January 1844, which was not completed until December 1848 with its sale to new owners. William Brown Phipps, who had been Manager since 1841, returned to become Manager of the revived Bank in March 1849. In June 1849, it flooded Toronto and Buffalo with new issues of its banknotes, which were subsequently boycotted by merchants. It was finally closed in 1854.

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