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Medicare dual eligible

Dual-eligible beneficiaries (Medicare dual eligibles or "duals") refers to those qualifying for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits. In the United States, approximately 9.2 million people are eligible for "dual" status. Dual-eligibles make up 14% of Medicaid enrollment, yet they are responsible for approximately 36% of Medicaid expenditures. Similarly, duals total 20% of Medicare enrollment, and spend 31% of Medicare dollars. Dual-eligibles are often in poorer health and require more care compared with other Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

Medicare and Medicaid coverage for dual-eligibles
Medicare is the primary payer for most services, but Medicaid covers benefits not offered by Medicare. Medicare coverage for dual-eligibles includes hospitalizations, physician services, prescription drugs, skilled nursing facility care, home health visits, and hospice care. Under Medicaid, states are required to cover certain items and services for dual-eligibles, including long-term nursing facility services and home health services. Although states are required to cover certain populations and services, they have the option to expand coverage beyond these mandatory levels (i.e., offer home and community-based services), and accordingly state Medicaid programs vary in scope. Dual-eligibles may be categorized as full-benefit or partial-benefit. Those with full benefits may receive the entire range of Medicaid benefits; those with partial-benefits do not receive Medicaid-covered services, but Medicaid covers their Medicare premiums or cost-sharing, or both. Partial benefit dual-eligible beneficiaries have limited income and assets, but their income and assets are not low enough to qualify them for full Medicaid benefits in their state.

Change in prescription drug coverage for dual-eligibles
With the advent of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, these dual eligibles have automatically been enrolled to a random Medicare Part D plan, effective January 1 of 2006. As a result of this auto assignment, participants who were already enrolled in a Medicare Advantage HMO, may have been automatically disenrolled from their medical plan to allow for part D enrollment. Medicaid will still cover drugs for dual-eligible patients that are not covered by Medicare Part D, including certain controlled substances.

Efforts to integrate Medicare and Medicaid benefits
Dual-eligibles typically receive their Medicare and Medicaid benefits through each program separately. For Medicare benefits, beneficiaries may opt to enroll in Medicare's traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program or in a private Medicare Advantage (MA) plan (Medicare Part C), which is administered by a Managed Care Organization (MCO), under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Medicare program and oversees state Medicaid programs. In addition, dual-eligibles may choose a type of MA plan called a dual-eligible special needs plan (D-SNP), which is designed to target the needs of this population. For Medicaid benefits, beneficiaries generally enroll in their state's Medicaid FFS program or a Medicaid managed care plan administered by an MCO under contract with the state.

Recently, Congress and CMS have placed greater emphasis on the coordination and integration of Medicare and Medicaid benefits for dual-eligible beneficiaries. For example, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 required D-SNPs to contract with state Medicaid agencies to provide Medicaid benefits. More recently, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a type of D-SNP, referred to as a Fully Integrated Dual Eligible (FIDE) SNP, which—unlike other D-SNPs—is designed to integrate program benefits for dual-eligible beneficiaries through a single managed care organization, although payment is generally provided separately by each program. In 2011, CMS announced a financial alignment demonstration that is intended to further integrate the programs' services. CMS expects that the demonstration will decrease incentives for cost shifting and increase care coordination, resulting in improved care for beneficiaries and savings to Medicare and Medicaid. CMS projects that approximately 61 to 75 percent of savings will come from reductions in costly Medicare-covered services.

Historical challenges with the dually-eligible
Historically, one of the major challenges for the dually-eligible has been care coordination between Medicare and Medicaid. These two systems of care do not "talk to each other" systematically, so one physician that bills primarily through Medicare may not be familiar with benefits that are available through Medicaid. Additionally, since Medicaid benefits vary by state, it is difficult for care providers and consumers to understand the complexity that is inherent within the Medicaid system.

Because duals tend to be the most vulnerable, and often sickest, adults, their care has historically been expensive, totaling $319.5 billion in 2011. One proposed reason for this significant cost would be that many Medicaid programs, prior to the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) used a fee-for-service model. Fee-for-service models are typically more costly because they allow providers to charge for the quantity of care they provide, rather than the quality.

In order to resolve these pain points, the ACA includes provisions that specifically address the coverage and care of duals. On a federal level, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established two new offices: The Federal Coordinated Health Care Office (FCHCO aka the "duals office") as well as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in order to both strategize and monitor the type and quality of care afforded to duals. These offices focus on both monetary expenses as well as care innovation and quality for dual eligible beneficiaries.

Research
A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the integration of Medicare and Medicaid benefits generally improves the care provided to dual-eligibles but does not lead to Medicare savings or a reduction in costly Medicare services (i.e., emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and 30-day risk-adjusted all-cause readmissions). Medicare Advantage health plans that fully integrated Medicare and Medicaid benefits for dual-eligibles (i.e., FIDE-SNPs) generally had better quality of care scores (particularly for intermediate outcome measures) relative to plans with less integration of benefits. However, only FIDE-SNPs that operated in states with long-standing integration programs performed well on quality of care scores. While the care provided generally improved for dual-eligibles enrolled in FIDE-SNPs, very few of these plans reported lower estimated Medicare costs relative to what Medicare's fee-for-service program would have spent for beneficiaries with the same demographic and health characteristics. Furthermore, the FIDE-SNPs that reported potential Medicare savings generally did not demonstrate lower costs than other D-SNPs in the same geographic areas. These results were consistent for dual-eligibles both under the age of 65 and those age 65 and over. While operating specialized plans and integrating benefits could lead to improved care, GAO's results suggest that these conditions have not demonstrated a reduction in dual-eligible beneficiaries' Medicare spending compared with Medicare spending in settings without integrated benefits. Because the GAO study also found that the average number of costly Medicare services increases as the number of chronic and mental health conditions increase, it is possible that savings were not demonstrated because the population being served by FIDE-SNPs is too large to be cost-effective and major complications were averted for relatively few beneficiaries.

A study looking at physician's views of Medicare Part D, and in particular how it pertains to dual-eligibles, found that many physicians expressed concern regarding access to prescription drugs, especially for dual-eligibles. Almost half of physicians responded that the access to prescription drugs for dual-eligibles was worse under Part D than relative to the previous Medicaid, and more than half (63%) reported higher administration burden. Many physicians stated that dual-eligibles had less access under Part D than in three Medicaid restrictive states. This suggests that the transparency of Part D formulary coverage needs to be improved to improve access to these resources for physicians.

A further study by the same group of researchers found that despite the above physicians' views on access to healthcare among dual-eligibles, there were no statistically significant changes in pharmaceutical utilization or out-of-pocket expenditures in the 18 months after Medicare Part D implementation. When comparing a group of dual-eligibles (the experimental group) with a control group of near-elderly Medicaid-covered patients, both groups showed a decline in costs rights after the implementation of Part D, which then leveled off. The expenditures for both groups tracked each other.

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Studies in Words

Studies in Words is a work of linguistic scholarship written by C. S. Lewis and published by the Cambridge University Press in 1960. In this book, Lewis examines the history of various words used in the English language which have changed their meanings often quite widely throughout the centuries. The meanings in the predecessor languages are also part of the discussion.

Lewis's motivation for writing the book was in explaining to students of the work of previous centuries that the definition of a word that they already think they know (his dangerous sense, which he abbreviates D.S.) may yield a total misunderstanding of what the author meant to say. Those who have a large vocabulary are actually more likely to pick a wrong meaning because they can rationalize its enjambment. Some of the earlier meanings are only partially recalled in stock phrases, such as "world without end," which employs the earlier use of the word "world" to mean 'age'.

The words studied are nature, in all its phrases, especially "human nature"; sad, which originally meant "heavy"; wit; free, with all its differences from slavery and villainy; sense, with its two meanings of perception and judgement; simple; conscience and conscious; world; and life; with also the phrase "I dare say!" examined. The details of the history of these seemingly straightforward words encompasses 300 pages.

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User talk:SS-88

Hatred
In response to your comment:
 * tabusshidayu, you accuse us of hatred but you are the true hater. You hate the first amendment of the US constitution and you hate the white race. the fact that you are allowed to be an admin here is proof that wikipedia is owned, top to bottom, by jews.

Does this mean you want to leave us alone? Please, by all means feel quite free to do so, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. As for the Jews running the place: absolutely! Why do you think that we have the Cabal to keep them in line? I guess you must be new here... - Ta bu shi da yu 13:16, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Please do not revert articles without discussing your changes with others. This is considered to be impolite and, if you continue, you may be blocked for a potential violation of the three revert rule, which prohibits reverting any article to a previous version more than three times in any twenty-four hour period. Thank you. Gareth Hughes 13:25, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry.. didn't know

For making a personal threat, I'm blocking you indefinitely. Not acceptable. Goodbye. - Ta bu shi da yu 22:08, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Brown ribbon

A brown ribbon is a type of award given to winners of various contests. At county and state fairs in the United States, a brown ribbon is the award for placing eighth in a contest. In Nazi Germany, the "Brown Ribbon" was an annual July horse race run in Munich from 1934 to 1944.

Usage as an awareness ribbon
Brown ribbons also represent anti-tobacco and colorectal cancer (brown is the alternate color, dark blue is the official colorectal cancer ribbon color).

Brown ribbons have also been proposed by comedian George Carlin, meaning "Eat shit motherfucker", as a cynical response to the preponderance of other ribbons as symbols of political or social movements.

Internet comedy blogger Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half has suggested her fans wear a brown ribbon to raise awareness of her blog, as well as to support 'terminally adult people all over the world'.

P. J. O'Rourke has indirectly suggested a brown ribbon campaign to fight diarrhea: "'Political means could be used to prevent almost all deaths from childhood diarrhea. Diarrhea is spread by contaminated water. Public sanitation is, like personal security, national defense, and rule of law, one of the few valid reasons for politics to exist.  Lowly, semicomic diarrhea kills 2,866,000 people a year worldwide, 2,474,000 of them children under the age of five.  This is ten times the number of people who die from AIDS.  But no one is wearing a brown ribbon on his tuxedo lapel at the Academy Awards or marching up the Mall in Washington carrying a sign reading DIARRHEA -- IT CAN BE CONTAINED.'"Brown ribbons are worn in South Africa in protest against farm attacks. These brutal attacks targeting farmers increases every year (South African Farm Attacks).

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User:HarishS

Signed up
I am wikipedian from February 17 2005.

About me
I am a bangalorean. I am interested in cars and Computers.

HarishS 13:18, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Red ribbon

The red ribbon, as an awareness ribbon, is used as the symbol for the solidarity of people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the awareness and prevention of drug abuse and drunk driving.

Awareness symbol
The red ribbon is a symbol for Multiple Sclerosis, drunk driving prevention, drug prevention and for the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Red Ribbon Foundation, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the Canadian Multiple Sclerosis Society are examples of organizations that utilize the red ribbon symbol.

MADD is an organization founded in 1980 whose mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime and prevent underage drinking. Red Ribbon International is an organization founded in 1993 whose main purpose is the education about prevention of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Related Complex, ARC and AIDS.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) origins
In 1986, MADD started the "Tie One On For Safety" campaign. It is MADD's longest running and most visible public awareness project. During the holiday season, drivers are encouraged to tie MADD red ribbons to visible locations on their vehicles, or place window decals on their vehicles' windows. The red ribbons represent the drivers' commitment to drive safe, sober and buckled up. It also encourages others to designate a sober driver before drinking.

Alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention awareness origin
The Red Ribbon was used as an awareness symbol made by after DEA Agent Enrique Camarena was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered while working undercover in Guadalajara, Mexico. Citizens in his home town of Calexico, California donned the ribbons to emphasize the need for increased prevention efforts. In 1988, Red Ribbon Week, sponsored by National Family Partnership, became a national campaign. It is celebrated from October 23 through October 31.

AIDS awareness origin
The Red Ribbon Project was created by the New York-based Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in 1991.
 * 1) Remain anonymous as individuals and to credit the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus as a whole in the creation of the Red Ribbon Project, and not to list any individual as the creator of the Red Ribbon Project;
 * 2) Keep the image copyright free, so that no individual or organization would profit from the use of the red ribbon;
 * 3) The Red Ribbon should be used as a consciousness raising symbol, not as a commercial or trademark tool.

The artists who formed the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus wished to create a visual symbol to demonstrate compassion for people living with AIDS and their caregivers. Inspired by the yellow ribbons honoring American soldiers serving in the Gulf war, the color red was chosen for its, "connection to blood and the idea of passion—not only anger, but love, like a valentine." First worn publicly by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards, the ribbon soon became renowned as an international symbol of AIDS awareness.

At the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held at Wembley Stadium, London on Easter Sunday 1992, more than 100,000 red ribbons were distributed among the audience by Red Ribbon International, with performers such as George Michael wearing one. The Red Ribbon continues to be a powerful force in the fight to increase public awareness of HIV/AIDS and in the lobbying efforts to increase funding for AIDS services and research.

To symbolize the United States' commitment to combat the world AIDS epidemic through its landmark PEPFAR program, Steven M. Levine, a communications aid in President George W. Bush's administration, proposed that the administration display a 28 foot AIDS ribbon on the White House's iconic North Portico on World AIDS Day 2007. The display, now an annual tradition across four administrations, quickly garnered attention, as it was the first banner, sign or symbol to prominently hang from the White House since Abraham Lincoln lived in the building.

2021 Myanmar coup d'etat
In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, healthcare workers in Myanmar launched a red ribbon campaign (ဖဲကြိုးနီလှုပ်ရှားမှု). The color red is associated with the National League for Democracy, the incumbent political party that won the 2020 elections. Civil servants and workers across Myanmar, including union-level ministries, have adopted the red ribbon as a symbol of opposition to the military regime.

Fair award
At fairs and competitions in the U.K. and Canada, a red ribbon is awarded to the winning competitor (first place). It is used for second place in the United States for fairs and competitions. In the U.S. in some judging competitions, particularly in 4-H and FFA livestock and horticultural competitions, red ribbons may be given to a project that meets some of the judging criteria but falls short in other areas, while superior projects and exhibits are awarded blue ribbons (which are second-place ribbons in the U.K. and Canada).

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Adolf Jellinek

Adolf Jellinek (אהרן ילינק Aharon Jelinek; 26 June 1821 in Drslavice, Moravia – 28 December 1893 in Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna in 1856.

Life and work
He was associated with the promoters of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and wrote on the history of the Kabbalah in the tradition of Western scholarship. Jellinek is also known for his work in German on Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, one of the earliest students of Kabbalah who was born in Spain in 1240. Jellinek's bibliographies (each bearing the Hebrew title Qontres) were useful compilations, but his most important work lay in three other directions: midrashic, psychological and homiletic.

In 1857 he was appointed preacher at the new Leopoldstadt synagogue in Vienna, remaining there until he went to the Seitenstettengasse synagogue, also in Vienna, in 1865. In 1862 Jellinek founded the Beit ha-Midrash Academy where public lectures were delivered by himself, Isaac Hirsch Weiss, and Meir Friedmann. A scholarly periodical, also called Beit ha-Midrash, was published under its auspices.

Jellinek published in the six parts of his Beit ha-Midrash (the above mentioned periodical; 1853–1878) a large number of smaller Midrashim, ancient and medieval homilies and folklore records, which have been of much service in the revival of interest in Jewish apocalyptic literature. A translation of these collections of Jellinek into German was undertaken by August Wuensche, under the general title Aus Israels Lehrhallen.

Before the study of ethnic psychology had become a science, Jellinek devoted attention to the subject. There is much keen analysis and original investigation in his two essays Der jüdische Stamm (1869) and Der jüdische Stamm in nicht-jüdischen Sprichwörtern (1881–1882). Jellinek compared the Jewish temperament to that of women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility.

Jellinek was probably the greatest synagogue orator of the 19th century. He published some 200 sermons, in most of which are displayed unobtrusive learning, fresh application of old sayings, and a high conception of Judaism and its claims. According to Abrahams, Jellinek was a powerful apologist and an accomplished homilist, at once profound and ingenious.

Family
His wife was Rosalie Bettelheim (1832 in Budapest – 1892 in Baden bei Wien). Their family included: The eldest son, Georg Jellinek (1851–1911), professor of international law at Heidelberg University. Another son, Max Hermann Jellinek (1868–1938), was made assistant professor of German philology at Vienna University in 1892, became an associate professor in 1900 and was a full professor from  1906 until 1934, and from 1919 also a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. A third son, Emil Jellinek (1853–1918), was an automobile entrepreneur, whose daughter Mercedes inspired the brand name of Mercedes Benz. His daughter Paula Jellinek married a lawyer, Dr. Jur. Heinrich Wechsberg and was the aunt of psychiatrist Erwin Wexberg. A brother of Adolf, Hermann Jellinek (born 1823), was executed at the age of 26 on account of his association with the Hungarian national movement of 1848. One of Hermann Jellinek's best-known works was Uriel Acosta. Another brother, Moritz Jellinek (1823–1883), was an accomplished economist, and contributed to the Academy of Sciences essays on the price of cereals and on the statistical organization of the country. He founded the Budapest tramway company (1864) and was also president of the corn exchange.

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Moisés Wolfenson

Moisés Wolfenson Woloch (born November 23, 1966) is a former Peruvian congressman (2000-2001) who, together with his brother Alex, was convicted on embezzlement and conspiracy charges and sentenced on 15 February 2005 to 5 years in prison for being in charge of the "chicha press" during the government of ousted President Alberto Fujimori.

According to the lawsuit, during Fujimori's presidency, this "chicha press" highlighted the President's good works and tried to destroy his opponents with defamatory front-page headlines. This "chicha press," comprising about 15 sensationalist newspapers, followed instructions of the former head of the National Intelligence Service, Vladimiro Montesinos. The idea, carried out with success, was to maintain popular approval of Fujimori's government by destroying political opposition candidates and politicians. Once Fujimori resigned, many of the newspapers closed, but some, such as La Razón and El Chino survived. La Razón', still owned by Moises Wolfenson, opposes President Alejandro Toledo's government, and it is said that is now the main platform and vehicle for Fujimori's messages from Japan. "La Razón" contends that the Wolfensons were convicted without sufficient proof and that their sentence is in effect political revenge.

According to a report on Human Rights Practices, by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, released March 31, 2003, In May 2002, Toledo's government authorities placed the Wolfenson brothers, publishers of pro-Fujimori tabloid El Chino and of opposition daily La Razón, under house arrest on corruption charges. On June 22 of the same year, a radio station broadcast a tape in which Salomon Lerner Ghitis, the chairman of the government-owned Financial Corporation for Development and a government insider, threatened both Alex and Moises with judicial proceedings and jail time should they continue to criticize the Government. On August 1, an anticorruption judge found the daily newspapers El Men, El Tio and Editora Sport, S.A., the company that published opposition dailies La Razón and El Chino, guilty of corporate embezzlement for the dealings their publishers Jose Olaya and Moises Wolfenson had with Vladimiro Montesinos. In September of the same year a court ratified the house arrest for the Wolfenson brothers.

In July 2005, congress issued a controversial law # 28658, which stated that days spent under house arrest could count as days in jail, so Moises and his brother Alex were freed. However, on July 25, 2005, Mr. Wolfenson presented himself to the Supreme Court first penal transitory court, because the Constitutional Tribunal declared unconstitutional and abolished law 28658 after only one week of having been issued law by congress, so the Supreme court ordered the Wolfenson brothers to come again to be jailed. Before entering jail, Moises declared that he considers himself persecuted politically by the current government.

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Talk:History of Arab-Israeli Conflict

NPOV disputes
Pls remove this from the NPOV area - it seems neutral enough. Accuracy however, needs to be double checked.

 * The NPOV dispute might be better to be changed to the 'controversial topic' banner I think, the language certainly seems fairly neutral on the whole. As you mention the accuracy dispute is potentially something else, I don't know enough about the history to comment on that personally. External sources to the information would probably resolve that best. Sfnhltb 21:32, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

NPOV Problems with coverage of the Israeli/Lebanese War
The author(s) do an admirable job struggling for NPOV, and I am reluctant to adjust the text without first hearing from others. Still, there remain some touchy issues under the coverage of the 1982 Lebanon War:

''In 2000 Israeli forces left that as well; however, the Hizballah still periodically launched attacks and kept Israeli prisoners as hostages, some of whom were civilians. The two retreats were influenced by political campaigns by groups such as Peace Now.''

Three points to include here:

1.1 The Hizballah maintain that Israel has not completed their pull out from Lebanese terretory. The disputed area (Shaaba farms) is listed in pre-independence maps as being part of Syria, however, it was de-facto under Lebanese administrative control (residents paying taxes to Lebanon). Claim to this stretch of land has been left as an open issue between Lebanon and Syria.

1.2 Israel and the proxy Lebanese militia under Israeli control have similarly followed a practice of kidnapping Lebanese civilians, often holding them without contact to the outside world for many years. Israeli intention seems to have been to maintain a cache of individuals they could use in anticipated future prisoner exchanges. Typically these prisoners were individuals with no involvement in the conflict, although some of the prisoners held by the Lebanese militia under Israeli control were young men who refused to allow themselves to be drafted by the militia.

''Note on 1.2. This issue was documented by amnesty international. It is inappropriate to neglect this issue, since the article pays attention to the issue of Israeli taken prisoner.''

1.3 Although the pressure applied by Peace Now and similar groups can be said to have influenced the Israeli withdrawal decisions, this only occured within the changed Israeli consensus about the cost and benefit in maintaining a presence. Consequently some people view the Lebanese withdrawal as Israel's sole military defeat in almost 60 years of conflict.THIS ENCYCLOPEDIA IS DAMN COOL

 * I agree the article does pretty well overall on trying to remain neutral, your first point sounds reasonable to add, the second one should probably be explictly linked as Amnesty's position I think, not sure how you can easily include the third point as it seems like speculation, unless it can be tied to someone/some group specifically. In all cases sources/references are probably essential anyway. Note its good to sign with four ~ to name/timestamp your comments. Sfnhltb 21:28, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Adding: merge to|Arab-Israeli conflict
Most of this article repeats (or expands) upon the basics of the Arab-Israeli conflict article and -- as it stands -- should be merged into it. IZAK 09:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Factual Inconsistencies
There were 900,000 jewish immigrants not 600k, although only 600,000 immigrated to Israel the rest went to France or to a lesser extent the US.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg 10:08, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

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ADSI

ADSI may refer to:

 * Superintendent (police), Acting Detective Superintendent
 * Active Directory Service Interfaces, a technology introduced by Microsoft in the Windows 2000 Operating System
 * Analog Display Services Interface, application used by many screen-based analog telephones to work with optional calling services
 * American Defense Systems, Inc., provider of transparent and opaque armor, architectural hardening and security products

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User:Charles Godwin

Please add comments to the User:talk section. This is not for comments.

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Talk:Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front

Permission to use text and images from the site

 * From: ZabNet Worker [worker@zabalaza.net]
 * Hi [ name withheld ],
 * Yeah, of course, by all means use what you want from the site.
 * I'll forward your email to other comrades as well so that they can also perhaps get involved in developing it.
 * Yours for freedom,
 * Griffin

So, i'll be starting to copy info from it... Beta m (talk)

Subjectivity
Too much personal voice in this article, needs to at least try to sound objective.

Change of Name
The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation has now been renamed the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, if someone with move rights can change the article's name, it would be greatly appreciated. Red and Black regards--Anarcho-Bohemian (talk) 15:15, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * That's been taken care of. Red and black regards, comrade :) —  Life in General  Talk/Stalk 16:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

2012 rewrite
I've noticed that this article is hopelessly out of date and rather poorly written, so I'm conducting a major rewrite at the moment. Comments are welcome. —  Life in General  Talk/Stalk 16:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I've completed the re-write. —  Life in General  Talk/Stalk 17:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: promotional material
Hey I see you've tagged this article for advertising, but you haven't mentioned which specific parts of the content you think is written like an advertisement. Could you lay out some of the sections you think need to be rewritten or removed? That would be very helpful for resolving this issue. Cheers. -- Grnrchst (talk) 16:41, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

 * @Waddie96I have read over the article after being recommended for copyedit and agree with the question posed by the above comment.
 * I am not seeing anything that resembles advertisment or POV break either. Do you mind clarifying? AevumNova (talk) 06:52, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

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Gaudenzio Ferrari

Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 – 11 January 1546) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.

Biography
Gaudenzio was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from Gerolamo Giovenone. He subsequently studied in Milan, in the school of the Cathedral artisan Giovanni Stefano Scotti, and perhaps alongside Bernardino Luini. Circa 1504 he proceeded to Florence. It was once thought that he later moved to Rome. He died in Milan.

Gaudenzio was not related to Defendente Ferrari (c.1490–1535) a painter from Chivasso, nor to Eusebio Ferrari (1508–1533) the painter from Vercelli.

Mature work
His initial pictorial style may be considered as derived mainly from the old Milanese school, which had imbibed the classic influence of Leonardo and pupils such as Bramantino. However, the provincial impetus was also strong, as is demonstrated in his emotive work at the Sacro Monte di Varallo.

By 1513, Gaudenzio had depicted the life of Christ in a fresco at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Varallo Sesia. He returned to work in the chapels of the Sacro Monte di Varallo by 1524. The chapels are dispersed over a hilltop sanctuary, connected by a winding path, and containing a combination of diorama and wax museum with life-size terracotta figures. He executed his most memorable work, a fresco of the Crucifixion (pictured right), with a multitude of figures, no less than twenty-six of them being modelled in actual relief, and coloured; on the vaulted ceiling are lamenting angels. The figures include goitrous bestial assailants.

There are other works which show flashes of innovation such as the crowded chorus decorating duomo of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Saronno or his fresco of St Anne. This painting shows the overlap of Milanese realism and Venetian colourism.

He was a very prolific painter, distinguished by strong animation. In general character, his work suggests more of the 15th than the 16th century. His subjects were always religious. Andrea Solari, Giovan Battista della Cerva, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, and Fermo Stella were his principle students.

Selected works

 * Sant'Anna Altarpiece (Galleria Sabauda and National Gallery, London)
 * Pietà, in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin
 * St Catharine Miraculously Saved from the Torture of the Wheel, Brera Gallery, Milan
 * Frescoes in church of Santa Maria della Pace, Milan
 * Virgin with Angels and Saints under an Orange Tree, Cathedral, Vercelli
 * Last Supper, Refectory of San Paolo
 * Birth of the Virgin, Annunciation, Visitation, Adoration of the Shepherds and Kings, Crucifixion, Assumption of the Virgin (1532–1535), Church of San Cristoforo
 * St Paul Meditating, Louvre, Paris
 * Presentation in the Temple, Christ among the Doctors, History of Christ (1507), Convent of the Minorites, Varallo
 * Adoration (after 1527), Santa Maria di Loreto, near Varallo
 * Glory of Angels (1535), Dome of the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Saronno
 * Scourging of Christ, Ecce Homo and Crucifixion (1542), Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

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Barracuda-class submarine (France)

The Barracuda class (or Suffren class) is a class of nuclear attack submarines, designed by the French shipbuilder Naval Group (formerly known as DCNS and DCN) for the French Navy. It is intended to replace the Rubis-class submarines. Construction began in 2007 and the first unit was commissioned on 6 November 2020. The lead boat of the class, FRENCH SUBMARINE Suffren, entered service on 3 June 2022.

Development
In October 1998, the Delegation Générale pour l'Armement, the French government's defense procurement agency, established an integrated project team consisting of the Naval Staff, DCN (now known as Naval Group), Technicatome and the Commissariat a l'Énergie Atomique, a regulatory body that oversees nuclear power plants, to oversee the design of a new attack submarine class. DCN was to be the boat's designer and builder while Technicatome (since acquired by Areva) was to be responsible for the nuclear power plant. The two companies were to act jointly as a single prime contractor to share the industrial risks, manage the schedules, and be responsible for the design's performance and costs, which at the time was estimated to be US$4.9 billion.

On 22 December 2006, the French government placed a €7.9 billion order for six Barracuda submarines with Naval Group and their nuclear power plants with Areva-Technicatome. According to the DGA “Competition at the subcontractor level will be open to foreign companies for the first time.” According to the contract, the first boat was to commence sea trials in early 2016, with delivery occurring in late 2016/early 2017. This was to be followed by entry into service in late 2017. However, this timetable for service entry was later pushed back into the early 2020s.

The first boat of the class, Suffren, became fully operational in June 2022. The second boat of the class, Duguay-Trouin, also suffered delays but began sea trials on 26 March 2023, performing her first dive on 27 and 28 March. The submarine was formally delivered to the French Navy in August 2023. In early 2024, Duguay-Trouin deployed to the Caribbean as part of her ongoing trials and was declared fully operational in April 2024. The third submarine in the class, Tourville, began her sea trials in July 2024.

Conventionally-powered variants
DCNS/Naval Group has also put forward diesel-electric variants of the Barracuda, for several other navies. One conventionally-powered concept, dubbed the SMX-Ocean, features fuel cells and vertical launchers.

In 2016, another variant, known within Naval Group as the Shortfin Barracuda – with a diesel-electric powerplant and scaled-down missile capabilities – was offered to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). That same year, the Shortfin Barracuda was selected by the Australian government, for a major expansion of the RAN submarine fleet during the 2030s. A total of 12 vessels were to enter service with the RAN from 2032, augmenting and replacing six Collins-class submarine vessels. However, on 16 September 2021, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the cancellation of the contract with Naval Group and the creation of AUKUS, a trilateral security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, that will help the latter acquire nuclear-powered submarines.

Naval Group is also offering a variant of the Shortfin diesel-electric design, as a replacement for the current Walrus-class submarine submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Description
Barracudas will integrate technology from the Triomphant-class submarine, including pump-jet propulsion. This class reportedly produces approximately 1/1000 of the detectable noise of the Redoutable-class submarine boats, and they are ten times more sensitive in detecting other submarines. They will be fitted with torpedo tube-launched MdCN cruise missiles for long-range (well above 1000 km) strikes against strategic land targets. Their missions will include anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare, land attack, intelligence gathering, crisis management and special operations.

The Barracuda class nuclear reactor incorporates several improvements over that of the preceding Rubis. Notably, it extends the time between refueling and complex overhauls (RCOHs) from 7 to 10 years, enabling higher at-sea availability.

In support of special operations missions, the Barracuda can also accommodate up to 15 Commandos Marine. It integrates a removable dry deck shelter aft of the sail able to embark the commandos' new generation PSM3G Swimmer Delivery Vehicle (ECA Special Warfare Underwater Vehicle).

Specifications
Designed by Naval Group and TechnicAtome, the Barracuda integrates the following systems:

Note: The Antenne Linéaire Remorquée à technologie Optique (ALRO) under development by Thales for the SNLE 3G is expected to replace the ETBF DSUV 62C towed array sonar on the Barracuda-class submarines. The Exocet and VL MICA missiles are also expected to be respectively replaced by the FMAN/FMC and VL MICA NG under development by MBDA.

Australia
Naval Group submitted a conventionally powered diesel-electric variation to the design – named the Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A, a derivative of the SMX Ocean concept – to the competitive evaluation process (CEP) phase of Australia's Collins-class submarine replacement. "While exact details remain confidential, DCNS can confirm the Shortfin Barracuda is over 90 m in length and displaces more than 4,000 tons when dived," said Sean Costello, CEO of Naval Group Australia. Naval Group was chosen by the Australian Government on 26 April 2016 to build twelve of the Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A variant at a projected AU$50 billion (US$). Much of the works were to be undertaken at ASC Pty Ltd in Adelaide, South Australia. Construction was expected to begin in 2023. The class would have been known as the Attack-class submarine with the first vessel named HMAS Attack.

On 16 September 2021, Australia cancelled the Attack-class project and entered into a partnership with the United States and United Kingdom to obtain nuclear submarine technology (SSN-AUKUS). The reactors run on weapons-grade uranium, are sealed and last for the thirty three years. The ones France uses, on the other hand, have to be serviced every ten years since it switched from weapons-grade to low-enriched uranium (LEU) to fuel its nuclear-powered submarines from the Rubis-class submarine onward; this therefore requires a domestic nuclear industry, which Australia lacks.

Netherlands
The Shortfin Barracuda class was proposed by Naval Group to the Royal Netherlands Navy as one of the three competitors in the Walrus-class replacement program. The design was competing with the Saab A26 submarine and the TKMS Type 212 submarine. On 15 March 2024 State Secretary for Defence Christophe van der Maat announced that Naval Group had been selected as the winning bid. The boats will be known as the Orka class, with the first two planned to be delivered within ten years of the contract signing.

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Southern Thai language

Southern Thai (ภาษาไทยถิ่นใต้ ), also known as Dambro (ภาษาตามโพร ), Pak Tai (ภาษาปักษ์ใต้ ), or "Southern language" (ภาษาใต้ ), is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity and language spoken in southern Thailand as well as by small communities in the northernmost Malaysian states. It is spoken by roughly five million people, and as a second language by the 1.5 million speakers of Pattani and other ethnic groups such as the local Peranakans communities, Negritos, and other tribal groups. Most speakers are also fluent in or understand the Central Thai dialects.

Classification
Southern Thai is classified as one of the Chiang Saen languages—others being Thai, Northern Thai and numerous smaller languages, which together with the Northwestern Tai and Lao-Phutai languages, form the Southwestern branch of Tai languages. The Tai languages are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family, which encompasses a large number of indigenous languages spoken in an arc from Hainan and Guangxi south through Laos and Northern Vietnam to the Cambodian border.

 * Kra-Dai
 * Hlai languages
 * Kam-Sui languages
 * Kra languages
 * Be language
 * Tai languages
 * Northern Tai languages
 * Central Tai languages
 * Southwestern Tai languages
 * Northwestern Tai languages
 * Khamti language
 * Tai Lue language
 * Shan language
 * others
 * Chiang Saen languages
 * Northern Thai language
 * Sukhothai language
 * Thai language
 * Southern Thai language
 * Lao-Phuthai languages
 * Tai Yo language
 * Phuthai language
 * Lao language (Isan language)

Dialects
Phonyarit (2018) recognizes the following nine main dialects of Southern Thai, based on tone split and merger patterns.

Southern Thai (Eastern)

 * Nakhonsithammarat dialect (Standard), spoken in the upper part of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province and eastern part of Surat Thani Province
 * Thungsong dialect, spoken in the lower part of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province and surrounding provinces such as Phatthalung
 * Songkhla dialect, spoken in Songkhla and surrounding provinces, except in Hat Yai district, where Krungthep dialect with southern loanwords is spoken
 * Syburi dialect, spoken in Syburi (Kedah), Palis and Satun Province

Southern Thai (Western)

 * Chaiya dialect, spoken in the most part of Surat Thani Province and Ranong Province, classified as a dialect of the Peranakans. It's except in Bandon district, where Krungthep dialect with southern loanwords is spoken.
 * Chumphon dialect, spoken in Chumphon Province and the southern part of Prachuap Khiri Khan Provinces
 * Phuket dialect, spoken by Peranakans in Phuket Province, Krabi Province, Trang Province and Phang Nga Provinces
 * Samui dialect, spoken in Samui District and Pha-ngan District

Takbai dialect

 * Takbai dialect, spoken by the Siamese minority in Patani

Distribution
In Thailand, speakers of Southern Thai can be found in a contiguous region beginning as far north as southern part of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and extending southward to the border with Malaysia. Smaller numbers of speakers reside in the Malaysian border states, especially Kedah, Kelantan, Penang, Perlis, and Perak. In these areas, it is the primary language of ethnic Thais as well as of the ethnically Malay people on both sides of the Thai-Malaysian border in Satun and Songkhla provinces. Although numerous regional variations exist and there is no one standard, the language is most distinct near the Malaysian border. All varieties, however, remain mutually intelligible. For economic reasons, many speakers of Southern Thai have migrated to Bangkok and other Thai cities. Some have also emigrated to Malaysia, which offers not only economic opportunity but also a culture which shares the Islamic faith practiced by some speakers of Southern Thai.

History
Malay kingdoms ruled much of the Malay Peninsula, such as the Pattani Kingdom and Tambralinga, but most of the area, at one time or another, was under the rule of Srivijaya. The population of the Malay peninsula was heavily influenced by the culture of India transmitted through missionaries or indirectly through traders. Numerous Buddhist and Hindu shrines attest to the diffusion of Indian culture. The power vacuum left by the collapse of Srivijaya was filled by the growth of the kingdom of Nakhon Si Thammarat, which subsequently became a vassal of the Sukhothai Kingdom. The area has been a frontier between the northern Tai peoples and the southern ethnic Malays as well as between Buddhism and Islam.

Tones
The majority of speakers using Southern Thai varieties display five phonemic tones (tonemes) in citation monosyllables, although effects of sandhi can result in a substantially higher number of tonal allophones. This is true for dialects north of approximately 10° N and south of 7° N latitude, as well as urban sociolects throughout Southern Thailand. In between, there are dialects with six- and seven-tone systems. The dialect of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province (approximately centered on 8° N latitude) for example, has seven phonemic tones.

Clusters
In Southern Thai, each syllable in a word is considered separate from the others, so combinations of consonants from adjacent syllables are never recognised as a cluster. Southern thai has phonotactical constraints that define permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters, and vowel sequences. Original Thai vocabulary introduces only 11 combined consonantal patterns:
 * (กร), (กล),  (กว)
 * (ขร, คร), (ขล, คล),  (ขว, คว)
 * (ปร), (ปล)
 * (พร), (ผล, พล)
 * (ตร)

Finals
All plosive sounds (besides the glottal stop /ʔ/) are unreleased. Hence, final, , and sounds are pronounced as , , and  respectively. Of the consonant letters, excluding the disused ฃ and ฅ, six (ฉ ผ ฝ ห อ ฮ) cannot be used as a final and the other 36 are grouped as following.

Vowels
The vowels of the Southern Thai are similar to those of Central Thai. They, from front to back and close to open, are given in the following table. The top entry in every cell is the symbol from the International Phonetic Alphabet, the second entry gives the spelling in the Thai alphabet, where a dash (–) indicates the position of the initial consonant after which the vowel is pronounced. A second dash indicates that a final consonant must follow.

The vowels each exist in long-short pairs: these are distinct phonemes forming unrelated words in Southern Thai, but usually transliterated the same: เขา /khaw/ means "he/she", while ขาว /khaːw/ means "white".

The long-short pairs are as follows:

The basic vowels can be combined into diphthongs. For purposes of determining tone, those marked with an asterisk are sometimes classified as long:

Additionally, there are three triphthongs. For purposes of determining tone, those marked with an asterisk are sometimes classified as long:

Differences from Central Thai
Although of the major regional languages of Thailand, Southern Thai is most similar in lexicon and grammar to Central Thai, the varieties are sufficiently different that mutual intelligibility between the two can be problematic. Southern Thai presents a diglossic situation wherein registers range from the most formal (Standard Central Thai spoken with Southern Thai tones and accent) to the common vernacular (usually a contracted form of Thai expressions and with some amount of loan words from Malay). The Thai language was introduced with Siamese incursions into the Malay Peninsula possibly starting as early as the Sukhothai Kingdom. During this and successive kingdoms, the area in which Southern Thai is spoken was a frontier zone between Thai polities and the Malay Sultanates. Malay vocabulary has been absorbed into the lexicon, as a considerable number of Malay speakers lived in or near Patani polity and interacted with the Thai speakers through trade; and the Malay language was formerly considered to be a lingua franca of the southern part of the Malay peninsula.

Southern Thai is mainly a spoken language, although the Thai alphabet is often used in the informal situations when it is written.

The words used that are etymologically Thai are often spoken in a reduced and rapid manner, making comprehension by speakers of other varieties difficult. Also, as Southern Thai uses up to seven tones in certain provinces, the tonal distribution is different from other regional varieties of Thai. Additionally, Southern Thai speakers almost always preserve ร as /r/ in contrast to Northern Thai, the Lao-based Isan language, and informal registers of Central Thai where it is generally realized as /l/.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houdini Animation Software

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Houdini Animation Software
Probably not notable, 382 google hits. Thue | talk 13:37, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand. Megan1967 02:29, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless someone rewrites it so it's not an ad. (But no promise to change my vote even if so.)  The  $$Insert formula here$$  that I just removed made my  finger twitch. —Korath (Talk) 00:10, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with rewrite. JamesBurns 10:53, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Keith Walsh

Hi there! I noticed your edits to University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin. I hope you enjoy your time here and decide to regularly contribute. I've some useful links listed below. If you're interested in Irish topics, you may be interested in the notice board for Irish wikipedians.

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Lidstone series

In mathematics, a Lidstone series, named after George James Lidstone, is a kind of polynomial expansion that can express certain types of entire functions.

Let ƒ(z) be an entire function of exponential type less than (N + 1)π, as defined below. Then ƒ(z) can be expanded in terms of polynomials An as follows:

 * $$f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \left[ A_n(1-z) f^{(2n)}(0) + A_n(z) f^{(2n)}(1) \right] + \sum_{k=1}^N C_k \sin (k\pi z).$$

Here An(z) is a polynomial in z of degree n, Ck a constant, and ƒ(n)(a) the nth derivative of ƒ at a.

A function is said to be of exponential type of less than t if the function

 * $$h(\theta; f) = \underset{r\to\infty}{\limsup}\, \frac{1}{r} \log |f(r e^{i\theta})|$$

is bounded above by t. Thus, the constant N used in the summation above is given by

 * $$t= \sup_{\theta\in [0,2\pi)} h(\theta; f)$$

with

 * $$N\pi \leq t < (N+1)\pi.$$

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User talk:Ghjffg

I don't think we need links to each and every team in the Amazing Race. that's what the external links (to the officials site) and trivia section are for. The dead links take too much attention away from the reader. And only a few teams even have enough information worthy of their own Wiki article.

--Madchester 13:39, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Movie images in Tolkien articles
First of all, guessing that perhaps English is not your first language, the expression is just portrays, not portrays as. ;)

I'm not sure it is necessarily a good idea to use movie images for Tolkien characters. The movie images are pervasive enough—the articles are about the characters, who may not have been portrayed accurate in the films. Then there's the copyright status of the images—they may be fair use, but it's somewhat ambiguous, I think. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 16:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Could you let me know where you found this picture of Thierry, so I can tag it properly (or if you can't remember, let me know that)   — Zeimusu | Talk 02:50, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC).

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The above images have been listed on, Images and media for deletion, If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:26, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Olby

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Olby
Vanity. Radiant! 13:41, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete barring evidence of notability. Lacrimosus 22:53, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Conditionally -- stub provides too little evidence to assess notability, assume not notable unless proven otherwise. EggplantWizard 22:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 23:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User:Chickapow

I am a teacher that observes the activity of "Dr" Sarfati. He seems to be one of the most incompetent fellows in science I have ever known.

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Frank Johnston (artist)

Francis Hans Johnston (also known as Frank H. Johnston and as Franz Johnston) (June 19, 1888 – July 9, 1949) was a member of the Group of Seven. He most commonly worked as a landscape painter though in a more conservative mode than other members of the Group. He also used tempera rather than oil paint in his Algoma landscapes, a fast-drying material that was more often associated with commercial art of his day.

Life and career
Frank Johnston was born on June 19, 1888, in Toronto, the son of Hugh Hans and Mary Elizabeth (Roderick) Johnston. He was educated at Central Technical School in Toronto, studying with Gustav Hahn, and the Central Ontario School of Art with William Cruikshank and George Agnew Reid. In 1908, he joined Grip Ltd. as a commercial artist. In 1910, he left for the United States where he studied art in Philadelphia and worked in commercial design in New York. Upon his return to Toronto in 1915, he used his spare time from commercial art to pursue landscape painting, through sketching trips around Toronto. In 1918, he was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials to record Canadian flying personnel training for overseas duty.

In 1916, encouraged by Dr. James MacCallum, he travelled to Hearst, Ontario, to paint. From 1918 on, he joined Lawren Harris and J.E.H. MacDonald on their journeys to Algoma. His paintings from those years express a strong decorative interpretation of the landscape, but he often employed fast-drying tempera rather than oil paint. Johnston's rate of production was such that in the 1919 Algoma show at the Art Gallery of Toronto he contributed sixty works - more than any other artist.

In 1920, he was invited to join the Group of Seven, but his association with it was brief. He did take part in the Group's first exhibition of 1920, but in the fall of 1920 he left Toronto to become Principal at the Winnipeg School of Art and taught at the city's art school. He asserted his independence even more, having a large one-man show of 200 paintings at the T. Eaton Company Galleries in December 1920, of which the Mail and Empire said:"The position of Frank H. Johnston, A.R.C.A. among local artists is unique. Mr. Johnston is always classed as one of the much discussed 'Group of Seven,' but he has never got out of touch with the picture lovers who cannot quite get the viewpoint of his ultra-radical companions....He has the secret of the living, vivid colouring of the Northland, and catches the feeling of the wild spaces."

In January 1922 he held an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery that included 326 works. He claimed that he had no disagreement with the group, only that he wanted to go his own way with regard to exhibition. In 1925, Johnston changed his name to the more exotic first name of 'Franz' Johnston. By 1927, he was back in Toronto, working as the principal at the Ontario College of Art. In later years, the artist's work demonstrated a return to a more classical style of landscape painting and revealed a strong fascination with the qualities of light, especially light on snow. This theme recurred in later works, in large narrative paintings of the 1930s and 1940s as well as more intimate examinations of a river valley, the bright blue of the water contrasting with snow-laden banks. His subjects range from the pastoral countryside of the Wyebridge area, to northern Quebec, and the Northwest Territories. He had begun to hold regular solo exhibitions in the 1920s and his paintings found a great following among the public. Unlike many Canadian artists, Johnston was able to achieve considerable financial success in his own lifetime.

He was made an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was also a member of the Ontario Society of Artists. His work is in many public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada.

He died in Toronto in 1949 and buried with fellow members of the Group of Seven at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection museum grounds in Kleinburg, Ontario. In 1969, he was given a Medal by the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts for being a member of the Group of Seven.

Of his four children, two were artists: Francis-Anne Johnston and Paul Roderick. A retrospective of his work was organized at the Rothmans Art Gallery, Stratford (today called Gallery Stratford) in 1970.

Record sale prices
At the Cowley Abbott Auction, Select Important Collections, May 30, 2024, Sun Song of Algoma (1920), tempera on paper board, 40 x 30 in ( 101.6 x 76.2 cm ), Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00, realized a price of $168,000.00.

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Fersen family

The Fersen family, stylized as the von Fersen (Versen), is a Baltic-German noble family grouped into several ennobled branches that settled in and around the kingdoms bordering the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The most well-known holders of the surname settled in modern day Sweden and Livonia (modern day Latvia and Estonia) which was once part of the Swedish Empire, and later of the Russian Empire.

Overview
The family was first mentioned in the historical region of Pomerania in the 13th century.

The earliest records of the Fersen family in Livonia area in the late 17th century suggest possible links to earlier participation in the Northern Wars; service in Northern Europe was commonplace and Scots had served in great numbers in the series of Northern Wars, whose onset was marked by an invasion of Livonia by Ivan the Terrible in 1558. More secure is their participation in the Thirty Years' War (1619–1648). The official alliances of the Stuart regime, the independent diplomacy of the Scottish Parliament, and the actions of numerous well placed individuals at various European courts combined to make Scotland one of the prime providers of military manpower in Europe, with some 50,000 Scots fighting between 1618 and 1640. After the 1629 peace of Lübeck, many left to join substantial numbers of their compatriots in the Swedish army. During the 1620s the number of Scots serving in the Swedish army is estimated at around 20,000.

Estonian branch
The Estonian branch of the Fersen family possessed several manor houses.

Swedish branch
The Swedish branch of the Fersen family originally derived from the line in Livonia. After moving to Sweden, some of its members were awarded Countships for gallant military acts. This line is best known through its line of distinguished military service and for Axel von Fersen the Younger's possible love affair with Marie Antionette, suggested in court accounts and a recently uncovered series of "torrid" love letters.

List of people

 * Fabian von Fersen (1626–1677), Swedish general
 * Otto Wilhelm von Fersen (1623–1703), Swedish general, Fabian's cousin
 * Hans Reinhold Fersen (1683–1726), Swedish general
 * Axel von Fersen Sr. (1719–1794), Swedish politician, son of the above
 * Ulrika von Fersen (1746–1810), Swedish courtier, niece of the above
 * Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen (1753–1792), socialite, cousin of the above
 * Augusta von Fersen (1754–1846), Swedish courtier, cousin of the above
 * Axel von Fersen Jr. (1755–1810), Swedish politician, cousin of the above
 * Sophie von Fersen (1757–1816), Swedish courtier, sister of the above
 * Fabian von Fersen (1762–1818), Swedish politician, cousin of the above
 * Johann Hermann von Fersen (Unknown–1801), Saxon-born infantry general who served in the Imperial Russian Army
 * Johann Hermann von Fersen (died 1801), Saxon general in Russian service
 * Hans William von Fersen (1858–1937), Baltic German admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy

title: Fersen family


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1841 in rail transport

March events

 * March 1 – Opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the first to cross the Pennines of England (via Summit Tunnel).
 * March 29 – The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Greenock.

May events

 * May – James Bowen succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.

June events

 * June 14 – The first section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway's main line is opened between Bristol and Bridgwater in England.
 * June 30 – Great Western Railway of England completed throughout between London and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, including Box Tunnel.

July events

 * July 5 – Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, England.
 * July 7 – Opening of the railway from Bordeaux to La Teste in France.

September events

 * September 19 – Inauguration of first international railway line (between Strasbourg (France) and Basel (Switzerland), but with a terminus in Basel; first continuous line October 15, 1843, between Antwerp (Belgium) and Köln (Germany)).
 * September 21 – The London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout, in England.

Unknown date events

 * Draughtsman William Howe and pattern-maker William Williams of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne originate Stephenson valve gear for steam locomotives.
 * Joseph R. Anderson becomes manager of the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm Tredegar Iron Works.

title: 1841 in rail transport


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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Xed

Case Opened on February 17, 2005

Case Closed on 9 March 2005

Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this case; editing this page implicitly authorizes the other participants to enter a complaint against you which may be considered by the Arbitrators as may your behavior. Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read, in full. Evidence, no matter who can provide it, is very welcome at /Evidence. Evidence is more useful than comments.

Arbitrators will be working on a proposed decision at /Proposed decision.

The parties
Snowspinner, Slrubenstein, and Modemx petitioners

v.

Xed, respondent

Statement of complaint
Please limit your statement to 500 words

As presented in request (may be partially or completely replaced)
Xed has been a problem user of various intensities for some time. His edits in general show a tendency towards an uncompromising advancement of a particular and idiosyncratic view of the NPOV policy that Jimbo has indirectly indicated is erroneous, and his advocacy of this view has been excessive and deliberately inflammatory.

Far worse than his questionable grasp of NPOV, however, are his tendency towards personal attacks and other statements designed to make editing WIkipedia less comfortable for people. He has, as has been documented by User:Slrubenstein on the listserv, engaged in particularly vicious personal attacks via private e-mail to Wikipedia contributors, seemingly designed to intimidate them on Wikipedia. Upon being blocked for telling Slrubenstein to "fuck off" and calling him a "little shit," and subsequently being unblocked, Xed posted "Love and kisses all around" to the Administrator's Noticeboard where this discussion had taken place.

I believe, in this case, that mediation would be fruitless because of a combination of the damaging effects of such comments as "fuck off you little shit" and his e-mail to Slrubenstein and the increasingly large disruption that he has taken to causing. Snowspinner 18:18, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * Here is part of what Snowspinner is aluding to, an exchange on my talk page: (all the remarks are dated).

Does Neutrality want me to provide the date of or text from Xed's e-mail to me? Slrubenstein  |  Talk  20:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm asking for arbitration regarding "uncompromising advancement," being "deliberately inflammatory," and "vicious personal attacks." Snowspinner 22:01, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

I would like to second and add to this complaint "not being nice to newbies" and "deliberate manufacture and falsification of sources." Look at the Allen Ginsburg article and the Talk page. Xed used a doctored copy of a New York Times article and a manufactured quote out of a non-existant academic review to support his outrageous contention that Allen Ginsburg was a pedophile. Because of my attempts to correct the article, Xed accused me of being a cheerleader for pedophiles, one of the most morally repugnant accusations imaginable. Censure of Xed would say to a new contributor like myself that Xed isn't representative of the Wikipedia community. With people like him around, you can't blame Wikipedia's critics, because on first impression Xed or someone like him is the Wikipedia community. --Modemx 18:55, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC).

Statement by affected party
Please limit your statement to 500 words

(Original responses to the request, which are intermingled with requests by the petitioners are at the top of the talk page of this project page)

My statement and evidence are on the /Evidence page. XED . talk 20:28, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Arbitrators' opinions on hearing this matter (6/0/2/0)

 * 1) Recuse, Xed has made many personal attacks against me and campaigned vigorously (to the point of outright lying about me) against me becoming an arbitrator. Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Recuse. Neutralitytalk 21:52, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Accept Fred Bauder 21:41, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Accept - David Gerard 23:40, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Accept, and will note that I will be hearing both sides of the argument here. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 00:56, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * You do that in all cases Grunt Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 07:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm just choosing to make explicit note of that here as I sense that accusations of bias will fly if I don't. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 15:08, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * 1) Accept sannse (talk) 10:41, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Accept. Ambi 13:07, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Accept. Nohat 07:26, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Temporary injunction (none)
=Final decision= All numbering based on /Proposed decision (vote counts and comments are there as well)

No personal attacks
1) No personal attacks.

 * Passed 8-0.

Civility
2) Wikipedia users are expected to behave civilly and calmly in their dealings with other users. If disputes arise, users are expected to utilise dispute resolution procedures instead of merely attacking each other.

 * Passed 8-0.

Provocation
4) When another user is having trouble due to editing conflicts or a dispute with another user it is inappropriate to provoke them as it is predictable that the situation will escalate. Provocation of a new or inexperienced user by an experienced and sophisticated user is especially inappropriate.

 * Passed 6-2.

Good behaviour does not excuse bad behaviour
5) Good work on Wikipedia does not constitute an excuse for bad or abusive behaviour on Wikipedia. (Although many editors feel it has mitigatory value.)

 * Passed 7-0.

Do not retaliate to personal attacks
6) Wikipedia editors must avoid responding in kind when personally attacked.

 * Passed 6-0.

Assume good faith
7) Assume good faith. This keeps the project workable in the face of many widely variant points of view and avoids inadvertent personal attacks and disruption through creation of an unfriendly editing environment.

 * Passed 6-0.

Template
1) {text of proposed finding of fact}

 * Aye:

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Xed's attack on Jimbo Wales
1) It is the assertion of User:Xed that User:Jimbo Wales, founder and chief financial supporter of Wikipedia, due to his allegiance to the principles of objectivism as exemplified by by writings of Ayn Rand is opposed to solicitations of voluntary contributions of funds to be applied to relief of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In support of his assertion he cites [www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311135/posts "U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims"] an article posted on [www.freerepublic.com/home.htm the conservative website FreeRepublic.com] (which was originally posted by the Ayn Rand Institute) and the change of a box soliciting donations from its position as a banner at the top of the Main page (Template:Helpout) to the In the news section of the Main page, see Xed's post to Jimbo's talk page and Requests_for_arbitration/Xed/Evidence

 * Passed 8-0.

Status of donations article
2) After debate Template:Helpout was restored.  Jimmy Wales' response, made later, User_talk:Jimbo_Wales  favored discussion of the matter. Although no longer linked from the In the news section of the Main page the article Donations_for_victims_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake which is linked to from a number of Wikipedia pages has been developed by Wikipedia editors.

 * Passed 8-0.

Nature of link cited by Xed
3) The article [www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311135/posts "U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims"] which Xed describes as "a deranged tract which calls charity 'extortion' and rants about 'billions given away by Bush to help the blood-thirsty Palestinians'" addresses the use of government funds, not voluntary contributions and is thus irrelevant to solicitation through links from Wikipedia, see Requests_for_arbitration/Xed/Evidence

 * Passed 6-0-2.

Xed's characterization of Wikipedia
4) User:Xed characterizes Wikipedia as largest online lunatic asylum in the world and questions the value of donations to Wikipedia as compared to donations to tsunami victims asserting that less prominant placement of a link to donations was "a decision which probably led to a great deal of suffering" see Requests_for_arbitration/Xed/Evidence

 * Passed 8-0.

Exchange with and regarding Jimmy Wales
5) Earlier there had been an exchange of posts concerning User:Secretlondon between User:Jimmy Wales and User:Xed on User talk:Xed:, , , then User:Pakaran weighed in . At this point the question of the donation box on the Main page comes up  . More continues  (noting a clarification by the Ayn Rand Institute)

 * Passed 8-0.

Personal attack by Slrubenstein
6) Following the edit User:Slrubenstein posted the following personal attack, "You have such a small, petty mind." See this edit:  for the state of the article at that point.

 * Passed 8-0.

Dispute on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jewish ethnocentrism
7) In the meantime a dispute developed on Votes for deletion/Jewish ethnocentrism involving User:Xed with Xed defending the sockpuppet User:Pinlighter, apparently over from Stormfront, and attacking User:Jayjg, see Requests for arbitration/Xed/Evidence/VfD. This resulted in a serious of hostile posts on User talk:Xed with an exchange of personal attacks and insults by User:Mel Etitis and User:Slrubenstein. See Requests for arbitration/Xed/Evidence/Exchange.

 * Passed 8-0.

Personal attack by Xed
8) Xed followed with a personal attack on User:Slrubenstein on User_talk:Slrubenstein "So wanting a link to allow to the tsunami aid is evidence of a small and petty mind? Fuck off you little shit"

 * Passed 8-0.

Reference to tsunami relief
9) Xed's reference to tsunami relief (which Xed had been discussing on other pages)  surprised Slrubenstein  who explained his meaning, "You have a small and petty mind because of the combination of ignorance, arrogance, and meanness with which you insult Jimbo." Slrubenstein elaborated further "You moron, etc"  comment: "maybe he really is a moron?"

 * Passed 8-0.

Xed's contributions
11) Xed was responsible for starting and maintaining WikiProject Countering systemic bias, a project which has significantly improved the quality of innumerable articles within Wikipedia (see e.g. Economy of Africa).

 * Passed 8-0.

Personal attacks by Slrubenstein during arbitration
12) During arbitration User:Slrubenstein has on Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Xed/Proposed decision continued to engage in personal attacks "I really did think he was a moron, by which I mean that he suffers from a congenital cognitive deficit", "personality disorder"

 * Passed 8-0.

Xed's wide-ranging personal attacks
13) Xed has engaged in wide-ranging personal attacks on other Wikipedians: for example Jayjg  , Slrubenstein     Hyacinth , Modemx , Neutrality , Jfdwolff , Ed Poor  , and Viriditas     .

 * Passed 8-0.

Xed's disruptive assumption of widespread bad faith
14) Xed has a pattern of disruptive behaviour on Wikipedia, mainly through assumption of widespread bad faith, , , , |15:26,, |14:40,, . |16:58,, , , including spurious claims of personal attack ( in response to ).

 * Passed 6-0.

Xed: personal attack parole
1) Xed is placed on standard personal attack parole for one year. If he makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be personal attacks, then he shall be temp-banned for a short time of up to one week.

 * Passed 8-0.

Xed is banned for a pattern of personal attacks and assumption of bad faith
4) For a continuing pattern of personal attacks and disruptive assumption of bad faith, which is unlikely to be resolved sooner, Xed is banned for three months.

 * Passed 5-0-1.

Slrubenstein caution to avoid personal attacks
5) Slrubenstein is strongly cautioned to avoid even the appearance of a personal attack, even when provoked. Personal attacks even in response are considered unbecoming behaviour for a Wikipedia editor, particularly an academic expert.

 * Passed 7-0.

Xed's personal attack parole
1) For the period of the personal attack parole, Xed may be blocked for up to one week by any administrator who feels a given edit or edit summary includes or constitutes a personal attack.

 * Passed 6-0.

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Talk:ConocoPhillips

Hi, it has been one week and I haven’t heard back from the community on these factual edits to the ConocoPhillips page. I wanted to follow up before making any edits directly. Thank you for your thoughts - Afauve (talk) 17:49, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

RE: Request Edits
Hi! I work for ConocoPhillips and recognize that I have a clear conflict of interest tied to editing related articles. I noticed there are a few errors in this article and wanted to flag them for the community first for transparency before I make any edits. I would like to make sure the article is up to date and reflects general consensus. Here are the updates for consideration:

Sidebar •	In the right sidebar under the ConocoPhillips logo, the image shows the company's old headquarters. (The headquarters moved in 2018.) Updated images of the ConocoPhillips Center are available in the ConocoPhillips media library. I recommend changing the existing image to an accurate image: o	Image: https://static.conocophillips.com/files/pages/conocophillipscenter.jpg o	Media Library: https://www.conocophillips.com/news-media/multimedia-gallery/)

•	Under “Products”, add Liquefied Natural Gas o	 https://static.conocophillips.com/files/resources/conocophillips-2020-annual-report.pdf (2020 Annual Report, Page 2) o	Wiki link for Liquefied Natural Gas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas

Article: Introduction. Paragraph 1 •	First Sentence: Change ConocoPhillips …”engaged in hydrocarbon exploration.” to “engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production.” o	 https://www.conocophillips.com/about-us/

Article: Introduction. Paragraph 2 •	First sentence: Change “17 countries” to “15 countries” o	 https://static.conocophillips.com/files/resources/conocophillips-2020-annual-report.pdf (2020 Annual Report, Page 2) •	First sentence: Delete “Timor-Leste.” The company sold its interests in 2019. o	 https://www.conocophillips.com/news-media/story/conocophillips-closes-sale-of-its-interest-in-greater-sunrise-fields/

Article: Introduction. Paragraph 4 •	Change “…ranked 93rd” to “ranked 156th”. o	 https://fortune.com/company/conocophillips/fortune500/

•	Change “In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, ConocoPhillips was ranked as the 201st-largest public company in the world.” To “In the 2021 Forbes Global 2000, ConocoPhillips was ranked as the 574th largest public company in the world.” o	 https://www.forbes.com/companies/conocophillips/?list=global2000/&sh=504d9ce73ab7

•	Add additional Forbes rankings: “ConocoPhillips also ranked 207th on Forbes Best Employers for Diversity (2021), 125th on Forbes America’s Best Employers (2021) and 76th on Forbes Canada’s Best Employers (2021). o	 https://www.forbes.com/companies/conocophillips/?list=global2000/&sh=504d9ce73ab7

Article: Introduction. Paragraph 6. •	Change “The Conoco Museum in Ponca City, Oklahoma is…” to “The Conoco Museum in Ponca City, Oklahoma and the Phillips Petroleum Company Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma are…” o	 (same as current): https://aoghs.org/energy-education-resources/conocophillips-petroleum-museums/ o	Wiki link to Bartlesville Oklahoma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlesville,_Oklahoma

Article: Missing Section. •	There is currently no description of ConocoPhillips’ operations. Recommend adding:

Operations: Exploration and Production ConocoPhillips explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, natural gas liquids and liquefied natural gas on a worldwide basis. https://static.conocophillips.com/files/resources/21-0034-2021-conocophillips-fact-sheets-overview.pdf

The company manages its operations through six operating segments, defined by geographic region: Alaska; Lower 48; Canada; Europe, Middle East and North Africa; Asia Pacific; and Other International. https://static.conocophillips.com/files/resources/conocophillips-2020-annual-report.pdf (2020 Annual Report, Page 2)

Article: Board of Directors •	In the “Board of directors” section, the list of board of directors is outdated. ( http://www.conocophillips.com/investor-relations/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/board-members/)

o	Change the following list of board of directors: 	Charles Bunch, CEO and chairman of PPG Industries 	Caroline Maury Devine, former president and managing director of a Norwegian affiliate of ExxonMobil 	John V. Faraci, former CEO and chairman of International Paper 	Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School 	Gay Huey Evans, former vice-chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays 	Ryan Lance, CEO and chairman of the board 	Sharmila Mulligan, founder and CEO of ClearStory Data Inc. 	Arjun Murti, former partner at Goldman Sachs 	Robert Niblock, former CEO, president, and chairman of Lowe's

o	To the current list of board of directors: 	Charles Bunch, Former Chairman and CEO of PPG Industries 	Caroline Maury Devine, Former President and Managing Director of a Norwegian affiliate of ExxonMobil 	John V. Faraci, Former CEO and Chairman of International Paper Company 	Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School 	Gay Huey Evans, Chairman, London Metal Exchange 	Jeffrey A. Joerres, Former Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ManpowerGroup Inc. 	Ryan Lance, CEO and chairman of the board 	Tim Leach, Executive Vice President, Lower 48 at ConocoPhillips 	Admiral William H. McRaven, Retired U.S. Navy Four-Star Admiral (SEAL) 	Sharmila Mulligan, Former Chief Strategy Officer of Alteryx 	Eric D. Mullins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lime Rock Resources 	Arjun Murti, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus 	Robert Niblock, Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. 	David T. Seaton, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fluor Corporation 	R.A. Walker, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

o	Additionally, the following content should be moved to the History section, as it is not relevant to the board of directors: “On 1 August 2020, Steinar Våge who has been with the ConocoPhillips company since 1988, was elected into the position of President for ConocoPhillips Europe, Middle East and North Africa. He was previously the Senior Vice President of Global Operations, Wells and Projects at the corporate headquarters in Huston, United States, and is now located in Stravanger where the main office is located.[53]"

Afauve (talk) 21:42, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi, it’s Afauve again from ConocoPhillips. Since I haven’t heard any feedback on this, I wanted to come back to the talk pages to state that I made the proposed edits directly to the page. Just wanted to flag the edits again to maintain transparency and acknowledge that I have a clear conflict of interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afauve (talk • contribs) 23:16, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Giant History Gap
This page either grossly overlaps the Conoco page or is grossly incomplete. I propose that the history section needs to be reworked to incorporate the Conoco history by reference and not as a separate timeline. This would be consistent with other petroleum company pages where there’s a distinct history of the pre-merger companies and then one starting with the run-up to the merger. Epthompson (talk) 23:31, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

title: Talk:ConocoPhillips


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oleander (band)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. —Korath (Talk) 10:51, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Oleander (band)
Band vanity, notability not established. This article should be shot so there's room for a new one. Radiant! 13:48, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Rewrite. It's a terrible article (and a copyvio from here, to boot) but they're quite notable.  A Google search for 'Oleander band' returns nearly ninety thousand hits.  I appreciate the noble effort to clear Wikipedia of cruft, Radiant!, but it wouldn't hurt to do a quick Google. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 16:01, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, point taken :) We seem to be agreed though that the article can't stand like this. Radiant! 16:14, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 23:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I rewrote it to remove the copyvio, so keep. Tuf-Kat 00:54, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. -Sean Curtin 01:18, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Passes Wikimusic project guide guidelines, with to albums one at least with a major label. Well-done Tuf-kat. Capitalistroadster 10:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, spurious notability. JamesBurns 10:55, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.