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Plum Pie

Plum Pie is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 September 1966 by Barrie & Jenkins (under the Herbert Jenkins imprint), and in the United States on 1 December 1967 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York. The collection's title is derived from P. G. Wodehouse's nickname, Plum.

All stories except one belong to a large bag of P. G. Wodehouse regular series: one Jeeves, one golf story, one Blandings, one Ukridge, one Mr Mulliner, one longer Freddie Threepwood story, and two Drones Club members Bingo Little and Freddie Widgeon. Most of the stories had previously appeared in Argosy in the UK and in Playboy or The Saturday Evening Post in the US. The UK version included some extra items between the stories, mostly "Our Man in America" anecdotes originally appearing in Punch.

"Jeeves and the Greasy Bird"

 * US: Playboy, December 1965
 * UK: Argosy, January 1967

See "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird".

"Sleepy Time"

 * US: The Saturday Evening Post, 5 June 1965 (as "The Battle of Squashy Hollow")
 * UK: Argosy, October 1965 (as "The Battle of Squashy Hollow")

Two of the characters in "Sleepy Time", the couple Agnes Flack and Sidney McMurdo, previously appeared in four other Wodehouse golf stories: "Those in Peril on the Tee", "Feet of Clay", "Tangled Hearts", and "Scratch Man". Cyril Grooly, and the publishing firm Popgood & Grooly, are mentioned in other stories including Uncle Dynamite and Ice in the Bedroom.

Cyril Grooly is the junior partner of the New York book publishing firm Popgood and Grooly. He is engaged to Popgood's secretary Patricia Binstead and has a twenty-four handicap. The firm is going to publish a book about hypnotism by Professor Pepperidge Farmer. Popgood is going to change the long title of the book to Sleepy Time. Cyril is supposed to negotiate with Farmer for his advance payment and not give Farmer more than two hundred dollars. Cyril meets Farmer, who has a gaunt and sinister appearance. Cyril tells Farmer he is about to go to Paradise Valley for a golfing holiday and wants to improve at golf. Cyril offers Farmer a hundred dollars. Farmer starts waving his hands and Cyril gets sleepy. He wakes later to find Farmer gone, and assumes Farmer simply left. In Paradise Valley, Cyril enters a handicap contest at the Squashy Hollow golf course. He tries to avoid Agnes Flack, a skilled golfer who discovered he is a publisher and talks to him about a book she wrote. Professor Farmer comes to help Cyril improve at golf. He says he feels he owes Cyril, but does not explain why.
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In the contest, Cyril is paired with Sidney McMurdo, the club champion, but is afraid Sidney will scorn him for his poor golfing. Cyril gets a telephone call from Popgood, who is annoyed. Cyril was hypnotized into signing a five thousand dollar advance for Farmer. Farmer claims this was an ordinary business precaution, and diverts Cyril's attention by talking about golf. Cyril has read many golfing books but lacks confidence. Farmer volunteers to hypnotize him to be as confident as Arnold Palmer. At the golf course, Sidney is in a bad mood. Agnes, his fiancée, broke their engagement because he insulted her novel. Cyril plays extremely well, scoring sixty-two, and given his high handicap, will certainly win the contest. He thinks he should marry a good golfer and gets engaged to Agnes, who agrees because he is a publisher. Sidney is jealous and confronts Cyril. Farmer hypnotizes Sidney into being friendly, then de-hypnotizes Cyril, who immediately regrets proposing to Agnes. Farmer agrees to hypnotize Agnes so that she dislikes Cyril. She reunites with Sidney, and will get Simon and Schuster to publish her book instead. Cyril is grateful and believes Farmer has a heart of gold despite his sinister appearance. Farmer offers Cyril a lemon squash, and realizes he can hypnotize the waiter to avoid paying.

"Sticky Wicket at Blandings"

 * US: Playboy, October 1966 (as "First Aid for Freddie")
 * UK: Argosy, April 1967 (as "First Aid for Freddie")

See "Sticky Wicket at Blandings".

"Ukridge Starts a Bank Account"

 * US: Playboy, July 1967
 * US: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1982

Ukridge, who looks unusually well-dressed, invites Corky to an expensive lunch. After Corky asks where he got his money, Ukridge tells the following story.
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Ukridge sees Aunt Julia's butler, Horace Stout, in a pub and learns he was dismissed. This does not surprise Ukridge since his aunt often changes butlers. He chats with Stout and then goes to borrow money from his friend George Tupper. Later, Stout's brother, silver ring bookmaker Percy Stout, visits Ukridge. Percy received a lot of antique furniture in payment of a gambling debt. He needs a persuasive salesman to help sell the furniture. Horace recommended Ukridge. Percy agrees to pay Ukridge ten pounds a week. They sell their wares in a cottage called Rosemary Cottage, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. They have a sign advertising genuine antique furniture to attract passing motorists. Ukridge sells a few pieces, but thinks he can do better. He decides to borrow books about furniture from Aunt Julia, who is interested in antique furniture. Aunt Julia, who has a cold, is glad he has a job and wants to see his stock herself. Ukridge explains that he is working with Stout, which surprises her. Before she can say anything, the doctor comes and Ukridge leaves. He telephones Horace and says his aunt will come see their stock soon.

Ukridge gives George Tupper his two quid back and takes him out to lunch. He then goes back to Rosemary Cottage. Nobody else is there and only one piecrust table is left. A policeman comes, on behalf of Julia Ukridge. She had fired Stout because her furniture was stolen while he was looking after the house. Ukridge realizes that Horace and Percy stole the furniture and thinks they have now fled, still owing Ukridge six weeks' salary. The policeman does not see any of Aunt Julia's furniture, so he leaves. A customer comes looking for genuine antique furniture, and Ukridge sells him the table for sixty pounds. The customer gives him a check and expects Ukridge to send him the table. Ten minutes later, Percy returns. He explains they had to remove the furniture before Aunt Julia arrived and pays Ukridge sixty pounds. Percy congratulates Ukridge for selling the table for sixty pounds, having sold the piecrust table himself earlier for only forty pounds to somebody else. Another potential customer comes, but says the table is a forgery. They could be in legal trouble because they have sold the table, twice, saying it is genuine. Percy borrows some matches from Ukridge, and sets the cottage on fire, destroying the table.

Ukridge finishes telling his story. Aunt Julia is fine because her furniture was insured. Ukridge supposes the two fellows who bought the table, who never got their money back, are very wealthy and have forgotten about it by now. However, the man who bought the table from Ukridge appears. He takes all the money in Ukridge's wallet, around fifty-eight pounds, so Corky has to pay for their lunch.

"Bingo Bans the Bomb"

 * US: Playboy, January 1965
 * UK: Argosy, August 1965

Bingo, the editor of a weekly magazine for children called Wee Tots, asks his boss Henry Cuthbert Purkiss for a raise after losing his month's wages on a horse race, though Purkiss refuses. Heading home, Bingo sees Mabel Murgatroyd, a beautiful red-headed girl he met in "The Word in Season". Mabel mentions her involvement in protests to ban "the bomb" (she does not really elaborate further). Seeing a policeman, she decides to protest so that her arrest will appear in the papers and further her cause. She sits in the middle of Trafalgar Square, pulling Bingo down with her, though Bingo is not pleased about it. They block traffic, angering many drivers. The policeman arrests Bingo and Mabel.
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In the morning, the magistrate lets them go with a reprimand. Mabel realizes that her father, Lord Ippleton, will be angry about her arrest. Bingo is glad that his wife Rosie is away on a trip and will not learn about what happened. At the office of Wee Tots, Bertie gets a call from Rosie, who curtly tells him to see page eight of the Mirror. Bingo is alarmed to see a photograph of the policeman with Mabel in one hand and Bingo in the other.

Bingo goes to the Drones Club for a drink, and talks to Freddie Widgeon, who suggests that Bingo claim he has a double who looks just like him. Bingo decides to ask Mabel to claim that she was with this fictitious double instead of Bingo. Back at the office, Bingo looks up Lord Ippleton in the telephone book and calls him, asking to speak to Mabel. Lord Ippleton, distraught about Mabel's arrest, tells him she is unavailable, as she has been sent away to her aunt in Edinburgh.

Purkiss appears with a hangover. He spent the night playing poker at a friend's house, and he is now in trouble because his wife, who is away with Rosie, discovered that Purkiss was not home all night. Purkiss asks Bingo to say that they were working all night at Bingo's house. Bingo agrees, getting Purkiss to give him a raise in exchange. When Rosie calls again, Bingo tells her he was with Purkiss all night, and that the man in the Mirror photograph must have been his double. Bingo hands Purkiss the telephone so he can confirm Bingo's story.

"Stylish Stouts"

 * US: Playboy, April 1965 (as "Stylish Stout")
 * UK: London Evening Standard, 24 December 1965 (as "The Great Fat Uncle Contest")

In "Stylish Stouts", Rosie mentions contributing to Algy's bank account a year prior, which occurred in the 1940 short story, "The Word in Season". The Fat Uncles sweepstakes featured in the story was first introduced in the 1958 short story, "The Fat of the Land".

In a flashforward, Purkiss, owner of the magazine Wee Tots that Bingo works for, asks Bingo if he has dinner plans. The story then truly starts when the actor Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright gives Bingo two tickets to his next show. Bingo's wife Rosie and their infant son Algy are away on a trip, so Bingo decides to ask his aunt, the widow Myrtle Beenstock, to join him. Her butler Wilberforce (also called Willoughby) says that Mrs. Beenstock is away but will return soon. Wilberforce recommends betting on the horse Whistler's Mother. After Rosie sends him ten pounds to put in Algy's bank account, Bingo bets it on Whistler's Mother. The horse loses its race.
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Dejected, Bingo goes to the Drones Club. Catsmeat explains that the members are entering their uncles in the Fat Uncles Sweep, in which members buy tickets and are each randomly assigned an uncle. The person who draws the fattest uncle wins the jackpot, minus fifty pounds awarded to the winning uncle's nephew as prize money. Bingo wants to enter his stout Aunt Myrtle and sell the future prize money to the club millionaire Oofy Prosser for a smaller immediate payment, but only uncles are eligible. Later, Purkiss asks Bingo if he has dinner plans.

Purkiss wants the American author Kirk Rockaway, who is in London, to contribute to Wee Tots. Since Rockaway admires the novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo's wife, Purkiss provides Bingo ten pounds to give Rockaway dinner, and mentions that Rockaway is a teetotaler. Bingo dines with Rockaway, who is so stout that Bingo wishes Rockaway were his uncle. Since he enjoys Mrs. Little's books so much, Rockaway offers to pay for dinner. Bingo learns that Rockaway came all the way from Oakland, San Francisco hoping to marry Bingo's Aunt Myrtle, and advises Rockaway to gather the courage to propose by drinking champagne and stout.

A half hour later, Rockaway drunkenly insults a critic on the San Francisco Herald. Having forgotten about Rosie M. Banks, he tells Bingo to pay the bill. At Myrtle's house, Rockaway speaks brusquely to the butler who says that Mrs. Beenstock is not home yet. Rockaway hits a constable and gets arrested. Bingo learns that Myrtle married Sir Hercules Foliot-Foljambe during her trip. The butler shows Bingo a photograph of Sir Hercules, who is even larger than Rockaway. Ecstatic, Bingo borrows the photograph to show it to Oofy.

"George and Alfred"

 * US: Playboy, January 1967

See "George and Alfred". (Mr. Mulliner story.)

"A Good Cigar Is a Smoke"

 * US: Playboy, December 1967

The character Colonel Sir Francis Pashley-Drake also appeared in "Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court."

Young artist Lancelot Bingley is engaged to poet Gladys Wetherby. Her uncle Colonel Francis Pashley-Drake, who used to be a famous big game hunter, is supposed to give Gladys her inheritance when she marries, but only if he approves of her fiancé. She thinks he won't approve of an artist. Pashley-Drake wants an artist to paint his portrait. Gladys thinks Lancelot should do it and ingratiate himself with her uncle. Lancelot agrees, and Gladys arranges for him to go to her uncle's house in Bittleton in Sussex, and mentions that her uncle has an excellent cook. As Lancelot leaves by train, Gladys tells him he must not smoke because her uncle is opposed to smoking. Lancelot is a heavy smoker and packed a box of fifty cigars, but resolves to avoid smoking for Gladys's sake. Lancelot meets the stout Pashley-Drake and enjoys the cooking of Pashley-Drake's cook Mrs Potter. He assures Pashley-Drake that he does not smoke, and Pashley-Drake seems to approve. Later that night, Lancelot takes a stroll in the garden, then finds the front door locked. After carefully breaking into the house, he goes to his room and flings himself on his bed without bothering to turn on the light. Since he went to the wrong room, he lands on the Colonel, which startles and annoys him. Lancelot sends a telegram to Gladys saying he needs her to come help him.
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Gladys arrives. Lancelot tells her that he jumped on her uncle, and that another incident happened. He had gone into the garden after breakfast with a cigar, making sure no one saw him, when he heard voices and hid in the shrubbery. In his haste, he dropped his cigar on the lawn. The voices were those of the Colonel and Mrs Potter discussing the dinner menu. Mrs Potter is shocked by the cigar. On her advice, Pashley-Drake is having the cigar finger-printed to determine who is responsible. For now, it is locked in the Colonel's desk. Gladys says they must retrieve the cigar quietly at night. She knows where to find a duplicate key to the desk. At night, they reach the Colonel's study but hear someone coming. Gladys hides behind the curtains and Lancelot crouches behind the desk. The Colonel enters and starts smoking a cigar. Gladys reveals herself and questions him. Pashley-Drake explains that he gave up smoking three years ago because Mrs Potter refuses to work for an employer who smokes. He was tempted to smoke again after seeing the cigar on the lawn. Gladys says she wants her money so she can marry Lancelot. Pashley-Drake dislikes Lancelot, but Gladys makes him consent to the marriage by threatening to tell Mrs Potter he is a secret smoker. Lancelot suddenly rises from behind the desk and offers to give Pashley-Drake his box of forty-nine cigars, and to show him where he can smoke unseen in the garden. The Colonel then whole-heartedly approves of Lancelot.

"Life with Freddie"

 * First published in this volume

The story features Freddie Threepwood, who is a recurring character in Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories. The fictional ocean liner Atlantic featured in the story also appears in Wodehouse's novels The Girl on the Boat and The Luck of the Bodkins. One of the characters in the story, the solicitor Mr Bunting, also appears in Frozen Assets. The Drones Club barman McGarry briefly appears in "Life with Freddie".

In the story, Freddie Threepwood, employed by Donaldson's Dog Joy, decides to return from England to America on the SS Atlantic to sell an order for Donaldson's to fellow passenger Arnold Pinkney, owner of Pinkney's Stores. Freddie's wealthy friend and fellow Drones Club member Judson Phipps is also going to New York but wants to avoid Arlene Pinkney, the beautiful, athletic daughter of Mr Pinkney who is going to America to play for the Curtis Cup. Judson, prone to proposing impulsively, has had two breach of promise cases (handled by the solicitor Mr Bunting, who is also handling a case for Donaldson's Dog Joy). Judson is afraid he will propose to Arlene, though he does not actually want to marry her. Judson's sister Julie Cheever is engaged to Mr Pinkney. Julie bought an expensive diamond necklace and gave it to Judson, so that he can give it to Pinkney. Julie wants Pinkney to smuggle it into America to avoid paying customs duty. Another friend of Freddie's, Joe Cardinal, nephew of Mr Pinkney and employed in the New Asiatic Bank, has fallen in love with Dinah Biddle, Mr Pinkney's secretary. Joe's inheritance is kept in trust and Pinkney is his trustee.
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Joe has given up his bank job to travel on the ship and court Dinah. Freddie lies to Pinkney that Joe has been promoted to a new position in New York. At Freddie's suggestion, Judson asks Dinah to stay near him to keep him from proposing to Arlene, and Dinah agrees. Arlene, who does not want to marry Judson but fears she will accept him for his money, asks Joe to stay near her for the same reason, and he agrees. He had been hoping to woo Dinah, but has given up since she seems to be staying near Judson. Arlene, grateful to Joe, convinces her father to let Joe have his inheritance. Freddie realises that Joe misunderstands why Dinah is staying near Judson. Freddie clarifies the situation to each of them, which leads to Joe kissing Dinah. Mr Pinkney discovers Joe left his job and changes his mind about releasing his money. Judson informs Mr Pinkney about Julie wanting him to smuggle the necklace and gives it to Pinkney. Pinkney, nervous about being arrested but not wishing to go against Julie's wishes, hides it in a toy bear Judson bought for Dinah.

Freddie has not managed to make a sale to Pinkney. Dinah doesn't want the bear, so Judson holds onto it and unknowingly sneaks the necklace through customs, then gives the bear to Freddie. Pinkney tells Judson to get the bear back. Judson enters Freddie's house, and Freddie's cook Lana Tuttle, thinking he is a burglar, points a revolver at him and locks him in the cellar. Freddie later arrives with Bunting and explains that Judson is a friend. Bunting realises that Pinkney hid the necklace in the bear, and Judson is appalled that he could have been arrested for smuggling. Freddie comes up with a plan: he will hold onto the necklace until Pinkney agrees to make an order with Donaldson's Dog Joy and give Joe Cardinal his money. The story ends as Freddie triumphantly makes a telephone call to Pinkney.

Publication history
In Playboy, Bill Charmatz illustrated "Bingo Bans the Bomb", "Stylish Stouts", and "A Good Cigar Is a Smoke". "Sleepy Time" and "Bingo Bans the Bomb" were illustrated by "Graham" in Argosy. "Sleepy Time" was illustrated by Charles Saxon in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965, and reprinted in the magazine's September 1985 issue with the same illustrations. "Ukridge Starts a Bank Account" was illustrated by Edward Gorey in Playboy.

"Sleepy Time" was included in the 1973 Wodehouse collection The Golf Omnibus. "Ukridge Starts a Bank Account" was included in the 1975 collection The World of Ukridge, and in the 1981 collection Wodehouse on Crime. "Bingo Bans the Bomb" and "Stylish Stouts" were included in the 1982 collection Tales From the Drones Club.

"Life with Freddie" is the longest story in Plum Pie. It may be considered long enough to be a novella, though it is categorised as a short story. In the first UK edition of Plum Pie, "Life with Freddie" is 67 pages long, while the next longest story, "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird", is 45 pages long. According to Wodehouse scholar Richard Usborne, the length and course of "Life with Freddie" suggest that it may have been planned to be made into a full novel.

In "Stylish Stouts", the name of the butler in the story is initially Wilberforce, but is later Willoughby. This appears to be an error due to a change in the character's name, which was altered between the magazine and book versions of the story. In the book Wodehouse in Woostershire by Wodehouse scholars Tony Ring and Geoffrey Jaggard, it is suggested that Wilberforce "was so embarrassed at tipping Whistler's Mother that he changed his name to Willoughby in a rude and unsuccessful attempt to disguise himself".

In "Life with Freddie", Freddie Threepwood lives in Great Neck, "near what had been the Sound View golf course till the developers took it over". Wodehouse started playing golf seriously in 1918 when he and his wife moved to Great Neck, Long Island, and he played at the Sound View Golf Club. The Sound View course inspired the Old Member's course in The Clicking of Cuthbert and The Heart of a Goof, collections of short stories written by Wodehouse, though the Sound View name did not appear in a Wodehouse story until 1966 in "Life with Freddie".

References and sources

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User:Picante

Picante is the alias for a mysterious computer programmer living in the Seattle area. Aside from programming, he has dabbled in photography, used to be a big anime fan, and is currently experimenting with music production/engineering & performing.

Early years
Since his true identity is not known, it's hard to speculate on Picante's early life. It is known that he was born in Dallas, Texas, and also lived in New Orleans for a time. The 1995 flood in that city destroyed his home and prompted his family to move to Seattle. In this new region, he quickly became familiar with the video gaming scene that is so popular in the northwest. Despite this, for the first few years that he lived there Picante spent very little time with computers or video games. In fact, rumor has it that he learned how to play the piano, spent a lot of time swimming, and enjoyed reading many books. It was not until the late 90s that he was exposed to the technology world.

Programming and Internet Career
Picante's programming career began when he learned QBasic in 1998. He and his friends created several rudimentary games for PC in that language. At the turn of the century, he turned his attention to the online realm and has since created a number of websites. Most notable of those is Planet Cybiko, which is a Cybiko community he owned and administrated from 2002 until 2008. He also created several games and applications for that handheld, including several alternative OSes for the platform. Picante was hired by the now defunct Compteks.net in late 2003 as a gaming and technology journalist. He was promoted to the rank of administrator in the middle of 2004 and ran the site with his friend Matt (compman) until its closure at the end of that year. Since then, he has been relatively inactive in the online world, though he has continued to pursue several programming projects on the side. He is also skilled in C++, C, Visual Basic, though he has maintained that he prefers to program web software with PHP.

2006 to Present
In early 2006, Picante suddenly disappeared from the online world. His whereabouts remained a complete mystery for over a year after that, prompting rumors that he had possibly died or had completely lost interest in computers and technology. Despite his absence, Planet Cybiko remained open and active. He finally did make a brief appearance on the site in the spring of 2007. After a couple of months, he vanished from sight yet again. It was not until the summer of 2008 that he truly made his "comeback". He is currently attending Bellevue Community College, and is majoring in computer science. Though he recently resigned from Planet Cybiko, he has stated that he has several other projects planned. He recently also became interested in music and played with a group of friends from school for a short time. He plays bass and synthesizers.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neologiphobia

 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 DELETE. dbenbenn | talk 19:28, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Neologiphobia
It's a neologism. :) - RedWordSmith 01:56, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yup. Wikipedia is neologiphobic.  What a shame.  Delete anyway. - Lucky 6.9 02:05, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If I vote to delete it, does that mean I have it? I just did.  Oh well.  Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  02:12, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Neologiphobi... cruft? Samaritan 05:02, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I think someone's bitter. Delete, but do it for being "anti-Wikipedia POV" rather than "neologism". Bearcat 06:31, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nothing personal, it's just that I fear the unfamiliar. Delete. Lacrimosus 08:25, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The word frightens me. JimmyShelter 09:27, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. But honestly: not bad Lectonar 10:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense as mildly amusing Fuzz 13:20, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, heh heh. Rant. Wyss 20:14, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Rhobite 06:02, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikinonsense.  ElBenevolente 07:16, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, with slight laughter. Neologism! -Idont Havaname 05:03, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, move to jokes and deleted nonsense -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:32, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Oleg Alexandrov 00:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Vanity, and not well-written vanity at that. EvilOverlordX 17:01, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rade

 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. dbenbenn | talk 19:25, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Rade
A vanity page which the subject helpfully signed for us. No evidence that xe meets the WikiProject_Music/Notability_and_Music_Guidelines, of course. Uncle G 01:58, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
 * Keep actually, due to his association with Sens Unik, he meets a lot of those guidelines, at least the first seven. Admit this is a clumsy attempt at an article, but he's a fairly notable ex-member of a VERY notable group! Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  02:19, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Starblind is right; Sens Unik even have a fairly detailed article already, and it does mention Rade. Google also confirms. Cleanup, but keep. Bearcat 06:38, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, if he wrote that article, evidenced by the signoff, then its vanity. Wikipedia frowns on autobiographies. Outside of Sens Unik, he hasn't done anything notable. Megan1967 07:51, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I have rewritten the article adding information about his career and taken off the signature. However, in doing so, I have discovered that our article on Sens Unik is an almost direct copy of this article. 1. I will report it as a copyright violation now. Capitalistroadster 08:30, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Not copyvio as that article is credited to Wikipedia and GNU license at the bottom of the web page :) Fuzz 13:13, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. Could be vanity, but the rewrite is good. JimmyShelter 09:21, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep due to rewrite, though I'm not sure we are all looking forward to the solo album he will record in 1995 Fuzz 13:13, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Wellspotted Fuzz. have corrected the typo. Capitalistroadster 14:56, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm likewise suspicious of the "started off in 1998" date. Evidence and references supplied.  However, I'd still like to see things like, say, the man's actual name (compare Scooter).  Moreover, the Sens Unik discography belongs in Sens Unik (and is already there).  Rade should tell us "Rade appears on Sens Unik's albums X, Y, and Z.", and only go into details of release dates and hit songs if they are relevant to Rade specifically (such as if he wrote them, for example). Keep and send to Cleanup for removal of duplicated information. Uncle G 17:33, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
 * Keep. Capitalistroadster's attentions should be an official reason to pull articles off vfd. :) Samaritan 15:14, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Sens Unik.  As usual Cr's rewrite is a great improvement, but in this case I don't think there is a need to have the same information twice, unless there is some notabile information about this musician which doesn't make sense to mention in the article about the group, such as a released solo album. --BM 15:40, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it. Wyss 20:18, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in tact with corrections by Capitalistroadster. Do not redirect.  —RaD Man (talk)  21:39, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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José Couceiro

José Júlio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro (born 4 October 1962) is a Portuguese football manager, currently the national technical director of the Portuguese Football Federation.

Managerial career
As a manager, Couceiro's career is marked with the relegation of Alverca in the 2003–04 season. He bounced back with a good run with Vitória de Setúbal, and won the best Portuguese coach prize. He then signed for Porto on 1 February 2005, going on to Belenenses during the 2005–06 season. In August 2006, he was appointed manager of the Portugal under-21 national team, reaching positive results in the UEFA Championships.

In July 2008, Couceiro was then appointed the head coach of Kaunas, the Lithuanian A Lyga club controlled by Vladimir Romanov. On 5 August 2008, Kaunas, playing in a UEFA Champions League play-off match, defeated 2007–08 UEFA Cup finalists Rangers 2–1 on aggregate to qualify for the third round for the first time in club history. He was then named head coach of the Lithuania national team on 14 August 2008. In his first competitive match as manager, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in Cluj-Napoca for a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier. After that, they defeated Austria 2–0 at home, and the Faroe Islands 1–0. However, they did not qualify for the World Cup tournament proper, held in South Africa.

In April 2009, Couceiro signed as a manager with Turkish side Gaziantepspor.

On 26 February 2011, following the dismissal of Paulo Sérgio, Couceiro was named caretaker manager of Sporting CP for the remainder of the 2010–11 season. He then moved to Lokomotiv Moscow in July 2011, however left the club in May 2012 after his contract was not renewed.

After being appointed as manager of Vitória de Setubal in 2013, he was sacked on 15 May 2014. He then managed Estoril, leaving in March 2015. In May 2016, Couceiro was appointed manager of Vitória de Setubal for a third time. He left the role in May 2018.

In July 2018, he was appointed national technical director of the Portuguese Football Federation.

Personal life
Fernando Peyroteo (1918-1978), a former star player of Sporting CP, was his great-uncle.

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Talk:Naoki Urasawa

Removed Disambiguation Link
If you arrived at this page, you must've been looking for Urasawa Naoki ... I have no problem with a Naoki disambiguation page, but I'm not sure what the purpose is of linking to it from this page.

CES 01:59, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Takashi Nagasaki?
Perhaps we should mention that Urasawa-sama often collaborates with Takashi Nagasaki, with Nagasaki often working in the background. According to the first volume of Viz's edition of Pluto, Nagasaki's involvement in Urasawa's comics seems to be the kind of relationship that a director has with a producer. Also, Urasawa and Nagasaki collaborated on a prose novel that ties in to Monster.

--209.214.97.25 (talk) 20:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

 * @209.214.97.25 The prose novel on which Urasawa and Nagasaki collaborated was "Another Monster: The Investigative Report", right? Fahdkhan08 (talk) 06:22, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

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Leave It to Psmith

Leave It to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. Doran, New York. It had previously been serialised, in the Saturday Evening Post in the US between 3 February and 24 March 1923, and in the Grand Magazine in the UK between April and December that year; the ending of this magazine version was rewritten for the book form.

It was the fourth and final novel featuring Psmith, the others being Mike (1909) (later republished in two parts, with Psmith appearing in the second, Mike and Psmith (1953)), Psmith in the City (1910), and Psmith, Journalist (1915) – in his introduction to the omnibus The World of Psmith, Wodehouse said that he had stopped writing about the character because he couldn't think of any more stories. It was also the second novel set at Blandings Castle, the first being Something Fresh (1915). The Blandings saga would be continued in many more novels and shorts.

The book is dedicated to his step-daughter Leonora Wodehouse, referred to as "Queen of her species".

Plot introduction
Although the main character is Psmith (here called Ronald Eustace rather than Rupert as in previous books, possibly to differentiate him from Rupert Baxter), the bulk of the story takes place at Blandings Castle and involves various intrigues within the extended family of Lord Emsworth, the absent-minded elderly Earl.

The plot is a typical Wodehouse romance, with Psmith inveigling himself into the idyllic castle, where there are the usual crop of girls to woo, crooks to foil, imposters to unmask, haughty aunts to baffle and valuable necklaces to steal. Among the players is Psmith's good friend Mike, married to Phyllis and in dire need of some financial help; the ever-suspicious Rupert Baxter is on watch as usual.

The item which the plot revolves around is the necklace (nearly all Blandings plots revolve around an item which needs to be recovered).

Plot summary
Down at Blandings, Lord Emsworth is dismayed to hear from Baxter that he is expected to travel to London to collect the poet Ralston McTodd, invited to the castle by his sister Connie, a keen supporter of the Arts; another poet, Aileen Peavey, is already installed at the castle.

Joe Keeble tries to persuade his imperious wife to let him give money to his beloved stepdaughter Phyllis, but is bullied out of it, and when Emsworth's feckless younger son Freddie suggests stealing Connie's necklace to free up some cash, Keeble is taken with the idea. Freddie, not keen on doing the job himself, sees Psmith's advert in the paper, and tags along to London with Lord Emsworth.

Meanwhile, in the metropolis, we learn that Mike, having married Phyllis on the assumption that his job as estate manager for Psmith's father would be secure, found on Mr Smith's death that the old man was bankrupt, and is working as a poorly paid schoolmaster. Psmith worked for a time for an uncle in the fish business, but could stand the fish no longer and quit.

Phyllis meets some old school friends, including Eve Halliday, an assertive young girl who pities the once-rich Phyllis, believing her too soft to cope with penury. Eve, we learn, is a friend of Freddie Threepwood, and on his encouragement has taken a post cataloguing the Blandings library, while another friend, Cynthia, has been abandoned by her husband, famous poet Ralston McTodd.

Later, Psmith sees Eve sheltering from the rain opposite the Drones, and chivalrously runs out to give her the best umbrella from the club's umbrella rack. They later meet once more at an employment agency, where Psmith has come seeking work and Eve is visiting an old friend. Psmith meets up with Freddie Threepwood, who describes his scheme to steal Connie's necklace, but dashes off without revealing his name.

Soon after, Psmith runs into Lord Emsworth at the Senior Conservative Club, where the Earl is dining with Ralston McTodd. The poet is annoyed by Emsworth's absent-mindedness, especially when the old man potters across the street to inspect a flower shop, and leaves in a rage. When Emsworth returns, Emsworth mistakes Psmith for his guest, and when Psmith sees Eve Halliday meeting Lord Emsworth, he decides to visit Blandings, posing as McTodd.

Welcomed at the castle, especially by fellow poet Peavey, Psmith is nevertheless suspected by the ever-vigilant Baxter, the real McTodd having telegrammed to cancel his visit. Eve arrives and Psmith begins his wooing with some success, despite her belief that he is McTodd and has jilted her friend. Freddie, worried that one of the maids is a detective, is advised by Psmith to kiss her, and judge by her response whether she is a real maid; Psmith and Eve run into him just as he is embracing the girl.

One day, a stranger arrives at the house claiming to be McTodd, but Psmith turns him politely away. The man, Edward Cootes, runs into Aileen Peavey on his way back to the station, and we learn they are both crooks, estranged lovers both after the diamonds. Cootes returns to the castle, and forces Psmith to help him get in, which Psmith does, passing Cootes off as his valet. Psmith arranges the use of a small cottage, in case he needs to hide the jewels from Cootes.

Cootes and Peavey make a plan to steal the necklace during a poetry-reading, while Eve, having heard from Freddie that Joe Keeble plans to give him money, questions Keeble about why he isn't helping out her friend; he enlists her as a helper in the diamond-stealing plot. As Psmith begins his reading of McTodd's poems, Cootes turns off the lights and Peavey grabs the necklace, flinging it out of the window to where Eve (by coincidence) is standing; Eve hides it in a flowerpot. Returning later to fetch it, Eve wakes the vigilant Baxter, but evades him, leaving him locked out and stashing her flowerpot on a windowsill.

Baxter, locked out of the house in his lemon-coloured pyjamas, throws flowerpots through a window to awake Lord Emsworth, who assumes he is mad and calls in Psmith to help appease him. Next morning, Baxter is fired from his job, and Eve finds the flowerpot empty at Psmith's cottage. Enlisting Freddie's help, she searches the cottage, but finds nothing; Psmith enters and explains his motives, and his friendship with Mike and Phyllis. Cootes and Peavey appear, armed, and threaten to escape with the necklace, but Psmith takes advantage of Freddie's leg falling through the ceiling to overpower Cootes and retrieve the jewels.

Keeble gives Mike the funds he requires to buy his farm, and gives Freddie enough to get him into a bookmaking business. Psmith and Eve get engaged, and Psmith persuades Lord Emsworth to take him on as Baxter's replacement.

Characters

 * Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, master of Blandings
 * Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his younger son
 * Lady Constance Keeble, Emsworth's imperious sister
 * Joseph Keeble, Connie's husband.
 * Phyllis Jackson, Joe Keeble's stepdaughter
 * Michael "Mike" Jackson, her husband
 * Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's very efficient secretary
 * Sebastian Beach, head butler at the castle
 * Eve Halliday, hired to catalogue the library, an old friend of Phyllis
 * Ronald Psmith, an adventurer who falls for Eve, an old friend of Mike
 * Ralston McTodd, a Canadian poet invited to the castle
 * Cynthia, his wife, an old friend of Eve and Phyllis
 * Ada Clarkson, an old teacher of Eve and Phyllis, now running an employment agency
 * Aileen Peavey (a.k.a. Smooth Lizzie), an American poet
 * Edward Cootes, a card-sharp, in love with Aileen Peavey

Style
Wodehouse uses vivid, exaggerated imagery in similes and metaphors for comic effect. For example, in chapter 7.11: "A sound like two or three pigs feeding rather noisily in the middle of a thunderstorm interrupted his meditation".

Wodehouse often uses literary references, sometimes giving the quoted passage directly with little change to the original quote, but adding to the quote to make it absurdly apposite to the situation. This occurs in chapter 11.5, after Baxter sees Psmith on the terrace of Blandings Castle:

"Oh, it's you?" he said morosely. "I in person," said Psmith genially. "Awake, beloved! Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight; and lo! the hunter of the East has caught the Sultan's turret in the noose of light. The Sultan himself," he added, "you will find behind yonder window, speculating idly on your motives for bunging flower-pots at him."

Descriptions provided in Wodehouse's stories generally contain humorous elements, inserted into what would otherwise be pure exposition. For example, there are comic elements in the description of Aileen Peavy provided in chapter 10. To quote part of the passage: "She [Aileen Peavey] was alone. It is a sad but indisputable fact that in this imperfect world Genius is too often condemned to walk alone—if the earthier members of the community see it coming and have time to duck".

Injuries in Wodehouse's stories generally do much less harm than would normally be expected in real life, being similar to the inconsequential injuries depicted in stage comedies. For instance, after Psmith wakes up Freddie Threepwood by arranging for Freddie's suitcase to fall on him, Freddie merely massages the stricken spot, gurgles wordlessly, and is soon ready to resume normal conversation.

One of the prime sources of humour in Wodehouse's comic novels is the distinctive or absurd names given to characters, places, and brands of goods. One notable example is Psmith, who chooses to spell his name with a silent p "as in pshrimp" (chapter 5).

Background
One reason the novel was written was because Wodehouse's adopted daughter Leonora wanted him to write another Psmith story. The book has the dedication: "To my daughter Leonora, queen of her species."

Publication history
The story was illustrated by May Wilson Preston in The Saturday Evening Post. The illustrator for the Grand serial is not stated, but the artist's signature, visible on some of the illustrations such as the first two in the first part and one in the fifth part, is the same as one used by A. Wallis Mills. Mills's signature can also be seen on the illustrations for one of the other Wodehouse books serialised in The Grand Magazine, The Adventures of Sally.

The complete novel was included in the 1932 collection Nothing But Wodehouse. It was also featured in the 1974 collection The World of Psmith.

Adaptations
The story was adapted into a play, also titled Leave It to Psmith, by Wodehouse and Ian Hay. It opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London on 29 September 1930 and ran for 156 performances.

The film Leave It to Me (1933) was adapted from the 1930 play based on the novel.

A radio drama based on the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell, it features John Gielgud narrating as P. G. Wodehouse, Michael Hordern as Lord Emsworth, Joan Greenwood as Lady Constance, Simon Ward as Psmith, and Caroline Langrishe as Eve.

A 1988 Indian television ten-episode serial titled Isi Bahane (On This Excuse) was based on the novel and aired on DD National. The serial was produced by Doordarshan.

The novel was dramatised for radio by Archie Scottney, with Martin Jarvis as Lord Emsworth, Patricia Hodge as Constance, Edward Bennett as Psmith, and Susannah Fielding as Eve. The adaptation aired on BBC Radio 4 in May 2020.

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Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

"Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" is the eighth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 6, 2005. It is a Super Bowl-themed episode that was broadcast the day American Dad! premiered and after Super Bowl XXXIX.

This is the first episode in which Comic Book Guy's real name, Jeff Albertson, is revealed to the audience.

Plot
The Simpsons go to Springfield Park and find it has become a trash-strewn dump, but they see a nearby charity carnival which is raising money to help the park. Bart wins the grand prize in a carnival game, and then Homer beats him, going into an extended victory dance. Ned Flanders captures the dance on video and Comic Book Guy places it on his website. Soon, the entire world has seen Homer's embarrassing dance, humiliating him. However, several major sports stars ask Homer to teach them elaborate victory dances.

Meanwhile, Ned uses his camera to make a movie about Cain (Rod) and Abel (Todd). Everyone loves the film, except Marge, who finds it bloody and disgusting. Mr. Burns decides to finance Ned's next film, "Tales of the Old Testament" (which has a running time of 800 minutes – more than 13 hours). The bloodiness of the film angers Marge and she announces at the screening that she will protest anything that Burns owns. Burns retorts, noting that he owns the town's nuclear power plant and there is no other power source. When the crowd blurt out alternative forms of power they can use Burns admits defeat and says the film will never be seen again, much to Ned's dismay.

Homer's victory dances annoy some purist fans but become so popular that he is recruited by professional football to choreograph the Super Bowl halftime show. When he is unable to think of any ideas with the game looming the following night, Homer finds Ned at church. Together they decide to stage one of Ned's Bible stories at the show. At the Super Bowl, Ned and Homer stage the story of Noah's Ark, at the end of which Ned appears and reads a passage from the Bible. The audience jeers and boos, while both Homer and Ned are disappointed. The media and the general public later accuse the Super Bowl of forcing Christianity onto the country via their "blatant display of decency".

Production
The episode is notable for revealing the real name of the character Comic Book Guy to be Jeff Albertson. It was a long-running gag on the show that the character's name never be revealed, with other characters referring to him as "Comic Book Guy". The writers had intended to name the character as early as his first episode, but they could not think of a name for him, and they called him "Comic Book Guy", with the intention of naming the character the next time they used him. However, they kept putting it off. Showrunner Al Jean remarked: "That was specifically done to make people really mad. We just tried to pick a generic name. It was also the Super Bowl show. We did it so the most people possible would see it." Matt Groening stated that he had originally intended him to be called Louis Lane and be "obsessed and tormented by" Lois Lane, but was out of the room when the writers named him.

Cultural references

 * Mario is seen on the "Italians Touring America" bus and he fights Homer in a manner similar to Donkey Kong.
 * Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man also appear in the episode (actors in costumes) at their wedding, along with the ghosts from the games, on TV when Homer is watching the Super Bowl half-time shows over the years.
 * Ned's violent films are a parody of modern Biblical films such as The Passion of the Christ, which were criticized for their violent content.
 * There are also similarities between the films made by Flanders and those made in the 1950s by Cecil B. DeMille. Films such as Ben Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956), both made all the more famous by the star of both films, Charlton Heston.
 * After the scene of Pac-Man's wedding, the song playing is "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John.
 * The screenplay for Citizen Kane is visible on Ned's bookshelf.
 * The logo for Burns' Celluloid Whimsies is a parody of the Columbia Pictures logo.

Reception
The original broadcast of the episode was watched by 23.1 million people, making it the most-watched episode since season 14's "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can". It finished sixth in the weekly ratings for the week of January 31–February 6, 2005.

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Fort Stevens (Oregon)

Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens. The fort was an active military reservation from 1863–1947. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Today the site is an Oregon state park just northwest of Warrenton.

Civil War
The fort was constructed in 1863-64 during the Civil War as an earthwork battery on the south shore of the mouth of the Columbia River, and was known as the Fort at Point Adams. It was later renamed as Fort Stevens in 1865, in honor of the former territorial governor of Washington, Isaac Stevens, who had been killed in action at the Battle of Chantilly during the American Civil War.

Fort Stevens was the primary military installation in what became the "Three Fort Harbor Defense System" at the mouth of the Columbia River. The other forts were the Post at Cape Disappointment, later Fort Cape Disappointment and later Fort Canby, built at the same time as Fort Stevens, and Fort Columbia, built between 1896 and 1904. Both are on the Washington side of the river. The fort was meant to defend the mouth of the Columbia from potential British attack during the Pig War of 1859 and subsequent ongoing regional tensions through 1870 in the San Juan Islands, and was important during the 1896–1903 Alaska Boundary Dispute, when British-American tensions again were high and the two countries were on the brink of war.

Peter Iredale
In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within the boundaries of Fort Stevens State Park.

World War II
After World War I, the U.S. Navy established a radio station onboard Ft. Stevens for communication with the fleet. Additionally, in 1932 the Navy co-located a secret radio intercept station at Ft. Stevens to listen-in on Japanese navy coded messages. Specially trained radiomen from the "On-the-Roof-Gang" were stationed to the listening post. The station was designated "S" because of the Ft. Stevens location. It was designated to be restored as a historical monument by the federal government in 1936. In September 1939, the U.S. Navy relocated Station S to Fort Ward on Bainbridge Island, Washington because of better intercept conditions.

On the night of June 21–22, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced off Fort Stevens and fired 17 shells from her 14 cm-caliber deck gun, making Fort Stevens the first military installation in the Contiguous United States to come under enemy fire in World War II. The Japanese attack caused no damage to the fort itself, only destroying the backstop of the post's baseball field.

The garrison of Fort Stevens during World War II included elements of two regiments, the 249th Coast Artillery (Oregon National Guard) and the 18th Coast Artillery of the Regular Army.

Fort Stevens was decommissioned in 1947. All the armaments were removed and buildings were auctioned. The grounds were transferred to the Corps of Engineers, until finally being turned over to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department in 1975.

State park
Much of Fort Stevens is preserved within Fort Stevens State Park, part of the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. The 3700 acres park includes camping, beach access, swimming at Coffenbury Lake, trails, and a military history museum. As of 2019, it was the eighth busiest park in the state's park system with 1,197,738 visitors that year.

The large state park boasts full hook up campsites, primitive and electrical sites, yurts, and deluxe cabins; most are pet friendly. The campgrounds have full use facilities nearby and there are over nine miles of paved bicycle trails, fishing, a historic shipwreck, and underground tours of the military battery.

Television
Fort Stevens was featured on an episode of Ghost Adventures entitled "Graveyard of the Pacific: Commander's House" that aired in 2018 on the Travel Channel. The team of paranormal investigators explored Battery Mishler, one of the artillery stations with underground tunnels at the fort where eyewitnesses report seeing a male shadow figure in the Magazine room. The fort is also said to be haunted by a soldier (August Stallberger) who was mysteriously beaten to death by "person(s) unknown" while on duty in 1868.

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Conwy (disambiguation)

Conwy is a walled town and community in north Wales.

Conwy may also refer to these proximate things:
 * Conwy (electoral ward), a county division coterminous with the town
 * Conwy County Borough, a principal local government area (from 1996)
 * the River Conwy (Afon Conwy)
 * Conwy County Borough Council, a local authority
 * Conwy Borough F.C. (formerly Conwy United), a part-time football club
 * Conwy railway station, a train request stop

Defunct administrative areas:
 * Conwy (UK Parliament constituency) (1950–2010)
 * Conwy (National Assembly for Wales constituency) (1999–2007)
 * Conwy (municipal borough) (1885–1974)

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Talk:Vertu

Ringtone
I can't find information about it, but it is very interesting. Маргарита Бабовникова (talk) 11:45, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Expanding
Following the discussion on the VfD page, I've taken the liberty to expand this article somewhat.

Vertu Manufacturing
Vertu products have only ever been Manufactured in Church Crookham, Vertu has at no time ever had a manufacturing site in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada or used any third party in this location to manufacture their products. It would be intersting to know the citation you referenced for this inacurate information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.144.151 (talk) 20:07, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

What a crappy picture...
Can't someone take a better one? 98.208.65.56 (talk) 15:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Software
Any idea what sort of software the Vertu uses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.160.46 (talk) 21:52, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Advertising?
I don't see a lot of value in this page. It seems like advertising, especially the concierge section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.246.8.224 (talk) 07:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It was pretty awful. I trimmed some of the worst out. --John (talk) 23:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
 * created a stub criticism section, and tried to add some balance.46.115.66.30 (talk) 09:00, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Should this page be a disambig page?
Vertu is a word in the dictionary. There are other articles dealing with aspects of it under slight variants in spelling. Any reason why this brand name should keep ownership of the word?46.115.66.30 (talk) 08:54, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

"Vertu was" or "Vertu is"?
The article begins "Vertu was a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury handmade mobile phones," yet the website is still around, and you can still buy stuff from them. So technically, they are still around, aren't they? --Johannes Rohr (talk) 06:40, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

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Southern Historical Society

The Southern Historical Society was an American organization founded to preserve archival materials related to the government of the Confederate States of America and to document the history of the American Civil War. The society was organized on May 1, 1869, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The society published 52 volumes of its Southern Historical Society Papers which helped preserve valuable historical resources.

History
Dabney H. Maury founded the Southern Historical Society on April 15, 1869, in New Orleans. Maury and the eight other founding members donated family papers, books, and artifacts to the society to form its initial collection. Its first publication began in 1876 and continued until 1959. The society was officially organized on May 1, 1869; signatories included Braxton Bragg, J. E. Austin, Dabney H. Maury, B. M. Harrod, Simon Bolivar Buckner, S. H. Buck, A. L. Stuart, George Norton, and C. L. C. Dupuy.

As initially organized, the society had a president and secretary-treasurer, which were paid positions. Prominent individuals from each of the former Confederate states, plus the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia, were appointed as state vice–presidents to help expand the society throughout the Southern United States and to gather material relating to their areas. The first officers were Benjamin Morgan Palmer, president; Braxton Bragg, vice–president for Louisiana; Robert E. Lee, vice–president for Virginia; John C. Breckinridge, vice–president for Kentucky; and Alexander H. Stephens, vice–president for Georgia.

The society's objective was "to collect reliable data of the workings of the late Confederate Government, and the battles, sieges, and exploits of the war." Other targeted Confederate materials for the archive included newspapers, speeches, literary and medical journals, journals, maps, agricultural and manufacturing reports, geological reports, weather reports, sermons, poetry, songs and ballads, mining operation records, and foreign relations. The society also wanted to document the names and details of wounded soldiers, mortality records, and exchanges of prisoners of war. In addition, records of enslaved people and documentation of the impact of emancipation on the Slave states and free states. Once collected, the archival materials were to be classified and preserved, with an outlook for eventual publication. Preservation was to be achieved by securing a fireproof storage building.

The society's president, Benjamin Morgan Palmer, wrote in July 1873: "It is due to the noble men who fell martyrs to the 'Lost Cause' that a faithful history of the events of the four years of bloody war be truthfully recorded, and an impartial view of the motives that actuated them be handed down to posterity with the seal of an impartial and unbiased history… The country has been flooded with partisan histories, in many of which the pretended historian has wandered as far from truth as if he had been writing a work of fiction, and in all of these every incident favorable to the Southern character has been suppressed, and the plainest facts so warped that the actors themselves would not recognize them. It is high time steps were taken to record the events of those years as they occurred…."With the assistance of these state vice–presidents, 6,000 copies of the circular were distributed throughout the southern United States. Newspapers and magazines reprinted the circular in both southern and northern states. However, membership was mostly limited to New Orleans, and there were only 44 dues-paying members at the start of the society's second year.

In 1870, its president was B. M. Palmer. When Palmer turned down reelection as president, he was replaced by Braxton Bragg. Dabney H. Maury was vice–president and J. William Jones became the secretary-treasurer. When Jones' health declined, James Strawbridge was elected secretary-treasurer. However, Strawbridge resigned at a meeting on December 12, 1870. The society did not meet again until July 10, 1871, with just ten members present. Palmer presided over the meeting and was reelected president and P. G. T. Beauregard as vice–president. John W. Caldwell was elected secretary-treasurer with an annual salary of $500.

The society held a reorganizational convention on August 14, 1873, at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia The convention opened with a speech by Jubal Early. Representatives attended from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The society moved its offices and archives from New Orleans to Richmond, Virginia.

On August 25, 1873, a letter from a writer in Charlottesville, Virginia to the editor of The New York Times said:"The meeting of the Southern Historical Society might seem like a harmless affair. Its ostensible object is to make a defense in history of 'the Lost Cause.' The spirits in this movement are mainly the military chieftains of the rebellion. …As a mere nursery of military vanity, and a desperate effort to write the Confederacy and its leaders into some measure of posthumous fame, it might be permitted to pass with a sneer at its folly. But I am constrained to believe that its real purposes are hidden, and are by no means so innocent as they appear."

Seal
In October 1888, the executive committee adopted a seal for the society, adapted from the great or broad seal of the Confederate States of America by Robert A. Brock; the seal was engraved, pro bono, by Mr. M. S. O'Donnell of Malden, Massachusetts. The circular seal has the motto: "The Southern Historical Society, Organized May 1, 1869; Deo Vindice". Its central device is a man on a horse, with the text "Re–organized Aug.15.1873" surrounded by a wreath of assorted plants.

Publications
In 1869, the society started publishing editorials and reports in The New Orleans Picayune and The Land We Love, a literary and agricultural magazine published by former Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill. By 1874, Southern Magazine took over Hill's publication, and included twenty pages in each issue from the society. Eventually, the society began publishing a journal, the Southern Historical Society Papers.

Starting in January 1876, the Southern Historical Society Papers eventually comprised 52 volumes of articles written by former Confederate soldiers, officers, politicians, and civilians. Contributors included Jefferson Davis, Jubal Early, John B. Gordon, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, J. William Jones, Alexander H. Stephens, Robert M. T. Hunter, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, and Zebulon Baird Vance. The first fourteen volumes were edited by Rev. J. William Jones, who also published Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1875. The Papers had a nationwide circulation and was published through 1959.

Historian Richard D. Starnes has noted that the society was uninterested in historical accuracy and objectivity and "dedicated itself to the creation of a Confederate historical memory" and "to preserving the Confederate perspective of the Civil War". He added, "Sometimes, the documents were altered as part of the society's campaign to construct a Southern historical memory and in an effort to protect its own leadership."

Legacy
According to modern historians, the organization's purpose was to promote the Lost Cause in its publications. Historian Alan T. Nolan quotes from the advertisement for subscriptions to the organization's publication, and comments, "Writing whose purpose is to 'vindicate' the 'name and fame' of the South's 'great struggle' plainly proceeds from an advocacy premise". Historian Gaines Foster said it was an "avowedly" historical organization, which "eventually became important in the Confederate tradition" and, through their publications, a group of Virginian pro-Confederacy writers "refought the war,".

The society established itself at Richmond, Virginia, which became the home of the American Civil War Museum. It influenced the Sons of Confederate Veterans and activists in favor of public display of the Confederate battle flag. Historians use the society's journal as a source for Civil War research and an example of how historical memory can be shaped to serve external goals. One modern historian notes, "For historians today, the Southern Papers serve as a storehouse of information concerning the Confederacy. Second, only to the War of the Rebellion records, the Papers represent the largest collection of battle accounts, unit rosters, and other primary material about the southern armies during the Civil War."

Notable members and contributors

 * Alexander Hunter (novelist)

 * Edward Porter Alexander
 * Robert H. Anderson
 * Bishop James Atkins
 * P. G. T. Beauregard
 * Braxton Bragg
 * John C. Breckinridge
 * Joseph E. Brown
 * Simon Bolivar Buckner
 * Matthew C. Butler
 * John W. Caldwell
 * Alexander William Campbell
 * George Llewellyn Christian
 * Charles Magill Conrad
 * William Wilson Corcoran
 * Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
 * Jefferson Davis
 * Jubal A. Early
 * Charles Erasmus Fenner
 * Charles W. Field
 * Augustus Hill Garland
 * Randall L. Gilbson
 * Jeremy Francis Gilmer
 * John B. Gordon
 * Wade Hampton
 * Isham G. Harris
 * Harry T. Hays
 * Paul Octave Hébert
 * Henry Heth
 * Daniel Harvey Hill
 * John Bell Hood
 * William Y. C. Humes
 * Benjamin G. Humphreys
 * Robert M. T. Hunter
 * Eppa Hunton
 * William Preston Johnston
 * J. William Jones
 * James Henry Lane
 * Alexander Lawton
 * Fitzhugh Lee
 * Robert E. Lee
 * William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
 * John Letcher
 * Robert D. Lilley
 * George Washington Logan
 * Armistead Lindsay Long
 * Stephen Mallory
 * John S. Marmaduke
 * William T. Martin
 * Henry M. Matthews
 * Dabney H. Maury
 * Joseph C. Mayo
 * Thomas T. Munford
 * Cyrus S. Oberly
 * Henry W. Ogden
 * James Phelan
 * Trusten Polk
 * Beverly Robertson
 * Raphael Semmes
 * Thomas Jenkins Semmes
 * Ashbel Smith
 * Alexander H. Stephens
 * James Strawbridge
 * Walter H. Taylor
 * William Terry
 * Robert Toombs
 * Isaac R. Trimble
 * Zebulon Baird Vance
 * Charles S. Venable
 * Severn Teackle Wallis
 * Gabriel C. Wharton
 * Cadmus M. Wilcox
 * Robert E. Withers

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Nikolaus Gerhaert

Nikolaus Gerhaert (c.1420 – 28 June 1473), also known as Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden, was a Dutch sculptor, although aside from his sculptures, few details are known of his life. He worked in both stone and wood.

Biography
Gerhaert is considered to be the most influential northern European sculptor of the 15th century. He was born in Leiden, Holland (present day Netherlands) sometime around 1420. Based on the location of his work, he spent most his working life in the Germanic areas of Trier, Straßburg, Baden, Konstanz, and Vienna. Much of his documented work is lost to history, but what has survived is characterized by elaborate drapery and extreme physical realism, both extraordinarily vivid and unconventional. His specialties were tombs, altarpieces and other religious pieces. Sandstone and limestone are among his most frequent mediums.

One of his most well known works currently resides in the Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg (Alsace, present day France). Called the Buste d'homme accoudé (circa 1465), it is an undisputed masterpiece, and is believed to be a self-portrait. Gerhaert died on 28 June 1473 in Wiener Neustadt (present day Austria) while working on the tomb of emperor Frederick III. Nicolaus Gerhaert was summoned to the imperial court to create this tomb after the death of his wife empress Eleanor of Portugal. The tomb was completed in 1513.

Works
Public works attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert are the following:
 * In Germany
 * Baden-Baden, parish church: Crucifix of Baden-Baden, 1467
 * Berlin, Bode museum: Madonna with child, circa 1460/1470
 * Frankfurt, Liebieghaus: Two heads, a prophet and a sibylle, fragments from the portal of the Strasbourg chancellery
 * Trier, Museum am Dom Trier: Tomb of archbishop Jakob von Sierck, 1462
 * In Austria
 * Vienna, Stephansdom: Tomb of emperor Frederick III
 * In France
 * Strasbourg, Cathedral of Strasbourg, chapel on the left side of the choir: Epitaph of canon Conrad de Bussnang, 1464
 * Strasbourg, Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame:
 * Head of an ottoman in turban, circa 1464
 * Meditating man, before 1467
 * Head of a man with lopsided face, red sandstone
 * In the United States
 * New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Standing virgin with child, circa 1470
 * Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: Saint Margaret of Antioch (attributed), walnut with traces of polychromy, circa 1465

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Heberden's node

Heberden's nodes are hard or bony swellings that can develop in the distal interphalangeal joints (DIP) (the joints closest to the end of the fingers and toes). They are a sign of osteoarthritis and are caused by formation of osteophytes (calcific spurs) of the articular (joint) cartilage in response to repeated trauma at the joint.

Heberden's nodes typically develop in middle age, beginning either with a chronic swelling of the affected joints or the sudden painful onset of redness, numbness, and loss of manual dexterity. This initial inflammation and pain eventually subsides, and the patient is left with a permanent bony outgrowth that often skews the fingertip sideways. Bouchard's nodes may also be present; these are similar bony growths in the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints (middle joints of the fingers), and are also associated with osteoarthritis.

Heberden's nodes are more common in women than in men, and there seems to be a genetic component involved in predisposition to the condition.

They are named after William Heberden (1710–1801).

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Quim Barreiros

Joaquim de Magalhães Fernandes Barreiros (born June 19, 1947, in Vila Praia de Âncora, Portugal), known professionally as Quim Barreiros, is a Portuguese Pimba music writer, singer and accordion player, more known for his double entendre songs. Among his biggest hits are Bacalhau à Portuguesa [Portuguese Style Cod] (1986), A Garagem da Vizinha [The Neighbour's Garage] (2000) and A Cabritinha [The Little Goat] (2004).

He started his career before Emanuel, being one of the first, if not the actual first, documented case of pimba.

Biography
Quim Barreiros was born on June 19, 1947, in Vila Praia de Âncora, municipality of Caminha, Viana do Castelo District, to a Portuguese mother and a Brazilian father.

When he was 9 years old, he started playing the drums in his father's band (Conjunto Alegria), after some years he started playing the accordion along with his father, until he joined a folklore group called Sta. Marta de Portuzelo and started touring around Portugal and some nearby countries like Spain and France, which allowed Quim to meet lots of folklore artists from different regions and with different styles.

When he was 20 years old, he had to undergo mandatory military service in Lisbon, and then joined the Portuguese Air Force, as well as the Air Force's band. His involvement with the Air Force band also meant that Quim wouldn't get sent to the wars on the Portuguese colonies.

In the day Quim dealt with his military duties, at night he started attending Casas de Fado (Houses of Fado), places where you can have a meal while listening to Fado classics, and eventually started having concerts in these houses. Quim's music contrasted with the serenity and sternness of Fado, but was well received.

In 1971, Quim releases his first LP Quim Barreiros – Acordeão, then in 1974 he released his second LP Quim Barreiros – Povo Que Canta. These were composed mostly of Portuguese folklore classics. After these, Quim started writing his own songs and developing his spicy, double meaning lyricism.

Quim then toured several countries that have Portuguese emigrant communities such as the United States, Canada, France, Germany and more.

In the meantime he continued releasing some albums and compilations full of funny scenarios and double meaning, eventually becoming one of the most loved Portuguese musicians at the time.

His music reached both the old and the young demographic, and in the middle of the 80's, he started performing at student association parties such as Queima das Fitas, Academic Week and freshman receptions, a tradition maintained alive to this day.

Discography

 * 1971 - Quim Barreiros Acordeão
 * 1973 - Recebi um Convite
 * 1975 - O Malhão Não É Reaccionário
 * 1981 - Dance Com Quim Barreiros e o Super-Trio
 * 1986 - Bacalhau à Portuguesa
 * 1986 - Riacho da Pedreira
 * 1991 - CD D'Ouro
 * 1992 - O Sorveteiro (Chupa Teresa)
 * 1992 - Original (O Franguito da Maria)
 * 1993 - Insónia
 * 1993 - Deixa Botar Só a Cabeça (Acredita em Mim)
 * 1994 - Meu Dinossauro
 * 1994 - Mestre da Culinária
 * 1994 - Os 60 Maiores Êxitos
 * 1995 - Nunca Gastes Tudo
 * 1996 - Minha Vaca Louca/Melhor Dia Para Casar
 * 1997 - 15 Grandes Sucessos
 * 1998 - Marcha da Expo'98 (A Última do Milénio)
 * 1998 - Na Internet
 * 1998 - O Melhor dos Melhores
 * 1999 - Marcha do 3º Milénio
 * 2000 - A Garagem da Vizinha
 * 2001 - Comer, Comer
 * 2002 - Depois da Uma
 * 2002 - Cantares ao Desafio
 * 2003 - O Melhor de Quim Barreiros
 * 2003 - Na Tua Casa Tá Entrando Outro Macho
 * 2004 - A Cabritinha
 * 2004 - O Melhor de Quim Barreiros, Vol. 2
 * 2005 - Riacho da Pedreira
 * 2005 - O Ténis
 * 2006 - DVD - Quim Barreiros Live
 * 2006 - A Padaria
 * 2007 - Use Álcool
 * 2008 - Fui Acudir
 * 2008 - O Melhor de Quim Barreiros, Vol. 3
 * 2009 - O Peixe
 * 2010 - Deixai-me Chutar
 * 2011 - O Brioche da Sofia
 * 2012 - Dar ao Apito
 * 2013 - Mole Não Entra
 * 2014 - Caça-Asneiras
 * 2015 - O Pau Caiu na Panela
 * 2016 - Eu Faço 69
 * 2017 - O Zinho
 * 2018 - O Meu Refogado
 * 2019 - Amélia Costureira
 * 2020 - Será Porca ou Parafuso?

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User:Cyberman

= About this user =
 * Dennis Blewett of Rockford, Illinois
 * Dennis Francis Blewett
 * Dennis Francis Blewett Jr.

Wikipedia History

 * has been a member since 2003 or earlier, first account was Nezumi in Japanese Kanji

Academic History

 * B.S. Neuroscience
 * specializes in neurobiology with a sub-speciality in the neurobiology of cognition
 * studies neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, and psychology.
 * studies philosophical schools of thought: transhumanism, cybernetics, and singularity.
 * member of many online communities that revolve around academics and research and development (R&D).

Other interests

 * Cyberman has scattered knowledge of security engineering
 * is a simple webmaster and graphic designer

= Views of wikipedia =
 * Hates what wikipedia has become: too much fascism and hypocrisy
 * does not like the new-wave of jerkish wikipedians
 * Example user: Sfan00_IMG
 * Problems with this user: Contributes only a destructive aspect to Wikipedia rather than a constructive aspect to Wikipedia. Lacks the ability to do anything for the website other than remove things. Does not bother being an editor or correcting things.

 * upholds the old ideas of wikipedia instead of the newfound capitalistic ideals due to media attention and monetary donations
 * is very wise, and doesn't waste time slamming and shutting down degenerates and capitalistic, egotist sophists
 * Was one of the first people pushing for more wikibooks as user Nezumi / Cyberman

= Places I can be Found on the Internet =

Cyberman is a member of these forums but under different names:

 * Scienceforums.net (Genecks)
 * Scienceforums.com
 * Betterhumans.com
 * Forums.philosophyforums.com (Genecks)
 * Englishforums.com
 * Forodeespanol.com
 * Dutchforce.com (Genecks)

= Old stuff that I've taken some time to edit =

Member Status
Cyberman is a Wikipedian who decided to help spread free information upon other life forms. They have most likely been a member since 2002-03 but can not remember due to faulty programming in its psycho-biological hardware.

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This sounded like something cool to type at the time, for what I recall. Yeah, I've probably been around here on Wikipedia since the years 2002 to 2003. - 02/15/2017

Internet Status
Cyberman has been on the web since 1994 or earlier. It has seen the Internet change through the many years and loves the idea of wikipedia.

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If I remember correctly, I have been on the web since 1994 or earlier (at least recall using AOL 3.0). Also, I have used KMart's bluelight (when Internet was free w/ advertising). - 02/15/2017

Societal Status
Cyberman is an anarchist.

Cyberman believes we already live in a state of Anarchy; a world without rules, borders, or boundaries: A world where anything is possible. This is true if you believe the government really can't control you, that law enforcements are societal brainwashed groups of people who were brought into the christian biased norm of "good." Since this norm puts so many controls on scientific research, education, and technological advancement.

Cyberman has discovered over many years that Anarchy needs to be realized. It's not a state to become, it's a state that already is, a state people just haven't come to spiritual awareness to.

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Yeah, I'm still an anarchist. No, good luck beating that out of me, maybe I suggest others learn something about diffusion, science, etc.. Occam's razor can be mighty sharp (rhetorical statement). Also, if I remember correctly, I said I referred to myself as "it" for fun or something like fun. W/E, it's my Wikipedia page. I'll do as I like. If you have an issue, there's a name listed. Don't just throw your alleged grievances about things I say on the Internet at me all at once. Ever hear/read about using your big boy or big girl words? Ok, then.

A Poem by Cyberman
It exists once you step outside the box

They keep you in the corner like a fox

For they are the hunter and the master

You don't understand or comprehend

The current situation you're in

They keep your mind in a bend

From their powers you must fend

Their power is you

And you are their pawn

From their point of view,

human resources are easily spawned.

They make you think they have control

When you vote for them you honor their role.

Why this has kept up for hundreds of years..

I do not know @_@?

"Oh, but the consequences!" one shouts

The crazy, the killers, and their bouts

When we lose faith and hope for others

When people start killing their mothers.

When others stop having doubts

Then we are in a round-about

Yet, there is a simple truth

Step inside this phone booth.

As I whisper in your ear,

Something true, but not so smooth.

We already live in a state of Anarchy

Can you not percieve it?

Where the ones with psychological control

The power to control the population as whole

Yet, they keep you in the dark stuffed in a hole

A democracy they say

A republic they say

A "system" they say.

There is no system

The only system is that there is no system

And that their system makes you think there is a system

A system is an idea.

A concept, imaginary at best.

I hope you can figure out the rest.

Just one last thing I thought I'd let you know

Just before I let you go..

They give me this piece of paper

As though it means something

In god we trust our savior

But paper is nothing.

Metallic items conduct at best

Birds like to put them in their nest

Monetary value known far and wide

In the animal kingdom we can't hide

For many, many years people searched for gold

Killed for it, died for it, looked for it being bold

A time of history can be told

I want you to question something, think about it well

If the government took your money, wouldn't that be swell?

They collected the gold and paid with paper...

For those who understand inflation, paper went to hell.

An interesting story I do tell.

They wish that one day the world will come to anarcho-communism. Cyberman is a member of the [Nacirema] tribe which they believe, may die out soon because of lack of community help towards one another and the inability to comprehend alternative resources.

However the case, Cyberman is a hacker that can summon up resources from dumpster diving, salvaging, and manipulation of the things around them. They have the ability to connect to the Internet 24/7 when needed.

Cyberman could be said to be a person who could be put in any surrounded and succeed without fear or doubt in themself.

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1. That's a darn good poem. I'm not touching that poem. Originality matters. 2. It'd be nice for people to realize how chaotic life can be. 3. I'm in America still, I guess. The Nacirema tribe was mentioned as a form of rhetoric. In other words, I've meant that, at the time, I'm in America and have been (was) an American. I feel more like a citizen of the Universe at the moment, though. That may not be an appropriate way to mention it, but whatever. 4. I'm pretty crafty. And if I really felt like just going out of my way to do stuff, there are a lot of resources. Also, if considering the Internet to be kind of a social connective network, then the Internet exists in other ways, rather than just on computers. I think I was trying to sound cool at the time by saying that I had the ability to connect to the Internet 24/7. Not really sure what I was thinking back when I wrote that stuff. I'm kind of using the Internet right now on a computer. Ask me about it, if you've got an issue. 5. I like to argue that I could reasonably be put into a surrounding without fear or doubt in myself. Why I used the word "themself" seems to be a matter of rhetoric. I think a lot of ways, my profile was typed to make me sound cool and rhetoric. I consider that some people considered it fluff, nonsense, or not to be taken too seriously. 6. I'm not too interested in "wishes" nor making "wishes" at the moment.

Beliefs
Cyberman believes in everything. There are no doubts to Cyberman because Cyberman knows there is no truth. That things are ever changing and that what may one's truth because of ethnocentrism, may be another's lie.

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Interesting to read that "Beliefs" section after so much time. I'll have to think over that stuff. Talk to me about it.

Anime's I've been meaning to watch

 * Excel_Saga
 * Bo x 7
 * Naruto
 * Bleach

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Yeah, I want to get those out of the way still. I like Anime, in general. Angel Beats is decent, as are many others. I like when Anime's draw out philosophical pieces or topics that involve philosophy. One might argue that metaphysics are involved in everything, so I consider that it's possible that philosophical aspects of things are implied.

Supernatural Powers
Cyberman believes in supernatural beings. Cyberman could be said to be a psychopathic schizophrenic but would disregard such statements and laugh to them evily.

Cyberman's powers come from complex carbohydrates and the Earth's resources. Not only that, but Cyberman builds its supernatural powers from meditation, concentration, study, along with telekinesis practicing.

Although Cyberman was once a White Wizard, Cyberman has gone to a Gray/Dark wizard status because of hate towards human-kind's conforming ignorance and apathy in such a technological era.

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I don't really recall if I believed in supernatural beings at the time I wrote that Supernatural powers section. That was quite a while ago. ' not a psychopath, though. Also, I'm not schizophrenic. Also, if I ever said at some time in my life that everything I say after a point in time, such as the year 2008 or 2009 is a lie, then I'd argue that such as self-defense in defense of me being a reasonable person or perhaps the court if but current court system (kind of like Arthurnian court stuff). Ask me about it, verbally, and hopefully I hear you loud enough to talk about it; perhaps ask if I hear you. Assumptions seem to cause issues. My hearing sometimes is not as great as I would hope.

another edit. The wizard stuff sounded cool. I think it'd be cool to be a wizard. Maybe I'm reasonably a wizard. Perhaps wizards of old engaged the reptilian part of their brains in order to learn a high level of calculus, which came about through "adversarial" contact, thus came to be able to use what has been known as "magic." However, I'd like to think I engage higher parts of my brain, thus hoping that stuff like philosophy and science can be like my "magic."

 * "The pen is mightier than the sword." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Tastes in Women
Cyberman has many tastes, but he loves gothic women. Cyberman wishes they had a time machine to go back into the 90s and find a bunch of gothic chicks to find companionship with.

 * Cutters
 * Psychos
 * Anti-socials
 * Loners
 * Intellectuals
 * Sarcastic/Loving women.

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Gothic chicks are still somewhat hot. I don't get involved with them too much anymore, though. So, I guess I like women with a sense of professionalism. Ask me a bout it. Also, in relation to the cutters thing, I'd say I liked studying abnormal psychology back then and liked the idea of fixing people's issues. So, if I met a female cutter, psycho, anti-social, and/or loner woman and I thought there was an issue, I might want to get involved in her life and help her with her issues. But I had issues juggling professionalism vs. falling for women like that. And I moved away from psychiatric sciences and moved toward neuroscience. And so, I'm glad I stepped away from psychiatric sciences, as there can be ethic issues. But I feel I've grown wiser, so I would just help people out of those situations rather than get too attached. If I have a soulmate, then I'd grow attached and help her out.

Things to later read

 * History of the United States
 * History of Canada
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method

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Yeah, I think I may have read those articles at some point in time.

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