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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St Skeletor's Day

 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. Joyous 23:58, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

St Skeletor's Day
Not notable. DJ Clayworth 16:44, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * It even gets the month wrong. By next year, this will have been forgotten and another comedian will invent another "anti-Valentine" Day.  This is not Breakup Day, nor anywhere near it.  Delete. Uncle G 17:22, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)
 * It does, doesn't it? Braino, but not actually relevant to whether the page should exist.  I won't really mind if it does get deleted; it's just something several people have mentioned to me recently, and seemed to be something someone might look up.  Abstain - I made it, but I don't care if you don't think it should be there.  PS. I've never heard of Breakup Day; as a common English phrase it's impossible to Google-test, but the first google hit on "Breakup Day" is unrelated, and the second has it on a different date and appears to be an independent invention.  Looks non-notable to me as well. - TSP 17:30, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I was working on the assumption that the error was Richard Herring's. Uncle G 05:07, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see - you're assuming there that I heard about it from a Richard Herring show (I don't think I've ever seen one). I heard about it from people who intend to celebrate it, and only found out it was a Richard Herring reference from another page that referenced it.  I accept that they may be the only ones :-)  Though, by analogy, how many people actually 'celebrate' Breakup Day (particularly as a holiday, which the Holiday page seems to think it is)?  '"St Skeletor's Day" February 15' gets 515 hits, and "St Skeletor's Day" isn't the sort of phrase which would appear by accident.  '"Breakup day" February 13' gets 122, several of which STILL aren't about the Breakup Day that gets a Wikipedia article....  This isn't relevant to whether this is notable, I'm just taken aback by the non-notability of the thing that was proposed as notable in comparison to it :-)  TSP 21:00, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, trivial. Megan1967 23:34, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete article about a joke. Funny, I never associated Skeletor with cynical sarcasm. Gazpacho 00:26, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. Though some kind of "opposing views" section in St. Valentine's Day wouldn't hurt. --Idont Havaname 04:05, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No vote of yet, but suggest merging this slight stub into a section of He-Man (where Skeletor now redirects) if it is judged notable enough. -- Smerdis of Tlön 16:20, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Mmm, sensible if there was a page on Skeletor himself, but it's third-hand relevance by the time you get to the He-Man page. Probably better to delete than to merge there. TSP 18:33, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in as this is a perfectly fine definition of something that's certainly notable to all the people I've met. Not sure this was entirely a joke to start off with anyway. This has been around as an idea for ages (10 years?), and votes to delete so quickly seem a bit summary. I'd say leave it around for a bit and see if others contribute then vote it out. Personally I'd appreciate a page of explanation to point people to around this time of year. -- User:Masu17:Masu17 15:35, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * While I hate to do this to my own article's lone supporter, I feel bound to point out that that is Masu17's first edit. Still, he's no-one's sockpuppet (certainly not mine, and the article doesn't actually have any other supporters for him to be a sockpuppet of). TSP 15:51, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nope, I'm a real person who's been using the Wiki for a fairly long time. Never felt qualified to comment on anything before though. -- User:Masu17:Masu17 23:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I've heard of it. Grue 17:16, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, or merge into He-Man. -- The Anome 17:17, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC).

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The Elected

The Elected are a Los Angeles–based indie rock band. The Elected have released two albums with Sub Pop: Me First in 2004, and Sun, Sun, Sun in 2006. A third album, Bury Me In My Rings, was released on 17 May 2011.

Members

 * Blake Sennett – Keyboards, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals
 * Mike Bloom – Lead Guitar & Lap Steel
 * Daniel Brummel/Michael Runion/Nate Greely – Bass
 * Jason Boesel/Ryland Steen/Sander Steen – Drums

Sennett and Boesel were also members of Rilo Kiley. Daniel Brummel plays with Ozma as well. Michael Runion plays solo when not playing live with The Elected. Ryland Steen currently plays with Reel Big Fish, while his younger brother Sander Steen is currently touring with The Elected. Nate Greely, former member of Sub Pop band Arlo, also currently tours with The Elected.

Their second album, Sun, Sun, Sun was released on 24 January 2006 via Sub Pop Records.

After taking time off from the music business, Blake Sennett returned with a third Elected album entitled Bury Me In My Rings, which was released on 17 May 2011 via Vagrant Records. Described as "complete with twelve shimmering pop songs reminiscent of mid-century West Coast rock", Sennett played most instruments and produced the album himself: “I played most of the instruments myself, so it was easier to erase stuff without hurting anyone’s feelings. This time I just thought, better take it as far as I can alone… then bring in my friends to fill in the blanks.”

Albums

 * Me First (2004, Sub Pop)
 * Sun, Sun, Sun (2006, Sub Pop)
 * Bury Me In My Rings (2011, Vagrant Records)

Compilations

 * ''Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina (2005, Saddle Creek)
 * Song: "San Francisco via Chicago Blues"

Videography

 * "Not Going Home" (2006, directed by Nik Fackler)
 * "Go For The Throat" (2011, directed by Noah Dorsey)

Reviews
AbsolutePunk.net Sun, Sun, Sun review

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Henry Bell Van Rensselaer

Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (May 14, 1810 – March 23, 1864) was an American military officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a politician who served in the United States Congress as a Representative from the state of New York.

Early life
Henry Van Rensselaer was born at the manor house in Albany, New York. His father was Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, who was also a United States Representative and founder of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Van Rensselaers belong to the King family of Massachusetts and New York City. His mother, Cornelia Paterson, was the daughter of William Paterson, who served as Governor of New Jersey and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1831.

Career
He was appointed a brevet Second Lieutenant of the Fifth Regiment, United States Infantry on July 1, 1831, and resigned January 27, 1832. He then engaged in agricultural pursuits near Ogdensburg, New York, and served as a military aide to Governor William H. Seward from 1839 to 1840.

Upon his father's death in 1839, Van Rensselaer, as the fifth son, inherited the wild lands in St. Lawrence County along the St. Lawrence River. His eldest brother, Stephen Van Rensselaer IV inherited the manor on the Albany side of the Hudson River.

Van Rensselaer was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843. He was subsequently president of several mining companies, including the American Mineral Company and the Consolidated Franklinite Company. He was a director of the Northern Railroad (later the Rutland Railroad), but resigned to help found the Ogdensburg, Clayton and Rome Railroad.

U.S. Civil War
Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, he reentered the military service with the rank of colonel in the Union Army, and was appointed chief of staff to General Winfield Scott as a brigadier general. After Scott's retirement, Van Rensselaer was reappointed as a colonel, and from November 1861 until his death, he served as an inspector general of several corps and departments including the 1st Army Corps, Department of the Rappahannock, 3rd Army Corps and Department of the Ohio.

Personal life
On August 22, 1833, Van Rensselaer married Elizabeth Ray King (1815–1900), daughter of John Alsop King (1788–1867), the Governor of New York, and Mary Ray. Elizabeth's maternal grandfather was U.S. Senator Rufus King (1755–1827) and her great-grandfather was John Alsop (1724–1792), a prominent New York City merchant. Together, they had:

 * Mary Van Rensselaer (1834–1902), who married John Henry Screven (1823–1903) in 1874.
 * Cornelia Van Rensselaer (1836–1864), who married James Lenox Kennedy (1823–1864), son of David Sproat Kennedy and nephew of philanthropist James Lenox.
 * Stephen Van Rensselaer (1838–1904), who married Mathilda Coster Heckscher (1838–1915).
 * Henry Van Rensselaer, who died young.
 * Euphemia Van Rensselaer (1842–), who became a Sister of Charity and took the name Marie Dolores.
 * Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (1845–1911), who married George Waddington (1840–1915), a son of William D. Waddington (1811–1886) and Mary Elizabeth Ogden (1810–1867).
 * John King Van Rensselaer (1847–1909), who married May Denning King (1848–1925), granddaughter of James Gore King.
 * Katherine Van Rensselaer (1849–1901), who married Dr. Francis Delafield (1841–1915), son of Dr. Edward Delafield, in 1870.
 * Henry Van Rensselaer (1851–1907), who joined the Society of Jesuits.
 * Westerlo Van Rensselaer (1853–1857), who died young.

Van Rensselaer died of typhoid fever in Cincinnati, Ohio, shortly before the end of the War. He was interred in the Grace Episcopal Churchyard, in Jamaica, Queens in New York City.

Descendants
Through his son, John King Van Rensselaer, he was the grandfather of John Alexander Van Rensselaer (b. 1872), who married Helen F. Galindo in 1896, and who was arrested in 1908 for attempting to extort $5,000 from his mother.

Through his granddaughter, Julia Floyd Delafield, Henry was the great-grandfather of Floyd Crosby (1899–1985), himself the father of musician David Crosby.

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Tarnation (2003 film)

Tarnation is a 2003 American documentary film essay by Jonathan Caouette.

Summary
The film was created by Caouette from over 20 years of hundreds of hours of old Super 8 footage, VHS videotape, photographs, and answering machine messages to tell the story of his life and his relationship with his mentally ill mother Renee.

Synopsis
Tarnation is an autobiographical documentary focusing on Caouette's early life and adulthood, as well as his mother, Renee LeBlanc, who was treated with electroshock in her youth.

With an absent father and a mother who struggled with mental illness, Caouette eventually settled in the Houston area with his grandparents, Adolph and Rosemary Davis, who despite personality quirks, provided a supportive family for him. The film explores Caouette's life as he negotiates his complicated relationship with his mother as her child, friend, and ultimately, parental figure while developing his creativity as an actor, writer and director. His empathy for his mother, and for the abuses women endure, is demonstrated in a scene early in the movie in which an approximately 11-year-old Caouette improvises a monologue as a woman in an abusive relationship.

Caouette came out as gay at a young age and moved to New York City at age 25, eventually finding a boyfriend named David Sanin Paz. They lived together in New York City for many years. As documented in the film, his mother has lived with them at times and they've formed an unusual family.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack uses songs by Hex (Donnette Thayer and Steve Kilbey), Lisa Germano, The Cocteau Twins, Dolly Parton, Low, Mark Kozelek, Glen Campbell, The Magnetic Fields, Iron and Wine, The Chocolate Watchband, Mavis Staples, Red House Painters, Marianne Faithfull and many more. Orchestral cues for the film were composed by John Califra. Max Avery Lichtenstein wrote several original instrumental songs for the film, including the film's recurring theme "Tarnation".

The film's trailer features orchestral music by John Califra, "Tarnation" by Max Avery Lichtenstein, and the song "Safe As Milk" by the band Hopewell.

No soundtrack compilation album has been released, but a digital E.P. featuring selections of Max Avery Lichtenstein's original music for the film was released in 2005 by Tin Drum Recordings.

Production
Caouette was shaping his material when he sent in an audition tape for John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus. The tape contained the footage of an 11-year-old Jonathan imitating a battered wife. Mitchell was impressed and encouraged him to continue working on the film. He alerted Stephen Winter, then the artistic director of MIX NYC, the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival. Stephen became the producer of Tarnation. A tape found its way to Mitchell's friend, Gus Van Sant, who was also deeply moved by the film. Both he and Mitchell signed on as executive producers.

Film critic Roger Ebert, an early supporter, said $400,000 more was eventually spent by the distributor on sound, print, score and music/clip clearances to bring the film to theaters. The film went on to win the Best Documentary Award from the National Society of Film Critics, also was nominated for the Independent Spirits, the Gotham Awards, as well as the L.A. and London International Film Festivals.

The film was initially made for a total budget of $218.32, using free iMovie software on a Mac.

Reception and legacy
The November 2003 world premiere of the movie at MIX was much more abstract in nature, running about two hours. With input from Mitchell, Winter, and co-editor Brian A. Kates, Caouette shot new footage and edited the film down to about 90 minutes for its screening at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival in the Frontier Section. There it was invited to appear in the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. The filmmakers did not have the $30,000 to make a film print for the festival but at the last minute respected art house distributor Wellspring picked it up and brought it to Cannes where it garnered great critical acclaim and worldwide distribution.

Walk Away Renee, Jonathan's companion film to Tarnation, examines a certain later period involving the filmmaker and his mother. It premiered at Cannes in 2011 and was released internationally in May 2012.

In June 2020, it was announced that indie distributor Hope Runs High had picked up Tarnation and was giving the film its streaming premiere on the Criterion Collection's Criterion Channel.

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Very Nice, Very Nice

Very Nice, Very Nice is a Canadian avant-garde collage film made by Arthur Lipsett in 1961, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Plot
Thoughts about the day-to-day life interpreted through snapshots and sound collages pondering if life is better than it was thirty years ago.

Production
While working at the National Film Board, Lipsett collected pieces of audio from the waste bins and pieced them together as a hobby. When his friends heard the product of this they suggested that he add images to it. The result was this film.

Reception
Very Nice, Very Nice was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 34th Academy Awards.

Legacy
Stanley Kubrick wrote to Lipsett to praise Very Nice, Very Nice, stating that it was "the most imaginative and brilliant uses of the movie screen and soundtrack that I have ever seen." Kubrick asked him to create a trailer for his upcoming Dr. Strangelove. Lipsett declined Kubrick's offer. Pablo Ferro eventually went on to direct the trailer himself; however, Lipsett's influence on Kubrick is clearly visible in the released trailer.

By 1970, the film had 200 prints in circulation. It is often shown at film festivals and in film schools. American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage was given a copy of the film at one point.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Names of God in Judaism/archive1

Names of God in Judaism
This is my first attempt to fac an article. I have worked on it for several months and I think it is in great shape. Many have contributed to it. It has had substantial research, refs and bibliography, some compelling photos of ancient scrolls and manuscripts, and some fascinating information. --Zappaz 16:54, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Support. Jeronimo 22:25, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. This is one of my favorite articles. However, I think it could be enhanced by the addition of some ogg files with the hebrew pronounciation →Raul654 23:22, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. An article of pleasing quality. Phils 00:38, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support as long as the sentence The name Shelomoh (from shalom, Solomon, שלומו) refers to the God of Peace, and the Rabbis assert that the Song of Solomon is a dramatization of the love of God: Shalom to His people Israel is thus thought to be the meaning behind the name Shulamite. is clarified. I lose the train of thought between the colon and is thus.  Otherwise, the article is a pleasure. - BanyanTree 02:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment appreciated. I'll work on it. --Zappaz

 * Support. All the Peer review/Names of God in Judaism/archive1 feedback was incorporated, and it's a very interesting article. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:40, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I second the point about ogg files made by Raul654. --Solar 17:02, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support CGorman 23:05, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, now that it is clear many more than two references were used. Question, since the word bibliography is ambiguous, were any of those sources used to add material to the article or fact check it? If so, they could be included in the references section. If not, it is less ambiguous just to call that section "further reading" to make it clear they were not used to add material, but are also available for more information for the interested reader. Also, there are a number of inline references in the text, but those sources either don't seem to be listed in the references section, or I can't understand the notation in your inline citations, or both. You could collect the inline citations in a "Notes" section in an endnotes format if you want. With that cleared up this is a great article and I would also support the call for the addition of ogg sound files. - Taxman 15:54, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. I have use the standard distinction used in research papers: References contain only those works cited within the text. So, I use the term References to cover works cited, and Bibliography to refer to works read as general background. The Bibliography is a list of references, whether cited or not. It includes texts I made use of in the research for the article, not only texts referred in the article itself, but my own additional background reading, and any other articles or books I think the reader might need as background reading. I was under the impression that this is the standard to be used in WP as well.
 * Thats certainly an ideal definition of bibliography, but I don't believe it is the standard. The dictionary definition says it could be just "A list of writings relating to a given subject.". That is the ambiguity I was referring to. If you did actually use all of those sources for background information, it seems current Wikipedia policy is to call them references. Works mentioned or cited in the article could be additionally denoted in other ways if needed, but I don't think that distinction is nearly as important as whether the resources were read or used properly by the editor or not. - Taxman 20:05, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * As to the inline citations, I will comb the article to find these and refer them properly.
 * Regarding the ogg sound files, I admit it is beyond my ability ... Is there an editor amongst us with that ability? That will be most welcome.
 * --Zappaz 17:35, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Murtaza Rakhimov

Murtaza Gubaydullovich Rakhimov (Муртаза Губайдуллович Рахимов; Мортаза Ғөбәйҙулла улы Рәхимов; 7 February 1934 – 11 January 2023) was a Russian politician of Bashkir ethnicity who served as the first President of Bashkortostan, a republic within Russia, from 1993 to 2010.

Biography
Rakhimov was born on 7 February 1934 in the village of Tavakanovo of Kugarchinsky District of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

After graduating from the Ufa Oil Technical School, he began working at the Ufa refinery named XXII Congress of the CPSU.

In 1964, Rakhimov on the job he graduated from Ufa Oil Institute, later went to work at the Novo-Ufimsky refinery plant, and in 1986 was appointed director of the company.

In 1989, Rakhimov was elected deputy of the USSR, and in the same year, he was appointed Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

In November 1993, Rakhimov was nominated as a candidate for deputy of the Federation Council, and in December the same year, Rakhimov was popularly elected the first President of Bashkortostan.

On 14 June 1998, he was reelected to the post of President of Bashkortostan for a second term.

On 21 December 2003, in accordance with the Federal law "About main guarantees of electoral rights and rights on participation in referendum of citizens of the Russian Federation", Rakhimov was elected as the President of Bashkortostan for a third time.

Rakhimov was a member of the Federal Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (1993–2001).

Latterly, he was a member of the Council of State of the Russian Federation, the Chairman of the Council of Bashkortostan Republic and the Presidential Council of Bashkortostan Republic, the Chairman of the interdepartmental Council of the public security of Bashkortostan Republic.

Later activities
Rakhimov worked as a contributor of Sistema to manage Russia's Bashneft as part of the oil producer's board of directors, and worked as a prominent politician in Russia.

Personal life and death
Rakhimov was married to Luiza Galimovna Rakhimova, and had one son, Ural Rakhimov. His son is one of the wealthiest men in Russia, having a fortune of at least $500 million, and is not married. Rakhimov's official biographer has noted that Rakhimov liked music, fiction, and physical culture.

Rakhimov died in Ufa on 11 January 2023, at the age of 88.

Awards
Rakhimov was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour (1980), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1986), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994), Orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" of I (2010) and II degree (1999), the Order of sacred Pious tsarevitch Moscow Dimitriy and Uglich wonder-worker (1999), "For merits before Republic Bashkortostan" (2000), "For the benefit of Fatherland" by the name of V. N. Tatishchev (the Russian academy of natural sciences) (2002), of Peter the Great (public fund "The best managers of an epoch") (2002), of Salavat Yulaev (2004). Moreover, in 1996, 1999 and 2004, Rahimov was thanked officially on behalf of the President of RF. He was awarded the Certificate of Honour of the Federal Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2001), the Certificate of Honour of the Government RF (2002), the premium "Russian National Olympus" in the nomination "President 2002–2003", the Honourable national sign "the Leader of the Russian economy" (2004). He was conferred the honorary ranks of "the Deserved rationalizer of RSFSR" (1974) and "the Deserved oilman of Bashkiria" (1977).

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Khors Air

Khors Air (Авіакомпанія Хорс) was an airline based in Kyiv, Ukraine. It operated mainly charter flights within Ukraine, and also offered flights to Europe and the Middle East from Kyiv International Airport.

History
The airline was founded and began operations in 1990 using Ilyushin Il-76, Yakovlev Yak-40, Antonov An-24 and Antonov An-26 aircraft, since then mainly serving the CIS. In 1992, an Antonov An-12 was purchased. In 2000, Khors Air replaced its ageing fleet of Soviet aircraft with American-built McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 aircraft and, from 2004, McDonnell Douglas MD-82.

In 2005, a Kyiv to Dubai, Malé and Jakarta service was started using a Boeing 757-200ER aircraft but soon had to be halted.

In 2017, the United States proposed sanctions against Khors Air due to them leasing out aircraft to airlines in Iran.

As of 2022, the airline ceased all operations during war.

Destinations
Most flights operated by the airline were non-scheduled charter flights.

Historic fleet

 * Airbus A319
 * Airbus A320
 * Airbus A321
 * Antonov An-12
 * Antonov An-24
 * Antonov An-26
 * Boeing 737-300
 * Boeing 737-500
 * Boeing 757-200ER
 * Ilyushin Il-76
 * McDonnell Douglas DC-9
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-82
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-83
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-88
 * Yakovlev Yak-40

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Me First (album)

Me First is the first album by indie band The Elected, released in 2004 via Sub Pop. It is a mix between indie and country.

Track listing
All songs written by Blake Sennett, except where noted.
 * 1) "7 September 2003" – 3:56
 * 2) "Greetings in Braille" – 3:58
 * 3) "My Baby's a Dick" – 3:31
 * 4) "A Time for Emily" – 2:23
 * 5) "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" – 3:30
 * 6) "Waves (The Time That You're Awake)" (Sennett, Blake Klugman) – 3:35
 * 7) "The Miles 'Til Home" – 5:10
 * 8) "Go On" – 5:17
 * 9) "C'mon, Mom" – 4:35
 * 10) "A Response to Greed" – 3:56
 * 11) "Don't Blow It" – 4:10
 * 12) "British Columbia" – 2:36

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Ken Keeler

Ken Keeler is an American television producer and writer. He has written for numerous television series, most notably The Simpsons and Futurama. According to an interview with David X. Cohen, he proved a theorem that appears in the Futurama episode "The Prisoner of Benda".

Education and early career
Keeler studied applied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He then gained a master's degree from Stanford in electrical engineering before returning to Harvard. He earned a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1990. His doctoral thesis was "Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation".

After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Career
Keeler soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of Wings, The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Critic, as well as the short-lived Fox claymation show The PJs. For The Simpsons, Keeler has written such episodes as "A Star Is Burns" (which series creator Matt Groening refused to be credited for, as he was opposed to the idea of The Simpsons crossing over with The Critic) and "The Principal and the Pauper" (which many fans – including Groening and voice actor Harry Shearer – disliked due to the massive changes in Principal Skinner's backstory).

Keeler was instrumental in the creation of Futurama, and served as a co-executive producer in its first three years, and as an executive producer in its fourth year. He was one of the show's most prolific writers, with fourteen episodes to his name (including the original series finale, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the Writers Guild Award-winning episodes "Godfellas" and "The Prisoner of Benda," and the second series finale "Meanwhile"). Keeler wrote many of the original songs on both The Simpsons and Futurama during his time with the shows. He also wrote the direct-to-DVD Futurama movies Bender's Big Score and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

The Simpsons episodes

 * "A Star Is Burns" (1995)
 * "Two Bad Neighbors" (1996)
 * "Treehouse of Horror VII" ("The Thing and I") (1996)
 * "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" (1997)
 * "Brother from Another Series" (1997)
 * "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" (story) (1997)
 * "The Principal and the Pauper" (1997)

Futurama episodes and films

 * "The Series Has Landed" (1999)
 * "When Aliens Attack" (1999)
 * "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" (2000)
 * "Anthology of Interest I" (Part 2) (2000)
 * "The Honking" (2000)
 * "Time Keeps on Slippin'" (2001)
 * "Godfellas" (2002)
 * "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
 * Futurama: Bender's Big Score (film: teleplay, co-writer script) (2008)
 * Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (film: teleplay & co-writer script) (2009)
 * "The Prisoner of Benda" (2010)
 * "The Tip of the Zoidberg" (2011)
 * "Overclockwise" (2011)
 * "The Six Million Dollar Mon" (2012)
 * "Forty Percent Leadbelly" (2013)
 * "Meanwhile" (2013)
 * "How the West Was 1010001" (2023; credited as Nona di Spargement)

The Critic episodes

 * "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera"
 * "Dukerella"

Wings episodes

 * "Fay There, Georgy Girl"

Personal life
Keeler is also a fan of (but of no relation to) Harry Stephen Keeler and won the fifth and twelfth annual Imitate Keeler Competitions. His Futurama episode "Time Keeps on Slippin'" was partly inspired by the Harry Stephen Keeler story "Strange Romance" from the novel Y. Cheung, Business Detective.

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Tortoise Wins by a Hare

Tortoise Wins by a Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 20, 1943, and directed by Bob Clampett. It stars Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle. It is a sequel to 1941's Tortoise Beats Hare, with footage from said cartoon briefly shown at the beginning. It is also the first short to feature Robert McKimson's design of Bugs Bunny.

Plot
Bugs Bunny, determined to discern the true secret behind Cecil Turtle's previous victory, embarks on a quest for knowledge. Disguising himself as an elderly gentleman, Bugs confronts Cecil at his residence. Despite the turtle's immediate recognition of Bugs' ruse, he humorously entertains the inquiry, attributing his triumph to a fictitious "air-flow chassis" blueprint purportedly enhancing his aerodynamic efficiency. Cecil further disparages rabbits as intellectually deficient, exacerbating Bugs' frustration.

Undeterred by Cecil's taunts, Bugs endeavors to emulate his opponent's alleged advantage by constructing a similar shell for himself. Concurrently, a betting frenzy ensues among the rabbit community, pledging unwavering support for Bugs' anticipated victory. However, confusion ensues during the race as Bugs assumes an early lead, prompting misguided attacks from the rabbit mob, mistakenly identifying Bugs as Cecil due to his new attire. Cecil exacerbates the chaos by masquerading as a rabbit, deceiving the mob and further hindering Bugs' progress.

Despite these obstacles, Bugs demonstrates resilience and nearly secures victory until the rabbit mob intervenes, stalling his momentum and facilitating Cecil's triumph. Devastated by the unforeseen turn of events and the realization of inadvertently aiding Cecil's victory once again, Bugs relinquishes his facade, revealing his true identity. In utter shock at what they’ve done, the mobsters all shoot themselves in the head.

Production crew

 * Supervision: Robert Clampett
 * Story: Warren Foster
 * Animation: Robert McKimson (As Bob McKimson)
 * Additional Animation: Rod Scribner, Sid Sutherland, Virgil Ross, Thomas McKimson
 * Character Designs and Backgrounds: Robert McKimson, Michael Sasanoff
 * Film Editor: Treg Brown
 * Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling
 * Orchestration: Milt Franklyn
 * Producer: Leon Schlesinger

Voice actors

 * Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Narrators, Rabbit Bookie, Rabbit Thugs and Mrs. Turtle
 * Kent Rogers as Rabbit with Telescope
 * Michael Maltese as Various Rabbit Thugs
 * Tedd Pierce as Various Rabbit Thugs

Analysis
The animated short contains wartime references. Bugs displays "A" and "C" ration cards. He claims he has a secret weapon. A Japanese cruiser is mentioned in a newspaper headline, as is the accurate prediction of Adolf Hitler's suicide two years later. A chorus of turtles sing "He did it before and he can do it again".

Nichola Dobson mentions the short as an example of both Bob Clampett's attention to detail and of the fast pace of his work.

The suicide gag at the end is normally edited out of television broadcasts, fading out just as the rabbits say, "NOW he tells us."

Reception
Animation historian Jerry Beck writes, "One of the things that most fans of director Bob Clampett's cartoons relish is that he would do almost anything to create a funny cartoon. That meant he would violate established character personality traits and traditional story points to get laughs. Here, he not only shreds the Aesop fable and Disney's 1935 short The Tortoise and the Hare but also Tex Avery's send-up of this famous race. The results are priceless... Only Clampett could twist his characters into such pretzels, and put them through the emotional wringer, with such hilarious results."

Home media
This short was released, uncut and uncensored, on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2.

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Monika Olejnik

Monika Olejnik, formally Monika Ewa Wasowska (born 11 July 1956) is a Polish radio, newspaper and TV journalist.

Olejnik studied zoology at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. First she worked in Polish Radio I in a programme for farmers. In 1982 she moved to Polish Radio III and stayed there until 2000. She became well known for her interviews with politicians and other public individuals in "Salon Polityczny Trójki" (Political Salon of Channel 3). In TVN Television she worked on the programme "Kropka nad i" ("Dot above the i"). Since September 2004 she was an interviewer for "Prosto w oczy" ("Straight in the eyes"), a programme on Polish Television Channel I.

She is considered of the most influential Polish journalists in 1990s and 2000s. The fact that her father, Tadeusz Olejnik (1932–2015), was a major serving in Ministry of Public Security in Polish People's Republic, has made her a target of intense critique by the Polish right-wing politicians and journalists.

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Dubrovnik Airline

Dubrovnik Airline Limited was a Croatian charter airline, based in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It operated tourist charter flights from Europe and Israel to holiday destinations in Croatia. Its main base was Dubrovnik Airport.

History
The airline was officially launched on 15 December 2004 by Croatian shipping company Atlantska Plovidba. It started operations in 2005. In 2006, Dubrovnik Airline carried 380,000 passengers while the first seven months of 2007, saw it transport 360,000 passengers. The airline was loss making since 2009 and ceased all operations on 23 October 2011 after defaulting on its debts thus declaring bankruptcy.

Destinations
Dubrovnik Airline served the following destinations (at October 2011):

 * Africa
 * Tunisia
 * Tunis - Tunis-Carthage International Airport

 * Asia
 * Israel
 * Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion International Airport [seasonal]

 * Europe
 * Austria
 * Salzburg - Salzburg Airport
 * Vienna - Vienna International Airport
 * Croatia
 * Dubrovnik - Dubrovnik Airport Base
 * Pula - Pula Airport
 * Split - Split Kaštela/Resnik Airport focus city
 * Zagreb - Zagreb International Airport focus city
 * Finland
 * Helsinki - Helsinki Airport
 * France
 * Lyon - Saint-Exupéry Airport
 * Nantes - Atlantique Airport
 * Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport
 * Paris - Orly Airport
 * Toulouse - Toulouse Blagnac International Airport
 * Germany
 * Cologne - Cologne Bonn Airport
 * Munich - Munich Airport
 * Stuttgart - Stuttgart Airport
 * Greece
 * Athens - Athens Airport
 * Ireland
 * Cork - Cork Airport
 * Dublin - Dublin Airport
 * Knock - Ireland West Airport Knock
 * Shannon - Shannon Airport
 * Italy
 * Milan - Orio al Serio Airport
 * Pescara - Abruzzo International Airport
 * Rome - Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
 * Malta
 * Luqa - Malta International Airport
 * Netherlands
 * Amsterdam - Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
 * Norway
 * Oslo - Oslo Airport
 * Serbia
 * Belgrade - Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport
 * Slovenia
 * Ljubljana - Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport
 * Spain
 * Barcelona - Barcelona International Airport
 * Bilbao - Bilbao Airport
 * Girona - Girona-Costa Brava Airport
 * Madrid - Madrid Barajas International Airport
 * Palma de Mallorca - Son Sant Joan Airport
 * Seville - San Pablo Airport
 * Sweden
 * Malmö - Malmö Airport
 * Stockholm - Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
 * Switzerland
 * Geneva - Geneva Cointrin International Airport
 * Zürich - Zürich Airport
 * Turkey
 * Antalya - Antalya Airport
 * United Kingdom
 * England
 * London - Gatwick Airport
 * Manchester - Manchester Airport
 * Scotland
 * Glasgow - Glasgow Prestwick Airport
 * Northern Ireland
 * Belfast - Belfast International

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Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure

Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure was a video game written by Robert Clardy and released by Synergistic Software in 1980. It was created for the Apple II platform and is considered one of the first microcomputer-based role-playing video games. The title was intentionally misspelled; Apventure is a reference to the Apple computer while "Compleat" is simply an Archaic spelling of the word "complete" meant to match the feel and setting of the game.

A forerunner of Akalabeth and Ultima, Odyssey was a multi-part adventure game that placed the player in the role of the leader of an army who sets out to vanquish an evil wizard. Elements of Dungeons & Dragons can be found within the game, which combines elements of two earlier games written by Clardy: Dungeon Campaign and Wilderness Campaign.

Game overview
The game features several major sections. Except for the endgame section, the game play is presented in a top-down map format with limited animation and sound effects.

Part 1
The game starts on an uncharted island in the fictional Sargalo Sea, where the player and a small group of men have to search the island for castles, ruins and temples, wherein they can find randomly placed treasure and valuable magical items. Along the way, the game generates random encounters with monsters, warriors, rogues, and wizards. Some wizards and warlocks encountered might be kindly disposed towards the player and provide magical items, while others may attack on sight. Similarly, some groups of rogues and warriors encountered might choose to join the player's group rather than fight.

Combat is conducted using a random number generator - the party with the higher number during a round inflicts damage on the enemy, with damage gauged by the number of men/creatures killed. When a group reaches zero members, the team is defeated. The player's "roll" is determined by the number of men, their strength and experience, and the type and quantity of weapons and armor carried.

For the player, maintaining a large army is necessary in order to continue to carry gold, treasure, and necessities such as weapons. The fewer men in a party, the fewer items that can be carried. Men can be added to the team by having groups of warriors and rogues agree to join; a more expensive way of adding men is to purchase contracts that periodically become available for sale. Three randomly scattered towns allow the player to purchase food (which must be replenished) and goods such as lockpicks that allow access to some structures. The type and quantity of goods available for purchase are randomly generated. The player also encounters the occasional caravan from which goods can be purchased - or, the player may choose to attack the caravan; if the caravan is defeated, the team receives the spoils which consists of a number of random items that may or may not be useful.

The towns are not explored. Instead, the player is automatically taken to the market where bartering for goods occurs. The player can choose to pay the full price, or can negotiate for a lower fee. Depending on the player's charisma level (set at the start of the game), the merchants may agree to charge less, or they may get upset at a low bid and remove an item from sale completely (which can be hazardous to the player if the item removed for sale happens to be badly needed food). Merchants are replenished after the player leaves the town and has an encounter of some sort. Caravans work the same ways as towns, except as they are randomly encountered one has only a single chance to strike a deal. Occasionally, huts are encountered in the wilderness where the player can gamble a (usually large) amount of gold for an alleged magic item that may or may not be any good.

Gold is accumulated from chests and other sources, including magical scrolls; the higher the party's wisdom score is, the more gold is obtained from a scroll.

Travel around the island can be slow and dangerous, and items purchased by the player may be necessary to pass through obstacles or avoid loss of men. (For example, if the player has a shovel, men can be rescued from avalanches and cave-ins; a machete may be needed to pass through dense jungle; an amulet is needed to cure swamp fever, etc.) If a player is lucky, a magic carpet might be found in a chest or be obtained from a friendly wizard or warlock. This allows quick travel across the island; riding a magic carpet avoids monster battles but also skips over buildings and ruins that may contain treasure. Horses can also be obtained with a similar effect; however, the player must have a sufficient quantity of horses to carry the team, while only one magic carpet is required.

The ultimate goal of the island section of the game is to collect enough gold to purchase a ship (which is usually available at only the one town closest to the northwest corner of the island) and also to collect ample magical objects and other items (mirrors, wooden planks, even a monkey or two) which will be needed later in the game. The game does not indicate how many or what particular objects might be needed (due to the random nature); it's up to the player to determine if a sufficient variety and quantity of items has been obtained before setting sail. After embarking, the player cannot return to the island.

Part 2
The game then becomes a sea expedition, with the player navigating his/her vessel between several islands. Among hazards that must be dealt with: pirate attacks, unpredictable winds, whirlpools, scurvy among the crew, falling off the edge of the world, and rotting sails. How well the player is able to cope with these hazards depends upon how well stocked the player's team became on the main island. (Once Part 2 begins, the island can no longer be accessed.) Merchant vessels may also be encountered - with the player having the same options as with caravans, attack or barter. After leaving the island, this is the only easy way to obtain necessary items such as fruit, spare sails, and weapons (however the player is no longer required to be continually stocked with regular food). The group may also encounter pirates, whirlpools, birds, and other hazards that can kill men and damage the ship.

The map of islands in the Sargalo Sea in which you navigate your ship consists of a ring of islands around the perimeter of the screen. Your ship starts out next to the island you just left (in the lower right of the screen) while the island of the evil wizard (your goal) is in the upper left. You may land on other islands to stock up on food and resources but for the most part these islands are not fully explorable as the first one was, and serve only as places to stock up on supplies by displaying a few lines of text after you land (with one exception—see below). Navigation is a complex scheme, as you are at the mercy of wind and currents (and whether the vessel has any intact sails left) and you cannot navigate directly as you can in early Ultima titles. You must set the sails in different directions in order to catch the wind, and raise and lower anchor to start and stop your ship. Hazards include running aground if the player weighs anchor too close to shore, being caught in a whirlpool which may destroy the ship or destroy its sails, scurvy among the crew, calm winds (which is harmless to the ship but prevents any progress until the winds start up again) and falling off the edge of the world if the ship gets too close to the edge of the map.

During this segment of the game, the goal is to discover a magical orb and take it to the evil wizard's island in order to defeat him and become the ruler of the land. The orb can be discovered in one of two ways. While sailing, the player may encounter the god Poseidon who will tell the player where a great treasure may be found (the player's ability to find the treasure will depend upon whether he/she was able to obtain a sextant during the island expedition). If you sail to the proper coordinates in the sea and search, you will find the item. The other way is that one of the islands will randomly contain a blocky, lo-res graphical dungeon (somewhat similar to the Clardy's earlier Dungeon Campaign game) whose corridors reveal themselves to you and are added to the map as you wander through them. The team runs into random hazard encounters along the way (such as cave-ins, poison gas, and wandering monsters), as well as the occasional treasure, and eventually finds the magical orb. (In order to access this dungeon, however, you must first tithe a magical item, provided you have any left.)

Regardless how the orb is obtained, the next goal is to travel to the island at the top left corner of the sea map, which is the evil wizard's island.

Part 3 (endgame)
During the final segment of the game, the screen returns to a view of an island, similar to that in part one except that there is a large castle drawn in the middle of the screen which the player approaches from the bottom. Although it looks similar, gameplay does not consist of free movement as it did on the first island. Instead the player advances upon the evil castle, a series of three overcoming randomized obstacles placed in his/her way such as walls, giant pits, etc. (like most obstacles in the game, these are described in text rather than actually seen). The player's ability to get past these obstacles with minimal damage/loss of men depends upon what items have been kept in inventory. Seemingly innocuous items found on the main island early in the game such as mirrors and monkeys which served no purpose, are often essential to overcoming the obstacles here. (For example, a monkey is needed to unlock a door; mirrors can protect against damage from Medusa). If the team makes it to the castle, a great (off-screen) battle ensues, which the player invariably wins so long as the team has a fair number of men. The game ends with a tally of how many creatures the player's team killed, how large the team became, etc.

Sequel
There is a sequel to Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure called Apventure to Atlantis whose story picks up with the player as ruler of this island and updates the format of the game to include internal areas displayed in the form of the then-current Mystery House game, and also incorporated a parser that allowed the use of text adventure-style commands.

Graphics and technology
Although primitive by today's standards, Odyssey was considered cutting-edge for its time, making use of the Apple II's two graphics modes (high-resolution and low-resolution), and text. The game was written in Integer BASIC and was one of the first microcomputer games to be created using multiple programs, requiring floppy disc activation and access mid-game. (This feature, however, led to a way in which the player could cheat: by removing the disk when the computer required access, a cursor flashes on screen; typing "GOTO 770" would fool the computer into thinking that the player had just opened up a treasure box.  This is one of the earliest known examples of a cheat code.) Prior to this, most games were self-contained, single programs; Odyssey was split into several different programs and took up an entire disk. The game also made use of rudimentary sound effects.

The game's title screen art, a line-drawing of a dragon, was also used for the title screen of another 1980 adventure game release, Eamon.

Reception
BYTE in 1980 called Odyssey "an engrossing game", stating that it had "the best use of color graphics in a game for the Apple that I have seen". The magazine approved of the randomly generated environments and large number of possible encounters and outcomes, and concluded that both new and experienced adventurers would enjoy the game. Deirdre L. Maloy reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Odyssey was the program that sold me on an Apple computer. At that time, the graphics were the best I had seen on a computer game. Odyssey and its predecessors, "Wilderness Campaign" and "Dungeon Campaign", are still very good programs, although Odyssey is undoubtedly the best (as well as the most time-consuming) of the three."

Scorpia of Computer Gaming World in 1991 described the three games that comprised Odyssey as pioneering computer role-playing games, stating that they offered on a 48K Apple II several wilderness environments; multiple forms of transportation, including sailing by the wind; non-hostile NPCs; a variety of areas to explore; and region-specific monsters. In 1993 she wrote that the Odyssey games were "some of the finest of the early CRPGs", with "an astonishing range of features", especially for a 48K Apple II.

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Killian K. Van Rensselaer

Killian Killian Van Rensselaer (June 9, 1763 – June 18, 1845) was an American lawyer and Federalist politician who served in the United States Congress as a Representative from the state of New York.

Early life
Killian Killian Van Rensselaer was born on June 9, 1763, at the old family mansion owned by his uncle Johannes in Greenbush in the Province of New York to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1717–1781) and his first wife, Ariantje "Harriet" Schuyler (1720–1763), who died four months after his birth. Killian was therefore the youngest of nine children born to his parents, including older brothers Henry Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1744–1816) and Philip Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1747–1798), and Nicholas Van Rensselaer (1754–1848). His elder sister, Catharine Van Rensselaer, married William Henry Ludlow (1740–1803). His father was commissioned as a Colonel of the 4th Regiment, Albany County Militia on October 20, 1775, and was wounded during the Battles of Saratoga and received the highest compliments about his courage from General George Washington.

Killian K. completed preparatory studies and attended Yale College, where he studied law.

Extended family
On his father's side, he was the cousin of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, who was also a U.S. Representative. His paternal grandfather was Hendrick van Rensselaer (1667–1740), director of the Eastern patent of the Rensselaerswyck manor, and his paternal grandmother was Catharina Van Brugh, daughter of merchant Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh (1624–1697).

His maternal grandfather, Nicholas Schuyler (1691–1748), was the nephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657–1724), the first mayor of Albany, and the grandson of Philip Pieterse Schuyler (1628–1683), the Dutch fur trader who became the progenitor of the American Schuyler family.

Career
He was admitted to the bar in 1784, and commenced practice in Claverack, New York. He owned slaves. He was private secretary to General Philip Schuyler (1733–1804), a general in the American Revolutionary War and later a United States senator, and also a cousin through his mother.

In 1794, he corresponded with James Madison regarding a letter of introduction for Robert S. Van Rensselaer, the son of his brother Philip, on his trip to Europe, at which time he met with members of the extended Van Rensselaer family in Holland.

United States Congress
Van Rensselaer was elected as a Federalist to the Seventh United States Congress, taking his seat on March 4, 1801, during the first Congress that met in Washington, D.C., as the previous congresses had met in New York and Philadelphia. The start of seventh Congress immediately followed the election of Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr by the preceding United States House of Representatives. Van Rensselaer went on to serve in the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh United States Congresses, serving until March 3, 1811.

While in Congress, he was placed on the Ways and Means Committee. He was invited and dined at the White House with President Jefferson and President Madison, as well as at The Octagon House, the residences of Col. John Tayloe - a close friend of George Washington. He was associated with Count Fyodor Palen, the Plenipotentiary of the Czar of Russia to the United States, and Louis Marie Turreau, Napoleon's Ambassador to the United States.

Afterwards, he returned to Claverack and resumed the practice of law.

Personal life
On January 27, 1791, Van Rensselaer married Margaretta "Margaret" Sanders (1764–1830), daughter of John Sanders (d. 1782) and Deborah Glen (d. 1786) of Scotia, and a cousin of his brother Philip's wife. Her sister, Maria, was the wife of Mayor Johannes Jacobse Beekman. Together they had five children, one of whom died in infancy:

 * John Sanders Van Rensselaer (1792–1868), who married Ann Dunkin (1795–1845)
 * William Van Rensselaer (1794–1855)
 * Deborah Van Rensselaer (1795–1796), who died in infancy
 * Richard Van Rensselaer (1797–1880), who married Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (d. 1835), and later Matilda Fonda Van Rensselaer (d. 1863)
 * Bernard Sanders Van Rensselaer (1801–1879), who married Elizabeth Hum (d. 1834), and later Mary Targee (d. 1858).

They lived at 112 State Street, a home built for them in 1801, at the same time Philip S. Van Rensselaer, the Mayor, built his home on the corner of Chapel Street (which was later purchased by Erastus Corning). Van Rensselaer died on June 18, 1845, in Albany, New York, aged 82, and was interred in a private cemetery at East Greenbush.

Descendants
Killian's grandson was Charles van Rensselaer (1823–1857), the first officer on the SS Central America, when it was lost during a hurricane in September 1857.

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Hi! I am a follower of the Concrete Religion. My intrests include bocce and chess. To any who see this page: PLEASE VOTE TO PRESERVE OUR CONCRETE RELIGION PAGE! We just ask that it stay online, not that you follow it. Thanks!

The Concrete Religion is a relatively new religion, founded in 2003. In this religion, the "Messia" or so called "god" is the Great Concrete Pack-Mule. The Great Concrete Pack-Mule believes that you should be able to do all you want, and only asks you to thank him once or twice a day while seated on the commode. The creation of the universe in the concrete religion is believed to be how scientists believe it was created. First, there was nothing. Then there was a small clump of mass, which then exploded into swirling form, creating worlds and galaxies and solar systems by enzymatic and chemical reactions. The Holy Land in the Concrete religion is in Mozambique (pronounced Mozam-bick-yoo) which is constantly mistaken with Mozambique (pronounced Moze-amb-eek).

Like most religions, this religions has a holy book caled Inasad. Imprinted on the cover of the book is the infinity, or mobius sign (an 8 on its side), symbolizing that the Great Concrete Pack-Mule will never diminish (since it's made out of concrete).

Some websites on the subject are: oocities.com/concretereligion/concretereligion.htm oocities.com/thebasswizard/OCR.html

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Archive 1 - Feb. 11, 2005 - August 18, 2005

Nuclear power phase-out
Why do yoy propose these countries? They are not even considering nuclear phase out. --Trigor 08:47, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Answered at Talk:nuclear power phase-out. Ben T/C 08:54, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Marcel Duchamp

 * Hey again Sparky. Just wanted to say your Duchamp article looks pretty good. Ben T/C 05:56, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ben! It looks like it might be rather long. Though, I think I'll make a separate article for readymades. Most of the Duchamp images will likely be deleted from wiki soon, since they're on commons as public domain.

 * BTW: the "art factor" we discussed earlier... check out The Creative Act by Marcel Duchamp. (1957)

 * >>sparkit| TALK << 17:38, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the link. I just read it. So it was "art coefficient" and not "art factor." I found the text at the installation in Yokohama a bit more inspiring than that text though.
 * I had some free time to thoroughly read the Duchamp article and some of the "sub"-articles (a lot of which you created I noticed). I had a very good time.
 * The article is not that long as you say. I saw you have still a lot of material you want to add about Chess playing, readymades, etc. I think it's only getting more interesting and if it gets too long that's what wikilinks are there for, right?
 * I found it extremely interesting to read about the speculations that his readymades were not really readymade. If that's the case and he didn't tell anybody then it's really a great joke! I put the image of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa next to his Mona Lisa in the Duchamp article. They differ a lot actually. Please do more readymade articles, if you can. I want to read about Mona Lisa (Duchamp).
 * BTW, please wikify your contribution page. You make it hard for people who actually want to read what you wrote.
 * Ben T/C 05:41, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, there is a lot more to add to the article and readymades will definitely be a separate article. Thanks for your interest and support! >>sparkit| TALK << 15:19, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Nuclear energy policy
Hello

Thank you for your comment about Nuclear "phase out" copying to nuclear energy policy. First of all I would like to explain myself. All in all two paragraphs have been copied to nuclear policy article. One is part about Netherlands. I copied it because old one was just an old version of nuclear phase out paragraph that I updated and moved to policy page. I do believe that that article is good for energy policy. I think that that one is an exception. For example it would be wrong to move Sweden as article on policy page deals with several aspects. Not just phase out. I felt that Netherlands paragraph could be moved there.

Second one was about nuclear security. Security standard. Again it was copy of old version from nuclear phase out or vice versa. That one can apply to both articles. In other words arguments against phase out and for nuclear are more the less the same. Same goes for vice versa. That is not truth however for other parts of the article.

--Trigor 11:51, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, I see your changes make sense.
 * I am under pressure of people who want to merge and split the two articles all the time so I am very cautious to keep them apart a little, though they have to be written more or less in parallel, with different foci - not an easy task. My idea was to have all the info first in nuclear power phase-out and then move relevant parts to nuclear energy policy and summarize them in nuclear power phase-out. Ben T/C 05:07, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ben. I meant notify you about this the other week (but forgot) - Four Corners, a reputable Australian Broadcasting Corporation series, had a programme on nuclear energy, or specifically, the contrasting debates about it in Sweden and Australia. You should check the [http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1443829.htm "Who's Afraid of Nuclear Power?" transcript]. It might be of some assistance. Happy editing, --Cyberjunkie | Talk 06:38, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Karl Kraus
Hi! I noticed that the Karl Kraus english page is really poor, while the german one it way better. I think this huge author deserves more, can you translate some of it? I'm starting to work to the italian version, but I can't speak German. --Mauro 22:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I put some more. Ben T/C 18:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

link to scale
At scale space you created one or more links to scale. Since scale is (as you would of course expect) a disambiguation page, it would be better to link to one of the articles listed on that page. Michael Hardy 23:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the hint. I changed the links so they point now to more appropriate articles. Ben T/C 00:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

unreferenced
Thank you for adding a related book to article on Ukiyo-e, however, there is a difference between references - which as been used to provide facts for the article - and further reading, which has not. See Cite sources for more information.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your comment, Piotrus. I am not sure, whether it is right to just search for some references (and on-line in amazon.com what is more) as I have done. However, the Cite_your_sources guide is not completely clear about it. On one side (from the word) references are from where you cite. Then (on the other side), references are where other people can verify the information, similar to external links, but not the same (do you agree on the two meanings?). With this latter sense in mind I put the book as a reference. I also think I saw this practice with some other article (forgot where). A problem is, conceded, I don't know the book. But then, I think, the information in the article is general enough to be found in nearly any book on the topic (and the book I put seemed reasonable enough). What do you say? Ben T/C 11:30, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I admit I was once confused as well, and added sources to references without actually reading them. Now I know better, and I try to teach others that there is a difference. A source which may contain useful info, but has - to the best of one's knowledge - not been used in the article, should go either to 'Further reading' or 'External links' (or 'See also'). 'References' is only for sources that have been cited in the article, and the best practice is to link the relevant facts from main body to the reference via Footnotes.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:01, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Piotrus, you wrote:
 * A source which may contain useful info, but has - to the best of one's knowledge - not been used in the article, should go either to 'Further reading' or 'External links' (or 'See also').
 * Leaving the concrete case aside (where I even don't know the source), the guidlines in Cite_your_sources are not that strict: (citing)
 * In general, even if you are writing from memory, you should actively search for authoritative references to cite. If you are writing from your own knowledge, then you should know enough to identify good references that the reader can consult on the subject — you will not be around forever to answer questions. The main point is to help the reader and other editors.
 * I don't want to argue about the specific article (ukiyoe), but I want to get this straight for me personally (and I think it is very important for your project also). I hope you don't mind my insisting. Thank you. Ben T/C 17:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess rules may need some improvement. My rule of thumb is if you are pretty sure it is a good reference, explaining most of the issues of the article, you can add it even if you had just read the abstract. Google Print is pretty helpful here. However, as I wrote above, what we should idealy strive for is referencing every fact with footnotes (but I realize it is quite impossible now, so I am adding this tag to the articles lacking sources, not those lacking footnoted sources). With educating you about our references and you adding this book to ukiyo-e, my effort has already paid off somewhat :)--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:47, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm. I agree with what you said about footnotes. As for ukiyoe, I'll hope we'll find a book. I will search some more. I wish you success with the project. It is surely worthwhile. Thanks for the clarification. Ben T/C 21:00, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Neural Networks organisation
Hello there, I saw your edit and comment and so I was wondering what is your opinion on the current Neural Networks article. I made some improments (I hope) recently - and I added as extensive sections as I dared on neural networks in AI-related applications and on the modelling of real neural systems. Do you think I should remove some of the AI related stuff from this article and move it over to ANNs? --Olethros 23:37, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I think the article should be not much more than a disambiguation between artificial and biological neural networks (the reviewer from nature was probably ignorant about wikipedia and the artificial neural network article, he was supposed to review instead). The article could contain something about the history of ANNs and a comparison between artificial neural networks and neural networks, nothing more. IMHO, the article now contains far too much technical information about ANNs that belong in the ANN article.
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Hi Male1979. This is Male 1977 (older, so you better listen :) I have a question about this edit. I think there is a bug in the code you use, as there is no reason as far as I can tell to insert an underscore in links. Wonder what you think. You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 19:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Oleg. I just saw it. Doesn't make any sense. I have to check the script's suggestions more thoroughly in the future. I'll post the author. Thanks. Ben T/C 13:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Ben,

I was reading on nuclear powers where I saw you have contributed a lot and wanted to praise you for your good work, but later decided to delete it. Are you an expert on the issue? You seem like you know a lot on this subject.

I am new with Wikipedia, just learning, I would like to contribute also in some topics, will see.

Me.. I am a college student at the Georgetown Uni., living in Alexandria, Virginia, majoring International Business, you?

Keep up the good work.

Tiger

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Interresting ... althaugh that is probably a question of the scope of that category.

Are you involved with the cs wiki? It looks like they have a lot of Karl May related pictures. Agathoclea 19:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

sensory substitution
It seems you originated the subject article.

A bit of history: in 1963 I worked for Carter Collins at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute as did a young (then) Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, whom you credit with the TVSS.

I moved on to the development of the RIAS (Remote Infrared Audible Signage) and remember our excitement at starting with what clearly was a flawed premise in the area of sensory substitution. There were numerous devices before and since all of which have a mistaken set of assumptions about sensation.

However from the POV of a wikipedia editor I thought you might be interested in that history.

Love.

Answered at User talk:Love26. Ben T/C 12:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

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 * You're right that I worked on both articles, but if there exists such a connection that you describe, I have no idea about it. I can only point you to Welthauptstadt Germania as new German capital and cultural center. --Ben T/C 22:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That article is about Berlin, though, not Linz. The Linz article includes a couple lines about how Hitler wanted to rebuild Linz and make it into a cultural center. It doesn't mention the hills, though.

If Hitler could see that modern art museum at the bottom of the page, he'd probably spin in his grave. :)

 * Interesting fact about Linz. I couldn't care less about his ashes, though. --Ben T/C 09:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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 * I made more changes to the article's opening with your suggestions in the talk page. Cmguy777 (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

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