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Talk:United Indoor Football

Peoria and Tennessee Valley had to change their names because of legal issues with their old league (af2)

Team table cleanups
Proposing the following team table cleanups:

2006
I invite comments over the next seven days, after which I will apply the edits if they are without objection. --EazieCheeze 18:40, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

NPOV edit
Just wanted to say that I removed the line "It is considered by most to be the Premier League in all of Indoor Football & second only to the AFL in terms of talent and level of competition." in order to removed a biased point of view from the article. I Googled "United Indoor Football" and Premier and the only results I saw where Premier was in reference to the UIF was in the UIF's own press releases. I originally started down this road of inquiry after wondering how something can be the premier league when it is also claimed, in the same sentence, that the AFL is better in terms of talent and level of competition. If the intent is to compare to the British Premier League, then they must be first in both to be considered as such. And so, after some research, I determined that the statement was not neutral in nature and as such have removed it. If it is not the case, then please cite the source of the comment from a third party and replace the line. Thanks! Kurrurrin 20:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, an enterprising fellow decided to add the line back in without any explanation or citation. In assuming good faith, I'm going to mark it as having neutrality disputed. Once it's referenced by something that isn't a PR document, feel free to remove the tag. Kurrurrin 20:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * User 66.245.135.175, would you please stop reverting my edits to the article. This is an encyclopedia, not a venue for PR pieces, so if you would please cite the source for that statement or at least attempt to explain your reasoning behind it, it would be greatly appreciated. Kurrurrin 20:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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The arbitration matter of Rex071404 is closed
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2) Rex071404, Bkonrad and others who have committed petty offenses are admonished to consult Wikiquette and to conform their edits to that standard.
 * Passed 6 to 0

3) Rex071404 is banned for 4 months from editing Wikipedia articles which concern United States politics.
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4.1) Rex071404 is banned from reverting any article for six months.
 * Passed 5 to 0 with 1 abstain

5) In view of his demonstrated deficiencies in engaging in and interpreting the results of research Rex071404 is required to cite a relevant authority, either by footnote or by comment embedded in the text, which supports every [disputed] edit he makes.
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For principles, findings of fact, and enforcement see Requests for arbitration/Rex071404. --mav 05:08, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

RV of Hamilton reference
Reverting was irresponsible. It is a valid, credible source. That it is not only about Hamilton is not the only important thing. I reallize I should ahve checked the talk page before adding it again, but again, removal was unneccessary. See the talk page and discuss there please. - Taxman 17:41, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

 * I disagree that it was a "valid, credible source". You are entitled to your opinion about whether my action was irresponsible. I will continue to monitor the talk page. older ≠ wiser 17:44, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

New London and Wrightstown, WI list removals
Hi. New London and Wrightstown are centered in counties other than Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It seems rather pointless to include cities/villages/towns in more than one county list when the individual place articles can mention that sort of information. I do understand some of the peculiarities of dealing with Wisconsin's named places after having done many of its locale article dot-maps. If you feel they should be reverted, by all means do so. Since New London is a "partial" locale, it also should be marked as such if readded to the list (like Wrightstown was). Bumm13 21:48, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

rambot
See my answer on my talk page. I have an unresolved problem and maybe the rest suits your concerns. -- Ram-Man 02:18, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

Pocahontas and Bush
Hi there! I've made some comments on the Talk:Pocahontas page about a family tree I've found online which shows Robert Bolling, Jr. to be the son of Jane Rolf, rather than of his father's second wife, and Bush to be a Pocahontas descendant through her. I'm aware that no genealogy is infallable, but this is by far the most comprehensive one I've ever seen. David Cannon 14:35, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re city article
Regarding your question about my edit to the City article: No, I hadn't actually researched the law when I made that change. I dimly remembered a newspaper article in either the S.F. Chronicle or S.J. Mercury News, though I can't remember the cite off the top of my head.

I just looked up the relevant statutes and it looks like you are right. The only current distinction in California law is between general law cities, chartered cities, and unincorporated cities and towns. But a city can choose to change its name to a "town" and vice versa.

Judging from the casenotes in West's Annotated California Codes, it looks like there used to be a formal distinction between several different "classes" of California cities under the Classification Act of 1883, based on population size; this may be where newspaper journalists got the general idea of a difference between "cities" and "towns," and I probably derived that idea from reading various newspaper articles when I was a child. However, it also it appears that such classes disappeared at some point between 1943 and 1988 when the California Legislature made extensive revisions to California municipal law.

If I had more time I would go track down the specific date, but I'm a bit too busy right now. Feel free to revert my edits.

Re: For once?
Hi there! No, I don't think you and I have been involved in any disagreements at any time:-) Perhaps my choice of words, "for once," was not the best, but I was referring to the rather heated discussions I've been involved in with Lir (to whom I was responding), sometimes on his side and sometimes not.  Sorry I didn't make that a little clearer (though I'm sure he knows what I was referring to:-) David Cannon 00:14, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Webster, Wisconsin
Thanks for letting me know. What you say makes sense; feel free to change it back. (I was actually working on the Webster disambig page, and updated the Webster, Wisconsin page as a side effect.)   – Quadell (talk) (help)   16:35, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the   template (or even    for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 50 most and you've done a lot of work with cities and counties. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

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American Southeast "Bogus" defenition
In regards to your post at Talk:American Southeast: Actually, the weather channel has used a definition that includes those states for years see this map and many other weather services have adopted the destinction. Aside from meterological maps; in my personal experience as a Texan, the description of Texas as part of the Southeast is usually envoked by native Texas Southerns who want to keep the state included with the rest of the South or by inhabitants of the larger metropolitan areas who want to distance themselves from the stereotypes that Texas is backwards by asociating Dallas and especially Houston with Eastern cities like New York and Boston. The first usage ties into the use of Southeast as a synonym of the South and I think its understandable that some people would not want feel like they were excluded from the rest of thier home region. The second use, in my personal opinion, seems less redemable geographically and more like some trick a chamber of commerce might use. I've heard the use of the Gulf of Mexico as an extension of the Atlantic coastline as a justification for including the Gulf States as part of the Eastern Seboard before, maybe that ties into part of the reasoning, I don't feel that I can speak authorotatively on anythign but the first use. I hope this answers your questions feel free to post of my talk page, please forgive me if it does nto I have spent the majority of the past two days of a train from Chicago. -JCarriker 05:40, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Community Colleges
I recently started the article for Jackson Community College, but am not sure which categories should be placed onto the article. So far, I have only put Category:Jackson County, Michigan but am not sure which education or statewide categories should be placed onto it. Any advice? Mdkarazim 18:41, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * For now I added it to Category:Universities and colleges in Michigan. If it ever gets to a point where that category is so over-populated as to be confusing, the community colleges can be moved into a subcategory. older ≠ wiser 20:21, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Template:United States state capitals
I disagree with your recent change to Template:United States state capitals; see Template talk:United States state capitals, please (and respond there please, if you respond).  —msh210 22:44, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Fixing Nashville
I really like your explanation of how consoldiated government is in Nashville; I had been wanting to put something like that in there but didn't know how to say it so succinctly. How did you happen to know so much about it? Are you a former Nashville resident or just a tremendously astute student of local government? Feel free to hit my talk page. Rlquall 18:23, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Montebello
I see you removed my cut and pastings. History is History... why waste time re-writing the choice of words if I can take it from the Public City website??? Lets see if you try to remove the pictures I want to upload. I'm from Montebello, whats your connection to the city? User:Lebite

 * Reply at User talk:Lebite.

From Lebite: Okay.. you want to play super policeman, fine. Don't erase my next revision. I've summarized the Montebello website history section, maybe a few sentences are from the original, so its not worth erasing. So, your connection to the city of Montebello is irrelevant? You just like watching the updates to its wikipage? And yes, I'm very new to this. Haven't totally figured out pictures, and these talk pages. Thanks for the helpful hints.

Lebite 14:44, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Just so you know I replied on Jengods page. From Lebite (The Plageriser) :  Thanks for "wikifying" what I have added.  I know Bkonrad just loves to completely erase things that he considers to be below his standards.  I just hope he can relax enough to accept history I inserted.  I don't think the mayor of my city is going to get mad that I used the structure of history report from the city's website to create one for Wikipedia.  And yes, I am lazy... because I am not unemployed.  But if someone feels the need to erase because of little bits.. why not fix it up instead of destroying what some people actually care about.  I'm also sorry we have gotton off on the wrong foot.

Lebite 16:01, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Lebite, making condescending remarks is not a good strategy for gaining respect. I really am glad to see you making contributions to Wikipedia. But please try to observe the guidelines here. Despite what you may think, I do not take any great pleasure in removing that material. But it is quite plainly plagiarized without even any attempt at attribution. older ≠ wiser 16:07, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * BKonrad, How about this. Its not much to fix up, I tried and seemed to have failed in making you happy.  So why not take a red pen and fix it up yourself.  It isnt much to fix up.Lebite 16:23, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Montebello, California
Hi. Not sure how strongly you feel about verbatim copying of copyrighted material, but most of the history section is taken verbatim from the city web site, with a few very minor alterations. I was about to remove it again, but noticed that you had started to wikify it. I'm of the opinion that it needs much more extensive rewriting to avoid plagiarism/copyvio, but I wasn't sure if you were interested in taking it up. (I know, I know, I could have done it myself by now--but there's a principle around here somewhere, I think). older ≠ wiser 15:36, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

From Lebite (The Plageriser) : Thanks for "wikifying" what I have added. I know Bkonrad just loves to completely erase things that he considers to be below his standards. I just hope he can relax enough to accept history I inserted. I don't think the mayor of my city is going to get mad that I used the structure of history report from the city's website to create one for Wikipedia. And yes, I am lazy... because I am not unemployed. But if someone feels the need to erase.. why not fix it up instead of destroying what some people actually care about. Lebite 15:56, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Lebite, making condescending remarks is not a good strategy for gaining respect. I really am glad to see you making contributions to Wikipedia. But please try to observe the guidelines here. Despite what you may think, I do not take any great pleasure in removing that material. But it is quite plainly plagiarized without even any attempt at attribution. older ≠ wiser 16:06, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

D'oh! Sorry B, didn't realize that was the copyvio in question. I am dumb. I'll take the hit and do the removal. Lebite, you gotta say it in your own words. Them's the rules! :) jengod 18:39, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Covedale, Ohio
The OH state's department of development had a great deal of aggravation reconciing census numbers. Their conclusion was the 6 of the 6,000+ people on the CDP lived in Springfield Twp. I don't know hw much area is involved, or how it would look on the map. See for a PDF report on the entiire county with CDPs reconciled. Thanks, 19:24, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ISKCON
I saw you had reverted the removal of offensive information about the society. If you have a look at the mission statement setup by our founding spiritual master, you will notice that no where in there does it say we "plan to get involved in all sorts of demoniac abuse". Those who did those terrible acts have been banished from the society. The society was setup to build a community of devotees who can practice and help others in Krishna/GOD Consciousness. ISKCON is only represented by those who follow and uphold these values. Those who don't, cannot and shouldn't dare call themselves ISKCON.

Like many spiritual movements this movement has also had issues with insincere demoniac personalities. As humans we make mistakes. The mistake I'd like to point is that what we think another is really not how they may really behave. Despite lovingly involving those people they turned out to be demoniac and in order to protect the movement they were banished.

We want others to know what we really are about. If someone is sincerely interested in spirituality they will understand our true nature and mission. In this terrible age of quarrel and hypocrisy don't let people become confused by mixed messages. Let people know what we really are about. Let them make their own mind. If we were to air all our history none of us will be able to look at each other in the face.

I hope you understand what I am trying to do. I am merely making available information about our society. I am interested in reaching the genuine spiritualist. If they are interested they may check us out. If not so be it. We don't force the philosophy on others. Those that seek it will find it.

thanks, Mat 10 Dec 2004

 * Well, the so-called "offensive information" was really a rather mild expression of the situation compared to some of the virulent criticisms around. You say that "who did those terrible acts have been banished from the society". This may or may not be true, I don't know. I do know that many corrupt individuals held positions of power and honor within the society for many years, even as many within the society were aware of their abuses. Rather than openly reprimand them and admit that there were problems with how the new gurus were chosen and operated, every attempt was made to keep the problems quiet. Only when situations could no longer be kept quiet were individuals publicly sanctioned. I know there are many sincere individuals in the society, but there have been deep problems with it as well and an encyclopedia article should report such difficulties in a fair manner. older ≠ wiser 22:19, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship
Salve, Bkonrad! I nominated myself for adminship at Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2 and would appreciate your vote. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:40, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Salve, Bkonrad! I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted by yourself and others in the debate.  Ave!  PedanticallySpeaking 17:29, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

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Thymallus and Grayling
Greetings! I'm working on disentangling and standardizing fish articles (see WikiProject Fishes), and one of the things I'm doing is disambiguating things like situations where the same common name is used for species, genus, and family. The standard which has evolved is that the FishBase common name—as close as we get to an "official" common name for fish species—should be the article name for the species. Normally this name is not the same as the generic common name (e.g., there is no species called simply "black bass", so Black bass is used for the Micropterus species), but when it is some disentangling is necessary. Grayling will be an article on T. thymallus, while Thymallus describes the genus. When there is no unambiguous common name for a genus, the taxonomy pages here use the systematic generic name. For an example of a taxon I've gotten pretty well sorted out, see the Centrarchidae.

Grayling will not remain a stub, of course. If it turns out that there is not enough material to make specific articles I will fold everything into the generic Thymallus article under Grayling; see Crappie for an example of this, where the two Pomoxis species are combined into one article. All of Wikipedia's ichthyology is very much a work in progress, so please bear with me...

If you want to discuss further, can I suggest Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fishes, so I don't miss your comments here? —Tkinias 20:28, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Tucson, Arizona
The talk pages or other sources indicate you have in the past participated in discussions regarding whether to put a Native American name translation in the introductory sentence of articles on Arizona cities. We are currently having a vote on this issue at Talk:Tucson, Arizona. Please come by and weigh in. Thanks. --Gary D 00:49, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Michigan geography
Hi there. I know you're a Michigan resident and being from Mount Pleasant myself, I wondered what you thought about the general organization scheme over at Lower Peninsula of Michigan and similar pages. I've never heard the expression "thumb country" before, and I don't think anyone would consider Midland or Flint being in the Thumb. For that matter, Jackson certainly isn't part of Mid-michigan (which ought to be Central Michigan, and be farther north than that). What do you think? Mackensen (talk) 22:25, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Actually, I've only lived in Michigan for about a year and a half now, so I'm still not entirely familiar with a lot of local usage (aside from what I can research). I haven't looked at that page much (or in quite a while now), but I think you are right though about the page needing some work. I can't say that I've heard the exact phrase "thumb country" before, but the "thumb" of Michigan is certainly familiar enough. It is a bit of a stretch to put Flint in the thumb though. I would consider Jackson to be more southeast MI, or at least south central. I'm in a bit of a scramble to get out of here for the holidays, but if you want to take a stab at rearranging it, I'd be happy to take a look when I get a chance. older ≠ wiser 22:51, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * I've gone and done so. Have a good holiday! Mackensen (talk) 00:37, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Census designaed place
Copied from User talk:Rsduhamel

Hello, I noticed your comments on Rambot's talk page and saw a few of your edits to the CDP articles. A couple of suggestions, which you may or may not find helpful and which you are free to ignore or to modify to suit your own tastes. 1) Instead of linking unincorporated community, you can link to unincorporated community, which is a little more specific than either of the other two. 2) When you move the phrase "census-designated place", you might want to put (CDP) after it as the abbreviation is used throughout the census data (I thought that Rambot was putting the abbreviation in, but I just noticed that it is not). For some other ideas about phrasing, look at Argentine, Michigan, or just about any of the CDPs in Michigan (I think I've edited many if not most of these articles). Best. older≠wiser 21:33, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know the article on unincorporated community existed. I agree that putting "(CDP)" after census designated place is a good idea too. Rambot didn't do this and I was simply following its precedent. I also like what you did to the Argentine, Michigan article.

 * Do you think this matter could have something to do with the confusion of the population count in Parkfield, California? I (and others) tried to clarify this but found references ranging from 18 to 900. Could this be because the "hamlet" of Parkfield has a population of 37 but the census designated place has a population of 900? Rsduhamel 08:47, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Clix

Clix, CLIX, etc. may refer to:

Technology

 * CLiX (markup), a formal XML schema validation language and method of using valid XML for overlapping markup
 * Clix (miniatures), a system of miniatures games produced by WizKids
 * CLIX (Unix version), developed by Intergraph
 * iriver clix, rebrand of the iriver U10, a multimedia player

Other

 * CLIX, the number 159 in Roman numerals
 * Clix Malt Liquor, a malt liquor

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Cliffe Hill

Cliffe Hill is a hill to the east of the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. It is impressive on its western edge, where it looms over Lewes. Its summit is covered in a golf course. It is the second lowest Marilyn in England.

Also to be found on the hill is an obelisk known as Martyrs' Memorial commemorating the destruction of Lewes' monastery by Henry VIII and the burning of the 17 Protestant martyrs known as the Sussex Martyrs in 1555–1557. The obelisk is located close the site where a bonfire was located in 1606 on the first anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.

A Bronze Age barrow was located on the hill, and excavated in 1930 before being destroyed by quarrying. The barrow contained several cremations topped by a cairn of flints, and was roughly 15 metres in diameter. Another long barrow is used as a hazard on one of the golf course holes.

Although the summit is on the Lewes golf course, a public footpath runs along the southern flank of the hill, from which the golf course can readily be reached by any one of several stiles which are located on the course's southern boundary.

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Battle of Westport

The Battle of Westport, sometimes referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West", was fought on October 23, 1864, in modern Kansas City, Missouri, during the American Civil War. Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis decisively defeated an outnumbered Confederate force under Major General Sterling Price. This engagement was the turning point of Price's Missouri Expedition, forcing his army to retreat. The battle ended the last major Confederate offensive west of the Mississippi River, and for the remainder of the war the United States Army maintained solid control over most of Missouri. This battle was one of the largest to be fought west of the Mississippi River, with over 30,000 men engaged.

Westport
Westport (now a part of Kansas City, Missouri) had already established its place in history by the time Union and Confederate forces clashed there in 1864. John Calvin McCoy, known as the "Father of Kansas City", had laid out the town, and pioneers traveling along the Oregon, California and Santa Fe Trails all passed through it on their way West. Westport gradually replaced nearby Independence as the "jumping-off point" for the Westward trails, contributing to the growth of the town.

During the Civil War, nearby Kansas City (known then as the Town of Kansas) served as headquarters for the Federal "District of the Border" and was garrisoned by a sizable contingent of Union troops. While its own municipal star was beginning to fade in favor of its northern neighbor, Westport was still of some importance in the region. As it turned out, however, the decision to fight here would be the result of a chain of events that had little to do with any strategic importance attached to the town itself.

Price's Raid begins
In September 1864, Sterling Price led his Army of Missouri into Missouri, with the hope of capturing the state for the South and turning the Northern people against Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Major General William S. Rosecrans, commanding the Federal Department of the Missouri, began assembling troops to repel the invasion. Rosecrans's cavalry under Major General Alfred Pleasonton set out in pursuit of Price's force, accompanied by a large detachment of infantry from the Army of the Tennessee under Andrew J. Smith. After his defeat at the Battle of Ft. Davidson, Price realized that St. Louis was far too heavily fortified for his rather small force (12,000 men), so he turned west to threaten Jefferson City. After light skirmishing there, Price again decided that this target was also too heavily fortified and moved further west toward Fort Leavenworth. As he marched on, disease and desertion coupled with battlefield losses whittled Price's force down to 8,500 men.

The Union responds
Major General Samuel R. Curtis, commander of the Federal Department of Kansas, now faced the threat of Price's army moving into his department after learning of Confederate movements from spies including Wild Bill Hickok. Curtis accordingly assembled his troops into a force that he named the Army of the Border. James G. Blunt was recalled from Indian campaigns to lead its 1st Division, composed mostly of volunteer regiments and some Kansas militia. Curtis was only initially able to muster about 4,000 volunteers; he asked Kansas governor Thomas Carney to call out the state militia to bolster his forces. Governor Carney immediately suspected Curtis of attempting to draw the militia away from their voting districts, as election time was nearing. Carney was unconcerned with Price's force far away in Missouri, and felt it posed no threat to Kansas. However, once Price had turned west toward Jefferson City, Carney relented and Maj. Gen. George Dietzler took command of a division of Kansas Militia that now joined Curtis's Army of the Border.

Command disputes
By order of Maj. Gen. Blunt (General Field Orders No. 2) the militia regiments of William H.M. Fishbeck, Brigadier General of Militia, were placed under the command of Charles W. Blair, Colonel of Volunteers; Fishbeck was infuriated that his command had been subordinated to a volunteer officer. Since Kansas law stated that militia should be kept under the command of militia officers, Fishbeck disregarded Blunt's order. Blunt had Fishbeck arrested and held until he was released by order of Maj. Gen. Curtis. Upon release, Fishbeck resumed command of the Kansas Militia regiments, with orders to obey directives that came from Maj. Gen. Blunt. This rather cumbersome arrangement had Brig. Gen. Fishbeck in direct command of the militia units attached to the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, and Col. Charles Blair in overall command of the brigade. Howard N. Monnett describes the arrangement as a "brigade within a brigade". Blair and Fishbeck led the militia into action at Westport (accompanied onto the field by Maj. Gen. George W. Dietzler), and then in the subsequent pursuit of Price until Maj. Gen. Curtis ordered the militia to return home.

Prelude
General Curtis sent the bulk of his 1st Division under Gen. James Blunt to confront the Confederates at Lexington, approximately forty miles east of Kansas City, on October 19. Blunt was unable to stop Price, but did slow his progress and gathered information on the Confederate forces. Again, at the Little Blue River on October 21, Blunt was forced to retire — but not without slowing Price enough for a pursuing Federal cavalry division under Alfred Pleasonton to close the gap between himself and the Rebels. Additional fighting occurred the next day at Independence, with Price emerging victorious yet again. Curtis was nearly sixty years old, and age had taken a toll on his desire for combat; however, thanks to his aggressive subordinate Gen. Blunt, Curtis decided to make another stand south of Westport. Blunt personally oversaw the construction of a defensive line south of the town along Brush Creek, perpendicular to the Kansas state line.

Price was aware of the forces to his front and rear, which together outnumbered him nearly three-to-one, so he determined to deal with them one at a time. He decided to attack Curtis's army first, at Westport. Almost as old as his adversary, Price left direction of the engagement to his subordinate, General Jo Shelby. With about 500 wagons and 5,000 head of cattle, Price first needed a ford for his supply trains to cross the Blue River near Westport. One of Price's divisions under John S. Marmaduke accordingly forced a crossing at Byram's Ford on the 22nd, then took up positions on the west bank to hold off Pleasonton's Federal Cavalry, which now threatened Price's rear. Two other Confederate divisions, under Shelby and James Fagan, were poised to assault Blunt along Brush Creek the next day, hoping to defeat him before Pleasonton could arrive on the field in force.

Action at Brush Creek
Anticipating Price's impending attack, Blunt had positioned his three available brigades along Brush Creek, while a fourth under Col. Charles Blair was en route from Kansas City. East of Wornall Lane (present-day Wornall Road) was the brigade of J. Hobart Ford. West of Wornall was the brigade of Charles "Doc" Jennison, with an artillery battery in support. Two regiments of cavalry filled the gap to the west between Jennison and the Kansas/Missouri state line. At a right angle to Jennison was the brigade of Thomas Moonlight, running parallel to the state line. Moonlight was positioned to either support Jennison or move against the Confederate flank.

At daybreak on the 23rd, Blunt opened the battle by sending Jennison and Ford over an icy Brush Creek with their skirmishers. Advancing up a ridge, the Union forces engaged the Confederates in an open field to the south. The rebel divisions of Joseph O. Shelby and James Fagan had meanwhile received orders from Price to hold Curtis in front of Westport. Shelby counterattacked with his Iron Brigade under M. Jeff Thompson in the lead. This attack drove the outflanked Federals back across the creek. Moonlight's brigade was hit so hard that it was forced to fall back to the high ground on Brush Creek's west bluff, into what is now Westwood, Kansas, while Jennison's brigade retreated almost to the streets of Westport. It appeared at this point that the Confederates might carry the day.

But this was not to be. Shelby's force was out of ammunition, and remained on the heights south of Brush Creek. Also at this crucial hour, Col. Blair's brigade arrived and Curtis heard Pleasonton's guns engaging the Confederates at nearby Byram's Ford. His spirits lifted, the Union commander rode to the front lines and personally directed Blair's troops into battle west of Jennison. The reinforced Federals charged across the creek once more, with Blair in the lead, but were again repulsed and retreated to the north bank.

Needing another option besides frontal assaults, Curtis decided to search for a weak point elsewhere in the Rebel lines. His scouts found a local farmer named George Thoman, who was eager to help the Federals as the Confederates had absconded with his horse the previous night. Thoman showed Curtis a gulch, cut by Swan Creek, running up to a rise along Shelby's left flank. Curtis personally directed his headquarters escort and the 9th Wisconsin Battery through this gully. Meanwhile, Blunt continued to push Jennison and Ford up the rise across Brush Creek, making slow progress until the 9th Wisconsin opened fire upon the Confederate flank and rear. Encouraged, Blunt's men now poured over the ridge, but Shelby's men fought back stubbornly and a see-saw battle ensued in the open prairie. The Union army gradually gained the upper hand, slowly pushing Shelby's brigades back to the Wornall House.

Fight for the fords

As disaster was befalling Shelby and Fagan, a similar fate was happening to Price's rearguard, under Marmaduke, at Byram's Ford. A division of Price's army under General Shelby had forced a crossing at the ford on the 22nd (the day prior to the battle), forcing Federal defenders there to retire to Westport. Shelby's colleague General Marmaduke had subsequently established his own defensive line on the west bank of the river to hold off Pleasanton's cavalry, which was pressing them hard from the east. If Pleasanton could now force his way across the Blue River, he would be in position to threaten Price's army as well as his supplies.

Marmaduke's division was attacked by three of Pleasonton's brigades starting at 8:00 on the morning of the 23rd; the Confederates initially managed to hold their own. One of the Union brigade commanders, Brig. Gen. Egbert B. Brown stalled his attack and was placed under arrest by Pleasonton for disobeying orders. Another of Pleasonton's brigade commanders, Col. Edward F. Winslow, was wounded and succeeded by Lt. Col. Frederick Benteen, who would later ride to fame at Little Bighorn. Despite these setbacks, Federal troopers gained the west bank by 11:00 and Marmaduke retired. As Brown's brigade (now led by Col. John F. Philips) forded the river, they came under heavy fire from Marmaduke's artillery. Once they had crossed, they charged Marmaduke across an open field; during this charge, Union troops from Missouri and Arkansas battled Confederates from these same two states. Marmaduke was forced back, rejoining Shelby and Fagan, and Blunt pounded the now-consolidated Confederate remnants with his own cannon.

While the main Confederate army was now being hit hard on two sides, Pleasonton's fourth brigade under Brig. Gen. John McNeil moved against a Rebel brigade under William Lewis Cabell guarding a second ford near Hickman Mills. McNeil's brigade was able to drive the Confederates from the ford and cross the river. Federal columns were now converging on Price from three different directions.

Confederate retreat
The Confederates pulled back to their last line of defense, along the road south of Forest Hill (present day Gregory Blvd), with Colonel Jennison leading the pursuit. By now thirty Union guns had been brought to bear against the lone remaining Confederate cannon. One Federal battery had just unlimbered when Colonel James H. McGhee's Arkansas Cavalry charged down Wornall's Lane in an attempt to capture it. Captain Curtis Johnson of the 15th Kansas Cavalry saw the Confederate attack forming and immediately moved to intercept. Johnson and McGhee personally engaged each other with their revolvers; both commanders were badly wounded, but survived. The fight continued to rage until Union reinforcements secured the battery.

Shelby sent a brigade under Colonel Sidney D. Jackman to secure his wagon trains, but these had already been removed by order of General Price. Jackman was instead intercepted by General Fagan, who alerted him to the massed Union cavalry (Pleasonton's) which had just crossed the Big Blue River to the east. Seeing Pleasanton's close proximity to the Confederate flank and rear, General Curtis had ordered a general advance of the entire Union line, with Blair's and Jennison's brigades leading the charge. Shelby, meanwhile, had only Thompson's Iron Brigade to hold off this massive assault. When one of Pleasonton's batteries arrived in support of Curtis's men, Thompson's Confederates finally broke and fled.

Price's men set fire to prairie grass in the area to create a smoke screen to cover their withdrawal. Witnesses reported that the road was strewn with debris from the fleeing Rebel army.

The following day, Blunt and Pleasonton took up their pursuit of Price's remaining forces. They would chase Price through Kansas and southern Missouri, engaging him at the Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek, the Marmiton River, and finally at Newtonia, forcing Price to withdraw into Indian Territory, from which he eventually returned to Arkansas via Texas, and ultimately leaving the Confederate leader with less than 6,000 survivors from his initial force of 12,000 when his campaign officially ended on November 1, 1864.

Aftermath
The Battle of Westport was one of the largest battles west of the Mississippi River, with over 30,000 troops involved. The Union victory put an end to Price's campaign for Missouri, and the battle has accordingly been referred to as "The Gettysburg of the West". Curtis wrote to Henry W. Halleck after the battle that "the victory at Westport was most decisive." This greatly contested border state was now firmly under Union control, and would remain so until the end of the war.

Although never capturing Price or the tattered remnants of his army, Federal forces did manage to render the Army of Missouri incapable of any future significant operations. Indeed, Price's campaign would prove the last in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.

According to a recent book on Price's campaign, Kyle S. Sinisi's The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864, historians have long exaggerated the casualties inflicted in the fighting around Westport on October 21–23, 1864. Sinisi's new estimates are that the Union forces lost 361 and the Confederates 510 men, killed, wounded, or captured, on October 23. However, most sources give the total casualties as 3,000 men, about 1,500 Union and 1,500 Confederate. Another primary source gives an estimate of 400 casualties for the Union and 1,000 to 1,500 for the Confederacy.

Noteworthy participants
Several participants in the battle later went on to gain national fame in other ways, many of them in the American Old West. Buffalo Bill Cody served as a private in the 7th Kansas Cavalry ("Jennison's Jayhawkers"). Wild Bill Hickok served as scout for General Curtis. Frederick Benteen, who assumed command of a brigade at Byram's Ford, would subsequently fight with George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Mountain man John "Liver Eating" Johnson (on whose life the movie Jeremiah Johnson was made) enlisted in the U.S. Navy before the war and on February 24, 1864, joined Company A, 3rd Regiment, Colorado Cavalry Volunteers "from depot in St. Louis." With that regiment, he fought for the Union at the Battle of Westport.

Three Union officers at Westport later served as post-war state governors: Samuel J. Crawford served as governor of Kansas, while John Lourie Beveridge became governor of Illinois. Thomas Theodore Crittenden served as governor of Missouri and was later buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, scene of fighting during Price's retreat from Westport. Serving in the Kansas Militia during the battle was Kansas State Treasurer David. H. Heflebower who helped found the Peoples Party in Kansas and was a leader in the Greenback and later Union Labor Parties. Senators Jim Lane and Samuel C. Pomeroy served on Curtis's staff while future U.S. Senators Preston B. Plumb and Edmund G. Ross served as Federal officers.

Former lieutenant governor Thomas C. Reynolds joined Gen. Price's staff, in hopes that Price's army might capture Jefferson City and install him as governor of a Confederate regime in Missouri. Price had served as a prewar governor, while Marmaduke later served as a post-war governor of Missouri.

Memorials

Although many signs and placards commemorating some aspect of the Battle of Westport are present throughout Kansas City today, the main battle monument is located in the Sunset Hill neighborhood just south of the Country Club Plaza. Because the center of the main battlefield comprises present-day Loose Park and a portion of the upper (Wornall) campus of The Pembroke Hill School, the memorial is at the southern end of Loose Park, along West 55th Street.

The Battle of Westport Museum and Visitor Center, located in Swope Park, depicts the experiences of the soldiers and civilians during the three days of the battle.

A Battle of Westport Driving Tour starts in Westport at Kelly's Westport Inn, the oldest standing building in Kansas City, Missouri. It consists of a series of placards, one at each stop, giving both a detailed history of what occurred there and directions to the next stop. Stops along the self-guided tour include the Wornall House, which served as a hospital during the battle, and Forest Hill Cemetery, the final resting place of many men and officers of General Joseph Shelby's "Iron Brigade", including General Shelby himself.

The Trailside Center museum in Kansas City has several exhibits and research material related to the battle.

Battlefield preservation
The first steps toward memorializing the Battle of Westport came early in the twentieth century. In 1906, local historian Paul Jenkins published his Battle of Westport, while the Byram's Ford engagement was reenacted in Swope Park in 1912. During the 1920s, civic leaders under H. H. Crittenden of the Missouri Valley Historical Society conceived a plan to save the Westport battle sites near present-day Loose Park and Byram's Ford. Crittenden's father was Col. Thomas Crittenden, who led one of the Union cavalry brigades at the Byram's Ford battle, and later served as governor of Missouri. The mayor and council of Kansas City passed ordinances recognizing these sites; this was followed by the introduction of a bill in 1924 in the United States Congress to create a National Military Park. This endeavor proved unsuccessful, and memorial efforts ceased for several years. During the 1950s, much of the battlefield was disturbed by commercial and industrial construction, though the developer of one industrial complex did erect a memorial near the historic route of the Byram's Ford Road.

On the eve of the Civil War centennial in 1958, the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City was formed with former President Harry S. Truman as a charter member. Dr. Howard N. Monnett, a member of this Round Table, researched, spoke and wrote extensively about what he termed the "action before Westport". His book of that title was published in 1964 for the battle's centennial. Dr. Monnett's enthusiasm led to the eventual creation of an automobile tour of the widely dispersed battle sites. By 1979, the founders of the Monnett Fund had successfully raised funds to erect permanent markers at 25 sites, and had created a self-guided automobile tour. These markers included a monument located at the meadow site, and several wayside markers on nearby Bloody Hill. The battlefield was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, after the Fund acquired 50 acre of the Westport battlefield, including the site of Byram's Ford itself. Title was transferred to the Kansas City Parks Department in April 1995, and archaeological surveys in 1996 revealed artifacts from the battle in and around the Byram's Ford area.

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Shishi-odoshi

Shishi-odoshi (literally, "deer-frightening" or "boar-frightening"), in a wide sense, refers to Japanese devices made to frighten away animals that pose a threat to agriculture, including kakashi (scarecrows), naruko (clappers) and sōzu. In a narrower sense, it is synonymous with sōzu.

A sōzu is a type of water fountain used in Japanese gardens. It consists of a segmented tube, usually of bamboo, pivoted to one side of its balance point. At rest, its heavier end is down and resting against a rock. A trickle of water into the upper end of the tube accumulates and eventually moves the tube's centre of gravity past the pivot, causing the tube to rotate and dump out the water. The heavier end then falls back against the rock, making a sharp sound, and the cycle is repeated.

These fountains were originally intended to startle any herbivores, such as deer or boars, which might be grazing on the plants in the garden, but shishi-odoshi are now a part of the visual and aural design of gardens, and are used primarily for their aesthetic value.

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Dayton Warbirds

The Dayton Warbirds was an indoor football team in Dayton, Ohio.

History
Approved as a National Indoor Football League expansion team in October 2004, the Warbirds instead joined other teams in forming the United Indoor Football Association, made up of teams that came from either the National Indoor Football League or AF2. The Warbirds were scheduled to begin play in March 2005, but the team was suspended by the UIF prior to playing their first game. The team got suspended because of owner Jeffrey Jodway began gambling on the games. Eventually, signing himself to a megamax contract worth 50 million dollars to become the team's newest starting QB. Head coach Cam Stevens and general manager Marcus Jackson denied a comment. It ended up rejoining the National Indoor Football League and playing its first game in the NIFL, five weeks into the season. That season they finished tie with the Cincinnati Marshals for second in the East Atlantic Division with an 8–5 record. In the playoffs they lost in the conference quarterfinals to the Fayetteville Guard 78 - 63.

At the conclusion of the 2005 National Indoor Football League season, the Warbirds hired former Cincinnati Swarm assistant head coach, Brian Wells. Just prior to the 2006 season, the Warbirds folded and were replaced by the Dayton Bulldogs.

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Kitchen (novel)

Kitchen (キッチン) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな) in 1988 and translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus.

Although one may notice a certain Western influence in Yoshimoto's style, Kitchen is still critically recognized as an example of contemporary Japanese literature; The Independent, The Times, and The New Yorker have all reviewed the novel favorably.

Most editions also include a novella entitled Moonlight Shadow, which is also a tragedy dealing with loss and love.

There have been two films made of the story, a Japanese movie in 1989 and a more widely released version produced in Hong Kong by Yim Ho in 1997.

Characters

 * Mikage Sakurai — Young Japanese woman. Main character. Struggling with the loss of her grandmother, who was her last surviving relative. She moves in with Yuichi Tanabe and Eriko Tanabe after her grandmother's death.
 * Yuichi Tanabe — Son of Eriko Tanabe. Main character. His mother died of cancer when Yuichi was a very young child. He lives with his loving transgender mother and supports Mikage in her time of grieving. He eventually loses his mother, and relies on emotional support from Mikage.
 * Eriko Tanabe — Supporting character. Transgender woman. Eriko owns a nightclub, which is where she is killed by a man who feels as though she is tricking him by being a transgender woman. She is described as a very beautiful and kind woman.
 * Sotaro — Mikage's Ex Boyfriend. Broke up with Mikage when her grandmother became ill and his reasoning was that she was hard to keep up with.
 * Okuno — A girl who is obsessive over Yuichi and dislikes Mikage.
 * Chika—A loyal employee who inherited the gay nightclub from Eriko and helps the relationship between Mikage and Yuichi.
 * Mikage's Grandmother —A sweet lady who passed away and raised Mikage.

Plot
From Mikage's love of kitchens to her job as a culinary teacher's assistant to the multiple scenes in which food is merely present, Kitchen is a short window into the life of a young Japanese woman and her discoveries about food and love amongst a background of tragedy.

In Kitchen, a young Japanese woman named Mikage Sakurai struggles to overcome the death of her grandmother. She gradually grows close to one of her grandmother's friends, Yuichi, from a flower shop and ends up staying with him and his transgender mother, Eriko. During her stay, she develops affection for Yuichi and Eriko, almost becoming part of their family. However, she moves out after six months as she finds a new job as a culinary teacher's assistant. When she finds that Eriko was murdered, she tries to support Yuichi through the difficult time, and realises that Yuichi is probably in love with her. Reluctant to face her own feelings for him, she goes away to Izu for a work assignment, while Yuichi stays in a guest-house. However, after going to a restaurant to eat katsudon, she realises she wants to bring it to Yuichi. She goes to Yuichi’s guest-house and sneaks inside his room in the middle of the night to bring him katsudon. There Mikage tells him she doesn’t want to lose him and proposes to build a new life together.

In Moonlight Shadow, a woman named Satsuki loses her boyfriend Hitoshi in an accident and tells us: "The night he died my soul went away to some other place and I couldn't bring it back". She becomes friendly with his brother Hiiragi, whose girlfriend died in the same crash. On one insomniac night out walking she meets a strange woman called Urara who has also lost someone. Urara introduces her to the mystical experience of The Weaver Festival Phenomenon, which she hopes will cauterize their collective grief.

Awards

 * 6th Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize – November 1987
 * 16th Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize - October 1988
 * 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists – August 1988 (this prize was awarded for Kitchen as well as two other novellas by Yoshimoto: Utakata and Sanctuary)

Book information
Kitchen (English edition) by Banana Yoshimoto
 * Hardcover – ISBN 0-8021-1516-0 published by Grove Press
 * Paperback – ISBN 0-671-88018-7 published by Washington Square Press

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Talk:Pelmeni

Vinegar
I made a small fix in the article, based on direct experience.

A true pelmeni story. I visited Saratov in 1970s. Walking down a street, I wandered into a liquor shop and was surprized to see that in addition to usual bottled sale, vodka was served in small glasses to be consumed on the spot. I went further, entered a pelmennaya (a cafe that serves pelmeni), ordered some pelmeni, and noticed that each table has a semi-full corked retort-like bottle, the one used to store vodka and called "grafin" in Russian. You may easily guess what immediately came to my mind. I asked "how much" and was surprized even more when I was told it was free! I helped myself liberally,... only to learn that it was vinegar to sprinkle over pelmeni. Mikkalai 22:13, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The page might want to mention that every Russian I've met has insisted that pel'meni made with anything but meat (or generously, fish) are actually vareniki, especially with fruits and sweet fillings. At lake Baikal we were served Omul pelmeni, a real treat.

It might also be mentioned that the Mongolian buuz and bansh essentially correpond to the pozi and pel'meni of at least Siberia (I can't speak for the rest of Russia). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.46.121.202 (talk • contribs • WHOIS )

Pierogi
Pel'meni have nothing to do with pierogi. I think mentions of pierogi in the article as something similar to pel'meni are wrong. If there are no objections I'll remove mentions of pierogi. Convex hull (talk) 08:49, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Pel'meni are the same as pierogi (the Polish version), they are just saltier usually. At least that's my experience - having lived in Russia for a while. Malick78 (talk) 11:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I just had some for the first time. Have to say I thought they would be like pierogi but after eating them, much more like Chinese dumpling.  I think it was the leek that put me over the edge.  I think it is the sort of food that can easily be adapted - from raviolo to pierogi to vareniki to pelmeni to dumpling. Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:13, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * I got the following boundaries in Moscow:

 * If it has specific "ear-like" shape or looks like a rose made of flour -- it's "pel'men" type.
 * If it's half-round -- it's a varenyk.
 * If it's "pierogi" straight outta Polish cookbook -- it's a varenyk again.
 * The thing is, "pirog" word in Russian is a false friend and it refers to big, full-pledged cake-sized pies (even a small pie, "pirozhok" in Russian, is supposed to be larger than pierogi dumpling). Uchyot (talk) 15:51, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Siberian pelmeni customs
The article states that serving pelmeni in soup or "unstrained" is considered in poor taste in Siberia. This is not at all the case, in most cases guests are asked by the cook how they want them served: with or without the water; plenty of Siberians (from Omsk, at least) prefer their pelmeni afloat. Furthermore, for the younger generation it is customary to add ketchup or mayonnaise to the broth - which one could argue would be considered unorthodox - but even to this the Siberians usually have an indifferent attitude. (Snaporaznik (talk) 13:20, 19 March 2009 (UTC))
 * If you can provide some references for these interesting statements, I will gladly incorporate the new facts in the article. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 13:38, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Know all readers wiki, pelmeni - NOT A RUSSIAN dish, a Finno-Ugric. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.66.146.108 (talk) 18:18, 28 February 2011 (UTC) Not correct. Finno-Ugric nation is a part of Russia.

Unfortunately... ( --Jugydmort (talk) 19:09, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

History
It's extremely unlikely that the pelmeni suddenly popped up in Moscow. If you take Jiaozi and simplify it by removing all vegetables, you get pelmeni. Fact is, it's a Finno-Ugric word and has no meaning in Russian, confirming that it came to Moscow from the east. The black pepper argument also confirms this as black pepper originates from southeast Asia and the northern Chinese (who ate more wheat than rice) would've had access to it (but not Russians at the time). Alepik (talk) 03:32, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Cannot it originate from Mansi language?
Why this content removal? Dal's dictionary is a reliable source. And one can check it here: паль means "ear" and нянь means "bread" in Mansi language. --Off-shell (talk) 17:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Vasmer said nothing about Mansi.
 * In Mansi there is not the word paĺńāń per se.
 * The Mansi ńāń is rather a borrowing from Komi (see Школьный этимологический словарь коми языка, 1996, с. 144).
 * The Mansi were rather fishers and hunters, they introduced bread resently (probably from the Komi).
 * The Mansi live from the Asian side of the Ural mountains, while the Komi and Udmurts are much closer and have had bread culture. Pelmeni have been particularly a Permic dish.
 * No, Dal is not a reliable source concerning etymology.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 07:00, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, sounds reasonable (except item 5, since such filled dumplings probably migrated from China to Europe). --Off-shell (talk) 21:41, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

"particularly good means of quickly preserving meat"
how so? The meat is ground and cooked, which can be done without being in pelmeni. Freezing is a means of preserving, yes, but is it worthy of remark? by the way, what is the singular? If I have a bowl of pelmeni and put one on a plate, what is on my plate?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:11, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Nice discussion. However, just like potato chips, no one can eat just one. However, if you want to go there, have one "pelmen" and go hungry.Федоров (talk) 23:04, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

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Stony Creek (Branford)

Stony Creek is a coastal village located the southeastern section of Branford, Connecticut, centered on a harbor on Long Island Sound. Stony Creek has the ambiance of a small seaside village which retains its roots as a summer vacation location with old Victorian hotels and a working granite quarry. It is known for the Thimble Islands an archipelago of glacial rocks, ranging from 17 acre down to stepping-stone size, at the harbor's mouth. Despite their small size, they possess a wealth of history and local lore, as well as providing pleasant scenery. The islands are privately owned but visitors may get an up-close view via several tour boats which run in the spring, summer and autumn. In the past, Stony Creek was also known for lobstering and oystering, but these industries have all but vanished in recent decades.

The village which has several unique attractions: the Thimble Islands, the Stony Creek Legacy Theater, Stony Creek Museum as well as a small public beach, town docks with boat launch, playground and public library. Three local companies offer boat tours and charters of the Thimble Islands from March thru October.

Stony Creek is also home to the all-male Stony Creek Fife & Drum Corps, which was founded in 1886. The Corps practices weekly at the renovated Seaside Hall. On occasional summer evenings, the Corps plays aboard the island tour boat, much to the delight of the local residents. In the past, the Corps received many awards and honors, including participating in President Eisenhower's inaugural parade. Stony Creek is also home to the only all-female fife and drum corps, Totoket Ancient Fife & Drum Corps, who holds their practice at Seaside Hall.

A large quarry is still working and supplies the distinctive pink/orange Stony Creek granite. This granite was used for the Brooklyn Bridge, the Stony Creek Library, and the newest House Office Building in Washington, D.C. It can also be seen in the South Station terminal in Boston, Grand Central Terminal in NYC, and in the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Notable people

 * Herbert V. Camp (1935–2022), Connecticut Representative, graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia Law School.
 * Joseph Stamler (1911–1988), New Jersey Superior Court judge and professor at Rutgers University
 * Ayn Rand, novelist; spent the summer in Stony Creek in the late 1930s while her husband, Frank O'Connor did summer stock; she developed key elements of the plot of her novel The Fountainhead there
 * J. Andre Smith, American artist
 * Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018), late-20th-century scientist, shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Susan Weil (b. 1930), American artist

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User:BoeWiki

BoeWiki: The Legend of a Dork

I am a:

 * Vassar College student
 * Computer Science major
 * Compulsive copy-editor
 * Champion empiricist, materialist, reductionist and other such Godless nonsense
 * Defender of truth, justice and related abstract notions
 * Huge dork

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Talk:Children of Ilúvatar

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If there's another Quenyaist in Wikipedia, would you include * Minenónar as Firstborn? I know there's no evidence for that word in Quenya (thus, I put the asterisque in front of the word). --Neigel von Teighen 22:16, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If there's no evidence for it, then no, I wouldn't include it. There is plenty of attested information that we can add to Wikipedia without having to come up with our own material.
 * Minya is actually first (compare minë, one), but I suspect that there would be some changes because of the excessive number of n sounds right in a row. Fortunately, we don't have to guess about this, because the world list at Ardalambion gives Minnónar as attested. This is appararently in The War of the Jewels, which I don't actually own and therefore cannot quote, but Ardalambion is fairly authoritative.
 * I think I'll go add that to the article now. Good idea. (I'll give the citation, too, since apparently a totally different word is listed in the Etymologies. If you've got the book and want to look up that reference, please do.) I'm also changing the later text to make less of a philosophical statement. (I don't believe it was meant to imply that anyone is supposed to really know the reason why there is a division.) -Aranel (" Sarah  ") 00:07, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Minnonár does appear in TWotJ. I'll grab the index later and find the exact passage. Jordi·✆ 07:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * First, are you the same Anárion I know from the elfling list? Then, you surely have read some of my (bad) poems in the list (as 'imaglang')!
 * I really want to see this stub expanded. We could some work here, shouldn't we? --Neigel von Teighen 17:21, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * No, I'm not the same user. I only lurk on elfling, never posted there. I agree the stub could use expansion, but I am not too clear how to proceed. Jordi·✆ 13:45, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Mr. Brownstone

"Mr. Brownstone" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). Group guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin wrote the tune while they were sitting around Stradlin's apartment complaining about their addictions to heroin, for which "Brownstone" is a slang term.

Composition
The lyrics make a clear reference to the tolerance that the drug causes: "I used to do a little, but a little wouldn't do it, so the little got more and more." They wrote the lyrics on the back of a grocery bag and brought it to Axl Rose. Slash said the lyrics describe a typical day in the life of Slash and Stradlin. He also states that it was the first song the band wrote after being signed by Geffen Records.

Single release
"Mr. Brownstone" was the first Guns N' Roses single released outside of the United States and appeared as the A-side of "It's So Easy" in the United Kingdom. In the US, it was used as the B-side of "Welcome to the Jungle".

Controversy
Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting, wrote a play titled "Mr. Brownstone" that took inspiration from the song's lyrics. The song "Shackler's Revenge" from the band's 2008 album Chinese Democracy was written in reaction to "the insanity of senseless school shootings and also the media trying desperately to make more out of one shooter's preference for the Guns song Brownstone to no avail."

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Talk:One-Balled Dictator

This page was voted on for deletion at Votes for deletion/One-Balled Dictator. The consensus was to keep it. dbenbenn | talk 22:25, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
As there is nothing that I can see that warrants the NPOV flag, and there is nothing written on the talk page on this issue, I am removing the NPOV flag from the main page.--jrleighton 11:41, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

On the other hand, the article is unverified. I've tagged it. Melchoir 22:26, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Agree. The article could use a bit of referencing. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 16:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Bill Brock

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I took off the part at the end saying a Brock win in the Maryland Senate race would have made him the first person ever to go to the Senate from two different states. This is not true; James Shields was senator from three states.

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Company of One Hundred Associates

The Company of One Hundred Associates (French: formally the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, or colloquially the Compagnie des Cent-Associés or Compagnie du Canada), or Company of New France, was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to expand French colonies there. The company was granted a monopoly to manage the fur trade in the colonies of New France, which were at that time centered on the Saint Lawrence River valley and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. In return, the company was supposed to settle French Catholics in New France. The Company of One Hundred Associates was dissolved by King Louis XIV, who incorporated New France into a province in 1663.

Background
French exploitation of North America's resources began in the 16th century when French and Basque fishermen used ports on the continent's Atlantic coastline as trading stations during the summer fishing season. Attempts at permanent settlements along the Saint Lawrence River began as early as the 1540s following the expeditions of Jacques Cartier. These early settlement attempts all failed, and it was not until 1604 that efforts at permanent settlement were renewed. These efforts were made under the terms of a trading monopoly granted by King Henry IV of France in 1603 to Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, and resulted in the establishment of Port-Royal in Acadia (present-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia). This attempt at colonization failed when Dugua lost his monopoly in 1607, although the site was eventually reoccupied by other colonists. In early 1608 Dugua was granted a one-year monopoly on trading and the right to establish a settlement. The expedition that year was led by Samuel de Champlain (who had also had an important role in establishing the Acadian colony), and resulted in the establishment of the colony that grew to become Quebec City.

From 1613 to 1620, the Compagnie des Marchands operated in New France but failed to fulfill their contractual obligations and therefore lost their rights in 1621 to the Compagnie de Montmorency. Six years later in 1627, Cardinal Richelieu withdrew the monopoly of the Compagnie de Montmorency, and established the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France, as part of a plan to develop trade. Throughout all of these years, the monopoly holders were frequently troubled with rogue traders (from France and other nations) in North America on one side, and politically connected opponents of their monopoly in France on the other. Many of the directors of these companies were more interested in trade than in colonization, which was usually a drain on the company's finances. Champlain, who championed the colonization efforts, worked tirelessly to make sure the French colonies survived amid political and corporate changes of power.

Company history
The Compagnie de la Nouvelle France was capitalized with 3,000 French livres from each of one hundred investors, which led to it becoming more widely known as the Compagnie des Cent-Associés (Company of One Hundred Associates in English). Its investors included many important officials of the French court as well as merchants and financiers, although most of the investors in the earlier trading companies were excluded. Champlain is listed as investor number 52 in a list published on January 14, 1628. The company was closely controlled by Richelieu and was given sweeping authority over trade and colonization in all of New France, a territory that encompassed all of Acadia, Canada, Newfoundland, and French Louisiana. Management was entrusted to twelve directors.

From 1629 to 1635 Champlain was the company's commander in New France. Under the Ancien Régime in France, every community was governed by a lord and provided with a priest plus a magistrate appointed only with the lord and priest's concurrence. The charter also required the company to bring an average of 160 settlers to New France over the next twenty-five years and to support their settlement for the first three years. It was granted a monopoly of the fur trade, and colonists not maintained by the company were free to barter with the Indians on condition they sell their furs to the company.

The company's first fleet of colonization and supply left France in April 1628 under the cloud of war, and over the objections of some of its directors. War had broken out in 1627 with England, which raised the risk of seizure of ships heading for North America. In fact, King Charles I of England had issued letters of marque authorizing the seizure of French shipping and even the taking and destruction of her colonies. David Kirke and his brothers, in possession of one of these commissions, sailed up the Saint Lawrence in heavily armed merchant ships, burned a French farm, and demanded that Champlain surrender Quebec. He refused, and the Kirkes retreated, believing Quebec to be too strongly defended. They encountered and seized the poorly defended company fleet, and took the captured goods back to England. The company lost 90% of its initial investment with the loss of the fleet.

The company encountered numerous further difficulties with its exploitation of New France including territorial battles with the English. By 1631 the company had to find new investors willing to accept the risks. In order to attract people and capital, the company had to allocate portions of its trading monopoly to new subsidiary companies. These subsidiary partners, such as the future founders of the Compagnie des Habitants in Quebec, were made up of wealthy members of the elite from various parts of France, several of them being a part of the group of newly established colonists in Canada. Nevertheless, over the ensuing two decades this concept too ran into numerous problems, and France's attention turned to Continental Europe and the ages old rivalry with the Holy Roman Empire when in 1635 it joined the Thirty Years' War in Europe.

Discontent with settlers in Quebec over the company's total control of the fur trade caused numerous problems, which led to control over the colony shifting for a time to the Canadian-based Compagnie des Habitants, and matters worsened during the 1650s when war with the Iroquois severely hampered the fur trade and threatened continued colonization.

The situation changed when King Louis XIV finally came of age, ending the long and chaotic Regency during his minority, and in 1663 one of his first major acts as a reigning monarch was to dissolve both the Company of One Hundred Associates and the Company of Habitants, shifting the fur trading rights of North America to the French West India Company, taking direct control of New France as a Province of the Realm, and subsequently deploying the Carignan-Salières Regiment to Canada in 1665 (the first European Regular unit deployed to the Western Hemisphere) to deal with the Dutch and English-backed Iroquois menace once and for all, actions which substantially increased the stability and development of the Colony of Canada in the following decades.

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Dobok

is the uniform worn by practitioners of Korean martial arts, such as taekwondo. means "way" and means "clothing". The came from the Japanese keikogi/dōgi, used in Japanese martial arts, such as judo.

The comes in many colors, though white and black are the most common. The may have the reverse in a different colour than the rest of the. They are made in a variety of materials, ranging from traditional cotton to cotton-polyester blends.

The pants and sleeves of the are wider and longer than the traditional Japanese. Due to this, practitioners often wear a modeled after the Korean. The of World Taekwondo Federation-style taekwondo practitioners usually have v-neck jackets, tailored after the design of the hanbok. Traditional taekwondo practitioners may wear that are identical or very similar to, with a cross-over jacket front, while International Taekwon-Do Federation-style taekwondo practitioners typically wear a newer design with a vertically closing jacket front.

Around the a  (belt) is worn. The color of the belt denotes the rank or grade of the wearer. Coloured belts are for -holders, while black belts are usually worn by -holders. The order of belt colors may differ from school to school. Most commonly the first belt is a white belt. Other colours are typically yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red, brown, and then black. Some schools use other colours, such as brown in place of red and red in place of black. Some also have a stripe running down the length of the centre of the.

Practitioners of Korean sword arts like keomdo usually wear wider pants, called  that are similar looking to the Japanese  for kendo or iaijutsu.

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