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John Downes (regicide)

Colonel John Downes (1609 – c. 1666) was a commissioner who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England. After the English Restoration he was found guilty of regicide and imprisoned for life.

Background
John Downes' family had moved southwards from Cheshire to Warwickshire. They were said to be able to trace their Cheshire lineage back to 864 AD, according to John Parsons Earwaker's History of East Cheshire. It is said that when the King came hunting in Macclesfield Forest, a Downes held the King's stirrup whilst he mounted, while the Earl of Derby was to hold that of Downes. Derby refused on the basis of rank, instead pointing his whip at Downes' stirrup.

As far back as 864 AD there is mention of the family. It is said that certain Cheshire estates belonged to the ‘Ancient Family of Downes and Taxall’ which did service to Earl Edwin of Chester, brother in law to Harold, one of the Saxon kings of Mercia. The historian, Ormerod states that for many centuries these estates ‘were for many centuries owned by the ancient family of Downes and Taxall’.

According to Ormerod in 1339 year Queen Isabella of France granted, that in consideration of the fine which " Edmund, son of Edmund de Downes has made to us, we have pardoned to him as much as in us lies, the transgression which he made in taking to himself and his heirs, from his father, Edmund, a certain bailiwick \ballivani\ of Forestry in our Forest of Macclesfield

The Downes held various manors in Cheshire and Lancashire from as early as the 12th century. They were an ancient Forester family, like the Stanley,Grosvenor, Egerton and other Cheshire families whom they married into. They held the manors of Overton, Taxall, Shrigley, Sutton Downes and Wardley. Ormerod in his 'History of Macclesfield states that a Downes, styled the Great Lord of Downes, was Royal Forester to King Harold, the Saxon king of Mercia. This legend recounts how the Downes family acquired the coat of arms of the white stag. The King was hunting in Macclesfield Forest and became lost. Whilst all went to look for him, the Royal Forester, Downes, was resting when a white stag approached and led him to the King. The white stag was given to Downes by the King and became the family's arms. Ormerod claims the Downes family held their lands by a blast of the horn on Midsummer's Day and had many curious medieval rights including one to hang draw and quarter.

One member of the family, Roger Downes, a friend of the notorious libertine Lord Rochester, was killed in a London brawl, with his head apparently being sent to the family home at Wardley Hall. The Hall is supposed to be haunted by his ghost. They acquired Wardley Hall through marriage to a Worsley heiress.

Some of the Downes family were well known for their adherence to the Catholic faith, though in later centuries they remained Anglican. It was Francis Downes who retrieved the head of his martyred cousin Ambrose Barlow.

Biography
John Downes was born at Manby in Lincolnshire. He was grandson of Rev George Downes of Nuneaton, 'descended out of Cheshire'. He was appointed an auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1633 and was elected MP for Arundel, Sussex in December 1641.

A lawyer, he studied at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1642. He did not fight in the English Civil War but amassed a fortune dealing in the confiscated Royalist estates. He was a close friend of Oliver Cromwell and received substantial land grants in Ireland and England.

John Downes was arrested on 18 June 1660. When soon afterwards he petitioned King Charles II for an appointment, Robert Howcott stated that he was a servant of Mr Almery who was a relation of "Collonell Downes of Hampstead". A warrant had been issued by Sir Edward Nicholas for Downes to be arrested. Robert Howcott discovered and apprehended Downes before bringing him before the King who ordered Howcott to take Downes to General Monke, who passed him on to the "martiall Generall".

On being found guilty of regicide, John Downes was condemned to death in October 1660, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment because he had tried to intervene on the King's behalf and only signed the death warrant after being intimidated by the other commissioners.

Downes spent the rest of his life a prisoner in the Tower of London.

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U of O

U of O may refer to:

Canada

 * University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

United States

 * University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
 * University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
 * University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas

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MacApp

MacApp is the object oriented application framework for Apple Computer's discontinued classic Mac OS. Released in 1985, it transitioned from Object Pascal to C++ in 1991's version 3.0 release, which offered support for much of System 7's new functionality. MacApp was used for a variety of major applications, including Adobe Photoshop and SoftPress Freeway. Microsoft's MFC and Borland's OWL were both based directly on MacApp concepts.

Over a period of ten years, the product had periods where it had little development followed by spurts of activity. Through this period, Symantec's Think Class Library/Think Pascal had become a serious competitor to MacApp, offering a simpler model in a much higher-performance integrated development environment (IDE).

Symantec was slow to respond to the move to the PowerPC platform in the early 1990s, and when Metrowerks first introduced their CodeWarrior/PowerPlant system in 1994, it rapidly displaced both MacApp and Think as the primary development platforms on the Mac. Even Apple used CodeWarrior as its primary development platform during the Copland era in the mid-1990s.

MacApp had a brief reprieve between 2000 and 2001, as a system for transitioning to the Carbon system in MacOS X. However, after demonstrating a version at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2001, all development was cancelled that October.

Pascal versions
MacApp was a direct descendant of the Lisa Toolkit, Apple's first effort in designing an object-oriented application framework, led by Larry Tesler. The engineering team for the Toolkit included Larry Rosenstein, Scott Wallace, and Ken Doyle. Toolkit was written in a custom language known as Clascal, which added object-oriented techniques to the Pascal language.

Initially, development for the Mac was carried out using a cross-compiler in Lisa Workshop. As Mac sales effectively ended Lisa sales, an effort began to build a new development platform for the Mac. Lisa Programmer's Workshop became in 1985 the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, or MPW. As part of this process, Clascal was updated to become Object Pascal and Lisa Toolkit offered design notes for what became MacApp.

Writing a Mac program without an application framework is not an easy task, but at the time the object-oriented programming field was still relatively new and considered somewhat suspect by many developers. Early frameworks tended to confirm this suspicion, being large, slow, and typically inflexible.

MacApp was perhaps the first truly usable framework in all meanings of the term. Compiled applications were quite reasonable in terms of size and memory footprint, and the performance was not bad enough to make developers shy from it. Although "too simple" in its first releases, a number of follow-up versions quickly addressed the main problems. By this point, around 1987, the system had matured into a useful tool, and a number of developers started using it on major projects.

MacApp 2.0 was released in 1989. Among the improvements was a simplification of some of the UI element interactions, and support for Multifinder. As Apple announced it was dropping MPW Pascal support in 1992, this version didn't get updated, not even with System 7 support, and Pascal developers were left out on their own to port MacApp 2.0 to the PowerPC.

C++ versions
By this point, in the late 1980s, the market was moving towards C++, and the beta version of Apple C++ compiler appeared in 1989, around the MacApp 2.0 release. At the same time, Apple was deep in the effort to release System 7, which had a number of major new features. The decision was made to transition to an entirely new version of MacApp, 3.0, which would use C++ in place of Object Pascal. This move was subject to a long and heated debate between proponents of Object Pascal and C++ in the Usenet and other forums. Nevertheless, 3.0 managed to garner a reasonable following after its release in 1991, even though the developer suite, MPW, was growing outdated. Apple then downsized the entire developer tools group, leaving both MacApp and MPW understaffed.

One of the reasons for this downsizing was Apple's long saga of attempting to introduce the "next great platform" for development, almost always in the form of a cross-platform system of some sort. Their first attempt was Bedrock, a class library created in partnership with Symantec that ran on the Mac and Windows, which died a lingering death as both parties eventually gave up on working with the other. One of the reasons for their problems was the creation of OpenDoc, which was itself developed into a cross-platform system that competed directly with Bedrock. There were some attempts to position Bedrock as an OpenDoc platform, but nothing ever came of this.

While these developments were taking place, MPW and MacApp were largely ignored. It was more important to put those developer resources into these new projects to help them reach the market sooner. But when Bedrock failed and OpenDoc found a lukewarm reception, the Mac was left with tools that were now almost a decade old and could not compete with the newer products from third parties. Through the early 1990s competing frameworks grew into real competitors to MacApp. First Symantec's TCL garnered a following, but then Metrowerks' PowerPlant generally took over the entire market.

Lingering death
The core developers of MacApp continued to work on the system at a low activity level throughout the 1990s. When all of Apple's "official" cross-platform projects collapsed, in late 1996 the team announced that they would be providing a cross-platform version of MacApp.

Soon after, Apple purchased NeXT and announced that OpenStep would be Apple's primary development platform moving forward, under the name Cocoa. Cocoa was already cross-platform, at that time having already been ported to about six platforms, and was far more advanced than MacApp. This led to strong protests from existing Mac programmers protested that their programs were being sent to the "penalty box", effectively being abandoned.

At WWDC'98, Steve Jobs announced that the negative feedback about the move to Cocoa was being addressed through the introduction of the Carbon system. Carbon would allow existing Mac programs to run natively under the new operating system, after some conversion. Metrowerks announced they would be porting their PowerPlant framework to Carbon, but no similar announcement was made by Apple regarding MacApp.

Through this period there remained a core of loyal MacApp users who grew increasingly frustrated at Apple's behaviour. By the late 1990s, during the introduction of Cocoa, this had grown to outright dismissal of the product. Things were so bad that a group of MacApp users went so far as to organize their own meeting at WWDC '98 under an assumed name, in order to avoid having Apple staffers refuse them a room to meet in.

This ongoing support was noticed within Apple, and in late 1999 a "new" MacApp team, consisting of members who had worked on it all along, was tasked with releasing out a new version. Included was the new Apple Class Suites (ACS), a thinner layer of C++ wrappers for many of the new Mac OS features being introduced from OpenStep, and support for building in Project Builder. MacApp 3.0 Release XV was released on 28 August 2001 to the delight of many. However, in October the product was killed once again, this time forever, and support for existing versions of MacApp officially ended.

The Carbon-compliant PowerPlant X did not ship until 2004, and today Cocoa is almost universal for both MacOS and iOS programming.

MacApp today
MacApp is being kept alive by a dedicated group of developers who have maintained and enhanced the framework since Apple stopped supporting it in 2001. MacApp has been updated to fully support Carbon Events, Universal Binaries, Unicode Text, MLTE control, DataBrowser control, FSRefs, XML parsing, Custom Controls, Composite Window, Drawer Window, HIView Window and Custom Windows. MacApp also has C++ wrapper classes for HIObject and HIView. Also the Pascal version, based mainly on MacApp-2, has been ported to Mac OS X and Xcode. It features long Unicode filenames and streamed documents with automatic byte-swapping.

MacApp supports the Xcode IDE. In fact at WWDC 2005, after Apple announced the transition to Intel CPUs, it took a single developer 48 hours to update MacApp and the MacApp example apps to support Universal Binaries.

Description

 * This description is based on MacApp 3.0, which had a more advanced underlying model than the earlier 2.0 and differed in many significant ways.

The Mac OS itself has a very simple event handing system. The event structure passed from the operating system to the application has only an event type like "keypress" or "mouseclick", and details of its location and the modifier keys being held down. It is up to the application to decode this simple information into the action the user carried out, for instance, clicking on a menu command. Decoding this could be difficult, running through lists of on-screen objects and checking if the event took place within their bounds.

MacApp provided a solution to this problem using the command pattern, in which user actions are encapsulated in objects containing event details, and then sent to the proper object to carry them out. The logic of mapping the event to the "proper object" was handled entirely within the framework and its runtime, greatly decreasing the complexity of this task. It is the role of MacApp's internal machinery to take the basic OS events, translate them into semantically higher-level commands, and then route the command to the proper object.

Not only did MacApp relieve the author of having to write this code, which every program requires, but also as a side-effect this design cleanly separated code into commands, user-facing actions, and their handlers, the internal code that did the work. For instance, one might have commands for "Turn Green" and "Turn Red", both of which are handled by a single function,. A program that cleanly separated commands and handlers was known, in Apple parlance, factored.

Factoring of a program was particularly important in later versions of the Mac OS, starting with System 7. System 7 introduced the Apple Events system, which expanded the original Mac OS's event system with a much richer one that could be sent between applications, not just from the OS to a particular application. This was combined with the AppleScript system which allowed these Events to be generated from scripting code. In MacApp 3.0, Apple Events were decoded into the same commands as if they had been initiated by direct user actions, meaning that the developer didn't have to write much, if any, code to directly handle Apple Events. This was a major problem for developers using earlier systems, including MacApp 2.0, which had no such separation and often led to Apple Event support being left out.

In keeping with its role as an application framework, MacApp also included a number of pre-rolled objects covering most of the basic Mac GUI—windows, menus, dialogs and similar widgets were all represented within the system. Unfortunately, Apple typically supplied lightweight wrappers over existing internal Mac OS code instead of providing systems that were usable in the "real world". For instance, the  class was offered as the standard text editor widget, but the underlying TextEdit implementation was severely limited and Apple itself often stated it should not be used for professional applications. As a result, developers were often forced to buy add-on objects to address these sorts of needs, or roll their own. The lack of a set of professional quality GUI objects can be considered one of MacApp's biggest problems.

These problem has been addressed with the release of MacApp R16. MacApp R16 uses standard Carbon controls for all MacApp GUI objects. For instance, Carbon introduced the Multilingual Text Engine (MLTE) for full Unicode text and long-document support. In R16, the original  class has been superseded by the , which uses the MLTE control.

Notable Users
Adobe Photoshop was originally written with MacApp 1.1.1, in Object Pascal, and later ported to C++ and MacApp 3.0 for Photoshop 2.5. After MacApp cancellation by Apple, maintenance was taken over internally by the Photoshop development team, ported to PowerPC, and transformed to be shared with the Windows platform port.

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Mike Procter

Michael John Procter (15 September 1946 – 17 February 2024) was a South African cricketer, whose involvement in international cricket was limited by South Africa's banishment from world cricket in the 1970s and 1980s. A fast bowler and hard-hitting batsman, he was regarded as one of South African cricket's top allrounders.

Procter began his career mainly as a menacing fast bowler, who famously "bowled off the wrong foot", and became well known in the cricketing fraternity for his chest-on action and for his ability to release the ball early in his delivery stride. He rose to prominence as a frontline fast bowler in first-class cricket, and went on to capture 1417 wickets across 401 first-class matches, averaging a healthy 19.53, whereas he also showcased his prowess with the ball in List A cricket by picking up 344 wickets at an exceptional average of 18.76.

Procter also gained a reputation for being an outstanding batter of his generation, becoming only one of three players to strike a record six consecutive centuries in first class cricket, alongside Don Bradman and C. B. Fry.

Gloucestershire was affectionately nicknamed "Proctershire" when Procter played for Gloucestershire in English county cricket, due to his scoring over 20,000 runs and taking more than 1,000 wickets for the club. Procter was also one of only three players to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same match while playing for Gloucestershire, and he remains the only player to complete the unique distinction twice for the club, having achieved it against Essex in 1972 and against Leicestershire in 1979.

Following his retirement from playing the game, Procter was active as a coach, commentator and selector, and was appointed a match referee by the ICC. His tenure as referee involved several controversies.

Procter was named Cricketer of the Year for South Africa in 1967, and by Wisden in 1970, who described him as "One of the rare cricketers who could have found a place in any test team as either a batsman or bowler, and who could win a game single-handed with bat or ball in his hand". He died in 2024.

Early and personal life
Michael John Procter was born on 15 September 1946 in Durban. Educated at Hilton College, he played for Natal in the Nuffield week and for South African schools in 1963 and 1964. His brother, Anthony Procter, cousin A. C. Procter and father Woodrow Procter all played first-class cricket.

Procter married tennis player Maryna Godwin.

International career
The ban on South Africa restricted his Test career to seven test match appearances, all against Australia between 1967 and 1970. He took 41 Test wickets at an average of 15.02, and with Barry Richards and Graeme Pollock helped South Africa to two successive series wins over Australia by margins of 3–1 and 4–0.

Procter played for the Rest of the World versus England in 1970, and took 15 wickets at an average of 23.93 in five test-format matches.

In 1978–79, towards the end of his playing career, he played for the World XI in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in Australia. In the four "Supertests" in which he played he averaged 30.33 with the bat and 16.07 with the ball. He featured in the first semi-final for World XI side and he shared the new ball with the likes of Imran Khan and John Snow. He clean bowled West Indian veteran Viv Richards with an unplayable delivery which he delivered from over the wicket. The delivery he bowled to Richards castled the middle stump out of the ground and it became a talking point at the time given the characteristic swagger of Richards.

Procter also captained the Springbok team that played in three "tests" and three "one day internationals" against an English rebel XI, led by Graham Gooch, that toured South Africa in 1982. He revealed that he once came close to qualifying to play for the England national team in 1980, but his body was tired by the time such news apparently began to spread. However, he insisted that his callup to join England was merely speculation and was more of a ploy to allow Gloucestershire to sign another overseas player.

South African domestic cricket
Procter is the only man to twice make over 500 runs and take 50 wickets in a domestic South African season, in 1971–72 and 1972–73, when he took a then record 59 wickets in eight Currie Cup games. In 1970, he scored six successive first-class centuries for Rhodesia. He reached his record sixth successive century in first-class cricket playing for Rhodesia against Western Province in 1971 and his century came at a vital time especially when Rhodesia was reeling at 5–2. He became only the third batsman in the world to score six first-class centuries in six consecutive innings after C. B. Fry and Don Bradman and the only South African to do so. He capitalized on a costly drop catch by Western Province captain Andre Bruyns, who was on slip, when Procter had only scored two runs, and went on to make the most of the dropped chance by scoring 254 runs, which also turned out to be his highest-first-class score. Rhodesia went onto win that match by seven wickets.

He played for and captained South Africa in one unofficial "Test".

Proctershire
Procter played county cricket for 13 years as an overseas player for Gloucestershire and led them to great success. The team was occasionally referred to in jest as "Proctershire". His chest-on pace bowling lifted Gloucestershire to second in 1969 as he contributed more than 100 wickets for the club in the same season. Four centuries followed in 1971, the last lifting them from 28 for three to a target of 201 in just over two hours against Yorkshire. Procter scored 109 not out in Gloucestershire's 135/3 in the 1972 John Player League – the lowest team total in List A cricket to include a century. He destroyed Worcestershire single-handedly in 1977, scoring a century before lunch and taking 13 wickets for 73 runs. He scored another century before lunch in 1979, against Leicestershire, winning the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the season's fastest century, and then ripped through their batsmen with a hat-trick. In the next game against Yorkshire he took another hat-trick, all leg-before-wicket. In August 1979, he also famously smashed six successive sixes off the bowling of Somerset's Dennis Breakwell, albeit not in the same over.

He captained Gloucestershire with distinction from 1977 to 1981, and was popular with teammates and supporters. He was the Professional Cricketers' Association Player of the Year in 1970 and 1977, and won the Cricket Society Wetherall Award for the Leading All-Rounder in English First-Class Cricket in 1978. Mike Procter also produced a spell for the ages by grabbing everyone's attention capturing 4 wickets in 5 balls playing for Gloucestershire against Hampshire in a crucial semi-final match during the 1977 Benson and Hedges Cup. He ripped through the top order of Hampshire's batting lineup which also included the prized scalps of his fellow South African Barry Richards and West Indian opener Gordon Greenidge.

As captain, he led Gloucestershire to the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1977, as director of coaching he guided Northamptonshire CCC to victory in the 1989–90 NatWest Trophy final, and in 1994, he was coach as Kepler Wessels' South African team defeated England at Lord's by 356 runs. As a player Procter had beaten England there in 1970 with the Rest of the World XI and won the Gillette Cup for Gloucestershire in 1973, scoring 94 and taking two wickets against Sussex.

"I never really bothered much about averages, I was more concerned with how the team did, so to never lose a big game at Lord's was a highlight, plus there was winning all the Super Tests in Australia during World Series Cricket and all those Currie Cups with Natal", Procter told Cricinfo. "And, of course, winning all those Test matches in South Africa against the Aussies."

Style
As a bowler, Procter had an awkward chest-on action, seeming to bowl off the wrong foot (though not actually doing so) at the end of an intimidating run. His unusual action generated late inswing that, in the right conditions, could at times be unplayable. He bowled at high pace in his prime but later in his career knee problems caused by the impact of his bull-like body on the bowling crease forced him to turn to off-spin, which he mastered. He had a fearsome bouncer in his repertoire and he also possessed the skill of swinging the ball late.

His muscular batting in the middle order was famed for its power, although based on a sound defence. He was described by Wisden as "One of the rare cricketers who could have found a place in any test team as either a batsman or bowler and who could win a game single-handed with bat or ball in his hand".

Post-retirement involvement in cricket
After retiring, Procter was director of cricket for the Free State and Natal provinces in South Africa, as well as Northamptonshire county. He was then appointed as the first post-isolation coach of the South African cricket team, and was the coach for tours of India (in 1991), the West Indies (which included South Africa's first post-isolation test, Sri Lanka and Australia. He also coached South Africa to their first ever Cricket World Cup campaign in 1992, where South Africa caught the attention of everyone by reaching the semi-finals before agonizingly losing to England in a heart-breaking fashion due to broadcasters' costly error.

Commentating
He also served as an international cricket commentator, and one of his most memorable moments as a commentator came during the epic semi-final played between Australia and South Africa during the 1999 Cricket World Cup, which ended in a dramatic fashion with scores tied, albeit with a clumsy run of South African tailender Allan Donald. Procter and Bill Lawry were standing up in the commentary box during the critical juncture of the match when Procter exclaimed: "What kind of shot is that? First two deliveries of this over have gone bang, bang, four, four. Take that, scores are level".

Match referee
Procter was involved in several controversial incidents in his career as a match referee. He refereed the forfeited Oval Test of August 2006 when Pakistan refused to take the field after tea in protest at the umpires' decision to penalise them for ball tampering. During the second test match of the 2007–2008 Indian tour of Australia, Procter banned Harbhajan Singh for three matches on charges of racism. This decision was later overturned by Justice Hansen. At the first hearing Procter established that neither the umpire, nor Ricky Ponting, nor Sachin Tendulkar, who was closest to the incident, had heard anything. At the second hearing, however, Justice Hansen uncovered that Tendulkar heard the heated exchange between Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan including the exact Hindi phrase, and Ponting 'couldn't understand why Sachin didn't tell this to Mike Procter in the first place.' Procter had been criticised for his original decision and Sunil Gavaskar questioned whether his sympathies lay with the Australian team due to his race.

S.A. Selection Board
He was appointed chairman of selectors of South Africa men's national cricket team in December 2008 by Cricket South Africa. The entire selection board (including Procter's position as chairman of selectors) which was appointed in December 2008 was sacked by Cricket South Africa in 2010 following a poor string of performances from South African team in international cricket.

Charity
In 2014, Procter also set up a charity in South Africa by using his own name, the Mike Procter Foundation. The Mike Procter Foundation began focusing on transforming the lives of children through sports. Procter went on to register his charity in the UK in 2018 with the ambition of providing cricket coaching to underprivileged and vulnerable children.

Death
On 12 February 2024, Proctor was admitted to the intensive care unit at Busamed Gateway Private Hospital in uMhlanga following a cardiac arrest. It was revealed that his health condition began to deteriorate and his situation became complicated during a routine surgery. He died in uMhlanga on 17 February 2024, at the age of 77, of cardiac arrest due to complications during heart surgery.

Legacy
Gloucestershire revealed that the club's flag would be lowered to half-mast as a mark of respect to Procter until the start of the County Championship season, which was scheduled to begin on 5 April 2024. His former teammate David Graveney at Gloucestershire revealed that Procter, throughout his playing career, played with great pain in his knee.

Procter revealed that he admired former England captain Mike Brearley, especially for his captaincy skills. Later, Procter understood that Brearley himself considered Procter to be one of his favourite captains.

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Wikipedia talk:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create

* This article doesn't
meet any editorial standards, and is not funny. No way would this make "best of craigslist." Delete it! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by A3burke (talk • contribs).

 * If this article is going to be here, can someone at least fix that template? Bduddy 00:57, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * ... and THIS ARTICLE! (Sorry, that one was too obvious and could not be left unsaid.  Barno 01:43, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * But I already added it a couple of days ago :P CryptoDerk 01:52, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not bad. AND if we delete it, someone else is going to make it. But this time WORSE. Mocha2007 (talk) 14:29, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That is untrue ItchyBurrito (talk) 01:00, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

This needs to be moved to Meta:.
Don't create POV "essays" or commentary on a Wikipedia project page. -- Netoholic @ 22:46, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)
 * Concur with Netoholic. nsh 17:48, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Unconcur with assholes.

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This page soooo
violates WP:BEANS. bd2412 T 21:39, 16 December 2005
 * I agree. Instead of writing about things not to write about, I think our time is much more well spent improving actual articles. — Kortaggio   Proclamations   Declarations  01:36, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Any organization of which you are a member.

Now that doesn't even make sense.
What's it doing on Wikipedia? --Nerd42 (talk) 02:41, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I think the joke is to do with where You links to... --Sonic Mew 19:00, 15 October 2006 (UT

High School
If creating an article about your old high school is such a bad idea then why is there a category for High Schools? —The preceding comment was added by Kenallen (talk • contribs).
 * It's a joke (like the whole page). It links to Randolph School, which is the school of the founder of Wikipedia, who said people who make articles about their own high schools, should be free to do so, and such articles should be tolerated.  When he said that, he named Randolph School as an arbitrary example.  --Rob 23:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree. The article definitely made me lol, but the high school part interupts the flow.Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 06:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

"Anything written under the influence of recreational substances"?? I've done some of my best writing under the influence of recreational substances! -- N  scheffey (T/C) 01:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Sense of Humour
ok people, just because you think something isn't funny doesn't mean you delete it off the article! THe article is poitless and just for fun so there is no need to delete something that has done no harm!!!!! H-BOMB 22:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales
The first 'you' in "You or the organization you work for." is linked to Jimbo Wales. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CRouleau (talk • contribs) 06:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC).

What the H***!
Am I the only one who's noticed that most of these articles have already been created?

The Title is too long!
Should we move the article to something shorter?GreaterWikiholic 04:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

 * It's this long to make the humorous intent explicit. If you need a shorter version to link to, WP:STUPID or WP:DUMB exist for a reason. Thanks, Luc "Somethingorother" French 05:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explaining that! I was really, really, really, really, really wondering about it. – AndyFielding (talk) 19:21, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

The Cats
The cats are so adorable!!! :D Also, I love the captions. Lottie 11:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Can I direct you to the Kitten War site [www.kittenwar.com]?

No. 27 should include "transport in London" (whether or not in conjunction with the 2012 Olympics). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.86.0.10 (talk) 13:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

My cat is cuter. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 01:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have a super cute manx kitten... with large ears and no tail. Or mabye she's a bunny. No, she meows... Mocha2007 (talk) 14:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Friends of Gays
Are there things that can be added to this list? Like this for instance? -- Roleplayer 16:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Funny
It's funny how even nerds want to feel superior to somebody. You guys like to think, hey - we're dateless wonders who have no life, but we're way better than those Star Trek or World of Warcraft losers! What a waste of time that Warcraft stuff is! When Wikipedia eventually dies and is forgotten, you'll wish you hadn't wasted your time. 70.54.127.74 12:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

You know what else is funny? Losers who take there rime to write a paragraph of insults on a website that he/she cares nothing about. Jeez, you'd think they would have something better to do with there time. 76.84.12.144 23:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Like correcting the typos & misspellings in their posts? (Yes, I checked the spelling of every word in that sentence: I didn't have anything better to do at the moment.) -- llywrch 21:06, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, what were you guys saying? I was busy getting a life. – AndyFielding (talk) 19:26, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Out of date
"The high school you attend". I guess we're going to have to remove this one, now that it's become the norm to allow articles about high schools. I guess also " Individual [Insert current bubblegum idol here] songs " since most of them have articles too. Oh, world. 199.71.183.2 18:35, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That's why I added the mudkip lieking thing. 204.52.215.13 23:24, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Look at (current) items no. 24 through 28 (at the very least) to get the idea... red (talk) 20:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Delete Quote?
On No 2., someone put 'keep dreaming, brota.' Should this be regarded as vandalism or not?Iceberg2229 (talk) 19:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Nah, it'd be regarded as humorous, so this article is not intended to offend anyone, just don't take it seriously and just get on with your life, whoever are u. 177.105.90.10 (talk) 19:49, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes This should be regarded as vandalism (talk) 17:47, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

No, it should be regarded as humorous --Hasney (talk) 15:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Merge
1000 things not to write your article about needs to be merged here, before it grows any larger. Or possibly made into a subpage of this one. (eg move to List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create/1000 things not to write your article about). Or one/both of them deleted as violating WP:BEANS (as suggested above). -- Quiddity (talk) 05:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

number 10 : "pop culture": at least 14756 articles may be relevant of such a category... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.206.162.141 (talk) 08:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:GAME
Could we ban wikiloyering in here like WP:SPIDER a sort of "What is fameis (101 or 102 fans...) is right out!"--99.145.121.213 (talk) 02:41, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

WP:SUCK
Can we be original enough to copy pages off Uncyclopedia fro humor?

--67.242.208.137 (talk) 00:01, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

 * Yeah, maybe the tip is u typin' in ur keyboard, and the rest is with u. 177.105.90.10 (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Well where do I put the cats?
Where can we put cat gifs, funny cat pictures, and plain cute cats? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.5.166.66 (talk) 16:19, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Facebook, or Instagram. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolando 1208 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Or here, of course. – AndyFielding (talk) 19:28, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

This article is intended to promote somones cats.
"Creating or editing an article just to show off a picture of a cute cat is always a terrible idea. Besides, there's always someone somewhere who thinks their cat is cuter." This is the prime quotation of this ARTICLE. There is a total of 3 cats in this article. It appears that this article was created just for showing these cats! The user who is owned by these cats may haven't been able to resist him to put his cats somewhere that he found this article safe to put them for ever! V ani s che nu mTalk 22:01, 24 June 2012 (UTC),10:03, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

cat lore Yesseyyesseyyessey (talk) 21:52, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

 * I'll have some of whatever you guys are having. – AndyFielding (talk) 19:29, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

This article does not fit the nonbiased format of Wikipedia.
While some of the claims on this page may be true, this page itself does not follow the format set forth by just about every other article on Wikipedia and should be deleted for this reason. Instead it should be supplanted by a non-satirical How To on creating Wikipedia pages, and the guidelines for thus. In other words, keep this site professional, and keep Uncyclopedia articles on Uncyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.221.140.211 (talk) 09:08, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This isn't an article: it's a project page and intended as Wikipedia humour. Double sharp (talk) 00:39, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

The first cat on the page
It looks just like mine! ok... Waylon1 (talk) 04:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Too long title
This is a funny title, but it is too long. Should we either move this page to a shorter title or shrink the title using DISPLAYTITLE? Ups and Downs 1234 (Talk to me) (My Contribs) 06:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * No. As the disclaimer at the top says "This page is intended as humour", so a silly title fits it perfectly.  Y intan  07:36, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

No articles for individual songs?
I know this is a humor page, but why is this there? There are probably thousands of articles about individual songs. Is this something Wikipedia is no longer considering notable for the most part? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yojunemeow (talk • contribs) 17:51, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * In its earliest version, this page singled out one artist not to make song articles for. Some time after that, the page was changed to not making an article for a bubblegum pop song. Around 2010, as part of a  whose summary included "putting back the humour", it was made about individual songs generally. Yes, it makes no sense. We have lots of articles about individual songs, and it would not improve the encyclopedia to get rid of all of them. Vadder (talk) 20:01, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Links
“esoteric programming language” should link to Esoteric programming language

“noteworthy exception” should link to Atheism

191.254.112.81 (talk) 21:53, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

 * linked Atheism to 'this rule' since it makes more contextual sense. Added 59: "to 'test the boundaries of computer programming language design'." This preserves the original Java joke, while adding a sentence from the Esoteric programming language article that sounds humorous when said sarcastically or without context. Hecseur (talk) 06:09, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

 * This is a humorous article, and I get it that humor is sometimes irreverent, but I just don't think a sweeping dismissal of the sincere faith of billions is particularly funny. Rnickel (talk) 14:09, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

nice
thanks to me, there are now 69 of these useless rules and weird stuff. Billy rocky fernansa (talk) 01:08, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 April 2020(Free VBucks at the bottom)
Added more humour Editor52342 (talk) 02:47, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: - no request. GoingBatty (talk) 02:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Entry on List of lists of lists of lists is false.
Lists that may appear there:
 * List of lists of lists,
 * lists of unsolved problems, and probably even more (I didn't check every list of lists). Alfa-ketosav (talk) 17:15, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

The article of the russian Minecraft youtubers SUCH POO
Rikolit,Compot,Pixel,Villager-friend,Rikolit Subscriber Falirit (talk) 15:47, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Reverse order of notices & removal of "Bug off"
I think it might be a good idea to put the purple humor warning sign first on the page, because I've seen it most commonly appear as the first thing on a humorous article.

Also, the tone of the other notice was a bit unclear to me. At first, it tries to be helpful and neutral, and suggests a redirect to an actually useful article, but then it tells me to "bug off"? I thought I could trust that notice, I thought it was useful for me, but it kind of hurt my feelings at the end (and could be confusing for other people). I suggest removing the last sentence: "Now please, bug off, we've got more important things to be on about". Ciderpoem (talk) 19:36, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Editing
Hello sirs, I have a request to add "showing a list of unofficial Kirby media. Waylon1 (talk) 04:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

 * ✅ Minkai ( rawr! )(see where I screwed up) 19:12, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 January 2021
In the section "See Also", I suggest linking WP:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, and back from there to here too. 46.114.104.192 (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: that isn't really in-line with the style of humor on this page. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 15:38, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

A very important request...
This article is lacking in many things and must be expanded on by doing the following: - Adding more cat pictures - Adding more cat pictures - And finally, Adding more cat pictures

(this is a joke section, to a joke article, but yes I want to see more cats)

RandomEditorAAA (talk) 02:57, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Praise for this article
Whoever decided to make this deserves to be a administrator

Hope he is already one Rektz (talk) 13:35, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Timwi is in fact a sysop. -GoatLordServant ☂ (Talk - Contribs) 14:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Bedrock is better than Java
42069: A list of a thousand reasons that Bedrock Minecraft is better than Java Minecraft. Trust me, nobody will agree. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Makafushigi (talk • contribs) 18:49, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 December 2021
94. A self-reference. We already have enough self-reference articles!

172.112.210.32 (talk) 00:15, 9 December 2021 (UTC) 172.112.210.32 (talk) 00:15, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I saw WP:Navel-gazing linked recently, but as those examples exist the entry seems pointy on this list. ~ cygnis insignis 03:05, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌. There could be more in the future that you know, actually should exist. ◢  Ganbaruby!   (talk) 09:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 July 2022
point 98 >> change "Did we already do that already?" to "Did we do that already?" 87.241.188.150 (talk) 12:23, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. I think that's the joke. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:58, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

This is FUNNY
Whoever made this is awesome M@R10FYREFLOWER 20:50, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

4 cat pictures is not "endless"
There were times when I had to scroll up or down because there wasn't a cat picture on the side of the text on my phone screen. That clearly isn't endless.

2600:6C4E:1200:1E85:6C18:F1D7:8800:5D5A (talk) 04:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

There also aren't any pictures of cats being petted.

2600:6C4E:1200:1E85:6C18:F1D7:8800:5D5A (talk) 04:53, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

4 cat pictures is too many Yesseyyesseyyessey (talk) 21:51, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Four cat pictures seems to be just the right number to lure people into posting comments about how many cat pictures there are, which I believe was the goal all along.– AndyFielding (talk) 19:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

God bless the most incredible article in this website
I love how because of this page there's the words "Keep dreamin', brotha." in an actual wikipedia article. Amazing. NotGuyFieri (talk) 20:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 February 2023
On line 65, on the list. Give the word "girl" the hyperlink for the article "Myth" or the the article "Unobtanium". MEgstad (talk) 03:43, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Maybe you should try not wasting our time with stupid jokes. Meters (talk) 08:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Funny, seeing this reply on a humour list to begin with. Gotitbro (talk) 22:33, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Edit Request: Add an example of an allowed implosion
In the item 19, there are two examples given of allowable implosion articles. I propose adding a link to the Titan submersible implosion as well. 151.199.251.135 (talk) 16:23, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

113:
Some dumb show you and your brother made up when you were 12. 2603:8000:DB03:9B05:41FD:5C87:B653:8FE (talk) 05:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Edit Request: Modify #88 to include WP:CRYSTALBALL
Since #88 contains mention of future events, I think it would be appropriate to link WP:CRYSTALBALL there.

From "Your conspiracy theory that emus and squids will take over the world. Worship your new squimu overlords." to "Your conspiracy theory that emus and squids will take over the world in the future. Worship your new squimu overlords." MeowcaTheoRange (talk) 20:53, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2024
114. list of people who had attempted to make this article professional. Look, we spent a lot of time making this article so please don't immortalize the people who didn't like it 115. list of real extraterrestrial societies. I guess its not stupid but it would be really concerning if you knew that. So best you keep that to yourself 116. list of the day, month, and year all these points were made on. The only exception is 115, which will probably be outdated within the next century Splazor (talk) 18:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

 * ok im sorry this doesn't fit x to y, please ignore this Splazor (talk) 18:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Funnyfarmofdoom (talk to me) 19:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)


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Complication

Complication or complications may refer to:

Dramatic arts

 * "Complications" (CSI: Miami), an episode of CSI: Miami
 * "Complications" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
 * Complications (TV series), a 2015 USA Network television series starring Jason O'Mara

Medicine

 * Complication (medicine), an unfavorable evolution of a disease, health condition or medical treatment

Albums

 * Complications - Trilogy of Intricacy, a 2005 EP by Norwegian progressive metal band Age of Silence
 * Complications (Dover album), a 2015 album by Spanish rock band Dover

Songs

 * "Complications", a 1980 song by Killing Joke from Killing Joke
 * "Complication", a 1999 song by Nine Inch Nails from The Fragile
 * "Complications", a 2008 song by deadmau5 from Random Album Title

Technology

 * Complication (horology), a clock display other than the time

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Machines of Loving Grace

Machines of Loving Grace was an American industrial rock band from Tucson, Arizona, formed in 1989 by vocalist Scott Benzel, keyboardist Mike Fisher, and guitarist Stuart Kupers. The band released three albums in the 1990s, followed by a disbandment in 1999.

Formation, Machines of Loving Grace, and label signing (1989–1992)
In 1989, vocalist Scott Benzel recruited guitarist Stuart Kupers and keyboardist Mike Fisher to work on music for a film project. All three attended the University of Arizona together. The end result was the track "Terminal City". Pleased with the song, the trio continued to work together, and formed a band named Machines of Loving Grace. The name came from the Richard Brautigan poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". During recording, the band brought in drummer Brad Kemp and bassist Andrew Stewart to record on one track ("Lipstick 66").

The band circulated the songs as a self-produced demo. In 1991, Mammoth Records signed the band to a label contract based on the demo; however, instead of allowing the band to record a proper album, the label released the demo as their debut album with minimal changes under the name Machines of Loving Grace in October 1991. The band protested the decision but ultimately relented. Around the same time, Kemp and Stewart joined the band on drums and bass respectively. Despite landing a deal with a label, the band didn't play their first live show until later on in 1991 as they opened for Pigface in Hollywood, California. Machines of Loving Grace then went on their first major tour in the US alongside The Swans and also Peter Murphy.

To promote Machines of Loving Grace, "X-Insurrection" was released as a video and "Rite of Shiva" was released as a single. During a chance encounter in Arizona through a mutual friend, the band met Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. He offered to collaborate with the band. Along with Brian Liesegang, they created a remix for the Machines of Loving Grace track "Burn Like Brilliant Trash". The remixed version, with a "radio edit" subtitle, was released as a single in 1992. Due to legal troubles with Reznor's label, the single wasn't heavily promoted nor was a video made for it.

Concentration and mainstream exposure (1993–1994)
In 1993, Machines of Loving Grace entered the studio with producer Roli Mosimann (who had previously worked with bands such as New Order and The The). During the recording process, Stewart departed from the band but still contributed additional bass to the album. The band wrote over 20 songs for the album, and were more motivated due to the fact that their first album was essentially released without any alterations. The band released their second album titled Concentration in September 1993. It received wider distribution than their self-titled album due to a deal with Atlantic Records. "Butterfly Wings" was the lead single and it peaked at No. 13 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Promotional singles for "Perfect Tan (Bikini Atoll)", "If I Should Explode", and "Acceleration" were released as well. For the tour in support of Concentration, the band added Ray Riendeau to the lineup as bassist. Along with various headlining shows, they also opened for My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult towards the end of the year.

In early 1994, Machines of Loving Grace went on tour with Course of Empire to promote Concentration. That same year, Machines of Loving Grace contributed the song "Golgotha Tenement Blues" to the soundtrack of The Crow. It was also released as a standalone single. They were involved with the film early on since they were the first band contacted for the soundtrack. Ultimately, the soundtrack peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and went on to receive multiple sales certifications from the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK. Also in 1994, "Butterfly Wings" appeared in an episode of the show Due South.

Gilt, disbandment, and The Machines project (1995–1999)
In 1995, Kemp departed from the band. The remaining four members then started work on their third album with Sylvia Massy (who had previously worked with bands such as Green Jellö and Tool) as producer. Influenced by the extensive touring behind Concentration, the band opted for a rawer sound more akin to a live setting for their third album. During the recording process, Kupers left the band. The lineup was then expanded with Tom Coffeen (previously a member of Beats the Hell Out of Me) on guitars and David Suycott (previously a member of Stabbing Westward) on drums. The end result was Gilt (initially called Gilt After Tris), released in September 1995. Around the same time, a slight remix of the Gilt track "Richest Junkie Still Alive" appeared on the soundtrack to the film Hackers. Both the remix version and the original version were released as singles. Shortly after the release of Gilt, Coffeen was replaced on guitars by Greg Suran. In late 1995, Machines of Loving Grace opened for Jim Rose Circus. From the end of 1995 to the beginning of 1996, Machines of Loving Grace toured alongside Korn, Grotus, and Chemlab throughout the US. Later on in 1996, "Tryst" (off of Gilt) appeared on the soundtrack to Mega Man (a TV show adaption).

After the touring cycle for Gilt ended, Suran departed from the band, and he was replaced by Tom Melchionda (a friend of the band who had previously co-written "Golgotha Tenement Blues" from The Crow and also served as the band's guitar tech). The lineup of Benzel, Fisher, Suycott, Riendeau, and Melchionda then commenced recording the band's fourth album. It was given the working title of Love Scenes at the Slave Market. In 1997, "Richest Junkie Still Alive" appeared on a compilation which promoted the European release of the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

Throughout 1997 and 1998, the band members gradually moved away from Love Scenes at the Slave Market. Riendeau joined the band 2wo as a touring bassist, Suycott focused on session work for a wide variety of artists such as Verbow and Butterfly Child, and Benzel shifted towards technical work for other artists. By the beginning of 1999, Machines of Loving Grace had effectively disbanded. Benzel, however, started a project simply named The Machines. The band's sound was changed into a beat-oriented electronic direction. Ben Grosse, Jim Waters, and Jack Dangers were working on the untitled album as well. Song names mentioned included "Superfuck", "Transgression", and "Never Learn Not to Love" (a Beach Boys cover). Unfortunately for the band, their label (Mammoth Records) went through a transition as they were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. Due to the restructuring, Benzel halted The Machines project by 2000.

Post-breakup (2000–present)
Three songs from the band's album Concentration appeared in the 2005 film Devour. In 2007, Machines of Loving Grace was included in the documentary High and Dry: 20 Years of Tucson Music, which revolved around the music scene of Tucson, Arizona. In 2008, "Butterfly Wings" (from Concentration) was featured on the soundtrack of the film Punisher: War Zone. Original guitarist Kupers died at the age of 54 on November 14, 2021. He had ultimately died from both Gaucher's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Members

 * Scott Benzel – vocals (1989–1999)
 * Mike Fisher – keyboards, programming (1989–1999)
 * Stuart Kupers – guitars, bass (1989–1995); died 2021
 * Brad Kemp – drums (1991–1995)
 * Andrew Stewart – bass (1991–1993)
 * Ray Riendeau – bass (1993–1999)
 * David Suycott – drums (1995–1999)
 * Tom Coffeen – guitars (1995)
 * Greg Suran – guitars (1995–1996)
 * Tom Melchionda – guitars (1996–1999)

Timeline
Color denotes main live duty.

Albums

 * Machines of Loving Grace (1991)
 * Concentration (1993)
 * Gilt (1995)

Music videos

 * "X-Insurrection"
 * Directed by Kevin Borque
 * "Butterfly Wings"
 * Directed by Julie Hermelin
 * "Perfect Tan (Bikini Atoll)"
 * Directed by Julie Hermelin
 * "Golgotha Tenement Blues"
 * "Richest Junkie Still Alive"
 * Directed by John Reece

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Curt Blefary

Curtis Leroy "Clank" Blefary (July 5, 1943 – January 28, 2001) was an American professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles (1965–1968), Houston Astros (1969), New York Yankees (1970–1971), Oakland Athletics (1971–1972) and the San Diego Padres (1972). A native of Brooklyn, New York, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Career
Blefary grew up in Mahwah, New Jersey and attended Mahwah High School.

In an eight-season career, Blefary was a .237 hitter with 112 home runs and 382 RBI in 974 games.

In his debut year with the Orioles in 1965, Blefary hit .260 with 22 home runs and 70 RBI, winning both the American League Rookie of the Year and The Sporting News Rookie of the Year awards. During the 1965 Winter Meetings, he was one of three players along with Milt Pappas and Jack Baldschun whose names were originally submitted by the Cincinnati Reds in discussions of any transaction which would have sent Frank Robinson to Baltimore, but the Orioles balked at trading Blefary. Dick Simpson was sent to the Reds instead of Blefary to complete the deal. The following season, he was a member of the Orioles team that won the 1966 World Series.

Nicknamed "Clank" by Frank Robinson because of his below-average fielding abilities, Blefary started his career in the outfield, tried at first base, then switched to catcher, in an effort to keep his bat in the lineup. On April 27, 1968, he caught Tom Phoebus's no-hitter against the Red Sox. Blaming his constant defensive shuffling for his offensive decline, Blefary was traded to Houston in 1969 in the deal that brought Mike Cuellar to the Orioles.

On May 4, 1969, Blefary, who was playing first base participated in all of the Astros record-tying seven double plays in a game against the San Francisco Giants.

After a full season with the Astros, at the end of the 1969 season he was traded to the Yankees for fellow Brooklynite, Joe Pepitone.

Blefary was used as a part-time player by the Yankees. He was dealt from the Yankees to the Oakland Athletics for Rob Gardner and Darrell Osteen on May 25, 1971. He was sent to the Padres in 1972. After retiring in 1972, he tried unsuccessfully to continue his career in baseball as a coach. He worked as a sheriff, bartender, truck driver, and later owned a night club.

He played and coached in the 1977 season with the New Jersey Statesmen, a professional softball team in the American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL), as did fellow MLB alumnus Joe Pepitone. Blefary managed the team in 1978 but was fired mid-season.

Even as his health failed in his later years, he hoped to secure a professional coaching job, but his only connection with baseball was as a volunteer coach for Northeast High School in Fort Lauderdale.

Later life
In the last years of his life, Blefary suffered from chronic pancreatitis. He had hip replacement surgery in the mid-1990s and experienced a variety of health and financial problems, including alcoholism and depression. Blefary died at his home in Pompano Beach, Florida on January 28, 2001, at the age of 57 of chronic pancreatitis and other related ailments. His last wish was to be buried in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Although the park was nearly demolished when he died, his wife Lana was able to honor his request to scatter his ashes in Memorial Stadium. The Babe Ruth Museum supplied the home plate used in the penultimate game at the stadium and located it in the precise spot where it had been used. The ceremony was held on May 24, 2001. "He loved Baltimore, and he loved his fans," said his wife. "He was a lifelong student of the game."

Blefary's grandson, Anthony Servideo, was drafted in the third round of the 2020 Major League Baseball Draft by the Orioles. Servideo is a shortstop and played college baseball at the University of Mississippi.

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Jock River

The Jock River, known locally as the Mighty Jock, is a river in Ottawa and Lanark County in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin and is a left tributary of the Rideau River. The river is named after Jacques, a French man who drowned in it in the early 19th century, and it was once known as the Goodwood River. The River is supported by a community-volunteer organization known as the Friends of the Jock River.

Course
The river begins in the municipality of Montague in Lanark County. It flows north under the Canadian Pacific Railway main line into the municipality of Beckwith, passes under Ontario Highway 15 and past the community of Franktown into the Goodwood Marsh. It then turns east into the City of Ottawa at the community of Ashton, flows through the community of Richmond, heads under Ontario Highway 416, and reaches its mouth at the Rideau river north of the community of Manotick.

The Jock River watershed drains 551 km2 of land.

Jock River Canoe Race
For one weekend each spring, the popular Annual Jock River Canoe Race is held between Munster Road and the town of Richmond, covering 12.5 km of the river mostly through the Richmond Fen. The race, held since 1985, has grown to include now many classes of competition, such as solo and tandem canoeing and kayaking, recreational, mixed, and family.

The race is usually held in early spring to take advantage of the high water level. The race course has a few sections of Class I whitewater.

Tributaries

 * Nichols Creek (right)
 * Kings Creek (right)

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Talk:Minamata disease

Suggested merger
Two articles have been recommended to merge to this page. Japanese democracy and Minamata Tokyo negotiation. They have a great deal of overlapping information. They are not well formatted for Wikipedia and they are not linked in with other articles. I believe the content of these articles will be best discussed in this article. Can someone familiar with the topic take on the task? Thanks. Rossami (talk) 01:51, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I can lend a helping hand. --Viriditas | Talk 02:14, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge complete, although the article itself still needs work. --Viriditas | Talk 02:58, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Quotes moved to wikiquote. --Viriditas | Talk 03:20, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Second case of Minamata disease
There was a second case of Minamata disease in Aga-machi, Niigata Prefecture in 1964, caused by a Showa Denko factory. Further details are available (in Japanese) at ja:第二水俣病. Physchim62 15:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Grassy Narrows
Awhile ago I was watching a programme on History Television about Minamata Disease. I'd heard of the disease before but had only thought it isolated to Japan. The documentary though discussed evidence of Minamata disease (although not as great in scale) in the residents of Grassy Narrows back in the 1970s. Apparently a pulp-and-paper mill upstream was pouring mercury into the English River-Wabigoon River system. As Grassy Narrow's economy was heavily dependent on the fishing industry, there was little that could be done to stop residents from eating contamintated fish. If I recall correctly, our government did little to aid Grassy Narrows. I believe they acknowledged methyl mercury poisoning but not Minamata disease itself.

There is a reference to this in the Dryden, Ontario article so it seems this is a necessary edit to ensure Wikipedia's continuity.

I think that both the case above, from Niigata, and the case from Grassy Narrows should be included as case studies here. I do not know much about the Niigata incident but there is little info on the Grassy Narrows case. I can see if I can find the documentary I watched and try and locate some sources, but I think some consensus needs to be reached before we add these two cases?Ben Webber 21:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * There were several papers written by Glass & Sorensen in the 1990's regarding methylmercury levels in Minnesota lakes. If I come across them and the references of other articles they used (which includes articles on the Minamata Bay clean-up, the Niigata dumping and the Grassy Narrows), I will add more to this article.  I remember translating a Japanese article into English for Dr. Gary Glass and John Sorensen, and I was bewildered at the imagery the paper described of the reported suiciding cats.  Of course, what was happening was the the cats at Minamata Bay were eating the methylmercury-laden fish and would go into convulsions from the mercury poisoning while walking along the wall-tops, giving the appearance of cats committing suicide.  In addition, there was paper on a Swedish study on the survivors of accute murcury poisoning in Iraq when then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had directed medical studies on this one village.  I do believe the Swedish researchers also described the Iraqis with severe mercury poisoning as having "Minamata Disease."  CJLippert 22:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Deletion
Removed this section because it repeats and overlaps with other sections: Bobo12345 05:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * === Mercury poisoning ===

 * The physicians were shocked at the high mortality rate for the new illness: it was found that thirteen other people, including those from small fishing villages near Minamata, had died with the same symptoms; local domestic animals and birds showed similar symptoms. It was found that a common factor of all the victims is that they all ate large quantities of fish from Minamata Bay. Researchers from Kumamoto University came to the conclusion that the malady was not a sickness, but rather poisoning by toxic substances. It became clear that the poisonings were linked to a production facility in Minamata making acetaldehyde and PVC, a type of plastic, owned by the Chisso Corporation, a hydro-electric power company that produced chemical fertilizers. Speaking publicly against the company was forbidden as it was a significant employer in the city. Eventually, the medical research team reached the tentative conclusion that the deaths were caused by mercury poisoning through the consumption of contaminated fish and shellfish; mercury was being used by the Chisso complex as a reaction catalyst. The company disposed of its industrial wastes in the sea, thus polluting the water with mercury.

Cyclator in 1956?
Could someone check the date of the cyclator installation? Surely, if it was installed in response to the pollution, then 1956 is a typo? Ewen 06:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

 * It was indeed a typo. 1959 is right. Thanks for the correction. Bobo12345 06:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Second outbreak
Since the article is getting a bit long, I moved the content of the Second outbreak section to a new article in its own right: Niigata Minamata disease. Bobo12345 11:40, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

2 million people claim
Until I can find a proper reference for the following claim I'm going to remove it from the article.

 * "It is speculated that over 2 million people may have eaten fish contaminated with mercury from the Chisso factory."
 * and
 * "The potential scale of the environmental disaster is illustrated in research from 2001, which speculates that as many as two million people living around the Yatsushiro Sea may have been affected by eating contaminated fish."

The 2001 research is mentioned in a few articles ( and ) but I can't find the original source, let alone an English version. Bobo12345 13:16, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Uncertified patients section rewrite
While I rewrite this section, I'm moving the old content to the Talk page:

 * The first wave of compensations, settled in 1959, could not be maintained as new cases of Minamata disease began to appear. These victims and their families were not included in the original settlement with Chisso and therefore did not receive the same compensation as those diagnosed before the original solution. So the newly diagnosed families began the quest to receive comparable compensation for their disabilities. One group chose to sue Chisso and therefore go to trial for their compensation; another group sought direct negotiations with the executives of Chisso.

 * These direct negotiations in Tokyo were exhausting. On December 8, Kawamoto, a leader in the direct negotiations group, began by asking Shimada, a Chisso executive, to pledge in their blood to come to an agreement and treat each other as human beings. Shimada refused. The negotiations lasted through much of the night, ending with Shimada collapsing and being taken to the hospital. The Minamata patients were told to go home, and when Shimada was able to negotiate again, he would do so in Minamata. However, the patients remained in the Chisso headquarters. By December 25, only two patients remained in Tokyo, Kawamoto and Sato. Chisso Executive Director Kuga, approached them and asked them to take some money and buy tickets back to Minamata. Kawamoto and Sato refused unless Chisso agreed to direct negotiations. They were thrown out to the unsightly tented settlement outside the building.

 * After this, protests and speeches by the patients took place outside the Chisso office building. Media coverage was great and many journalists took the side of the Minamata victims. Patients were shown in wheelchairs at the protests and in newspapers. However, the stalemate remained.

 * Patients and sympathizers marched on the downtown offices of Chisso and attempted to march as far as the president’s office. They were met with iron bars blocking the door to the Chisso floor of the Tokyo Building. The patients used the bars to their advantages by building memorials to the people who had already died of Minamata disease.

 * Because of the mass of media coverage, the Japanese Communist and Socialist parties began to more openly support the sufferers of Minamata disease along with the Sōhyō labour federation. The attention of the media and political party officials allowed Minamata disease to become a widely known problem in Japan and because the minority population of Minamata disease sufferers then had a voice, it then allowed Japanese democracy to develop to a new level. Also, due to this open support by opposing parties, and the call from the labour union for Chisso to negotiate, the Japanese government stepped into action with the Director General of the Environmental Agency (Oishi Buichi) asking to be allowed to mediate the negotiations.

 * Also around this time, Governor Sawada Issei came to Tokyo to help in overcoming the impasse of negotiations. Sawada and Oishi both met with the patients, Kawamoto and Sato, and also with Shimada, who had returned from the hospital. Both parties agreed to mediate negotiations through Sawada and Oishi.

 * As the negotiations began, the patients opposed a settlement mirroring the first solution. They wanted not only equal and sufficient compensation but also public acceptance by Chisso of responsibility for the Minamata disease.

 * During these negotiations and also talks of a compensation advance, 29 more patients were diagnosed with Minamata disease. These patients were more cooperative with Chisso and agreed to accept the low compensation of $570 each. This caused a split between the newly diagnosed families. It also took away much of the leverage the direct negotiation group had and gave Chisso an advantage. The division between the Tokyo group and the Minamata group brought up hard feelings. Those in Minamata had continued to work, while the protesters in Tokyo had received financial support from backers in Tokyo. Many of those in Minamata were facing continued discrimination, but also were being threatened of losing their jobs if they continued with the negotiations. Only four people ultimately decided to drop the negotiations.

 * The patients reduced their demands to close to what the first settlement between Chisso and the original Minamata victims had been. However, Chisso still refused because of the lack of a ranking system for the severity of illness. Then the negotiations were officially suspended, owing to Chisso’s unwavering stance.

 * Finally, the March verdict affirming Chisso's negligence gave the direct-negotiation patients grounds to reach agreements. After days of negotiation, Chisso agreed to pay $66,000 for deceased patients who were included in the group of newly diagnosed patients. This opened the door for the other newly diagnosed patients to be included in the trial settlement. Finally, on July 9, 1973, through the work of the new Environment Agency Director Miki, an agreement was reached. This proposal included the compensations based on ranking severity of symptoms, but also payments to the patients per year to cover living expenses, and payment of all medical expenses.  The government also provides medical examinations for people living in the affected area.  These compensations and actions are considered inadequate by many. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bobo12345 (talk • contribs) 02:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

Staple diet was shellfish and cats
"The staple food of victims was invariably fish and shellfish from Minamata Bay and the cats in the local area,..." Did they really eat cats or is this two separate thoughts? If the latter, please break it into two sentences. Wikipedia != comedy central. :P 66.139.239.116 16:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Ah yes. The sentence was a bit poorly phrased! I've corrected it now. Thanks, Bobo12345 00:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

K2O, MgO
The company's own tests revealed that its wastewater contained more than ten poisonous substances including lead, mercury, manganese, arsenic, selenium, thallium, copper, magnesium oxide and potassium oxide.

Potassium and Magnesium oxides are not posonous. They are essential elements and nontoxic even in larger doses. --Malbi 17:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The company's own tests revealed that its wastewater contained more than ten poisonous substances including lead, mercury, manganese, arsenic, selenium, thallium, copper.

I am not sure that it is helpful to describe all of these elements as poisonous substances. While there is no question that compounds composed of elements may bring about adverse health effects in people exposed to them at high enough levels (depending in part on the chemical compounds involved), several of them are also essential trace elements e.g. deficiency in selenium and copper exist. I would suggest rewording to

 * The company's own tests revealed that is wastewater contained many heavy metals in concentrations sufficiently high to bring about serious environmental degradation including lead, mercury, manganese, arsenic, selenium, thallium and copper.

If someone comes up with a better rewording, please just bear in mind Paracelsus - "All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." Jimjamjak 13:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I made the change as you suggested. Hopefully that should clear up any confusion. Thanks! Bobo12345 09:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Split History from Disease
I have been tracking down duplicate ICD codes that appear in disease templates. "Minimata disease" is a medical synonym for Methylmercury poisoning,. The clinical aspects of the disease should be merged with Mercury poisoning, and this page should focus on the history, with "For the clinical disease, see Mercury poisoning" at the top. This page could then drop the infobox, and the ICD9 code would be present on only one page (as it should be) Tiki2099 19:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Lead Image
I've been a frequent proponent against the removal of images due to their perceive vulgarity by other users. The lead image of this article, however, I find greatly disturbing myself, to the point that I was made too uncomfortable to read the through the lead section and still feel slightly nauseous now. I not about to unilaterally demand that it be changed, moved, or removed, but figured I'd open a discussion on the topic. --jwandersTalk 14:39, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. I find the image very disturbing, but after reading the article, I don't find it inappropriate in context.  I'd say it should stay.  Sometimes it's fully appropriate for a disturbing image to be associated with a disturbing topic.  71.196.232.95 (talk) 01:38, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Replace the black and white photos
Almost every photo on this page is black and white, which to me smells like someone trying to manipulate emotions instead of just getting the facts across. I dont think emotional manipulation should be something that wikipedia does. -OOPSIE- 22:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Or they could be photographs taken when colour photography was rare. Look at the dates. -- Escape Orbit  (Talk) 22:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia policy is to assume good faith by other editors unless there is "strong evidence to the contrary". What evidence do you have that the editor who put up the black-and-white photographs did so in bad faith?

 * I see nothing wrong in the photographs being black-and-white, and I'm not aware of any Wikipedia policy or guideline discriminating against black-and-white photographs. It is hardly surprising the photographs are black-and-white since black-and-white photography was still very common in Japan even until the 1970s.--Neparis 23:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Eugene Smith's photos of Minamata were probably never intended to be objective news pictures - one glance at the rest of the photo essay illustrates Smith's emotional connection to the story and the people involved. According to W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975 (1998, ed. Gilles Mora, John T. Hill) "Smith became so identified with these unfortunate people's plight that he was set upon by Chisso employees in an encounter with some of the victims, and badly beaten up."  In any case these are documentary photographs (user -OOPSIE- is welcome to submit their color pix), and black and white is how Smith took them.  Interesting that b&w is now perceived as editorial, when until the seventies it was probably the most common format, certainly for news photos. - Rapscallion (talk) 16:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It is, and always has been a myth and a misunderstanding that objectivity in reporting means disregarding emotions. This is especially true in all forms of journalism, including photography.  The emotional element, particularly of the subject, has always been a key component, and every "great" story has it.  The irony is obvious; to forcibly discard the emotional elements, the pain, the suffering, the compassion, is in effect, a subjective and biased decision.  As someone once said, it is what it is. Viriditas (talk) 12:36, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I believe the photos should be removed because when Eugene Smith passed away, the copyright to his photos passed to his wife, who turned the photos over to the Uemura family. The picture of the deformed hand is of Tomoko Uemura, who died many years ago, and now that her family has the copyright, they have withdrawn the right to publish the photos. Therefore, they should be removed. Jrhoadley (talk) 21:38, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

USD Conversions
I found the USD conversions of the various payments confusing. Are they conversions at the time of the payment or using present day figures? Do they need to be in the article at all? Icd (talk) 05:19, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

 * They seem to be contemporaneus (reflecting exchange rates at the time) but even then those US dollar figures and not inflation adjusted, so they don't always reflect the true costs involved. The Japanese yen was not nearly as strong vs. the US dollar as it is now.  To be honest I think the most useful figure would be inflation-adjusted US dollars but the contemporaneous exchange rates are better than the raw figures in non-adjusted yen.  71.196.232.95 (talk) 01:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Yutaka Egashira
As the firm's president he was involved with the settlement of lawsuits. He was the maternal grandfather of Masako Owada, she ist his heiress. And she married the heir to the Japanese Chrysanthemum Throne... http://www.benhills.com/articles/articles/JPN42a.html --217.232.100.246 (talk) 02:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Shimada Ken'ichi Apology Video
Shimada Ken'ichi Apology Video

[A]fter five hours of negotiations on March 22, [1973], ... he had knelt before the victims and apologized that they accepted his promise.

Where can I find the full video of Chisso's president Shimada Ken'ichi kneeling and apologizing before the victims on March 22, 1973?

Here's the small clip I could find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXoDtPuB3Qo#t=02m32s

XP1 (talk) 06:29, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Minamata Chisso Industrial Waste.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

 * Poppycock: there's a very clear free-use rationale provided. -- Hoary (talk) 10:34, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Minamata protesters.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

 * There was already a FUR provided. -- Hoary (talk) 13:32, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Proposed merger
Just to note that I removed the merger tag from the article suggesting a merger with Mad hatter disease. Both mad hatter disease and Minamata disease are examples of mercury poisoning but I can't see the value in the Minamata disease article mentioning mad hatter disease. The person who originally tagged the article also didn't provide a reason on the talk page prior to tagging. Bobo12345 (talk) 06:21, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Naming the Industrial Process Will Help Understanding
In the "1908-1955" section, second paragraph, it states "The chemical reaction used to produce the acetaldehyde used mercury sulfate as a catalyst." It would be an improvement to provide the name of this process (if it exists), to understand clearly if this is the "Wacker process" mentioned in the Wiki article on acetaldehyde (see "Production" section). Based on the wording, I think it is *not* the same, but expert knowledge is needed here. Dan Aquinas (talk) 17:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Suggested change - Visual documentation section
Hello. I suggest adding the name of Aileen Mioko Smith instead of just talking of her as "W. Eugene Smith's Japanese wife" (sic!). That seems disrespectful to her, after all, she co-authored the Minamata book with him and continued on later as an activist as well. Technicality nitpicker (talk) 17:20, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

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