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Miaphysitism

Miaphysitism is the Christological doctrine that holds Jesus, the "Incarnate Word, is fully divine and fully human, in one 'nature' (physis)." It is a position held by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and differs from the Chalcedonian position that Jesus is one "person" (ὑπόστασις) in two "natures" (φύσεις), a divine nature and a human nature (dyophysitism).

While historically a major point of controversy within Christianity, several modern declarations by both Chalcedonian and miaphysite churches state that the difference between the two Christological formulations does not reflect any significant difference in belief about the nature of Christ.

Terminology
The word miaphysite derives from the Ancient Greek μία (mía, "one") and φύσις (phúsis, "nature, substance"). Miaphysite teaching is based on Cyril of Alexandria's formula μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη, meaning "one physis of the Word of God made flesh" (or "... of God the Word made flesh").

The 451 Council of Chalcedon used physis to mean "nature" (as in "divine nature" and "human nature"), and defined that there is in Jesus one hypostasis (person) but two physeis (natures). It is disputed whether Cyril used physis in that sense. John Anthony McGuckin says that in Cyril's formula "physis serves as a rough semantic equivalent to hypostasis".

Others interpret the miaphysite term physis in line with its use by the Council of Chalcedon and speak of "miaphysitism" as "monophysitism", a word used of all forms of denial of the Chalcedonian doctrine. However, they add that "miaphysitism" is "the more accurate term for the position held by the Syriac, Coptic and Armenian churches".

The Second Council of Constantinople (553), the ecumenical council that followed that of Chalcedon, accepted Cyril's phrase, but warned against misinterpreting it.

The broad term "dyophysitism" covers not only the Chalcedonian teaching but also what Nestorianism interpreted as meaning that Jesus is not only of two natures but is in fact two centres of attribution, and thus two persons, a view condemned by the Council of Chalcedon. Similarly, "monophysitism" covers not only Oriental Orthodox teaching but also the view called Eutychianism, according to which, after the union of the divine and human natures in the incarnation of the eternal Son or Word of God, he has only a single "nature", a synthesis of divine and human, identical with neither. This doctrine is rejected by miaphysites, who teach instead that the incarnate Christ has one "nature" that is both divine and human in its character, retaining all the characteristics of both humans and divinity, but with no mingling, confusion (pouring together) or change within.

To avoid being confused with Eutychians, the Oriental Orthodox Churches reject the label "monophysite". Coptic Metropolitan Bishop of Damiette declared it a misnomer to call them monophysites, for "they always confessed the continuity of existence of the two natures in the one incarnate nature of the Word of God. Non[e] of the natures ceased to exist because of the union and the term 'mia physis' denoting the incarnate nature is completely different from the term 'monophysites'. [...] The Oriental Orthodox do not believe in a single nature in Jesus Christ but rather a united divine-human nature."

The Agreed Statement by the Anglican–Oriental Orthodox International Commission in 2014 said:

"The term 'monophysite', which has been falsely used to describe the Christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, is both misleading and offensive as it implies Eutychianism. Anglicans, together with the wider oikumene, use the accurate term 'miaphysite' to refer to the Cyrilline teaching of the family of Oriental Orthodox Churches, and furthermore call each of these Churches by their official title of 'Oriental Orthodox'. The teaching of this family confesses not a single nature but one incarnate united divine-human nature of the Word of God. To say 'a single nature' would be to imply that the human nature was absorbed in his divinity, as was taught by Eutyches."

Conflict
The conflict over terminology was to some extent a conflict between two renowned theological schools. The Catechetical School of Alexandria focused on the divinity of Christ as the Logos or Word of God and thereby risked leaving his real humanity out of proper consideration (cf. Apollinarism). The stress by the School of Antioch was on the humanity of Jesus as a historical figure. To the theological rivalry between the two schools added a certain political competitiveness between, on the one hand, Alexandria and, on the other, Antioch and Constantinople.

The condemnation of Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431 was a victory for the Alexandrian school and church, but its acceptance required a compromise, the "Formula of Reunion", entered into by Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch two years later. Cyril died in 444. Under his successor, Dioscurus I of Alexandria, a Constantinopole-based archimandrite named Eutyches, whose answer to questions put to him was judged heretical by Bishop Flavian of Constantinople, in turn, accused Flavian of heresy. The Emperor convoked a council and entrusted its presidency to Dioscurus. This Second Council of Ephesus, held in 449, rehabilitated Eutyches and condemned and deposed Flavian and some other bishops. These appealed to Pope Leo I, who, calling their assembly not a concilium but a latrocinium, a robber council rather than a proper council, declared it null and void. The miaphysite churches still recognize it as valid, but outside their ranks it is not reckoned as an ecumenical council.

The Council of Chalcedon was held in 451 and annulled the earlier council that had been presided over by Dioscurus. It has not been accepted by the Oriental Orthodox Churches, who do not defend Eutyches and accept the implicit condemnation of him by the (non-ecumenical) Third Council of Ephesus held in 475.

Chalcedon accepted by acclamation Leo's Tome, the letter by Pope Leo I setting out, as he saw it, the church's doctrine on the matter, and issued what has been called the Chalcedonian Definition, of which the part that directly concerns miaphysitism runs as follows: "Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us One and the same Son, the Self-same Perfect in Godhead, the Self-same Perfect in Manhood; truly God and truly Man; the Self-same of a rational soul and body; co-essential with the Father according to the Godhead, the Self-same co-essential with us according to the Manhood; like us in all things, sin apart; before the ages begotten of the Father as to the Godhead, but in the last days, the Self-same, for us and for our salvation (born) of Mary the Virgin Theotokos as to the Manhood; One and the Same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten; acknowledged in Two Natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the difference of the Natures being in no way removed because of the Union, but rather the properties of each Nature being preserved, and (both) concurring into One Person and One Hypostasis; not as though He was parted or divided into Two Persons, but One and the Self-same Son and Only-begotten God, Word, Lord, Jesus Christ; even as from the beginning the prophets have taught concerning Him, and as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself hath taught us, and as the Symbol of the Fathers hath handed down to us."

Dissent from this definition did not at first lead to a clean break between what are now the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. While in the West, Rome tended to uphold steadfastly the text of Leo's Tome and of the Chalcedonian definition, the situation in the East was fluid for a century after the council, with compromise formulas imposed by the emperors and accepted by the church and leading at times to schisms between East and West (cf. Acacian Schism, Henotikon, Monoenergism).

The situation then hardened into a fixed division between what are now called the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Chalcedonian churches later divided into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church and its Protestant derivations.

Thoughts of resolution
In recent decades a number of Christological agreements between miaphysite and Chalcedonian churches have been signed not just by theologians but by heads of churches. They explicitly distinguish the divinity and the humanity of Christ, without necessarily using the phrase "two natures".

On 20 May 1973, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Pope Paul VI jointly declared:

"We confess that our Lord and God and Saviour and King of us all, Jesus Christ, is perfect God with respect to His Divinity, perfect man with respect to His humanity. In Him His divinity is united with His humanity in a real, perfect union without mingling, without commixtion, without confusion, without alteration, without division, without separation. His divinity did not separate from His humanity for an instant, not for the twinkling of an eye. He who is God eternal and invisible became visible in the flesh, and took upon Himself the form of a servant. In Him are preserved all the properties of the divinity and all the properties of the humanity, together in a real, perfect, indivisible and inseparable union."

At that meeting they decided to set up an official theological dialogue between the two churches. On 12 February 1988 the commission that carried on that dialogue signed "a common formula expressing our official agreement on Christology which was already approved by the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church on 21 June 1986". The brief common formula was as follows:

"We believe that our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Incarnate-Logos, is perfect in His Divinity and perfect in His Humanity. He made His Humanity one with His Divinity without mixture nor mingling, nor confusion. His Divinity was not separated from His Humanity even for a moment or twinkling of an eye.

At the same time, we anathematize the doctrines of both Nestorius and Eutyches."

A "Doctrinal Agreement on Christology" was signed on 3 June 1990 by Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews I, Catholicos of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Pope John Paul II, in which they explicitly spoke of "divine and human natures":

"Our Lord Jesus Christ is one, perfect in his humanity and perfect in his divinity – at once consubstantial with the Father in his divinity, and consubstantial with us in his humanity. His humanity is one with his divinity – without change, without commingling, without division and without separation. In the Person of the Eternal Logos Incarnate are united and active in a real and perfect way the divine and human natures, with all their properties, faculties and operations. […] It is this faith which we both confess. Its content is the same in both communions; in formulating that content in the course of history, however, differences have arisen, in terminology and emphasis. We are convinced that these differences are such as can co-exist in the same communion and therefore need not and should not divide us, especially when we proclaim Him to our brothers and sisters in the world in terms which they can more easily understand."

Similar accords were signed by the head of the Catholic Church and the heads of the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Although unofficial dialogue between individual theologians of the (Eastern) Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox began in 1964, official dialogue did not begin until 1985; but already by 1989 an agreement was reached on the Christological dogma, stating that the word physis in Cyril of Alexandria's formula referred to the hypostasis of Christ, one of the three hypostaseis or prosopa (persons) of the Trinity, who has "become incarnate of the Holy Spirit and Blessed Virgin Mary Theotokos, and thus became man, consubstantial with us in His humanity but without sin. He is true God and true Man at the same time, perfect in his Divinity, perfect in His humanity. Because the one she bore in her womb was at the same time fully God as well as fully human we call the Blessed Virgin Theotokos. When we speak of the one composite hypostasis of our Lord Jesus Christ, we do not say that in Him, a divine hypostasis and a human hypostasis came together. It is that the one eternal hypostasis of the Second Person of the Trinity has assumed our created human nature in that act uniting it with His own uncreated divine nature, to form an inseparably and unconfusedly united real divine-human being, the natures being distinguished from each other in contemplation only."

A second Agreed Statement was published in the following year 1990 declaring:

"The Orthodox agree that the Oriental Orthodox will continue to maintain their traditional Cyrillian terminology of 'one nature of the incarnate Logos' (μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη), since they acknowledge the double consubstantiality of the Logos which Eutyches denied. The Orthodox also use this terminology. The Oriental Orthodox agree that the Orthodox are justified in their use of the two-natures formula, since they acknowledge that the distinction is 'in thought alone' (τῇ θεωρίᾳ μόνῃ). [...] we have now clearly understood that both families have always loyally maintained the same authentic Orthodox Christological faith, and the unbroken continuity of the apostolic tradition, though they have used Christological terms in different ways. It is this common faith and continuous loyalty to the Apostolic Tradition that should be the basis for our unity and communion."

Implementation of the recommendations of these two Agreed Statements would mean restoration of full communion between the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, but as of 2021 they have not been put into effect. Of the Eastern Orthodox churches, only the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Romania have accepted the Statements, as have the Coptic, Syriac and Malankara Churches on the Oriental Orthodox side. The Russian patriarchate has asked for clarification of some points. The monastic community of Mount Athos rejects any form of dialogue, whether with Oriental Orthodoxy or otherwise.

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Malpartida de Cáceres

Malpartida de Cáceres is a municipality in the province of Cáceres (Spain) with a population of 4368 inhabitants (population figures on 1 January 2004). The urban centre of Malpartida de Cáceres is situated 11 kilometres west from Cáceres city.

Natural environment
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The Museo Vostell Malpartida was founded in 1976 by the German artist Wolf Vostell. It is situated 3 kilometres from the urban centre in the Natural Monument of Los Barruecos. The buildings housing the museum were part of an industrial complex devoted to treat wool in the 18th and 19th centuries. The museum has a contemporary art collection of the Fluxus movement.

The Narbón Museum is in the town and exhibits a collection of paintings by Juan José Narbón.

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BelKA

BelKA or BKA (an acronym from Belarusian: Беларускі Касмічны Апарат, Belarusian Cosmic Apparatus) is the first satellite of independent Belarus.

First attempt
It was a remote sensing satellite that utilizes the USP (satellite bus), developed by Belarusian researchers and Russian Rocket and Space Corporation RSC Energia for National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus as the final customer of the satellite, which had the capacity to take photos of the Earth surface, with a maximum resolution of 2-2.5 meters.

BelKA was launched, along with seventeen other satellites, on July 26, 2006 at 19:43 GMT, however 86 seconds later, the Dnepr rocket suffered an engine failure and crashed, destroying the satellites.

The name BelKA is thought to be an allusion to the Soviet space dog, Belka, who, together with Strelka orbited the Earth and returned safely on Sputnik 5 in 1960.

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 * Outcome: Carrier rocket failure, satellite destroyed

Second attempt
The second launch (BKA (satellite)) was successful. It was launched together with the Russian satellite Canopus-B on the Soyuz-FG/Fregat launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 22, 2012, after a long delay. Belarus put the plame for the delay onto British software. It was planned to be operational until the end of 2021.

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Box art for Suspect (computer game). Source: http://gallery.guetech.org, used with permission.

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Lewis Glucksman Gallery

The Glucksman, formerly known as the Lewis Glucksman Gallery (Áiléar Lewis Glucksman), is an art museum in University College Cork, Ireland.

Opened to the public by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese on 14 October 2004, the Glucksman was named 'Best Public Building in Ireland' by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland in June 2005. Designed by Irish practice O'Donnell + Tuomey architects and Arup Consulting Engineers, the architecture of the museum has been awarded several respected prizes, including a UK Civic Trust award, an RIBA award, as well as inclusion on the final shortlist for the 2005 Stirling Prize.

The gallery, along with other buildings on UCC's campus, was flooded during the 2009 Cork Floods. It closed from November 2009 until January 2010 for repairs.

In 2022, the Glucksman was the recipient of the European Museum Academy's Art Museum Award, focusing on the social role of museums.

University College Cork is substantially located on a single campus adjoining Cork city centre and the museum building occupies an accessible site close to the main entrance of the campus. The museum has three floors of display spaces and the temporary exhibitions programme focuses on thematic shows which have included Through the Looking Glass: Childhood in Contemporary Photography, Cooling Out: on the paradox of feminism and Overtake: the reinterpretation of modern art.

The museum is named for its benefactor, Wall Street financier and chairman of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc., Lewis Glucksman. The inaugural director, Fiona Kearney, is a fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme and an alumnus of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

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Truman Burbank (global account since 2010) is an Italian user (it.wikipedia). My account here regards few arguments and the links to Italian versions of articles.

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Talk:Dubuque Packing Company

Interested in history of the company
I am very interested in the history of the Dubuque Packing Company. I would very much like to hear further information from the user who posted the history regarding this company.

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One thing I won't miss is the smell, depending on weather the whole area would have a smell that I can only describe as being kind of like bacon, but strong enough at times to be unpleasant. JesseG 21:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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Template talk:Pronunciation

This template is a skin around the template Template:Audio. The template is like it is now a idea.

How to use;

To define what the word is to click on is in the template. How it looks is done by the template audio. And you only have to fill in the name of the file, more esay to use. --Walter 16:25, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Guy Verhofstadt (born April 11, 1953) was a Prime Minister of Belgium.

How does it work?

 * Is pronunciation meant to be IPA? Linking IPA is problematic, because the link underline can obscure IPA characters.   Can you provide an example of the proposed usage?  —Michael Z. 2005-04-14 16:38 Z

 * I do not understand what you mean whit IPA linking. I have used this new template as an example on Guy Verhofstadt.
 * This template is more easy to use because is it is smaller, you only need to include the file name. You can define a default label name for pronunciation audio files. I think the label "Pronunciation" is better for this instead of "Listen" for this type of audio files. But that is up to the EN wikipedia. But whit this template Wikipedia EN can always change the label for the pronunciation audio files.
 * Also a good point is that when you look at the source of the text you can see it is a pronunciation file. That is not so clear when you use the audio template. --Walter 18:18, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, I see. It is a good design: much simpler to use.  But I think this is premature for a couple of reasons:

 * Template:Audio is likely to change, very soon. There has been much discussion about the format, and the current format is seen as a temporary compromise until we can work out a better way to format audio pages on Wikipedia.  It has changed a number of times in the last few days.  Template:Pronunciation is likely to break soon, so don't start putting it all over Wikipedia yet.

 * The overwhelmingly-used link term seems to be "listen". You'd be better off discussing this, or getting people to change their minds, rather than start competing with them.

 * By IPA, I meant International Phonetic Alphabet which is used to show pronunciation, for example at Nikita Khrushchev.

 * —Michael Z. 2005-04-15 14:40 Z

 * I understand this.But I do not see how this and a special Template:Pronunciation exclude those changes. Only thing that you have if a special Pronunciation-template is that there are options. Audio can be used for different types of stuff. For pronunciation, a pice of music, a speech, the song of a bird, the sound to a device makes. It is concievable that the way of those different types are audio are displayed are different for the different types of audio use. If you only look at the pronunciation-audio;
 * you have a name, icon and a label. I think that the use of the label "listen" is not clear becuase you do not know what you will hear. That it is audio you can see do to the icon. Maybe you will hear a pice if audio where that person is talking when you click on it? But what I think is not important. When you use a special template for this you have the option to change at anytime totaly how audio-pronunciations files must be displayed. You can change the label to whatever you want whitout the need to tinker whit the articles.
 * Let say there will be a big change on the generic audio-template. That is not a problem. Like it is now the new looks will direclty online also for the pronunciation-template. And if that gives problems for some reason it is easy to fork the pronunciation template. And there now totaly no intresed for a spacial pronunciation-tempalte it can always look excatly like generic audio template. But whit the option to do it different later whitout the need to change, many, many pages.
 * Greetings, --Walter 13:45, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't have a strong opinion on whether "listen" or "pronunciation" is a better label. You should argue this point at template talk:audio.
 * You're right, I don't think most of the changes to template:audio would require this one to change. But Template:Audio is already used for pronunciation in many places, so if this one is accepted, there is already a need to update many articles.  —Michael Z. 2005-04-16 17:09 Z

Why on Earth
is "Pronunciation" with a leading cap (it is wrong in just about every circumstance I know of, and why is there a parenthesis around the note symbol. The parenthesis should be around everything. So instead of

 * Köthen Pronunciation (♫) is a small town in central Germany

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 * Köthen (Pronunciation (♫)) is a small town in central Germany

it should be:

 * Köthen (pronunciation ♫) is a small town in central Germany

or much preferably:

 * Köthen (pronunciation [[Image:Loudspeaker.png|Sound]]) is a small town in central Germany

One can discuss if the outer parenthesis should be a part of this template. I think they should -- Egil 06:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that the last of the above four choices looks best. --Angr/undefined 08:21, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Only problem is that in the last one, the prominent click target takes you to an image of a speaker. —Michael Z. 2005-10-17 13:35 Z

 * I agree that this is not acceptable, but let us first agree on what the ideal thing is. -- Egil 14:17, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 Greatest Guitar Solos

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:22, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

100 Greatest Guitar Solos
Delete. Primarily an external link. Totally subjective, no chance of being NPOV. —Wahoofive | Talk 16:27, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) -I now have an account, Redwolf24. I have also worked on this article a lot.
 * Keep, like 100 Greatest Britons. Kappa 16:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, Yes this could become encyclopedia worthy if someone writes down the list. As it is its pretty useless. This 100 Greatest Guitar Solos was published thats why its worth more than individual persons lists. Just like the 100 Greatest Britons BBC list is worth more than my own where I would say Princess Diana would definitely be under greats like Isacc Newton. One died tragically and one DISCOVERED GRAVITY. I may not have an account but please take in consideration what I have said. And please do not strike this out because I have not created an account. -Anonymous 21:33, 14 Apr 2005

Delete Even if the information was imported in from the external site this has two POV problems. The obvious problem of the subjectivity of the list (I am personally appalled that the Jimi Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner comes in the bottom half). The second is that "Guitar Solo" here means "Rock Guitar Solo". No classical guitar, no folk guitar, no jazz guitar, etc. Dsmdgold 16:55, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV, copyvio. RickK 19:01, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * What is the copyvio? Kappa 20:37, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There must be thousands of people who've created a "100 greatest guitar solos" list. Why should we have an article about this particular list? Dave the Red (talk) 19:10, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Can you find another one? Kappa 20:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * While I've had trouble finding other lists of 100 greatest guitar solos, I've found a list of the 25 greatest guitar solos and a list of 19 of the greatest guitar solos  and a list of the top 10 greatest solos . And there are many, many more where that came from. Are all these lists encyclopedicly notable? Or is this notable because it is a list of 100? No change in vote. Dave the Red (talk) 04:23, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * This one is notable enough because it comes from a notable source and is inherently interesting. Same for other lists from notable sources, but merging them might be a good idea. Kappa 22:26, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV, advertisement, and most importantly, original research. --InShaneee 20:53, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Um maybe you could explain how this counts as original research? Kappa 21:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic article from non-notable source. Jayjg (talk) 22:50, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep But redirect to "Notable Rock Guitar Solos" Klonimus 04:06, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV, unencyclopaedic. Megan1967 07:43, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, inherently POV. Replace with redirect as per Klonimus. Radiant_* 08:12, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV. K1Bond007 19:22, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Actually, this is not the individual editor's POV, even though the title leads one to believe that it is.  I don't know if a redirect to Guitar World would be ok, or if it would be problematic.  The article as it stands *is* POV.  I'd say just add the ext link to the list onto Guitar World (which I just did) and delete this article. --Idont Havaname 03:54, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Note: I believe a revote should happen because the article has changed dramatically. (Posted by 71.112.132.42)

Changes
I've redone the entire page, wikified and listed correctly all the artists and songs, so I think all of these votes need to be recast because this is an entirely differently article then the one voted upon. As to my vote, I don't know how good the title of the article is, perhaps moved to Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos would satisfy some, but piss others off even more, so I don't know about that solution. As for the notability of both Guitar World and the list, I think that if we can have a mess of oversized pages devoted to Halo fan-art which are completely acceptable and somehow don't cross into the non-notable or advertising realms then I think this one can stay. Especially because of the huge pain in the ass it was for me to rewrite it all in Wiki. --The Grza 02:26, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Concerning "notability", only the first extra sources from Dave the Red makes some sense, the other two are opinionated rubish. More broadly, this list only makes sense if viewed from the perspective of the historical date when this list was made. Its like a time capsule. Certainly, the list would have looked different in 1980. It will certainly look different in 2010. The only honest thing to do, in order to keep this - at least for musicians and guitar fans - interesting reference, is to introduce historical perspective and delete all solos after a certain cut-off point. I would suggest 1975. Or anything that is less than 30 years old. Thus we can keep updating it based on naturaly POV, opinionated and unqualified perceptions of bad journalists, fanatic ott fans and frustrated musicians, provided there is a published reference by one of the mainstream guitar magazines. Wikipedians can also vote: maybe TheGrza could set up a Q on surveymonkey every other year and bring the results into this page? --Modi 16:58, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm not really interested in putting any more work into this page; it was annoying and I'll be the first one to agree that it's not altogether interesting or certifiably valid. But it is the list, from one moment in time of the biggest magazine geared toward this stuff and I think it should be simply renamed to Guitar World's List of 100 Greatest Guitar Solos (2004) or something along those lines. It clearly isn't the 100 Greatest Guitar solos because there it's geared toward rock and away from, say Bach, but I still think it's relevant.--The Grza 23:32, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

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Edmund Phelps

Edmund Strother Phelps (born July 26, 1933) is an American economist and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Early in his career, he became known for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth. His demonstration of the golden rule savings rate, a concept related to work by John von Neumann, started a wave of research on how much a nation should spend on present consumption rather than save and invest for future generations.

Phelps was at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971. His most seminal work inserted a microfoundation, one featuring imperfect information, incomplete knowledge and expectations about wages and prices, to support a macroeconomic theory of employment determination and price-wage dynamics. That led to his development of the natural rate of unemployment: its existence and the mechanism governing its size. In the early 2000s, he turned to the study of business innovation.

He is the founding director, since 2001, of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society. He was McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia from 1982 to 2021. On January 1, 2022, his title changed to McVickar Professor Emeritus of Political Economy.

Early life and education
Phelps was born on July 26, 1933, in Evanston, Illinois, and he moved with his family to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York when he was six, where he spent his school years. In 1951, he went to Amherst College for his undergraduate education. At his father's advice, Phelps enrolled in his first economics course in his second year at Amherst. Economist James Nelson gave the course, which was based on the famous textbook Economics by Paul Samuelson. Phelps was strongly impressed with the possibility of applying formal analysis to business. He quickly became aware of an important unsolved problem with the existing economic theory and the existing gap between microeconomics and macroeconomics.

After receiving his B.A. at Amherst in 1955, Phelps went to Yale University for graduate studies. At Yale, he studied under future Nobel laureates James Tobin and Thomas Schelling, among others. Phelps was also strongly influenced by William Fellner whose course emphasized the expectations of agents. Phelps received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale in 1959.

Research in 1960s and 1970s
After receiving his Ph.D., Phelps went to work as an economist for the RAND Corporation. However, feeling he could not pursue macroeconomics at RAND (which focused on defense work), Phelps decided to return to the academic world. In 1960, he took a research position at the Cowles Foundation while he was also teaching at Yale. At the Cowles Foundation, his research focused mainly on neoclassical growth theory, following the seminal work of Robert Solow. As part of his research, in 1961 Phelps published a famous paper on the Golden Rule savings rate, one of his major contributions to economic science. He also wrote papers dealing with other areas of economic theory, such as monetary economics or Ricardian equivalence and its relation to optimal growth.

His position at Cowles gave Phelps the chance to interact with Arthur Okun and other notables in the field. He was able to collaborate with other top economists working on growth theory, including David Cass and fellow Nobelist Tjalling Koopmans. During the 1962–63 academic year, Phelps visited MIT, where he was in contact with future Nobel Prize winners Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow and Franco Modigliani.

In 1966, Phelps left Yale and moved to the University of Pennsylvania to take up a tenured position as a professor of economics. At Penn, Phelps's research focused mainly on the link between employment, wage setting and inflation, leading to his influential 1968 paper "Money-Wage Dynamics and Labor Market Equilibrium" and others. The research contributed important insights in the microeconomics of the Phillips curve, including the role of expectations (in the form of adaptive expectations) and imperfect information in the setting of wages and prices. It also introduced the concept of the natural rate of unemployment and argued that labor market equilibrium is independent of the rate of inflation and so there is no long-run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation. That, if accurate, would have the crucial implication that the Keynesian policy of demand management has only transitory effects and so cannot be used to control the long-term rate of unemployment in the economy. In January 1969, Phelps organized a conference at Penn in support of the research on the microfoundations of inflation and employment determination. The conference papers were published the next year in a book that had a strong and lasting influence; it became known as the "Phelps volume". Along with his research on the Phillips curve, Phelps also collaborated with other economists on research regarding economic growth, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, and optimal population growth.

In the following years, an element in Phelps's foundations came under heavy criticism with the introduction of John Muth's rational expectations, which was popularized by future Nobel prize winner Robert Lucas, Jr. Phelps, with Calvo and John Taylor, started a program to rebuild Keynesian economics with rational expectations by employing sticky wages and prices. They did so by explicitly incorporating in models the fact that wage contracts are set in advance for multiple periods, an idea originating from Phelps's 1968 paper. This research lead to a paper published with Taylor in 1977, proving that staggered wage setting gives monetary policy a role in stabilizing economic fluctuations. The use of staggered wage and price setting, further developed by Calvo in a 1983 paper, became a cornerstone of New Keynesian economics. During the 1970s, Phelps and Calvo also collaborated on research on optimal contracts under asymmetric information.

Phelps spent 1969–70 at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford University. Discussions with fellow Nobel prize winners Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow and especially the influence of the philosophy of John Rawls, whom he met during the year at the Center, led Phelps to undertake some research outside macroeconomics. As a result, in 1972, he published seminal research in the new field that he named statistical discrimination. He also published research on economic justice, applying ideas from Rawls's A Theory of Justice.

In 1971, Phelps moved to the Economics Department at Columbia University, which also included future Nobel prize winners William Vickrey and James J. Heckman (future laureate Robert Mundell joined three years later), as well as Phoebus Dhrymes, Guillermo Calvo and John B. Taylor. There, he published research on the inflation tax and the impact of fiscal policy on optimal inflation. In 1972, Phelps published a new book which focused on the derivation of policy implications of his new theory. The book further popularized his "expectations-augmented Phillips curve" and introduced the concept of hysteresis with regard to unemployment (prolonged unemployment is partially irreversible as workers lose skill and become demoralized).

In the late 1970s, Phelps and one of his former students, Roman Frydman, conducted some research on the implications of assuming rational expectations, at first independently and then in collaboration. Their results suggested that rational expectations are not the correct way to model agents' expectations. They organized a conference on the issue in 1981 and published the proceedings in a 1983 book. However, as rational expectations were becoming the standard in macroeconomics, the book was initially received with hostility and was largely ignored. The financial crisis of 2007–2008, along with the failure of rational expectations models to predict it, led to a renewed interest in the work.

Research in 1980s
In 1982, he was appointed the McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia. During the early 1980s, he wrote an introductory textbook synthesizing contemporary economics knowledge. The book, Political Economy, was published in 1985 but had limited classroom adoption.

In the 1980s, Phelps increased collaboration with European universities and institutions, including Banca d'Italia, where he spent most of his 1985–86 sabbatical, and Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques (OFCE) in Paris. He became interested in the puzzle of the persistent high unemployment in Europe despite no pause in inflation and published on the subject with Jean-Paul Fitoussi (the director of OFCE). Further study led Phelps to believe that it is not a transitory phenomenon but the effect of changes in equilibrium unemployment. During the following years, Phelps tried to build a theory to determine endogenously the natural rate of unemployment. He published partial research results in a 1994 book, Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Employment, Interest and Assets. Phelps also collaborated closely with Luigi Paganetto at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and, between 1988 and 1998, as co-organizers of the Villa Mondragone International Seminar.

Research in 1990s
In 1990 Phelps took part in a mission from the new EBRD to Moscow, where he and Kenneth Arrow designed a proposal for the reform of the Soviet Union. After the EBRD was established, he became a member of its Economic Advisory Board, where he stayed until 1993. From his work at EBRD and collaboration with his former student, Roman Frydman, Phelps developed a strong interest in Eastern Europe's transition economies.

Over the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Phelps created a new non-monetary theory of employment in which business asset values drive the natural rate. The theory, first fully set out in his book Structural Slumps (1994), explains Europe's slump without disinflation in the 1980s: the elevation of the world real rate of interest, declining opportunities for continuing technological catching up and the mushrooming social wealth granted by Europe's emerging welfare state play the main causal roles. Two sequel papers in 2000 and 2001 on the theory of 'structural booms' explained US inflationless expansion in the late 1990s and claimed its transience. His papers develop the thesis that the great economic swings experienced by the West in the past century not only originate in non-monetary shocks but also operate fundamentally by non-monetary mechanisms. This book, as well as subsequent papers, argued that the fluctuation of unemployment rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France stemmed from the accumulation of wealth with minimal investment.

In the mid-1990s, his research turned to what he called economic inclusion. He published in 1997 a book for the general public, Rewarding Work about the causes and cures of the joblessness and low wages among disadvantaged workers.

Current focus
Phelps's current work is about the benefits and sources of a country's structural dynamism: the enterprise and creativity of entrepreneurs, the skill of financiers in selecting and supporting the best projects, and the knowledge managers draw upon in evaluating and making use of new methods and products. Every dynamic economy has its doldrums and even torpid economies may rise, perhaps with delay, to an extraordinary opportunity. However, great dynamism, he argues, brings advantages in virtually every dimension of economic performance, not just in productivity. For Phelps, the challenges presented in a creative and evolving business sector provide most people with their main vehicle for the exploration, exercise, and development of their talents.

In the already-advanced economies, that is perhaps the best reason that policy must aim to build a business sector of high dynamism and broad inclusion. The research task is to identify the institutions that are pathways to dynamism and the institutions that are obstructions.

Phelps's own research on dynamism began at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1990 and 1992–93, where he worked on the theory of capitalism and issues of mass privatization in Eastern Europe. Later in the decade, he turned to studying a range of economic institutions in Western Europe and the United States. He conducted research with a focus on the Italian economy as Senior Advisor to Italy in Europe of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche from 1997 to 2000.

In 2001, he and Roman Frydman founded the Center on Capitalism & Society at Columbia (now a unit of Arts and Sciences) to promote and conduct research on capitalism.

In 2008, writing in the wake of the Great Recession, Phelps criticized the "false" models of neoclassical economics, but he also wrote with skepticism regarding Keynesian resurgence: "What theory can we use to get us out of the impending slump quickly and reliably? To use the 'new classical' theory of fluctuations begun at Chicago in the 1970s – the theory in which the 'risk management' models are embedded – is unthinkable, since it is precisely the theory falsified by the asset price collapse. The thoughts of some have turned to John Maynard Keynes. His insights into uncertainty and speculation were deep. Yet his employment theory was problematic and the 'Keynesian' policy solutions are questionable at best... At the end of his life, Keynes wrote of 'modernist stuff, gone wrong and turned sour and silly'. He told his friend Friedrich Hayek he intended to re-examine his theory in his next book. He would have moved on. The admiration we all have for Keynes's fabulous contributions should not sway us from moving on."

Since around 2006, his main research focus has been innovation and economic growth as fueled by the creativity of ordinary people within a nation. His book Mass Flourishing (2013) remarks that cavemen had the ability to imagine new things and the zeal to create them, but a culture liberating and inspiring dynamism is necessary to ignite what Lincoln called a "passion for the new." These theses on the central role of values for indigenous innovation and the good life are tested in the book Dynamism, coauthored with Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon and Gylfi Zoega, which was published by Harvard University Press in 2020.

Phelps has severely criticized the economic policy of U.S. president Donald Trump. It feels "like economic policy at a time of fascism [...] The leader controls the economy and tells the companies how things are going to be done."

In June 2020, he and other Nobel laureates in Economics, as well as architects, chefs and leaders of international organizations, signed the International Appeal of 7 June 2020 in favor of the purple economy ("Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy"), published in Corriere della Sera, El País and Le Monde.

Personal life
In 1974 Phelps married Viviana Montdor. Publications have noted that despite his many accomplishments, Phelps does not own a car.

Honors and awards
In 1981 Phelps was elected to become a member of the National Academy of Science in the USA. In 2006, he was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, referred to, colloquially, as the Nobel Prize in Economics for "his analysis of inter-temporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy." In announcing the prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Phelps's work had "deepened our understanding of the relation between short-run and long-run effects of economic policy."

In the year 2000, Phelps was made a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. In February 2008, he was named Chevalier of France's Legion of Honor. Four months later he was given the Global Economy Prize of Kiel Institute for the World Economy. In 2014, he received the Chinese Government's Friendship Award and the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale University.

Furthermore, Phelps received honorary degrees from several renowned institutions acknowledging his academic work. In 1985, he was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater, Amherst College. In June 2001, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Mannheim and, in October 2003, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa; in July 2004, from Paris Dauphine University and in October 2004, from the University of Iceland. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (2006), the University of Buenos Aires (2007), Tsinghua University (2007), and the Université libre de Bruxelles (2010). From 2010 to 2016, he served as Dean of New Huadu Business School at Minjiang University in Fuzhou.

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Embassy of Qatar, Washington, D.C.

The Embassy of Qatar in Washington, D.C. houses Qatar's diplomatic mission to the United States. The chancery is located at 2555 M Street NW on the western edge of the West End near the Georgetown neighborhood.

Background
Until 2005, the embassy was located in an office building at 4200 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. For many years the embassy consisted of only two diplomats and a small number of staffers. In recent years, Qatar has been working to make itself a banking, business, and tourism centre and this created a need for a larger embassy. So too did the growing strategic partnership between Qatar and the U.S. that has seen large numbers of American forces based in the country. In 2001, Qatar purchased the current building for $13.6 million from Castleton Holdings. The building had previously held law offices. The current ambassador is Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani.

Architecture and construction
The Qatar government retained The Georgetown Design Group with Mokhless Al-Hariri as the lead-architect to fully renovate the building. The first phase of work consisted of the due-diligence evaluation of the 80,000 sqft building. The second phase comprised the fast-track development of the project's programmatic requirements as well as the accelerated space planning and integrated architectural and engineering design services required by the complete gutting and full renovation of the building.

In keeping with applicable regulations, the project required statutory reviews and approval by several U.S. governmental agencies including the Office of Foreign Missions, United States Commission of Fine Arts, the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, and the Advisory Neighborhood Commission.

After all necessary permits were obtained by The Georgetown Design Group, the Qatar Islamic Bank, which was then financing the project, considered reducing the project's scope of work. The Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs opted to implement the project in accordance with Mokhless Al-Hariri's design. The Embassy moved to its new building in early 2005.

The architect Mokhless Al-Hariri said, "the renovated building's design is intended to reflect Qatar's dynamic growth and expending diplomatic and economic role."

Additional design input can also be credited to Maria Midani and Barbara Mullnex. The new exteriors incorporate Arabic design motifs that express Qatar's cultural heritage within Washington, D.C. The fully renovated interiors include office suites, conference-rooms, special-event spaces, and "highly customized finishes".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legacy Challenge (The Sims 2)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:48, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Legacy Challenge (The Sims 2)
I'm not quite sure what to do with this one. On one hand, it seems to be fairly well documented within the Sims 2 community. On the other hand, it's crufty, it's a how-to, and aside from maybe a brief mention of its existance, I don't see how it can be encyclopedic. --InShaneee 16:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, of interest to many Sims fans, and an interesting example of a sims phenomenon to curious non-fans. Kappa 17:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, as one of the editors noted "seems kinda lengthy for such an obscure subject". While it may have nobility in the Sims 2 community, the article could definitely be condensed and merged with The Sims 2. K1Bond007 23:49, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with K1Bond007. Meelar (talk) 23:50, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with The Sims 2. Megan1967 07:44, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge (not entirely WP:FICT, but the same principle holds here IMHO). Radiant_* 08:12, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * weak keep, 245,000 Google hits for Legacy Challenge (The Sims 2). But if we do merge, than a brief mention and an external link would suffice, to not mess up the readability of the main article.-LtNOWIS 15:14, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with The Sims 2. --asciident 16:39, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: basically what Kappa said. Moderately noteworthy in the Sims community, and disk space is cheap. -- pne 04:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - 69.212.70.172 00:20, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Fulbright & Jaworski

Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (now Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP), was founded in Houston, TX in 1919 by R.C. Fulbright. On June 3, 2013, the firm became part of the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, a Swiss verein.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has represented clients in the energy, financial and healthcare industries. As trustees of the M.D. Anderson Foundation, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP partners were instrumental in the establishment of the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical system in the world. During its first 50 years, the firm's transportation work included representing the Port of Houston and industries along the Houston Ship Channel.

The late Leon Jaworski, a partner in the firm, headed the investigations into Nazi war crimes during World War II, resulting in the Nuremberg trials. He also served as Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in the 1963 civil rights case involving James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi, then as Watergate Special Prosecutor, 1973–74.

Notable attorneys

 * Richard Beckler
 * Alfred H. Bennett
 * Carolyn Dineen King
 * Sim Lake
 * Gray H. Miller
 * Stephen Susman (1941-2020)

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Galaxyland

Galaxyland Powered by Hasbro (formerly Galaxyland, Fantasyland), is an indoor amusement park located in the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was home to the world's tallest (14 stories) and longest indoor roller coaster, the Mindbender. It is also home to the Space Shot, the world's tallest indoor tower ride at the time of opening, at 36.5 m. The record was broken by Nickelodeon Skyline Scream at American Dream Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey in 2019.

History
Galaxyland was originally known as Fantasyland from 1983 to 1995. However, the name "Fantasyland" was already used for one of the lands of the themes existing in Disneyland and other theme parks, like the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Park in Paris, Tokyo Disneyland, and Shanghai Disneyland Park, owned by the Walt Disney Company. A lawsuit eventually forced the mall's owners to change the park's name, though they were allowed to continue using the name "Fantasyland Hotel" for a hotel in the mall. Fantasyland became Galaxyland officially on July 1, 1995. This was celebrated with a new Space Age theme and the arrival of the park's new mascot, "Cosmo".

On December 18, 2019, it was announced that Galaxyland would undergo a renovation to be completed by late 2020, featuring new attractions licensed from Hasbro franchises. Balloon Race, Cosmic Bounce, Ropes Quest, and Zero Gravity are currently the only rides confirmed to be affected by the redesign. The redesign construction began in December 2019, with its grand opening as "Galaxyland powered by Hasbro" and was scheduled for the winter of 2020

Galaxyland remained closed for most of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

1986 Mindbender accident
On June 14, 1986, a wheel sheared off the last car on the train of the Mindbender and the train crashed at high speed into a concrete pillar, killing three of the ride's occupants. Since then the ride has had several safety improvements, including more routine maintenance checks and three emergency brake sections added to the track.

Rides
There are a total of 27 different rides operating in Galaxyland.

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Talk:Hibernia oil field

Water Depth?
How deep is the ocean bed where the platform drilled, and how does it compare to Gulf rigs such as the BP platform that exploded? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.88.245 (talk) 22:03, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

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I have a feeling the Troll platform at 652,000 tons is now the re--199.243.125.2 18:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC),.mm./mm/////

moved. The Hibernia platform comes in at about 500,000. --Csnewton 16:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The Hibernia is still heavier. The Troll is taller and the highest object ever moved, but Hibernia weighs over 1 million tons compared to troll's 650,000 tons. Jcmurphy

 * Can you provide a source or reference for the mass of the Hibernia? Troll is not the tallest structure moved, it has since been surpassed by the Petronius Platform (472 m versus 610 m).  --Csnewton 19:15, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I found this - How big is Hibernia. As with most platforms, the gravity base structure is moved on its own.  The total mass moved was 600,000 tons.  Once the base was in place they added the ballast and topsides, another 600,000 tons bringing it to 1.2 million tons.  Troll was moved with much of the topsides in place at 656,000 tons they then added ballast to bring the total weight to 1,050,000 tons - The Troll Platform --Csnewton 20:37, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hibernia was moved from Newfoundland to the Grand Banks with all of the topsides installed and mated to the GBS. The Guinness Book of Records (1997) lists Hibernia as the heaviest object ever moved. The GBS alone at Hibernia was over 660,000 tons (see http://www.gerwick.com/experience.asp?WorkTypeID=22).

 * Yes, Hibernia was moved with some of the topsides in place. The Hibernia page I provided may be more reliable than the engineering firms' site you provided, not certain though.  Troll was moved in 1995/1996, and the 1997 Guinness was published in 1996.  Do you have a more recent edition?  Why not just put in "One of the largest..."--Csnewton 19:27, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Errrrrr
Why was the page on the platform itself moved, without moving any of the information or pictures along with it? It's the world's largest oil platform and ought to have more than a small mention in the introduction of the article. --Joffeloff 20:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The Norweigan Gullfaks C platform was 1,5-1,6 million tons with out balast when it was towed into the North Sea in 1994. But the Troll A is still considered to be the largest object moved by man.

http://books.google.no/books?id=bx4vdr8Xl3gC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=Gullfaks+C+the+heaviest+object+moved+by+man&source=bl&ots=kYpa8n8bs5&sig=RikNwOPKbt7LkfIEjS-ucu1822Q&hl=no&ei=PGrjTr3HAoyL4gSpxtD6BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Gullfaks%20C%20the%20heaviest%20object%20moved%20by%20man&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.167.16.88 (talk) 14:26, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

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John Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth

John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (5 August 1866 – 3 November 1953), was a pioneer of the motor industry in the United Kingdom, manufacturing aero engines and airframes as well as motor vehicles.

Career
The eldest son of William Siddeley and his wife born Elizabeth Davenport, J D Siddeley was born in Longsight, Manchester in 1866 and first worked for his father as an apprentice hosier but took night classes in draughting. In 1892, the young bicycle racer and designer was hired as a draughtsman by the Humber Cycle Company. The then managing director of Dunlop picked him out at Humber and hired Siddeley as Dunlop's Belfast sales manager. In 1900 as managing director of Dunlop's Midlands subsidiary Clipper Tyre Company he gained prominence in the motor industry by driving a 6 hp Daimler car through England's Thousand Miles Trial with marked success. This followed cycling from Land's End to John o' Groats to publicise the new pneumatic tyre.

He married Sarah Mabel Goodier, daughter of James Goodier of Macclesfield, in 1893 and they lived in Belfast for a short time but by August 1894, they were living in Meriden, Coventry where eldest son, Cyril, was born. They were to have three sons and two daughters.

Motorcars
Siddeley founded his Siddeley Autocar Company in 1902 to manufacture cars to Peugeot designs. He had Peugeot-based demonstration cars at the Crystal Palace in 1903. By 1905, the company had a dozen models for sale and some of them were built for him at Vickers' Crayford, Kent factory.

During 1905 Wolseley—which then dominated the UK car market—purchased the goodwill and patent rights of his Siddeley Autocar Company business and appointed Siddeley London sales manager of Herbert Austin's The Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company Limited owned by Vickers, Sons and Maxim. A few months later Herbert Austin left Wolseley to found his own Austin Motor Company and Siddeley was appointed manager of Wolseley in his place and, without authority, added Siddeley to the badge on the Wolseley cars.

He resigned from Wolseley in 1909 to go into partnership with H P P Deasy and manage the Deasy Motor Company, also of Coventry.

Wartime expansion
By 1912, when Deasy resigned because of his ill-health, Siddeley had added his name to the Deasy product's radiator. In November 1912 Deasy's business became—by popular vote of the shareholders—Siddeley-Deasy. During World War I it grew rapidly producing aircraft engines and airframes with the assistance of distinguished staff from the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough as well as motor vehicles including ambulances using Rover chassis and Daimler and Aster engines and employed around 5,000 workers. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours for his industrial services during the war.

In 1918 John Siddeley and his family moved to Crackley Hall, Kenilworth. The same building later became St Joseph's School and is now Crackley Hall School.

Armstrong Siddeley Motors
Siddeley arranged a takeover of Siddeley-Deasy's motorcar, aircraft engine and aircraft business by Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth and Co Ltd and its amalgamation with the Armstrong Whitworth motor department in 1919. They renamed their new entity Armstrong Siddeley Motors. It was to continue until 1960.

Siddeley's new holding company established Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft in July 1920.

Armstrong Siddeley Motors were enthusiastic adopters of light alloys for engines. This was a common enough approach for aircraft engines, but Armstrong-Siddeley were also early at applying them to motor cars. To provide a supply of the most sophisticated new alloys for pistons, Siddeley funded Wallace Charles Devereux to set up High Duty Alloys Ltd. in 1927, as a replacement for Peter Hooker, who had gone into liquidation.

Next Siddeley took advantage of parent companies Armstrong's and Vickers' financial difficulties of the mid-1920s and by 1927 he had gained control of all three Siddeley businesses. He remained their chairman until 1935 when, at the age of 70, he arranged his last takeover with Hawker Aircraft who formed Hawker Siddeley though the Siddeley businesses kept their identities. From this arrangement he received "£1 million and numerous benefits".

Peerage
Siddeley was knighted in 1932 when he served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire. Sir John Siddeley was elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders for 1937–1938 – the highest honour the British Motor Industry could bestow. That same year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kenilworth, of Kenilworth in the County of Warwick. He was also elected president of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors for 1932–1933 —now Society of British Aerospace Companies— and elected president of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation for 1935–1936.

On his retirement he bought and gave to the nation the historic Kenilworth Castle. To commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937, Lord Kenilworth also made a gift of £100,000 to Fairbridge Farm Schools, a charity to offer opportunities and education abroad to young people from broken homes.

After his retirement he moved to Jersey where he died a few days after his wife in November 1953, aged 87, a voluntary tax exile and a rich man.

He was succeeded in the barony by his son Cyril.

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Lemhi Pass

Lemhi Pass is a high mountain pass in the Beaverhead Mountains, part of the Bitterroot Range in the Rocky Mountains and within Salmon-Challis National Forest. The pass lies on the Montana-Idaho border on the continental divide, at an elevation of 7373 feet above sea level. It is accessed via Lemhi Pass Road in Montana, and the Lewis and Clark Highway in Idaho, both gravel roads. Warm Springs Road, which roughly follows the divide in Montana, passes just west of the pass's high point.

History
The pass gained importance in the 18th century, when the Lemhi Shoshone acquired horses and used the route to travel between the two main parts of their homeland. From the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 until the Oregon Treaty in 1846 the pass marked the western border of the United States. On August 12, 1805 Meriwether Lewis and three other members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass. Lewis found a "large and plain Indian road" over the pass. This was the first time that white men had seen present-day Idaho: "We proceeded to the top of the dividing ridge from which I discovered immense ranges of high mountains still to the West of us with their tops partially covered in snow" The next day Lewis met Cameahwait and his band of Shoshone, and returned with them across the pass to meet Clark. On August 26, 1805 the entire expedition crossed the pass.

In the early 19th century the pass was regularly used by the Blackfoot people, so that in 1824 Alexander Ross referred to the route as the Blackfoot route. At that time the pass itself was known as North Pass, to distinguish it from South Pass. The pass derives its present name from Fort Lemhi, founded in 1855 by Mormon missionaries who were the first non-Indians to establish a sustained relationship with the Salmon River Indian people.

During the mining era the pass was used by stagecoaches, but the route fell into disuse after 1910, when the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad was built through the nearby Bannock Pass. Only a single track dirt road now crosses the pass.

The pass was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

Mineral resources
The Lemhi Pass district has been found to host many lanthanide minerals and the richest deposit of thorium in the US. In a study of 31 samples taken from 21 different veins, the ratio of rare-earth elements (REEs) in the area is estimated to be between 0.05-9.2%. This depends largely on the localized mineralogy and REE mineralization. Most commonly the thorium is found as thorite hosted in quartz veins, whereas REEs are contained within monazite.

The deposits lie within quartz veins hosted in Precambrian rock with minerals such as hematite, apatite, feldspar, thorite and monazite present. The monazite is found to be enriched in the middle rare earths, specifically neodymium (Nd), as there is estimated to be 35 weight percent of Nd in the monazite. Neodymium, cerium, gadolinium, yttrium, and dysprosium are the top lanthanide minerals recorded to be attainable in the Lemhi Pass.

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User talk:Alphax/20050414-01

Images from nuvola (→ reply)
Hi CWS, I'm talking about Image:Important.png, Image:File important.png, Image:Xmag.png, and Image:Knewsticker.png - I've just downloaded the package from iconking.com, read the license, read the About/FAQ pages, and I haven't found anything saying they are cc-by-2.0 - the only thing I have found is that they are LGPL. Can you find out where it says they are CC? Thanks, Alphax τεχ 16:34, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello, Alphax. The Legal Issues states that he licenses with both the LGPL and CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0. I could have sworn that he used the latter in that package, but I must have been thinking of another package that I downloaded from the site: looking agian it appears that the icons are solely licensed under the LGPL. I'll update the images license tags immediately. – ClockworkSoul 20:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * No worries - I was worried that they would have to be removed (I like your boxes - colour is negotiable). I'm wondering if the entire lot could be uploaded to Commons - if so, which versions of them? Thanks anyway, Alphax τεχ 05:38, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Heya, Alphax. :) I'm glad that you like the boxes. Fortunately, the colors are to be chosen last: the initial selections are style and then wording ;). As for introducing the library to Commons, does Commons accept LGPL-licensed images? If it does, then I say go for it, and recommend the 64x64 version (large enough to be sizable without taking up too much room). – ClockworkSoul 12:41, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Commons has LGPL images, so I'd say yes. I'll create a nuvola page to put them on. Alphax τεχ 12:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Tufflaw

Welcome!
Hi Tufflaw, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

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Most Wikipedians would prefer to just work on articles of their own interest. But if you have some free time to spare, here are some open tasks that you may want to help out :

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Oh yes, don't forget to sign when you write on talk pages, simply type four tildes, like this: ~. This will automatically add your name and the time after your comments. And finally, if you have any questions or doubts, don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Once again, welcome! =)

- Mailer Diablo 16:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have read it. I stand by the Churchill article as a neutral, entirely factual review of his life of crime. Jolutz 02:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Opps
No problem, I can see that in the revision history, It's gone again--nixie 05:31, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Plea bargain/plea agreement
"Plea bargain" suggests a point of view (that the deals made are "bargains" for the defendant). A google search also shows that "plea bargain" only gets a nominally higher number of hits over "plea agreement." And on Google News, "plea agreement" gets 4,940 hits, while "plea bargain" gets only 4,330. This demonstrates that "plea agreement" is the preferred neutral term used in the news media. Warmest regards --Neutralitytalk 15:14, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Accessory
Please take a look at the materiel I have added to the VfD for Accessory Before the Act] and to [[Accessory (legal term). I hope it addresses the issues you have raised. DES 23:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

DNA
I reverted to a clean version after protecting, thanks. --nixie 22:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the spelling corrections
Thanks! Wikipedia authoring on a friday afternoon on a week characterized by a hefty sleep-debt is clearly a bad idea. :-P --J-Star July 8, 2005 13:55 (UTC)

Self-defense and defense of others
In my experience, the unwieldiness of titles is ultimately not a great consideration, as easier titles can be made to redirect to more comprehensive titles (see, e.g., De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel). I intend to fix the many links to self defense - part of the problem is that some of them mean to point to a non-existent article on the practical use of the term (e.g., how to defend yourself) as opposed to the legal. If an article is written on the former, I'll make the term a disambig pointing to both uses - but the current title makes it clearer that this is a discussion of the legal defense. Also, in answer to your second query, this is how I'm studying for the bar! ;-) -- BD2412 talk 12:50, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Self defense and defense of others
Please keep in mind that this is not a US-specific encyclopedia. While possibly in the US it is courts that impose that the excuses of "self-defense" and "defense of others" are applicable only if the means of defense are proportionate to the offense, in other countries it is statute law that imposes such restrictions. You are free to make a US-specific section if you wish.

Also, you are not supposed to revert contributions for "bad grammar" (unless one can barely understand the meaning of the text). If you are unhappy about grammar, please fix it. David.Monniaux 05:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

District attorney
And I'll be reverting again. While I'd understand this move if there was no content at district attorney, there is a perfectly good article that explains what the office does and how it works in the United States, which is markedly different from many other countries. You're not a mindreader, either - if I go to a "district attorney" page, chances are I'm likely to be looking for the district attorney page. It should link fairly prominently to the prosecutor page, though. Ambi 23:12, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
 * They don't, however, mean the same thing. District attorney is the American variant of a prosecutor. Prosecutor is a generalist article. We don't need detailed explanations of how the office works in specific countries in that article, particularly when we already have it in a perfectly good link at district attorney. Ambi 23:19, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

eweek.org
Hello, I saw your addition of eweek.org, just wondering why it needs it's own article and isn't a subsection of the main page at National Society of Professional Engineers? Thanks! Tufflaw 23:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I wondered the same thing. If you'll notice, I took it from eWeek, where it was posted by another user, who had not yet been welcomed. My only reason for splitting it is that it didn't belong in the main eWeek article, and was most likely by someone who didn't understand WP editing policices. I'm up for AfDing it if you are. Best, Mys  e  kurity ( have you seen this? ) 23:25, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Subst:
Thanks for welcoming so many new users. However, when you use welcome templates, you should substitute them by placing subst: in front of he template name. For example, instead of, type. Transcluding templates adds stress to the Wikimedia servers, which can be avoided by substituting. Plus, substituting templates prevents template vandalism from appearing througout the encyclopedia. For more information, see Subst. And note that many templates actually should be transcluded. Also, you might be interested in joining the Welcoming Committee and reading about its strategies and techniques for welcoming newcomers. --TantalumT e lluride 03:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. All templates technically can be substituted, although many of them should always be transcluded. In fact, some of them contain syntax that doesn't function properly when substituted. Others contain syntax that don't function properly when transcluded. Go figure. --TantalumT e lluride 03:42, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia Arbitration Clause
Hi. Please add your lawyerly comments to the Arbitration clause discussion at MediaWiki talk:Edittools. Cheers! BD2412 T 04:12, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

wpspam invite
Hey there! I saw you reverting or removing linkspam. Thanks! If you're interested, come visit us in WikiProject Spam so we can work together in our efforts to clean spam from Wikipedia. -- Perfecto 06:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

the wub
Kind of, although I hadn't actually read it until recently. A friend of mine was reading it a few years ago. I saw the cover, and "wub" just struck me as a very cool word. When I was trying to think of a pseudonym later I remembered it. the wub "?!"  17:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Jack McCoy barnstar
While I appreciate the award, the use of that image likely does not fall within fair use.... but thanks! BD2412 T 04:29, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Inquiry
You opposed my candidacy for the Arbitration Committee with the following comment: "it is based primarily on her comments following the userbox fiasco" and suggested that my comments violated WP:CIVIL. Could you elaborate on this for my benefit? I would like to know how you feel my comments were incivil. Kelly Martin (talk) 19:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Helping Law Students
You might be interested in the Cyberlaw project where a group of Harvard Law School students are taking a class, where part of their exposure is to Wikipedia. I volunteered to help out. I am somewhat of a Wiki newbie, with fluctuating time availability, but experienced in a diversity of Cyber topics. I got your name from User:TantalumTelluride who says you are both a lawyer and a very active Wikipedian. I can see from your user page that you are also very active in the legal community and have great shoes to fill. In my professional community I am just an ordinary computer programmer. It seems to me that the students are intensively studying some topics that the Wiki community could also benefit from knowing better, especially in some contentious areas where the more inexperienced think consensus trumps the law. One of the class assignments was to figure out how Wikipedia could do a better job coping with a variety of issues. Seems to me the students reccommendations ought to have better exposure to the Wikipedian community for general discussion of their merits. There is also the fact that the next Wikimania will be held where these students are located and I wonder if there is good enough cooperation between the different interests intersecting here. User:AlMac|(talk) 13:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Suggestions?
Hi Tuflaw. Thanks for removing the link spam on Alcohol expectancies. In response to someone's call for establishing the importance of the subject, I added a sentence which you've removed because it expresses a point of view or is not neutral. Could you suggest a statement that establishes (or suggests) the importance of alcohol expectancies? Many thanks for any help you can provide.David Justin 01:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Opie and Anthony
Finally starting to agree with you on the O & A edits. Thank you. Still disagree on the AOTM section though. (Count Zero 22:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC))

Why do you like Opie and Anthony? I thought an educated person like yourself would know better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.144.42.148 (talk • contribs).

You are very... forceful in your edits and opinions on topics though. I think you forget that this isn't the courtroom sometimes just in the way you present things. Payneos 05:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hey! Thanks for your warm welcome to Wikipedia a while ago. I have since gone on to create a few pages. You make this a more pleasant place to work with. :) NIRVANA2764 02:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

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Katelyn Faber
Hello Tufflaw : ) Right after Nightscream filed the the arbitration case, I began working to end it. Nightscream didn't understand the content dispute resolution process. Once I explained it to him, he immediately agreed that the case was premature. I encouraged him to build consensus by getting experienced editors to comment. That is the reason he put messages on the user talk pages, I think.

I bet you are annoyed by Nightscream actions. : ( (I know I would be) If that is the case, I hope you will assume good faith and not make too much of a fuss about it. As odd as it may seem, Nightscream honestly thought you were hurting Wikipedia. I hope you can look past the mistakes. Give Nightscream some time to think this through. Now some of the most active editors on WP are involved. I'm pretty sure the outcome will be satisfactory to you. If you have any questions or need to ventilate your frustration leave a message on my user talk or email me. regards, FloNight   talk  21:20, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Your welcome : ) -- FloNight  talk  23:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Mediation Case: Clay Aiken
You have indicated that you are willing to accept an assignment as a mediator. I have assigned this case to you. If you don't want to take the case on, just say so at the bottom of the request, delegate it to someone else and update the case list accordingly. Before you begin the mediation please read the suggestions for mediators. You can also review earlier mediation cases to get an understanding for possible procedures.
 * --Fasten 13:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

 * While I readily admit that my tone of voice is probably more sarcastic than the other side might wish, and while I also understand that you were randomly assigned the topic, you have to understand that I've been present for this discussion since more or less its inception, and have come to the conclusion that reasoning with these people is less likely to result in an agreement than expecting the Pope to advocate gay marriage. I'm not aware if you've had the chance to pour over the entire debate on both Clay Aiken and John Paulus and I don't fault you if you haven't, because it's a lot to read, but their arguments have shifted and morphed and changed depending on what time of day it is. When I presented rational explainations and arguments, those were shot down and my own personal website, which has nothing to do with this at all, was brought in to try and "explain" the fact that I care about this issue because I seek to out all celebrities in the media. So after fielding this kind of ridiculousness as well as everything else, I'm frustrated and quite rightly so. Two quick polls have shown there's no consensus even though they argue that the consensus is to keep the story off. Two quick polls have showed the majority of those voting not only vote that it belongs, but even those completely uninvolved in the debate have gone so far as to say that the bias against Paulus is staggering. So forgive me if my tone isn't quite where everyone else would like it, but I believe in a world where adults can take criticism without complaining. If it's fine to drag me in the muck then they shouldn't cry foul when I return fire. I'll also say that though I'm sarcastic and bitchy, I've never insulted anybody, which is contrary to their own actions. That having been said, I do believe that this mediation will ultimately result in nothing, if only because they're unwilling to compromise and clearly, clearly prove that to be the case. That's different from not wanting the mediation to work out, because I'd be a lot happier with everyone agreeing to something as opposed to having the issue decided. But I won't stand by while his fans hijack control of the article, yet still complain that they only care for Wikipedia's success. And no, I don't think you need to step aside, but keep in mind where I'm standing--- despite the majority in my favor, I'm the only one really consistently arguing against them. That will whittle down anyone's resolve for civility. - mixvio 20:56, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * On another aside, correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the purpose of mediation was to come to a compromise, not consensus. Two quick polls initiated by other users already showed there was no consensus, though the majority of voters in both were of the opinion that it belonged. I don't think we need a third source to show there's no consensus and that's not what I was under the impression mediation was for when I submitted the request. I don't think this issue has any hope of consensus or supermajority, I think the only hope we have is coming to a compromise between all concerned parties and short of that, having it go through an arbitration decision. - mixvio 18:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I am satisified with the arguments that have been offered by others for the removal of the Faber pic, and I apologize if I came off wrong to you, but please do not misrepresent my words or actions to others. I just saw your post on FloNight's talk page, and would point out that there was nothing "random" about the people I contacted. I contacted the people who had participated previously on Faber's Discussion page, which seemed the most relevant group of people to contact. I do not know how I "slanted" anything toward you; I merely explained that there was a disagreement, and I that I thought your arguments at the time were irrational. I'm not sure what exactly I was supposed to "inform" you about, since every contribution an editor makes is visible on their Contributions page. Yes, perhaps I am somewhat in the dark about procedures like this, but this is because the pages that explain these things are, IMO, a lot more labyrinthine than say, the tutorials that teach you how to edit a page. I'm still learning, after all. Take care. :-) Nightscream 05:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for your work on the Clay Aiken / John Paulus mediation case - I bet you didn't know what you were getting into! Disputes about this issue have been going on for at least a year - and I imagine they will continue to go on for a while. I just didn't want you to feel unappreciated. --Hamiltonian 05:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Ditto to what Hamiltonian said. This isn't the first dispute over this article and I doubt it will be the last. You sure did get your feet wet. I liked how you tried to organize and I'm sorry you didn't get more cooperation. Don't blame yourself. - Maria202 16:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Don't let them wear you down
The Opie_and_Anthony article is constantly under attack by vandals who so dislike Opie and Anthony that they will include false rumors into it. These include disgruntled fans and fans of competeting radio shows, most specifically Howard_Stern. They are coordinating edits of this article and since you are only one person, the continued vandalization by multiple people are wearing you down. 172.139.78.24 20:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Howard Stern Informal Mediation
Howdy Tufflaw, remember me? I know we had our past run-ins, but I figured because of your experience with such mediation, you would be fit for helping to solve a problem we have over at the Howard Stern article. A member, MGlosenger, is insistent that Opie and Anthony are not radio enemies, however, I am. I've provided a cited source where he explicitly states that they are, in fact, competition, while he claims Howard Stern said they are not enemies, wishes them well, but has no real sources to back him up. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Payneos 11:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks for the advice, good sir! Keep up the good fight elsewhere. Payneos 18:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!
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Bruce Lee
Hi there Tufflaw. Is there any particular reason you reverted my removal of linkspam in the Bruce Lee article? Maybe you were just testing your new VandalProof tool, but I'm not sure why that would appear to be vandalism to you. Anyhow, just a friendly heads up. --Alan Au 05:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, indeed, looks like I reverted to the wrong version. --Alan Au

gay stuff
on Gannon's page ""....a question that some in the press corps considered "so friendly it might have been planted." and it was a planted question which makes him a plant. BTW he also was a hooker. 132.241.246.111 05:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

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Question
Hi Tufflaw!

Titally random, but I have a question. I couldn't help but notice that you're an ADA  (THAT'S SO COOL!!!) ~ So you may be able to answer this question:

What is the difference between an Assistant District Attorney and an Assistant (?) Corporation counselor? (sorry if the latter makes no sense)?

I need to know this, because there is a guest character in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the 10th season (S10x"Crush"), who isn't from the DAs office (like most prosecutors on the show), rather the Corporation counsel ~ but she seems to do a simmilar job to the normal ADAs.

(I know you may not be able to answer anytime soon, as I can see you haven't made an edit in a few months, but just hopefully, you'll see this message! :) )

Thank you! -- MST  ☆  R   (Chat Me!) 12:50, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Unblock request

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