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Dave Wittenberg

Dave Wittenberg, sometimes credited as Dave Lelyveld, is a South African-born American voice actor and scriptwriter.

Early life
Wittenberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was raised in the Boston area.

Career
Wittenberg voices Kakashi Hatake, the 6th Hokage in Naruto, Michael Lee in Witch Hunter Robin. Bash Johnson in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Franz's singing voice in the Disney animated film Planes, Vision in Marvel Heroes, Lang Rangler in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, and Time Baby in Gravity Falls. In video games, he voices Trigger Happy from the Skylanders series, Mad Doctor from Epic Mickey, and Buddy Alexander from Resident Evil: Damnation.

He is also an adaptive scriptwriter for English dubs of anime whose work includes episodes of Digimon. Wittenberg also narrates many documentaries and specials for the Travel Channel and Food Network.

Video games

 * .hack//INFECTION – Sora
 * .hack//MUTATION – Sora
 * .hack//OUTBREAK – Sora
 * .hack//QUARANTINE – Sora
 * Aliens versus Predator – All Narration
 * Assassin's Creed Revelations – Misc. Voices
 * Baroque – The Coffin Man, Koriel Member no. 3 (uncredited)
 * Batman: Arkham Knight – Officer Denheen, Officer Lynch, B.P.D. Officers
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds – Assorted Vampires
 * Bulletstorm – Ratface, Creeps
 * Company of Heroes – Airborne (night), Various voices
 * Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars – Nod Shadow Team, Nod Raider Buggy, Additional voices
 * Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath – Kane's assistant (live action performance), Additional Voices
 * Dead Island – Bobby
 * Dead Rising – Ed Deluca, James Ramsey, Sam Franklin, Additional Voices (as Dave Wittenburg)
 * Diablo III – Additional Voices
 * Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Additional Voices
 * Digimon Rumble Arena – Henry Wong
 * Dissidia Final Fantasy – Kefka Palazzo
 * Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy – Kefka Palazzo
 * Disney Infinity 3.0 – Additional Voices
 * Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two – Additional Voices
 * Fight Club – Additional Voices
 * Final Fantasy Type-0 HD – Additional Voices
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Saito
 * Generation of Chaos – Orochimaru (uncredited)
 * God of War III – Civilians and Soldiers
 * GUN – Soapy Jennings
 * Halo 3: ODST – Mike Branley
 * Kensei: Sacred Fist – Mark Galeon
 * Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII – Additional Voices
 * Magna Carta 2 – Igton Pin
 * Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom – Tepeu
 * Mass Effect – Additional Voices
 * Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault – Tommy Conlin
 * Medal of Honor: Rising Sun – Additional Voices
 * Naruto series – Kakashi Hatake
 * Phantom Brave – Persimmon/Canary
 * Prototype – Additional Voices
 * Prototype 2 – Additional Voices
 * Rage – Various Voices
 * Rave Master – Pasha
 * Resident Evil 6 – Additional Voices (uncredited)
 * SD Gundam Force: Showdown! – Gundiver 02, Guneagle (as David Lelyveld)
 * Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure – Hektore (3DS exclusive character), Additional Voices
 * Skylanders: Giants – Trigger Happy
 * Skylanders: SuperChargers – Trigger Happy
 * Skylanders: Swap Force – Trigger Happy
 * Skylanders: Trap Team – Trigger Happy, Trigger Snappy
 * SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 3 – "RAVEN"
 * Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions – Additional Voices
 * Tangled: The Video Game – Additional Voices
 * The Incredible Hulk – Additional Voices
 * Tomb Raider: Anniversary – Larson Conway
 * Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 – Additional Voices
 * Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 – Additional Voices
 * Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 – Additional Voices
 * Too Human – Frey, Hanz, Wolf Trooper, Patron
 * Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Mirage
 * Ultimate Spider-Man – Additional Voices
 * X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Additional Voices

Live-action

 * Versus - Suit (English dub, credited as Dave Levyland)
 * The Do's and Don'ts of Cruising - Narrator

Other

 * Cruising Do's and Dont's - Narrator
 * I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant - Narrator
 * Unbeatable Banzuke - Announcer (USA)
 * Mystery ER - Narrator
 * Ninja Warrior – Announcer (USA)
 * WordGirl – Hosted (USA)

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Trnje, Zagreb

Trnje is a district in the City of Zagreb, Croatia. According to the 2011 census, the district had 42,282 residents. It is located in the central part of the city, south of Donji grad across the railway (Zagreb Main Station), east of Trešnjevka (Savska road), west of Peščenica (Vjekoslav Heinzel Avenue and Marin Držić Avenue), and north of the river Sava. The Slavonska Avenue intersects Trnje.

Trnje was amalgamated into the city in 1927 by Mayor Vjekoslav Heinzel, along with several other new districts, mainly for the purpose of housing people needed for Zagreb's industrial sector expansion.

As a district, Trnje has an elected council.

List of neighborhoods in Trnje

 * Cvjetno naselje
 * Kanal
 * Kruge
 * Martinovka
 * Savica
 * Sigečica
 * Vrbik
 * Zavrtnica

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Fred Ewanuick

Fred Ewanuick (/əˈwαnɪk/; born June 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in the television series Corner Gas as Hank Yarbo and as the title character in the CTV sitcom Dan for Mayor. He was also a regular in a CTV anthology series, Robson Arms. He starred in Nickelodeon's summer 2013 TV movie Swindle.

He is also well known for his several award wins for the 2003 lead role in the comedy The Delicate Art of Parking, and reprised his role as Richard Henry "Hank" Yarbo in Corner Gas: The Movie, winning him a Gemini Award, and much praise. He also had roles in popular films including The Santa Clause 2, Just Friends, Young Triffie, and a romantic comedy with several other Corner Gas stars in Love and Other Dilemmas, and the disaster film Absolute Zero.

Early life
Ewanuick was born and raised in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada. He is of Ukrainian and Italian descent. His first job was a paper route, but he was fired for disposing of the newspapers in dumpsters as a "time saver". He later worked in a bingo hall until his high school graduation from Port Moody Secondary School, in 1989.

Career
At college he enrolled in English, Women’s Studies and Theatre courses, the only courses available, subsequently failing all three. After auditioning and being accepted into the two-year theater intensive program, he was asked to leave one year into the program. He subsequently trained for four years with acting coach Shea Hampton, with whom he continues to study in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also resides.

He made his television debut on The New Addams Family in 1998 as a "spinning gnome". Following guest appearances on both Canadian and American television series such as Cold Squad, Monk, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, Da Vinci's Inquest and Tru Calling, Ewanuick became a regular on the CTV series Corner Gas, as Hank Yarbo. The series was a hit, making Ewanuick a familiar face in Canadian households. In 2005, he began starring simultaneously in the CTV comedy-drama series Robson Arms with Corner Gas co-star Gabrielle Miller.

Ewanuick has appeared in numerous films, including The Delicate Art of Parking (2003), which premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. The film won the Best Canadian Feature prize. Later, Ewanuick won a Best Actor award at Spain's Peñiscola Comedy Film Festival for the same film. In the comedy Young Triffie (2007), Ewanuick stars as a young Newfoundland Ranger investigating a crime. Originally, Ewanuick was not cast for the part. However, the casting staff could not agree on whom to choose for the part. Ewanuick was called to audition for the part after being suggested because of his work on Corner Gas.

In late 2008, CTV commissioned a half-hour sitcom pilot for a new comedy titled Dan for Mayor, starring Ewanuick as Dan. Dan For Mayor was written by Mark Farrell, Paul Mather, and Kevin White. Ewanuick portrayed Dan, a 30-something bartender who lives and works in the fictional city of Wessex, Ontario. The series ended in 2011.

In 2013, he played Paul Swindell in Swindle.

In 2014, Ewanuick reprised his role as Hank Yarbo in Corner Gas: The Movie.

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"...and had an awesome accent." Neutral point of view? --TheSock 21:49, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC) I think he meant Armenian... and just got lost in the awesomeness.

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KHAN!

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User:BrokenGyro

gy·ro n. pl. gy·ros
 * 1) A gyroscope or gyrocompass.
 * 2) A sandwich made usually of sliced roasted lamb, onion, and tomato on pita bread.

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Frederick & Nelson

Frederick & Nelson was a department store chain in the northwestern United States, based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891 as a furniture store, it later expanded to sell other types of merchandise. The company was acquired by Marshall Field & Company in 1929. By 1980, the Frederick & Nelson chain had expanded to 10 stores in two states (Washington and Oregon). The company went out of business in 1992. Its former Seattle flagship store building is now occupied by the flagship Nordstrom store.

History
Frederick & Nelson was the successor to a business founded by two partners, Donald E. Frederick and James Mecham, who had been mining colleagues in Colorado. They happened to connect shortly after Frederick arrived in Seattle on a steamer in 1890, and they pooled their resources to start a second-hand furniture business.

After setting up shop in several locations, the business was named "J. G. Mecham and Co." Some time later another mining colleague, Nels B. Nelson, arrived also from Colorado. He subsequently purchased a one-third interest in the business. Several months later, due to ill health, Mecham sold his interest to the two remaining partners and the name was changed to "Frederick & Nelson." They vowed to create the largest and finest store west of the Mississippi and north of San Francisco. Early customers included the local Native Americans and a thriving populace invigorated by the news that Seattle would become the western terminus for the Great Northern Railway.

In 1891, the partners acquired the Queen City Furniture Company and began selling new furniture. Their motto was, "What our customers want, we will give them. Service is our motto." Their sincerity was tested when just before closing time on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1890, a customer came in to purchase a second-hand rocking chair for his wife for Christmas, requiring it to be delivered that night. Frederick and Nelson sloshed through the snow to the top of Denny Hill to deliver the heavy chair, making the first delivery in the history of Frederick & Nelson. Legend has it that their first credit customer was a Native American woman who coveted a second-hand parlor stove. The stove was hers for weekly payments of berries, a woven mat, and a sweet grass basket.

The Klondike Gold Rush around the start of the 20th century fueled further growth of Seattle. There was a growing demand for fine furnishings in the blossoming hotel business as well as in the fine homes of the city's inhabitants. Their simple philosophy was, "If a customer asks for it, get it, and if enough people want the same thing, start a department." There were departments for furniture, carpeting, housewares, china, and draperies. They even had a mattress factory.

Frederick & Nelson purchased the assets of the Pacific Carpet Company in 1897 and the company was consolidated with Silas Munro's New England Furniture Store and the name changed again to Frederick, Nelson and Munro.

Munro was leery of rapid expansion, and he soon parted company with Frederick & Nelson. In 1907, the ailing Nels Nelson was returning from a trip to a medical spa in Bohemia and died at sea. Frederick was left to run the entire operation.

Expansion plans were made in 1914 for a brand-new building six stories tall with a seventh floor in the basement. Despite a shortage of building materials that were needed elsewhere to fight the First World War, the building opened the day after Labor Day on September 3, 1918, at Pine Street and Fifth Avenue. Over 25,000 shoppers and guests made it through the doors that day. Frederick was forward-thinking enough to make the foundation strong enough to hold ten stories. Even though businessmen and financiers branded the project "Frederick's Folly", his dream was finally realized three decades later.

Marshall Field
At the age of 69 in 1929, D. E. Frederick decided to retire, and he sold the store to Marshall Field and Company for $6 million (~$ in ). He was most impressed with the policies of Marshall Field and had even patterned Frederick & Nelson after Marshall Field and Company. They signed a 99-year lease that would pay Frederick (and later his estate) $100,000 a year.

In 1943, Frederick & Nelson opened a satellite store at Boeing Field at the Boeing Airplane Company's Number 2 Plant. They supported the war effort and built a loyalty among the airplane manufacturer's 47,000 employees. Frederick's also established a "Victory Post" on the main floor of the Seattle store, selling War Bonds and stamps. Frederick's was one of a handful of stores in the nation to receive a U.S. Treasury Department T-Flag. The T-Flag signified that more than 90 percent of the employees invested at least 10 percent of their earnings in War Bonds. D. E. Frederick's dreams for expansion of the original store at Pine Street and Fifth Avenue finally were realized when the grand re-opening was celebrated August 4, 1952. There were ten floors above ground and two below. The building housed a beauty salon, post office, moving picture auditorium, a fully equipped medical facility, and a nursery. There were reading and writing rooms, and the large, elaborately furnished fifth floor tearoom could seat 400. On the tenth floor the company built a modern candy kitchen that could turn out more than 500,000 pounds of Frango chocolates a year. Later the company added a kindergarten and a children's barbershop. (The original Frederick & Nelson store reopened as Nordstrom's flagship store in 1998.)

By 1980, Frederick & Nelson had become one of the fastest growing stores in the nation, nearly quadrupling from four stores to fifteen. Marshall Field's acquired three Liberty House stores in Portland, and two in Tacoma as well as six Lipman's stores in Oregon from the Dayton Hudson Corporation. All were converted to Frederick & Nelson stores.

Demise
Ownership would change three more times in the next nine years as business went on a downward spiral. Management changes occurred in 1982 when BATUS Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky, bought all of the outstanding stock of Marshall Field and Co. BATUS Retail Group now included Marshall Field, Saks Fifth Avenue, Frederick & Nelson, Gimbels, Kohl's and a number of other department stores. By the mid-1980s they were beginning to close the Oregon stores, one Oregon location at Washington Square lasted until 1990.

BATUS sold the money-losing Frederick & Nelson to local investors in September 1986. Two stores were immediately closed - Portland and Salem Oregon. Poor management decisions led to an overabundance of lower-priced, out-of-season merchandise and large investments in inventory at the wrong prices. Additionally, the inability to pay bills on time led to late deliveries of critical merchandise and empty looking stores. No longer known for fashionable, high-end clothing, Frederick & Nelson became unable to withstand competitive pressures, particularly when the Seattle area entered a recession in the late 1980s. Fading rapidly, the chain entered a fatal liquidity crisis and closed for the last time in May 1992.

Frango
Frango's exact year of creation and the origin of the name have been lost to history. According to a trademark document from the U.S. Patent Office, the name Frango was first officially used on June 1, 1918. A popular item on the tearoom menu was a frozen dessert called Frango, and it was available in maple and orange flavors. The name probably originated by the combination of Fran from Frederick & Nelson, and the go from the tango dance craze. In 1926, the consistency of the Frango Dessert was described as flaky, requiring the use of a fork, not a spoon, such as one would use with ice cream. Eventually the Frango dessert line included pies, ice cream sodas, and milk shakes. It was decided in 1928 or 1929 that Frederick's should offer a chocolate mint truffle. Candy maker Ray Alden is credited with developing the Frango Mint. His secret recipe called for chocolate from cocoa beans grown on the African Coast and South America, triple-distilled oil of Oregon peppermint and 40 percent butter. A few months after Frederick sold out to Marshall Field in 1929, Frederick's candy makers in Seattle were summoned to Chicago to introduce Frango chocolates to Marshall Field to help build slumping sales during the Great Depression. Soon, the candy kitchen at Marshall Field had produced their own mid-western interpretation of the Frango chocolate recipe. Frangos was produced on the 10th floor of the downtown flagship store.

Even after the store's demise, the F & N Frango lives on. In the Northwest, the candy was sold in The Bon Marché (now Macy's) as well as in Portland's Meier & Frank. Frango can still be found in Macy's stores in Seattle in their familiar hexagonal box. In addition, they are still a favourite at the Macy's stores that were formerly Dayton's, Hudson's, and Marshall Field. The "classic" Frango mint candy now exists in three varieties—the Frederick & Nelson recipe primarily available in the Pacific Northwest, the Marshall Field recipe available in Chicago area Macy's stores and produced locally, and a Marshall Field recipe produced by the Gertrude Hawk Candy Company of Dunsmore, Pennsylvania for distribution at other Macy's locations. Before the acquisition by May, Marshall Field transferred all production of Frango to Gertrude Hawk; Macy's chairman, Terry Lundgren, promised a Chicago-made Frango as a concession to protests regarding the loss of the Field name.

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Talk:Military history of Birmingham

would this page be easier on the eye if it were formed in chronological order? Any one care to have a go? Nick Boulevard 21:52, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Copyright issue
The text about the Gun Quarter copied from http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/history/bull.htm is a transcript of the history of the Gun Quarter that is displayed on a large plaque on the side wall of the pub Price Street. As webmaster of VirtualBrum.I have no objection to use of this text. --Vbrum 19:48, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Unless you're also the copyright holder of the text on the plaque, all this tells us is that you've got a copyright violation on your own site too.

 * Andy Mabbet I presume (no sig), as far as I am aware the words are not an exact copy and even if they are we have two scenarios here: (a) The wording is within the public deomain, I very much suspect, (b) I can remove the violation of the text and re-write the information that I know to be true. Either way the article will definatelt stay albeit with the violation removed. To save further argument I will do this, I have been meaning to change this page for a while anyway :) Nick Boulevard 22:20, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

 * This article should stay as is, I see no reason why it shouldn't, especially after the only (as far as I am aware) source of the aforementioned copyright violation has been authorised by the webmaster of that site, the same applies to gun quarter, the article now exists on the temp sub page. 195.92.67.74 15:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

 * The webmaster of the site you stole the text from has admitted he is not the copyright holder (it is, according to the photo on his site, a recent plaque which he has taken all the text from without alteration).

 * Andy Mabbet, I have proven that Virtual Brum are happy for wikipedia to to use that particular passage as part of our brum work, it is now up to you to prove that the creators of the plaque are not happy for two extensive websites referring to Brum (both with links to their quarter) to use their brief wording that could so easily be re written in a fresh form anyway? I want to see a signed piece of paper or at least an authorative confirmation here of your contact of the creator/s of the aforementioned plaque Nick Boulevard 00:43, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * p.s. I feel extremely ill at ease having to stoop to Andy Mabbets level. (shakes head in utter boredom of anal shenanigans) Nick Boulevard 00:43, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * That's not the way this works. We've established that the text is not old enough to be out of copyright, you haven't established that the copyright holder agrees to release it under an appropriate licence, so it must go.

 * Ok offending copyright removed in temp article, the article stays (cheers all around)

From the /Temp re-write talk page
Ok, as far as I am aware the copyright material was sourced from Virtualbrum.co.uk, the webmaster has cleared the use of this material himself see Birmingham military history discussion, this also mitigates Gun Quarter, if anyone can provide evidence that we cannot use this text because of copyright control then we can simply delete the offending passage as opposed to the entire article, a heck of a lot of work has gone into these pages from many wikipedians. 195.92.67.75 22:28, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

It's difficult to know where to begin to rescue this article. Half-sentences, large chunks of text which seem to have been ripped out of a Victorian work without any consideration of relevance or context, irrelevant material. And due to an administrative oversight this (and a couple of other Birmingham-related pages) were removed from the copyright violation list without being dealt with - I'm going to re-list them. I'm also going to comment out most of the text of the page, so it can be restored in a form which is both logical, and suitable for an encyclopedia. In fact, looking at some of the text, it seems to be from a fairly modern source, and given the history of copyright violation on this page it seems safer not to restore anything until it has been sourced. --Brumburger 10:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Perhaps it would be better to simply add the relevant facts to History of Birmingham and do away with this strange page? Andy Mabbett 10:34, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Absolutely not, this page does need restructuring but the military history of the city is extensive and there is more to come yet hence it definately needs it's own page/article. 195.92.67.65 18:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it's an interesting topic, but it would really need writing from scratch with rigorous documentation of what goes in, *as* it goes in (and none of the tenuous connections of the - I caricature - "Birmingham made choclate and lots of WW2 soldiers ate chocolate so chocolate comes under military history" type). The Victorian material appears to come from Showell's directory. (PS Isn't it bliss?). RayGirvan 10:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It is an interesting topic Ray and rather making arrogant and condesending comments why don't you actually put some work into the article instead of critisizing. 195.92.67.65 18:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I think there are several possible locations for what used to be here, and given the large amount of duplication in Birmingham articles, most of it is probably already also in these places:
 * History of Birmingham
 * Economy of Birmingham
 * Science and invention in Birmingham
 * The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
 * I suggest the article is deleted once anything which isn't in those articles has been moved there. (I think the absence of nightly reverts and personal abuse is probably due to half-term holidays).  --Brumburger 11:07, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Fine by me. RayGirvan 11:11, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Again absolutely opose this, the article should stay as it is way too big for the history section etc, it should be in one easily accessible place. 195.92.67.65 18:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've removed most of the obvious nonsense, duplications from other articles (that I could find) and irrelevant material. What we're left with seems to be a small amount of trivia, some huge and not entirely relevant chunks of Victoriana, and some potentially interesting stuff about arms production (which should probably go into an article about Birmingham's industrial history, rather than here). --Brumburger 13:07, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I've restored the article to how it was after the copyright violations were removed, deleting this article or filtering it away will be down right vandalism, there is much more to come yet and instead of talking about how we can get rid of it why don't you actually help wikipedia by structuring the article, It would be nice to see it listed in chronological order. 195.92.67.65 18:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree with Brumburger that it's not salvageable without vastly more work than writing it from scratch. At the very least, it fails to cite sources, so anyone trying to edit it would have to check and source every single statement. RayGirvan 21:56, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I dissagree, the article will have it's sources so I will personally seek them out, if anything needs re-writing I will do that also, it's a great article and a valuble asset to Brum article. Nick Boulevard 22:28, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * If anything needs rewriting, Wikipedia users (including you) will do it collectively. That's what you buy into by writing here. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly ... do not submit it. Which bit of that don't you understand? RayGirvan 22:48, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Again please do not try condesending me Ray, you seem to become quite frustrated when your work here is reverted or deleted so think how I feel when Andy Mabbett deletes whole articles of factual content like is happening here. Also, WHEN exactly have I minded my work being edited? I will grant it that I do become frustrated with Andy Mabbett stalking my every move here (of which I must say is rather flatering considering your/his low opinion of my work) I think that it is enlightening to watch my many contributions edited down and formulated into professional looking articles, great well done, just don't delete it, by the way I have edited under different ip addresses due to my P.C. and to be perfectly honest I am not after the kudos of associating my user name with any firsts like for instance cancer research or Alexander Parkes if I create something that blossoms then I am happy, I just add for fun and out of enjoyment. Nick Boulevard 20:32, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Revert
I've reverted to the long version of this article. While it could probably do with a bit of a cleanup, this is a pretty good, detailed article of the sort I'd expect to see here. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:13, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Tony, there is loads more that I will add once this artcile is stabilized, it really does need a clean up but please can we not conveniently lose parts unless of course it is copyright (which was removed). Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The problem is that a lot of it is already in other more relevant articles in exactly the same wording (see the page's edit history),

 * Where? Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * some of it is nonsense (what is the (complete) paragraph "in 1797 and The Loyal Birmingham Volunteers in 1803. These were some of the forerunners to what was to become The Royal Warwickshire Regiment," supposed to mean?),

 * All the info is there you just need to formulate it better as I said it the start of the discussion Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * some of it is irrelevant (the alleged invention of the fire detector - Darby's design worked by a block of butter melting, and it's extremely unlikely that it was used in military vehicles), some of it is patently untrue (HMS Birmingham sunk a U-boat in 1920?). I edited out most of the rubbish and left the remainder in comments, awaiting restoration in a form more suitable for here (there's a large paragraph starting "The official natal day..." which is lifted verbatim from a Victorian work with no indication as to what the subject or the source is).  User:Nick Boulevard will be the subject of an RfC over the next couple of days - there are dozens of Birmingham-related articles which he has filled with unsourced material much of which turns out to be either untrue or copyright violation (some of the remaining paragraphs seem to be modern and too well-written to be Nick's own work).

 * I think that your horrible attitude here speaks volumes Andy, why are you so unkind about my work, I admit that I am not a perfect wikipedian but compared to you I must be a saint... surely? Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm going to remove the comments from the cleaned-up version, which at least doesn't contain any blatant inaccuracies even if it doesn't make much sense either. --Brumburger 11:41, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Strongly seconded. Basically, the problem is that none of it can trusted. It's a whole mess of unattributed material written by a user who has repeatedly failed to cite sources, writes with a permanent pro-Birmingham slant, and persistently reverts edits to remove irrelevancies, reasoned corrections of errors, edits toward NPOV, and reorganise in a way that makes sense. He has also complained to an admin previously, if that's what brought you here. RayGirvan 12:01, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I cite many sources Ray, I am from Birmingham and I would argue that in actual fact I often battle people like yourself and Andy Mabbett (could be from the same odious little toad family) to ensure that Birmingham related articles are fair and balanced, sometimes I do over guild the lilly but I can assure members reading this that is through sheer enthusiasm for what I am writing. Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, the first HMS Birmingham did sink U-15 in August 1914. The Birmingham Loyal Association was formed in 1797 and The Loyal Birmingham Volunteers in 1803. In short, the claim that none of this can be trusted seems to rest on ignorance, though it does I admit contain some unverifiable claims, at least one of which (military applications of Darby's fire alarm) has been identified. The wording is often archaic in places, and yes it's rather confusing--this means it needs cleanup. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * To be honest when I started writing this article I think I did probably take some bits'n'bobs from an ancient online book from the 1800's which is out of copyright, there is a link to it on the main Brum page. Other info I know to be true. Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * You'll rapidly find that he won't allow cleanup, and that's why it's contentious. The mistrust doesn't rest on ignorance but on track record of dealing with Nick on other Birmingham-related articles.

 * Rubbish, I am quite friendly and polite to those who deserve it, why should I offer an open hand of friendship to someone that would willing stab me in the back? Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The archaic language identifies large chunks as coming verbatim from Showell's Guide : OK, that's out of copyright, but it should be credited (and guidelines anyway are Don't include copies of primary sources). Other bits, though

 * "As the appetite of the armed services for weapons and equipment ... plus a host of other items" - see

 * "took in their stride the production of a whole miscellany" and following - see

 * Chad Valley material - see

 * Chad valley article was added when I first came here and some of the content from there MAY have been added if I thought it was ok to copy and paste from an existing Wiki article. Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * appear to be copyvios. RayGirvan 12:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If he's a problem user, and attempts to communicate with him don't succeed, start a user-conduct RFC to get third party views. This may well solve any problems you have. WP:RFC. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:40, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * On the contrary Tony, I am quite approachable. Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * That's coming up when I get the time (there's a lot of stuff to be collated because his behaviour on this particular article is the tip of the iceberg, and he often doesn't log on so it's difficult to track his edits accurately - the four or five anonymous edits to this page from different dialup IP numbers are actually by the same person). The original article gave two conflicting dates for the Volunteer corps, and Nick kept reverting to include both dates (and the obviously wrong one for the U-boat sinking) - as Ray says, that's typical.  Most of it may be right, but if he doesn't cite sources, there's no way to check, and enough of what he has added has been proven wrong for suspicion of everything to be justified in the absence of references.  People have been trying to discuss things rationally with him for months, and usually they just get a lot of personal abuse in return.  --Brumburger 13:06, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * This is not true Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There seemed to be no serious disagreement with my suggestion that the subject matter (but not the badly- compiled content) be merged into the generic Birmingham history article. Some of the subject matter is of no real relevance to the city (HMS Birmingham?!?), and other parts are only relevant in a wider historical context (and vice versa). Andy Mabbett 14:44, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I seriously dissagree, this article is extensive and is growing and should not be merged and lost in the general history section where it will be easy for you to vandalise Andy :) Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * QED. Andy Mabbett 22:00, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Andy Mabbett
Just to let you all know, Andy Mabbett and Brumburger are one and the same and although RayGirvan seems to be someone completely different I still would not put it past Andy to create him (I apologise Ray if you are who you claim), Andy does seem to go to great lengths to delete everything I write It's just that I really cannot be bothered to list it all as nothing ever changes. Nick Boulevard 20:59, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Amazingly my work is so awfull and not worthy of wikipedia that both Andy Mabbett (pigs on wing) and RayGirvan took great pleasure last night of simultaneously editing my work, quite a team guys, keep up the good work. :) Nick Boulevard 21:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * First we see a large edit and addition to the Celluloid article by the cumbersome Nick Boulevard then moments after Nicks departure the greater speckled AndyMabbett creeps from his hidey hole immediately pecking away in a blind panic at the recent additions: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celluloid&diff=14765430&oldid=14764258

 * Then moments later a lessor yellow bellied RayGirvan can be seen flitting down and chewing on the leftovers, how very bizarre: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celluloid&diff=0&oldid=14765430

Copyright
The owner of virtualbrum.co.uk has today confirmed to me independently that he granted and grants permission for the use of the duplicate material from his site on Wikipedia.—Theo (Talk) 30 June 2005 15:51 (UTC)
 * Did he also confirm that he owns the copyright of that material? Andy Mabbett 30 June 2005 17:42 (UTC)
 * That is not the issue. The question was about whether Wikipedia breached his copyright or vice versa. Given that the similar texts were on his site before they were on Wikipedia, the latter is moot and his confirmation of consent addresses the former.  If you now wish to identify breaches of other copyrights in Wikipedia material, then that is up to you.—Theo  (Talk) 30 June 2005 19:07 (UTC)
 * See VBum's edit of 19:48, 17 May 2005 (at the top of this page, at the time i write this). Andy Mabbett 30 June 2005 19:13 (UTC)
 * I have seen that. I am unable to tell from that which elements of the Virtual Brum page are copied from the plaque.  I have suggested that User:Vbrum indicates on his website which elements are reproduced from other sources with permission.  If you can show that specific elements breach a copyright, then we can address those.  We may need to ask Birminham City Council if they have put the plaque text into the public domain.  Or we can use the form: "a plaque reads:" if it is enough of a selection to be fair use.  Assuming that you are local, maybe you can check the plaque.—Theo  (Talk) 30 June 2005 19:52 (UTC)

Cleanup required
The material from Walter Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham is on Google Books. It clearly should be used as a reference, not verbatim. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:27, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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All the information that was in this stub is available in more expanded form in the "Revision control" entry. So I thought it would be better to just redirect this entry to "Revision control".

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Talk:Liberal Christianity

Article revision
After reading the article and perusing the discussion in the talk page archives, I decided to re-write the section on "exegesis" and ended up renaming it "Liberal Protestantism" because that is all it deals with. I'm proposing we give the article a revised outline with sections for "Liberal Catholicism" and "Liberal Orthodoxy" (if there is indeed such a thing) as well. I have contributions I can make for Liberal Protestantism, but the other branches of Christianity will need to be taken up by other editors. Ltwin (talk) 02:58, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

"Liberal theology" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Liberal theology. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 9 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. ItsPugle (talk) 21:57, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

A slight revision
When the article says that liberal Christianity grew out of "Enlightenment rationalism and romanticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries", should it not add "respectively" after the words centuries? My understanding is that die Aufklarung, or the Enlightenment, was in the eighteenth century, romanticism was a nineteenth century movement. YTKJ (talk) 14:53, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

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Adapazarı

Adapazarı is a municipality and the capital district of Sakarya Province, Turkey. Its area is 324 km2, and its population is 281,489 (2022). It covers the central and northern part of the agglomeration of Adapazarı and the adjacent countryside.

History
The history of Adapazarı dates back to 378 BC, when it was called Agrilion (Ἀγρίλιον in Greek). Ancient settlers included Phrygians, Bithynians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Greeks, and Persians, but Adapazarı got its identity from the ancient Hellenistic, Romans, and Greek Byzantine rulers. After Alexander the Great's conquests, the Persians were forced out of the region.

One of the most important remains of historical significance is the Sangarius Bridge (Beş Köprü) built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 533 AD. Historically, it was situated on the old military road from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the east, connected, since the end of the 19th century, by a branch line with the Anatolian railway. Although it is rumored that Adapazarı was founded by a group of Armenians coming from the East in the 15th century and was called "Donigaşen" after the person who founded the city, the name was later changed, but this information could not be confirmed. The claim that the local Muslims were Islamized Armenians and Greeks needs confirmation. The source and reliability of the information that the region was conquered by Orhan Gazi and opened to settlement is unknown.

In 1868, the Adapazarı Municipality was officially founded on the town called Der Seadet. A sugar factory and agricultural sugar factory attracted many migrants and accelerated the industrialization of the city. A law passed on 17 June 1954 in the Grand National Assembly saw the city separated from Kocaeli Province and made the center of its own province. The 1999 Marmara earthquake affected Adapazarı and inflicted losses in lives and damage. In 2008 the district Adapazarı was created from part of the former central district of Adapazarı Province, along with the districts Arifiye, Erenler and Serdivan. At the same time, the province was renamed Sakarya after the Sakarya River which runs through it.

Economy
Adapazarı is the location of a large automobile factory owned by the Toyota Motor Corporation, as well as the Hyundai EURotem train factory. Tank Pallet 1st Main Maintenance, one of the biggest Turkish defense contractors, and Otokar, a major manufacturer of buses and military vehicles, are located in Sakarya. Other major industries in the city and its surrounding province include textile factories for silk and linen products. Agriculture and forestry also form an important part of the city's economy, with the production of tobacco, hazelnuts (fındık variety), walnut-wood, cocoons and vegetables. Adapazari is one of the most important industrial capitals of Turkey. While Turkey is a developing country, the city of Adapazari renovated its infrastructure and industry after the 17 August 1999 catastrophic earthquake which left more than 18,000 casualties behind. In memory of the earthquake municipality had built a museum of earthquake in city center.

Education and culture
The only university in the city is Sakarya University, one of the largest universities in Turkey in terms of student enrollment. Since its establishment in 1992, Sakarya University has influenced the culture of the city and transformed public life.

In addition to the university, many different institutions shape and influence the culture of the city. Adapazarı Kültür Merkezi (Adapazarı Culture Center), Ofis Sanat Merkezi (Ofis Art Center), and Sakarya Sanat Galerisi (Sakarya Art Gallery) are the main cultural institutions led by the municipality. Adapazari also hosts non-governmental cultural and educational organizations. Of them, Sakarya Bilgi Kültür Merkezi provides educational and cultural activities.

Kent Park features an authentic, picturesque reconstruction of an historic water wheel that once provided fresh drinking water from the Çark River to public spigots located every few blocks throughout the city. The original wooden water wheel, commonly known as the Çark Wheel, was maintained and refurbished to operate in one form or another from 1724 to 1955.

Sports

Adapazarı is home to Sakaryaspor. Sakaryaspor has won the Turkish Cup once and has played in the Süper Lig for 11 seasons. They were promoted again to the TFF First League in 2011, the second level in the Turkish football pyramid, as they beat Konya Şeker S.K., Bugsaşspor and Bandırmaspor consecutively in the play-off games of the TFF Second League. However they were relegated in the following season, and since 2013 they have played in the TFF Third League. Even though Sakaryaspor is not always a permanent team in the Süper Lig, they have raised many of Turkey's best players, such as Hakan Şükür, Tuncay, Oğuz Çetin, Aykut Kocaman and many more.

Composition
There are 84 neighbourhoods in Adapazarı District:

 * 15 Temmuz Camili
 * Abalı
 * Acıelmalı
 * Akıncılar
 * Alandüzü
 * Aşırlar
 * Bağlar
 * Bayraktar
 * Bileciler
 * Budaklar
 * Büyükhataplı
 * Çağlayan
 * Çaltıcak
 * Çamyolu
 * Çelebiler
 * Çerçiler
 * Çökekler
 * Çukurahmediye
 * Cumhuriyet
 * Dağdibi
 * Demirbey
 * Doğancılar
 * Elmalı
 * Evren
 * Göktepe
 * Güllük
 * Hacılar
 * Hacıramazanlar
 * Harmantepe
 * Hızırtepe
 * İkizce Müslüm
 * İkizce Osmaniye
 * İlyaslar
 * Işıklar
 * İstiklal
 * Karadavutlu
 * Karadere
 * Karakamış
 * Karaköy
 * Karaman
 * Karaosman
 * Karapınar
 * Kasımlar
 * Kavaklıorman
 * Kayrancık
 * Kışla
 * Kömürlük
 * Köprübaşı
 * Korucuk
 * Küçükhataplı
 * Kurtbeyler
 * Kurtuluş
 * Mahmudiye
 * Maltepe
 * Merkez
 * Mithatpaşa
 * Nasuhlar
 * Örentepe
 * Orta
 * Ozanlar
 * Pabuççular
 * Poyrazlar
 * Rüstemler
 * Sakarya
 * Salmanlı
 * Şeker
 * Semerciler
 * Şirinevler
 * Solaklar
 * Süleymanbey
 * Taşkısığı
 * Taşlık
 * Tekeler
 * Tepekum
 * Tığcılar
 * Turnadere
 * Tuzla
 * Yağcılar
 * Yahyalar
 * Yenicami
 * Yenidoğan
 * Yenigün
 * Yenimahalle
 * Yeşilyurt

Climate
Adapazarı has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa, Trewartha: Cf). Summers are hot and sometimes oppressively humid, the average maximum temperature is around 30 °C in July and August. Winters are cool and wet, the lowest average minimum temperature is slightly below 4 °C in January. Precipitation is plentiful, fairly evenly distributed year-round, and is most frequent in winter. Snowfall is somewhat common between the months of December and March, snowing for a week or two, and it can be heavy.

Highest recorded temperature:44.0 C on 13 July 2000 Lowest recorded temperature:-14.5 C on 22 January 1961

Notable people

 * Udi Hrant (1901–1978), oud player, singer and composer of Turkish and Armenian songs
 * Kriton Ilyadis (1916–1980), cinematographer
 * Sait Faik Abasıyanık, writer, poet
 * Tuncay, footballer
 * Hakan Şükür, footballer
 * Semih Saygıner, carom billiards champion
 * Kenan Sofuoğlu, motorcycle racer

Twin towns – sister cities
Adapazarı is twinned with:
 * Klina, Kosovo
 * 🇺🇸 Louisville, United States

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Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co.

Festo Corp. v Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., 535 U.S. 722 (2002), was a United States Supreme Court decision in the area of patent law that examined the relationship between the doctrine of equivalents (which holds that a patent can be infringed by something that is not literally falling within the scope of the claims because a somewhat insubstantial feature or element has been substituted) and the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel (which holds that a party who makes a change to a patent application to accommodate the requirements of patent law cannot claim infringement by equivalents of an element that was narrowed by that change).

Background of the case
Festo Corporation (petitioner) possessed patents for an industrial device. After Festo began marketing its device, Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. (SMC, respondents) entered the market with a device that used one two-way sealing ring and a nonmagnetizable sleeve. Festo Corporation already owned two similar patents (although their initial patent application was rejected) for this industrial device. Festo filed suit, claiming that SMC's device was sufficiently similar that it infringed Festo's patents under the doctrine of equivalents. Festo's claim had been amended during prosecution for, at the very least, compliance with 35 U.S.C. §112 (claim structure, see Jepson claims), and thus Shoketsu claimed that prosecution history estoppel should bar Festo from asserting equivalents.

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts held that Festo's amendments were not made to avoid prior art, and therefore the amendments were not the kind that give rise to estoppel. A panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed. 72 F. 3d 857 (1995). The Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded in light of an intervening decision in Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co.. After a decision by the original panel on remand, 172 F. 3d 1361 (1999), the Federal Circuit ordered rehearing en banc, 187 F. 3d 1381 (1999). The court sitting en banc held that claim amendments made for compliance with the Patent Act presented a complete bar to claiming equivalents.

Issue
Whether any amendment to a patent application that narrowed a patent claim to comply with the Patent Act creates an absolute bar to equivalents for the particular claim limitation that was narrowed by the amendment.

Court's decision
The Supreme Court vacated the ruling made by the Federal Circuit, holding that such amendments do not create an absolute bar, but instead must be examined in light of the reason for the change. In the unanimous opinion, Justice Kennedy explained that it was not whether prosecution history estoppel applied to amendments, but to what extent the amendment surrendered coverage of the claim. If the change was made to clarify a translation, for example, the inventor should suffer no reduction in rights. But if the change was made to keep the patent from overlapping with another patent, then the applicant will be presumed to have given up the right to complain about anything broader than the patent claim itself.

In particular, the Court held that patentee's decision to narrow claims through amendment in order to comply with the Patent Act automatically assumes surrender of the territory between the original claim and the amended claim, i.e., a presumption of surrendering all equivalents for the particular claim limitation that was narrowed by the amendment. The Court thus placed the burden on the applicant as to showing what equivalents were not surrendered.

The Court conceded, however, that there are some cases where the amendment cannot be viewed as surrendering a particular equivalent. "The equivalent may have been unforeseeable at the time of the application; the rationale underlying the amendment may bear no more than a tangential relation to the equivalent in question; or there may be some other reason suggesting that the patentee could not reasonably be expected to have described the insubstantial substitute in question. In those cases the patentee can overcome the presumption that prosecution history estoppel bars a finding of equivalence."

Papers

 * "Patent Law: The Festo Case and the Doctrine of Equivalents", United States Congressional Research Service, July 25, 2002


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User talk:Walkerma/Archive1

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Chemistry
I've decided to answer most of your question on my own talk page because of it's length. You have some good ideas, so I suggest you visit  WikiProject Elements and  WikiProject Chemistry to let other chemists know and start moving pages to their proper names, after carefully reading the help pages on moving pages, especially with regard to double redirects. Good luck and don't hesitate to contact me again if you have to. :-) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:22, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Pictures of chemical compounds
Well, I didn't do much. All I did was photograph them with a closeup lens (I think it was 10 diopter, but am not sure right now) on a 4 megapixel camera, then individually cut them out using Photo Shop Elements. The photos currently available are the original version direct from Photo Shop Elements with no scaling and are about 600 pixels across. (Originally I was planning on only uploading the 125 pixel scaled versions, but I uploaded both and the 125 pixel versions have been deleted since Wikipedia can now handle the scaling itself, and the larger version looks much better)

If I was going to add a label to the photos I'd do it after cropping with the text features of Photo Shop Elements (not on a paper card). Some of those paper cards seem to be hard to read (e.g., perspective effects).

Mostly I'm just glad the photo "project" is over for me :-) It took all of one day to take the photos, many evenings to edit them, and alot of time to upload on my home dialup connection. But I had access to the kit (I had bought and donated it to a science school, so all I had to do was ask them to let me take the photographs when I donated some other things to the school) and simply couldn't resist the opportunity to "donate" the kit again :-). -- RTC 16:39, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Suggested changes to inorganics table
Hi Walkerma,

maybe you should add your message on my talk page to User_talk:Mykhal so that he will read it.

I have a few suggestions to your inorganics table (maybe we can also apply some of them to the 'main table'):

 * THANK YOU for your feedback! I've been waiting for comments like these for a couple of months!  I'm still fairly new to Wikipedia, but I felt strongly that we would never get a large number of decent pages on compounds with the original table because it was too long, too obscure, and it wasn't tailored for organic or inorganic.  However I didn't know enough to be able to make all of the changes you did. Also I don't know enough about Wikipedia protocol to know whether my changes break any rules.  I have posted my thoughts indented right after your comments below.

 * No table width. Instead we can use <br> for linebreaks in a table cell.
 * Fine- I have little idea what I'm doing in Wiki markup, I just copy & paste!

 * 'Name' into the title row and 'Other names' under 'general' so that the layout with the columns will not be broken.
 * OK

 * Removed that grey horizontal ruler below the image.
 * OK

 * 'Molecular weight' in g/mol instead of amu. It's identical, but nobody uses and understands the latter.
 * OK, I agree- I was just following the standard table, but I prefer g/mol myself. However, to be strictly correct the value in g/mol should be called molar mass.  I have a copy of Hill & Petrucci's General Chemistry open at the moment, chapter 3, and it says this explicitly (p86 in the 2nd edition).  So, which do you prefer, molecular weight in amu or molar mass in g/mol?
 * Molar mass in g/mol, obviously. Molecular weight is a redirect to that article.

 * IUPAC name should have been Systematic name . Maybe 'Chemical name'?
 * This is more of a problem. On Wikipedia we currently have two main pages that cover IUPAC nomenclature- the "official" name on Wikipedia.  For organics, the page IUPAC nomenclature does a great job of explaining the system, but there was (until I added a link ten minute ago) nothing about inorganics.  However inorganics are covered on the page systematic name, but this page gives very little on organics.  However, for a title in a template, I think "IUPAC name" is the correct term, because there are several systems for systematic naming (for example, the CAS system, which would refer to 2-propanol as 1-methylethanol instead.
 * I prefer Systematic name because we do need a clear name for that field.

 * 'CAS number' without square brackets.
 * It is standard practice in the chemical literature to include square brackets. I realise that one can find MSDS sheets etc without these on, but I was the information specialist at a chemical company for many years, and it really is pretty standard.  Does it really screw up things to include square brackets?
 * OK

 * Do we really need the temperature in Kelvin? I'm not sure, maybe for inorganics.
 * I think of this as unnecessary myself, but I have seen people who advocated removing all reference to "non-SI" units such as Celsius and ONLY using K. Scary!  I think adding the value in K should be enough for such purists, and also for physicists who may well prefer Kelvin.  For organics, stick with Celsius only- physicists are much less likely to use these pages.
 * left K (with comment)

 * ':' removed after 'Hazards'.
 * OK

 * 'Solubility': Water uppercased.
 * Thanks

 * No unit links. People who don't know the units are probably not that interested in the value - or they can click the description link to the left. Also, repeatedly linking to the same article is bad...
 * Thanks again, I'd often wondered what was considered good/bad on that. I had just copied the "standard table" format there.

 * The rows under 'Related compounds' are just an idea...
 * A great idea! However, we can't use words like anion/cation, unless this is to be ONLY for ionic compounds.  I was expecting to be using this for things like PBr3, where there are no anions, or PCl5, where the cation/anion are PCl4+ and PCl6-!  But certainly for ionic metal compounds, the anion/cation version would be much clearer.  Do we need two short form inorganic tables?
 * added comment

 * I think the light-pink shade of the left column is very ugly...
 * Again, I just copied the standard table, but I like your version just fine.

Keep on with your good (& hard) work! Cacycle 21:11, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and the same to you!Walkerma 18:06, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have put up a version that (I think) includes most of your suggestions. Upon reflection I decided to leave in some of the unit links, because I don't think they intrude much on the page (indeed, having them in blue may enhance the clarity), and my experience teaching chemistry has been that many people DON'T know what things mean, even at the college level. The 5th grade class (11-12 year olds) at my daughter's school (in the US), for example, do a project about the periodic table, and if any of them look up things on Wikipedia some of them may not know what K means, or even °C. Please feel free to comment further. Walkerma 16:43, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

See my comments above. The units are explained in detail by the article link to the left (i.e. Temperature, so I don't see the need for repetitive unit links. I have changed the template according to the discussion above. I have also added a lot of comments, please have a look at the plain text. Cacycle 19:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Great! Thanks a lot! I was planning on working on that this weekend, depending on your feedback, but you've done a much better job than I would have done. I did put up a page on chromium(III) chloride using the tentative version (any comments?), and I will be putting up [[zinc chloride today, as I wanted to see how they looked. Assuming there aren't any big problems, I'll start using the new template for all my contributions from now on.  I did find with the variable width I have to be careful that the table doesn't get too wide.  Thanks again, Walkerma 19:55, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PNGs vs. GIFs
There are several main differences between PNGs and GIFs:

 * PNGs can have up to 24-bit color depth, for a maximum of about 16.7 million colors. GIFs are limited to just 256 colors, so you may have to reduce the color depth of a full-color image, which can result in bad-looking dithering. (PNGs can also be used for 256-color, 16-color, or 2-color images, like GIFs can.)
 * PNGs have what is known as an "alpha channel", which can be used to make parts of the image partially or fully transparent. GIFs support transparency as well, but not with an alpha channel; with a GIF, any pixel is either fully transparent or fully opaque. The main problem with partial transparency in PNGs at the moment, however, is that Internet Explorer doesn't support it well.
 * The PNG algorithm was specifically designed to be free of any patents. Unisys claimed intellectual property rights over part of the GIF algorithm, which caused quite a stir in the late 1990s. The relevant patent expired in 2003 in the United States, however.
 * GIFs are probably more widely supported in browsers, but all recent versions of major browsers support PNGs.

There aren't many reasons to prefer a GIF to a PNG, unless you're worried about compatibility with old browsers.

In either case, for line art, maps, flags, diagrams, and so on—images with clearly-defined edges and few colors—PNGs and GIFs work much better than JPEGs, because they use lossless compression. The lossy compression of JPEG introduces "fuzz" into the picture and actually results in a larger file size. This fuzz is quite obvious in images with clearly-defined edges, but invisible in photographs. JPEGs are still the best choice for photographs, paintings, photorealistic computer art, and so on, since the "fuzz" is invisible and JPEG compression works better than lossless compression does for these images. —Bkell 22:10, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * If you're interested in the current status of PNGs, including browser support, try visiting the semi-official current status page. Netscape and Internet Explorer have supported at least basic PNGs since 1997. As far as Wikipedia images, I'd recommend PNGs rather than GIFs, since they're more versatile. Among other reasons, if someone wants to add more advanced features to the image later, they will be able to use PNG features without having to rename the file. —Bkell 22:21, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hydrochloric acid
The hydrochloric acid is in the process to be nominated for Featured Article, see the discussion at Peer review/Hydrochloric acid/archive1. I think the article needs some polishing. Maybe you can provide an image of a hydrochloric acid bottle, a cylinder, or an HCl generator. Unfortunately I don't have a camera. Cacycle 22:32, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) Maybe even a fuming bottle of conc. HCl... Cacycle 10:21, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I will try to get to this tomorrow, and also I will take a careful look over the HCl pages.Walkerma 20:39, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I have taken a few pictures, but I have to download them then upload them. Walkerma 17:12, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Please see my suggestions in Section 1.4 of Peer review/Hydrochloric acid/archive1. H Padleckas 18:53, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I'd already done the photos! A titration pic would be nice, I agree.  However setting up titrations would be a big hassle at the moment, but maybe I can take a picture when the students get to do this; alas, not until the autumn.  By the way, H, I strongly endorse your comments on chemistry pages- though don't underestimate the number of people who can understand these things!

 * I agreed with Cacycle about the polishing, partic. the chemistry section, so I've done a rewrite. I think it reads more clearly now, but others are welcome to rewrite my rewrite till we get it right. Walkerma 06:17, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I have been very busy with a brand new baby but I will try to get a better HCl picture done in the next day or two. Walkerma 23:00, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have made some (hopefully) final comments on Hydrochloric acid at the bottom of Peer review/Hydrochloric acid/archive1. Also, if you haven't seen them already, I wrote some remarks on the Talk:Hydrogen chloride page of the Hydrogen chloride article, which is not quite finished yet. Once my comments are resolved, I think Hydrochloric acid will be ready for FAC nomination. H Padleckas 19:47, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Zinc chloride article
Hi, you put an impressive amount of detail on chemical reactions in the Zinc chloride article. I was looking at the picture of the Negishi coupling reaction which shows ........... 1-ethoxy-1-(zinc chloride)ethene being treated with 2-bromo-1-phenylethene and a Pd...... catalyst giving 2-ethoxypropene. I would expect a Negishi coupling to yield 3-ethoxy-1-phenyl-1,3-butadiene. Can you check this out please? H Padleckas 22:55, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for spotting this! It is a problem with Wikipedia, it seems- it chopped the end off the picture, making it look like a methyl on the end.  I've reduced the size of the picture and hopefully that will solve it. Walkerma 23:37, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Correction- it wasn't a fault with Wikipedia, it was my fault, after all! Walkerma 19:50, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My ongoing plans for Wikipedia articles
So we are not both duplicating effort on the same topics, I will tell you about some of my ongoing plans for Wikipedia articles on chemical compounds. For chemical structures, I usually upload the images into Wikimedia Commons so that all Wikimedia can link to my images. For certain very article-specific images, I sometimes upload the image directly into the specific Wikimedia (like Wikipedia) that will use it. In some cases, one article can cover several closely related compounds. For example, before I started working on Wikipedia, there was one article covering all three xylene isomers and one article covering all three isomers of phthalic acid. I plan to start an article on benzenediols (catechol, resorcinol, and hydroquinone) and possibly another article on toluidines someday. Also, I plan to expand the Ethanolamine stub a bit to mention the differences between monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, and triethanolamine. In Wikimedia Commons, I have uploaded one image with the chemical structures of Catechol, Resorcinol, and Hydroquinone and another image with the chemical structures of the three toluidine isomers. Also in Wikimedia Commons, I have separate images of each of the three ethanolamine compounds mentioned above, which someday I plan to insert into the Ethanolamine article, although I plan to discuss only monoethanolamine in more detail. H Padleckas 19:47, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I wrote up a short article on Benzenediols, but I have not done any work on Toluidines or Ethanolamine yet. H Padleckas 16:45, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * V8rik wrote up a rather short article with a Table of Properties on p-toluidine and I expanded it to cover the o-, m-, and p-isomers. The table will need to be finished up still and this article on Toluidines could use a little more work.  I added Tables of Properties covering o-, m-, and p-isomers to the Xylene and Cresol articles and I am still working on a similar table offline so far for Benzenediols.  Someday I plan to prepare a similar table for Isomers of Butylene.  I have uploaded pics of MEA, DEA, and TEA (mono-, di-, and triethanolamines) into WikiCommons, but I have not edited the Ethanolamine article yet.  H Padleckas 05:07, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

In the Hydrochloric acid article, TDI and MDI are both mentioned twice. In the Isocyanate article, I have briefly described what they are and put in a chemical structure image of the two most common industrially used isomers of TDI. I am currently working on a picture of the MDI structure. When I do upload that image, can you please check to make sure the small blue numbering of the atoms is correct for this compound? H Padleckas 19:47, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I just finished making and uploaded the MDI image into Isocyanate. H Padleckas 00:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Regarding thionyl chloride, in all of the several websites I've seen its chemical structure, there is always a double bond shown between the sulfur and oxygen atoms. However, it seems logical to me that this bond would share only one electron pair, with both the electrons coming from the sulfur. If that one electron pair resulted in one covalent bond between the S and O atoms, the sulfur would have a positive charge and the oxygen a negative charge. Does the double bond designation stand for one double bond and one ionic bond? Is it wrong to think of a chemical structure with a single covalent bond and opposite charges on the S and O atoms? In similar cases in old books, I've seen a single bond with an arrow going from the sulfur to the oxygen, showing both electrons from the bond came from the sulfur. Is this designation now obsolete? H Padleckas 19:47, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've just added a Table of Properties to Thionyl chloride based on the template link you gave me on my User talk:H Padleckas page. The table itself looks pretty good except it is below the text on the right side. H Padleckas 21:45, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) How can I move the table up to the top of the article on the right side?
 * 2) In the text of the article itself, after practically every word in a link, the blank space afterwards was lost. Insertion of the table must have had something to do with this. How can this be fixed?

 * This looked wierd, didn't it! I compared my pages with this and there should have been a |} at the end of the table, and inserting those two characters fixed everything!  I deleted several of the names from the article, since these are now given in the table.
 * Thank you for fixing this. H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it's a great idea for us to share plans. My plans for compounds are listed on the WikiProject Chemicals to do list, this was updated only recently so you can see there what I'm planning.  I decided in November or so that it would be nice for there to be at least one decent compound page per element, excluding obscure elements.  Although I'm an organic chemist, I'm aware that many of the compounds I use are simple inorganics, and I found that even these weren't covered well in Wikipedia.  I though of oxides at first, but decided instead to write pages on metal halides, particularly chlorides, as being both important and also typical metal salts, unlike oxides.  Also my research uses a lot, so I was able to take pictures easily (I even have HfCl4, ErCl3 pictures, yet to upload). Other than NaCl, there were virtually no decent pages on metal chlorides before, so I decided to work through the periodic table.  Even CaCl2 was very poor, AlCl3 didn't even exist.  So after cutting my teeth on a few lanthanide chlorides (Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm and Dy) I settled on a standard short form table that worked well.  Then I ploughed through chlorides of Li, K, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Al then switched to transition metals Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu (both) and Zn.  I just have FeCl2 and NiCl2 left from the first row (TiCl4 is not too bad already), I did CdCl2 just today (do you like my crystal drawing, a first for me!), and I'll add the few remaining ones I listed over the coming weeks.  I have about seven books on the topic in my office at home to give me everything I need, so I can be quite productive.  My idea is that when some kid is doing a school project on (say) copper, they can find some significant information as well as a couple of pretty pictures.  I think I'll get bored before I get NbCl5 done, but I'll do ones I have pictures of like Hf and Au.

 * My philosophy when writing articles seems to be different from many contributors. Although I do sometimes just add a sentence or two to an article, this is usually just to correct an error, or because I see a major fact is missing.  Instead I like to put together an full-length article in MS Word at home (where I don't have internet) over several days or even weeks.  When I take a break from marking lab reports, I write a section of a page.  That way the page ends up being pretty much complete when uploaded, and well-rounded- I've had time to mull over all aspects.
 * I often wrote articles or sections of them offline using AOL files in order to minimize time online. Then when I'm online I use AOL's Edit-Copy and Paste to enter the changes into Wikimedia.  I also make pictures offline, then when they're ready, I upload them online.  H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally, if I look on Wikipedia an article on George Washington, I'm likely to want to know more than his dates of birth and death. Likewise, if I look up manganese(II) chloride, I may just want to know its MP, but I may also want to know rather more about it if I plan on using it or writing about it.

 * A problem I see a lot is that people put up stubs that contain errors or non-information (take a look at 2-bromo-1-chloropropane for an example of the latter), and I find I waste more time working around these than I would if there was no page at all! Often the page needs renaming to a IUPAC name- I'm no lover of IUPAC but it is at least a standard, and it's what Wikipedia has chosen so let's use it.  Also you have to be careful not to hurt the writer's feelings (I try, anyway!). The other thing one finds is a longer article where much of the article relates to one particular use or aspect (see copper(I) oxide)- this is often very good information, but it's not exactly balanced.  Once I give a page a major rework, I try to balance these things out, but you feel bad if you delete stuff like that just in the name of balance.

 * I admit, though, I did enjoy getting the chance to delete hundreds of really silly listings when I created List of organic compounds! Many of the compounds listed in List of compounds won't even have a page a hundred years from now, unless it is just to give a MP and formula.

 * As I have worked through these pages I found that certain compounds crop up a lot- thionyl chloride being one of them. Ph3P and Ph3PO would also be valuable to have, as well as PBr3, and I plan to do those soon.  I notice someone has started a BF3 article, another compound on my hit list.

 * Once I get done with these, I may work on some oxides, but I think I'd like to have a change of scenery and do a few organic reagents I am familiar with such as MCPBA, triflic anhydride, TFAA. This seems to be an area where things are lacking, and once done it would be much easier to write decent articles on things such as Baeyer-Villiger oxidations.  I'd also like to cover a few basic "building block" organic molecules like iodomethane.  I was thinking of taking a stab at ethylbenzene- an important precursor to styrene I understand, yet it has no page currently.  Or perhaps it is more in your area?
 * I'm the one who put the picture of ethylbenzene being dehydrogated to styrene in the Styrene article. However, I didn't have that much practical to say about ethylbenzene that wasn't already in the Styrene article, so I did not create a new "Ethylbenzene" article.  H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I wrote up an Ethylbenzene stub anyway and I made an Image:Ethylbenzene.PNG picture for it. If you want to work on Ethylbenzene, go ahead; I have other things to do in the meantime.  H Padleckas 16:45, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Another crying need is for some articles that either currently don't exist at all or are pretty basic, yet they cover important topics. In fact with organic synthesis I got so frustrated that there was no article describing my field of work I took a break from chlorides to write it.  I also revamped the chiral synthesis page (though I'd prefer it to be called asymmetric synthesis).  I think the aldol reaction page needs a lot of work.  But probably the biggest gap is on the chemical industry, where there should be a whole slew of full-length articles.  What is the world's petrochemical industry worth?  A couple of trillion Euros per year?  About 10% of the world economy? (I'm guessing) It gets three lines in Wikipedia.
 * I previously noticed that petroleum refining and petrochemicals processing are rather weakly covered in Wikipedia. Significantly more could be added about the chemical processes themselves.  I may attempt to do so when I feel more ambitious.  I once wrote a nice school paper on catalytic reforming.  I wish I could find that again.  H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The only reason I haven't worked on this is that I would like to do it properly- take out a bunch of books from the library, go through my old copies of Chem & Eng. News, and write some well-researched articles that Enc Britannica would be proud to include. The topics are too important to just do a bad job on.  I'd really like to write a page on the fine chemical industry- I worked in it for 12 years.  Of course when I finish all these I'll probably be dead!

 * Regarding your questions, I did a quick bit of research and I think your nos. are right for MDI, I think NCO groups are treated as halogens are, making them lower priority than the CH2. Don't sue me if I'm wrong!
 * Thanks for checking that out for me. H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Regarding the structure of SOCl2, don't get me started! My PhD thesis is titled "New reactions of the sulfinyl group......." so I feel more able to give my opinions freely on this.  From what I have read, your are indeed correct, -O-S+Cl2 is probably rather closer to the truth than O=SCl2.  The same is true for the famous "P=O double bond".  In fact both are resonance forms, and so there is both dipolar and double bond character involved.  Of course charge separation is bad in res forms, but the pi overlap between a large S (or P) and small O is not nearly as good as in C=O, also the S (or P) has to expand its octet to make the double bond.  And remember, nitrogen seems quite happy with charge separation in nitro groups.  I don't think we should write sulfuric acid with a 2+ charge on S, but those aren't pure double bonds either.  I actually like the old arrow notation, but "dative bonds" are considered rather dubious by the purists these days so we're not allowed to write them too much.  So when they fell out of favour, I think the double bond version became standard through laziness- it's much easier to write S=O on a typewriter or word processor, and much easier in ChemDraw too.  (You should have seen the problems my students had drawing a nitro group in the Cache modelling program today!). So by all means change the structure if you dare, if not, I'll probably add something about bonding when I get the time.  I notice that in my dissertation I wrote all my sulfoxides as -O-S+, but CF3SOCl (triflinyl chloride) with S=O, so I guess I'm inconsistent!
 * Thanks for the explanation. H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * With any new compounds you write, can you be sure to add them to List of organic compounds as well as List of compounds (until the latter disappears)? Please keep in touch and let me know what you're doing too!  Walkerma 06:03, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sodium chloride picture
Hi Walkerma! Re: Image:Sodium_chloride_crystal.jpg: The jpeg image format is not really suited for text and graphical images, it's only for photographies. Better use the lossless and compressed png or gif formats. That way you can prevent those ugly artifacts. Cacycle 17:31, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I expected to use png, so I actually tried png first direct from the scanner, and it gave me an enormous file for the initial scan (3.8 MB). So then I saved it as a jpg file and it came down to 0.79 MB.  After getting your message I tried converting the jpg to gif and it came out around 1.0 MB.  The initial scan was then cropped to give the NaCl file and also one of Cadmium chloride, then I resized each down to a reasonable size. I'm using IrfanView as an editor (I'm much more familiar with it than with Photoshop, though the college recently bought us the latter)- is that the problem?  Do you have any suggestions for making the files better?  I've uploaded Image:Sodium_chloride_crystal.png (made from the original scan exactly as with the jpg file, but it's 118 kB vs 33 kB for the JPG), so perhaps you can see what I'm doing wrong.  Thanks, Walkerma 18:27, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I have taken a look at your new NaCl *.png pic. I think you scanned in a pic on paper (or whatever) as if it were a photograph, using a scanner.  All the detail of a full photograph was retained in a *.png file.  As a result you have stored considerably more information than the minimum required for a good diagram.  Why did you scan the picture?  Didn't a computer make it for you to begin with?  Couldn't you transfer the file from computer-to-computer?  May I try to fix this problem for you?  H Padleckas 21:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I would welcome any help. I feel like such a computer amateur on Wikipedia, everyone else seems to know so much more than me!  I do indeed scan everything, including things like the GIF files that are particularly abundant on the zinc chloride page.  I didn't scan the NaCl pic as a photo, I scanned it as a colour document.  I am very familiar with IsisDraw, downloadable for free from [www.mdli.com MDL] and I used that for drawing the NaCl picture (believe me, it's not designed for that, but that's what I'm most comfortable with).  As far as I know there is no way to take the IsisDraw file and directly make a GIF or PNG file from it.  I do know ChemDraw a bit too, but that got lost when they upgraded my PC.  So please, if you or Cacycle can help me get the pictures to look sharper, I'd welcome it.  Thanks, Walkerma 23:04, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Inorganic stylesheet1
I stumbled across Inorganic stylesheet1 when clicking through random pages. I don't believe that it should be in the main namespace, as it's not a real article but rather an editing tool. Can I suggest that you move it instead to something like WikiProject Chemistry/Inorganic stylesheet? (By the way, cheers for all your good work). --194.73.130.132 09:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I moved this to WikiProject Chemicals/Inorganic stylesheet1, though I can't get a picture in it there. Walkerma 20:32, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Isn't this just the chemical infobox for inorganics?. See chemical infobox with a link off the Chemistry wikiproject, of course. Wim van Dorst 18:56, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)

 * It is indeed! The history of this is that I put up a template page that I could use myself, and suggest to others, then when Cacycle put up the organic infobox I added this page in there too. Use whichever form you prefer, they are basically the same.  I was trying to bring some form of simple standard table to the inorganics, but even now I'm still learning the meaning of all of the Wikipedia systems! Walkerma 19:39, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Methyl Mercaptan
I would appreciate any comments you may have regarding my request to move methyl mercaptan to methanethiol. Please leave any comments at Talk:methyl mercaptan. Thanks.

Darrien 05:39, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

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Uzo (filmmaker)

Uzo (born August 1957) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and graphic artist. He has made two feature films, Walls & Bridges (1992) and Better Than Ever (1997). After losing the option to the film rights on the novel Mendel's Dwarf, after many years of work, he is currently working on a third film, Sophie's Wish.

Early life
He is Igbo and was born in Obiaruku town, Delta State, located in the south-south region of Nigeria. Uzo is the son of a bookseller and a midwife. His mother died during childbirth when he was twelve years old due to poor medical attention due to the expenditure of resources on the Biafran War, after which he and his two siblings were raised solely by his father. He studied graphic design at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, then a master's program in graphic design, at Howard University, Washington, D.C., and then photography at Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California. His early interest in film was cultivated primarily by films from India, today's Bollywood, that were popular in Nigeria during his youth.

Career
His production company is called Cold Grey Entertainment. Initially based in Patchogue, New York, he is now based in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York.

A professional graphic artist, he is the founder of the Devo clothing brand, which has now been phased into a shoe line. While his films deal significantly with race relations, the issue of race is never dealt with on the surface.

Uzo does not consider himself much of a writer, and each of his films has been co-written with someone else based on his initial concepts. After writing and rewriting the script, for Walls & Bridges, he hired Michael Edelson, then a film professor at SUNY Stony Brook, and Barbara Gallen as story consultants. He co-wrote the finished screenplay with Alyssa McGuinness. Uzo, Alan Fine, and co-producer Anthony Breccia co-wrote Better Than Ever based on his story, and he had another writer on Mendel's Dwarf, again after agonizing on several drafts of the scripts of his own. Most recently, he has consulted with Kimberly Britt to script his third film, titled Sophie's Wish. Uzo prefers to keep his films simple, straightforward, and unmanipulative, "in the European style."

Works
Uzo's Walls & Bridges is the story of a white nun Ellen Landress Bowkett who leaves her Order to marry a black painter Mark D. Kennerly who is blinded in a random act of violence. While developing the script, Uzo spent two years painting the large size Miro-esque murals featured in the film. The film premiered October 14, 1992, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC. It was one of two films representing the United States at the Sixth Festival of the Americas, sponsored by the Organization of American States and the American Film Institute. He is considered the first African-born person to direct an American feature film.

Uzo's second film, shot under the title Cul-de-Sac, was released by Water Bearer Films in a shortened version under the title Better Than Ever, presumably to avoid confusion with the cult classic by Roman Polanski. Described as Grumpy Old Men meets Home Alone, the film stars Academy Award Nominee William Hickey, Carl Gordon, Victor Colicchio, Frank Gorshin, Donald McDonald, Sylva Gassel, Irma St. Paule, Pee Wee Love, Neil Ruddy, and the acting debut of Joey Buttafuoco.

He optioned the film rights and struggled for years on an adaptation of Simon Mawer's 1999 novel, Mendel's Dwarf. After years of languishing in what he calls, "Hollywood's development hell", the option elapsed and was subsequently sold to Barbra Streisand's company.

Personal life
Uzo was married to a white Long Island native from Wading River in the 1980s and divorced in 1990s; he has two daughters, Tyne and Anya.

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User talk:Wally/El C advocacy

'This page is for all past, present and future enquiries or statements regarding my representation of User:El_C. For general comments or requests for assistance, please see User_talk:Wally. For issues relating to the User:Instantnood case, please see here. Wally '

Was noted in reply
Greetings, Wally.

Of course Sam Spade ought to know of my request for assitance, and he does as I noted this in my response to his comment here immediately upon submittion. Just to make it clear that would not initiate such a request without making him privy to it. That certainly would not be a goodfaith gesture on my part.

Regards, El_C 08:16, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * My reply is @ User_talk:Sam_Spade. I also left a note @ User_talk:El_C. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 12:34, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Please relay this message to Sam Spade
I would prefer if he ceases from placing comments on my talk page while the dispute is ongoing. I request that these would be relayed through you instead.

Thanks, El_C 08:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

User_talk:SlimVirgin / User_talk:El_C. I think my position is clear, and I of course agree that you acting in your clients stead would be in his best interests. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 09:10, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sounds like a sensible plan
For some reason I cannot get the Commedia out my head lately (it can't just be the drugs!). It's almost as if I forgot how profound it is. Yes, that sounds like a very sound, rational plan; I am fully committed to it. I remain quite hopeful that a constructive resolution will prevail. All the best, El_C 05:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Regarding El C
El C and I both made modest edits to one another’s talk pages, AFAIK w/o significant incident. That is discussed in some detail @ User_talk:El_C. As I believe (please correct me if I am wrong) he is no longer impaired, I don't intend to forgo editing pages (and talk pages), which El_C has disagreed with me about, for much longer. I am interested in where we are going w all this however, and might agree to avoid certain key pages for a much longer period of time, if he were to do likewise. Racialism is a particularly good example of a page I don't think El C ought to be editing, and which I would be willing to agree to avoid long term, if he were to do likewise. Unfortunately, Socialism is a far more important page, and last I knew it was locked up because of me and El C. these are of course my ideas and interpretations. He, for his part, seems to want me to stop using shorthand when discussing w him. That’s not something I intend to make any solemn vows about, but I think the two of us agreeing to improve our level of civility regarding one another could prove beneficial. One thing that irks me is his repetition of the fact he dislikes me, or that I make him uncomfortable. I don't like him either, but hadn't felt a need to mention it until just now (here). It especially annoys me when he mentions such to persons who haven’t had a chance to form their own opinion regarding myself, and I feel in these situations in particular that it borders on a personal attack. In any case, I'd like to hear your thoughts on where were going w all this, and what needs done to get there. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 16:15, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Having just read the above note, Wally, I am beginning to think that perhaps Arbitration would, in fact, be the best remedy to this. El_C 16:32, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Go for it, I welcome the opportunity to be acquitted once again. You might want to have a look at previous cases however, I doubt you'll find much precedent for whatever it is you intend to charge me with. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 16:48, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Sam Spade
Once again is an interesting comment which I care not to be provided an answer to, Wally. Oh, I'd win an Arbitration case, I'm very confident of that. The question is whether the effort is worth it considering Sam Spade will probably be penalized relatively mildly. Instead of Arbitration, I could much more effortlessly ignore/call-him-on whenever he is in breach of WP:Civility. Can Sam Spade do without saying BS, etc. ? I certainly don't think his euphemism for shorthand (as if I could care less about shorthand) is really going to hold up in such instances.

As an aside, I find is interesting how Sam Spade comments on which page/s –I– ought not to edit. Note what he said several months ago on Peer Review in this extension:

Matters of, how very enigmatic. Now, examine the evidence, Wally. I am principal author of the following articles pertaining to 'racist' ot 'communist'-related POV. My article on The Destruction of the European Jews or the Central African Federation (white minority rule) or for that matter, White minority rule, among others, all enjoy overwhelming consensus from the community (and were never challenged by Sam Spade) ? Likewise, note the overwhelming consensus that my versions continue to enjoy in Neo-colonialism or surplus-value, theories very central to the communist POV.

Yet to Sam Spade I am –incapable– of neutrality and factual accuracy. It appears that thus far the Wikipedia community begs to differ. Goodfaith?

Lastly Wally, note what you already know: that Sam has been snide and insulting to several editors in the past – whereas I have not. This, in itself, perhaps is more noteworthy than anything said thus far in this dispute. El_C 17:39, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Talk:Racialism.

 * (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 22:12, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * And so, Wally, Sam Spade lists the talk page section I wrote into while I was sick two weeks ago and that myself and Sam Spade have already discussed, directly. He also notes me being unwell in the his first comment here. Again, the direction and consistency of faith does not seem to be good, certainly un-editorial. Fact is, Wally, that Sam Spade remains the sole person to argue for my –incapability– of neutrality and factual accuracy in relation to matters of racist and communist POV, yet the –multiple articles– listed above demonstrate that the community considers me quite capable to write on these matters. Well, at any rate, I am yet another serious editor who needs to establish a detente with Sam Spade, which I think is very, very suggestive. El_C 23:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Mediators
Hi, Wally. Jwrosenzweig, a Mediation Committee member, has requested that we select Mediators we are comfortable with. The problem is that I don't know and have not heard of any of them, save two, Danny and Ed Poor (whom I -only- exchanged a brief sentence or two with: here and here respectively). Still, both Danny and Ed Poor enjoy my confidence as Mediators for this case. El_C 04:32, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re:
I have replied @ Requests_for_mediation and User_talk:Sam_Spade respectively. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 13:42, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I also commented on this, but S.S. immediately removed my comment (. Essentially, he's attempting to drag in ElC's supposed difficulties with other editors, and I'm offering to present evidence of S.S.'s own numerous run-ins with a number of editors (including myself; at one point in our dispute he claimed that he'd never had serious problems with anyone else, so it was interesting to see that this had been rumbling on).  Sorry to take up space on your User page with this, but S.S. seems to be very good at behaving abominably (both serially and in parallel), but playing the system in order to get away with it. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mediation
Please see User_talk:Sam_Spade. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 16:36, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Words in my mouth
I would very much appreciate if you not present my position for me. I find your summary of my position on this matter consistently unfortunate. As always, its just fine to go to me and say "I think what your saying is X, is that correct?", thereby giving me an opportunity to clarify "no, actually I was meaning Y" (or XY, etc..). Essentially I see you presenting an atmosphere of me being afraid of, or concerned by, potential arbitration. That could not be less true. I don't so much oppose arbitration as I do escalation of trivial matters. If I felt El C needed to be banned, I would have no qualms about moving efficiently and vigorously in that direction. If I felt I had committed some offense grievous enough to deserve censor, I would apologize. Those circumstances are not the case here. We have an entirely less serious matter we are dealing with, one that I have no fear of presenting before the arbiters, but also one I have no intent in bothering them with. In summary, feel free to come to me and clarify what you see my position to be, such dialogue would be welcome. Do not however speak for me to others, and if you do, expect immediate objection. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 20:03, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * See my reply @ User_talk:Sam_Spade. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 20:41, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

El C
Hi Wally, I recently noticed a post from Sam Spade, I believe addressed to you, characterizing El C as "haughty and difficult to interact with." I'm not involved in this dispute, so I hope you don't mind that I add this note. I'd like to say that I've found El C to be one of the most reasonable editors on Wikipedia. His contributions are insightful and scholarly; and he is invariably reasonable in debate. I'd say he's in fact one of the easiest editors to get along with, and he's widely respected, both for his interactions with others and for his edits. I hope this opinion may be of some use to you. SlimVirgin 21:11, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

I'm back!
Hi Wally, I hope you are well. While we have spoken through email and I have said this privately, I just wish to reiterate here publicly how pleased I am with your truly outstanding advocacy work on my behalf. Well done! And thanks!

Best regards,

El_C 21:03, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
I request progress Re: El_C forthwith. El_C requested your assistance 01:27, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC), and you requested mediation 02:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC). Since then I for one have been distracted in my wikipedia volunteership by the lack of progress and dialogue, the amount of times I have spent checking and reading over the pages in question alone subtracting mightilly from my volunteeerinsm on this site. I am not alone in that, certainly, and our mediator is also not unique in having an engaging and demanding personal life. I insist that matters be addressed and resolved, or at least that clear effort be made. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 21:11, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * It might be worth pointing out that SS has for a while (since about 19 March) been telling people seeking his help that he's too busy at the moment because he's moving house... Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:09, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: the above
Hi, Wally. Can you please direct the following question to Sam Spade, who writes above:

(italics are my emphasis)

I'm confused, which other editor/s is Sam Spade (to cite him), for one, is refering to. Thanks, I appreciate all your help and efforts. El_C 22:25, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Let me get this straight, your pointing out that you havn't bothered to keep up with the mediation process? Obviously I already know that, since that is the very basis of my complaint! Speak to me directly or don't bother, if I get another complaint from Wally about the usage of his talk page I'm going to resume taking you to task on your talk page rather than here. These games and attempted hijinks are most tiresome. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 11:34, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re:Re: The above
Wally, if you do issue a complaint in this case, I am willing to have Sam Spade speak to me directly on my talk page (of course, I'll simply answer him by refering him to you, but still, I will not delete or modify his comments therein). Please see my additional response on my talk page space. I apologize for not having conveyed to you this request through email. That was an oversight on my part, though, I felt I was polite with respect to how my question was phrased. El_C 12:33, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User:Sam Spade/Report rogue admin
Hi, Wally. Please see this and comment if you like. Thanks. El_C 22:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I am livid with rage. That Sam would attempt to do such a thing is not only a mockery of everything Wikipedia stands for — it is an open-faced attack on the democracy of the project. If you are such a terrible user, why were you just made an admin by an overwhelming majority?

 * The wikipedia is not a democracy. The majority has no claim to the truth. Sam Spade 11:12, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Wally/El C advocacy