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Alan Jones (radio broadcaster)

Alan Belford Jones  (born 13 April 1941  ) is an Australian former radio broadcaster. He is a former coach of the Australia national rugby union team and rugby league coach and administrator. He has worked as a school teacher, a speech writer in the office of the Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, and in musical theatre. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, and completed a one-year teaching diploma at Worcester College, Oxford. He has received civil and industry awards.

Jones hosted a popular Sydney breakfast radio program on radio station 2GB from 2002 until 2020. Jones advocates conservative views, and the popularity of his radio program has made him a highly paid and influential media personality in Australia. Despite his success, he remains a controversial figure. His on-air conduct has received adverse findings from Australia's media regulators, and he has frequently been sued for defamation. In May 2020, Jones announced his retirement from his role at 2GB. In November 2021 it was confirmed that his contract with Sky News Australia would not be renewed. Since December 2021, Jones has presented Alan Jones: Direct to the People on ADH TV.

Early life and career
Jones was born to farmer and coal miner Charlie Thomas (1906–90) and former school teacher Elizabeth 'Beth' (née Belford; 1906–82). Alan was the middle of three children, with an older brother, Robert Charles, and a younger sister, Colleen, both of whom would become school teachers like their mother and brother. Jones was raised on a dairy farm near Oakey in south-east Queensland, attending primary school at Acland State School, before transferring to Toowoomba Grammar School as a boarder.

After leaving school, Jones trained as a teacher at the Kelvin Grove Teachers College (now part of the Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane. In 1961, he commenced his teaching career at a state primary school, Ironside State School in the inner suburbs of Brisbane. In 1963, he obtained a position at Brisbane Grammar School, a private secondary school for boys, where he remained until the end of 1969. Throughout this period he also studied part-time at the University of Queensland for a Bachelor of Arts degree, which he was awarded in 1967. Apart from his teaching duties at Brisbane Grammar, Jones additionally proved to be a highly successful sporting coach in athletics, tennis, and, later, rugby union.

In 1970, Jones was appointed Senior English Master at The King's School, Parramatta in Sydney. Again Jones was also heavily involved in coaching a number of sports with considerable success, including progressing to coaching the First XV rugby union side, which he took to the championship in an unbeaten season in 1974. At the end of the first term in 1975, following a meeting with the school's principal, Jones chose to resign from the school. It has been reported that reasons for his resignation include his divisiveness and his inappropriate relationships with students.

After leaving King's School Jones briefly moved to Canberra where he made a failed bid to win preselection to stand as a Country Party candidate for federal parliament. He then spent several years as the manager of a small airline in Quirindi in country New South Wales, where he also coached the local rugby team. During this same period, over 1976–77 while in his mid-30s, Jones spent time in England where he completed a one-year diploma in educational studies at Worcester College, Oxford. While at Oxford Jones won a university Blue for tennis.

In 1978, Jones returned to Sydney to run for the State Parliament as a Liberal Party candidate. After failing to win his seat in the election, Jones worked for some time as a speechwriter for the Liberal NSW Opposition leader, John Mason. In 1979, Jones was recruited as a speechwriter for the Liberal Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser, so returned to Canberra for the position, remaining there until early 1981. He then moved back to Sydney after being recruited to be executive director of the New South Wales Employers' Federation, where he worked until he began his radio career in 1985.

In October 1985, Jones was awarded the Rostrum Speakers' Award as the Communicator of the Year.

Political aspirations
In 1974, a parent at The King's School, Parramatta, Doug Anthony, leader of the Country Party (now the National Party of Australia) in the Australian Parliament, offered Jones a position with the party in Canberra. In 1975, Jones sought party preselection as the candidate for the Federal parliamentary seat of Eden-Monaro, but lost the bid.

In 1978, he was the candidate for the July 1978 by-election for the NSW state seat of Earlwood for the Liberal Party of Australia, formerly held by deposed Liberal leader Sir Eric Willis. He lost what had been considered a "safe seat". Jones again contested the seat for the Liberal Party at the 1978 New South Wales state election held in October; the Australian Labor Party candidate was returned with a greater majority.

In September 1979, Jones stood for Liberal preselection for the Federal Division of North Sydney, placing third in the ballot. The winning candidate, Peter Solomon was later disendorsed, but Jones did not re-contest the ballot in March 1980, with John Spender taking preselection and winning the seat.

In 1986, Jones nominated for the Liberal preselection for the Federal Division of Wentworth in Sydney, but was a late withdrawal from the ballot; the preselection and seat was won by future Liberal leader Dr John Hewson.

Rugby union
1982 was the beginning of Jones' association with semi-professional rugby, firstly appointed as (part-time) manager of the NSW Rugby Union team. The next year he served as coach for the Manly Rugby Union team, winning the Shute Shield competition for the first time in 32 years.

In February 1984, Jones replaced Bob Dwyer as coach of the Australia national rugby union team (the Wallabies). Jones coached the Australian team for 4 years with 86 victories from 102 matches including 23 victories in 30 Tests. When he took the team on it included Mark Ella, and it soon recruited Peter FitzSimons and James Black, both Manly players, and Nick Farr-Jones. Also in 1984, Australia's national team, the Wallabies, won the Grand Slam victories over England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and a Barbarians side made up of the best players of those countries and France. In 1985, Jones was awarded Coach of the Year from the Confederation of Australian Sport.

The 1986 Bledisloe Cup victory against New Zealand in New Zealand was the first time that had been achieved in 39 years. In 1988, Jones was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to Rugby Union football. In 1989, Jones was elected to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame for his contribution to sport as the Australian rugby union coach.

In October 2007, Jones signalled his interest in coaching the Wallabies after Queensland Rugby Chairman Peter Lewis suggested to the media he was the right person for the job. "If Peter Lewis and the Queensland Rugby Union – who have played a major role in Australian rugby for many years – are of the view I am the person who can make that contribution then I am obligated to put my hand up and say, 'Well if that is the case, I'm available'."

The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) on 14 December 2007 ruled Jones out of the coaching position, instead appointing New Zealand Crusaders coach Robbie Deans.

In 2017, Jones took up an invitation to coach the Barbarians against the Classic Wallabies in Lismore and the Wallabies in Sydney during the 2017 end-of-year rugby union internationals.

Rugby league
In 1990 Jones replaced Warren Ryan as coach of the Balmain Tigers rugby league football club, without accepting a fee. Balmain had been quite successful, including coming runners-up in 1988 and 1989 in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, but with Jones in charge they struggled despite his claims upon appointment that "Balmain are sick and tired of coming second". It was while coaching Balmain that Jones was dubbed with his best known nickname, the 'Parrot', by comedian Greig Pickhaver in his role as sports commentator H.G. Nelson, although Jones has never approved of the name.

Jones coached Balmain from 1991 to 1993 with these results: 1991 – 8 wins, 12th place; 1992 – 10 wins, 10th place; 1993 – 5 wins, 12th place. At the end of the 1993 season he reapplied for the coaching role, offering a new business plan to the board, but when it was rejected he resigned. He was soon after appointed as the Manager of Football Operations with the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club, also without a fee.

Radio
In 1985, Jones joined the Sydney AM radio station 2UE as the morning show host after long-time host John Laws left for 2GB. Laws returned to 2UE in 1988 to again host the morning show, so from March of that year Jones was moved to the breakfast slot from 5.30 am to 9.00 am. On changing to the breakfast show, Jones first adopted the program's long-time opening and closing theme music, "Gloria" by Laura Branigan. By the mid-1990s Jones' audience share in the Sydney market was up to 22%, giving him the largest radio audience in Sydney, and, including his transmissions into regional and interstate markets, possibly the largest radio audience in Australia.

Jones' program has remained little changed over time, as a mixture of opinion pieces, interviews, talkback, and commercial endorsements. His on-air popularity has made him a highly paid and powerful media personality. Jones uses his program to advocate largely conservative views, and he has been described as one of the most influential broadcasters in Australia. Throughout his time on radio Jones has frequently been referred to as a 'shock jock' due to the style of his presentation, although he personally rejects this term.

In January 1993, the International Year of the World's Indigenous People, Jones described the choice of Aboriginal Australian Mandawuy Yunupingu as Australian of the Year as "ridiculous" and suggested Yunupingu had been granted the award because of his "colour or ... history". Later that year, prominent Aboriginal Australian Charles Perkins and Jones clashed in a live TV and radio debate. Jones said Australians are "getting no say when [Aboriginal people] say this is [their] nation; it's not, it's Australia's nation ... [Average Australians] are being asked to pay taxes to fund people who are seeking title to productive land to which they've made no contribution to its productivity". Perkins called Jones racist and a redneck and commented "You've sat on your white bum at 2UE in Sydney all your life so you wouldn't know what goes on out there".

On seven occasions between 1990 and 1997, Jones was awarded by Commercial Radio Australia the title Australian Radio Talk Personality of the Year. In 2001 Jones was awarded the Centenary Medal and the Australian Sports Medal, both being awarded for his contributions to sport and the broadcasting industry.

In 2002, Jones switched to 2GB as breakfast announcer, reportedly also taking a financial interest in the station.

In 2008, Jones' audience numbers began to fall, with competition from ABC Radio 702, although he retained his number one position. In 2011, Jones had an audience share of 19.2 per cent, still the largest for a radio commentator in Sydney. In 2012 Jones retained the largest share, with 18.5% of the Sydney radio audience, although this represented an average number of listeners of just 151,000 out of a listening audience of 469,000 and a possible Sydney audience of 4.1 million, and was down from 185,000 in 2006 despite an increase in population. In February 2013, his audience share dropped to 15.4%.

In November 2014, Jones celebrated having the highest share in Sydney breakfast radio for 100 consecutive radio rating surveys.

In May 2020 Jones announced he would retire from his role at 2GB at the end of that month. He cited ill health, however some news outlets have stated that it was a forced resignation after making controversial comments about New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the previous year cost his breakfast program large sums of money from advertisers. Some of that revenue has never returned.

Print
Jones' first regular position in the media was writing a column called "The Way I See It" for the Quirindi Advocate newspaper from November 1977 until February 1978. From 1988 until 1990 Jones wrote a regular column for the Sydney Sunday tabloid The Sun-Herald, but did not appear following a petition by staff calling for his removal as a contributor. This followed Jones' publication of a column predicting an oil crisis, in which a large amount of material had been taken from Frederick Forsyth's novel The Negotiator without attribution or indication that their source was a work of fiction. Jones was later hired by the Sun-Herald's rival paper, The Sunday Telegraph, where he wrote a one-page column titled "To the Point" until 1995.

Since the 1980s, Jones has frequently been the subject of profile pieces in newspapers and magazines throughout the country, which have ranged in style from complimentary to investigatory and critical.

Television
At the end of January 1994, Jones debuted in his own Network Ten program, Alan Jones Live, intended to be similar in purpose and content to the American program Larry King Live. Proving to be a ratings failure, it was cancelled in April 1994 after just 13 weeks on air. In March 1995, he began a segment making editorial comment on the Nine Network's Today breakfast show. Jones continued to present this 7.15 am editorial on Today until it was eventually cancelled in June 2007.

From 2013, Jones began co-hosting a political discussion program on Sky News Australia with Graham Richardson named Richo + Jones. The episode on 22 April 2014 was the twentieth most watched show on subscription television reaching 39,000 viewers and was the channel's second highest broadcast that day. An episode on 17 June, featuring a live interview with Clive Palmer, was the seventeenth most watched show on subscription television and the most watched broadcast on Sky News with 43,000 viewers. The program has since been retitled Jones & Co and co-hosted by Peta Credlin. In November 2021, Jones' contract with Sky News was not renewed. This means that for the first time in Jones' media career he has not had a media platform.

Since December 2021, Jones began co-hosting a political discussion program on the free, digital platform, ADH TV,

Stage
Jones had his stage musical debut in 2012, playing the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Lyric Theatre's production of Annie the Musical in Sydney.

Charity work
Jones is noted for his support of charity organisations and charitable causes. As well as financial contributions, Jones has regularly made personal appearances and given talks to support organisations which he backs. Jones is also well known for providing support to individuals, such as listeners who contact him through his radio show, and for giving personal, professional, and financial assistance to friends and acquaintances, especially young elite sportspeople.

In 2004, Jones received a Queen's Birthday Honour of an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) partly for his service to the media and sports' administration, but also helping many charities. These organisations included Youth Off The Streets, the Children's Hospital, Starlight Children's Foundation, the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation and the Heart Research Institute.

Views and comments
Jones has been a participant in national debates for some decades. A former candidate for Liberal Party of Australia preselection, and former adviser to Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Jones is a noted supporter of conservative politics in Australia. He has nonetheless at different times criticised or joined forces with Australian politicians from across the party-political spectrum to lobby for political causes.

Jones says he does not believe in significant human induced climate change and has been critical of Government policy to use the Australian taxation system as a means of reducing carbon emissions. His radio show often promotes climate change denial, including claims that increases in carbon dioxide are natural and that there is significant scientific disagreement on the IPCC's findings. Jones is a supporter of the Galileo Movement, a climate change denial group which argues that climate change is a hoax perpetrated to form a world government. After the 2010 Australian Federal Election, Jones was critical of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to introduce a price on carbon claiming that this was breaking a pre-election promise. In 2012, the Australian Communications and Media Authority censured Jones for broadcasting falsities about anthropological carbon dioxide, ordering him to undergo factual accuracy training and employ a fact-checker.

Jones, a Sydney-based broadcaster, has criticised Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore's efforts to close lane ways and parking areas in the city of Sydney to cars. Jones says that this unduly inconveniences long-distance commuters and adversely affects city based businesses. On 29 June 2011, Jones said of the Lord Mayor of Sydney ... "put her in the same chaff bag as Julia Gillard and throw them both out to sea" and about Greens leader Bob Brown ... "The woman's [Gillard] off her tree and quite frankly they should shove her and Bob Brown in a chaff bag and take them as far out to sea as they can and tell them to swim home." In February 2011, Jones asked Gillard on-air how she felt about being called "Ju-liar" and that "...[people]...are saying that we've got a liar running the country" following the reversal of her pre-election pledge not to introduce a new carbon tax. He also criticised her for being 10 minutes late for his program. These comments attracted condemnation from critics, including ABC Television's Jonathan Holmes of Media Watch.

Jones has called for consideration of expanding Australia's irrigation and dam systems. He opposed the Iemma Labor Government's plan to privatise the Snowy Mountains Scheme in 2006, and in 2011, he broadcast from Mildura from where he criticised the Gillard government's Murray-Darling Basin Plan, saying "we're seeing policy made without any consultation with people who are the stakeholders – the farmers".

Jones has been a campaigner against coal seam gas mining in prime agricultural regions in Australia. Jones said on ABC Television that "...no-one can be serious when they talk about food security and the great opportunities for us in Asia when our prime agricultural land is being surrendered to mining." In October 2011, Jones addressed the National Press Club on the issue.

In August 2019, Jones was criticised for his remark that Prime Minister Scott Morrison should "shove a sock down [the] throat" of his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern following her criticism at the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum conference in Tuvalu of the Australian Government's inaction on climate change. Jones later derided Ardern as a lightweight Prime Minister and hypocrite. Jones' remarks were widely criticised by several quarters including former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his successor Morrison. At least five companies cancelled advertising with Jones' 2GB radio show following complaints from customers. Jones later sent an apology letter to Prime Minister Ardern, apologizing for "not choosing his words carefully."

Jones is a critic of foreign ownership in Australia, especially by China.

"Died of shame" controversy
In a September 2012 speech at a Sydney University Liberal Club social function, Jones stated that Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a liar, and as a consequence her father had recently "died of shame". The remarks relating to Gillard's father were condemned from all sides of the political spectrum by politicians, media and social media outlets. Jones held a press conference and said he "got it wrong", and wanted to apologise to the Prime Minister both publicly and in person. Julia Gillard refused to receive a call from Jones for an apology. Both the Prime Minister's Labor colleagues and Liberal figures including Opposition Leader Tony Abbott criticised Jones for his remarks. There have been suggestions from the media that this was part of what led to Julia Gillard's so-called "Misogyny Speech"

Labor Party figures sought to associate Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party with Jones' remarks, leading to counteraccusations that they were seeking to "gain political capital" from the affair. Many sponsors pulled advertising from Jones's show, followed by lobbying campaigned through social media to have the remaining advertisers boycott the program. On 7 October Jones' employer, the Macquarie Radio Network, announced that it would suspend all advertising on the Alan Jones show on 2GB to protect its advertisers from pressure being applied through social media activism. Jones called the campaign "cyber bullying". More than 80 sponsors boycotted Jones' program, including Telstra, Woolworths, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and Coles. Macquarie Radio estimated the boycott cost the station between $1 million and $1.5 million, and some advertisers said they will never return.

COVID-19
During March 2020, while Australia reacted to exponentially-increasing infections from the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones played down the risk, saying "We now seem to be facing the health version of global warming. Exaggeration in almost everything. Certainly in description, and certainly in behaviour". In statements playing down the risk of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Jones concentrated on static numbers of infected and dead, omitting mention of the universally-agreed exponential increase in those numbers that is behind medical professionals' concerns about the disease. At the time, Jones was in isolation at his country estate to avoid risk of infection. Jones's radio audience consists largely of older people who are in the most severe risk group for the disease. Commentator Mike Carlton labelled Jones's COVID-19 comments as "dangerous" and "reckless".

Jones backed down soon afterwards, agreeing that for "...those at greater risk, older Australians and those who are more vulnerable, particularly those with pre-existing conditions… it is a far more serious virus", but still failed to mention the exponential increase in infection and death. Jones said that "China brought this disaster on..." and raised rumours without evidence of China buying up devalued Australian assets.

Court actions and tribunal findings
Throughout his time as a radio personality Jones has been the subject of a number of court and tribunal investigations.

Defamation cases
Jones has been involved in numerous defamation cases arising from his comments on radio. These have included:
 * 1990: Jones in his role with 2UE was ordered by a court to pay over $55,000 damages for defaming David Parker, a former councillor of the NRMA, the NSW Motorists' organisation; 2UE was also ordered to pay $80,000. Parker was defamed during the NRMA election campaign in October 1986.
 * 1994: Jones and 2UE were sued in November by Don Mackay, president of the NRMA, alleging that Jones made a false imputations against him.
 * 1998: Jones claimed on-air that rugby league referee Bill Harrigan was biased. Harrigan sued Jones for defamation and, in 2001, was awarded damages of $90,000.
 * 2002: Jones and 2UE settled out of court a defamation claim by Detective Chief Inspector Deborah Wallace, a NSW police officer. Jones defamed Wallace during five broadcasts in 2001.
 * 2008: Jones was found to have defamed Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates with comments regarding Coates' handling of an incident involving rower Sally Robbins' performance at the 2004 Olympics.
 * 2011: Jones was sued in December by health bureaucrat Terry Clout over comments made by Jones in March 2009.
 * 2015: Jones was sued in January by former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and deputy Jeff Seeney over comments made by Jones alleging Mr Newman of lying to him and the public about expanding the Acland coal mine in southern Queensland.
 * 2018: Jones was successfully sued by members of the Wagner family after he accused them of being responsible for the deaths of 12 people during the 2010–11 Queensland floods following the collapse of a wall in a quarry they owned. Jones and the radio stations that broadcast him were ordered to pay $3.7 million in damages to the Wagner family.
 * 2018: Jones was sued by Jeff Parnell, a NSW government acoustic scientist, who was accused by Jones of altering an independent noise-monitoring report for a wind farm.

Others involved in defamation proceedings with Jones have included Aboriginal woman Mary-Lou Buck, Lola Scott (previously the highest-ranking female NSW police officer), Rockdale mayor Shaoquett Moselmane, Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson, the rugby league judiciary, liquidator Ian Ferrier and his twelve partners, Racing NSW's chief steward Ray Murrihy, rugby union chief John O'Neill (about $50,000), former Herald letters editor Geraldine Walsh (about $100,000) and QC Bob Stitt (about $50,000).

London incident
On 6 December 1988, Jones was arrested in an underground public toilet on Broadwick Street in the Soho area of London. He was taken to the Mayfair police station and charged with 'outraging public decency' and 'committing an indecent act'. Jones' friends rushed to his support, and when the case was heard in the Marlborough Street Magistrates' Court the next day The Crown withdrew the more serious charge, with Jones pleading not guilty to the lesser charge of committing an indecent act. The authorities ultimately did not present any evidence to support either charge, and the second charge was also later dropped, with Jones' lawyers winning £70 in costs. Jones read a prepared statement when he first appeared back on his radio show on 16 January 1989, saying "I am and always was innocent of the charges levelled against me". Jones has avoided talking about the incident ever since, although it is frequently raised by his opponents or those looking to highlight alleged hypocrisy in his comments.

Early contempt of court charges
In 1992, Jones was rebuked by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption for attacking former State Minister Dr Terry Metherell during evidence in an inquiry relating to Metherell's appointment to a government job.

Also in 1992, Jones and radio station 2UE were found guilty of contempt of court after the trial of former police officer John Killen was aborted following Jones' interview with a former Drug Enforcement Squad officer. Killen was facing a charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice when Jones conducted the interview and alleged that police had suffered from false accusations. The station was fined $77,000 and Jones $2,000.

Cash for comment affair
In July 1994, Media Watch highlighted Jones' on-air promotion of Optus.

Between 1999 and 2000, the Cash for comment investigation was conducted. Jones had been accused of contracting to have personal commercial support in exchange for favourable "unscripted" comments, principally for Telstra and Qantas, during his radio show. The independent Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV show, Media Watch, was heavily involved in exposing these practices. The Australian Broadcasting Authority finally decided that disclosure had to be made, hence the "Commercial Agreement Register" at the Jones portion of his station's website. (Jones was investigated along with John Laws from 2UE).

In April 2004, another scandal broke after it was revealed the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, David Flint, who had headed the cash for comment inquiries, had sent a stream of admiring letters to Jones. This called into question the impartiality of Flint, and the then Federal Minister for Communications, Daryl Williams, was embroiled in media speculation as to the future of Flint. With an inquiry imminent, Flint resigned. In an appearance on the ABC's Enough Rope, John Laws accused Jones of placing pressure on Prime Minister John Howard to keep Flint as head of the ABA, made comments that many viewers took to imply a sexual relationship between Jones and Flint and broadly hinted that Jones was homosexual like Flint, who is openly gay.

Cronulla riots
In December 2005, in the lead-up to the Cronulla riots, Jones used his breakfast radio program to read out and discuss a widely circulated text message that called on people to "Come to Cronulla this weekend to take revenge... get down to North Cronulla to support the Leb and wog bashing day". Media commentator David Marr accused Jones of inciting racial tensions and implicitly encouraging violence and vigilantism by the manner of his responses to callers even while he was verbally disapproving of them taking the law into their own hands.

On 10 April 2007, the Australian broadcasting watchdog the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found that the broadcaster 2GB and Jones had broadcast material (specifically comments made by Jones between 5 and 9 December 2005) that was likely to encourage violence or brutality and to vilify people of Lebanese and Middle-Eastern backgrounds on the basis of ethnicity. During his on-air rebuttal of the ACMA findings on 10 April 2007, Jones stated that by referring to his show as "Breakfast with Alan Jones", the Australian Communications and Media Authority had little credibility, as his show was actually known as "The Alan Jones Show". However, the 2GB website prior to this broadcast clearly showed the Jones program as being "Breakfast with Alan Jones"; this was changed after the broadcast of Jones' rebuttal to be "The Alan Jones Show".

David Flint again defended Jones by appearing on Jones' morning show "to support his friend and to condemn the process that found him guilty. He told 2GB listeners that the vigilante movement existed at Cronulla long before Jones began broadcasting and that the ACMA findings amounted to a classic case of shoot the messenger. He said the complaints process was flawed because, unlike the Press Council, Jones could not face or question his accusers".

The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal upheld a complaint of racial vilification against Jones and 2GB on 21 December 2009. The tribunal said:"His comments about 'Lebanese males in their vast numbers' hating Australia and raping, pillaging and plundering the country, about a 'national security' crisis, and about the undermining of Australian culture by 'vermin' were reckless hyperbole calculated to agitate and excite his audience without providing them with much in the way of solid information."

Jones appealed the decision, but in October 2012 the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal dismissed his appeal, and upheld his conviction for inciting hatred and for vilification of Muslims.

Jones apologised on-air for his remarks on 6 December 2012. However, on 12 December the Tribunal ruled that this apology was "an inadequate statement of wrongdoing" and ordered him to make another on-air apology during the week of 17 December, this time prescribing the words he was to read: "On 28 April 2005, on my breakfast program on Radio 2GB, I broadcast comments about Lebanese males, including Lebanese Muslims. The comments were made following a Channel Nine television current affairs show about the conduct of young Lebanese men in Hickson Road at The Rocks. The Administrative Decisions Tribunal has found that my comments incited serious contempt of Lebanese males, including Lebanese Muslims. Those comments were in breach of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Act. I apologise for making those comments, which I recognise were unlawful. I also apologise on behalf of Radio 2GB."

Contempt of court charges
In 2007, Jones was found guilty of breaching the Children's (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 (NSW), by broadcasting the suppressed name of a juvenile witness in a murder trial. The deputy chief magistrate, Helen Syme, criticised Jones for not issuing an on-air apology to the boy he had named, and said that Jones' offence was "serious". The magistrate placed Jones on a nine-month good-behaviour bond and fined him $1000.

In February 2008, Jones lost an appeal against his conviction, but Jones's criminal conviction was quashed the following month. The judge presiding over the appeal, Judge Michael Finnane, said: "While it was no excuse from liability in law that Mr Jones relied on The Daily Telegraph, the fact that he did, to some extent ameliorates the seriousness of the offence." The judge confirmed Jones' guilt but dismissed the charge and annulled the conviction, saying it was "an honest mistake".

Kovco comments
In October 2007, NSW State Coroner Mary Jerram considered referring Jones and The Daily Telegraph to the NSW Supreme Court for comments about the inquest into the death of Private Jake Kovco. Jones said that assisting counsel John Agius had tried to persuade Kovco's mother into refusing a jury inquest, comments which Jerram said could prejudice the inquest. No charges were brought against Jones.

Military trial commentary
An episode of ABC's Media Watch was devoted to Jones' pre-trial comments on the charging of three Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The commentators believed that if the case had already been convened, Jones' comments would have been in contempt of court. The charges against the soldiers were eventually dismissed at a pre-trial hearing.

Breach of radio standards
On 25 November 2011 the Australian Communications and Media Authority found that Jones had breached the commercial radio code of practice in his reporting of environmental issues. His reporting was found to lack accuracy and failed to allow other viewpoints to be heard. A decision on the penalty for this breach was reserved.

Climate change commentary
On 15 June 2012, the Australian Communications and Media Authority found that Jones had breached the commercial radio code of practice in his reporting of environmental issues. This related to his claim that "human beings produce 0.001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere". ACMA chairman Chris Chapman said that the watchdog was not penalising the licensee of 2GB, but was working with it to improve procedures. On 18 October 2012 ACMA ordered Jones to undergo factual accuracy training and employ a fact-checker.

Jones responded to these claims on 19 October 2012 claiming that he had mistakenly claimed the 0.001 to be of all "carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" where it should have been "all gases in the atmosphere" and that he had repeated the correct and undisputed figure of 3 percent numerous times later that week and offered a correction.

COVID-19 lockdown comments
Jones was a critic of former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his government. During August 2020, Jones broadcast an editorial on his Sky News show in which he opposed restrictions over COVID-19 within Victoria, claiming the science did not support stronger regulations. An investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority found Jones correctly quoted the science journal, but "misrepresented the research on the effectiveness of lockdowns" and wearing masks to restrict the spread of the virus. The Australian Communications and Media Authority made Jones issue a correction in January 2021.

Personal life
Jones has never been married and has no children. He resides in Sydney. In 2003, Jones purchased a 27-hectare property in Fitzroy Falls for $2.3 million. It was sold by Jones in 2022. In 2017, Jones purchased an apartment in Circular Quay for $10.5 million. In 2021, he bought a riverfront house in Southport, Queensland, for $12.25 million.

Health issues
In July 2008, Jones underwent surgery for prostate cancer. In December 2008, he had surgery to remove a benign brain tumour. Jones had back surgery and neck operations in November 2016 which caused him to be off-air for four months. In November 2018, Jones was hospitalised for severe back pain and again was off-air. He underwent back surgery again in November 2022.

Sexual assault allegations
In December 2023, a number of men accused Jones of indecent assault in an investigative report published by The Sydney Morning Herald; Jones has "vehemently denied" the allegations.

Jonestown
Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones (Allen & Unwin) is an unauthorised biography of Jones by Australian journalist Chris Masters. Masters began Jonestown in 2002 after profiling Jones for an episode of the current affairs program Four Corners. The book won the Australian Book Industry Awards, Australian Biography of the Year 2007. It reported on Jones' term as Senior English Master at The King's School, Parramatta, and an incident in London in 1988 where he was arrested and charged for outraging public decency in London's public toilets, charges that were ultimately dropped.

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History
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs was established to fulfill two parallel missions: "to bring international perspective into the life of Brown University, and to promote peace through international relations research and policy." In 1981, with the support and guidance of 1937 Brown alumnus Thomas J. Watson Jr., former chairman of IBM and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Brown University founded the Center for Foreign Policy Development. The center was formed to explore solutions to the major global issues of the day, foremost of which was the possibility of a nuclear encounter between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1986, the university created the Institute for International Studies to integrate the Center and Brown's other international programs.

In 1991, following a $25 million gift from Watson, the institute was rededicated in his honor. Originally housed in five separate locations on campus, the institute's programs moved into a single building at 111 Thayer Street, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, in January 2002.

2014-2019: Expansion
In 2014, the Watson Institute merged with the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, which had previously been housed in the Department of Political Science. Speaking of the motivation behind the merger, then–director Richard M. Locke cited the increasingly inseparable nature of domestic and foreign policy.

In 2015, the Institute received a $50 million gift to expand facilities and hire additional faculty. This gift enabled the construction of a new building at 280 Brook Street and renovation of an existing building at 59 Charlesfield Street. In 2019, the Institute established the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHR&HS) as a permanent and endowed center. The center replaced the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, which was established in 2016.

2024: Becoming a School
Brown University will launch its School of International and Public Affairs in July 2025. This initiative aims to enhance research and education on global economic, political, and policy issues, serving both undergraduate and graduate students. The school will integrate the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and will draw faculty from diverse academic disciplines. The establishment of this new school was approved by the Corporation of Brown University, following years of planning. This will be the university’s fifth school, joining the Brown School of Professional Studies, the Brown School of Public Health, the Brown School of Engineering, and the Warren Alpert Medical School.

Academic programs
The Watson Institute offers a single undergraduate degree program in International and Public Affairs. The concentration features both a core curriculum as well as three specialized tracks (Development, Security, and Policy & Governance) among which students can choose.

Graduate programs offered at the Watson Institute include the Graduate Program in Development (Ph.D.) and the Public Policy Program (M.P.A.). The Graduate Program in Development (GPD) is an NSF-funded, interdisciplinary program that supports the training of PhD candidates in anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology. The Public Policy program is a one-year intensive (summer – fall – spring) full-time degree with a focus on quantitative policy analysis and management. Since 2017, the institute has also offered a fifth year M.P.A program for Brown undergraduates.

The institute also offers Post Doctoral, professional development, and global outreach programming.

Area studies
The following area studies centers are based at Watson: the Brazil Initiative, the Africa Initiative, the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the China Initiative, and Middle East Studies (MES).

Professional programs
Two professional outreach programs are based at the institute. The Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) provides the opportunity for junior scholars and practitioners from all over the world to study together at the institute. According to Watson's website, BIARI "aims to build transnational scholarly networks while also providing opportunities for professional development. Each summer, BIARI brings promising young faculty from the Global South together with leading scholars in their fields for two-week intensive residential institutes."

Choices develops and publishes curriculum resources for high school social studies classrooms, and leads seminars for secondary school teachers. The program's mission is "to equip young people with the skills, habits, and knowledge necessary to be engaged citizens who are capable of addressing international issues with thoughtful public discourse and informed decision making."

Costs of War Project
In recent years, the most internationally cited product of the Watson Institute has been its Costs of War Project, first released in 2011 and continuously updated since. The project comprises a team of economists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts, and physicians, and seeks to calculate the economic costs, human casualties, and impact on civil liberties of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan since 2001. The project is the most extensive and comprehensive public accounting of the cost of post-September 11th U.S. military operations compiled to date.

Publications
The Watson Institute is the editorial home to three academic journals:
 * Brown Journal of World Affairs
 * Studies in Comparative International Development
 * Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Watson also publishes a working paper series, distributed by SSRN:
 * Watson Working Papers

Diplomats and politicians
Notable diplomats who have served as faculty and fellows at the Watson Institute include 22nd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke and former deputy secretary-general of the OECD and 11th Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, J. Brian Atwood. Heads of state and government who have served as faculty and fellows include the 34th President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso; the 31st President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos; former Chancellor of Austria, Alfred Gusenbauer; and two-time Prime Minister of Italy, Romano Prodi. Other fellows and faculty of note include the 12th president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim; former Chair of the Democratic National Committee and Secretary of Labor, Tom Perez; 7th lieutenant governor of Maryland, Michael Steele; Kenyan activist Kakenya Ntaiya; and 16th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, Arvind Subramanian.

Academics

 * Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, Director, Middle East Studies
 * Omer Bartov, Faculty Fellow
 * Mark Blyth, Director, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
 * Robert K. Brigham, former Visiting Professor of International Relations
 * James Der Derian, former Professor of Research
 * Peter B. Evans, Faculty Fellow
 * John Friedman, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
 * Justine Hastings, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
 * Shirley Brice Heath, Professor-at-large (2003-2010)
 * Patrick Heller, Director, Development Rsearch Program
 * Eugene Jarecki, Visiting Fellow
 * Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow
 * David Kertzer, Faculty Fellow, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
 * Margaret Levi, Senior Fellow (2013–14)
 * Glenn Loury, Professor of Economics
 * Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology
 * Rose McDermott, Director, Postdoctoral Program
 * Brian C. O'Neill, former Associate Professor (Research)
 * Emily Oster, Professor of Economics
 * John Friedman, Professor of Economics
 * Eric M. Patashnik, Professor of Political Science
 * Wendy J. Schiller, Professor of Political Science
 * Galina Starovoytova, former Visiting Scholar
 * J. Ann Tickner, Visiting Adjunct Professor (2004–2009)
 * Ashutosh Varshney, Director, Center for Contemporary South Asia
 * Robert Wade, Professor of International Political Economy (1996–99)
 * Margaret Weir, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
 * Thomas G. Weiss, Associate Director, Research Professor (1990–98)
 * Xu Wenli, Visiting Senior Fellow

Directors

 * Howard Swearer (1986–1991)
 * Vartan Gregorian (1991–1994)
 * Thomas J. Biersteker, (1994–2006)
 * Barbara Stallings, (2006–2008)
 * Michael D. Kennedy, (2009–11)
 * Richard M. Locke, (2013–16)
 * Edward Steinfeld, (2016–2024)
 * Wendy J. Schiller, (since 2024 as interim Director)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip Ellul

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 01:25, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Philip Ellul
Pcb21 marked this vfd on Feb 26 with comment "vfd-ing - not sure whether this guy is in need of an article or not", but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. I'm just bringing it here for resolution; do not consider this a vote. —Korath (Talk) 03:16, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * He has a geocities website, no rererences to awards or publication anywhere other than the geocities page, probably vanity by him or a fan, delete --nixie 06:26, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. He only gets 31 hits on google, but I have a feeling Maltese poets are under-represented on google. I would change to keep if anyone could show that he was notable in Malta. Dave the Red (talk) 06:56, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 08:15, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, several of those 31 google hits are about someone else with the same name.CatCrofts 10:24, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, his own website fails to load, provide proof of notability. ecb29 17:06, 17 Apr 2005 (EST)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phillip S. Pittz

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Phillip S. Pittz
24.67.193.207 marked this vfd on March 22 with coment "vfd - vanity page", but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. I'm just bringing it here for resolution; do not consider this a vote. —Korath (Talk) 03:17, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * This guy seems to exist howevre there is no film called Lycanthrope made in 1988 and teaching english in Japan is hardly encyclopedia material in the 21st century, delete --nixie 06:21, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Tulsa, Oklahoma

Articles relating to the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Walter Prystawski

Walter Prystawski, CM (born 12 February 1933) is a Canadian classical violinist, conductor and teacher. For many years he was the concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

Early life and education
Prystawski was born in Toronto, Ontario. He studied violin from 1944 to 1953 with Elie Spivak at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, graduating with an Artist Diploma of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto in 1953.

Career
Prystawski joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1953. He was a member of the CBC Symphony Orchestra from 1953 to 1959.

He moved to Lucerne, Switzerland to attend masterclasses with Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and subsequently became a member, then concertmaster, of the chamber orchestra Lucerne Festival Strings. He toured with the ensemble in Europe, South Africa and the Middle East.

Prystawski recorded extensively as member and soloist for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, and taught in the professional training program for violinists at the Konservatorium Dreilinden in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was First Concertmaster of the Basel Orchester Gesellschaft in Basel, Switzerland.

Prystawski returned to Canada as founding Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Beginning in 1969, he appeared as soloist with the Orchestra for more than three decades. His first European tour with the orchestra was in 1973.

He also performed as a recitalist, guest soloist, and chamber music player in recital and on radio. Prystawski purchased a "J.B.Guadagnini" violin for $12,000 for the National Arts Centre. He became full owner of the instrument later; the violin was worth about $400,000 in 2006.

He taught at the University of Ottawa in the 1970s.

He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1999.

Prystawski served on juries or as an assessor for the Montreal International Music Competition, the Conservatoires du Quebec, the Canada Council, CBC music competitions, the City of Ottawa and various music festival competitions.

Doctor of the University, University of Ottawa, 2001. Director, Sylva Gelber Foundation 1998 –.

Prystawski retired from the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 2006 after conflicts with its music director, Pinchas Zukerman. He performed with the orchestra in a series of farewell concerts conducted by Mario Bernardi.

Family
Prystawski is married; he and his wife Victoria have two grown children: Linda, an actor and Laurence, a lawyer.

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Talk:Curragh incident

Opening heading
I've never heard this referred to as anything other than the Curragh Mutiny. It ought to be moved, I think. john k 03:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I've also seen it just as "The Curragh." Is there an agreed-on definitive account? Mackensen (talk) 11:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * "The Curragh" is nearly always a reference to the racecourse. Nunquam Dormio 06:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move to Curragh incident to fix the capitalization. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Curragh Incident → Curragh Mutiny — Per WP:COMMONNAME. 30,000 Google hits for Curragh Mutiny, 18,000 for Curragh Incident. Have never heard this called anything but the Curragh Mutiny. Jonchapple (talk) 21:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose A Google book search: "Curragh Mutiny" returns About 3,640 results; "Curragh Incident" returns About 5,730 results. -- PBS (talk) 22:09, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose It did not become a mutiny, and so using that in the title would be wrong and misleading.--Britannicus (talk) 22:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Reliable source for the last statement, (from one of the first book returned by the Google search I made) -- PBS (talk) 22:22, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support I believe this is the common name, calling it an "incident" downplays its seriousness. PatGallacher (talk) 22:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I just did a search of Google web search and could not get the numbers Jonchapple got. Then I tried it with google.co.uk and got about the same resuts Curragh incident about 18,000 and Curragh mutiny about 29,900. But that is simply for pages that have both words on it not for the title making the same search placing the terms in double quotes and removing Wikipedia pages: "Curragh incident" -wikipedia About 7,130 results "Curragh mutiny" -wikipedia about 5,040 results. So even a crude Google search, not just a search of reliable sources, returns more hits for "Curragh incident" than for "Curragh mutiny" -- PBS (talk) 22:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What makes you think it is the common name in reliable sources? --PBS (talk) 22:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it's a transatlantic thing? FWIW, Alfred Ryan's Mutiny at the Curragh, Joseph Lee's Ireland 1912-1985, Tim Pat Coogan's The IRA, Ranelagh's A Short History of Ireland, Peter Cottrell's The Irish Civil War 1922-23 all use "Mutiny", as does The Guardian newspaper. Jonchapple (talk) 23:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think so the source I gave above was published by the "Army Records Society (Great Britain)" a crude search on the web for UK addresses give "Curragh incident" -wikipedia site:uk gives "About 586 results" "Curragh mutiny" -wikipedia site:uk gives "About 410 results" (unfortunately it is not easy to do the same thing with a Book search) but the ratios between a global web search and a UK domain only are about the same (1.4). -- PBS (talk) 04:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Oppose per Britannicus. I have almost always heard it called the Curragh incident. Partly I suspect the rather mealy-mouthed description as an 'incident' comes from a desire at the time to play down the significance of what happened, but in my judgment 'incident' is the common name. Sam Blacketer (talk) 15:43, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Surely it should be either Curragh incident or Curragh mutiny, per WP:CAPS. Jafeluv (talk) 09:46, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose "Curragh incident" is the commonest name among reliable sources such as books and scholarly articles as shown by simple gbook, gscholar or library catalog searches. DrKiernan (talk) 20:23, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You would support a move to Curragh incident, then? Jafeluv (talk) 00:27, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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Shouldn't this rather bizarre article name be looked at again? Much reference to this at the moment in the light of all the anniversaries and Wiki seems to be about the only place to call it "Incident". Sarah777 (talk) 17:21, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

 * As per discussion above, "Incident" is correct and is used in better books, at least in the UK, not least as it was not, strictly speaking, a mutiny (even if there was an element of "moving swiftly on and pretending that nothing had happened" on the government's part). The article mentions the inaccurate name by which it is sometimes known, but that doesn't mean that the article should be so named.Paulturtle (talk) 23:19, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

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Crewe, who?
In the Paget's orders section, there is reference to someone named Crewe in the sentence, “Asquith set up a five-man Cabinet Committee, chaired by Crewe (who soon fell ill) …”. Crewe, who? Is it Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, the then former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? This needs clarification. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  18:30, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Yes, him. He was effectively a sort of deputy to Asquith, chairing meetings in his absence, perhaps because Asquith didn't see him as any kind of threat.Paulturtle (talk) 02:45, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Ulster Volunteers = UVF?
Throughout this article the Ulster Volunteers are referred to as the UVF. THE UVF were a para-military group formed in the 1960's 50 years after the events described here. The 2 terms are not interchangeable. 90.248.222.190 (talk) 23:08, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * There are two UVFs, the original UVF formed in 1913 and mentioned in the very first paragraph of the Ulster Volunteers article, and the 1966 version at Ulster Volunteer Force At the very top of that article is a note saying "For the original Ulster Volunteer Force, see Ulster Volunteers". DuncanHill (talk) 00:19, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

 * Seems to me we need to take real care not to mislead the reader. "Two UVFs": is this a situation where we ought anyway to have a disambiguation page?  -'' SquisherDa (talk) 08:57, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Comprehension
It is unlikely that anyone reading the article will gather what actually happened, or why the article bangs on at such inordinate length and in such confusing detail about something that, in fact, didn't really happen at all. (There was no mutiny, for a start, and the whole thing was insignificant.) Having read the article several times I was none the wiser about this mysterious thing that Irish nationalists seem to regard as a big deal but no one else does. However, Jane Ridley, in George V: Never a Dull Moment (London, Chatto & Windus 2022, Penguin Vintage 2023, ISBN 978-0-09-959012-5, p.211) has this:-

'The same morning [19 March] Asquith attended a conference of ministers to brief General Sir Arthur Paget, the officer commanding the army in Ireland. The 63-year-old Paget was a hot-tempered old warhorse "who should have been put out to grass years ago"; both he and his American wife Minnie Stevens had been members of the court of Edward VII. Paget returned to Ireland that night in a highly excitable state, and the next morning gave orders to the officers stationed at the Curragh army base, many of them sympathetic to the Unionist cause, that they must either agree to take part in "active operations" in Ulster or be dismissed from the service. Fifty-eight cavalry officers resigned.

'"Had a most harassing day," wrote George [V] on 21 March, the day the news broke of an apparent mutiny in the Curragh, and a succession of generals were summoned to Buckingham Palace. It was soon established that there had been no mutiny, that Paget had misunderstood his ministerial briefing; and the officers' resignations were set aside. "I am glad to say," wrote George, "that the officers who resigned have been told to return to their commands in Ireland, so all is as before, so the danger for the moment is over."'

And there we are, and that's all it was, and it's perfectly clear. In that version, anyway, which seems satisfactory. A red-faced old general exceeded his brief and gave his officers an apparent idiotic ultimatum, which several dozen of them protested by resigning their commissions for all of one day before Whitehall cracked down and restored normality. Whereas anyone reading the Wiki article will come away blinded by smoke and dazzled by mirrors and either thinking, 'Wow, man, so there was like this huge conspiracy and it was all covered up and... I mean I don't get the details but like it was huge, dude, at least I think it was only I'm not sure,' or else just thinking, 'What? Excuse me? Did I miss something? How is this some big event and why all the irrelevant conspiracy-theory detail?' Khamba Tendal (talk) 17:50, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:John Henry Goldfrap

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This page had its content partially deleted by User:12.202.196.178 on April 6, 2005. I believe there was no reason for it, so I restored the deleted information. Garybrimley 03:19, 13 April 2005 (UTC)
 * [The poster signed his comment, but his sig has since been deleted. I am restoring the signature.  Rags (talk) 02:32, 30 December 2016 (UTC)]

Series
According to the insertion I have in a volume of The Dreadnought Boys (Aboard A Destroyer), all of the series he contributed to make up the larger "Circling the Globe Series". Volume one, "In the South Seas", and 27, "Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon", are attributed to Captain Wyn Roosevelt, probably also one of Goldfrap's pseudonyms. Rags (talk) 03:07, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * He wrote four titles in "The Boy Allies" series, probably after the start of WWI. Pseudonym Robert L. Drake.  Rags (talk) 04:04, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The U.S. Library of Congress now identifies (assigns LCCN to) only these five pseudonyms of John Henry Goldfrap, which are the same five whose series we now list:
 * (primary identity) – with linked e-copy and e-copy
 * – with linked e-copy online
 * It does also identify Captain Wyn Roosevelt and Robert L. Drake:
 * - three as born 1870, one as born 1876
 * – as pseudonym of Clair W. Hayes (15 records)
 * and it catalogues, probably holds, more of their books. --P64 (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * - three as born 1870, one as born 1876
 * – as pseudonym of Clair W. Hayes (15 records)
 * and it catalogues, probably holds, more of their books. --P64 (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Boy Aviators
The Boy Aviators begins in 1910, earliest of the series as we list them. Here are some notices in newspapers (not simple advertisements or listings, after the first which is my earliest 1916 hit for "Wilbur Lawton"). --P64 (talk) 20:54, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Cincinnati Enquirer, 1910-05-16 p. 7, "Among the New Books" --one listing following the reviews and notes: The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua, 50 cents
 * Detroit Free Press, 1910-05-22 p. D8, "Among the New Books" --brief review: Nicaragua, "... Two brothers, owners of The Golden Eagle, a biplane of novel construction, take ship for Nicaragua, meaning to make their aeroplane a feature in a typical South American revolution."
 * St Louis Post-Dispatch, 1910-06-18 p. 6, "Reviews of New Books" --Nicaragua, "extravagant adventures of Frank and Harry Chester, New York boy aviators, when they went to visit their father on his Nicaragua plantation"
 * Philadelphia Inquirer, 1910-06-19 p. 4, "Latest in the World of Books" --Nicaragua, under heading "Aeroplane in Fiction": "A new and realistic treatment of the aeroplane in fiction is provided by [CWL], a student of aviation ... § ... much instruction regarding the making and manipulation of airships is to be garnered ... § The book is the first of a series in which aviation will largely figure ..."
 * DFP -07-16 p7, "Among the New Books" --capsule review: The Boy Aviators on Secret Service
 * Louisville Courier-Journal, 1910-07-23 p. 5, "Vacation Books" --lead review: Nicaragua
 * DFP -09-11 pC3, "Among the New Books" --capsule review: The Boy Aviators in Africa
 * SLPD -09-17 p10, "Reviews of New Books" --review: Secret Service
 * LCJ -09-17 p5, "Boys Books and Other Juveniles" --lead review: Secret Service, for "boys and even grown-ups, interested in aerial flight and its great possibilities in peace and war."
 * New York City newspapers, and advertisements, first appear among the hits for this automated search ("Wilbur Lawton") in mid-October: " The Boy Aviators' Series ", 6 stories, illustrated, 50 cents each postpaid
 * LCJ -10-29 p5, "Boys' and Girls' Books" --lead brief review: Africa, where "they try to recover a great horde of ivory", hidden in the mountains
 * DFP -11-19, p7, "New Books" --capsule notice, " The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash brings into a story the newest method of inviting dangers."
 * Boston Globe, 1910-12-17 p. 11, "Boy Aviators" --short article, '[CWL] sustains the interest ... with his latest, adventure narrative, " The Boy Aviators in Record Flights, in which the airships of rival newspapers engage in a flight, for a prize of great wealth, from New York to California."

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Christy Chung

Christy Chung (born 19 September 1970) is a Canadian actress and restaurateur. She is best known for starring in films Mermaid Got Married, The Bodyguard from Beijing, Love on Delivery and Jan Dara.

Early life
Chung was born in Montreal, Quebec, to a Chinese-Vietnamese father and a native Vietnamese mother. She grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Career
While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she entered and won the Miss Chinese Montreal contest in 1992. She then went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in the Miss Chinese International Pageant 1993, in which she won despite not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch her acting career there, despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at the time, and despite her extremely limited acting experience (an uncredited ten-second non-speaking role as a gum-chewing prostitute in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains). She had to choose between acting in Hong Kong and becoming the weather-forecast presenter at Société Radio-Canada, the French-language government television network in Canada.

A role in The Bride with White Hair 2 brought her instant recognition, and she became a well-known star in Chinese-language popular culture, acting in a large number of films including some films starring Stephen Chow, as well as The Bodyguard from Beijing starring Jet Li.

Giving birth to her daughter in 1998 temporarily had a negative effect on her career because of a stereotypical impression that a mother could not function as a sex symbol, but her career recovered in 2000. More recently, she had roles in Samsara and Jackie Chan's movie The Medallion. She added Thai to her language repertoire when she starred in Nonzee Nimibutr's 2001 film Jan Dara. Singapore FHM magazine voted her the "Sexiest Woman in Asia" in 2000.

She recently starred in Bruce Lee, My Brother playing the role of Bruce Lee's mother and Aarif Lee portrayed Lee.

She is a brand ambassador and spokeswoman to slimming service Marie France Bodyline, prominently appearing on billboards and print ads.

Despite her success, she remains mostly unknown in Quebec, where she was born and grew up, because she has done most of her film work in Cantonese.

Personal life
Chung married Glen Ross in 1998, and gave birth to their daughter Yasmine in Montreal in the middle of the 1998 Ice Storm. Chung and Ross divorced in 2002, and Chung has sole custody of Yasmine.

In 2003, Chung married music producer Jon Yen. They have two daughters, Jaden Chloe, born in August 2008, and Cayla Janie, born in February 2010. Chung and Yen divorced in 2011.

In November 2016, Chung married Chinese actor Shawn Zhang Lunshuo, also known as Golden Zhang who is 12 years her junior.

Chung currently resides in Beijing. She is currently a restaurant owner.

Filmography

 * Sisters Who Make Waves (2020)
 * Fall in Love at First Kiss (2019)
 * Into the Rainbow (2017)
 * The Right Mistake (2015)
 * Bad Sister (2014)
 * The Incredible Truth (2013)
 * Better and Better (2013)
 * Good-for-Nothing Heros (2012)
 * Dear Enemy (2011)
 * The Bright Eleven (2010)
 * Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010)
 * Hong Kong Express (2005) (TV)
 * Asian Charlie's Angels (2004) (TV)
 * Astonishing (2004) – Mandy
 * Fantasia (2004) – Jane Lam, aka Little Britney
 * Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (2003 TV series) – Kang Min
 * The Medallion (2003) – Charlotte Watson
 * Never Again (Lee Soo Young Music Video) (2001) – the Mother in the Video
 * Samsara (2001) – Pema
 * Jan Dara (2001) – Khun Boonlueang
 * Un Baiser Volé - Sophia
 * Gen-Y Cops (2000) – Inspector Chung
 * Conman in Tokyo (2000) – Banana
 * Tau mung (2000) – Sophia
 * Troublesome Night (1997) – Mrs. To
 * All's Well, Ends Well 1997 (1997) – Little Shien
 * 97 Aces Go Places (1997) – Li Lai-Shen
 * The God of Cookery (1996) – High School Fantasy Girl
 * Tai Chi Boxer (1996) – Rose
 * Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star (Yun cai zhi li xing) (1996) – Christie Lee/Angel of Nine Heavens
 * Red Wolf (1995) – Lai
 * Mack the Knife (1995) – Jamie
 * Passion 1995 (1995) – Tina
 * Faithfully Yours (1995) – Miss Tang
 * Man Wanted (1995) – Yung
 * Love on Delivery (1994) – Lily
 * Hail the Judge (1994) – Stone Mansion
 * Modern Romance (1994) – Ady
 * Mermaid Got Married (1994) – Wong Siu May, the mermaid
 * I Wanna Be Your Man (1994) – Ron
 * The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994) – Michelle Yeung
 * Whatever You Want (1994) – Pearl Ko
 * Perfect Exchange (1993) – Lily
 * The Bride with White Hair 2 (1993) – Moon

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Toshiko Ezaki

Toshiko Ezaki (江崎 とし子) is a Japanese musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer from Kyoto, Japan. While she recently released her 5th CD, Arbol Grande, she is better known for having written and sung songs for Pokémon: Advanced Generation.

Ezaki has composed many songs for well-known Japanese artists, including Kosuke Atari and Misaki Usuzawa, and has sung background vocals for several more. She has also composed music and done vocals on many television and radio commercials, and has created instrumental pieces both internationally and in Japan.

In 2002, Ezaki was put in charge of composing the music and singing the ending theme song for the animated cartoon series Pocket Monsters (or ‘Pokémon’). Her songs included "Because the Sky is There" and "Smile". In 2012, she composed and sang background vocals on Pokémon's ending theme song, "Seven-colored Arch".

In addition to her compositions, Ezaki produces CDs for indie artists on her own label, Moss Green Records, works as a voice trainer and crystal bowl player, and continues to perform live across southern and central Japan. In 2012, Ezaki began composing songs for Misaki, a young and increasingly popular Minyou singer from Tohoku, Japan. Ezaki composed two songs for Misaki's debut album, plus a single, and is in the process of composing additional songs for her.

Discography

 * "Apple Tea", Blow Wind Records, 2001.
 * "Spices", Moss Green Records, 2004.
 * "Musk", a Collaboration album with composer and pianist Ryuji Iuchi, 2005.
 * Eight Children, Moss Green Records, 2008.
 * Voice Painting, Moss Green Records, 2010.
 * Arbol Grande, Moss Green records, 2015.

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Lament for Ying

Lament for Ying is a poem which has sometimes been attributed to Chinese poet Qu Yuan, and dated to around 278 BCE. Lament for Ying is from the "Nine Declarations" (Jiu Zhang) section of the Chuci poetry anthology, compiled in ancient China. The Ying in the title is a toponym (placename). The word Ai implies a post-destruction lamentation for this place. Ying was famous as the capital of the kingdom of Chu, Qu Yuan's homeland.

Background
According to tradition, Qu Yuan, a patriot of the State of Chu, his home country, wrote the work in anguish as the Qin general Bai Qi marched his troops upon Ying, capital of Chu (in present-day Hubei Province), threatening to invade. In the face of the imminent peril confronting his homeland, he was filled with fury and grief. The poem expresses his deep concern and worry for his country's fate, his pity for the people of Chu, and his anger at the country's self-indulgent ruler who had allowed this tragedy to befall them.

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Whoppers

Whoppers are malted milk balls with an artificial flavored "chocolatey coating" produced by The Hershey Company. The candy is a round ball about 3/4 in.

History
In 1939, the Overland Candy Company introduced the predecessor to Whoppers, a malted milk candy called "Giants". In 1947, Overland merged with Chicago Biscuit Company, Leaf Gum, and Laf Machinery. Two years later, Leaf Brands reintroduced malted milk balls under the name of "Whoppers". All products manufactured by Leaf Brands were purchased by W. R. Grace in the 1960s; however, they were repurchased by Leaf in 1976. Finally, Hershey Foods Corporation acquired the Leaf North America confectionery operations from Huhtamäki Oyj of Espoo, Finland, in 1996. The company has been producing the Whoppers candy to this day.

Whoppers were first sold unwrapped, two pieces for one cent. But after the creation of cellophane wrapping machines, smaller Whoppers were packaged and sold five for one cent, also known as Fivesomes. Leaf soon introduced the first confectionery milk carton package which would become a hallmark of the candy. Sometime between 1950 and 1952 an egg-shaped Whoppers candy called Mini Robin Eggs were introduced for Easter. They differ from the traditional Whoppers in being egg shaped and having a speckled candy shell.

In 2000, Hershey introduced Mini Whoppers. Traditionally chocolate in flavor, a new strawberry milkshake flavored variant became available in 2006. Soon after they also released Reese's Peanut Butter Cups flavored Whoppers (discontinued sometime between 2014 and 2015). For Easter 2009, three new milkshake flavors were released, which were vanilla, blueberry, and orange cream. The vanilla ones were reintroduced in 2016 as a seasonal product.

Ingredients
Listed in decreasing order by weight: sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, whey (milk), malted milk (barley malt, wheat flour, milk, salt, sodium bicarbonate), cocoa, 2% or less of: resinous glaze, sorbitan tristearate, soy lecithin, salt, natural and artificial flavors, calcium carbonate, tapioca dextrin.

Similar products

 * Maltesers

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Galoob

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc., was a toy company headquartered in South San Francisco, California. They are best known for creating Micro Machines, which accounted for 50% of its sales in 1989, and distributing the Game Genie in the United States.

History
Lewis Galoob Toys was founded in 1957 by Lewis Galoob and his wife, Barbara Galoob, as a small distributor of toys and stationery. Galoob's first toy success was the reintroduction of a battery-powered Jolly Chimp, a cymbal-banging monkey toy that nodded his head when activated. The company was incorporated in 1968.

In 1970, Lewis Galoob became too ill to continue as president, and his 21-year-old son, David, dropped out of the University of Southern California to take over the family business. In partnership with his brother, Vice-President Robert Galoob, David aggressively pursued new product development, and transformed the company into a $1 million business by 1976.

The company was greatly affected by the financial collapse of Black Monday in 1987, a year in which it lost $25 million, but the following year it recovered by generating a profit of $6 million. By 1988 the company manufactured 85% of its toys in China.

Galoob was involved in a landmark intellectual property lawsuit, Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., over the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the Game Genie. Nintendo charged that the Game Genie violated copyright by creating an unlicensed derivative of their copyrighted games. Galoob won the lawsuit and continued to produce the Game Genie.

In September 1998, American toy giant Hasbro purchased Galoob for $220 million. Today, Galoob is a Hasbro brand name. The name began appearing on retail products starting in 2005. Hasbro has used the Galoob brand logo on its Titanium Series die-cast metal collectibles, including various items from Transformers, Star Wars, and Battlestar Galactica.

Franchises licensed to Galoob for merchandising

 * Aliens
 * The A-Team
 * Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (not released in America)
 * The Animal 4x4
 * Anastasia (1997 film)
 * Army G.E.A.R. (toys)
 * Baby Buddies
 * Baby Face (toy)
 * Babylon 5
 * Battle Squads Military Action Fleet
 * Beat Street
 * BlackStar
 * Biker Mice from Mars (1993 series)
 * Bouncing Babies
 * Chrysler
 * Cutie Club
 * Defenders of the Earth
 * Dinosaucers (not released in America)
 * Dozzy Doll
 * DragonFlyz
 * Fancy Sounds
 * Game Genie
 * Garbage Pail Kids (TV series) (not released)
 * General Patch (figures packaged as Gen Patch)
 * Go Monkey Go
 * Golden Girls (toys)
 * Hollywood's
 * The Infaceables
 * Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures
 * The Last Starfighter (not released)
 * Lost n' Founds
 * Magic Diaper
 * Macro Machines
 * Micro Machines
 * Titanium series Micro Machines Transformers (in conjunction with Hasbro)
 * Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
 * Mr. Game Show
 * Married... with Children
 * Marvel Comics
 * Men in Black (film)
 * Mutant League
 * Peugeot
 * Peeper Pals
 * Power Machines
 * Punky Brewster dolls
 * Razz Blasters
 * San Francisco Mint Model Gun Club
 * Sky Dancers
 * Spice Girls dolls
 * Starship Troopers (film)
 * Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Super Force (not released)
 * Sweet Secrets
 * T. and T. (not released)
 * Trash Bag Bunch
 * Ultraforce (comics)
 * Unifighters
 * World Championship Wrestling
 * Xpanders
 * Zbots

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pogo sick

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Pogo sick
Mike1971inter marked this vfd on January 27, but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. My vote is delete, and I was pretty tempted to just it, but what the hey. —Korath (Talk) 03:23, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * You should have gone with your first instinct, delete as nonsense, exact phrase on google brings up nothing about this supposed practice --nixie 06:16, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as nonsense.   [  +t,  +c  ] 08:10, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedied as nonsense. Mgm|(talk) 10:03, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

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Charles Witney

Charles Hubert (Buck) Witney (July 12, 1919 – May 21, 1991) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir.

Witney was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The son of Percy Howard Witney and Winnifred Marion Herrington, Witney was educated at Technical High School in Moose Jaw, and did not attend university. During World War II, he served as a radar mechanic in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1947, Witney married Vera Ruby Matthews. He moved to Flin Flon in 1949. Prior to his election, he was a star personality at CFAR, at the time the only radio station in Flin Flon.

Known as a populist, he first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, against Liberal-Progressive Francis Bud Jobin in the riding of Flin Flon. He lost, but defeated Jobin in the 1959 provincial election, as the Progressive Conservatives won a majority government under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin. Witney defeated Jobin, who later served as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. He was appointed Minister of Mines and Natural Resources on August 7, 1959.

Re-elected in the 1962 provincial election, Witney was appointed Minister of Health on December 9, 1963. He held this position for the remainder of Roblin's time in office, and was retained in the portfolio when Walter Weir succeeded Roblin as Premier in 1967. Many aldermen in Winnipeg found him extremely stubborn on health-related matters. On September 24, 1968, he was transferred to the Ministry of Labour.

He was defeated by New Democratic Party candidate Thomas Barrow in the 1969 provincial election, and did not seek re-election after that time.

In 1969, Witney moved to Toronto, where he served as executive director of the Canadian School Trustees Association. He moved to Ottawa when the association moved its office there in 1975. Witney died at home in Nepean at the age of 71.

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Super 8 (video game accessory)

The Super 8, also sold under the title Tri-star or Tristar, is an unlicensed video game peripheral released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System designed to allow the system to run games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Super 8 utilized an NES-on-a-chip integrated circuit to duplicate the functionality of the original NES hardware, and connected to the SNES's own cartridge slot.

Design
The Super 8's appearance is a light grey, squarish adapter that is plugged into the SNES so that the user is allowed the playing of 8-bit NES and Famicom games on the device. It has an RF out and a SNES type multi-out connector providing RCA output. A lead goes from the Tri-Star to the SNES' multi-out port, and then the user is able to plug the SNES A/V lead and/or RF lead into the Tri-Star. When playing a SNES game, the Tri-Star passes through the SNES composite video picture.

The Super 8 features three cartridge ports. Two of these ports connected to the onboard NOAC, and were designed to fit NES and Famicom cartridges, respectively: despite otherwise featuring exactly the same hardware, North American and European NES game cartridges used a 72-pin design, resulting in slightly larger cartridges than the Famicom, which used a 60-pin design. The third port was designed to fit standard SNES cartridges, and merely connected with the SNES's native hardware, so that the user would not have to remove the Super 8 in order to play SNES games.

A similar idea was later employed for the Tristar 64, an accessory for the Nintendo 64 console with the ability to play both NES and SNES cartridges.

Operation
The main purpose of the Super 8 is to provide the ability to play both SNES and NES games with one single console. There are three ports: one for standard NES cartridges, one for the Japanese Famicom cartridges, and one for SNES cartridges. Only one cartridge can fit in each slot at a time. After the peripheral is attached and the device is turned on, a menu will appear on the television screen; giving the user a choice between an 8-bit or 16-bit game. The user is able to play any one of the cartridges plugged in the system at a time.

SNES games operate identically to their original versions. NES games, however, have their controls revamped for the SNES controller. The Super 8 also plays Super Famicom games, as there are no tabs to block the insertion of the flat back cartridges.

Limitations
There are quite a few issues present within the system that affect gameplay. Some games are unable to function properly when playing on the Super 8 (One example would be in the compilation cartridge Super Mario All-Stars + World there are many occasions in which the screen rolls, rendering gameplay practically impossible). The Start and Select buttons on the second controller do not work at all, likely a relic of the Japanese Famicom which had hard-wired controllers, only the first of which had Start and Select buttons. The use of specific NES joysticks and other controller peripherals that were meant for the original consoles usually do not work when connecting it to the Super 8. European model SNES users are only able to play European SNES games, other overseas games were incompatible. There are also brightness issues present in some games.

However, there has been much controversy over a misleading piece of information that was included with the system. The instruction booklet for the Super 8 apparently claims that the Super 8 provides RGB output, however this is actually false. There is no RGB-support for the peripheral at all—as the pass-through lead that is plugged into the SNES multi-out only carries composite video and stereo audio.

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Talk:Models Inc.

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 * {{cite web|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/361587/MODELS-INC-BACKSTABBING-ONLY-IN-FRONT-OF-CAMERAS.html|title=Models Inc. Backstabbing Only in Front of the Cameras|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|website=Deseret News|date=June 28, 1994|accessdate=November 2, 2018}}
 * {{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-30/news/ls-10501_1_linda-gray|title=Fashion: We Are Not Amused by Linda Gray's Queenly Look|first=Debra|last=Gendel|website=Los Angeles Times|date=June 30, 1994|accessdate=November 2, 2018}}
 * {{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/07/22/aaron-spellings-model-drama/|title=Aaron Spelling's Model Drama|work=Entertainment Weekly|first=Benjamin|last=Svetkey|date=July 22, 1994|accessdate=November 2, 2018}}}

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User talk:ZechsMerquise

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you.

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 05:25, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political efficacy

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. ugen 64 20:54, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Political efficacy
578 marked this vfd on March 14, but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. I'm just bringing it here for resolution; do not consider this a vote. —Korath (Talk) 03:28, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Dicdef. Wiktionary already has an entry for Efficacy so I don't think a transwiki would be useful. Dave the Red (talk) 06:52, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the rewrite. Dave the Red (talk) 04:34, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten and expanded this, although it's still a crappy stub. Strongest possible keep--this is a very notable concept in political science, and a lot of research has been done on it. I'm not really up on it, and I've got enough term papers to do as is, but there could be a very legitimate article on this concept. Meelar (talk) 19:03, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I like the rewrite, but wouldn't it help to merge it into context? Radiant_* 08:42, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, for one thing, it's a fairly distinct topic; I wouldn't be sure quite where to merge it. Also, I can really do a much better job than this once I have some more time to hack this out. If you'd like, I could move it to my user space until I get a non-stub version, but this should be useful as a placeholder. Meelar (talk) 19:38, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, no, that's not what I meant. I simply felt that, unless expanded (which you just promised to do anyway) this would be rather short for an article. Improving it would be great, and it's certainly something that belongs in mainspace. Radiant_* 09:08, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. Encyclopedic topic. Klonimus 16:10, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 'SUPER KEEP. Very valid topic. Neutralitytalk 04:01, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

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David Nedohin

David Nedohin (born December 20, 1973) is a Canadian curler. Nedohin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and now plays out of Sherwood Park, Alberta. He is best known as the longtime fourth for Randy Ferbey.

Curling career
Nedohin joined the Randy Ferbey rink in 1997 and was a part of that team's four Brier championships and three world championships. Nedohin is renowned for his shotmaking ability - especially for making difficult combination takeout shots. Nedohin had a shooting percentage of 96% in the final of the 2003 Nokia Brier, and 95% shooting percentage in the final of the 2005 Men's Ford World Curling Championships. The team, famously named The Ferbey Four, popularized the "fourth" shooting position. Because of Nedohin's shotmaking ability, he threw the last two stones in each end, or the skip rocks. This meant that Ferbey, the skip, threw third stones while the front end positions remained the same. Because Nedohin was not the skip, he was labeled as the "fourth".

In 2010, The Ferbey Four split up with Ferbey joining the Brad Gushue. However, when Ferbey was dropped by the Gushue rink near playdown time, Ferbey and Nedohin re-joined forces again. They made it to the 2011 Boston Pizza Cup.

The 2011/2012 season saw Nedohin and Ferbey try to repeat their previous success by bringing Ted Appelman and Brendan Melnyk to the new team. After a very successful World Curling Tour season in which they qualified for every event they played in except for the Grand Slams, the team failed to qualify for the Northern Alberta Regionals. They lost the Edmonton Zone to Kevin Park. The result saw the team disband as Ferbey retired from competition. Nedohin would announce shortly later that the 2012/2013 season would see him playing with Colin Hodgson, Tom Sallows and Mike Westlund. There were many comparisons made between the newly formed team and early days of 'The Ferbey Four' based on age and experience. Nedohin joined Kevin Martin's team in the 2013–14 curling season after the departure of John Morris, throwing third stones.

He has not officially announced retiring, but has curled very little since the 2014 season, focusing both on family life and curling commentary work.

In 2023 Nedohin and his Team Ferbey rinkmates (Randy Ferbey, Scott Pfeifer and Marcel Rocque) were inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

Personal
Nedohin is the founder and president of Scope AR, a developer of augmented reality solutions and products for field maintenance, manufacturing, and training. He is married to Heather Nedohin and has two daughters. He was also an analyst for CurlTV.com. He attended Oak Park High School in Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.

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Talk:Two's complement/to do

 * Describe how to extend precision (using sign extension)
 * Explain multiple precision two's complement arithemetic
 * Describe multiplication and division of two's complement numbers
 * Describe special considerations with left/right shifting
 * Consider adding a short history of the move to two's complement representation in modern computers
 * Describe the connection with the place-value representation of 2-adic integers

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ponyism

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was speedy delete. – ABCD 01:29, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ponyism
141.225.252.167 marked this vfd on March 23, but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. This is another I was tempted to just. Delete in any case. —Korath (Talk) 03:30, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax. Dave the Red (talk) 06:48, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible hoax. Megan1967 08:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable/ very possible hoax. Mgm|(talk) 10:05, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I have no idea what it is, and I'm sure I don't WANT to know. Very un-noteworthy, and, as said, almost certainly a hoax/invention/etc. Master Thief Garrett 05:24, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Nonsense, I marked this as a speedy. Firebug 05:25, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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