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User talk:Bryan Derksen/Archive 4

Thanks for the Explosion stub! -- Tarquin 16:12 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * No problem. I'll add more now, I only had a few minutes to throw it together this morning. :) Bryan 23:22 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi Bryan, I saw some of your discussion with User:Docu which has now been moved to Wikipedia talk:How to use tables. As I am the principal author (to date) of the table examples, I can understand where you're coming from about the lack of closing tags. I prefer to always use closing tags, but according to the HTML 4.01 specification, they are indeed optional (and always have been). In XHTML and XML they are a requirement. For Wikipedia articles, it may be better to leave off the optional closing tags to make editing easier, especially for newbies. As you probably know, it is often the case that a table is being used inappropriately in the first place. Converting those to lists or another appropriate structure may benefit both readability and editability.

I'd appreciate any input or contributions you may have to the How to use tables article. Also, you may want to check out the Wikipedia accessibility meta page I've started for discussing accessibility issues - it'd be great to have your feedback! Thanks. -- Wapcaplet 20:28 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

 * Hmph. Guess I should stop my mad quest to fix all the tables after all, then. :) I'll pop over and see what I can add to the discussion. I'm hoping that Wikipedia will move in the direction of XHTML someday, so that MathML support can be more easily added, but I suppose that will require some sort of built-in translation for table code either way. Bryan 21:24 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I agree! It'd be nice to see Wikipedia move to XHTML (or even XML) someday, but it'd be a bit harder to stay valid with those, since they are stricter than the loose HTML DTD used now. As someone pointed out to me, we can pretty easily fix closing-tag issues with a conversion script, if/when that day comes. -- Wapcaplet 22:47 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

-- There is a problem with the placement of elements 71 and 103 that I've mentioned at talk:periodic table. --mav

Table white space
Just so you know, white space (blank lines) between HTML table elements are displayed as blank lines before a table when it is displayed in at least Konqueror. --mav 22:38, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)

 * Well, shoot. The HTML tidy program I run most of my table code through after I'm done working on it inserts those blank lines automatically. I'll have to remember to trim them out manually before pasting them in. Bryan

1017 tesla
You wrote in tesla that 1017 T is the maximum possible field strength for any known phenomenon. Can you give me any clues about how this value was calculated, please? I'd like to add an explanation to the article (assuming I know enough physics to understand your reply). -- Heron 13:44, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

 * It was a factoid that I read in an article about magnetars, I think it was in a recent Scientific American. As I recall, that was the maximum field strength that a neutron star was calculated to be capable of holding, and that nothing more capable than neutron stars were known - so it's a practical limit, rather than a theoretical one. I'd have to go back and find that article again to say more, I'll search tonight when I get home. Bryan

Thanks. Excuse me if I don't respond quickly next time, but I shall be away from Wikipedia for a few days. -- Heron

 * Okay, here's what the article says. "An upper limit to neutron-star magentism is about 1017 gauss; beyond this limit, the fluid inside the star would tend to mix and the field would dissipate. No known objects in the universe can generate and maintain fields stronger than this level." The fluid-mixing thing is in reference to the convection currents inside a neutron star that generate a dynamo effect. This is from the February 2003 issue.

 * Right off the bat, my face is red; the article uses gauss throuhout instead of Tesla, so all the neutron-star-related values I put into the Tesla article are off by a factor of 104. I'll fix that immediately.

 * The Scientific American article has a couple of other interesting factoids about extreme magnetism. It mentions the quantum electrodynamic threshold of 4×1013 gauss, above which X-ray photons freely split in two or merge together. Polarized light waves change wavelength when they enter very strong magnetic fields, and the scattering of photons by electrons or other charged particles is suppressed if the magnetic field prevents the charged particle from accelerating in the direction it needs to. Fields above 109 gauss squeeze electron orbitals into cigar shapes; in a 1014 gauss field a hydrogen atom becomes 200 times narrower.

 * Don't know if you want to incorporate any of these, but if you want to here they are. :) Bryan

Thanks. I put a short note in tesla about the upper limit. I'll wait on the other stuff until I'm feeling more ambitious :-) -- Heron

This isn't really a big deal, but regarding your edit to harp just now - is there really anything wrong with using an apostrophe when pluralising single letters? Every style guide I've looked at (which admittedly isn't many) says that it's acceptable, or even desireable, to use an apostrophe in this case. --Camembert

 * If there's a style guide that covers that specific situation, then that's probably the correct way to do it. I was operating only under the general guideline that apostrophized s is only used as an abbreviation of "is" and as a possessive. I see incorrect apostrophized s everywhere these days and it grates on me, so I get a bit trigger-happy. Bryan

 * Well, the AP style guide says to use an apostrophe on plurals of single letters, but not on plurals of multiple letter abbreviations, and somebody's told me that Chicago says to use apostrophes on lower case single letters, but not upper case. The idea is to avoid ambiguity between multiple letter As and the word "as", for example. It's not a big deal, as I say. --Camembert

"lightcraft" is non-standard naming for beam-powered propulsion, for which you have a largely identical article. Wouldn't a redirect be more than enough?

 * "beam-powered propulsion" is a very general term. It covers lightcraft, solar sails, magsails, and possibly other types of ship as well. Lightcraft are a specific type of beam-powered ship, and as such I believe they warrant their own article. Bryan

Bryan, I think I may have found an error in a page you wrote; can you check out Talk:Liouville-Neumann series? Carl

Hello! Thanks for the brave move of moving Arpad (etc) into Árpád. Are you sure that it won't cause problems for the USA guys who cannot probably write accents? Other thing: isn't it expected that if someone moves an article then fixes the links/references to the new one? --grin 09:11, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

 * It's not a problem, fortunately, because thanks to redirects linking Arpad still works just fine. Since this redirect is automatically created when a page is moved using the "move this page" function, one normally doesn't have to do anything to fix other page's references. The only exception that comes to mind is when there are already redirects pointing to the original location; since redirects only go one step (to prevent loops from forming) double redirects need to be updated. I've just checked (via the "what links here" function) and there are no double redirects for Arpad, so everything looks to be in order to me. Bryan 02:49, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'd like to coordinate w/ you re IFF article: you may have noticed that i created one despite the one you worked on, and someone collapsed "yours" into "mine". I have two concerns:
 * 1) The more substantial history got disconnected from the article.
 * 2) The unofficial title is the article and the official is the redirect.
 * 3) The old article title is misleadingly described

 * I think i know how to repair #1, and would like the practice; if you don't follow what i'm talking abt, let's discuss.
 * As to #2:
 * IMO, the WP MoS recommendation should be no punctuation in article titles except hyphen, paren, & apostrophe; but include redirects to WP-std name where an outside standard or other common usage says otherwise
 * IMO, what it should be is irrelevant if cases like this have been anticipated in a previous consensus
 * IMO, #1 & #2 need to be corrected at the same time, not piecemeal
 * #3 is natural to fix as part of the above. --Jerzy 07:50, 2003 Nov 18 (UTC)

 * It looks like my only contribution to that article was to add a link and to remove a stray HTML tag that had no real effect on the article's display. I know nothing about how IFF works or anything like that, I probably just came across the article at random one day. So don't worry about coordinating with me, just do your thing and I'm sure it will be fine. :) Bryan 08:05, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Tnx, B; i'll go read up on the punc'n issue. --Jerzy 08:18, 2003 Nov 18 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I mangled your name in a summary of a revert. People have trouble with my own surname, and both my girlfriend and my sister are condemned to go through life with people misspelling their first, middle, and last names, so I sympathize. --Charles A. L. 19:05, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)

 * No problem, Wikipedia's article history is available with my name on it if it ever becomes important. :) Bryan 02:09, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

See my question on Talk:Kubla Khan. RedWolf 17:55, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

WikiProject Programming languages
Would you be willing to join WikiProject Programming languages, We could really use your help. —Noldoaran (Talk) 04:02, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)

Bryan, I just noticed your change to my Lincos edit. I don't claim to know anything about Lincos or SETI, but is the following interview totally bogus? http://library.thinkquest.org/C003763/index.php?page=interview01. I will defer to you. In case you're wondering, the reason I originally made the change is because I read about it in Stephen Webb's book, "If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens...Where is Everybody?" Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of it to look up the reference. Thanks, Mignon 10:03, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Over on the interview you point to, Dutil says:

 * "However, Lincos has it own drawbacks. Since it is based on pure logic it become rapidly difficult to communicate some complex processes. For this reason many researchers find it impractical. Therefore, we preferred an hybrid method with the addition of schema and graphics to guide the reader."

 * From what I've seen of both Lincos and the Dutil-Dumas message, the Dutil-Dumas message has only traces of Lincos concepts in it - mainly just the introduction to numbers and basic arithmatic at the beginning (and even there it's in base 10 rather than Lincos' base 2). It's very heavily graphics-oriented; they draw graphs, arrows, chemical structures, a map of Earth's surface, DNA helixes and cell membranes, even human figures ala the Pioneer plaque. This doesn't have much in common with Lincos' approach of defining a simple coded "language" and then describing more complex concepts using it, in my opinion. I haven't read Stephen Webb's book, nor have I read any other books on SETI itself; I just play around with these SETI messages because I find them to be interesting puzzles. But I'd be very surprised if my impression is wrong on this one.

 * By the way, if you liked the Dutil-Dumas message, I created my own variation on it a few years back that includes a lot more information. I'll dig it up and email it to you if you'd like to take a crack at decoding it; I've never had feedback on it from other people before. :) Bryan 10:42, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Atheism
"In general a revert is the advised action to deal with vandalism. It is not the advised action when dealing with edits that were made in good faith - indeed, we strongly recommend against it. Instead, have a look at our advice on staying cool when the editing gets hot." Don't revert, take it to talk Jack 22:18, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Taken to Talk:Atheism, as you requested. However, I still think that a revert was in order because I basically disagreed with all of the changes you made; I mentioned my reasoning in the edit comment for that change. Disagreement is not the same as an accusation of vandalism. Bryan

Your right, but things should be discussed, not reverted. Reverting is an accusation of vandalism, or very close to it, since your not supposed to revert unless it is vandalism. And whats this "I'm tired of doing all the work" stuff? What work? Your reverting things. Thats the opposite of work, its undoing work. I'd love to discuss this in depth in talk, but one of the people there, User:Lord Kenneth is trolling me. Anyways, I am reasonable, and if you want to discuss why my sentance shouldn't be there, but the paragraph should, I will listen. Otherwise, I am going to keep puting the one back, or removing the other. JackLynch 07:10, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * You're the one who's implementing changes without discussion, indeed against discussion. The work I refer to is trying to develop a compromise with people who object to your additions. Do that over at Talk:Atheism, since I'm not the only one objecting to what you're doing. And quit complaining about being accused of vandalism before you've actually been accused of vandalism; a revert does not necessarily mean "you're a vandal" no matter how many times you repeat that. When you're accused of vandalism, people will come right out and say it. Bryan 08:02, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I have to tell you that you really got me goat with the "terms in current use on the wiki" statement Talk:agnosticism. Those terms are only in use against my profound objection, and rather than seeking to resolve that and build concensus, you decided to boldly place them elsewhere. While I'm not accusing you of having an agenda with this, I am accusing you of being confrontational in those edits. This "hard" and "soft" atheism stuff is by no means resolved. Jack 03:23, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I didn't want to wait until there was a consensus on the terms' usage before creating links to the articles describing them. If at some point in the future different names for those philosophical positions are settled on, the links can be changed. In the meantime those articles describe the positions that were mentioned in the agnosticism article, so I linked them. Bryan 06:13, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Agnosticism
You comments here make it clear that you have an agenda and are "stalking" me on the wiki, attempting to prevent me from editing. Back off, or I am going to take necessary measures. Review your statement "
 * Problem definitely not solved, and you can't just declare it to be so. I don't have time to go over this right now, but at this point I consider you to be a strongly biased editor with a clear agenda, and everything you do here is suspect. Later this evening I'm going to go over all your changes and I'm sure I'll be making plenty of changes of my own to them. If anyone else is following this talk: but not talk:Atheism, take a look over there at some of the stuff Jack considered to be an example of an "unbiased" encyclopedia article that Wikipedia should strive for - in particular. Bryan 16:07, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)"
 * and then review Wikiquette Jack 00:36, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Note that it is you are the one who is threatening me, here. Fortunately I consider it an empty threat, so no skin off my nose. I stand by my statements in the talk:atheism and talk:agnosticism articles; I believe that you are biased and that your contributions to these articles have been introducing POV. It will be up to the Wikipedia community and process as a whole to determine how the situation ultimately turns out. Bryan 01:16, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Please review conflicts between users I never threatened you, I implied that I would place you there, and that we might be moving farther along the Conflict resolution process. Jack 01:28, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I considered "Back off, or I am going to take necessary measures" to be a threat. Bryan 01:31, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

If you are right, and it was, I should be hard-banned, and promptly. You of course are not right, and I have taken measures, placing you on the conflicts between users page. I have no idea what sort of "threat" you think (or claim to think?) I was making, but insinuating I am threatening you is in poor taste. I don't make threats, I warn, and follow thru, as I have now done. Lets see if we can get past all this foolishness and character assasination, and do whats best for the readers. Jack 01:36, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Whatever. I've presented my descrption of this situation over on the conflict page in what I hope is a factual manner, leaving it up to others to decide what they think of it. Bryan 01:52, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Scientific Skepticism
I need some help over at scientific skepticism. It's turning into a JackLynch-type fiasco with anti-skeptic trolls. - Lord Kenneth 23:10, Jan 25, 2004 (UTC)

 * No problem. I'll watchlist it and read up on the history, and hopefully be of some use. :) Bryan 23:18, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Now JackLynch is helping them. Weigh in. - Lord Kenneth 02:16, Jan 26, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure if the "compromise" critics section in scientific skepticism is NPOV. It seems the only critics of scientific skepticism in general are those promoting quackery and pseudoscience. If one so-called skeptic is criticized often, then it should be on that particular skeptic's page, there is no reason to group all skeptics together. As well, skeptics may disbelieve a newly-discovered phenomenon, no one denies that: it's whether the evidence is present for them or not. - Lord Kenneth 19:55, Jan 26, 2004 (UTC)

 * It was only intended as a start, to try pushing things away from a cycle of total deletion/total reversion. There have been instances throughout the history of science where a new idea has been subjected to skepticism that could reasonably be called "excessive". However, such judgements can only be made in hindsight, so it's difficult or impossible to make such accusations in regard to theories that are currently in dispute. Surprisingly, I think Reddi's most recent additions have been pretty good. I'll just do a bit more editing right now and see if I can make sure the honor of skepticism isn't being trodden on too severely, and remove the CSICOP reference as you suggest. Bryan 00:33, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The page is turning more "criticisms of skeptics" instead of about skeptics themselves! It's obviously Reddi's (and now JackLynch's) wargrounds for their philosophical views. For whatever reason, Reddi hates skeptics. He's an idiot. Hell, look how he writes on the damn talk page. I'm getting pretty pissed off at his idiocy. The links he insists on adding are filled with nothing but lie after lie. Hell, why is it necessary to add what that Bruno Bauer said when few people have probably heard of him?

Skepticism is a part of science, or else we would be doing nothing more than accepting any idea out of the blue. I think that's what people like JackLynch and Reddi can't accept, that their theology and unfounded beliefs aren't considered "mainstream".

There's a reason evolution is given more credence here than creationism, and that's because one side is scientifically credible. If we start giving each side the appearence of "equal factuality" we might as well not have educations and just make things up.

Scientific skepticism has no critics except from the pseudoscience-peddlers. Why do we need to give them "equal time"? This is ridiculous. - Lord Kenneth 06:05, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * Sheesh, calm down already. You're preaching to the choir here; I'm a dedicated skeptic myself. But at the same time I think you're letting your own biases run away with you a bit here; the chunks of text you removed from that criticism section were steadily working their way towards a reasonably balanced explanation of how skepticism works in real-world science. I'm going to revert your deletion, and I suggest that you don't give Jack the satisfaction of getting into an edit war with me on it. Instead, why not suggest a better header than "criticism"? It's not really criticism any more, IMO. Bryan 06:41, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'm getting mad because it's the page has turned basically into a debate. Reddi's edits suggest he doesn't even know what skepticism is. In fact, I'm curious as to whether he's copying and pasting, because it's obvious on talk he doesn't know how to write.

Anyway, I'd rather have them justify their changes first. There really should be no reason to recognize the rantings of con-artists and pseudoscientists as legitimate criticism. - Lord Kenneth 14:08, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, our opinions seem to differ on just how "bad" Reddi is. His comments on talk: are as you say somewhat hard to follow, but I've been tinkering with the wording of the article to move it away from pure criticism and he seems to have been pretty good about accepting modifications or caveats to "his" statements there. You seem to be stuck in "attack" mode on this, and I think it may be clouding your view of how adversarial the situation is. Bryan 19:21, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I find your attempts at compromise too liberal. Even the "compromise" version was inaccurate and misleading.  There is no reason to quote Bruno Bauer, no validity behind the "instances" (and even if they are it's phrased in a misleading way), among other things.  I'm a skeptic myself:  I don't like being told what I think. - Lord Kenneth 19:24, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * I've already questioned that Bauer link, and I had been planning to try figuring out some way to work it in more "naturally" than it currently stands (note that the article doesn't currently quote him, his quote has been edited and worked into the text itself now). As for the rest, it seems we have a difference of opinion. Bryan 19:28, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't see what you see in the unfair bias that is the "revised" version. My version fairly demonstrates what skepticism is. - Lord Kenneth 19:31, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * Your version simply omits all the stuff you disagree with, instead of trying to present information such as historical context or the difficulty of gaining solid evidence or simple human nature that might explain why things work the way they work. Sometimes, valid theories really are slow to gain acceptance. This is your opportunity to explain why, and show how it's not really a fundamental problem with the idea of skepticism. Anyway, I think this is a debate that more properly belongs on talk:scientific skepticism ath this point. Bryan 19:57, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I removed what I removed because it was either irrelevent (Bruno Bauer), misleading (the examples are either entirely bogus or simply express reaction to new ideas lacking evidence, which isn't valid criticism because the concept of scientific skepticism has already been mentioned earlier), or just plain stupid and wrong (JDR's "this could be an argument from ignorance fallacy", which is completely nonsensical. I never denied that "valid theories are slow to gain acceptance", in fact, that's how they SHOULD BE... we can't know if a theory if valid or not until it's been properly tested and backed up by sufficient evidence.  Such irrelevencies don't belong on scientific skepticism because it's like writing a long (by comparison) section on theories that aliens built the egyptian pyramids.  I can't address every criticism JDR adds to the page, so I just stripped them off and referred to them in very general terms.  Also, I removed the links because it's no different than adding a "jews caused 9/11!) page to the Sept. 11 section-- full of bias and lack of factual information.  I don't know why you insist on JDR's biased-filled version, it's like you turned against me for no good reason, clearly not one based on reason.  If you checked my version I mention criticisms but to not mention any particular ones because, like in my earlier example, there's too much to refute and doing so could almost be considered "POV". - Lord Kenneth 00:48, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)

A digression from the above
At least I know whose in charge of you rascals ;) Jack 00:51, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * There's that "conspiracy" I predicted over on Lord Kenneth's talk page that Jack would imagine. Jack, you evidently didn't notice that Lord Kenneth brought the Scientific skepticism article to my attention before you showed up over there. :) Bryan 01:13, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Don't be silly, of course I did. I've had both you guys on my watchlist since I met you. I guess I'm just nosy or something. I made a joke that "lord" kenneth was the head of your cabal, based on him giving you the orders, and you reporting back to him. The example you point out is exactly the sort of thing I was refering to. Jack 01:25, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * It was hardly an order. You just can't seem to see things in terms other than pure black and pure white; the stuff I've done over on scientific skepticism is quite possibly not the sort of thing that Lord Kenneth wanted to see me do. In any event, I'm not going to bother "chatting" with you about such irrelevancies. Bryan 01:32, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I must say, I am impressed with your new perspective. My first impression of you as a reasonable, academic editor able to see beyond his personal prejudices appears to have been more correct than I have been giving you credit for as of late. My compliments. Jack 22:40, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Heh. Okay, you found the one sort of irrelevancy that I can't help chatting about; thanks for the compliment. I should mention that although I haven't looked at most of the other articles you've worked on, what I saw of your work on Amalek looked quite good - you may be biased, but you know your Biblical stuff. Don't think this will change my mind on the god/God issue, though. :)

Back to atheism again
I think we got onto a very bad foot due to the harshness of Kenneths ad hominems occuring simultaneously to my placing a mention of Amalek into the article. You apeared to have found that threatening. Let me be clear. I love encyclopedias, and that is why I am here. My agenda is for this to be the best encyclopedia ever (and to have a good time making it so!). My personal POV is likely profoundly disimilar from what you might expect. If you would like to know more about my religious beliefs, take a look at Pantheism, Classical pantheism, and Panentheism. The bible is not the basis for my beliefs, but rather one among many other signifigant historical tomes relating to matters of spirituality. The issue about g/G is simply a matter of respect. IMO you don't want to show respect to God, by refering to him by a proper noun. I find that highly POV, and unencyclopedic. The one God who is All is not a god. He is a synonym for existance. Its a whole other subject from an angry space jew who lives on a cloud. Once the problems with the atheism article are solved (I actually don't see many left, now that so many have become involved in the editing, particularly eloquence) I plan to spend some time editing "arguments for/against God". I think you will find pantheism particularly difficult to argue against. I was once an atheist myself you know. Jack 23:11, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * It's not a question of respect as far as I'm concerned, since I don't believe that God exists and therefore don't have much of an opinion one way or the other on his respectability. I simply think that God really is a god, under all the definitions of those two terms that I consider reasonable. Not the same as every other god, of course; "god" is a very broad category. Pantheism may use the terms in other ways, but that seems pretty nonstandard to me and requiring no more than a special-case footnote or two in the atheism article to accomodate. If you define "God" to be equivalent to "the Universe", then since I believe the universe exists I must therefore believe that God exists - but I see that definition as being a bit odd and misleading, frankly. We already have a perfectly good word for "Universe" and the word "God" has a lot of other widely-established connotations. I do not believe that the universe has any sort of concious will, for example, which is a quality that most people seem to assume deities would have.
 * In any event, since I am a weak atheist, I don't concern myself much with arguments against God. It's the lack of (IMO) credible arguments for God that leaves me in this position. :) Bryan 23:36, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * first of all, the mention of my own beliefs was ment socially, not in regards to this subject of g/G. Secondly, the issue of God being distict from gods is not one which is being debated by much of anyone. Monotheism is clearly different from polytheism, and the term is simply used differently, in monotheism to refer to one individual with a proper noun, and in polytheism god is used in a different way, relating to many individuals. Finially, soft/weak atheism does not exist (atheism=rejection of God), IMO you are agnostic, since you don't appear to be claiming certainty. I reccomend you inspect Pascal's Wager and consider the utility of such a decision. In conclusion, IMO, the only sensible religious decision available to those who have not experienced personal revelation is reverent agnosticism. Jack 00:08, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * There are many different monotheistic gods, though, whereas capital-G God is generally used to refer to just one specific subgroup of them. As for Pascal's Wager, I'm well aware of that particular argument and consider it to be fundamentally flawed. (It also goes without saying that our agnosticism/strong/weak atheism argument remains unresolved, too :) Bryan 00:18, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * A potential path to compromise has just occurred to me. How about temporarily bypassing the entire God/god issue, and adding a section on "Atheism and pantheism" to the Atheism article that deals with just that particular subject? If the pantheistic concept of God is really significantly different from other types of gods, it might be worth treating separately. I can't guarantee that I'll agree with whatever you write about it, of course, and I certainly can't guarantee what anyone else will think of it, but it'd give you a place to put stuff that wouldn't automatically step on sensitive toes and could later be integrated elsewhere into the article if it turns out to be warranted. Bryan 00:03, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Negative. Atheism shouldn't give special attention to any particular religion. Salsa Shark 00:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, keep in mind that atheism deals with gods and not necessarily religions. There are religions without gods, and I'm thinking that some forms of pantheism may well fall into a fuzzy area near that. But I haven't really looked at pantheism in detail, so if I'm off on that then so much for that idea. :) Bryan 00:18, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * see above (edit conflicts :(, and salsa is right Jack 00:08, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * the definition of atheism should take into account the differing types of gods (or God) being rejected, be they monotheistic or polytheistic. Thats what I'm getting at. I don't see a need for any specific mention of any specific religion. Jack 00:15, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Atheism is the rejection of God, or gods. it isn't innacurate to call a christian an atheist in regards to their rejecting shiva, or some other god than their own. We really need to get back to basics and knock this article out. Its not very far from being done! Personality conflicts have resulted in a mess, here and elsewhere, IMO. Jack 00:12, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * No, atheism is a lack of belief in any gods. It is quite inaccurate to call a Christian an atheist in regards to any other particular gods, because they still believe in at least one god themselves. Atheists believe in 0 gods. Anyway, this is the same old argument that's on talk:atheism, and if it's to continue it really should be over there. Bryan 00:18, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

communicate
come on IRC, or something. Your making me mad, and I see no reason for it. I have never noticed you to be unreasonable. Talk about it, don't revert. Jack 04:12, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Talk, talk, talk. We talked for a full week and we agreed to a compromise, and then you blanked the talk: and put your capital-G God right back into the article where this whole thing started from. It really doesn't seem like talking to you does much good, does it? Bryan 04:26, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I blanked nothing. The page was too big! I put it in the archive. Its not MY capital G! Everey source agrees w me! Plenty of others in the talk agreed w me. I did compromise~! prom was, I realized I can't say something thats untrue, w those citations staring me in the face.... I donno man... if you really think I'm unreasonable (habe you read the talk page recently?) you need to thinkn again. I am open to anything that isn't blatently misinformative. Jack 04:32, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Generally speaking, when one archives old talk: one should archive old talk. The stuff at the end was still quite pertinant to what was going on, as evidenced by the fact that I'm having to refer back to it in the continuing argument over there. As for discussing the content of the article itself, I'm not going to do that here - take it to talk:atheism. Bryan 04:37, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The problem has nothing to do w the article, its clearly personal( you not accepting facts when they are presented) and interpersonal (you accusing me of not understanding my own references?). If I was the admin/arbitrator/wikipolice, I'd ask the both of us (and a few others) to leave the page. This is ugly and stuipid and ignorant of all obvious facts/citations/sources. IMO its all based on anti-theistic rhetoric, but whatever. Thats my POV. Jack 04:55, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I think I can quite safely say that this time, you started it. I was quite willing to leave off editing the article further as long as you didn't either; I have other stuff to do. Bryan 05:13, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

How about we both avoid this article (and that skeptics mess) as much as possible, and let others enjoy the pleasent musings of lord kenneth ;). IMO your actually not a bad guy, you just have a very bad impression of me, and a very non-scholorly approach to dealing with that bad impression. Jack 06:38, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * The scientific skepticism article seems to be pretty stable right now, so I haven't been paying attention there either. As for my scholarly approach, I guess one's impression depends heavily on whether I agree with them or not. :) Bryan 06:42, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

What I'm saying is I have seen you be both scholorly (respectful of logic, polite debate, sources) and not. And the not has been centered around me, after you realized I wrote amalek. Jack 06:49, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * It wasn't that you wrote Amalek, it was that you redirected "rejection of God" there and then featured that redirect prominently in the atheism article. The Amalek article itself looked quite good to me. But let's not recap our entire disagreement now that we've agreed to leave it lie. Bryan 06:59, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Right. I just wanted to point out that I see our disagreement based on certain subtle causes, not on a fundamental editorial failing. That is a signifigant distinction. I am basically trying to say "go forth, and sin no more" ;) Jack 08:07, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

See?
Jack's use of "God" on atheism is like what Reddi and Mirv are doing to scientific skepticism. I don't know why you wish to side with them when they are just as biased and wrong. I've already discussed it with you but you refuse to listen. I've told you why you are wrong and you have refused to answer me. You're becoming like Jack. Once scientific skepticism is back I fully expect you to actually look at my fair and unbiased one instead of the unfair and inaccurate one. The fact that you reverted to Mirv/Reddi's inaccurate version is obviously an attempt to antagonise me. - Lord Kenneth 20:56, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)

 * You and Jack are both interpreting "disagrees with me" as "out to get me," and I'm not going to waste the effort to try refuting such paranoia. Believe whatever you want; I will continue to argue for what I consider to be NPOV and leave it up to the Wikipedia consensus to ultimately determine whether my position is acceptable. Bryan 01:36, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Oh, I see, sorry. Obviously "NPOV" means "allows lies, exaggerations, etc" to go "undeleted". You seem like the type of guy that would allow discussion of creationism in school science textbooks. Since you obviously refuse to discuss the issue, it's obvious where your biases lie. - Lord Kenneth 02:59, Jan 31, 2004 (UTC)

rocks and minerals project
Since you've contributed in the rocks and minerals area before, wanted to let you know that I created a WikiProject Rocks and Minerals if you'd like to join. Elf 04:50, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Cool! I'll check it out. I'm not a geologist, though, I just play one sometimes. :) Bryan 05:20, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Lima Lima Flight Team

The Lima Lima Flight Team is a precision formation flying demonstration team based in Naperville, Illinois. The name derives from the FAA identifier of the field where the team originated. Naper Aero Club (LL-10) is located in the western suburbs of Chicago. It is an airport community, with 100 homes connected to its two runways via taxiways behind the homes. The original flying club (Mentor Flyers, Inc.) which spawned the Lima Lima team is still based at LL-10, but the founding members who lived there have since moved on, and the team is now a truly national team, with members in Illinois, Ohio, California, and Florida.

The Lima Lima Flight Team flies the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor. The Lima Lima Flight Team flies a civilianized and much-improved version of the original Mentor, with modern avionics and more powerful engines.

The military recognizes different levels of formation skills, from basic tactical formation flying to the air show performances of the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds. Lima Lima has evolved in the same way. Charter members of the team were at the forefront of the civilian formation certification program instituted by the T-34 Association in 1983, and eventually adopted by all civilian warbird organizations. The skills developed in this program have been expanded to include a series of formation maneuvers which mirror those of the jet teams.

The Lima Lima Flight Team demonstration showcases the full range of the T-34 performance envelope. Though the T-34 is much slower than the jets flown by military teams, the turn rates are over double those of the F-16 and F/A-18. The result is a performance which has no “dead time”. There is smoke and action in front of spectators for the entire 20 minute demonstration.

The Lima Lima Flight Team celebrates its 19th year of professional air show performances in 2006. In that time, the team has traveled from coast-to-coast and border-to-border and beyond, performing in Alaska, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. The 2006 team is made up of professional airline pilots, retired military pilots, medical professionals, and successful businessmen.

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Sophie Treadwell

Sophie Anita Treadwell (October 3, 1885 – February 20, 1970) was an American playwright and journalist of the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her play Machinal which is often included in drama anthologies as an example of an expressionist or modernist play. Treadwell wrote dozens of plays, several novels, as well as serial stories and countless articles that appeared in newspapers. In addition to writing plays for the theatre, Treadwell also produced, directed and acted in some of her productions. The styles and subjects of Treadwell's writings are vast, but many present women's issues of her time, subjects of current media coverage, or aspects of Treadwell's Mexican heritage.

Heritage and childhood
Sophie Anita Treadwell was born in 1885 in Stockton, California. Between 1890 and 1891, Treadwell's father, Alfred Treadwell, deserted her and her mother, Nettie Fairchild Treadwell, and moved to San Francisco. Although Treadwell originally excelled at school, after her father left she struggled, which others have attributed to the frequency with which she and her mother relocated. While Treadwell primarily lived with her mother, occasionally Treadwell spent summers in San Francisco with her father. During these visits, Treadwell was first exposed to theatre; she witnessed famous actresses Helena Modjeska and Sarah Bernhardt in The Merchant of Venice and Phèdre, respectively. In 1902, Treadwell and her mother moved to San Francisco.

Although Treadwell's father was also born in Stockton, he spent most of his formative years in Mexico with his native-born mother. Both Treadwell's paternal grandmother and great-grandmother were Mexican women of Spanish descent. Treadwell's father had a Catholic education, and he was fluent in five languages. Treadwell's strong female role model was her grandmother Anna Gray Fairchild, a Scottish immigrant, who managed the family's large ranch in Stockton after the death of her husband. Traces of Treadwell's heritage, both Mexican and European, can be gleaned from her works, as can references to her parents' troubled marriage and her time spent at the ranch in Stockton.

University and early career

Treadwell received her Bachelor of Letters in French from the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied from 1902 to 1906. At Berkeley, Treadwell became very involved with the school's extracurricular drama and journalism activities, serving as the college's correspondent for The San Francisco Examiner. Due to financial pressure, Treadwell had to work several jobs during her studies; receiving additional training in shorthand and typing, teaching English as a second language in the evenings, as well as working in the circulation department of the San Francisco Call. It was during this time that she first began to write; early drafts of shorter plays, songs, and short fictional stories. During college, Treadwell had her first brushes with mental illness, a variety of nervous conditions that would plague her and lead to several extended hospitalizations throughout her life.

After college, Treadwell moved to Los Angeles where she worked for a brief time as a vaudeville singer. She then studied acting and was mentored by renowned Polish actress Helena Modjeska, whose memoirs she was hired to write in 1908. In 1910, Treadwell married William O. McGeehan, better known as 'Mac', a beloved sports writer for the San Francisco Bulletin.

New York
In 1915, Treadwell moved to New York, following her husband who had already made the cross-country move for his career. In New York, Treadwell joined the Lucy Stone League of suffragists. Treadwell participated in a 150-mile march with the League, which delivered a petition on women's suffrage to the legislature of New York. Treadwell maintained a separate residence from her husband, an idea encouraged by the League. Her marriage was said to be one of mutual independence and acceptance of differing interests.

In New York, Treadwell befriended and became associated with many well known modernist personalities and modern artists of the time, notably Louise and Walter Arensberg who ran a New York Salon, and painter Marcel Duchamp. Congruous with Treadwell's advocacy for sexual independence, birth control rights, and increased sexual freedom for women, Treadwell had a brief affair with the artist Maynard Dixon between 1916 and 1919.

Treadwell reached the peak of her professional career in journalism and in theatre in New York in the 1920s. Treadwell attended lectures and completed an extensive study with Richard Boleslavsky of the Moscow Art Theatre which proved to be both influential and motivational for Treadwell's varied theatrical pursuits. Treadwell underwent media controversy in the mid-20s for a drawn out dispute with the famous John Barrymore; Barrymore attempted to produce a play about Edgar Allan Poe supposedly written by his wife Michael Strange, which borrowed heavily from a manuscript that Treadwell had written and shared with him years prior. Treadwell brought a lawsuit against Barrymore for stoppage of the play and won, although she was criticized heavily in the media.

Treadwell lectured and advocated openly for authors rights and was the first American playwright to win royalty payments for a play production from the Soviet Union. In addition to her accomplishments, Treadwell traveled often with 'Mac' across the United States, Europe, and Northern Africa. Treadwell's husband died in 1933 due to heart complications, while they were on vacation in the state of Georgia.

Broadway
Treadwell set herself apart from many female writers of her day, by pursuing commercial productions of her works on Broadway. Seven of Treadwell's plays, listed below, appeared on the Great White Way between 1922 and 1941. Gringo was Treadwell's first play to be produced on Broadway. Most of these plays were only written by Treadwell, but she also produced Lone Valley and O, Nightingale, the later of which she even staged. New York became the setting for the majority of Treadwell's plays. Critics often negatively judged Treadwell's plays as having poorly developed plots, unsympathetic characters, or objectionable themes. Treadwell was also known for having tense relationships with producers because she was reluctant to accept their feedback and edit her work.
 * Gringo
 * O Nightingale
 * Machinal
 * Ladies Leave
 * Lone Valley
 * Plumes in the Dust
 * Hope for a Harvest

Later years
In the 1950s and 1960s, Treadwell turned to writing mostly fiction in the form of short stories and novels, which may be influenced by the lack of success from her Broadway ventures. Treadwell lived for a time as an expatriate in Vienna, Austria as well as in Torremolinos in Southern Spain. When Sophie returned to the U.S. she lived in Newtown, Connecticut and spent time in Mexico and Stockton. In 1949, Treadwell adopted a young German boy, whom she named William. She retired in the mid-60s to Tucson, Arizona, where she spent her final years. After a brief hospital stay, Treadwell died on February 20, 1970.

Plays and novels
Treadwell is credited with writing at least 39 plays, numerous serials and journalistic articles, short stories, and several novels. The subjects of her writings are as diverse as the mediums she was writing in. Many of Treadwell's works are difficult to obtain and the majority of her plays have not previously been produced.

Many of Treadwell's plays follow the traditional late nineteenth century well-made play structure, but some share the more modern style and feminist concerns Treadwell is known for, including her often anthologized Machinal. Although Treadwell's plays primarily feature lead female characters, the women presented vary greatly in their behavior, beliefs, and social status. Some of Treadwell's plays contain hints of autobiography from Treadwell's heritage to her extra-marital affair. Below is a chronological chart of her known works.

Journalism
Treadwell's first job as a journalist was with the San Francisco Bulletin, where she was hired in 1908 as a feature writer and theatre critic. She interviewed celebrities, such as Jack London, and covered several high-profile murder trials. Later, when living in New York, Treadwell covered the murder trials of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray whose stories influenced subsequent plays. Treadwell also wrote two popular serial stories for the Bulletin, one based on Treadwell's under cover research about charity available to women in need for which Treadwell disguised herself as a homeless prostitute, the other was a fiction titled How I Got My Husband and How I Lost Him which provided the source material for her later play Sympathy.

Treadwell traveled to France to cover the First World War; she was the only female foreign correspondent writing from overseas at that time, accredited by the State Department. Because Treadwell was not permitted access to the front lines, she volunteered as a nurse and focused her writing on the effect the war was having on the women in Europe. In 1915, Harper's Weekly published her feature "Women in Black".

When Sophie returned to New York, she was hired by the New York American, later renamed New York Herald Tribune where she wrote as a journalist and served as an expert on Mexican-American relations and Mexico. In 1920, Sophie covered the end of the Mexican Revolution and wrote a front page piece on the flight of Mexican President Don Venustiano Carranza. In 1921, she was the only foreign journalist permitted to interview Pancho Villa. That two-day interview gained Treadwell notoriety in the journalism field as well as provided a basis for Sophie's first Broadway play Gringo and her later novel Lusita. In 1941, Sophie spent 10 months in Mexico City as a correspondent for the Tribune. Years later, Treadwell wrote for the Tribune about her visit to post-war Germany.

Contemporaries and context
Although Treadwell was writing during the height of the Little Theatre Movement in the United States, her desire to produce her works on Broadway for mainstream audiences set her apart from her contemporaries. Treadwell was only peripherally involved in the movement through her work at the Provincetown Players during their early existence.

Noteworthy women playwrights writing in the same era as Treadwell are:
 * Zoe Akins
 * Djuna Barnes
 * Rachel Crothers
 * Zona Gale
 * Alice Gerstenberg
 * Susan Glaspell
 * Georgia Douglas Johnson
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * Gertrude Stein

Through the use of various 'isms' these playwrights explored new and alternative ways of presenting women's lives in their plays.

Treadwell remained widely unknown and un-talked about in the world of theatre scholarship until select feminist scholars resuscitated interest in her works following revivals of Machinal in 1990 by the New York Shakespeare Festival and in 1993 by the Royal National Theatre in London.

Resources and further reading
The majority of Treadwell's works are stored at the University of Arizona Library Special Collections and the rest at The Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library. The rights to Treadwell's works were passed on in her will to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson: A Corporation Sole. One who wishes to obtain the rights to Treadwell's plays can address an enquiry to: Fiscal and Administrative Services, Diocese of Tucson, PO Box 31, Tucson, AZ 85702. Proceeds earned from the production or printing of Treadwell's works are used to benefit Native American children in Arizona.

Further biographical information and critical analysis about Treadwell may be found in: All of Treadwell's plays are published electronically in "North American Women's Drama" through the academic database publisher Alexander Street Press. Access to this resource is available by purchase directly through ASP's website, or through library access at many academic institutions that have purchased a license to the database.
 * "Broadway's Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell". Edited and with introductions by Jerry Dickey and Miriam Lopez-Rodiriguez. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.
 * "Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell". Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey. Routledge, 2008.

In addition, Machinal is (or was) included in the following anthologies:
 * Twenty-Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre by John Glassner- now out of print, originally published in 1949
 * Plays by American Women: 1900–1930 Judith Barlow's anthology, published in 1981
 * Norton Anthology of Drama
 * North American women's Drama
 * The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook
 * Plays and performance texts by women 1880-1930 Manchester University Press

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Sinclair Ferguson

Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish theologian known in Reformed Christian circles for his teaching, writing, and editorial work. He has been Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary since 2017, commuting from Scotland, where he was an assistant minister at St. Peter's Free Church of Scotland, Dundee. He is currently a preaching associate at Trinity Church, Aberdeen.

Career
Ferguson studied at the University of Aberdeen for all of his university education, earning first a master of arts, then a bachelor of divinity, before gaining his Ph.D. During his days as a student, he worshiped at Gilcomston South Church, under the ministry of William Still.

Ferguson was ordained as a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1971, becoming the minister of St. John's, Baltasound, the most northerly parish in Scotland, on the island of Unst, Shetland. He was the pastor there for 10 years. After his service on Unst, he was offered a teaching position as a part-time Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.

He then moved back to his native Scotland in 1997, filling the pulpit at St George's-Tron Church, Glasgow, where he served as Assistant Minister to George B. Duncan, succeeding the 20-year ministry of Eric Alexander.

In the mid-2000s, he then transferred back to the US to the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, serving as the senior pastor of historic First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina.

From 25 August 2013, he served as a preacher and elder at St. Peter's Free Church of Scotland in Dundee. In recent years, Sinclair has become the preaching associate at Trinity Church in Aberdeen.

In 2022, a Festschrift was published in his honor. Theology for Ministry: How Doctrine Affects Pastoral Life and Practice includes contributions from Joel Beeke, Ligon Duncan, W. Robert Godfrey, Michael Horton, Douglas Kelly, Robert Letham, Philip Ryken, and Chad Van Dixhoorn.

Other Roles
Ferguson has served as an editor with the Banner of Truth Trust.

He was also a professor of systematic theology at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas.

He has held the Charles Krahe Chair for Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.

He also previously served as a council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

He serves as a Teaching Fellow for Ligonier Ministries.

Personal Life
Ferguson was born and raised in the East End of Glasgow, although his family originate from the north of Scotland. It wasn't until going to Aberdeen University that he left Glasgow. He was converted to Christianity before he turned 15.

He is married to Dorothy. Together they have three sons and a daughter, and 12 grandchildren.

Works
Ferguson speaks at numerous conferences worldwide. Books he has written, edited, or contributed to include:
 * Know Your Christian Life (1981) ISBN 0-87784-371-6
 * Kingdom Life in a Fallen World - Living Out the Sermon on the Mount (1986) ISBN 0-89109-194-7
 * John Owen on the Christian Life (1987) ISBN 0-85151-503-7
 * New Dictionary of Theology (Master Reference Collection) (1988) ISBN 0-8308-1400-0, editor with David Wright and J. I. Packer
 * Daniel (Mastering the Old Testament, Vol 19) (1988) ISBN 0-8499-3557-1
 * Grow in Grace (1989) ISBN 0-85151-557-6
 * Children of the Living God (1989) ISBN 0-85151-536-3
 * A Heart for God (1996) ISBN 0-85151-502-9
 * The Christian Life (1996) ISBN 0-85151-516-9
 * Discovering God's Will (1996) ISBN 0-85151-334-4
 * Sermon on the Mount (1996) ISBN 0-85151-519-3
 * The Pundit's Folly (1996) ISBN 0-85151-676-9
 * Big Book of Questions and Answers (1997) ISBN 1-85792-295-6
 * The Holy Spirit (1997) ISBN 0-8308-1536-8
 * Let's Study Philippians (1998) ISBN 0-85151-714-5
 * Reformed Confessions Harmonized (1999) ISBN 0-8010-5222-X, editor with Joel Beeke
 * Let's Study Mark (1999) ISBN 0-85151-755-2
 * The Big Book of Questions & Answers about Jesus (2000) ISBN 1-85792-559-9
 * The Grace of Repentance (Today's Issues) (2000) ISBN 1-58134-165-2
 * The Preacher's Commentary - Vol. 21 - Daniel (2002) ISBN 0-7852-4795-5
 * John Owen: The Man and His Theology (2003) ISBN 0-87552-674-8, contributor about John Owen
 * Let's Study Ephesians (2005) ISBN 0-85151-907-5
 * Faithful God - An exposition of the book of Ruth (2005) ISBN 978-1-85049-216-0
 * In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel Centered Life (2007)
 * By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me (2010) ISBN 978-1567692020
 * The Grace of Repentance (Redesign) (Today's Issues) (2011) ISBN 978-1433519833
 * The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction (2013) ISBN 978-1848712591
 * Name above All Names (2013) with Alistair Begg ISBN 978-1433537752
 * Deserted by God (2013) ISBN 978-1848711532
 * The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, & Gospel Assurance--Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters (2016) ISBN 978-1433548000
 * In The Year of Our Lord: Reflections on Twenty Years of Church History (2018) ISBN 978-1567699708

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User talk:Bryan Derksen/Archive 5

Math request
This is an odd question, but isn't it true that .333... equals 1/3rd? I got into a rather silly debate on a forum and they disagreed that .3repeating equals 1/3rd. - Lord Kenneth 03:30, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yup, $$0.\bar{3} = \frac{1}{3}$$ (I like TeX markup :) Bryan 03:32, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * See also Decimal, where this case is specifically mentioned.

Thanks. If you're curious as to how the debate got started, I started by saying to (someone who claimed to be a Mechanical Engineer) that they were wrong about 1 != .999...

My proof was something someone else once showed me. 1/3 = .333... 2/3 = .666....  So why then does 3/3 = 1 and not .999... unless they were the same thing?

Alas the moderator had locked the topic before I could cleanse them of their ignorance. I shall do so via PM. - Lord Kenneth

 * They are indeed the same thing. You can probably prove this using limits; $$\lim_{x \to 3} \frac{x}{3} = 1$$. :) Bryan 03:46, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * If the guy doesn't understand high school algebra he is unlikely to understand, much less be convinced by, arguments based on limits. You might try the following.  Let x = 0.3333... Then 10x is 3.333...  Subtract 3 from this and you get 0.333... = x  back again.  So x is a solution to the equation  10x - 3 = x. But this is a linear equation which only has one solution, namely x = 3. This is standard technique for converting repeating decimals to rational (p/q) form that we all were supposed to have learned in 9th grade algebra. Grizzly 03:50, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Heh! For some reason, I don't think we were taught that approach in high school. It's the first I've seen it, at any rate. It's nice. Bryan 05:04, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Thumbnail map for Counties of Romania
Hi. Sorry that I had to revert your conversion to thumbnail image on the map of the Counties of Romania article, because the resulting image was not very efficient (it has 160k, while before your conversion it had 33k), since thumbnail feature was created for small images, not large images like maps. Bogdan | Talk 21:33, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Oh. Well, alrighty, then. I'll go take it off of the images for deletion page, in that case. :) Bryan 04:19, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Not sure either that thumbnailing the image at Voynich manuscript produces a good result; when I made that image, I reduced it to true black and white, so it is not a large file; reduced in size, it is just a bunch of specks. Is there a place where the new image code is explained? -- Smerdis of Tlön 15:30, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it's a little ugly via autothumbnail. However, the image was pretty large, so having the text flow around it in a tiny column down the side was a little ugly too. Perhaps it would work better as a non-floating image? Anyway, the new image markup is described here: Extended image syntax and discussed in the associated Wikipedia talk: page. Bryan 16:31, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Osiris
Sorry about that! I must have accidently submtted an older version (from which i had been copying the image synax) instead of the current one also open in my browser. Sennheiser! 18:27, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * That's alright, I figured it had to be accidental. Fixing the problem was super-easy. :) Bryan 03:04, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Do not use my name
I had my name changed so that it would not be associated with the offensive and vulgar liable which is unfortunately so common on this site. I ask you, in the strongest possible terms, not to use my name. Sam Spade 06:15, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, it's relevant. You're the same person as before, and so these are the same issues we've dealt with before. Just changing your name isn't going to make your history here evaporate as if it never was. Bryan 06:19, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The history of my account is available to anyone who takes a look at my contributions list. Your mentioning of my name serves only to bring insult, disrespect, and personal endangerment opon myself. DO NOT do it again. Sam Spade 06:22, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll do it as often as I think it needs to be done. You seem to be trying to resume the same old argument on Atheism that we went through before, so it's relevant that you are who you were back then and all those entries about it in the talk: pages were by you. If you've got a brand new reason why you think the Atheism article is NPOV, then by all means tell us about it on that article's talk: page. Otherwise, you're just picking up the old edit war where you left it off as far as I'm concerned. Bryan 06:25, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I have placed you here Requests for comment/Bryan Derksen in regards to your trolling. I will no longer be communicating with you. Sam Spade 06:41, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, thank God for that. :) Bryan 06:54, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Copernicus
Yes, of course you're right, it's not the way to handle edit wars, but isn't it rather desirable to get the attention of the warriors? And if they don't ever look at articles' talk pages--? (or respond to direct messages, or even have a personal Talk page?) Anyway, while you were reverting the text (no complaint from me), I was filing the proper complaint on the disputed-articles page. Maybe just getting somebody to protect the page is the only way to get these donkeys' attention. Or is that a personal attack? Dandrake 08:39, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah, page protection can sometimes help. Alternately, if you want to send a message specifically to editors rather than to non-editing readers, how about adding an HTML comment? . Editors will see it in the page source, but it's not visible otherwise. Bryan 08:43, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * You got me there. Ought to have seen that for myself, but I didn't. It doesn't pay to get pissed off, which I thought I knew already. Dandrake 08:54, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
Sam Spade has requested mediation between you and him. Are you willing to accept this? If so, please could you express any preferences regarding who should mediate your dispute? The members of Mediation Committee are the recommended choice, but you may ask anyone if you like. Please note at Requests for mediation which mediators are acceptable to you, or ones that you would refuse to accept. You may also e-mail me if you do not want your concerns publically posted - I will keep all communication as private as you like. (angela AT fused.org). Alternatively, if you decide against mediation, please can you let one of the mediation committee know your decision. Thanks. Angela. 19:21, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

 * Sure, I'm willing. I'm not exactly sure what needs being mediated (though based on his various complaints about me I can make some guesses :), but I suppose that'll be presented by Sam. Bryan 20:13, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I. J. Good
Why did you move I. J. Good to -- of all things -- Irving Good? Does anyone call him "Irving"? He is always called "Jack Good", except that his publications appear under the name "I. J. Good". "Jack Good" or even "John Good" would make more sense. Michael Hardy 21:48, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I moved it because when I saw that article his name was listed as "Irving John Good", and so I foolishly assumed that it would be reasonable to have his article under a title of the form "firstname lastname" like most other biographical articles on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the article failed to mention how nonsensical that would be; the "(called Jack)" had no useful context. Bryan 22:03, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

New image markup
Hi, Bryan. I noticed that you used the new image markup at Alabama Hills. I should tell you that I converted a bunch of Sierra photos over to the new image markup (automatically generating thumbnails from the largest resolution). But, a lot of these photos were taken by mav, who pointed out that he not only downsampled to get the 300px, he also cropped. So, if we use the new image markup, we lose information. I reverted all of my changes (including in Alabama Hills, you can see in the history) and decided to wait for the image markup to allow a non-automatic thumbnail.

Now, in the particular case of Alabama Hills, it looks OK: I don't believe that mav cropped here. I re-added my caption to the article. But, I wanted to give you a heads-up on the issue. -- hike395 02:47, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Alabama Hills is OK - I didn't crop those thumbs. --mav

 * Okey-dokey. :) Bryan 07:36, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thumbnail deletion
Hi Brian! Here is an extract from Images for deletion:

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 * Thumbnails made obsolete by the autothumbnail feature too Bryan 08:14, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP. I strongly object. I put Abell and Gravitational Lens pics onto WP. It's perfectly possible that if the new code proves unsuitable I might go back to the old code (for example, in the new code we can't have caption italics, caption text centring nor caption links). If thumbnails are deleted I'll have to reupload them which would be unacceptable. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ABEL AND GRAVITATIONAL THUMBNAILS. Adrian Pingstone 23:03, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes you can - just use the same old html markup but fmt the link as [[image:name|250px|blablahblah]] and your image will be limited to 250px. --Jiang

I don’t understand why thumbnails are being deleted at all since it would take 50000 of them to even make 1 Gigabyte (assuming each is 20K) and the entire WP database is 19 GB (if I remember correctly). Even though I’ve worked every day since January 2003 on illustrations I’ve still “only” put on 800 thumbnails. Thumbnails are not going to materially affect the size of WP and so are not really worth the trouble of transferring their names to IFD. However the stronger argument is that the new code is not fully satisfactory yet. We need to keep the ability to revert to the old code (and therefore use the old thumbs) if it was ever necessary. I would very much appreciate it if you do not list on IFD any thumbs with file names containing arp or ***pix.

I don’t understand how Jiang’s code solves my problems with the new code. The old caption standard was italics, text centred and links were possible. None of that works now. I already know the code for setting thumbnail size. Do you know the code for the three caption adjustments I can’t do?

I hope you can understand my concerns and leave my thumbnails off IFD. Best Wishes, Adrian Pingstone 09:55, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * The reason I've been putting them up for deletion is not space concerns, but simply because they're orphans and I don't see them becoming non-orphans again at any point in the future now that there's code for thumbnailing. Even if you have a problem with the current formatting of image captions, you can still use the autothumbnail feature to get exactly the same result as before; try [[Image:something.jpg|250px|] and you should get a thumbnail image without any of the extra bells and whistles that the "thumb" keyword currently provides. But I think it's best to use thumbs and captions, since that way the Wikipedia software will actually understand what text is caption and what text isn't; one could potentially have different skins that display captions in different ways, modify thumbnail sizes to fit on different resolution monitors or for the visually impaired, etc. There's discussion of all these issues over on [[Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]] and the respective Wikipedia talk: page.Bryan 16:18, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Poll notification
Just seen your notification regarding this poll on G/g. thanks for notifying. Since I have no idea on this topic I will prefer to ignore it for now, at least until I develop some opinion. Optim 16:21, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Feast of the Lemures
Hello. I read that you noted "there's an inconsistancy about All Saints Day that I don't know how to resolve." and was under the impression that you'd delete this text:

 * "This ancient custom was Christianized in the feast of All Saints Day, established in Rome first on May 13, in order to de-paganize the Roman Lemuria. In the 8th century, as the popular observance of the Lemuria had safely faded over time, the feast of All Saints was shifted to November 1, coinciding with the similar Celtic propitiation of the spirits at Samhain. Pope Gregory III (731-741) consecrated a chapel in the Basilica of St. Peter to all the saints and fixed the anniversary, not by chance, for 1 November.

 * The idea that this festival was the origin of that of All Saints, which was moved later to November 1, has now been abandoned by Roman Catholics."

I hope we may discuss precisely what needs to be improved at the site (because I care about the history of it). Tell what your objections are, at Talk:Feast of the Lemures and make the entry clear, historical, accurate. Wetman 06:05, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Requests for mediation
Just so you know, when I left that note on Rfm that I was willing to mediate, I kind of assumed that you'd see it there. In any event, I repeat here my offer to mediate, subject to the stipulations on the Rfm page. Sam/Jack seems willing to accept me. If you do as well, we can move forward. Otherwise (and I understand if you don't want to accept my mediation) you should propose an alternative mediator and see if Sam/Jack is willing to agree. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 16:24, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I saw it and I accepted, and Angela updated the Rfm "progress bulletins" section accordingly. After that I was just waiting for some indication of what to actually do now that everything seems in order. Since I'm not the initiator of this complaint, I figured Jack would contact you with his grievances (I'm still not entirely sure what they are myself) and then we'd get in touch to talk about them or something like that. Want me to email you? Bryan 16:35, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Hehe, sounds like the only thing Angela forgot was to actually tell me. :) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 09:25, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:Sam Spade/Mediation with Bryan
Take a look at my talking points and references, if you like. You appear to be confused, or unwilling to understand why I am unhappy with my experiences with you. Perhaps this will do half of Dantes job for him right here, by letting you know where I am coming from. Sam Spade 11:00, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Continuation War
Kudos for offering to point-man a fix of the article. Don't be surprised if 172 et. al. jump out of the woodwork though. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 20:28, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I hope I won't trigger an edit war in the process. But the article as it stands is incredibly hard to read, so I felt like I had to do something. Bryan 20:32, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I have a very bad feeling about this. The article will remain a target as long as there are folks on the wikipedia who wish to paint Finland as a fascist ally of Nazi Germany. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 22:57, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * I still consider myself to be pretty much a blank slate on this article, since I've never read up on the subject from other sources before. So I'll keep an eye on things, and if it looks like a war is building up I think I can trust myself to temporarily protect the article with minimal bias while things cool down a bit. I'm responsible for jarring things out of their previous stasis, so I'm willing to take responsibility for trying to make sure nothing awful results from it. :) Bryan 01:23, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

atheism/agnosticism
Good recent edits. Sam Spade 06:51, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm so glad I have your approval. Bryan 07:25, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Image code questions
Can you explain more, please, on how to have my caption text centred, italicised and with active links and use the new code. In Images for deletion you said: ***Yes you can - just use the same old html markup but fmt the link as and your image will be limited to 250px. Unfortunately I don’t know what you meant. Is it something like this?

Canadian Air Force CF-5 Freedom Fighters.

That does give a thumbnail, a clickable magnifying glass and a caption I can customise. The only snag is a slightly ugly blank grey bar to the left of the magnifying glass where the title would normally be. Is this the penalty for having the caption customisable? If my code is all wrong can you let me know the correct code? One further request. Would it be possible for you to set your thumbs to 250px instead of the default 180px? I find 180 a little too small on my 1024 by 768 screen. If you approve would you mind putting in 250px from now on? Thanks for any help,

Adrian Pingstone 14:33, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * If you leave out the "thumb" option, you get the same result without the grey box and the magnifying glass; [[image:caf.f5.750pix.jpg|center|250px|]]

However, I personally would almost never leave out the thumb option because it automatically lets the user know there's a bigger version available by clicking. As for the default size, I've been hoping that at some point soon Wikipedia will add the ability to set your own personal default thumbnail size, so I've been avoiding setting a specific size unless it's actually important to the image. Small thumbnails aren't as pretty but they load fast. However, I'm not fixated on that, so I haven't been going around reducing existing thumbnails. I'll try to remember to set the "arp" images to 250 in the future. Bryan 16:33, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hey, how's tomorrow at 7:30 PM PST sound? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 05:43, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Can do. Bryan 10:19, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
Just a little note to commend you on your excellent demeanor with respect to mediation. Your situation, successfully resolved, is an example of how well mediation can work when two committed people participate honestly and fairly. Good work!! --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:17, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Makoto Tsumura

Makoto Tsumura (津村 まこと) is a Japanese voice actress. She entered a training school attached to Ezaki Productions in 1991 and belonged to Mausu Promotion (formerly Ezaki Productions) from 1993 to 2007. After leaving Mausu, she worked as a freelancer from 2007 to September 2008. Later, she worked for D-Color from October 2008 to September 2013, and Aksent from October 2013 to November 2018, before joining Aoni Production in December 2018.

Tsumura took over the role of Atom from Mari Shimizu for the 2003 Astro Boy TV series, and since 2005, she has been playing the role of Wakame Isono in the Fuji TV anime series Sazae-san, succeeding Michiko Nomura.

Television animation

 * Astro Boy (2003) (Astro Boy)
 * Digimon Tamers (Takato Matsuda)
 * Digimon Ghost Game (Monmon)

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 * Arc the Lad (Boy (A))
 * Beet the Vandel Buster (Nakku)
 * Bleach (Shibata Yūichi)
 * Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002 (Mitsuru Sano, Kazuki Sorimachi, Rivaul's Son)
 * Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (Gomma)
 * Diamond Daydreams (Haruto Eizawa)
 * Dokkiri Doctor (Gen Genda, Male Student)
 * Fullmetal Alchemist (Selim Bradley)
 * Ghost Stories (Leo Kakinoki)
 * Goldfish Warning! (Shuuichi Kitada)
 * Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori to Parallel Town (Henry)
 * Hikaru no Go (Kimihiro Tsutsui)
 * Idaten Jump (Kakeru Sakamaki)
 * Inukami! (Tomekichi)
 * Kamichu! (Shōkichi Hitotsubashi)
 * Naruto (Kimimaro (young))
 * Paradise Kiss (Suguru Hayasaka)
 * Paranoia Agent (Shogo Ushiyama)
 * Pokémon (Tsubasa, Burūsu Chan, Saburō)
 * Pokémon: Advanced Generation (Marshtomp, Poochyena, Azurill, others)
 * Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl (Ayako, Chimchar, Shinx, others)
 * Sazae-san (Wakame Isono (third voice))
 * Shaman King (Elly)
 * Uninhabited Planet Survive! (Beru (child))
 * Viewtiful Joe (Captain Blue Junior)

Theatrical animation

 * Tsubasa Chronicle the Movie: The Princess of the Country of Birdcages (xxxx) (Koruri)

Video games

 * Astro Boy (2004) (Astro Boy)
 * Bravely Default (xxxx) (Airy)
 * Night Trap (Japanese dub, xxxx) (Cindy)
 * Onimusha series (xxxx) (Yumemaru)
 * Sakura Taisen V Episode 0 ~Kouya no Samurai Musume~ (xxxx) (Chesana Cycles)
 * Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future (1999) (Makoto)
 * Super Street Fighter IV (2010) (Makoto)
 * Ratchet & Clank series (Japanese dub, xxxx) (Ratchet)
 * Sonic and the Black Knight (xxxx) (Merlina)
 * PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Japanese dub, xxxx) (Ratchet)

Live-action

 * Aliens (2004 TV Asahi edition) (Newt (Carrie Henn))
 * Annie: A Royal Adventure! (Colin Norris (Sam Stockman))
 * Apollo 13 (Jeffrey (Miko Hughes))
 * Asteroid (1997 TV Asahi edition) (Elliot McKee)
 * The Blue Lagoon (2015 Wowow edition) (Young Richard (Glenn Kohan))
 * Cube (Joan Leaven (Nicole de Boer))
 * Dr. Dolittle (John Dolittle (young))
 * East of Eden (Lee Dong-chul (5 years old) (Shin Dong-woo))
 * ER (Alex)
 * Face/Off (Jamie Archer)
 * Firewall (Andy Stanfield (Jimmy Bennett))
 * Goosebumps (The Barking Ghost) (Cooper)
 * Hancock (Aaron Embrey (Jae Head))
 * Hotel for Dogs (Bruce (Jake T. Austin))
 * John Q. (2007 NTV edition) (Mike Archibald)
 * The Kite Runner (Young Amir)
 * Knowing (Young Lucinda Embry / Abby Wayland (Lara Robinson))
 * Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Megan "Megsie" Green (Lil Woods))
 * The Sixth Sense (Bobby)
 * Unfaithful (2006 TV Asahi edition) (Charlie Sumner (Erik Per Sullivan))

Animation

 * ChalkZone (Rudy)
 * Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Mac)
 * Ned's Newt (Ned)
 * PB&J Otter (Peanut)
 * Ratchet & Clank (Ratchet)
 * Rugrats In Paris (Kimi Watanabe-Finster)
 * Rugrats Go Wild (Kimi Watanabe-Finster)
 * Winter Sonata Anime (Kong Jin-Sook)

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Intersil

Intersil is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Milpitas, California. As of February 24, 2017, Intersil is a subsidiary of Renesas. The previous Intersil was formed in August 1999 through the acquisition of the semiconductor business of Harris Corporation. Intersil is a power management IC business, with specialized capability in power management and precision analog technology for applications in industrial, infrastructure, mobile, automotive and aerospace.

Company history
The original Intersil, Inc. was founded in 1967 by the Swiss physicist Jean Hoerni to develop digital watch Integrated Circuits (ICs). The European subsidiary Eurosil was originally partially funded by SSIH, a Swiss watch company. Later-on, Intersil had a development contract with the Japanese company Daini Seikosha and became supplier of low-voltage CMOS watch ICs for Seiko. When microprocessors emerged to the market in the 1970s, Intersil participated with its 12-bit IM6100, which was the first microprocessor produced in CMOS technology and emulated the PDP-8 instruction set.

In 1988, Intersil was taken over by Harris Semiconductor, which had offered the IM6100 as second source. Harris combined these activities with the semiconductor divisions of Radiation Incorporated, General Electric and RCA they had taken over before. In 1999 Harris spun off its entire semiconductor division and Intersil Corporation was created with the largest IPO in American semiconductor industry history. The second Intersil Corporation is a different company from the original Intersil, Inc.

Next to digital circuits like microprocessors and memories like the 1k-bit CMOS RAM IM6508 and CMOS EPROMS IM6604/IM6654 Intersil designed famous analogue ICs like the ICL8038 waveform generator. A creation of Intersil (as Harris Semiconductor) is the PRISM line of Wi-Fi hardware: that group of products was sold to GlobespanVirata in 2003, and maintained by Conexant. Intersil is the manufacturer of the RCA (CDP)1802 microprocessor (also known as RCA COSMAC), a CPU traditionally used in space applications.

In the 2000s, Intersil established market leadership in Vcore power management for PCs, switching and buck boost regulators for industrial and consumer power systems, and radiation hardened analog and power ICs for military and commercial applications.

The company, under CEO Dave Bell, then began the expansion of a catalog analog business. The company also completed a series of acquisitions, two of which are still part of the portfolio, Zilker Labs digital power devices and Techwell automotive and security and surveillance products. In May 2002, Intersil Corp. acquired Elantec Semiconductor. In March 2004,  Intersil Corp. acquired analog chipmaker Xicor Inc. for about $529 million.

In 2012, with revenue in decline, the company's board of directors removed Dave Bell and began a search for a new CEO. In March 2013, the board appointed Necip Sayiner, the architect of Silicon Labs' turnaround, as CEO. Sayiner concentrated the company's efforts on power management and select target markets. The company was able to return to profitability in 2013 and in early 2014 re-launched as a power management company, with products to improve power efficiency, extend battery life and reduce size.

Japanese semiconductor company Renesas acquired Intersil on February 24, 2017.

Products
Intersil develops and markets power management and analog technology for applications in the industrial, infrastructure, mobile, automotive and aerospace markets.

The company supplies power integrated circuits including battery management, computing power, display power, regulators and controllers and power modules; as well as analog components such as amplifiers and buffers, proximity and light sensors, data converters, timing products, optoelectronics and interface products.

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William Murphy (bishop of Rockville Centre)

William Francis Murphy (born May 14, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York, from 2001 to 2016 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts from 1995 to 2001.

Early life
William Murphy was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 14, 1940. He received his secondary education at Boston Latin School in Boston, then attended Saint John's Seminary in Boston, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. He was then sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he received a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree.

Service in Rome
Murphy was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City by Bishop Francis Reh on December 16, 1964. Murphy received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1965 from the Gregorian University. After his ordination, Murphy returned to Boston, where he served as an assistant pastor at parishes in Groveland, Winchester and East Boston. During this period, he also taught at Emmanuel College in Boston and Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts.

Murphy in 1974 returned to Rome to become an official in the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He became a lecturer in theology at University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 1976, teaching there for the next four years. He was named chaplain of his holiness by the Vatican in 1979. In 1980, Murphy was appointed as undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He would hold that post until 1987, when he went back to Boston.

Service in Boston
After returning to Boston in 1987, Murphy was appointed as secretary of community relations for the archdiocese, director of the Office of Social Justice and director of the Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary. In 1987, he was named a prelate of honor by the Vatican. He also lectured on social ethics at St. John’s Seminary.

In 1993, Murphy was appointed vicar general and moderator of the curia for the archdiocese. In this role, he was the principal assistant to Cardinal Bernard Law, responsible for the clergy.

Auxiliary Bishop of Boston
Pope John Paul II appointed Murphy as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston on November 21, 1995. He was consecrated on December 27, 1995 by Cardinal Law.

Bishop of Rockville Centre
John Paul II appointed Murphy as bishop of Rockville Centre on June 26, 2001. He was installed on September 5, 2001. He signed the 1994 document Evangelicals and Catholics Together. In 2007, he was appointed the head of the Domestic Policy Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

Massachusetts report
On July 23, 2003, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly released the report The Sexual Abuse of Children in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The report described Murphy, when auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese, as being in close consultation with Cardinal Law on sexual abuse issues with clergy. The report stated that Murphy did some positive things, but it presented this evaluation of his actions:"Bishop Murphy did not report to law enforcement any of the numerous allegations of clerical sexual abuse he reviewed nor did he ever advise the cardinal to do so. And even with undeniable information available to him, Bishop Murphy continued to place a higher priority on preventing scandal and providing support to alleged abusers than on protecting children from sexual abuse."In response to the report, Murphy claimed that another archdiocesan official was in charge of these cases. On August 3, 2003, in response to the attorney general report, the Long Island chapter of the group Voice of the Faithful called for Murphy to resign as bishop. Murphy banned Voice of the Faithful from meeting on diocese property soon after that declaration.

Monsignor Alan J. Placa, a Rockville Centre diocesan priest, was cleared by the tribunal of the Diocese of Albany, the home diocese of the complainant, of allegations made against him in June 2002. The decision was subsequently confirmed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which instructed Murphy "to do what we can to restore his good name.”

Renovation of bishop's quarters
Soon after Murphy was installed as Bishop of Rockville Centre in 2001, he decided that his private quarters in the cathedral rectory lacked privacy and sufficient space to entertain visiting clergy. He decided to take over the top floor of an old convent building at the cathedral. The diocese had been planning to create rooms for nuns on that floor, but Murphy asked them to accept some different accommodations. The project ended up costing $800,000. As news of the project and its cost became public, Murphy invited a Newsday reporter and photographer to tour the apartment.. They reported that the residence included a large suite with a new fireplace with an oak mantel, a temperature-controlled wine storage cabinet, and a marble bathroom.

Meeting with clergy
In October 2003, 52 priests requested a meeting with Murphy after sending a letter that spoke of anger and dissatisfaction within the diocese and "a certain lack of confidence in your pastoral leadership." Issues raised included Murphy's management style, the cost of his new living quarters, the sexual abuse scandal in Boston and his ban against Long Island Voice of the Faithful.

Catholic school closings
On December 5, 2011, Murphy announced the closing of six Catholic elementary schools on Long Island:

 * St. John Baptist de La Salle Regional School in Farmingdale
 * St. Catherine of Sienna School in Franklin Square
 * St. Ignatius Loyola School in Hicksville
 * Sacred Heart School in North Merrick
 * Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Lindenhurst
 * Prince of Peace Regional School in Sayville

Resignation
On reaching age 75, the mandatory retirement age for bishops, Murphy sent a letter of resignation as bishop of the Diocese Rockville Centre to the pope. On December 9, 2016, Pope Francis accepted his resignation.

Honors and awards

 * Honorary Doctor of Theology degree from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1999
 * Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Salem State College, in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1999.
 * Rabin Peacemaker Award from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts in 2002
 * Doctor of Laws degree from St. John’s University in New York City in 2002.

Murphy served as a trustee of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is a knight commander with Star of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, ecclesiastical commander of grace in the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, and assistant chaplain of the American Association of the Sovereign Order of Malta in 2002.


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Moros y Cristianos (dish)

Moros y Cristianos is a traditional Cuban dish served both in homes and in restaurants. It is the Cuban version of rice and beans, a dish found throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the Southern United States.

Etymology
Moros y Cristianos means 'Moors and Christians'. Moros refers to the black beans, and Cristianos to the white rice. The name of the dish is a reference to the African Muslim governance of the Iberian Peninsula from the early 8th century through the Reconquista (15th century).

Preparation
Onions, garlic, and bell pepper are commonly used as a sofrito. To this sofrito are added the white rice and pre-boiled black beans, as well as the water that the beans were boiled in. Other seasonings such as oregano and bay leaf are often added to the dish to give additional flavor.

Moros y Cristianos are different from simple arroz con frijoles in that the beans and rice are cooked in the same pot instead of separately. Congrí is another term for the dish, but is used more commonly to refer to the similar dish with red beans that is traditionally eaten on the eastern part of the island.

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