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Talk:Sony Ericsson K700

Firmware
I received my K700i in September 2004. In May 2005, as I was sending my phone for maintenance (defective key) I asked for a firmware upgrade. Here are futile differences I could notice between the 2 firmwares (I do not know what version was originaly shipped and what is my current version): Hence, I would like to catch the attention of the authors of this article: the information you are giving wrt the design of the phone may not be true for all units. --Winged-stone 11:18, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Brightness can be adjusted with the sidekeys while in camera mode.
 * Extra profile named "tty accessory"
 * More info in the "phone status" (pressing side key out of menu)

 * Do you have any idea where one may download it, if it is a freeware anyway. And does it fix the problem when the phone just freezes after particular commands? -- Eagleamn 20:34, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * You could try the Sony Ericsson Update Service. I couldn't try it myself because it requires a computer running MS Windows. Note that you also need the USB cable. What particular commands are you talking about? It probably fixes some bugs since I experienced less troubles when connecting to GPRS over bluetooth. Although I haven't tested it extensively, the phone didnt freeze since then.  --Winged-stone 08:12, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

processor
what about the processor? anybody knows what it is?!

To the Polish Wikipedia!

Criticism - what the...
I just think that the Criticism section breaks the rules of NPOV. Of course if you use a sledgehammer to "repair" the phone or smash it several times to the wall, it's very possible that joystick or display will malfunction... Mine k700i, even if it's 8 months old (bought from second-hand), doesn't have any problems with those parts. Only sometimes the joystick clicks instead of going "down", but that's just my giant thumb. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.20.117.54 (talk) 16:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

The erroneous joystick of the K700i is real, mine first was hard to press, then all directions you push it just "enters." I think that erroneous joystick info needs a little more fixing so that the readers will be able to understand better. BTW my joystick started malfunctioning 3 months after I've bought it, first hand.

- Press the joystick and move it repeatedly to the left and to the right about 10 times and it will work perfectly. - Also, you can repair the joystick by using paper and scissors. No really, you can.

I think most of the commentary on criticisms fails the NPOV bar, let alone verifiability, so I've added several requests for citations. Anecdotally, I would argue that the screen was fairly resilient, and certainly Googling did not seem to flag this as a widespread issue. Achromatic (talk) 01:42, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I have had and used the k700i for over two and a half years now and it's joystick and screen are still in perfect condition, so I wouldn't mind if the criticism section was removed. Make91 (talk) 22:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I know this qualifies as original research, but one of my friends runs a business that does level 3 (component level) repairs on mobile phones, and according to him the joystick is one of the highest failure rate items (also on the K750i) - although this is probably skewed by the fact that it's one of the only parts that the user interacts with that is not replacable by level 1 or 2 service (since it's soldered to the main PCB) - I also personally had a K700i that had a joystick failure (it would no longer respond to "left"). TriMesh (talk) 23:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:JRM/Archive4

How's tricks?
How's tricks, JRM? Lying kind of low, aren't you? Bishonen|Talk 12:57, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Charter Convention
Would you consider a Charter Convention? — Xiong 熊 talk 15:19, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
 * Link to material? I'll consider just about anything, provided it's readable and I've got the time (and I've seen your prose, so I'm not worried there).
 * Without having seen anything, though, color me skeptical. The wiki tends not to take constitutions, charters, legislative bodies, politicians and other trappings of formalized power well; things spring up as they appear to be needed. There is one rule I hold dear to my heart, ignore all rules, which does not mean what most people think it means. But as I said, throw me a bone and I'll chew on it. JRM 15:38, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)

 * Might I also subvert you? Simplified Ruleset. Kim Bruning 15:48, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Citation Template
Thanks for pointing out the current discussion. I was aware of a standardized but plain source note. After locating a good 100 undocumented citations of wikipedia in law review pages I felt it would be a good opportunity to launch my own more noticeable template. I may be giving myself more credit than I am deserving my but I see my template as different and justifiable. My temp is not intended to be informative (exact citation, link to sources page) - that's secondary, I congratulate contributers for their good work and convince visitors that Wikipedia is gaining prominence. Rather than standardize the material, I hope other Wikipedians see the larger promotional and honorary role unique to a source template. I'll stop and join the discussion though. Lotsofissues 15:05, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Followup
It appears the templates have been selected however the press citation template does not fit my purpose of documenting law review cites. I hope there are no objections, but I wish to continue to use my template for this sole purpose. Lotsofissues 23:14, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Reference desk query
Thanks for answering my query - I'd have saved myself hours of frustration if I'd only thought to ask sooner! Thryduulf 10:09, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

RFC on RickK
Hey! I agree with your view and am thinking of signing under view 5.--Jondel 01:41, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Frank?
It has been over a month. Where are you? Come on, you've gotta come back. At least visit us occasionally. :-) SWAdair | Talk  11:26, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * So here I am, visiting. Where are my tea and cookies? [[Image:Smiley.png|16px]]. --fvw *  00:49, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * Hold on, I'll get you a cup. Dig in! We aim to please. Very nice to see you! JRM · Talk 00:56, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * My, the service here is quick, Ta. --fvw *  01:03, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

Insanity article
Heyo -- thanks a bunch for the work you did on Insanity just now. I sort of waffled back and forth between a cleanup and an NPOV; the article as it stood seemed to reek of adolescent rebellion. Your edits have made a much cleaner article. --  — I. Neschek |  talk 15:11, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I actually only planned to remove those quotes you complained about... and the single "you". Then I got carried away... but I'm glad you like it. JRM · Talk 15:48, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

VfD
Yes, you are right, I picked on a too general word "thing", which is open to many interpretations. My reading of the word "thing" was "object from real 'world' " as opposed to "article about the object". And my point is that one should distinguish invalid topics and invalid articles, with both issues being valid subjects for vfd. Extreme examples from real wikilife (with the whole spectrum, including merging the concepts altogether, exists): Sean Piniero is an invalid topic, while the article Nick (DNA) with the content "fuck you, moron" is an invalid article. Mikkalai 19:17, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, it was vote, not debate. And since I closed it, it could not influence anybody, so I don't see any harm at all. It was directed to you, rather than to sway someone's future vote. Anyway, next time in such cases I will talk to users' talk pages instead. Mikkalai 21:01, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pandeism
Please see Votes for deletion/Pandeism and add your vote. -- brian0918 ™  21:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Please consider changing your vote on Votes for deletion/Pandeism to a "redirect" to pantheism. I believe I have adduced sufficient referential evidence to show that this article was not "original research," but simply a non-notably uncommon use of a term that is most commonly used as a reference to a word of similar construction. It's very easy for those not acquainted with religous details to confuse "theism" with "deism" (and in fact, most of the non-wiki-mirror references on the web do use pandeism to mean pantheism) so this would be a useful redirect. I apologize for having overestimated the importance of the use of this term with which I had been made familiar. It was one of my first posts, when I was new to Wikipedia and not yet familiar with the criteria for notability. -- 8^D BD2412gab 06:32, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)
 * Forget the above. I have found conclusive evidence of the use of the term "Pandeism" dating back to 1833, being used by Godfrey Higgins, a follower of John Toland, the creator of pantheism.. The term is used in a book written by Higgins called the Anacalypsis. -- 8^D BD2412gab 10:23, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)
 * You're looking at the text, not the meaning - the whole thing as written is nonsense, but this Higgins was both a Druid and a phallic-obsessed joker - everything in this has a double meaning. This is a guy who was a follower of Tolands, would have known about both Pantheism and Deism (and don't forget, Toland wrote cryptically about Pantheism for many years out of fear of getting found out), using a term that we know has absolutely nothing to do with any religions ranging from Medea to India... so what does it really mean? Why would a man in Higgins position make up a word like that, and use it as he does? -- 8^D BD2412gab 10:43, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)
 * Pandeism is completely rewritten. You win. Have a nice day. -- 8^D BD2412gab 13:37, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

Cricket
Hi. You commented on the move of the cricket portal to cricket. Having moved the whole affair back, I have made my own proposal. Could you come and comment, so that we can get consensus for the best version. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 19:58, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

VfD
I want the article moved and the redirect in the main namespace deleted (as do most Wikipedians. I have clarified my intentions; adjust your own comments accordingly. Neutralitytalk 15:24, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Neutralitytalk 15:30, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

Accept RFA NOM?
JRM, PLZ accept RFA NOM ASAP. TY!

OMG, WTF? TMD TLA! ARGH!

KB 01:30, 1 May 2005 (UTC) ps, I'd been wanting to do this to you for a long time, and now I had the perfect excuse! ;-)

Love Me, Love My Girlfriend
Sort of, yes. My point was merely that that person has been voting to oppose anyone and everyone who has said a word about the belle dame sans merci. I.e. it's something a bit automatic and really not by anyone's reckoning substantive. Asking for substance in that case is just going to feed the fire. An argument takes two sides, and I think it's enough that the community acts in an appropriate manner in regard to those with monomanias without allowing them to continue to believe that those actions are personal. (I.e. you're in the right, but pointing that out just helps a good editor go bad.) Geogre 02:21, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, hell, I was being so circumloquitous that I confused myself on re-reading that. Ok, at the risk of offending, here it goes.  I personally think that Everyking is an excellent editor with a long history of contributing high quality material, but he has an unaccountable monomania about Ashlee.  I don't get it.  You don't get it.  No one gets it.  However, it is a subject he cares so passionately about that it has led him to some highly ill-judged actions.  Well, the community has, I think, acted appropriately to counter these whimsies.  You've been one of those who has opposed his misguided efforts.  For whatever reason, Everyking is now voting to Oppose every RfA of every person who has ever said an unkind word about the Ashlee articles.  That's reactionary and, again I think, misguided and ill-considered.  There's nothing substantive in these Oppose votes -- no rationale, no reason -- and I don't think anyone is swayed by them.  My fear is that, for Everyking, something that should be objective has become personal, and the worst thing we can do is allow him to move the ground of the debate onto personal animus.  I hate the idea of a valuable worker like him losing himself, and our losing him, to this passion, and I keep hoping that if we refuse to play the game of personal invective and defense we can sway him back to the true path.  There.  Now I've said it, and Everyking can be mad at me, too, if he wants.  (I suppose he already was, as I'm a "deletionist.")  Geogre 02:42, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm continuing this discussion here because it's more important to keep it together than having us see the latest updates ASAP.

Yes, I did comment on the Ashlee Simpson issue. The first time I did so was on Votes for deletion/Autobiography sales and chart positions/Archive1. In which I voted Keep, as unlikely as that may seem! (I didn't outright support Everyking, but agreement with Everyking wasn't what we were voting on—and neither did I oppose him). The second time I did so was on Votes for deletion/Autobiography promotion and publicity, and here I voted to merge, and discussed with Everyking on why his position wasn't necessarily right because his edits were more substantive. Search for my name in there, if you will, and judge for yourself if I was harsh. No, correction: see for yourself if what I said in there sounds like a likely cause for someone to start disliking you.

I never hurled insults or invective at EK. I never took the scissors to his articles (I edited Autobiography once; a minor edit, not reverted by anyone, which is rare enough to convince me it had approval). And while my personal opinion is that the detail EK put in was of dubious value to the reader, if only for making it less accessible, and while I personally don't like Ashlee Simpson, these are my personal opinions, and I've never presented them as anything else (when I've presented them at all). Believe it or not, but if you hadn't said it, I would have never considered this issue to be at the root of his mistrust. I still find it hard to believe it is. My comment was not referring to it, in any case.

It took me some time to remember where and when I'd said these things, because while I make sure to remember every instance of behaviour on my part I myself see as potentially troublesome, this certainly wasn't one of those times. Of all the people he could possibly have a beef with over the AS issue, I should think I'm the least of his worries. If he really wants to oppose my adminship on those grounds, then he's going to have to come forth and say it, or formulate another argument why I should not be an administrator. I'm not doing this to taunt Everyking or mock his opposition—on the contrary. If he has a valid argument as to why my behaviour or atttitudes towards him or anyone else disqualify me as an admin, please let him say so, so I can work on it. I honestly want to know. Give me a trial by fire. Don't mince words. I'm presently at a loss divining the exact reason James is saying "no". If it's just personal dislike or distrust, that's fine too, as long as he says it is. Maybe I'm not entitled to such detailed answers, but I can damn sure try and get them. JRM · Talk 07:44, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

 * Wow. Well, I'm as much at a loss as you are, then.  Personally, I think that votes there, like votes on VfD, should not be counted if they have no rationale.  I don't know who the beaurocrats are who are considering these counts, but it seems to me that no one should be counted who merely votes without grounds in any deliberation.  I understand, of course, the sensitivity of this particular vote and why the stakes are higher, but a bit down the page EK was giving a similar opposition.  I haven't followed RfA as well as some folks, but the last time I looked in, he had again voted Oppose over the AS issue.  From the diffs, you appear to have handled the AS issue with as much delicacy and consideration as anyone could.  Perhaps EK has gone over too far to come back and the various attempts at RfC and arbitration are valid.  I'm sorry to even think so.  At any rate, I by no means meant to imply indelicacy on your part.  I merely thought that leaving a bald "Oppose" from EK spoke for itself.  Geogre 12:00, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * "Look, Dmitri, I can be just as sorry as you are..." I didn't take your comments as implying that at all; I just wanted to know what "grudge" you could have been referring to. I'm going to sound very silly for this, but I honestly didn't think of the AS issue. :-) JRM · Talk 12:07, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip.
I always wondered why that happened - thought it had something to do with an edit conflict. By the way, have a look at my latest contribution - it's the greatest thing since sliced bread! ;-) -- BD 24 12 thimk 17:04, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

Hmm, good luck finding the first mention. It seems the origins of sliced bread itself were cloudy enough to be all but obscured for decades; the phrase, originating not late after the introduction, is probably impossible to trace to its source (or a convincing first use, for that matter). Unlike have one's cake and eat it too. :-) JRM · Talk 17:28, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

My RfA, and yours, and yours
Eggsqueeze me? What's one thing got to do with another? It wasn't because I thought I wouldn't make admin that I opposed getting nominated, y'know. I benefit from the IRC factor too, with my pretty prattle in the channel all day long, so I rather thought I would, as immodest as that may sound. By now, though, I have of course enlarged my horizons and am going all out to topple User:Fvw's record! Helping it along a little—see me sneakily move votes from Oppose to Support? MWAHAHA! However. I can't say my heart is in these little ruses. The ridiculousness factor of (currently) getting more votes than you does kinda turn the whole thing into a joke. :-/ Bishonen | talk 17:54, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * But getting more votes than me is nothing at all, eh? It's ok.  I know where I stand.  Last year's model and all that.  Oh, look, here's someone to endorse me. Geogre 02:11, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * "Men, some to Bus'ness, some to Pleasure take;
 * But ev'ry Woman is at heart a Rake."

Geogre, to me you're every year's model, up to and including spacecraft! But as for getting more votes than you did back when, no, that actually ain't much. What exactly do you expect to happen when a person hangs around for ten months, scribbling more and more interferingness all over the shop, and spends the entire last month shitwitting on IRC and changing the topic to PENIS at least twice a day? If YOU had done those things (mutatis mutandis, since you think and type a lot faster and a lot less tastelessly on IRC than I do)--if you hadn't (sensibly) stood for admin as soon as you were ready for it--you would obviously have gotten more votes than any of us. Bishonen | talk 14:08, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

I LOG, YOU KNOW!
"<JRM has left #wikipedia ("Vote for Bishonen on WP:RFA!")" I LOG, YOU BASTARD! Elizabeth Barry 18:53, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * What can I say? There's just no pleasing some people. JRM · Talk 19:36, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
 * Copy your efforts on my own pages? Bah. You hold me cheap. Bishonen | talk 00:39, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Portal:Cricket
Thank you for your comment on my talk page. I still think the Cricket (portal) VfD does not belong there. It started off badly with lots of knee-jerk reactions and no-one asking why the page was created in the first place - a point which is quite important to any discussion about the page. The first VfD has also achieved its original objective as Cricket (portal) is now a red link. On the other hand, the Portal:Cricket VfD has plenty of constructive comments - and generally the page is welcomed. Although there is some disquiet as to its location, it is looking that there will be a consensus to keep it where it is for now, although many would like to see new readerspaces for Portals such as this and for Lists. Indeed, I myself would not oppose such a development (and would probably see the page still being called Portal:Cricket, albeit in a proper Portalspace). It has some days to go yet, but that would seem a sensible conclusion and a positive, pro-Wikipedia way forward. Kind regards, jguk 19:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Disclaimer templates
Thanks for your changes on Disclaimer templates. Your shift of emphasis made it a lot closer to what I wanted to say in the first place. It's a pity you didn't like my dragging of semi-policy into that ☺. --cesarb 12:45, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

re: No consensus for deletion
I like what you said about "Consensus for deletion" on the Pandeism vfd. If you think THAT was as clear a "keep due to no-consensus" vote as they come, then you haven't seen List of incidents famously considered great blunders. (Wait, you have seen the page already... but didn't vote on the vfd.... interesting... no strong opinion?)

I also like your philosophy as stated on your user page. I might "borrow" some of it. :-)

- Pioneer-12 19:45, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Those with no sense of humor can bite my shiny metal ass. And there is a very significant difference between flops and blunders, as explained on the vfd page and the talk page. I think my main mistake was expecting a higher level of maturity, open-mindedness, and understanding on Wikipedia then exists.

If Wikipedia doesn't grow up, it will eventually be destroyed, or beaten at it's own game.

See: Village pump (miscellaneous) ...Oh, you've already seen that, too! You really are quite observant. Impressive.

- Pioneer-12 20:15, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * "These days days everything you create that smacks of dubiousness is tagged for VfD, because there are many more eyeballs around, and people have less time to give every entry its due."

That's a contradiction! More eyeballs should mean better analysis, not worse. The fact that they don't means that the system is screwed up. Eric S. Raymond (author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar) would NOT be happy with the current state of things on Wikipedia.

 * "Wikipedia has become more curt and businesslike as it has grown, for good or for bad."

I can see it becoming more "curt"... it may even have become for "businesslike"... but it has not yet become professional, and that's the key. Wikipedia has grown and evolved considerably, but it is still in a transitory state.... I think it's current state of evolution is analogous to the middle ages of human history. See Wikipedia talk:Revotes on Vfd. (If you haven't already seen that one, too.)

- Pioneer-12 21:16, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

No, thank you...
For noticing, and all that. (The flower tucked behind the ear—too much with the hat, or no?) Actually, the supposed tirelessness is largely because I'm too lazy to write, at the moment! Oh, yeah, good luck on the whole admin thing; no, not getting it, clearly, but with that much support someone might expect you to do something with it. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 00:04, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Sysop
Congratulations! You are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the administrators' how-to guide helpful. Good luck. Angela. 00:05, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations JRM!

 * It seems everyone is now hell-bent on congratulating me on my adminship using "me, too" remarks. That's really not necessary, people, but if you must please use a page that doesn't spring colored boxes on me every time you edit it: /Congratulations. Thanks. :-)

Adminship
Yeah, I'd be all in favor of that as well. I think dividing up the powers is a reasonable idea. By the way, I need to tone down that stuff on my user page at some point. Everyking 01:17, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Shylocking
redirects may be cheap, but be careful how you use them, Shylock (Shakespeare) has nothing to do with Shylocking, other than one term is derived from the other. thanks Bluemoose 09:09, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, but what i meant is that it redirecting to a page that would be totally unrelated to someone who didnt know any better may be confusing, also, i think it could eventually become a reasonable article. thanks - Bluemoose 09:24, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Queen Elizabeth II
Please note that I have disputed the neutrality of this article. Jguk reverted my NPOV template, claiming that the NPOV dispute is just a personal campaign of one person. Whig 09:20, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

 * The article is wholy laudatory in content, much of it written in language that wouldn't disgrace Hello! magazine. It's difficult to see what could be less NPoV really. It's not the use of the title, which gets other editors so incensed (I agree with them about usage, but not that it's PoV), it's the article as a whole. (I've just gone through the Talk page, and I notice that my complaint has not only been made by other editors, but even with a reference to Hello!.) Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:17, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll copy it to the talk page (I had already explained on there, in fact, but perhaps it's got lost in all the hullabulloo). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:39, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

User:The Number, User:Sollogfan RfAr
Hi Joost, after a recent round of shenanigans perpretrated by these fans of Sollog, I've filed an arbitration request against The Number and Sollogfan. Please consider if you want to add yourself as a plaintiff, or comment on the case if it gets accepted. Cheers, --MarkSweep 09:43, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Weird tribute
Ha, yes. Did you notice that the Oddball barnstar is an animated .gif? Most of the time it doesn't move any, but keep staring at it, and... heh heh. I'm a put that suckah on the ETPH talk page, where it belongs, to honour all the oddball contributors. --Bishonen | talk 22:18, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Hitler
Yeah, sorry about that. Was working with about three different versions at once, and yeah, mentioning the UK and France seemed a bit overloaded, but now that I put it back in it works well. Thanks for the message. --Golbez 23:27, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Chess
Ok with you if I play white? I suck so I should go first....and, if you don't agree I will crush you like a mag.... whoa power rush..... Anyway ok with you? Gkhan 00:21, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ahh, I'm sorry, you're right I should have told you. Just forgot....next time I'll be more considerate.... Gkhan 10:49, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Ach! Ich brauche ein Hitlerbreak
Understood about Adolf Hitler--I hope my conduct didn't contribute to your dissatisfaction. Demi T/C 17:44, 2005 May 16 (UTC)

Invitation to Inquiry
JRM, you are cordially invited to join the Inquiry project. Adraeus 10:46, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sam Spade took over the project, and twisted its purpose. Unfortunately, the project can't be deleted; however, I'm moving it offsite so I can exhibit more control over the documentation and membership. Adraeus 14:00, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Thus spoke the Arbitrator....
I've left notes on both talk-pages and on the game page. Strange thing, huh? BTW, it wasn't absolute that white would win in my opinion, that rook there makes all the differance. Gkhan 09:04, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ahh, I stand, once again, corrected (yer gonna beat the living shite out of me arnt'ya?). Gkhan 09:16, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Everyking 09:22, 2005 May 18
Hey, don't mock my votes and comments, thanks. That's the second time. Everyking 09:22, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Chess
I do not wish to retract, not two times, and you're gonna win sooner or later anyway. Go ahead, make your move, kid. Gkhan 21:27, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Vote for Deletion
Hi; I'm sorry to be bothering you concerning this, but Chess championship is up for a VfD. Votes_for_deletion/Chess_championship Please vote to keep this thing alive... this is so lame that I need to ask people to help out here. Linuxbeak | Desk 03:48, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Sock puppet/Proposal
Hi there! I've reworded this a bit per everyone's comment, and would like to get support to make this a guideline and allow it to be used. Could you please indicate if you agree? Thanks, Radiant_* 12:30, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Orange
I've put on the /move to wikt/ tag, but I'm not sure what to do with this. Probably someone more knowledgeable about wikt should decide. Presently the article is lengthy, but it discusses only etymology, rhyming, and usage of the word in literature. Radiant_* 11:56, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * (putting this on both your pages...) Neither of you need to do it, I do all the transwikis :) In response to your questions, here's the situation: I'm going to transwiki the article despite its encyclopdic content because that etymological stuff isn't all at the Wiktionary. But don't fret, it doesn't really mean anything will happen to the article. Most dicdefs are short articles with no other content and need to be fixed by deletion/merging/redirecting/etc. Cheers, Dmcdevit 19:04, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Xiong double vote
Okay, fair enough. Radiant_* 11:58, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Wikimeet this Sunday
Around 16:00 or 17:00 I think, in Amsterdam. Jimbo will be there too! If you'd like to come, drop me or better yet User:GerardM a line! :-)

Kim Bruning 21:41, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

See also: nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten.

(Sunday is the day before Holland Open.)

Kim Bruning 12:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Dude, I could really use your help though. No chance at all that you could come? Is there any way I could bribe you? :-) Kim Bruning 21:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedian Computer Scientists
hey jrm, i made the above category for fellow computer scientists, so we can look each other up really quick. you might wanna add your page to it :) cheers :)

Project2501a 23:03, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Go ahead, blame the messenger! ;-)
You were the one with the idea, and I just got it ratified. Now you'll have to live with it, bwahahahahahahahahaaaa ;-)

ph33r m3!

No wait, I'm just the messenger, honest!

Kim Bruning 17:05, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm noticing a pattern where you are responsible for some cataclysm and yet manage to completely avoid responsibility for anything. I'll be watching you much more closely in the future, and one day hope to accumulate enough circumstantial evidence to convince the ArbCom. JRM · Talk 17:12, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

 * That's the beauty of it! Descisions made by the god-king at wikimedia level are as completely outside the scope of the Arbcom as is possible! }:-)>

 * No WAIT! I mean, what have I done to deserve such emnity? *puppydog look*

 * Kim Bruning 17:43, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Giving people puppy dog looks is a big part of it, for sure... JRM · Talk 19:43, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

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Rasgulla

Rasgulla (literally "syrup filled ball") is a syrupy dessert popular in the eastern part of South Asia. It is made from ball-shaped dumplings of chhena dough, cooked in light sugar syrup. This is done until the syrup permeates the dumplings.

While it is near-universally agreed upon that the dessert originated in the eastern Indian subcontinent, the exact locus of origin is disputed between locations such as West Bengal, and Odisha, where it is offered at the Puri Jagannath Temple.

In 2017, when West Bengal got its rosogolla's geographical indication (GI) status, the Registry Office of India clarified that West Bengal was given GI status for Banglar rosogolla and Odisha can claim it too if they cite the place of origin of their variant along with colour, texture, taste, juice content and method of manufacturing. In 2019, the government of Odisha was granted the GI status for "Odisha rasagola" (Odia rasagola).

Names
The dessert is in Bengali, and  in Odia and  in Sanskrit. Rasgulla is derived from the words ras ("juice") and gulla ("ball"). Other names for the dish include rasagulla, rossogolla, roshogolla, rasagola, rasagolla, and rasbhari or rasbari (Nepali).

Claims of Puri temple tradition of Odisha (15th century)
According to historians of Odisha, the rasgulla originated in Puri, as khira mohana, which later evolved into the Pahala rasgulla. It has been traditionally offered as bhog to goddess Lakshmi at Jagannath Temple, Puri. According to the local legend, Lakshmi gets upset because her husband Lord Jagannath goes on a 9-day sojourn (the ratha yatra) without her consent. So, she locks Jai Vijay Dwar, one of the temple gates and prevents his convoy from re-entering the Garbhagṛha (sanctum sanctorum) of the temple. To appease her, Jagannath offers her rasgullas. This ritual, known as Bachanika, is part of the "Niladri Bije" (or "Arrival of the God") observance, which marks the return of the deities to the temple after the Ratha Yatra.

The Jagannath Temple scholars such as Laxmidhar Pujapanda and researchers like Jagabandhu Padhi state that the tradition has existed since the 12th century, when the present-day temple structure was first built. Pujapanda states that the Niladri Bije tradition is mentioned in Niladri Mahodaya, which is dated to the 18th century by Sarat Chandra Mahapatra. According to Mahapatra, several temple scriptures, which are over 300 years old, provide the evidence of rasgulla offering ritual in Puri.

According to folklore, Pahala (a village on the outskirts of Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar) had a large number of cows. The village would produce excess milk, and the villagers would throw it away when it became spoilt. When a priest from the Jagannath Temple saw this, he taught them the art of curdling, including the recipe for rasagulla. Pahala thus went on to become the biggest market for chhena-based sweets in the area.

According to Asit Mohanty, an Odia research scholar on Jagannath cult and traditions, the sweet is mentioned as "Rasagola" in the 15th-century text Jagamohana Ramayana of Balaram Das.

The text mentions rasagola along with other sweets found in Odisha. There is also mention of many other cheese sweets like chhenapuri, chhenaladu and rasabali. Another ancient text Premapanchamruta of Bhupati also mentions cheese (chhena). It is being argued that cheese making process was well known before coming of Portuguese in Odisha.

According to the Bengali culinary historian Pritha Sen, in the mid-18th century, many Odia cooks were employed in Bengali homes who arguably have introduced Rasgulla along with many other Odia dishes, but there is no substantial claim to prove that. According to another theory, it is possible that the Bengali visitors to Puri might have carried the recipe for rasgulla back to Bengal in the nineteenth century. But no substantial claim regarding that was ever found by any historian or anyone else.

This claim is contested by Bengali historians. According to food historians K. T. Achaya and Chitra Banerji, there are no references to cheese (including chhena) in India before the 17th century. The milk-based sweets were mainly made up of khoa, before the Portuguese influence led to the introduction of cheese-based sweets. Therefore, the possibility of a cheese-based dish being offered at Jagannath Temple in the 12th century is highly unlikely. According to Nobin Chandra Das' descendant Animikh Roy and historian Haripada Bhowmik, rasgulla is not even mentioned as one of the chhappan bhog ("56 offerings") in the early records of the Temple; the name of the sweet was coined in Bengal. They also state that it would have been a blasphemy to offer something made from spoiled milk (chhena) to a deity. However, Michael Krondl argues that Hindu dietary rules vary from region to region, and it is possible that this restriction did not exist in present-day Odisha. But at the same time, he could not give any substantial information to uphold the claim that he was forwarding.

Claims of invention in West Bengal
The spongy, white rôśôgolla is believed to have been introduced in present-day West Bengal in 1868 by a Kolkata-based confectioner named Nobin Chandra Das. Das started making rôśôgolla by processing the mixture of chhena and semolina in boiling sugar syrup in contrast to the mixture sans semolina in the original rôśôgolla in his sweet shop located at Sutanuti (present-day Bagbazar).

Yet another theory is that rôśôgolla was first prepared by someone else in Bengal, and Das only popularised it. In Banglar Khabar (1987), food historian Pranab Ray states that a man named Braja Moira had introduced rôśôgolla in his shop near Calcutta High Court in 1866, two years before Das started selling the dish. In1906, Panchana Bandopadhyay wrote that rôśôgolla was invented in the 19th century by Haradhan Moira, a Phulia-based sweetmaker who worked for the Pal Chowdhurys of Ranaghat. According to Mistikatha, a newspaper published by West Bengal Sweetmeat Traders Association, many other people prepared similar sweets under different names such as gopalgolla (prepared by Gopal Moira of Burdwan district), jatingolla, bhabanigolla and rasugolla. Food historian Michael Krondl states that irrespective of its origin, the rôśôgolla likely predates Nobin Chandra Das. A sales brochure of the company run by Das' descendants also hints at this: "it is hard to tell whether or not cruder versions of similar sweets existed anywhere at that time. Even if they did, they did not match the quality of Nobin Chandra, and having failed to excite the Bengali palate, they slipped into oblivion."

Bhagwandas Bagla, a Marwari businessman and a customer of Nobin Chandra Das, popularised the Bengali rôśôgolla beyond the shop's locality by ordering huge amounts.

Modern popularity
In 1930, the introduction of vacuum packing by Nobin Chandra's son Krishna Chandra Das led to the availability of canned Rasgullas, which made the dessert popular outside Kolkata, and subsequently, outside India. Krishna Chandra's son Sarada Charan Das established the K.C. Das Pvt Ltd company in 1946. Sarada Charan's younger, estranged son Debendra Nath established K.C. Das Grandsons in 1956.

Today, canned rasgullas are available throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as in South Asian grocery stores outside the Indian subcontinent. In Nepal, Rasgulla became popular under the name Rasbari.

The Indian space agency, ISRO, is developing dehydrated rasgullas and other dishes for Indian astronauts in its planned crewed missions.

In 2015, the Odisha government initiated a move to get Geographical indication (GI) status for the rasagulla made in Pahala. On 30 July, the people of Odisha celebrated "Rasagola Dibasa" ("Rasgulla Day") to reaffirm Odisha as the place of the dish's origin. In August, West Bengal decided to legally contest Odisha's move to obtain GI Status. In 2015 The Odisha state government constituted three committees to claim over the rasgulla. The committees submitted their interim report to the government. Noted journalist and food researcher Bhakta Tripathy and a member of the committee had submitted dossier containing historical evidence of rasgulla origin in Odisha. The Science and Technology department of the West Bengal government also started the process to get its own GI status for the dessert.

Rasagola Dibasa
On 30 July 2015, on the day of "Niladri Bije", a social media campaign was started by using the hashtag #RasagolaDibasa and it later became a mainstream celebration as the first day to celebrate Rasgulla's origin to be Odisha. Odia newspaper Sambad and FM radio Radio Choklate in collaboration with the confectioners of Pahala celebrated a rasgulla exhibition-cum-awareness event in Bhubaneswar. Sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik made a sand sculpture in Puri Beach depicting "Niladri Bije" and Jagannath offering rasgulla to Lakshmi.

It has been agreed upon to celebrate the Rasagola Dibasa every year on the tithi of Niladri Bije in the lunar calendar. In the year 2016, the Rasagola Dibasa has been celebrated on 17 July.

Rosogolla Utsob
To pay tribute to the inventor of rosogolla, ‘Nobin Chandra Das’, and to promote Bengali claim of authenticity over rosogolla, from 2017 the government of West Bengal has decided to celebrate "Rosogolla Utsob" every year on 28 December. And in the 2017 rosogolla festival, Bengali confectioners prepared the world's largest rasgulla, which weighed nine kilograms. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of rosogolla's invention, the government of West Bengal had also organised a three-day grand ‘Rosogolla festival’ from 28 December 2018 to 30 December 2018.

Preparation
To prepare rasgulla, the cheese (chhena) mixture is formed into small balls. These balls are then simmered in a sugar syrup. It can also be prepared using a pressure cooker or an oven. While serving, a drop of rose water (only organic and edible type of rose water, not rose perfume or synthetic flavours) can be added.

Variations
The Pahal Rasagola from the Pahala area (located between the cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack) is also popular in India.

Derivatives and similar desserts
Along with chhena gaja and chhena poda, rasgulla is one of three traditional Odia chhena desserts. Due to rasgulla becoming associated with Bengali cuisine, the Odisha Milk Federation has tried to popularise chhena poda as the signature Odia dessert.

Nutrition
Typically, a 100-gram serving of rasgulla contains 186 calories, out of which about 153 calories come from carbohydrates. It also contains about 1.85 grams of fat and 4 grams of protein.

Geographical indication (GI) tag
In 2015, West Bengal applied for a Geographical Indication (GI) status for "Banglar Rasogolla" (Bengali Rasgulla). The Government clarified that there was no conflict with Odisha, and its application was only for a specific variant which was different in "both in colour, texture, taste, juice content and method of manufacturing" from the variant produced in Odisha. And the same goes for the Odisha Rasgulla, which can be claimed as a variant of the Bengali Rasagulla. On 14 November 2017, the GI Registry of India granted West Bengal the GI status for Banglar Rasogolla.

The GI Registrar office at Chennai later specifically clarified that West Bengal was given GI status only for the Bengali version of Rasgulla ("Banglar Rasogolla"), not for the sweet's origin. The office also stated that Odisha had not by then applied for any GI tag, but it could also get Odisha Rasgulla's GI tag by presenting the necessary evidence.

In 2018 Odisha applied for GI status in Chennai GI Registry. On 29 July 2019, the GI Registry of India granted Odisha the GI status for "Odisha Rasagola", which is the Odia version of Rasgulla.

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Roy Mason (architect)

Roy Mason (June 29, 1938 – May 19, 1996) was an American lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources. Mason invented architronics as exemplified in the Xanadu House.

Biography
Before entering his career of architecture and design, Mason received a master's degree from the Yale University School of Architecture.

In 1971, he designed a sprayed foam building for an experimental college called College of the Potomac in Paris, Virginia, in 1971. In 1978, Mason created plans for a fifty-home community of solar-powered houses in Columbia, Maryland, that was to be called "Solar Village". In the 1980s, Mason was the architecture editor of the Futurist magazine and the first executive director of the Home Automation Association.

In 1966, he was a founding member of the World Future Society and the publisher of Futurist Magazine for which he co-designed their first logo inspired by the Tomoe. During the mid 1980s, Mason Roy was enveloped into the strategic business plan process of Intelligent Building Information Systems (iBis), an Arlington-based subsidiary of Bell System, and became a spokesman for the company.

In 1996, at age 57, he was killed by a man named Christopher Robin Hatton at the architect's home in the 4200 block of Military Road NW. Christopher Robin Hatton was supposedly a close acquaintance of Roy Mason. A month after the slaying, the killer was still on the run and hunted by the police. Christopher Hatton, in a drug-induced rage and demanding money from Mason, bludgeoned Mason with a hammer twenty-five times (per the autopsy). Christopher Robin Hatton was sentenced to fourteen years for the murder of Roy Mason.

Foam houses
Mason was interested in futuristic homes that use alternative materials which make it easier to build homes and more affordable. He developed foam-built homes, including the Mushroom House in Bethesda, MD outside Washington, D.C in 1974. The architect Paul Rudolph would call Roy Mason "the marshmallow architect" because of the fluffy outcome of foam-built houses. The Xanadu House belongs to the Blobitecture style.

Smart houses
Mason also favored the concept of computer automated homes which he demonstrated in his Xanadu homes with Bob Masters. Mason invented architronics, which was exemplified in his Xanadu House near Disney World. The Xanadu was a prototype of a smart home, with a control center in the family room, lightning control, automatic temperature control, sound-proof and computer-equipped work and study stations, kitchen software for cooking and shopping lists (the 'Robutler'), and a plan to create a fridge/microwave to store and cook food, preprogrammed music playlists selected according to the family mood...

 * List of projects
 * Xanadu (1979–1983) visitor attraction franchises built from insulation
 * "Star Castle" in New Fairfield, Connecticut
 * Experimental school built from insulation in Virginia
 * The Mushroom House in Bethesda, MD outside Washington, D.C.
 * Exhibits for the Capital Children's Museum
 * Capital Children's Museum, India
 * 1987: 10130 Darmuid Green Drive, Potomac, Maryland, for Frank and Cecelia Ross.
 * Several dome shelter designs for homes
 * Solar Village

Roy Mason created several forward-looking exhibits for the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C.

Awards

 * 1986: Craftsmanship Award for the Capital Children's Museum in India

Personal life
Mason worked and lived most of his life in and around Washington, D.C. Mason's lover of many years, Brian Carneal, died in 1995 of complications related to HIV. When Mason wasn't in Washington, D.C., he and Carneal resided in Delaware at their Dupont Estate.

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Combustion Engineering

Combustion Engineering (C-E) was a multi-national American-based engineering firm that developed nuclear steam supply power systems in the United States. Originally headquartered in New York City, C-E moved its corporate offices to Stamford, Connecticut in 1973. C-E owned over three dozen other companies including Lummus Company, National Tank Company and the Morgan Door Company. The company was acquired by Asea Brown Boveri in early 1990. The boiler and fossil fuel businesses were purchased by Alstom in 2000, and the nuclear business was purchased by Westinghouse Electric Company also in 2000.

Founding
Combustion Engineering was organized in 1912 through the merger of the Grieve Grate Company and the American Stoker Company, two well-known manufacturers of fuel burning equipment. The company was originally headquartered on 11 Broadway and at 43 - 5 - 7 Broad Street (Manhattan), both in Lower Manhattan. The city block was leased from the Alliance Realty Company in April 1920. In May of the same year the firm began construction of an eight-story office building on the same site.

During the 1920s, C-E's signature boiler equipment was the English designed Type-E stoker. C-E also offered several other types of underfeed stokers in addition to the Type-E. During the 1920s, all of C-E's stokers were fabricated in manufacturing plants along the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh.

In 1925 C-E entered the steam boiler business, beginning with a steam boiler installed at the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI. C-E also acquired two boiler companies in Chattanooga, TN to augment its manufacturing capabilities.

Merger with the Superheater Company
During the Great Depression, C-E formed a partnership with the Superheater Company. The Locomotive Superheater Company was founded in 1910 to further the use of superheated steam in locomotives. The Superheater Company's primary manufacturing facility was located in East Chicago, Indiana. In December 1948 stockholders approved a merger between the Combustion Engineering Company and Superheater Company. Following consolidation the corporation was called Combustion Engineering-Superheater Inc. In September 1950 the firm announced plans to build a large high-pressure generating unit for Virginia Electric & Power Company in Chester, Virginia.

In 1953, the name Superheater was eliminated and the company took the more familiar name - Combustion Engineering, Inc. At this time, C-E primarily designed and built boiler assemblies for conventional power plants; those powered by coal and oil.

In the mid-1950s, C-E also expanded its operations into oil and gas exploration, production, refining, and petrochemicals with the acquisition of the Lummus Company located in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Lummus also supplied small industrial steam supply systems for oil field enhanced recovery.

C-E was one of the major suppliers of boilers for US Navy steam-powered warships, including Liberty ships during World War II. Amongst many other warships, all of the 46 Knox-class frigates built during the 1960s and 1970s were equipped with a 1200 psi C-E power plant.

C-E also was a leader in the development of large coal utility steam supply systems which were used worldwide. C-E pioneered the tangential firing process used in modern large pulverized coal utility boilers. C-E maintained a large coal burning test unit at the Windsor, Connecticut site which allowed the Power Systems Group to test changes to boiler air-flow and other critical boiler design factors.

Nuclear steam supply systems
C-E's nuclear power activity began in 1955 under Arthur Santry Jr. The history of the C-E Windsor, Connecticut campus dates to the early development of the nuclear submarine. From the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, Combustion Engineering, under federal government contract, produced nuclear fuel for the US Navy's "Nuclear Navy" nuclear submarines. Also located at the Windsor site was the prototype marine nuclear propulsion training facility known as S1C, which was designed and constructed by C-E adjacent to its main campus. The S1C prototype was operated by C-E for more than ten years as an R&D and Naval training facility. After expiration of C-E's contract, the S1C contract was subsequently awarded to Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL), who operated the unit until its decommissioning and dismantlement in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

In the 1960s, C-E began selling nuclear power steam supply systems. The first commercial nuclear steam supply system was sold to Consumers Power Company of Michigan for the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which closed in 2022. C-E competed aggressively with General Electric and Westinghouse in this domain.

In the late 1960s the company supplied nuclear reactor systems and fabricated uranium fuel for electric utility companies. A joint venture was announced in April 1968, involving the Combustion Engineering Company, Houston Natural Gas, and Ranchers Exploration & Development Corporation. The three businesses combined to search for uranium on 250000 acre in New Mexico.

C-E was generally credited with a superior design, evidenced by the fact that the megawatt yield of its nuclear reactors was typically about 10% higher than that of comparable Westinghouse plants. The basis for this increase in efficiency was a computer-based system called the Core Operating Limit Supervisory System (COLSS) for design, and the Core Protection Calculator (CPC) for real-time control room operation, which leveraged almost 300 in-core neutron detectors and a patented algorithm to allow higher power densities. Combustion also fabricated a number of the Westinghouse reactor vessels and steam generators at its Chattanooga manufacturing facility under contracts with the Westinghouse company.

C-E maintained a sophisticated nuclear reactor operator training simulator at the Windsor facility for support for customers of its nuclear steam supply systems.

Structure and organization
In the 1960s, and continuing through 1988, C-E acquired a number of companies, many not directly related to the core utility steam supply business. As a result, the company structure evolved so that it had five and later six major business groups or divisions. C-E Power Systems comprised the original utility steam supply components, C-E Industrial Group, C-E Lummus & Engineering Services Group, C-E Refractories & Minerals Group, C-E Oil & Gas Group, and last C-E Instrumentation & Controls Group were formed to provide management focus as the company and its products base expanded. The Power Systems Division included the original major manufacturing facilities at Chattanooga, St. Louis, Monongahela, Birmingham; and in Canada, Brantford, Cornwall, and Upper Canada Manufacturing. A number of companies were acquired or developed and added to the division including, American Pole Structures, C-E Controls, the P.F. Avery Co., C-E Impel, C-E Maguire (Charles A. Maguire & Associates) and C-E Metals (primarily a specialty scrap metal operation in Chattanooga); and was basically divided into three major sub-groups: Fossil, Nuclear, and Services (which included field erection, aftermarket spare parts, and engineering services). The Industrial Group included C-E Industrial Boiler (part of the original base of CE in East Chicago, IN and Detroit & Saginaw, MI), C-E Bauer (Pulp & Paper Equipment), C-E Raymond (Crushing and Conveying Equipment), C-E Air Preheater (Ljungström® technology), C-E Tyler Screening (Industrial Wire Screens), C-E Ehrsham (Conveyors & Grain Elevators). C-E Enterprise Manufacturing, C-E Tyler Elevator, CERREY, and other industrial supply companies. The Oil & Gas Group included such companies as C-E Natco, C-E Grey Tool, Beaumont Well Works, C-E Vetco, OilField Engineering, C-E Houston Forging, etc. The Refractories & Minerals Group included C-E Minerals, C-E Refractories, C-E Cast Industrial Products, C-E Building Products (C-E Aluminum Building Products, C-E Morgan, C-E Stanley Artex), Georgia Kaolin, Pryor-Giggey, C-E Transport, C-E Glass, C-E Hordis Bros. Glass, etc. The Instrumentation & Controls group included C-E Taylor Instruments, C-E Resource Recovery Systems, C-E Process Analytics (acquired from Bendix), et al. Each group had a separate headquarters and support staff which coordinated each group's companies actions with the C-E Corporate support functions of Administration, Information Systems, Insurance, Treasury, Accounting, Audit, and Personnel.

C-E had a large presence in Canada, including fossil and nuclear steam supply manufacturing facilities. A number of the Industrial Group companies had manufacturing facilities there as well, primarily located in the province of Ontario. The Oil & Gas Group had operations in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. C-E maintained offices as well as a number of manufacturing sites on a worldwide basis, including the UK, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Belgium, Mexico and France. C-E's technology on a wide range of products was licensed worldwide.

Leadership and management
For much of the existence of the company, the Santry family controlled the management of C-E. Joseph Santry was President of the company until 1963. Arthur Santry, Jr., Joseph's nephew, was named president in 1963 and Chairman of the C-E Board of Directors in 1982 and held both titles until he resigned his post as president in 1984. He remained as chairman until 1988. Charles Hugel was named President of C-E in 1984 and remained in that position until 1988 when he succeeded Mr. Santry as chairman of the board. George Kimmel was named president and Chief Operating Officer in 1988 and remained in that position until the sale of the company to ABB in 1990.

Ownership changes
In 1990 C-E became a wholly owned subsidiary of ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), a Swiss-Swedish multinational conglomerate based in Zürich and one of the largest electrical engineering companies in the world.

C-E's financial debt and lingering asbestos liability brought ABB to the brink of bankruptcy in the early 2000s. ABB was able to resolve asbestos claims filed against Combustion Engineering and Lummus Global in 2006 with a billion-plus dollar settlement agreement.

ABB and Alstom merged their power groups in 1999 creating a 50/50 joint venture, ABB-Alstom Power. In 2000, Alstom bought out ABB.

In 2001, the nuclear steam supply system vendor portion of the company, operating as Combustion Engineering, was bought by Westinghouse Electric Co., a then subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels.

On November 2, 2015 GE Power announced it had completed the acquisition of Alstom's power and grid businesses.

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Nowhatta

Nowhatta, known as Navyut  in Kashmiri, is a town of historical importance situated at a distance of 5 km from Lal Chowk, Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Nowhatta is famous because of Historical Mosque known as Jamia Masjid. Nowhatta area has eighteen sub-communities Mohalla. The place is also notable for high rate of stone pelting incidents in Kashmir. Each week after Friday prayers, people stage their protest against Indian rule which most of the times results in stone pelting incidents in the area.

History
Historically it has been the centre of various Islamic Universities during the period of Sultans. There are various shrines located in this area Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab Ziyarat Baha-ud-din Ganj Baksh Ziyarat Makdhoom Sahab Ziyarat Syed Hasari Sahab

Also located in the vicinity of this area is Martyrs Graveyard of 13 July 1931 martyrs, who fell to bullets of Dogra soldiers.

Geography
Nowhata is located at 34.1°N, 74.81°W. It has an average elevation of 1,568 metres (5,144 feet) above mean sea level.

The mountain, Hari Parbat, with historic significance is near and clearly visible form here.

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