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Catullus 8

Catullus 8 is a Latin poem of nineteen lines in choliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus, known by its incipit, Miser Catulle.

Analysis
The speaker, somewhat vainly, appeals to himself to return Lesbia's coldness with coldness. E. T. Merrill says the puella (lit. 'girl') of this poem is undoubtedly Lesbia, given the affection shown in verse 5 in particular, and in the poem as a whole. Catullus had evidently fallen in the favour of his inconstant mistress, and was ill able to put up with her coldness in a dignified manner. While, therefore, he complains of the unreasonableness of her treatment of him, he seems to have one eye open for a reconciliation. Merrill dates the poem to about 59 BC, noting the difference in tone from the "swift and brief-worded bitterness" that characterizes the poems written after the speaker had become convinced of Lesbia's unworthiness, and thinks this poem was evidently written in the time of temporary estrangement which was ended by the voluntary act of Lesbia.

In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "To Himself recounting Lesbia's Inconstancy".

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Catullus 9

Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus.

Analysis
Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus.

E. T. Merrill calls the poem "an expression of joy" over the return of Veranius, the poet's friend, from Spain. Such expeditions to the colonies on the part of young Romans of that day were common: compare Fabullus in Catullus 28.

In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "To Veranius returned from Travel".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nemorga

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete  mikka (t) 04:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nemorga
RPGcruft. 141 Google hits. Denni ☯ 01:01, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * Delete single sentence orphan that does not make clear what it is about. Double Blue  (Talk) 02:02, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Xcali 14:59, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * (speedy) delete. contextless RPGcruft. Mgm|(talk) 15:45, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under speedy delete criteria #1 for articles. --Carnildo 21:22, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * No speedy, this isn't nonsense. Delete as unencyclopedic, minor RPG figure. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:44, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Catullus 10

Catullus 10 is a Latin poem of thirty-four lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus.

Analysis
Catullus, or the speaker, tells at his own expense how neatly he was shown up when attempting to put on airs about his supposed wealth acquired in Bithynia, whither he went in 57 BC in the retinue of the governor Memmius. According to E. T. Merrill, "the forms of expression are thoroughly colloquial." He dates the composition to about 56 BC.

In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "He meets Varus and Mistress".

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Talk:Toyota Sera

Engine Capacity Changes
Okay I've reverted the two engine capacity changes. The first one, changing 1.5L to 1.8L seems wrong. Everything I've read about Seras (including the engine plate on my own) lists the 5E motor as 1.5L capacity. Just can't find anything suggesting that it's a 1.8L. Oh and on the second change, if there's one thing the Sera ISN'T, it's a 6.8L beast. :) Ozlucien (talk) 17:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Door Title
I'm sure I've heard this style of gullwing described as 'butterfly wing', but a quick google search finds no references like this... If anyone else has come across the term as well, is that evidence enough to put that term into the article proper? :) --Nemo 01:04, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

yeah ive heard that term, but if you think about it,its inacurrate. as butterfly wings pivot at the bottom and completely meet at the top. not really that appropriate i reckon. if anyone asks about my sera i just call them gullwing, cause they have a similar motion (opening up and out like a delorean for example)

 * Please sign your posts on talk pages, user 81.156.213.78. Andrewa 13:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I've always heard of it as "beetle-wing" referring to the way the carapace of a beetle folds up and forward to reveal the wings underneath. But a search on that phrase now only seems to find aftermarket rear-spoilers for the VW Beetle. This sound familiar to anyone else? Ozlucien 06:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

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''Yes, the boot size is limited, but as a previous editor has stated, the seats fold down to make the boot space very spacious. The high loading lip is a problem though.

''The shell is pretty rigid - the sills are very very strong indeed (I've tried cutting through them in the past), and the A and B pillars are very strong as this forms a rollover cage. I suspect the shell is much more rigid than the Starlet the car is based upon.

''Pronounced body roll is due to the springing and damping the car comes with. This can be fixed with a set up uprated dampers and springs, but the trade off for handling is a loss of ride comfort.

All added by user 84.45.131.91. Some of it could be incorporated into the article I think, taking care of NPOV and the article format. Andrewa 13:19, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

The comment* towards the end of this article is incorrect..

the 1967 Alfa Romeo Stradale had exactly the same glass design doors as the sera.

Zoo yorker 22:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC) Ammended*- I started an article on the Stradale, and linked to it. Zoo yorker 10:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Disappointing?
As a Sera owner I'm trying to avoid making edits or removals that would appear to be POV, but I question the use of the word 'disappointing' to describe the small cargo opening. Disappointing to whom? If this forms part of a critical review of the car (extremely possible) then it should be cited. Otherwise perhaps less emotive phrasing, such as "the rear cargo area has a notably small access opening etc etc" would be preferable? Ozlucien (talk) 02:55, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Given that that whole section was added by an anon user (210.233.219.49), I think a rewrite is fine. That phrase on the article is almost three years old now (from 19 August 2005). The complete diff between then and now shows a remarkable amount of flowthrough from the original wording in that section. I say go ahead and make the change (Be_bold) :)
 * |Diff between Aug 2005 and Jul 2008
 * --.../Nemo (talk) 04:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Oddly enough in the spirit of being bold I've actually yoinked the whole article into a sandbox and am in the process of reworking it a bit. The more I read the more I found it to be a little untidy (maybe just a personal pref, but we'll see). :) Will plug away at it for a couple of days and then post the link in here and see what folks think.

Oh and that's so incredibly *not* a comment on the original article itself, but more that it seems to be showing signs of several "it's bad because of this", "but it's good because of this", "but it's bad because of this" type edits that kinda spoil the flow and structure of the info. Ozlucien (talk) 07:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Big Changes
Okay, in the spirit of being bold I've uploaded the refined version of this article that I've been sandboxing over the last couple of weeks (of course if this is too much then feel free to revert). What I tried to do was rearrange the article structure to link common parts of the entry, provide a better order of reading (from original car through factory versions to after-market mods etc), and also factually report on the good and bad aspects of the car in a way that is (hopefully) much less POV than before. Yes I've expanded it a bit but not with anything vastly life-altering. What I haven't done is remove any particular fact outright or put in citations for some of the facts and figures that I really think need it (in particular the production figures, and some of the more detailed bits of aftermarket tuning). It's still not perfect but with any luck now reads a bit more like an encyclopaedic entry. So let the critiquing, flaming and general ripping and re-ordering begin :) Ozlucien (talk) 04:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I've not closely looked at the new version of the article, but I have had your sandbox version in my watchlist and been noticing the diffs now and then as you've updated - and they've all looked good to me. :)
 * A tangent comment not directed at anyone though - One thing I'd like to see is a few more good Sera photos - after all, it is such a visual car once the doors are open! --.../Nemo (talk) 04:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * A tangent comment not directed at anyone though - One thing I'd like to see is a few more good Sera photos - after all, it is such a visual car once the doors are open! --.../Nemo (talk) 04:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks for that. Bit of a relief as this is my first major edit. Also completely agree about the additional pictures. The old Yahoo group for the Sera is a wealth of great images but there's the Fair Use issue. Maybe a call out to one of the online communities might provide a couple of examples. Ozlucien (talk) 03:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Yeah, between the Yahoo list and the webforums (both of which I lurk alot, and post only rarely), some good photos can no doubt be sourced. I'll put a request up soon (when I'm not at work) if I'm not beaten to it. :) And given that I have a decent camera on loan, I might even try to snap a couple of decent shots of mine... :) --.../Nemo (talk) 03:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Production
Ive got access to a japanese EPC there you can get the date of manufacture from the chassis number. Chassis numbers from the Sera are in range EXY10-0001001 - EXY10-0016942 (so the overall production should be 15942).

But i cant find a way to verify this data to others

here is a list of production per month, perhaps someone can verify it?!

BlackyP8 (talk) 23:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Blurry image
and myself have a disagreement over whether the Sera.jpg image (see right) should remain in the article. He is quite right that it is blurry. My argument is that the blurriness is unnoticeable as a thumb view and not too bad in full resolution. The photo demonstrates the special opening feature of the doors better than the other photo with a single door open. The blurriness is only distracting for the number plate and the Toyota emblem on the front - both of which I can tidy up with an image editor. Comments?  Stepho  talk 00:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Headline photo
Something for discussion... the top photo was changed a few months ago by User:Charles01. The reasons for the change are good - it's a cleaner photo without a distracting background. However, it means the article is now without a photo displaying the most notable feature of the Sera - it's doors. I don't see any particularly good photos on which both shows off the doors, and is clean. Does anyone have one they can add to the pool, or have a different view on this? --.../NemoThorx (talk • Contributions) 03:11, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

This looks the best one to me on wiki-commons to illustrate the doors opening. As a "portrait" shot I don't think it does the business, but what do I know? As an illustration of the doors it looks good to me. I would normally add it and await reactions, but right now I'm on a laptop by a window which adds up to non-standard aka bad lighting conditions so I'll let someone else judge (or come back and add it when the light is better for this screen). The one you proposed loooks to me very dark indeed, but that might simply be my screen playing billy suggers. Regards Charles01 (talk) 14:48, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

 * This is what happens when I have a think, and then a forget for 9 months. I didn't propose any specific replacement. I hoped someone might have one... but I've since remembered that a friend took some photos of my Sera many years ago, and explicitly gave me permission to wikipedia them. I'll dig them up... :) .../NemoThorx (talk • Contributions) 06:26, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

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Catullus 12

Catullus 12 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus. In it, he chides Asinius Marrucinus for stealing one of his napkins, calling it uncouth and noting the disapproval of his brother, Pollio. Note the reversal of the praenomen and nomen in the first line. While "Asini Marrucine" could be translated simply as "Asinius Marrucinus", the inverted word order introduces the alternative meaning "Marrucinus [son] of a jackass". Napkins in Ancient Rome were handmade and therefore far more valuable than they are today; also, Catullus has a sentimental attachment to the napkins, as they were a gift from two close friends, Fabullus and Veranius. In comparison to Catullus's other invective poetry, this is relatively light: the main point of the poem could be to praise Pollio rather than to chide Marrucinus.

The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus's poetry.

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Talk:Robert Taylor (American actor)

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Spangler Arlington Brugh (Robert Taylor) graduated from Beatrice Nebraska High School in 1929. I just finished looking over the year book The Homesteader, of which Brugh was on the Homesteader Staff. He also was in the Dramatic Club, Glee Club, National Honor Society, Orchestra, Student Council, and Senior Social Chairman. My mother, who is now deceased, often told me about knowing Brugh in high school. She said all the girls thought he was quite handsome, but did not remember that he had any regular girlfriends. The year book shows his "Handsome profile" on many pages. He was the lead in all the plays given that year. The senior class had little sayings on all the classmates. Brugh's said,"Few things are impossible to diligence and preserverance." I guess that was better than the student who's quote was,"So slick he would slide on sandpaper." or "She often talks without thinking, but never thinks without talking." My mother remembers that Brugh was the pride and joy and only son of his parents and lived in a modest home in the residential section of Beatrice. I recently watched an old movie on TCM made in 1936 which starred Robert Taylor. He looked just as he did in that 1929 year book. --Helen Hohbein-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.40.67.13 (talk) 01:07, 1 June 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks Helen for sharing this nice reminsence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.124.200.174 (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Robert Taylor
Does anyone have any info on actor Robert Taylor? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.40.67.176 (talk) 01:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Date fof birth
The source http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtaylorR.htm set his date of birth on August 4. What's the correct one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Attilios (talk • contribs) 06:05, 28 January 2006

No source
"Some say that Taylor outgrew Stanwyck, especially during the six months of filming "A Yank at Oxford", the first MGM film to be filmed on location overseas. Still others say Taylor found Stanwyck too possessive and would succumb to the amorous advances of women eager for an affair with the leading man." I say this stays out until somebody provides references. Clarityfiend 05:24, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, here it is: Jane Ellen Wayne (who also wrote books on many other celebrities, including Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Judy Garland) and her book on Robert Taylor.  I read it cover to cover, and that is her story of what happened about how Taylor outgrew Stanwyck.  Can you put the quote back, please, and next time ask before removing?  Thanks! 10:50 pm., 25 September 2006 (LD) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.80.54 (talk) 05:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Taylor Quo Vadis.jpg
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Major asset
He had the arches in his eyebrows insured by Lloyd's of London for 5 million dollars.Lestrade 01:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Lestrade

Homosexuality
Shouldn't the article mention that Taylor was a homosexual? It's well known that he lived separately from his lesbian wife Barbara Stanwyck, and that their marriage was arranged out of convenience by the studio. (172.200.182.13 (talk) 13:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC))

No, because he was not a homosexual - see Jane Ellen Wayne's book on him for a reference, as she interviewed many people in the industry about him. Also, Barbara Stanwyck was not a lesbian - this was a rumour started after her death. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.88.139 (talk) 01:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

It's well known Taylor was a homosexual, like Rock Hudson he married a lesbian to keep it hidden. You can't blame him for chain smoking and drinking himself to death in his fifties. (92.11.156.27 (talk) 14:13, 18 February 2008 (UTC))

It's total garbage that Stanwyck and Taylor married out of some arrangement. They were in love, and she was in love with him for the rest of her life. In Lana Turner's book, The Lady, the Legend, the Truth she describes Taylor wanting to divorce Stanwyck for her. Some years later, Lana and Stanwyck ended up in the same hotel, and Lana called her to say hello. Stanwyck still had hard feelings about what happened and never spoke to Turner again. Even Axel Madsen admits that Stanwyck was obsessed with Taylor. A definitive book about Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson has been in the works for some years, though page 6 of the New York Post reported shortly after she started her research that she was upset to realize that Stanwyck was not gay and wanted to abandon the book after several men said they had had affairs with her. What she has found out in the interim, I don't know. Whatever it is, it's complicated, and not cut and dried as he was gay and she was gay. I don't think Taylor was gay or bi.Lorrobhen (talk) 07:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You can think whatever you want, but most relationships in Hollywood were complicated at best and there were many gay and bi relationships that were carefully protected from the press by the studios and agents. Some of these may never be able to be doccumented because of all the careful press. He was considered to have at least had experiences with men by other gay performers that were in Hollywood at that time. Doc ♬ talk 20:20, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * They weren't that well hidden, and most people know about them. Hudson and his secretary, Edmund Lowe and Lillian Tashman, Van Johnson and Evie Abbott (who was threatened by Mayer with the cancellation of her husband, Keenan Wynn's contract if she didn't comply). This Stanwyck-Taylor stuff came up after their deaths which makes it suspect.  If you want to state that Taylor was gay, you need to provide some sort of references that have a strong source.  People like Larry Quirk, who gives writers third and fourth-hand information and people like Boze Hadleigh, who prints rumors as facts, are not reliable resources.  Robert Taylor had no reason to write his wife love letters unless she was his wife in fact - because they weren't going to published, yet he wrote her many.Lorrobhen (talk) 23:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

He had a big gay following and found constant references to his pretty boy looks hard to bear. He used to go up in the mountains with Gary Cooper at weekends. (92.11.241.122 (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.65.8 (talk)

Taylor actually spent his wedding night with his mother instead of his "wife". Sal Mineo knew the truth. (92.8.39.86 (talk) 20:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC))

Edits from Banned User HC and IPs
1) and all of his sockpuppets are EXPRESSLY banned for life. 2) Be on the look out for any edits from these IP addresses:
 * AOL NetRange: 92.8.0.0 - 92.225.255.255
 * AOL NetRange: 172.128.0.0 - 172.209.255.255
 * AOL NetRange: 195.93.0.0 - 195.93.255.255 —Preceding unsigned comment added by IP4240207xx (talk • contribs) 05:11, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Pre-McCarthy era controversy section & other article issues
I just removed the Pre-McCarthy era controversy section because it has been left unsourced for quite some time. It was tagged in February '08 (by me), but has been in the article, in at least one form or another, since '05. That's far too long for unsourced and controversial information to be left in any article. I have NO problem with the content, just the fact that it contains a number of unsourced quotes and what appears to be original research. If someone wants to add it back, it needs to be rewritten and fully sourced before it is added back. Additionally, I've noticed there seems to be some POV issues with this page. Phrases like "the creme de la creme of Hollywood" are not encyclopedic and do not belong in the article. If this behavior continues, appropriate action can and will be taken. Pinkadelica (talk) 05:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

It needs to be mentioned because it is all Taylor is known for today, and destroyed his legacy and reputation forever. (92.9.64.177 (talk) 22:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC))
 * Per WP:V: The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation. The source cited must clearly support the information as it is presented in the article. Any material lacking a reliable source may be removed, but editors may object if you remove material without giving them sufficient time to provide references. Any material lacking a reliable source may be removed, but editors may object if you remove material without giving them sufficient time to provide references. If you want to request a source for an unsourced statement, consider tagging a sentence by adding the template, a section with , or the article with  or  . Alternatively, you may leave a note on the talk page requesting a source, or you may move the material to the talk page.
 * Bearing this policy in mind, if you would like the material to be included, the burden lies with you to source it. It has been in the article since at least 2005 and it has been tagged as unsourced since February '08. If it takes three years and some odd months to dig up sources, the material shouldn't be in the article. Per policy, I've moved the unsourced section to the talk page to give whomever wants to section included yet another opportunity to properly source it before re-adding to the article. As promised, I've asked a third party to step in and comment on this situation and if need be, we can take this to mediation. I've also reverted the last edits to the article because there is no reason to include the POV (and unsourced!) "creme de la creme" wording again and per WP:DATE, we no longer link dates which is why they were unlinked. As I stated before, I have no problem with the content and I am fully aware that Robert Taylor's reputation was destroyed by the scandal and is very much a part of his life and career, but these claims need to be cited to be included.  Pinkadelica Say it...  23:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It is unacceptable to return unsourced controversial material which has been removed based on valid rationale that includes violations of Wikipedia policy. If you do not have proper references for this material - specifically the McCarthy era material - then it cannot be returned and such changes will be reverted. Meanwhile, do not return deprecated date linking, there is no valid reasoning for this. Your statement "it is all Taylor is known for today, and destroyed his legacy and reputation forever" is POV and is not valid rationale, verifiable or probably accurate. Please desist. Wildhartlivie (talk) 00:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Nobody under the age of fiufty knows of Taylor today other than because he named names. His stardom ended in the early 1950s with the awful "Knights of the Round Table". It's ridiculous if his article doesn't mention in detail the only thing for which he is remembered today. (92.13.24.101 (talk) 13:12, 13 October 2008 (UTC))
 * Hmm, your IP seems to be within the range we're warned about in the preceding section, and your attitude and POV seems to fall within the same range. You have blindly reverted the entire section.  You haven't discerned what is acceptable and what is not.  You've just reverted the whole lot, complete with deprecated date linking, original research templates - the whole shebang.  Nobody is going to accept this material just because your edit summary tells people to read such and such a book, a tactic you've unsuccessfully employed elsewhere.  It's not sourced, and it's not staying.   Rossrs (talk) 13:31, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes it is. Taylor was a Nazi who is only known for the evil he did. I'm glad he died of cancer at only 57. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.47.114 (talk) 21:58, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've reverted the page yet again. As Rossrs and Wildhartlivie clearly stated, doing a blind revert and adding back other content that was changed for a valid reason makes no sense and is unacceptable. The only ridiculous thing about this whole matter is the amount of sockpuppetry and POV pushing. Since two other long standing and trusted editors have weighed in, I am wholly satisfied that removing the years-old unsourced content was the right thing to do. Any other attempts to re-add this content will be considered vandalism.  Pinkadelica Say it...  00:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I also noticed that the above IP conveniently removed the section identifying the IPs associated with a confirmed sockpuppet. I've added back.  Pinkadelica Say it...  03:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Pre-McCarthy era controversy
Taylor was among the Hollywood conservatives who took part in the formation of the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals in February 1944. In October 1947, Taylor testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Originally considered a "reluctant witness", he wrote a letter to J. Parnell Thomas to tell him he thought the entire event a "circus." He was reclassified as a "friendly witness" and subpoenaed to appear in front of the cameras. He said he appeared in the film Song of Russia against his personal beliefs and desires but at the urging of not only MGM but also the United States government.

When Taylor was asked during the hearings: “Mr. Taylor, these people in the Screen Actors Guild who, in your opinion follow the Communist Party line, are they a disrupting influence within the organization?," he responded that ". . . it always occurs that someone is not quite able to understand what the issue is and the meeting, instead of being over at 10 o’clock or 10:30 when it logically should be over, probably winds up running until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning on such issues as points of order, and so on.”

The questioning persisted, “Do you recall the names of any of the actors in the guild who participated in such activity?”

Taylor responded, “Well, yes, sir; I can name a few who seem to sort of disrupt things once in awhile. Whether or not they are Communists I don’t know.”

Yet he was under subpoena, and the questions persisted, "Would you name them for the committee please?”

“One chap we have currently, I think, is Mr. Howard Da Silva. He always seems to have something to say at the wrong time. Miss Karen Morley also usually appears at the guild meetings.”

He did go on to say, " “… I must confess that I objected strenuously to doing Song of Russia at the time it was made. I felt that it, to my way of thinking at least, did contain Communist propaganda." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkadelica (talk • contribs) 23:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Family name
Most sources give his family name as Brough, and I have always understood it to be that. Is there some authoritative source for "Brugh"? Godingo (talk) 19:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

The film Flight Command (1940) is missing from the filmography. I just watched it -he starred as Ensign Alan " Pensacola " Drake & co starred with walter Pidgeon & Ruth Hussey. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.89.67.125 (talk) 11:51, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

how tall was robert taylor ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.51.194.251 (talk) 17:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Robert Taylor (Abusive Person)
Robert taylor was an incredulously Abusive Parent/Spouse, I know this because he is my mother's Father's Father's Brother, and I have spoken with his son, who has told me that he was an abusive drunk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5b0:27ff:2ef0::37 (talk) 17:02, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

ROBERT TAYLOR DID NOT CAUSE LESTER COLE TO GO TO PRISON. THIS IS FALSE.
The section of the article on Robert Taylor which deals with his politics has false statements that need to be corrected. He did not cause the imprisonment of Lester Cole and this should be taken out of the article. Here are facts which you need to consider: 1. The HUAC testimonies of 1947 were carefully covered by the New York Times and these articles can serve as valid resources. There are also many records of the actual testimonies which can be easily obtained. 2. Several people, including studio heads, gave testimony before Robert Taylor. 3. The name of Lester Cole had already been mentioned in earlier HUAC testimony before Robert Taylor gave his testimony. 4. Lester Cole was already on the docket to be called to testify before Robert Taylor gave his HUAC testimony. 5. Lester Cole was sent to prison because he refused to cooperate with the inquiry and answer questions and thus he was in oontempt of court. This was his choice and not caused by Robert Taylor. 6. Lester Cole DID have known communist ties and these hearings were about this. Robert Taylor was not responsible for this. It is reckless of you to imply that Robert Taylor caused Lester Cole's imprisonment when facts do not support this. 7. Robert Taylor was subpoenaed and had no choice but to give his testimony and tell the truth. 8. Had Robert Taylor never been called to testify, Lester Cole would still have been called and would still have gone to prison.

You should removed the line that implies Robert Taylor caused Lester Cole's prison time. This is slanderous to Robert Taylor.24.144.10.11 (talk) 16:55, 24 July 2015 (UTC)P. GREENWAY
 * I Agree and have removed the line: "In consequence, Cole was sent to prison and was never able to write again under his own name." Cole was imprisoned for contempt of congress, not because Taylor spread rumors about him as the removed sentence makes it appear. Dan D. Ric (talk) 02:18, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Death records
There is now an undue emphasis (see: WP:weight) on one section of the article. Please note that editors have been trying to come to a consensus as to how the death of Robert Taylor should be described. I am of the opinion that a brief mention and one reliable source is all that is necessary. Comments? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:31, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Google and sourcing
Just a short note on the appropriate use of Google kinks in WP.
 * Don't link search strings, usually Google gives you a result with an id and a page number which is all you need to link the the page. The search string after that is not required fir linking purposes and just gives a longer messy url making WP source text harder to read. If you just want to link a book without a particular page, the url with the id only is sufficient.
 * Avoid linking Google if the referenced section or pages are not available online, that is if it is not part of the restricted preview. First of all many fellow WPns somewhat frown on excessive Google linking in general, but more importantly without the option to verify the article's content directly the Google link is of little or no benefit to readers. If you want to provide some additional (statistical) data on the reference, link a library catalog entry instead of Google. In addition such functionality is already provided via the linked ISBN anyhow.

A general comment on the current sourcing. The seems to be heavy reliance on the smaller not particularly reputable newspapers for much of the content. While for the content they source that seems somewhat acceptable, they nevertheless should in doubt be replaced by better sources at some point.

Also the Axel Madsen book (iUniverse) is of a self publication/book on demand type, which are generally not accepted as sources in WP, unless the have been written by a renowned expert and have received positive (which usually not the case).--Kmhkmh (talk) 04:18, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Axel Madsen is actually a very legitimate and highly respected biographer. The recent trend of authors, even well-known ones, choosing to take their works into the realm of self-publishing is not uncommon, as the role of the author versus publisher can often be vexing. One author I know had her first novel completely rewritten in the editing stage, with a new title grafted on and generally felt that the entire process of publishing was a combative and stressful period. Axel passed away in 2007, so that any decisions as to re-publishing his original works were probably made via his estate. The reason for using Axel's google books link is that it is an additional verification of the actual quotes, although it's a comme çi, comme ca issue to me. The over-linking of many common words in the article revisions has been noted by another editor, and should be limited. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I have found that linking to Google preview of books is of limited usefulness, as which pages are available differ from place to place (pages you can view in the US might not be available here in Canada, for example) and from IP to IP (stuff I can see at work I can't view at home). Also, I have noticed that as soon as we cite a particular page of a book, that page is no longer available for Google previewing. -- Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:21, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

True enough, it is often an additional source of information, but editors who have recently edited some film articles, do "like" the way that contentious statements can be checked. If they are there, I leave them, but try to use more reliable sources as an alternative. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * As I've written above self published material may be used on occasion and is not banned per se, however its usage is restricted to well founded exceptions. Looking at Madsen,he seems to be be qa legitimate journalist, however the quality on his work seems somewhat mixed (see ). Taking to account that this article is about Hollywood topic, wwhich tends to be subject to rumours, halftruth, falsehoods, outrageous exaggerations, solid sources are particularly important. So imho simply being a Hollywood journalist is not cutting it here, there should be at least some positive reviews of the self published book for it to beused here.
 * Note that there is nothing wrong self publishing as such (in particular for novels), that is up to the preference of authors and maybe its readers. However in the context as sources for WP, in particular in the additional absence of external reviews, self published material is problematic as we lack independent (formal) evidence to assess the reliability of the material. Reputable publishers used to and to degree still do weed out most nutcases and clearly wrong material and they perform some limited proof reading/fact checking. This provides us with some hint at the reliability (together with reviews and the reputation of the author).--Kmhkmh (talk) 16:14, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

I have a number of Madsen biographies, and, generally, his work is non-contentious, even when dealing with a tricky subject such as Barbara Stanwyck and her life with Robert Taylor. He is not one of the slavish, fan writers nor is he an academic writer, he could be classed as more in the style of the popular documentarian. I believe that the aforementioned book went out of publication and was re-published in its original form, albeit via an on-demand publishing house. There are a number of reviews of the book, most complimentary, but Stanwyck was typically a difficult subject to nail down. See:  FWiW Bzuk (talk) 16:37, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * If that is indeed the case, it would be good idea to provide the original publisher as well.--Kmhkmh (talk) 20:16, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

It is true that the (restricted) preview various based on location (due to local copyright laws) and the accessibility may chance eventually over time. Nevertheless it is often relatively stable and still provides a large fraction of the readers with direct to the cited sources and hence beneficial many readers and the article itself, though not for every individual reader. Directly linking the source also helps to cut short many contentious argument about source and its content and it provides other editors and proofreaders with easy and efficient (one click) verification, which helps to maintain and improve the article. Hence (restricted) previews tend to be accepted and used by many editors, whereas mere snippets or links without access are not (or at least signficicantly less so).--Kmhkmh (talk) 20:15, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 04:42, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Page Formatting
Something seems a bit off with the formatting right now; I just saw a ===Politics=== tag, tried to correct it but that seems to not have worked. No idea who added that tag before. 2A02:8388:1604:CA80:F462:6A60:DEA:83A0 (talk) 10:19, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 7 June 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 21:50, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Robert Taylor (actor) → Robert Taylor (American actor) – Since there has been [for the past 15 years, as of 6 July 2006] an entry for Robert Taylor (Australian actor), "Robert Taylor (actor)" thus existed for those 15 years as incomplete disambiguation and should have been redirected to the Robert Taylor dab page which has 76 entries, 51 of which use the form "Robert Taylor". However, the lead sentence of the American actor's entry states, "Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of his time." Taking that into account, I would also support an alternative to the proposed move, designating the American as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC — Robert Taylor (actor) → Robert Taylor and Robert Taylor → Robert Taylor (disambiguation). — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: Announcement of this discussion appears at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 02:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Support the American actor gets 25,599 views compared to 22,006[|Robert_Taylor_(Australian_actor)] for the Australian one, no case for a PDAB.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 09:24, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Quick post-close comment: I think this is a reasonable enough outcome, but if anyone wants to challenge the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC in the future, the argument would be that the pageviews noted are only comparable due to recentism: the Australian actor gets 22k while currently active, whereas the American actor gets 3k more than that despite having been dead for more than 50 years. There's no question therefore that the American actor is far more famous. {{u|  Sdkb  }}  talk 00:44, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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Proportion (architecture)

Proportion is a central principle of architectural theory and an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the visual effect of the relationship of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure to one another and to the whole. These relationships are often governed by multiples of a standard unit of length known as a "module".

Proportion in architecture was discussed by Vitruvius, Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, and Le Corbusier among others.

Vitruvius
Architecture in Roman antiquity was rarely documented except in the writings of Vitruvius' treatise De architectura. Vitruvius served as an engineer under Julius Caesar during the first Gallic Wars (58–50 BC). The treatise was dedicated to Emperor Augustus. As Vitruvius defined the concept in the first chapters of the treatise, he mentioned the three prerequisites of architecture are firmness (firmitas), commodity (utilitas), and delight (venustas), which require the architects to be equipped with a varied kind of learning and knowledge of many branches. Moreover, Vitruvius identified the "Six Principles of Design" as order (ordinatio), arrangement (dispositio), proportion (eurythmia), symmetry (symmetria), propriety (decor) and economy (distributio). Among the six principles, proportion interrelates and supports all the other factors in geometrical forms and arithmetical ratios.

The word symmetria, usually translated to "symmetry" in modern renderings, in ancient times meant something more closely related to "mathematical harmony" and measurable proportions. Vitruvius tried to describe his theory in the makeup of the human body, which he referred to as the perfect or golden ratio. The principles of measurement units digit, foot, and cubit also came from the dimensions of a Vitruvian Man. More specifically, Vitruvius used the total height of 6 feet of a person, and each part of the body takes up a different ratio. For example, the face is about 1/10 of the total height, and the head is about 1/8 of the total height. Vitruvius used these ratios to prove that the composition of classical orders mimicked the human body, thereby ensuring aesthetic harmonization when people viewed architectural columns.

Classical architecture
In classical architecture, the module was established as the radius of the lower shaft of a classical column, with proportions expressed as a fraction or multiple of that module.

Le Corbusier
In his Le Modulor (1948), Le Corbusier presented a system of proportions which took the golden ratio and a man with a raised arm as the scalable modules of proportion.

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Power of Attorney (TV series)

Power of Attorney is an American syndicated nontraditional court show that differed from other judge shows in that each side was represented by famous attorneys who cross-examined witnesses. It was produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

Cast
The pool of attorneys who made appearances on the program included:
 * Johnnie Cochran, defense attorney in the O. J. Simpson murder trial
 * Marcia Clark, prosecutor in the Simpson trial
 * Christopher Darden, prosecutor in the Simpson trial
 * Geoffrey Fieger, defense attorney for Jack Kevorkian
 * Wendy Murphy, former sex crimes prosecutor, attorney and television personality
 * Gloria Allred, attorney and television personality
 * Keith Fink, attorney for Courtney Love
 * Dominic Barbara, attorney for Joey Buttafuoco
 * Benedict Morelli
 * Ted Williams

The show's judge was Andrew Napolitano during the first season, 2000–2001, and in the second season, 20th Television's Judge Lynn Toler (later of Divorce Court) was the presiding judge. Joseph J. Catalano II (son of Divorce Court former bailiff Joseph A. Catalano) was the court show's bailiff and Andy Geller was the court show's announcer.

Broadcast history
The show was cancelled mid-way through the second season due to low ratings, the effects of preemptions at the start of the second season due to the September 11 attacks breaking the momentum of Judge Lynn's debut, and the high cost of the 10 or so rotating high-profile attorneys.

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Pink and blue ribbon

The pink and blue ribbon is a symbol promoting awareness of:

 * Breast cancer in male-bodied people;
 * Pregnancy and infant loss during the prenatal, perinatal, and neonatal periods;
 * Other conditions and complications of pregnancy;
 * Pediatric and neonatal health issues.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is observed on October 15.

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Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook is the loosely defined canon of significant 20th-century American jazz standards, popular songs, and show tunes.

Definition
According to the Great American Songbook Foundation: "The 'Great American Songbook' is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as 'American Standards', the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring tunes from the 1920s to the 1950s that were created for Broadway theatre, musical theatre, and Hollywood musical film."

Culture writer Martin Chilton defines the term "Great American Songbook" as follows: "Tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley (the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers' row on New York's West 28th Street)". Chilton adds that these songs "became the core repertoire of jazz musicians" during the period that "stretched roughly from 1920 to 1960".

Although several collections of music have been published under the "Great American Songbook" title, the term does not refer to any actual book or specific list of songs. The Great American Songbook includes standards by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II, among others.

In Alec Wilder's 1972 study, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, the songwriter and critic lists and ranks the artists he believes belong to the Great American Songbook canon. A composer, Wilder emphasized analysis of composers and their creative efforts in this work.

Radio personality Jonathan Schwartz and singer Tony Bennett, both Songbook devotees, have both described this genre as "America's classical music".

Revivals
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey. Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, with sales of 500,000.

"It's a lot of songs that were my initiation to music. It's all the tracks that, when my mother and my father came home from the pub out [of] their heads, they'd sing all these songs."

Other pop singers who established themselves in the 1960s or later followed with albums reviving songs from the Great American Songbook, beginning with Harry Nilsson's A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night in 1973 and continuing into the 21st century. Linda Ronstadt (1983 though 1986), Rod Stewart (2002 through 2005), Bob Dylan (2015 through 2017) and Lady Gaga (2014 and 2021) made several such albums. Of Ronstadt's 1983 album, What's New, her first in a trilogy of standards albums recorded with arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle, Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote:

"What's New isn't the first album by a rock singer to pay tribute to the golden age of pop, but is ... the best and most serious attempt to rehabilitate an idea of pop that Beatlemania and the mass marketing of rock LPs for teen-agers undid in the mid-'60s. During the decade prior to Beatlemania, most of the great band singers and crooners of the '40s and '50s codified a half-century of American pop standards on dozens of albums, many of them now long out-of-print."

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Vanessa Atler

Vanessa Marie Atler (born February 17, 1982) is an American former elite gymnast. She is the 1997 U.S. national all-around champion, the 1998 Goodwill Games gold medalist on the floor exercise and vault, and a four-time national champion in the individual events of vault, balance beam, and floor exercise. She is also the 1996 junior national all-around and floor champion. At the 1999 American Cup, Atler became the first female gymnast to successfully perform a Rudi vault.

A member of the U.S. national gymnastics team from the age of 12, Atler was one of America's most successful and talented gymnasts in the late 1990s. Known for her explosive vaults, difficult tumbling skills and charismatic personality, she won or medaled in several important meets, and was considered to be one of the front-runners for the 2000 Olympics. However, injuries, coaching conflicts, gym changes, mental breakdowns and bulimia symptoms derailed her progress in 1999 and 2000, and after a poor showing at the 2000 Olympic Trials, she was controversially left off the Olympic team despite placing sixth overall.

Early career
Atler was born on February 17, 1982, in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, California, and began gymnastics at age 5. She has a brother who played baseball, her mother was a tennis instructor, and one of her cousins had been a Minnesota Vikings quarterback. At age 11, she began training at Charter Oak Gliders in Covina, California, and was coached by Beth Kline-Rybacki and Steve Rybacki. By the time she was 12 years old, she was competing at the elite level.

1995 season
As a junior elite gymnast, Atler had a fruitful career. In 1995, she gained attention by placing third in the all-around, behind Olympian Kerri Strug and Heather Brink, at the U.S. Olympic Festival. She also won a gold medal on beam and a silver medal on floor. She went on to win the silver medal in the all-around at that year's U.S. National Championships.

Atler also made her international competitive debut in 1995, winning the floor exercise title at the prestigious International Junior Gymnastics Competition in Japan.

1996 season: Junior National Champion
In February, Atler won the junior all-around title at the American Classic. In June at the U.S. National Championships, she became the junior national champion in the all-around and the floor exercise. She was invited to participate in a televised exhibition meet, USA vs. the World, with members of the Magnificent Seven and international Olympians.

With her February 1982 birth date, Atler missed the age cutoff for senior competition—which would have given her a chance to compete for a spot on the 1996 Olympic team—by only six weeks. In 1997, she found herself shut out of senior international competition once again, as the FIG raised the age limit from fifteen to sixteen.

1997 season: Senior National Champion
Atler competed well in 1997, participating in both junior events and senior meets that were not bound by the FIG's new age restrictions. She placed second all-around at the 1997 American Cup and won event titles on vault and beam. In August at the 1997 U.S. National Championships, she won the national all-around title in a tie with Kristy Powell. At that same competition, she also won the vault title and the bronze medal on uneven bars. She went on to win the all-around title at the 1997 Canberra Cup in Australia, an important meet for junior international gymnasts.

During that same year, Atler began to experience problems on the uneven bars. On the second day of U.S. Nationals, a fall from bars kept her from winning the all-around title outright. This marked the beginning of a string of competitions in which she suffered unusual mistakes and misses on bars. In her online diary, she once referred to the bars as "the devil--testing my will and my patience, even my love for the sport." Over the next few years, bars would become a mental block for the young athlete who regularly struggled to put together a mistake-free routine in the heat of competition. Atler's main issue on bars involved a release move called a Comaneci salto, which she fell on at three consecutive National Championships from 1997 to 1999. This led to persistent questioning as to whether the Comaneci should have been removed from her bar routine despite the fact that she did complete the skill successfully on occasion.

1998 season: 2-time Goodwill Games Champion
In 1998, Atler was finally age-eligible for major senior international competition. In March at the American Cup, a fall from bars cost her the all-around title and she placed fourth all-around. In event finals at the same competition, she won the vault title and placed third on bars with a hit routine.

In July at the 1998 Goodwill Games, Atler was chosen to compete on floor exercise and vault, her two strongest apparatus. She won the gold medal on both events, defeating a field of Olympic and World medalists. In August at the 1998 U.S. National Championships, she won the all-around silver medal, as well as the gold medal on floor and the silver medal on vault. A disastrous 8.225 on bars during the first night of competition cost her a chance to defend her all-around title, but she rebounded well on the second day and received a 9.8 for her hit bar routine.

In November, Atler won the Australia Cup all-around title with a strong performance on every event. She also won the vault and floor titles. In December, she continued to gain momentum at the 1998 Copa Gimnastica competition in Mexico City, where she once again delivered strong routines on all four events and won the all-around bronze medal in a deep field behind Viktoria Karpenko and Simona Amânar. She also won the gold medal on vault, defeating Amanar, just as she had done at the Goodwill Games.

1999 season
Atler began her 1999 season in February with a strong showing at the American Classic, where she won the all-around title by a large margin with top quality routines on every apparatus. In March at the American Cup, she became the first American woman to successfully complete a Rudi vault in competition. She won the event title on that event, as well as the beam and floor titles. Despite falling off bars in Preliminaries, she placed first all-around in that round of competition. During Finals, her routines were extremely strong on three events, but she fell off bars once again, which cost her the title and dropped her to third all-around.

Shortly thereafter, at the Paris-Bercy competition in France, Atler won the silver medal in a strong all-around field behind Svetlana Khorkina and also won the vault gold medal. During the floor exercise event final, she severely injured her ankle when she landed her double layout-punch front opening tumbling pass out-of-bounds. The out-of-bounds area of this particular floor mat lacked the proper spring and safety protection required. Atler recovered in time to compete at the 1999 U.S. National Championships, where she won the silver medal in the all-around behind Kristen Maloney. She was leading the competition going into the final rotation, but a fall from bars cost her the title. She went on to win the gold medal on vault and beam in Event Finals.

Following the U.S. National Championships, Atler left her longtime coaches at Charter Oak gymnastics club, Steve and Beth Rybacki. She was coached by Artur Akopyan at a local California gym as she prepared to compete at the U.S. World Team Trials and World Championships. She was, however, too injured to compete at the World Team Trials, and was petitioned onto the team based on the strength of her scores at 1999 Nationals, alongside Kristen Maloney and Jennie Thompson who were also suffering from injuries.

In October at the 1999 World Championships in Tianjin, China, Atler was out of competitive shape and unprepared for the competition, but she still did well enough to qualify to the All-Around Final in 7th place, the top U.S. qualifier. She also qualified for the Floor Final and was to replace Kristen Maloney (who pulled out of the final due to an injury) in the Beam Final. In the Team Final, she had some uncharacteristic errors and scored an 8.025 on beam after counting two falls. The team placed 6th, but after the Chinese team was disqualified due to falsifying Dong Fangxiao's age, the U.S. team ranking was moved to 5th. Struggling with her ankle injury that was progressively getting worse, she placed 31st in the all-around after ending her floor routine with a basic layout tumbling pass. She then withdrew from both of her event finals.

After the 1999 World Championships, Atler had two surgeries to repair the injured ankle that had plagued her throughout most of 1999. During that same time, she moved from California to Texas to train with 1988 Olympic champion Valeri Liukin at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA).

2000 season
In 2000 after her injury layoff, Atler returned to form in July at the U.S. Classic, where she won the all-around title. Later that month at the 2000 U.S. National Championships, she finished fourth in the all-around, a respectable finish after a lengthy injury recovery, which set her up well for an Olympic berth. She also won the silver medal on vault and the bronze medal on floor.

At the 2000 Olympic Trials a few weeks later, Atler experienced what many considered a meltdown. She was unable to hit even one solid routine over the two days of competition, and botched moves that she usually performed well, changing her second vault in mid-air during both days, modifying her second tumbling pass on floor during the first day, and falling on her back on her beam dismount during the first day. As a result, the Olympic Selection Committee opted to leave her completely off the U.S. Olympic Team. However, even with several significant mistakes, Atler managed to place sixth at Trials and was still widely regarded as one of the United States's best gymnasts, causing some to argue that she had earned a spot on the team and to question the fairness of the selection process. Six athletes were named to the team as well as two alternates.

After 2000
Atler participated in the T.J. Maxx post-Olympics exhibition tour. In 2001, she trained briefly at Rohnert Park Gymnastics, but announced her retirement in April. In 2005, she appeared on the television show Starting Over, where she discussed some of the self-esteem and confidence issues that had arisen from her struggles in gymnastics. In multiple interviews in subsequent years, Atler expressed regret over leaving the Rybackis in 1999 and over not having better communication with them during that time. She returned to them in 2003 in a brief attempt at a comeback.

Post-competitive gymnastics career
Atler formerly worked as a coach and is the girls team director at American Kids Sports Center in Bakersfield, California. She is married and has two children, a son born in January 2014 and a daughter born in February 2018. She continues to be in the gymnastics world and has since relocated to directing and coaching girls team at Central Coast Gymnastics in San Luis Obispo, California.

Skills
Vault: Laidout Rudi (first female ever to compete this); Double Twisting Yurchenko; Laidout Cuervo; Handspring Laidout Front.

Floor: Double Layout + Punch Front + Stag Jump in combination; Whip + Double Pike; Triple Twist; Whip Half + Front Layout Double Full; Double Front Tuck; Two and a Half Twist + Front Layout; Full-twisting Double Tuck.

Her floor music pieces were: Phil's Piano Solo by Terry Snyder in 1995 and 1996; Jack's Conga by Micheal Kamen in 1997 and 1998; La Cumparsita by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez in 1998 and 1999; and Les Deux Guitares by Paul Mauriat in 2000.

Balance Beam: Punch Front + Jump mount sequence; Layout to two feet; Switch Leap + Gainered Layout in combination; Piked Front + Jump in combination; Tucked Barani; Roundoff + Back Handspring + Double Tuck Dismount.

Uneven Bars: Giant One and a Half; Tkatchev; Comaneci Salto; Pak Salto; Full Twisting Double Layout Dismount.

Appearances in other media
Atler was a stunt double for the Lifetime Television film Little Girls in Pretty Boxes in 1997. She also appeared in commercials for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 1999 and for the U.S Olympic Committee in 2000, in the Starting Over TV series in 2005 as well as in various made-for-TV gymnastics exhibitions such as the Reese's Cup in 1999 and 2000, the Rock'n'Roll Championships in 1997 and 1998 and "USA vs The World" in 1996.

External links and references

 * More about the Olympic controversy surrounding Vanessa Atler
 * USA Gymnastics profile
 * Official website
 * List of competitive results at Gymn Forum

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User:Sankarson

I'm an exported Bengali male, and like all bongs have a fondness for food. My contributions to the Wikipedia have so far been centered around Bengali food, and sometimes the more general topic of Indian food.

Current project: Substantially expanding the entry for Bengali cuisine. God bless whoever started it, but I've drastically edited and expanded on his or her work. I've finished adding to most of the first few sections and will get down to expanding the courses and sweets in due time. It took me some time to discover that I could actually log in and keep track of my edits; all those anonymous edits by IP address are (apologetically) mine.

There are also quite a few contributions to the Nawabs of Oudh and the Nawabs of Murshidabad, a topic I found quite fascinating for a while.

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Gun truck

A gun truck is an armored vehicle with one or more crew-served weapons, typically based on a commercial vehicle. Gun trucks often have improvised vehicle armor, such as scrap metal, concrete, gravel, or sandbags, which is added to a heavy truck.

World War II
When the prospect of a German invasion of Britain seemed likely, the British Army designed and built an improvised armored vehicle, the Bedford OXA. It was based on the one and a half-ton OXD truck and was upgraded with armor plate, and armed with a .55 in anti-tank rifle and a Bren gun. Slightly less than a thousand were built by 1941, and they were employed by the British Home Guard.

Other British examples from the invasion-scare period were the Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle and the Bison concrete armoured lorries. Both were conventional trucks fitted with improvised armour, in the case of the Bison, a concrete fighting-compartment was carried, essentially making a mobile pillbox. The Armadillo used two walls of wood, with the space between filled with gravel. Both vehicles had poor mobility and were employed for airfield defense by the Royal Air Force. In the event of a surprise, airborne attack, Bisons would deploy a short distance from the key points of the airfield and probably fight from static positions, positions where fixed defenses often could not be constructed as they would impede aircraft movement during day–to–day operations. The Armadillo's mobility, while poor, was better than the Bison's and it was intended they would take on a mobile role similar to a conventional armoured vehicle.

During the war in North Africa all contenders made extensive use of portees and gun trucks. In particular, the Italians adapted and used seven gun trucks based on heavy trucks Fiat 634 and equipped with an 102/35 su Fiat 634N anti-aircraft gun in 1941-1942; initially intended for anti-ship and anti-air defense, they proved to be very effective against British tanks. Another sixteen gun trucks, still between 1941 and 1942, were based on heavy trucks Lancia 3Ro mounting a 100/17 with full rotation in the back. In 1942 the 90/53 on Lancia 3Ro entered service, still based on the same truck as the previous one, but equipped with the excellent Cannone da 90/53, dual role high velocity gun; 30 were produced in 1942, another 90 were built on a different chassis as 90/53 on Breda 52. The 75/27 CK on Ceirano 50 CMA was instead already produced during the late 1920s to provide anti-aircraft support to the divisions, but by 1939 it was completely outdated, both in terms of mobility and firepower. In general these gun trucks proved to be quicker to position and open fire than normal artillery and they were valid if well hidden and protected, but the excessive height and mediocre mobility always remained major limitations. Numerous normal trucks such as the SPA Dovunque 35, the Fiat-SPA 38R and the SPA AS.37 were equipped with an autocannon Breda 20/65 mod.35 for the protection of convoys. Likewise, many captured enemy vehicles, for example the Ford F15A, were equipped with the same weapon. Another English vehicle, the light truck Morris CS8, was equipped with a 65/17 howitzer, about 30 were fitted. There were then numerous vehicles equipped with the 47/32 gun: the scout vehicles SPA-Viberti AS.42, the Fiat-SPA AS43 and the light truck SPA AS.37.

Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, it was the mission of the US Army Transportation Corps to ferry supplies from the coastal ports of Qui Nhon and Cam Ranh Bay to inland bases located at Bong Son, An Khe, Pleiku, Da Lat and Buon Ma Thuot. The logistical requirements of the MACV were huge, and 200-truck convoys were not uncommon. These convoys were tempting targets for Vietcong (VC) guerrilla groups, who often sprung ambushes in remote areas.

One unit that often fell victim to such attacks was the 8th Transportation Group, based in Qui Nhon. Two dangerous stretches of Route 19 between Qui Nhon and Pleiku became the VC's favorite kill zones, the "Devil's Hairpin" in An Khe Pass and "Ambush Alley" below Mang Yang Pass as incidents occurred there on an almost daily basis.

Providing security for convoys proved virtually impossible, as the Military Police units whose task it was did not have the manpower or equipment to secure the whole highway. Other military combat units only controlled the stretch of road within their designated checkpoints and could serve as a reaction force; so for much of the way, it fell onto the transport units to provide themselves immediate security. At first, they did this with armed jeeps, but these rapidly proved inadequate in the face of improved VC and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam weaponry and tactics.

On September 2, 1967, a particularly devastating attack killed seven drivers, wounded 17 and destroyed or damaged 30 trucks. To remedy the obvious vulnerability of the supply convoys, a "hardened convoy" concept was implemented, protected by a new type of security vehicle. This gun truck, as it became known, was based on the two-and-a-half-ton cargo truck, protected by a barrier of sandbags, and armed with two M60 machine guns. Hardened convoys were smaller than previously, being composed of only 100 trucks, and their security detail was increased until there was one gun truck for every 10 transport trucks.

In the event of an ambush, their role was to drive into the kill zone during the first few minutes of the attack, and saturate the attackers with their firepower. Early designs proved flawed, as the sandbag protections quickly became waterlogged in the frequent rains, weighing down the whole vehicle. They were later replaced with ad hoc steel armor plating, salvaged from scrap yards. The crew consisted of a driver, two gunners, a non-commissioned officer in charge (NCOIC), and sometimes a grenadier armed with an M79 grenade launcher. In October 1968, the factory-made hardening kits arrived to replace the sandbag and wood gun trucks. On November 24, 1967, during an engagement in "Ambush Alley", a group of gun trucks managed to thwart an ambush. The convoy lost six transport trucks and four gun trucks damaged or destroyed, and several drivers were killed and wounded, but the VC lost 41 killed and were forced to withdraw. This was the first ambush against gun trucks.

Despite the increased security, transportation units still came under attack, forcing the gun truck units to improve the design of their vehicles. The two-and-a-half-ton trucks were underpowered, and the addition of armor and weapons slowed them down, leading to their replacement by M39 series 5-ton 6×6 trucks that formed the basis for larger gun trucks. The improvised nature of these vehicles meant they varied considerably in appearance. They were given colourful nicknames such as "Ace of Spades", "Deuce is Wild", "Cold Sweat", "Iron Butterfly" or "Pandemonium" that were often painted on the sides in large letters.

Their armament consisted of various combinations of weapons including M60s, .50-calibre machine guns, and XM 134 miniguns. Anti-aircraft weapons such as the quadmount .50 cal. machine guns were also used until 1969 when the truck companies had three to six gun trucks each.

The gun truck design evolved with a four-sided gun box bolted on the outside of the truck bed, then an inner steel wall was added, with a space between each layer, to provide protection against anti-tank rockets. Because of the shortage of steel kits, the M113 armoured personnel carrier hulls were mounted on the bed of a five-ton truck, thus providing all-round protection for the crew. The last design of gun box had the steel wall mounted inside the bed of the truck instead of outside. Despite their aggressive names, gun trucks were strictly defensive weapons, being used only for convoy escort and perimeter defense duties.

Gun trucks suffered from several drawbacks. The added weight of armour, weapons and ammunition increased fuel consumption, as well as creating maintenance problems and reducing the durability of the truck frames. Also, the personnel assigned as crew to the security vehicles were no longer available for transport duties, thus reducing the lift capacity of each unit. Despite this, they were generally regarded as a success.

In all, an estimated 300 to 400 trucks were transformed in this way. Senior officers saw the 5-ton gun truck as a temporary solution until enough V-100 armored cars arrived. However, by 1970 it became obvious to all - except the Military Police - that the V-100 was a death trap if the armor was penetrated. Furthermore, the V-100 had problems with its power train. So the gun trucks continued to serve until the last American truck company was inactivated in South Vietnam in 1972. With the end of the Vietnam War, the need for such vehicles disappeared and most were either scrapped or returned to cargo carrying. One truck, an M54 named by its crew "Eve of Destruction," was brought back intact and is on display at the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

Iraq War

During the Iraq War, the vulnerability of American supply convoys became apparent as soon as March 2003, when a maintenance unit was ambushed in Nasiriyah, with eleven soldiers killed and five taken prisoner, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Not until June 2003 during the post-invasion phase of the war, did the Iraqi insurgents begin attacking convoys with regularity, which led to the re-invention of the gun truck. The truck units initially used sandbags and plywood as outlined in FM 55-30, but experienced the same problems as encountered in Vietnam.

By definition a gun truck was any wheeled vehicle with a crew-served weapon regardless of whether it had any armor or not. Initially, the truck drivers mounted armor and machine guns on any and every wheeled vehicle in their inventory but settled on two primary platforms, the M939 five-ton truck and the HMMWV. The Palletized Load Systems were also converted to gun trucks because fully loaded with cargo they could not keep up with the other trucks. The minimum requirement for gun truck escort was two gun trucks and each unit experimented with different gun truck designs and procedures.

On April 5, 2004, the cleric Muqtadā al-Ṣadr called for a jihad against coalition forces and beginning on Thursday night, April 8, his Mahdi Militia destroyed eight bridges and overpasses around the Convoy Support Center Scania, the last truck stop before entering the Sunni Triangle, thus severing the supply line from the south, and then began large scale ambushes. Up until that night, the ambushes involved no more than seven ambushers with kill zones no larger than 100 meters. The next day the Militia ambushed any convoy heading into or out of Baghdad International Airport with kill zones several hundred meters long. The worst ambush killed eight KBR drivers and three US Army drivers of the 724th Transportation Company. Keith Matthew Maupin was listed as the only American soldier missing in action for several years until his body was finally discovered. After that, Brigadier General James Chambers, Commander of the 13th Corps Support Command, standardized the ratio of gun trucks per convoy and convoys should not exceed 30 vehicles.

In April 2004, Leaders of the US Army Reserve 375th Transportation Group and the 812th Transportation Battalion formed a special provisional unit - the 518th Transportation Company called "Gun Truck" Company. Based in Camp Navistar (located on the Kuwait side of the border Near Safwan, Iraq), this company acquired 35 humvees and five M939 five-ton trucks, and modified them with improvised armor and .50 calibre machine-guns. With many Reserve and National Guard combat arms units already converting and performing Convoy Security Escort service while deployed to Iraq, as companies arrived to perform the convoy security mission, the 7th Transportation Group disbanded the unit in April, 2005.

The use of improvised fighting vehicles, protected by the so-called "Hillbilly armor", quickly became a political issue, with the Bush administration coming under criticism for having sent the U.S. military to fight without adequate equipment. The idea of producing a standardised gun truck was instigated by Representative Duncan Hunter (R.-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, despite the reluctance of some Army superior officers.

Developed with the help of Vietnam veterans by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the resulting armored box (dubbed the "Hunter box") was intended for use on five-ton trucks. Their armor protection was composed of high-grade steel plating, fiberglass and ballistic glass, while the armament consisted of two to four heavy machine-guns.

The first prototype was completed in March 2004, and shipped to Iraq in July 2004, after which production began at a slow rate, with 35 units in service by July 2005. As of September 2007, a total of 100 kits had been produced for Iraq, and 18 for use in Afghanistan. The "Hunter boxes" apparently proved popular with U.S. troops, but were criticized by senior officers for their lack of overhead protection, and for being top-heavy. However, few cases exist to prove their doubts in this equipment.

Fully armored M1114s and factory-built add-on-armor kits for the Humvee light utility vehicles were arriving in quantity by the end of 2004, and the cab armor kits for fleet of 5-ton trucks, M915 tractors and Heavy Equipment Transport Systems began arriving the next year. Priority of the M1114s went to Iraq-based escort units while the Kuwait-based truck companies that had to drive all across Iraq received the add-on-armor kits until more M1114s arrived. The soldiers appreciated the much needed armored protection but the extra weight of the add-on-armor kits reduced the Humvee's acceleration and speed substantially. The suspension and power train wore out quickly. The modified heavier vehicle's sluggishness could not match the maneuverability of the insurgent's vehicles. By the Palm Sunday Ambush (see Lee Ann Hester) on March 20, 2005, all vehicles on the road had some form of armor whether improvised or factory built. After suffering high losses during this ambush, with no Americans killed, the insurgents turned to IEDs as their primary weapon of choice.

The appearance of the explosively formed projectile required additional fragmentary armor added to the M1114s, which over-taxed their power trains and suspension systems. The improved M1151 Up-armored HMMWV became the escort platform of choice along with the 5-ton gun trucks until the MRAPs began replacing them in 2008. The Heavy Equipment Transporter proved to be the most survivable vehicle on the road because of its height, so Kuwait-based units began sending them out ahead of the convoy looking for IEDs.

The Army Transportation Museum preserved several examples of Iraq and Afghanistan gun trucks. It has a Hill Billy armor 5-ton gun truck from Iraq, HMMWV with prototype add-on-armor kit, M1114 that survived an IED blast in Afghanistan, a LLNL 5-ton gun truck "Ace of Spades" from Iraq, two MRAPs, a M915 and Heavy Equipment Transporter with cab armor kits from Iraq, and a "Frankenstein" cab armor kit for the M939 5-ton truck. The Airman Heritage Museum also preserved a Hill Billy armor 5-ton gun truck from Iraq. The 1st Cavalry Museum brought back the last MRAP of the last convoy to cross the border from Iraq.

Colombia
The Colombian Army have several guns trucks based on the M35 2-1/2 ton cargo truck, locally named as "Meteoro", which are trucks with indigenous armour and two M2 heavy machine guns. Other models of trucks are modified to similar specification. These gun trucks are used for convoy protection and checkpoints against the guerrillas.

Similar vehicles

 * During the Easter Rising in 1916, the British Army used a truck fitted with an armoured body. This was constructed from the smokeboxes of several steam locomotives. Gun-slits were cut in the body to allow troops to fire out. Painted black, dummy gun-slits were also applied to confuse snipers.
 * During the Soviet–Afghan War, Soviet convoys were frequently ambushed by Afghan mujahideen guerillas. The rebel groups often sited their ambush parties on surrounding heights, above the maximum elevation of the main weapons of the tanks and APCs employed as convoy escorts. As a stop-gap solution to this problem, the Soviets fitted twin-barrelled 23 mm ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns onto Kamaz trucks, with tents to camouflage the armaments. These vehicles possessed extreme firepower, but they lacked armour, and the crew were exposed to machine-gun and small-arms fire.

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Pole-position
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User talk:RezaKia

Hi RezaKia and 69.233.169.62,

you have both broken the Three-revert rule at both the Maryam Rajavi and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq articles, which is a serious breech of both editing policy and Wikiquette. You must take your arguments to the talk pages at Talk:Maryam Rajavi and Talk:Mojahedin-e-Khalq, and must stop reverting each other.

Take a look at Resolving disputes and Truce to see how you can both edit peacefully. If you keep reverting each other, however, you will almost certainly get blocked.

Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions, — Asbestos | Talk  01:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Hi RezaKia -

I'm afraid I'm not an administrator, so I do not have the power to edit the page while it is protected. While you could try asking the user who protected the page in the first place, I can almost guarantee you that they won't revert it while it is being protected. Almost every article that gets protected is said to be The Wrong Version, and admins have grown deaf to people asking for their version to be re-instated.

The point of protecting a page is to get users to start using other means to try and express their views. Looking through your edits, I note that you've never once discussed any page on a talk page. If you're going to try and convince people of your point of view you're going to need to start discussing with other editors on each article's respective talk page: edit wars (constantly reverting the other person) accomplish very little.

If, after considerable amount of discussion, no-one has made any head-way, and everybody still disagrees as much as before, you can consider asking the opinions of the rest of the community, by filing a Requests for comment about the article. You must fully exhaust the option of trying to solve your problem through discussion first, however, if you want other people to discuss the page.

If another editor is not editing in good faith and refuses to try to make progress by discussing the article, you could try filing a Requests for comment about that user. Again, though, you would have had to make a serious effort to discuss the situation with that editor first, which you haven't yet done.

Use this time with the page protected to try and pin down what's wrong with the article and what needs to be changed in the talk page at Talk:Mojahedin-e-Khalq. If I get the chance, I'll look at the page myself, but I know absolutely nothing about the subject, so won't be able to be of much help.

— Asbestos | Talk  10:03, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. smoddy 15:34, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Maryam Rajavi
I don't know anything about this except the fact that you are polite and the anonymous editors are not. Still, I suggest that the only way for the article to be stable is by "writing for the enemy".

Try to understand the opposite POV and write a comprehensive summary of it. Something like:
 * P and Q, who are opponents of X, say that....

When their POV is expressed, I doubt that they will want to vandalize the page, because it would be so obvious that they only want their own points to be made.

Since this is an encyclopedia, all viewpoints should be included on controversial subjects. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 01:09, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

People's Mujahedin of Iran
I renamed and unlocked this article, too. Please help me make it neutral. Write from the perspective of a reporter who doesn't know who is right. Just tell both sides of the story and let the reader make up their own mind. -- Uncle Ed (talk) June 28, 2005 10:47 (UTC)

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Catullus 13

Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me is the first line, sometimes used as a title, of Carmen 13 from the collected poems of the 1st-century BC Latin poet Catullus. The poem belongs to the literary genre of mock-invitation. Fabullus is invited to dine at the poet's home, but he will need to bring all the elements of a dinner party (cena) himself: the host pleads poverty. Catullus will provide only meros amores, "the essence of love", and a perfume given to him by his girlfriend, granted to her by multiple Venuses and Cupids, guaranteed to make Fabullus wish he were totum nasum ("all nose").

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These are articles relating to the author Tom Clancy.

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Tawa

Tawa may refer to:

Places

 * Tawa, Edmonton, a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada
 * Tawa, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington
 * Tawa AFC, an association football club
 * Tawa College, a coeducational school in Tawa, New Zealand
 * Tawa, Dahanu, a village in Maharashtra, India
 * Tawa River, in central India
 * Tawa, Toowoomba, a heritage-listed house in Queensland, Australia

Other uses

 * Tava, also called Tawa(h), a frying pan originating on the Indian subcontinent
 * Tawa (crater), an impact crater on Rhea
 * Tawa hallae, a dinosaur named after the solar deity of the Puebloan peoples (using the Hopi name)
 * Tawa (tree), after which the New Zealand suburb is named
 * An early variation on the name of the Ottawa tribe
 * Tawa (mythology), a solar deity in Hopi mythology
 * Bert Marcelo, nicknamed "Tawa", Filipino comedian.

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Adam Clymer

Adam Clymer (April 27, 1937 – September 10, 2018 ) was an American journalist. He was a prolific political correspondent for The New York Times.

Career
Clymer worked for the New York Daily News for a short period. Clymer worked for The New York Times from 1977 until July 2003, and served as its national political correspondent for the 1980 presidential election, and polling editor from 1983 to 1990. As polling editor, Clymer collaborated with CBS News. He worked as political editor for George H. W. Bush's presidential campaign in 1988, and chief Washington correspondent from 1999 through 2003.

Clymer covered the 2000 presidential campaign for the Times and wrote at least one article that was considered unfavorable by the campaign of George W. Bush. Clymer wrote an analysis of Cheney's tax returns, including his conclusion that he only gave 1% of his $20 million earnings to charity.

Clymer may be best known for an incident on September 4, 2000, when Bush and running mate Dick Cheney appeared at a campaign event in Naperville, Illinois. While on stage before the event, Bush said to Cheney, "There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from the New York Times." Cheney responded, "Oh yeah, he is, big time." The remarks were picked up by a live microphone, causing a minor campaign controversy. Bush subsequently remarked, "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways. I regret everybody heard what I said," but declined to retract the comment itself.

While he never apologized for the comment itself, Bush made an attempt to smooth it over, making light of it at the next Washington Press Club Foundation Dinner by referring to Adam Clymer as a "major-league ass...et." For his part, Clymer noted that Bush sent him a nice letter of condolences when his mother died in 2001.

In 1981, Clymer co-authored Reagan: The Man, the President with fellow New York Times journalists Hedrick Smith, Leonard Silk, Robert Lindsey, and Richard Burt. In 1999, he wrote Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.

In 2004, Clymer became a visiting scholar at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Political Director for the National Annenberg Election Survey.

Personal life
Born to a Unitarian family, the son of children's book author Eleanor Clymer (née Lowenton) and Kinsey Clymer, Clymer attended The Walden School in Manhattan and then Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1958. Clymer's journalism career began when he was in high school; he wrote for the school newspaper and collected sports scores for The New York Times. He did post-graduate work at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1960, he joined The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, a job which he followed up with work at The Baltimore Sun and the New York Daily News.

Adam Clymer was married to Ann Clymer (née Ann Wood Fessenden) from 1961 until her death on February 10, 2013. They had one daughter, Jane Emily Clymer, who was killed at the age of 18 by a drunken driver in September 1985. The Clymers established a memorial scholarship at the University of Vermont in her name. As of 2013, the scholarship had aided fifty women in attending the university.

Clymer died from pancreatic cancer on September 10, 2018, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 81.

Awards

 * Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, 1993
 * The Washington Monthly's Monthly Journalism Award, 2003, for his January 3, 2003 Times article, Government Openness at Issue as Bush Holds On to Records
 * Carey McWilliams Award honoring a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics, American Political Science Association, 2003

Books

 * Smith, Hedrick; Clymer, Adam; et al. (1981). Reagan the Man, the President. Pergamon Pr. ISBN 0-08-027916-3.
 * Clymer, Adam (1986). "The New York Times" Year in Review 1987. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-8129-1632-8.
 * Clymer, Adam (2000). Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography. Perennial (HarperCollins). ISBN 0-06-095787-5.
 * Clymer, Adam (2003). Journalism, Security and the Public Interest: Best practices for reporting in unpredictable times. Aspen Institute, Communications and Society Program. ISBN 0-89843-387-8.
 * Clymer, Adam (2008). Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch.  University of Kansas Press. ISBN 0-7006-1582-2

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Georg Goltermann

 * Georg Eduard Goltermann should not be confused with Julius Goltermann (1825–1876), the cello teacher of David Popper.

Georg Eduard Goltermann (19 August 1824 – 29 December 1898) was a German cellist, composer and conductor.

Life
Goltermann was born in Hannover. His father was an organist, and therefore he got an early introduction to music. He received cello lessons from Joseph Menter in Munich, the most important Bavarian cello virtuoso of his time. He took composition lessons from Ignaz Lachner. He also learned to conduct.

In 1852, after briefly touring Europe as a solo cellist, he became music director in Würzburg. In 1853 he accepted an offer to become deputy music director of the municipal theater Stadttheater in Frankfurt am Main, where he was promoted to Kapellmeister (principal music director) in 1874. He died in Frankfurt am Main.

Works
Some of Goltermann's works were very popular at the time and are still used for teaching purposes. Goltermann composed eight cello concertos, of which the fourth is the most famous. This "student's concerto" is the easiest of his first five concertos, and it is studied fairly widely. His music is rarely performed in professional concerts. It is deemed to lack the musicality of true concertos, and though it has been praised for its melodious and pleasant nature, it is not considered inspired. Instead his concertos are studied by students to learn technique and get a basic understanding of concerto style. Concerto No. 1 has maintained a presence in today's standard repertoire. The slow movement entitled Cantilena was often played separately as a cello solo. An early recording of this movement played by Pablo Casals exists. All 8 concertos are for cello and orchestra, though the orchestral parts can be difficult to find now.
 * Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 14
 * Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30
 * Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 51
 * Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 65
 * Concerto No. 5 in D minor, Op. 76
 * Concerto No. 6 in D major, Op. 100
 * Concerto No. 7 in C major, Op. 103
 * Concerto No. 8 in A major, Op. 130

There are other works for orchestra including a symphony in A, Op. 20, published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1852 and released in 2023 on the Capriccio label.

Many of Goltermann's shorter works for cello are in the lower and medium technical difficulty level.
 * Nocturne in D minor for cello and piano, Op. 43, No. 3
 * Nocturne in G major for cello and piano, Op. 49, No. 1
 * Nocturne in G major for cello and piano, Op. 54, No. 1
 * Nocturne in B minor for cello and piano, Op. 59, No. 1
 * Nocturne in E minor for cello and piano, Op. 92, No. 1
 * 3 Romances sans paroles for solo cello, Op. 90
 * La Foi for cello and piano, Op. 95, No. 1
 * 2 Duos en forme de sonate, Opp. 15 and 25.

Concerto No. 4 in G Major
The fourth cello concerto is often performed by students due to its relative ease of play. It is divided into 3 movements:

 * 1. Allegro (G Major)
 * 2. Andantino (B Minor—B Major—B Minor)
 * 3. Allegro Molto (G Major)

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