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Gene Littler

Gene Alec Littler (July 21, 1930 – February 15, 2019) was an American professional golfer and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Known for a solid temperament and nicknamed "Gene the Machine" for his smooth, rhythmical swing, he once said that, "Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the best misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes."

Early years and amateur career
Littler was born in San Diego, California. He played on the 1953 United States Walker Cup team, and won the U.S. Amateur and the California State Amateur that same year. In 1954, he won a PGA Tour event as an amateur, a rare achievement which was not to be repeated until Doug Sanders won the Canadian Open in 1956.

Littler graduated from San Diego State University, and after that served in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1954.

Professional career
An early highlight of Littler's professional playing career was a second-place finish at the 1954 U.S. Open. He finished one shot behind Ed Furgol.

In 1955, he won four times on the tour, but fell into a slump in the late 1950s after tinkering with his swing. In 1959 after taking advice he received from Paul Runyan and adjusting his grip, he recovered to have his best year with five PGA Tour victories. He finished second on the money list that year, which was to remain his career best. Only once from 1954 to 1979 did Littler finish out of the top 60 on the final money list. He was stricken with melanoma cancer found in a lymph node under his left arm in 1972, but came back to win five more times on the PGA Tour. He ended his career with 29 PGA Tour wins, and also won two tournaments in Japan and one in Australia.

One of Littler's 29 PGA Tour wins was unique. When he won the 1975 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, it marked the first and (so far) only time that a player won that event as a professional after having previously won the pro-amateur portion, which Littler did as a 23-year-old amateur in 1954.

Littler won one major championship – the 1961 U.S. Open. He shot a 68 in the final round to overtake Doug Sanders. He accumulated 17 top-10 finishes in the three U.S.-based majors: seven at the Masters Tournament, five at the PGA Championship, and five at the U.S. Open. In addition to his U.S. Open victory, he had one second-place finish in each of the three U.S. majors, losing playoffs to Billy Casper at the 1970 Masters and to Lanny Wadkins at the 1977 PGA Championship. The latter was the first-ever sudden-death playoff in a major. He was a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup teams of 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1975, and had a 14-5-8 win/loss/tie record including five wins and three ties in 10 singles matches.

Littler received the Ben Hogan Award in 1973 for a courageous comeback from injury or illness, after returning to the tour following treatment for malignant melanoma. Also in 1973, he was given the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. In the 1980s and 1990s, Littler played on the Senior PGA Tour, winning eight times. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990.

Personal life and death
On January 5, 1951, ten days before joining the Navy, Littler married Shirley Warren, his university classmate. They had a son, Curt, born in March 1954 and a daughter, Suzanne, born in October 1957. Littler died at the age of 88 on February 15, 2019.

In popular culture
Littler inspired Sandy Mac Divot, the main character of the long running comic strip Mac Divot by Jordan Lanski (a former schoolmate of Littler) and Mel Keefer.

PGA Tour wins (29)
PGA Tour playoff record (3–8)

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PGA Tour of Australia wins (1)
PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (1–0)

Other wins (3)

 * 1954 California State Open
 * 1966 World Series of Golf
 * 1974 Taiheiyo Club Masters

Senior PGA Tour wins (8)
Senior PGA Tour playoff record (1–2)

Japan Senior Tour wins (2)

 * 1983 Coca-Cola Grandslam Championship
 * 1987 Coca-Cola Grandslam Championship

Other senior wins (10)

 * 1980 World Senior Invitational
 * 1981 Vintage Invitational
 * 1981 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Bob Rosburg)
 * 1983 Vintage Invitational
 * 1985 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Don January)
 * 1986 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Don January)
 * 1994 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Legendary Division (with Don January)
 * 1997 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Legendary Division (with Don January)
 * 2001 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Demaret Division (with Don January)
 * 2004 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Demaret Division (with Don January)

Results timeline
{{legend|lime|Win}} {{legend|yellow|Top 10}} {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} CUT = missed the halfway cut DQ = disqualified WD = withdrew R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play "T" indicates a tie for a place.

Source for U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur: USGA Championship Database

Summary

 * Most consecutive cuts made – 14 (1962 PGA – 1967 Masters)
 * Longest streak of top-10s – 4 (1961 U.S. Open – 1962 U.S. Open)

U.S. national team appearances
Amateur
 * Walker Cup: 1953 (winners)

Professional
 * Ryder Cup: 1961 (winners), 1963 (winners), 1965 (winners), 1967 (winners), 1969 (tie), 1971 (winners), 1975 (winners)
 * Hopkins Trophy: 1956 (winners)

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ironworks is ironworks.

Ironworks succeeded bloomeries when blast furnaces replaced former methods. An integrated ironworks in the 19th century usually included one or more blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks. After the invention of the Bessemer process, converters became widespread, and the appellation steelworks replaced ironworks.

The processes carried at ironworks are usually described as ferrous metallurgy, but the term siderurgy is also occasionally used. This is derived from the Greek words sideros - iron and ergon or ergos - work. This is an unusual term in English, and it is best regarded as an anglicisation of a term used in French, Spanish, and other Romance languages.

Historically, it is common that a community was built around the ironworks where the people living there were dependent on the ironworks to provide jobs and housing. As the ironworks closed down (or was industrialised) these villages quite often went into decline and experienced negative economic growth.

Primary ironmaking

Ironworks is used as an omnibus term covering works undertaking one or more iron-producing processes. Such processes or species of ironworks where they were undertaken include the following:

 * Blast furnaces — which made pig iron (or sometimes finished cast iron goods) from iron ore;
 * Bloomeries — where bar iron was produced from iron ore by direct reduction;
 * Electrolytic smelting — Employs a chromium/iron anode that can survive a 2850 F to produce decarbonized iron and 2/3 of a ton of industrial-quality oxygen per ton of iron. A thin film of metal oxide forms on the anode in the intense heat. The oxide forms a protective layer that prevents excess consumption of the base metal.
 * Finery forges — which fined pig iron to produce bar iron, using charcoal as fuel in a finery (hearth) and coal or charcoal in a chafery (hearth);
 * Foundries — where pig iron was remelted in an air furnace or in a foundry cupola to produce cast iron goods;
 * Potting and stamping forges with melting fineries using the first process in which bar iron was made from pig iron with mineral coal or coke, without the use of charcoal;
 * Puddling furnaces — a later process for the same purpose, again with coke as fuel. It was usually necessary for there to be a preliminary refining process in a coke refinery (also called running out furnace).  After puddling, the puddled ball needed shingling and then to be drawn out into bar iron in a rolling mill.

Modern steelmaking
From the 1850s, pig iron might be partly decarburised to produce mild steel using one of the following:

 * The Bessemer process in a Bessemer converter, improved by the Gilchrist–Thomas process;
 * The Siemens-Martin process in an Open hearth furnace;
 * Electric arc furnace, introduced in 1907;
 * Basic oxygen steelmaking, introduced in 1952.

The mills operating converters of any type are better called steelworks, ironworks referring to former processes, like puddling.

Further processing
After bar iron had been produced in a finery forge or in the forge train of a rolling mill, it might undergo further processes in one of the following:
 * A slitting mill - which cut a flat bar into rod iron suitable for making into nails.
 * A tinplate works - where rolling mills made sheets of iron (later of steel), which were coated with tin.
 * A plating forge with a tilt hammer, a lighter hammer with a rapid stroke rate, enabling the production of thinner iron, suitable for the manufacture of knives, other cutlery, and so on.
 * A cementation furnace might be used to convert the bar iron (if it was pure enough) into blister steel by the cementation process, either as an end in itself or as the raw material for crucible steel.

Manufacture
Most of these processes did not produce finished goods. Further processes were often manual, including In the context of the iron industry, the term manufacture is best reserved for this final stage.
 * Manufacturing by blacksmiths or more specialist kind of smith.
 * It might be used in shipbuilding.

Notable ironworks

The notable ironworks of the world are described here by country. See above for the largest producers and the notable ironworks in the alphabetical order.

South Africa

 * Cape Town Iron and Steel Works in Kuilsrivier, Western Cape
 * Mittal Steel South Africa[[File:Schofield's Iron Works, 5th & Poplar Sts., circa 1877 - DPLA - 50a66763a14ba4954b2b9be24f5b1e19.jpg|thumb|Schofield's Iron Works in [[Macon, Georgia]], circa 1877. ]]

United States

 * American Iron Works in Hyattsville, Maryland
 * Bath Iron Works in Maine
 * Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York
 * Cambria Iron Company in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
 * Falling Creek Ironworks, Virginia.
 * Saugus Iron Works in Saugus, Massachusetts
 * Toledo Iron Works in Miami, Florida
 * Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Virginia
 * U.S. Steel
 * Fairfield Works, near Birmingham, Alabama
 * Gary Works, near Chicago, Illinois
 * Granite City Works, near St. Louis, Missouri
 * Great Lakes Works, near Detroit, Michigan
 * Mon Valley Works (Homestead Steel Works, etc.), near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * Vulcan Iron Works in Pennsylvania and other places

China

 * Anben Group, Anshan & Benxi, Liaoning
 * China Baowu Steel Group, in various locations, for example:
 * Baosteel, Shanghai
 * WISCO, Wuhan, Hebei
 * Meishan Iron & Steel, Nanjing, Jiangsu
 * Zhanjiang Iron & Steel, Zhanjiang, Guangdong
 * Baotou Steel, Baotou, Inner Mongolia
 * Shougang Group, Beijing

India

 * Five major steel works of Steel Authority of India, Ltd (SAIL)
 * Kalinganagar Works of Tata Steel in Kalinganagar, Odisha
 * Vijayanagar Works of JSW Steel in Bellary, Karnataka

Japan
The largest Japanese steel companies' main works are as follows:
 * JFE Steel
 * Chiba Works (from former Kawasaki Steel), Chiba, Chiba, of JFE Eastern Works
 * Keihin Works (from former NKK), Kawasaki, Kanagawa, of JFE Eastern Works
 * Fukuyama Works (from former NKK), Fukuyama, Hiroshima, of JFE Western Works
 * Kurashiki Works (from former Kawasaki Steel), Kurashiki, Okayama, of JFE Western Works
 * Kobe Steel
 * Kakogawa Steel Works, Kakogawa, Hyogo
 * Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
 * Hirohata Works (広畑製鐵所, of former Nippon Steel), Himeji, Hyogo
 * Kimitsu Steel Works, of former Nippon Steel), Kimitsu, Chiba
 * Nagoya Works (名古屋製鐵所, of former Nippon Steel), Tokai, Aichi (near Nagoya)
 * Ōita Works (大分製鐵所, of former Nippon Steel), Ōita, Ōita
 * Yahata Steel Works (of former Nippon Steel), Kimitsu, Chiba
 * Kashima Works (鹿島製鐵所, of former Sumitomo Metal), Kashima, Ibaraki
 * Wakayama Works (和歌山製鐵所, of former Sumitomo Metal), Wakayama, Wakayama

Korea

 * POSCO
 * Gwangyang Steelworks, south coast
 * Pohang Steelworks, east coast
 * Hyundai Steel
 * Incheon Steelworks, west coast

Vietnam

 * Formosa Ha Tinh Steel of Formosa Plastics Group in Ha Tinh Province

Czech Republic

 * Třinec Iron and Steel Works in Třinec, Czech Republic

Germany

 * Völklingen Ironworks Heritage Site

Great Britain

 * Blaenavon Ironworks Heritage Site. Blaenavon (Blaenafon) South Wales
 * Coalbrookdale Ironworks, Coalbrookdale
 * Cyfarthfa Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, South Wales
 * Dowlais Ironworks also at Merthyr Tydfil
 * Millwall Ironworks, a shipbuilding firm on the Isle of Dogs, on the River Thames, London, England
 * Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, a shipbuilding firm at Leamouth on the River Thames, England
 * Vulcan Iron Works at Bradford and other places

Italy

 * Cogne acciai speciali, Aosta (example of a mountain steel meel)
 * Ferreira di Servola, Trieste (operating since 1896)
 * Acciaieria di Piombino
 * Società Italiana Acciaierie Cornigliano di Cornigliano, Genova
 * Acciai speciali Termi, now ThyssenKrupp Terni
 * Acciaieria di Bagnoli, Napoli
 * Acciaieria di Taranto (biggest Integrated steel mill in Europe)

Sweden

 * Lummelunda Järnbruk
 * Österbybruk
 * Engelsberg Ironworks, Ängelsberg, Västmanland County
 * Storbrohyttan Gjuteri
 * Pershyttan
 * Galtström Ironworks
 * Forsbacka Ironworks km
 * Kengis Forge
 * Trångfors Forge
 * Motjärnshyttan
 * Gysinge Ironworks

Russia

 * Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
 * Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
 * Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works, Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast
 * Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant (of TMK), Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast
 * Novolipetsk Steel, Lipetsk, Lipetsk Oblast
 * Severstal, Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast
 * Ural Steel (of Metalloinvest), Novotroitsk, Orenburg Oblast
 * Volzhsky Pipe Plant (of OAO TMK), Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast

Spain

 * Altos Hornos de Vizcaya in Bilbao
 * Arcelor facilities in Avilés and Gijón, formerly Ensidesa

Historical

 * Kindiba, in Burkina Faso. Ancient iron extraction site consisting of mines and three clay built furnaces.
 * Darkhill Ironworks, in the Forest of Dean, England. Experimental ironworks established in 1818 and designated an 'Industrial Archaeological Site of International Importance'
 * Royal Ironworks of St John, Ipanema, in São Paulo state, Brazil

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Instrumental Quarter

Instrumental Quarter is an Italian instrumental post-rock band, formed in 1999 in Cuneo.

Band members
Paride Lanciani - guitar - (Founder: 1999 - today)

Tommaso Fia - keyboards (2016 - today)

Nicolas Joseph Roncea - bass (2016 - 2018)

Simone Rossi - drums (2016 - 2018)

Former

Luigi Racca - bass (1999 - 2002)

Marco Allocco - cello (1999 - 2002)

Flavio Cravero - drums (1999 - 2002)

Luca Bleu - drums and percussions (2002 - 2006)

Gabriele Fioritti - cello (2002 - 2006)

Francesco Calabrese - videoart (2002 - 2006)

Gabriele Grosso - bass (2002 - 2009)

Davide Arneodo - piano, violin (2004 - 2009)

Marco Bognanni - drums (2004 - 2009)

Discography

 * No More Secrets (2003), Sick Room
 * Traffic Jam (2006), Sick Room
 * Free (2007), Stiff Slack

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Talk:Gene Littler

British Open
I'm not sure what he achieved at the British Open. It seems fairly unlikely that he had no top ten finishes. If he had some they weren't PGA Tour finishes at the time and this might be the reason why they aren't picked up by the web sources I can find. The past results on the Open's site only go back to 1970 at the moment, but hopefully they will be complete one day and Littler's full record at the tournament will then be checkable. Osomec 21:10, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Ferrari ownership
Why would you revert the addition of the fact that Gene Littler bought a new 1977 Ferrari 308 GTB. I own this car now and have the original documentation of his ownership history.

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 * It is trivia - not encyclopedic. Tewapack (talk) 23:03, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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Spheromak

A spheromak is an arrangement of plasma formed into a toroidal shape similar to a smoke ring. The spheromak contains large internal electric currents and their associated magnetic fields arranged so the magnetohydrodynamic forces within the spheromak are nearly balanced, resulting in long-lived (microsecond) confinement times without external fields. Spheromaks belong to a type of plasma configuration referred to as the compact toroids. A spheromak can be made and sustained using magnetic flux injection, leading to a dynomak.

The physics of the spheromak and of collisions between spheromaks is similar to a variety of astrophysical events, like coronal loops and filaments, relativistic jets and plasmoids. They are particularly useful for studying magnetic reconnection events, when two or more spheromaks collide. Spheromaks are easy to generate using a "gun" that ejects spheromaks off the end of an electrode into a holding area, called the flux conserver. This has made them useful in the laboratory setting, and spheromak guns are relatively common in astrophysics labs. These devices are often, confusingly, referred to simply as "spheromaks" as well; the term has two meanings.

Spheromaks have been proposed as a magnetic fusion energy concept due to their long confinement times, which was on the same order as the best tokamaks when they were first studied. Although they had some successes during the 1970s and '80s, these small and lower-energy devices had limited performance and most spheromak research ended when fusion funding was dramatically curtailed in the late 1980s. However, in the late 1990s research demonstrated that hotter spheromaks have better confinement times, and this led to a second wave of spheromak machines. Spheromaks have also been used to inject plasma into a bigger magnetic confinement experiment like a tokamak.

Difference with FRC

The difference between a field-reversed configuration (FRC) and a spheromak is that a spheromak has an internal toroidal field while the FRC plasma does not. This field can run clockwise or counterclockwise to the spinning plasma direction.

History
The spheromak has undergone several distinct periods of investigation, with the greatest efforts during the 1980s, and a reemergence in the 2000s.

Background work in astrophysics
A key concept in the understanding of the spheromak is magnetic helicity, a value $$H$$ that describes the "twistedness" of the magnetic field in a plasma.

The earliest work on these concepts was developed by Hannes Alfvén in 1943, which won him the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics. His development of the concept of Alfvén waves explained the long-duration dynamics of plasma as electric currents traveling within them produced magnetic fields which, in a fashion similar to a dynamo, gave rise to new currents. In 1950, Lundquist experimentally studied Alfvén waves in mercury and introduced the characterizing Lundquist number, which describes the plasma's conductivity. In 1958, Lodewijk Woltjer, working on astrophysical plasmas, noted that $$H$$ is conserved, which implies that a twisty field will attempt to maintain its twistiness even with external forces being applied to it.

Starting in 1959, Alfvén and a team including Lindberg, Mitlid and Jacobsen built a device to create balls of plasma for study. This device was identical to modern "coaxial injector" devices (see below) and the experimenters were surprised to find a number of interesting behaviors. Among these was the creation of stable rings of plasma. In spite of their many successes, in 1964 the researchers turned to other areas and the injector concept lay dormant for two decades.

Background work in fusion
In 1951 efforts to produce controlled fusion for power production began. These experiments generally used some sort of pulsed power to deliver the large magnetic forces required in the experiments. The current magnitudes and the resulting forces were unprecedented. In 1957 Harold Furth, Levine and Waniek reported on the dynamics of large magnets, demonstrating that the limiting factor in magnet performance was physical; stresses in the magnet would overcome its own mechanical limits. They proposed winding these magnets in such a way that the forces within the magnet windings cancelled out, the "force-free condition". Although it was not known at the time, this is the same magnetic field as in a spheromak.

In 1957 the ZETA (fusion reactor) machine started operation in the UK. ZETA was at that time by far the largest and most powerful fusion device in the world. It operated until 1968, by which time many devices matched its size. During its operation, the experimental team noticed that on occasion the plasma would maintain confinement long after the experimental run had ostensibly ended, although this was not then studied in depth. Years later in 1974, John Bryan Taylor characterized these self-stable plasmas, which he called "quiescent". He developed the Taylor state equilibrium concept, a plasma state that conserves helicity in its lowest possible energy state. This led to a re-awakening of compact toroid research.

Another approach to fusion was the theta pinch concept, which was similar to the z-pinch used in ZETA in theory, but used a different arrangement of currents and fields. While working on such a machine in the early 1960s, one designed with a conical pinch area, Bostick and Wells found that the machine sometimes created stable rings of plasma. A series of machines to study the phenomenon followed. One magnetic probe measurement found the toroidal magnetic field profile of a spheromak; the toroidal field was zero on axis, rose to a maximum at some interior point, and then went to zero at the wall. However, the theta-pinch failed to reach the high-energy conditions needed for fusion, and most work on theta-pinch had ended by the 1970s.

The golden age
The key concept in fusion is the energy balance for any machine fusing a hot plasma.

Net Power = Efficiency * (Fusion – Radiation Loss – Conduction Loss)

This forms the basis of the Lawson criterion. To increase fusion rates, research has focused on the "triple product" a combination of the plasma temperature, density and confinement time. Fusion devices generally fell into two classes, pulsed machines like the z-pinch that attempted to reach high densities and temperatures but only for microseconds, while steady state concepts such as the stellarator and magnetic mirror attempted to reach the Lawson criterion through longer confinement times.

Taylor's work suggested that self-stable plasmas would be a simple way to approach the problem along the confinement time axis. This sparked a new round of theoretical developments. In 1979 Rosenbluth and Bussac published a paper describing generalizations of Taylor's work, including a spherical minimum energy state having zero toroidal field on the bounding surface. This means that there is no externally driven current on the device axis and so there are no external toroidal field coils. It appeared that this approach would allow for fusion reactors of greatly simpler design than the predominant stellarator and tokamak approaches.

Several experimental devices emerged almost overnight. Wells recognized his earlier experiments as examples of these plasmas. He had moved to the University of Miami and started gathering funding for a device combining two of his earlier conical theta-pinch systems, which became Trisops. In Japan, Nihon University built the PS-1, which used a combination of theta and zeta pinches to produce spheromaks. Harold Furth was excited by the prospect of a less-expensive solution to the confinement issue, and started the S1 at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which used inductive heating. Many of these early experiments were summarized by Furth in 1983.

These early MFE experiments culminated in the Compact Torus Experiment (CTX) at Los Alamos. This was this era's largest and most powerful device, generating spheromaks with surface currents of 1 MA, temperatures of 100 eV, and peak electron betas over 20%. CTX experimented with methods to re-introduce energy into the fully formed spheromak in order to counter losses at the surface. In spite of these early successes, by the late 1980s the tokamak had surpassed the confinement times of the spheromaks by orders of magnitude. For example, JET was achieving confinement times on the order of 1 second.

The major event that ended most spheromak work was not technical; funding for the entire US fusion program was dramatically curtailed in FY86, and many of the "alternate approaches", which included spheromaks, were defunded. Existing experiments in the US continued until their funding ran out, while smaller programs elsewhere, notably in Japan and the new SPHEX machine in the UK, continued from 1979 to 1997. CTX gained additional funding from the Defence Department and continued experiments until 1990; the last runs improved temperatures to 400 eV, and confinement times on the order of 3 ms.

Astrophysics
Through the early 1990s spheromak work was widely used by the astrophysics community to explain various events and the spheromak was studied as an add-on to existing MFE devices.

D.M. Rust and A. Kumar were particularly active in using magnetic helicity and relaxation to study solar prominences. Similar work was carried out at Caltech by Bellan and Hansen at Caltech, and the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX) project at Swarthmore College.

Fusion accessory
Some MFE work continued through this period, almost all of it using spheromaks as accessory devices for other reactors. Caltech and INRS-EMT in Canada both used accelerated spheromaks as a way to refuel tokamaks. Others studied the use of spheromaks to inject helicity into tokamaks, eventually leading to the Helicity Injected Spherical Torus (HIST) device and similar concepts for a number of existing devices.

Defence
Hammer, Hartman et al. showed that spheromaks could be accelerated to extremely high velocities using a railgun, which led to several proposed uses. Among these was the use of such plasmas as "bullets" to fire at incoming warheads with the hope that the associated electric currents would disrupt their electronics. This led to experiments on the Shiva Star system, although these were cancelled in the mid-1990s.

Other domains
Other proposed uses included firing spheromaks at metal targets to generate intense X-ray flashes as a backlighting source for other experiments. In the late 1990s spheromak concepts were applied towards the study of fundamental plasma physics, notably magnetic reconnection. Dual-spheromak machines were built at the University of Tokyo, Princeton (MRX) and Swarthmore College.

Rebirth
In 1994 T. Kenneth Fowler was summarizing the results from CTX's experimental runs in the 1980s when he noticed that confinement time was proportional to plasma temperature. This was unexpected; the ideal gas law generally states that higher temperatures in a given confinement area leads to higher density and pressure. In conventional devices such as the tokamak, this increased temperature/pressure increases turbulence that dramatically lowers confinement time. If the spheromak improved confinement with increased temperature, this suggested a new path towards an ignition-level spheromak reactor.

The promise was so great that several new MFE experiments started to study these issues. Notable among these is the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which studied the problems of generating long-life spheromaks through electrostatic injection of additional helicity. Also of note is the steady inductive helicity injected torus experiment (HIT-SI) at the University of Washington headed by Professor Thomas Jarboe. The success of sustaining spheromaks with evidence of pressure confinement on this experiment motivated the creation of a new spheromak-based fusion reactor concept called the Dynomak that is projected to be cost competitive with conventional power sources.

Theory
Force free plasma vortices have uniform magnetic helicity and therefore are stable against many disruptions. Typically, the current decays faster in the colder regions until the gradient in helicity is large enough to allow a turbulent redistribution of the current.

Force free vortices follow the following equations.

 * $$\begin{array}{rcl}

\vec{\nabla} \times \vec{B} & = & \alpha\vec{B} \\ \vec{v}                    & = & \pm\beta\vec{B} \\ \end{array}$$

The first equation describes a Lorentz force-free fluid: the $$ \vec{j} \times \vec{B} $$ forces are everywhere zero. For a laboratory plasma, α is a constant and β is a scalar function of spatial coordinates.

Note that, unlike most plasma structures, the Lorentz force and the Magnus force, $$ \rho\vec{\nabla} \times \vec{v} $$, play equivalent roles. $$\rho $$ is the mass density.

Spheromak magnetic flux surfaces are toroidal. The current is totally toroidal at the core and totally poloidal at the surface. This is similar to the field configuration of a tokamak, except that the field-producing coils are simpler and do not penetrate the plasma torus.

Spheromaks are subject to external forces, notably the thermal gradient between the hot plasma and its cooler surroundings. Generally, this leads to a loss of energy at the outer surface of the spheromak though black-body radiation, leading to a thermal gradient in the spheromak itself. Electric current travels slower in the cooler sections, eventually leading to a redistribution of energy inside, and turbulence eventually destroys the spheromak.

Formation
Spheromaks form naturally under a variety of conditions, enabling them to be generated in a number of ways.

The most common modern device is the Marshall gun or injector. The device consists of two nested, closed cylinders. The inner cylinder is shorter, leaving an empty space at the bottom. An electromagnet inside the inner cylinder sets up an initial field. The field is similar to that of a bar magnet, running vertically down the center of the inner cylinder and up the outside of the apparatus. The magnet is positioned so that the area where the field loops over from the center to outside, where the field lines are roughly horizontal, is aligned with the bottom of the inner cylinder.

A small amount of gas is introduced to the area between the cylinders. A large electric charge supplied by a capacitor bank applied across the cylinders ionizes the gas. Currents induced in the resulting plasma interact with the original magnetic field, generating a Lorentz force that pushes the plasma away from the inner cylinder, into the empty area. After a short period the plasma stabilizes into a spheromak.

Other common devices include open-ended or conical theta-pinch.

Since the spheromak's magnetic confinement is self-generated, no external magnet coils are required. However, the spheromak does experience the "tilting perturbation" that allows it to rotate within the confinement area. This can be addressed with external magnets, but more often the confinement area is wrapped in a (typically copper) conductor. When the edge of the spheromak torus approaches the conductive surface, a current is induced into it that, following Lenz's law, reacts to push the spheromak back into the center of the chamber.

It is also possible to get the same effect with a single conductor running down the center of the chamber, through the "hole" in the center of the spheromak. As this conductor's currents are self-generated, it adds little complexity to the design. However, stability can be further improved by running an external current in the central conductor. As the current scales up it approaches the conditions of a traditional tokamak, but in a much smaller size and simpler form. This evolution led to considerable research on the spherical tokamak during the 1990s.

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This category includes National Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. state of New Jersey.


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Walter Scott Jr.

Walter Scott Jr. (May 21, 1931 – September 25, 2021) was an American billionaire businessman, civil engineer, philanthropist, and CEO of Kiewit Corporation. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at US$4.2 billion.

Education
He graduated from Colorado State University in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

Career
Scott was first elected to the Kiewit Corporation board in 1964. In 1979, he was elected president. When Peter Kiewit died later that same year, Scott was selected to succeed him as chairman.

He sat on the board of Berkshire Hathaway, and was a childhood friend of Warren Buffett. He was also on the board of directors of Burlington Resources, Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Level 3 Communications Inc., MidAmerican Energy Holdings, RCN Corporation, Valmont Industries, and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc, and was the chairman of the Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress.

He was a director of the Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation, and the Omaha Development Foundation. Nationally, he was a director of the Horatio Alger Association and the National Forest Association.

Scott was chairman of Level 3 Communications.

Philanthropy
Scott consistently ranked among the wealthiest Americans. With his wife, Suzanne, he founded the public, non-profit Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation which has funded the Scott Atrium & Education Center at University of Nebraska Medical Center, the Scott Technology Center in Omaha, and The Summit: Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve.

In June 2010, when Warren Buffett appealed to him to join the Giving Pledge, he partially accepted, stating that after his death his remaining estate will go into his eponymous foundation.

In 2011, he committed $10 million to the construction of Engineering II, a $70 million, 122,000 sqft building which will house interdisciplinary energy, environment and health programs at Colorado State University.

In November 2016, it was announced Scott would be donating $53.3 million to Colorado State University School of Engineering, CSU's largest ever gift, and that the College of Engineering at CSU will be renamed the Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering, becoming the only named college of engineering in the state of Colorado.

Collector
In 1996, Scott acquired the original sales document of the Louisiana Purchase for his private collection.

Honors and awards
Scott became an Eagle Scout in 1946 and was a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1991, presented by Awards Council member Dennis Washington. Scott was the Host of the 1998 Achievement Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Personal life
Scott's second wife, Suzanne ( Marshall; 1930-2013) had been a good friend of his late first wife, Carolyn Jane ( Falk; 1932-1983), but did not know Walter. They wed in 1987 at the Countryside Community Church. Suzanne Scott died in 2013, aged 83.

Walter Scott died on September 25, 2021, at the age of 90.

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Robert Hoehl

Robert "Bob" Hoehl (December 13, 1941 – November 7, 2010) was a co-founder of the software company IDX Systems and a Vermont philanthropist.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Hoehl earned a basketball scholarship to Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, where he graduated in 1963 with a degree in mathematics. After working at IBM as a computer programmer, he founded Burlington Data Processing (BDP) in 1969 with Richard Tarrant. BDP ultimately changed its name to IDX Systems Corporation and became a leading provider of software to the health care industry. GE Healthcare purchased IDX in 2005 for $1.2 billion.

Hoehl and his wife Cynthia have supported many Vermont organizations, including Community Health Center of Burlington, Preservation Trust of Vermont, Newman Catholic Center at the University of Vermont, Lake Champlain Basin Science Center, Saint Michael's College, the Stern Center for Language and Learning the Boys and Girls Club, and Vermont's United Way. The Hoehls also funded the Hoehl Welcome Center at Saint Michael's College.

Hoehl died at his home in Ferrisburgh, Vermont in 2010 after a six-week hospitalization. He was married to Cynthia Hoehl (died 2016), who also had engaged in philanthropic work in Vermont.

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Alias Enterprises

Alias Enterprises is an American publishing company. Their main divisions are Alias Comics (all-ages comic books) and Cross Culture (Christian comic books). Based in San Diego, California, it was founded in January 2005 by Brett Burner and Mike S. Miller. They publish comics such as Lullaby, The 10th Muse, The Legend of Isis, and Sixgun Samurai.

History
Alias was founded by artist Mike S. Miller and publisher Brett Burner (also owner of Lamp Post Publications ). In January 2005, they launched their first productions through Image Comics filling a virtually untapped market with three all-ages titles: Lullaby: Wisdom Seeker, Lions, Tigers and Bears, and The Imaginaries. All three were successful projects in the independent marketplace, particularly Lullaby, which has seen continuing success since its initial release. Also in 2005, Alias expanded into a self-publishing company with plans to launch 12 titles in April of that year with cover prices of 75 cents. The titles all shipped late and were released irregularly afterwards, but landed them a spot with Diamond Comic Distributors as a Top 20 Publisher.

Alias Comics offered 25-cent preview issues, 75-cent introductory issues, and 50,000 copies of free (to retailer) preview books called "the Comic Book Digest" as marketing efforts, but continued to have problems with shipping. In mid-2005, Alias chose to move its comic printing stateside, but due to the accumulation of problems at the domestic printer, decided to go back to its original partner in South Korea. The subsequent lapse in shipping, going from a domestic printer to a South Korean printer, resulted in a two- to three-month lapse in delivery of Alias comic books to comic stores. Being gone from the shelves for so long created several problems for the fledgling company, causing a loss of retailer and consumer confidence.

Nearly a year after opening their doors, several Alias comic book creators began to leave the publisher, citing various concerns. In 2005, studios Monkey Pharmacy, Runemaster Studios, and Dabel Brothers Productions stopped producing books for publication by Alias. In November, Alias underwent a restructuring plan. Its publisher, Brett Burner, purchased majority shares of the company in order to take control of the company's financial records.

In March 2006, Alias announced a new policy toward its creators requiring work to be completed and in-hand before being solicited for publication, citing an effort to maintain a more exact release schedule. Later, Alias signed an agreement with Christian publisher Zondervan to produce 24 manga or graphic novels to be released over the next few years through its Cross Culture division, consisting of three 8-book series. These titles included Hand of the Morningstar, Kingdoms, and The Manga Bible.

Also in 2006, Alias' Christian division, Cross Culture Entertainment, began publication of Bubblemag, a Christian pop culture magazine. In Fall 2006, Alias executives announced their intention to rebrand Alias Comics as a Christian comic company. Within a few weeks, Abacus Comics opened for business. Abacus Comics is owned solely by Miller, and was opened for the express purpose of publishing several of his "creator-owned" titles which were initially run through Alias Comics.

In 2007, Lamp Post Inc. obtained full rights to all Alias and Cross Culture properties, placing them under its label.

Publications
In alphabetical order:

 * ArmorQuest: Genesis (2005–2006) by Ben Avery and Sherwin Schwartzrock
 * Atomik Mike (2006) by Stephan Nilson
 * The Blackbeard Legacy (2006–2007)
 * Chrono Mechanics (2006) by Art Thibert and Richard Birdsall
 * David: The Sheperd's Song (2005) by Royden Lepp
 * David's Mighty Men (2005) by Javier Saltares
 * Deal with the Devil (2005) by Mike S. Miller and Sherwin Schwartzrock
 * The Devil's Keeper (2005) by Mike S. Miller, Sean Jordan, and Carlos Paul
 * The Dreamland Chronicles (2005–2017) by Scott Christian Sava
 * The Hammer Kid (2006) by Kevin Grevioux
 * Hyper-Actives (2005–2006) by Darin Wagner and Clint Hilinski
 * Judo Girl (2005–2006) by Darren G. Davis, Terrance Griep, and Nadir Balan
 * Killer Stunts, Inc. (2005) by Scott Kinney
 * Legacy Manga Digest (2005) by Carmen Trifilleti and Edu Francisco
 * The Legend of Isis (2005–2006) by Ryan Scott Ottney, Darren G. Davis, et al.
 * Lethal Instinct (2005)
 * Lullaby vol. 2 (2005–2006) by Mike S. Miller and Hector Sevilla
 * Monkey in a Wagon vs. Lemur on a Big Wheel (2005) by Ken Lillie-Paetz and Chris Moreno
 * Opposite Forces vol. 2 (2005) by Tom Bancroft
 * Orion the Hunter (2006)
 * OZF5 (2005) by Ramon Madrigal and Ryan Ottley
 * Pakkins' Land vol. 2 (2005) by Gary Shipman
 * Psi-Kix (2005)
 * Revere (2006) by Ed Lavallee and Grant Bond
 * Sixgun Samurai (2005–2006) by Mike S. Miller, Sean Jordan, and Harold Edge
 * Super Teen*Topia (2006) by Kirk Kushin
 * Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy (2005) by Jim Keplinger and Ryan Ottley
 * Tenth Muse vol. 3 (2005–2006) by Darren G. Davis, et al.
 * TwinBlades (2006) by Adrian Todd and Ryan Odagawa
 * Valkyries (2006) by Kevin Grevioux
 * Victoria's Secret Service (2005) by Darren G. Davis and Nadir Balan
 * Yenny vol. 2 (2005–2006) by David Álvarez

Comics that went to other venues after publication at Alias:

 * Monkey in a Wagon vs. Lemur on a Big Wheel (went to Silent Devil Productions)
 * Elsinore (went to Devil's Due Publishing)
 * Lions, Tigers and Bears (went to Image Comics)
 * XIII (uncensored trade paperbacks by Dabel Brothers Productions)

Comics that came to Alias after initial publication at another venue:

 * Chrono Mechanics (came from Image Comics)

Cancelled Alias comics:

 * The Gimoles

Circulation
According to the sales estimates from industry resource site ICv2, Alias' top-selling monthly comics for their first year were:

 * May 2005: 4,945 copies (rank 188) of 10th Muse vol. 2, #1
 * June 2005: 7,836 copies (rank 214) of Lethal Instinct #1
 * July 2005: 4,005 copies (rank 203) of Legend of Isis #2
 * August 2005: 3,546 copies (rank 242) of Legend of Isis #3
 * September 2005: 3,286 copies (rank 222) of XIII #2
 * October 2005: 3,352 copies (rank 243) of Legend of Isis #4
 * November 2005: 7,432 copies (rank 195) of Lullaby #1
 * December 2005: 3,038 copies (rank 251) of Legend of Isis #7
 * January 2006: 3,886 copies (rank 208) of Lullaby #2
 * February 2006: -- no issue shipped, only a TPB
 * March 2006: 3,909 copies (rank 261) of Victoria's Secret Service #1
 * April 2006: 4,701 copies (rank 210) of Lullaby #3
 * May 2006: 2,959 copies (rank 291) of Blackbeard Legacy #1

NOTE: These are only initial pre-order sales via Diamond Comic Distributors U.S. and do not include possible reorders or sales through other channels.

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Chambre Ardente

La chambre ardente was the name given to a special court established for the trial of heretics in France during the reign of Francis I in the 16th century. The name has been translated to mean "the fiery chamber."

Institution
Special courts designated for the exclusive trials of heretics in France were first instituted in the Parlement de Rouen on April 17, 1545.

At that time approximately two years before the death of Francis in March of 1547, the number of heretics in prisons in Normandy awaiting trial was so great that the prisons could barely contain them. To remedy the situation, Francis "authorized the erection in the Parliament of Rouen of a special chamber, consisting of ten or twelve of the most learned and zealous judges, to take cognizance of the crime of heresy to the exclusion of all other employments".

Approximately two years later when Francis died and Henry II took the throne, he deemed the special courts in Rouen as a successful experiment and instituted similar courts "upon a larger scale in the highest court of the realm, the Parlement of Paris. The members of the new commission were selected from among the parliamentary counselors who were removed from any suspicion of heresy and known to be active in the prosecution of offenses against 'mother holy Church. It is believed that this special court in Paris was instituted sometime between December 1547 and May 1548.

Reputation
This special court ultimately came to have a reputation of "sending to the flames as many as fell into its hands" and gained the unofficial designation of "la chambre ardente". Despite its reputation, an examination of 323 case histories pertaining to individuals on trial during a twenty-three-month time period from May 1548 to March 1550 reveals that many of those arrested and put on trial for heresy escaped a dire punishment.

Of the 323 cases examined, approximately two-thirds of the cases had come to a final verdict. Of the sentences pronounced, 39 individuals were able to vindicate themselves and were set free with only an injunction that they live "as good Christians in the holy Catholic faith". The punishment associated with 142 cases was amende honorable meaning an "honorable penalty". The "penalties" in these cases were fairly mild and included fines, public ceremonies of penance, banishments, and beatings with warnings never to engage in heresy again. And finally, 37 sentences of death were pronounced of which 6 individuals were put to death by fire while 31 individuals were simply hung.

It is also interesting to examine the occupations of the 323 individuals on trial for heresy. Almost fifty percent of those on trial or 153 individuals were lower and middle class artisans, merchants, and small shop owners. Nearly a third of those on trial or 111 individuals were members of the clergy. 47 individuals were members of the upper class with professions such as barristers and solicitors. Twelve individuals were nobles. While it might appear that the focus of heresy prosecution was the lower or middle class, the greatest target was clergymen as their percent of the population was less than five percent.

No peasants were included among those on trial. This can likely be explained by the fact that the Protestant theology as taught by John Calvin and other reformers was unattractive to peasants. The ideas and beliefs of the Protestant theology were alien. The Protestant theology was a "religion of the book" that made intellectual demands upon those wishing to explore and learn. The books and pamphlets espousing John Calvin's works were written in either French or Latin. Such intellectual demands were beyond the capabilities of an uneducated peasantry that could neither afford books nor read anything but the local patois that dominated the rural areas. As so, most peasants at the time retained their traditional allegiance and belief in the tenets of the Catholic Church.

Abolishment
By an edict on November 19, 1549, Henry II relieved French judges of their duties associated with these special courts effective on January 11, 1550. The attempt to eliminate heresy with special courts had proved to be a failure, and a new approach of sending heretics to the bishops and Church courts for trial was to be implemented. Three years later, the King's Edict of Saint Germain en Laye on March 1, 1553 reestablished the courts. It is unclear as to how long the revived tribunals continued thereafter before permanently being abolished.

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Talk:Les Savy Fav

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I don't think Les Savy Fav really fits into the math rock genre... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.154.237 (talk) 07:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

anyone know what les savy fav means?

According to the guy who introduced them at a concert--it doesn't mean anything. They just made up some fancy sounding frenchish words. DirectorStratton 00:47, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

- It doesn't mean anything. They simply use "les" to makes the title sound french. The band's name goes along with the crazy allusions to art history and the classics they often make use of.

- It is also a play on the phrase "les savoir faire" meaning I think "the capable" 195.92.40.49 15:06, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

The band members themselves have said that Les Savy Fav is a play on the the French art movement called Les Fauves. Here's a quote about Les Fauves: "The name, which translates as "wild beasts," was given the group by an art critic following their 1905 seminal show in Paris. The painter Gustave Moreau was the movement's inspirational teacher, a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, who pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions."

IPA pronunciation
shouldn't Les Savy Fav's pronunciation be changed into IPA?EunuchOmerta 05:35, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, it should. - PhilipR 04:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Aren't these guys from Williamsburgh, Brooklyn? For Broolynites, the term NYC is way too vague.

 * Wouldn't be surprised, Hipsterville USA

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I took some photos of a Les Savy Fav concert here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcb/sets/72157594195306885/

All CC BY if you want to use them for the article photos. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mecredis (talk • contribs) 22:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

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Honda K engine

The Honda K-series engine is a line of four-cylinder four-stroke car engine introduced in 2001. The K-series engines are equipped with DOHC valvetrains and use roller rockers on the cylinder head to reduce friction. The engines use a coil-on-plug, distributorless ignition system with a coil for each spark plug. This system forgoes the use of a conventional distributor-based ignition timing system in favor of a computer-controlled system that allows the ECU to control ignition timings based on various sensor inputs. The cylinders have cast iron sleeves similar to the B- and F-series engines, as opposed to the FRM cylinders found in the H- and newer F-series engines found only in the Honda S2000.

Similar to B series, the K-series car engines have two short blocks with the same design; the only difference between them being the deck height. K20 uses the short block with a deck height of 212 mm where K23 and K24 block has a deck height of 231.5 mm.

Two versions of the Honda i-VTEC system can be found on a K-series engine, and both versions can come with variable timing control (VTC) on the intake cam. The VTEC system on engines like the K20A3 only operate on the intake cam; at low rpm only one intake valve is fully opened, the other opening just slightly to create a swirl effect in the combustion chamber for improved fuel atomization. At high engine speeds, both intake valves open fully to improve engine breathing. In engines such as the K20A2 found in the Acura RSX Type-S, the VTEC system operates on both the intake and exhaust valves, allowing both to benefit from multiple cam profiles. A modified K20C engine is used in motorsport, as the Sports Car Club of America Formula 3 and 4 series that run in North America both use a K20C engine, with the Formula 4 engine not having a turbocharger. These are gaining a following in the import scene, but also among hot rodders and kit car enthusiasts, because they can be put in longitudinal rear wheel drive layouts.

Another significant difference between K-series engines is the alignment of the crankshaft to the center line of the bore. The K20C1 engine block has an offset alignment. Engines that do not have their crank shaft aligned to the bore are known as Desaxe engines. On the K20C1 engine this allows the power stroke to have more leverage and less thrust waste on sidewalls.

K20A (i-VTEC)

 * Applications:

K20A Spec R engine (FD2 Civic Type R)
 * Additional notes:
 * Chromoly flywheel, higher-tensile strength connecting rods, high-compression pistons, stiffer valve springs, higher-lift hollow camshafts with more duration, and 2007–2011 cylinder-head intake-port and exhaust-port surface polishing used in NSX-R. The JDM K20A type-R engine block would be removed from production assembly line by an experienced Honda engine technician to torque the connecting rod bolts to factory specification by hand using micrometer to measure connecting rod bolt stretching. Then the JDM K20A type-R engine block would be returned to the production assembly line to complete the engine building process.

K20B (i-VTEC I)

 * Injection Pressure: 10 MPa
 * Center Fuel Injection with swirl guide
 * Air-Fuel Ratio:
 * Normal driving cycle: 65:1 (ultra-lean combustion)
 * Acceleration/High load driving cycle: 14.7:1 (Stoichiometric)
 * Deep Piston Cavity formed in top of Pistons
 * Application: 2003–2006 Honda Stream Absolute

K20Z (i-VTEC)

 * Applications:

K20Z3 (as fitted to Ariel's Atom 3.5)
 * Additional notes:
 * The K20Z3 has Honda's traditional performance VTEC on the intake and the exhaust cams, as found on previous generation of engines. Variable cam timing technology is included on the intake but not the exhaust cams. The added timing control corresponds to the "i" in i-VTEC.

K20C (Earth Dreams VTEC Turbo)

 * Applications:

 * Additional notes

 * Earth Dreams Technology
 * K20C1: First Honda Type R engine to be built in the US at the Honda Anna Engine Plant in Anna, Ohio. First time Honda has used a turbocharger on the TYPE R.
 * K20C5: All Acura RDX sold in China (manufactured by GAC Acura)
 * Although the K20C4 in the Acura RDX and the K20C6 in the Acura TLX share the same internals, they are named differently due to different engine mount points to accommodate the sedan body of the TLX.
 * The VTEC mechanism is available only on the exhaust valves.
 * K20C1 engines have an offset of 8mm on the crankshaft from the centerline of the bore.
 * K20C8 (Acura Integra Type S): Engine is identical to the K20C1, it is named differently to accommodate different mounting points.

K20C & K20Z (Earth Dreams i-VTEC)

 * Applications:

K23A (i-VTEC Turbo)

 * Applications:

 * Additional notes:
 * This version of the K engine uses a Mitsubishi TD04HL-15T turbocharger with a dual path turbine housing, optimizing low end response while allowing better high end flow. Maximum boost pressure is 13.5psi. The engine includes i-VTEC and VTC technologies and comes mated to a version of Honda's 5-speed automatic with SH-AWD (note: SH-AWD was standard from 2007-2009 and optional from 2010-2012).

K24A (i-VTEC)
K24A2 and K24A3 (2006-2008 Acura TSX)
 * Additional notes:
 * Increased intake flow:
 * Intake valve + 1 mm oversize (Intake valve head measures 36mm, but valve seat still measures 35mm)
 * Intake cam High lift lobe with 0.9 mm more lift and 12 degrees more duration
 * Throttle body increased from 60–64 mm
 * Radius on some intake pipes increased from 70–80 mm
 * Increased exhaust flow
 * Exhaust Head pipe increased from 60–65 mm
 * Higher flow catalytic converter
 * Main (single) exhaust pipe increased from 54–57 mm
 * Rear (twin) pipes increased in diameter from 42.5 to 45 mm
 * Block improvements:
 * Additional air passages in crankcase for reduced pumping losses
 * Others
 * Stronger connecting rods
 * Under-piston oil squirters

K24Z & K24Y (i-VTEC)

 * Applications:

K24W & K24V (Earth Dreams i-VTEC)
Direct Injection, i-VTEC (intake camshaft & valvetrain)

 * Applications:

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How will this be formatted? Some of these guys are long dead. Shouldn't it be current senior officers only?
 * Frankly speaking I don't feel the need to. In modern Poland the Generals are mostly unknown to the public and many of them so far achieved little to make their bio notes encyclopedic. That's why such a category for modern guys would be severely underpopulated... Halibutt 15:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

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Joe Louis Walker

Louis Joseph Walker Jr. (born December 25, 1949), known as Joe Louis Walker, is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. His knowledge of blues history is revealed by his use of older material and playing styles.

NPR Music described him as "Powerful, soul-stirring, fierce and gritty...a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues." Another music journalist noted "If you define 'blues' by the rigid categories of structure rather than the flexible language of feeling allusion, Robert Cray... Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and James Armstrong are a new and uncategorizable breed, their music blues-like rather than blues, each of them blending ideas and devices from a variety of sources – soul, rock, jazz, gospel – with a sophistication beyond the reach of their forerunners".

Career
Walker was born Louis Joseph Walker Jr. in San Francisco, California. He came from a musical family, amidst the early influences of T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Meade Lux Lewis, Amos Milburn, and Pete Johnson. Walker first picked up the guitar at the age of eight, and became a known quantity within the Bay Area music scene by the age of 16. While publicly performing through his teens, he soaked up many influences (especially vocalists such as Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Bobby Womack and Otis Redding). In these early years, Walker played with John Lee Hooker, J.J. Malone, Buddy Miles, Otis Rush, Thelonious Monk, The Soul Stirrers, Willie Dixon, Charlie Musselwhite, Steve Miller, Nick Lowe, John Mayall, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix. By 1968, he had forged a friendship with Mike Bloomfield; they were roommates for many years until Bloomfield's untimely death.

This event was the catalyst that placed Walker into a lifestyle change. He left the world of the blues and enrolled himself at San Francisco State University, achieving a degree in Music and English. Throughout this time, Walker was regularly performing with The Spiritual Corinthians Gospel Quartet. After a 1985 performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, he was inspired to return to his blues roots whereupon he formed the "Bosstalkers" and signed to the HighTone label. Under the auspices of Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker, his debut album, Cold Is The Night was released in 1986. He began a worldwide touring schedule, delivering a four more releases in succession for HighTone (The Gift (1988), Blue Soul (1989), Live at Slims Vol 1 (1991), and Live at Slims Volume 2 (1992).

After the long partnership with HighTone, Walker was signed by Polygram to their Verve/Gitanes record label. His first of many Polygram releases ensued with Blues Survivor in 1993. This marked the beginning of an eclectic era that merged many of his gospel, jazz, soul, funk and rock influences with his trademark blues sensibilities. 1993 also saw the release of B.B. King's Grammy Award-winning Blues Summit album, which featured a duet with Walker (a Walker original, "Everybody's Had the Blues"). This was followed up by a live DVD release, featuring another duet with Walker (a rendition of "T-Bone Shuffle").

JLW was released in 1994, featuring guests such as James Cotton, Branford Marsalis, and the Tower of Power horn section. During this period, Walker's touring schedule saw many re-appearances at the world's music festivals (North Sea Jazz, Montreux, Glastonbury, San Francisco, Russian River Jazz, Monterey, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, Byron Bay, Australia, Notodden, Lucerne, and at the Beacon Theatre in New York City). Walker also spent years covering all the major western television networks (Conan O'Brien, Imus, Jools Holland UK, inauguration for George W. Bush, inducting B.B. King for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton into the Kennedy Centre Honors, Ohne Filter, Germany, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) as well as numerous worldwide TV networks.

Blues of the Month Club was released in 1995, and was the first of three Walker albums that were co-produced with Steve Cropper. This was followed up by the release of Great Guitars in 1997. Walker's guest musicians on this release, included Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Otis Rush, Scotty Moore, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Steve Cropper, Tower of Power, and Ike Turner.

Also in 1996, Walker played guitar on James Cotton's, Deep in the Blues, a Grammy Award winner for "Best Traditional Blues Album". In addition, Walker won his third Blues Music Award for Band of the Year (1996) which was preceded by two similar awards for "Contemporary Male Artist of the Year" (1988 and 1991). Walker also won the 1995 Bammy (Bay Area Music Award) for "Blues Musician of the Year". He then released Preacher and the President in 1998 and Silvertone Blues in 1999 (his sixth album for Polygram). This sequence continued with In The Morning (Telarc 2002), Pasa Tiempo (Evidence 2002), Guitar Brothers (JSP 2002), She's My Money Maker (JSP 2003), Ridin' High (Hightone 2003), New Direction (Provogue 2004) and Playin' Dirty (JSP 2006).

In 2002, he featured on the Bo Diddley tribute album, Hey Bo Diddley – A Tribute!, performing the song "Who Do You Love?".

In March 2008, Walker signed to Stony Plain Records, and recorded his first album for the label in April (produced by Duke Robillard). This album featured guest appearances by Robillard and Todd Sharpville, and was released in September 2008. His second album for the label was released in September 2009 entitled, Between A Rock and The Blues. This album featured Kevin Eubanks as a special guest, best known for his work as the musical director for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This album garnered five nominations in the 2010 Blues Music Awards.

In 2012, Walker signed with Chicago-based Alligator Records and released Hellfire, produced by Tom Hambridge. Billboard Magazine called it "One of the strongest albums in Walker's canon. Hellfire blows all over the map…gutbucket blues, joyous gospel, Rolling Stones-style rock crunch, and aching R&B. Walker's guitar playing is fine and fierce. Hellfire is a heavenly showcase for Walker's virtues." In 2014, Alligator released Hornet's Nest, also produced by Hambridge. The Chicago Sun-Times said: "Hard rock to gospel, Hornet's Nest is proudly modern, designed to rest comfortably alongside anything from the Black Keys or Jack White. Walker's voice demands attention: scorching, imploring, always commanding, it leads this dynamic album along with his heavy guitar fills that lay the ground work for the horn-peppered soul, Memphis soul, gospel harmony, and a vortex of power chords and funk. He is living proof of the boundless potential of blues."

In 2013, Walker was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame. In addition that year, Walker was nominated in four categories for a Blues Music Award.

His album Everybody Wants a Piece (2015) was nominated for a Grammy. In an interview with PatchChord News in early December he shared his philosophy about music, saying "Don't be afraid to add other cultures into your sound."

Albums

 * Eclectic Electric (Cleopatra Records, 2021)
 * Blues Comin' On (HighTone, 2020)
 * Everybody Wants a Piece (Provogue, 2015)
 * Hornet's Nest (Alligator Records, 2014)
 * Hellfire (Alligator Records, 2012)
 * Between A Rock and The Blues (Stony Plain Music, 2009)
 * Witness to the Blues (Stony Plain Music, 2008)
 * Playin' Dirty (JSP, 2006)
 * New Direction (Provogue, 2004)
 * Ridin' High (HighTone, 2003)
 * She's My Money Maker (JSP, 2002/03)
 * Guitar Brothers (JSP Records, 2002)
 * Pasa Tiempo (Evidence Music, 2002)
 * In the Morning (Telarc, 2002)
 * Silvertone Blues (Polydor/Polygram, 1999)
 * Preacher and the President (Verve, 1998)
 * Great Guitars (Polydor/Polygram, 1997)
 * Blues of the Month Club (Polydor/Polygram, 1995)
 * JLW (Polydor/Polygram, 1994)
 * Blues Survivor (Polydor/Polygram, 1993)
 * Live at Slim's, Volume Two (HighTone, 1992)
 * Live at Slim's, Volume One (HighTone, 1991)
 * Blue Soul (HighTone, 1989)
 * The Gift (HighTone, 1988)
 * Cold Is the Night (HighTone, 1986)

DVDs

 * Live At 'On Broadway' (Blues Express, 2001)
 * Joe Louis Walker in Concert (inakustik, 2003)
 * Viva Las Vegas Live (DVD plus CD; Cleopatra Blues, 2019)

title: Joe Louis Walker


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User talk:Xoloz

This is my talk page. Like most Wikipedians, I reserve the right to refactor it for archival reasons. Please do not mark any message addition as "minor"; if you do, I won't know that you've written. Please do write: I'm lonely. Xoloz

My talk archives are here: archive1, archive2, archive3, archive4, archive5, archive6, archive7, archive8, archive9, archive10, archive11, archive12, archive13, archive14, archive15, archive16, archive17, archive18, archive19, archive20, archive21, archive 22 (retirement), and archive 23

Nikki Phoenix
Hi there! You were both generous with your time, and helpful years ago when I asked for you help and advice. I ask you for your help, as the Nikki Phoenix article has been places up many months ago by other editors, has passed review as meeting Notability under WP:PORNBIO which it does in many areas, and has been subsequently vandalized, and then nominated for deletion by the same editor. Numerous editors have come to it's defense, clearly citing Notability across a broad spectrum, and I would ask you to goto the deletion deiscussion page, read the history check the links for yourself to see that she in fact overqualifies in 2 (not just 1) areas for Notability under WP:PORNBIO and please cast a Vote to KEEP the article so that it can continue to be worked on and grow, and so that it will not be come and example of how to Vandalize and the be able to Delete a page that many editors worked hard on. Any help you can lend would be greatly appreciated!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nikki_Phoenix_(2nd_nomination)

Best, Art javier (talk) 15:56, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

SourceLair
Hello Xoloz, I have followed your advices to improve SourceLair according to Wikipedia's philosophy. I don't know if I should change anything else or it is alright now and it just have to be reviewed by someone. Can you let me know? Thank you a lot, in advance. 1xristos2 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:44, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Bank of Utah
I have created new content for the Bank of Utah page in my sandbox. Will you please review and move it to the correct spot (and under the correct capitalization of Bank of Utah)? Bruce2605 (talk) 15:21, 23 July 2014 (UTC) Have you had a chance to review the new content in my sandbox for the Bank of Utah page? Bruce2605 (talk) 19:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC) Please review my sandbox for the creation of the Bank of Utah article. Bruce2605 (talk) 18:20, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

X2Go
Too bad it got deleted. If it can be restored somehow I will put in the references and add some more detail. Rleir (talk) 14:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Nintendo History Merges
One last question on Untitled Zelda Project. Is there any other alternative to make the history visible? Like for example a history merge with Legend of Zelda Project (2010)?

Oh and the early history of Donkey Kong Country Returns seems to be spread across Donkey Kong (Wii) & Donkey Kong Bongo Blast. Here  and Here. SNS (talk) 05:24, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Idea for The Beatles (album) move review
Firstly, thank you for putting that discussion to bed. It was past time for the next step. I'll wait a while and let another user start the move review, but I wanted your opinion on a point I plan on stressing in the move review (and that nobody touched on in the discussion). Namely, WP:NATURALDIS mentions that in the presence of two common names, the one without a need for parenthetical disambiguation will be preferred (i.e. "White Album"). How suitable will that point be to the move review? Dralwik|Have a Chat 21:43, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I realize move review probably isn't going to change this outcome, and there isn't anything amiss with your specific closure, but I am hopeful that the heightened emphasis on policy will permit a clearer reaction to the policies in my argument without the noise over what "the proper name" would be, and give me an idea of how WP:NATURALDIS is received by the other side. My vote would likely be "overturn to relist via policy-based rationale," spelling out the relative lack of discussion on the policy merits of my idea. Dralwik|Have a Chat 02:29, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Move review
I imagine that I'll have the move review set within a day's time, hopefully soon. Letting you know. Red Slash 06:19, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Move review for The Beatles (album)
An editor has asked for a Move review of The Beatles (album). Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. - I don't mean to disrespect you and I apologize to you if it was in any way disparaging to you on a personal level. I just think the close was not in the least bit in line with how we close move requests and how we're supposed to judge consensus here at Wikipedia. Red Slash 08:22, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Understanding Islam (TV show)
Thank you. I have revised it, and I have added the awards. My regards.

Suelong Sae Ma
Could I get you to re-delete Suelong Sae Ma, an article you deleted per WP:BLPPROD yesterday? Less than twelve hours after deletion, someone recreated an identical, still unsourced version of the article. Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:50, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I will make an inquiry to the new creator, and allow him time to source the article, as a gesture of kindness to a newbie. If the creator doesn't respond in a reasonable time, I will re-delete.  Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 16:54, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Naru2u
What would you require to have this page re-instated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.50.110 (talk) 21:13, 20 June 2014 (UTC) Also can you please send or direct me to a copy of the last copy of the page prior to deletion so I have something to work with.

Deleted Article ? need to contact xoloz for assistance.
I wish to contact editor Xoloz. I need assistance with an article. I cannot figure out how to contact this editor. Any help would be appriciated User:  66phil This is in reference to a deleted article, aparently by your approval? It is difficult to understand what ay have been the reasoning as there were so many regstered references and cross reference in additon to being authored by myself, one of the founding members. I would like to relist it and I need to make sure I understand more completely the permeters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66phil (talk • contribs) 21:27, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Picture in Zelda article
Can you undelete the picture from the The Legend of Zelda (2015 video game)?

SNS (talk) 05:21, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, I can't undelete that for you. I'm not an admin on Commons.  Try contacting the admin who deleted it there.  Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 20:31, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Suelong Sae Ma
Could re-delete this article again, and possibly salt it this time. It's been recreated a second time. As before, the article is identical (or almost) to previous versions and remains unsourced. Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

 * Apologies for missing this while I was on vacation. It seems another admin took care of it.  Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 18:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Talk:All the Best!
Can I ask you to do me a favor as a 3rdparty/admin/someone-who-supported please close the 3 RMs as "withdrawn by proposer"; with blatant canvass and the Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton factor there's no value to the community in prolonging this. Would you mind? In ictu oculi (talk) 16:37, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, then maybe I should reconsider. Thanks for that perspective. By HRC factor I evidently mean this, yet again, if it isn't obvious. After such a heavy canvass in recent edits the well is poisoned whatever the result. But I suppose it can take it's course and some other poor admin will wrap it up when it clogs the backlog. No big issue either way, it's of minimal utility compared to creating content. Thanks again, appreciated it. In ictu oculi (talk) 18:10, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Delete the talk page
Talk:Leon Jeronimo Radziwiłł, just like you had deleted the main page. Thanks  Occult Zone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 05:12, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Suelong Sae Ma again
As before, the article is identical and still unsourced. Could you please delete it, and salt it this time so it doesn't get recreated again? Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:21, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Aquapod
Can you undelete the history of Aquapod & Talk:Aquapod (bottle)? SNS (talk) 04:44, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Daniel Dombrowe
Dear Xoloz, I would kindly ask you to explain why you deleted the article about Daniel Dombrowe. There is no such thing as the promotion of himself as an entrepreneur nor as himself as the DJ. The main focus of this article lies on Mr Dombrowes efforts regarding the Baltic Soul Charity. A charity founded to support artists who have been betrayed by their management. This is an importand topic to Mr Dombrowe, to the artists and of course to a lot of people and Wikipedia Users. I would like to ask you for advice on how this article can be written to avoid any thoughts of promotion and on how it is possible to introduce Mr Dombrowe as a really important person in music business. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kradow soul01 (talk • contribs) 10:15, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

xpadder article
Hello Xoloz, I'm here, referred from a websearch of "xpadder" an article you removed. My question is, if many other articles about small free softwares are allowed, like SumatraPDF, why disallow this one?Semitones (talk) 14:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Deletion
Hi Xoloz. A while back you opposed my nomination for speedy deletion of the page Keith Loris. CCing, who was subsequently involved in wikifying that page. I have only nominated one or two pages for deletion, so could I call on you two for an opinion on whether Akiko Yuge merits a place in an encyclopaedia? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 22:01, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * As sourced, I think it is at high risk for deletion. With only those sources, the article seems undue with that amount of content. --Ronz (talk) 22:17, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ronz, much appreciated. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 23:01, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Nikki Phoenix
Hi Xoloz, hope things are well with you, I wanted to touch bases with you, and ask you if you could please check the article you moved into my sandbox regarding singer/writer/actress Nikki Phoenix, I refocused the article on her mainstream endeavors as you suggested to avoid the stygma of the adult business associations, as she now has an Album as well as songs out (available on iTunes, Amazon Etc.) and a book as well as numerous other accomplishments and awards nominations. I strongly feel that she more than meets requirements for Notability, but would love for you to check the article and see if it is good enough now or if I need to source more reference materiel.

Thanks again for encouraging me to work on the article more and not to be discouraged by some of the other editors I have interfaced with. Art javier (talk) 18:13, 24 December 2014 (UTC)Art_Javier sandbox  20:21, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Global account
Hi Xoloz! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:01, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Ming Xi
Hello, on April 2014 you deleted the Ming Xi page because of "Expired PROD, concern was: zero evidence of notability". I was wondering if you thought I could request a deletion review because this model has a huge notoriety in the modeling world. As an example of what the article could look like, you can check out the French one. I can provide some sources to you if you want me to. --MirandaKeurr (talk) 18:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Autossh IS Real Software
Seems you didn't research when you deleted this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autossh

See my comment in the talk page of the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.104.244.242 (talk) 21:46, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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You deleted my page "Les Enfants Terribles (café)"
Hi. Just discovered you deleted my page. I haven't logged in since creating it so I was never informed of the threat. You admit to a cursory investigation - and yes, my problem has been the paucity of information. I do now have some external links which will prove it existed if that's your beef? I really don't understand the problem. Obviously I am the primary source for a lot of information as this is something I've been researching for some years now. The interest is the key role the coffee bar played - it now looks to be the second espresso bar and the first discothèque in London. So can the page be retrieved or resurrected or will I have to create a new page? The wiki entry is quite important for obtaining contacts - Google's been a great help. It's difficult to know how interesting any subject may be outside the circle of those interested, right? adrianstern — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrianstern (talk • contribs) 18:02, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Recreation: JAM Liner
Just to let you know, I'm now rebuilding the article "JAM Liner" which once you deleted before. But I'll assure this article will be better than the old one. Bumbl_loid 20:00, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Presidency of William McKinley
Hello Xoloz,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Presidency of William McKinley for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, William McKinley.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. CaroleHenson (talk) 04:05, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

The Legend of Zelda HD Experience listed at Redirects for discussion
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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Ultraconservatism listed at Redirects for discussion
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Undelete David Walmsley
It's probably time to undelete David Walmsley. I just read that he is the Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail. You apparently speedily deleted it under criterion A7 in April 2014. I didn't create that page, but being the Editor-in Chief of a major newspaper sounds like a credible claim to significance to me.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  16:36, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Xoloz has not edited since July 2014. Steel1943  (talk) 20:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for telling me. I still think the page should be undeleted. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  21:05, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You may need to inquire about that at WP:REFUND, unless you are planning on writing a new article at that title. Steel1943  (talk) 21:35, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Etherkiller

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Hey
Just thought I'd say hey, as if I was in the Pixies. Hiding T 11:02, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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